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New phone: Motorola A1000
I have just ordered a new phone, a Motorola A1000 from Three Mobile.
It is a PDA-like phone and runs Symbian UIQ. Among other things PuTTY and Opera are available.
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GnomeVFS, with a side order of Avahi!
[Edit: I wonder how much hate mail I'm going to get over the KDE thing, hrm.. :)]
Thanks to Alexander Larsson, GnomeVFS HEAD now contains preliminary Avahi support!
From: Alexander Larsson
To: "avahi@lists.freedesktop.org" Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:39:48 +0200 ( Read more... ) -
Blog Comment Spam
Byron, while lots of people use pybloxsom, wordpress, etc, I have found that using livejournal gets me 1 great thing, I have only ever had 1 comment spam, and most people I know using livejournal don't get many either.
I guess that they get tonnes and have managed to combat it well.
Anyone out there that uses livejournal and gets much comment -
Linux.conf.au update and Howl/Bonjour compatability for Avahi
Looks like the speakers/program information for Linux.conf.au is nearly falling together, my paper was accepted (on Avahi) and I will definitely be attending, if you want to attend you should get in soon for the early bird discount :) http://www.linux.conf.au/I hadn't realised how much air fares can vary, moving a couple days around the dates I was ( Read more... ) -
Linux.conf.au^H^Hnz
Well, I heard this morning that my paper "Network Service Discovery" (talking about Avahi) was accepted for Linux.conf.au 2006 in Dunedin, New Zealond. Yay! :) This is the first time I've had a paper accepted for the main conference ( Read more... ) -
Avahi with Mono/C#
Thanks to James Willcox (snorp), Avahi now has Mono / C# bindings, which are generic however have been developed for the purpose of making a daap-sharp, to get DAAP Music Sharing like rhythmbox has recently gained into Banshee which is very cool ( Read more... ) -
Rhythmbox CVS now supports DAAP with Avahi
I am very proud to announce, that rhythmbox in CVS now features DAAP music sharing support (the same protocol iTunes uses), using Avahi for the mDNS/DNS-SD part, obligatory screenshot.
Note that I am both sharing my music from rhythmbox, and playing it on rhythmbox, from two separate machines :)
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The bank screwed up...
So I tried to get some money out today to be met with an insufficient funds message which was most perplexing. When I got home I checked on netbank and I was in the red by $70 because they decided to send a scheduled transfer out a week early, to add to the fun, my mobile phone payment came out, then was returned due to lack of funds and then was ( Read more... ) -
I'm a real MOTU now!
[Edit: I've been kindly informed its Qt and not QT, bleh]
Yay, I was just approved as a MOTU aka "Master of the Universe" in the Ubuntu world, this means I can now upload and stop pestering people like ajmitch to upload for me :) I even have a lathiat at ubuntu dot com email, now thats cool!
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Avahi 0.2 & Ubuntu Membership
So Avahi 0.2 was released, rock! There we're a lot of bug fixes, etc, among other things it works better on AMD64 and the reflector works much better :) Check out the release announcement for details of the changes, we'll probably be releasing 0.3 at the end of this week, which incldudes among various bug fixes, a QT3 and QT4 main-loop adapter, yay ( Read more... )
