Most of the people sure forgotten XFree 4.2 long ago. It was released 18.01.2002 – more than 6 years ago. But libxklavier supported it up to the version 3.4. Now, it is over. Starting from 3.5 (just released) – no more support for that old stuff. Farewell.
As a small present to this new release, libxklavier finally got its own place in the bugzilla world. So, regular users and distromakers are very welcome to use it.
I am trying to establish my own time server in the home LAN.
First I configured a couple of Ubuntu instances (matter of adding “ntp-servers” to request specified in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf)
Unfortunately, out of the box OS2008 ignores NTP server provided by DHCP. In order to enable that functionality, I had to add a couple of lines into /etc/udhcpc/udhcpc.script:
[ -n "$ntpsrv" ] && echo "server $ntpsrv" > /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian
My next question is how to make MacOS X use that information (and check MSWin btw)
I uploaded some mp3 files into my OS2008. Some of them have Russian (UTF-8) tags. And … what a disappointment. Shiny new Canola shows total crap instead of Russian. Most of other players too. The only decent ones turned to be (drums roll…) MediaBox and Kilikali. Audio Tag Tool specially intended for editing tags – falls flat when it comes to UTF-8. Are we in 2008 or 1998?
I would really love to look in the eyes of the person who decided that n810 should use MiniSD. And I would ask that person to find the card (on ebay or anywhere else) of 8GB or larger capacity (preferably, class 4 or better). Dealing with MicroSD->MiniSD adapters is a bit too much trouble…
MiniSD is nearly dead, as I can see. MicroSD and SD are reasonably popular. So why on Earth they’ve chosen the worst of 3?… SD on n800 was a very good idea – I could take the card from my Nikon d80 and show the photos straight on the tablet (thanks to great Canola).
The browser in OS2008 is a huge disappointment. It hangs after every couple of pages, only “kill process” helps. Is it me? Is it about adblock and greazemonkey extensions? I do not know… But at the moment my n810 can not be used for browsing at all 🙁
Regarding the built-in GPS – according to what I hear from various people, there are 2 sorts of devices – “good ones” and “bad ones”. The “bad ones” (like mine) take ages to establish the fix.
And the last (but not least) – the hardware keyboard does not allow to switch between Russian and English layouts. You can have either – but not both (welcome to the Control Panel if you want to change layout). What kind of usability is it? For the company located a couple of hundred kilometers from Russia, it is odd;) The on-screen keyboard is more usable for me ATM.
TWIMC: I registered the project on garage.maemo.org. The current code is in SVN. My plans (in no particular order):
And, sure, bugfixing bugfixing. No deadlines – my spare time is really scarce.
Everyone is very welcome to build, complain etc. Sure, patches are especially welcome.
So, yesterday I got it. Again, thanks to Nokia for the developer device program. Nice piece of hardware indeed – but nothing revolutionary, as I expected. Some comments (mostly rants – but my gratitude is still there and it is huge):
Overall – I think Nokia is moving in the right direction. My only concern is the pace of the move. While the change from 770 to n800 was a huge leap, the change from n800 to n810 is a small step. Lads, please do not slow down. You are making a very cool gadgets – and there is still a room for improvement, I strongly believe you can make great gadgets.
The discount codes seem to be working now. My N810 is on my way to me. Thanks a lot Nokia.
As another bit of my humble contribution (expressing the gratitude, you know;) – I’m putting some effort into making freeciv run on OS2008. There was initial version, made by Markku Vire for 770 – but apparently it does not run on OS2008 (yet). At least now it builds and starts – but more work is necessary. So we’ll see how it goes…
After some investigation I found the most probable reason of the break-in into my gmail account, which caused the spam message to be broadcasted to my entire gmail address book.
GMail performs login using https. Then (bah!) it redirects to http! All further interactions are done in insecure mode – unless the original address you typed in your browser started with https (or you change it manually and explicitly in the address line). Awesome, isn’t it? For details, see for example here.
So, I guess when I read my gmail using some occational free hotspot in the city (thanks to my n800), there was some “man in the middle” attack. It is not a big deal for minimally educated script kiddie – once http stream is not encoded and all cookies are there…
I definitely blame myself for being so lame and not knowing that bad fact about GMail (and not being paranoid enough to check the security of the connection when I have to). But I am deeply disappointed that GMail is so unsecure by default – and that information is not printed with big red letters on top of the page.
I guess there might be some people around who are still not aware of that shameful detail about GMail – so I am warning them.