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WireGuardians of the Galaxy | LINUX Unplugged 279 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/128391/wireguardians-of-the-galaxy-linux-unplugged-279/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:09:03 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=128391 Show Notes/Links: linuxunplugged.com/279

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Season of Change | T3 270 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/123577/season-of-change-t3-270/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:16:50 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=123577 Show Notes: techtalk.today/270

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Linux Action News 17 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/117936/linux-action-news-17/ Sun, 03 Sep 2017 18:49:09 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=117936 RSS Feeds: HD Video Feed | MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed Become a supporter on Patreon: Episode Links Ubuntu Rally in NYC — The Ubuntu Rally, taking place in New York City September 25th-29th, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon attended by major software vendors, Ubuntu developers working at every level of the stack, […]

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  • Ubuntu Rally in NYC — The Ubuntu Rally, taking place in New York City September 25th-29th, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon attended by major software vendors, Ubuntu developers working at every level of the stack, and community contributors.
  • 17.10 Beta 1 of Ubuntu flavours released — The first beta is available today for the Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” release for the flavors opting in to participate in this development milestone ahead of the official launch in October.
  • Reddit closes its source — Open-source makes it hard for us to develop some features “in the clear” (like our recent video launch) without leaking our plans too far in advance. As Reddit is now a larger player on the web, it is hard for us to be strategic in our planning when everyone can see what code we are committing.
  • Phoenix OS urged to open source their kernel — So a dedicated fan of the platform, Karol Putra, has created a Change.org petition in hopes that it will change their minds.
  • Petition update * Victory! — It’s most likely really the Phoenix OS kernel as it carries slight unique modifications in comparison to Android-x86 and it’s forks
  • Google mandates 4.4+ kernel for Oreo — Starting this year with smartphones which ship with Android Oreo, Google is requiring that all SoCs productized in 2017 must launch with kernel 4.4 or newer.
  • Essential underdelivers — Essential — a device, marketing team, and CEO that seem to blur the lines between fact and fiction and possible and impossible
  • Then Essential royally screws up — Dozens of customers replied with their personal information, but those emails didn’t just go to Essential. Instead, they went out to everybody who had received the original email.
  • Blockchain is big in big business — Hundreds of projects have collectively raised more than a billion dollars through “initial coin offerings” (ICOs). There are now tokens funding every conceivable endeavor
  • Linux creeps above 3% browser marketshare — According to Net Applications’ Netmarketshare, the Linux market share on the desktop as judged by browser interactions may now be above 3%.

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I’ll Fix Everything | BSD Now 101 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/86142/ill-fix-everything-bsd-now-101/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:10:54 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=86142 Coming up this week, we’ll be talking with Adrian Chadd about an infamous reddit thread he made. With a title like “what would you like to see in FreeBSD?” and hundreds of responses, well, we’ve got a lot to cover… Thanks to: Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean Direct Download: Video | HD Video | […]

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Headlines

OpenBSD, from distribution to project

  • Ted Unangst has yet another interesting blog post up, this time covering a bit of BSD history and some different phases OpenBSD has been through
  • It’s the third part of his ongoing series of posts about OpenBSD removing large bits of code in favor of smaller replacements
  • In the earliest days, OpenBSD collected and maintained code from lots of other projects (Apache, lynx, perl..)
  • After importing new updates every release cycle, they eventually hit a transitional phase – things were updated, but nothing new was imported
  • When the need arose, instead of importing a known tool to do the job, homemade replacements (OpenNTPD, OpenBGPD, etc) were slowly developed
  • In more recent times, a lot of the imported code has been completely removed in favor of the homegrown daemons
  • More discussion on HN and reddit

Remote ZFS mirrors, the hard way

  • Backups to “the cloud” have become a hot topic in recent years, but most of them require trade-offs between convenience and security
  • You have to trust (some of) the providers not to snoop on your data, but even the ones who allow you to locally encrypt files aren’t without some compromise
  • As the author puts it: “We don’t need live synchronisation, cloud scaling, SLAs, NSAs, terms of service, lock-ins, buy-outs, up-sells, shut-downs, DoSs, fail whales, pay-us-or-we’ll-deletes, or any of the noise that comes with using someone else’s infrastructure.”
  • This guide walks you through setting up a FreeBSD server with ZFS to do secure offsite backups yourself
  • The end result is an automatic system for incremental backups that’s backed (pun intended) by ZFS
  • If you’re serious about keeping your important data safe and sound, you’ll want to give this one a read – lots of detailed instructions

Various DragonFlyBSD updates

  • The DragonFly guys have been quite busy this week, making an assortment of improvements throughout the tree
  • Intel ValleyView graphics support was finally committed to the main repository
  • While on the topic of graphics, they’ve also issued a call for testing for a DRM update (matching Linux 3.16’s and including some more Broadwell fixes)
  • Their base GCC compiler is also now upgraded to version 5.2
  • If your hardware supports it, DragonFly will now use an accelerated console by default

QuakeCon runs on OpenBSD

  • QuakeCon, everyone’s favorite event full of rocket launchers, recently gave a mini-tour of their network setup
  • For such a crazy network, unsurprisingly, they seem to be big fans of OpenBSD and PF
  • In this video interview, one of the sysadmins discusses why he chose OpenBSD, what he likes about it, different packet queueing systems, how their firewalls and servers are laid out and much more
  • He also talks about why they went with vanilla PF, writing their ruleset from the ground up rather than relying on a prebuilt solution
  • There’s also some general networking talk about nginx, reverse proxies, caching, fiber links and all that good stuff
  • Follow-up questions can be asked in this reddit thread
  • The host doesn’t seem to be that familiar with the topics at hand, mentioning “OpenPF” multiple times among other things, so our listeners should get a kick out of it

Interview – Adrian Chadd – adrian@freebsd.org / @erikarn

Rethinking ways to improve FreeBSD


News Roundup

CII contributes to OpenBSD

  • If you recall back to when we talked to the OpenBSD foundation, one of the things Ken mentioned was the Core Infrastructure Initiative
  • In a nutshell, it’s an organization of security experts that helps facilitate (with money, in most cases) the advancement of the more critical open source components of the internet
  • The group is organized by the Linux foundation, and gets its multi-million dollar backing from various big companies in the technology space (and donations from volunteers)
  • To ensure that OpenBSD and its related projects (OpenSSH, LibreSSL and PF likely being the main ones here) remain healthy, they’ve just made a large donation to the foundation – this makes them the first “platinum” level donor as well
  • While the exact amount wasn’t disclosed, it was somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000
  • The donation comes less than a month after Microsoft’s big donation, so it’s good to see these large organizations helping out important open source projects that we depend on every day

Another BSDCan report

  • The FreeBSD foundation is still getting trip reports from BSDCan, and this one comes from Mark Linimon
  • In his report, he mainly covers the devsummit and some discussion with the portmgr team
  • One notable change for the upcoming 10.2 release is that the default binary repository is now the quarterly branch – Mark talks a bit about this as well
  • He also gives his thoughts on using QEMU for cross-compiling packages and network performance testing

Lumina 0.8.6 released

  • The PC-BSD team has released another version of Lumina, their BSD-licensed desktop environment
  • This is mainly a bugfix and performance improvement release, rather than one with lots of new features
  • The on-screen display widget should be much faster now, and the configuration now allows for easier selection of default applications (which browser, which terminal, etc)
  • Lots of non-English translation updates and assorted fixes are included as well
  • If you haven’t given it a try yet, or maybe you’re looking for a new window manager, Lumina runs on all the BSDs

More c2k15 hackathon reports

  • Even more reports from OpenBSD’s latest hackathon are starting to pour in
  • The first one is from Alexandr Nedvedicky, one of their brand new developers (the guy from Oracle)
  • He talks about his experience going to a hackathon for the first time, and lays out some of the plans for integrating their (very large) SMP PF patch into OpenBSD
  • Second up is Andrew Fresh, who went without any specific plans, but still ended up getting some UTF8 work done
  • On the topic of ARMv7, “I did enjoy being there when things weren’t working so [Brandon Mercer] could futilely try to explain the problem to me (I wasn’t much help with kernel memory layouts). Fortunately others overheard and provided words of encouragement and some help which was one of my favorite parts of attending this hackathon.”
  • Florian Obser sent in a report that includes a little bit of everything: setting up the hackathon’s network, relayd and httpd work, bidirectional forwarding detection, airplane stories and even lots of food
  • Paul Irofti wrote in as well about his activities, which were mainly focused on the Octeon CPU architecture
  • He wrote a new driver for the onboard flash of a DSR-500 machine, which was built following the Common Flash Interface specification
  • This means that, going forward, OpenBSD will have out-of-the-box support for any flash memory device (often the case for MIPS and ARM-based embedded devices)

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Reddit Summer Of Drama | TTT 193 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/84702/reddit-summer-of-drama-ttt-193/ Fri, 03 Jul 2015 10:07:04 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=84702 Major controversy is brewing over at Reddit & we’ll share our perspectives. Microsoft signals a deathblow to Silverlight, new iPhone rumors, a spacecraft update & our Kickstarter of the week! Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube RSS Feeds: MP3 Feed | OGG Feed | iTunes […]

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Your Faux Questions | FauxShow 217 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/84357/your-faux-questions-fauxshow-217/ Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:21:54 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=84357 Angela & Chris announce the Jupiter Broadcasting subreddit by discussing some of the threads that have been posted so far! They urge you to participate in it as a general community communication hub but don’t forget we have at least 5 other active ones! Direct Download: HD Video | Mobile Video | MP3 Audio | […]

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Angela & Chris announce the Jupiter Broadcasting subreddit by discussing some of the threads that have been posted so far! They urge you to participate in it as a general community communication hub but don’t forget we have at least 5 other active ones!

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Email angela@jupiterbroadcasting.com your SUMMER PROJECT! Include your IRC nick, your project description and an image of some kind or a link to a video!

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Okay “NSA”, I’m Listening… | Tech Talk Today 167 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/81607/okay-nsa-im-listening-tech-talk-today-167/ Wed, 06 May 2015 10:16:55 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=81607 Oculus VR gets a ship date and we discuss the devices about to hit market. Reddit gets into creating its own content & the NSA brags about transcribing your phone calls. Plus replacing Plex with Kodi, the burdens of a hand model & much more! Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | […]

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Plus replacing Plex with Kodi, the burdens of a hand model & much more!

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Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will ship in early 2016 | Technology | The Guardian

The first commercial model of Facebook’s much anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will go on sale in the first quarter of 2016, the company confirmed today.

The announcement ends months of speculation that the release, which had been anticipated to happen by the end of 2015, would slip beyond Christmas. The most high profile device in the virtual reality market, Oculus Rift has been developed primarily for gaming but the technology is also being explored for occupational therapy, education and by film makers.

Reddit launches a video division to create original content | The Verge

Recently it has begun to venture into original content with a podcast and newsletter. Today it is going even further with the launch of its own video division. “Reddit’s mission is to connect people across the world through authentic conversations, collaboration, and community — video is an amazing storytelling medium and there’s no better wellspring of original stories than Reddit,” said co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text – The Intercept

Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.

The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago.

Kodi | Open Source Home Theatre Software

Kodi(tm) (formerly known as XBMC(tm)) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer. We also have helpful Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Youtube pages.

Open Source Kollaboration | LUP 91 | Jupiter Broadcasting

Aaron Seigo joins us to discuss the Kolab project, open source’s genuine answer to Microsoft Exchange and other groupware solutions. We also discuss the Roundcube project’s fundraiser & possible integration with Kolab.

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Uber Eats The Competition | Tech Talk Today 164 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/81222/uber-eats-the-competition-tech-talk-today-164/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:18:43 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=81222 Apple sells 61 million iPhones in a quarter, Uber announces a food delivery service & it looks like the Nexus 7 is officially dead! Plus the Steam Mod controversy gets swift action, your feedback & more! Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube RSS Feeds: MP3 […]

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Apple sells 61 million iPhones in a quarter, Uber announces a food delivery service & it looks like the Nexus 7 is officially dead!

Plus the Steam Mod controversy gets swift action, your feedback & more!

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Apple Reports Record March Quarter Results of $13.6B Profit on $58B Revenue, Boosts Dividend and Buybacks

Apple Revenue by Quater

Apple today announced financial results for the second fiscal quarter and first calendar quarter of 2015. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $58 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.6 billion

Aside from revenue and profit, Apple disclosed sales numbers or revenue for the these categories:

  • iPhone: 61.1 million units
  • iPad: 12.6 million units
  • Mac: 4.5 million units

Totals:

  • Revenue: $58 billion
  • EPS: $2.33 per share

Pour one out: The Nexus 7 is finally dead | TechRadar

Want to buy yourself a Nexus 7? It’s not going to happen. Google has apparently given up on selling the 7-inch device directly to consumers, choosing instead to focus on the Nexus 9.

But the bad news is that the larger, newer tablet isn’t hitting the heights the Nexus slate managed during 2013 and 2014, with Google’s earnings call confirming that the tablet isn’t performing as well as its predecessor.

In fact, both the Nexus 9 and smartphone Nexus 6 aren’t selling in the same numbers that Google has hoped they would, with the search giant confirming that the loss of Nexus sales had led to a drop in revenue quarter over quarter.

Uber is bringing its food delivery service to New York City and Chicago | The Verge

An Uber representative told The Verge that UberEats has its own dedicated drivers. Lunch options will range from $9 to $12, while dinner options will range from $10 to $15. The Uber rep said meals come with a $3 delivery fee ($4 in New York City), regardless of the number of meals you order.

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Questions for elementary OS | LAS 352 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/77377/questions-for-elementary-os-las-352/ Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:26:22 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=77377 Two members of the elementary OS project join us to discuss the recent dust up around their blog post asking for more funding from their users. We’ll ask the hard questions you’ve been wondering, get the latest from the project & talk about the future. Plus we look at the sales for the first BQ […]

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Two members of the elementary OS project join us to discuss the recent dust up around their blog post asking for more funding from their users. We’ll ask the hard questions you’ve been wondering, get the latest from the project & talk about the future.

Plus we look at the sales for the first BQ Ubuntu Touch edition, Linus’ personal choice award, some good news for OpenShot & more!

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A Chat with elementary OS


System76

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Freya Beta 2 is here!

You thought the day would never come, but after 6 months and almost 600 fixes we’re bringing you the next step on our way to a final release of elementary OS 0.3!

elementary — Payments

We explicitly say you can download Luna for free, we include a pay-what-you-want (including $0) text entry with $10 pre-filled, and we also include an explicit “Download Luna for free” link that simply sets the text entry to $0 for you.

Next, you’re given the payment/download dialog:image

The text entry matches whatever was on the first screen, but we again let you change it to anything you’d like, including $0.

Users have downloaded Luna over 2,000,000 times. Around 99.875% of those users download without paying. Of the tiny 0.125% who do, the most common payments are the default $10, followed by $1. But again, only a tiny fraction of one percent of users even decide to pay in the first place.

Furthermore, we’ve received feedback that this flow is deceiving. It doesn’t make it clear enough that there are multiple payment options and it includes a payments step even if you’ve chosen to enter $0.

elementary misses the point « Blog Fiasco

A recent post on the elementary blog about how they ask for payment on download created a bit of a stir this week. One particular sentence struck a nerve (it has since been removed from the post): “We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system when they choose not to pay for software.”

elementary — How big is elementary OS really?


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Runs Linux

The Lego Movie… Runs Linux!

Lego movie creation software screenshot

So I was watching the making of The Lego Movie with the only purpose of finding some Linux goodness. I was pretty upset when I saw Windows 7 and Photoshop at a close up, but then there is the animation (and the GNOME) stuff.

Desktop App Pick

Lets Make Music (LMMS)

Produce music with your computer
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Weekly Spotlight

AutoKey

AutoKey is a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. It allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these. This allows you to execute a script or insert text on demand in whatever program you are using.

AutoKey features a subset of the capabilities of the popular Windows-based AutoHotkey, but is not intended as a full replacement. For a Linux-based implementation of AutoHotkey, see IronAHK. AutoKey’s GUI features a number of concepts and features inspired by the Windows program PhraseExpress.

Features
  • Python scripting engine allows you to automate virtually any task that can be accomplished via the keyboard and/or mouse
  • Built-in code editor with autocomplete and calltips
  • Scripts are plain Python files that can be edited in any text editor
  • Similarly, phrases are stored as plain text files
  • Create collections of phrases/scripts in folders, and assign a hotkey or abbreviation to the folder to display a popup menu
  • Regular expressions can be used to filter windows by their title or class, to exclude hotkeys/abbreviations from triggering in certain applications
  • Scripts, phrases and folders can be attached to the notification icon menu, allowing you to select them without assigning a hotkey or abbreviation

Our Past Picks

These are the weekly picks provided by the Jupiter Broadcasting podcast, the Linux Action Show.

This site includes a separate picks lists for the “Runs Linux”, Desktop Apps, Spotlight Picks, Android Picks, and Distro Picks.


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Ubuntu Phone Sells Out During First Flash Sale

BQ Ubuntu Phone

Despite the technical issues the Bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition handset managed to sell out its debut run.

BQ: 12,000 orders per minute

I am back from London. I attended the Ubuntu Phone Insider event and have an Ubuntu Phone I took back with me. Here is what think about the device and the OS. Help support my channel and make it possible for me to obtain devices to review.

VLC Media Player 3.0

VLC 3 Screenshot

VLC Media Player 3.0.0 is one of the most anticipated applications of 2015, eagerly awaited by millions of computer users worldwide. Prominent features of VLC 3.0 include Wayland support, a Chromecast output module, several Android improvements, among which we can mention rotation, opaque, and subpicture blending, as well as batch convert support.

Linux Torvalds awarded Arch Linux as the most consumer friendly distrobution

Arch Screenshot

The purpose of a GNU distribution is to make it easy for users to use their system. It’s a stupid idea to force your users to compile everything from scratch,” said Linus Torvalds at the event. If you think your users are going to compile everything, only compilers will use your software.

OpenShot Video Editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux by Jonathan Thomas — Kickstarter

openshot 2.0 GIF support

There are many challenges that go along with building any software. Some are obvious and some are more subtle. However, some challenges, as I’ve recently realized, aren’t related to computers at all. Sometime in late October, my wife and I decided that it would be fun to put our house on the market, and “test the waters”. We have been talking about moving out of Arlington, TX (a relatively big city) for years, and heading towards a bit more land, and less city. As fate would have it, we had an offer on our house within 1 week, and all of a sudden needed to find a new house, make repairs, pack, rent a moving truck, etc… etc… Needless to say, this required a lot of time and energy.


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5 sites to make you think | FauxShow 193 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/66692/5-sites-to-make-you-think-fauxshow-193/ Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:07:12 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=66692 Angela and Chris cover a couple of websites that will hands down make you think! Join them as they discuss what they like about each of these 5 websites. Direct Download: HD Download | Mobile Download | MP3 Download | YouTube RSS Feeds: HD Video Feed | Mobile Video Feed | MP3 Audio Feed | […]

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September 28th Awards

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Mailsack

Bill writes:

Dear Allen, Angerz, Chase, Chris, Kris, Matt, and Mr Curmudgeon.

It’s about time I got on this reddit bandwagon. Using Firefox on my desktop seems to work o.k., but I decided I needed a good/nice Android app on my phone for it that is not so intrusive.

Since I know you all visit the site as your preferred down of contact and voicing of show desires I was wondering what preferences you all and the audience like to use.

Maybe a poll for the JB fans or the top 2 or 3 you guys know of off the top of your head. This cold be good for a lot of listeners since I imagine the mobile users/listeners/watchers of JB deliciousness is via mobile.

Thanks a bagillion if you can help me and many others.

In near drunkeness,

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Luvvvvvvv da show!

After watching LAS and hearing that Boarderlands 2 is coming to Linux (sine it is 1 of the main games I play and I can just duel boot into Windows for the other games), I have decided to switch my main PC to Ubuntu Gnome. The only thing that is holding me back is Photoshop and Illustrator. I tried GIMP and it just did not work for me and all my clients are on the Adobe train so it is something I need.

I was wondering…

Since most of the apps running on Windows are available on Mac now a days, is there a program on Linux that is like WINE but for Mac applications? And would it be a better solution than WINE since Mac is based on Unix?

Henrique writes:

Hi,
I have a little question.

How you communicated with Riachard Stallman in the interview.
Using a phone call, VOIP or what?

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Grand Theft Depot | Tech Talk Today 54 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/66282/grand-theft-depot-tech-talk-today-54/ Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:43:57 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=66282 Did Home Depot get struck by the same malware that attacked Target? How the FBI found the Silkroad server, and Reddit just got a big cash infusion… But is it enough? Plus a nostalgic look back at the WORM drive & much more! Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video […]

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Reddit Raising Big Funding Round With Help From Y Combinator Contacts

Reddit, the social news site with a big Web footprint, is raising a big funding round — with help from some of the people who helped launch the site nine years ago, including co-founder Alexis Ohanian and other people associated closely with startup incubator Y Combinator.

Sources said the site has reached a preliminary agreement to sell less than 10 percent of the company for more than $50 million. That could give the company a valuation of upwards of $500 million.

Home Depot Hit By Same Malware as Target — Krebs on Security

The apparent credit and debit card breach uncovered last week at Home Depot **was aided in part by a new variant of the same malicious software program that stole card account data from cash registers at **Target last December, according to sources close to the investigation.


A source close to the investigation told this author that an analysis revealed at least some of Home Depot’s store registers had been infected with a new variant of “BlackPOS” (a.k.a. “Kaptoxa”), a malware strain designed to siphon data from cards when they are swiped at infected point-of-sale systems running Microsoft Windows.


BlackPOS also was found on point-of-sale systems at Target last year. What’s more, cards apparently stolen from Home Depot shoppers first turned up for sale on Rescator[dot]cc, the same underground cybercrime shop that sold millions of cards stolen in the Target attack.

Other clues in the new BlackPOS malware variant further suggest a link between the cybercrooks behind the apparent breach at Home Depot and the hackers who hit Target. The new BlackPOS variant includes several interesting text strings. Among those are five links to Web sites featuring content about America’s role in foreign conflicts, particularly in Libya and Ukraine.

One of the images linked to in the guts of the BlackPOS code.

One of the images linked to in the guts of the BlackPOS code.

Three of the links point to news, editorial articles and cartoons that accuse the United States of fomenting war and unrest in the name of Democracy in Ukraine, Syria, Egypt and Libya. One of the images shows four Molotov cocktails with the flags of those four nations on the bottles, next to a box of matches festooned with the American flag and match ready to strike. Another link leads to an image of the current armed conflict in Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists.

Dread Pirate Sunk By Leaky CAPTCHA — Krebs on Security

“The IP address leak we discovered came from the Silk Road user login interface. Upon examining the individual packets of data being sent back from the website, we noticed that the headers of some of the packets reflected a certain IP address not associated with any known Tor node as the source of the packets. This IP address (the “Subject IP Address”) was the only non-Tor source IP address reflected in the traffic we examined.”

“The Subject IP Address caught our attention because, if a hidden service is properly configured to work on Tor, the source IP address of traffic sent from the hidden service should appear as the IP address of a Tor node, as opposed to the true IP address of the hidden service, which Tor is designed to conceal. When I typed the Subject IP Address into an ordinary (non-Tor) web browser, a part of the Silk Road login screen (the CAPTCHA prompt) appeared. Based on my training and experience, this indicated that the Subject IP Address was the IP address of the SR Server, and that it was ‘leaking’ from the SR Server because the computer code underlying the login interface was not properly configured at the time to work on Tor.”

Doubts cast over FBI ‘leaky CAPTCHA’ Silk Road rapture • The Register

“The idea that the CAPTCHA was being served from a live IP is unreasonable. Were this the case, it would have been noticed not only by me — but the many other people who were also scrutinizing the Silk Road website. Silk Road was one of the most scrutinized sites on the web, for white hats because it was an interesting challenge and for black hats since it hosted so many Bitcoin (with little legal implication if you managed to steal them).”

Moreover, an externally hosted image would still be routed over Tor and any packet sniffer would be unable to detect the Silk Road’s IP address.

Cubrilovic claimed it was more likely the FBI found and exploited a security vulnerability or discovered an information leak in the Silk Road login page and application.

CenturyLink Said to Seek to Acquire Rackspace Hosting – Bloomberg

CenturyLink has discussed the idea with San Antonio-based Rackspace, which last month said it is still conducting an internal review of its strategic options, according to the people, who asked not to be identified talking about private information. One person said a deal may not be reached for the company, which had a stock-market valuation of $5.33 billion at the end of last week.


Odds of the deal going through are less than 50 percent unless Rackspace is willing to take payment in stock or enter a joint venture, Jaegers said. CenturyLink wants to avoid a debt downgrade that may come with financing a large deal, she said.

What is WORM (write once, read many)?

In computer storage media, WORM (write once, read many) is a data storage technology that allows information to be written to a disc a single time and prevents the drive from erasing the data. The discs are intentionally not rewritable, because they are especially intended to store data that the user does not want to erase accidentally. Because of this feature, WORM devices have long been used for the archival purposes of organizations such as government agencies or large enterprises. A type of optical media, WORM devices were developed in the late 1970s and have been adapted to a number of different media. The discs have varied in size from 5.25 to 14 inches wide, in varying formats ranging from 140MB to more than 3 GB per side of the (usually) double-sided medium. Data is written to a WORM disc with a low-powered laser that makes permanent marks on the surface.

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Is Bitcoin Bombing? | PlanFaux 163 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/51242/is-bitcoin-bombing-planfaux-163/ Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:11:23 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=51242 Angela and Chris cover the latest news about bitcoin’s bad week, new places that accept bitcoin, and so much more!

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Angela and Chris cover the latest news about bitcoin’s bad week, new places that accept bitcoin, and so much more!

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Bitcoin Sites:

https://bitcoinity.org/markets

https://buttcoin.org/the-sound-of-buttcoin

https://coinmarketcap.com/

Apple removes BTC App: https://money.cnn.com/2014/02/06/technology/apple-bitcoin/

Russia bans BTC: https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/07/russia-bans-bitcoin/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/top/

https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/7/5386222/a-string-of-thefts-hit-coinbase-bitcoins-most-reputable-wallet-service

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/07/mt-gox-pauses-all-bitcoin-withdrawals-due-to-technical-issues/#!uHfTZ

Tiger Direct: https://www.tigerdirect.com/bitcoin/indexus.asp

Scan: https://www.scan.co.uk/

Overstock: https://www.overstock.com/bitcoin

10 places in the UK https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10558191/Ten-places-where-you-can-spend-your-bitcoins-in-the-UK.html

Forbes 10 places: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/24/top-10-bitcoin-merchant-sites/

https://www.weusecoins.com/en/

Throwing out your bitcoin: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2013/11/30/from-treasure-to-trash-man-tosses-out-bitcoin-wallet-on-hard-drive-worth-9-million/
https://www.bitcoinx.com/

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MATE Mythbusting | LINUX Unplugged 26 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/50947/mate-mythbusting-lup-26/ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:53:48 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=50947 The MATE Desktop is about to see some big improvements, we bring on Martin Wimpress to discuss his new MATE Live CD, and what the future holds.

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The MATE Desktop is about to see some big improvements, we bring on Martin Wimpress from the MATE project to discuss his new MATE Live CD, and what the future holds for MATE.

Plus our renewed commitment to improving the state of Linux news, and the recent mistake that has Chris green with Hulk Rage!

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FU

I also want to make it clear none of these small form-factor dev boards/devices based on ARM have no Gigabit bandwidth capability. Not even on media boxes sold directly from China.

If you want real Gigabit bandwidth or 10Gbps bandwidth you can look elsewhere because you won\’t find it in ARM except in higher-end stuff like Calxeda or AMD.

Martin Wimpress Aka Wimpy – Works with the Mate project, does the Arch Linux Packaging, and is a project advocate.

Fixing Linux News

We chat with Michael Larabel the man behind Phoronix.com. We ask him if he feels his site\’s image suffered from the coverage of Steam for Linux, chat about the Phoronix Test Suite and more!

Reasons why I sometimes hate the openness of free software. We are not able to discuss anything without the media reporting about it on the same day. sigh

Dear free software media: you can leave the internal discussions as internal till there is a public statement. Thank you!

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Must Have Apps | FauxShow 155 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/47657/must-have-apps-fauxshow-155/ Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:53:00 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=47657 Angela and Chris run down some of their all time favorite mobile apps, for iOS and Android. Dominate your mobile device like a pro, with our picks.

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Angela and Chris run down some of their all time favorite mobile apps, for iOS and Android. Dominate your mobile device like a pro, with our picks.

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Traffic – Waze: https://www.waze.com/

Weather – Dark Sky: https://darkskyapp.com/

Homescreen replacement – Nova Launcher: https://novalauncher.com/

Geeky Phone Stats – Systempanel: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1&hl=en

Media Server – Plex: https://www.plexapp.com/

Reddit reader – Reddit is fun: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.android.reddit

Reddit reader – BaconReader for Reddit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onelouder.baconreader&hl=en

Music finder – Shazam: https://www.shazam.com/

Podcasts – Pocket Casts: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.shiftyjelly.pocketcasts&hl=en

Roku Remote – Roku Wifi Remote: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exavore.rokumote&hl=en

ES File Explorer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop

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Hi, the last couple of nights I\’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to watch different sub-channels (LAS, Unplugged, Unfilter, FauxShow) on my Roku, but they all seem to fail. After displaying \”retrieving\” for a couple of seconds, the Roku gets bounced back to the screen where it says \”Play\”. I don\’t think it\’s the Roku itself, since BSDNow starts without issue (as well as other channels, like Netflix).
Roku support suggests it might be the JB server(s).
I can always watch via PC, but it would be nice if I could watch via the Roku. Have others experienced the same issue? Or is it most likely something on my end? Thanks!

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Answers for Everyone | TechSNAP 42 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/16331/answers-for-everyone-techsnap-42/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:40:12 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=16331 We’ve got the answer to life the universe and everything, plus why you need to get upset about ACTA, and patch your Linux Kernel. In this Q&A PACKED edition!

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Dreamhost gets hacked, resets all customers’ passwords, has scale issues

  • On January 19th, Dreamhost.com detected unauthorized activity in one of their databases
  • It is unclear which databases were compromised, if they were dreamhost databases of customer data, or customer site databases
  • Dreamhost uses separate passwords for their main web control panel, and individual user SSH and FTP accounts
  • Dreamhost ran in to scale issues, where their centralized web control panel could not handle the volume of users logging in and attempting to change their shell passwords
  • The fast forced password reset by DreamHost appears to have promptly ended the malicious activity
  • Based on the urgency of the reset, there seem to be indications that DreamHost stores users’ passwords in plain text in one or more databases
  • This assertion is further supported by the fact that they print passwords to confirmation screens and in emails
  • Dreamhost also reset the passwords for all of their VPS customers

Linux root exploit – when the fix makes it worse

  • Linux kernel versions newer than 2.6.39 are susceptible to a root exploit that allowed writing to protected memory
  • Prior to version 2.6.39 write access was prevent by an #ifdef, however this was deemed to be to weak, and was replaced by newer code
  • The new security code that was to ensure that writes were only possible with the correct permissions, turned out to be inadequate and easily fooled
  • Ubuntu has confirmed that an update for 11.10 has been released, users are advised to upgrade
  • This issue does not effect Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5, because this change was not backported. A new kernel package for RHEL 6 is now available
  • Analysis
  • Proof of Concept
  • Proof of Concept for Android

Feedback

Q: Tzvi asks how to best Monitor employee Internet usage?

A: There are a number of ways to monitor and restrict Internet access through a connection you control. A common suggestion is the use of a proxy server. The issue with this is that it requires configuration on each client machine and sometimes even each client application. This is a lot of work, and is not 100% successful. However, there is an option know as a ‘transparent proxy’. This is where the router/firewall, or some other machine that all traffic to the internet must pass through analyzes the traffic, and routes connections outbound for port 80 or 443 (HTTP and HTTPS respectively, and optional additional ports) through the proxy server, without any configuration required on the individual clients. Then, you can use the firewall to deny all traffic outbound that is not via the proxy.

This is relatively easy to setup, so much so that as part of the final exam in my Unix Security class, students had 2 hours to setup their machine as follows:

  • Configure TCP/IP stack
  • Download GPG and Class GPG Key
  • Decrypt Exam Instructions
  • Install Lynx w/ SSL support
  • Install a class self-signed SSL certificate and the root certificate bundle to be trusted
  • Install and configure Squid to block facebook with a custom error page
  • Configure Lynx to use Squid
  • Create a default deny firewall that only allows HTTP via squid and FTP to the class FTP server
  • Access the college website and facebook (or rather the custom error page when attempting to access facebook)

While they had a little practice, and didn’t have to configure a transparent proxy, it is still are fairly straight forward procedure.

Instead of rolling your own, you can just drop in pfSense and follow these directions


Q: Brett asks, what do you do after a compromise?

A: The very first thing you do after a compromise, is take a forensic image of the drive. A bit by bit copy, without ever writing or changing the disk in any way. You then pull that disk out and put it away for safe keeping. Do all of your analysis and forensics on copies of that first image (but no not modify it either, you don’t want to have to do another copy from the original). This way as you work on it, and things get modified or trashed, you do not disturb the original copy. You may need the original unmodified copy for legal proceedings, as the evidentiary value is lost if it is modified or tampered with in any way.

So your best bet, is to boot off of a live cd (not just any live cd, many try to be helpful and auto-mount every partition they find, use a forensics live cd that will not take any auction without you requesting it). Then use a tool like dd to image the drive to a file or another drive. You can then work off copies of that. This can also work for damaged disks, using command switches for dd such as conv=noerror,sync . Also using a blocksize of 1mb or so will speed up the process greatly.

You asked about tripwire and the like, the problem with TripWire is that you need to have been running it since before the incident, so it has a fingerprint database of what the files should look like, so it can detect what has changed. If you did not have tripwire setup and running before, while it may be possible to create a fingerprint database from a backup, it is not that useful.
The freebsd-update command includes an ‘IDS’ command, that compares all of the system files against the central fingerprint database used to update the OS, and provides quick and powerful protection against the modification of the system files, but it does not check any files installed my users or packages. The advantage to the freebsd-update IDS over tripwire is that it uses the FreeBSD Security Officers fingerprint database, rather than a locally maintained one that may have been modified as part of the system compromise. In college I wrote a paper on using Bacula as a network IDS, I’ll see if I can find it and post it on my blog at appfail.com.


Q: Jono asks, VirtualBox vs. Bare to the metal VMs?

  • Xen, KVM and VirtualBox are not bare metal, they requires a full linux host
  • XenServer is similar to VMWare ESXi, in that it is bare metal. It uses a very stripped down version of CentOS and therefore far fewer resources than a full host. However XenServer is a commercial product (though there is a free version)
    +The advantage to XenServer over VMWare ESXi (both are commercial but free), is XenServer is supported by more open source management tools, such as OpenStack

Q:Gene asks, IT Control is out of control, what can we users do?


Q: Crshbndct asks, Remote SSH for Mum


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]]> Is Desktop Linux Dead? | LAS | s19e04 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/13503/is-desktop-linux-dead/ Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:35:55 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=13503 Big claims were made this week that “Linux on the desktop is dead”. Are mobile devices making Linux irrelevant? We tackle and debate, and answer this!

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Big claims were made this week that “Linux on the desktop is dead”. Are mobile devices making Linux irrelevant? Is the year of Desktop Linux doomed to never arrive? Or is Linux JUST getting started? We discuss!

THEN – News from the Ubuntu Development Summit shines light on features for the next release, and why Fedora wants to reorganize the file system!

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3kirt writes:

  • I do think it’s going to take a lot longer than many Linux evangelists are willing to admit. 5, 10, maybe 20 years? As cloud computing becomes so dominant, perhaps the commercial vendors will over a long long time, start to pull out of the Market.
  • Linux on the desktop will be around as long as people care about it, and there’s plenty of people that do.
  • Relatively small amount of developer effort being put into the desktop stack as compared to more server oriented things like the kernel.

okinawalinuxfan writes:

  • There are enough Linux enthusiast and professionals to keep the community healthy for the foreseeable future.
  • Many rely on Linux where it counts – Automobiles, Medical Equipment, Air Traffic Control, Stock Markets, National Defense Satellites, GPS, Manufacturing, and countless other critical systems that make our lives better every day.

Chris’ thoughts:

  • Windows 8 will introduce the new Metro UI. Many end-users/companies may wish to keep there current hardware, and swap the OS to Linux.
  • Vendors may find solutions like Ubuntu + Unity are their best route to avoid vendor ecosystem lock-in.
  • New data shows slow steady growth, this seems consistent with an organically marketed OS: Windows market share slides in October as Mac, Linux gain
  • Linux’s 60% share on servers (I think that is low too) continues to drive it to become a stable secure platform. This work is directly beneficial to making a safe and reliable desktop.

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