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There’s a patch in Exaile Trac for getting it to work under Windows. Screenshots are available here.

From the website:

CGI:IRC is a Perl/CGI program that lets you access IRC from a web browser, it is designed to be flexible and has many uses such as an IRC gateway for an IRC network, a chat-room for a website or to access IRC when stuck behind a restrictive firewall.

Debarshi posts about FC 6 DVDs on sale on the pavement near the Mumbai CST railway station. I’ll just copy paste the conversation with the shopkeeper (with added translations):

BG: “CD ka key kaha se milega?” Where do I get the CD key/license?
Man: “Puch ke ata hun…” (goes away) “Andhar sare chiz milega, crack kiya hua hai.” Let me find out…(goes away) You’ll get all the stuff inside, it’s already cracked.
DR: “Yeh kya cheez ka DVD hai? Movie?” What’s inside the DVD – movie ?
Man: “Ekdam latest hai.” It’s the latest stuff
DR: “Lekin hai kya?”But what’s inside ?
Man: “Linux hai.” It’s Linux
BG: “XP me chalega?” Will it run on (Windows) XP
Man: “Bilkul chalega.” Yes of course

In other news, the work on equalizer support in Exaile is progressing nicely, and here’s a screenshot. Expect a patch by the end of this weekend.

Hello Planet GNOME!

There’s an equalizer element in gst-bad CVS, and I have started to implement equalizer support in Exaile using this element. I’m looking for suggestions on the best possible way to implement the UI for the equalizer and comments/mockups/pointers to existing implementations would be really helpful. Right now I’m more inclined towards a preset based approach where by default only presets would be visible to the user (with the ability/option to add custom presets) but I’m not very good when it comes to UI design, so I’m open to discussion .

Starting from version 1.3.0pre10, the Qemu accelerator module is licensed under the GNU GPL. Details at the Qemu website.

There was a bug in Exaile which caused the program to spew a lot of error messages in the background if directory monitoring was enabled and when the program was running in iconified mode. Came up with a patch to get rid of the error – and looks like it got applied to the exaile source while I was at Indonesia.

I’m back at Kolkata after almost a eight from Jakarta to Kolkata (including a 2 hour break at Singapore). In the flight watched A Good Year and played Dr Mario (but mostly slept).

Came up with a patch for Sabayon issue 397742 – next job is to figure out how to move Pessulus into the same tree as Sabayon and merge the two.

Will start uploading the photos tonight (unless I fall asleep – still pretty sleepy).