I use emacs for reading and writing code. I try to follow a subset of the GNU coding style. One annoyance with the GNU style is the block indentation. I find it very difficult to follow the 2-space width of the block and in my humble opinion, it is unneccesary. I like to begin at [...]
I think I have a version of libjingle which has some bug fixes compared to the 0.4.0. And BTW, these are strictly unofficial release. I have nothing to do with Google.
The main features of the release are:
dependency on ortp 0.7.1 removed. Can use the distro supplied ortp (latest version). 0.7.1 will no longer be supported.
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Since this year March, I had been a heavy user of VoIP. I had been trying various options, asking other users on which service works best and so on. If not for VoIP, I would have been spending massive amount of money on Telephone to call home. One of the hard requrement was that it [...]
Micro$oft has finally published their Office binary formats. Perhaps many of us, Free Software users see this as a big win. Though OpenOffice supports reading and writing in MS Office formats, these specs from horse’ mouth would surely be expected to make things better. Not so. It seems like these formats are not designed to [...]
Today marks five years since I became an associated member of the Free Software Foundation. I have to say that I am very glad that the money I gave to the FSF is well spent.
If you are remotely connected to Software World and are worried about Free Standards, Free Information, Free Software (Free as in [...]
Sometime in February this year, I bought the Vol II of The Art of Computer Programming, mainly to understand the floating point representation. I found a simple error in one of the diagram, which is not really an error, but was a misleading expression, which I pointed out to Prof. Knuth. Today I received a [...]
Yesterday I got myself a serial cable with one side as plug and the other side as socket (which turned to be of very low quality, but neverthless useful at the moment) for connecting my new Blackfin BF537 STAMP board that my friend David Rowe sent me.
This morning, I hooked it up and applied power [...]
I got my OLPC board last night. I will need to put up a plan to get Debian up on this machine and also work on other things which can be done with this machine.
Last week I made a big blunder of buying a used Samsung ML-1250 printer based on the web reviews and on the commitment from Samsung (as printer in their brochures and manuals) that it will work for sure with GNU/Linux. I spent almost all of today trying to get it to work under GNOME on [...]
I run my own SMTP server which delivers email directly to the receipient. Over the last few days, I am noticing that my emails are not delivered properly. Many of them bounce, some of them simply queue up and refuse to go out of the queue. After some investigation, I found that the IP address [...]