eric’s extremeboredom

A few months ago, I asked the question Why didn’t Nokia change Qt’s licensing model?
As it turns out, the reason was very simple: they just hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Yesterday it was announced that Qt 4.5 will be available under the LGPL.
I’ve been working on a project recently using Qt/C# and have been [...]

I was disappointed to read that Intrepid will not include Mono 2.0, so I created packages. They’re available for download from my PPA.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/firerabbit/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/firerabbit/ubuntu intrepid main

Please let me know if you find them useful!

Note that these packages are unofficial, if you have any problems, please let me know directly. Do not file an ubunu bug.

Also, here’s the diff against the pkg-mono repository which is currently at v1.9.1.

I’ll be heading down to Portland tomorrow afternoon for Ubuntu Live! and OSCON. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with Chris and Steve, both of whom I haven’t seen in over a year.
Hacking BoF
I’ve organized a “hacking session” BoF at Ubuntu Live, anyone interested in improving Ubuntu and GNOME is invited to attend.
Here’s the [...]

I was tired of the jabber.org server going down every 20 minutes so I decided I needed to switch to a new jabber server.
Rather than just going with my google account like a lot of people have been doing lately, I figured that since I was going through the trouble of switching IDs anyway, I [...]

Having trouble playing DVDs, MP3s, DiVX, AAC/MP4, XViD or WMV audio/video files on your Ubuntu Breezy system? Since these fomats are all proprietary, the companies that invented them require that developers purchase a (very expensive) license to legally decode (play back) files in these formats (with the exception of XViD which has had a completely [...]

The wiki page describing how to install the accelerated nvidia drivers on the Ubuntu Linux wiki was very poorly written and basically just completly wrong. I spent a little bit of time cleaning it up, please let me know if you have any comments.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
Obviously this whole process is much much more complicated than it [...]

Don’t have any big thanksgiving plans? Or, think you are going to need something calm and relaxing to do after eating a little bit more than you think you should have? Come join us on #ubuntu-bugzilla (freenode) for Ubuntu Bug Day 2005!
From The Fridge:
Daniel Holbach sent out a reminder that this Thursday, November 24nd is [...]

This was posted to the mailing list yesterday, nobody else blogged it so I figured I might as well:
We have also released an unstable version of gtk+ 2.8 bindings for
people who want to start experimenting with the cairo API. This release
is not for the faint of heart, and comes with no API stability guarantee
for [...]

Last night I replaced Gentoo on my desktop with Ubuntu Hoary. This is something I should have done a *long* time ago. Everything .. just works. I still can’t get over how fast apt is. I’ve been compiling everything for way too long.
I was thinking back about why I started using Gentoo. Before Gentoo [...]

Well it sure was easier to get this thing working on here than it was to get it working on clarkconnect:
1. Download & Install vtun
$ wget http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/non-US/pool/non-US/main/v/vtun/vtun_2.6-3_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg –install vtun_2.6-3_i386.deb

This will install all dependencies automatically.

More mirrors are at: http://packages.debian.org/testing/non-US/vtun
2. Load the tun module

$ sudo modprobe tun

3. Add tun to /etc/modules so it will be [...]