ao2.it
Antonio Ospite, theorist attacks

I've uploaded a simple wrapper around sudo, for executing commands as another user with full access to the X display (GLX works too); I call it xudo.

I've put on-line a brief tutorial of my first experiences with Android apps from the command line interface, IDEs are just not really in my line.

Some interesting stuff I've run into in the past months:

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C. C is simple, and I surely like simplicity.

I use RSS/Atom feeds a lot, they are a relatively efficient way to follow stuff around the web, and they are also privacy-friendly tools to a certain degree: I can follow my friends and family on Youtube, Flickr, and even Twitter (at least as long as API 1.0 is up and running, bah...), without having to explicitly tell the companies behind those sites whom I am friend with. Privacy is not only about “what you do”, but also about “whom you know”.

Have you ever typed suod instead of sudo? I do that quite often; maybe I am becoming typing dixleysc, who knows.

Support for the Digicom Digitune-S DVB-T USB stick will land in linux 3.9, the patch I sent was accepted along with other small refactorings.

Attached files: 

Firmware for the vp7049 DVB-T USB stick

Digicom Digitune-S UsbSnoop dump

I was planning on “playing” with a certain device, so I wanted some adapter which allowed me to interface with the device at a low level to facilitate the information gathering phase in the hacking process.

Xin He from Amlogic informed me that the linux kernel source code for their AML8726-MX SoC has been released:

Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 00:13.37, the moon is shining white above the Super- Secret Second Googleplex in Amsterdam, California, United States.

There are cases when you want to export some content from a website, in order to import the same content at some later point into a similar website in an automated fashion.