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(Gnu-)Tar option of the day

–exclude-vcs

Cellphone sync and linux

I once had a cellphone that played very nicely with Linux, the good old Siemens S55. Unfortunately, my SE P1i doesn’t. I tried various combinations of Multisync or OpenSync, nothing helped. Today I bit the bullet and installed funambol with syncevolution. What shall I say, apart from having to run a ~250Meg Java Application server [...]

The new automake meme

Apparently a small meme has spread in the gnome community, the non-recursive automake meme.

Well, rewriting the makefiles for rygel to use the new Vala support in automake-1.11 I also converted it to be non-recursive.

This is what I got:

Parallel builds working (but this seems to be more the work of the Vala support)
Cleaner Makefiles, [...]

Concerning gnupg…

I wrote earlier about compiling libgpgme for use with Visual Studio. Forgot to mention that this is an useless effort because the filedescriptor passing does not work and as such you can only encrypt decrypt from or to memory.

GUPnP on windows howto

I threw together some instructions on how to build the GUPnP stack on windows:

Trekstor Vibez & Jaunty

If you use one of the famous beta firmwares for your Trekstor vibez and have jaunty installed, you may experience some weird behaviour if you plugin in your player and hope that a folder pops up showing you your device’s contents.

If you configured your device’s transfer mode to “Mass Storage only” it is likely that [...]

gupnp on win32

Small demo showing the effort of porting GUPnP on windows:

WPFP(document).ready(function() {
//load player
$f(“saiweb_20d04444501352f822077ce865e3b080″, “http://jensge.org/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf”, {
plugins: {
controls: {
buttonOverColor: ”,
sliderColor: ”,
bufferColor: ”,
sliderGradient: ‘none’,
[...]

Return of the struggle

If you ever wondered what parameters you could pass in that funny xmllet <GnupgKeyParms></GnupgKeyParms> when using gpgme_op_genkey:

The answer to that is

in the gnupg source, file g10/keygen.c, line 2363
at http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2007-February/030330.html
at doc/DETAILS, line 716.

Eternal struggle

My current task is evaluation crypto (here: OpenPGP) solutions for Microsoft Windows; of course including GnuPG.

Well, what do I say. While there is a nice installer for GnuPG on Windows available (either here or here), try to find one for the gpgme supporting library… (including header and .lib import files for Visual Studio, that is).

You [...]