Coder's Log

Back in the days when we were losing a lot of good souls to "World of Warcraft", I used to say to myself "Losers, there's so much in life to enjoy and so much to do to bring Free SW on every machine out there.." and promised myself that I'll never even try any MMORPG. About a month back, Rene came over to me carrying a German game magazine and showed me a comparison of the upcoming MMORPGs based on Star Trek and Star Wars. Now I can resist all games but a chance to live the life of a Star-fleet officer? No way! So I started playing Star Trek Online last month when it was still in beta and got into it. Soon I pre-ordered the game for amazon.co.uk and life-time subscription (that also allowed me to play a freed Borg character). Now when I say "I got into it", I don't mean I am playing for hours and hours everyday. It means I play maximum 5 days a week and for 1-3 hours only. Anyway, here is a nice picture taken by Ekaterina while I'm

Just like the last 2 years, I joined the FOSDEM fun. Just like every year there were lots of awesome beers, chocolates, waffles and of course conference full of awesome hackers from all over the world & their awesome talks. In short, the same old 'awesome' experience. Also I finally got to meet Jens George (phako) in person. Another thing that went it a totally unusual (and unexpected) direction was my home directory. Here is how it went: Early Sunday morning (8:00) my alarm goes off to wake me up in time for my 10:15 am talk. I manage to get up after half an hour of snoozing the alarm, get ready (including getting a shower out of almost non-functional shower), back-up my slides on USB stick and manage to get to the conference room 10 minutes before the talk along with my room-mates, Marc-Andre and Juerg. Failed to get anything to eat or even a cup of coffee before that. I open-up the lid of my laptop to find out that it won't be able to wake-up from suspend. No pro

GUPnP AV 0.5.4 released Changes since 0.5.2: - Gracefully handle empty or no 'res' node. - Function to get the list of descriptors from DIDL-Lite objects. - More complete comparison for LPCM mime types. - Fix incorrect type conversion of DLNA flags. - DLNA flags should not default to a specific DLNA version. - New APIs to deal with contributor-related properties in DIDL-Lite objects. - Remove redundant construction methods. - Add forgotten header to the meta-header file. - Add and fix gobject-introspection annotations. - Lots of documentation fixes. - Many minor non-functional fixes/improvements. Bug fixes in this release: 1935 - Incorrect conversion while parsing primary DLNA Flags 1934 - DLNA Flags should not default to a specific DLNA version. 1933 - Content type matching fails when additional parameters exist in LPCM mime-type 1814 - Add "artists" property to GUPnPDIDLLiteObject All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Yakup Akbay Za

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Rygel 0.4.10 (A Human Reaction) is out! Another release in the stable 0.4.x series. Changes since 0.4.8: - Restart application on SIGHUP. - Fix cancellation of HTTP streams and in turn a critical leak. - Correct condition for byte-seeking. - Correctly handle boolean commandline options. - Enable check for Vala if any stamp file is absent. - Fix condition for partial content transfer. - Correct linker argument order. This should fix the build issue on Gentoo. - Work-around for an automake bug. - Limit search slice to result size. - Fix a spelling mistake in error message. - Tell valac to put debugging symbols to generated code so gdb can refer to lines in the Vala source code. Bug fixes in this release: 601395 - restart on SIGHUP All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Jens Georg Download source tarball here .

Here goes the release log: A bug-fix release in stable 0.4.x series to fix seeking in general and playback for clients that always seek (Sony PS3). Dependency-related changes: - Require valac >= 0.7.10. All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Download source tarball from here .

GSSDP 0.7.1 released! - Don't leak target regex. - Make GSSDPClient ignore Point to Point interfaces. - Use SO_REUSEPORT if present. Darwin and some BSDs don't have SO_REUSEADDR, but SO_REUSEPORT. - If we can't create a request socket don't try to create a multicast socket. - Have specific GError code for interfaces without an IP address. - Actually remove gssdp_client_new_full(). Bugs fixed: 1898 - GSSDPClient keeps autoselecting my VPN 1810 - Not possible to run multiple ssdp clients on darwin 1800 - leak of a gregex in gssdp-resource-browser 1796 - gssdp_client_new_full is declared in header but not implemented All contributors: Olivier Crête Ross Burton Iain Holmes Mattias Wadman Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Download release tarballs from here GUPnP 0.13.2 released! Changes since 0.13.1: - Utilize libconic (Maemo5) if available. - Unix context manager must signal the unavailibility of all contexts when disposed. - Enable silent build rules if they are