Fedora 13 on mac book pro 13″

I used preupgrade to updgrade Fedora from 12 to 13.

After the process, I had to resync the partition in refit to be able to boot Linux.

I rebuilded the needed packages for nvidia and the broadcom wireless card.

I needed also to do some modifications to be able to use the integrated iSight webcam:

1. download the apple firmware :

wget http://www.i-nz.net/files/projects/linux-kernel/isight/against-revision-140/firmware/AppleUSBVideoSupport

then extract it (using the Fedora 12 package isight-firmware-tools) :

[root@delvaux ~]# su -c "ift-extract --apple-driver AppleUSBVideoSupport"

after this operation it should be working for most of the macbook pro, but not for this model, another change is needed.

first find the idProduct number:

[fred@delvaux Desktop]$ lsusb -v | grep  iSight -B 3 | grep idProduct
  idProduct          0x8507

and mofify the file /etc/udev/rules.d/isight.rules with the returned value :

[root@delvaux rules.d]# cat isight.rules 
ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac", SYSFS{idProduct}=="8507", RUN+="/usr/lib64/udev/ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw"

Which Microblogging client to use ?

I have tested 3 Twitter clients to use on my gnome desktop:

- Gwibber (gwibber-1.2.0-3.349bzr.fc12.noarch)
- Pino (pino-0.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64)
- Turpial (turpial-1.0-b1.fc12.noarch)

I've found Gwibber very nice, doing what I need but it's very slow and sometimes freezes (becomes dark). It has also facebook support (nice to see the status updates of your friends).

Pino is my favorite one for the moment, it's fast, doesn't support facebook (yet?).
Something I don't like is that you have to switch between the accounts (twitter and identi.ca) which is annoying.

Turpial is not was I really wanted, it doesn't fit really in the desktop and it's only in Spanish.

I hope that Pino will keep improving and stay fast as now.

http://gwibber.com/
http://code.google.com/p/pino-twitter/
http://code.google.com/p/turpial/

Update !

I've just tested Gwibber 2 (gwibber-2.30.0.1-1.fc12.noarch) and it has very nice features: possibility to see all the messages or only by account, possibility also to see images (updated in facebook for example). I will for sure test it and discover it a bit longer, nice improvements !

Loadays – my presentation

As requested by the audience, the slides of my presentation are now online. You can find them on slideshare

I had a few of interesting questions after the talk and some nice chats.

I won't also a nice book at the business card lottery : Automating System Administration with Perl.

See you next year :)

PS: the sushi's were wonderful ! (poor sdog)

I’ll be @ LOAD

Sunday 11th April, I will be at LOAD to talk about the daily management of huge (and ugly) tables in MySQL.

It's a reviewed talk of my previous FOSDEM session. I just finished the review of the slides.

I hope to see you there :-)

openERP spec files

As requested by Pieter, here are the spec files I used to create the openERP rpms for fedora and centos.

As some packages have different names or different user management commands, I need two different spec files for same pakages in each distro.

(only the client can be the same)

I wait for your feedback

My fosdem 2010 talk

As promised after the talk, these are the slides I presented this morning.

I had great feedback from the audience, thank you.

Thanks vinnov for the picture :-)

ptxArchiver 0.3

ptxArchiver 0.3 is out.

I added the possibility to not insert the delete statement in the binlog for replication. I also fixed some minor bugs.

give it a try and send me your feedback :)

Drupal updated !

I was very late to update my own site ! Yesterday I was still running drupal 5.3 !! (shame on me).

Now the site is updated and runs the latest version of drupal 6.x

I'm very happy with this upgrade and I took the opportunity to change the theme; this time I use a nice (to my opinion) theme provided by drupal : fervens

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