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Windows Admins in panic after Microsoft fix breaks Group Policies

• Group Policies are a powerful set of Windows registry settings that are downloaded and applied when a computer and/or user login to a domain controller.
• Group Policy Objects (GPOs) allow Administrators to control settings and access to Windows computers centrally. They allow things like disabling the run menu, hiding specific drives, controlling access to applications, and even application whitelisting
• On June 14th, Microsoft released MS16-072: Security update for Group Policy rated “Important for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows”
• “An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows processes group policy updates. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially escalate permissions or perform additional privileged actions on the target machine.
  To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to launch a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack against the traffic passing between a domain controller and the target machine. An attacker could then create a group policy to grant administrator rights to a standard user. The security update addresses the vulnerability by enforcing Kerberos authentication for certain calls over LDAP.”
• later Microsoft released a knowledge base article about this issue: KB 3163622
• “MS16-072 changes the security context with which user group policies are retrieved. This by-design behavior change protects customers’ computers from a security vulnerability. Before MS16-072 is installed, user group policies were retrieved by using the user’s security context. After MS16-072 is installed, user group policies are retrieved by using the computer’s security context.”
• “Symptoms: All user Group Policy, including those that have been security filtered on user accounts or security groups, or both, may fail to apply on domain joined computers.”
• “Cause: This issue may occur if the Group Policy Object is missing the Read permissions for the Authenticated Users group or if you are using security filtering and are missing Read permissions for the domain computers group.”
• Resolution:
• To resolve this issue, use the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC.MSC) and follow one of the following steps:
• Add the Authenticated Users group with Read Permissions on the Group Policy Object (GPO).
• If you are using security filtering, add the Domain Computers group with read permission.
• This issue struck a large number of Windows administrators, some of them extremely hard
• GPOs are the main tool administrators have to enforce policies throughout the network
• One admin reported: “desktop images were configured such that the A, B, C and D drives that were hidden from users, but they are now showing up”
• This was likely done to keep users from accidentally saving files to the local computer, rather than the network where they can be accessed from other computers, and centrally backed up.
• “Other users report having printers and drive maps become inaccessible and security group settings no longer applying”

More coverage of APFS, in detail this time

• Building on the post from last week, Adam Leventhal breaks down his early analysis of APFS
• “APFS, the Apple File System, was itself started in 2014 with Dominic as its lead engineer. It’s a stand-alone, from-scratch implementation. I asked him about looking for inspiration in other modern file systems such as BSD’s HAMMER, Linux’s btrfs, or OpenZFS, all of which have features similar to what APFS intends to deliver. Dominic explained that while, as a self-described file system guy (he built the file system in BeOS), he was aware of them, but didn’t delve too deeply for fear, he said, of tainting himself.”
• “APFS first and foremost pays down the unsustainable technical debt that Apple has been carrying in HFS+. HFS was introduced in 1985 when the Mac 512K (of memory!) was Apple’s flagship. HFS+, a significant iteration, shipped in 1998 on the G3 PowerMacs with 4GB hard drives. Since then storage capacities have increased by factors of 1,000,000 and 1,000 respectively.”
• Compression: “in typical Apple fashion—neither confirmed nor denied while strongly implying that it’s definitely a feature we can expect in APFS”
• Encryption: “Encryption is clearly a core feature of APFS. This comes from diverse requirements from the various devices, for example multiple keys within file systems on the iPhone or per-user keys on laptops”
• Filesystems (and possibly individual files) will support 3 different flavours:
• Unencrypted
• Single-key for metadata and user data
• Multi-key with different choices for metadata, files, and even sections of a file (“extents”)
• “Multi-key encryption is particularly relevant for portables where all data might be encrypted, but unlocking your phone provides access to an additional key and therefore additional data. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be working in the first beta of macOS Sierra (specifying fileEncryption when creating a new volume with diskutil results in a file system that reports “Is Encrypted” as “No”).”
• “APFS (apparently) supports constant time cryptographic file system erase, called “effaceable” in the diskutil output. This presumably builds a secret key that cannot be extracted from APFS and encrypts the file system with it. A secure erase then need only delete the key rather than needing to scramble and re-scramble the full disk to ensure total eradication. Various iOS docs refer to this capability requiring some specialized hardware; it will be interesting to see what the option means on macOS. Either way, let’s not mention this to the FBI or NSA, agreed?”
• Snapshots: APFS will support snapshots, but likely not the same type of serialization that “zfs send” provides. “ZFS sends all changed data while Time Machine can have exclusion lists and the like.”
• “APFS right now is incompatible with Time Machine due to the lack of directory hard links, a fairly disgusting implementation that likely contributes to Time Machine’s questionable reliability. Hopefully APFS will create some efficient serialization for Time Machine backup.”
• “While Eric Tamura, APFS dev manager, demonstrated snapshots at WWDC, the required utilities aren’t included in the macOS Sierra beta.”
• Management: “APFS brings another new feature known as space sharing. A single APFS “container” that spans a device can have multiple “volumes” (file systems) within it. Apple contrasts this with the static allocation of disk space to support multiple HFS+ instances, which seems both specious and an uncommon use case. Both ZFS and btrfs have a similar concept of a shared pool of storage with nested file systems for administration and management.”
• Clones: “Apple’s sort-of-unique contribution to space efficiency is constant time cloning of files and directories.” “With APFS, if you copy a file within the same file system, no data is actually duplicated. Instead a constant amount of metadata is updated and the on-disk data is shared. Changes to either copy cause new space to be allocated (so-called “copy on write” or COW).”
• “As a quick aside, “files” in macOS are often really directories; it’s a convenient lie they tell to allow logically related collections of files to be treated as an indivisible unit. Right click an application and select “Show Package Contents” to see what I mean.”
• “Side note: Finder copy creates space-efficient clones, but cp from the command line does not.”
• Performance: “APFS claims to be optimized for flash” “SSDs mimic the block interface of conventional hard drives, but the underlying technology is completely different. In particular while magnetic media can read or write sectors arbitrarily, flash erases large chunks (blocks) and reads and writes smaller chunks (pages). The management is done by what’s called the flash translation layer (FTL), software that makes blocks and pages appear more like a hard drive. An FTL is very similar to a file system, creating a virtual mapping (a translation) between block addresses and locations within the media. Apple controls the full stack including the SSD, FTL, and file system; they could have built something differentiated, optimizing this components to work together. What APFS does, however, is simply write in patterns known to be more easily handled by NAND. It’s a file system with flash-aware characteristics rather than one written explicitly for the native flash interfaces, more or less what you’d expect in 2016.”
• “APFS includes TRIM support. TRIM is a command in the ATA protocol that allows a file system to indicate to an SSD (specifically, its FTL) that some space has been freed.”
• “APFS also focuses on latency; Apple’s number one goal is to avoid the beachball of doom. APFS addresses this with I/O QoS (quality of service) to prioritize accesses that are immediately visible to the user over background activity that doesn’t have the same time-constraints. This is inarguably a benefit to users and a sophisticated file system capability.”
• Redundancy: “APFS makes no claims with regard to data redundancy. As Apple’s Eric Tamura noted at WWDC, most Apple devices have a single storage device (i.e. one logical SSD) making RAID, for example, moot. Instead redundancy comes from lower layers such as Apple RAID (apparently a thing), hardware RAID controllers, SANs, or even the “single” storage devices themselves.”
• “Also, APFS removes the most common way of a user achieving local data redundancy: copying files. A copied file in APFS actually creates a lightweight clone with no duplicated data. Corruption of the underlying device would mean that both “copies” were damaged whereas with full copies localized data corruption would affect just one.”
• Crash Consistency: In order to maintain consistency of the file system after a crash, you need to be able to revert any incompleted operations. The problem is that a typical file system overwrites data in place, making this impossible
• “APFS claims to implement a “novel copy-on-write metadata scheme”; APFS lead developer Dominic Giampaolo emphasized the novelty of this approach without delving into the details. In conversation later, he made it clear that APFS does not employ the ZFS mechanism of copying all metadata above changed user data which allows for a single, atomic update of the file system structure.”
• So APFS does COW for metadata, but not for data. Meaning the filesystem will be consistent, but your data might not be
• “It’s surprising to see that APFS includes fsck_apfs—even after asking Dominic I’m not sure why it would be necessary.”
• Checksums: “Notably absent from the APFS intro talk was any mention of checksums. A checksum is a digest or summary of data used to detect (and correct) data errors. The story here is surprisingly nuanced. APFS checksums its own metadata but not user data. The justification for checksumming metadata is strong: there’s relatively not much of it (so the checksums don’t consume much storage) and losing metadata can cast a potentially huge shadow of data loss. If, for example, metadata for a top level directory is corrupted then potentially all data on the disk could be rendered inaccessible. ZFS duplicates metadata (and triple duplicates top-level metadata) for exactly this reason.”
• So ZFS can recover from corrupt metadata even in a single device configuration, because metadata is always stores as 2 complete copies, or 3 for important pool-wide metadata
• “Explicitly not checksumming user data is a little more interesting. The APFS engineers I talked to cited strong ECC protection within Apple storage devices. Both flash SSDs and magnetic media HDDs use redundant data to detect and correct errors. The engineers contend that Apple devices basically don’t return bogus data.”
• So Apple relies on the hardware to do the right thing, this is likely to backfire eventually
• “The Apple folks were quite interested in my experience with regard to bit rot (aging data silently losing integrity) and other device errors. I’ve seen many instances where devices raised no error but ZFS (correctly) detected corrupted data. Apple has some of the most stringent device qualification tests for its vendors; I trust that they really do procure the best components. Apple engineers I spoke with claimed that bit rot was not a problem for users of their devices, but if your software can’t detect errors then you have no idea how your devices really perform in the field. ZFS has found data corruption on multi-million dollar storage arrays; I would be surprised if it didn’t find errors coming from TLC (i.e. the cheapest) NAND chips in some of Apple’s devices. Recall the (fairly) recent brouhaha regarding storage problems in the high capacity iPhone 6. At least some of Apple’s devices have been imperfect.”
• Scrub: “As data ages you might occasionally want to check for bit rot. Likely fsck_apfs can accomplish this; as noted though there’s no data redundancy and no checksums for user data, so scrub would only help to find problems and likely wouldn’t help to correct them. And if it makes it any easier for Apple to reverse course, let’s say it’s for the el cheap-o drive I bought from Fry’s not for the gold-plated device I got from Apple.”
• Conclusions: “Any file system started in 2014 should of course consider huge devices, and SSDs–check and check. Copy-on-write (COW) snapshots are the norm; making the Duplicate command in the Finder faster wasn’t much of a detour. The use case is unclear, it’s a classic garbage can theory solution, a solution in search of a problem, but it doesn’t hurt and it makes for a fun demo. The beach ball of doom earned its nickname; APFS was naturally built to avoid it.”
• “There are some seemingly absent or ancillary design goals: performance, openness, and data integrity. Squeezing the most IOPS or throughput out of a device probably isn’t critical on watchOS, and it’s relevant only to a small percentage of macOS users. It will be interesting to see how APFS performs once it ships (measuring any earlier would only misinform the public and insult the APFS team).”
• “APFS development docs have a bullet on open source: “An open source implementation is not available at this time.” I don’t expect APFS to be open source at this time or any other, but prove me wrong, Apple. If APFS becomes world-class I’d love to see it in Linux and FreeBSD–maybe Microsoft would even jettison their ReFS experiment. My experience with OpenZFS has shown that open source accelerates that path to excellence. It’s a shame that APFS lacks checksums for user data and doesn’t provide for data redundancy. Data integrity should be job one for a file system, and I believe that that’s true for a watch or phone as much as it is for a server.”
• “At stability, APFS will be an improvement, for Apple users of all kinds, on every device. There are some clear wins and some missed opportunities. Now that APFS has been shared with the world the development team is probably listening. While Apple is clearly years past the decision to build from scratch rather than adopting existing modern technology, there’s time to raise the priority of data integrity and openness. I’m impressed by Apple’s goal of using APFS by default within 18 months. Regardless of how it goes, it will be an exciting transition.”
• I am not sure anyone has ever wanted an “Exciting” filesystem.

New Ransomware written entirely in javascript, RAA

• A new crypto ransomware has made an appearance on the Internet, and it is slightly unusual.
• The malware arrives as an attachment pretending to be a .doc file, but is actually .js
• For whatever reason, the default file association for .js on Windows is the Windows Scripting Host, so when opened, the javascript actually executes
• The javascript standard library does not include any encryption mechanisms, however the designers of the malware bundled CryptoJS, a framework that provides standard crypto primitives like AES256 in pure javascript
• The ransomware demands around $250 worth of bitcoin for the key to decrypt your files
• The ransomware also comes bundled with an embedded password stealing malware
• So even if you pay, the attackers have already stolen all of your saved passwords
• Once the ransomware is run, it generates a random .doc file and opens it. The object is to make the user think the file was corrupt, and avoid the user being suspicious
• “While the victim thinks the attachment is corrupted, in the background the RAA Ransomware will start to scan all the available drives and determine if the user has read and write access to them. If the drives can be written to, it will scan the drive for targeted file types and use code from the CryptoJS library to encrypt them using AES encryption”
• It also seems to purposely disables the Windows Volume Shadow Copy service. May also destroy actual shadow copies, code is too obfuscated to tell right now.
• “Finally, the ransomware will create a ransom note on the desktop called !!!README!!![id].rtf, with [ID] being the unique ID assigned to the victim. The text of this ransom note is in Russian”
• “When a JavaScript file, such as RAA, executes outside of the browser it requires an interpreter that can read the file and execute the JavaScript commands within it. As most people do not need to execute Javascript outside of a web browser, it is suggested that everyone disables the Windows Script Host so that these types of files are not allowed to execute. If you wish to disable the windows script host, which is enabled by default in Windows, you can add the following DWORD Registry entry to your computer and set the value to 0.”
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows Script Host\Settings\Enabled
• You probably don’t need to execute javascript on your machine anyway. Push this out as a group policy… and hope it works

Feedback:

• Port Knocking and WordPress Security

• Port Knocking pfSense Followup

• Cloud Based Backups?

• securing the network with a Router behind an untrusted Router

Round Up:

• Defending Our Brand – Let’s Encrypt
• What’s worked in computer science, 1999 vs 2015
• Firm pays $950,000 penalty for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users
• The history of .com
• Apple’s official statement on why the iOS 10 kernel is not encrypted
• GitHub resets passwords for a number of users compromised by attackers using list of email addresses and passwords from other recent breaches
• Alicia Keys is done playing nice. Your phone is getting locked up at her shows now.
• After over a week of working around the clock, Lockheed Martin says it WILL be able to recover those 100,000 lost Air Force files, Internal review ordered to determine why backups were not usable.
• Hardware review sites find that MSI and others send reviewers pre-overclocked GPUs to get better scores than their competitors
• 1,127,818 different IP addresses being used to launch 744,361,093 login attempts using 220,758,340 different email addresses against a pair of financial institutions
• Buy and return a Wifi Security Camera. Then watch the video of who buys it next
• 0 to 0 day, breaking the shannon baseband firmware
• Senate rejects FBI bid for warrantless access to internet browsing histories

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ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights.

Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive’s lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation.

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Follow Up / Catch Up

An Open-Source Steam Controller Driver is in Development

What properly holds me back from buying one is the fact I need to use Steam to use the controller, and the few games I do play aren’t available on Steam (e.g, SuperTuxKart, MAME, etc).

• GitHub – ynsta/steamcontroller: Standalone Steam Controller Driver
• Valve shoots down Itch stores attempt to get their client on Steam

Bundling ZFS and Linux is impossible says Richard Stallman

Enter Stallman, arguing that “Code under GPL-incompatible licenses cannot be added, neither in source nor binary form, without violating the GPL.” He continues: “if you distribute modules meant to be linked together by the user, you have made them into a combined work, and you must release the entire combined work under the GNU GPL.” It’s therefore not possible to release ZFS alongside GNU GPL-licensed code because ZFS is licensed under CDDLv1.

The HTC Vive and Valve’s SteamVR don’t yet support Linux and SteamOS

You might expect that the HTC Vive works with Valve’s own SteamOS and Linux, but it doesn’t. It’s Windows-only for now, just like the Oculus Rift.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Road to Xfce 4.14

Roadmap / Planned Features :

• All components of -core will be ported to Gtk+ 3.
• Replace dbus-glib with GDbus.
• Review icon-names in all components and use consistent naming, following the fd.o spec where possible
• Use symbolic icons for panel plugins and in apps where suitable
• Replace deprecated widgets.

ubuntuBSD Is Looking to Become an Official Ubuntu Flavor

“I would like to contribute all my work to Ubun__tu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an__official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu,” _said Jon Boden. “If you’re interested, please let me know how would you like me to proceed.”_

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Leo Laprote Tries out Arch Linux

• Previously on Unplugged: Drive-By Advice | LINUX Unplugged 34

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

The LFNW is So Nigh

• Jupiter Broadcasting @ LFNW 2016 – Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup (Seattle, WA) – Meetup
• Leaving After this week’s LAS on Sunday to pick up HamRadio in Idaho.
• Planning starts for 10th anniversary for LAS celebration ideas
• Should be back in time for next week’s LUP, Noah in studio.
• Turkey Feed

Putting Traccar to the Test

Traccar Setup

• Have to install openjdk-7-jre-headless on Ubuntu
• Download the traccar installer for Linux: Download – Traccar
• Install unzip on Ubuntu
• unzip the package
• Run traccar.run (sudo ./traccar.run) — It will create the init scripts for you
• Start daemon (sudo /opt/traccar/bin/traccar start)
• Launch Traccar tracker app on mobile, and note the device ID. You’ll need that when you set it up in the web UI
• Quick Start – Traccar
• guest access / embedding? – Traccar
• Public/View-only-Webinterface (no login required) · Issue #96 · tananaev/traccar-web · GitHub

Post-Show

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Project lead of the new KDE Visual Design Group, Jens Reuterberg, joins us to discuss building a culture of design around KDE, driving community consensus, and how they hope to design by collaboration.

Plus: Linux had a strong showing at Mobile World Congress, we’ll round it up, another major game land for Linux…

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Jens Reuterberg

This is the portfolio site of me, Jens Reuterberg (or Ohyran).

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• KDE Visual Design Group

• KDE Visual Design Group: Monday Report #4

• KDE Visual Design Group: The issue with icons

We are too small to influence them, but too big not to get sued – is the long and the short of it.

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• q5sys one of our Action Producers, Runs Linux

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Desktop App Pick

• Tox

Project Tox, also known as Tox, is a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) instant messaging application aimed to replace Skype.
The goal of this project is to create a configuration-free P2P skype replacement. Configuration-free means that the user will simply have to open the program and without any account configuration will be capable of adding people to his friends list and start conversing with them. There are many so-called skype replacements and all of them are either hard to configure for the normal user or suffer from being way too centralized.

• Binaries – Tox Wiki

• Venom · GitHub

A Vala/Gtk+ graphical user interface for Tox

Weekly Spotlight

• Wings of Saint Nazaire

Wings of Saint Nazaire is a retro space combat sim in the vein of Wing Commander(tm) and X-Wing(tm) developed today!

• Wings of St. Nazaire (WingsOfNazaire) on Twitter

• Wings Of Saint Nazaire Alpha On Linux – YouTube

• Happy Birthday to the Rasberry Pi – Possibly open source RPU Drives on the Way?

— NEWS —

Portal 2 for Linux Beta Released

There are a few bugs but Valve is tracking those on a public Github page.

• ValveSoftware/portal2 · GitHub

Important: To play Portal 2 on Linux you must opt-in to the beta. You may do this by right-clicking on Portal 2 (Beta) in Steam, clicking Properties -> Betas and then select ‘beta’ from the drop-down. If you do not do this, Portal 2 will not run on Linux.

Ubuntu wins Tom’s Hardware Best of MWC 2014

Tom’s Hardware noted: Overall, the experience was a lot smoother, and the operating system itself was a pleasure to use, being both intuitive and visually appealing.

Ubuntu Meizu MX3 and BQ Aquaris – First look ahead of UK launch (Wired UK)

Wired.co.uk went hands-on with the two prototype devices at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The MX3 has a 5.1-inch screen.

Provisional specs for the phone include an octa-core chip, a 3-core graphics processor and 2GB of RAM.

It should be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions and will be powered by a 2,400mAh battery.

There are no specific specs available yet for the BQ Aquaris

Canonical’s CEO tells Wired.co.uk:

The marketing strategy for the phones when they officially launch will be a global online campaign. It will be a relatively soft launch, she adds, that will give Ubuntu fans the opportunity to get their hands on the devices first.

Hands-On with the $25 Firefox Phone

Mozilla engineers were able to accomplish this by adjusting the hardware requirements of the operating system to run on a 1 GHz CPU, single core Spreadtrum chipset with only 128 MB of RAM. That’s only 25 to 50 percent of the RAM found in existing entry-level devices on the market

Lawrence Lessig At SCALE12x

At SCALE12x the 12th Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig delivered an
opening keynote that challenged the free software community to do
something it does not normally attempt: engage with the political
system. Lessig is perhaps best known as a public advocate for reform
in the US government’s patent and copyright systems and for his activism in intellectual property issues (such as founding
Creative Commons).

As he explained to the SCALE crowd, those affected public policy areas include some key
technology issues—and Lessig’s own commitment to the cause he
credits directly to his friendship with developer Aaron Swartz.

The talk was an unusual one for SCALE, where politics is rarely on the agenda. But the crowd responded with enthusiasm, to the stories of technology policy, and to the analogy of zeroing in on a flaw like a bug and fixing it.

• Samsung smartwatches run on Tizen

Samsung unveiled three Tizen smartwatches

Set to ship in April, with pricing unknown, the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit will ship with 100 Tizen apps.

Both devices offer the same 1.63-inch, 320 x 320-pixel Super AMOLED screen found on the Galaxy Gear, but they advance to a faster 1GHz, dual-core processor. Memory stays put at 512MB RAM and 4GB flash.

• Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals

Cutting the price of Windows 8.1 by 70 percent for makers of low-cost computers and tablets

Manufacturers will be charged $15 to license Windows 8.1 and preinstall it on devices that retail for less than $250.

Instead of the usual fee of $50.

• Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1 | The Verge

We’re told that Microsoft is aiming to position Windows 8.1 with Bing as a free or low-cost upgrade for Windows 7 users. Any upgrade offers will be focused on boosting the number of people using Windows 8.1. This Bing-powered version of Windows 8.1 may also be offered to PC makers as part of recent license cuts for devices under $250.

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• Fitbit for Linux

• Lots of really good Howto Linux producer submissions. The audience is full of amazing people.

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Have IRC chat rooms, forums, reddit, and Google Hangouts killed the local Linux Users Group? We’ll share our ideas to reboot the LUG and make them relevant for the modern Linux user.

PLUS: Your follow up thoughts on the perfect swap setup, feedback, and much more!

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FU

• Installed Bridge Linux on the UltraPro

• Infomercial Speical

• Getting Girls on Linux: Response to Comments

• On swap partitions

• Ting Golden Ticket

• ZRAM, Swap Files, and Hibernating for the Winter

Double Recording on Tuesday 17th Starting at 12pm PDT no LIVE show the 24th

Are LUGs Dying? Or just need a reboot?

• Linux user group – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Linux User Group or Linux Users\’ Group (LUG) or GNU/Linux User Group (GLUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. The term commonly refers to local groups that meet in person, but is also used to refer to online support groups that may have members spread over a very wide area and which do not organize, or which are not based around, physical meetings. Many LUGs encompass FreeBSD and other free Unix-based operating systems.

• Bellevue Linux Users Group home page: serving the Seattle area

Welcome to the Bellevue Linux Users Group (BELUG) website. BELUG is dedicated to promoting an interest in and an understanding of Linux and other free software.

• Bellingham Linux Users Group

Blug was started in 1998 by a small group of computer geeks who wanted to get off Windows and learn from local Unix gurus. We hold a presentation meeting the first Thursday of the month at Bellingham Technical College in room CC201. On the second Thursday we hold an informal organization meeting with the time and location announced on the mailing list. We also put on special events including LinuxFest Northwest held the last weekend of April.

• Everett Linux Users Group

• Oracle becomes sponsor of OpenStack Foundation – business issues, Internet-based applications and services, open source, middleware, development platforms, software, internet, cloud computing, system management, Infrastructure services, Oracle – CIO

Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and plans to weave parts of the open-source infrastructure platform into its own products, saying it will give customers more flexibility and options for managing clouds.

• Congsu’s LUG Success story, runs his University LUG.

Double Recording on Tuesday 17th Starting at 12pm PDT no LIVE show the 24th

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We load Ubuntu 12.10 onto a Nexus 7 and tell what works, what doesn’t, and where this is all heading. Is this a laptop killer? Or just a toy for us nerds? Tune in to find out!

Plus we’ve got Netflix running on Ubuntu, and we’ll show it to you, the big news of the week, your feedback…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Show Notes:

Ubuntu on the Nexus 7

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Proxmox or Ubuntu on the Nexus 7 next week?

Mark Shuttleworth on why Ubuntu on the Nexus 7:

https://youtu.be/769U8n3srkg?t=4m44s – 6:22

*Impressions: *

• How sharp and crisp Everything looks. Very vibrant.

• The uniform icon size in the Unity launch bar is very nice.

• Good battery life, despite the estimate being wrong.

• Wifi and 3D worked no problem. 3D is being generous, but basics work.

• Ubuntu Core Desktop on the Nexus 7: Getting Involved

• Nexus7/UsingTheDevice – Ubuntu Wiki

• Nexus7/KnownIssues – Ubuntu Wiki

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Runs Linux:

• The #1 Super Computer Runs Linux

• 94 Percent of the World’s Top 500 Supercomputers Run Linux

Android Pick:

• Juice for Roku

• Ubuntu/Android mtp pro-tip

• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• Phatch – Photo Batch Processor

• Picks so far

• Madjo

Search our past picks:

• Linux Action Show Lookup
• Thanks to sakuramboo!

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Affiliate Extensions
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News:

• PPA for Netflix Desktop App | iheartubuntu

• Netflix on Ubuntu?

• HP Becomes a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation

• XBMC Media Center 12.0 Beta 1 Released With Raspberry PI And Android Support

• The Great Winter Migration

• Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Linux Beta Access

• Valve’s Steam License Causes Linux Packaging Concerns

• Unity 4.0 adds Linux Publishing Support

• Blizzard Admits Linux User Was Wrongly Banned, Offers Refund

• The next chapter

• New Catalyst For Linux Driver Improves Performance

• Mozilla launches Popcorn Maker 1.0

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• Misses Tux

• boot – Archlinux bootlogo – Super User

• Secure Wifi without a mutiny?

• Ubuntu TV out yet?

• How do I install Ubuntu TV on my computer?

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• Will 2013 Be the Year of the Ubuntu Desktop?
• Writing about Linux, sometimes, even asking tough questions
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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/18571/tank-heal-or-damage-torked-2/ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:12:25 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=18571 How the holy trinity of MMO gameplay applies to SW:TOR, crafting and crew skills are getting an update and, we’ll run through the important bits!

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Crafting and crew skills are getting an update, we’ll run through the important bits, we share new flash point details, and give you are tips for rocking the key binds!

All that and more, in this week’s episode of TORked!

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Show Notes:

> News

• Bioware Podcast –
• Crafting & Crew Skills Update
• Community Q&A –
• In Game Events –
• Patch 1.3 Teases –

> Main Content

• 1.2 Patch Notes Continued
• Class Updates – Brief Overview
• New Flashpoint / Operation / Dailies / Warzone
• Guild Bank & New Armour sets
• Further additions slated for Patch 1.3
• The MMO Holy Trinity
• Tank – Leading the charge in battle, Holds Aggro of the enemy(s)
• Healer – Support Role repairing damage taken from enemy fire
• Damage Dealer (DPS) – Kick the everloving shit out of the enemy
• The “perfect” team – balance of all 3 (including differences of advanced classes)
• SWTOR Advanced Class Combinations
• PvE Group Composition Example (flashpoint) 1 Tank, 1 Healer, 2 DPS,
• Strong Group Composition Example (operation / raid) 2 Tank, 2 Healer, 3 DPS, 1 Hybrid (Someone who can DPS or Heal)
• Class Diversity in SWTOR –
• Tips & Tricks
• Key binds
• Focus targeting

> Ep3 Teaser

• 1.2 patch notes part 3 – SO many changes and updates to investigate
• Test server feedback from our team as they continue to explore
• The “Power Of The Sith” – we delve into the dark side to see just why the Sith Warrior and Sith Inquisitor classes are so popular. It might be a “shocking” experience so be prepared.

Community Feedback

1. Community Question – What are your ideas to bring the other Crew Skills up to par with the earning power of slicing?

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/18476/jbs-xonotic-server-in-depth-look/ Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:59:22 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=18476 Jupiter Broadcasting has a new public Xonotic server! Free to play and free to join!

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Have some frustrations you need to work out? Then might I suggest shooting your fellow viewer in the virtual face! Jupiter Broadcasting has a new public Xonotic server! Free to play and free to join!

I\’ll tell you all about it, plus a few details about the free open source first person shooter, Xonotic. In this week\’s episode of an In Depth Look.

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Show Notes

• It was developed as a fork of Nexuiz
• The game is running on a heavily modified version of the Quake engine known as \”DarkPlaces\”
• US people are more likely to pronounce it : zone + otic
• European people are more likely to pronounce it : kso + notic
• 0.6 Released March 8th includes new weapon models, new maps, massive new features, and a ton of bugs fixes.
• XonStat: Player Statistics for Jupiter Colony

Server info:

xonotic.jupitercolony.com

Jupiter Colony Xonotic Forum

We also have a TeamSpeak 3 channel which is open to anyone, and is a great way to get to know the people you\’re playing with.

TS3 IP: ts.jupitercolony.com:9990

xonotic@jupitercolony.com If anyone has questions/ideas.

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