For those interested in UPnP/DLNA on Maemo and happen to miss Maemo summit, here is the video of my talk. You'll notice that slide screen is only half visible but that is not really a problem since you can access the slides here.

I’ve been trying to use gnuplot instead of Gd::Chart in my massif_grapher script, mostly just so it can generate zoomable postscript or SVG output. I first tried using the Chart::Gnuplot perl API, but after a very helpful email conversation with its maintainer Ka-Wai Mak, we found that it cannot yet ...

And so, long story short, we decided to revert the change for F12. Part of being an open source maintainer (and also my job at Red Hat) is to ignore trolls, but some of the messages I was getting yesterday were just personal attacks and abuse. That’s not cricket at all.

While you guys are all wondering who he is, we in Belgium are wondering who’s going to replace Herman Van Rompuy as our prime minister. He’s the only prime minister who managed to give Belgium non-chaotic federal politics, for a few months. I fear that Belgium will now plunge into a new political crisis. ...

I decided to give a new OpenSUSE 11.2 a spin. In hindsight, that was probably a mistake. The new version installs a desktop-optimized kernel. The idea sounds good, but for me it does not work: named consistently causes an Oops or a kernel panic. (I haven’t otherwise had a kernel panic for many, many ...

I admit it, I'm a little jealous of the Fedora feature of being able to install signed packages without a password prompt. I set out to get close on Ubuntu. The way that you edit the PolicyKit practices towards package install is to edit the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/. If you look at the action ...

Starting 01/01/2008, Bavaria had introduced a quite hard smoking ban, which also included bars and restaurants. It however contained a backdoor by excluding non-public locations, which led to the creation of 'smoker clubs' where you had to become a member to be admitted. At some point, most clubs were ...

One month after the last release, I released version 0.1.13 of GNOME DVB Daemon today. It's mainly a bug fix release which fixes a couple of problems with recordings, especially if watching and recording took place at the same time. There are only two new features: You can now sort channels either by ...

Fedora 12 Fedora 12 got released yesterday, with plenty of nice new features. My hand in that was the running bluetoothd on-demand, work on gnome-volume-control and its profile switching (meaning dead-easy 5.1 support), enhancements in the GNOME Bluetooth UI (which you probably already saw if you use ...

(Apparently today is one of those days where a lot of blogging happens.) Recently, Sydney Rd (the road that runs through the middle of Brunswick, once upon a time the road to Sydney, and to the goldfields) business were exhibiting local art in their windows. A couple of the pieces, by an artist called ...