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03 Jul 2009 - 04:00   (http://blog.elgura.com/2009/07/03/sysrq-trigger/#comments comentario/s)

Hace mucho tiempo hice unas menciones a SysRq (Aquí la documentación oficial), pero gracias a un compañero de trabajo he descubierto el SysRq trigger, que nos permitirá ejecutar las acciones de SysRq en remoto mediante escrituras en el /proc. echo h > /proc/sysrq-trigger; dmesg | tail -n 1 SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm Full kIll [...]

02 Jul 2009 - 10:38   (http://mones.livejournal.com/101414.html comentario/s)

Yesterday I got a interesting announce in my inbox: try our hosting solution for free during two months. The announce came from the nice people of Gandi, the registrar where I maintain my mones.org domain.

So far, so good. Applied and got my share in minutes. The features are not impressive, just the minimal: 256 MB RAM, 3 GB (system) + 5 GB (data) disk, 5 Mbit bandwidth and a 1/60th part of the processor, which is marketed as something between a Pentium III and Via C7 processor (not very informative).
What took most time was to wait the reverse DNS to be active because of my change of mind in the middle of the process :-). The system installed was Debian Lenny, of course, and took just minutes.

Less than 24 hours later you can see what happens, and I have not access to the server... despite I love the way Gandi does business those are not the things that inspire confidence in a hosting solution :-(.

29 Jun 2009 - 22:24   (http://www.rastreador.com.es/general/tu-y-tu-navegador/#comments comentario/s)

Buenísimo este vídeo de promoción de Google Chrome.

28 Jun 2009 - 21:03   (http://blog.ifrade.es/2009/06/28/vacaciones-o-algo-asi/#comments comentario/s)

Al final no se como me arreglo que “los dias para descansar” acaban siendo mas estresantes que los de oficina.

Mañana vuelo a Madrid, estare por alli una semana y luego el sabado salto a canarias al desktop summit. Allí doy dos charlas, una el domingo en el track de cross-desktop (sobre tracker en ingles), y otra el jueves en el track de GNOME hispano (sobre… !sorpresa! tracker en español).

28 Jun 2009 - 20:48   (http://blog.ifrade.es/2009/06/28/introducing-mussorgsky/#comments comentario/s)

MussOrgsky is a music organizer (i.e a metadata editor) for maemo5 that allows the user to edit the basic information inside the music files.

In fremantle/maemo5 we have tracker to retrieve the information of the music files and make the life of Music Player developers easier. It is really cute to browser your music “by artist”  but in my case (and i guess i am not the only one) the metadata of my music files is far from perfect and unified (songs without title, without album, misspellings in artists names, no album art at all and so on). There are a lot of programs out there to fix this problem (e.g easytag) but they all require a PC, and i want to edit this stuff directly on the tablet!

So, here comes my pet project “MussOrgsky”: a small application to set the basic metadata of the music files (title, artist, album and album art) directly on the device.

This is the edition window (the main window can be seen here ):

It is an python program that uses:

• the new hildon widgets for maemo5 (there is a really helpful tutorial!)
• tracker to query the availabe music data (or absence of it),
• mutagen to write the information back into the files (i uploaded the package myself to extras-devel few days ago)
• gstreamer to play the files (yes, there is a “play” button to help you to know what damn song “gtkpod0123123.mp3″ is)
• Some online search engines to retrieve the album art
• It follows the media art storage spec (using Urho’s implementation), so UKMP, MAFW, and this editor share the same album art

You can find the source code in garage.maemo and the package to install in extras-devel. I have still some ideas pending to implement, but it should be usable. As usual, feedback is welcome!

24 Jun 2009 - 06:06   

23 Jun 2009 - 21:11   (http://blog.ifrade.es/2009/06/23/packaging-a-python-program-for-maemo/#comments comentario/s)

To package a python program for maemo, you just need to do in scratchbox the same as you would do on your desktop [using distutils and CDBS]. You add a simple setup.py file to the project, a minimal debian/rules, a couple of details in the debian/control file, run “dpkg-buildpackage”…. and it is done. Right?

No. it won’t work.

For some reason, inside scratchbox some paths are modified and the final .deb package install the files under “/scratchbox/tools/bin” and “/scratchbox/tools/share” (instead of the usual “/usr/bin” and “/usr/share”), so the package is somehow installable in scratchbox but useless for the real devices

I didn’t find any solution on the net, and It took me quite some time to figure out how to solve it. After a hundred tests with different CDBS rules and combinations, it was so easy as add a setup.cfg file on the root of my project with this content:

[install_scripts]
install_dir=debian/<package>/usr/bin

[install_data]
install_dir=debian/<package>/usr/

After that, “dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot” generates a correct package, that can be uploaded to extras!

23 Jun 2009 - 09:28   (http://www.jsmanrique.es/2009/06/23/analizando-fotos-y-rumores/#comments comentario/s)

Como seguimos sin noticias de los supuestos nuevos dispositivos basados en Maemo, vamos a especular un poco….

Cuando se presentó hace meses el N97, entre los múltiples videos publicados había una entrevista con el diseñador del dispositivo, y se comentó mucho que aparecían un par de dispositivos en su mesa de trabajo que no correspondían con un N97…

Y hace unas semanas, la gente de Mobile Crunch presentaron una posible recreación del N900 en función de unos datos que tenían…

Así que es posible comparar dicha recreación y los prototipos en la mesa. Bueno, sólo espero que pronto tengamos más datos de la propia Nokia, y tengamos que dejar de esperar y especular