Comments on: One Month In France

By: KrisBelucci

KrisBelucci — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:44:56 +0000

Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting. I’ll definitely be coming back to your site.

By: TM

TM — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:31:26 +0000

The be-all and end-all of sound fixes for Intrepid maybe, at least that’s what I’m hoping.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:58:48 +0000

Mate, just use Debian. Lenny is really stable, and pulse is not installed by default. I migrated from Ubuntu, which introduced me to pulse. They say that pulseaudio is a step forward, so I kept it after installing Debian. For about four weeks. Skype without pulse on my Toshiba laptop is brilliant, almost as good as my wife’s macbook. I tried to get pulseaudio working well, but in some discussions from upstream I learned that the next release will be the “no-stutter” release, which lead me to some conclusions about the current release.

Without pulse, everything just works. Perfectly. No stutters, no crashes. Sorry, this is a rant too, but the hours I lost … Of course, you should be able to remove pulse from Ubuntu. On its own, this is not enough reason to go to Debian.

The learning curve for Debian is higher than Ubuntu, but it pays back because it just works. Ubuntu is Debian with pretty config files, which is great, but unfortunately for your money you also get a manic rush to package Debian unstable + experimental, and breakage of Debian’s modularity (try adding the Intrepid kernel package to Hardy. Now try adding Debian’s unstable kernel package to lenny. With Ubuntu, upgrading is basically all or nothing).

And only mad dogs and Englishmen would use Ubuntu beta on a machine that you need to rely on. My experience of Ubuntu is that even long term support releases are beta-ish, so when Ubuntu calls something a beta, I’m thinking it’s something you should run only in a virtual machine.

Good luck.

By: Jibbidy

Jibbidy — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:16:24 +0000

If it helps balance things out: what Conduit does, and how it works, makes me cum in my pants. Metaphorically, of course.

Weird that Intrepid Ibex fixed my problems with Flash and PulseAudio (maybe it’s better since getting to release candidate). I take your point about the transition to PulseAudio generally being a friggin’ abortion though.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:46:55 +0000

Dude, I actually LIKE the Conduit interface. I mean, really, hooking wires up to my stuff? Makes sense to me…(being completely serious.)

And yea, don’t get discouraged. In my darkest hours when I’m seriously tempted to suffer through Vista’s downsides to get over some of Linux’s humps, Conduit reminds me of why I stay.

By: mustafa

mustafa — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:21:33 +0000

Hi,

Noticed that you are doing project which involves adding IMU data to GPS data. I am doing something very similar (but the device is to be worn on pedestrian - not UAV). Can you please point me in the right direction — given a starting location (long, lat), how can I add imu data (change in meters), in order to get a new (long, lat)? Thank you in advance for any response.

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:11:35 +0000

@Flimm: The two bugs I described, roughly Flash+PulseAudio sucks, and Skype+PulseAudio sucks are very well reported in Ubuntu allready!

By: follower

follower — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:31:02 +0000

> @follower: I have some shiny demos for TVIC when I get back to NZ!
w00t, look forward to it.

–Phil.

By: Flimm

Flimm — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:17:01 +0000

I know this might sound annoying, but, you have submitted bug reports, right? I mean, that’s the point of running a beta release of any software product.

By: Jauco

Jauco — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:44:22 +0000

Yesterday I tried conduit for the first time. I wanted to sync my vimrc between my laptop and my desktop. I dragged a file provider thingy and a network thingy and then spent two minutes trying to find a configuration dialog for the network thingy. Then I thought: “No, it wouldn’t be, would it?”. And hesitantly turned on my desktop PC and started conduit. Lo and behold, my laptop automagically appeared in the list of devices and I could sync it to my desktop.

Long story short: You rock. I have fairly refined taste-buds and could find no traces of vomit in my mouth whatsoever.

You might also wish to read this article about the usefulness of user reports: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/96382.html