I’ve improved it a little bit further: After some fiddling around, I can now detect leaving of dongle in 2-3 seconds. If you want it to react this fast is a second question. Lock and unlock the screen. (using gnome-screensaver) Todo list: I have the cleanup the code a bit and add a configure system read more
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Sitecom Wireless PC Lock
September 30, 2006 – 7:20 pm
I’ve bought (paradigit sells them for 1/2 the price atm) a Sitecom Wireless PC Lock today. Just for playing around. Looking around a bit I found a program that can access it ( http://www.schau.com/gz/linux/wsl/) It worked nice, but the code wasn’t suitable for using in a gui program. What it does is very simple, it read more
Music
September 28, 2006 – 10:08 pm
I have been listening to the following album: It has allot of nice numbers (and off course some that are less). If you like jazz, I really advice it.
Libmpd updates
September 28, 2006 – 9:47 pm
I haven’t done allot on libmpd in the last few month, mostly because it worked fine, but the last few days I did some updates. I am still very happy I wrote it. It’s just an extra abstraction layer, but for me useful. Most noticeable update is the change where I move from a va_list read more
MPD 0.12.0
September 26, 2006 – 6:37 pm
Last week mpd 0.12 finally got released. It took almost 2 years for a new release. We should try to have better release control, have a special branch where we backport “stable” patches and make a release more often. Now that mpd 0.12 is finally released, I am going to try to get a release read more
Random stuff
September 16, 2006 – 2:27 pm
In my opinion, E. Clapton’s best album. yes I know, this was random . gmpc Gmpc is progressing slowly, but it’s getting better by the day. I hope to release it as soon as possible. In my opinion will it will be a better improvement then 0.12->0.13 Some of the features of gmpc: Fast on read more
GMPC, Profile support
September 4, 2006 – 8:33 pm
Since this morning, gmpc has “profile” support. You can now easily switch from one mpd daemon to another, without having to re-enter your hostname/port/password. Might make a screencast of it later this week.
Screencast with ffmpeg
September 1, 2006 – 10:07 pm
I tried out making a screencast with ffmpeg, and gave the best result so far: A small movie about gmpc metabrowser: 3.8mb: http://images.qballcow.nl/test.avi