For those who also use XFCE to work, since current Gnome-3 Problems:
Tested on Fedora 15.
Hooray, the first public Schneeflocke build 0.5.4 has been released today on sflx.net 
Schneeflocke is designed to be a Friend-2-Friend file sharing system. It’s like a IM client for sharing folders (and without the chatting functionality…). In order to use it, you just have to
The source code can be found on GitHub.
Don’t trust my server? Just use your own XMPP Server (e.g. Prosody).
Note: Although the connection is encrypted, its not yet authenticated – an active attacker can still compromise security and sniff your traffic. Not all NATs can be traversed in the moment, only basic UDP hole punching is implemented. This is a BETA version.
And now? Now that Schneeflocke is released for the first time, I will try to get into the reachability problem, either by increasing the NAT hole punching algorithm or by implementing some kind of a tunnel algorithm.
Had to get a mobile workstation for Linux and choosed the Dell XPS 15 (Intel i7 2630QM, FullHD) L502x for it because of 3 years warranty and their good screen resolution. The laptop itself seems solid, the fan is a bit loud but still ok.
The bad: In ubuntu (11.10 Beta) it’s always noisy due to a bug in their kernel.
Power consumption in idle: 42W, measured with PowerTOP. Thats enough, to keep the fan running all the time.
In contrast, Fedora 15: 24W. While playing HD Youtube videos: 37W. That’s less enough to keep the fan off. And nearly 40% off.
BTW: Ubuntu 11.10 doesn’t include Gnome, just their Unity. In my opinion even Gnome3 is more useable than Unity. But why on earth does each new WM copy the bad tab-switch-behaviour from OSX?
Update
Arg, the Kernel update to 2.6.40 (3.0 ) brought the problem back, so again 30W of consumption. After disabling nouveau (which isn’t that easy (german)) and unloading the NV 540M core via acpi_call it’s again at 19W. Disabling the nouveau driver also brings the suspend mode to work (with nouveau it’s just a matter of luck).
Just uploaded sfserialization 0.2. Most changes are inside the C++ parser and code generator
0.2 can be found here
update: already on 0.2.1 (bugfix only)
Just as a Idea for a project, some links about coroutine implementations:
LibTask: http://code.google.com/p/libtask/ (originally: http://swtch.com/libtask/ )
LibTask for Win32: http://code.google.com/p/libtask-win32/
Boost Coroutine (Some Summer of Code project): http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/soc/coroutine/
And some other serialization related things are described in a short presentation of Autoreflect.
I am happy that the first public version of sfserialization just released to public:
github.com/nob13/sfserialization
The library shall simiply JSON serialization and deserialization for C++ dramatically, as nearly all needed code can be generated automatically by a bundled tool called sfautoreflect, just look at the Readme-File and the testcases to see how it works. I will write more the next days.
How long does it take to build a HTTP Proxy server (which just forwards web traffic) with NodeJS for someone with nearly no Java-Script knowledge? We planned around 20h for this task.
After 3 hours we got the thing working.
Together with SSL authentication (+ client authentication and key creation), Base64-encoding (to circumvent sniffing proxies who don’t like binary code) and code-cleaning refactorization we finished it in 7h (~120 LOC).
NodeJS is really impressive.
Unfortunately I cannot upload code as it is closed.
I assume there are millions of blog entries about this topic already, here is another one. I recently got a new HTC Desire from my mobile carrier because I had forgotten to cancel my subscription plan, and getting a new phone was indeed cheaper then continuing the iPhone plan for another year. I wasn’t that unhappy with the iPhone as it did what it should. I got updates for the whole time. Ok, the apple monoculture sucks but when you just want to access your mails, Google Maps and your calendar it was quite ok (the only thing what really sucked was the bad synchronization with Linux, I even wrote my own contact exporting program some time ago). Now I tried to migrate the most important data (Contacts, SMS, Calendar) from the iPhone to Android.
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