I'm tired... Again...

I wonder why didn't I do this before. You know, playing Counter Strike. It's and old game, propably older than my grandmother, but hey - it still rocks! Especially in a LAN environment. OK, they kicked my ass seriously yesterday (and today, some sleep deprivation is always good :P)

Hmm, today is Saint Valentine's Day, but I won't celebrate it as usuall. Not that I had someone to celebrate with... But still, we should show our love everyday not just at this one day. What's the difference between today (2. of February 2006) and any other day? OK, maybe one - it's usually colder now than on most other days... So, just behave as it is a "normal" day and give your love some flowers, like everyday - I suppose you give her flowers everyday? :)

On the other front - I was asked to hold a talk or workshop about Scribus in March, I'm not much of a speaker and I have absolutely no idea if I could handle it. Besides, I'm not a DTP professional, nor a semi-pro just a guy who does some work in it for the ACTUS Association. I must think about that, maybe Maciej (from Linux Forum) could help me out a bit. We'll see...

Libjingle

Libjingle 0.2.0 is out. I must say I'm impressed by Google, an free (as in freedom :P) library, open API's like those for Google Maps and Google Reader (soon to "published").

Hmm, maybe they get the Web 2.0 thing right in some time, where apps from multiple vendors could work together. This could be the real power there - no limit for the users, you want to use our feed reader on your site? No problem, the API is already there for you to use! But for now, just to many services are on their own with no proper means of using their content ("social" or not) on my site...

UPDATE: The moment this post hit the blog, Google enabled Google Talk inside my GMail account, and I must say - it rocks!

WARNING

My router is undergoing some minor upgrades and configuration and it will last for another few days or so. You can expect the planet to be unavailible for at most 1 minute a day, sorry for any incovenience, maybe I'll try to move some of the test services to an other port so they won't interfere with the main content. Hmm, that's a thought, a good one even ;)

Scribus 1.3.2 is out...

Like the topic says - Scribus 1.3.2 is finally out together with the long awaited Windows version (with a little help from Trolltech AS, and I must say it works like a charm on my Win XP.

Oh, RPM packages for the PLD Linux distribution (i686, AC) should be availible somewhere on the main Scribus site as soon as it gets up. If there's anyone out there with a AMD-64 machine willing to let me build it there for some testing (I think the _ulibdir stuff is obsolete for some time, but sadly I cannot test that at home) just drop me a note here.

At last!

According to Jajcus and Ralph Meijer Google Talk has opened it's gates for other Jabber servers to federate with, a quick test showed it's really true:

[19:30] lukasz.jernas@gmail.com accepted your presence subscription request
[19:30] lukasz.jernas@gmail.com/Talk.v82751FB013 () is online:

WOW, at last. Now if only Google Talk could make use of all the transports out there...

UPDATE: You can find an official confirmation here.

BitTorrent??

Some time ago there was an idea to use BitTorrent together with poldek to distribute PLD package files. And today I saw this. Maybe I will have to look into this issue after my exams, could be interesting. Generating .torrent files for new packages would be easy, seting up the tracker also, the problem is - how to keep seeders for thousands of packages on one machine? Poldek supports various download managers so downloading will be no problem on this side I think. Of course this could speed up download for the bigger packages, for the small one the advantege wouldn't be so good but it's worth a try...

Bug trackers revisited...

It seems like Trac has won the "competition". Easy tu use even for newbies (like some other devs on this project), lightweight, works from scratch - even in Lighttpd, supports Postgresql and other database engines and is just looking great with those nifty command line tool. Right now I don't need some of it's features like the wiki engine but it might become handy sometime. As time passes we'll see how useful it is...

Oh, BTW sorry for some outage on Planet PLD, typos in the config file suck :/

Bug tracking systems?

Hmm, I need a nice bug/issue tracking system for my project but sadly I can't decide which one to use. Flyspray isn't a choice, Mantis also fails to get on the list (I need Postgresql support). I'm looking into Roundup and Bugzilla, but the second one is propably overkill like OTRS though both are worth a look, maybe it'll benefit in the future...

So which bug/issue trackers do you use? Oh and as a sidenote - I'm also looking for an app which would help me translating documents into other languages while keeping track of the changes in paragraphs, somethink like gettext where each paragraph would be a seperate entity to translate...

Fluendo did it again!

After delivering a wonderful framework like GStreamer they did it again - their offering an mp3 plugin free of charge to anyone who wishes to use it, they paid the license fees to the Fraunhoffer Institute. If you're a distribution maker you can get a redistribution contract from Fluendo free of charge also. The only drawback is that the plugin is incompatible with the GPL license, but there are many players which aren't bound by this, so most of the users can just listen hapily to their music.

You can get some more infos about this by visiting Christian Schallers blog

kaourantin.net: Flash Player 8 for Linux update

Looks like we will have a new Flash player for Linux soon - it's about time! Now if only we had a decent app to make all those funky, non-accessible pages with bells and whistles all around... No, seriously it would make our lifes a little bit harder with even more flash-only pages out there.

Read more at www.kaourantin.net/2005...

Fer's blog : binary - plug and pray?

There's an interesting post over at Fernando Herreras blog with some interesting ideas. It would be great if package management system would support more metadata (or do they now?) so one could store for example hardware ID's for driver packages which would be easy to find just by doing poldek --shcmd='search -p my_driver'.But this shouldn't be used by hotplug as such, only by the hardware detection tools.

Integrating it with a Linux Drivers portal would be also great but there must be a means to distribute those file to people who don't have Internet access and the portal itself should have a more distributed manner. The driver devs would just need to register their drivers there and they would be fetched by the portal itself without any user intervention {by means of an RSS/ATOM/whatever feed or a simple (more or less) script like pldnotify.awk}.

The sanbox infrastructure would have to be provided by the distributions itself, getting their info what packages to build from the site and sending feedback back to it with the location of those packages. With the state of the Linux kernel as it is today (as seen on kernel.org ) and the distributions theirself I think it would be nearly impossible to make such a centralized sandbox work - just to many patch/gcc incositencies so in the end this portal would be just for the few chosen ones which use the mainstream distributions. A decentralized system should work wonders, giving the driver authors instant feedback on whre it works or on which kernels/gcc it lacks a few issues (all the buildlogs could be sent to the portal and stored or sent to the driver devs)...

BTW I wonder if anyone reads this though...

Civil rights? We need no stinkin' civil rights!

So it's done, the EU parliament votes for data retention plan. What does it mean for a plain citizen like me? First of all I'll pay for that in my telephone bill (someone said the telcos should take the cost on them - what world is this guy living in??!??), another drawback is that the data about all my connections (even to this blog) will be kept for at least six months and that it won't be anonimised like it should be done now when it isn't used for billing purposes. It just will sit there waiting to be stolen. Now, one could say that only proper government agencies are allowed to view it, but who will take care to ensure that? It's could be done if one would encrypt them with a public key for which the private one is only in the hands of the proper authorities, but I don't know of any legislation which requires that. I have no idea if this would be even enforceable, there would be to many agencies which would need the private key. I have no idea what the future will bring us, I fear that for a few years will have scenes like in Nineteen Eighty-Four especially here in Poland where the government is trying to think for the citizens what is right and what is wrong.
Ehhh, we will see...
Polish users can find more info under VaGla.pl.
Have a nice day and don't stop fighting for you rights!

Free Software out, DRM in?

We all knew that the famous company from Redmond was choosing words carefully, but this is just too much. Convincing others(?) to remove entire passages of text in a conclusion of a conference hosted by the United Nations seems like censorship to me. We have something similar in politics here - people come to a conclusion, agree on something but in the end everything comes out different as planned. But in that case it's not about politics, it's about freedom of choice - one should be given all arguments and facts, not just the "I have money, trust me that I'm right <<facts>>".
Oh, as a side note - I've sent a letter to my MEP with some thanks for voting against software patents last september, maybe it's a little bit late but I hope he will like it anyway...

Who am I?

Hobbit


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OMFG

I wish I hadn't seen this post. Now I am scared, if that's what the new MS Office will look like. The toolbar looks like it's as tall as a basket ball player, and it'll eat most of my 1024x768 screen. I hope that KDE/GNOME won't adopt it. Don't get me wrong, I do like different layouts for apps, I like the Kids Office plans, but such layout could be really difficult to use in a INATAS enviroment. And I'd have to use a magnifying glass to see the text in the menus/toolbars.

UPDATE: Correct link.

..I miss you - I’m not gonna crack..

I’m so happy ’cause today
I’ve found my friends ...
They’re in my head
I’m so ugly, but that’s okay, ’cause so are you ...
We’ve broken our mirrors
Sunday morning is everyday for all I care ...
And I’m not scared
Light my candles, in a daze
’cause I’ve found god

Nirvana - Lithium

I don't know what it is - but all girls I know will eventually fall with love - of course with someone other than me. I think I should get used to it, but somehow there's always this strange feeling that it wasn't me, that there was someone who's better. Ah, nevermind, life is so much %#^& up without thinking about this issue anyway.
The last weeks I'm playing(?) with Scribus while making a portfolio for an association I'm in, so the docs have to wait a little bit longer. But I really should start the translation ASAP so I won't have to be ashamed (the docs should be ready a year ago :/)

..it's another girls paradise..

I have no need
for a sea view
for a sea view
I have no need
I have my little
pleasures
this wall being one of these

when I come to terms
to terms with this
when I come to terms
with this
when I come to terms
with this whip lash
of Silk on wool embroidery

Tori Amos - Parasol

Another part of my life has ended. I'll will miss the girls at work, I had fun with them. Yesterday they made me laugh for the last time propably.
Hmm, it's stupid - I would like to tell you about so many things that had happened, but I can't find the right words for now...

A small step for a man...

Erm I mean a small step for Google but a big one for the Jabber/XMPP community - Google Talk is live and it's using XMPP. Everything that's required is a proper Jabber/XMPP client and a Gmail account.
The next step should be enabling connections from other Jabber server to Google's one, because currently you can't talk to them without a Gmail account on both sides :/

101 uses for a cat. 5e patchcord

Okay, maybe not exactly 101 uses but still one.
Do you know that you can use use it to view your DivX movies on a TV far far away?
No? You do now :)
Don't mess around with all your cables for audio and video, you can have it all in one cat 5e UTP cable - just attach two S-Video plugs, one 3.5mm jack and two RCA jacks. Maybe it's not all that perfect if you want 5.1 sound,but my crappy SB 16 can't handle it anyway and the difference is hardly noticeable.
The video signal also suits my needs and I can hardly notice the difference between using an out of the box S-Video cable and this one.
Now I must just get my Radeon to work in X Windows with TV out enabled :/

..."Lonely as I am, together we cry"...

Every finger in the room is pointing at me
I wanna spit in their faces then I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach I got a desert in my mouth
Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in just what god needs one more victim

Why do we crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
And my heart is sick of being in chains

Tori Amos - Crucify

Thanks to Patrys our planet has a new look, so let's all say a big Thank You to him!
Oh, and there's some other good news too - I've passed all my exams! Yupi, especially with that 5 in .Niet. It would be great to have some time for myself, but work is calling and there are also some projects left behind, which I should finish before august, blah...
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