Transparent system-wide proxy
Proxies can be a powerful way to enforce anonymity or to bypass various kinds of restrictions on Internet (government censorship, regional contents, …). In this post, I’ll describe a simple technique to create a transparent proxy at the system level. It’s especially useful in cases when you want to make sure that all connections make it through the proxy or when your application of interest doesn’t have proxy support.
MeeGo DE – *THAT* is how you do it ….
Over the past several weeks I’ve been hitting one concept over and over again: “reference”. I’m talking here about the idea of a reference implementation; and I don’t mean something so comprehensive that it’s almost useless..
D-Bus traffic pattern with Telepathy
Telepathy is a big user of D-Bus , both on the GNOME desktop with Empathy and on the N900 . When I have a lot of Telepathy accounts and contacts, the start-up time could be about 10 seconds. How much is the D-Bus communication responsible for the start-up time