Multi-input touch screen demos (Flash required). This is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. The more I watch it the more I want to make it work. It definitely feels like that’s going to be the next generation in computers.
I want one for my Desktop, and more importantly I want to make sure X supports it. I wonder if my laptop’s synaptics touchpad could support this with some tweaking of the driver. It could be interesting if I could make two finger movements different scrolling axeses/window management shortcuts. (Two finger outwards movements stretch the current window, two finger parallel movements could move the window.) I like how in my iBook two finger parralel movements is how to scroll.
‘Linux’ Category
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Multi-input touch screens
February 14, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez
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SoundConverter
February 11, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez
We’ve all had an MP3 or FLAC that we’ve wanted OGGed and I’m sure we’ve all made bashscripts to do this for us but there’s an easier way! SoundConverter is a GNOME gui application that allows us to transcode our MP3s, OGGs, FLACs, and WAVs into any one of those formats in high or low quality (great for fitting more songs into your flash-based MP3/OGG player) Best of all it’s available in Ubuntu Dapper (not sure about Breezy). You can find it in Programs>Add Programs under Sound & Video programs.
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Copyright Infringed
February 9, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez
So the author of Listen has taken code from Quod Libet (including code from my lyrics plugin) and ripped the copyright section (and my name) out and used it in his software. Now the code is GPL so I’m completely fine with him using it, it’s why I write open-source code, but removing my name from it is not cool. Unlike Joe I’m not mad at him, I’m sure he was just confused on how this all works. I’m really glad the Listen author didn’t make a big scene over the thing and started fixing it. I know Joe’s language in his open letter was pretty harsh, but that’s the way he is–Especially when he’s mad. He’s called me a moron on countless occasions because I was being a moron. In Abaakouk Mehdi’s case, Joe called his program ugly, and to be frank it is. One of my friends (Julie) looked at a screenshot of Listen and said “That music player looks way too busy and complicated for me.” and she’s by no means a computer illiterate. I don’t mean that comment to be stop-energy I mean it as a constructive comment. From the screenshots Listen looks like it can be a very cool program. The iPod support is definitly something I’d like to check out.
I think the reason Joe brought this up in an open letter was to shed some light on the whole GPL version 3 issue. Joe, Linus and many others don’t like it. So it’s really important to nab this problem of GPLv2 and GPLv2 and up issue while it’s still small. The licenses are the foundation of our comunity, and have a tremendous power to change the world. It’s a bigger issue than most of the people who commented on Joe’s blog realize.Category General, Linux, Programming | Tags: | No Comments
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Sharp MM20 Update
January 17, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez
I was asked by someone about the Sharp MM20′s Linux compatibility. I decided to post the info I gave him here to help anyone else thinking about getting one.
Unfortunately the Actius MM20 is a huge piece of crap. Despite it’s incredible smallness, sharp screen, long battery life and Linux compatibility (Ubuntu worked out of the box once you added a small kernel argument in grub.) The hard drive in it (at least for me) is very fragile. After I installed Linux on it and everything worked fine, I went to install Windows XP. In the middle of that install the hard drive started making noise and there was an amazing crash. I think something in the hard drive melted. This happened at the worst moment because I was going to move to Japan in less than a week.
Instead of sending it back I decided to place a rush order for a new hard drive (They are very hard to find) and replace it myself. Unfortunately the company didn’t send it using the U.S. post office so the hard drive got sent back the day before I left. Eventually I got it sent to me in Japan and replaced the hard drive. I got Ubuntu on it just fine, until I ran an update. The hard drive broke again. (This time making even worse noises.) So my theory is that the Hitachi hard drive in the MM20 is way too sensitive to use in even normal ways. Although mine was a refurbished model so it could also just as likely be a short circuit of some sort burning the hard disk.
Now my MM20 is just collecting dust in a corner of my room. I can still use it as a thin client with it’s network boot capability.
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Quod Libet
January 3, 2006 by Eddie Gonzalez
Quod Libet is the music player I use and occasionally hack on. In the current revision in SVN my lyrics plugin has been integrated into the main player. I also added a feature to the album list view so that you could access the plugins menu from it. Since I’ve been in Japan for nearly 6 months now and stuck with an iBook and iTunes. It feels really good to be working on a program that kicks so much ass it’s on the top ten list in Gnome Files. I can’t wait for the next few releases. There’s going to be a change to Gstreamer 0.10 and hopefully support for a hard drive based music player. From that I can probably work on iPod support.
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WPLUG Planet
March 7, 2005 by Eddie Gonzalez
Got the WPLUG Planet beta test running. Hopefully it’s configured correctly and I’ll see this up there in three hours.
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I can't belive how complicated this is…
November 2, 2004 by Eddie Gonzalez
I’m currently trying to get Quod Libet (My new favorite mp3/ogg player) to have multimedia key support (Play, Stop, Prev, Next buttons on some keyboards) I can’t believe how complicated this is. Actually it’s pretty simple to understand what is going on in Muine’s source code for multimedia key support. But the ammount of stuff I have to read to get this to work in python is rediculous. First of all I have to learn about Glib and object oriented C, then I have to learn about emiting gtk/gdk signals, then I have to learn how to make this play nice in Python…
it’s making my head hurt. I’m going to make some real good documentation on this subject once I finish this. I promised piman I’d get this all done for 0.3 I really need to finish this, I have other things I have to do (like pyfolder and Kanji).I’m also discovering that as the things I have to do get more and more complicated the more I need my ADD medication to get it done. It’s really frustrating to have to rely on this stuff to get work done. But I’ve tried to work without it for the last two weeks, it’s just not working out.
… I had written much more than this but X froze and I lost it all… I’ll write about next time if I remember.
(When will nvidia learn that open-source drivers work so much better than non-open ones.) (I blame Nvidia for all my X and linux problems, because I have a nvidia motherboard and 3d accelerator.)Category General, Linux, Programming | Tags: | No Comments
