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frisia ferry to Norderney. The weekend begins...
Great news for Ubuntu touch audio lovers posted on the ubuntu-phone mailing list by David Henningsson today:
Up until now, we’ve been using Android’s AudioFlinger for playing back and recording audio. Starting with tomorrow’s image, that is no longer true. Instead we’re talking directly from PulseAudio to ALSA, or the Android audio HAL when necessary.
Well done!
Ubuntu Edge: introducing the hardware (by celebrateubuntu)
Bug 1179596 discusses various user agent string options for ubuntu phone browser.
I was able to get mobile yahoo mail app going by using my personal user agent string variant derived from the firefox android one:
Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu like Android; Mobile; rv:13.0) Gecko/13.0 Firefox/13.0
Do you have a website that doesn't work well on todays daily phone image, but that you can make work with a user agent string similar to the one above? If so, please leave a comment.
p.s. you can hack the user agent string at your own risk in /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/qml/Ubuntu/Browser/UbuntuWebView.qml
Edit: as of Jul 11, 2013, the path of the file above has changed on the device to: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/qml/Ubuntu/Components/Extras/Browser/UbuntuWebView.qml
ziggy's beach restaurant - tulum sunset
appetizer @ ziggi's restaurant in tulum... mashed potatoes with something - the right way
Wonder if google has actually tried to sell it's google reader service and userbase to a potential "good" competitor rather than just set all those users free in an uncontrolled manner...
My mobile flickr experience of the day
For the record, I haven’t used it since the arrival of G+, but since recent news of Google pushing the rogue button as well as Yahoo! supposedly getting serious about competing with google by pushing for mobile and revamping their rusty star-services, I wanted to see how far they got and decided to use flickr from my N4 as an initial experiment…
The question I tried to answer for myself: Is flickr ready to be my primary photo storage and sharing service again - replacing G+? Here what happened...
First, I installed the official flickr app
That one looked promising at first glance, but soon I found myself struggling to figure even most basic stuff like finding my own photostream 8)… I am sure at least half of smartphone users would have given up at this point and I am also sure that this could have been prevented by doing some very basic user experience testing before shipping this stuff ...
Next, I wanted to upload all my gallery photos to flickr
I was able to find a gallery view, but that didn't have a feature to select all, so I abandoned that idea. Knowing how things worked on G+, I was then trying to find a setting to auto upload/backup my pics as that is what I would want anyway. But, no success…
After that I wondered about my free storage limit
I was not able to find any info about how much storage I use or how much space I have left in the app, so I was hoping that going to the flickr website would give me that info.
Mobile Website log in failed without much info
I was sure my username and password was correct. But it always told me "We are sorry that your log-in doesn't work, log in to our desktop site and then try again". This felt odd and I tried logging in a few times, in doubt whether my credentials might be wrong, but it always gave me the error above.
It wasn't really easy to find the desktop site on my phone browser
But once I got there, the login UI was a complete mess. Apparently it tried to protect me from hacking and since I was logging in from a foreign country it asked me to do a captcha thing. Problem was that, both the captcha as well as the login form fields were OFF the screen and while I was able to see it while zooming out, it always snapped back when I tried to start entering the captcha... It took me about 5 minutes of painful finger juggling, resizing, panning, clicking fast. Then I managed to do it and I was finally in!
I deferred any further activity...
After going through all of the above, I finally was able to visit the desktop website. However, I was so demotivated that I didn't even bother to try to find the storage plan info I intended to find out, nor did I even bother to try going back to the mobile website, nor did I check the mobile app again...
Let's hope for another day with more energy to figure things out ... I am still willing to do this - I guess, but I am sure that people with less noble reasons would even dare to come back after what I experienced!!
All in all, I still have high hopes in Yahoo! figuring out how to compete, but I am sure it will take a while longer. For me personally, I just hope that things improve before I give it another whirl :)...
Some feet are made for walking...
... and Tumblr is not made for gifs :)
So Ubuntu 12.10 got released! What a milestone! I am again impressed by what the Ubuntu engineering force manages to do in a 6 monthly cycle. Also, I felt the disruption for Ubuntu users was very low during the quantal development cycle. Way to go folks!
Well done and enjoy UDS in Copenhagen! I will be there, so say hello and cheers!
SUCCESS: Install Quantal on my UEFI desktop PC
Over last weekend I finally found the time to fiddle with UEFI stuff to make my desktop machine dual boot windows and quantal. Until now it was operating as a pure Windows Gamer PC.
I tried a few times in the last couple of month, but never could allocate the time needed to figure why the installer didn't properly set the machine up for dual booting.
Now this weekend I found out that I had to create a fat32 partition and mount it manual during install at /boot/efi. With that the Ubuntu installer did the trick of properly adding ubuntu to the efibootmgr and setting things up properly.
Bottom line: All the core work for getting Ubuntu experience right for "normal" UEFI support seem to be there and it's just going the final and often painful mile of tweaking the install experience to get it right for most cases.
Looking forward to see how the Ubuntu installer team will come up with something smart to streamline this process for everyone and delivering a straight forward install method to get to a nice UEFI based dual boot setup.
Master Zach Pfeffer reiterates the instructions to get Linaro Android Jelly Bea build for Samsung Origen board.
Interesting post, highly relevant for Linaro. Pretty much basics, but I see how we still are too often not good enough at these points so definitely worth repeating and reading...
The cool-way: Linaro runs a first _Virtual_ Connect Conference using G+ hangouts and youtube
Be sure to check out this event and mark your personal favorite sessions in your calendar.
All the details you need have been nicely written up in the official announce:
http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2012/08/07/linaro-announces-virtual-connect-q3-12-13-17-august-2012/
CU next week!
Folks and family asked me for a while to post a more recent photo of myself than those you will see on my randomly outdated and undermaintained social networking profile pics.
So here we go! Fresh from the presses...
Android Platform: new LAVA_TEST_PLAN magic "sleep"
I spend some time with liuyq yesterday to write a simple sleep lava test that gives you a small, but powerful tool to add sleep times to your automated android test plan.
Code: https://code.launchpad.net/~liuyq0307/lava-android-test/modification-sleep-helloworld/+merge/110352
Example Android Build Test Plan configuration:
LAVA_TEST_PLAN=sleep,0xbench,v8,skia SLEEP_OPTION=120
This will give you a nice sleep of 2 minutes rest before starting the 0xbench benchmark. One obvious use case for this is to let your system finish it's boot process before starting a benchmark run.
More to come!
Hello World: adding my first simple test for LAVA + Android
Couldn't find a hello world example for our lp:linaro-android-test framework.
Since I learning a bit about how to glue android tests into LAVA right now, thought it might be a good idea to go ahead and be more useful than just talking and submitted a merge request.
Let's see what reviewers have to say. I am at least happy for the moment.
Curious what was done? Just check out:
bzr branch lp:~asac/lava-android-test/helloworld-simple cat helloworld-simple/lava_android_test/test_definitions/helloworld.py