The new official repository of Rapache is now hosted on Github at this address https://github.com/tacone/rapache A README.md file with instructions and notes has been added, and Observable.py has been relicensed to LGPL3. Other than that, it’s the same source code still available on Launchpad (which I have no control on anymore as I don’t have an account anymore, there). The Rapache project is currently non-active, and will be maintained just to keep it working on …
Facebook does man-in-the-middle attack
It’s never too soon to delete your Facebook account. And never a bad idea. I deleted mine some month ago and didn’t regret it once. According to Gervase Markham, Facebook lately managed to reach new lows. I prefer email to social media. I do have a Facebook page, but I don’t post anything there, and I made sure that my primary personal email address, gerv[at]gerv.net, was displayed in the profile so that people could contact me …
LOL
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-November/003467.html many lessons to be learned there *
Google this is ridiculous
Google you’re doing it wrong. Very wrong. This is utterly ridiculous. It’s a screenshot with a standard Firefox browser, in the standard screen resolution (1280×800), on a Ubuntu machine with only the OS top panel showing (the bottom is hidden, to reproduce more or less the screen estate you’d have on a Mac). Hell, I’ve even hidden the bookmark bar and status bar and – STILL – the content area is tall not more than …
A step back from the open source
One month ago, I created my first Android app. While the app was a paid one, the reception has been outstanding. I’ve gotten a fair amount of mails from the users, encouraging me and thanking me for improving their daily life. This is something much different from what we experienced with Rapache. While there have been people speaking about it around, I dare to say it’s very little compared to Clip Ninja. Rapache has been …
Facebook shuts down EventPress development.
When you’re a big company, especially one that makes its money on free web services and advertising, it’s very easy to say you love open source. Open Source will get you nice PR, and you may even release parts of your code to get even better PR. Sadly, things don’t always work as you expect them to. The legal department of Facebook has recently forbidden EventPress developer, Kunal Bhalla, to continue his (brilliant) work on …
Why Android is laggy
Great post from Andrew Munn explaining some key differences between Android and iPhone/iOs, especially when it comes to rendering and smoothness of animations and why Android lags sometimes. Some of the highlights include: Android project started before the release of the iPhone, and was designed to compete with Blackberry Android wasn’t originally designed primarily as a touch screen based operating system Iphone renders UI with higher priority than Android, at the expense of computation Check …
Google Plus keeps your data as much as Facebook does
When you delete an account from Google+, Google promises you to delete all the data associated with your G+ profile. Well, I deleted mine some time ago, but while trying out the new Youtube homepage the first thing I saw was this: My circles are still saved, my real name is showing and the same is probably true for the people in my circles. Yet another reminder: don’t believe the big guys, data deletion doesn’t …
Rapache returns ?
Not without a certain pleasure I announce that I got Rapache fixed and working again. Rapache is a graphical user tool to help you configure Apache2. It allows easy creation of virtual name hosts and modules activation without prior knowledge of configuration files. I still have to mess with the packaging thing, and there are certain trade-offs, but anybody interested can finally download a working version. To install it run the following commands sudo apt-get …
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