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Deco04

Christian Decker

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Getting touchy

iPod TouchI got myself an iPod Touch, and I’m in love!

Now, some of you might remember that I’m not a huge fan of Apple Products, or better to say their users that far too often become Apple-Apostles, but even I have to admit that the new iPod is a masterpiece of usability and beauty (once you have unlocked it). Yes, that’s right, I had no other choice than to ask a friend of mine to unlock it, since it was impossible to do so on my Linux machine. Then I had to hack it to get it working with Linux, since the connector cable won’t work either. The only solution I have found so far involves jailbreaking, installing the SSH server and then use sshfs to mount the iPod’s Disk to my Linux box. It’s really a shame that Apple keeps ignoring the needs of so many of it’s customers! And why, oh why don’t they just put the VPN client and Mail client on the iPod…???

Enough of the rants, let’s get on with the good stuff: the browser, the Youtube app really kick ass and I’m happy that I can use some of my favorite webapps:

  • Todoist: the best task tracker there is.
  • Gmail: do I even have to tell you why?
  • Facebook: Getting social on the way
  • and being able to read the slides of my upcoming lections while not even getting up from bed is nice too :)

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Deco02

Christian Decker

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No good blogging tools for Linux

Don’t Linux users blog or why is it that there are no good blogging on Linux? The problem is that I often get ideas for a post while offline, on a train or plane, and usually I have no time or simply forget to write the posts to the blog. It would be so nice to have a specialised tool for WordPress that had a richt text editor (although I often use plain text too, especially when posting code), that takes care of file uploads and supports tags. Anyone knows about such a tool?
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Augo29

Christian Decker

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Is Skype spying on you?

Several users have noticed that the proprietary VoIP-Software Skype tries to access /etc/passwd, Firefox-Profiles and much more. A user that isolated Skype using AppArmor reports that the client reads dozens of files that should not be needed during its normal opeation. According to this report the software, versions 1.4.0.94 and 1.4.0.99 tries to access several files in /etc among which figures also /etc/passwd, Firefox-Profile, Plugins and Add-Ons. Other users have analyzed Skype using strace and confirm this observations. Nobody knows yet what this behavior actually means, but rumors say that it is some sort of profiling mechanism, others say it’s for Skype’s own protection.
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Augo24

Christian Decker

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Linux user forced to ditch Linux

With more and more people joining the Linux community it sad to announce that we lost one member: Scott McCausland (AKA sk0t), the ex-admin of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker, was sentenced to five months imprisonment after he confessed to uploading copies of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith just before its theatrical release. And if that wasn’t enough his internet connection is being monitored, and if he uses his favorite OS (Ubuntu) he will be denied any use of computers.
“It isn’t the fact that I have to be monitored that bothers me, it is the fact that I have restructure my life (different OS, different software on that OS) and that they would require (force) me to purchase software while I a currently unemployed and relatively unemployable with the two felonies that they gave me,” McCausland told TorrentFreak.
Pretty ridiculous… [via TorrentFreak]
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Juno11

Christian Decker

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Fixing Zattoo after update

A few days ago Zattoo updated their client, and guess what, it didn’t work on Linux anymore. Using the error messages I was able to guess which libraries were missing: I had to install the xulrunner (it looks like they use the Mozilla API to display the channel browser). But when trying to run the client I got still more errors, the problem is that Zattoo uses some strange library name convention, so we have to create the links to the actual libraries, so we have to run the following as root: 

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libgtkembedmoz.so libgtkembedmoz.so.0d
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libxpcom.so libxpcom.so.0d
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libmozjs.so libmozjs.so.0d
ln -s libplds4.so libplds4.so.0d
ln -s libplc4.so libplc4.so.0d
ln -s libnspr4.so libnspr4.so.0d
ln -s xulrunner-1.8.1b2/libxul.so libxul.so.0d
I still get some errors about the missing flash-plugin, but that’s just an annoying dialog box that can be closed by clicking ok. From thereon it should work like a charm :-)

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