Planet SoC

Oh, HAI

I has other interests too !!!

And now, for the complimentary my life is as screwed up (if not more) than yours link!

This post brought to you by the people complaining of extreme geekiness in this blog
Yes, I know I cheated, but I’m in a hurry here :p

That’s the name of my proposed WorkOut for FOSS.IN/2008.

What is it about?
It’s about getting GDM 2.24 in good enough shape to be considered for adoption by Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mandriva, Debian, *BSD; and not just Fedora and Foresight.

What’s wrong with GDM 2.24?

That’s the name of my proposed WorkOut for FOSS.IN/2008.

What is it about?
It’s about getting GDM 2.24 in good enough shape to be considered for adoption by Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mandriva, Debian, *BSD; and not just Fedora and Foresight.

What’s wrong with GDM 2.24?
Strictly speaking, there’s nothing *wrong* with it. It works flawlessly on my system (except for the daemonisation bug/regression, which I had to patch up manually).

We interrupt your regular lazy-webbing to make this two important announcements:
A) AutotuA 0.0.1 released! Try it out and report bugs (if you can’t follow the instructions in the link given, your services will be required when 0.0.2 is released :)

We interrupt your regular lazy-webbing to make this two important announcements:

A) AutotuA 0.0.1 released! Try it out and report bugs (if you can’t follow the instructions in the link given, your services will be required when 0.0.2 is released :)

*Very* late, this post is. I hope it’s not too late yet :)

I’m talking about something that was much-talked about, and people are probably following some of the suggestions made about this, but I think there should be some sort of standardisation.

Here’s the header I use for all my GSoC code:


# vim: set sw=4 sts=4 et :
# Copyright: 2008 Gentoo Foundation
# Author(s): Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com>
# License: GPL-2
#
# Immortal lh!
#


I encourage all of you to adopt the last two lines in your headers as well :D

Yes, I am alive and kicking. Although at a much slower pace than I would’ve liked ;)

So I sent my first weekly report over yesterday, you can either read the (excessively long and probably boring and or confusing) weekly report or you can, well, do something else :P

And guess what, next time onwards, all you have to do is checkout the AutotuA news page or subscribe to the “gsoc” label on this blog to stalk me.

Oh, right, this will also probably be my first post on the FLOSS India Planet!

So, right now, I’m sitting at my comp listening to Norah Jones. But this isn’t like any other music-listening time. Right now, I’m:

1. Logged into a lab computer via XDMCP: I could’ve used VNC, but that would’ve required someone to be logged-in on the lab comp.
2. Using my laptop’s PulseAudio as the lab computer’s default PulseAudio sink: This makes the lab computer’s PulseAudio send all sound to my laptop’s PulseAudio by default.
3. Connected to my laptop’s DAAP share from the lab computer’s Rhythmbox: The music on my laptop becomes accessible from the lab computer’s Rhythmbox.

So, right now, I’m sitting at my comp listening to Norah Jones. But this isn’t like any other music-listening time. Right now, I’m:

1. Logged into a lab computer via XDMCP: I could’ve used VNC, but that would’ve required someone to be logged-in on the lab comp.
2. Using my laptop’s PulseAudio as the lab computer’s default PulseAudio sink: This makes the lab computer’s PulseAudio send all sound to my laptop’s PulseAudio by default.
3. Connected to my laptop’s DAAP share from the lab computer’s Rhythmbox: The music on my laptop becomes accessible from the lab computer’s Rhythmbox.

Right after the GSoC results were announced, Anant Narayanan sent an email to the gentoo-soc ML welcoming the students with lots of good advice about how to proceed, what all they can expect, and what all they’re expected to do. Thanks Anant!

Right after the GSoC results were announced, Anant Narayanan sent an email to the gentoo-soc ML welcoming the students with lots of good advice about how to proceed, what all they can expect, and what all they’re expected to do. Thanks Anant!

So today was the day.
An insane night, on an insane channel.

So we were promised Cake.
Which got a bit delayed,
but the end we got a plate

So today was the day.
An insane night, on an insane channel.

So we were promised Cake.
Which got a bit delayed,
but the end we got a plate
Which was truly worth the wait

Please don’t kill me for the bad rhyming :)

I sit down to emerge -av
It churns through the dependencies
I get frustrated in 2 minutes
pmerge -a is what was amiss

I alias `emerge` to spit out a warning
that a crappy PM is what I’m invoking
Now I’ll remember to always use;
pmerge so my time’s not abused!

Comments on the crappiness of these lines are welcome.
More such rhymes revolving around Gentoo are even more welcome ;)

Please don’t kill me for the bad rhyming :)

I sit down to emerge -av
It churns through the dependencies
I get frustrated in 2 minutes
pmerge -a is what was amiss

I alias `emerge` to spit out a warning
that a crappy PM is what I’m invoking
Now I’ll remember to always use;
pmerge so my time’s not abused!

Comments on the crappiness of these lines are welcome.
More such rhymes revolving around Gentoo are even more welcome ;)

net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5 and www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0_beta5 are in-tree!

If you wanna pat someone’s back, hop onto #gentoo-bugs and holler for armin76 :)

net-libs/xulrunner-1.9_beta5 and www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0_beta5 are in-tree!

If you wanna pat someone’s back, hop onto #gentoo-bugs and holler for armin76 :)

Listening to: I am Turning Into God by Trent Reznor, remixed by chris_himself