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Allan’s Favorite Things | TechSNAP 246

chris — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 09:40:04 +0000

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It’s a collection of Allan’s favorite moments from TechSNAP past.

Plus the week’s new stories in the roundup & much more!

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Episode 24: Ultimate RAID

Before be became a ZFS addict, Allan explains all of the various RAID levels and what you would use them for
If you are not using ZFS, you probably want to watch this
This episode also contains the details of the BEAST attack on SSL, back in the beginning of what would turn out to be an unending onslaught on SSL and its implementations (OpenSSL and friends)

Episode 34: Allan’s ZFS Server Build

Allan shows off his first ZFS server build
16 TB SAS array (12 TB usable), separate 2×2 TB SATA mirrored UFS for the OS, because he didn’t trust root-on-ZFS yet
Paid for a RAID controller, which didn’t work well (was replaced with the onboard LSI HBA built into the motherboard)
Had a bunch of problems, with both Newegg, Adaptec, shipping, and configuration
If only I had known about iXsystems back then

Epsiode 78: Wire-Shark

With Chip-and-Pin finally arriving in the US, let us remember back to TechSNAP from September of 2012, when researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab found a way to defraud the system
While the system is self is fairly secure, it relies on correct implementation, and many ATMs and PoS devices do not do it correctly
In this case a nounce (supposed to be a unique, unpredictable value), was just a counter or timestamp

Episode 128: Gentlemen, Start Your NGINX

Krebs covers crooks registering for your Social Security account, so they could redirect the direct deposits to their own account

Episode 100: 100% Uptime

Special in its own right, as our 100th episode
bit9 story
It was also the first time we mentioned Krebs (who I kept called Kerbs for the first few weeks until I was corrected enough times). At first I wasn’t even sure I liked Krebs, now I am quite the fan.

Episode 236: National Security Breaking Agency

Keylogging before computers
Great story from the Cold War

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Space Goods | FauxShow 225

chris — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:49:32 +0000

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Angela and Chris discuss all sorts of space goods that might be cool to have as well as a couple up and coming projects that are really breaking ground for space utilization to keep us all connected.

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Preventing a btrfs Nightmare | LAS 320

chris — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 16:13:15 +0000

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What happens when btrfs goes bad? After rescuing our system from a massive crash, we’ll share what went wrong, how you can prevent problems, reclaim gigabytes of space, and optimize your Linux box for an SSD drive.

Plus a quick look at Ubuntu MATE Remix, the NSA targets Linux users, solving the distro hopping bug….

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How I saved myself from a btrfs nightmare:

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We asked: Do you trust btrfs?

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Do you trust critical data to btrfs?

It really started about three weeks ago, when I was doing a big package upgrade. The upgrade installs started to fail reporting out of space.

df reported more than 30GBs free on / partition. Despite df’s optimized summarization of my situation I cleared my package cache, deleted some unneeded VMs , and about 20 Steam games that I had stashed in /opt.

Fast forward to this Friday and my system won’t boot. I knew it was a risk, but I was desperate. I decided to compress all the things. Based on my quick reading of a few wiki pages, I could compress files on demand but necessarily compress the entire file system all the time. IE compress a lot of crap small libraries, reduce the amount of blocks they take up, and free up some space.

btrfs has built in support for doing this. I have ran compression on my /home file system since day one of this install. I opt for LZO compression. The ration of compression is lower than other options, but the performance is fantastic. I set off compressing the messy areas of my / (like /var /usr/lib).

But after a sanity check reboot, and many errors about failing to find a file, it was clear my understanding was wrong, and the mount options in my /etc/fstab needed to be updated.

I dd’ed the latest Antergos ISO onto a USB 3.0 thumb drive and booted the Bonobo into the live environment, fired up gparted to remind my self which physical device my rootfs was on (hey it’s been over a year!) and then promptly created a mount point for it under /mnt/fix.

I jumped into my /mnt/fix folder and immediately was back at home on my Bonobo’s root file system. A quick nano (YES) of my /mnt/fix/etc/fstab file and I added the compress flag to my root file system’s mount options.

Unmounted and rebooted the Bonobo, and the 1+ year Arch install fired right up.

I then set off to figure out how to better use btrfs on my system, and specifically tune the file system for my SSD drives.

Why btrfs?

“a new copy on write (CoW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.”

Early days still, but its getting a lot closer and I wanted to have some real time under my belt with it.
The features it brings to Linux are going to be seen as minimum requirements in the future. CoW, snapshot, checksum, volume management.
SSD (Flash storage) awareness (TRIM/Discard for reporting free blocks for reuse) and optimizations.
Background scrub process for finding and fixing errors on files with redundant copies.
Online file system defragmentation.

**Compression **with modern hardware (like SSDs, multi-core CPUs) is a serious solution. It not only offers more value out of your SSD drive, but because the disk has to read less data overall, and the CPU is generally just waiting for I/O you can actually see an improvement on transfer speeds.
btrfs Stability Status

The filesystem disk format is no longer unstable, and it’s not expected to change unless there are strong reasons to do so. If there is a format change, file systems with a unchanged format will continue to be mountable and usable by newer kernels.

It kept telling me my device was full, but I had 30GB free. btrfs balance to the rescue.

Package updates would fail, reporting no space left on device.
Checking my system with df -h clearly reported 30GB free on my /
Checking with btrfs filesystem df showed a different story.
I used ncdu to sniff out the biggest files I could delete or move to give me some emergency wiggle room.

Why the different DF?

General linux userspace tools such as df will inaccurately report free space on a Btrfs partition.
df does not take into account space allocated for and used by the metadata. It is recommended to use /usr/bin/btrfs to query a btrfs partition.
Run the btrfs command to get a sense of what it can do. You want to perform a filesystem function and show stats about a device.

btrfs filesystem df /

Also:

btrfs filesystem show /dev/sda3

Why is free space so complicated?

So, in general, it is impossible to give an accurate estimate of the amount of free space on any btrfs filesystem. Yes, this sucks. If you have a really good idea for how to make it simple for users to understand how much space they’ve got left, please do let us know, but also please be aware that the finest minds in btrfs development have been thinking about this problem for at least a couple of years, and we haven’t found a simple solution yet.

Step 1: Rebalance, it’s not just for RAID arrays anymore!

Balance does a defragmentation, but not on a file level rather on the block group level. It can move data from less used block groups to the remaining ones, eg. using the usage balance filter.

btrfs balance start / -v

This will take a while. You can use your system while this happens.
Do I need to run a balance regularly?

In general usage, no. A full unfiltered balance typically takes a long time, and will rewrite huge amounts of data unnecessarily. You may wish to run a balance on metadata only (see Balance_Filters) if you find you have very large amounts of metadata space allocated but unused, but this should be a last resort. At some point, this kind of clean-up will be made an automatic background process.

Step 2: Defragment that disk

btrfs filesystem defragment -r -v /

Optional if you’re really hard pressed for space consider defragmenting the metadata too:

find / -xdev -type d -print -exec btrfs filesystem defragment ‘{}’ \;

Step 3: Compress that disk’s file system.

What are the differences between compression methods?

There’s a speed/ratio trade-off:

ZLIB — slower, higher compression ratio (uses zlib level 3 setting, you can see the zlib level difference between 1 and 6 https://code.google.com/p/lz4/ here).
LZO — faster compression and decompression than zlib, worse compression ratio, designed to be fast

The differences depend on the actual data set and cannot be expressed by a single number or recommendation. Do your own benchmarks. LZO seems to give satisfying results for general use.

This is running another defragmentation pass. Yes this means two defragmentation runs. But if you’re really tight on space, you need to free some up first before you can compress. The system will need some temporary space while it writes compressed versions of the files.

btrfs filesystem defragment -r -v -clzo /

Important: Update your /etc/fstab to include compress=lzo. For example:

LABEL=rootfs / btrfs defaults,compress=lzo 0 1

Step 4: Optimize for SSD

Best results with Linux 3.14 and up
I have added these flags to my fstab mount for both my / and my /home

noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,discard,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache

Example:

LABEL=homefs /home btrfs defaults,compress=lzo,ssd,discard,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache 0 1

btrfs gotchas?

Gotchas – btrfs Wiki

This page lists problems one might face when trying btrfs, some of these are not really bugs, but rather inconveniences about things not yet implemented, or yet undocumented design decisions.

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This GSM Base Station Powered by the BeagleBone Black, Runs Linux

Debian Wheezy 7
Upgraded to the 3.15.2 Linux Kernel
USRP B200 ($675 USD) The USRP B200 provides a fully integrated, single board, Universal Software Radio Peripheral platform with continuous frequency coverage from 70 MHz –6 GHz. Designed for low-cost experimentation, it combines a fully integrated direct conversion transceiver providing up to 56MHz of real-time bandwidth, an open and reprogrammable Spartan6 FPGA, and fast and convenient bus-powered.
OpenBTS is the software that provides us with the software part of a cellular station.
sipauthserve, for cellular subscriber registration

Desktop App Pick

New Linux Podcast App ‘Vocal’

The project’s developer, Nathan Dyer, has made beta builds — still unstable and not feature complete — available for testing through a dedicated PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 14.10.

Code : Vocal

Weekly Spotlight

Tails – Privacy for anyone anywhere

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity

HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. Encrypt the web: Install HTTPS Everywhere today.

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NSA targets the privacy-conscious | Das Erste – Panorama – Meldungen

The investigation discloses the following:

Two servers in Germany – in Berlin and Nuremberg – are under surveillance by the NSA.

Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search. Not only are German privacy software users tracked, but the source code shows that privacy software users worldwide are tracked by the NSA.

Among the NSA’s targets is the Tor network funded primarily by the US government to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states.

The XKeyscore rules reveal that the NSA tracks all connections to a server that hosts part of an anonymous email service at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called “the Linux Journal – the Original Magazine of the Linux Community”, and calls it an “extremist forum”.

If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance

Tor and Tails have been part of the mainstream discussion of online security, surveillance and privacy for years. It’s nothing short of bizarre to place people under suspicion for searching for these terms.

One expert suggested that the NSA’s intention here was to separate the sheep from the goats — to split the entire population of the Internet into “people who have the technical know-how to be private” and “people who don’t” and then capture all the communications from the first group.

Another expert said that s/he believed that this leak may come from a second source, not Edward Snowden, as s/he had not seen this in the original Snowden docs; and had seen other revelations that also appeared independent of the Snowden materials.

Schneier on Security: NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious for Surveillance

Jake Appelbaum et. al, are reporting on XKEYSCORE selection rules that target users — and people who just visit the websites of — Tor, Tails, and other sites. This isn’t just metadata; this is “full take” content that’s stored forever.

Dear NSA, Privacy is a Fundamental Right, Not Reasonable Suspicion | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Even the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court recognizes this, as the FISA prohibits targeting people or conducting investigations based solely on activities protected by the First Amendment. Regardless of whether the NSA is relying on FISA to authorize this activity or conducting the spying overseas, it is deeply problematic.

NSA: Linux Journal is an “extremist forum” and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance | Linux Journal

The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything | Threat Level | WIRED

Wired reports that Nadim Kobeissi will release a bet aversion of an all-purpose file encyrption browser plugin called miniLock at the HOPE hacker conference in New York. The free and open source plugin is meant to make it easy to drag and drop files to encrypt so that no one but the intended recipient can unscramble them.

Wayland in Fedora Update

So the summary is that while we expect to have a version of Wayland in Fedora Workstation 21 that will be able to run a fully functional desktop, there are some missing pieces we now know that will not make it. Which means that since we want to ship at least one Fedora release with a feature complete Wayland as an option before making it default, that means that Fedora Workstation 23 is the earliest Wayland can be the default.

The KDE Improv Project Has Announced Its End

Carl Symons on the behalf of Aaron Seigo and the rest of the Improv crew have sent out an email to the backers saying the project is over, they will issue partial refunds, etc. It’s only a partial refund right now as they had already invested some money into buying long lead times with their Chinese manufacturer.

There were also credit card processing fees, etc, but they’re working out a path for full reimbursement. It’s also said Aaron invested $200k USD into the project.

There was simply not enough support to make the project work, despite having fully functional, production ready devices and a strong commitment to succeed. The Free software community does not seem ready at this point to make a concerted stand on the pressing issue of hardware freedom

KDE team pulls the plug on the Vivaldi tablet, Improv board projects

The group of folks behind the KDE desktop environment have been trying for a few years to deliver a tablet with wouldn’t rely on proprietary software. More recently they unveiled the Improv Board, a small, cheap computer module designed to ship with Mer Linux.

At this point, all the team is promising are partial refunds since part of the money has already been spent. But the goal is to eventually provide full refunds to folks who have put their faith (and money) into the project.

In a statement, the team suggests “the Free software community does not seem ready at this point to make a concerted stand on the pressing issue of hardware freedom,”
the Improv board was expected to sell for around $75

Ubuntu MATE Remix

Objectives

The Ubuntu MATE Remix has the following primary goal:

Use Ubuntu to create a solid foundation on which to build a pure MATE desktop.

Ubuntu MATE Remix has some secondary objectives:

Increase both Ubuntu and MATE user adoption.
Restore the halcyon days of Ubuntu before indicators, Unity and scopes were introduced.
Be the go to Ubuntu alternative for computers that aren’t powerful enough to run a composited desktop, as well as those that are.
Make use of existing Ubuntu themes and artwork wherever possible so Ubuntu MATE Remix is immediately familiar.
When ever possible submit new or revised packages to Debian so both the Debian and Ubuntu communities benefit.
Package selection will favour functionality and stability over lightness and whimsy.
Provide a refuge for Linux users who prefer a traditional desktop experience.
Get adopted as an official Ubuntu “flavour”.

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Linux Gaming for Everyone | LAS 311

chris — Sun, 04 May 2014 15:51:33 +0000

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Chris and Matt showcase some fun games for casual or hardcore gamers. From space shooters to fun puzzles, if you’ve been holding off on gaming for Linux we’ll change your mind!

Plus: Is Ubuntu for Android dead? Linus receives another award, the big update to Edward Snowden’s favorite Linux distribution…

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Linux Game Night:

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Games for shooting us in the face this Sunday:

Team Fortress 2

Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!

Star Conflict

Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. Three thousand years have passed since the first colonists left Earth. Now the galaxy is divided between the militant star empires and independent mercenary groups.

Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike\’s award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source technology. Featuring state of the art graphics, all new sounds, and introducing physics, Counter-Strike: Source is a must-have for every action gamer.

Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball

The dodgeball FPS you\’ve always wanted! Race around a skate park in jet-powered roller-skate robots and nail each other with ridiculous mid-air trick shots.

Chris’ Game Bag

Star Conflict

Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. Three thousand years have passed since the first colonists left Earth. Now the galaxy is divided between the militant star empires and independent mercenary groups.

Electronic Super Joy

Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music.

Life Goes On

Life Goes On is a comically-morbid platformer where you brutally sacrifice knights and use their dead bodies to solve puzzles. With death as your only means to progress, journey through trap-ridden worlds to find the Cup of Life.

Matt’s Game Bag:

Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball

The dodgeball FPS you\’ve always wanted! Race around a skate park in jet-powered roller-skate robots and nail each other with ridiculous mid-air trick shots.

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Star Conflict

Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish.

jmac217 ran down his favorite emulators

AdvanceMAME
DOSBox
ScummVM (Download Beneath A Steel Sky, it’s sequel coming out!)
- Stella – Atari 2600
- zSNES or SNES9x
- Gens – Sega consoles
- Mupen64plus – N64
- VisualBoy Advance – GB/C/A
- DeSmuME – DS
- ePSXe – PS1
- PCSX2 – PS2
- Dolphin – GC

Epic thread: Sunday\’s LAS: Game Day. Lets brainstorm!

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Runs Linux

This K-9 doppelganger Runs Linux

Desktop App Pick

Speedometer

Measure and display the rate of data across a network connection or data being stored in a file.

Weekly Spotlight

mooOS

mooOS is an enlightenment 19 and/or unity 14.04/compiz(gnome 3.12) and/or Steam and/or XBMC based desktop out of the box, libre focused, privacy aware, livecd and basic installer aimed at experienced linux users or aspiring developers such as myself. mooOS is based upon Arch Linux and uses the Arch repos and AUR exactly the same as Arch Linux.

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Ubuntu for Android Is No Longer In Active Development

Canonical\’s Matthew Paul Thomas states in a bug report lodged on Launchpad, the issue tracker for Ubuntu the project, including its websites:

\”[The website] describes Ubuntu for Android as \”the must-have feature for late-2012 high-end Android phones. Ubuntu for Android is no longer in development, so this page should be retired, along with [the features section].\”

Tails reaches 1.0 – LWN

Version 1.0 of the privacy-centric Tails distribution was released on April 29. As the release announcement notes, the 1.0 release is an important milestone, but in the case of Tails, this milestone primarily designates the distribution\’s stability and increased adoption, rather than a significant new set of features

Linus Torvalds wins IEEE Computer Society\’s Computer Pioneer Award

Linus has been named the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award “for pioneering development of the Linux kernel using the open-source approach”.

The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors to recognize and honor the vision of those whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least 15 years earlier. The recognition is engraved on a bronze medal.

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JB Background Awards | FauxShow 120

chris — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:55:09 +0000

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Angela and Chris asked the audience to send in some backgrounds for our shows, you did, and now we hand out awards! Plus the story of how Angela destroyed a carport, Hoff Soap, and Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock!

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Dream Job Awards | FauxShow 102

chris — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:26:19 +0000

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Angela and Chris share the dream jobs of FauxShow viewers! From space, to gaming, and some downright silly ones.

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Links from Awards:

Jewkesman: https://www.youtube.com/jewkesman
mininessie: https://mininessie.deviantart.com/gallery
Remy: https://raymii.org
stnet: https://www.stnet.nu
Nean: https://www.youtube.com/neanrts
rikai: https://www.youtube.com/rikailp

Mail Sack:

Will you do some more Beer is Tasty episodes? So many beers, so little time! Thanks guys.
Past and current supporter,
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Perhaps there should be answering questions only episodes of Techsnap. i <3 Technsap
-John

I have three points I want to make:
First, I just got caught up with the last couple Faux Shows this evening, since I wasn\’t able to catch them live. I will have you know that I\’ve already read eight books this year, thank you very much! To clarify, the ones shown for the award is the second half of the Dark Tower series bought for me by my then-girlfriend/now-fiancée cougha while agocough, so I\’ve made it a particular project to read them.
Which brings me to my second point: Do you know how frustrating it is to watch a Faux Show not live? I keep thinking about what I would say in the chat, but it would be totally without context and people there would think I\’m totally crazy (crazier?). Faux Shows live, with the best lower third on the Internet, is a far superior viewing experience! (Now shamelessly plug the live stream ).
Third, and totally unrelated, people have mentioned in casual conversation before that it would be awesome if you guys could do a LAS from the Ubuntu booth at CES. I know finances are a little tight, but if you\’re even thinking about it in any way, here\’s a tip: You can register for the show for free until August 31. That\’s right, totally free! Now, you\’d still have to come up with lodging, food, and any other accommodations, but this would be one thing not to worry about. Even if you don\’t decide to go, you can still register and get all your info into their system so that in future years it will alert you to the free registration period (as well as their emails and anything else you may or may not be interested in).
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New Show! Part 1 | In Depth Look

chris — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:07:48 +0000

We have a new show: TORked! A new podcast covering Star Wars The Old Republic from multiple perspectives. The show will provide the latest news, tips, tricks and game updates. Casual and hardcore players alike will find this show helpful as they deal with the potentially disorienting galaxy of SWTOR.

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Show Notes

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Friends Play Free

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BIG Patch coming up.

A lot being added, going to be a big topic for TORked! Watch the patch trailer

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Welcome Back Dan! | STOked 113

chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:19:25 +0000

Chris chat’s with Star Trek Online’s Executive Producer, Daniel Stahl. Chris asks about new challenge he faces, the speed of player leveling, the success of the new featured episodes, and hints about future updates to sector space, the foundry, and Klingons!

PLUS: Chris reviews the new featured episode, Facility 4028. And we’ve got a new community feedback that covers recent discovered game exploits, and we follow up on a lot of your STF loot feedback!

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News Links:

Ask Cryptic: March 2012 is Here
DStahl’s back
A handy thread explaining (in short) what the Foundry could expect to see in Season 6

STF Loot Bags Explained

When you successfully complete an STF, including the optional objectives, you will have two different loot bags provided – the personal loot bag and the team loot bag. Obviously, the personal one is loot just for you and the team loot bag, which is obtained from successfully completing the optional objectives, is divided up using the Need or Greed system. The loot you get in those bags is taken from multiple loot tables in the following manner.

Personal Loot Bag:

Table A – always gives you every item every time which is EDCs, dilithium and a mystery box. This is your GUARANTEED reward for mission completion.
Table B – always gives you at least one item but can be more which includes Bind On Equip space & ground gear and also Borg Salvage. This means that you will always get something from this loot table but not necessarily the salvage drop.
Table C – this table contains the high end loot, the Borg tech drops. Everytime you successfully complete an STF the game decides if you should be offered an item from this table. It is 100% NOT GUARANTEED loot. You have a chance to get the tech drop and a pretty low one based on user feedback 1% or lower is suspected right now (unconfirmed). This “roll” by the game engine does not take into account how many STF runs you have done it simply flips a coin to see if you are to be offered a tech drop for this specific STF completion. It is the primary source of making players insane as this heavily gates access to MK XII equipment and sets.
So for each completion of an STF as a player I will get:

EDCs / dilithium / mystery box
1 or more Bind On Equip space gear, ground gear or borg salvage
a chance at getting a Borg tech drop (chance guaranteed, loot not so)

The second loot bag is a shared one across the team based on completing the optional objectives in any STF. It is constructed in a similar way to the personal loot bag but with some key differences.

only 1 loot table containing all of the items (does NOT include Borg tech drops, EVER)
usually 4 items from the loot table are offered as a reward to the team (can include salvage)

This shows that the lock boxes that were added to the loot system recently are actually included in a table that has nothing to do with the Borg Tech drops and their minuscule drop rate is therefore a separate issue. The information presented here is derived from a – post made by Gozer.

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2011 Predictions | J@N | 12.23.10

chris — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:28:52 +0000

It’s our last episode of 2010, and so it’s time to whip out our crystal balls and future-vision goggles, and tell you our predictions for what is in store for the coming year. Will 2011 bring about the robot apocalypse? Life on other planets? Warp drive? The death of Net Neutrality?

Tune in to hear some of the guys’ top predictions, as well as a few from our audience.

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Jeremy’s:

Someone will finally file a major lawsuit against FaceBook for their shifting privacy settings, as it will result in some sort of corporate coup or celebrity scandal. FB will win the lawsuit, but it will bring the issue to light in such a way that many people will finally learn to protect their personal information from being so publicly available.
Major game developers will embrace the mobile platform in bigger ways than ever before. We’ll probably see a big “Mobile Gaming Expo” be announced in 2011.
The “New Space Race” will ramp up. Technological and economical innovations will begin to reshape the way we look at space flight. Examples: commercial space flights (orbit only), advancements in air and waste recycling, possibly even real-world designs for an artificial gravity ship (fueled by centrifugal force – a spinny ship).
A personal prediction — I will lose 20-25 lbs quickly (by March), but be unable to shed more than that and will give up on my diet.
Jeremy will realize that ass-storage is incredibly convenient.

Chris’

Intel light peak ships – Idea from @MichealKenny on twitter
Amazon Launches an Android App store with Custom DRM. It’s a hit, but starts soft.
Google will attempt to better integrate into the Enterprise document management systems. IE, it will import folders, rights, etc, in realtime two ways. And translate that into the Google docs world. It will be used to migrate people over time to Google Docs from MS office.
HP becomes the largest hardware competitor to the iPad. They’ll have a big line up, running WebOS.
Chris’ hair takes over Jupiter Broadcasting.

Alan’s

Alan will learn to use Google Docs.
Alan still won’t watch DIE HARD.
Alan FINALLY meet Steve Pool, Alan’s hero & favorite local weather man.

The Internet’s

EastCoastGirl: Copyright bullshit will begin to breakdown and MPAA and RIAA will finally come to their senses & start actually using Internet
Firix: Everyone will mention the Apocalypse that much more often since we’re closer to 2012
TommyBrun: Around summer 2011, Wikileaks will still be releasing stuff, but the general public has stopped caring.
nean0901: J@N will increase in popularity exponentially and get mentioned on Good Morning America.
rikai & Angela: War with North Korea (and maybe China)
vs8: Many UFO sightings

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Space & Ground Tactics | STOked S01 E12

chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:42:03 +0000

STOked Season 1 Episode 12: We cover the massive amount of new details for game tactics, we discuss a surprise glimpse at full on Galaxy Class saucer separation in game, and just how it might work in game. Then we go over the best details in our interview round up with Cryptic staff, plus we reveal a few more beta details sent to us from our anonymous tipsters.

Then – We cover some of the all time best screen shots, and pick out the details that we think are important.

Plus so much more!

This Week’s Links & Notes:

Episode 12

News:

-Cryptic launches brand new interactive web design
https://www.startrekonline.com

-Open Beta date announced, Starting January 12, 2010 thru January 26, 2010
https://www.massively.com/2009/11/19/star-trek-online-open-beta-dates-announced/

Beta Leaks:
-Multiple confirmations that STO works just fine under Bootcamp on Macs.
-Received some screenshots of a work-in-progress on a game manual.
-Latest patch improved graphics. New screenies just look like they added a glow or filter.
-Still no playable Klingons or Bridges

Panel Question: Micro-Transactions

-Are you ok with paying for in-game upgrades/mods
-NCsoft is selling Super Booster IV and Hero-Con Re-Cap in City of Heroes, $9.99
-All characters on the account get the upgrade/boost

-Would you be ok with these kinds of upgrades in STO?
-Does it make the game unfair because people with spare money can get an un-fair advantage?
-Do you think if STO takes off, Cryptic might consider this? — Note from Jeremy: These are already confirmed to be present in STO.
-Quote from Zinc: “Star Trek will have micro-transactions, but most of those will be cosmetic things. Some will augment gameplay, but won’t replace any gameplay.”

Articles:

-Ship Q&A @ Massively
https://www.massively.com/2009/11/16/ships-star-trek-online-community-qanda-answers/
-All ships of the same class/tier have the same stats. (T4 Escorts = identical, except cosmetics)
-Confirmed plans to add more ships
“Escorts are the quick-moving, precision-striking ships of the fleet. They’re not as hardy as other ships, but they’re tough to hit and can fit cannons, which are high-damage, almost sniper-style weapons. Cruisers are big ships with a big crew and huge engines that provide them lots of power, so they can fit a lot of guns, send big boarding parties and repair their hull and subsystems very quickly. And Science ships can detect cloaked vessels, use tractor beams to hold other ships in place and expose a weak side, take out shields with powerful tachyon beams, and lend aid to other ships in need. “

-Ground Combat Q&A @ TTH
https://www.tentonhammer.com/node/76794
-“Each episode is a 5 act instance. Within those five acts, 3-5 ground maps.”
-Flanking confirmed.
-Episodes (60/40) // Patrol Missions (almost 100% space) // Star Clusters (50/50, and contains many non-combat areas to explore)
-Most melee attacks ignore shields
-All weapons have 3 attacks: Primary (steady dmg), Secondary (special effects) and Melee (usually w/ knockback).
-“Replay Mechanism” — helping someone do a mission you’ve already completed, will give you a secondary reward.

-Maximum PC interviews Zinc
https://www.maximumpc.com/article/web_exclusive/star_trek_online_interview

-There are surrenders, in main storylines. (no ship explosion)
-Death in space = return to spawn point w/ “some damage to your systems”
-Crew level affects hull regeneration. You can USE crew as boarding parties against enemies, or repair (healing) parties to allies.
-Each boff can get up to 4 abilities (1 per rank) on top-rank stations.
-Maximum abilities is 6 boffs, 12 abilities available (station limits).
I-f <5 players, team leader assigns boff slots for ground combat. -There ARE large away missions with multiple teams - all captains (no boffs) -"Security Escort" ability (from a kit) beams in a team of "highly aggressive redshirts." mwahaha -"We don't have levels..." but there are 5 ranks w/ 10 subranks each... so really, they DO have levels. -There will be some randomly generated content (Genesis), but most seems to be handed off to designers to finish. -4 Sector Hubs: Fed, Klingon, Romulan, Borg (4 seasons coincide)
Videos:

-New video @ official site: “Starship Tactics (part one)” https://www.startrekonline.com/videos
Note: Look how much smoother the footage is!
-AoE torpedo explosion!
-Floating combat text confirmed

-New video on IGN: “Starship Tactics (part two)”
https://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14270158/star-trek-online/videos/startrekonline_trl_starshiptacticspt2_111909.html
“Resourceful captains will also be able to utilize and recognize the different classes of starships: Cruisers for tanks, Science vessels for Support, and Escorts for lightning strikes.”
-TNG Enterprise bridge shot! (@0:50sec)
-Boarding parties: Launch shuttles, which then work internally on the enemy ship to disable systems and decrease efficiency of repairs/shield regen.
-But then the ship blows up? Those better have been worthless redshirts…
-Saucer separation? Glitched, but shown @ about 2:55… a Galaxy class without a saucer, and a nearby ship that might be the detached saucer.

Vertical Slice.tv — Eurogamer footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF_uhGz4PY8

Screenshots:

MMORPG.com — Part 4
https://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/352/feature/3734

IGN.com – 8 new shots
https://uk.media.pc.ign.com/media/142/14270158/imgs_1.html

Curse.com – 5 new shots
https://www.curse.com/articles/sto-en-news/611128.aspx

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