Throughout the recent months (and particularly: weeks), people have asked me how to properly secure their SSL/TLS communication, particularly on web servers. At the same time I’ve started to look for good literature on SSL/TLS. I noticed that many of the …
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Now that ownCloud 1.6.0 beta1 is out, it’s time to explain the story behind it: This release was developed under the promise that it would improve performance 1), and we have made tremendous improvements: Using a new Qt-based propagator implementation, …
At 30C3, Ilja van Sprundel gave a talk on X Security. In this talk, he also discussed Qt security matters, specifically how running a setuid binary which links against Qt is unsafe due to exploitable bugs in the Qt code …
The Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) will take place on the 24th and 25th of August this year, kindly hosted by the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin. We are looking for projects that would like to …
Once upon a Time… When the Qt sources were first released on ftp.troll.no, the Troll Tech (mind the spelling, it’s that long ago!) FTP server, many FTP mirror admins quickly started mirroring the software, because it was cool, and useful …
For quite a long time now, Qt Creator has been using the native features of Mac OS X and Windows 7 to display build errors and progress as badges and progress bars on the icon in the Dock and Task …
It took a bit longer than anticipated (sorry about that), but now it’s finally done: Planet Qt got a face lift, and is now hosted with the Qt Foundation. Just like Planet KDE which it was greatly inspired by (thanks …
My fellow colleague Leandro sat down and wrote about the new generic highlighter, which has entered Git master (the future Qt Creator 2.1) a few weeks ago and has been improved since then. It uses the Kate definitions to highlight …
Wow! The last few days have been eventful. Only four Days after LinuxTag and the KDE Wiki Meeting I am sitting in the check-in area of the Berlin-Tegel Airport heading for Madrid. If everything works out as expected, I will …