Fictitious Nonsense

That is it:)

In order to use my Freerunner tomorrow at work without bothering the other inhabitants of the cube farm, I needed to do two things.

1. Disable the click when the screen or a button is pressed
2. Vibrate instead of ring for incoming call/sms

First, I seached hi and low but could not find out how to control the vibrating.  At first, I thought I needed enable/configure the vibrating, but I realized it already vibrates for an incoming call.  So my solution to both needs is to modify the sound events.  This is handled through PulseAudio.  This is actually very easy.  I commented out the following lines from /etc/pulse/session

    #load-sample touchscreen /usr/share/openmoko/sounds/touchscreen_click.wav
    #load-sample ringtone /usr/share/openmoko/sounds/ringtone_classy.wav

Then I restarted Pulse with “/etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart”  PulseAudio complained about running as root, but it worked.  Restarting the phone will do the same, but why bother.

Now, it no longer clicks or rings!

I have been wondering good ways to debug Django and stumbled across this, Debugging Django.  It is great!

I recieved my Freerunner yesterday after going crazy tracking the package via UPS.  So far it is a good phone.  It is very minimal with just a dialer (phone calls), SMS app, contacts, terminal, and some minimal settings.  But hooking it up to a computer and sshing into it works great.  I got my MacBook to provide internet to the phone through USB, but I can’t get windows to do the same.  But that is ok.  I also got WiFi working, but it won’t connect to the internet through it.

I am happy, but it is definately a developer release and not meant for mass consumption yet.  I will provide more details as I play more.

I have recently been working on a new website for my wife, www.jesleephotos.com.  It is currently a Joomla site, which I originally liked, but then I wanted to upgrade.  Which meant rewriting some customizations.  It was a long tedious thing.  Then I started learning Django, and decided to completely write a new site for her in Django.  So far it is going great, but it is taking time.

The thing I like about Django is complicated piece I think I need to do turns out to be a simple bit if Django.  The ORM is great, the templates have almost everything I need, and the automatic admin site is a blessing!  Why bother writing and designing my own admin section when it can be given to me for free.  I need to override some bits of it, but the bulks done.  That way I can concentrate on the main part of the site.

I have fallen for Django.

So I have been an SVN user for about 3 years and loved it. I had used CVS before that for a couple years. I never had an issue with it, but all the hype was SVN, so I tried it and liked it. But, there was one thing that always bothered me. How to ignore files. I don’t want to see all my .o files and everything under my build directory when I run svn status. Well to do that you need to specifiy the svn:ignore property on each directory using the propset command and the propget command. It seemed tedious, and painful. I longed for the ignore file from CVS.

Today, I was looking at Git and lo and behold, it has a .gitignore file that I can add files, folders and typeglobs too. It is recursive too! No more setting some property that I have to lookup every time I add a new directory. Today I am switching to git!

As a code monkey, my program in any new language is always Hello World. So here is the obligatory Hello World!

I can’t say I will post often, but I will try.