Reading this thread on a kernelspace keyring, which I don’t pretend to know a lot about (I was just curious from seeing the name of the patch in LWN, and found the thread via google). However, the thread shows how differently some kernel developers and userspace developers are still thinking about problems. Linus says: “I’m […]
Daniel kicking ass supporting inotify, fixing rhgb, and the valgrinding. Now to fix all those valgrind errors in metacity. 😉 Oddly enough, I was just watching Seven Samurai on Sunday night. I’ve been a fan of the movie since I read the book The Last Samurai (which has nothing to do with the Tom Cruise […]
I get that some sound geeks care about things like “PCM,” but here is the actual sequence I just went through: Boot computer. Open CD player. No sound; note that volume applet is at 0, turn it up. No sound; push the little volume buttons on the Thinkpad. No sound; open volume control, turn up […]
Mark discusses notification area and session management. On notification area: I agree with Seth that the way to fix this is to make it possible to programmatically add/remove applets with sane results; essentially this means that applets autoposition intelligently. I can imagine something like manually moving an applet changes its “autoposition parameters” (left vs. right […]
Today we are announcing the stateless Linux project, the goal: a uniform framework to cover all common ways of instantiating a centralized OS install read-only on multiple physical or virtual computers. The details of instantiating the OS on an individual computer may vary, from diskless to read-only local cache to live CD. Because there’s no […]
When I end up explaining the same thing over and over, I try to get around to writing it down. So, pretty often I talk to someone who doesn’t track the open source world on a daily basis, and doesn’t understand the idea behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux: it’s a subscription, but to what? Red […]
Entertainment Weekly says we’re to the end of the summer movie season and it’s true, the local theater looks worse than usual. Is it just me or is this a really bad streak: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid Benji Off the Leash! Exorcist: The Beginning Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie I […]
I have another job listing posted for desktop developers. This is the last round of desktop hiring in the current planning horizon, so if you’ve been procrastinating, now is the time. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–08.html#27)
Garrison Keillor: What would you tell a good-hearted citizen who is seriously considering casting their vote for Ralph Nader? The thrill of Naderism is in telling your Democratic pals that you’re thinking about ralphing and seeing them get all flushed and earnest and wring their hands and roll their eyes and moan. Actually going into […]
Ronald, looks better, but definitely need to lose the jargon. Someone explained “PCM” to me once but I forgot. “ALSA” is also still in the titlebar. Should the app be called volume control if it also has this other stuff such as microphone and Options page? There is a Preferences->Sound, should some stuff go there? […]