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Halloween 2019 had just passed when I installed uptimed to track the uptime of an OpenBSD virtual machine from OpenBSD.amsterdam that I had booked a couple of months before.

Have you ever wanted to run a program in some device without needing to follow a complicated, possibly slow build process?

Summary What is NPAPI?

Now that version 2.26 of both WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK ports have been out for a few weeks it is an excellent moment to recap and take a look at what we have achieved during this development cycle.

While WPE WebKit 2.24 has now been out for a couple of months, it includes over a year of development effort since our first official release, which means there is plenty to talk about.

The last quarter of 2018 has been a quite hectic one, and every time I had some spare time after the Web Engines Hackfest the prospective of sitting down to write some thoughts about it seemed dreadful.

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At the beginning of October I had the wonderful chance of attending the Web Engines Hackfest in A Coruña, hosted by Igalia.

Wow, two posts just a few days apart from each other!

Although I have been away from Snabb-related work for a while, the fact that nDPI 1.8 was released didn’t went unnoticed.

Spring is here already, the snow has melted a while ago, and it looks like a good time to write a bit about network traffic flows, as promised in my previous post about ljndpi.

Howdy, and happy 2016!

If you have been following the blogs of my colleagues Katerina, Diego, and Andy it should not be a surprise for you to know that in Igalia we have a small —and awesome!

Long time, no post!

Apparently this November has been the gloomiest in a while, and that certainly may have slowed down my on-going quest to bring arrow functions to V8.

One of the goals we defined during the 2013 edition of the WebKitGTK+ hackfest —among others— was enabling the Network Process, which my colleague Carlos already blogged about right after the hackfest, and with that in place, we would be then able to supp…

As part of the work Igalia has been doing on the Friends of GNOME Accessibility project, I implemented parsing the additional information present in Tagged-PDF documents in Poppler.

During the last months at Igalia we have been working on optimizing open source components for the MIPS architecture, using the SIMD instructions supported by the latest MIPS 74K cores.

A couple of weekends ago I attended FOSDEM, my third time in a row sponsored by Igalia.

Last summer I had the opportunity of attending the Desktop Summit in Berlin, and being it a great experience I was more than looking forward to attend GUADEC this year.

Even when my personal opinion on systemd is a bit skeptical regarding some of its components, it is undeniable that in the mid-term the main GNU/Linux distributions will be shipping it (or parts of it), and with Fedora having already adopted, it is just a…

Traditionally, GNOME has been defined —and seen— as a project aiming to produce a desktop environment made of Free Software.

Those are some notes about Tracker with links and information which has been useful to me when using Tracker as data storage backend in a project.

This year I will be attending FOSDEM for the second time, and I am really looking forward to it.

Don’t expect lots of surprises this time, but an otherwise smooth maintenance release that includes a couple of minor niceties.

So, you are a developer and want to get your hands dirty coding for the for the Nokia N9 (and maybe you even got one of those nifty Nokia N950 handsets), or just want to add some extra capabilities to Quill… Anyway, for me the journey started while toying…

Wow, that was a lot of time without me posting anything (five months), mostly because I am investing most of my spare time after work here in Finland for socializing.

I have been working lately with the Qt framework and the Tracker store.

It’s been a long time since I posted an update, and as I am going to FOSDEM this year for first time, it looks like now is a good moment to tell everybody that I am still alive and kicking.

When I first wrote about DMon, I pointed out that version 0.3 could be already installed from our APT repository, which hosts flavours for i386, amd64 and armel.

There is one single thing that is, in my opinion, generating a fair amount of hype and reinvigorated interest in the GNOME platform: GObject-Introspection (or “GI” to save some typing).

Have you ever wanted to run a lengthy process making sure that it will be restarted on failure?

Today I got tired of getting frequent lock-ups in my laptop, a Vaio TZ11MN/N which has been serving me just fine the during the past three years.

We are doing quite some coding in Python lately (well, and also at spare time), and it is always nice to have the possibility of having the interactive interpreter to play with.

Sometimes one has to parse programmatically some file containing key=value pairs.

For nearly all HTTP-serving related work, our software of choice is the Apache web server.

Now it looks like it is time to complete my previous post about DebConf 9, after a tiresome journey back from Cáceres to Coruña the 30th, an Igalia assembly the 31st (the first one ever for me :-D), and sleeping for more than 14 hours today.

I arrived yesterday at the main venue after a the long trip by car: ~700km in a car without air conditioning.

I will pick up my car and embark myself into a 8-hour trip to reach Cáceres tomorrow in the evening, after 699 km of road trip.

Time has passed since the latest time I blogged about something, and some things have happened, so I think it is a good occasion to write some words.

I have been playing lately with collectd again, which is a very nice piece of software to monitor out things, especially when you want more than just the network statistics that other tools like MRTG.

I have just relased version 0.1-2 of Bill, your favourite accompaniment for your shell-code meals.

It has been in the oven for some time, but now it is ready for release… Bill version 0.1 has just hit the lines!

Update 2010-01-23: Nowadays the plugin is packaged in Debian (package bzr-fastimport) and Ubuntu (package bzr-fastexport).

Edit ~/.ssh/config (or /etc/ssh/ssh_config for sitewide configuration) and add the following snippet: Host * ControlMaster auto ControlPersist 120 ControlPath ~/.ssh/socket-%r@%h:%p This will create a socket for each set (user, machine, port) wh…

As I am currently working with KVM KVM and I will have some big disk image files hanging around, I thought it could be a good opportunity to give a try to the btrfs snapshot and subvolume support.