GUPnP 0.18 (and GSSDP 0.12) harmful to VoIP calls
Due to unintentional behavior breakage in the newest versions of GUPnP and GSSDP, the UPnP NAT traversal in all VoIP applications that use Farsight2 is currently broken. This includes Empathy,…
Desktop Summit 2011
Just like everyone else on Planet GNOME, You are all cordially invited to my talk: Improving the quality of video calls on the Free Desktop. I will try to explain…
Removing leftover Facebook Chat Jabber contacts on Maemo
A couple months ago, Facebook announced announced that their chat system would also be available through XMPP. So it is possible to just configure it like any other Jabber server…
N900 vs Nexus One: a comparison
About a month and a half ago, I had a smallish bike accident, I did not have a single scratch, but I managed to fall right on my N900 and…
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…
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…
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…
Thinkpad x60s
Collabora has provided me with a new computer: a ThinkPad x60s. Its really nice, extremely light and the battery lasts for a very long time (enough to fly to Europe!).…