Recently Dublin got busy with the first ever MeeGo conference being organized for developers. For 3 days, geeks invaded the shiny (and overly expensive) Aviva stadium for talks, fun and code. It was also a cool opportunity to meet up with some esteemed Novell colleagues. Among other goodness (hat off to the organizers for a [...]
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WiFi power saving & kernel 2.6.31
As of Linux kernel 2.6.31 (currently available on Arch Linux for instance), due to a change in the iwl* drivers, the sysfs entries that were managing power saving on related WiFi chips was removed due to some power management-related bugs. As such, it’s impossible to manually set powersaving either using sysfs or via a command [...]
Follow-up on OpenVG support for Moonligh
Interested by the stuff I demonstrated some weeks ago ? Check out the following message on Moonlight mailing-list for instructions on how to get the same thing. Just to make you salivate : BubbleMark running at ~50 fps without too much visual glitches (direct link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekfb6jCyDmM)
Joining the Moonlight fun
Watching my teammate hacking on moonlight was sure to detain on me someday. So when Alan talked about making Moonlight run on top of OpenVG I got pretty hooked. Two hacking days later, I actually got something to « work ». At the moment it’s quite rough, hacky and it probably kills kitteh too (be careful, it [...]
DBus-Explorer 0.5
Time for another release of DBus-Explorer, your favorite D-Bus API viewer.
Summary
D-Bus Explorer is a GTK+ application written in C# which use NDesk’s managed D-Bus library to display the API of D-Bus services. In summary, it’s a clone of dbus-viewer with a GTK+ interface.
New in this release
- UI cleanup. Interface generation is now only available when right clicking interface item and allow to select items individually :
- Method invoking for simple methods (i.e. only when base type are involved in the method prototype) :
- Property support is back :
- Yet another parser rewrite. This time it’s definitely cool.
Download
Tarball : http://www.ndesk.org/archive/dbus-explorer/dbus-explorer-0.5.tar.gz
Future
For my usage, D-Bus Explorer is starting to get rather feature complete. Therefore, if you have any idea of a cool feature that could be implemented don’t hesitate to drop your thought in the comments.
Funny parallelism
For those who have some free leisure time this weekend and would like to explore a bit ParallelFx in a didactic manner I ported to Linux a Sudoku game coming from ParallelFx CTP samples which optionally uses ParallelFx to generate Sudoku grids. For screenshot fans that’s how it looks like : You can enable the [...]
Bulk of changes for DBus-Explorer
Long time I hadn’t hacked on DBus-Explorer but as a exam stress killer I brought together all the piece I had already randomly coded. This resulted in a number of appreciable improvements that were long overdue like : Tabbed browsing : Good if you get lost like me with multiple DBus-Explorer windows (Ctrl+T to open [...]
Arch-ifying the EEE
I passed the weekend but it was really worth it. I mostly followed the indications on the Arch Wiki for the installation part (using dkite’s modules and patched acpid) except that I used the latest intel Xorg driver package from testing instead of i810 and its ugly 915resolution hack. I also had some problems with [...]
Hey, look who is hEEEre !
Yep that’s right. I was talking about something great for today and it happened, I got my shiny Asus EEE . Some shoots of the unpacking below : The package. Shoot of the box. Opening Ali Baba’s cavern. First sight of the beast Opened without the battery. The rest of the box. The welcoming screen [...]
WTF ?!
Is this supposed to be funny ?