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Github’s new pricing has a bit of a catch, Rob Robinson says Rails is yesterday’s software in light of Swift & GO. Which we simply have to talk about.

Then we jump in our time machine and dazzle you with our new term predictions & more!

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Another Rails Discussion

Today I Accept Rails as Yesterday’s Software
What is wrong with Rails?
Abstraction via ActiveRecord
Abstraction via CoffeeScript
Shared Space / Gem Collisions
Suffering from popularity
What is good
Speed of development
Generators
ActiveRecord
Benefitting from popularity
Future of Rails in 5.0
Rails-API
Becoming just a little less monolithic?

Google I/O Predictions

Kotlin Programming Language

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The Stories of SCALE14x | LAS 402

chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:15:26 +0000

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We share our best stories from 2016’s SCALE14x. From the highlights to the bar fights we talk about what it’s like to attend one of the largest community driven Linux events in the world.

Plus the Linux Trojan that’s snapping screenshots & recording audio, Linux Mint is building their own X-Apps, your live calls & more!

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Linux Academy Weekly Roundup

SCALE 14x Report

Mark Shuttleworth Keynote and UbuCon

Free Software in the age of App Stores: https://youtu.be/ybuwdpnEbZU?t=22m50s
The case for snap packages: https://youtu.be/ybuwdpnEbZU?t=37m17s
Demo of Snap Packages was great
AT&T’s latest Linux choice may profoundly shape Ubuntu

AT&T has struck a deal with Canonical that could shape the future of the platform currently “owning” the cloud…

Cory Doctorow Keynote

Why Cory Doctorow refuses to predict the future (like, seriously) | Opensource.com

SCALE 14x Floor

Huge floor, lots of great exhibitors

LAS 400 Meetup

Crazy big meetup, thanks everyone!

ScALE Pictures

Expo Hall 1
Expo Hall 2
Expo Hall 3
Expo Hall 4
Ham Radio Presence at ScALE
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Facebook / OpenRack Project
Anyone know what kind of car Linus Torvalds Rives?
Indian Dinner Friday Night
Dinner Sat Night at Mongolian Grill
Key Signing Party
Sat Night Ham Radio Dinner

Some Great sessions to watch

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Runs Linux

Nintendo 64 RUNS LINUX!

Uploaded Linux kernel to N64 memory using GameShark Pro with parallel port interface in about 2 minutes. Modified kernel in approx. 1 week of work. Immediately runs out of memory, but could probably be fixed with further modifications.

Home – mupen64plus

Desktop App Pick

My recommended GNOME Extension

Chris’ Gnome Work Desktop

This is a listing of twenty extensions for GNOME that I personally use and recommend.
As of this post all them work flawlessly on the latest release of GNOME which is 3.18.2.

Weekly Spotlight

Yarock – Linux music player

Yarock is a modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment.
Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.
Yarock is easy to build with a minimal set of dependancies, and offers the choose of differents audio back-end.

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Snap-Happy Trojan Targets Linux Servers

Researchers at Dr.Web on Tuesday revealed details of the Trojan Linux.Ekoms.1, which takes screen shots and records audio to acquire sensitive and personal information, mostly from Linux servers.

The Linux Mint Monthly News – January 2016

X-Apps will be a collection of generic GTK3 applications using traditional interfaces which can be used as default desktop components in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce.

Release OBS Multiplatform 0.13.0

This project is a rewrite of what was formerly known as “Open Broadcaster
Software”, software originally designed for recording and streaming live
video content, efficiently.

Semaphor to Give Team Collaboration Privacy

Semaphor helps teams improve their productivity by keeping members focused, informed, and connected. Teams can join group conversations, private message team members, share files, and install trusted third-party integrations knowing their privacy is protected at every step. Following the same privacy-centric design as all SpiderOak solutions, Semaphor uses a Zero Knowledge architecture that ensures nothing leaves a computer or mobile device until after it is encrypted and is never decrypted until it is unlocked with keys only located on individuals’ devices.

KDE neon Website Now Live

@jriddell and friends at @fosdem launching Neon ! pic.twitter.com/ILsoJ4qve2

— Rohan Garg (@rohangarg) January 30, 2016

Serving the freshest packages of KDE software. Developers’ archive with packages built from KDE Git available now, stable archive with packages built from released tars coming soon.

Kubuntu founder Jonathan Riddell to announce project Neon at FOSDEM | CIO

The @kdecommunity at the @KdeNeon launch party tonight pic.twitter.com/TDVBRoCacu

— jriddell (@jriddell) January 30, 2016

This initial release of KDE neon is based on the current standard release of Ubuntu 15.10 to better prepare this new project for the upcoming 16.04 long-term release.
Currently we only have packages built for the developer edition of KDE neon from the KDE Git archives. Packages and installation media for the user edition of KDE neon will be proudly offered shortly.
KDE neon (@KdeNeon) | Twitter

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Linux: Bug or Feature? | CR 188

chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:43:33 +0000

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Ang and Mike discuss business operational tools, practices & common issues, how Ang got her kids started on computers, good languages to get started with & she makes a pretty poignant comment about Linux. Mike discusses TarDisk & whether or not he recommends it & more!

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Network Is Your Net Worth | WTR 23

chris — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 15:35:00 +0000

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Juliet works as the Director of IT and Creative Services for Hearing Care Solutions. She made her way into the tech field because she likes money!

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ANGELA: This is Women’s Tech Radio.
PAIGE: A show on the Jupiter Broadcasting Network interviewing interesting women in technology. Exploring their roles and how they are successful in technology careers. I’m Paige.
ANGELA: And I’m Angela.
PAIGE: Angela, today we’re interviewing Juliet Meyers who is a friend of mine, and she works for Hearing Care Solutions as an IT and web manager. She wears a lot of hats, and we get to talk about a whole bunch of that in the show.
ANGELA: And I hear she likes money.
PAIGE: I have heard that.
ANGELA: SO, before we get into the show, I want to tell you about how you can support this show. If you like this show, you can go to patreon.com/jupitersignal. That is how you support the whole network. Today represents Tech Talk Today. It is a show that we put on as a thank you for the people that subscribe to our network. By subscribing, you support the shows of the network, not just one in particular. And, as I mentioned, Tech Talk Today is the thank you show. You can also look forward to some interviews because we will be at Linux Fest Northwest this weekend, and it is going to be amazing. We hope to get some interviews and just some good content to talk about in a future show.
PAIGE: Women’s Tech Radio will be there along with most of the other hosts of the Jupiter Broadcasting Network, so come by and say hi if you’re there.
ANGELA: Yep, it’s in Bellingham, Washington.
PAIGE: And we started our interview today by asking Juliet to explain what she’s into in IT now.
JULIET: Hi there. My name is Juliet and I’m really excited to be on the show today. I’m the director of IT and creative services for a hearing aid company, and my role is to support all of our WordPress sites, of which there are multiple, desktop support as well as doing all the Photoshop, managing all the social media. I’m really a jack of all trades for my company, on top of trying to manage my VM ware boxes. I really run the gamut between doing more local box stuff as well as some of the server stuff, and as well, of course, running around and chasing people down through the internet for various different tasks, things like that. And, it’s a really varied role and I’ve learned a ton in the last couple of years, so I’m really, really excited to get to talk a little bit about it today.
ANGELA: So, any hats. I think that is a common theme of a lot of our interviews. IT can’t be pegged down to just one particular task. It’s not a button pushing job, that’s for sure. Like, not one single tasks. Can you elaborate on the social media aspect of what you do?
JULIET: One of the things that I do, I do a lot of the SEO installs for our various different websites, and then I also deal with some of the social media aspect. Social media is something that I have worked with throughout my last four jobs. I was a super early Twitter adopter. I think my Twitter handle is from 2007, my original one. I got to watch social media evolve. I used to be a community manager actually, for a company that went from having one million users to 13 million users.
ANGELA: Wow.
JULIET: Yeah, that was an experience. I’ve got some war stories from that. I used to work for a group called MapMyFitness and so I had the pleasure of watching them grow from an angel invested company all the way through to three rounds of VC funding and they actually got bought out by Under Armor in the last year, after I departed the company, but I really got to see social media as it started to grow. Back when they were just starting the F5 conferences, things like that.
PAIGE: So, do you enjoy your social media role?
JULIET: I do. The demographic that I work for is actually 55 and over, so a lot of the social media that I do presently is more answering questions and kind of directing people to the website. So, you know, we don’t have — we have more of a passive social media presence at the moment than we do an active one, where you might see in a startup or a tech firm.
ANGELA: Now, does that mean that the hearing aide company, I mean obviously mainly is geared towards elderly, but do you offer children’s hearing aids and young adults?
JULIET: We can, mostly we do a lot of Medicare and Medi-Cal, Medicaid.
ANGELA: Oh, okay, sure. Right.
JULIET: So, the majority — we have done children’s aids, but they are the rare exception, not necessarily the rule. But we do have some individuals who come in through Facebook every now and again, but it’s important for SEO and SEM to have those social media links and to push your blog. We get a lot of blog traffic, actually, through a couple of our different sites. So, that’s been really interesting to see. Obviously that’s a big deal in terms of your SEO rating.
ANGELA: Right. You know, interestingly enough, even though elderly is your target demographic, it’s probably their kids helping them –
JULIET: Yep, exactly.
ANGELA: – getting the hearing aids. So, yeah, it’s definitely not all for not.
PAIGE: That’s interesting, because I was actually going to ask. It’s fascinating to me that you’re even getting questions on social medial about stuff.
JULIET: We do. You know, it’s funny, if you talk to — obviously you’ve got kind of the newer end of social medial, but the kids now, like the tweens, you early 20s looks at Facebook as the old people network.
ANGELA: Oh my gosh, no way.
JULIET: I kid you not. I kid you not.
PAIGE: No, that’s true.
JULIET: It breaks my heart. I remember when — I mean, obviously you guys do too — when Facebook and Myspace started hitting the scene.
ANGELA: Yeah.
PAIGE: Well, when Facebook first came out you had to have a .edu to even get on.
JULIET: That’s correct.
PAIGE: You had to be in college.
JULIET: Exactly, which is why I didn’t join initially, because I thought that was elitist.
ANGELA: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I’m like no, Myspace is fine.
JULIET: Right. I had two Myspace profiles, one for my radio persona and then one for me, because I used to work in radio. I used to be cool.
ANGELA: That’s news to me.
JULIET: But, it’s really fascinating to see — because both of my parents are well over 55 and they both have Facebook pages. They both use them to connect with family. So Facebook is not what it once was. I mean, what it is, one in six people on the planet has a Facebook.
ANGELA: Geez.
PAIGE: Yeah.
JULIET: I think I read that statistic somewhere on the internet, which means it has to be true.
PAIGE: Statistics don’t lie.
ANGELA: As long as it was @fact on Twitter I think you’re good.
JULIET: Right.
ANGELA: I believe everything that one says, no.
JULIET: Clearly you should. And I believe everything Reddit tells me, so we’re about even.
ANGELA: Right.
PAIGE: So, you’ve talked some about SEO, and for those in the know, what does SEO mean/stand for?
JULIET: SEO is Search Engine Optimization. You’ll also occasionally read SEM, which is Search Engine Marketing. What that is, is basically trying to kick Google in a way that Google likes to be kicked to put your webpage up at the top.
PAIGE: Okay, and is that a skillset like you went to college for to learn search engine marketing or whatever?
JULIET: No. Yeah, right, no. I’ve been out of college a while. So, my degree is actually in broadcast journalism. My background is in television and radio. I know of organically — that’s a fun word — fell into this area of tech. My journey kind of started — I left Las Vegas and CBS in 2009 and actually got a job here in Denver working as a quality assurance tester. My background for QA is actually in video games. I worked for Petroglyph Studios for a number of years (inaudible) out of Las Vegas. And I think they have a new game out. They always have a new game out. I don’t recall what it is, but — Grey Goo, I think is the name of it. Anyway, I started doing quality assurance and testing for MapMyFitness in software and I ended up moving into their customer service division, which included all of — there was 12 employees when I started and I think it was around 100 when I departed. So, I ended up in customer service and became their CSR Manager, and that meant I was doing all of the software testing and then doing all of the releases on Facebook, all of that fun stuff on Twitter, and through all of their different marketing channels. So, I kind of learned about SEO and SEM in the field as it was becoming more prevalent around 2010. So, I just got very lucky in that I got to grow up with the position and kind of grow into SEO marketing. It was a huge part of what we did for MapMyFitness, because everything had to be very geotagged. Which is to say, I live in Austin, Texas, and I want to find all of the great runs or cycling routes. And so, everything that we did for that company was very, very built into — we actually had a great development team — everything was very, very stringently built into the code to encourage people to, when they Googled trail Austin, Texas, that’s what would come up. So it’s a marriage of marketing as well as an agile development team, and I mean that more in the actual term of agile, not just the developmental style.
PAIGE: Obviously, you didn’t start in tech, and you’ve kind of wound up in tech. What was that moment like or kind of the transition? Why the transition? What kind of spurred you to get out of radio to move over to do QA?
JULIET: I like money.
PAIGE: I can understand that story.
ANGELA: I like money.
JULIET: Yeah, that’s really the base part of it. I was living in Las Vegas and I worked for NPR for a number of years, and that was absolutely fantastic. It was a great experience, and I did a lot of different things for them, and then decided that I wanted to travel a little bit more. So, I wandered off to Guam for six months. Came back to the United States and just kind of wanted to get back into radio, but I wanted to get back into commercial radio. Commercial and non-profit radio are very, very different, and I wanted to live that lifestyle, but part of the joy and detriment of radio is that it is a lifestyle. You are literally eating, sleeping, and breathing radio. I mean that is — that’s all of it. So, I went back to school, go another set of certifications and got into it. Had a great time, met some really interesting people, did some interesting things, and then decided that I didn’t want to work three jobs to support my radio habit, because the only way you can truly support yourself in radio is if you have the morning show or you are the afternoon drive show and/or have an wealthy spouse. So, I worked four jobs, 70 hours a week to support the radio habit.
ANGELA: Oh my gosh. Wow.
JULIET: Yeah, I loved it though. I mean, it was great. I did it for a number of years, and it was fantastic, but then I kind of was starting to stare down the barrel of my 30s and a buddy of mine said hey we have an opportunity, why don’t you come out to Denver and I said I really would like to stop working like a crazy person.
ANGELA: Okay, so I have a question.
JULIET: Sure.
ANGELA: In my background, I worked for five years at a medical supply company, and I started in the shipping department and worked my way up. Then I moved to purchasing, and then I moved upstairs to customer service, and then I kind of just became the operations manager without the title.
JULIET: Oops.
ANGELA: Oh, it’s fine. It’s because there was an operations manager, but anyway, the point is, I had to learn all about the billings aspects and all the different — have you had to learn that and has that been an adjustment? Do you enjoy it? What is your level of participation?
JULIET: I love my job right now. Every day is different for me. It’s fantastic. I get to — you know, from the little things of why doesn’t my printer work to, oh God, oh God, it’s on fire, why are the servers not responding. Oh God, Oh God, please help. Crisis management is something I’m very accustomed to when you work in radio and there is flooding happening, or you have to suddenly change things, or someone says a naughty word on the air. There are a series of fire drills that go with that. And then I jumped directly from that particular pan right back into the fire, which is to say a startup. And anybody who has worked in a startup knows what that comes with. It is like a four letter word. I still had PTSD from something called the Tour de France. So, crisis management is something that I live for, I’m very comfortable in, and I’m very lucky that the company I work for now is actually run and managed by women. All of our executives — the majority of our executives, excuse me, are women who are exceptionally skilled in their field. They’re visionaries in their field and are absolutely fantastic. So, you know, I’ve been given the opportunity to really learn how to use a VM ware machine. Obviously, my background was not necessarily in that. I have an extensive Photoshop background, so I’ve gotten to learn more about CSS. I’ve gotten to really get to know WordPress in a very intimate fashion, because we do a lot of — we are very agile in our website development here. So, we make a large number of changes, and so it’s my job just to never say no. So, I’m sure you guys understand where that goes.
PAIGE: That is the IT magic, right? Never say no.
JULIET: Right. So, my job is to say yes and get it done as (inaudible) and with pizazz and a smile on my face, and I absolutely love the company I work for. I cannot say enough good things about them. They take great care of their team members, and empower their executives and their management to make those decisions that are going to make the company better. We are doing something amazing. We are really helping people get hearing aids, because it’s a bloated market. People can pay up to 3,000 — Three, four, $5,000.00 per hearing aid and we offer them for significantly less, so I get to go home feeling good about what I do.
PAIGE: Yeah, that’s huge is when your job feels like it makes a difference. What is the hardest part for you? You like the crisis. It seems like you like the learning and the job. What are your pain points with IT?
JULIET: I have learned a lot, but there are still some things that I don’t necessarily understand. You know, when something doesn’t work, I use an Asterisk phone system and I don’t program in Asterisk, in fact, I don’t program much in anything, except maybe HTML. I’m a WordPress jockey, I’m not a dev. So, when I run into something where I’m going — my problem is maybe, you look at a problem and you know it’s above your skill level, and it’s that moment of I need to get everything back online and back okay, but I’m not exactly sure how to do that. Fortunately, we have a wonderful offsite IT team that I can call on and say hey guys, this is above my pay grade, so what’s broken. And they’re fantastic. They’ve actually been great tutors and have been very helpful. So, it’s been a really, really good experience. But definitely my challenges are when I come across something where I just have absolutely no idea. I had to teach myself Active Directory. I had to teach myself how to deal with a Microsoft Exchange server. I have several things that run on SQL. While I’ve done a ton of SQL quarries, which I hate by the way, if I had to choose one thing to hate, I’m going to go with SQL quarries.
PAIGE: That’s not a bad choice.
JULIET: Yeah, I don’t feel like it is. I think my biggest challenge — I don’t — I think if I worked in a different company that had a different management — I think if I had a different management team my experience would be very different. I remember in other companies there’s that jockeying for tech supremacy, or who knows the most things about X, Y, and Z. And I have an incredibly supportive management team. I think probably dealing with the Mac is probably my least favorite. Fortunately, my boss, the COO of the company is fantastic and speaks Mac more fluently than I do.
PAIGE: Yeah, that tech superiority, I’ve definitely run into that. I think one of the biggest problems I had when I was working in IT was the IT culture where what you know is what makes you valuable, so sharing what you know is not necessarily a good move on your part. And so kind of breaking down those walls of, hey let’s make this information open, it’s all online anyway now guys. Like, we have to be a team.
ANGELA: Yeah.
JULIET: Stack overflow is your friend.
PAIGE: But especially with geek culture, what you know and how smart you are is how valuable you are. Kind of breaking those barriers down is very difficult in some of these older (inaudible) IT departments. So, that’s really cool that you found a space that that’s not the case. Very rare.
JULIET: I’m so protective of my company, because they have been so good to me, but it is rare. And you find that, I think, more in male dominated culture. In some of my previous companies, and I won’t name names, people were retained because of the knowledge that they have, or because they built something that was vital. Even though they had no business being in the company anymore. They were jaded. They were bitter. They were upset.
PAIGE: Yeah.
JULIET: But they were retained because they had a certain skillset or because they had coded something that only they knew how it worked. Because you run into that technical debt issues if you want to try and fix that particular code base.
ANGELA: That’s a great term for it, technical debt.
JULIET: I did not come up with that term. I stole that from someone else. It’s a buzzword.
PAIGE: It’s a perfect duplication of the word though. It is that, you know, you have to pay back this technical debt or you have to deal with some jerk. Your choice.
JULIET: Yep.
PAIGE: And most companies are going to choose the jerk, because it’s cheaper.
JULIET: Yep, it’s so expensive to bring on new people, especially at that level.
PAIGE: It is really fascinating once you dig into HR management at all, is like the most expensive part of people is onboarding. We are very, very expensive to onboard.
ANGELA: Oh yes.
JULIET: Yep.
PAIGE: Your productivity in most companies doesn’t hit its normal until at least six months in.
JULIET: Yep. And it’s a miserable place to be in. I mean, fortunately we’re not bringing any high-end tech people out there, but even my call center representatives or any of that kind of middle management section, it’s a long time before they’re onboard. And we find that here, even though we’re not an overwhelmingly technical company.
PAIGE: You’ve talked a lot of about learning a lot of different things on the job. What are you favorite resources?
JULIET: My boss.
PAIGE: Nice.
JULIET: Honest to God, she’s my favorite resource.
PAIGE: So, that one on one kind of mentorship almost, is really super valuable for you?
JULIET: You know, being able to sit down and talk to somebody who — because her background is actually in — she did a ton of QA work. She’s done project management. She’s extremely valuable and she knows the business so, so well. The team here is absolutely the best resource that I have. My peers are fantastic. My bosses are fantastic. That’s really a great resource. But, in terms of tech, if I run into something that I have no idea on or my boss has no idea on, but it’s still my responsibility, and it’s not something I can hand off to our offsite folks, Skype and G Chat to be perfectly frank. I have a huge network of friends who are developers, who are DBAs who I’m still in contact with. And so when I run into something that I just can’t seem to crack, I will absolutely reach out to them. Either they’ll direct me to a blog or they’ll direct me to something that they’ve worked on, or they’ll simply write the SQL query for me.
ANGELA: Yay.
PAIGE: So, you’re living the, your network is your net worth?
JULIET: Yes. And that is true in my personal life as well. My skillset is my Verizon network. I’ve got friends who spent the last few years working in WordPress, and so when I run across something that’s rough like that, really it’s your ability to use Google. How good is your Google-Fu. If you don’t have a network to reach out to, how good is you Google-Fu?
PAIGE: Alright, so one more question on that. How do you get over that fear of asking questions, because I think a lot of people that we talk to kind of have that initial fear. And a lot of people that I talk to who are just getting into software are like, you know, I don’t want to sound dumb, or I don’t want to feel like a burden. What kind of let you have that transition to not feel that way?
JULIET: I spent a lot of time interviewing people. I’m an extrovert, unlike most of my comrades in tech. I know there is a lot of introverts in this field, and it makes sense because you truly geek out about this stuff. Like, I could I could sit here and talk about Google algorithms for hours, but I think it’s — getting over that hurdle for me is understanding that I didn’t start out in this field. I accept that here are, I know nothing John Snow. I — there is a lot of kind of — there’s a lot of sections of this that I know nothing about, and I’m okay with that. But the only way to learn is to ask. And more importantly, most tech folks, if you ask them, they’ll talk ad nauseum (sic) about this stuff. They absolutely love to goob about it. I have a lot of experts in various (inaudible). Like, I’ve got people who work for cloud storage companies who could talk endlessly. I’ve got a buddy who’s an evangelist for Solid Fire, one of the cloud companies out in Boulder, Colorado, because that’s where all the cool tech things are these day, apparently. So, it’s human nature. Folks like to talk about what they do for a living. They like to talk about tech. Really, just asking them, they’re happy to yammer about it.
PAIGE: Yeah, the one thing that I’ve found is that most geeks are introverts, which is always hard to deal with, but they have passions and that’s what makes us geeks. Being passionate about something is why we call it geeking out on something. So, if you can kind of find those people in your network or meet those people at meetups, and find their geeky thing. You’re like, oh that’s the thing I need to know about.
ANGELA: And then they turn extravert, just momentarily.
JULIET: Yeah.
PAIGE: You just pull the string on a little toy that talks and it just goes. Very cool. Actually, I think that’s actually an interesting thing that you brought up is the art of the interview. I think, you know, I got really super into radio and the PRN stuff, and I love the art of the question. I think kind of setting that, as a geek, because I geeked out on it, I feel like I was able to incorporate that skill too. I would also recommend if you’re feeling like you don’t even know how to start a conversation, check out interviewing.
JULIET: Listen to NPR for a few hours, Morning Edition or Fresh Air.
PAIGE: Yeah, totally.
I had one other question as we wrap up.
JULIET: Sure.
PAIGE: What software piece do you spend the most of your day in? What are your tools of the trade for your job?
JULIET: Photoshop I think is at the tippy, tippy top. What is Chrome for $500 Alex. I love Chrome. I love the extensions on that. I’ve got CSS viewer, I cannot live without. I cannot live without that plugin, oh my God.
PAIGE: You’ve got to try Firebug, Juliet, I’m telling you.
JULIET: Oh, if I’m in Firefox and I’m QA’ing, Firebug 100 percent.
PAIGE: Oh, they put Firebug in Chrome now too.
JULIET: Really?
PAIGE: Yeah.
JULIET: Oh, I need that. I need that a lot. I thought I could only use it in Firefox so I have both browsers. So, if I’m doing QA work or something is not working, Firebug is absolutely my go to.
PAIGE: Yeah, awesome dev tools.
JULIET: So good. So good. There’s a couple of other ones that I use. Really, the Adobe suite, because I do a lot of PDF conversions, so In Design, I spend a lot of time in In Design. Obviously, WordPress, WordPress, and more WordPress. I can’t live without Dropbox. Microsoft Office, they’ve done some cool stuff with PowerPoint recently. I know it’s really rare to actually give props to Microsoft for anything, but I really do love PowerPoint, as well as Excel. But yeah, I think Photoshop and Chrome are really where I spend the majority of my day. There are so many good resources just (inaudible) as it is. That’s really where I spend a lot of my time. And I can’t live without Spotify, just for the record.
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Retro Blasted Action | LAS 353

chris — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 08:10:41 +0000

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Jam that Latency | Tech Talk Today 132

chris — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:53:32 +0000

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We take a look at how many Android Wear devices shipped in 2014 & do a little predicting about what that could mean for the Apple Watch.

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Over 720,000 Android Wear devices shipped in 2014 | Canalys

Over 720,000 Android Wear devices shipped in 2014 out of a total of 4.6 million smart wearable bands. Though the Moto 360 remained supply constrained through Q4, Motorola was the clear leader among Android Wear vendors. LG’s round G Watch R performed significantly better than its original G Watch, while Asus and Sony entered the market with their own Android Wear devices. Pebble meanwhile shipped a total of 1 million units from its 2013 launch through to the end of 2014. Continual software updates, more apps in its app store and price cuts in the fall helped maintain strong sales in the second half of the year. ‘Samsung has launched six devices in just 14 months, on different platforms and still leads the smart band market. But it has struggled to keep consumers engaged and must work hard to attract developers while it focuses on Tizen for its wearables.’ said Canalys VP and Principal Analyst Chris Jones.

YouTube Radio

YouTube has a feature called YouTube Mix, which automatically creates a playlist with many videos related to the video that’s currently playing. Now YouTube tests a new feature based on YouTube Mix: it’s called YouTube Radio. “A non-stop radio station based on the current video. You can like, dislike and dismiss videos to tailor your Radio Station to your taste.”

15-year-old bug allows malicious code execution in all versions of Windows | Ars Technica

Microsoft just patched a 15-year-old bug that in some cases allows attackers to take complete control of PCs running all supported versions of Windows. The critical vulnerability will remain unpatched in Windows Server 2003, leaving that version wide open for the remaining five months Microsoft pledged to continue supporting it.

The flaw, which took Microsoft more than 12 months to fix, affects all users who connect to business, corporate, or government networks using the Active Directory service. The database is built into Windows and acts as a combination traffic cop and security guard, granting specific privileges to authorized users and mapping where on a local network various resources are available. The bug—which Microsoft classifies as MS15-011 and the researcher who first reported it calls Jasbug—allows attackers who are in a position to monitor traffic passing between the user and the Active Directory network to launch a man-in-the-middle exploit that executes malicious code on vulnerable machines.

Elementary OS Funding : techtalktoday

The idea that people would pay to help support an OS before they’ve tried it seems strange. It seems to me that their problem lies in that they’re asking for money at the time of install. These people most likely haven’t tried Elementary before or are busy setting up a new system. The people who would be more likely to help fund development are those who have using it, old installs not new ones. They should think of an unobtrusive way to remind people that funding helps maintain the project and get more features and improvements. Just my two cents. It’d be nice to hear what some of you guys think about that sort of funding strategy.

JamBlaster – Play music in real time with others from home by JamKazam — Kickstarter

The JamBlaster is crazy fast, greatly extends the distances over which you can play together, and offers plug and play ease of use.

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Fair And Balanced | CR 134

chris — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:24:26 +0000

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Mike is fired up by a topic that has been on fire over all of 2014.

Is it finally time to let the other 95% of great programmers in?

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By creating an IDE like Builder we create an answer to the question of “How do I get started?” We want to include many features in Builder, but one important feature is integrating tutorials inside of the IDE. We want to be able to teach new contributors in the same place they will create software.

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Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push

There’s been talk for a while that Microsoft was going to make some big changes to Internet Explorer in the Windows 10 time frame, making IE “Spartan” look and feel more like Chrome and Firefox.

It turns out that what’s actually happening is Microsoft is building a new browser, codenamed Spartan, which is not IE 12 — at least according to a couple of sources of mine.

Spartan is still going to use Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine and Microsoft’s Trident rendering engine (not WebKit), sources say. As Neowin’s Brad Sams reported back in September, the coming browser will look and feel more like Chrome and Firefox and will support extensions. Sams also reported on December 29 that Microsoft has two different versions of Trident in the works, which also seemingly supports the claim that the company has two different Trident-based browsers.

However, if my sources are right, Spartan is not IE 12. Instead, Spartan is a new, light-weight browser Microsoft is building.

Microsoft open sources .NET, takes it to Linux and OS X | Ars Technica

Microsoft open sourced a big chunk of .NET, publishing its new compiler, Roslyn, and many .NET libraries under the Apache license. Today, the company took that same open sourcing effort a great deal further. Microsoft announced that its full server .NET stack, including the just-in-time compiler and runtime and the core class libraries that all .NET software depends on, will all be open sourced.

The code will be hosted on GitHub and published under a permissive MIT-style license.

With this release, Microsoft wants to make sure that the .NET stack is fully functional and production quality on both Linux and OS X. The company is working with the Mono community to make sure that this platform is “enterprise-ready.”

Programming Sucks

So no, I’m not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan’s pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days.

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Best of Ohio LinuxFest | Linux Action Show 336

chris — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:10:15 +0000

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Our interviews, stories, and adventures from Ohio LinuxFest 2014. The big show traveled to Columbus Ohio for one of the best Linux events on the East coast of the US, and we came away with some great stories, friends, and interviews. We’ll feature some of the best in today’s episode.

Plus the big news for openSUSE, Oculus Linux users get some love…

And so much more!

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Closing Address: Ken Starks | Ohio LinuxFest 2014 – The Future of Free

Many of us who work with Linux in the private and government sectors may share a jaded perception. A perception that Linux on the desktop isn’t relevant any more or it never was. I want to talk to you about that. I’ll show you a side you rarely see.

Official PC-BSD Blog » Quick Lumina Desktop FAQ

I am seeing lots of interest and questions about Lumina since it was mentioned in the PC-BSD weekly update last week, so I am just going to try and answer some of the big questions that I have been seeing.

Gqrx SDR | A software defined radio powered by GNU-Radio and Qt

Gqrx supports many of the SDR hardware available, including Funcube Dongles, rtl-sdr, HackRF and USRP devices. See supported devices for a complete list.

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Memo – Unix-style note taking software

Memo is a command line, Unix-style note-taking software written in C99. It’s
very flexible and works well with standard Unix tools.

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SparkleShare – Self hosted, instant, secure file sync

SparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer. You can add remotely hosted folders (or “projects”) to this folder. These projects will be automatically kept in sync with both the host and all of your peers when someone adds, removes or edits a file.

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Tumbleweed, Factory rolling releases to merge

With the release of openSUSE 13.2 in November, two of openSUSE’s open-source projects, the ‘Tumbleweed’ and ‘Factory’ rolling releases will be merging, and offered as a single openSUSE rolling release under the name ‘Tumbleweed’

Factory will remain the name of the development process where openSUSE’s new developments are integrated, with the tested, user-ready rolling release assuming the name Tumbleweed from Nov. 4.

Oculus Rift SDK 0.4.3 with support for Linux released

This Is What We Learnt From the Ubuntu at 10 Reader Survey

ownCloud Asks Canonical to Remove Their Software from Ubuntu Repos, Sparks Fly

One of the big issues with the Ubuntu repositories, in particular “universe,” is that they’re full of old and unmaintained versions. This is a repository where anyone care be a maintainer and it’s mainly used for applications that are not supported officially.

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Windows 10 Includes a Linux-Style Package Manager Named “OneGet”

(I’m batching up my answers, I’m post-limited because I don’t post on Reddit much at all)

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OneGet is open source — https://github.com/oneget/oneget[1]

we post bleeding edge/experimental builds often and the latest is always https://oneget.org/oneget.zip[2] (this contains the chocolatey provider again!)

Following @PSOneGet on twitter will keep you in the loop when new builds arrive.

We also actively take community input and design ideas; anyone can participate during our online weekly meetings (Friday mornings at 10AM PDT) — https://oneget.org/weekly/meeting.html[3]

@ANUSBLASTER_MKII — Package Provider can provider their own default repositories, but you have a point, feed discovery is an important concept. I have a few ideas about it, I think we’ll have to talk about that in the weekly meeting this week.

@blackout24 — I hear ya. I do make cmdline stuff all the time, but the PowerShell way of doing things strongly encourages use down a particular set of patterns. I’d tend to go a bit simpler too, but once you’ve learned the “PowerShell” patterns, everything that follows those is easy to use.

As well, OneGet will be exposing the APIs to talk to the package providers, so it’s entirely possible to build standalone cmdline tools that just use the APIs and make things easy.

CSB: I had a rather senior director at MS ask me if we couldn’t just make an exe called RPM (and/or apt-get) that had the same syntax as the linux tools so that those who were well versed in one could just use OneGet that way. I told him sure, but we’re scrambling for time, so I don’t know when we’d get to it

@Tireseas – what would you like it to do differently for interactive use? I’m going to great lengths to make the tab-completion as functional as I can (way more than PowerShell normally would let me). Additionally, the APIs will let someone make a GUI around it and bypass the whole powershell interface.

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China Pays Microsoft a Visit | Tech Talk Today 34

chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:04:09 +0000

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China Investigates Microsoft – WSJ

Two people familiar with the inquiry said Chinese corporate regulatory officials made surprise visits to Microsoft’s offices in four Chinese cities.

According to Reuters and the South China Morning Post, the company is being investigated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, which raided Microsoft offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu on Monday.

China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce acts as the nation’s corporate registry and has some marketing and antitrust responsibilities. It couldn’t be reached for comment late Monday.

AIC officials sometimes pay visits to industries under official scrutiny that don’t result in formal probes.

Microsoft had been in the Chinese government’s cross hairs before this week. China’s powerful state-run television broadcaster ran a report in June that questioned the security of the company’s new Windows 8 computer operating system.

The broadcast quoted Chinese experts who argued that Microsoft cooperated with the U.S. government to carry out cyberspying.

Other U.S. companies have also been under scrutiny in the country. China’s state broadcaster also raised questions about the security of the iPhone in July, allegations that Apple Inc.

In late May, the Chinese authorities banned government institutions from using Windows 8

Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla

Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. The Mozilla board has reviewed many internal and external candidates — and no one we met was a better fit.

Chris first joined Mozilla in 2004, just before we shipped Firefox 1.0 – and he’s been deeply involved in every aspect of Mozilla ever since. During his many years here, he at various times has had responsibility for almost every part of the business, including product, marketing, innovation, communications, community and user engagement.

Leaked discussion paper reveals Australian online piracy crackdown in full swing

The federal government is proposing that internet service providers (ISPs), such as Telstra, Optus and iiNet, take measures to discourage or reduce online copyright infringement, according to a leaked copy of its discussion paper.

According to the document, first obtained by news website Crikey, the government also wants to give itself the power to prescribe specific measures that would see internet providers discourage online copyright infringement. This is in the cases where the industry does not develop effective schemes or commercial arrangements.

It is also proposing that universities be “captured” by the safe harbour scheme that currently governs internet service providers. This stipulates financial damages can be levied against carriage service providers who breach four categories, including providing connections to copyright material and referring users to an online location where it exists via a link.

In the document, signed by Attorney-General George Brandis and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the government cited its unratified trade obligations with the US – known as the** “Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement”** – to pursue its reforms.

It essentially overrules a decision by the High Court in 2012, which found that internet service providers could not be found liable for authorising an act by a subscriber that infringes copyright.

Although the discussion paper hasn’t been released yet, a speedy response from industry and the public is expected, with submissions closing on August 25.

Aussie hackers get Doom working on an ATM- The Inquirer

HACKERS IN AUSTRALIA have succeeded in running classic first person shooter game Doom on a bank cash machine.

The ATM, which runs Windows XP Embedded, can be controlled using the device’s buttons, with the game appearing on the screen in place of the message telling you the size of your overdraft.

At the moment, weapons selection is done through the arrow buttons to the side of the screen, and the group already has plans to get the number keys up and running.

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Close Encounters Of The Radio Kind? Mystery Bursts Baffle Astronomers : NPR

Back in 2007, astronomers detected an incredibly brief, incredibly strong radio wave burst in Australia. And now, on the opposite side of the world, astronomers have detected a second blast of similar proportions. Meaning that A) the first one wasn’t a fluke, and B) we have absolutely no idea what’s causing them.

This second ultrafast flash of radio waves was discovered by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which had been putting out its feelers in hopes of discovering neutron stars. Instead, it got the second instance of so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs), which finally allowed astronomers to rule out cosmic noise and formally report them. Because unlike the radio signals we usually detect, these radio waves “show every sign of having come from far outside our galaxy.”

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Burn it Down | Unfilter 37

chris — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:26:35 +0000

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The manhunt for Christopher Dorner has come to an end, we watched the conclusion unfold and have the clips that prove the fire at the cabin was set intentionally by law enforcement, and more.

The 2013 State of the Union is now behind us. President Obama delivered a speech with few surprises, but many calls of action. We’ll look at the issues most likely to move ahead.

Plus North Korea rattled their cage this week, we’ll share the details.

You might be surprised to find out many of us in the United States now live in what the DHS is considering constitution free zones. We’ll tell you all about this outrageous revelation.

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Third North Korean Nuclear Test

A North Korean nuclear test draws international condemnation, modest U.N. sanctions and expressions of hope in the United States that China will finally rein in its ally.

Dorner Manhunt Comes to an End

Police work to confirm if Dorner\’s remains were found in burned cabin

A lot of people don\’t seem to know what a \”burner\” is. A burner is an incendiary tear gas canister that is specifically made to start a fire. These were used in Waco on the branch Davidians. At the time the FBI claimed the cult member started the fire, but much later the FBI admitted to using incendiary tear gas canisters to burn the Davidians out of hiding.

A tear gas canister ignited a fire at a City Terrace area home surrounded by SWAT officers as part of a standoff the morning Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, according to sheriff\’s deputies.

Hoping to end the standoff, law enforcement authorities first lobbed “traditional” tear gas into the cabin. When that did not work, they opted to use CS gas canisters, which are known in law enforcement parlance as incendiary tear gas. These canisters have significantly more chance of starting a fire.

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Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address

The main difference between the White House executive order and CISPA is that CISPA would allow private companies (like Facebook or Google) to share details about cyber attacks with the government, whereas the executive order is a one-way street, with the feds sharing information with the private sector. CISPA opponents were concerned about immunity clauses that they said would incentivize companies to hand over customer information without hesitation.

DHS engages \’Constitution free\’ zones around US border

According to the US Department of Homeland Security, anyone who is within a 100 mile radius of the US border is subject to the search and seizure of any and all electronic devices for no apparent reason. These zones known as \”Constitution free\” zones have many privacy advocates speaking out against the new policy and fear that this new procedure is a violation of civil liberties for American citizens.

US senators propose assassination court to screen drone targets

The idea was bandied about during Thursday\’s confirmation hearing for CIA director nominee John Brennan, who fueled the talk by saying he thinks the concept is \”worthy of discussion.\” The nominee, as a vocal supporter of the targeted-killing program, has come under scrutiny for what some lawmakers see as the administration\’s unchecked power to kill, even if the target is an American citizen.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said as part of an effort to regulate the killing, she wants to review proposals to create something similar to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — which reviews requests for wiretaps against suspected foreign agents — for drone strikes.
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, is pushing the idea the hardest.

According to his vision, the drone court would be an avenue for U.S. officials to argue in secret before a judge why an American citizen should be targeted for death. He said it would be like \”going to a court for a warrant\” and proving probable cause.

US senators propose assassination court to screen drone targets

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Fun with Bash | LAS | s22e10

chris — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:16:41 +0000

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We’ve got a Bash script that’ll make your Podcast catching a snap, plus a whole batch of audience favorites.

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DEFCON Brings the Scary | TechSNAP 18

chris — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:42:08 +0000

This week on TechSNAP:

The UK Prime Minister wants a Kill switch for social media, ebay upgrades their servers to SSD, and you won’t believe the costs, and we take a peak at Microsoft’s data center in a box!

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UK PM David Cameron is proposing that the police, intelligence agencies and telecom industry investigate if it would be right and technically feasible to disable access to social networks during times of civil unrest
“Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were organised via social media”
This is obviously the wrong way to solve the problem, and it will never work. Even if the telcos block access to facebook and twitter via the Internet and cellular networks, rioters could just use text message trees like those that were used to organize the riots in Egypt.
Some are even proposing entirely disabling the cellular networks in affected areas, however this would be seriously disruptive considering that many in the UK only have cellular phones. Leaving citizens without access to emergency services would obviously be untenable.
Even if the UK government was successful in blocking access to the major social networks, protesters could use other networks, there are an infinite number of competing services. Protesters could also use proxies and other techniques to mask their access to social media. This is common place in workplaces that block access to the sites.
A number of people have already been arrested for posting messages on facebook that were said to be ‘inciting violence’ and ‘public disorder’
More detailed article from the BBC

Denial of Service Attack results in suspended trading on the Hang Seng Stock Exchange

An attack against a site used to post official announcements about issues on the Hang Seng stock exchange resulting in the site being unreachable
Trading in stock issues that were to make important price affecting announcements was suspended.
Trading of shares in HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the Hong Kong exchange itself, among others, was suspended
If the site remains offline, the Hang Seng exchange will find an alternate way to release the announcements and trading will resume
Earlier this year the US NASDAQ exchange revealed that cyber attackers had planted malicious code on its “Directors Desk” web application

eBay begins migration to pure SSDs in its datacenters

Approximately half of eBay’s 4000 VMs are now backed purely by SSD storage
The average time to deploy a VM has dropped from 45 minutes to 5
Previously, eBay had been using 15k RPM drives via Fibre Channel
One rack full of SSDs is equivalent in performance to eight or nine racks of the previous drives
After replacing 100TB of storage, a 50% reduction in rack space, a 78% drop in power consumption and a five-fold boost in I/O performance were realized
The appliance eBay is using does not use traditional hard drive form factor SSDs, but rather 2U modules of pure flash storage via a 6 Gbit/sec SAS interface.
Storage is priced at $10,000 per Terabyte, and comes in 2.5TB, 5TB, and 10TB modules

Radios used by US Federal Law Enforcement suffer Security Flaws

The P25 Radios used by many Federal Law Enforcement Agencies support encryption, but not always use it. Many messages are sent in the clear, even when the users believe they are communicating securely
This vulnerability results in trivial passive attacks, where the supposedly secure communications can be eaves dropped on
The P25 Radios are also subject to active attacks. An attacker with very modest resources is able to jam specific types of communication to and from the P25. This would allow an attacker to block LEOs in the area from sending or receiving encrypted messages.
The available symmetric encryption systems are DES, 3DES and AES. Obviously the first two options have not been considered secure for many years.
Because the radios are based on a best-effort protocol, and do not have the ability to retransmit garbled frames, advanced encryption mechanisms like CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) cannot be used. This also means that MAC (Message Authentication Code) cannot be used to verify that the incoming transmissions have not been altered.
Because of this, it is possible for an attacker to impersonate a legitimate user, inject voice and data traffic, and replay captured traffic resulting in false signals, even when the messages are encrypted
PDF of the official University of Pennsylvania study

Defcon presentation claims MITM attack on 4G and CDMA mobile phones

Reports indicate that a successful Man-in-the-Middle attack was executed against devices in and around the Defcon venue.
The attackers were able to gain permanent kernel-level root access in some Android and PC devices by using rootkits and non-persistent user space access in some other devices. In both cases, whoever launched this attack against both CDMA and 4G devices was able to steal data and monitor conversations.
It is speculated that the attacker was able to inject specially crafted packets in to the data streams, possibly displaying prompts to the user, that if accepted would install the rootkit
Once the device is compromised, it is trivial to monitor ongoing communications or steal the 4G encryption key

A tour of Microsoft’s cloud data centers

Microsoft’s newest data center designs are modular and containerized
The new design allows them to bring new data centers online much more quickly
The new designs allow the contains to be ‘plug and play’, and results in far less packing materials being required

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Bitcoin Blaster

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