Updated Feisty today and after restarting (new kernel) and logging in, I was prompted with a balloon indicating that Ubuntu may be using restricted drivers. Clicking on the new tray icon in the notification area popped up the following window:

I like how it informs users in rather polite language that proprietary drivers are almost [...]

Packages for Beryl 0.2.0 were released. After updating to them and restarting Beryl, my entire desktop was sluggish and a quick look at top indicated that Beryl was consuming most of the CPU. Deleting my old Beryl settings and restarting Beryl seemed to solve the problem:
rm -Rf ~/.beryl*

I am a huge fan of OpenID. My initial interest was piqued by the promise of no longer having to remember login credentials for dozens if not hundreds of websites. The security benefits of only having to protect one set of login credentials instead of many became quickly obvious thanks to an ebay [...]

最近OpenID是互联网上最热的新科技之一。到底它是什么东西？
OpenID是一种分散身份认证协议
在互联网上你的身份就是你用的登录网站的帐户号或用户名。目前最多数网站他们有自己的帐户管理系统，每个网站的用户名和密码很可能不一样。这情况从安全观点来看不太好，也对用户来说可不方便。用户有那么的帐户证明身份可定全部不能记住。有些人会所有的用户和密码写下来，更多会用简单又容易记住但容易猜到的密码。两个解法都有缺乏了。
互联网市场显然需要一个方法让消费者在每个网站用同一个帐户登录。以前不少公司意识到这市场需求，包括资讯科技行业最大的公司，微软有Windows Live ID (以前称为passport.net）谷歌有谷歌帐户和雅虎有Yahoo!ID。除了他们自己公司的网站其它网站都不用因为这种身份认证系统是中央又复杂的。
怎么用OpenID呢？

首先创新一个OpenID。国内的有几个提供免费的OpenID比如openid.cn。美国的也有好几个提供免费的OpenID，最著名的之一是MyOpenID
访问接受OpenID登录的网站比如ipv6links.net（本网站也支持OpenID发评论)
在想用的网站输入你的OpenID，点击登录。（如下图）如果你这次上网在OpenID服务器已登录了，你会被自动的登录了想使用的网站

如果你还没登录OpenID，必要在OpenID的服务器登录（如下图）

简不简单？
OpenID有中文名字吗？
这个我不太清楚。大众好像没想好该否给OpenID起个中文名，但大众的智慧已想了不少可能征名。我比较喜欢的那个是《网络通行证》，听起来正式又可靠的。你觉得呢？
OpenID网络通行证，提高你网上身份的地位！

Today’s libxcb1-1.0-1.1ubuntu2 update in Ubuntu Feisty works around the Java bug reported a couple weeks ago here and on launchpad on a more permanent basis until the bugs are fixed in Java.

Eran makes a great point regarding multiple OpenID support as a necessity to avoid vendor lock-in. Sites accepting OpenID should find it in their best interest to allow users to associate multiple OpenIDs with their accounts. After all, as a site owner, you want to make it as convenient as possible for a user [...]

Finally fixed the bug at http://ipv6links.net where entering an invalid OpenID such as the example iname =example.name or http://example in the login box would result in the login process hanging and eventually failing with the error
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 14592 bytes) in /home/www/ipv6links.net/login.php on line 76
I [...]

I logged into my email today to 50+ emails from eBay. My initial reaction was:
Great! Google’s email SPAM filter has finally broken down.
Unfortunately, it was not a simple case of spoofed eBay emails making it through the trusty SPAM filter. My eBay account had been hacked. Some one had gained access to my [...]

I posted earlier today about the bug in Ubuntu Feisty that causes Java apps that use GUI to fail. It turns out it is an upstream bug in Java 6 itself that is brought out by new xcb code in X11. As of now, it is unclear if Ubuntu will choose to downgrade X11 [...]

Upgraded packages in Ubuntu Feisty in the past 24 hours have broken Java 6 (package sun-java6). Netbeans and other Java GUI applications no longer work. The error is as follows:
$ /opt/netbeans-5.5/bin/netbeans
java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock’ failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Bug #86103 has been filed at launchpad.net
It seems to be an issue with recently pushed out [...]