Posted at 2010-05-27
In case you’re considering to buy a GuruPlug, you should read about the heat problems that cause random reboots and possibly hardware death.
Right now it looks like you need to open up the device and swap the internal power supply for an external one or add more heatsinks or somesuch :(
Posted at 2009-12-30
New XMMS2-Scrobbler release. Better than ever: multi-scrobbling is supported now. libre.fm users rejoice! See README for the details.
Posted at 2009-05-10
So here’s an XMMS2-Scrobbler release that will work with the recently released DrMattDestruction. This new version is witten in C instead of Ruby (so it’s much less memory hungry) and includes support for last.fm’s now-playing notifications.
Posted at 2008-12-12
Earlier this year, I poked at some of the file formats used by Archimedean Dynasty (released as Schleichfahrt in Germany). Some of the easy ones are documented on the ProjectAqua wiki but they are missing information on the movie files (MVI) used by the game. So in February/March I spent several weeks figuring out that MVI format, and I wrote a prototype decoder in Ruby. I’m writing about it mostly so people can find it using Google.
Posted at 2008-04-18
New XMMS2-Scrobbler. Thanks to rafl, the lock file issues should be gone now.
Posted at 2007-10-18
Last week I updated XMMS2-Scrobbler to the latest version of the AudioScrobbler protocol. Their guidelines on when to submit a song that has been played have been simplified a bit, which also means that I could kill some of my code. Otherwise the protocol changes aren’t that exciting for XMMS2 users IMO. The other new thing is “now playing” notifications.
Posted at 2007-09-29
I had to create a new GnuPG key, because the old one expired today.
Grab the new public key, the fingerprint is E3B5 FB50 70F3 376F 53C9 9957 EADC 791F 5E58 7462.
Posted at 2007-08-27
So I finally decided to make a tarball of Embrace2 and call it v0.1.0. Embrace2 is an IMAP mailbox checker/monitor (a la biff) with some eye candy, based on the EFL.
This one is more usable than 0.0.x (cause it only shows the mailboxes that carry new mail, which is probably what you’re interested in). It’s also cuter, since it has nice animations for incoming new mail etc.
This has been rotting unreleased on my hdd for a long time now, but I think there might be some people who find a use for it. The screenshot doesn’t really do it justice, but my stupid screen capture program doesn’t work with ARGB windows, which makes it look silly. So no AVI today.
Posted at 2007-08-11
Now that this craptastic blog thing is working again it’s time for an mga status update \o/
The randr-1.2 branch is in a nice state. Last week idr told me how to do output detection with the vbios’ PInS block, so now the driver automatically creates the output objects corresponding to the hardware. This makes the driver usable without having to edit the source code \o/
I tested all of my cards with that output detection code, and almost all of them passed. The one that didn’t is my G450 DVI, which has a single DVI connector. Unsurprisingly the PInS data says exactly that. However, I got the card with a DVI -> 2 * VGA adapter cable. If that cable is plugged in, we want to have two VGA outputs instead. So it looks like I’ll really have to make it possible to override output detection in xorg.conf :/
The G550 dual dvi still has the same stupid problems as always. Another big issue is hardware cursor support. The problem is that Matrox’ G series cards only have one hardware cursor, which is tied to CRTC1. For the 2nd CRTC, there’s no hardware cursor. Unfortunately, the randr 1.2 API for hardware cursors works correctly only if every CRTC has a hardware cursor, so we can’t use it (yet).
I’ve also done some EXA work—it seems that most (all?) of my previous tests were flawed. I think that EXA’s pixmap migration caused EXA not calling into the MGA code for all operations. A few days ago I told it to always migrate pixmaps from system to video RAM and vice versa, and voila, GTK+ apps were unusable because all those nice Over blends that it does were fucked up. Anyway, I managed to fix that. Doing full rendercheck runs on G450 and G550 then revealed that the A8 writes problem isn’t fixed at all. Previously I thought that only Add operations on A8 textures were b0rked, but it turns out that all A8 writes are broken. On both the G450 and G550. Bogus tests ftw \o/
Posted at 2007-04-08
I have moved ruby-eet, ruby-evas, ruby-edje, ruby-ecore and ruby-esmart from Subversion to git. Instructions to get the latest code are on the respective project pages, gitweb is available, too.