Archive for December, 2006
Wi-Max da giugno
Thursday, December 28th, 2006OpenOffice.org 2.1.0 Debian Packages + Installer
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006I've just created an archive containing the last version of OpenOffice.org (2.1.0) with all the packages already converted for Debian (or any Debian based distro). My little release contains a Bash script that will uninstall your old version of OpenOffice.org and will install the new one, and the Gnome integration, too..
This is not really a big work, but at least you won't need to download the rpm version of OpenOffice.org, convert the rpm with alien, uninstall your old OpenOffice.org packages, and install the new packages.
If you've got comments, put them on this page, but first go get it!
How to manage a card reader and the FSFE crypto card
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Just after 15 days I'm publishing a second English tutorial. This time I'll speak about the Fellowship crypto card and how to make it work with a card reader (don't you know what I'm talking about? Read this page about the fsfe card).
There are some nice tutorials around the net, I assembled them and there you will find how to install a card reader (in this case the famous SCR335) under Ubuntu, but it should work with every distro which uses Udev.
With this tutorial, you will be able to access your smart card reader without being root!
This tutorial is COPY & PASTE capable, if you don't want to read all the comments, you can just copy and past these commands in your terminal, it should work without adjustments
EDIT: you don't need pcscd/libpcsclite-dev, I would really thank Michael Kallas and Matthias Kirschner for their help!
First, install libusb-dev:
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
I reccommend to install pcsc for accessing the card reader:
sudo apt-get install pcsc-tools pcscd
Now we need to set up the Udev rules and scripts, for accessing the usb card reader.
Download gnupg-ccid.rules in the right dir:
cd /etc/udev/
sudo wget http://www.fsfe.org/en/content/download/17665/125518/file/gnupg-ccid.rules
Download gnupg-ccid in the scripts dir:
cd /etc/udev/scripts/ (create it if it doesn't exists)
sudo wget http://www.fsfe.org/en/content/download/17248/121800/file/gnupg-ccid
We need to set the correct permissions and a symbolic link:
sudo chmod +x /etc/udev/scripts/gnupg-ccid
sudo ln -s /etc/udev/gnupg-ccid.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/gnupg-ccid.rules
All the configuration files are in the right place and with the right permissions by now.
You will now create a group scard, give this group permission to access the smart card reader, and include the users who should have access to the card reader to this group.
sudo addgroup scard
sudo addgroup $USER scard
If $USER doesn't work, replace it with your user login name.
Then create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/smart_card.rules using this command (thanks to gerloff)
cd /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo wget http://download.bd-things.net/smart_card.rules
Install libpcslite-dev (you need it because of some Udev problems)
sudo apt-get install libpcsclite-dev
Restart the system. You can verify the correct installation of the card reader with:
gpg --card-status
I hope you will find this tutorial useful
Credits:
- FSFE's Tutorial:Setting up your card reader on GNU/Linux (udev)
- A gerloff's comment on that page
- The GnuPG FSFE card tutorial
Ubuntu Satanic Edition!
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Per chi non fosse soddisfatto della variante di Ubuntu conosciuta come CE (Ubuntu Christian Edition), ora puó provare un'alternativa, Ubuntu Satanic Edition, che trasformerá i vostri temi, sfondi, bootsplashes e li riempirá di fuoco e fiamme infernali!
Nulla di satanico in tutto ció, ritengo che questa sia una giusta risposta ironica ad Ubuntu CE, che non ha davvero senso di esistere.. Prima di tutto, é semplicemente una Ubuntu con 2-3 programmi in piú, che potevano essere resi disponibili per il download a qualunque utente Debian, ed uno sfondo per Gnome.
Il creatore si Ubuntu SE ha fatto la stessa cosa, anzi non ha neppure creato una distribuzione (forse sta anche in questo la sua protesta), ma un repository di pacchetti dal quale si possono scaricare i temi installabili. Intanto complimenti ad il suo creatore, perché i temi sono ben fatti, e poi.. Evil Edgy!
La religione dovrebbe essere tenuta separata dalle distribuzioni Linux e dal pensiero del Free Software, tanto quanto la politica.

Musica Per Bambini
Thursday, December 14th, 2006Ieri sera ascoltavo B Side su Radio Deejay, mentre guidavo.. E ho sentito una cosa straordinaria! Sono stati invitati i Musica Per Bambini ed hanno fatto sentire alcuni loro pezzi. Io normalmente ascolto metal, però questa elettronica mi ha particolarmente colpito, apprarirà senza senso a molte persone, ma è avanguardia pura! Provate ad ascoltare alcune loro canzoni, tipo La mia prima grattugia..
Dei geni, senza alcun dubbio! Visitateli su musicaperbambini.com
