http://blogs.igalia.com/mario Tomorrow could be worse Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:32:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you might know, two weeks ago I told in this blog that "big news were about to come"... and the time to say what it was about has come, so get ready... steady... go! I'm going to become a father I doubt I could express my feelings right now well enough ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/08/25/i-told-you-so/ ...in some weeks time. And it has nothing to do with cats, just in case you wondered: Mincha: one of my cutest cats Just stay tuned! http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/08/11/big-news-are-about-to-come/ As you can check out in the vagalume-devel@garage.maemo.org mailing list archives: https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/vagalume-devel/2008-June/000151.html ...today I've finished the implementation of a new patch for Vagalume which will enable D-Bus support in the desktop version of this nice player, since so far D-Bus interaction was only allowed in the maemo platform (due to using functions ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/06/13/vagalume-d-bus-support-for-its-desktop-version/ I know three posts talking about the summit could be too much... but I couldn't stand without continuing Javi's last post showing to the world the two fierce teams which fought in the Arbo War. So, here you are them: The Arbo War: red team The Arbo War: green team They seem quite ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/06/11/the-arbo-war-the-teams/ During this last weekend most of the igalians (me included) had a nice experience in a rural house of Pontevedra due to the Igalia Summit, June 2008 edition. There we were able to enjoy of the nature, perform a great Paintball match... and do several other kind of activities that ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/06/08/igalia-summit-is-over/ As you might know, some time ago I developed a plugin for the maemo version of Vagalume which would allow the user to manage the most basic features from a tiny icon in the status bar. After that, I thought it could be a good idea to implement a ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/04/25/freedesktop-tray-icon-for-vagalume/ Today, I'm going to give a talk about Vagalume in the "VIII Jornadas de Software Libre de GPUL 2008", since Berto finally won't be able to be there, as it was initially planned, so I'll be charged with the responsibility of telling the people how cool Vagalume, Maemo and GNOME ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/04/17/installing-a-vnc-server-on-a-maemo-internet-tablet/ As my mate Berto has already commented on his blog, we're back from California after attending to the Mobile Rules! '08 awards ceremony, and I'd like to say that we had a great time there, even though we didn't win the prize... but being a finalist was already a very ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/03/27/back-from-california/ Yesterday I've got my new Thinkpad T61 laptop and I had to spend some time installing a GNU/Linux distribution on it, so doing all those related tasks that are a must: partitioning, installing linux, installing emacs... and besides to all those tasks a very important one: encrypting some disk partitions. To ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/03/08/automatically-mounting-luks-encrypted-partitions-with-pam_mount/ Today, while doing the houseworks, I plugged the N800 to the AUX input of my mini hi-fi system (see the photo), in order to listen my online radios with Vagalume while I was doing several tasks all around my flat. Then, after finishing those tasks, I sat in front of my ... http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2008/03/01/my-sloppy-dirty-ugly-but-maybe-useful-script-for-the-vagalume-d-bus-interface/