Present Perfect

Phoebe

I installed Red Hat's beta on my home machine yesterday. For some reason it was thrilling to see the installer install packages like gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins and nautilus-media. Nautilus-media apparently made it into the base packages. That was pretty cool to see. Also, it just worked out of the box. Terrific ! Exciting times are ahead.

Started Rhythmbox as well, it failed parsing my GConf audiosink pipeline. I remember having made a patch for it in the past, made a note to myself to discuss it with jorn and have it integrated. That mental note lasted for about half a day because, on coming home, I read his mail about GStreamer's "stability".

It's his decision, but it's still sad, after trying out Phoebe, to know that given his decision Rhythmbox probably won't end up in Red Hat 8.1

I sent a mail about it, replying to his mail and using "Reply to all", and the mail got bounced back to me because gst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net doesn't exist. Of course, it's gstreamer-lists. The bittersweet irony of life : the mail I sent pointing out communication problems and there not being enough, and it bounced because Jorn used a wrong address for the GStreamer list :)

GStreamer

As for GStreamer, exciting times are ahead. Wim is pretty much done with the cothreadless scheduler. I still want to add two small bits to the plugins that would help nautilus-media along. I hope we can release 0.6.0 about a week before Gnome 2 final. We did an important API change (but this time, with a compatibility header, yay !) that will help along API bindings and which was long overdue. Good to know that after all this time, stuff still keeps moving along.

libuecp

At work, I'm laying the finishing touch on the library I wrote to speak binary to our RDS encoders. I don't think it matters much but I'm going to get it open-sourced anyway. Not sure if people will be able to use it, but you never know. I also wrapped it with SWIG so I can use it from the application I've already written. Now I just need to test it.

Tango

Got the two books and the "Tango Lesson" DVD I ordered from Amazon. My best friend's girlfriend asked if I wanted to teach her some bits, and she's actually pretty good at it. I hope she takes classes, gives me more people to dance with :)

Food

On Saturday, we got invited by Jeroen, our first Dave/Dina customer. We had a good time, discussed ideas for starting up a company, and talked well into the night. I had forgotten how good it is to just hang out with friends. I should be doing more of that.

Then yesterday, we did the same somewhere else; a dinner meeting that had been postponed too many times to count. For some reason we actually started talking about Linux because they were interested in what it was about. I got carried away talking about it and explaining stuff, and for some reason they didn't mind at all. The times they are changing indeed.

Hearts

that are broken can argue about the silliest of things without either really wanting to. But if they don't want to, how can they avoid it happening in the first place ? I'm sorry.

Phoebe I installed Red Hat's beta on my home machine yesterday. For some reason it was thrilling to see the installer install packages like gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins and nautilus-media. Nautilus-media apparently...