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The majestic Michael ‘Elleo’ Sheldon has been hacking on some interesting Jokosher stuff recently. Firstly, he has been hacking on GStreamer to make high end sound cards such as the Delta 44 and Delta 1010 work properly in GStreamer. This involved a bug report and then a patch that fixed the alsasrc to make it [...]

A while back I got a Nokia 770 from work. I was quite looking forward to getting my hands on one, and it turned out to be a pretty nice little device. Obviously, it supports the full on GTK/GStreamer jazz, and my mind started rolling with ideas for applications. One such application was Jokosher Remote. [...]

Yesterday was another great day at GUADEC. One of the highlights for me was the GStreamer talk given by Wim and Andy. In the talk they discussed how some of the threading works in GStreamer and went onto discuss how clocks work. This could not have been better timed, as I have been looking into [...]

Well, here we are in sunny spain, and GUADEC is, as ever, awesome. Last year was great, and this year is even better. These guys know the definition of community. I don’t have the time to write a huge amount about the first day, so I will summarise: Alex Graveley’s Gimmie talk was interesting, and [...]

Here we at GUADEC, and it is incredibly hot. We got here last night after a torturous journey, but we settled in and had a few beers last night. Good to meet up with old and new friends, and we are having a ball so far. Today at 4pm is my talk. If you are [...]

Everyone loves Michael Meeks and and his inimitable blogging technique. I figured I would use his style to describe the utter beast of a day I have just had. Times added to make it feel like a knocked-off episode of 24: 12.15am – went to bed, pulled mail. 1.00am – went to sleep watching Desperate [...]

As some of you may know, I run Recreant View which is where I put all of my Creative Commons licensed music. On the site I write about and release music which can be freely distributed, and allows people to make derivative works and mashups/remixes. In fact, I just released a brand new tune – [...]

As far as I am aware, my interview on the G@mers TV show on Rapture TV should be aired tonight. I have not seen it yet, and I have no idea how it came out. Hopefully I won’t look a complete monkeys arse on there. The show is broadcast at 7.30pm GMT on Sky channel [...]

Sure, you may have heard me proclaim great things about Robert Love in the past, and yes, he did make the whole Project Utopia thing happen. And, someone of a positive orientation may claim achievements to do with kernel hacking and wireless integration into the desktop. Remove all of these thoughts from your head though, [...]

Education is a funny old game, and one that seems to mystify even the closest of observers. Populated with policy, procedure, top-down advisory boards and a chain of hierarchical button pushers, education can be a tough cookie to understand. If you then roll into the mix the fantabulous world of IT, you have a sure-fire [...]