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Interview with Mike Larkin. We talk about ACPI and OpenBSD.
Note: Shortly after recording this, OpenBSD added support for the "machdep.lidsuspend" sysctl. By setting this to "1", your machine should suspend automatically when the lid is closed. By default, OpenBSD will always resume when the lid is opened. This sysctl works for most ACPI machines that have a "LID" ACPI object.
File Info: 19Min, 9MB.
Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk195.ogg
iPhone apps updated:
- The FreeBSD Project: iPad compatibility added, fixed Planet FreeBSD links towards the original postings.
- L-Space - Discworld: iPad compatibility added. See previous posting on this weblog :-)
beat and me are currently preparing for the update of www/libxul to 1.9.2.8. This also includes cleanup of old gecko providers in a lot of other ports and fixes numerous security relevant problems in libxul.
We spend some time fixing ports that do not correctly build with that new version and marked mplayer-plugin as deprecated because it just does not build with libxul 1.9.2 and is discontinued from upstream. As a replacement you should use gecko-mediaplayer.
portmgr has accepted Baptiste Daroussin as a port freebsd committer. After several good PR, he has his punishment.
I will mentor him with my old wise mentor tabthorpe@. Together, we wrote a little questionnaire.
1- Can you introduce yourself?
I'm a unix system engineer, I use FreeBSD since 4.X but don't
remember what number the X, I'm a rugby player (second row) and
I'm really not good at introducing myself.
2- When was your first pr and why?
My first pr was to add a new ports multimedia/zapping, to be able
to watch TV with my bktr card, but it never enters the ports tree.
The pr is sill suspended : ports/86401
3- What is your favorite beer/whiskey?
My favorite beer, it's hard to find one but I would say "trappiste rochefort"
About whiskey I love "Old Pulteney" and with a completely different taste
"Caol Ila"
4- Are you in a LUG/BSD association?
I'm a member of BSDFrance but not doing that much
5- Vim or Emacs ?
vim, what else?
6- What is the most embarassing thing you will admit to having on your iPod?
I don't have any ipods, and if I had I would said nothing as I really assume
my tastes (the bad ones as the others)
7- Boxers or briefs?
Boxers for sure
8- What is your preferred x11-wm/ on FreeBSD?
i3 or pekwm depending my mood
9- As a maintainer, who where your 3 favourite committers?
jadawin, miwi, liminon^Wtabthorpe
10- What would you like to achieve as a Ports committer?
I would like to improve the binary package creation/usage
Have fun with freebsd and welcome on board bapt@!
Flash on amd64 is a bit of a burden and I don't need it anymore because I mostly used it for youtube. Not that you can't download the video with filsh.net and watch it with mplayer or vlc but it's inconvenient.
An alternative solution for this is www/gecko-mediaplayer. For embedded videos you are already done but for youtube you also need the Greasemonkey Add-On for Firefox and the Youtube without Flash Auto Greasemonkey script. If you are on a youtube site watch out for the new buttons "View without Flash" below the video.
More information can be found at http://www.fossil-scm.org.
File Info: 30Min, 15MB.
Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk194.ogg
