A great news for us that love GNU/Linux and free software: Android and Chrome Browser have survived the Pwn2Own hacking contest. It’s interesting to notice that both are from Google. Pwn2Own is a hacking contest held annually during the CanSecWest security conference where competidors win any...
Reading my old feeds in GoogleReader I ran into a post in Cosimo’s blog, in the blogs.gnome.org, where he spoke abou the Nautilus 3.0 and the new default Gnome 3.0 Theme. For those who follow the Gnome Planet, is already aware about the paths Gnome 3 is following, for those who don’t this is the...
Today was announced at the UbuntuOne Blog, that the service with the same name is getting a new logo. According to the official announcement, they’ve decided to dress UbuntuOne with new clothes in order to match the ocasion, since the service is going through exciting changes:
Mark Shuttleworth revealed today in his blog the Ubuntu 11.10 codename, Oneiric Ocelot. Ocelot Ocelot, as shown above, is a leopard-like cat. "Oneiric" (witch comes from óneiro, the Greek word that means dream) means "dreamy" or more formally "Of or pertaining to dreams". Mark Shuttleworth sad:...
As I have said before, the Gnome 3 Design and Development team has taken the decision to remove the maximize e minimize window button, but they haven’t announced yet if this deprecated functionality would be permanently disable or only hidden by default. Yesterday, was posted in Diego’s Blog (one...
Lately the design area from the OpenSource World is really busy and creative. A cuple of days back (during the Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 release) we saw significants Unity design changes, then we saw the Gnome 3 changes (maximize and minimize buttons) and finally we heard about the new overlay...
Game Over Hey everybody! It’s been a long time since my last post. I believe I made a good startup in this blog but suddenly abandoned so I want to justify my disappearance. Recently I got married, had a big change in my job (Mainframes, arg! How I miss bash… ) and "lost" my main project name. I...
In a couple of posts ago I talked about two ways to solve a Gnome Keyring issue in Python. The fist way (demonstrated here), was to create o simple class that wraps the libgnome-keyring and in each request it lock and unlock the Gnome Keyring. It wasn’t perfect and had some security issues but at...
Following my last post lines, I’ll show today how we can implement a wrapper class to "control" the Gnome Keyring. This isn’t the most secure way, since we store the keyring password in a variable. But is better then let your keyring open for all other applications. First we need to create a class...
Following the last line from my preview post, there is a secure flaw in the Gnome Keyring. Hopefully there is a security mechanism that brings us some peace. The Gnome Keyring API (ligbnome-keyring) give us a way to lock an specific keyring using the following methods: set_lock_on_idle and...
