Category Archives: Free and Open Source

GUADEC Warmup Day 2

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

So I arrived in London around 6 AM; everything went quickly.  Plane ride was fun, albeit quite cozy. Took the paddington express train, which is super slick, jumped on the underground to Euston, and wandered around for a while until … Continue reading →

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:w

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Trick

Yes, that’s a VIM :w (not some new fangled creation), as in, I’m actually writing something here! I haven’t written in three months, and haven’t committed any code in four…as I’ve been a bit distracted by a few things, notably: … Continue reading →

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NetworkManager and Gentoo

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Trick

So, I’ve recently converted my laptop to Gentoo, and before I even had the base system merged in, I thought I should research NetworkManager. I was running Slackware 10.2 on the lappy, and I had never considered NetworkManager due to … Continue reading →

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MTP: it’s alive!

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Trick

Last night the addition of MTP support to Banshee landed in CVS HEAD. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s true! The days of command line interfaces for your snazzy new Creative, iRiver, etc. player are nearly over. All you have to … Continue reading →

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Xorg updates & such :)

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Trick

So I’m pleased to announce that another linux user has had a smooth upgrade to the modular X.org.  I’ve spent the last 24 hours making a jump from xorg 6.8.2 to 7.1, and right now I’m in the process of … Continue reading →

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Eat your heart out, Microsoft :)

Posted on April 20, 2006 by Trick

So on Monday, Marcus over in the gphoto2 development land committed a monster patch giving MTP Metadata support to libgphoto2.  I’ve been waiting for this patch to land so that I can pipe that information thru to Banshee MTP support, … Continue reading →

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Trip back to the old days…

Posted on April 4, 2006 by Trick

It’s been a fun trip over the last few days as I remember my XFCE days as I’ve been getting emails about the xfce-xmms-plugin that I started back in the day. That was TWO YEARS ago now that I wrote … Continue reading →

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FreeBusy parser

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Trick

I’ve always been wondering how I can make use of the FreeBusy export in Kronolith, and I’ve been looking for a php script to parse it into a simple calendar…so I’ve decided to write one for myself! It’s nowhere near … Continue reading →

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