分類: Technologies

At the end of last year, I used my free time¹ to fix Firefox Implementation of Segment Break Transformation Rules (Bug 1081858). Starting from Firefox 52, the line breaks between Chinese and Chinese in HTML will not be displayed as blank in the browser.

閱讀全文 CSS Text 3: Segment Break Transformation Rules

GNU software often comes with a large set of documents in texinfo format, which can be typesetted to a real book. For example the Gnus Manual has over 500 pages, full of fun and humor. Having a mobi version on my Kindle would be quite handy.

閱讀全文 Convert Texinfo to MOBI

Recently when I was preparing some Android training material I found this little trick.

Android “init” can do a lot of things, including “on property change” trigger; one can image some applications use this to implement an ad-hoc IPC. One example is the system/libnetutil that monitors the “init.svc.dhcpcd” property to detect whether dhcpcd is running or not.

閱讀全文 Android Service with dynamic arguments

Today I read that someone demoed how to put rootkit into your phone during the Defcon. But there are no details, the keywords like kernel moudle, install apk, remote phone call, …, all reminds me the old phishing attack. Then I thought, can it be the trick used to root Droid X?

閱讀全文 Root your Phone with just 1-Click

Gallery3D is the gallery application released with Éclair, contributed by Cooliris.

This application heavily uses OpenGL to render the scenes. It looks great on Nexus One. But 0xdroid does not yet support hardware accelerated 3D graphics and rely on libagl to rasterize the 3D graph.

閱讀全文 AndroidDev: Recent progress on Gallery3D

Today we are celebrating the 0xLab’s one year old birthday! I’d like to write about the recently announced fourth 0xdroid release.

閱讀全文 Fourth 0xdroid Release for BeagleBoard and Devkit8000!

In light recent new attacks against SHA-1 [1,2], and the NIST guidance on 1024 bit keys and SHA-1 hashes [3,4], I have decided to move to a new OpenPGP key of a larger size. As such, I will be slowly transitioning away from my old key.

閱讀全文 Created a 4096 bit GPG key to replace my 1024 bit one

The cairo-clock from MackSlow indeed has very good look and feel. But it’s transparent background depends on cairo’s alpha channel and Xorg’s composite extension. I did not enable this extension by default because gnome doesn’t have it’s own composite manager but rely on xcompmgr.

閱讀全文 Cairo Clock without composite manager