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אני צריך טלפון חדש

הטלפון הראשי שלי היום הוא נוקיה 6600 שלא היה חדש כשקיבלתי אותו והיום הוא בן שנתיים וחצי, שזה גיל מכובד לכל הדעות לטלפון מודרני. כתוצאה מכך, הוא כבר לא משמש אותי באותה יעילות כמו בעבר. מעבר לכך שהממשק כבר די איטי והבטריה לא מחזיקה מעמד מספיק זמן (שני סממנים לטלפון ישן), הצרכים שלי גדלו ואני רוצה יותר: אני רוצה יותר דואר אלקטרוני (הודעה של 1 MB מכניעה לחלוטין את הטלפון) ואני רוצה תמיכה בקבצים מצורפים, אני רוצה יותר web בטלפון (ולא דרך האופרה מיני), ואני רוצה יותר קבצים ומוזיקה.

אין ברירה אלא לרכוש טלפון חדש, אבל איזה ?

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Sun releases their new processor as open source.

Read the press release on Jonathan Schwartz’s blog (Sun’s CEO).

Its definitely a first time a major producer of microelectronics has released their designs to the public under a free license (free as in speech), and one can’t but wonder what are the ramifications of such a bold statement. One might argue that the SPARC design has lost to its competitors of the x86 type a long time ago and the Niagra models (The nickname for the UltraSPARC/OpenSPARC T1 and T2) are just the death throes of an dying product line. Granted, the T1 and more so the T2 are indeed of the top performing chips available right now – if not the top, but it can’t be argued that they met with little commercial success.

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Those crazy GNOMEs

Are coming up with a cookbook. No – not a software cooking utility, or a recipe application or anything that runs on a computer but an actual cookbook with recipes for food in it.

The GNOME Cookbook will be published as a print on demand book, and although the license of the included recipes is still unclear, the stated goal of the project is to embody the spirit of the GNOME project, which to me means – open source code recipes.

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יורוקום (נוקיה ישראל) מעצבנים

ספציפית, יש ליורוקום את שרות הלקוחות הגרוע ביותר שנתקלתי בו כבר די הרבה זמן.

הסיפור התחיל לפני כמה שבועות כשהחלטתי שאני מעוניין לשדרג את הטלפון הממש ישן שלי (נוקיה 6600) ולהחליף אותו ב-N95 חדש. מכשיר מצוין לכל הדעות אבל בזמנו עוד לא ניתן היה להשיג אותו בארץ. לאחר מספר טלפונים לשרות הלקוחות, גם אורנג’1 וגם יורוקום הבטיחו לי שיתקשרו אלי כשהטלפון יהיה זמין.

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  1. הספק הסלולארי שאת הטלפון שמחובר אליו אני מעוניין לשדרג [↩]

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Does Microsoft Windows Vista suck ? Why, yes it does.

Ever since we got a laptop with Windows Vista at my company, I keep being amazed at how incredibly sucky Windows Vista is. Yes – the interface is pretty cool and much prettier then most anything out of the box1. But the behavior and usability, especially those new access controls, is horrendous!

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  1. I much prefer the Mac OS-X out-of-the-box experience, but that is a matter of personal taste – its definitely not prettier, just cleaner. Linux based operating system can look as pretty as Windows Vista if not more, but by default all Linux distribution, including the new (and yet unreleased) Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon don’t look even close to the prettiness that is Vista (with the bells and whistles – which aren’t available in all versions) [↩]

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Just another non-installer application distribution plan

A lot of people1 know of klik, the software distribution method that allows people to download pre-built software packages and use this without installation.

I have many griefs about klik, mostly as I think it killed the mind share for Zero Install before it has a chance to pick up. I think that Zero Install is a much better system due to many reasons, but klik also suffers from the same problem that Zero Install has – it requires installing a run-time component to support it, which kinds of beats the point of the whole process.

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  1. People that use Linux and are interested in software development, not a lot of people generally – of course [↩]

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Nice hack

Already covered by slashdot, but its important enough so I’m mentioning it here: Giorgio Maone is a security researcher that has found a way to create the ultimate evil pop™ up using Java.

Checkout the demo at his site (above) – it creates a full screen pop up with no visible way to close it. Pretty cool. Hopefully Sun would patch it soon and find a way to distribute the update to all currently running Java virtual machine software installed on desktops around the world… but don’t hold your breath for it. As Giorgio went public a bit early with the full disclosure1, expect to see “evil pop ups™” everywhere in the next several months.

  1. an honest mistake, can’t really blame him – read his blog post for the full story [↩]

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Mozilla is broken

But apparently they know how to do in style even web site problems:
mozilla outages

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My blog was defaced yesterday

It wasn’t cool, but thanks to Avi Alkalay who noticed it early and let me know, I caught it early enough.

The attackers probably used some kind of dictionary attack to guess the password to the FTP accounts of my website and another website virtually hosted on my server and opened FTP access to both accounts and uploaded files. To the other website they uploaded a PHP backdoor (that allows access to the local MySQL server and to the local file system with the permissions of the web server) and rootkit.

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בטא ראשונה ל-KDE 4

פרוייקט KDE הודיע על שחרור גרסת בטא ראשונה של סביבת שולחן העבודה הבאה שלהם – גרסה 4. כמו כל פרויקט תוכנה שמכבד את עצמו, גם לגרסאת הבטא הראשונה של KDE 4 יש שם קוד: Cnuth.
זו בדיחה פנימית ואני אשאיר את זה בתור תרגיל לקורא להבין על מה.

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