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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Gnome meeting yesterday
I came to the place at 19.30 (always late?) and there was like 8-10 people there, including Anderas Nilsson (speaking at FSCONS).
Then Lennart from Wikimedia Sverige phoned me and asked me where we were and told me the Wikimedians (Wikimedia has a booth at Göteborg Book Fair) were coming over, including Lars Aronsson (speaking at FSCONS). They were something like 10 people.
Woops, enter Jeremiah Foster (speaking at FSCONS). Add to that Per Andersson (speaking at FSCONS) and his friends ….
… all in all, it was great and a lot of people!
GNU Xnee, finally the test target is ok
Hmm, ignoring warnings about binaries being older than the source code is kinda stupid. I know. Yet, I did it. Finally I paid attention and it turned out I had some GNU Xnee libraries installed under /usr/lib/ as well as under /usr/local/lib. Shame on me!!!
I removed them and everything went as smooth as … So running make test now gives:
creating testsetget
./libtest
Starting test
Test 1: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Test 2: …………………………….
Test 3: …………….
Preparing Test 4: …..
Test 4: ……….
Test 5: ……….
Sucesss: 210
Failures: 0
./testsetget
Starting tests 🙂 🙂
Sucesss: 180001
Failures: 0
that’s more like it, isn’t it 🙂
FSCONS: Squeezing the Evil out of the Music Industry
This is a really interesting presentation given at FSCONS
Squeezing the Evil out of the Music Industry or how we should rethink record labels by using CC licensing
John will talk about new models for music & the music business, which hinge on open licensing, transparency, and the new ways that music is actually consumed & shared
Squeezing the Evil out of the Music Industry
John Buckman is founder of Magnatune, a Berkeley, California-based record label he founded in 2003 and which is known for its commercial application of Creative Commons licensing and overtly artist-friendly business practices. Buckman’s methods include forming non-exclusive agreements with musicians, sharing profits equally with them, and allowing them to retain full rights to their own music. This approach is sometimes referred to as “fair trade music.” An accomplished software programmer, Buckman is also thought to be the first to use the term open music, a term derived from the open source software community, in which he has been active. It refers to music that is shareable, available in “source code” form (individual tracks), permits certain forms of derivative works (i.e. remixes), and is made available at no cost for non-commercial use. Since founding Magnatune, Buckman has signed more than 250 recording artists across multiple genres. In August 2006, he launched the non-profit BookMooch, an online community for the exchange of used books, which—in combination with his work with Magnatune—has established Buckman as a prominent figure in the Free Culture movement……
GNU Xnee… shared objects, gdb and watchpoints
The test code seems to trigger bug somewhere in libxnee (part of GNU Xnee). When running the test code through the debugger (gdb) … I end with a piece of memory being overwritten:
(gdb) p xd->rec_callback
$36 = (callback_ptr) 0xb7ebe300 <xnee_replay_dispatch>
while it previously said:
(gdb) p xd->rec_callback
$35 = (callback_ptr) 0x8049e20 <xnee_record_dispatch@plt>
think I better aim for the bed since I gotta get up in 5 1/2 hours 😦 … and man, do I need my beauty sleep?
Enabling tests in GNU Xnee again
As said before I’ve excluded the library (libxnee) tests in the default dist of GNU Xnee. I just made some minor configure.in fiddling and that tests are executed again. Fine …. or …??
creating testsetget
./libtest
Starting test
Test 1: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Test 2: …………………………….
Test 3: …………….
Preparing Test 4: …..
make[1]: *** [test] Segmentation fault
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hesa/gnu/xnee/libxnee/test’
make: *** [test] Error 2
what???? Who wrote that?? … Probably me 😦
GnuPG doc translation status Sep 23 2008
I am involved in a project translating all the GnuPG docs to Swedish. The project is kindly sponsored by .SE. I will begin writing monthly online status reports and publish them here.
Currently I am translating the The GNU Privacy Handbook.
Document Lines Completeness GnuPG (the program it self) 100% man pages 8844 100% GnuPG MiniHOWTO 786 100% GnuPG SmartcardHOWTO 1453 100% The GNU Privacy Handbook 6898 44% A Practical Introduction to GPG in… 656 Gpg4win für Einsteiger (novices) 1426 Gpg4win für Durchblicker (advanced) 116
Gnome 2.24 tea party at Flygarns in Gothenburg, Sweden
Follow up on a previous blog post about Gnome 2.24 release party I will state two++ things: when, where and why I think I am being fooled
We will meet up at Flygarns Haga Friday the 26th around 19.00 (add yourself to the wiki page if you’re coming).
That was when and where. Onwards to my feelings on this
As a spokeperson for the geezers in Gothenburg (we have a society for geezers in Sweden) I feel I must point out that Flygarns used to be a cafe, where on could drink coffee, nothing else. No espressos, no cappucino… actually almost no anything. Anyhow, being reluctant to changes I feel a bit uneasy about this whole thing. Further more I am a bit afraid of my teetotaller reputation being spoilt (again). No, I am not. I am just tired.
Come over to Flygarns, it’s going to be great!
Andreas Nilsson is coming
Kalle Persson is coming
Clemens Bus is coming
why not you?
What's your history? Lots of cats
Read this marvelous posting called “Show me your history” and decied to check my history (and thereby do a health status check on my life). So I copied the command:
history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
and ran it through a not-so-pretty-filter. All in all the commands looks like this:
history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head | awk ‘ { printf ” %s\n”, $0} ‘
So what have I been doing lately? This:
101 cd
71 ls
29 bzr
28 more
24 rm
24 make
17 cat
16 apt-cache
10 ssh
8 touch
A lot of cd is ok and pretty common I guess. That many ls?.. a bit strange. bzr, more, rm, make feels ok. But why so many cat? Simply because cat is a great editor. I use the command cat for many things:
cat in editor mode:
cat > file.txt
cat in append editor mode:
cat >> file.txt
cat in DVD rip mode:
cat /dev/dvd > DVD-RIP.ISO
and of course the DVD is such that I am allowed to do that!
cat in printer mode:
cat | lpr -P 414
… I simply love cat. Which is rather strange considering I am allergic to cats.
FSCONS:Interviewing Andreas Ericsson of op5
Again, doing interviews. Sent a new round of questions to Andreas (of op5 and Nagios). He answered almost immediately… excellent 🙂
Will read and think about the answers… it’s indeed interesting to interview people in the free software sphere.
