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Entries from August 2006

Sunday, August 20. 2006

Banshee Doesn't Like Me Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 22:05

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Banshee Doesn't Like Me

$ ./SimpleDaapClient.rb 3689
"GO AWAY"

There should be some news on the Ruby DAAP server soon. Hopefully tonight.

Wednesday, August 9. 2006

And How Open Source Sucks Sometimes Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 04:40

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And How Open Source Sucks Sometimes

Quality control I imagine is always a difficult issue. Even when you control the binaries, software isn't always going to act the same on all systems. However the problem is exasperated when all that is released is a tarball, like we do with Amarok. For instance, we decided to remove the gstreamer 0.10 engine. It has several open bugs and its maintainer (Paul) would be the first to say its not ready yet.

So we removed it from the build system Makefile.am and commented it out of the configure.in.in. But apparently despite our best effort to release a quality project, we recently discovered that Fedora went behind our back and re-enabled the gstreamer 0.10 engine for their amd64 builds. Remember, this engine has never been part of a stable build. And then our users come to us wondering why stuff doesn't work... they generally don't like being told its because their distro is silly. :/

Wednesday, August 9. 2006

What's Awesome about Open Source ... Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 00:48

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What's Awesome about Open Source Development

So while fiddling with my server a couple of days ago I noticed that metadata now works correctly when adding DAAP songs to the playlist. I think I did know that Martin was going to work on this (the problem was applicable to iPods as well) but I hadn't notice that he had actually finished.

Sunday, August 6. 2006

Server and A New Friend Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 19:02

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Server and A New Friend

So I've finished a basic implementation of a DAAP server in Ruby this morning. Hooray! I haven't gotten any where with it for some time due to a frustrating problem. I had been overlooking that not all numbers in DAAP are 4 bytes wide, so I just fixed that and it worked. The server is really slow to initialize, so I think fixing that issue is my next step...

Last night, my flatmate Alex said "What was that - a bat or a bird?" I didn't see anything. However a few minutes later something fluttered through the living room ("Aaargh!" was my response). That was our first introduction to our new friend Nickie. We weren't sure she was a bat until the following morning. Right outside our apartment door in the hallway was Nickie, hanging around.

Crystal and Sam also have a new neighbor, Jackie. Apparently she was fluttering around their apartment last night as well and she's now hanging inside the front door of their apartment building. The bats are getting out and enjoying the weather as well here in Kirksville.

Pacific Coast Hellway - a harmless bomb