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Luya Tshimbalanga: Phantasy Star Online 2 Character Creation on Wine

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Dowloaded Character Creation from Phantasy Star Online 2 (PSO2)  (not released yet) and installed via Wine version 1.5.1 from Fedora repository. The test was done on Phenom II X4 940 CPU powered with Nvidia Geforce GTX 460 v2 which replaced the aging Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS (if a Nouveau driver driver is interested to get that videocard, please contact me. The side effect was a much smoother navigation on Gnome Shell.

With nouveau driver, PSO2 Character Creation is only rendered with a plain blue-grey sphere meaning the free and open source driver still has a way to go.

For the first time in 2012, I installed the nvidia driver from RPM Fusion repository with its quirk. Hopefully, RPM Fusion team will find a way to automatically switch from nouveau to nvidia. Firing PSO character creation through Wine provides this result:





Test was done in window mode at 1280x960. Wine is very impressive with its support to a recent Windows base games which could bring attention to game publisher themselves. Only downside is the sound that cannot be heard.
 With some optimization, Linux based operating system could bring attention to gamers. PSO2 can be optimized to run on OpenGL 2.x (there will be Playstation Vita version and also both IOS and Android) and above because it only needs DirectX 9 as minimal requirement. It looks like Linux gaming future is brighter than ever.



Warren Togami: KVM with Spice USB Redirection on Fedora 16

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After some initial trouble I managed to get Windows 7 32bit working in KVM on Fedora 16 on my Thinkpad T410s.  For the most part it works except for a strange issue where hardware virt works only *once*.  If I shutdown the guest, I need to reboot the laptop for hardware virt to work again.  I then struggled to use USB storage devices in the Windows guest as is often required in school.  It turns out that the USB passthrough in virt-manager is only capable of USB 1.0 and is ultimately unusable due to its fragility.  PCI passthrough for my sdio slot did not work either.

Windows 7 KVM guest with Spice USB Redirection on Fedora 16 host
Fortunately, Spice's USB network redirection seems to work great.  virt-manager is not capable of configuring or using it directly, but following these directions and using the spicy client, I managed to redirect USB 2.0 devices to my KVM guest.  It even has an option to automatically redirect newly plugged devices, and it does so intelligently to the host or guest depending which window has keyboard focus at that moment.

spicy client seems better than spicec or virt-manager, although Shift-F11 to escape full screen mode seems to be broken.  Until this bug is fixed, a temporary workaround is to CTRL-ALT-F2 and kill spicy in order to escape.

Richard W.M. Jones: A new computer

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It turns out to be good to wait 4 or 5 years between computer upgrades, because the new computer will be awesomely fast in comparison to the old one. This was the old one:

I reused the case and power supply, but put a new motherboard, CPU, memory and disk inside. I have shamelessly gone all-Intel, because I need a fast build server, and AMD doesn’t cut it these days.

  • Intel Sandy Bridge 2600K (4 cores, 8 threads)
  • ASUS P8Z68-V (Intel Z68 with LGA 1155 socket)
  • 18GB of RAM (2 x 8GB + 2 x 1GB saved from the old computer)
  • 120 GB Intel 320 Series SSD
  • 2TB Samsung HDD
  • Fedora 17

The SSD in particular is brilliant. It feels about 10 times faster than a hard drive.

‘make -j9′ just eats kernel compiles. I can build a complete Fedora kernel and modules in about 10 minutes (compared to about 28 minutes on my work laptop).


Runa Bhattacharjee: “The Sun Goes Around The Earth”

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“THE SUN GOES AROUND THE EARTH”

If one grew up in the city of Kolkata in the 1980s and 90s, they would not be unfamiliar with the above graphiti planted on innumerable walls and lamposts. The graphiti and the adamant proponent of this theory is a legend that a generation would remember.

I was reminded of this, by a rather unfortunate turn of events that happened, on a mailing list of much repute. Just this morning, I was speaking with a colleague about how often and unknowingly we are drawn into stressful situations which make us lose focus from the task at hand. After having responded to a mail thread now crossing the 80+ mark, I wanted to step back, summarize and review this entire situation.

It all started when someone, who by his own admission is not a native speaker of Bangla/Bengali language, wanted to transcribe Sanskrit Shlokas (hymns) in the Bangla script into a digital format and requested for modifications in a in-use keymap. To what final end, is however unclear. This is not an unusual practice as there are numerous books and texts of Sanskrit that have been written in the Bengali script and this effort can be assumed as a natural progression to digitizing texts of this nature. What stands out is the unusual demand for the addition of a certain character, which is not part of the Bengali script, into a Bengali keymap (much in use) that this gentleman wanted to use to transcribe them. The situation worsens with more complications because this character is not a random one and belongs to the Assamese script.

The character in question is the Assamese character RA, written as ৰ and has the Unicode point U+09F0. This is part of the Unicode chart for the Bengali script, which is used to write Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri (although Meitei is now the primary script for Manipuri). Although exclusively used for Assamese, this character does have a historical connection with the Bengali script. ৰ was also used as the Bengali character RA before the modern form র (Unicode point U+09B0) came into practice. At which exact point of time this change happened is somewhat unclear to me, but references to both the forms can be found as early as 1778 when Nathaniel Brassey Halhed published the A Grammar of the Bengali Language. Dr.Fiona Ross‘ extensively researched The Printed Bengali Character: Its Evolution contains excerpts from texts where the ancient form of র i.e. ৰ has been used. However, this is not the main area of concern.

Given its pan-Indian nature, Sanskrit has been written in numerous regional scripts. I remember, while at school Sanskrit was a mandatory third language of study. The prescribed book for the syllabus used the Devanagari script. On the other hand, the Sanskrit books that I saw in my home were in the Bengali script (some of my ancestors, including my maternal Grandfather were Priests and Sanskrit teachers who had their own tol). Anyway, I digress here. The main concern is around the two characters of ‘BA‘ and ‘VA‘ . In Devanagari, ‘BA‘ i.e. and ‘VA‘ i.e. are two very distinct characters with distinct pronunciations. While ‘BA is used for words that need a pronunciation such as बालक (phonetic: baa-lak), ‘VA is used for words such as विद्या (phonetic:weedh-ya). In Bengali, these two variations are respectively known as ‘Borgiyo BA‘ and ‘Antastya BA‘. However, unlike Devanagari they do not have separate characters. So both of them are represented by (U+09AC in the Unicode chart). Earlier they held two different positions in the alphabet chart, but even that has been relinquished. The pronunciation varies as per the word, a practice not dissimilar to the behaviourial aspects of the letters, ‘C‘ and ‘T‘ in English.

This is where it starts getting muddled. The gentleman in question requests for a representation of the Devanagari equivalent of the separation of BA and VA, for Bengali as well. Reason stated was that the appropriate pronunciations of the Sanskrit words were not possible without this distinction. So as a “solution” he suggested the use of the Assamese RA glyph in place of the Borgiyo BA sounds and the Bengali BA to be reserverd exclusively for the lesser used Antastya BA i.e. VA sounds. Depicted below as a diagram for ease of reference.

On the basis of what legacy this link is to be established or how the pronunciation for the two characters have been determined, meets a dead end in the historical references of the Bengali script[1].

To support his claims he also produces a set of documents[1][2] which proudly announces itself as the “New Bengali character set” (নূতন বর্ণপরিচয়/Nutan Barnaparichay) at the top of the pages. The New Bengali character set seems quite clandestine and no record of it is present in the publications from the Paschimbanga Bangla Academy, Bangla Academy Dhaka or any of the other organisations that are considered as significant contributors for the development and regulation of the language. Along with the New character set, there are also scanned images from books where the use of this character variation can be seen. However the antecedents of these books have not been clearly identified. In one of them, the same word (বজ্র) has been spelt differently in two sentences, which imho adds more confusion to the melee.

On my part, I have also collected some excerpts from Sanksrit content written in Bengali, with particular emphasis on the use of ব. Among them is one from the almanacs (ponjika) which are widely popular amongst householders and priests in everyday reference of religious shlokas and hymns.

The character in the eye of the storm i.e. the Assamse RA and its Bengali counterpart are very special characters. These form two different conjuncts each with the ‘YA’ (U+09AF that is shared by both the scripts) without changing the sequence of the characters:

র + য = র্য
র + য = র‍্য (uses ZWJ)

ৰ + য = ৰ্য
ৰ + য = ৰ‍্য (uses ZWJ)

The Bengali character set as we know it today was created by Ishwar Chandra Bidyasagar, in the form of the বর্ণপরিচয়/Barnaparichay written by him. Since much earlier, the script also saw modern advancements mostly to cater to the requirements of the printing industry. His reforms added a finality to this. The বর্ণপরিচয়/Barnaparichay still remains as the first book that Bengali children read while learning the alphabets. This legacy is the bedrock of the printed character and, coupled with grammar rules, defines how Bengali is written and used since the last 160 years. The major reform that happened after his time was the removal of the character ঌ (U+098C) from everyday use. Other than this, the script has remain unchanged. In such a situation, a New Barnaparichay with no antecedents and endorsements from the governing organisations cannot shake the solid foundations of the language. The way the language is practised allows for some amount of liberty mostly in terms of spellings mainly due to the legacy and origins of the words. Some organisations or publication houses prefer to use the conservative spellings while others recommend reforms for ease of use. The inevitable inconsistencies cannot be avoided, but in most cases, the system of use is documented for the reader’s reference. Bengali as a language has seen a turbulent legacy. An entire nation was created from a revolution centered around the language.

During this entire fiasco the inputs from the Bengali speaking crowd (me included) were astutely questioned. Besides the outright violation of the Bengali script, complications arising out of non-standard internationalized implementations which were highlighted, were waived off. What is more disappointing is the way the representatives from IndLinux handled the situation. As one of the pioneering organisations in the field of Indic localization they have guided the rest of the Indic localization groups in later years. With suggestions for implementing the above requests in the Private Use Area of the fonts (which maybe a risky proposition if the final content, font and keymap are widely distributed) and providing customized keymaps they essentially risked undoing critical implementational aspects of the Bengali and Assamese internationalization. Whether or not the claims from the original requestor are validated and sorted, personally I am critically concerned about the advice that was meted out (and may have also been implemented) by refuting the judgement of the Bengali localization teams without adequate vetting.

Note:A similar situation was seen with the Devanagari implementation of Kashmiri. Like the Bengali Unicode chart, the Devanagari chart caters to multiple languages including Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Maithili, Bodo, Kashmiri and a few others. Not all characters are used for all the languages. While implementing Kashmiri, a few of the essential characters were not present in the Devanagari chart. However, similar looking characters were present in the Gurumukhi chart and were used while writing Kashmiri. This was rectified through discussions with Unicode, and the appropriate code points were alloted in the Devanagari chart for exclusive use in Kashmiri.


Luya Tshimbalanga: Tips for network scanning issue for HP all-in-one printers

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English

Thanks to two people (VICODAN and tflink) from #fedora-qa helping me resolving the networked scanning issue with HP all-in-one printer, it turned out that hpaio driver name was missing in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf despite the installation on libsane-hpaio package. Once added, scanning applications like simple-scan will automatically detect a network scanner.

French

Grâce à VICODAN et tflink du canal #fedora-qa, j'ai pu résoudre le problème de réseau du numérisation (network scanner) des imprimantes HP type "all-in-one". Il s'est avéré que le pilote hpaio manquait dans le fichier /etc/sane.d/dll malgré l'installation du paquet libsane-hpaio. Une fois ajouté, les applications comme simple-scan pourront automatiquement détecter un numériseur en réseau.


Jay Dobies: Pulp v1.0.4 Release

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A bug fix release has been built to the v1 stable repository (http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/v1/stable/). The fixed bug list can be found below.

Upgrade

One of the bug fixes present in this release is to address a situation that may arise when two similarly named packages have similar checksums (a small chance however we actually managed to run into it). As part of that fix, existing packages need to be migrated to a new directory structure. This release contains a script to perform that migration. Instructions on running that script can be found on the Pulp wiki.

The migration script must be run before attempting to run a sync with the new release to avoid duplicating content.

Quick Links

Bug Fixes

  • 809628 – fixed error message formatting
  • 809195 – added post_sync dequeue hook to scheduled syncs
  • 807332 – the continuing story of the post sync url firing off actuall POST
  • 807516 – deleting a repository does not affect repoids associated with a package
  • 806976 – fix overlap in /etc/pulp files between main and sub-packages
  • 805740 – generate metadata on re-promotion with filters
  • 805922 – adding sync logic to look for server directory during clone/local
  • 802454 – added post_sync_url and post_sync dequeue hook for POSTing task
  • 798656 – include full checksum when constructing package paths
  • 801184 – error messages when installing selinux RPM after its already been installed
  • 799120 – added package filtering at package import stage
  • 797929 – add requirement on semanage command
  • 795819 – account for the relativepath from the metadata location field

Version 1.1 In Development

Bug/RFE triage and planning for our 1.1 release has completed and work will begin this sprint towards the included fixes. Aligned bugs can be found using this bugzilla query and while there are no known changes to be made to that list, it is, as always, subject to change. Current plans are to target a June 1 release date. More information will be available on this blog as it becomes available.

Onyeibo Oku: Fourth Day of IDLELO-5

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The parallel sessions continued on Thursday, the fourth day of IDLELO-5 but I had already decided by the time I arrived Yar’adua Centre that morning, that I was going to spend a greater percentage of the day at the booth and mount pressure on Customs (via FedEx) by phone. With a little help, I was able to reach the key players. Customs had come up with a questionable bill … finally, we were getting somewhere. I exchanged my training opportunities with Nnamdi, who had been faithful at the booth on previous days. That way, I could focus on my correspondence with the people at FedEx (Lagos)

Negotiations ended about an hour before noon after a series of mobile phone conversations but it was not until afternoon that the Media was released for shipping – bureaucracy can be a pain! The FedEx representative in Lagos promised to ship the package to Abuja by the next morning with the first flight available. That left us with little time to distribute the media because Friday was closing – and closing was scheduled for 10.30am. Oh dear! I didn’t really have any option by that time anyway. With the media released I felt a sudden need to relax and have a little ‘conference’ fun. Photographs!

By this time the parallel sessions were ending. I really looked forward to the ones moderated by UNESCO, under the title “FOSS in Schools” – especially the reports by Katim Touray and Joris Komen. Again, I will continue to look out for the comprehensive report from the IDLELO team so I can catch up (and of course, share the URLs).

Later, Nnamdi returned from a workshop on “Network Monitoring” by Seun Ojedeji and we addressed more questions at the booth. It seemed like a good outing in the long run.


Onyeibo Oku: IDLELO-5, the finale

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FedEx kept their promise. I stopped by at the conference venue to inform the IDLELO-5 organizers of the development before rushing off to secure the Media. I hoped to be back in time before the closing and Dele promised to buy me time. The FedEx office was in the area, just a few kilometres away. Arthur and Nnamdi were privy to the arrangement too. I was back within an hour or so. Everybody seemed happy to see the package. Hey, I even got an escort and siren from the Chairlady herself. A fun chairlady – but it was my moment of joy. The media was finally where it should have been and the Fedora booth was going to be swarming with people once again.

Actually, I missed the closing by a few minutes but an announcement had gone off informing participants to check out the Fedora Booth for ‘a surprise treat’. Thanks for that, Dele! Sure enough, we got a crowd. Now we’re talking! 600 DVDs gradually became 90 DVDs in a short time. Stickers and business cards exchanged hands and photographs were taken.

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Jeff Sandys: Linux Audio Conference

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If you are attending the Linux Audio Conference and want to talk about a Fedora Audio Spin, introduce yourself to me, I'll be the guy in the blue Fedora Ambassador's polo.

Sirko Kemter: Tupi – Ready for packaging

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Arround 3 weeks ago I wrote a german post about Tupi, a really cool 2D animation program and made a little screencast how easy it is to doing animations with it. The screencast is in german, but you should see that I need only 4 steps to create the animation.

It might be easy using it, but it is hard to become running it on a fedora system. There are only rpm available for older versions and not for 64-bit.  Compile it from the sources is also not really a funny thing. The main problem getting it into Fedora was the using of ffmpeg as a dependency. Jaroslav Reznik spent some time explaining it to Gustav Gonzalez Giron, how it should be done to become packaged for Fedora.

So now, Gustav learned the lessons and divided the code of Tupi, removed all dependencies of ffmpeg from the GUI and tools and made ffmpeg and the video export as an plugin. So there are now 2 different parts Tupi and Tupi-ffmpeg. He would need some helping hands try to package that and look, it works everything well.

Without Tupi-ffmpeg Tupi will only export PNG or JPG, what is not really helpful on animations. So Gustav also begun to work implementing video formats that are free, like ogv.

Andreas Schneider: CM9 on Marvel (HTC Wildfire S)

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After Qualcom released new graphic blobs for ARMv6 I was able to get CyanogenMod 9 working on my HTC Wildfire S pretty well. There are still some problem which need to be fixed. GPS isn’t working, if you have GSM/3G turned on the battery drains pretty fast. I’m currently trying to get the camera working. There is also a wakelock bug with bluetooth in the kernel right now.

If you’re a developer working on a msm7x27 device and are interested to work together join #cyanogenmod-msm7x27 @ freenode.

You can find my work at http://git.cryptomilk.org/

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Nicu Buculei: Sakura wallpaper

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Long time no new Free wallpaper? Then is time to correct that. And being the hanami time, when people go out and watch sakura, a proper picture has to be about Japanese cherry trees in full blossom (most of the pics I took here have also people in them, which makes them unsuitable as wallpapers so just only one today):

sakura wallpaper
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How it's made

If a single pic is a bit on the little side, then I have to add something... maybe a "making of" picture, taken when I was struggling to catch the proper back light for the photo above. Complete with the black CC T-shirt:

making of

Ding-Yi Chen: Cannot turn off “Num Lock” in Fedora

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What do you know, pressing Fn+F6 at ThinkPad T510 toggles “Num Lock” in Fedora!


Valent Turkovic: Enable ad-hoc wifi networking on Android

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Google has disabled wireless ad-hoc networking in Android from day one. Underlying Android libraries and wifi stack support adhoc networking and so far Google has provided no explanation why it still, even after four years, leaves adhoc disabled.
 
There has been huge outcry from Android users over this issue, but there is still no answer from Google Android developers.
 
There are few suggestons on xda-developers forum, and also on Stackoverflow, but most solution so far consisted of using new rom that had ad-hoc support enabled or manually messing about system config files.
 
But wait, there is an app for that!
 
There is an app called WiFi Ad Hoc enabler that should work on most Android devices.
 
If this app works for you, please give it a good review or notify developer of any issues you encounter, but consider that not all Android devices are supported yet.
 
I would be very grateful if you would vote up my answer on Stackexchange.
 
[1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82
[2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754961
[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1932150/can-android-do-peer-to-peer-ad-hoc-networking
[4] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.arendmedia.wifiadhocenabler
[5] http://www.arenddeboer.com/wifi-ad-hoc-enabler-for-android/
[6] http://stackoverflow.com/a/10108812/1031514

Fedora Videos: French Quarter Fest 504 with The Revivalists' David Shaw

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Four French Quarter Fest Acts, Five Questions. In No.1 Aura Fedora talks to vocalist David Shaw of The Revivalists. As part of the Audio Filé series for Nola Defender. Published April 2012. Features clips of "Common Cents" and "Cement (Fish Out of Water) by The Revivalists.

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Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez: Liberated Pixel Cup

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The Liberated Pixel Cup

I haven’t been so excited about a Contest since my first Science Fair back in Elementary School…

The Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons and Open Game Art have announced….

The Liberated Pixel Cup!

The contest itself is divided in Two Parts:

The first part will have Artists make Sprites and Music throughout the month of June, with prizes being given out to the best Artists / Sprites. The art itself has to be CC-By-SA and GPLv3 to participate, and the actual style guidelines will be published on June 1st.

The second one will have Game Devs make Libre Games (That is, Licensed GPLv3) during July, using those Sprites and Music, using any programming language you want, as long as it runs on a 100% Libre Environment, which probably means Fedora or Debian. This means no Flash or Silverlight, .NET or even Oracle’s Java, but Gnash, Moonlight, Mono and OpenJDK are allowed. Your game can also run on any other platform, but it has to run on a GNU / Linux one at least.

The Rules and The FAQ are in their site, and they’re actively working on clarifying some of the points in the contest, so if you have a question, hop on #LiberatedPixelCup on Freenode’s IRC.

I intend to participate in the Contest, so I’ll keep the details of my entry to myself for the time being ;)

Game on!

Jon Ciesla: Samba security update: please test and give karma!

Arif Tri Waluyo: Fedora 17 Beta dinyatakan GOLD

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Pengembangan Fedora 17 beta dinyatakan gold pada pertemuan Go/No-Go pada 12 April 2012. Dengan begitu, Fedora 17 beta akan rilis pada tanggal 17 April 2012 nanti.

JoergSimon: Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 15/2012

Fedora Videos: French Quarter Fest 504 Debbie Davis

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French Quarter Fest 504 No. 2 Aura Fedora interviews Debbie Davis 5 Questions 4 French Quarter Fest Acts Published as part of the Audio Filé series on Nola Defender, April 2012 Features clips from the tracks "I'm Looking at You" and "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes" from her new solo album "It's Not th....

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