Friday, December 16, 2011
Sometimes I have these cinematic dreams, and I have decided that if I for some reason wake up right after it and still remember it vividly enough, I should write it down. So yesterday I had one of those. What follows is more of a polished description of how I understood the dream, almost a [...]
Friday, February 11, 2011
Quick post. In light of recent Nokia+Microsoft-MeeGo news, I have gone to learn more about Android in a hurry. And here is the first result – MorzeSMS. Basically it is a tiny app that will play a morze code when you receive an SMS message. The morze code is the phone number of the sender [...]
Daniel says that we should move away from SHA1 by switching hash algorithms for signatures and generating keys that use at least SHA256 from SHA-2 family. I have been bitten by non-default GPG options before. So I propose that we do a security release of GPG that changes the defaults of key generation and key [...]
Sunday, December 21, 2008
What does it sound like when a commission is reinventing a wheel? Much like this. Guys, the technology you are looking for is called (*gasp*) a forum, with moderators and poster carma and such … It would not be too hard to implement a gateway that would receive emails posted to any list and republish [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
In light of Ted’s post on copyright, it is clear that we are bogged down by a hostile terminology. Copyright infringement is not piracy – gunmen on seas killing people, looting ships and holding hostages is piracy. Copyright infringement is not theft. When my bike was stolen, I no longer had it. Stealing a bicycle [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
I have just encountered a bug in Gnome that is much more visible when the hard drive is slow or overloaded and responds slowly. This gave me an idea – how about a simple transparent FUSE filesystem that does nothing else than delay, slow down and possibly reorder filesystem requests? Such a filesystem would be [...]
Saturday, August 30, 2008
According to the Slashdot article and the StopSoftwarePatents.org website itself and on Digg, the anti-software-patent activists are attempting a world-wide event on the 24th of September as a world-wide day against software patents. USA has them via a weird court ruling, Japan has them as well (not sure why), there have been efforts to force [...]
Smash Lab is a new Discovery Channel series where a team of inventors try to solve an engineering challenge. The premise is quite nice, unfortunately I don’t find the inventors in question to be particularly bright. In the first episode they try to bomb-proof an existing building using spray-on Rhino Lining and some weird flaps [...]
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In the Latvian l10n community we often deal with the problem of mistranslation of common words such as “file”, “preferences” and “advanced”. There are several words that fit each of those and over the years preferences in the community have shifted back and forth. I just came up with an idea of making a script [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2008
A person that I deeply respect and who is very know in Latvian IT society recently said that he often uses a quote of mine in his presentations. I completely forgot that I ever said that, but it sounds very much like what I would say, so I wanted to write it down so that [...]
