News: DroidCleaner App infects connected PCs

Linux friends with android device another problem can infect your device.
DroidCleaner, an Android app that claims to free up smartphone memory but actually infects connected PCs, has been removed from Google Play but is still available from third-party app stores.
Read more here.

GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest 2013

This week I’m attending the Developer Experience hackfest in Brussels.
This week Red Hat and the GNOME Foundation giving you the chance to attend the Developer Experience hackfest in Brussels.
The goal of the hackfest is to improve the overall application developer experience.
There are three main areas of work we suggest for this hackfest:

• Tooling (Anjuta, Monodevelop, application bundling, intltool, gtk-doc, autofoo and friends...)
• Developer docs and mindshare (unified online/offline API reference UI, app developer community building...)
• Further platform needs (improvement of data-driven apps and other needs with an unclear answer)
• Application bundling and sandboxing, the application as the first class concept in the kernel

Read more about this event here.

The linux command: dmidecode

The linux command dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI.

# dmidecode -h
Usage: dmidecode [OPTIONS]
Options are:
 -d, --dev-mem FILE     Read memory from device FILE (default: /dev/mem)
 -h, --help             Display this help text and exit
 -q, --quiet            Less verbose output
 -s, --string KEYWORD   Only display the value of the given DMI string
 -t, --type TYPE        Only display the entries of given type
 -u, --dump             Do not decode the entries
 -V, --version          Display the version and exit

Let's see the option: -t.

# dmidecode -t -h
Invalid type keyword: -h
Valid type keywords are:
  bios
  system
  baseboard
  chassis
  processor
  memory
  cache
  connector
  slot

Now let's show you some infos about my old processor.

# dmidecode -t processor
# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.3 present.

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 32 bytes
Processor Information
 Socket Designation: SOCKET A
 Type: Central Processor
 Family: Other
 Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
 ID: 62 06 00 00 FF FB 83 03
 Signature: Family 6, Model 6, Stepping 2
 Flags:
  FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
  VME (Virtual mode extension)
  DE (Debugging extension)
  PSE (Page size extension)
  TSC (Time stamp counter)
  MSR (Model specific registers)
  PAE (Physical address extension)
  MCE (Machine check exception)
  CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
  APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
  SEP (Fast system call)
  MTRR (Memory type range registers)
  PGE (Page global enable)
  MCA (Machine check architecture)
  CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
  PAT (Page attribute table)
  PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
  MMX (MMX technology supported)
  FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore)
  SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
 Version: AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1700+
 Voltage: 1.7 V
 External Clock: 133 MHz
 Max Speed: 2250 MHz
 Current Speed: 1466 MHz
 Status: Populated, Enabled
 Upgrade: Other
 L1 Cache Handle: 0x0009
 L2 Cache Handle: 0x000A
 L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided

Also you can use this format to read infos.

# dmidecode --type 0 --type 13 

The numbers tell what to read, see:

bios
system  1, 12, 15, 23, 32
baseboard  2, 10, 41
chassis  3
processor  4
memory  5, 6, 16, 17
cache  7
connector  8
slot  9