Author Archives: Trick

Passport!

So I’ve been planning this trip to the UK for GUADEC as well as to visit the London office of my employer, and I fly on Sunday. I applied for my U.S. Passport a month ago, paid the rush fees, … Continue reading

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:w

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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Banshee Alarm Plugin v0.2

Just as a quick update, Bertrand Lorentz has put together a second release of the alarm plugin, v0.2.  For those of you who love Banshee so much that you want to hear it first thing when you wake up in … Continue reading

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Banshee MTP Guide Moved

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

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

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 :)

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)

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

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

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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