2016 – Jupiter Broadcasting

Bob’s Dozen Russians | Unfilter 287

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2016 Review | Unfilter 219

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Shell-Shocked 2016 | LINUX Unplugged 176

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Race To The Bottom | Unfilter 209

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Careless but Not Criminal | Unfilter 195

chris — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:02:11 +0000

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By our estimate Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election since our last episode, we’ll run down the last two amazing weeks for her. Why NATO’s military moves are creating a ticking time bomb & the latest cyber threat powered by encryption.

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All By My SELF | LAS 424

chris — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 20:13:49 +0000

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We go back in time and take a look at what you missed at SELF 2016. Plus we’re 1% closer to the Linux Desktop, why Evernote sucks & more!

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Fireworks RUNS LINUX

A test of the Raspberry Pi sprinkler controller which I’m working on. I’m borrowing it to use as a fireworks controller since it’s just a relay controller.

I’m using a 12V SLA battery to power everything. Battery goes into switch box so that fireworks has a master control safety switch. A cheap switching power supply is used to step down the 12V to 5V for the Pi. The relay boards are controlled by three 74hc595 shift registers.

Desktop App Pick

rambox.pro

Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.

Notifications
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System Tray

Spotlight

K3b -Disk Burning

K3b is a full-featured, easy to use CD and DVD burner, copier, ripper and more.

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End of 32bit machines?

Linux Reaches 2%

Infinity:One is OLPC XO’s bigger, more responsible sibling

Evernote limits free tier to two devices, raises prices 40%

Turtl – Find your private space

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Torturing the Truth | Unfilter 188

chris — Mon, 16 May 2016 20:23:18 +0000

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A quick update edition of Unfilter this week, we just couldn’t stay away! We cover some of the crazy things happening in the news, our favorite clips of the week & more!

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Trumping the Republican Party | Unfilter 186

chris — Wed, 04 May 2016 19:54:22 +0000

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Everything in the 2016 race changed this week, we cover all the big upsets and the possible reasons & the major shift this represents.

Plus the latest “cyber war” propaganda is thick & we break it down, Glenn Beck goes crazy, Bitcoin’s founder is possibly outed & a packed overtime segment!

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Linux Switch Competition | LAS 415

chris — Sun, 01 May 2016 19:58:08 +0000

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Noah & Emma set out to switch as many users to Linux as possible. Our team documents their competition to switch the most people to Linux within two hours in the Pacific Northwest!

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ESA astronaut Tim Peake will take part in an experiment dubbed ‘SUPVIS-M’ (Supervisory Control of Mars Yard Rover) in which he will operate, from the International Space Station (ISS), a UK-built rover – Bridget – located in the Airbus Mars Yard in Stevenage, UK.

Source: [Runs Linux] Rover controlling software – ESA – Starts at 5:09s : LinuxActionShow

Getting started with Linux:

Obtain the Ubuntu Install image from ubuntu.com

Write the Ubuntu installation image to a USB flash media device. On PC use Etcher or Rufus & on a mac, use Etcher. Be careful to make sure the flash drive is chosen in this step.

Once that is finished, eject the drive and insert the drive into your PC/Mac

When booting the PC/Mac press F2 (or your computer’s hotkey to access the boot menu), or if you’re running a newer version of Windows such as 8 or 10 boot into Windows, press start, go to advanced start options, choose UEFI Settings, Disable secureboot. Boot back into Windows repeat the steps to get back into UEFI and choose to boot off of the USB device.

Play around with the live demo system and if you enjoy it, follow the on screen instructions to install Ubuntu either as a secondary option to MacOS X or Windows, or as the only option, whichever you prefer.

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The Saudi Connection | Unfilter 185

chris — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 01:28:01 +0000

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The “28 Pages” of the 9/11 report the media never talked about… Until they did. What’s in the 28 pages? Why is it getting so much attention now? We’ll reveal how the Obama administration is using vital information about 9/11 as leverage with the Saudis & why these 28 pages are getting so much attention now.

Plus details on how the FBI hacked the iPhone 5c, the Bern starts to fade & Trump takes the lead on the right.

Then we end it all on a high note & an epic Overtime segment!

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Putin Pulls Out | Unfilter 180

chris — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:36:26 +0000

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Russia makes a major move after six months in Syria, and we discuss what a difference those six months made. The media is making the joint push for getting access to encrypted data, we examine their recent coverage.

Plus an update on the 2016 race, Obama’s plan to expand access to the NSA’s data & much more!

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Doxing ISIS | Unfilter 179

chris — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 23:01:46 +0000

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It’s a document extravaganza this week, with newly released Bin Laden files, ISIS informants & document treasure troves. We cover what surely must be a great week for the intelligence agencies.

Plus an update on the Apple vs DOJ case, the latest terrorism bogeyman, a 2016 race update, a high-note & even more!

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Cooking The Precedent | Unfilter 177

chris — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:52:07 +0000

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It’s our uniquely qualified take on the FBI’s battle to get access to one of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhones. Our coverage captures the core issues, why it is about setting a precedent, and how Apple could lose big if they don’t change their argument.

Plus the media’s scare on phone privacy at just the right time, an update on the Syrian ceasefire, Russia’s plans to snap some pictures of your backyard, a 2016 race update, and much more!

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2016 Linux Wish List | LAS 399

chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:34:36 +0000

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What if your humble hosts could have there way? A wave of their magic wands, whatever they want changed in Linux Land in 2016 would just happen? We spend sometime this week fantasizing about all things we wish would happen this year to make Linux better.

Plus the welcome change in Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox OS finds new life, desktop picks that changed our lives & more!

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A new effort to distance android from Google (Chris)

For the desktop, something a lot like: Remix OS is Android for the desktop, and it works with nearly any PC , but community backed, fully out in the open.

I’d like this project to even eventually kick Linux in the butt once or twice, to really get some competition in the open source desktop area. So its not just open source desktop vs commercial.

Collaborative Editing Software (Noah)

Google Docs is great for those who like it. Personally I can’t stand the web based solution. It tries to hard to be a native software solution including things like CTRL C and CTRL V for copy paste. When in a browser though my mind immediately starts acting like it should given that I’m in a browser. What I’d really like is a piece of software that runs on the OS itself and allows for offline editing.

More Frustrated Mac Users switch to Linux (Chris)

For a certain class of user, the Mac OS X desktop can be very frustrating. Its suppose to just work, and a great many things do indeed just work.

But for us geeks, sometimes it crosses a few sacred lined, that must never be crossed.

Macports is a royal pain compared to Linux package managers.
Brew does not have enough software, is nowhere near the AUR, or Debian/Ubuntu repos.
The lack of proper home/end/pgup/pgdown keys is maddening.
It has just enough quirks that I can’t say it Just Works significantly more than a well configured Linux desktop.
Performance optimization of new software seems to end when it works smoothly on ‘current’ hardware, which means that it doesn’t take long for hardware to get branded ‘old’.
Very expensive eco-system, with no real “lockin” iOS devices do not depend on OS X.
Switching to Linux

FOSS Linux based Access Points (Noah)

I’ve long been in love with Unifi AP’s ruining busybox but I always have my finger on the pulse of the company for fear that they will some day pull support from Linux. To be fair I don’t think it’s likely since more and more people are deploying controllers on AWS. That said, I would love to see a distro geared to turn consumer grade routers into managed access points. OpenWRT is great until you have to deploy 500 of them.

Ubuntu goes with rolling “fork” or version (Chris)

Those of us that love rolling, but want to play with the latest Ubuntu toys finally have the perfect distro to land on.

Client GUI Sync Client (Noah)

Again, there are plenty of projects that almost fit the bill but what would really set me on fire would be an encrypted syncing client that runs as a small client in the dash communicating with other devices I have syncing. It would rely on no special service, would not require you to configure, or access through a web UI, and would be open source.

Full Syncthing interrelation with Gnome Files. (Chris)

Just imagine it. With a few clicks, all your Gnome desktops syncing, peer to peer. Could be done so simply, so elegantly. True, secure, wonderful file sync at the DE level.

Universal app install (Chris)

Even if it requires btrfs.

A clear path with gnome builder for Dev on-ramping (Chris)

It needs to obvious how companies and indy devs jump into the Linux desktop from an app development, creation, deployment, and support standpoint.

Nvidia steps up with first rate Wayland support (Chris)

I really want to be running Wayland, on a studio machine, by the end of 2016.

Professionally Produced High Quality Kodi Media Player (Noah)

There are loads of android based devices that can be loaded with Kodi and at every turn there is a new way to build a Kodi box. I don’t have the time to install and configure those boxes especially when they crash. I would love to see a premade box that has a reset button that comes pre-loaded with JUST Kodi (Not Android). The market is rich for media players and if everyone rallied around a single software set plugins, and stability, would be soon become issues of the past.

Ubuntu 16.10 ships, Unity8 is looking good. Gaming is NOT impacted negatively (Chris)

Unity traditionally introduces about a 10% frame rate cost when running a game.

Hopefully SteamOS continues to be a great gaming platform for average users. But a lot desktop Linux users are benefiting from the new Steam games, and Ubuntu + Unity should be the “best” experience on desktop Linux for gaming. It would generate a lot of good buzz, and give Unity8 the reputation of being “super fast”.

Not an easy feat, with Mir involved.

Native Production Quality Video Conferencing (Noah)

There are plenty of solutions to get your face on someone’s computer. Even solutions that work well on other platforms are crippled to some degree on Linux. Ideally this would utilize XMMP / SIP protocols and communicate directly with a socket not rely on a third party service.

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Life Science Supercomputer RUNS LINUX

The new national supercomputer for life Sciences is physically installed at DTU Risø Campus, where highly redundant power (7 MW) and highly advanced energy efficient and dual redundant cooling technology is available. A dedicated national redundant high-speed network connects the supercomputer to the other DTU Campuses, University of Copenhagen and elsewhere such that it mimics the feel of having the facility in your basement. The machine currently acts as a backbone in the Danish ELIXIR node, where it collaborates across the whole European community on bioinformatics. The infrastructure links up into the European and international infrastructure encouraging the collaboration on the bleeding edge in the technology and life sciences arena.

The supercomputer is built using HP’s next generation of Apollo servers designed for high throughput and contain 16,048 cores of Intel’s state of the art Hashwell architecture, 96TB of global DDR4 high speed memory complemented by an ultra high speed infiniband interconnect. The supercomputer is named “Computerome” with ultra fast 3PB storage that can be expanded to 7.5 PB on the fly. The data is backed onto two 1 PB tape back up robots one on-site and second off-site in Lyngby. An additional layer of online data backup of 2PB is also maintained fully synchronized using long distance secure replication between Risø and Lyngby. The installation has an ultra high-density footprint, and is installed in 2x500KW high-density modular Tier IV containerized data center modules.

The system is designed using the bioinformatics reference architecture developed by CBS over the past 20 years and using the best practices in the industry. It has a full set of comprehensive systems management software tools and hot-spare hardware. The complete site is backed up by the premium support from the vendors. Compared to our current installation we are enlarging the compute capacity by a factor of 10 and the system is the largest of its type in Scandinavia and unique in Europe due to the fact it is specifically designed for life sciences workflows. At the time of writing (Summer 2014) the performance of the system brings it on to 86th place on the Top500 list, which consists of the 500 fastest computers in the world.

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Desktop App Pick

EasyTAG

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier.

Weekly Spotlight

OSTicket

osTicket is a widely-used and trusted open source support ticket system. It seamlessly routes inquiries created via email, web-forms and phone calls into a simple, easy-to-use, multi-user, web-based customer support platform. osTicket comes packed with more features and tools than most of the expensive (and complex) support ticket systems on the market. The best part is, it’s completely free.

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Ubuntu ‘Spyware’ Will Be Disabled In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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Search terms typed into the Unity 7 Dash search bar will only show local file, folder and app results. No search terms will be sent to Canonical or passed to third party results providers, as is currently the case.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Is Continuing To Prep ZFS Support

Chad Miller of Canonical shared that “ZFS is right now 90% ready on (what will be) Ubuntu 16.04.” There still are new ZFS packages to land in the Ubuntu 16.04, but Chad has the current packages queued up in a PPA. These packages will allow for installing Ubuntu to a ZFS partition, but an EFI partition is still needed. Additionally, there’s no support in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity graphical installer for setting up an easy ZFS-based system.

EXT4 will obviously be the default file-system still for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Firefox OS will Power New Panasonic UHD TVs Unveiled at CES

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Panasonic announced that Firefox OS will power the new Panasonic DX900 UHD TVs, the first LED LCD TVs in the world with Ultra HD Premium specification, unveiled today at CES 2016.

Mycroft Adapt Intent Parser Released as LGPL

The Adapt Intent Parser is an open source software library for converting natural language into machine readable data structures. Adapt is lightweight and streamlined and is designed to run on devices with limited computing resources. Adapt takes in natural language and outputs a data structure that includes the intent, a match probability, a tagged list of entities. The software was developed at Mycroft AI by a team led by Sean Fitzgerald, formerly one of the developers of both Siri and Amazon Echo.

I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected

On a spring day in 2012, I shutdown my MacBook Air for the last time. From then on, my primary computing environment — at least on a laptop computer — was GNU/Linux.

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Were you around for today’s (10 January 2016) live show? If not, you should seriously consider taking some time with us on Sunday and watch the live show. Not only will you get more content, but you’ll be able to interact with Chris and Noah.
One of the things that came up today was Chris talking about his background in today’s episode.

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SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

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Mycroft Action Show | LINUX Unplugged 126

chris — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:35:05 +0000

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Straight from the horse’s mouth, we get updates on the code drop coming from the Mycroft project. Plus some details about our SCALE plans & NVIDIA’s Linux powered CES demo.

Plus Chris owns up to his 2015 predictions & more!

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With the Drive PX2, NVIDIA is doubling-down on the vision it had last year: Instead of just enabling high-end PC gaming, NVIDIA’s GPUs can also be used to perform the crazy levels of computation necessary for self-driving cars.

Follow Up / Catch Up

World Without Linux Final Episode: Free Burger

In 1991, Linus Torvalds starting working on Linux “just for fun” as a “hobby, nothing professional.” Today, Linux is the world’s largest collaborative project in the history of computing. It powers the Internet, the cloud, the world’s stock exchanges, supercomputers, embedded devices and more.

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SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

Tentative Breakfast Friday morning (per LAS398)? Let me know. There are tons of restaurants in the area.

Linux Action Show POWER Brunch

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UbuCon portal

On the night before the event we will meet at around 19:00 for an informal gathering to get to know each other. Details to be added soon!

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Mycroft

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Mycroft Community
Mycroft update from Ryan
Here comes the source!

Linux Academy

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Main Linux problems on the desktop, 2016 edition

In this regularly updated article, which is without doubt the most comprehensive list of Linux distributions’ problems on the entire Internet, we only discuss their main problems and deficiencies (which may be the reason why some people say Linux distros are not ready for the desktop) while everyone should keep in mind that there are areas where Linux has excelled other OSes: excellent package management, multiple platforms and architectures support out of the box, usually excellent stability, no widely circulating viruses or malware, complete system reinstallation is almost never required, besides Linux is extremely customizable, easily scripted and it’s free as in beer.

Again, let me reiterate it, this article is primarily about Linux distributions, however many issues listed below affect the Linux kernel as well.

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Chris Owns up to his 2015 Predictions

2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345

With 2015 around the corner we own up to our predictions for 2014, we admit to what we got wrong, and what we got right. Then we look forward to 2015 and go on the record for the big developments we expect to see.

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Consulting the Oracle for 2016 | LAS 398

chris — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:33:01 +0000

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We make our annual predictions for the land of Linux in 2016, Google drops the openJDK bomb & we pay tribute to Ian Murdock.

Plus we announce our SCaLE 14x plans, some changes to the show & more!

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Linux Land in 2016:

Chris and Noah surprise each other with their top 7 Linux predictions for 2016.

Patron Predictions

Martin B:

1) LXQt becomes stable and replaces LXDE. Chris becomes hyped.
2) XFCE becomes irrelevant because of the popularity of MATE and developpers will openly leave the sinking ship.
3) Fedora 25 will have Wayland by default. Not Fedora 24. This will cause a lot of issues. Which is good for the development.
4) KDE Plasma 5 will keep improving, but little issues will keep existing that prevent Chris from recommending it.
5) openSUSE Leap 42.2 will not release in 2016, but is postponed to January 2017
6) Ubuntu will launch Unity 8 for desktop but will also keep their phone strategy alive. Mir will not be replaced by Wayland.
7) The hype for Docker will be lowered somewhat, but actual usage in the enterprise will increase. The Open Container Initiative will cease to exist.
8) AMD will go open source as a way to prevent bankruptcy. This will be the start of better Linux compatibility. But their revenues will not improve.

Lindsay S:

1) Steam Linux usage moves up to 5% after wallowing for quite some time under 1% This will be due primarily to Steam Machine sales and some users realising that Linux is a viable gaming platform. Although this will be a large percentage increase, many including valve will be very disappointed with this level of usage but the steamroller will have just started.
2)Ubuntu will dominate the distro market but will continue to slip in usage and user mindshare. Mint based on the Ubuntu LTS will be a big hit and recommended for most new users. Fedora and OpenSUSE will continue to increase in market share.
3) KDE 5.x will continue to stabilise and add new features to fix issues, it will start to bring back some of the mindshare it lost in 2014. 5.7 will be released and get lots of praise due to features, stability and the fact that you have an easy choice of three different start menus.
4) Wayland will be released for some distributions such as Fedora but will still be seen as experimental and will have problems. There will still be options to use the older X versions. Ubuntu will announce that they are giving up on Mir development and throwing their weight and support behind Wayland, pushing for extensions that will support what they wanted to do with Mir (pigs might fly on this one as well)
5) Libre Office will continue on it’s rise to popularity and use. Several large governments and educational institutions will announce that they are moving to it.
6) Citrix Xenserver will get accolades for a new release and will continue to be a great option for virtualisation. Many other Linux based virtualisation solutions such as oVirt will be in the news for their releases. People will be looking more and more at free and open source virtualisation solutions rather than the commercial alternatives from Vmware and Microsoft.
7) Google will try to address the current big issue with Android security with regard to updates across phone manufactures. They will announce a modular solution that allows updates to the OS via the play store but will also allow carriers to keep their customisations for different types of phones.

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That Hotel Music… Runs Linux

The GM had asked us to find an inexpensive way to get the overhead speakers throughout the hotel. We ran RCA baluns through inexpensive cat5 to the front desk where we placed a laptop installed with Ubuntu Mate, Mixxx, and Spotify.

Desktop App Pick

OnionShare

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size. Read more about how it works and how to use it on GitHub.

Tor Browser

The Tor Browser lets you use Tor on
Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software.

AUR (en) – tor-browser-en

Weekly Spotlight

DHCPPing

https://bentis.calepin.co/handy-tools-for-debugging-dhcp-on-linux.html

dhcping sends a DHCPREQUEST packet, waits for a reply and prints information indicating success or failure and exits with 0 or 1 as appropriate. Use the -v or -V flags for more verbose ouput. The options I most frequently use are -h, the client hardware address, -s the target dhcp server address and -c for the address you’re expecting the reply to be returned to (I don’t know why this is necessary but I find I get a DHCPNACK reply if not).
A typical invocation would therefore be:
sudo dhcping -h 00:12:3f:20:11:49 -s 10.1.200.200 -c 10.1.200.1

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Google confirms next Android version will use Oracle’s open-source OpenJDK for Java APIs | VentureBeat

The news first came by a “mysterious Android codebase commit” from last month submitted to _Hacker News. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that Android N_will rely on an OpenJDK implementation, rather Android’s own implementation of the Java APIs.

Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42

Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement posted on Murdock’s Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, though no cause of his death has been given.

Ian Murdock: a tribute to the man and his work on Linux | Technology | The Guardian

Murdock’s work combined an insistence on excellence with a public commitment to open, ethical software development

How I came to find Linux | Ian Murdock

Finally, I could wait no longer, and Jason and I found an unlocked computer lab in one of the dorms containing a single PC, and in the middle of the night one evening in February, we proceeded to install Linux on that lab PC. I still occasionally wonder what the unfortunate student first to the lab the next morning must have thought.

Tails 1.8 Just Released: New Version Of Edward Snowden’s Favorite Linux OS

Tails is based on Debian’s latest stable release. The main change in the version 1.8 is the switch to Icedove open source software as the default email client. This rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird will be replacing Claws Mail.

The OS also features the updated version of Tor browser and other packages.

Take a look at the complete list of changes and upgrades as mentioned on the Tails’ website:

Electrum from 1.9.8 to 2.5.4. Now Electrum should work again in Tails.
Tor Browser to 5.0.5.
Tor to 0.2.7.6.
I2P to 0.9.23.
Icedove from 31.8 to 38.4.
Enigmail from 1.7.2 to 1.8.2.

The next release of Tails OS is slated for release on January 26. To download Tails or upgrade the existing OS, visit the link below:

— Tails 1.8

Magnitude-4.8 Earthquake Widely Felt Across Washington State – ROCKED THE ROVER

A magnitude-4.8 earthquake

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Semi-Official SCaLE 14x Jupiter Broadcasting thread : LinuxActionShow

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SCaLE 14x: The Southern California Linux Expo is upon us again! I’m looking forward to seeing & sharing with everyone in the free software community in Southern California this year; last year was a blast.

SCaLE 14x is January 21-24, 2016 at the Pasadena Convention Center[3]

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Predictive Coder | CR 185

chris — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:56:16 +0000

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When you look back at the year, a few really big things jump out for developers. Mike & Chris discuss the trends that seem to have really mattered, then debate about how things might change in 2016.

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Trumping the Iran Deal | Unfilter 154

chris — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:35:49 +0000

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The Iran deal is getting the hard sell this week from both sides, and we’ll cut through all the hype and discuss the real issues with the nuke deal & what our best alternatives are. Another Cyber attack, this time on the pentagon is behind pinned on Russia & we cover a few moments of the first 2016 debate.

Plus an update on all those rebels the US has trained in Syria, Hillary turns in her email server, a very high-class high-note & much more!

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Cyber Retaliation | Unfilter 153

chris — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 21:37:47 +0000

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A leak from the top of the Obama Administration forecasts the US’s intentions to strike back at China after the recent OPM hack. We’ll share what we know so far. Germany is cracking down on reports that cover intelligence leaks, and we debunk the big cyber scares of the week.

Plus a snapshot at some of the economies around the world, new “calls” for lone wolf attacks, and an update on the 2016 race!

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2016 Race to the Bottom | Unfilter 152

chris — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 21:18:02 +0000

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We run down the latest events around the world, focus on a few domestic issues & then use the final days before the first Republican debate to take a snapshot of the clown show known as the 2016 run.

Plus just how much money the CIA blew trying to cover up the torture report & much more!

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