Monthly Archives: December 2007

Pulsed!!!

Moved all my commonly used application to use pulseaudio now. Recompiled xine, libao and gsreamer to hook up to pulseaudio.

[partvarious-lx] ~> grep pulse .Xclients
/usr/local/bin/pulseaudio -D &

foss.in/2007: Day #3

Project Days Over!!! Finally!!!

Kept going round and round the halls, BOF Tents, Community Square, Dungeon and the Hack Centre. Network held up well today, no need for traffic shaping or DROP rules. Motorola WLAN lost its SSID again (root cause still not known).

The good stuff:

- The PulseAudio Sound Server session by Lennart Poettering (http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=353). I have been following the developments for a while now and am glad that the core developer made it to the conference

The bad stuff:

- I got bored after 10 mins in each hall. The talks are way too developer oriented to my liking – code and computer science hurts my brain

foss.in/2007 (as I understand it) unlike previous years, is an attempt at getting developers involved in projects. So where do guys like me (glorified operations engineers) fit in? I take projects and make it work for a large set of people. To do that, I need to

- Be aware of all kinds of FOSS projects out in the wild – Virtualization, desktop, web scripting engines, development IDEs, Operating Systems and tools etc
- How do similar projects compare against each other? GNOME Vs KDE, FreeBSD Vs Linux, PHP Vs CGI, Anjuta Vs Eclipse etc
- How are various organizations using these projects in their line of business
- What does it take to sustain a project internally within a company
- etc etc etc

I am going to take a stab at getting together a PD which deals with something like this for foss.in/2008

foss.in/2007: Day #2

One more project day before the main conference.

The good stuff:

- The Motorola Symbol WLAN held fort for the entire day
- No complaints about “I get DHCP but no Internet”. Removing ns1 from the DHCP DNS list probably fixed that problem
- Internet from the SDA hall “just worked”
- Mucked around tc/htb for traffic shaping, its almost been 4 years since I last looked at the Linux traffic shaping tools.

The bad stuff:

- Some users don't respect public shared Internet access and need to be kicked. Dropped a couple of destination IPs who were “known” abusers
- The Motorola WLAN lost its SSID later in the afternoon. Rebooting the switches fixed the problem
- Ran out of powerstrips