Lunch in the city
October 20th, 2007
Today we went to Trafalgar square for Eid in the square. After we went to Noura. This picture is my brother in law Mohammed and me.
Another awesome sunset
October 18th, 2007
The sunsets we get at the back of the house here are just awesome.
Sunset 11 October
October 11th, 2007
View from our room
Dealing with nagios sms messages part 2
October 8th, 2007
Sun 07/10/2007 17:50 Text note (Note):
So I get alarms notified to me by sms. Before today i would delete them with a python program i had written for series 60 phones. Today I uncovered an awesome use for nokia beta labs’ Conversation app for series 60 phones. It groups smses by conversation, well really by contact. It allows me to delete all my messages from nagios with one button.
Brain drain at 3am
October 7th, 2007
Sat 06/10/2007 22:23 Text note (Note):
I do not know what is worse, fixing remote problems with only an on-screen keyboard or realising 15 minutes into fixing that your laptop is a few metres away!
Alia and my father in law
October 6th, 2007
Settled back in london
October 6th, 2007
Sat 06/10/2007 13:10 Text note (Note):
Long time no blog. Have now settled back in london but still have 3 full big boxes to unpack. This last month has been hectic because it is Ramadhan. Got a few new toys recently. I bought a nokia 770 with navkit from amazon for £99 and upgraded my phone to a nokia n95 which i am now using to submit this blog entry.
Continuing to work on Flumotion!
August 16th, 2007I have booked my flights to London, August 31st is when I fly. Many have asked what I will be doing in London as work, so I am pleased to say that I will continue to work on Flumotion and GStreamer from London. There were other good possibilities but this was what I felt as best for me.
Alessandro Decina, my summer of code student, continues to do great work with DVB and transport stream work in GStreamer. I am really happy with what he has done and the community (not just the Freevo project where his project is registered) will benefit greatly from his work. His work has already allowed me to use GStreamer to stream a decrypted transport stream from an encrypted tv channel coming into my Dreambox 7025. Of course it still requires my viewing card from my satellite subscription for it to be able to decode.
Today is Alia’s and my 4th wedding anniversary. I have taken the day off work and will hopefully go out later tonight for a nice dinner.
GPLv3 release broadcast streaming now using Flumotion
June 29th, 2007The FSF are streaming the GPLv3 release event in Ogg theora with Flumotion. Currently it is using 90Mbit of bandwidth!
Pigment moving to LGPL
June 29th, 2007Pigment is relicencing from GPL to LGPL. In other news soon it will be fully working on Mac OS X also.