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Update about Flash on FreeBSD with gnash

Back in May, I wrote a post about Flash on FreeBSD using gnash. Now that gnash-0.8.1 is in the ports tree, I have to say that the greasemonkey+mplayer hack is no longer needed to watch YouTube videos. Everything works great using gnash alone.

Posted on 27 September 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (5) °

GPG key expired and updated

My GPG key expired on Sunday, so I renewed it today (by changing the expiration date). Download it.

Posted on 20 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Once in a while: todo list update

Now and then (more then than now) I remember to update my ToDo List. This afternoon I was too tired to work on actual code, so I dive in the list of RPC-related PRs and assigned some of them to me.

Posted on 18 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Recipe for a good devsummit

While having some rest from auditing of the RPC code (src/lib/libc/rpc/), I give you the correct recipe for making a good FreeBSD Developers Summit. Ingredients: A nice and quiet place in the countryside, two hours away from Copenhagen (any other city will fit) and ten minutes away from the absolute nothing Bandwidth, both wireless and [...]

Posted on 18 September 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (1) °

Traveling to Copenhagen

Ok, I’m leaving from home at 11.45, with flight departing at 14.10. Landing in Copenhagen is planned at 16.15. Attilio will already be there and we’ll meet at the airport. We will move to $WHERE_THE_DEVSUMMIT_TAKES_PLACE tomorrow morning by train+cab.

Posted on 16 September 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (0) °

Moved to gnome2-lite

After more than 3 years (may be more..) I moved from xfce4 to gnome2-lite on my laptop. Desktop wil follow if the experience with gnome during the EuroBSDCon DevSummit will be a positive one. Sad? Not too much.

Posted on 13 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Things that come back

Today, many things appeared again in my life: I have a watch on my wrist: the present from my parents for my graduation. It’s a Rolex Air-King which belonged to my father and then to my mother. I stopped wearing wrist watches when I started using the keyboard for more than few hours a day, [...]

Posted on 04 September 2007 † Matteo § Nerd § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

EuroBSDCon 2007: I will attend…sort of..

Ok, since my omonymous friend Matteo is getting married on Saturday 15th September, I won’t attend the conference, but I already booked my flight to Copenaghen on the 16th to attend to the DevSummit on Monday and Tuesday. I’ll be back to Italy on Wednesday 19th. *YYYUUUPPIIEEEEEE!!*

Posted on 23 August 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (1) °

Back to the amd64

After eight months, my main machine runs FreeBSD amd64 again, instead of FreeBSD i386. I had to run i386 due to missing bits in ndis support on amd64, but everything works now. There were some troubles finding the correct amd64 driver (.inf + .sys) for my broadcom chipset, but nothing a rapid search on google [...]

Posted on 31 July 2007 † Matteo § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °

Flash on FreeBSD using gnash

So, I manage to get flash working on FreeBSD. Without using the Linux compatability layer! Many thanks to drizzt for his precious suggestions. I used graphics/gnash and www/firefox. Be sure not to check “GSTREAMER” on the gnash port configuration ncurses window: it didn’t work for me. To watch YouTube videos, you must install multimedia/mplayer and [...]

Posted on 23 May 2007 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (27) °