It’s coming… Apples 3.0 on Linux!
A glimpse at the fruits of the last weeks:
Nautilus/GVFS:
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Anyone beats me lower?
During my move last week I accidentally discovered the only true evidence for the nerds and fanboys out there:
Can anyone beat me on that and present older crap? (Only real boxes, manuals, cds/floppys allowed!)
Update 20.08.09: Nikias Bassen sent me in this beautifully designed piece of pure geekness. A shot of his Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 from August ’98 below.
Enjoy!
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Selling a PSP on eBay is a copyright violation
Note to myself: Selling your old Sony PSP and writing that Firmware 1.50 is installed makes eBay delete your auction with “MC047 eBay Listing Violation: Copyright Violation – Unauthorized Item” reasoning the auction was selling “illegal copies/backups” or advertised to do so.
At least they keep auctions where people advertise their PSP having “the super duper” M33 firmware installed…
Bah! Well, what’s left for me is a shameless plug to the new auction…
Update 28/05/09: Unbelievable, the new auction which I carefully checked to not contain any freaking reference to anything copyright violating has also been removed… Also no clue why as I only received the typical standard “don’t sell illegal copies/backups” E-Mail. Contacted eBay support, let’s see…
It appears though that I am not alone. There are a couple of people having trouble selling their PSP on eBay. However in contrast to my case where I list the original unmodified 1.50 firmware, they had used rather problematic “wording” like “Pandora Battery” or “Custom Firmware/M33″ and alike.
Reply and solution 28/05/09: Great, I have received a polite and exact explaination from the eBay security team. The problem for eBay really was the installed 1.50 firmware on my PSP which is considered “open/hackable to circumvent technical protections” (like copy protection). They recommend installing the latest PSP firmware before selling first.
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Put Evolution into the tray/notification area using evolution-statusicon 1.0.0
Played around with some unmaintainable Evolution plugin called evolution-statusicon I wrote once.
Since upgrading to the latest openSUSE 11.1 release I felt it was missing badly on my desktop.
It had to be compiled within the Evolution source due to non-public header usage (e-shell stuff) which led to some problems packaging it or even distributing it outside of the main Evolution release.
Today tough, I managed to fix the requirements to compile it as a standalone EPlugin quite easily and thus pumped out a release plus corresponding packages for openSUSE.
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.
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Waiting to synchronize your unjailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch on Linux over USB?
No, no. Apple is not releasing iTunes for Linux.
What kept your (not jailbroken) bling bling from being accessed on Linux and limited to synchronization with one Mac or Windows computer could soon be history as a new interesting project has been started.
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