So Nokia finally announced the N900. It’s an impressive phone already getting positive reviews. Reading the specs I miss two things: FLAC and Ogg support. How is it that a Linux & Maemo based phone does not have support for FLAC and Ogg?! Let’s hope Nokia fixes that in new firmware releases.
The Linux Foundation just released their annual ‘Who Writes Linux’ report. A fascinating read worth your time if you are interested in the numbers behind Linux’ relentless progress. And guess which company is totally absent in the report? Canonical. No suprise there. All I hear from Shuttleworth is rhetoric about how the Community would benefit from synced releases. Yeah right.
Tonight I was updating a laptop to F11, did some tab completion and almost had a heart attack from the way too loud beep that hammered my ears. Obviously this should never happen again so next step was disabling this deafening beep.
In the good ol’ days you disabled the beep from hammering your ears during tab completion by adding or uncommenting “set bell-style none” in /etc/inputrc. Since I don’t know if that still works I figured I might as well prevent the pcspkr module from loading in the first place with:
# echo “blacklist pcspkr” > /etc/modprobe.d/pcspkr.conf
# rmmod pcspkr
Enjoy the peace and quiet!
As announced on FreeSWITCH’s frontpage, version 1.0.4 has been released and now supports Skype, ZRTP, H.323 and MRCP: The FreeSWITCH team is pleased to announce the immediately availability of FreeSWITCH version 1.0.4. (Source tarball available here.) This new version contains many improvements in stability and security as well as some notable additions. More information here and digg it here.
In case you are still using Asterisk and haven’t switched to FreeSWITCH yet, Venturevoip has a nice overview of 31 great free applications for Asterisk.