MùPùF.org

A month ago, I was in Chicago, attending the X.org Developer Conference (XDC2011) as a Nouveau developer.

The following is a summary of my story.

CMus is so far my favourite audio player. It is gapless, powerful, scriptable and console-based.

The latter is both an advantage and an inconvenient. Indeed, when procrastinating by browsing the web, I often find myself willing to watch flash-based videos. So, I need to find what console runs CMus to stop the music. I usually launch it in the first console of yakuake, a quake-like terminal for KDE, but stopping the music requires multiples actions.

I could have used KDE's global keyboard accelerators to send a pause/unpause request to CMus, but I'm far more geeky than that. Instead, I decided to build a remote control to physically add a physical giant button.

While this idea was appealing for the sake of it, I wasn't fully satisfied. So long for just sending commands, what about receiving data from the computer too? What about displaying visual information to a screen too?

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I'm currently an intern at Bordeaux I, working on the security of sensor networks.

Today, I wondered how many articles I read in the last 3 months.

$ find papers/ | wc -l
42

The result was a bit puzzling and hence, I found the following question could be a great candidate to the ultimate question:

How many articles one should read before writing a research article?

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, google is your friend.

It took us a long time to get our hands on the new arduino but support has finally landed in the Arduide.

As a bonus, the arduino sdk needed is now the arduino-0022 instead of the 0018. I hope you don't mind the update ;)

Please report bugs and features requests using the "new issue" link.

Cheers

As of today, mupuf.org should be accessible in IPv6! Please report any bug/slow down you may experience.

Linux 2.6.37 has just been released and I've been surprised to be quoted on the LinuxFR release summary.

Indeed, some of my work on nouveau has been integrated mainline. I won't say it was easy as it is a lot of work but it is worth it!

I am now listed in the new contributor list of Linux 2.6.37 :)

I'll keep you updated on my work soon!

If there is something I really expect out of today's computer, it is performance.

I've been a KDE4 user since the version 4.3 and there are a lot of performance improvements to be made. As I usually like bleeding edge/unstable (call it the way you prefer) software,

As it is super easy on ArchLinux, I have been testing kde 4.6 since the beta 1's release. Apart from some graphical glitches, I was very pleased with it, especially from a performance point of view.

And then came the Release Candidate 1. The system became unresponsive as the performance dropped to an insanely poor level!