Update (2015-05-02): Fixed the icon shrinking, also uploaded my entire stylesheet.
I started using liferea quite a while ago for RSS feed and the only issue I encountered was the way the images were displayed if the image was larger than the window:
By adding the following rule to ~/.config/liferea/liferea.css I got all images resized to fit the window and browsing large photos in the feeds is no longer an issue.
Please note that I can't be held liable for any errors or omissions in the document and you will need to seek real immigration lawyer should you have any questions not answered on the USCIS/SSA websites.
TL;DR version: get EAD then SSN and that's all the documents you need to start working.
L-2 is a visa type/status issued to "a spouse of intra-company transferee". Regardless of what you read elsewhere you are NOT eligible to work anywhere unless you receive an Employment Authorization Document.
For some weird reason, SSA and DHS disagree on whether L-2 holders are eligible to work w/o EAD:
Spouses of L-1 workers may apply for work authorization by filing a Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization with fee. If approved, there is no specific restriction as to where the L-2 spouse may work.
SSA:
For COAs displaying a double asterisk (**) (non-immigrant E-1, E-2, and L-2 classifications), the spouse is also authorized to work without specific DHS authorization.
A person admitted under L-2 can obtain SSN w/o EAD, the list of documents is:
an EAD (Form I-766) showing “A-18” under Category; or
evidence other than an EAD that proves the L-2’s lawful alien status (e.g., I-94) and a marriage document as evidence that he or she is the spouse of the principal L-1 alien.
However, in my case I was specifically asked for an EAD while submitting the documents for SSN, stating that otherwise I would not be eligible for receiving SSN, your mileage may vary.
Based on the DHS documents, your employer will want to see the work authorization and the I-9 form states that SSN showing "ALLOWED TO WORK ONLY WITH DHS AUTHORIZATION" is not enough.
Employment Authorization Document is issued by Department of Homeland Security. While you can eFile the documents, you will still need to provide a payment (personal check or money order) and photos, so you will need to get these to the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) and the easiest way is to mail everything using the post office.
You will need to figure out where you need to send the documents based on the state you are currently in, see the instructions for your I-765 form.
A completed I-765 form, Application for Employment Authorization.
2 passport-sized photos on white or off-white background - 2"x2".
A Personal check or money order for $380 payable to "U.S. Department of Homeland Security" (not "USDHS" or "DHS"). (check the fee at I-765 form page). You can take the photos ($15.00) and purchase a money order at the Post Office ($1.20 fee in my case). Since you will want to send the documents via the Priority Mail with tracking number, you will want to go to the post office anyway.
A copy of your passport identification page and L-2 visa.
A copy of your spouse's passport identification page and L-1 visa.
I-94 information - you can print it from Admission (I-94) Number Retrieval page.
An authorized translation of your marriage certificate (it is not mandatory to be notarized, anyone other than you can perform the translation, adding the footer mentioned in the Translation of Non-English Documents for U.S. immigration purposes page.
Double and triple-check the contents of your mail prior to posting. Create a checklist and tick it off as you put the items into your mail, you really want to get everything done properly from the first time.
You will want to get a tracking number, so that you will be able to check the status of the message as it is traveling through the US to the lockbox facility.
Once USCIS receives your mail and checks that it is intact, you will receive a mail message, Form I-797C, Notice of Action, where you will see the current status of your case and the receipt number.
Now go to USCIS, create an account and register for e-mail notification as your case passes various stages.
When your application is approved, DHS will send you another I-797 Notice of Action, this time on a fancy watermarked paper stating that your card is being sent to you.
Here's how the card looks:
If you signed up for e-mail notifications on the case progress, you will also receive an e-mail containing the USPS tracking number, however in my case there appears to be a template processing bug, and I was left with "#DCN" as the tracking number. I have notified the webmaster about the issue, but haven't heard anything back yet.
EAD processing may take up to 90 days, if you happen to relocate while you are waiting for the document to arrive, you can update the address online, specifying the receipt number you received in the first "Notice of Action". When DHS updates your information they will send you a paper mail notification about the same.
Письмо в поддержку:
Здравствуйте! Спасибо за отличный сервис - почтой и диском пользуюсь постоянно.
В последнее время я начал пользоваться Mozilla Thunderbird для почты и обнаружил две неисправности:
В случае, если метка содержит заглавные буквы (например "Work") то при добавлении флага "work" через IMAP веб интерфейс не замечает добавления метки (cудя по RFC, флаги в IMAP должны быть регистронезависимыми).
После того, как приложение ставит флаги и переподключается к серверу, в IMAP флаги пропадают, хотя на веб интерфейсе метки остаются. Во вложении находится лог обмена сообщениями между мной и сервером, а на видео http://video.yandex.ru/users/roman-yepishev/view/16/ можно увидеть, как флаг "shopping" внезапно пропадает после close/select в IMAP, оставаясь при этом в веб-интерфейсе. Это происходит только с метками, которые предварительно созданы через веб.
Из-за данных неисправностей невозможно использовать одни и те-же метки в IMAP клиенте и на web интерфейсе.
Ответ из службы поддержки:
Здравствуйте, Роман!
Наши специалисты уже занимаются решением проблемы, о которой Вы сообщаете, и постараются закончить эту работу как можно скорее. Приносим свои извинения за временные неудобства! Мы будем признательны за Ваше терпение и понимание.
Ок, подождем, вот моя переписка с IMAP сервером:
$ telnet-ssl -z ssl imap.yandex.ru imaps Trying 87.250.250.124... Connected to imap.yandex.ru. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Yandex IMAP4rev1 at imap15g.mail.yandex.net:993 ready to talk with 24.2.252.8:42823, 2013-Dec-14 00:05:33, V5PajE3m64YO 1 login roman-yepishev "***" 1 OK LOGIN completed 1 select inbox [...] 1 close 1 OK close complete. 1 select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Seen \Draft \Deleted $Forwarded) * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Seen \Draft \Flagged \Deleted $Forwarded \*)] Limited * OK [UIDNEXT 23396] Ok * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1274466921] Ok 1 OK [READ-WRITE] select completed 1 fetch 1 flags * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen)) 1 OK fetch completed 1 store 1 +FLAGS (shopping) * 1 FETCH (UID 23394 FLAGS (\Seen shopping)) 1 OK store completed 1 close 1 OK close complete. 1 select inbox * FLAGS (\Answered \Seen \Draft \Deleted $Forwarded) * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Seen \Draft \Flagged \Deleted $Forwarded \*)] Limited * OK [UIDNEXT 23396] Ok * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1274466921] Ok 1 OK [READ-WRITE] select completed 1 fetch 1 flags * 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen)) 1 OK fetch completed
I've been using Yandex.Disk for quite a while for data synchronization and file sharing because of its simplicity - a standard WebDAV implementation (+ extensions for file sharing, all documented, although in Russian) allowing for different clients to be used, a nice web UI and they have introduced a Linux client recently which marries WebDAV and XMPP which is used for OOB notifications.
Being a bit cautious I decided to run it on my system but restrict access to
everything else, so I wrote the following apparmor config and now it is only
allowed to touch the files within ~/Yandex.Disk directory and it's
configuration, put it to /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.yandex-disk:
# vim:syntax=apparmor # Author: Roman Yepishev <roman.yepishev@yandex.com> #include <tunables/global> /usr/bin/yandex-disk { #include <abstractions/base> #include <abstractions/nameservice> #include <abstractions/user-tmp> owner @{HOME}/.config/yandex-disk/ rw, owner @{HOME}/.config/yandex-disk/** rw, # yandex-disk can add itself to autostart configuration owner @{HOME}/.config/autostart/Yandex.Disk.desktop rw, # default sync location owner @{HOME}/Yandex.Disk/ rw, owner @{HOME}/Yandex.Disk/** rw, # or change the location like this: # owner @{HOME}/OtherFolder/ rw, # owner @{HOME}/OtherFolder/** rw, /usr/bin/yandex-disk ixr, /bin/dash ixr, }
Yandex.Disk supports symlinks, so if symlinks to other locations are used, these all should be described in the configuration file. Otherwise, the access checks will fail and you will get this in kernel log:
[77109.846335] type=1400 audit(1386173505.778:116): apparmor="DENIED" ↩ operation="open" parent=2000 profile="/usr/bin/yandex-disk" ↩ name="/home/rye/_wine.tar.gz" pid=2869 comm="yandex-disk" ↩ requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
P.S. Yeah, I've stopped using Ubuntu One for the time being.
I had a checking account with CityBank during my stay in the US in 2007. A lot of US-based online stores wanted US-issued card only (the same goes for UK stores, same attitude towards foreign cards), so I had to physically withdraw money from my Ukrainian card and deposit it to my US account (other options were not available at that time).
So once I found out I can do the deposits without bank teller via the ATM I decided to try it immediately.
Here's my dialog with the machine:
What do you want to do?
Deposit
How much do you want to deposit?
(Huh? That does not look right, you should check how much I have deposited. Okay, let's test) $200
Insert bills or envelope
(Excuse me? An envelope? How will the ATM check the bills are genuine? Bills or envelope... ok, I will go with the bills. I insert the stack of bills into the machine hoping there's some sort of feeder and verification system in place and notice the bills simply dropped somewhere inside the machine, oops)
Thank you for banking with CitiBank
This happened after working hours, so I decided not to continue stuffing the ATM with my money for the time being and see whether something goes wrong.
At home I checked CitiBank onine banking system and found that I had a successfull +$200 deposit.
The next day I went to CircuitCity and purchased some things using the card, when I returned home in the evening I found out that I had -$140 balance on a debit account.
Something went wrong.
The next day I went to CitiBank branch, spent half an hour with my account manager explaining what I did, she asked around and one teller confirmed that yeah, they had $200 unaccounted in the ATM because some idiot (my word, not theirs) decided it was a good idea to shove the money into the deposit slot. Overdraft was dropped, I learned a valuable lesson and used an envelope next time.
In 2011 Citibank started switching to ATMs that count and verify the bills and no longer require these weird envelopes.
Some Android phones/versions have a bug that cause the EXIF
DateTimeOriginal/DateTimeDigitized to be set to 2002:12:08. Recently I had a
chance to dig into the library provided by Qualcomm, and found the offending
string.
It turned out the date in question is the default string used as a
placeholder. The application using the library is expected to override the
date by calling exif_set_tag function. Unfortunately, not everybody consider
metadata to be important, so sometimes this gets left out.
The copyright start date on the files is said to be 2002 so I guess some milestone was reached on 8th of December, 2002.
If only all the phone software was open source that would not have been an issue – the fix would have been ready in minutes, but in our current real world it is a matter of months, years, eternity or workaround such as my Acer EXIF Fixup. Once the device is out the user is left one on one with the bugs (should it be “one on many?”).
While I am still in love with Tizen platform, and having spent some time fixing build bugs I should not have introduced in the first place, here are my findings about Tizen build system.
Tizen supports both HTML5-based applications and native ones. The latter can be packaged as RPM archives for platform applications or as a widget ZIP archive when installed by a user. RPMs are built using GIT Build System (GBS) which manages a local build chroots, export the sources for building, submit changes to Gerrit etc.
You should install GBS by following the Installing Development Tools guide.
Also note that you don't really need to have all the platform sources on your
local machine as GBS will fetch all the required dependency archives and
re-create the build environment in the chroot. RPM files must specify the
BuildDepends for the magic to happen.
Emulator builds are different from the real device ones in some subtle ways.
I've spent a few days figuring out why libewebkit2 compiled from the sources
would not work on an emulator. It turned out there exist a separate tizen
repository for emulator RPMs and trying to put real-world packages into an
emulator may fail in really bizzare ways (how do you like a black screen upon
HTML5 app launch?). At the moment of writing the latest snapshot is
tizen-2.2-emul_20130719.2.
You will need a .gbs.conf in your $HOME. We are building for an emulator,
please note the repo URL:
[general] tmpdir=/var/tmp/ profile = profile.tizen2.2_emul [repo.tizen2.2_emul] url = http://download.tizen.org/releases/2.2-emul/tizen-2.2-emul_20130719.2/ [profile.tizen2.2_emul] repos=repo.tizen2.2_emul
Now we need our application. The source is available from GitHub branch at tizen-example-platform-app.
GBS looks for a packaging directory for a spec file, so this should be always present:
Name: example-platform-app Version: 1.0 Release: 1 Summary: Example Tizen Platform App License: GPL2 URL: http://rtg.in.ua Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz %description Example Tizen Platform Application %prep %setup -q %build make %{?_smp_mflags} %install make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} PREFIX=%{_prefix} %files %{_bindir}/example-platform-app %changelog * Sat Aug 17 2013 Roman Yepishev <roman.yepishev@yandex.ua> - Initial version
Upon cloning the repository you are ready to build the application.
$ git clone https://github.com/roman-yepishev/tizen-example-platform-app.git $ cd tizen-example-platform-app $ gbs build -A i586 info: generate repositories ... ... info: generated RPM packages can be found from local repo: /home/rye/GBS-ROOT/local/repos/tizen2.2_emul/i586/RPMS
GBS automatically creates GBS-ROOT in your home directory, visiting the RPMS shows we have new shiny RPM packages:
$ cd /home/rye/GBS-ROOT/local/repos/tizen2.2_emul/i586/RPMS $ ls example-platform-app-1.0-1.i586.rpm example-platform-app-debuginfo-1.0-1.i586.rpm example-platform-app-debugsource-1.0-1.i586.rpm
While you are at it, there are a few useful gbs build options,
the full list of options can be seen by running gbs build --help:
--debug debug output --overwrite overwrite existing binaries and build them anyway -C, --clean delete old build root before initialization --clean-repos clean up local repos created by gbs
Fire up the emulator instance and wait until sdb sees it:
The only part left is to push the RPMs and install them:
$ sdb push example-platform-app-1.0-1.i586.rpm /tmp 1 file(s) pushed. 0 file(s) skipped. example-platform-app-1.0-1.i586.rpm 36 KB/s (4645 bytes in 0.125s) $ sdb root on Switched to 'root' account mode $ sdb shell sh-4.1# rpm -Uhv /tmp/example-platform-app-1.0-1.i586.rpm reading device security policy from /etc/device-sec-policy package ac-domain-system defined ac domain Isolated ... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] no RSA signature, cannot search sw source using _default_ sw source No manifest in this package. Creating default one adding example-platform-app manifest data to system, package_name example-platform-app sw source _default_ provided package example-platform-app Request for a domain name _ is allowed based on package sw source 1:example-platform-app setting SMACK64 _ for /usr/bin/example-platform-app setting SMACK64EXEC _ for /usr/bin/example-platform-app ########################################### [100%] sh-4.1# example-platform-app Hello, Tizen!
Congratulations, you have a platform application running on the emulator. This application does not do anything interesting for now but it can be used as a starting point.
I can also confess that I really like RPMs now.
At the moment I am checking out other distributions after spending more than 5 years on Ubuntu and this week my Linux distro is Fedora 19. I am also interested in Tizen, so ability to run Tizen SDK on Fedora is quite welcome.
Tizen SDK is supported on Windows and Ubuntu machines only, but it is not really a big deal to get it working on Fedora installation.
First of all, install all the extra packages the installer wants you to:
It wants to use Oracle JDK, so after installing the RPM from Oracle web site you will need to set up the alternatives link (by the way, if you happen to find this link while searching how to set up Oracle JDK on Ubuntu, java-package is your friend):
$ sudo update-alternatives --install \ /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/java 900 $ sudo update-alternatives --config java There is 2 program that provides 'java'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- * 1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-[...]/jre/bin/java 2 /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/java Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:
Installer should work after this. I prefer downloading the sdk image and using
it instead of re-downloading all the files via the installer itself. During
the installation it should ask you to grant it superuser access to install kvm
SysV init script (/etc/init.d/tizen-kvm) and udev rule file to configure
permissions for Samsung development devices.
Ok, if installer has finished successfully you can now start the IDE, which... well, it won't work due to libsoup crash. The workaround is to add the following to ide/eclipse.ini:
Now the IDE starts, it still complains about MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, it is not
critical for now, but I would need to find out the real reason.
Creating a new VM will fail - qemu-img is linked to
libcurl-gnutls.so.4, which
is not present in Fedora. A dumb solution for this was to add a symlink in
/usr/lib64/ to libcurl.so.4. While qemu-img could start, it looks like it's
output is being parsed, and a message about version info gets in the way. I
ended up symlinking tools/emulator/qemu-img to a system-wide
/usr/bin/qemu-img. Our libcurl-gnutls.so.4 symlink still helps, because
emulator-x86 is also linked against that lib.
Having done all that I got the Tizen IDE and emulator running on Fedora.
So recently I installed Tizen SDK on my Ubuntu 13.04 and found that I can't create a project - the java process crashes in some native library and it was not obvious where.
After some extensive googling I found a report about this particular problem - TIZEN 2.0 MAGNOLIA SDK Crashes while creating a new project where daviderosa found the reason: Google Talk Plugin.
Uninstalling the plugin allowed me to continue creating the project.
Unfortunately the mozilla process launched by eclipse tries to load all the plugins possible automatically, and there is no switch to disable that. The
best solution would be to specify Mozilla profile in your eclipse.ini, but Tizen SDK 2.1 is based on a
SWT version which does not yet have this feature.
Uninstalling google-talkplugin completely or moving the installed plugin links
(/usr/lib/firefox/plugins and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins) and putting them back when needed seem
to be the solutions for now.
Well, I've reached my target kernel version, but it looks like there are a few issues to solve before 2.6.35 can be used with Android Gingerbread on Acer Liquid.
I was able to build and run: a Gingerbread distribution from CodeAurora Forum sources, but I haven't been able to get rild to cooperate. There are 2.3 ROMs out there with older kernel, so it is only a matter of time.
There is quite an issue with 3D drivers. It does not look like there are devices which run Gingerbread, have kernel with 2D/3D kgsl split and are powered by QSD8x50 chipset. I believe we will need to use pre-split drivers and see whether we like Nexus One (update: nope, uses different prelink map) or Sony Xperia X10 drivers more.
Wi-Fi does not work and crashes the device, I have a bug for that and a bunch of kernels in download queue to see how it gets handled in other devices carrying bcm4329 chip.
So here's the first build of 2.6.35 kernel/compatible userspace that I have flashed to my phone and it kind of works (no 3D, so no camera, no Wi-Fi, no top LED support). Sources can be found on GitHub - android-kernel-msm, android-msm-2.6.35-acer_a1 branch.
Interested parties can follow the development process via the thread on MoDaCo forum.
Social Security Number
Once you receive your EAD, you can go to your local Social Security Administration office and apply for a Social Security Number.
You will need to provide:
A completed SS-5 form.
Your foreign passport with the L-2 visa.
Employment Authorization Card.
You will be given a receipt showing your name, mail address, and application date. The social security card should arrive to your mailbox within 2 weeks.
First day
As expected, on the first day of work I needed to provide my Passport and EAD. Employment quest is finished, no issues detected.