Archive for August, 2006

Linux sound and multimedia

Monday, August 28th, 2006

So. Sudddenly I got no sound from my laptop. I have had ALSA (the “advanced linux sound architecture”) act on me also before, so I suspected the master audio got muted, like happened ages ago.
But no. I search, run alsamixer, the Gnome mixer app, trying to figure out what the problem is.. but nothing. I […]

Gee, I wonder…

Friday, August 18th, 2006

You’d think most blogs have a “post has more than n links => I think this is spam!” -filtering now and the morons wouldn’t bother, but I was wrong..

Hmm.. My dear reader has a lot of interesting links to offer me..!

Testing maemo-blogger…

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

This post comes from the N770 with the native tool. Hmm. (edit: Looks like it worked :)) Testing blog tools is kinda awkward when you are syndicated in at least two planets.. Sorry about that
Hmm.
I think I would like to see at least a few things implemented, here are some suggestions:

It’s nice that […]

Eating the Sardine

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

On a more positive tone, we’re trying to get a apt-get update’able bleeding edge Maemo build out for developers, to get new development faster out for the application writers and other interested geeks. It’s called Sardine, and it’s hot!
Check it out!
Check out the wiki also!
See my shiny, grouping application switcher toolbar!

Oh! […]

Things to avoid when integrating Linux with hardware

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

We got the Samsung ultra-mobile PC (the “origami” device I think?) to play with at the office, and I thought of sharing my experience with you. Maybe this will help us, Novell, Ubuntu or someone else who might be thinking of bundling Linux with laptops or other hardware in the future.. But let’s move on. […]

Green!

Friday, August 4th, 2006

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Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
Nice row of trees in Pärnu, Estonia. We did a quick trip there last sunday.