ESE Key Daemon 1.2.7 released

New version of ESE Key Daemon was released today.

New features include the ability to handle multiple key combinations and distinguish between key presses and releases. A problem with the handling of the last line in a configuration file when there is no newline on the last line is gone. Numeric keys are now also allowed in the configuration file.

Download: esekeyd-1.2.7.tar.gz (.asc)

MD5: 5937ad6d7815dbc6ab6983411a9f37d4
SHA1: 07671be42b61973a3270aaf1b41c3467568ae7ac

Virtual destinations are faster than Camel routing

Routing messages from one input queue to two output queues in ActiveMQ can be done in two different ways. Apache Camel, a powerful rule-based routing engine often used with ActiveMQ, is a typical choice. Virtual composite queue is another solution. Which to choose? The faster.

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Optimizing GNOME for Netbooks

GNOME can be easily optimized for Netbooks using configuration editor. Disabling animations, thumbnails and splash screen speeds up GNOME while scaling down icons saves space on desktop.

Metacity will give the user less feedback by using wireframes, avoiding animations, or other means if /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources is set to true. This can be set with gconf-editor or from shell with gconftool:

gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources -t bool true

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Sptrace 1.4.2 released

New version of sptrace was released today. Sptrace is a secure ptrace() Linux Kernel Module (LKM). It limits users’ access to the ptrace() call. Module was updated to reflect changes in new kernel releases and tested with 2.6.26.

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Keep Doxyfile in sync with Autoconf

Generating Doxygen configuration file – Doxyfile from Autoconf is simple and helps to avoid duplication of version numbers, input and output directories and packages names. Doxyfile can be generated like Makefiles from Doxyfile.in by configure script.

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ESE Key Daemon 1.2.4 released

New version of ESE Key Daemon was released today.

Release notes:

  • Fixed cross-compilation bug reported by hartleys.
  • Removed debian directory (will try to include esekeyd in Debian).
  • Removed old directory (Linux 2.4 users can use 1.2.3, but 2.4 support is no longer maintained).
  • Removed lib directory (any modern (g)libc has getopt).

Download: esekeyd-1.2.4.tar.gz (.asc)

MD5: 5eb8d1b02cdd99d0681e946768e529db
SHA1: 12395b670dbf9ae93573e9cd5f57c51c3572a8aa

Web browser anonymity threats

Anonymity in important for many people. Few years ago, it was problematic issue only for hackers, human rights workers and anonymity freaks. They want to keep they identity in secret for obvious reasons. They were traced only by law enforcement agencies and government. Today everything is much more difficult. Hundreds of advertising agencies trying to reveal identity of people to target their commercials better.

Web browser can give them so many information. For example in which languages you speak (browser shares your language preferences with sites you visit)., in which city you live (this can be obtained from IP), how big is your computer display (web page can get your display resolution), what video player or office suite you have installed (they can query installed browser plugins) and much more...

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