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Comment on Let me fire up the DeLorean by Foobar

Foobar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:03:22 +0000

> Thanks for not reporting this before release..

Well he could also really meant it. You should know that 5.3 has been delayed for a long time. I am happy that 5.3 is already out here :-)

Comment on Let me fire up the DeLorean by Adam Harvey

Adam Harvey — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:34:13 +0000

@Philip: The RC issue’s a real one, no doubt, and I know that’s been behind initiatives like Ilia’s e-mails to friendly projects when 5.2.x RCs are released. I don’t think there’s an easy answer for that one, though — we actually have been developing against the 5.3.0 RCs at work, since we were fairly comfortable that 5.3.0 would be out before our current project was ready for production anyway, but I’ve worked at companies where management would be extremely uncomfortable with developing against “non-stable” languages (the attitude being “there’s money on the line here, dammit!”), and others where (worse still) developers have been too overworked to test properly against the actual version they’re running, let alone development releases.

It’s a difficult problem. I think, as a community, we actually deal with it pretty well in general, as the RCs are quite well advertised these days and the PHP RMs seem to have resisted the urge to push things out as “stable” releases before they’re ready, which I’ve certainly seen other open source projects do to improve their testing base. I think the overall quality of 5.3.0 (which I’ve been extremely impressed with through the RCs and into stable) is testament to how well it’s been managed.

Comment on Let me fire up the DeLorean by Philip Olson

Philip Olson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:23:15 +0000

My guess is this comment expresses frustration towards the situation that most people don’t test RC releases and instead wait for official releases. This is a real problem. Not saying I agree with this particular form of [bad day] comment but am just saying.

Comment on Let me fire up the DeLorean by Michael Kimsal

Michael Kimsal — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:53:30 +0000

*WOW* that’s a horrible attitude. Yes, Jani does a lot of positive things for the PHP community, but probably does just as much damage with just one comment like that. And yes, he may just have been having a bad day, but that’s still plain insulting. :(

Comment on Tethering iPhone 3.0 to Ubuntu 9.04 by Joachim

Joachim — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:21:42 +0000

I am using Blueman 4.39 and received the “Device added successfully, but failed to connect” error message every time I tried to use tethering. I think this was because I had my iPhone also plugged into my computer (for charging) while trying to use the bluetooth connection.

Today I tried to use the iPhone “unplugged” and everything tethering is working fine.

Comment on Tethering iPhone 3.0 to Ubuntu 9.04 by Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:12:12 +0000

bluez 4,39 from PPA and blueman, NOT working here….

Comment on Tethering iPhone 3.0 to Ubuntu 9.04 by Cyberkukkuk

Cyberkukkuk — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:22:45 +0000

I can confirm that installing bluez 4.39 and blueman from the Ubuntu PPA makes blueman “connect” works. When you connect with blueman it will nicely integrate with network-manager – best solution.

Best Regard

Comment on Tethering iPhone 3.0 to Ubuntu 9.04 by alexandre clement

alexandre clement — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:45:22 +0000

got it to work finally…. :)

I had this error when doing “sudo ifup bnep0″:
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
bnep0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
bnep0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

I just typed: sudo dhlclient pan0 and got this when typing sudo ifconfig -a

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c2:7e:d0:6d:ef:4a
inet6 addr: fe80::c07e:d0ff:fe6d:ef4a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:71 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:11881 (11.8 KB)

pan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c2:7e:d0:6d:ef:4a
inet addr:169.254.8.148 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Now I have a pan0:avahi interface.

after i could type sudo ifup bnep0 again and it worked.

bnep0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:86:b4:50:9e
inet addr:192.168.20.2 Bcast:192.168.20.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:86ff:feb4:509e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33880 (33.8 KB) TX bytes:11531 (11.5 KB)

didn’t undestand everything but it works (thanks to avahi!)! If someone could explain in more details what’s going on…

Comment on Tethering iPhone 3.0 to Ubuntu 9.04 by Gabriele Pallassini

Gabriele Pallassini — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:33:29 +0000

ok….the camera interface is ok…but for the network interface it appear only in osx mac or windows pc with iTunes 8.2 installed…nothing in linux :-(

Comment on Tethering iPhone 3.0 to Ubuntu 9.04 by SCI-CO

SCI-CO — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:14:36 +0000

Well I dont know if its the phone or the computer that is the problem, but my tests, these past few days are good. I was able to make my connection to my phone using blueman and no command lines tonight, and its a stable connection.

@Gabriele That has something to do with the iPhone camera interface. If you look under your “Places” menu you will see your iPhone listed, and you can copy your photos from your phone. This available on any computer with out iPhone drivers insta