A desktop file managers failure: writing an USB stick image
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Installing an operating system
When you want to install a new operating system, the first thing to do is to get an installer medium, which usually involves two steps: downloading an image, and writing it to a medium. There are two major types of media usable for that purpose: optical discs and USB sticks. There used to be a third one, floppy disks, but it is no longer used, and it was conceptually very similar to USB sticks.
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Mobile browsers, you suck (or: RTFM CSS media type)
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Mobile devices
A number of people are using small mobile devices to read Web pages. These devices have small screens, which make it hard to read pages designed for a large screen width.
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Why phishers must looove smartphones
Phishing is a fraud technique that consists in reproducing the content of a targeted website, directing users to it, and recording their credentials when they log into your website. It is like fishing fish with fake food, only you phish humans with fake websites.
Well, I have a good news for the phishers: people are using more and more smartphones, and mobile browsers are making your job really easy. In fact, many regular smartphone user simply have no way to tell your fake website apart from the real one.
MySQL save/restore: an example of what not to do
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I had to play a bit with MySQL, saving and restoring databases with
mysqldump and mysql. These two tools have one
severe discrepancy, which I would like to comment here because I think
it is an excellent example of what not to do when designing tools to be
used together.
Beware of the newest Intel Atom GPU
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Do you remember how Intel used to be the white knight of graphic card manufacturers, the one from which you could buy hardware without looking, being sure that it would be supported by GNU/Linux directly?
Do you remember how they broke that by releasing the infamous Poulsbo card?
Well, they did it again. The newest Intel Atom D2500, D2550, D2700, N2600 and N2800 processors, codenamed “CedarView” and “Cedar Trail”, include a graphic core that is only supported by a proprietary driver only available on Meego (read: unusable on regular GNU/Linux.