Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonGeniuscomputers/china-vista-2006-04-24-19-23http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/china-vista-2006-04-24-19-23Well, for starters, it's a system put together by a bunch of hippies. This is genius . Worth the build-up ... Well, for starters, it's a system put together by a bunch of hippies.

This is genius. Worth the build-up just for the final line, in my opinion.

]]>/computers2006-04-24T18:23:00ZSound Juicer "The Winds Are Blowing Telling Me All I Hear" 2.15.1computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.15.1http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.15.1Sound Juicer "The Winds Are Blowing Telling Me All I Hear" 2.15.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com , ... Sound Juicer "The Winds Are Blowing Telling Me All I Hear" 2.15.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. This is the first release in the 2.15.x development series and isn't that exciting, sorry:

  • Only manipulate the track store if there is stuff in it (#333402)
  • Fix progress bar calculation (#339062, John Thacker)
  • Check for cdio >= 0.70 (#339303, John Laliberte)
  • Use new intltool for po/LINGUAS magic (#339197)
  • Use GString when creating the paths (#336725, James Livingston)
  • Update the file/path pattern documentation (#337638)
  • Update the about dialog (#328181, Brian Pepple)
  • Save and restore playback volume (#334170, Marinus Schraal)
  • Improve --help (#335016, Vincent Untz)
  • Translate an untranslated string (#334509)

NP: Out Of Season, Beth Bibbons and Rustin Man

]]>/computers/sound-juicer2006-04-24T17:15:13ZBerkeley DB in Evolution Data Servercomputers/eds-2006-04-24-12-26http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/eds-2006-04-24-12-26------- Comment #13 from Devashish Sharma 2006-04-24 11:07 UTC ------- Patch committed to cvs head. Always a good thing to ... 
------- Comment #13 from Devashish Sharma  2006-04-24 11:07 UTC -------
Patch committed to cvs head.

Always a good thing to see, and especially so when it's this patch. The patch allows Evolution Data Server to be built with a system install of Berkeley DB, instead of always with the copy shipped in EDS. This is designed for systems where the version of Berkeley DB won't change over time, such as embedded systems or Debian-derived distributions (which allows multiple versions of libdb to be installed). There are several reasons for doing this:

  • Security: bug fixes and security updates don't need to replicated. If there is a security fix in Berkeley DB it doesn't need be back-ported and applied to the copied code in EDS.
  • Performance: EDS ships with Berkeley DB 4.1, but Berkeley DB 4.3 works, and is faster.
  • Memory Usage: this is the fun one. In a standard EDS build, both the "file" addressbook backend and libedataserver link to Berkeley DB. However, as the library is an embedded copy and isn't installed, it is statically linked. Yes, a 600Kb library is statically linked into EDS twice.

As you can imagine, I'm glad this patch has finally landed upstream!

NP: Protection, Massive Attack

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