Posted in Uncategorized, tagged devel, floss, gentoo on September 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It finally arrived, I had to patch by myself the linuxwacom kernel driver to add support for the device identifier of my shiny new Bamboo Fun tablet. I did some test to verify that the values in the device features table are the same as the black Bamboo ones, and everything seems to work properly. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged devel, floss on September 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Just letting you know: today I tamed Nginx. My shiny new fancyindex module for this amazing web server is alive. This, alongside with some love it is getting lately (like Manlio Perillo adding proper WSGI support to Nginx) will make it one of the web servers to take as reference in the future. Maybe I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged devel, floss on September 3, 2007 | No Comments »
It is amazing how b0rked web browsers can even affect web servers. I you don’t believe, just take a look at this piece og the gzip filter of the Nginx web server:
/*
* if the URL (without the “http://” prefix) is longer than 253 bytes
[...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged devel, floss, gentoo on July 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today I have been working on a Gentoo ebuild for the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK). After some hours of bug-huntingit seems I have been able of crafting a set of ebuilds for it and its dependencies. Now the beast is building (it is an enormous package, which is not a Good Thing™) and everything [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged devel, floss, gentoo on June 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Heck, yes: I have an iPod, a 3G one, and it served me very well those last four years. But I always wanted to store the music where I think it is better to, not where Apple thought the music should be. Recently I discovered that libgpod can directly set the path to the file [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged devel, floss on April 29, 2007 | No Comments »
The Free Software Office (OSL, «Oficina de Software Libre») of the University of A Coruña, where I work, made public its website last friday. It was about time… I hope you will like our mascot, it was drawn by me, as well as the logo for the ESCoBA
project. The site runs an instance [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged floss, gentoo on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Do you remember my previous rant on pam_mount? Well, now I must admit it works smoothly in its last incarnation, which is 0.18 at the time if this writing. I spent some time last weekend setting up a LUKS-encrypted partition to be used as home directory and decided to give it another try. Also, I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged floss, gentoo on February 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The last week I was somewhat surprised because Enlightenment 0.17 dissapeared from the Portage tree. After some digging, I found the answer: now the ebuilds reside in their own overlay. If you want to continue using E17, Layman will do the thing:
# layman -a enlightenment
If you are using Paludis like me, you may prefer [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged floss, gentoo on December 24, 2006 | No Comments »
Lately I have been using the great Music Player Daemon (or, in short, MPD) for playback, because I really find useful having it on the background and being able of using it from any imaginable interface: command line (”mpc”), text interface (the curses based “ncmpc” 
and a large array of graphical interfaces… there are even [...]
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