http://madabar.com/techblog If it ain't broke you're not trying hard enough Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:58:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of tonight's tasks was to burn a freshly downloaded Fedora 10 DVD ISO image. My dad gave me some blank LightScribe DVDs a while back, so I thought I'd give them a try, not having done so before. After a quick look around it appears the only LightScribe labelling ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2008/11/27/lightscribe-meh/ Interesting less trivial than expected problem (solved): sorting package version numbers: import re import rpm def get_package_version(name): """Return version string of installed package.""" # note: ts can take an argument that is the root of the installation # ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2008/03/06/sorting-package-version-strings/ I finally got around to looking at the problem tonight. The fix was very simple. My apologies for not addressing this sooner! Get the updated .deb. The problem was due to the volume range on the original Exaile going from 0-1. For some reason on maemo (OS2008) the volume range is ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2008/02/09/exaile-volume-problem-in-os2008-fixed/ It's lovely to see Nokia embracing "Web 2.0"... BoingBoing Slashdot Re dd it di gg ars technica Bl og s You can participate too, with a related issue. Help convince Nokia to provide out-of-the-box support for Ogg Vorbis: Vote for bug 176 PledgeBank (* I haven't pledged - sticking with my N800) The organization responsible for the Ogg formats have ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/12/11/nokia-vs-ogg/ Here are my notes from updating to OS2008 for getting root access via ssh and taking an early snapshot of the image filesystem with rsync: Download the OS2008 firmware image. Follow the instructions for flashing with new firmware image Go to Settings->Application Manager and go to Tools->Application Catalog and enable the Maemo Extras ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/12/08/updating-the-n800-to-os2008/ I've made a new release of Exaile for maemo 4.0 (i.e. OS2008, chinook). This drops a bunch of backward compatibility patches needed for OS2007, and takes advantage of some gtk 2.10 features. Also, there was a bug in the gtk shipped with OS2007 that prevented activating items in the sidebar. ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/12/05/exaile-for-maemo-40-os2008/ I've updated the maemo port of Exaile to version 0.2.11. There are not many visible changes, apart from alphabetic separators in the collection list. I now include the bytecode-compiled pyc files, so startup time should be reduced slightly. It still takes a bit long to start up though. I've been ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/12/03/exaile-0211-for-maemo/ A few weekends ago I updated my system from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8. I did a fresh install, as opposed to doing an upgrade. Here are a few of the problems I encountered, along with solutions: Wireless networking wasn't working Fedora 8 detected my Atheros-based wifi card, since it now includes ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/11/30/updating-to-fedora-8/ The officially recommended way to create .deb packages for the maemo platform is to use dpkg-buildpackage within Scratchbox. For me, Scratchbox is a pain to install for two main reasons. First, there is no RPM package of the scratchbox environment, so apparently I need to run some scripts as root, ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/08/12/how-to-create-a-deb-package-for-maemo-without-scratchbox/ I've whipped up a webpage for the Exaile N800 port. This has the latest packages, screenshots, todo list, etc. I've also made a new release with the following changes: Basic Hildon-ization: window, menus, full-screen support, file dialogs Icon now appears in taskbar Fixed default OSD background colour Made track info in title bar briefer Double-clicking ... http://madabar.com/techblog/2007/08/01/exaile-n800-port-webpage/