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Follow Up / Catch Up

6 Ways Mr. Robot Is Putting Linux in the Public Eye

Whether you’re a novice, seasoned Linux pro, or something in between, here are six awesome times Linux appeared on the show.

Search & Rescue: SD Card Recovery

My old camera, a Canon EOS 300D is an old digital SLR camera, and it works really well and still takes a good picture. But last night I turned the camera on while on the train, and to my horror the camera crashed and became unresponsive.

Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines

• Linux Marketshare Is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row – OMG! Ubuntu!

Net Market Share bases its data on the number of visitors to a mere 40,000 websites globally. While 40,000 is a fairly big sample on one hand, it’s also minute compared to the number of actual websites that are out there.

Wine 1.9.22 Lets Linux Users Play Star Trek Borg

and the Star Trek: Borg interactive movie/computer game and audiobook.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Google Online Security Blog: Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users

After 7 days, per our published policy for actively exploited critical vulnerabilities, we are today disclosing the existence of a remaining critical vulnerability in Windows for which no advisory or fix has yet been released. This vulnerability is particularly serious because we know it is being actively exploited.

Aspyr + Linux Gamers = Cookies

So… this came in the mail this morning. Thank you, you lovely Linux people you. The guilt trip has been accepted. ;D #NomNomNom pic.twitter.com/c4VaOOIXWJ

— Aspyr Media (@AspyrMedia) October 25, 2016

This has led more answers on the same thread on the linux_gaming subreddit, where folks got together to order a delivery of delicious cookies to motivate Aspyr to support Linux’s Civ6 port. They come from Tiff’s Treats in Austin, in case you want to make sure you get excellent cookies if you pass by the area.

New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac

The new MacBook Pro has a premium price for a Mac that’s still limited to 16 GB of RAM, has CPU performance that is likely lackluster because Apple didn’t talk about it in the keynote, and apparently doesn’t have such a great GPU, either. Apple prioritized thinness and lightness, which I care about hardly at all. I would rather have better performance, a good keyboard, more storage, a larger display, more ports so I don’t have to carry dongles, an SD card slot, etc. Double the weight and half the battery life would be fine with me. I’m not saying Apple shouldn’t make thin and light notebooks, but why do they all have to be that way?

Had website issues due to all the traffic following the #AppleEvent. This year rocks! #Linux #Ubuntu #YearOfTheLinuxDesktop

— System76 (@system76) October 30, 2016

Daring Fireball: Apples vs. Oranges — Thick, Heavy Oranges

There is a catch. The 15-inch Oryx Pro is 1-inch thick and weighs 5.5 pounds. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro is 0.6 inches thick and weighs 4 pounds. I’m not slamming the Oryx here — there are plenty of performance-hungry Mac users who wish that Apple made a MacBook this thick and heavy if it meant they could install up to 64 GB of RAM and had all the ports they wanted built-in.

The true reason the MBP doesn’t come with ddr4 or 32gb of ram, more technical then you think.

The true reason behind the lack of 32 GB or DDR4 is Intel. Skylake does not support LPDDR4 (LP for low power) RAM. Kabylake is set to include support, but only for the U category of chips. So no LPDDR4 support for mobile until 2018 I think.

One example is the Dell XPS 13. On the Dell XPS 13 version, you cannot go for 32 GB of RAM. Meanwhile, the 15 inches does give you that option, but you have to sacrifice battery life for it.

• Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller, in an email to MacRumors reader David, explained that for Apple to make a notebook with support for more than 16GB of RAM, it would have to use a memory system that consumes too much power. Regarding price, Schiller said in an interview that affordability is “absolutely something we care about” but that the company designs for experience rather than price.

• New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac

I was really disappointed with today’s Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) its customers want, or that it simply doesn’t care about those customers. Developers are a captive audience, and creative professionals can switch to Windows, I guess. Apple no longer considers them core.

There’s nothing particularly wrong with what Apple announced. I like Thunderbolt 3. The display looks good. I’m not crazy about Touch Bar, but it does seem potentially useful. The problem is that the MacBook Pro is not a true Pro notebook.

• hungtruong/TouchFart: A fart app for the new Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar

A fart app for the new Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar. I’m usually the first one to make a fart app when the opportunity presents itself, so why not?

DigitalOcean

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

Remix IO – A 4K, Nougat-powered, All-in-One device

An Android Nougat-powered device exclusive on Kickstarter for $99. Engineered to be a 4K TV set-top box, gaming console, and PC in one.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

A Fireside Chat with Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux maintainer @gregkh talks #opensource compliance, the benefit of experience, and more: https://t.co/39XbpQ6gFR #LFelc pic.twitter.com/FjAngilLvV

— Linux.com (@LinuxDotCom) November 1, 2016

Fireside Chat: GKH Talks Licensing, Email, and Aging Maintainers

The Keynote Fireside Chat at ELC Europe, held Oct, 11-13 in Berlin, focused primarily on two issues: whether older kernel maintainers should hand their jobs over to younger developers, and how to best bring open source scofflaws into compliance (see below). Meanwhile, here are a few other edited quick takes from GKH about issues ranging from patch review technologies to the role of Linux on microcontrollers.

• 200 New People a month, lots from MS: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=7m37s
• Greg’s thoughts on licensing enforcement: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=10m10s
• Why the Kernel Team still uses email for everything: https://youtu.be/s2I_7uCto5Q?t=2m15s
• More in-depth LWN article about email usage: https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/

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RAM Prices are getting hot, we’ll tell you why.

Plus the router flaw you need to know about, a pfSense disaster, your questions our answers, and much much more.

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Hynix factory in China suffers damage in Fire. RAM prices shoot up

• The factory in Wuxi, China is responsible for 40 – 50% of Hynix’s output and 12 – 15% of all DRAM manufacturing capacity around the globe
• The fire started at 07:50 GMT and was extinguished at 09:20 GMT
• The fire apparently started while Hynix was installing some new equipment
• There was only one minor injury during the file
• Hynix has suspended operations at the plant while it evaluates the damage and makes repairs
• “Following news of the shutdown all memory suppliers have apparently stopped quoting prices”
• Reuters followup article
• Hynix reports that the damage is not as bad as initially reported, the huge plumes of black smoke were caused by the fact that the fire was in the air purification system
• Shares in Hynix’s competitors rose sharply, but then slackened off once it was reported that the damage was not severe. Micron shares were up 4 percent to $14.615 at midday Thursday, after surging almost 9 percent at one point. Sandisk was up 2.3 percent at $56.60, after climbing 6 percent at its peak.
• Samsung had 32.7 percent of the global DRAM market in the second quarter, Hynix 30 percent and Micron owned 12.9 percent
• Hynix has published a statement: \”Currently, there is no material damage to the fab equipment in the clean room, thus we expect to resume operations in a short time period so that overall production and supply volume would not be materially affected\”
• DRAM chip prices nearly doubled in the first six months of this year due to tight supply during the summer, prices had been starting to return to normal but this event will undoubtedly keep them inflated for some time to come

Amazon looking to hire 100 IT staff who can get Top Secret security clearance to work on CIA private cloud

• After IBM won a lawsuit to restart the bidding to decide who would build the CIA’s private cloud, Amazon has started a new recruiting drive
• The job openings include: software developers, operations managers and cloud support engineers, among others
• Candidates must meet all requirements to get a Top Secret security clearance, including passing a federally administered polygraph exam
• “Amazon\’s hiring effort includes an invitation-only recruiting event for systems support engineers at its Herndon, Va., facility on Sept. 24 and 25. “
• In filings, Amazon is claiming that it is uniquely qualified to deliver ‘cloud computing’, while analysts have responded by saying that Cloud computing \”simply describes one approach to data center asset provisioning, one that has been around and been practiced by vendors including IBM for many years\”
• The government originally accepted Amazon’s bid at $148 million over the IBM bid at $93 million
• Part of the problem was the way the government wrote the original RFP
• “The vendors were required to address hypothetical scenarios. In one instance, it involved the processing of 100 terabytes of data. But the scenario was ambiguous, and the vendors priced it in different ways, making it impossible to compare prices”
• Analysts also said that the CIA \”too casually brush off Amazon\’s outages\” when considering their bid
• Amazon\’s effort to get government cloud work includes being certified by the U.S. under its Federal Risk and Authorization Program, or FEDRAMP.

Kingcope finds vulnerabilities in Mikrotik routerOS sshd

• Mikrotik RouterOS uses ROSSSH rather than OpenSSH
• Kingcope found that ROSSSH is vulnerable to a remote pre-authentication heap corruption
• ShodanHQ shows that there are nearly 300,000 devices running ROSSSH
• There is an undocumented built-in user account, you can login as ‘devel’ using the admin password, if the file /etc/devel-login exists
• By sending a login name consisting of the letter A 100,000 times, you can crash the ssh daemon
• Exploitation of this vulnerability will allow full access to the router device

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• FreeBSD 10\’s removal of GNU

  • Why FreeBSD Deprecated GCC

• pfsense goes down in flames

• IP Leak Follow up

• Hard drive diagnostics before installing FreeNAS ?

• Setting up your own private certificate authority?

• Create a Public Key Infrastructure Using the easy-rsa Scripts – ArchWiki

• Data Recovery business

• Linux Drive Recovery | LAS s27e10

Round up:

• Security researcher releases MegaPWN, displays your Mega private master key and RSA exponent – Just as Mega announces new email service to replace Lavabit and SilentCircle
• The search engine was invented 20 years ago
• Hilariously bad video about the power of IP KVM
• Building a VNC client in 200 lines of javascript (node.js)
• Unusual TOR growth continues, over 1 million new clients, important updates released to try to help the network scale
• NetworkWorld tries out Huawei’s first enterprise managed switch for the North American market – Good power consumption and acceptable performance, but a few rough spots
• The NSA hacks other countries by buying millions of dollars’ worth of computer vulnerabilities
• Godaddy sysadmin blog explains why you shouldn’t cluster your database based on GUIDs
• MyOpenID service shutting down due to lack of adoption
• Intel launches new i7 4690X extreme edition processor. 6x 3.6ghz with turbo up to 4.0ghz – confusingly named, other i7 4*** series are the new Haswell, which features better single core performance at the same clock speeds
• Thoughts on Snowden from a Counterintelligence Agent

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Some of the best tools to save and recover data from a failing drive are free, and built for Linux. We’ll demo some of the best tools to save your data, and make the best of a bad situation. Plus a few tips to prevent data loss and monitor the health of your drives.

PLUS: Setting up a Honeypot for security and fun, things to keep in mind, and using a Raspberry Pi as the Honeypot.

Then: A big batch of your emails, dev drama of the week, Ubuntu Forums is hacked…

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