Comments for David Thompson http://davexunit.wordpress.com Myths, legends, and other amazing adventures in the FOSS world Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on CS 401 – New Computers! Spring Break! by Greg DeKoenigsberg http://davexunit.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/cs-401-new-computers-spring-break/#comment-19 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:48:45 +0000 http://davexunit.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-19 Looking forward to that bug report. :)

]]> Comment on Tutorial – Installing GNU FM by davexunit http://davexunit.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/tutorial-installing-gnu-fm/#comment-17 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:56:17 +0000 http://davexunit.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-17 Thanks for making the first real comment on my blog!

I heard one of the developers give a talk about that involved libre.fm the other day. If I remember correctly, the GNU FM developers are working on federation via OStatus. I have contacted the developers about helping them out. So, hopefully I will be helping make things better for people such as yourself. Another one of the developers gave a talk about libre.fm that you might find informative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL2wSA3uc3I

The server running my copy of GNU FM is just a small Intel Atom machine that I have at home, so it couldn’t handle any real world web traffic. Thus, I won’t have a publicly available server. However, I do want to acquire some webspace to host one in the future. I have a couple of ideas for a niche GNU FM service: A site for New England-based artists since I am from Massachusetts, or a site for freely licensed punk rock.

The scrobbler you wrote seems nice from the description/screenshot. I don’t use Google Music so I can’t give it a spin myself, but maybe someone else that stumbles upon this blog can. I personally use MPD+Sonata, which is a pretty obscure media player. Sonata scrobbles to last.fm but I may try to make it scrobble to libre.fm or any other GNU FM server if I find the time.

Thanks again for commenting!

]]> Comment on Tutorial – Installing GNU FM by Darryl Wright http://davexunit.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/tutorial-installing-gnu-fm/#comment-16 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:46:29 +0000 http://davexunit.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-16 Hey David – thanks for posting this. I’ve been thinking about the idea of striking up a server myself but as a current Libre.fm user I am stuck with the idea that it’s not federated – meaning on a new server I’d be starting from scratch with my stats (short of exporting and re-importing them somwhow).

Do you plan on opening your implementation up to the public? I like libre.fm for what they do and how they do it but the interface and features could use some work. I’m curious if you plan to extend that.

And while I am here, I wrote a GNU-fm scrobbler for Google Music (Google Play) here:

http://gitorious.org/anomaly-for-gnu-fm

and one specific to Libre.fm is available in the Chrome Web store here:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ajbkmdgmhbjjhephmgbpgialfbnjbmkb?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

Cheers,
Darryl

]]> Comment on CS 401 – Week 3 by Malcolm Matalka http://davexunit.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/cs-401-week-3/#comment-4 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:45:22 +0000 http://davexunit.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-4 Any idea what you will be contributed to Eucalyptus?

]]> Comment on Hello, World/CS 401! by Karl R. Wurst http://davexunit.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/hello/#comment-3 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:20:19 +0000 http://davexunit.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-3 Dave,

The book is actually a wiki on the TOS website. You can make the changes to the wiki, and then when a version is generated, the changes will be in the output.

]]> Comment on Hello, World/CS 401! by Malcolm Matalka http://davexunit.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/hello/#comment-2 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:37:47 +0000 http://davexunit.wordpress.com/?p=6#comment-2 In what way will IRC be utilized in the course? Is the channel open to the public?

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