Foresight Django Pony

• Amazon EC2 AMI Large (ami-7a906513)
• Amazon EC2 AMI Small (ami-7290651b)
• ISO x86 (SHA1 2927c0ef10b2f7bd95ad0b571e05ba982bfa1189)
• ISO x86_64 (SHA1 b6254aa006132392bf4d840e027709927f3c2479)
• Raw Filesystem x86 (SHA1 cdf866420c3fc6ac233d698eb6f2c3460858577d)
• Raw Filesystem x86_64 (SHA1 b553cd9c5247b829ecfadc2f237efff557f1c093)
• VMware ESX x86 (SHA1 f8f323e9ddce737e247a582a661d7a123788ded9)
• VMware ESX x86 OVF 1.0 (SHA1 d5c54f1e2a4e2fe43eb5126e73b72aa6ba39e457)
• VMware ESX x86_64 (SHA1 9cd0186a6512436b07102e7e01e0236bebeda15b)
• VMware ESX x86_64 OVF 1.0 (SHA1 aeb3555c09184a10c06042a65d882c60182c6afa)
• VMware Desktop x86 (SHA1 eea6f620e482fb9ab576d6dfe702641f57f30855)
• VMware Desktop x86_64 (SHA1 0953f38158cd92b925174c5f7878b69df1092631)

• To work; prodded at clean re-build of everything, and the associated gtk+ build breakage - just a simple deprecation problem. Laboured on, nss not building - some twisted portability code breaking drbg.c:510:5: error: size of array ‘arg’ is negative.
• Lunch; eventually discovered that none of that jhbuild goodness really works for stuff that is normally installed in the system; and that the best advice is to update your distro, and use a jhbuildrc that skips difficult stuff like this - it'd be nice if it was possible to detect whether it was even necessary to build these things in advance I suppose.
• Dinner, up late talking with Americans: James, Patrick, and Michael, interesting.

• Up early, poked mail and missed messages overnight.
• Interested, though unsurprised to see a new Nokia CEO . Watched his Gartner performance for Microsoft (on Nokia at 30mins, and Linux 36mins). Interesting that he has not been at Microsoft -that- long, and worked for various other competitors. Curious times indeed. Also interested to see the fast ARM CPU analysis - a cheap, low power, 8 core, multi-GHz ARM chip - only 32 bit though, so not really suitable for servers, presumably not low enough power for handhelds either: so when will the ARM desktop arrive ? and can the proprietary world really cope with a different architecture ?
• Prodded admin. Interviewed another OO.o candidate. Pleased to see the Wordpress trademark transferred to a non-profit: that's great practise:

  Automattic has transferred the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation, the non-profit dedicated to promoting and ensuring access to WordPress and related open source projects in perpetuity. This means that the most central piece of WordPress's identity, its name, is now fully independent from any company.
  
  This is a really big deal. ...
  
  It's important for me to know that WordPress will be protected and that the brand will continue to be a beacon of open source freedom regardless of whether any company is as benevolent as Automattic has been thus far. It's important to me to know that we've done the right thing.
  
  

  Amen. If only all nominally open communities were that well managed, and structured: go Matt Mullenweg.

BEAST/BSE and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.2 are available for download:

http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/beast-0.7.2.tar.bz2 


http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/bse-alsa-0.7.2.tar.bz2 

BEAST is a music composition and modular synthesis application. The “Bedevilled” portion of the names has no religious background, please refer to the About page for more details.

    Homepage:           http://beast.gtk.org/ 


    Downloads:          http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/ 


    Feedback:           http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ 

The 0.7.2 release provides new plugins and instruments, and a long list of bug fixes, improvements and translation updates.

TRANSLATORS: Please help us to improve the BEAST translation, just download the tarball, edit po/<LANGUAGE>.po and email it to us.

Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.2:

• Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL, use AS-IS license for examples
• Module changes and additions: ArtsCompressor – Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Matthias Kretz BseContribSampleAndHold – Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Artem Popov DavXTalStrings – Use deterministic random numbers for unit tests BseNoise – Improved random number generator
• Switched to autogenerated ChangeLogs
• Error bell can be muted in beast preferences dialog
• Added multisample creation/editing command line tool: bsewavetool
• Support adjustable volume, pitching and drum envelopes in .bsewave files
• Added Retro Acoustic drum kit [Tim, Stefan]
• New loadable Instruments/Effects:

  - BQS Bass Drum E8012 [Tim, Stefan]
  - BQS Slow Hum [Stefan, William DeVore]
  - FSM Fresh Water Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman]
  - FSM Growl Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman]
  - FSM Synth String Sweep [Krzysztof Foltman]
  

• Added support for loading 32bit and 24bit PCM-format WAV files
• Added support for gcc-4.4 and automake-1.10
• Added support for guile-1.8, guile-1.6 remains as minimum requirement
• Various fixes, improvements and much improved test coverage.
• Bug fixes: #452604, #468229, #344388, #451086, #450724, #454121, #491552, #450490, #441936, #336766, #433431, #474332, #474244, #456879, #456408, #424897 [Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
• Migrated translation support to use awk, sed and po/Makefile.am.
• Updated German translation [Mario Blättermann]
• Updated Italien translation [Michele Petrecca]
• Updated Occitan translation [Yannig Marchegay]
• Updated Brazilian Portugues translation [Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle]
• Updated British English translation [David Lodge]
• Updated Spanish translation [Jorge Gonzalez]
• Updated Slovenian translation [Andrej Znidarsic]
• Updated Danish translation [Joe Hansen]
• Updated French translation [Bruno Brouard]
• Added Norwegian bokmal translation [Kjartan Maraas]
• Added Ukrainian translation [Maxim V. Dziumanenko]

Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.2:

• Fixes for automake-1.10 builds
• Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL

2010-09-09: Zeitgeist 0.5.1'Spongebob is not 

 funny'

Engine:

- Don't use the return value of Extension.post_insert_event() when
dispatching the post insert hooks. The post_insert_event() method
has no return value.
- Initialize ZeitgeistEngine after RemoteInterface, so that --replace
does its job before the main engine and extensions start (LP: #614315).
- Added support for queries on the Subject.Storage field of an Event
(LP: #580364).
- Some optimizations in the find_events() method. Also the profiling
data is much more useful.

Python API:

- Check arguments of Event.new_for_values() and Subject.new_for_values()
(LP: #580372).
- Redefined the result of TimeRange.always(), UNIX timestamp '0' is now
the left corner of the interval (LP: #614295).
- Added a new helper module called zeitgeist.mimetypes which basically
provides two functions (LP: #586524):
* get_interpretation_for_mimetype(), which tries to get a suitable
interpretation for a given mime-type.
* get_manifestation_for_uri(), which tries to lookup a manifestation
for the given URI.
- The DataSource model now provides easy access to the information it
holds through properties.

Overall:

- The tool to build our ontology now supports rdflib2 and rdflib3
(LP: #626224).
- Added 'make check' and 'make doc' commands to the rootlevel Makefile
(LP: #628661)
- Translation updates.
- Updated test suite.
- Documentation updates.
- Translation updates.

1. Zeitgeist 0.3.3 is out!
2. Zeitgeist Data-Source Registry
3. Zeitgeist is out!

• ACPI specifies a mechanism for backlight control, and the majority of modern machines implement it. It has the advantage that the brightness query interface is generally aware of anything else in the system which may have changed the brightness, so it's unlikely to get out of sync with reality if the platform tries to do something odd like change the backlight itself in response to an ambient light sensor or some other event. The main drawback is that there's typically a fairly small number of available backlight values, usually somewhere between 8 and 20.
• A platform-specific mechanism. This used to be more popular before the ACPI backlight interface took off, but some machines still require it. The idea here is that there's some sort of platform-specific way of requesting a backlight change, ranging from a vendor-specific ACPI method through to triggering system management calls by magic register writes. These methods usually (but not always) keep in sync with other firmware changes, but rarely provide any more brightness steps than the standard ACPI interface.
• Many mobile GPUs have backlight control registers built in. These usually give you a range of several thousand possible values, but using them will almost certainly leave you out of sync with reality if the firmware touches them at all. To make things worse, the firmware control of the backlight may occur after the gpu - so you could end up with two different controls that both need to be full in order to get maximum brightness. The worst case scenario is that the firmware gets confused by the values not being what it programmed and you end up with a hung machine.

Thank you!

Expanded MonoTouch iOS investment

....and discounts!

public enum Tracker.Sparql.ValueType {
	UNBOUND, URI, STRING, INTEGER,
	DOUBLE, DATETIME, BLANK_NODE
}

public abstract class Tracker.Sparql.Cursor : Object {
public Connection connection { get; }
public abstractint n_columns { get; }
+public abstract ValueType get_value_type (int column);
+public abstractunowned string? get_variable_name (int column);
public abstractunowned string? get_string (int column, out long length = null);
public abstract bool next (Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws GLib.Error;
public async abstract bool next_async (Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws GLib.Error;
public abstract void rewind ();
}

These days I often have a hard time to keep up with the tasks on my TODO lists, but I do manage to sneak in a spare hour here or there to look into code I authored sometime ago and that’s waiting for maintenance attention. For projects like Gtk+/GLib it’s incredibly hard to figure a good start and order for bug processing if time is sparse and the number of bugs is flooding you.

Other projects on the net use issue trackers that support user voting of individual requests, here are two examples:

• GitHub offers votes
• Google Code offers stars

Of course I do realize that we have priority and severity fields in GNOME Bugzilla, but those are for a different purpose than polling the public opinion on which bugs should be fixed best/next, or which bugs have the largest pain impact on our user base.

At least for me, a publicly open voting system for GNOME Bugs would be immensely useful to judge where it’s best to concentrate my development efforts.

Fedora Board Meeting 3 September 2010

• Full meeting minutes:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-09-03
• Meeting thread on advisory-board-list:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-September/009198.html

Topics Covered

General Updates

• Fedora 14
  • progressing towards beta
  • please help get the word out on systemd test day
  • Systemd go/no-go decision is up to FESCo.
  • Jared will be starting convos to examine our features process / with FESCo.
• Meeting time
  • Set up a whenisgood.net to Board members. Seems that 2 pm on Mondays works well for all.
  • Transition plan: Final friday meeting will be Fri Sep 10, followed by a Monday Sep 13 meeting.
• Is the Board working as it should?
  • email from Sankarshan
  • Board members should be having more discussions on the mailing list and using meeting times to make decisions
  • Board members should speak up on the list more often, a few do but could be more
  • Suggestion to make a blog for the board as an alternative communication medium to the advisory-board list
  • We have a lot of tickets to go through and we’re not doing so well on tickets (but only 12 outside of fedoracommunity.org domain requests)

Ticket Review: Outstanding community domain requests

• Ticket 72: lu.fedoracommunity.org– Belgium & Luxemborg. Fine with it if lu.fc.org points to be.fc.org, as a forwarding address. mdomsch will clarify if that’s the intent with the requestors.
• Ticket 73: arabic.fedoracommunity.org– this is a language request vs. geography but that’s okay. Still need to see sample content for what they are looking to post. Language sites okay if they aren’t confusing with namespace for country codes.
• Ticket 74: dk for denmark? dk for language or country?– if it’s for a language should be full language name. If it’s for a country or region, it should be country code. Let’s standardize on that and deal with odd cases as we need to.
• Ticket 75: China (zn, ch, tw) – cn is the country code, they should get that according to the standards. zn is not a country code (but we did grant an exception to the greece one as a bounce, Spot says this would be a similar exception – use it just as a redirect)

Meta meeting discussion

Other Board Business

• IRC Meetings– so far have been more like office hours. Let’s keep doing IRC office hours bi-weekly and do phone meetings weekly to get on top of things. Since this is a big time committment, maybe not every board member has to show up for every office hours?

Action Items

• #action jsmith to update meeting times on wiki page (wiki/Board, wiki/Board – past meetings info box)
• #action mizmo & jstanley to talk to mmcgrath about setting it up on the existing fedora blogs system blogs.fedoraproject.org
• #action mdomsch to ask luxemborg peeps if they intend to put lu.fedoracommunity.org as a redirect to be.fedoracommunity.org – https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/72
• #action Rex to start conversation on his concern with the updates vision to get to a point it can be thumbs’ed up or thumbs-ed down
• #action Jared will be working with marketing team on start.fedoraproject.org, mentioned to Robyn but not whole team yet so will follow back up on

Fedora Board Meeting 8 September 2010

• Full meeting minutes:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2010-09-08
• Meeting thread on advisory-board-list:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-September/009219.html

Topics Covered

Open Tickets

• Trademark Licensees– Do we have a list of trademark licenses we’ve given out to check in on? We have fedoracommunity.org and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees
• Ticket 77: Israeli domain request– We made it easier to use fedoracommunity.org, but we aren’t prohibiting the use of other TLDs. +1 to granting a trademark license for use in their domain name, fedora.org.il. – approved
• Ticket 78: Vision statement -
  • we had a lot of discussion on this but didn’t get very fair (IMHO)
  • Our deadline for a vision is Sept. 27.
  • The thread on the advisory-board-list didn’t go so very far either so it was suggested we do an open IRC meeting in #fedora-advisory-board on irc.freenode.net.
  • More details on that IRC meeting here – please fill out the time chart and come if you can and are interested.
  • We also decided to come up with 5-6 mini-goals as a group. Each board member is to come up with two (mini-goals are actionable goals to get closer to vision, example one is, focus on floss webapps for next 2-3 releases) by Monday 13 Sep.
• Ticket 79: Anthropology Report -
  • Report seems to indicate we need a formal mentoring program
  • A lot of positiveness / positive energy in the report, is there a way we can make the findings more public?
  • mizmo to post whiteboard photos from report review session w lmacken (post to advisory-board list and trac ticket)
• Ticket 81: start.fedoraproject.org– jsmith went to the marketing meeting; they decided to discuss on the marketing list so jsmith will kick off that discussion.
• Ticket 82: Charter for Community Working Group– Rex was unable to attend this meeting; he’ll update us on this next meeting.
• Ticket 83: Revisit Updates Vision– There was a lot of discussion here, both about some of the contraints/hardships particular folks against the policy face, plus negative affects on users when applications vs. the base platform are frozen from version updates. Towards the latter point both kopers and a backports repo were discussed as potential solutions. The Board decided to not change the language of the updates vision for now, and agreed that FESCo should be notified that they do have the power to grant exceptions to the policy, although they should write up some criteria for granting and rejecting exception requests as well as not change the updates vision mission statement.
• Ticket 84: Annual User Survey– It was suggested we look at how OpenSuSE does their annual user survey. It was noted such studies are generally quite expensive (10′s of k’s at least.) We’ll need to define a scope, target, and goal for the research.

Upcoming Fedora Board Meeting Schedule

• Friday, September 10th: Public IRC meeting in #fedora-board-meeting
• Monday, September 13: Phone meeting
• Monday, September 20: Public IRC meeting in #fedora-board-meeting
• Monday, September 27 Phone meeting

1. Better localisation of Sugar and Sugar activities. This would involve Sugar enhancements such as:
* spell checking facilities all around the platform
* sugar-wide dictionary
* new pedagogical activities (i.e. an activity that helps children with dyslexia)

2. Sensors and based on existing platforms (scratch) or creating musical activities using sensors (or enhancing TamTam).

3. Repackaging wikipedia, in order to include various Balkan language resources. Probably adding further material (ex, index of Internet archive or Gutenberg project)

This insomniac night I’ve added a little nice thing to Getting Things GNOME , which is the possibility to export and print a to-do list in a PocketMod format. This is nothing more than a little foldable booklet, so that you can carry around your grocery list without needing anything more technological than a pen (you can also use strawberry juice to mark your tasks, which is way more recyclable and a little gory).

This all comes from a bug reported by Jan Girlich, so kudos to him!

Obligatory screenshot:

By the way, GTG export plugin supports templates, so creating your own webpage/pdf/t-shirt with your own tasks is easy. I’ll be glad to help anyone interested in that.

Which Service Owns Which Processes?

$ ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroup,args
  PID USER     CGROUP                              COMMAND
    2 root     -                                   [kthreadd]
    3 root     -                                    \_ [ksoftirqd/0]
[...]
 4281 root     -                                    \_ [flush-8:0]
    1 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1             /sbin/init
  455 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/sysinit.service /sbin/udevd -d
28188 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/sysinit.service  \_ /sbin/udevd -d
28191 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/sysinit.service  \_ /sbin/udevd -d
 1096 dbus     name=systemd:/systemd-1/dbus.service /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --systemd-activation
 1131 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/auditd.service auditd
 1133 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/auditd.service  \_ /sbin/audispd
 1135 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/auditd.service      \_ /usr/sbin/sedispatch
 1171 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/NetworkManager.service /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
 4028 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/NetworkManager.service  \_ /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action -pf /var/run/dhclient-wlan0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-7d32a784-ede9-4cf6-9ee3-60edc0bce5ff-wlan0.lease -
 1175 avahi    name=systemd:/systemd-1/avahi-daemon.service avahi-daemon: running [epsilon.local]
 1194 avahi    name=systemd:/systemd-1/avahi-daemon.service  \_ avahi-daemon: chroot helper
 1193 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/rsyslog.service /sbin/rsyslogd -c 4
 1195 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/cups.service cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
 1207 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/mdmonitor.service mdadm --monitor --scan -f --pid-file=/var/run/mdadm/mdadm.pid
 1210 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/irqbalance.service irqbalance
 1216 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/dbus.service /usr/sbin/modem-manager
 1219 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/dbus.service /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd
 1242 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/dbus.service /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.pid
 1249 68       name=systemd:/systemd-1/haldaemon.service hald
 1250 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/haldaemon.service  \_ hald-runner
 1273 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/haldaemon.service      \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event9 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event8
 1275 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/haldaemon.service      \_ /usr/libexec/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch
 1284 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/haldaemon.service      \_ /usr/libexec/hald-addon-leds
 1285 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/haldaemon.service      \_ /usr/libexec/hald-addon-generic-backlight
 1287 68       name=systemd:/systemd-1/haldaemon.service      \_ /usr/libexec/hald-addon-acpi
 1317 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/abrtd.service /usr/sbin/abrtd -d -s
 1332 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/getty@.service/tty2 /sbin/mingetty tty2
 1339 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/getty@.service/tty3 /sbin/mingetty tty3
 1342 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/getty@.service/tty5 /sbin/mingetty tty5
 1343 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/getty@.service/tty4 /sbin/mingetty tty4
 1344 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/crond.service crond
 1346 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/getty@.service/tty6 /sbin/mingetty tty6
 1362 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/sshd.service /usr/sbin/sshd
 1376 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/prefdm.service /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
 1391 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/prefdm.service  \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 --force-active-vt
 1394 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/prefdm.service      \_ /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-f2KUOh/database -nolisten tcp vt1
 1495 root     name=systemd:/user/lennart/1             \_ pam: gdm-password
 1521 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                 \_ gnome-session
 1621 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ metacity
 1635 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ gnome-panel
 1638 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ nautilus
 1640 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
 1641 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/bin/seapplet
 1644 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ gnome-volume-control-applet
 1646 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/sbin/restorecond -u
 1652 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/bin/devilspie
 1662 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ nm-applet --sm-disable
 1664 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ gnome-power-manager
 1665 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/libexec/gdu-notification-daemon
 1670 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/libexec/evolution/2.32/evolution-alarm-notify
 1672 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py
 1674 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ /usr/lib64/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
 1675 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ abrt-applet
 1677 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ bluetooth-applet
 1678 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1                     \_ gpk-update-icon
 1408 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/console-kit-daemon.service /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
 1419 gdm      name=systemd:/systemd-1/prefdm.service /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
 1453 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/dbus.service /usr/libexec/upowerd
 1473 rtkit    name=systemd:/systemd-1/rtkit-daemon.service /usr/libexec/rtkit-daemon
 1496 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/accounts-daemon.service /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
 1499 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/systemd-logger.service /lib/systemd/systemd-logger
 1511 lennart  name=systemd:/systemd-1/prefdm.service /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
 1534 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
 1535 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
 1603 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gconfd-2
 1612 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
 1615 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gvfsd
 1626 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/lennart/.gvfs
 1634 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
 1649 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         \_ /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
 1645 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=24
 1668 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/im-settings-daemon
 1701 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
 1707 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/bin/gnote --panel-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GnoteApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=22
 1725 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/clock-applet
 1727 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/wnck-applet
 1729 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/notification-area-applet
 1733 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/dbus.service /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
 1747 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/dbus.service  \_ udisks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0
 1759 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        gnome-screensaver
 1780 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.9 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
 1864 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
 1874 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gconf-im-settings-daemon
 1903 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/gvfsd-burn --spawner :1.9 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1
 1909 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        gnome-terminal
 1913 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         \_ gnome-pty-helper
 1914 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         \_ bash
29231 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         |   \_ ssh tango
 2221 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         \_ bash
 4193 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         |   \_ ssh tango
 2461 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         \_ bash
29219 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         |   \_ emacs systemd-for-admins-1.txt
15113 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         \_ bash
27251 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1             \_ empathy
29504 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1             \_ ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroup,args
 1968 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        ssh-agent
 1994 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        gpg-agent --daemon --write-env-file
18679 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox
18741 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1         \_ /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox
28900 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1             \_ /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/18741-6
 4016 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/sysinit.service /usr/sbin/bluetoothd --udev
 4094 smmsp    name=systemd:/systemd-1/sendmail.service sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
 4096 root     name=systemd:/systemd-1/sendmail.service sendmail: accepting connections
 4112 ntp      name=systemd:/systemd-1/ntpd.service /usr/sbin/ntpd -n -u ntp:ntp -g
27262 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/mission-control-5
27265 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/telepathy-haze
27268 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/telepathy-logger
27270 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/dconf-service
27280 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/notification-daemon
27284 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/telepathy-gabble
27285 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/telepathy-salut
27297 lennart  name=systemd:/user/lennart/1        /usr/libexec/geoclue-yahoo

alias psc='ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroup,args'

$ systemd-cgls
+    2 [kthreadd]
[...]
+ 4281 [flush-8:0]
+ user
|  lennart
|    1
|     +  1495 pam: gdm-password
|     +  1521 gnome-session
|     +  1534 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
|     +  1535 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
|     +  1603 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2
|     +  1612 /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
|     +  1615 /ushr/libexec/gvfsd
|     +  1621 metacity
|     +  1626 /usr/libexec//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/lennart/.gvfs
|     +  1634 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
|     +  1635 gnome-panel
|     +  1638 nautilus
|     +  1640 /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
|     +  1641 /usr/bin/seapplet
|     +  1644 gnome-volume-control-applet
|     +  1645 /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=24
|     +  1646 /usr/sbin/restorecond -u
|     +  1649 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
|     +  1652 /usr/bin/devilspie
|     +  1662 nm-applet --sm-disable
|     +  1664 gnome-power-manager
|     +  1665 /usr/libexec/gdu-notification-daemon
|     +  1668 /usr/libexec/im-settings-daemon
|     +  1670 /usr/libexec/evolution/2.32/evolution-alarm-notify
|     +  1672 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py
|     +  1674 /usr/lib64/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
|     +  1675 abrt-applet
|     +  1677 bluetooth-applet
|     +  1678 gpk-update-icon
|     +  1701 /usr/libexec/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
|     +  1707 /usr/bin/gnote --panel-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GnoteApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=22
|     +  1725 /usr/libexec/clock-applet
|     +  1727 /usr/libexec/wnck-applet
|     +  1729 /usr/libexec/notification-area-applet
|     +  1759 gnome-screensaver
|     +  1780 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.9 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
|     +  1864 /usr/libexec/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
|     +  1874 /usr/libexec/gconf-im-settings-daemon
|     +  1882 /usr/libexec/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
|     +  1903 /usr/libexec/gvfsd-burn --spawner :1.9 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1
|     +  1909 gnome-terminal
|     +  1913 gnome-pty-helper
|     +  1914 bash
|     +  1968 ssh-agent
|     +  1994 gpg-agent --daemon --write-env-file
|     +  2221 bash
|     +  2461 bash
|     +  4193 ssh tango
|     + 15113 bash
|     + 18679 /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox
|     + 18741 /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox
|     + 27251 empathy
|     + 27262 /usr/libexec/mission-control-5
|     + 27265 /usr/libexec/telepathy-haze
|     + 27268 /usr/libexec/telepathy-logger
|     + 27270 /usr/libexec/dconf-service
|     + 27280 /usr/libexec/notification-daemon
|     + 27284 /usr/libexec/telepathy-gabble
|     + 27285 /usr/libexec/telepathy-salut
|     + 27297 /usr/libexec/geoclue-yahoo
|     + 28900 /usr/lib64/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/18741-6
|     + 29219 emacs systemd-for-admins-1.txt
|     + 29231 ssh tango
|      29519 systemd-cgls
 systemd-1
  + 1 /sbin/init
  + ntpd.service
  |  4112 /usr/sbin/ntpd -n -u ntp:ntp -g
  + systemd-logger.service
  |  1499 /lib/systemd/systemd-logger
  + accounts-daemon.service
  |  1496 /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
  + rtkit-daemon.service
  |  1473 /usr/libexec/rtkit-daemon
  + console-kit-daemon.service
  |  1408 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
  + prefdm.service
  | + 1376 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
  | + 1391 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 --force-active-vt
  | + 1394 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-f2KUOh/database -nolisten tcp vt1
  | + 1419 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
  |  1511 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
  + getty@.service
  | + tty6
  | |  1346 /sbin/mingetty tty6
  | + tty4
  | |  1343 /sbin/mingetty tty4
  | + tty5
  | |  1342 /sbin/mingetty tty5
  | + tty3
  | |  1339 /sbin/mingetty tty3
  |  tty2
  |    1332 /sbin/mingetty tty2
  + abrtd.service
  |  1317 /usr/sbin/abrtd -d -s
  + crond.service
  |  1344 crond
  + sshd.service
  |  1362 /usr/sbin/sshd
  + sendmail.service
  | + 4094 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
  |  4096 sendmail: accepting connections
  + haldaemon.service
  | + 1249 hald
  | + 1250 hald-runner
  | + 1273 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event9 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event8
  | + 1275 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch
  | + 1284 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-leds
  | + 1285 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-generic-backlight
  |  1287 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-acpi
  + irqbalance.service
  |  1210 irqbalance
  + avahi-daemon.service
  | + 1175 avahi-daemon: running [epsilon.local]
  + NetworkManager.service
  | + 1171 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
  |  4028 /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action -pf /var/run/dhclient-wlan0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-7d32a784-ede9-4cf6-9ee3-60edc0bce5ff-wlan0.lease -cf /var/run/nm-dhclient-wlan0.conf wlan0
  + rsyslog.service
  |  1193 /sbin/rsyslogd -c 4
  + mdmonitor.service
  |  1207 mdadm --monitor --scan -f --pid-file=/var/run/mdadm/mdadm.pid
  + cups.service
  |  1195 cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
  + auditd.service
  | + 1131 auditd
  | + 1133 /sbin/audispd
  |  1135 /usr/sbin/sedispatch
  + dbus.service
  | +  1096 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --systemd-activation
  | +  1216 /usr/sbin/modem-manager
  | +  1219 /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd
  | +  1242 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.pid
  | +  1453 /usr/libexec/upowerd
  | +  1733 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon
  | +  1747 udisks-daemon: polling /dev/sr0
  |  29509 /usr/libexec/packagekitd
  + dev-mqueue.mount
  + dev-hugepages.mount
   sysinit.service
    +   455 /sbin/udevd -d
    +  4016 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd --udev
    + 28188 /sbin/udevd -d
     28191 /sbin/udevd -d

The dog's water bowl - where my Nexus One fell

1. Scary parenting moments: When should you see the doctor?
2. Mariner Inn
3. Let’s just build condos in the airport

• Up too early, got babes practised with time to spare; packed them off to school. Reviewed a PackageKit / zypp backend bug or two, compiled a new Python so I could build gobject-introspection, and thus PK. Prodded and merged misc. fixes.
• Lunch. Considered DOS on Dope as a platform for a Web Office suite, particularly with it's lack of known scalability problems (the time-wasting perils of twitter strike again).

• Iago Toral Quiroga , Grilo: Feeding applications with multimedia content (webm ) (theora ) (slides )

• Juan A. Suárez Romero , Rygel-Grilo (webm ) (theora ) (slides )

• Xabier Rodríguez Calvar , MAFWGriloSource (webm ) (theora ) (slides )

• Up early, J. off to West Suffolk to have dressing changed, (why does she so frequently get ill when I'm away). Tended babes.
• Off to NCC, ran the creche, which (despite the loss of M.) is more packed with fun-sized people than before.
• Home for lunch, with Andre and Lottie - good to get to know them a little better. J. slept a while, while I disappeared into the Lord of the Rings and the babes watched cbeebies.
• Dinner, put babes to bed and read to them; J. went out to meet up with Myriam, while I read ever more.

• Overslept, not into the 6:45am waking routine from the holidays yet. Fed, and hurried babes off to school. M. looking so tiny and sweet in her new uniform.
• Back to the mail hill, admin, Clarity, tested bootchart2 pieces, merged branches and pushed out a 0.12.4 - with memory graphing from Dave Martin at Linaro, and lots more nice fixes and features from Riccardo Magliocchetti.

This insomniac night I’ve added a little nice thing to Getting Things GNOME , which is the possibility to export and print a to-do list in a PocketMod format. This is nothing more than a little foldable booklet, so that you can carry around your grocery list without needing anything more technological than a pen (you can also use strawberry juice to mark your tasks, which is way more recyclable and a little gory).

This all comes from a bug reported by Jan Girlich, so kudos to him!

Obligatory screenshot:

By the way, GTG export plugin supports templates, so creating your own webpage/pdf/t-shirt with your own tasks is easy. I’ll be glad to help anyone interested in that.

• Apply singleton pattern on GIO Files on each URI to reduce initializing a new ones for each event.
• Lazy loading of UI elements. So if the category is not collapsed we don’t draw the elements.
• Redraw only days that changed.
• Unparent reuse gtk widgets when navigating.

For a quick video check out this video

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The first feature is MxDialog (thanks to Iain Holmes for contributions to this too) - a container widget that lets you do visually pleasing modal dialogs. For those situations when you absolutely must have modal dialogs.

The second feature is animated window rotation. Unfortunately, I can't capture at the frame-rate it runs at, but do check out the code and try it yourself - it's super smooth. As far as I'm aware, all the widgets in Mx work correctly when rotated too.

These features demonstrate two things that are really easy to do with Clutter: Fast, pixel-based effects (blurring, low-lighting), and arbitrary transformation without breaking input handling. Both Clutter and Mx are available from the usual place .

After moving to Southern China, we have been attempting to meet with local FOSS communities. Finally we got to visit the Shantou University (STU) and talk to the core members of Linux Association, one of the winners of  Software Freedom Day Innovative event award 2009 from sfdchina.org .

Since its establishment in 2005, STU Linux Association has been hosting regular meeting on a weekly basis (except holidays and exam period). They strive to introduce members of different FOSS applications and give technical lessons that their core members are familiar with. They even have members dedicating to help students with difficulty in installing Linux.

It was a great pleasure to meet with all of them due to their enthusiasm towards FOSS. Some of them have been the core members for 4 years, that’s usually not the case in other universities I’ve met. This year they are planning for a double capacity SFD event. Fred and I promised to support them with more goodies and be the SFD speakers. We are looking forward to celebrate SFD with Shantou University and wish everybody Happy Software Freedom Day !

0.2-beta1 (Sun Sep 5, 2010):

Hylke: Aside from the usual bug fixes and behind the scenes work I mainly added features that increase productivity in the event logs. Not only does it look a lot prettier, each entry in an event log now has a clickable link for easy access to files. It refreshes automatically on new events as well. The Nautilus plugin now has the “Copy Web Link” context  menu item, which makes sharing links a whole lot easier.

The Fawcett Society has filed papers with the High Court seeking a Judicial Review of the government’s recent budget

• Reducing by half the proportion of the world’s people in extreme poverty
• Reducing by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
• Ensuring that children everywhere are able to take a full course of primary schooling
• Ending sex disparity in education
• Reducing by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under five
• Reducing by three quarters the rate of maternal mortality
• Halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and halting and beginning to reduce the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
• Reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water