N900 Video calls (Skype too!)
The PR1.2 update of the N900 firmware is now officially released. The big new feature is video calls. It is also the world's first phone to offer Skype video calls…
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When a man page lies
The part of the socket(7) man page about setsockopt(.., SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY...) says: "For ip(7), this also sets the IP type-of- service (TOS) field for outgoing packets." I wanted to know…
foss.in
I'm in Bangalore for foss.in. First, the country is awesome, the Indian food is amazing, etc, etc. The weather is also pretty nice this time of year, not too warm,…
fsck failure drops me into a shell
One of my non-geeky friends is currently trying Linux on his laptop. For some reason, he stopped it incorrectly and on the next reboot a fsck was forced and the…
GnomeICU at the forefront of tabs
There seems to be this new fad at adding tabs, but GnomeICU has had them for years, since 2002. You guys are like sooo late.
Summer of Code
Students! There are only a few days left (until Monday) for you to submit your Google summer of code applications. This year, I'm hoping to mentor students working on Farsight…
Farsight at fosdem
Its my first time at fosdem, and I'm really impressed by the sheer size of the conference, every European Free Software developer seems to be here (its really nice to…
A Peek at Farsight 2
First, this is my first post on Planet Gnome, so I'll introduce myself. I'm one of the developers of GnomeICU and Farsight. I work for Collabora, mostly on Farsight and…
GUADEC 2007
Last week was GUADEC in Birmingham, it was really fun, I got to see some old friends and also meet many people that I only knew from IRC, including many…
net-im/pidgin
I just added the net-im/pidgin-2.0.0beta7 package to the portage tree. Its the continuation of net-im/gaim. Only two of the plugins that we have in portage (pidgin-rhythmbox and pidgin-extprefs) have released…