Francisco Figueiredo Jr Activities

Yesterday I merged a pull request which adds support to .Net SSLStream in Npgsql. When Npgsql development started, in 2002, there was no SSL support in .net 1.0 and 1.1. It was added later in .net 2.0 but the support to SSLStream was never added to Npgsql. This all changed a few weeks ago when  Dave G created a patch which adds support to .Net SSLStream in Npgsql. He also said that one of the motivations was the fact that the current SSL support was returning error when using client certificate authentication. (I'll post a tutorial about how to use client certificates later) There is a very old feature request  (like since 2005!) to somehow create a single Npgsql.dll which incorporates Mono.Security.dll assembly. This would easy the deployment of Npgsql and version control. This feature request generated a discussion about the removal of Mono.Security dependency and possible impact in current user code.  In order to get the lowest impact by this change...

After struggle for some time to get compiz-fusion 0.6.2 to work on my old intel 855/GM graphics card, I finally got it working. I was playing around reading some bug descriptions of intel xorg driver when I faced a comment from Ian which gave me some hope: "Although I'm using Debian, if I turn this option off none of my terminal window contents get painted,[...]" This is exactly the behavior I was facing when running compiz-fusion with newer driver (2.1.1). After making the change in xorg.conf... voilà! It worked perfectly! No more repaint problems!! Ah, the modification: Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" With this configuration set, I could go one more step and get mplayer composition to work. :) I followed the instructions on this blog post about mplayer composition and compiled mplayer rc2 with the patch linked there and to my surprise it worked perfectly!!! The only drawback is that the patch only works on 24bits and my card hasn...