http://whacked.net thoughts on open spaces Fri, 09 May 2008 05:22:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en was helping out a friend and updated my rtorrent/libtorrent packages for Solaris. as before, there are three packages, SFWsigc++, SFWtorrent, and SFWrtorrent. these install, per the companion CD convention, to /opt/sfw SFWsigc++-2.0.17.pkg (1.8MB) SFWtorrent-0.12.2.pkg (17MB) SFWrtorrent-0.8.2.pkg *(1.8MB) enjoy.. http://whacked.net/2008/05/08/updated-rtorrent-libtorrent-packages-for-solaris/ woot woot poot poot! preed just landed (here, and here) alfred's last two remaining patches for bug 7800: Songbird would be even more cross-platform with OpenSolaris/Solaris support! so as of now, OpenSolaris support is a first-class citisen in the Songbird SVN repo. while we won't be able provide QA coverage, i'm ... http://whacked.net/2008/05/07/opensolaris-build-support-landed-in-songbird/ Dirk just mailed out the notifications of acceptance to the various speakers for OSDevCon, and posted the schedule up on the website. This was my first experience being on a program committee to help select speakers, and I have to say it was fun. It was great to see submissions ... http://whacked.net/2008/05/07/osdevcon-schedule-up/ At the OpenSolaris Developer Summit this past weekend, I had the chance to present Songbird. We thought it would be cool to basically do a group talk, so I enlisted the help of Albert Lee, Alfred Peng, and Ken Mays (all members of both the OpenSolaris community and the ... http://whacked.net/2008/05/05/4-singing-birds/ This weekend while I was working on my Magnatune extension for Songbird, I found I needed to fetch, expand, and parse a remote gzip'd XML document. The fetch was easy (XMLHttpRequest), as was the parse (DOMParser), but I had no idea how to do the expand. Fortunately, Mossop over on ... http://whacked.net/2008/05/05/reading-gzip-compressed-data-via-javascript/ worked some more on the magnatune store interface for Songbird. got the following up: it's neat. you can browse the 7600+ tracks available at magnatune and play the full length of the song exactly as if it were a local library. right now clicking the "buy this track" button ... http://whacked.net/2008/05/01/magnatune-mostly-complete/ I first heard of Magnatune at LUG Radio Live where they had a booth setup. I didn't get a chance to check them out until yesterday, and it's a pretty cool site. There's some neat electronica up there along with the other usual genres. Their business model ... http://whacked.net/2008/04/30/magnatune-for-the-bird/ From Dave Neary's nicely written blog... to Theodore, I'm not at Sun anymore. I left 7 months ago, while still in my first term on the OGB, and I was re-elected as a community member who does not work for Sun. I did drink the kool-aid for 4.5 years... but I'd like ... http://whacked.net/2008/04/29/for-the-last-time-im-not-at-sun-anymore/ omfg, why didn't anyone tell me Jamendo started doing Songbird integration!?!?!?! i've been getting my music via Firefox this whole time. many thanks to Mike Linksvayer over at Creative Commons for pointing out to me that Jamendo kicks some serious ass in Songbird. go check out pornophonique's 8-bit lagerfeur album. ... http://whacked.net/2008/04/28/omfg-jamendo-songbird-integration/ Here's a tip. When you're applying for a job, in your intro paragraph, don't describe yourself as a "renowned industry icon". About the only good thing I can say about that resume is that the the intro paragraph I read saved me the time of having to read the rest ... http://whacked.net/2008/04/22/pomposity/