Base-Art - Linux

Coherence and Nautilus, UPnP a bit more on the desktop

Philippe Normand — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:49:39 +0100

Frank is at it again on his quest to make Coherence conquer the GNOME desktop. This time Nautilus is part of the game, allowing the user to easily share files over UPnP and easily select a MediaRenderer to play media files.

Checkout the video on his post, it is just …

Upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty in text-mode

Philippe Normand — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:33:14 +0200

In Debian it’s really easy to upgrade to a new version of the distribution:

replace old distro with new distro in /etc/apt/sources.list
run apt-get update
run apt-get dist-upgrade

This used to work fine for me in the past. Now I’m using Ubuntu and I have …

Painful Ubuntu upgrade

Philippe Normand — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:32:47 +0200

After Edgy Eft official release, I figured out it might be a good idea to upgrade my laptop running Dapper… Because I didn’t want to spend hours in front of the screen waiting the 800Mb to get downloaded, I did the upgrade remotely via SSH…

Ok i was a …

Choosing a Home Theater Platform

Philippe Normand — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:15:47 +0200

I’d like to setup a HTPC software in my living room, running on this tiny computer … I had a look at various softwares but i’d prefer one implemented in Python, so that extending would be quite easy.

I’ll mainly use it to have tv channel schedule (XML …

When firefox extensions mess it up

Philippe Normand — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:11:23 +0100

Yeehah i found a new way to burn my Firefox profile … upgrading extensions. Very nice huh ? Here is the outter-space-sticky-bottom-bar new firefox extension from hell:

You won’t be able to live without it :)

My new mail checker

Philippe Normand — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:21:57 +0100

It’s been long to find the mail checker of my dreams. Embrace is a little E17 application which can monitor pop,imap(s),etc mailboxes. Currently, 0.0.1 version displays read/unread mail number per mailbox, that suits my needs for the moment :-)

Also, Debian sid users may …

Shut up, noisy computer !

Philippe Normand — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:10:29 +0100

Now computers tend to be more and more silent, even servers (have a look at latest Dell ones) become noiseless. I had a quite peacefull mini-computer (EPIA M9000 + Cubid 2699) during more than one year, but it wasn’t really fanless (1 8mm noisy fan, 2 short-life 8mm case-fans), though …

Testing GMailFS

Philippe Normand — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:48:31 +0200

After being invited by Daryl to GMail, i took 15 minutes to get FUSE / libgmail / GmailFS working out of the box :)

It’s quite amusing to mount a FS like this !! Even if gmail is not intended for that it rules.

Copying one 8Mb file to the gmail-space gives me …

Useless but essential : Bootsplash

Philippe Normand — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:34:50 +0200

Today i installed the latest 2.6 kernel, 2.6.8.1. That was the day to give a chance to bootsplash …. This thing installs like a charm (found a french tutorial) … execpt the sysv-rc-bootsplash package which didn’t want to install (version conflict w/ sysv-rc) .. So i manually patched …

Firefox bookmarks remote backup

Philippe Normand — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:13:07 +0200

Tonight I upgraded my firefox debian package, re-installed my favorites extensions (mozex,webDeveloper, …) and Bookmarks Synchronizer. Well last time I tested it, there was support for FTP only, but now the thing can handle HTTP(S) PUT :) That’s was THE missing feature, I love it now, it’s a …

freedesktop Xati test

Philippe Normand — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:14:00 +0200

Few days since last post ;)

Just compiled a CVS HEAD snapshot of fdo, and using the xserver-inst shell script compiled it in a snap. It’s been few months since my first test and I see the difference.

After a little issue on xserver compilation (disable mesa drivers in xserver …