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• slap-editor/slap: Sublime-like terminal-based text editor

• HP’s VR backpack PC doubles as a desktop

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Android execs get technical talking updates, Project Treble, Linux, and more

What is your thinking about the Linux Kernel? You ship a super-old one right now—it’s 3.18, from 2014.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

The Native Skype Linux App Will Stop Working July 1

“All Skype for Linux client version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux,” a notice on the Skype for Linux download page reads.

The Difference between Google Chrome and Chromium on Linux

Chromium on Linux has two general flavors: You can either get Google Chrome or chromium-browser (see Linux Chromium Packages. This page tries to describe the differences between the two.

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GNOME Fractional scaling Hackfest is running atCanonical offices in Taipei…

• Ubuntu Works with GNOME to Improve HiDPI Support on Linux Desktop – OMG! Ubuntu!

Canonical is playing host to a ‘fractional scaling hackfest‘ in its’ Taipei offices this week. Both GNOME developers and Ubuntu developers are in attendance, ready to wrestle with

The aim: improve GNOME HiDPI support.

• Fractional scaling goes east | Goings on

Some of the limitations:

• You either get 1:1 or 2:1 scaling, nothing in between
• The cut-off point that is somewhat arbitrarily chosen and you don’t get a say in it
• In multi-monitor systems, all monitors share the same scale

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New GNOME Extensions

• Arc is a New Applications Menu for GNOME Shell

Arc Menu is an alternative app launcher for GNOME Shell. It replaces the Activities button in the top bar with a traditional ‘Start Menu’ style launcher.

• Must-have GNOME extension: gTile – Fedora Magazine

Once it’s installed, you can click the tile icon in the GNOME menu up top. You’ll see a little overlay with a bunch of squares. The gTile overlay will hover over an open window, and you can click one (or more) of the squares to place the window in that area.

• Enable Nautilus Git Integration with this Open-Source Extension

• Show Git directory info
• Show the status of Git files (i.e. number of added, modified, removed)
• Option to open remote URL
• Option to select branch
• Option to compare commits

• Dash to Dock Now Supports Multi-Monitor Setups

Developer Michele G adds that “at the moment no strange combinatoins (sic) of dock position are supported: the dock is replicated on each available screen.”

• Appfolders-manager-gnome-extension: A GNOME extension allowing easy management of “appfolders” directly from the “applications view”.

A GNOME extension allowing easy management of “appfolders” directly from the applications view. As a bonus feature, it is possible to change the number of columns (v2 only).

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The Future of Gnome

GNOME Shell and Mutter Are Now Ready for the GNOME 3.25.2 Desktop Environment

GNOME 3.25.2 is the second milestone in the development cycle of the GNOME 3.26 desktop environment, which is expected to launch later this year on September 13, and it should hit the streets any moment now. Therefore, both the GNOME Shell user interface and Mutter window and composite manager were updated with many changes.

GNOME’s Disks Utility to Add Many Feature Enhancements for GNOME 3.26 Desktop

• GTK+ 3.91 Released With Meson Build Support, API Changes, macOS Support

GTK+ 3.91 is now available as the latest test release on the road to the GTK4 tool-kit.

• Apps/Builder – GNOME Wiki!

Builder is a new IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of our platform to more developers than ever before. It is currently under heavy development and needs your help to become a success. Get excited about the future by taking a look at our planned Features.

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• Ubuntu Desktop Team Discuss Their Plans for GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10 — “may consider a few tweaks here and there to ease our users into the new experience
• The Ubuntu Desktop Team Wants YOUR Feedback — The results of this survey will help inform and shape the Ubuntu desktop team’s approach to GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10.
• OMG! UBUNTU! on Twitter: 16,000+ Ubuntu users have taken the survey — 16,000+ #Ubuntu users have taken the 17.10 GNOME desktop survey
• Windows Server will add the Linux subsystem, join the Insider program — Microsoft announced that WSL will be included in Server later this year.
• Will Linux distros run on Windows 10 S? — Just because an “app” comes from the Windows Store does NOT automatically mean that it’s safe & suitable for running in Windows 10 S. There are some apps that are not allowed to run on Windows 10 S, including all command-line apps, shells and Consoles.
• New Release: elementary OS Loki 0.4.1 — This release comes with a brand new version of AppCenter with support for apps submitted to the AppCenter Dashboard. Welcome to elementary OS, third-party developers!
• Loki’s New AppCenter with Daniel Foré | Chris Interviews Daniel — Daniel Foré, elementary OS founder, joins Chris to chat about their new update to Loki, their pay what you want AppCenter, what the end of Unity means for them, and the future of the project.
• Shipping Advance Prototype – Mycroft — This first version of Mark 1 is an advance prototype, perfectly suitable for developers or enthusiasts, yet it is not ready for the consumer market.
• What’s New in Android: O Developer Preview 2 & More — New tools for developers to help create more performant apps, and an early preview of a project we call Android Go — a new experience that we’re building for entry-level devices.
• Samsung to extend Tizen OS to nearly all home appliances by 2020 — A new report says, though, that Samsung is looking to further increase Tizen adoption by bringing Tizen (or, in this case, Tizen RT) to nearly all of its home appliances by 2020.
• Samsung to announce Tizen RT for smart home appliances — Samsung intends to announce a slimmed-down Tizen OS, called Tizen RT, for its washing machines and other smart home appliances at its Tizen Developer Conference (TDC) today, according to a new report.

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Perfect Gnome Setup

• gtk-theme-arc-git

• numix-frost-themes

• Dash to Dock

• Ping Indicator

• Refresh WiFi Connections

• TopIcons Plus

Showing Battery Percentage

• Open Dconf Editor
• Click Org > Gnome > Desktop > Interface, and change “Show Battery Percentage” to True.

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The crew took the Firefox challenge & we follow up, we reflect on 10 years of Firefox, their early Linux support & the growing competition from Webkit.

Gnome raised money to defend it’s Trademark from Groupon, which has quickly raised the white flag. Is this instant groundswell of support the dawn of a new community attitude towards Gnome?

Plus an exciting first live on the show, tons of great feedback & more!

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FU:

• How to fix the vsync issues with Nvidia cards

• Cheap Linux USB Headphones?

• Most persuasive features for potential switchers?

• Fedora Next – delayed but awesome.

Firefox Challange Follow Up

• I’m taking the Firefox Challenge, and I crash too

Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

10 years ago we built Firefox to give you a choice. The Web was a monoculture and the only way in was through the company that controlled your operating system. We believed then, and so did many of you, that the Web deserved an independent alternative. Today hundreds of millions of people trust Firefox because they understand that we’re different; that our independence lets us put you first.

Mozilla Introduces ‘Forget Button’ for Firefox and Dev Edition Browser

With a huge developer user base, Mozilla’s new Firefox Developer Edition browser looks to provide an all-in-one debugging toolset for professi

While it’s loosely based around the previous Firefox Aurora builds, it’s not a straight-forward rebrand — it’s closer to the nightly builds, but built for a developer user base with different needs. It also removes a lot of the safeguards that are vital in the consumer browser but that can frustrate developers.

Chromium:

• The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the BSD license,[18] with other parts being subject to a variety of different open-source licenses, including the MIT License, the LGPL, the Ms-PL and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license

• Chromium (web browser) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

  Differences from Google Chrome

Chromium is the name given to the open-source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project.[7] It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. To create Chrome from Chromium, Google takes this source code and adds:[8]

• A restriction blocking the installation of extensions from anywhere other than the Chrome Web Store[9]
• Integrated Flash Player[10] (proprietary license and code)
• Built-in print preview and print system
• The Google and Google Chrome names (both trademarked)[11][12][13]
• An auto-update system called GoogleUpdate (some, such as the Debian or Ubuntu community builds of chromium, rely on the package management system of the OS as an alternative)
• An opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports
• RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships. This transmits information in encoded form to Google, including both when—and from where—Chrome was downloaded. In June 2010, Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token is not present in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly, nor in any version of Chromium. The RLZ source code was also made open source at the same time (previously it was proprietary—and although the source is now open the feature was not migrated to Chromium) so that developers can confirm what it is and how it works.[14]

By default, Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags. Google Chrome supports these as well as the patent-encumbered AAC and MP3 codecs. On 11 January 2011, the Chrome Product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would no longer support the H.264 video format for its HTML5 player.[15] In October 2013 Cisco announced that it was open-sourcing its H.264 codecs and will cover all fees required.[16] As of December 2013, Chrome still supports H.264. Linux distributions that distribute Chromium may add support for other codecs to their customized versions of Chromium.

Gnome Vs Groupon

• Help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark

Recently Groupon announced a product with the same product name as GNOME. Groupon’s product is a tablet based point of sale “operating system for merchants to run their entire operation.” The GNOME community was shocked that Groupon would use our mark for a product so closely related to the GNOME desktop and technology. It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications (the full list of applications they filed can be found here, here and here). To use the GNOME name for a proprietary software product that is antithetical to the fundamental ideas of the GNOME community, the free software community and the GNU project is outrageous. Please help us fight this huge company as they try to trade on our goodwill and hard earned reputation.

• Groupon respond to ‘Defend GNOME’ critisism

• Sri Viswanath the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Groupon just posted

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Facebook just paid out their biggest bug bounty yet, we’ll tell you about the flaw was so major it warranted a $33k bounty. Plus it’s been a bad week for Chrome security…

Then it’s a big batch of your questions, our answers, and much much more!

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Facebook pays out biggest bug bounty ever, $33,500 after researcher gets ‘keys to the kingdom’

• Reginaldo Silva, a Brazilian security researcher, found a remote execution flaw in Facebook and was able to perform various functions including coping the /etc/passwd file, getting him a list of the users that exist on the system, and could have changed the URL for the Google OpenID provider, in order to execute MitM attacks on users logging in to Facebook using their Gmail accounts
• The original flaw was found in September 2012, when the researcher discovered an XXE (XML External Entity) bug in a Drupal blogs OpenID provider
• After finding the flaw in OpenID, he tried the attack successfully against StackExchange
• Later he also tried it against Google, while it worked, he was not able to read any files or make any network connections. For this he received his first bug bounty, $500 from Google
• During the original investigation, he could not find a valid Facebook OpenID endpoint
• Some time later, while investigating the Facebook password reset system, he discovered they still used OpenID for Gmail users to reset their passwords
• Using the newly discovered endpoint, he still was not able to launch his attack, because Facebook only communicated with Google, and for the attack to work he needed to communicate with his malicious OpenID provider
• After more reading of the OpenID spec, he found what he was looking for and was able to cause Facebook to contact his server, parse his malicious XML and cause Facebook’s servers to run code of his choosing
• From this he was able to get a copy of the /etc/passwd from the server
• Researcher’s Blog Post
• Facebook Security Team Blog Post
• Facebook Extends Bug Bounty Program

Security companies remove information about target breach from the Internet

• One we had previously covered:
• “On Dec. 18, a malicious software sample was submitted to ThreatExpert.com, a Symantec-owned service. But the public report the service generated vanished. “
• However, as is often the case with the internet, someone (Krebs ftw) had a copy of the report and posted it
• “iSight Partners, a Dallas-based cybersecurity company that is working with the U.S. Secret Service, published a series of questions and answers on its website related to the attacks on point-of-sale devices at U.S retailers. That too vanished on Thursday.”
• “Intel-owned McAfee redacted on Tuesday a blog post from last week that contained technical detail similar to the ThreatExpert.com report”
• When queried, a Symantec spokeswoman said “we took the initiative to remove it because we didn’t want the information to compromise the ongoing investigation.”
• Alex Holden, founder of Hold Security, who worked with Brian Krebs on the Adobe breach, said it was the right move for Symantec to pull the report, as attackers might have been able to use the information to compromise other point-of-sale devices at other retailers
• “I was surprised that this information was posted on the Internet in the first place,” Holden said. “Besides having a Target machine’s name and its IP address, system structure and drive mapping, it discloses a very vital set of credentials setup specifically for exploitation of the device.”
• As many as six other U.S. companies are believed to be victims of point-of-sale related attacks, where malware intercepts unencrypted card details. So far, only Target and high-end retailer Neiman Marcus have acknowledged the attacks.

Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates

• While Chrome itself is updated automatically by Google, that update process also includes Chrome’s extensions, which are updated by the extension owners.
• This means that it’s up to the user to decide if the owner of an extension is trustworthy or not, since you are basically giving them permission to push new code out to your browser whenever they feel like it.
• Ownership of a Chrome extension can be transferred to another party, and users are never informed when an ownership change happens.
• Malware and adware vendors have caught wind of this and have started showing up at the doors of extension authors, looking to buy their extensions.
• Once the deal is done and the ownership of the extension is transferred, the new owners can issue an ad-filled update over Chrome’s update service, which sends the adware out to every user of that extension.
• A first-hand account of this, which was first spotted by OMGChrome, was given by Amit Agarwal, developer of the “Add to Feedly” extension.
• One morning, the extension author got an e-mail offering “4 figures” for the sale of his Chrome extension. The extension was only about an hour’s worth of work, so Agarwal agreed to the deal, the money was sent over PayPal, and he transferred ownership of the extension to another Google account.
• A month later, the new extension owners released their first (and so far only) update, which injected adware on all webpages and started redirecting links.
• This isn’t a one-time event, either. About a month ago, I had a very simple Chrome extension called “Tweet This Page” suddenly transform into an ad-injecting machine and start hijacking Google searches.
• Google has stated that Chrome’s extension policy is due to change in June 2014. The new policy will require extensions to serve a single purpose.
• Chromium Blog: Keeping Chrome Extensions Simple

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• Allan’s home network setup
  • VLAN A – Home network (upstairs), plus hidden WiFi SSID, only has access to personal ZFS server
  • VLAN B – Office network, WiFi, connections machines work
  • VLAN C – Management network, switches, IPMI, PDUs etc
  • VLAN D – Guest Wireless
  • VLAN E – DMZ for servers
  • Personal ZFS server has separate interfaces on VLAN A and B
  • FreeBSD PF Firewall is only machine that can route between the VLANs
  • DMZ is not used yet, will be once 1000mbps unmetered Fibre connection arrives
  • Gear Used: Netgear GS724T 24port gig-e switch.
• Dropbox De-dupe BS
  • How Tarsnap Works
• Authentication for Linux
• IBM SMartCloud Mini War Story
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• BSD Now tutorial contest, win a hand-made FreeBSD Pillow

Round Up:

• Network Solutions, the original domain name registrar, appears to be automatically enrolling customers in a $1850/year “WebLock Security Service”, you must call to opt-out
• FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE Announcement
• Developer finds Chrome eavesdropping bug
• Target restarts push for Chip&Pin protected cards (Common in Europe and Canada) after failed adoption 10 years ago
• IBM says goodbye to x86 forever, sells server lines to Lenovo
• Backblaze publishes reliability numbers of different models of hard drive
• The Most (and Least) Reliable Hard Drive Brands
• Researchers tell Congess Healthcare.gov is insecure, researchers able to get 70,000 records in only 4 minutes
• Kids, this is story of How I Met… my VPS hacked.
• 16 Million German users infected with malware that steals passwords, email addresses and other sensitive data
• More from last week, a Documentary on the first trans-atlantic telephone cable
• How a DNS query works Get DNSMadeEasy Hosting
• EasyDNS wins case and blocks London Police takedown order, domain transered

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Hating on Gnome is the popular thing to do, and it’s fantastic link bait. We’ll come to the defense of this bold shell, and why 2014 could be big year for Gnome.

Plus: We’ll breakdown the major security issues plaguing X, the UK “porn” filter that’s blocking Fedora downloads, a little Enlightenment 18 talk…

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1) Plugin the iPod to your computer, close any software or dialogs that appear.
2) Assuming you have gparted already installed, run the program.
3) Don’t worry about deleting your active partitions, as they will be locked. But if you run a dual-boot PC, be mindful before deleting anything.
4) Look to the upper right, select the /dev/ pull down menu. You will be selecting the dev device with the least amount of space. In my case, it was 1.89 GiB.
5) You will see either two or three partitions available, one of them is FAT32. Ignoring the others, select the FAT32 partition.
6) With the FAT32 partition right clicked and selected, choose unmount. This frees up the partition for changes.
7) Right click the partition again, and select format to> FAT32.
8) Click the apply button - aka the green checkmark at the top of the menu. Then click apply.
9) Disconnect the iPod, then allow the iPod to reboot itself. When completed, it will appear with a dialog asking you to choose your default language.
10) Now plug the iPod back into the PC.
11) Choose to open the iPod with Banshee.
12) On the bottom left, you will see the device has appeared. As per the segment, you can right click it and give it a better name if you like.
13) Left clicking on the device, the main screen dialog presents you with the option of setting up how the sync preferences work. 
I recommend keeping things set to manual. This simply means the checkbox for Sync when first plugged in, remains unchecked.
14) Select the music sync preference, then choose one of the following: