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“Payday lending firm Moneytree is the latest company to alert current and former employees that their tax data — including Social Security numbers, salary and address information — was accidentally handed over directly to scam artists”
“Seattle-based Moneytree sent an email to employees on March 4 stating that “one of our team members fell victim to a phishing scam and revealed payroll information to an external source.”
“Moneytree was apparently targeted by a scam in which the scammer impersonated me (the company co-founder) and asked for an emailed copy of certain information about the Company’s payroll including Team Member names, home addresses, social security numbers, birthdates and W2 information,” Moneytree co-founder Dennis Bassford wrote to employees.”
Why that would even be a reasonable request, I don’t know
“Unfortunately, this request was not recognized as a scam, and the information about current and former Team Members who worked in the US at Moneytree in 2015 or were hired in early 2016 was disclosed. The good news is that our servers and security systems were not breached, and our millions of customer records were not affected. The bad news is that our Team Members’ information has been compromised.”
Moneytree joins a growing list of companies disclosing to employees that they were duped by W2 phishing scams, which this author first warned about in mid-February. Earlier this month, data storage giant Seagate acknowledged that a similar phishing scam had compromised the tax and personal data on thousands of current and past employees.
“On March 1, Seagate Technology learned that the 2015 W-2 tax form information for current and former U.S.-based employees was sent to an unauthorized third party in response to the phishing email scam. The information was sent by an employee who believed the phishing email was a legitimate internal company request.”
“W2 information is highly prized by fraudsters involved in tax refund fraud, a multi-billion dollar problem in which thieves claim a large refund in the victim’s name, and ask for the funds to be electronically deposited into an account the crooks control.”
“For better or worse, most companies that have notified employees about a W2 phish this year are offering employees the predictable free credit monitoring, which is of course useless to prevent tax fraud and many other types of identity theft. But in a refreshing departure from that tired playbook, Moneytree says it will be giving employees an extra $50 in their next paycheck to cover the initial cost of placing a credit freeze (for more information on the different between credit monitoring and a freeze and why a freeze might be a better idea, check out Credit Monitoring vs. Freeze and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Security Freeze).”
““When something like this happens, the right thing to do is to disclose what you know as soon as possible, take care of the people affected, and learn from what went wrong. To make good on that last point, we will be ramping up our information security efforts company-wide, because we never want to have to write an email like this to you again”.”

New exploit developed for Android Stagefright

“Security researchers have successfully exploited the Android-based Stagefright bug and remotely hacked a phone, which may leave millions devices vulnerable to attack.”
“Israeli software research company NorthBit claimed it had “properly” exploited the Android bug that was originally described as the “worst ever discovered”.”
“The exploitation, called Metaphor, is detailed in a research paper (PDF) from NorthBit and also a video showing the exploit being run on a Nexus 5. NorthBit said it had also successfully tested the exploit on a LG G3, HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S5.”
“The Stagefright vulnerability was first highlighted by security firm Zimperium in July 2015. The hack was said to be able to execute remote code on Android devices and could possibly affect up to 95 percent of Android devices.”
“A second critical vulnerability exploited issues in .mp3 and .mp4 files, which when opened were claimed to be able to remotely execute malicious code, was dubbed Stagefright 2.0 in October.”
The flaws were originally thought to not be easily exploitable, but this new research provides a simple remote exploit case
“The researchers from NorthBit say they have been able to create an exploit that can be used against Stagefright on Android 2.2, 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1. Other versions are not affected.”
Android 5.0 and above are protected by ASLR, however “Dabah claims the exploit “depicts a way to bypass” address space layout randomisation (ASLR)”
“”We managed to exploit it to make it work in the wild,” Dabah said. The research paper reads: “Breaking ASLR requires some information about the device, as different devices use slightly different configurations which may change some offsets or predictable addresses locations.”
“”I would be surprised if multiple professional hacking groups do not have working Stagefright exploits by now. Many devices out there are still vulnerable, so Zimperium has not published the second exploit in order to protect the ecosystem”.”
Researcher PDF
I am glad my phone runs Android 6.0.1 with the March 2016 Security Updates applied

PIN analysis

“There are 10,000 possible combinations that the digits 0-9 can be arranged to form a 4-digit pin code. Out of these ten thousand codes, which is the least commonly used?”
“People are notoriously bad at generating random passwords. I hope this article will scare you into being a little more careful in how you select your next PIN number. Are you curious about what the least commonly used PIN number might be?”
“I was able to find almost 3.4 million four digit passwords. Every single one of the of the 10,000 combinations of digits from 0000 through to 9999 were represented in the dataset”
“A staggering 26.83% of all passwords could be guessed by attempting the top 20 combinations”
“The first “puzzling” password I encountered was 2580 in position #22. What is the significance of these digits? Why should so many people select this code to make it appear so high up the list?”
This turns out to be straight down the middle of a telephone style number pad. Not the same as on on a computer, but most ABMs use the telephone style
“Another fascinating piece of trivia is that people seem to prefer even numbers over odd, and codes like 2468 occur higher than a odd number equivalent, such as 1357”
“Statistically, one third of all codes can be guessed by trying just 61 distinct combinations! The 50% cumulative chance threshold is passed at just 426 codes (far less than the 5,000 that a random uniformly distribution would predict)”
The most unpopular pin is: 8068
“Warning Now that we’ve learned that, historically, 8068 is (was?) the least commonly used password 4-digit PIN, please don’t go out and change yours to this! Hackers can read too! They will also be promoting 8068 up their attempt trees in order to catch people who read this (or similar) articles.”
“Many of the high frequency PIN numbers can be interpreted as years, e.g. 1967 1956 1937 … It appears that many people use a year of birth (or possibly an anniversary) as their PIN. This will certainly help them remember their code, but it greatly increases its predictability”
Pins that start with 19 dominate the top 10%, and all appear within the top 20%
The heatmap also shows that people tend to use Birthdays a lot as well (MMDD)

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Rollback Romanticism | LINUX Unplugged 93

chris — Tue, 19 May 2015 17:29:19 +0000

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After an Ubuntu update goes really bad Chris reflects on how snappy, a transactionally updated version of Ubuntu, could have avoided this problem.

Plus a review of the System76 Meerkat PC, Russia plans to fork Sailfish OS & more!

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Russia will fork Sailfish OS to shut out pesky Western spooks

Russia’s Minister of Communications and Mass Media, Nikolai Nikiforov, has taken part in talks to form a consortium that will aid Russia in developing a custom mobile OS, reportedly a forked version of Jolla’s Sailfish OS, to lessen its dependence on Western technology.

Nikiforov held a working meeting last week with the leadership of Hong Kong-based Sailfish Holdings, developer of the quietly admired Sailfish OS.

Alongside other participants, the parties involved discussed the use of open-source software in the public and private sectors, taking into account technical, economic and political factors, the latter of which is expected to include United States’ interference with exported technologies.

YotaPhone 2 – Worlds First Dual-Screen Smartphone | Indiegogo

The world’s first dual-screen always-on smartphone has arrived. Fully customizable always-on screen. Hands-free messaging and notifications. E-reading for up to 100 hours on a single charge. Full Android functionality on both screens. The smart-phone future. Now.

YotaPhone 2 is the first dual-screen mobile in the world that combines the features of a premium Android smartphone with the benefits of an Electronic Paper Display.

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Google Chrome 43 Brings Better Linux HiDPI Support

Of much interest to Linux users will be the landing of improved Linux HiDPI support.

What are you favorite terminal applications?

So I feel cool using the terminal, and it honestly feels more efficient half the time to boot. What are some of your must-have/most used terminal applications? I’ve been trolling through the Arch Wiki’s list of terminal apps (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications[1] ), and that’s been a solid jumping off point.

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Meerkat Review

Few basic features of System76 Meerkat include:

Intel 5th Generation processors, available options i3-5010U and i5-5250U
up to 2 TB of storage (M.2 SATA SSD)
16 GB DDR3 RAM
Graphics Intel HD 5500 and Intel HD 6000 for i3 and i5 respectively
4″ x 4″ in size
WiFi
1 Gb NIC
2 USB 3.0 ports (with one being PoweredUSB)

gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images.

System76 Meerkat is a cute Intel Broadwell-powered Ubuntu Linux computer [Review]

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On the Verge of Convergence | LINUX Unplugged 84

chris — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:44:58 +0000

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We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch.

Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update.

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Dell’s Linux PC sequel still “just works”—but it adds 4K screen and rough edges | Ars Technica

For $1,533 out of the gate or about $2,080 as tested, is the M3800 Developer Edition worth it?

Sure—if you want a fast, well-built, well-equipped 4K laptop preloaded with Ubuntu, with most of the potential edge-case configuration issues already taken care of, with an active set of developers working to ensure that the necessary repos are kept current, and with an actual, for-real OEM warranty and support.

The Good

Ubuntu 14.04, factory-preconfigured to just work
Barton George and the other Dell engineers worry about packages and drivers so you don’t have to
High-quality build: no squeaks, no rattles, no shimmies
16GB of RAM, the potential for a large SSD, and a Haswell i7 CPU mean it’s got plenty of guts as a developer’s workstation
Reasonable amount of upgradeability
Display is bright, beautiful, and works with Ubuntu 14.04 (including the multitouch functionality)

The Bad

Thunderbolt port doesn’t really work in Ubuntu
Application-level 4k scaling issues are pretty much all over the place
If all you’re after is Linux on a laptop, you can do it for cheaper than the M3800’s starting price
I kind of hoped the Dell logo on the back would light up, but sadly it doesn’t

The Ugly

Battery life with the Nvidia GPU enabled is far too short for a day’s worth of working

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The future of Linux storage | ZDNet

For instance, Chris Mason, a Facebook software engineer and one of the _Btrfs(pronounced Butter FS) maintainers, explained how Facebook uses this file system. Btrfs has many advantages as a file system such as the ability to handle both numerous small files and single files as large as 16 exabytes; baked in RAID; built-in file-system compression; and integrated multi-storage device support._

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The PC-BSD Tour | BSD Now 49

chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:38:35 +0000

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Coming up this week on the show, we’ve got something special for you! We’ll be giving you an in-depth look at all of the graphical PC-BSD utilities. That’s right, BSD doesn’t have to be command line only anymore! There’s also the usual round of answers to your emails and all the latest headlines, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD foundation semi-annual newsletter

The FreeBSD foundation published their semi-annual newsletter, complete with a letter from the president of the foundation
“In fact after reading [the president’s] letter, I was motivated to come up with my own elevator pitch instead of the usual FreeBSD is like Linux, only better!”
It talks about the FreeBSD journal as being one of the most exciting things they’ve launched this year, conferences they funded and various bits of sponsored code that went into -CURRENT
The full list of funded projects is included, also with details in the financial reports
There are also a number of conference wrap-ups: NYCBSDCon, BSDCan, AsiaBSDCon and details about the upcoming EuroBSDCon
A new application page for travel grants to EuroBSDCon is also up

OpenBSD on an Intel NUC

A lot of people love small form factor PCs, and we love ones that can run BSD – so does the author of this write-up
The Intel NUC is a small, almost Mac Mini-like device that’s pretty cheap and offers some nice specs
“The NUC has integrated Intel graphics (Intel HD Graphics 5000) which as an OpenBSD user is exactly what I wanted” – fully supported
The post goes into detail about PXE booting the installation and talks about his experiences

BAFUG presentation videos

A couple of talks from BAFUG, the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group, were uploaded to YouTube
The first talk is by Craig Rodrigues about libvirt and bhyve integration
libvirt is a c library for interacting with various Hypervisors and virtualization technology – bhyve support was recently added
The second is by Adrian Chadd, titled “Upcoming RSS enhancements to the FreeBSD Network Stack”
Adrian also wrote a blog post that accompanies the video
We need more good quality BSD presentation videos!

TLS decompression

A new blog post from our buddy Ted Unangst](https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures), this time about a feature he recently removed from LibreSSL
The original commit message was just “decompress libressl” with no details – these are the missing details of that change
It talks about the different network layers where compression is applied and how code has to be refactored for that
“I might download a zip file (of png files!). The web server, if configured just wrong, can apply http compression to it. If it’s https, the TLS layer can compress it again. If I’m using an SSH tunnel, that can compress it. If it’s travelling over IPsec, it can get compressed again. It can get compressed again by IP compression. How many layers of compression do we really need?”

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The PC-BSD Tour

News Roundup

Introducing pkgfs

A new tool, pkgfs, was committed to FreeBSD -CURRENT
It’s described as “a file system implementation for reading files out of a compressed tarball”
Users will now be able to view pkgng packages (or any compressed tarball) just like NFS, SMB, SSHFS, etc

BSDMag’s July 2014 issue is out

Continuing their monthly release cycle, BSD Magazine has another issue for us
Topics include using Wireshark in a SAN environment, more GIMP image manipulation tutorials, an interview with Brett Davis about TrueNAS, an article about pkgng in DragonFlyBSD and a few other things
The PDF is free to download, as always

A new OpenSMTPD interview

Way back in episode three, we talked to Gilles and Eric from the OpenBSD team about OpenSMTPD
One of the developers gave a text-only interview with a Russian website about some recent activity
It talks about their development process, testing the code on various platforms and architectures, stress testing via the “Twitter flash mob” and a few other things

FreeBSD as a syslog server

If you have a large number of servers, examining their logs individually is a pain
Fortunately, you can configure them to send their logs to a dedicated system to receive them
This blog post goes through the process of setting up the “client” systems as well as the “server” system to get all your logs in one place

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Arch Home Server Challenge | LAS 313

chris — Sun, 18 May 2014 16:19:39 +0000

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Coming up on this week’s episode of The Linux Action Show!

Arch Linux can make the perfect Home Server, we’ll share our tips to build the ultimate home server running the latest software, powered by Arch Linux.

Plus Ubuntu rocks the OpenStack summit, a first look at Syncthing (the fully OSS Bittorrent Sync killer), results from our Btrfs poll, our picks…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Ultimate Arch Home Server:

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Ubuntu 12.10 – Quantal Quetzal – End of Life reached on May 16 2014

Arch Home Server Install Notes:

My Arch server philosophy comes down to one word: Focus
Outside of a few exceptions, an Arch server should be an absolutely lean machine, with only the packages required to perform a specific function.
Additional functions should be spun out into separate VMs when possible. VMs are cheap, containers are even cheaper.
We use a Template with a base Arch install, with the correct uids for NFS, the correct groups, and the basic file system mounts entered to fstab. This also simplifies the Arch deployment process.
The best server is a headless server, with no GUI. When you toss out the GUI, the usability playing field for setting up a server gets leveled out to nearly flat.
The invaluable amount of help that comes from the Arch Wiki in many ways gives Arch a usability boost over other possible distributions for a headless home server.

Arch Installation Quick Reference Guide by jmac217

So over the past few months or so I\’ve been just been throwing often-used commands and links into a Google Document to get me up and running quickly when I want to spin up a new Arch installation.

[Google Doc Install Guide by jmac217][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC41PnZFX7en8L3l0AYLXQKFsC2kxFrZjxQ1Q36AP-k/edit?usp=sharing]

Proxmox

Proxmox supports a mix of KVM Virtual Machines, and Linux containers.
Arch currently (I believe due to a systemd bug) runs best in KVM, not in a container.
Arch might make a better Linux Container candidate after that bug is fixed.
Our Proxmox box is a Core i7 rig, with 1TB of internal RAID0 storage.
Important data is stored on the NFS FreeNAS box.
We run one Arch VM from the internal 1TB, and one from the NFS mount.

NFS Setup

FreeNAS was our selection for the back-end storage.
A btrfs powered server was considered, but upon a mighty reflection induced by our recent poll, ZFS seemed like the wiser choice.
ZFS does work on Linux, but the utility aspect of FreeNAS appeals.
When the application stuff is handled by front end systems, the backend storage should be a simple, reliable, and appliance like as possible. FreeNAS offers a lot of that, with a native ZFS implementation, backed by a trusted company – iXsystems.
Install NTP on both ends
In Arch use systemd to mount the NFS share
Create a common UID on the NFS server and Client. This makes file permissions much simpler. Have everything owned by your “media” user in your “media” share.

SABnzbd

Configured SABnzbd to work off the NFS mount.
sabnzb modify it to allow network connections:

/opt/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini

CouchPotato.

packer -S couchpotato-git
cd /usr/lib/systemd/system
nano couchpotato.service – edit to run as root
chown -R root:root /opt/couchpotato
systemctl enable couchpotato
systemctl start couchpotato

Default port is 5050

SickBeard

SickBeard requires you have some usenet index search APIs. It’s built in search is limited.

Set SickBeard to ping Plex to update once a download completes.

Monitorix

Edit /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf
Set your hostname and title
Double check the built in httpd port. 8080 is the default. Which is also sabnzbd’s port.
Set to enabled if you want to use the internal webserver.
Further down you can turn on and off what it graphs.
How to set up a web-based lightweight system monitor on Fedora, CentOS or RHEL

SSMTP

SSMTP is a program to deliver an email from a local computer to a configured mailhost (mailhub). It is not a mail server (like feature-rich mail server sendmail) and does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. One of its primary uses is for forwarding automated email (like system alerts) off your machine and to an external email address.
A lot of server side applications (and the next item down in this list) need to use smtp to send you an email notification. When you have automated processes happening at all different hours of the day, often kicked off my some script running headless in the background, it’s sorta a necessary evil.
/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Logwatch

Logwatch is a powerful and versatile log parser and analyzer. Logwatch is designed to give a unified report of all activity on a server, which can be delivered through the command line or email.
A key part of set it and forget it is having your system alert you when it needs help, so you can address it before it becomes a disaster.

Syncthing

Per-user config files, example:

/home/studio/.syncthing/config.xml

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Castawesome

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Weekly Spotlight

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it\’s transmitted over the Internet.

Syncthing – Android Apps on Google Play

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Canonical Goes BIG at

OpenStack Deployments Are Up, And So Is Ubuntu—But Will It Stick?

This year more than 5,000 people showed up to the OpenStack conference, and 1,780 people filled out a survey that drills into how they\’re using OpenStack. Many of the respondents (60%) came from companies that employ fewer than 500 people, while a dwindling percentage was derived from users at companies that employ more than 1,000 people, compared to the October 2013 user survey (34%, down from 39%).

The Orange Box

Canonical Keynote – Mark Unveils the Orange Box

The Orange Box is an innovative, custom designed micro cluster chassis, envisioned by Canonical, and contract manufactured by TranquilPC Limited. The chassis includes a small cluster of Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) boards, and is particularly well suited for portable demonstration and local prototyping of cloud workloads. The Orange Box, manufactured in the UK to exacting standards is available to order and ships internationally (free of charge).

Each Orange Box chassis contains:

10x Intel NUCs
Specifically, the Ivy Bridge D53427RKE model

Each Intel NUC contains

i5-3427U CPU
Intel HD Graphics 4000
16GB of DDR3 RAM
120GB SSD root disk
Intel Gigabit ethernet
D-Link DGS-1100-16 managed gigabit switch with 802.1q VLAN support

All 10 nodes are internally connected to this gigabit switch

In aggregate, this micro cluster effectively fields 40 cores, 160GB of RAM, 1.2TB of solid state storage, and is connected over an internal gigabit network fabric. A single fan quietly cools the power supply, while all of the nodes are passively cooled by aluminum heat sinks spanning each side of the chassis.

The first node, node0, additionally contains:

An Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter
A 2TB HDD (spinning)
USB and HDMI ports are wired and accessible from the rear of the box
Access to the USB/HDMI of nodes1-9 is accessible from the underside of the unit
Six GBE LAN ports (all connected to the internal switch) are exposed to the rear panel, for external access, or even clustering of multiple Orange Boxes together.
Mark introduces the Orange Box: https://youtu.be/aEYCjHCderM?t=13m33s

Canonical offers \’Chuck Norris Grade\’ OpenStack private cloud service

This new offering is called Your Cloud. For $15 per day per host, \”Ubuntu offers all the software infrastructure, tools, and services you need to have your own cloud at your fingertips. Built by experts on Ubuntu OpenStack, fully managed and with 24/7 monitoring.\”

Canonical Juju DevOps tool coming to CentOS and Windows

It\’s hard to shock an audience at a technical conference. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux and its parent company Canonical, managed it several times in his OpenStack Summit keynote speech. No news may have been more surprising than that Canonical had ported its Juju DevOps program to its rival\’s operating systems: Red Hat\’s CentOS and Microsoft\’s Hyber-V and Windows Server 2012.

Ubuntu\’s Unity 8 Desktop To Be Release As Separate Flavor?

“The desktop team would like to add a new flavour (we don’t plan to have any formal releases at this point) of Ubuntu which contains the Unity 8 desktop and the new applications which have been developed for the touch project.

The initial intention is to provide a product which developers can use to figure out the work that’s required to make a desktop product based on this software usable, and to create a space for experimentation to figure out the best ways of carrying out the required integration.”

Linux Mint will stick to LTS release

The decision was made to stick to LTS bases. In other words the development team will be focused on the very same package base used by Linux Mint 17 for the next 2 years.

It will also be trivial to upgrade from version 17 to 17.1, then 17.2 and so on.
Important applications will be backported and we expect this change to boost the pace of our development and reduce the amount of regressions in each new Linux Mint release.

This makes Linux Mint 17.x very important to us, not just yet another release, but one that will receive security updates until 2019, one that will receive backports and new features until 2016 and even more importantly, the only package base besides LMDE which we’ll be focused on until 2016.

Our traffic doubled lately and all our stats are on the raise, and we don’t know why. Maybe it’s related to the the end-of-life of Windows XP. We’re not really sure

Antergos\’ Release Candidate plus Partnering with Numix

Antergos is partnering with the Numix Project to create an exclusive edition of Numix Themes for our desktops (both GTK and QT). In this RC, you will be able to enjoy some premature advances of this agreement in the form of the icon theme. We’re not sure if the rest of the design will be make it into this release or if it will be postponed until next stable release.

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Developers Get Qt | LINUX Unplugged 40

chris — Tue, 13 May 2014 17:55:52 +0000

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We chat with two of the LXQt developers, and find out what’s behind this major undertaking. Then we discuss our favorite packages for a Linux home server, and the brand new Ubuntu Orange cluster box.

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Building a new server for JB1, details on a upcoming LAS.
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Anti-virus pioneer Alan Solomon thinks anti-virus is dead. He uses Linux instead

“I stopped using an antivirus a long time ago, because I couldn\’t see how it could work in a world where you would need daily updates, which means that each update is tested for … how long? Not very long, obviously.

Ubuntu Cluster Orange Box

Canonical Keynote – YouTube

The Orange Box is an innovative, custom designed micro cluster chassis, envisioned by Canonical, and contract manufactured by TranquilPC Limited. The chassis includes a small cluster of Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) boards, and is particularly well suited for portable demonstration and local prototyping of cloud workloads. The Orange Box, manufactured in the UK to exacting standards is available to order and ships internationally (free of charge).

Each Orange Box chassis contains:

10x Intel NUCs
Specifically, the Ivy Bridge D53427RKE model

Each Intel NUC contains

i5-3427U CPU
Intel HD Graphics 4000
16GB of DDR3 RAM
120GB SSD root disk
Intel Gigabit ethernet
D-Link DGS-1100-16 managed gigabit switch with 802.1q VLAN support

All 10 nodes are internally connected to this gigabit switch

In aggregate, this micro cluster effectively fields 40 cores, 160GB of RAM, 1.2TB of solid state storage, and is connected over an internal gigabit network fabric. A single fan quietly cools the power supply, while all of the nodes are passively cooled by aluminum heat sinks spanning each side of the chassis.

The first node, node0, additionally contains:

An Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter
A 2TB HDD (spinning)
USB and HDMI ports are wired and accessible from the rear of the box
Access to the USB/HDMI of nodes1-9 is accessible from the underside of the unit
Six GBE LAN ports (all connected to the internal switch) are exposed to the rear panel, for external access, or even clustering of multiple Orange Boxes together.

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Intel NUC Review | LAS s31e08 (308)

chris — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:14:27 +0000

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Can the Intel NUC be a no compromises Linux desktop? Or are there a few challenges you need to know? Spoiler Alert: There are, and we’ve solved them. Find out how the Intel NUC Performance a Gnome 3.12 full fledged desktop.

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Intel NUC Desktop Linux Review

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Outside of video games, it has a completely uncompromised feeling and desktop experience. Video games do work well at lower resolutions, but struggle at 1080p.
This NUC requires 1.35 volt memory, it also required timing 11 not timing 9 memory. The computer will not boot with 1.5 volt memory or refresh timing 9 memory. This applies to newer generation NUCs, which is fairly confusing as older generations accepted both 1.5 and 1.35v memory.

My NUC as Speced:

Up the amount of vram allocated to the intel gpu to something reasonable (1gb+) in UEFI, vastly improves video performance.
Enable Early KMS start, gives a high resolution terminal and allows a smoother transition to the desktop.
Install xf86-video-intel, enable multilib, install lib32-intel-dri
Drivers already default to the new SNA mode, so ignore the first section but do the second section that enables glamour mode
install libva-intel-driver, you can also use VDPAU as well
If using gnome, add to /etc/enviroment CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling to get tear-free video

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Support for Sqlite, MySQL, and Postgresql
Mobile friendly responsive layout
Android app

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CoreOS is Linux for Massive Server Deployments

CoreOS: A different kind of Linux distribution [LWN.net]

CoreOS is one of the few. While CoreOS is originally based on Chrome OS (another of the few), it has a much different target than that mobile-focused distribution; CoreOS calls itself: “Linux for Massive Server Deployments”.

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The Heartbleed flaw, introduced in early 2012 in a minor adjustment to the OpenSSL protocol, highlights one of the failings of open source software development.

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The Many Alternative Computing Worlds of Linux

It may not be widely known, but Linux did revolutionize computing. If you own an Android phone or a Kindle e-reader, you are a Linux user. Linux is at the core of those popular devices and is found in a variety of other places, from the world’s most powerful supercomputers down to the tiny Raspberry Pi device that is a favorite among electronics hobbyists.

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