balance – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com Open Source Entertainment, on Demand. Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:48:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png balance – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com 32 32 DOM Be Gone | CR 116 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/65387/dom-be-gone-cr-116/ Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:20:58 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=65387 Mike and Chris follow up on the TypeScript and JavaScript discussion from last week after a lot of you jumped to the defense of JavaScript. Plus the guys discuss why the phrase “work-life-balance” feels cheap & how each of us have to figure it all out for ourselves. Thanks to: Direct Download: MP3 Audio | […]

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Mike and Chris follow up on the TypeScript and JavaScript discussion from last week after a lot of you jumped to the defense of JavaScript. Plus the guys discuss why the phrase “work-life-balance” feels cheap & how each of us have to figure it all out for ourselves.

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Why Work-Life Balance Is A Load Of Crap

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Preventing a btrfs Nightmare | LAS 320 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/61572/preventing-a-btrfs-nightmare-las-320/ Sun, 06 Jul 2014 16:13:15 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=61572 What happens when btrfs goes bad? After rescuing our system from a massive crash, we’ll share what went wrong, how you can prevent problems, reclaim gigabytes of space, and optimize your Linux box for an SSD drive. Plus a quick look at Ubuntu MATE Remix, the NSA targets Linux users, solving the distro hopping bug…. […]

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What happens when btrfs goes bad? After rescuing our system from a massive crash, we’ll share what went wrong, how you can prevent problems, reclaim gigabytes of space, and optimize your Linux box for an SSD drive.

Plus a quick look at Ubuntu MATE Remix, the NSA targets Linux users, solving the distro hopping bug….

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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How I saved myself from a btrfs nightmare:


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We asked: Do you trust btrfs?

It really started about three weeks ago, when I was doing a big package upgrade. The upgrade installs started to fail reporting out of space.

df reported more than 30GBs free on / partition. Despite df’s optimized summarization of my situation I cleared my package cache, deleted some unneeded VMs , and about 20 Steam games that I had stashed in /opt.

Fast forward to this Friday and my system won’t boot. I knew it was a risk, but I was desperate. I decided to compress all the things. Based on my quick reading of a few wiki pages, I could compress files on demand but necessarily compress the entire file system all the time. IE compress a lot of crap small libraries, reduce the amount of blocks they take up, and free up some space.

btrfs has built in support for doing this. I have ran compression on my /home file system since day one of this install. I opt for LZO compression. The ration of compression is lower than other options, but the performance is fantastic. I set off compressing the messy areas of my / (like /var /usr/lib).

But after a sanity check reboot, and many errors about failing to find a file, it was clear my understanding was wrong, and the mount options in my /etc/fstab needed to be updated.

I dd’ed the latest Antergos ISO onto a USB 3.0 thumb drive and booted the Bonobo into the live environment, fired up gparted to remind my self which physical device my rootfs was on (hey it’s been over a year!) and then promptly created a mount point for it under /mnt/fix.

I jumped into my /mnt/fix folder and immediately was back at home on my Bonobo’s root file system. A quick nano (YES) of my /mnt/fix/etc/fstab file and I added the compress flag to my root file system’s mount options.

Unmounted and rebooted the Bonobo, and the 1+ year Arch install fired right up.

I then set off to figure out how to better use btrfs on my system, and specifically tune the file system for my SSD drives.

Why btrfs?

btrfs

“a new copy on write (CoW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.”

  • Early days still, but its getting a lot closer and I wanted to have some real time under my belt with it.
  • The features it brings to Linux are going to be seen as minimum requirements in the future. CoW, snapshot, checksum, volume management.
  • SSD (Flash storage) awareness (TRIM/Discard for reporting free blocks for reuse) and optimizations.
  • Background scrub process for finding and fixing errors on files with redundant copies.
  • Online file system defragmentation.

OSCON Speaker Benchmarks LZO compression

  • **Compression **with modern hardware (like SSDs, multi-core CPUs) is a serious solution. It not only offers more value out of your SSD drive, but because the disk has to read less data overall, and the CPU is generally just waiting for I/O you can actually see an improvement on transfer speeds.

  • btrfs Stability Status

The filesystem disk format is no longer unstable, and it’s not expected to change unless there are strong reasons to do so. If there is a format change, file systems with a unchanged format will continue to be mountable and usable by newer kernels.

It kept telling me my device was full, but I had 30GB free. btrfs balance to the rescue.

  • Package updates would fail, reporting no space left on device.
  • Checking my system with df -h clearly reported 30GB free on my /
  • Checking with btrfs filesystem df showed a different story.
  • I used ncdu to sniff out the biggest files I could delete or move to give me some emergency wiggle room.

Why the different DF?

  • General linux userspace tools such as df will inaccurately report free space on a Btrfs partition.
  • df does not take into account space allocated for and used by the metadata. It is recommended to use /usr/bin/btrfs to query a btrfs partition.

  • Run the btrfs command to get a sense of what it can do. You want to perform a filesystem function and show stats about a device.

btrfs filesystem df /

  • Also:

btrfs filesystem show /dev/sda3

So, in general, it is impossible to give an accurate estimate of the amount of free space on any btrfs filesystem. Yes, this sucks. If you have a really good idea for how to make it simple for users to understand how much space they’ve got left, please do let us know, but also please be aware that the finest minds in btrfs development have been thinking about this problem for at least a couple of years, and we haven’t found a simple solution yet.

Step 1: Rebalance, it’s not just for RAID arrays anymore!

Rebalance to realign the blocks on the disk

  • Balance does a defragmentation, but not on a file level rather on the block group level. It can move data from less used block groups to the remaining ones, eg. using the usage balance filter.

btrfs balance start / -v

In general usage, no. A full unfiltered balance typically takes a long time, and will rewrite huge amounts of data unnecessarily. You may wish to run a balance on metadata only (see Balance_Filters) if you find you have very large amounts of metadata space allocated but unused, but this should be a last resort. At some point, this kind of clean-up will be made an automatic background process.

Step 2: Defragment that disk

btrfs filesystem defragment -r -v /

  • Optional if you’re really hard pressed for space consider defragmenting the metadata too:

find / -xdev -type d -print -exec btrfs filesystem defragment ‘{}’ \;

Step 3: Compress that disk’s file system.

SSD Workload with LZO

What are the differences between compression methods?

There’s a speed/ratio trade-off:

  • ZLIB — slower, higher compression ratio (uses zlib level 3 setting, you can see the zlib level difference between 1 and 6 https://code.google.com/p/lz4/ here).
  • LZO — faster compression and decompression than zlib, worse compression ratio, designed to be fast

The differences depend on the actual data set and cannot be expressed by a single number or recommendation. Do your own benchmarks. LZO seems to give satisfying results for general use.

  • This is running another defragmentation pass. Yes this means two defragmentation runs. But if you’re really tight on space, you need to free some up first before you can compress. The system will need some temporary space while it writes compressed versions of the files.

btrfs filesystem defragment -r -v -clzo /

  • Important: Update your /etc/fstab to include compress=lzo. For example:

LABEL=rootfs / btrfs defaults,compress=lzo 0 1

Step 4: Optimize for SSD
  • Best results with Linux 3.14 and up
  • I have added these flags to my fstab mount for both my / and my /home

noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,discard,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache

Example:

LABEL=homefs /home btrfs defaults,compress=lzo,ssd,discard,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache 0 1

btrfs gotchas?

This page lists problems one might face when trying btrfs, some of these are not really bugs, but rather inconveniences about things not yet implemented, or yet undocumented design decisions.


— Picks —

Runs Linux

This GSM Base Station Powered by the BeagleBone Black, Runs Linux
  • Debian Wheezy 7
  • Upgraded to the 3.15.2 Linux Kernel
  • USRP B200 ($675 USD) The USRP B200 provides a fully integrated, single board, Universal Software Radio Peripheral platform with continuous frequency coverage from 70 MHz –6 GHz. Designed for low-cost experimentation, it combines a fully integrated direct conversion transceiver providing up to 56MHz of real-time bandwidth, an open and reprogrammable Spartan6 FPGA, and fast and convenient bus-powered.
  • OpenBTS is the software that provides us with the software part of a cellular station.
  • sipauthserve, for cellular subscriber registration

Desktop App Pick

New Linux Podcast App ‘Vocal’

The project’s developer, Nathan Dyer, has made beta builds — still unstable and not feature complete — available for testing through a dedicated PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 14.10.

Weekly Spotlight

Tails – Privacy for anyone anywhere

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. Encrypt the web: Install HTTPS Everywhere today.


— NEWS —

NSA targets the privacy-conscious | Das Erste – Panorama – Meldungen

Xkeyscore

The investigation discloses the following:

  • Two servers in Germany – in Berlin and Nuremberg – are under surveillance by the NSA.
  • Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search. Not only are German privacy software users tracked, but the source code shows that privacy software users worldwide are tracked by the NSA.
  • Among the NSA’s targets is the Tor network funded primarily by the US government to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states.
  • The XKeyscore rules reveal that the NSA tracks all connections to a server that hosts part of an anonymous email service at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called “the Linux Journal – the Original Magazine of the Linux Community”, and calls it an “extremist forum”.
If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance

What is XKEYSCORE?

Tor and Tails have been part of the mainstream discussion of online security, surveillance and privacy for years. It’s nothing short of bizarre to place people under suspicion for searching for these terms.

One expert suggested that the NSA’s intention here was to separate the sheep from the goats — to split the entire population of the Internet into “people who have the technical know-how to be private” and “people who don’t” and then capture all the communications from the first group.

Another expert said that s/he believed that this leak may come from a second source, not Edward Snowden, as s/he had not seen this in the original Snowden docs; and had seen other revelations that also appeared independent of the Snowden materials.

Schneier on Security: NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious for Surveillance

Jake Appelbaum et. al, are reporting on XKEYSCORE selection rules that target users — and people who just visit the websites of — Tor, Tails, and other sites. This isn’t just metadata; this is “full take” content that’s stored forever.

Dear NSA, Privacy is a Fundamental Right, Not Reasonable Suspicion | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Even the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court recognizes this, as the FISA prohibits targeting people or conducting investigations based solely on activities protected by the First Amendment. Regardless of whether the NSA is relying on FISA to authorize this activity or conducting the spying overseas, it is deeply problematic.

NSA: Linux Journal is an “extremist forum” and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance | Linux Journal

The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything | Threat Level | WIRED

Nadim Kobeissi

Wired reports that Nadim Kobeissi will release a bet aversion of an all-purpose file encyrption browser plugin called miniLock at the HOPE hacker conference in New York. The free and open source plugin is meant to make it easy to drag and drop files to encrypt so that no one but the intended recipient can unscramble them.

Wayland in Fedora Update

So the summary is that while we expect to have a version of Wayland in Fedora Workstation 21 that will be able to run a fully functional desktop, there are some missing pieces we now know that will not make it. Which means that since we want to ship at least one Fedora release with a feature complete Wayland as an option before making it default, that means that Fedora Workstation 23 is the earliest Wayland can be the default.

The KDE Improv Project Has Announced Its End

Improv Board

Carl Symons on the behalf of Aaron Seigo and the rest of the Improv crew have sent out an email to the backers saying the project is over, they will issue partial refunds, etc. It’s only a partial refund right now as they had already invested some money into buying long lead times with their Chinese manufacturer.

There were also credit card processing fees, etc, but they’re working out a path for full reimbursement. It’s also said Aaron invested $200k USD into the project.

There was simply not enough support to make the project work, despite having fully functional, production ready devices and a strong commitment to succeed. The Free software community does not seem ready at this point to make a concerted stand on the pressing issue of hardware freedom

The group of folks behind the KDE desktop environment have been trying for a few years to deliver a tablet with wouldn’t rely on proprietary software. More recently they unveiled the Improv Board, a small, cheap computer module designed to ship with Mer Linux.

At this point, all the team is promising are partial refunds since part of the money has already been spent. But the goal is to eventually provide full refunds to folks who have put their faith (and money) into the project.

In a statement, the team suggests “the Free software community does not seem ready at this point to make a concerted stand on the pressing issue of hardware freedom,”
the Improv board was expected to sell for around $75

Ubuntu MATE Remix

Ubuntu MATE Edition

Objectives

The Ubuntu MATE Remix has the following primary goal:

  • Use Ubuntu to create a solid foundation on which to build a pure MATE desktop.

Ubuntu MATE Remix has some secondary objectives:

  • Increase both Ubuntu and MATE user adoption.
  • Restore the halcyon days of Ubuntu before indicators, Unity and scopes were introduced.
  • Be the go to Ubuntu alternative for computers that aren’t powerful enough to run a composited desktop, as well as those that are.
  • Make use of existing Ubuntu themes and artwork wherever possible so Ubuntu MATE Remix is immediately familiar.
  • When ever possible submit new or revised packages to Debian so both the Debian and Ubuntu communities benefit.
  • Package selection will favour functionality and stability over lightness and whimsy.
  • Provide a refuge for Linux users who prefer a traditional desktop experience.
  • Get adopted as an official Ubuntu “flavour”.

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Tales from the TrueCrypt | TechSNAP 164 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/58542/tales-from-the-truecrypt-techsnap-164/ Thu, 29 May 2014 20:29:34 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=58542 The TrueCrypt project has shut down, and we’ll run down what we think is the most likely answer to this sudden mystery is. Plus the good news for openSSL, the top 10 Windows configuration mistakes, and big batch of your questions, our answers, and much much more! Thanks to: Direct Download: HD Video | Mobile […]

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The TrueCrypt project has shut down, and we’ll run down what we think is the most likely answer to this sudden mystery is.

Plus the good news for openSSL, the top 10 Windows configuration mistakes, and big batch of your questions, our answers, and much much more!

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TrueCrypt shuts down unexpectedly

  • TrueCrypt is a cross-platform image or whole disk encryption system
  • The website for TrueCrypt changed yesterday, stating that “it may contain unfixed security issues”
  • The page states now that Windows XP is EOL and all supported versions of Windows support ‘BitLocker’ disk encryption, TrueCrypt is no longer necessary
  • The website provides information about transitioning data from TrueCrypt to the OS disk encryption system for various different OSs
  • The website has been updated with version 7.2 of TrueCrypt, which only allows the user to decrypt their files, not encrypt any new files
  • This was originally thought to be a hack of the site, or a hoax
  • The new binary is signed with the correct key, the same as previous versions of TrueCrypt, suggesting that this post is legitimate
  • While the code is available, the license is restrictive
  • The developers of TrueCrypt are anonymous
  • GIST tracking various bits of information and speculating about possible causes
  • ThreatPost coverage
  • One of the suspicious things about the announcement is the recommendation to use BitLocker, the authors of TrueCrypt had previously expressed concerns about how BitLocker stores the secret keys in the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), which may also allow the NSA to access the secret key
  • There is some speculation that this could be a ‘warrant canary’, the authors’ way to telling the public that they were forced to do something to TrueCrypt, or divulge something about TrueCrypt
  • However, it is more likely that the developers just no longer have an interest in maintaining TrueCrypt
  • The last major version release was 3 years ago, and the most recent release before the announcement was over a year ago. An actively developed project would likely have had at least some maintenance releases in that time
  • The code for TrueCrypt was being audited after a crowdfunding effort. The first phase of the audit found no obvious backdoors, but the actual cryptography had not been analyzed yet.
  • Additional Coverage – Krebs On Security

Core Infrastructure Initiative provides OpenSSL with 2 full time developers and funds a security audit

  • The CII has announced its Advisory board and the list of projects it is going to support
  • Advisory Board members include:
  • longtime Linux kernel developer and open source advocate Alan Cox
  • Matt Green of Open Crypto Audit Project
  • Dan Meredith of the Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology Fund
  • Eben Moglen of Software Freedom Law Center
  • Bruce Schneier of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
  • Eric Sears of the MacArthur Foundation
  • Ted T’so of Google and the Linux kernel community
  • Projects identified as core infrastructure:
  • Network Time Protocol
  • OpenSSH
  • OpenSSL
  • Open Crypto Audit Project to conduct security audit of OpenSSL
  • The security audit will be difficult due to the lack of a consistent style in the code and the maze of ifdef and ifndef segments
  • the OCAP (Open Crypto Audit Project) team, which includes Johns Hopkins professor and cryptographer Matthew Green and Kenn White, will now have the money to fund an audit of OpenSSL
  • OCAP was originally created by a crowdfunded project to audit TrueCrypt

The top 10 windows server security misconfigurations

  • NCCGroup does what it calls ‘Build Surveys’, where they check production environments to ensure they are configured properly
  • The following is the result of an analysis of their last 50 such surveys:
    • Missing Microsoft Patches: 82%
    • Insufficient Auditing: 50%
    • Third-Party Software Updates: 48%
    • Weak Password Policy: 38%
    • UAC Disabled for Administrator Account: 34%
    • Disabled Host-Based Firewall: 34%
    • Clear Text Passwords and Other Sensitive Information: 24%
    • Account Lockout Disabled: 20%
    • Out-of-Date Virus Definitions: 18%
    • No Antivirus Installed: 12%
  • Conclusions: Everyone makes the same mistakes, over and over
  • Most of these problems are trivial to fix
  • Part of the problem is this culture of ‘patch averseness’, partly this is the fault of software vendors often issuing patches that break more things than they fix, but in general Microsoft has actually done a good job of ensuring their patches apply smoothly and do not break things
  • Part of this is the fact that they only issue updates once a month, and only once they have been tested
  • In the study, most of the machines that were missing patches, were missing patches that were more than a year old, so it isn’t just conservatism, but just a complete lack of proper patch management

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Negative in the Practical Dimension | LINUX Unplugged 14 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/46227/negative-in-the-practical-dimension-lup-14/ Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:47:00 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=46227 Sometimes the practical choice kicks you in the butt, and you regret ignoring your ideals. And sometimes the free choice can’t do the job.

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This week we’ll use the lens of some recent technical meltdowns to discuss this age old struggle of pragmatism vs idealism.

Sometimes the practical choice kicks you in the butt, and you regret ignoring your ideals. And sometimes the free choice can’t do the job. This is a balance Linux users find themselves in more most technology users.

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FU

Practical Leads to Disaster:

Wirecast delivers its most significant upgrade yet including x264 encoding, a redesigned user interface, program feed output and much more

Mail Sack:

Sonar GNU/Linux is an accessible operating system focused on assistive technology. If you are new to GNU/Linux, you must understand that GNU/Linux is not a replacement of proprietary operating systems, but an alternative.

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Office Hours | CR 61 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/41227/office-hours-cr-61/ Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:38:12 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=41227 The guys struggle with classic work/life balance. Dealing with the unique circumstances of working at home, why it’s not the dream 9-to-5 types picture.

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Mike and Chris bare it all on their classic work/life balance struggles. Dealing with the unique circumstances of working at home, why it’s not the dream 9-to-5 types picture.

Plus your feedback, a few follow ups and much more!

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The Dream Turns to a Nightmare:

The central conflict of domestic life right now isn\’t men versus women or mothers versus fathers; it\’s the family against money.

Achieving the elusive \”work-life balance\” can often feel like an impossible goal, especially for people who strive to give everything 100%. In today\’s \”do more with less\” competitive reality, how can we manage careers and families, and feel satisfied with both?

Expectations

The main problem with working from home is everyone\’s expectations.

  • your expectations* your family and friends expectations* your clients\’/ employer\’s expectations.

However, since more and more people have switched to working at home, there are still some wrinkles to be ironed out with respect to the general public\’s expectations.

Follow Up:

Apple has been slowly restoring their Developer Center, and today the company has sent out an email update to developers regarding the restorations to take place this week:

We sincerely appreciate your patience as we work to bring our developer program services back online, and we want to give you an update on our progress. The majority of our developer services are currently online, including Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, Dev Centers, software downloads, Videos, Apple Developer Forums, iTunes Connect, Bug Reporter, App Store Resource Center, and access to pre-release documentation.

We plan to reinstate most of the remaining services this week: Xcode automatic configuration as well as access to license agreements, TSIs, program enrollments, and renewals in Member Center. You can check the availability of these systems on our status page.

As a reminder, if your membership was set to expire during this downtime, it has been extended and your apps will remain on the App Store and Mac App Store.

We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused and encourage you to reach out to our support team if you need any assistance.

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Ship Energy Levels and YOU! | STOked s02e09 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/1784/ship-energy-levels-and-you-stoked-s02e09/ Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:03:42 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=1784 We cover all the news around the Season 1 content update, chat about a hilarious PVP bug, and then MATH your face off with a our segment: Ship Energy Levels and YOU!

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STOked Season 2 Episode 9: We cover all the news around the Season 1 content update, chat about a hilarious PVP bug, and then MATH your face off with a our segment: Ship Energy Levels and YOU!

PLUS – Our first look at the new C-Store items, the tribble Borg pet, and our first look at The Big Dig mission!

And much, much more

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This Week’s Show Notes:

Season One: “Common Ground” has landed! 
A billion changes!
    * Respecs! WOO!
    * Additional starship skills, and a 25% carry-over rate for T3 and T4 ship skills.
New Content!
    * Fed vs Fed pvp maps
    * Off-duty space pajamas
    * Klingon T2 Cruiser + additional KDF ship customization
    * “Big Dig” and DS9 Fleet Actions
    * THE CURE (STF)
C-Store items
    * Bridge Variants
    * Fed ship variants (+more coming soon)
More Lifetime Sub perks
    * Captain’s Table private social zone
    * Special Title (“Career Officer”)
    * Blue Name on forums with special rank
 
Monthly targets added to items “in development” including the following listed for April:
– Difficulty Sliders
– Death Penalty
– Memory Alpha / Crafting revamp
– Joined Trill for KDF
 
BIG BAD PVP BUG:  Several maps deleveling people to level one (Captain -29, RA -39)

Jack Emmert interview @ thebigfreaks.com:  https://thebigfreaks.com/?p=276
Also an audio interview:  https://thebigfreaks.com/?p=263
    * “Well over 100,000 subscribers”
    * He comments a lot on how WoW has shifted the MMO audience into an “immediate satisfaction” state of mind, rather than the pre-WoW environment where people judged them on their potential / scope.

    * “Season Two” will be based 100% on the surveys and forum responses they have gotten over the past month+ since release.

MATH:
 
Ship Energy Levels and YOU!
 
UI Explanation:
Postures:  Attack, Defend, Speed, Balanced
Type I:  Current Energy / Energy Setting
Type II:  Visual representation, updated live
Type III:  Same as II, but with customization and Save/Reset buttons for presets
 
What They Effect:
WEAPON ENERGY:  Energy Weapon damage output (Torpedoes and Mines are unaffected by current level, but unable to fire when at 0 power)
SHIELD ENERGY:  Shield regen rate (note:  Does NOT affect total shield strength)
ENGINE ENERGY:  Movement speed
AUXILIARY ENERGY:  Hull Repair, Turn Rate, Stealth Detection, and many “Sciencey” abilities’ amplititude (e.g. Tachyon Beam, Tyken’s Rift, etc.)
 
WEAPONS SYSTEM:
Power Level = % of affect
100 – 200
75 – 150
50 – 100
25 – 50
 
In other words = 2% difference (up or down) per point of Power above or below a setting of 50.
 
This only affects the power of the weapon when it leaves your ship, and not when it impacts the enemy.  All energy weapons are also affected by the distance between yourself and your target, to varying degrees and will deal more damage the closer you are to your target. (cannons seem to be more affected than beams)
 
Your current available Weapon Energy is drained each time you fire an energy weapon.  The amount of drain depends on the type of weapon you are firing, and the number of weapons firing simultaneously.  Watch your power level in combat, and make sure you’re not over-draining your weapon power, as you will end up doing LESS damage over time if your Weapon Energy dips too low on a regular basis.  If you regularly see your Weapon Power dipping well below the level it is set at, it may be a good idea to swap in a lower-power weapon type.
 
Weapon Power Drain amounts per shot:
Beam Arrays and all cannon types = drain 10 power (beams drain more frequently than cannons, allowing less time to regen)
Turrets = drain 8 power 
 
You can offset the drain of Energy Weapons by investing in EPS Flow Regulator (Engineering Consoles).  You can also use batteries or Emergency Power abilities to quickly recharge.
 
SHIELDS SYSTEM:
Power Level = % of base regen
100 – 300
75 – 200
50 – 100
25 – 0 (!!)
 
In other words = 4% difference (up or down Bryan’s Penis) per point of Energy Level above or below a setting of 50.
 
Unlike weapons, shield tooltips do not update on the fly along with your Shield Power.
 
SUB-TOPIC: Rebalancing Shield Quadrants, to maximize Regen…
 
Shield regeneration is applied to all four quadrants of your shields, every 6 seconds (aka, per tick).  Let’s say you have a regen rate of 100.  If you have 3 maxed out quadrants, and one that is damaged, you are only regenerating 25 shield power / tick.  However, if you rebalance your shield power so that all 4 are slightly damaged, you will regenerate essentially 25*4 = 100 shield power / tick.  Obviously it’s not always a good idea to weaken ALL of your shields.  However, doing so when you are not under direct fire is ALWAYS recommended.  Especially before using an ability that increases your Shield Regen (e.g. Emergency Power to Shields, Science Team, etc).
 
ENGINE SYSTEM:
The math to figure out your exact speed is complicated and involved, and I don’t have time to go into all of it right now.
 
Suffice it to say that your energy level directly impacts your speed, but the following are also factors that will always figure into it:
 
– 0 Engine Power (system offline) will cause you to stop, AND cut your turn rate to almost nothing.
– For Feds, each ship type has a different variable that causes them to go different speeds, with the same engines (Cruisers and Science are slower than Escorts)
– For KDF, check the “Impulse Modifier” listed in the ship stats at the Shipyard consoles.
– Engine types have different base modifiers.  Fastest to Slowest = Hyper Impulse, Combat Impulse, Impulse
– Your max bonus is controlled and normalized by the Tier of ship.
– Engine Power does not appear to have any affect on your Warp Speed (in Sector Space).
 
AUXILIARY SYSTEM:
TURN RATE – Just like Engine speed, it’s very complicated.  But here’s a few quick tips:
 
– 0 Aux Power (system offline) will cause you to be almost completely unable to turn.
– Tier 1 and 2 ships are easier to get to turn faster.  Tier 3+ ships have a built-in modifier that is meant to normalize the “high-end” ship bonus skills.  (In essence, they force you to invest points in the ship type, to get them to move comparably to lower-tier ships).
– Turn Rate is calculated in “Degrees per Second” which is unaffected by your Engine SPEED.
– Turn Rate modifiers (such as those on consoles and engines) are % bonuses to your ship’s turn rate, and are not directly additive.
– The total possible bonus (or penalty) of a high (or low) Aux power level is never going to turn a Cruiser into an Escort (or vice versa).
– Escorts will benefit far more from Aux, due to a higher innate Turn Rate.
 
HULL REPAIR – Bryan’s Penis Calculations unknown.  Sorry! 
 
– Also affected by Crew Levels, and passive skills.
– The longer the battle, the more Hull Repair will matter.
– Hull Repair is always % based, so larger/beefier ships will repair more per tick than smaller ships, with the same Captain.
 
STEALTH DETECTION –
 
– Base is determined by ship type:  Escorts/Cruisers are 33% that of Science Ship detection rate.
– Also based on all of the following:  Starship Operations Training, Starship Sensors stat (from items + skills), Starship Sensor Array stat (from items + skills)
– After the “base” detection rate is found (using the above + innate based on ship type), MULTIPLIED BY AUXILIARY in same manner as Weapon Power.
 
ABILITY MODIFIER –
 
– Determined on a per-power basis.  Can affect Duration and/or Magnitude.
– Does NOT always affect abilities.  To check:  Tooltips will update on-the-fly if they are affected by Aux (but not always in Sector Space)
 
 
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Pics of one of the new C-Store ship skins:  https://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=2438996&postcount=6
 
Tribble of BORG:
Was rewarded to people that participated in a Dev event on the Tribble server during the weekend prior to Season One release.



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