The default GDM theme in Debian doesn’t look right to my taste so decided to create one for myself. This is my first time creating a GDM theme, so it is mostly copied from other themes. Here’s how it looks like: And that’s for the year of Dragon. You can grab the package here. How [...]
During the new year holiday, although I’ve read about bad reviews about Unity, I decided to upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10 anyway, thinking that as long as I don’t use it, I should be ok. Wrong, this upgrade was the worst of all Ubuntu. I have been using Ubuntu full-time almost exclusively (except on [...]
According to a research team, disk encryption is hampering law enforcement, and federal agencies are unable to get at data on an encrypted disk. Contrary to what we all see in the movies and on television, cracking an encrypted drive is not a simple thing; in fact, it’s so difficult that if someone has encrypted [...]
This is what love is all about.
Another week, another great mind has left. John McCarthy, the inventor of the LISP programming language, and the expert who coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, has passed away yesterday. His web site is still online. Besides the C programming language, LISP (and its other variance Scheme) and Prolog were the languages we used [...]
Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C programming language, and a central figure in the development of Unix operating system, is reported to have died at his home, for an unspecified illness. The book he co-authored, The C Programming Language, is probably the only book that’s on the desk of every programmer worldwide. For all [...]
As an update to the previous post, now California’s governor is vetoing legislation requiring police to obtain a court warrant to search the mobile phones of suspects at the time of any arrest. Read the story here. What happens to the Bill of Rights?
Police can now search your phone without warrant, at least in Florida and Georgia, and now in California as well. Read the story here, and the commentary by UCSD law professor Shaun Martin. Another reason to install Renzhi Safe on your Android device, and have your personal information locked in an encrypted safe. I know, [...]
The Android Market policy is making developer’s life complicated for no reason. Firstly, registering a developer’s account is needlessly complicated. Secondly, an app must be free or paid, that forces developers to maintain two versions. Thirdly, if you have a paid app, you can’t set it temporarily to free, or set the price to 0, [...]
After getting my Android phone, I was looking for an app that would allow me to create an encrypted virtual disk (or volume, or a safe), and that would allow me to put anything in it, securely. I kept looking in the Android app store for a while, there are tons of tools for managing [...]