Archive for GNOME
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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March 23, 2010 at 15:07 · Filed under Apple, Code, Fun, GNOME, Linux, Media, Open Source, openSUSE
Last Sunday, after being in development since August 2007, Matt Colyer released version 1.0.0 of the libimobiledevice library (formerly known as libiphone).
libimobiledevice is a free open source software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone ® and iPod Touch ® devices natively on Linux.
Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking.
It was successfully tested with the iPhone and iPod Touch 1G, 2G, 3G and 3GS models running up to firmware 3.1.3.
So what does it mean for me as a desktop user?
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February 8, 2010 at 16:51 · Filed under Apple, Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, Research
Yes, really great stuff coming up…
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September 15, 2009 at 18:22 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source
Audio/Video chat is the “next” big thing and a lot of people use Skype already to get that functionality on Linux without much hazzle (certainly a few use Ekiga aswell).
Just recently the popular instant messenger Pidgin joined the ranks with their 2.6 release which introduced A/V chat for Jabber (XMPP) users.
However, finally it looks like there will be a decent way on Linux to have A/V chat with the very popular MSN protocol!
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