Thinkpad x60s
Collabora has provided me with a new computer: a ThinkPad x60s. Its really nice, extremely light and the battery lasts for a very long time (enough to fly to Europe!). On the inside, it’s almost all...
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A Peek at Farsight 2
First, this is my first post on Planet Gnome, so I’ll introduce myself. I’m one of the developers of GnomeICU and Farsight. I work for Collabora, mostly on Farsight and related things. For those who...
View Articlefsck failure drops me into a shell
One of my non-geeky friends is currently trying Linux on his laptop. For some reason, he stopped it incorrectly and on the next reboot a fsck was forced and the fsck failed… he gets this: *** An error...
View Articlefoss.in
I’m in Bangalore for foss.in. First, the country is awesome, the Indian food is amazing, etc, etc. The weather is also pretty nice this time of year, not too warm, not too cold, just right. Although it...
View ArticleWhen a man page lies
The part of the socket(7) man page about setsockopt(.., SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY…) says: “For ip(7), this also sets the IP type-of- service (TOS) field for outgoing packets.” I wanted to know how...
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N900 Video calls (Skype too!)
The PR1.2 update of the N900 firmware is now officially released. The big new feature is video calls. It is also the world’s first phone to offer Skype video calls as well as Google Talk compatible...
View ArticleN900 vs Nexus One: a comparison
About a month and a half ago, I had a smallish bike accident, I did not have a single scratch, but I managed to fall right on my N900 and crack the LCD. So I’ve used a Nexus One as a replacement until...
View ArticleRemoving leftover Facebook Chat Jabber contacts on Maemo
A couple months ago, Facebook announced announced that their chat system would also be available through XMPP. So it is possible to just configure it like any other Jabber server on a N900. And then to...
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Desktop Summit 2011
Just like everyone else on Planet GNOME, You are all cordially invited to my talk: Improving the quality of video calls on the Free Desktop. I will try to explain why Skype’s video calls look so much...
View ArticleGUPnP 0.18 (and GSSDP 0.12) harmful to VoIP calls
Due to unintentional behavior breakage in the newest versions of GUPnP and GSSDP, the UPnP NAT traversal in all VoIP applications that use Farsight2 is currently broken. This includes Empathy, Pidgin,...
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