I am currently using the combination of my mobile phone (E78) and my Palm Tungsten E. The phone I only use because I have it always with me. I do loathe the agenda interface in it. So purely using the phone is not an option. The palm is getting old and is starting to give read more
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Finally
March 24, 2009 – 10:29 pm
Ever since 0.18.0 was released I started working on 2 larger changes in gmpc. GObject based plugins. Remove threading from the metadata system. 1. is now working as blogged about previous (see here) . Just now I realized number 2. I converted the last metadata plugin over to the new, non-threaded api. Previously I only read more
Can somebody explain this
March 20, 2009 – 2:11 pm
I am experiencing very very slow network performance. gmpc when trying to fetch from discogs.com or last.fm hangs for 4 seconds (even if it happens in a different thread). trying to ping those hosts gives the same crap. 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 25989ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 165.326/177.251/188.114/8.728 ms The roundtrip read more
Gnome Music Player Client OsX app.
March 16, 2009 – 7:21 pm
http://download.sarine.nl/GMPC.app.tar.bz2 For intel mac, build on osX 1.05. Please test.
GObject based plugins and vala in GMPC
March 12, 2009 – 3:12 pm
It is something I have been preparing for a while now and today I took the first step that makes things work. GMPC now supports GObject based plugins ( a base abstract class with interfaces). This part of the code is written in vala, so I hope to offer the possibility of vala-written plugin soon. read more
[Grind my gears] Notification Daemon
March 11, 2009 – 9:23 pm
The notification daemon nicely, and quietly, changed the api. * Text is now escaped in the summary in the Standard theme so that ampersands and other special characters show up instead of disappearing. (Bug #132) I used to nicely escape it, now if I escape it, it shows wrong. I can detect version of the read more
Gnome Music Player Client 0.18.0
March 9, 2009 – 8:22 pm
GMPC 0.18.0 From Gnome Music Player Client Changes since Added features Global copy/paste system You can now copy songs from any song list and paste them in the play queue or the playlist-editor. The copy-paste system can also be used to move block of songs inside a playlist or between playlists. Easy Command Easy command read more
Disaster waiting to happen
March 1, 2009 – 1:36 pm
Disaster waiting to happen. Nothing else can be said about this: http://www.thesataswitch.com/ There is nothing wrong with people building things like this for personal use. But selling it? this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. There are a few things wrong here: It is no sata switch. It switches power. That you can use it read more