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Rock on

by on November 3, 2006 in Community, Ubuntu

Lovely email from Frank Armstrong: Hello Jono, My name is Frank Armstrong. I am very happy to tell you about how your wonderful list saved me tons of hours of frustration. Rich Johnson, from Chicago, has been a super help to me. I’m just now taking the time to learn the ropes for Kubuntu, and [...]

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Off to UDS

by on November 3, 2006 in Music, Ubuntu

Tomorrow I fly out to San Francisco to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. This is cool for two core reasons: The Ubuntu Developer Summit and its discussions, people, specs, and other fun stuff. San Francisco is the birthplace of thrash metal. ’nuff said.

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GStreamer Dynamic Pads, Explained

by on November 3, 2006 in Desktop, Jokosher

(for an intro to GStreamer, see my previous article) You know, one thing that gets people confused in GStreamer is the idea of Dynamic Pads. Some elements, most notably the decodebin and gnlcomposition only have certain pads at certain times. This is because they figure out what kind of content they are processing, and apply [...]

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