PulseAudio

I’ve been scratching itches related to PulseAudio lately. The first result of that is a patch for native support in SDL. It took less than a day to write, but it seems to work fairly well.

I’m also working on native support in Wine. So far it produces sound, but something is still broken. I can play a song in foobar2000, but not seek, for example. My goal is to get Worms Armageddon working with it, but that’s just terribly slow at the moment. I’ll have to take a close look at it.

Netbooting

Netbooting has become somewhat of a casual hobby for me. So far, I’ve managed to boot over the network using PXE the following:

• BartPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment)


• Windows XP setup


• Ubuntu 6.10 alternative installer


• Ubuntu 7.04 desktop LiveCD

I only just today got that last one working. Building on previous experience, it wasn’t very hard. It works really well too; I spent a couple of hours working exclusively on it this evening.

It’s a neat thing to do while I wait for my shipit CD to arrive.

HTTPsec

I think it’s already over a month ago since I last touched it, but I tried writing a Python urllib2 authentication handler for HTTPsec. I didn’t really care for how useful it was, but was simply doing it as something small and interesting to work on for a while. I had also been meddling with cryptography related stuff for a while then.

The thing stranded when I could only get 2/3rds through the authentication process, and couldn’t get the Java reference implementation working either. Interestingly, the Java client testcase provided also fails at the same point in the authentication process for me. The Java servlet doesn’t do anything at all and simply returns HTTP 500 errors. Yay.

Ubuntu Shipit

I ordered my 7.04 CD. Note that’s singular; Though I’m really excited about 7.04, I won’t be distributing CDs like I did for 5.10 at my uni. I’m not sure what our “*nix user group” is up to lately. (Guys?)

iTunes 7

Would someone please crack the new DAAP already?