The Linux Gang

xdg

thomas.apestaart.org22 comments

I’m sure smart people have worked on the xdg spec, but the naming of the xdg dirs illustrates one of my pet peeves - choosing directory names that aren’t well-thought-out.
Among others, I have Music, Videos, and…

Thomas Vander Stichele: Pillow howto

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lazyweb, poll time!
When you sleep, how do you use your pillow ?

the middle part of the back of your head rests on the lower end of your pillow, your neck floats freely, your shoulder blades rest on the bed
the middle…

Thomas Vander Stichele: Help me ext2 Software RAID experts

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Backdrop for the story - after a weekend or two fiddling with all my power supplies to try and revive my home server, I finally got it back online. Well, sort of. Disk 1 of the software RAID for my vault drives (that…

Thomas Vander Stichele: yeehaw

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I’ll be in Austin this week at the Linux Collaboration Summit. I’ll be going to represent Fluendo in its various forms, from the codecs over codeina to Elisa and Flumotion. If you’re there and feel like…

Thomas Vander Stichele: Codeina is rocking the boat

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“It takes fewer steps to set up multi-media on Mandriva. Applications that need codecs, such as Totem, now pop up a dialog allowing a choice between GStreamer codecs or commercial codecs via Fluendo. I kept choosing…