Archive - Aug 15, 2008

Question:

is there a way i can set all of my windows to minimize in a certain way like the airplane flying away. i have tried to do it myself but idk

AND

how do i set the animations though? i mean for like all of my windows at once or do i have to pick each window

Answer:

Question:

OK, so I have 2 themes, a light one and a dark one, that I switch between depending on my mood.

To change, I have to open up appearances, select the theme, close appearances, open emerald, pick the theme, close it. It all seems a bit of a palaver. I was thinking of writing a little bash script to change them over. Trouble is, while it's pretty obvious how to do it for the emerald bit (copy files into the right directory, run emerald --replace) I can't see where the main gnome theme picks up the current theme info from.

Anyone any ideas?

Yep, it's done! Since conky doesn't provide image support, I decided to write a little program that would help me getting my Amarok cover on my desk as well as other informations like artist or title It's actually pretty simple ; I based my work on some pieces of conky's sources, to display the cover image on a small window, at a position we specify, as for the refresh delay.

There's still a few points to be improved :
+ I failed to make the window sticky, you still can move it with Alt+right clic ;
+ big issue is that the window can only be displayed on one desk, whereas conky can be displayed on all desks ;
+ the window still appears on windows list Alt+Tab

That's some details that can be meliorate, feel free if you a nice way to it

I discovered that my pretty good but old ATI Radeon video card is not supported anymore by ATI and is not compatible with proprietary driver present in Ubuntu repositories.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

1. Direct ATI drivers are not compatible with Xorg installed on Hardy
2. Fglrx driver present on the repos is not working
3. Envyng does not recognize my video card

Doing an:

lspci

I got my card brand/model

1. Switch on bluetooth on both: the laptop/desktop and the mobile device.

2. The bluetooth icon should appear in the notification area:
problemxv9.png

3. Right click on the bluetooth icon, and select Browse Device...

4. A list of available bluetooth devices in range should appear. Find your phone/mobile device in the list. If you can't find it there, make sure you have public discovery enabled for your mobile device.

5. Click on your phone's name in the list and click the Connect button. Sometimes, you might not see the name but a OBEX path value like 00:16:b8:b6:bd:ae. This should be your mobile device (This happens since Ubuntu cannot resolve the names of some devices for the first time you connect to it)

The validity of open source software licenses won a major court victory when a federal judge ruled this week that copyright law allows programmers to control the modification of their software even though it's free. The ruling makes legal sense, said copyright attorney Ross Dannenberg.

Open source developers now have newly clarified protection, thanks to an appeals court ruling over the validity of their licenses. A judge with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that programmers who "engage in open source licensing" and copyright their work do "have the right to control the modification and distribution" of their products.

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8555920711.html

Samsung has announced new drivers and file systems it claims will "significantly" improve the performance of embedded flash memory in embedded devices running Linux and other operating systems. The software will accelerate all file operations, when used with Samsung's "OneNAND," "Flex-OneNAND," and "MoviNAND" memory products, the vendor says.

Source: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2780

The key to IT security is secure software - software that is written with not only features, but also security, in mind, says David Jacobson, technical director at Linux services company Synaq. However, says Jacobson, software is seldom developed with an eye on back-end security requirements. Developers are usually under pressure to deliver on required features within tight deadlines which leave little time to check for vulnerabilities each step of the way. The result is that most software is inherently vulnerable.