Category Archives: Software

Archive, Operating System, Security

Good news, it works. Bad news, it works.

Bad awakening for Mac users, Apple
fixed a bug.
andy-scared
It took almost 2 years for Apple to release a security fix so that
it’s not anymore possible to hijack the builtin or even the
external USB camera from within a webpage.
At least everyone believed that this issue has been fixed in the
security update 2006-008, and people became already sad about
missing the feature to preview realtime effects on local video like
on this page: (only works for Mac people.)

But there’s also good news. It still works.

Oh wait, or is it bad news ?

Anyway the good news is, that the bad news of a killed feature is
not true, and that the security fix works, as your realtime video
cannot be sent via ajax/javascript or a java applet to someone you
don’t even know by just accessing someone’s evil website.

How do we check that ?
Apple doesn’t say anything about it.

So the real good news is, enjoy the feature as long as you’re not
sitting naked in front of your mac. Winking

Oh, uhh, aehh did I mention the bad news is, we don’t know if its
really fixed, or apple became so much interested in your homevideos
that they patched something in your system to get much sharper
pictures of you than anyone else does. Winking

Archive, Operating System

Beryl, a fork of compiz 3D desktop for Linux

Yeah, me again, and again 3D desktops,
I’m sure you’ll ask yourself where’s the difference between compiz
and beryl.See it this way, what options do you have if you want to check
something on your desktop or another window, if a window is already
placed on top of it.Sure, you can minimize the window, move the window or even close
it. You may use taskwitching, window transparency might work as
well.
But how about, just taking a quick look behind a window border or
corner, like what you would do if it’s just a piece of paper. Watch
this:

Beryl is a fork of the compiz 3D
desktop composition manger for Linux.

Archive, Operating System

Beryl, a fork of compiz 3D desktop for Linux

Yeah, me again, and again 3D desktops,
I’m sure you’ll ask yourself where’s the difference between compiz
and beryl.See it this way, what options do you have if you want to check
something on your desktop or another window, if a window is already
placed on top of it.

Sure, you can minimize the window, move the window or even close
it. You may use taskwitching, window transparency might work as
well.
But how about, just taking a quick look behind a window border or
corner, like what you would do if it’s just a piece of paper. Watch
this:

Beryl is a fork of the compiz 3D
desktop composition manger for Linux.

Archive, Operating System

Beryl, a fork of compiz 3D desktop for Linux

Yeah, me again, and again 3D desktops,
I’m sure you’ll ask yourself where’s the difference between compiz
and beryl.

See it this way, what options do you have if you want to check
something on your desktop or another window, if a window is already
placed on top of it.

Sure, you can minimize the window, move the window or even close
it. You may use taskwitching, window transparency might work as
well.
But how about, just taking a quick look behind a window border or
corner, like what you would do if it’s just a piece of paper. Watch
this:

Beryl is a fork of the compiz 3D
desktop composition manger for Linux.

Archive, Operating System

Linux with Compiz + Xgl – beating the Apple desktop

Apple’s Aqua graphical user-interface was the absolute leader in
eye-candy desktops for home computers. Now Linux can offer a quite
similar but also further extended desktop environment like on
Mac’s. The new XServer with integrated OpenGL support Xgl, enables
owners of 3D graphics cards in their computers to use the new
compiz
framework to draw their favourite desktop like Gnome or
KDE in a
3D context. Thus enabling beautiful window-effects and workspace
usage-features never seen before. Check it out here:

WARNING: The only distribution at the moment which enables compiz
by default on supported hardware at the moment is the latest Fedora
Linux. Although you can easily enable compiz on Gentoo Linux,
Ubuntu and others, there’s still some things to do by hand which
requires a lot of reading howto’s, especially if you want to
fallback to your old “working” configuration.

Archive, Operating System

Linux with Compiz + Xgl – beating the Apple desktop

Apple’s Aqua graphical user-interface was the absolute leader in
eye-candy desktops for home computers. Now Linux can offer a quite
similar but also further extended desktop environment like on
Mac’s. The new XServer with integrated OpenGL support Xgl, enables
owners of 3D graphics cards in their computers to use the new
compiz
framework to draw their favourite desktop like Gnome or
KDE in a
3D context. Thus enabling beautiful window-effects and workspace
usage-features never seen before. Check it out here:

WARNING: The only distribution at the moment which enables compiz
by default on supported hardware at the moment is the latest Fedora
Linux. Although you can easily enable compiz on Gentoo Linux,
Ubuntu and others, there’s still some things to do by hand which
requires a lot of reading howto’s, especially if you want to
fallback to your old “working” configuration.
Archive, Operating System

Windows Part 3 of 3

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Finally, all my windows “not Microsoft Winking” are
renewed.

This time the workers did a real good job and also fix all the
remaining problems from my last window(s) de-installation.

Winking Man, I like that windows
de-installation thing Winking

Now, as soon as my budget will allow it, I can start buying my
final furniture. I’m quite happy now, except for the window
cleaning. 8-(
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