The bug in OpenSSL nicknamed “heartbleed” that was discovered this week has been labelled “catastrophic“, “11 out of 10” for seriousness, and credited with “undoing web encryption“. It reached the height of mainstream press yesterday with dedicated front page articles on The Guardian and and The New York Times. This Free Software bug is now Read more »
At the end of last month KDE announced a new Open Hardware project to create a Raspberry Pi-like computer called “Improv“, produced by “Make Play Live” of Coherent Theory LLC. This is an important development that I’m delighted to see, and I plan to pre-order and get mine in March. Marketing Free Software and Open Read more »
For I ❤ Free Software, I’m taking time to tell you about some Free Software that I love. And as everybody knows, I love Git. I sing it’s praises, often literally, everywhere I work. Git provides the plumbing of my design, development, and decision making. No, it’s more like the golden contacts along which colleagues Read more »
If you’re using a Wacom intuos 3 graphics tablet with Gnome 3, then this little button layout illustration should be useful. Gnome’s built in Wacom configuration tool is great, but the numbers it assigns to the tablet buttons are not intuitive. Use this diagram to avoid a trial and error approach to function assignment.
19.00, 7th Nov at the Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester, UK – Free Entry Manchester Central candidates will be challenged to explain how they will defend citizen’s privacy and free speech online. Recent arrests for “offensive tweets” and proposals to put the whole UK population under Internet surveillance and data collection have thrown digital issues into the Read more »
The JavaScript related Dart language has a compiler and IDE provided by Google. The project developers work on Ubuntu, and so in order to get these tools working on Fedora we have to make a couple of preparations. These instructions are designed for Fedora 17 64-bit, and were tested using Dart version 14167. Dart is Read more »
Last weekend on Software Freedom Day the Manchester FSFE Fellowship group, assisted by additional participants in Britain and Germany, spent the afternoon testing Free Software alternatives to Skype. Results The 25 sets of results were recorded, and can be browsed, sorted, and searched on the news article edition of this post. Six audio tests successfully Read more »
Secure Share is a very interesting project that aims to replace existing social networks with a far, far more secure platform upon which developers can build new distributes apps and services. Think of it a bit like a new version of Bit Torrent with an easy API for sending messages, relationships, streams, and status updates, Read more »
Gtimelog is very simple. It provides no method of editing the log of how your time was spent. Fortunately the program’s simplicity extends to its system files, which encourage easy manual editing, without the need for a separate interface for doing so. The file format of log files benefits from some explanation however. In Gtimelog Read more »
Two thousand A2 posters of Stephen Fry advertising Open Standards and Document Freedom Day have arrived! I will send these posters on to people who can use them all over Europe. Only 1.5 weeks remain before the big day – please let me know right away if you can receive some posters! Contact samtuke () Read more »