Zero_Dogg's blog » GNOME http://blog.zerodogg.org Geeky comments on geeky things Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:42:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Day Planner 0.9, and looking forward http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/03/day-planner-09-and-looking-forward/ http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/03/day-planner-09-and-looking-forward/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 14:20:09 +0000 Zero_Dogg http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/03/day-planner-09-and-looking-forward/ Day Planner 0.9 has been released. It is available for download as a Mandriva RPM, Ubuntu deb, Debian deb, generic installer and source tarball.

The release focused primarily on fixes and cleanups. A bunch of minor bugs were fixed, and I rewrote most of the iCalendar back-end. It should be faster now and preserves files better than it used to.

This release includes a dummy maemo interface. It can currently fully display a Day Planner calendar, and has a UI quite similar to the desktop edition. However, it can not edit or add any events, and is as such not as useful as it might have been. The plan is for the maemo port to be ready for 0.11.

0.10 will (among other things) feature a new HTML exporting module (which has been in the works for quite a while), a cleaner, object-oriented version of the add/edit event windows (to simplify their use and maintainance. The current code that handles it is a bit ugly).

The major user-facing change will be the addition of a GUI for calendar subscriptions. 0.9 includes support for them (though it isn’t really announced because the feature isn’t ready), but one has to manually edit the config file.

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I recently discovered a free driver for my GF’s builtin Microdia webcam. It works very nicely (better than the crappy proprietary one did when I tested the “trial”). So if you’ve got a Microdia webcam, at least the 0c45:624f one, now you can have it working properly, with good quality without paying a load of money for a one-time one-kernel one-arch license for a proprietary one.

git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/microdia.git
cd microdia
make
sudo insmod ./microdia.ko

Then just launch Cheese or your favourite webcam program and off you go.

Thanks a lot to those that took the time to develop a proper driver. If you’ve got a paypal account, I’ll donate some money for your hard work.

Update: the module is now named sn9c20x.ko, so the last line becomes sudo insmod ./sn9c20x.ko

Update 2: According to brandon in the comments, the kernel module is in the upstream kernel as of 2.6.31.6

]]> http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/27/microdia-0c45624f-webcam-on-linux/feed/ 24 Automated Day Planner development snapshots http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/25/automated-day-planner-development-snapshots/ http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/25/automated-day-planner-development-snapshots/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:20:12 +0000 Zero_Dogg http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/25/automated-day-planner-development-snapshots/ I’ve added automatic development snapshots of Day Planner to the Day Planner homepage. There are currently three different branches (trunk, next stable, current stable) being built, in two flavours (tarball and installer). The snapshots are updated twice each day and are available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/snapshot. Feel free to take them for a spin.

]]> http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/25/automated-day-planner-development-snapshots/feed/ 0 Day Planner’s second anniversary (and a development snapshot) http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/19/day-planners-second-anniversary-and-a-development-snapshot/ http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/19/day-planners-second-anniversary-and-a-development-snapshot/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:33:07 +0000 Zero_Dogg http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/19/day-planners-second-anniversary-and-a-development-snapshot/ Today is the second anniversary of the Day Planner project. So hurray for Day Planner, and here’s to all the great releases to come.

In other related news, I’ve just released a development snapshot of Day Planner 0.9.
It is available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/devsnapshot. It contains all of the developed features for 0.9 (including the unfinished maemo port), but is not yet stable enough to be labelled stable, so If you’ve got time and feel like it, give it a spin and report any bugs you find. The whole iCalendar back-end has been almost completely re-written for this version, which is why I want some additional testing before I release a stable version.

Please do not package this release or submit it to news sites, it’s just a svn snapshot.

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