Base-Art - Misc

Setting up Debian containers on Fedora Silverblue

Philippe Normand — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:50:00 +0200

After almost 20 years using Debian, I am trying something different, Fedora Silverblue. However for work I still need to use Debian/Ubuntu from time to time. In this post I am explaining the steps to setup Debian containers on Silverblue.

By default Silverblue comes with Toolbox which perfectly integrates …

Moving to Pelican

Philippe Normand — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:05:12 +0200

Time for a change! Almost 10 years ago I was starting to hack on a Blog engine with two friends, it was called Alinea and it powered this website for a long time. Back then hacking on your own Blog engine was the pre-requirement to host your blog :) But nowadays …

GStreamer and on-disk videos buffering

Philippe Normand — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:51:42 +0100

A really nice feature every video player using GStreamer and playbin2 should have is media on-disk buffering. Even though it is supported only for Quicktime and Flash videos currently it remains one good improvement of the user experience if you are an avid consumer of Apple trailers and flv :)

Under …

Python, sockets, GStreamer and the Garbage collector

Philippe Normand — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:56:20 +0200

Long time no blog, eh? Anyway I was today hooking up Telepathy Stream Tubes with GStreamer so that I could stream video over local-xmpp, go figure why… :)

Everything was fine:

on one side, offer a stream tube in a multi-user room and setup a pipeline like this one:
```
videotestsrc ! gdppay …
```

Hi Planet GNOME!

Philippe Normand — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:49:37 +0100

Just a quick post to say hi to the GNOME community. Thanks Jeff for adding me!

So I’m Philippe (philn on IRC), working for Fluendo on the Elisa MediaCenter, writing Python fluently during work hours for fun and profit and off work, only for fun :)

I regularly write news …

N810: first impressions

Philippe Normand — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:17:45 +0100

Two weeks ago I bought my N810 with the discount code kindly offered by Nokia for the Maemo development program. The device is really nice, the OS2008 provides a totally new user experience (compared to the version I used on my N770). So here are few remarks I have after …

Back from FOSDEM

Philippe Normand — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:00:41 +0100

So I was at FOSDEM 2007. Nice conf, many people and interesting talks. I crashed at Thomas’_ place for the week-end, thanks dude :-) Of particular interest:

OLPC : laptops for children
OpenMoko : open-source phone
Metisse : not a 3D desktop!

I wish I could attend to OneTeam and Telepathy talks. Thomas …

New home, new country, same job

Philippe Normand — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:51:39 +0200

After nearly 6 months spent living in Lyon, I headed south once more, to Barcelona :) I entered a new flat with 2 other frenchie fellows, we’ll be damn fine there!!

We still have some administrative paper work to do, but it can wait, we did the essential ones.. The …

Switching server

Philippe Normand — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:56:53 +0200

This evening base-art.net, pythonfr.org and few other hosted domains should be un-available while we migrate websites to a brand new dedicated server. So, fellow readers, don’t be surprised ;-)

Things will come back up this night hopefully. I’m still reachable by mail, phil at base-art dot net …

Pimp this rage

Philippe Normand — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:28:33 +0200

Looks like Raster has been hacking on a media center thingy. So far it looks great, i’ve watched the demo video, installed rage in no time and got it running in, well, even less time :) I must say i’m really impressed by the look and feel of the …

So (privately) delicious

Philippe Normand — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:39:28 +0100

Del.icio.us folks added the so awaited private bookmarks saving support. That’s a great step for this service, i need it to save links to private websites or htaccess protected websites or even job-related locations.

By default the new option is not activated, and once active you need …

New home, new job

Philippe Normand — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:31:23 +0100

Last month i moved from Brest to Lyon, for a new job. I’m now working with Fluendo folks on a Gstreamer/Python media center open-source project since March 1st.

The project is very ambitious, the plan is to provide a cross-platform, great looking media-center supported by a community of …

Merry christmas !!

Philippe Normand — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:00:01 +0100

I just wanted to share a very cool blog i’ve found few days ago. It’s about those little cute thingies:

Here it is : http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/

Philippe Normand — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:04:43 +0100

Aujourd’hui j’ai recu ma derniÃ¨re facture FranceTelecom : un avoir de 21Â :) Et oui, je suis en dÃ©groupage total chez le N9uf depuis fin octobre:

Conservation du nÂ° FT
VoiceMail
TV (enfin, normalement … QQ1 prÃªte …

X-Treme tagging how-to

Philippe Normand — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:17:12 +0200

Hum i don’t think this guy understood the point of tagging … I’m not sure del.icio.us admins would love to see all their users over-tagging like so ;-)