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20 August 2008

Running x11perf on Maemo (N800)

Hi all, this post is about some benchmarks we did on Nokia’s N800 device to measure the performance of XShmPutImage on this hardware. I’ve been working on the QEdje project and, while studying possible optimizations, our team was interested in measuring whether we could benefit from using MIT’s X11 shared memory extensions. Among other tests, [...]

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4 August 2008

KDE unresponsible after screensaver is locked for several hours.

Hi all, I’m currently using Gentoo ~x86 on a Macbook Pro and I’d been facing a really annoying bug for sometime before I could apply a workaround to it. The bug sympthons are a very unresponsible system after leaving the screen locked for several hours, ie. all night, for instance, simply unlocking it was almost [...]

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2 May 2008

Ensol 2.0

Acontece nestes dias 2, 3 e 4 de Maio a segunda edição do Encontro de Software Livre da Paraíba, ou simplesmente, Ensol. Eu, Eduardo Fleury, e Rodrigo Vivi, teremos o prazer de apresentar duas palestras na manhã do Domingo, dia 04 e agradecemos antecipadamente a presença de todos. As palestras são independentes porém relacionadas, a [...]

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8 April 2008

Running Canola2 plug-ins on the desktop

Hey, A few days ago the Canola2 SDK was released allowing users to run Canola2 on their Linux desktops for plug-ins and themes development. In this post I’ll show how one can add plugins to the SDK. What you need When deploying plugins to Canola2 SDK one must observe three main steps: Install plug-in code [...]

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13 November 2007

Termios functions, the unix terminal canonical mode and other settings.

A few days ago I was rewriting in C an old piece of script originally coded in BASH. Although the code was pretty simple, I found something that was worth sharing. Basically I had to get a confirmation from the user (y/n) – ie. read char from the standard input – and process it accordingly. [...]

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23 September 2007

AF_UNIX sockets and the abstract namespace, inter-process communication.

Hi all, today I’ll write something about sockets of the AF_UNIX family (aka as AF_LOCAL) and more specifically about the “abstract namespace” held by the Linux kernel. Previous knowledge Before I start, let me share what I expect you to know before reading this article, and also some references in case you are not familiar [...]

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28 August 2007

Bug in BOOTP servers? (ISC Dhcp and Bootp-dd2)

About two weeks ago I posted an introduction on the BOOTP protocol, today I’ll talk about a possible bug I found in current implementations. I recommend those not familiar with this protocol read my previous post here before continuing. Abstract My current project at the Brazilian IBM LTC (Linux Technology Center) lab is to develop [...]

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20 August 2007

Conseguindo CDs do Linux Ubuntu no Brasil

Pessoal, Ainda no tema da palestra de quinta feira sobre Linux e Segurança na Infoweek (ver post anterior), fica aqui uma dica para quem quer testar o Linux e não sabe direito por onde começar. Como eu comentei na quinta, uma das distribuições mais usadas e que têm um apelo aos usuários iniciantes em Linux [...]

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17 August 2007

Infoweek – EM Leandro Franceschini

Bom dia!! Ontem tive o prazer de conduzir uma palestra sobre Linux, Windows e Segurança na Escola Municipal Leandro Franceschini em Sumaré, SP, como parte do programa de Iniciativa Acadêmica da IBM (ver post anterior). Antes de mais nada gostaria de deixar meus sinceros agradecimentos a todos aqueles que me receberam de braços abertos na [...]

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17 August 2007

The BOOTP protocol

BOOTP. Wha? This is meant to be an introduction on the Bootstrap Protocol, or just BOOTP, specified by the RFC 915. On a later post I’ll share my opinion about the current implementations by ISC Dhcpd and Bootp-DD2. At large enterprises, server farms are often located away from tech personnel; sometimes blocks aways, sometimes in [...]

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