Older blog entries for hadess (starting at number 376)

Went to Plan B in Brixton, very good evening down there. Managed to blast a dookie on the Clapham Commons. It took me so long, I could have been with Kevin Spacey (that't not my joke ;).

GmDNS release soon. It passes all the robustness tests. I'm working out some uses, and I'll probably do the release as soon as I've been able to test the thing in "Real Life".

After my Mum told me that even she had one, I got myself a cheap digital camera (cheap by digital cameras' standards...), a Fuji A210. Works out of the box on Fedora, it's light, the pictures are good, only thing is that the cradle is expensive (cradle + batteries + 128 xD card + a camera bag= ~ £120, that's the price of the camera itself, damn them accessories).

My housemate spent the whole day on Orkut, which sums up the reason why I'm (still) refusing invitations.

As the conversation changed in the office, and checking on the net for details, it looks like the French Berlusconi (aka Bernard Tapie) is now playing a detective on French TV. Oh, the irony.

hub: gmdns doesn't have a web page, or even a release. As long as you understand what it does (it's a Multicast DNS Responder) and where it sits in the super-duper Rendez-vous stack (that article should be a good starter), the API should be self-explanatory. The only problem is, as I could see tonight, that gmdns (and therefore its ancestor mdnsd) fail all of Apple's robustness tests (multiple TXT records, large TXT record, large NULL record). I've never written code that poked directly with DNS, but it looks like I will have to soon.

Watched Final Destination 2.

Update: not so grim, and not so gross, gmdns passes 2 of 5 robustness tests, after a bit of hacking. The rest might pass, it's just not tested :)

As RossBurton is mentioning that Michael Moore's latest film has been banned from release but showing in Cannes, I was finishing off laying out my plans for this great film festival. So I'll be going there with Danielle to live it up, gatecrash a few parties, and see a whol'lotta films. It's going to kick arse.

Played a good bunch with gmdns. I committed a bunch of patches to the current CVS. Still trying to get a(nother) Linux-based mDNS implementation running, jmdns didn't run fuck all (that's Java for you), and mono barfing out trying to compile mDnsResponder.net. At least our good ol' C version works ;)

Went to Nando's. The real Nando (my workmate Hernando, the Nandotastic) reckons his mum's chicken is better, I'm sure. Watched Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

Committed my Musicbrainz patch to xine-lib. Now, I just need to hack the use of Musicbrainz in Totem. That will fix the hangs/long delays when playing back a CD for the first time, and allow us to use the same database as Sound-juicer for titles and all. Hopefully RossBurton will accept my patches to save/modify the database on-disk, rather than always relying on the network.

Didn't know I was on Fedora People. I'm a Fedora contributor now? I didn't know about that either ;)

Watched Eternal Sunshine, and had dinner at Wagamama's (for the first time since we went last year in Dublin). Plenty of memories ;)

Following hub's lead, I got tmdns up and running. After a lot of teeth-grinding, it happens so that the mdk-provided patch I blindly applied broke the local resolves. That'll teach me. So getting from my Linux desktop machine to my laptop and vice-versa via .local names works fine.

Getting service discovery working is another pickle. I could discover services I created myself, see outside services, but Safari just refused to connect to the services I created.
Half-an-hour later
I managed to create an HTTP service and my local machine shows up nicely in Safari, and I can load the page (the half-way there syndrom). Bags'o'tricks. Need to get yakk to review my small patch. Hopefully that'll get him going again.

The number of "I am" copycats is growing rapidly. Just few examples for you.

mathieu: everything related to link status should be in /proc/net/wireless (if you have a decent driver).

Update: I forgot Fred in my copycat list. My apologies :)