Yesterday I received my Nokia N800 internet tablet. General impressions It feels thinner and lighter than the N770 and looks more like a consumer product, though it’s still fairly anonymous looking. I was already happy with the N770 as an instant-on mini web browser so there’s no particular features or bug-fixes thst I needed in [...]

Emmanuel Bassi just showed me how to get a diff between subversion (svn) branches. It’s not obvious. It should be easier. But here it is: Discover the revision numbers: You need to know the revision numbers of the latest versions in each of the branches. It looks like svn log is the only way to [...]

I’ve done some more work on the GTK+ multipress input method, adding a GKeyfile-based configuration file, and some stability bugfixing, and Daniel Elstner has renovated the build files. The source code and packages for Debian Etch are online. As soon as I figure out a good name that doesn’t use the (not ours to use) [...]

I booked my flights and hotel, so I’m finally going to my first FOSDEM conference, in Brussels, Belgium on the weekend of the 24th and 25th February 2007. Technically, I am incredibly unproductive at conferences. I much prefer email for that kind of thing. For instance, I hate feeling forced to have instant opinions without [...]

Information keeps arriving via the comments to my previous posts (1, 2), but there’s still no one good candidate for a currently-available USB (or even PCI) wireless card that “just works” with Ubuntu – or any Linux distro, I suspect. Linux Emporium have been updating their wireless adaptor page recently, and the current text backs [...]

gtkmm is now available for the new Maemo 3.0 “Bora” version, as used on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. It’s in the extras repository. There are also gtkmm C++ bindings for the Maemo UI (hildon-libs and hildon-fm) widgets, covered in the online maemomm documentation. Nokia tasked Openismus with updating these bindings for the N800 and [...]

Johannes Schmid and Armin Burgmeier have almost finished the C++ bindings for libgnomedb for Openismus, and the work so far is now in GNOME’s subversion repository, in the gnomemmm/libgnomedbmm module. There are already working examples in svn. This needs the latest version of libgdamm, which we have updated for the latest libgda API. They will [...]

This is a follow up to my previous post: Linux-compatible wireless USB adaptor that I can actually buy? I was really sure that the ralink-based ASUS WL-167G would be the one. But no, the ASUS WL-167G does not work in Ubuntu Edgy or Ubuntu Feisty (herd 2). In fact, the (open source) Ralink drivers seem [...]

Has anyone bought a USB WiFi adaptor (54 speed rather than 11, ideally), in the last few months that actually works with Linux (preferably Ubuntu) without using the Windows driver via ndiswrapper? There are several reports of adaptors that worked out-of-the-box but all those adaptors now seem to be sold with the same model names, [...]

I got tired of my HP Deskjet 3650 just sitting there flashing its light, though it has a new ink cartridge [1]. Even when it worked, the page often slipped while (slowly) printing, and the page took a while to dry. So I bought a Lexmark E120n. It’s a small cheap laser printer rather than [...]