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Laptop Wins and Woes

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The First Open Source Satellite, Runs Linux

• Time Link

The cube sat in question is UPSat, a 2U cubesat that is completely Open Source. Everything from the chassis to the firmware is completely Open, with all the source files hosted on GitHub.

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Desktop App Pick

pulseeffects: Limiter, compressor, reverberation, equalizer and auto volume effects for Pulseaudio applications

Limiter, compressor, reverberation, stereo equalizer and auto volume effects for Pulseaudio applications

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Kali Linux 2017.1 Release

Finally, it’s here! We’re happy to announce the availability of the Kali Linux 2017.1 rolling release, which brings with it a bunch of exciting updates and features.

• Kali Linux can now use cloud GPUs for password-cracking • The Register

The developers behind the distro this week gave it a polish, adding new images optimised for GPU-using instances in Azure and Amazon Web Services. The extra grunt the GPUs afford, Kali’s backers say, will enhance the distribution’s password-probing powers.

Linux Mint-using terror nerd awaits sentence for training Islamic State

A paranoid Welsh Muslim who wore gloves while typing on his laptop, admitted being part of Islamic State, and, gasp, harbored a copy of Linux Mint, has been described as a “new and dangerous breed of terrorist.”

USB Type-C Port Manager Coming To Linux 4.12

Basically the TCPM driver is responsible for managing the role of each USB Type-C port on the system depending upon the connected device.

Blackmagic Design: DaVinci Resolve 14

DaVinci Resolve includes virtually every imaginable editing and trimming tool available, making it perfect for both creative and online editing! The new high performance playback engine, which is up to 10x faster, makes playback instantaneous and trimming more responsive than ever, even for processor intensive formats such as H.264 and RAW.

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Plus getting Ubuntu MATE on the BQ Tablet, benchmarking Ubuntu on Windows & our quick takes on using Zim Wiki and TagSpaces to manage your local, secure notes.

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Omega2: $5 Linux Computer with Wi-Fi, Made for IoT by Onion — Kickstarter

Follow Up / Catch Up

Linux Botnets on a Rampage

“That makes them prime targets for hackers, especially those that leverage C&C servers to centrally manage and carry out DDoS attacks,” he told LinuxInsider. “Deploying leading security solutions, as well as utilizing and updating established Linux distros, can go a long way to protecting against these issues.”

Solus Upgraded to the GNOME 3.20 Stack, Now Powered by Linux Kernel 4.7

Humble Survive This Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)

• 3 Linux games

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Ubuntu on Windows! How Fast Is It? n

We’ll first run each test in Ubuntu running natively on the hardware, and then reboot, and run the same benchmarks on the same machine running Ubuntu on Windows.

We’ll use the utilities sysbench, dd and iperf, as well as compile the Linux kernel to do our benchmarking.

Snapcraft 2.13 and Snapd 2.11 Land with Support for Downgrading Installed Snaps

• podpublish

Canonical Plans to Unify and Clean Up Networking Configuration in Ubuntu Linux

Currently supported versions of the Ubuntu OS for desktop and server automatically generate ifupdown /etc/network/interfaces during installation. On the other hand, Ubuntu Cloud uses a YAML-based format.

DigitalOcean

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SSH Hacks and Tricks

OpenSSH 7.3 released

Add a ProxyJump option and corresponding -J command-line
flag to allow simplified indirection through a one or more SSH
bastions or “jump hosts”.

• How To Use A Jumphost in your SSH Client Configurations

Jumphosts are used as intermediate hops between your actual SSH target and yourself. Instead of using something like “unsecure” SSH agent forwarding, you can use ProxyCommand to proxy all your commands through your jumphost

• Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo)

Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker.

• Easy Way To Copy Files Over SSH

• Getting the most out of SSH – hardware acceleration tuning for AES-NI | Michał Turecki

• fwknop: Single Packet Authorization > Port Knocking

• Best SSH trick : sysadmin

• 25 Best SSH Commands

• Useful things you can make SSH do

• How to Use SSH Pipes on Linux

• Layer 2 VPN’s using SSH

• How Netflix gives all its engineers SSH access

• ngrok – secure introspectable tunnels to localhost

• Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?

Linux Academy

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TagSpaces – Your Hackable File Organizer

TagSpaces is an open source personal data manager.
It helps you organize and browse your files on every platform.

Evernote alternative for note taking and management

• You can create and edit notes in plain text, MARKDOWN and HTML file formats.
• You can organize webpages saved in for example MHT or MHTML format.
• You use TagSpaces to organize you e-book library, containing for example PDF or EPUB books.

• You can create a personal “wiki” for tracking of your projects, ideas or memories.

  • Hosted Edition utilizing WebDAV – TagSpaces

  • Products Overview – TagSpaces

Zim – a desktop wiki

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control.

Wikitten

Wikitten is a small, fast, PHP wiki that I made because I really needed a place to store my notes, snippets, ideas, and so on. I’ve tried a lot of personal wikis and note-taking applications in the past, but since I have peculiar needs, none of them really suited me, so I rolled my own.

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System76’s Serval WS is in house & we put it through our series of tests. With it’s 4Ghz Intel i7 CPU and Nvidia 970M GPU we set out to see what kind of workloads this desktop replacement is ideal for.

Is the claim that a laptop can replace your desktop really true? We aim to find out!

Plus the insane popularity of Chromebooks, how Google just gave a major boost to desktop Linux, looking back at 18 years of Gnome & more!

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Serval WS – System76

• Intel i7 CPU
• 16 GB Memory
• 500 GB Hard Disk
• 1080P Screen
• 2 Display Ports
• 1 HDMI Output
• Backlit Keyboard
• Number Pad
• Intel 7265 Wireless AC

Main Advantages

• Comfortable Keyboard
• Sharp looking display
• Full Sounding Speakers with Subwoofer
• Very powerful, desktop feeling laptop

As tested:

Hardware:

• Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores)
• Motherboard: System76 Serval WS
• Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM
• Memory: 16384MB Disk: 500GB HGST HTS725050A7
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 6144MB (135/324MHz)
• Audio: Intel 9 Family HD Audio

• Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 7265

• NVIDIA 340.24 Linux Driver Has G-SYNC Support, FXAA Control – Phoronix

Software:

• OS: Ubuntu 15.04
• Kernel: 3.19.0-25-generic (x86_64)
• Desktop: Unity 7.3.2
• Display Server: X Server 1.17.1
• Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.82
• Compiler: GCC 4.9.2
• File-System: ext4
• Screen Resolution: 1920×1080

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Weekly Spotlight

• Student Developer Pack

The days of sharing source code by email and thumb drives are long gone. Using GitHub, it’s a piece of cake to keep your team up to date with the latest changes to your code. Thanks to Git’s powerful merge features, you don’t even have to worry about overwriting someone else’s changes.

Pull Requests are a great way to give students feedback on their code. Give suggestions for improvement and observe how they adapt their code based on your feedback.

Use a GitHub Organization to easily maintain all of your students’ code in one place. Teams make it possible to keep your students’ work separate from each other while giving you the power to grant full access to co-teachers and teaching assistants.

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Chromebooks Outsell Windows

For businesses, tablets are on the decline and laptops are rising once again. And Chromebooks aren’t just for consumers looking for cheap laptops.

Many people have resisted the idea that Chromebooks really were growing in popularity. Now, less five years after the first commercial Chromebook, the Samsung Series 5 and Acer Chromebook went on sale, NPD, the global retail research group, is reporting that Chromebook sales in June and early July had exceeded “sales of Windows notebooks … passing the 50 percent market share threshold.”

Dell Launches Professional Chromebook

Dell today announced the continued expansion of its collaboration with Google with the launch of the Dell Chromebook 13, a premium 13.3-inch professional Chromebook solution. Designed for today’s on-the-go lifestyle, the Dell Chromebook 13 offers class-leading performance from up to 5th generation Intel® Core i5 processors, an ultra-sleek design, stunning display and up to 12 hours of battery life. Along with powering businesses with the speed and simplicity of Chrome for Work, the Chromebook provides customers with manageability and security software and applications, which allow it to fit seamlessly into any professional computing environment. The Dell Chromebook 13 joins Dell’s Chrome portfolio and further showcases the commitment Dell and Google have made to developing innovative and flexible solutions to meet the evolving needs of the mobile workforce.

• Why would Dell sell a business Chromebook that competes with Office and Windows 10?

The Guix System Distribution

Liberating. GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project —which respects the freedom of computer users.

Dependable. The GNU Guix package manager, in addition to standard package management features, supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and more.

Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.

GNOME Turns 18 Years Old Today

• The GNOME Desktop project announcement.
• GNOME Turns 18 this Saturday – GNOME

Low-overhead rendering with Vulkan

In order to address some of the sources of CPU overhead and provide developers with more explicit control over rendering, we’ve been working to bring a new 3D rendering API, Vulkan(tm), to Android. Like OpenGL(tm) ES, Vulkan is an open standard for 3D graphics and rendering maintained by Khronos. Vulkan is being designed from the ground up to minimize CPU overhead in the driver, and allow your application to control GPU operation more directly. Vulkan also enables better parallelization by allowing multiple threads to perform work such as command buffer construction at once.

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Ubuntu publishes their roadmap for the next few releases & we discuss what the future might hold for “Ubuntu Personal”. Plus the major challenges Linux gaming is facing.

Then we’ve got insights from the experts on building robust wifi for your home, enterprise or even large events… Powered by Linux!

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T – 242d!

It’s only 242 days until April 1st, 2016, the month where another great Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release will be born. Ubuntu 16.04 will be the most sophisticated release of Ubuntu so far.

In my old/new role as Canonical’s Shepherd for all things related to Ubuntu Client (meaning Ubuntu, Phones, Tablets and everything related), I wanted to take a few moments and share our current plans for the remaining time until Ubuntu 16.04.

Canonical Publishes Impressive Roadmap for All of Their Ubuntu Products

“The chart shows Ubuntu as the center of gravity for everything that revolves around it. We will be seeing a solid 15.10 leading to the Long Term Support release 16.04. I personally expect some improvements around the Dash and general usability improvements for users with high resolution screens in addition to the work that’s done to polish and stabilize Ubuntu to the level an LTS release deserves,” wrote Olli Ries.

The chart itself is very interesting, but above all else, it shows that Ubuntu for regular users is still pretty much the focus of their efforts. The Ubuntu community is afraid that Canonical is putting too much work into the mobile space or containers, but in the end, everything they do seems to come back to the desktop.

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GlobalVision Powers SELF 2015 Wifi with Linux

GlobalVision setup and ran the WIFI and Internet access for the SouthEast Linux Fest 2014 held in Charlotte, NC. The event had a little over 600 attendees over a 3 day weekend. We worked directly with the hotel hosting the event to run the cable in the event area to prevent hazards or from guests seeing or tripping over them. GlobalVision arranged to get a temporary dedicated Internet line to allow for faster speeds for event guests. Next we brought all of the gear needed for the network and had it set up and running in just a few hours. After the event was over GlobalVision removed everything and restore the area to the original look and feel.

• GlobalVision | Greenville High Speed Internet & Phone Service

GlobalVision offers a full range of services for businesses large or small. Our connectivity solutions include fiber, Metro Ethernet, T-1, and fixed wireless internet, as well as voice options ranging from traditional phone service to the best VoIP phones. With our state-of-the-art data and collocation center, we also provide data storage and recovery, hosting, server space, and application hosting.

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Should We Drop the dream of Linux Gaming?

Gaming on Linux struggles to take off. With Windows seeming less and less “evil” is it time to accept having a Windows install around if you want to game, and let Linux focus on its strengths?

• Shadow of Mordor: Performance Tests

The result leaves nothing to speculation:

• Max FPS: 81.40 on Windows vs 50.87 on Ubuntu [ 62% of the Windows Performance ]
• Average FPS: 55.83 on Windows vs 30.16 on Ubuntu [ 54% of the Windows Performance ]
• Lowest FPS: 31.65 on Windows vs 6.84 on Ubuntu [ 22 % of the Windows Performance ]
• Amplitude (Max vs Min FPS) : 49.75 on Windows vs 44.03 on Ubuntu

As you can see the game runs about half as fast as the Windows version on average

• Shadow of Mordor Performance: Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux – Phoronix

• Steam gamers already use Windows 10 more than all Linux distros combined | PCWorld

That’s what the July 2015 Steam hardware and software survey reveals, at least, as first spotted by Windows Central.

Windows dominates among Steam users, with 44.91 percent using Windows 7 64-bit, and 31.65 percent using Windows 8.1 64-bit. According to the numbers, Windows 10 64-bit can already be found on 2.21 percent of Steam users‘ systems, with the **32-bit variant found on another 0.09 percent. **

By contrast, the most-used Mac operating system among Steam gamers is OS X “Yosemite” 10.10.3 at 1.10 percent, though when you take all available versions of Yosemite into account, it’s found on 2.4 percent of all systems. All four tracked Linux OSes combined account for a mere 0.55 percent of use.

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Coming up on the show this week, we’ve got an interview with Brendan Gregg of Netflix. He’s got a lot to say about performance tuning and benchmarks & even some pretty funny stories about how people have done them incorrectly. As always, this week’s news & answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Even more BSD presentation videos

• More videos from this year’s MeetBSD and OpenZFS devsummit were uploaded since last week
• Robert Ryan, At the Heart of the Digital Economy
• FreeNAS & ZFS, The Indestructible Duo – Except for the Hard Drives
• Richard Yao, libzfs_core and ioctl stabilization
• OpenZFS, Company lightning talks
• OpenZFS, Hackathon Presentation and Awards
• Pavel Zakharov, Fast File Cloning
• Rick Reed, Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users
• Alex Reece & Matt Ahrens, Device Removal
• Chris Side, Channel Programs
• David Maxwell, The Unix command pipeline
• Be sure to check out the giant list of videos from last week’s episode if you haven’t seen them already

NetBSD on a Cobalt Qube 2

• The Cobalt Qube was a very expensive networking appliance around 2000
• In 2014, you can apparently get one of these MIPS-based machines for about forty bucks
• This blog post details getting NetBSD installed and set up on the rare relic of our networking past
• If you’re an old-time fan of RISC or MIPS CPUs, this’ll be a treat for you
• Lots of great pictures of the hardware too

OpenBSD vs. AFL

• In their never-ending security audit, some OpenBSD developers have been hitting various parts of the tree with a fuzzer
• If you’re not familiar, fuzzing is a semi-automated way to test programs for crashes and potential security problems
• The program being subjected to torture gets all sorts of random and invalid input, in the hopes of uncovering overflows and other bugs
• American Fuzzy Lop, in particular, has provided some interesting results across various open source projects recently
• So far, it’s fixed some NULL pointer dereferences in OpenSSH, various crashes in tcpdump and mandoc and a few other things
• AFL has an impressive list of CVEs (vulnerabilities) that it’s helped developers discover and fix
• It also made its way into OpenBSD ports, FreeBSD ports and NetBSD’s pkgsrc very recently, so you can try it out for yourself

GNOME 3 hits the FreeBSD ports tree

• While you’ve been able to run GNOME 3 on PC-BSD and OpenBSD for a while, it hasn’t actually hit the FreeBSD ports tree.. until now
• Due to systemd dependencies and the upstream developers not really being interested in non-Linux OSes, it took a considerable amount of effort to port
• Now you can play with GNOME 3 and all its goodies (as well as Cinnamon 2.2, which this also brings in) on vanilla FreeBSD
• Be sure to check the commit message and /usr/ports/UPDATING if you’re upgrading from GNOME 2
• You might also want to go back and listen to our interview with Joe Marcus Clark about GNOME’s portability

Interview – Brendan Gregg – bgregg@netflix.com / @brendangregg

Performance tuning, benchmarks, debugging

News Roundup

DragonFlyBSD 4.0 released

• A new major version of DragonFly, 4.0.1, was just recently announced
• This version includes support for Haswell GPUs, lots of SMP improvements (including some in PF) and support for up to 256 CPUs
• It’s also the first release to drop support for i386, so it joins PCBSD in the 64 bit-only club
• Check the release notes for all the details, including networking and kernel improvements, as well as some crypto changes

Can we talk about FreeBSD vs Linux

• Hackernews had a recent thread about discussing Linux vs BSD, and the trolls stayed away for once
• Rather than rehashing why one is “better” than the other, it was focused on explaining some of the differences between ecosystems and communities
• If you’re one of the many people who watch our show just out of curiosity about the BSD world, this might be a good thread to read
• Someone in the comments even gave bsdnow.tv a mention as a good resource to learn, thanks guy

OpenBSD IPSEC tunnel guide

• If you’ve ever wanted to connect two networks with OpenBSD gateways, this is the article for you
• It shows how to set up an IPSEC tunnel between destinations, how to lock it down and how to access all the machines on the other network just like they were on your LAN
• The article also explains some of the basics of IPSEC if you’re not familiar with all the terminology, so this isn’t just for experts
• Though the article itself is a few years old, it mostly still applies to the latest stuff today
• All the tools used are in the OpenBSD base system, so that’s pretty handy too

DragonFly starts work on IPFW2

• DragonFlyBSD, much like FreeBSD, comes with more than one firewall you can use
• Now it looks like you’re going to have yet another choice, as someone is working on a fork of IPFW (which is actually already in its second version, so it should be “IPFW3”)
• Not a whole lot is known yet; it’s still in heavy development, but there’s a brief roadmap page with some planned additions
• The guy who’s working on this has already agreed to come on the show for an interview, but we’re going to give him a chance to get some more work done first
• Expect that sometime next year, once he’s made some progress

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Build your own Google Reader replacement, or check out one of the hosted options. Will run down the list of the candidates we think have the best potential to replace Google Reader on Linux.

Then: The week’s Mir headlines have brought out the trolls, we’ll tackle one of the Linux community’s biggest problems: the community.

Plus a HUGE batch of your desktop submissions, new games for Linux…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Google Reader Replacments for Linux:

Brought to you by: System76

Self Hosted RSS Readers:

• WikiStart – Tiny Tiny RSS

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

• Tiny Tiny RSS Ubuntu PPA

Tiny Tiny RSS version to a PPA, which should make it a lot easier to install in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04

• TT-RSS – ArchWiki

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

• UpdatingFeeds – Tiny Tiny RSS

You have to setup one of this methods before you can start using tt-rss properly, otherwise your feeds won’t be updated.

Run update daemon if you are allowed to run background processes on your tt-rss machine. Otherwise, use one of the other methods. On Debian, official packages have cronjob-based updating setup out of the box.

• selfoss

The new multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Remote Hosted:

• How to Build Your Own Syncing RSS Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS and Kick Google Reader to the Curb

• go read

Go Read is a web-based RSS reader. It is designed to be as useful as Google Reader.

• NewsBlur

NewsBlur is free on the web, iPad, iPhone, and Android. By subscribing to a
premium account, you support a growing service and unlock a few restrictions.

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• Half-Life 2 has been released for Linux

• Portal Game Now Officially Supported On Linux, Exits Beta [Steam]

You can click this link to install Portal if you have Steam installed

• Mir To Ship As Default Display Server in Ubuntu 13.10
  
  • When will we see Qt Unity in testing? 14.04?

• The First Benchmarks Of Unity On XMir: There’s A Performance Hit

• XWayland 2D Performance Appears Better Than XMir

• Unity On XMir Performance For Nouveau Gallium3D

• The FSF Has A New High Priority Project

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STOked, Season 2 Episode 4: We cover some recent news for Star Trek Online, then show you how to plan out your character skills with a handy skill builder tool, and show you what video cards get you the best results with STO. How much does a dual core, quad core, or even a single core processor effect your game performance? We give you the answer!

PLUS: We interview Craig Zinkievich STO’s Executive Producer about the current state of the game and get you answers about up coming death penalty possibilities, future content expansion for low and high level players, and so much more!

Our STOked App:

Grab the STOked iPhone/iPod App and download STOked plus bonus content on the go!

Show Notes:

CAST:
Chris, Jeremy

DISCLAIMERS:
GoogleAds showing Energy Credit Buying services on our embedded player. We do not support them, but are having a hard time convincing Google to remove them.
We claimed that a Borg Raidisode would be published on Feb 18th, based on a forum post from DStahl. It didn’t make it into the patch, but we have no control over that. Stay tuned for the next announcement. Don’t shoot the messenger!

NEWS:

5-Day Buddy Keys available — https://www.startrekonline.com/claim_buddy_key
Available for any subscriber, allows for d/l of client and 5-day free play.
Originally said 10 days? Bait & switch?
If they play a LOT, that’s enough to reach Rear Admiral!

Work has started on an unofficial Mac client using WINE, Xquartz
https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=76799
List of known issues:
Fonts are ugly when they are small… Noticed mostly when scaling the UI down.
antialiasing is not functional
sun/stars nearby in the background of space missions might have texture drawing errors and get flashy when moving the camera around
alt key is usually not functional on most machines… this is an Xquartz keymapping problem… newer xquartz testing versions work better, but are still unstable. For now, going to have to live without alt.
due to limitations in Xquartz, Multimonitor set ups can be a hassle. The game will want to play only on the left-most monitor, wether its the primary or not.
running in the normal VIrtual Desktop window mode can have the mouse reactions go super fast while turning yourself or the camera… the farther you move the mouse… can be a bit annoying.

Ask Cryptic: Let’s Talk Skills https://www.startrekonline.com/node/1158
They talk about Skill Caps, and how they are necessary for future content once the cap is raised to RA 10 (“later this year”)
They will be altering the Ship Pilot skills, so that each tier will again benefit the ship types further up that line.
Their “answer” to the question regarding Weapon Types vs. Skill Point Cost was disappointing. Not really an answer at all. Paraphrased: “They’re different and exotic because we say so.”
Compare to a fantasy MMO:
Daggers = Armor Piercing. Swords = Bleed DOT. Equal but different effects. Now if Swords cost more skill points to attain the same DPS as daggers that are cheaper, why would anyone use swords?
SOLUTION: Higher Tier weapon types need to be more powerful effects, in order to justify the skill point investment. Or, even out the cost. You can’t have equality AND imbalance, at the same time.


MATH:

A Walk-Thru Guide to the Captain Skill Builder

https://sto-builder.binarybit.ch/ — created by Ghley < —- LOWER THIRD TO SHOW LINK
Java, 32-bit ONLY
Easy on-site bug reporting tool
Patch Notes / To-Do List at the bottom of the page

STEP 1) Choose your profession.
This will alter the skill choices available for your “ground” specializations.

STEP 2) Choose your ship.
If you’re trying to set yourself up for end-game, choose an end-game ship for maximum forethought.

STEP 3) Choose your boffs’ abilities.
The drop-down lists provided are NOT all-inclusive. They do not include ‘rare’ Mk III abilities, or those trainable by Captains (more on this topic later).
You will notice that all skills that affect your chosen abilities are now highlighted in a gold color.
NOTE: Several BUGS exist, so not all skills are highlighted correctly… hopefully the creators are working on this!
You may need to come back to this step if you find you’ve spread yourself a bit too thin!

STEP 4) Spend your skill points.
The Builder knows when you have spent enough to rank up. Watch for the next rank to unlock.
The numbers at the top show: Points Spent This Rank (Points To Next Rank)
Most skills begin giving significantly diminished returns, starting around rank 4 or 5. So it’s not always the best idea to max out unless you NEED every last tidbit of bonus (PvP?)
One bonus of training all 9 ranks in some skills: To teach your boffs powerful Rank III abilities.
You can only teach your boffs abilities that match your Captain’s Profession (so Science captains will potentially have the best Science boffs, e.g.)
This skill builder does not support Rank III taught abilities. Workaround: You can select a lower-rank ability on the boff dropdown menus, to show which skills will affect these.
Don’t be afraid to buy lower-tier skills, in order to meet the requirements to unlock the next tier up. Sometimes the broader bonuses of low-rank bonuses are better to have in the long run.
DON’T NEGLECT YOUR GROUND SKILLS! Despite this builder only highlighting the SPACE skills that benefit your boffs, remember that you will be fighting on the ground also!
Pick a sub-specialization within your class – don’t try to do everything.
Click the “Space Stats” button near the top to display your character’s skill modifier totals in the right-hand pane.

STEP 5) Share your build.
The URL field at the top of the screen is updated on the fly as you spend your skill points. You can copy & paste this to share your character build.
Recommend using a URL shortener for forum sharing (bit.ly or similar)

Summary/Tips:
For now, Commander and higher ship skills are limited to the ship you are currently flying and do not carry up to the next tier. THIS WILL BE CHANGING.
For more information on your individual skills, you can pull up your Skill Pane in-game (press P) and look at the list of skills from there.
The skill information provided by this skill builder can also be used to help you select your Deflector Dish and Consoles.

MEDIA:

STO Benchmarks show clear lead on Nvidia cards

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/star-trek-online,2553.html

Nvidia GTX260 w/896MB of RAM currently goes for $194 on Amazon on Amazon

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