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{ Monthly Archives } April 2009

Tutorials for Learning C ?

During most of programing experience I used C# and python.I decided to take on C after I finished an intership working with C++.

So I am looking for tutorials and I am willing to blog about my experience of what I am learning, so I can contribute/modify/extend Zeitgeist, Shell, Mayanna and Tracker.

Here is one of …

Exhausting week with Zeitgeist.

The past week development on Zeitgeist was very intense. A release is pretty near we need to get done with our “Release” TODO list and fixed the high and medium priority bugs on launchpad.

But it is really hard when only 2-3 active developers are working. And some bugs and features dont really need Zeitgeist …

Thoughts on Superman!

First things first. Read the title carefully! If you are sensitive towards homosexuality or insecure of your favourite superhero sexual preferences please avoid reading! I am not homophobic (at least not anymore), I am just sharing my stance towards some superheroes and how they present themselves. All these points do not apply and are …

Naming my Gadgets and Electronic Devices

I have been reading a lot of blog entries about how people call their computer etc….
I tend to use names from the peanuts….

Desktop: Snoopy
Virtual Machine on Desktop: Virtual Snoopy
Laptop: Schroeder
Virtual Machine on Laptop: Virtual Schroeder
iPod: Charlie
Home Netwrok: Snoopyland
Cellphone: Linus
Girlfriend/Fiance’s Laptop: Lucy

Since I am changing my life I thought I should change all that. So …

Howto install Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1100 under Ubuntu(Jaunty)

This howto is for installing Hauppuage WinTV HVR 1100 under Ubuntu “might work for other wintv cards” no guarantee though…
I used this froum its in french though –> http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=73834&p=1
Here we go first check if your card got detected

lspci

you should get something like:

0000:00:12.0 Multimedia controller:Philips Semiconductors SAA7133 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) …

Understanding Zeitgeist

First things first…
Zeitgeist never intended to replace the hierarchical file-system. It is not doable. And it cannot replace the classic file browser either. Zeitgeist is more or less a layer over the file hierarchy to reduce browsing into folders etc. It is just an alternative experience of easily finding your files whatever type they …

A snippet of the GNOME Zeitgeist Todo list

Since Alex Gabriel the maintainer of Mayanna is on vacation we got stuck with some issues! So while he is gone we started working on the old GNOME Zeitgeist again. The development is great. Me more or less absent because of work, Mr RainCT joined the developers during the week and almost finished the …

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GNOME-Zeitgeist meets Mayanna THE ULTIMATE FAQ

Perhaps as a result the recent news about GNOME 3.0 mentioning GNOME-Zeitgeist (Yay!). A lot of people have been visiting our IRC channel lately asking about the project. In the chats that evolved we told them about our merging with the Mayanna project which led to some questions regarding Mayanna. Since many people have …

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The week merging Mayanna & Zeitgeist !

Mayanna was supposed to be a fork of Gimmie, Alex Gabriel and me started together (very creative name which is basically my girlfriends and his girlfriends name put together May + Anna). We then decided to write from scratch and started designing! While i still felt I couldn’t just leave the Gimmie code behind …

The week merging Mayanna & Zeitgeist !

Mayanna was supposed to be a fork of Gimmie, Alex Gabriel and me started together (very creative name which is basically my girlfriends and his girlfriends name put together May + Anna). We then decided to write from scratch and started designing! While i still felt I couldn’t just leave the Gimmie code behind …