[tl;dr — if you're using GNOME or a GStreamer-based player, not using the Rhythmbox crossfading backend, and want to try to save ~0.5 W of power, jump to end of the post] Lennart pointed to another blog post about actually putting PulseAudio’s power-saving capabilities to use on your system. The latter provides a hack-ish way [...]
Portage 2.1_pre1 is in portage and marked ~x86. Improvements include a revamped cache (why am I not seeing the difference), elog to help track einfo/ewarn/eerror messages better. Wheee! And if you haven’t already, emerge ferringb‘s awesome confcache for caching the autoconf stuff. Does anybody know a good place to get high-quality CS GATE practise papers?
So There’s GMail Mobile now. Doesn’t work on my T630 (yet, I hope). Yahoo’s WAP access is pretty good. One wonders how long this mutual catch-up game will continue. Rather amusing. Hope to have an AMD64 box in less than a month. An interesting thing to note — tags – gotta love ‘em. But most [...]
Do you really want this to happen? Yes, yes, I know it’s an old article – I’m just caatching up with my reading ever so slowly now.
Cairo, which GTK+ 2.8 uses, makes DejaVu Condensed fonts (kind of like Bitstream Vera, only more complete and not so fat) look noticeably sharper. Or am I just imagining things? Does font rendering get assisted by Cairo, or is it only Xft? In other news, life goes on. Work is work. Play is … hardly. [...]
So I was watching one of Scott Wheeler’s presentations (link) on what will (hopefully) be KDE4′s new metadata system. The idea is to create a system where you give up the hierarchical (directory-based) paradigm in favour of a search-based one. Maybe the solution is too simplistic for now, and a hybrid model with a shallow [...]
So I’m at my parent’s place in Gurgaon. They have an Airtel DSL connection for Internet access. I brought Fedora Core 4 along to install on my Dad’s laptop, and what I describe here is how I did it. Hopefully it’s useful to someone. Assumption – you’re using a USB DSL modem provided by Airtel [...]
Happened to be visiting gnomebangalore.org, and saw this. GNOME Bangalore is most certainly not, if the “Community” (it infuriates me that this is the word used) Meet is “OPEN TO: Those currently in NOSIP and those interested to join or know more about the program.” Okay, maybe I’m wrong and it’s just an error. That [...]
