Home / user-22925

Misguided's questions

Martin Hope
Misguided
Asked: 2012-03-06 11:04:15 +0800 CST
  • 9

So, Firefox has turned so resource intensive that my netbook can't run it without making me want to pull my hair out. Thus, I have been trying Chromium with quite some success (I have managed to find proper equivalents for my firefox plugins), the only thing I'm lacking is my bookmarks, which are stored in my Firefox Sync account. Point is I don't want to use Google Bookmarks, mostly because of the whole thing with encryption.

Is there any way to use Firefox Sync with Chromium?, or is there any secure alternative?

sync firefox chromium
Martin Hope
Misguided
Asked: 2011-11-01 12:46:58 +0800 CST
  • 0

Yesterday, I installed gnome-shell and managed to get it working after a little bit of trouble. Now I'm getting a kind of weird problem, which an image will explain better than my words can: http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5287/screenshotat20111031174.png

As you can see, Firefox's menu (just an example, it happens with every application) displays in the gnome-shell panel (same behavior as Unity has). Also, it seems to be under the panel, since you can't hover or click on it.

Any help will be appreciated.

11.10
Martin Hope
Misguided
Asked: 2011-10-31 19:37:46 +0800 CST
  • 5

So, it seems like I'm not the only one with this problem:

julian@yggdrasil:~$ gnome-shell --replace

(gnome-shell:11309): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.

If I try to log in normally, GNOME fallbacks to Fallback mode

A bit of googling showed that this is ultimately reduced to a lacking feature in my gpu (nVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT), although this seems kind of weird, considering that I've been able to run Unity (apparently, users with the same problem also reported having trouble running Compiz).

I'm running the nVidia driver version 285.08.09, which seems to be the latest available. This computer has got 2 GB of memory, and uses a Intel Dual Core CPU with 1.6 GHz in each core.

nvidia
Martin Hope
Misguided
Asked: 2011-09-20 20:47:53 +0800 CST
  • 0

I've been trying to use the RSA C library on a C++ application (since it seems like the proper way to do it, due to the lack of an "official" [read: OpenSSL] C++ implementation). The thing is, whenever I try to compile a testing code:

#include <iostream>
#include <openssl/rsa.h>
#include <openssl/engine.h>
#include <unistd.h>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    RSA *myKeyPair = RSA_generate_key(2048, 65537, NULL, NULL);
    unsigned char *to;
    unsigned char *totwo;

    if (myKeyPair == NULL) {
        cout << "ERROR 1" << endl;
        return 0;
    }

    to = (unsigned char *) malloc(RSA_size(myKeyPair) - 11);

    if (RSA_private_encrypt(13, (const unsigned char *)"Hello World!", to, myKeyPair, RSA_PKCS1_PADDING) == -1) {
        cout << "ERROR 2" << endl;
        return 0;
    }

    cout << to << endl;

    totwo = (unsigned char *) malloc(RSA_size(myKeyPair) - 11);

    if (RSA_public_decrypt(13, to, totwo, myKeyPair, RSA_PKCS1_PADDING) == -1) {
        cout << "ERROR 3" << endl;
        return 0;
    }

    cout << totwo;

    free(to);
    free(totwo);
    RSA_free(myKeyPair);
    return 0;
}

I get undefined reference errors for all RSA_* functions (please notice that I AM linking with -lssl). To make it even weirder, compiling the very same code using GCC does the job (well, of course, it won't compile because of the C++ std lib references, but the point is that I don't get undefined reference for RSA functions).

Any ideas on how to go about this? (without recurring to any other lib?).

g++