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GUADEC 2010 :(
Hopefully that title was provocative enough. ;) No, GUADEC seemed to be a smashing success. If only I had been able to attend instead of lying in bed for 2 days, ill and wondering at the general malignancy of a Universe that would do this to me. Nevertheless, I had a great time meeting all [...]
Pure EFI Linux Boot on Macbooks
My company was really kind to get me a Macbook Pro (the 13.3-inch “5.5″ variant). It is an awesome piece of hardware! (especially after my own PoS HP laptop I’ve been cussing at for a while now) That said, I still don’t like the idea of running a proprietary operating system on it (as beautiful [...]
(Gst)Discovering Vala
My exploits at Collabora Multimedia currently involve a brief detour into hacking on Rygel, specifically improving the DLNA profile name guessing. We wanted to use Edward‘s work on GstDiscoverer work, and Rygel is written in Vala, so the first thing to do was write Vala bindings for GstDiscoverer. This turned out to be somewhat easier [...]
The times they are a-changin’
Yesterday was my last day at NVidia. I’ve worked with the Embedded Software team there for the last 15 months, specifically on the system software for a Linux based stack that you will see some time next year. I’ve had a great time there, learning new things, and doing everything from tweaking bit-banging I²C implementations [...]








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