Author Archives: Trick

Banshee MTP Guide Moved

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Trick

Howdy folks, The guide that used to be at http://tricky.vanstaveren.us/Projects/Open_Source/Banshee/MTP has now been moved to the Banshee wiki at http://www.banshee-project.org/Guide/DAPs/MTP.  All the subpages have been moved accordingly.  My site has all the pages set to forward to the Banshee site, … Continue reading →

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libgphoto2-sharp 2.3.0 released

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Trick

After an age or two of waiting, pondering over licensing issues, and doing bits of maintenance here and there, the Mono/.NET bindings for libgphoto2 have now been released! One can now play with libgphoto2 compatible devices out of a Mono … Continue reading →

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Banshee Alarm and Sleep Timer Plugin

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Trick

So…it’s been a while since I’ve worked on this one, but I figure with Banshee 0.11.0 right around the corner, and plugins making their way into the portage tree, it’s time for a release! So, without further adeiu, I give … Continue reading →

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Everything’s back online :)

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Trick

I’m here in Chicago, IL now, safe and sound. I chose RCN as my internet provider and so far, so good. sting.vanstaveren.us is back up (and now accessable thru port 80), so all should be good. I’m happy to say … Continue reading →

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I am moving! (Downtime for anything on sting.vanstaveren.us)

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Trick

I will be moving starting today – Tuesday, August 29th – to Chicago, Illinois.  If you’re in Chicago and an open source hacker, drop me a note. Being that I am moving, my computers move with me too.  Thus, anything … Continue reading →

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Introducing lirc-sharp 0.0.9

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Trick

So what’s lirc-sharp, anyway? lirc-sharp is a set of Mono/.NET bindings for the LIRC Client Library. LIRC is a piece of software that enables users to use infrared remotes with their computers, as well as use an infrared transmitter on … 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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Banshee knows the words, too!

Posted on June 24, 2006 by Trick

This morning I (very belatedly) committed a monster patch from David Schneider which extends the Wikipedia plugin to also be able to query autolyrics.com for the currently playing track. Building upon David’s awesome parsing backend, this makes it integrate well … 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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