[This is a slight modification of something I posted to the alsa-devel list earlier today.]
One of the biggest surprises that people starting to use Linux seem to run into is that you can’t rely on any particular support level from the community - everything is done on a voluntary basis and the responses will depend [...]
It looks like the jack reporting API for ALSA which just got merged into the mainline kernel for inclusion in 2.6.28 already has its first user - code from Matthew Ranostay supporting the jack detection in Sigmatel HDA codecs was just queued for merge in the next merge window. Admittedly, the jack reporting API has [...]
Lennart Pottering’s post about the sound APIs available for Linux appears to have caused some consternation from people working with the modern out of tree OSS drivers who feel that the current, out of tree, OSS drivers are being unfairly maligned. This rather misses the point of his post. The fact that there are improved [...]
More than once I’ve found myself figuring out when I did something by looking through the changelogs of the free software I was contributing to at the time. It’s rarely any good for specific dates but it works amusingly well to an approximation. And is, of course, a perfectly normal way to do this.
It’s been so long since the film festival that I keep on forgetting half the good films I saw there when talking to people about it, so for the record here’s a brief list of my personal highlights:
Encounters at the End of the World: Werner Hertzog goes to Antarctica, making a film more about the [...]
The Linux kernel source relies on a case sensitive filesystem. If you attempt to get the sources via git this will manifest as an error along the lines of:
fatal: Entry ‘include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h
There are several header files like this the names of which differ only in case and just can’t be represented on a filesystem that doesn’t [...]
There’s one thing that the Apple Mail client gets right which I’ve never seen anything else try to do - the way it formats messages. Most mail clients seem to offer plain text and HTML as user selectable options and do exactly what they’re told regardless of the content of the message. If HTML is [...]
Rhonda, have you reported the SCons problems you’ve found to either the Debian mantainer or upstream? That’s much more likely to be an effective way of improving things than blogging about them. For what it’s worth the .scons files are a bug in the SCons core AFAICT (it needs a distclean equivalent that doesn’t appear [...]
One thing that charities often seem to like to do is give you discounts on things they sell or events they run. This is a nice way of saying thank you but if you’re trying to give them money it’s not always something you want to take advantage of. Sometimes it’s surprisingly difficult to convince [...]
Please, folks, when emailing the same question to multiple people or places send a single email with multiple recipients. Don’t send separate mails to each destination - at best you’ll waste people’s time, at worst you’ll irritate them. There are a few exceptions, mostly to do with confidentiality, but they really are pretty rare - [...]