Thanks Google, no more CalDAV / CardDAV APIs

I just noticed that Google will drop the CalDAV and CardDAV APIs. Back in December I had been glad when I heard they would drop the ActiveSync protocol because I thought they wanted to promote open standards instead. I was wrong, it seems they just want to impose their useless Google Calendar API. Google services [...]

media-video/mplayer-1.1_rc1_p20120820 with vaapi use flag

I made an updated version of my mplayer-vaapi ebuild.

You can find my media-video/mplayer ebuild with vaapi use flag in my overlay.

Raspbian Wheezy armhf Raspberry Pi minimal image

After the Debian Wheezy armel image I made a new one based on Raspbian armhf. This one is compiled with hard float support, so basically floating point operations are MUCH faster because they are done in hardware instead of software emulation

Features include:

A minimal Raspbian Wheezy installation (similar to a netinstall) instead of [...]

World IPv6 Launch

I’d like to remember today is the World IPv6 Launch, lots of websites can be reached using IPv6 starting from today (including linuxsystems of course).

You can find the full list here: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/participants/?q=1

P.S. It’s a good moment to choke your provider’s lines asking for native IPv6 support

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Debian Wheezy Raspberry Pi minimal image

I made my own Raspberry Pi custom image based on Debian Wheezy.

Features include:

A minimal Debian Wheezy installation (similar to a netinstall) instead of the outdated Squeeze packages Disabled incremental updates, means apt-get update is much faster Workaround for a kernel bug which hangs the Raspberry Pi under heavy network/disk loads A custom 3.1.9+ [...]

[Gentoo] Folding@Home v7: fahclient-7.1.52 ebuild available

Latest sci-biology/foldingathome ebuild in portage is 6.34-r2. Thanks to Bas Couwenberg who did the original sci-biology/fahclient-7.1.43 ebuild I made a new version for 7.1.52:  sci-biology/fahclient-7.1.52.ebuild

You can find both in my overlay.

The Raspberry Pi has finally arrived!

[Gentoo] G45/GM45 h264 VA-API video decoding

On May 2011 Intel released G45/GM45 h264 VA-API in their g45-h264 branch. More then one year later they still didn’t merge it to master and no one touched that code in the meantime.

Fortunately if you tweak your system a bit that code is good enough to play a 1080p video with a generous bitrate, [...]

media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20120116 with vaapi use flag

An mplayer ebuild which supports VA-API hardware acceleration isn’t something you can easily find. There is one in the calculate overlay but it’s quite ancient nowadays. This is why a made a new ebuild based on the latest git code from http://gitorious.org/vaapi/mplayer.

You can find my media-video/mplayer ebuild with vaapi use flag in my overlay.

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[Gentoo amd64] 32 bit graphic drivers from git without the multilib overlay

If you use Gentoo amd64 and the Intel/Radeon/Nouveau Open Source graphic drivers you already know the problem: x86_64 drivers from git (like media-libs/mesa-9999 from the x11 overlay) are bleeding edge and fast, while the 32 bit ones from app-emulation/emul-linux-x86 are outdated and slow. This is especially sad considering the most demanding games are the Windows [...]