Category: Techie stuff

I’ve spent some time this week implementing user authentication over UNIX domain sockets for CUPS. The basic problem is that there are some operations (cancelling a job or submitting a new job, for example) that ought to require user authentication but do not, simply for the sake of convenience. This is a lightweight method of…

Archiving digital photographs is something that I have always found a bit awkward. The system I’ve been using so far is starting to show the strain, and I think it’s time for a change.

Ages ago British Pathé opened up its archive of newsreel footage. As for the video format, it is all in WMV and QuickTime. So the stills are accessible, but the videos require proprietary codecs. Sue reminded me about the new Fluendo WMV codecs, so we had a go with the free preview footage.

Yesterday I finished making the new job options screen for the printer configuration tool. The options that are known to exist are laid out in groups, with a reset button to get back to the system default for each option. The next step will be to just have the reset buttons for the mandatory system…

I’d been meaning to package nxml-mode for Fedora Extras, and today it finally made it in (yay!). The package name is “emacs-nxml-mode”. It provides on-the-fly validation and well-formedness checking when editing XML documents in Emacs.