Johannes' Blog

Just so you guys don't miss it, radon86 from the Dingoonity forums has built Gmu 0.9.1 for the GCW Zero handheld console.

I've been running Arch Linux on most of my machines, including the Dockstar, but I am getting more and more annoyed by the horrible system breakages that occur regularly when updating Arch. The amount of maintenance required is just too high for my taste - even for a rolling release distro it does not have to be that bad.

So I decided to install Debian Wheezy on my Dockstar, which, as it turned out is not as easy as I would have liked. There is no image available like there is for Arch, which is why I packaged my installation after going through all the trouble getting a working system.

Gmu Music Player 0.9.1 released!

Here is a minor update to the previously released Gmu 0.9.0.

It comes with some new features and bugfixes, including:

• Volume control in gmuc Gmu ncurses interface
• Flush input buffer in gmuc when handling scrolling to allow for more precise scrolling on slower devices
• New Gmu command line option -l: Allows to specify a playlist file to load on start
• Minor update to the default theme with the large font (playback time was a little off-screen on small displays)
• README.txt update (adding some more information about gmuc)
• BUILD.txt update (adding some information about the various Makefile targets)
• Configuring gmuhttp to listen on external interfaces should work reliably now

It's been a long time, but here I am, back with a new Gmu release.



Gmu 0.9.0 comes with the lots of changes (and some bug fixes). Some of the most important ones are:

• A much nicer large font (Pandora default and compo themes, pixeled by hand :)
• Some additional characters in both large and small fonts (including the µ character due to popular request)
• A new ncurses terminal text frontend for Gmu (usable over the network!)
• Experimental WebSocket browser interface (also usable over the network)
• Support for Joystick axis control in SDL frontend (to support devices like the Caanoo, that come with analog controls exposed as a joystick)
• The current playmode is now always visible in playlist view in the SDL frontend
• Gmu has been changed such that it uses UTF-8 encoding internally for all text
• Support for building Gmu statically has been added (in addition to the default configuration where Gmu's frontends and decoders are build as runtime loadable plugins)

Since the wide availability of blue LEDs, manufacturers of electronics devices tend to use blue LEDs as power indicators. They especially seem to like those extra-bright blue LEDs.



I, on the contrary, find them pretty annoying. Am I alone here? Do people actually like them?