Archive of posts from 2007
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Introducing ParticleMan
As
threatenedpromised, I have produced a renamed version of Ion3 that should avoid upstream trademark claims and thus be DFSG-compliant. Some translations are out-of-date, but I'll release a first version now and try to get those updated later. The new name is ParticleMan. When I put the name to a vote some time back the winner was Iceparticle, but there's already an icewm and I couldn't resist the TMBG reference. (Whoever suggested this name to me: I had already thought of it but forgot to include it in the poll.)The packages are in my repository for now.
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Ion3 rc-20071109
Since ries (ftp-master.debian.org) is still down, I've uploaded packages for the latest version of Ion3 to my own server. That's:
deb http://womble.decadent.org.uk/debian/ sid/ deb-src http://womble.decadent.org.uk/debian/ sid/
The repository is signed with my personal key.
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Publication of DebConf 7 videos
The DebConf 7 videos needed some post-processing, mostly to recover missing pieces from tape. I've done a large part of that, but it's not yet complete.
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Everything you Never Wanted to Know about PKI but were Forced to Find Out
Not my title, but that of Peter Gutmann's presentation about PKI, specifically X.509 as used in SSL. It's informative, entertaining, and I suspect not as well known as it should be.
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How to use a "system tray" in Ion3
Ion3 supports docked applications and is compatible with the docking protocols used by WindowMaker and KDE. Normally you would use:
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dvswitch in use
It's day 2 of DebConf and dvswitch is being used by many members of the video team. So I have a pretty good idea of what it does well and what I need to fix in it.
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DebConf video software
The DebConf video team is using a large number of programs, some common and some of our own, spread across 20-30 computers. Some may be interested to know what this is.
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MSN Video enforces "free software"
Semi-annoying, semi-amusing:
I'm using
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Renaming of Ion3 in Debian
Continuing a trend of upstream control-freakery, the author of Ion has claimed Ion and Ion3 as trademarks and set out a trademark policy that will require Debian to rename it. I've created a poll for selecting a new name.
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Introducing dvswitch
I just released version 0.5.0 of dvswitch, the software DV mixer intended for use at DebConf 7. I believe I've met all of the video team's essential requirements and most of the desirables.
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ACCU Conference
I've been meaning to attend the ACCU Conference for some years and finally decided to pay my own way for a couple of days this year. It was an opportunity to hear world experts on C++ and other programming topics and to a smaller extent to meet and socialise with other professional programmers.
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I can't draw cartoons
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Gecko and ATI graphics
Just as Gecko exposes a bug in the nv driver, it can also provoke poor performance in the ati driver. This turns out to be avoidable by configuring X to use the newer driver interface.
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Developing a DV mixer
For this year's DebConf, we (the video team) want to be able to use multiple cameras like at DebConf 5, where we had one for the projection screen and one for the presenter fed to an analogue mixer and a digitiser. At DC6 we had no mixer and no budget for one. Same at DC7 - unless we can do it with software. Toresbe had a go at writing one but didn't finish. I want to give it a go. So:
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New blog
This is my new blog for technical/geeky/Debian stuff. I'm keeping my LiveJournal for social and private matters and syndicating this one to Planet Debian.