Yes, yesterday I had received the mails about my proposals where accepted at CONSOL 2006. I will give two speeches, one about PyGTK and why it is a good idea for the quick applications development, the other is about GPKG, my project. I will also give a teach about (guess what) Python, GTK and Glade :-). Is more like the practical way of my first speech. Checking the preliminar list of speechs an teachs i see that One of my talks crash with the teach, I already send an email and lets see what they do to solve this little problem.
This post had some links, but then Jaws screw everything and Now I don't want to make the links again, so there it is, another ugly post.

Yes. It rocks!!, everything works under my computer cunegunda :-D. And probably somebody have a computer like this at least in mexico and want to use GNU/Linux, please check my paper to configure it under Slackware Linux 10.2. Most of the suff there should work with other distributions without major problems but I recommend to compile your own kernel.
The paper is here.

Yep, that's my new computer's name Cunegunda I don't know what does that mean, but I like it. I heard it from a "Tres patines" show and there it is. The other name could be Filemona from La ley de Herodes movie. Both names are horrible but funny.
I received by yesterday, and start working on it at 14:00, I have to say that this machine works so slow with the 2.4 kernel, and it is because dma is not activated by default on the HD, with 2.6 kernel work smoth :-).
I already have my own compiled kernel (no vanilla shit), and almost everything is working (i have to make my wireless work) sound, video, network and special buttons work fine.
Obviously it runs Slackware, a GNU/Linux software distribution.

Today I say good bye to Voladora, my nice computer that let me learn a lot of things, enjoy music, videos and watch my pictures. Today I say good bye because I sold it. After all, it is true, "After a good work a bad pay", I hope the new owner treates it with respect has I was doing (until I sold it).
I sold it because I want a new lap top, :-P, Voladora is a great machine but I will need something more if I want to use my desktop with all that eye-candy stuff, and I notice that booting linux will not be more faster within voladora. 1 minute (more or less) to get Gnome up and ready in voladora, meanwhile in Mario's laptop (a friend) SuSE Linux boot in just some seconds.
Any way. Good Bye Voladora!!

After a long wait desition (20 seconds) I decide not to use PyXine with Christine, why?, because it will take me more time to create a common interface betwen cristine and Gstreamer and Pyxine and the more important one, PyXine is to old, is not stable and is most probably dead.
And I was thinking about including pyxine in christine because some videos and some audio files didn't play, but that was a problem with my own gstreamer copy. Now even using eSound (esd) cristine (and any other gst based application) takes less cpu time for me, so compile!.
I had nothing to write, ok, and Iam writting to make time before My Name is Earl begins :-P.

Today I feel inspired again, so I work with christine again. Today I fix some problems with gconf, I had not finished the preferences dialog, but it should work with hiding/showing columns. I also work with christine in the library and queue lists.
I had some problems playing some videos, more of them downloaded from google, I was very very anger because I didn't find out the problem, until today that build gstreamer and the whole plugins (base,good,ugly,bad) and gst-python, and Yupiii!!!, all my videos are now played with christine :-).
And looking to christine when is playing a video (and hiding the library and queue list) it looks very very clean.
Hoo christine...

Some days ago, when I sid tha Christine will support video playback again I note that some videos didn't play and cause some errors most of them are from http://video.google.com/. I think it is a gstreamer plugin problem, anyway, it doesn't let me watch my videos and I have to launch Xine to see them.
Searching I found PyXine and "old" project that lets you use Xine as backend. The project seem to be sleeping since 2003, and I guess it will never awake again. but the code works and I will try to implement a player with pyxine for christine, then users can choose between gstreamer and xine.
But, Why Xine?, isn't gstreamer enough?, NO, Gstreamer is not enough, Xine is older, and is more stable, Gstreamer is growing and things will change, and xine plays most known audio an video format :-)

The last weekend the bricklayers put the ceilin to the house, and then my mom and dad cut their bananas and let them mature, I don't know why ain't take a picture of the green bananas, but two days ago I see it and they are really really good. So, we have bananas for breakfast, meat and dinner.

Then, the last thursday I went to the GYM, finally, after 6 months of no work out, I do it. And all my body hurts me but I will go today again :-), to be Mr. Markuz Muscle. :-P.
And talking about Christine, I had just make the autotools scripts for it, so now it can be installed, however, it doesn't mean that christine is reaching a stable version, there is still a long way to go.

Ok, i had not work on the last week, first, I dont want to work, and second, I have to do my paper for my school, but today I feel inspired and the Python God comes to me and fix some things about christine.
First, the Import to Queue works, this is to import a file to the queue (next audio or video to be played) without importing it to the main playlist.
And second, Play video works again, I haven't work with this since christine was upgraded from gstreamer 0.8 to 0.10, and now it plays video again, but some issues will happen since I had just work on it today and some videos downloaded from video.google.com seems to doesn't work, I wonder that it is because gstreamer or the discoverer class wrote by me.
So this is a screenshot, and there is a video on video.google, but it still is unavailable for some google reasons.