May 29, 2010 at 16:39 · Filed under Apple, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, Security
News spread yesterday after Bernd Marienfeldt discovered a security issue with passcode enabled iPhone devices still being accessible using a stock Ubuntu 10.04 system and now reaching major sites on the Internet.
Since those reports appear to point out that Ubuntu/Linux is “teh evil”, I’ll try to explain why this is totally false information and FUD.
The basic workflow he pointed out was:
- Set a passcode on a device
- Switch off the device
- Attach it to an Ubuntu system it was never attached before
- The device starts booting
- Ubuntu automounts the device media partition and allows access
The expected behavior is that the device would refuse to pair with the unknown system due to having a passcode set.
Now the problem here is that you can replicate this flaw with any operating system.
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May 6, 2010 at 14:21 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, openSUSE
If you are like me and you are annoyed by the Evolution bugging you in your ALT+TAB cycle as you have it running almost all the time you will probably like this one.
Back last year I wrote a simple plugin for Evolution. The plugin provides a small notification area icon to show/hide/quit Evolution’s windows and comes handy if you have your favourite PIM open all the time.
Development work on Evolution broke the functionality though which was based on a hacky workaround anyways (abused a private exported symbol) to be able to hide/show the main window.
However with Evolution 2.30.0, it’s rewrite of the UI code and removal of libbonobo code, the public API changed and now allows much better control of the whole interface.
So without much fanfare I release evolution-statusicon 1.0.4 for Evolution 2.30.0 or later. Download and sources after the break.
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