http://www.robot101.net The personal blog of Robert McQueen Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:40:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've got a load of boxes running Debian etch with Xen 3.0.3 with routed networking (rather than bridged, so I can do iptables and reverse path filtering etc in dom0). Since upgrading from Xen 2.x many moons ago, I've not known how to configure one virtual interface to have more ... http://www.robot101.net/2008/06/09/xen-virtual-interfaces-with-more-than-one-ip/ In the office, Christian has just unwrapped a very carefully packed box containing a bulging tin of Surströmming. Apparently due to the "unique" smell you have to open it outside, and he's invited people to come to his house to try it. Now, I'm not keen on various types of ... http://www.robot101.net/2008/06/05/surstromming/ Last night I thought of a few gadgets which I'd like to have, and although I'm pretty sure you should be able to get hold of them, I had trouble finding anything that looked quite right: Alarm clock which makes coffee: I can't be the only one who finds it hard ... http://www.robot101.net/2008/04/18/lazyweb-gadgets/ Daf blogged earlier about some of the work we've done thus far for the One Laptop Per Child project. Tubes (although the picture looks more like snakes if you ask me :D) are a really cool technology which should let the OLPC activity authors just work on their activity, and ... http://www.robot101.net/2007/05/11/tubes-and-planets/ I'm in Sydney for LCA 2007 this week, and this should also be my debut post on the conference planet. This is the first time I've made it to the other side of the world for this conference, and I'm really glad I came. It's definitely one of the cooler ... http://www.robot101.net/2007/01/18/lca-and-hiring/ I've been away from the office for a couple of days, but when I got back to Cambridge, Daf and Sjoerd had some pretty cool stuff to show me: These screenshots are taken by using an environment variable to tell stream-engine just to create an xvimagesink for any call, but Daf's ... http://www.robot101.net/2006/12/16/telepathy-and-olpc-part-2/ We got an OLPC prototype at Collabora last week, and have been playing with the Telepathy VOIP/IM framework on the devices. Using telepathy-gabble's (our XMPP backend) Jingle implementation, and telepathy-stream-engine with the Farsight GStreamer RTP library, we got a bidirectional voice/video call going pretty quickly using a few lines of ... http://www.robot101.net/2006/12/12/telepathy-and-olpc/ Just a quick one, people want food: my Telepathy talk at GUADEC earlier this week was a success by most accounts, and followed up by after-hours talks today with Kai Vehmanen's on Telepathy SIP, and Yannick Pellet on the IM/VOIP project on the 770. My slides are available for people ... http://www.robot101.net/2006/06/29/telepathy/ I made it to Vilanova on Friday for GUADEC, managed to get settled in to our chalet (I'm glad we opted for one with air conditioning!). After we got them to fix the hot water, I now think it's pretty decent accomodation for the price, complete with wifi, swimming pool ... http://www.robot101.net/2006/06/25/guadec-and-telepathy/ In the office just now, daf complained at me that he finds it very annoying when people blog about how they havn't blogged recently. I apologise, although in my defence, the post was mainly about C (I've subsequently learnt that -Wextra will warn me about such errors in future, ... http://www.robot101.net/2006/06/02/meta-blogging/