Tag Archives: driver

Announcing Dycapo 0.0.2

As promised, Dycapo 0.0.2 is out. Dycapo will be an open client (mobile)/server system that will improve travel experiences of users in a city. The system will let people to define a destination on their mobile phone. DyCaPo will suggest and arrange trips by either using the Public Transport Service or Carpooling volunteers. That is,

Announcing Dycapo 0.0.1

It’s a pleasure for me to announce Dycapo-0.0.1, the very first release of the project. Dycapo-0.0.1 is part of the pre-alpha-dontuse releases, to only illustrate some functionalities. Here are the release notes: 2009-12-26 Daniel Graziotin <daniel DOT graziotin AT gmail DOT com> Dycapo 0.0.1 is just for showing out some functionalities of the system and

First working method, test client written

Road to 0.0.1 for Dycapo. Today I succesfully wrote a first xml-rpc method accepting OpenTrip Core objects, that inserts a trip chosen by the driver. def add_trip(trip, mode, source, destination) Actually, the driver is automatically retrieved by the system, since we are waiting rpc4django 0.1.6 to come out and access User from requests. Moreover, only

Intel Graphic cards, Linux, Xorg and UXA performance boost

For people having Intel graphic chipset under Gnu/Linux, performance using 3D applications or Compiz-* window manager effects has always been a problem. Intel drivers for Xorg never gave problems but have also never been brilliant. I always looked around searching for xorg.conf tuning configuration entries. Today I was simply browsing Ubuntu Wiki and discovered the

Fedora 10, thank you very much! (macbook review and fixes)

I’ve never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I’ve always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system. The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old

Testing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) beta on a Macbook (updated!)

It’s a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros. I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha