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The Secret to Future Linux Success | LINUX Unplugged 232

chris — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:25:54 +0000

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Pre-Show

OK, Google: Why does Chromecast clobber Wi-Fi connections?

Follow Up / Catch Up

Plasma 5.12 LTS Beta Makes Your Desktop Smoother and Speedier

Plasma 5.12 LTS Beta is the second long term support release from the Plasma 5 team. We have been working hard focusing on speed and stability for this release. Boot time to desktop has been improved by reviewing the code for anything which blocks execution. The team has been triaging and fixing bugs in every aspect of the codebase, tidying up artwork, removing corner cases and ensuring cross desktop integration. For the first time we offer our Wayland integration on long term support so you can be sure we will continue to fix bugs over the coming releases.

KDE’s KWin Now Considers Its X11 Code To Be Under An “Eternal Feature Freeze”

With KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS, the KWin window manager / compositor’s X11/X.Org code will now be under an “eternal feature freeze” as development will focus more on Wayland.
KWin maintainer Martin Flöser has confirmed the KWin/X11 code is now considered feature frozen as for Plasma 5.13 and the future they will be focused on Wayland. Features may get added for the KWin on X11, but only when it’s in common code-paths and not writing any new X11-specific feature code.
+ KDE’s KWin Now Considers Its X11 Code To Be Under An “Eternal Feature Freeze” – Phoronix

City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source

Brief: Barcelona city administration has prepared the roadmap to migrate its existing system from Microsoft and proprietary software to Linux and Open Source software.
A Spanish newspaper, El País, has reported that the City of Barcelona is in the process of migrating its computer system to Open Source technologies.
Barcelona will go open source by Spring 2019 The City has plans for 70% of its software budget to be invested in open source software in the coming year.

Upcoming Community Events

DevConf.cz | January 26-28, 2018 – Brno, Czechia

DevConf.cz 2018 is the 10th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contibutors to open source technologies such as Linux, Middleware, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud and mobile where FLOSS communities sync, share, and hack on upstream projects together in the beautiful city of Brno, Czech Republic.
When: Friday, January 26 to Sunday, January 28, 2018
Venue: Faculty of Information Technology (VUT FIT – Božetěchova 2, Brno)

LinuxFest Northwest 2018

LinuxFest is celebrating 19 years of service to the Free and Open Source community and we want you to be a part of it! Please join us by being a presenter at one of the largest, technically diverse, educational, and fun open source conferences here in the Pacific Northwest.
We are encouraging (but not requiring) that presenters touch on our theme “Message in a Bottle”: Security, Containerization, and Personal Data. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us at present@linuxfestnorthwest.org.

FOSS Talk

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> 9th June 2018

SCALE 16x

SCaLE 16X – the 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo – will take place on March. 8-11, 2018, at the Pasadena Convention Center. SCaLE 16X expects to host 150 exhibitors this year, along with nearly 130 sessions, tutorials and special events.
+ Libre Graphicas track at SCaLE 16x!

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

New XPS 13 Developer/Ubuntu Laptops from Dell

8th Generation Intel® Quad Core, i5 (US and Canada only) and i7 versions
Guest: Barton George
+ Barton’s Blog
+ Systems Developed by and for Developers | Dell

Linus prefers the XPS 13

Right now the XPS13 stands out due to the thin bezel, which really does maximize the screen size for the size of machine. That was really what made me pick it for Daniela in the first place. It just ends up hitting my two primary goals very well: small and portable, but with the biggest screen you can cram into that size.
+ Linus bought two. One for him, and one for his daughter.

9370 Specifications

8th Generation Intel® Quad Core, i5 (US and Canada only) and i7 versions
Memory options: 4GB, 8GB or 16GB Dual Channel SDRAM
Storage options: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB or 1TB
2x Thunderbolt 3
Headset jack
DC-In & DisplayPort 1x USB-C 3.1
MicroSD card reader
UltraSharp 4K Ultra HD (3840×2160) InfinityEdge touch display
- FHD (1920 x 1080) InfinityEdge display
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS preloaded
1 year ProSupport
XPS 13 Coil Whine through headphones – Dell Community

DigitalOcean

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

Ubuntu MATE is creating a retrospective desktop operating system, for everyone

MATE Desktop Environment

Plex vs Emby

Using Kodi Directly vs Plex/Emby

Plex and Emby are not as fast as just basic Kodi pointing at some files on a local disk.
Requires fairly reliable networking.
Much better media identification.
Real, easy to use for you and family streaming.
Plex sharing.
- Share your PLEX server

Plex and Emby Licensing

Plex

Emby

Emby with the premium Emby Premiere features unlocked.

At some point, the developers of Emby added a nasty nag screen before playback. Worse, you need to wait a few seconds before being able to dismiss it. They refuse to address removing it as seen here.
This is bullshit for a GPLv2 licensed product. Of course someone is going to fork Emby to remove it.
So while my main motivation was to remove the nag screen, unlocking all the premium features proved the simplest way.

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Getting Inside the Oryx Pro | LAS 416

chris — Sun, 08 May 2016 19:55:58 +0000

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The Oryx Pro from System76 claims to be a desktop replacement, with a lot of expandability & a ton of compute power. But do the specs & features match the price? We review one of the most potentially promising laptops built for Linux yet.

If you could only buy one machine, should this be it? Tune in to find out!

Plus is Linux Mint rushing into a collapse? We get really excited about the Pyra and you might too, big updates on the Linux desktop & more!

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Starbucks Coffee Runs LINUX!

Nick B. – ” Ok, so longtime follower of the show. Found out today that when booting our 1 cup in-office Starbucks coffee maker, the boot screen looked familiar in that it is running Slax Linux. Found this amusing, however unsettling since the OS boots fine, but there is a control board issue that halts the coffee making process. Maybe more QA on the Printed Circuit Board QA process! Thanks guys, and love the show.”

Desktop App Pick

Fade In

Extensive formatting capabilities
Autocomplete typing
Organization and navigation
No distractions
Support for multiple file formats
Powerful writing (and rewriting) tools
Revisions
Breakdowns and reports

Spotlight

Ghetto-skype: Web Skype + Tray Icon + Notifications

Are you tired of a buggy 32 bit official Skype client? Then Ghetto Skype is for you!

Open Source Photography Course

Sent in by: Martin de B

The Open Source Photography Course is a collection of video tutorials that teach you a RAW photography workflow using only free, open source software. The software taught runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and PC-BSD

The course is suitable for beginners, as well as experience photographers. The lessons range from basic file management to advanced editing using layers and masks. A full list of the topics covered can be found here.

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Pyra accepting PreOrders

Pyra is the vastly improved successor of the OpenPandora.
TI Cortex A15 1.5 Ghz
2GB RAM
720P Display
The CPU and display PCB is socketed!
This means: No need to buy a new device each few years – you can simply update it with a new CPU board when it’s available. This is a lot cheaper and also takes care of the environment!

Red Hat Doates Servers to GNOME

Each donated server has 128GB of RAM, 48 cores and comes with an Enterprise SSD made for high throughput. This will greatly improve the running of services like build.gnome.org and sdk.gnome.org.

Major Security Flaws Found in ImageMagick

There are multiple vulnerabilities in ImageMagick, a package commonly used by web services to process images. One of the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution (RCE) if you process user submitted images. The exploit for this vulnerability is being used in the wild.

If you use ImageMagick or an affected library, we recommend you mitigate the known vulnerabilities by doing at least one of these two things (but preferably both!):

Verify that all image files begin with the expected “magic bytes” corresponding to the image file types you support before sending them to ImageMagick for processing. (see FAQ for more info)
Use a policy file to disable the vulnerable ImageMagick coders. The global policy for ImageMagick is usually found in “/etc/ImageMagick”. The below policy.xml example will disable the coders EPHEMERAL, URL, MVG, and MSL.

FBI Harassing Core Tor Developer, Demanding She Meet With Them, But Refusing To Explain Why

Isis Agora Lovecruft is a lead software developer for Tor and has worked on Tor for many years, as well as on a variety of other security and encryption products, including Open Whisper Systems and the LEAP Encryption Access Project. And, apparently, the FBI would really like to talk to her, but won’t tell her (or her lawyer) exactly why

Unity 8 and Snaps Are the Future of the Ubuntu Desktop, After Ubuntu 16.10

Today, May 5, 2016, is the last day of the Ubuntu Online Summit 2016, and we’ve just attended a very exciting session where the Ubuntu developers have discussed the future of the Ubuntu Desktop after Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).

Ubuntu MATE 16.10 will be GTK3 only | Ubuntu MATE on Patreon

As the most committed supporters of Ubuntu MATE it is important that you get insight to this significant change before anyone else. Ubuntu MATE 16.10 will be a GTK3 build only. This is both good and bad news.

Cinnamon 3.0 released!

Here’s a quick overview of some of the changes in this new version:

Window management improvements on tiling, mapping and unmapping windows, compositor’s window groups and tracking of full screen windows
Improved out of the box touchpad support (edge-scrolling and two-finger-scrolling can now be configured independently and are both enabled by default)
New accessibility and sound settings (both rewritten as native cinnamon-settings modules)
Battery powered devices can be renamed
Different favorite applications can now be set for plain-text, documents and source code files
Panel launchers now include application actions
Animation effects are now enabled by default on dialogs and menus
Favorites and system options can now be disabled in the menu applet
The photo-frame desklet now also scans subdirectories
Improved support for GTK 3.20, Spotify 0.27, Viber

Reaper Audio Software Is Coming To Linux

If Audacity and Ardour aren’t cutting it for your audio editing needs on Linux, there’s another Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) option coming to Linux: Reaper.

Reaper is a high-end audio production software suite developed by Cockos Software. Reaper has been supported under Windows and OS X for this software that’s been around since 2005. With the current development version, native Linux support is coming.

The Reaper 5.20 Beta 10 release brings a native Linux build for the first time. There’s an x86_64 binary along with an ARMv6t2 build for use on the newer Raspberry Pi devices.

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Entroware Apollo: Linux Macbook Killer | LAS 406

chris — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:41:51 +0000

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Has Entroware built the ultimate 13 inch Linux laptop? We put their Apollo through our battery of tests & review this good looking Skylake powered Linux portable.

Plus Microsoft buys the folks behind Mono, Canonical might have a ZFS fight on their hands & more!

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Apollo by Entroware

Core I/O Details:

1 x HDMI
1 x USB 3.0 Port
1 x USB 3.1C Port
1 x USB 2.0 Port
1 x 2-in-1 Card Reader
1 x Audio Output

Dimensions (W x D x H):
325mm x 219mm x 18mm

Weight:
1.42Kg (inc. battery)

Battery:
4 Cell Lithium-Ion (6300mAh)

My research shows it’s built on top of the Topstar U931 kit.

Apollo as Configured

$991.29 US Dollars

lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d2f (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d31 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d3a (rev 21)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d03 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d14 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d48 (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Device 9d21 (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d70 (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 9d23 (rev 21)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)

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Soda Can Solar Collector

The SolarAir is a solar heat collector made DIY, with very low cost materials, mainly Soda Cans.
The hot air is used to to heat the house, everyday when there is some sun, even if it is freezing outside, thus lowering utility bills, and lowering CO2 footprint.

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Desktop App Pick

N1 – The extensible, open source mail client.

Weekly Spotlight

Password Generation on Linux

apg generates several random passwords. It uses several password generation algorithms (currently two) and a built-in pseudo random number generator.
Default algorithm is pronounceable password generation algorithm designed by Morrie Gasser and described in A Random Word Generator For Pronounceable Passwords National Technical Information Service (NTIS) AD-A-017676. The original paper is very old and had never been put online, so I have to use NIST implementation described in FIPS-181.

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Microsoft Is Buying Mobile Cross-Platform Development Company Xamarin

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Xamarin, a company that allows developers to build fully native apps across several platforms from a single shared code base.

Linux users campaign after Microsoft ‘neglects’ Skype with a week of downtime-

The _open letter to Microsoft_said: “It was a shitty move to not update the client for three years, which resulted in this, mostly. It was annoying that you ignored almost every tweet to @SkypeSupport about issues with Skype for Linux. But it is absolutely disgraceful that you dropped the Linux client BEFORE any alternatives are available and without telling your users.”

GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux

However, our conclusion is simple: Conservancy and the Linux copyright
holders in the GPL Compliance Project for
Linux Developers believe that distribution of ZFS binaries is a GPL
violation and infringes Linux’s copyright. We are also concerned that it may
infringe Oracle’s copyrights in ZFS. As such, we again ask Oracle to respect
community norms against license proliferation and simply relicense its
copyrights in ZFS under a GPLv2-compatible license.

TechSNAP Take on SFC ZFS Finding

Canonical accused of violating GPL with ZFS-in-Ubuntu 16.04 plan

Canonical’s counter-argument is that “The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system.”

Report from the VMware GPL court hearing | LaForge’s home page

VMware is using parts of the Linux kernel in their proprietary ESXi
product, including the entire SCSI mid-layer, USB support, radix tree
and many, many device drivers.

as is generally known, Linux is licensed under GNU GPLv2, a
copyleft-style license.

VMware has modified all the code they took from the Linux kernel and
integrated them into something they call vmklinux.

VMware has modified their proprietary virtualization OS kernel
vmkernel with specific API/symbol to interact with vmklinux

at least in earlier versions of ESXi, virtually any block device
access has to go through vmklinux and thus the portions of Linux
they took

vmklinux and vmkernel are dynamically linked object files that are
linked together at run-time

the Linux code they took runs in the same execution context (address
space, stack, control flow) like the vmkernel.

The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues – Software Freedom Law Center

When, in this mode of employment, the CDDL-licensed code implementing the filesystem is combined with the module-specific translation layer and the result is then statically or dynamically linked into the Linux kernel, the resulting binary is licensed to all users under the terms of GPLv2, and only GPLv2, as the license requires. This happens because CDDL gives permission for binary forms of the code it licenses to be released under any license, and the license terms in effect are those of GPLv2. The making of the binary itself does not result in infringement of the kernel copyrights, or a violation of GPLv2’s terms.

Debian Devs Realized They Were Shipping Pre-Built Nvidia Module, Breaking GPL

“The Nvidia-graphics-modules provides pre-compiled non-free kernel modules. Several lawyers and people believe this to be a violation of the GPL license used by the kernel. This interpretation is consistent with our position on ZFS modules, which we also ship in source code only. As such, the work is not distributable and should be removed from the archive in all suites, ASAP,” Julian Andres Klode said.

#815060 – RM: nvidia-graphics-modules — RoQA; Violates kernel license – Debian Bug report logs

Parse Shutdown Savings

If the Parse platform is still appropriate or your app, then the migration process is very doable and something we’d be happy to help with. In fact we are running a promotion from now until April 15th, 2016 to migrate your app for iOS and/or Android to a Parse-powered server for a flat one time fee of $500.

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Google Bugs Pay You! | Tech Talk Today 73

chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:24:58 +0000

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Google pays out over $75k in bug bounties for flaws just in Chrome, and 159 of them are critical, we’ll share the details. HTC reveals the ultimate selfie phone, and maybe a new a category of cell phone accessory, we’ll debate.

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HTC’s Desire Eye wants to be the king of selfies | The Verge

Now HTC is announcing the Desire Eye, a mid-range phone that the company says will be the selfie phone to rule them all. It will be available from AT&T later this year at a price that’s yet to be determined. Where all other smartphones have their best cameras on the back of the phone, the Desire Eye has the same camera on the front as it does on the back. It’s a 13-megapixel camera — the highest resolution front-facing camera to date — and features autofocus, a dual LED flash on both the front and back of the phone, and 1080p video recording.

It has a 5.2-inch, 1080p display that looks great and has wide viewing angles. It has the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor paired with 2GB of RAM as HTC’s flagship One M8. Its soft-touch plastic finish isn’t as premium as the all-metal chassis’ of the M8 or iPhone 6.

It’s IPX7 water resistant, so it can be dunked under a meter of water for up to 30 minutes without issue.

There’s a mode to take a picture with both the front and rear cameras at the same time, a la FrontBack, and an ultra-gimmicky mode that lets you insert yourself into a scene using both cameras. You can also merge your face with another person’s face to create a mutant selfie.

HTC Re camera Preview – CNET

The little periscope-shaped camera (right-angle flashlight and asthma inhaler are also suitable) is designed so that you stop watching and recording life through your smartphone’s screen and get in on the experience instead.

At the business end you have an f2.8 lens with an ultrawide 146-degree angle of view with a 1/2.3-inch 16-megapixel CMOS sensor behind it. That sensor is bigger than what you’d find in most smartphones, but average for point-and-shoot cameras and most POV/action cams.

The Re connects to your smartphone via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Launch the Re app (which will be available for Android and iOS later this year) and it initiates the connection process via Wi-Fi. Once connected you can control the camera, view and transfer content and change settings. With the app you can also activate a time-lapse mode so you can take a series of photos over a period of time (you set the frequency and length of time) and turn them into a movie.

Along with the tripod mount on the bottom you’ll find a Micro-USB port and a microSD card slot for storage. An 8GB card is included, but the camera supports cards up to 128GB.

Though HTC pitches the Re more as a lifestyle cam like Polaroid’s Cube than a rugged action cam for extreme sports, the body is waterproof to 1 meter (3.3 feet) for up to 30 minutes without an additional housing.

The HTC Re camera will be coming to the US first in late October/early November and the UK in November. It’ll cost $199 and somewhere around £160-£170 in the UK.

Google Patches Chrome for 159 Security Vulnerabilities

In total, Google is patching 159 security vulnerabilities in Chrome 38, which is one of the highest numbers of security-related fixes for any single browser ever released. Going a step further, Google noted that it also made “113 relatively minor fixes” that it found with its open-source Memory Sanitizer application. Other browser vendors likely might have also counted the 113 memory fixes in their security totals, so for argument’s sake, let’s say that Chrome 38 fixes 272 security related issues.

As part of the security updates, Google is paying out $75,633.70 in bug bounties to a number of security researchers for properly reporting issues to Google. The top award is a $27,633.70 award paid to Jüri Aedla for a vulnerability identified as CVE-2014-3188. That vulnerability could lead to remote code execution and is triggered by a number of bugs in the Google V8 JavaScript engine and the Inter-Process Communication (IPC) function.

‘It’s been way too long’: Apple sends out invites for Thursday, October 16th iPad & Mac event | 9to5Mac

Apple has just announced a keynote address for Thursday, October 16th to take place at the Town Hall auditorium on its Infinite Loop Campus in Cupertino, California. Invitations to select members of the media and special guests indicate that the event will, as always, begin at 10 AM Pacific time/1 PM Eastern Time.

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China’s new Apple | Tech Talk Today 44

chris — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:32:39 +0000

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A leak reveals the specs, price, and other details about the new Moto 360 smartwatch & is Xiaomi’s new MIUI 6 OS release a iOS rip off?

Plus the market share numbers you won’t believe, and if Linux distros were superheroes, which hero would they be? We debate!

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Moto 360 Shows Up at Best Buy for $249, Outs List of Features | Droid Life

We are expecting to get official Moto 360 launch details when Motorola hosts press at a September 4 event in Chicago, but Best Buy may have gone ahead and let us in on all sorts of details early. According to a listing on Best Buy’s site for the Moto 360, we could end up paying $249.

MIUI 6 Full Review: Visually Stunning, Stunningly Simple – Xiaomi Mi 4 – MIUI Official Community

MIUI 6

I’m not sure who should be more upset. Apple, because this is such a preposterously shameless ripoff of iOS. Or Samsung, because Xiaomi is so much better at ripping off Apple than they are.

Update: Keep in mind, too, that Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra keeps insisting they don’t copy designs from Apple. Even Thom Holwerda agrees that this is just shameless.

Android, iOS gobble up even more global smartphone share | PCWorld

iCharts

According to IDC, the total combined market share of Android and iOS swelled to 96.4 percent during the second quarter, up from 92.6 percent a year ago. That left just 2.5 percent of the market to Windows Phone, down from 3.4 percent in a year’s time.

Unfortunately for Microsoft’s Windows Phone, Apple’s iOS devices dominated the high end of the market, while Android—with 84.7-percent global share in smartphone operating systems—tended to dominate the low-end, sub-$200 market. That left precious little room for Windows Phone, even though recent efforts to lower the platform’s licensing costs should have helped propel it in the market.

“With many of its OEM partners focusing on the sub-$200 segments, Android has been reaping huge gains within emerging markets,” said Ramon Llamas, a research manager with IDC’s mobile phone team, in a statement. “During the second quarter, 58.6 percent of all Android smartphone shipments worldwide cost less than $200 off contract, making them very attractive compared to other devices. With the recent introduction of Android One, in which Google offers reference designs below $100 to Android OEMs, the proportion of sub-$200 volumes will climb even higher.”

If Linux Distros Were Superheroes Ubuntu Would Be Superman

If Ubuntu-based Linux distributions were comic book superheroes, who would be what and why? That’s the question I’ve been mulling over for the last half hour.

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The Cost of Free | Tech Talk Today 12

chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:44:03 +0000

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We go over Amazon’s new smart phone, and discuss if they’ve missed the mark.

Then the Feds screw up the Silkroad Bitcoin sale, and T-Mobile decided some bits are more privileged than others – and why they might just fool you into liking it.

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Amazon announces the Fire Phone, $199 with 2-year contract for 32GB

A quad-core 2.2GHz SoC
Adreno 330 GPU
2GB of RAM
802.11ac Wi-Fi
Fire OS 3.5.0
13MP camera with optical image stabilization.
A dedicated shutter button.

Fire Phone exclusively available July 25 on AT&T: $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB, $649 and $749 off-contract

Equipped with Firefly, its standout feature, the Fire Phone will be able to scan and identify more than 100 million items, enabling users to perform instantaneous price checks alongside a contextual database search of everything from music and street signs to the handwritten contents of notes and letters.

Firefly, when rolled into Amazon’s network of services anchored by Prime, is meant to be the linchpin of the Fire Phone. With a device that customers can take with them to every physical store and location and scan their surroundings, Amazon is adding a powerful new avenue to reroute users back to its platform and marketplace.

At closing, Amazon stock was up 2.69 percent, or 8.76 points, at $334.28 per share

List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals

A list of individuals interested in the auction of the 30,000 bitcoins confiscated from the now-defunct Silk Road black marketplace has been leaked via email by the US Marshals Service (USMS), the US government agency confirmed.

In a statement to CoinDesk, Lynzey Donahue, a US Marshals spokeswoman, indicated that the emailer had intended to send all the recipients an attached informational document and to blind copy all those it intended to contact. The US Marshals service is the federal agency that has been charged with carrying out the auction of the bitcoins, originally seized by the FBI.

T-Mobile’s ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem | The Verge

T-Mobile has decided, arbitrarily, that some of the data traveling over its pipes should count against a cap, while other data should not. What’s to stop it from using data cap exemptions as a punitive measure against content providers that aren’t on good terms with T-Mobile (or its parent company Deutsche Telekom)?

Japan’s ruling party says won’t regulate bitcoin for now

Japan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party said it decided against regulating bitcoin for the time being, after the collapse of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prompted them to consider more scrutiny of the virtual currency.

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DiskStation vs FreeNAS | LAS s29e03

chris — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:43:03 +0000

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Synology’s Linux powered DS412+ is a powerful server, wrapped in a ultra compact near silent enclosure. How does this unit stack up to a FreeNAS server you could build? Is the lack of ZFS support a hindrance? Our answers might surprise you.

Plus: Did Mark Shuttleworth shift the tone of the community dialog by labeling his opposition the open source Tea Party? It’s our blow-by-blow guide to the big stink over the weekend, that we will be smelling for weeks….

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Linux 3.2.40
1GB DDR 3
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D2701 @ 2.13GHz
205.68 MB/sec Reading, 182.66 MB/sec Writing (with link aggregation enabled)
2 LAN with Failover and Link Aggregation Support
USB 3.0
eSATA
CPU Passive Cooling
Windows® ADS and ACL Support
iSCSI support provides a seamless storage solution for virtualization servers
44 watts power consumption in operation
CIFS, AFP, FTP, iSCSI, Telnet, SSH, NFS, SNMP, WebDAV, CalDAV
File Systems:
EXT4
- EXT3 (External Disk Only)
- FAT (External Disk Only)
NTFS (External Disk Read Only)

The Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) automatically builds an optimal RAID
volume with data protection based on the hard drives installed, eliminating
the need to have hard drives of identical

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Awesome Window Manager | LAS | s20e04

chris — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:24:05 +0000

Your desktop sucks, we’ll show you how to make it AWESOME! We review the Awesome Window Manager, and tell you why it tickles our fancy!

Plus: Mark Shuttleworth makes a preemptive strike in Ubuntu’s new War against menus, will they succeed? We debate!

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Specifications of the A9 Zenithink ZT–280 C71:
7" (16:9) screen size
800 x 480 resolution
1,3 Mpixels front camera
Built-in microphone
Built-in stereo speakers
4-way G-sensor

CPU: ARM Cortex A9 1 GHz
RAM: 512 MB DDR2
Drive: 4 GB NAND fast flash
Connectivity: Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM) support
Micro-SD: supports up to 32 GB
HDMI output: 1080p
Battery: 3000 mAh at 7,4 volts or 6000 mAh at 4,7 volts
355 grams / a bit more than half a lbs

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First steps with Awesome window manager
awesome (window manager) – Wikipedia

The fork was initially nicknamed jdwm, with ‘jd’ denoting the principal programmer’s initials, and with dwm reminding of the software project it forked from. The first git repository for what was to become awesome was set up in September 2007. jdwm was renamed to awesome, named after the same phrase used by the How I Met Your Mother character Barney Stinson.
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Show Me The Tablets | J@N | 3.2.11

chris — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:14:32 +0000

In case you were living beneath the largest rock every invented, you are aware that the iPad TWO was announced today. In addition to covering some of the hot, Hot, HOT features, we’ll also spend some time discussing the announcement itself, and how other tablets (either on the market, or coming soon) stack up to this new offering.

Could tablets replace PCs in the near future? Does Apple deserve the hype surrounding this product? Does any competitor (XOOM, PlayBook, LG G-Slate, etc) have a chance of survival?

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iPad2 announced today
– Thinner
– Awesome battery life
– Face-Time @ 720p
– AirPlay
– Cost comparison
– The neat cover thing (video)
– iMovie and GarageBand
– It just lapped everyone else — Xoom, Playbook, GalaxyTab, etc

Jobs did the announcing, talked some trash about big companies
– His appearance broke the internet

Tablet Comparison Infographic

iPad 1 vs. iPad 2

XOOM comparison

PlayBook faces rough launch in ~2 months

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CES Tablets Attack! | J@N | 1.5.11

chris — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:53:26 +0000

Today kicked off the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in beautiful Las Vegas! And while a hundred different gadgets are showing up, the Tablet Cavalcade really took center stage.

Tune in to hear some of Chris & Jeremy’s favorite gadgets that surfaced today, and the impact they could have on the entire future of mankind! And maybe martians, too!

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Vizio Tablet
The device has an IR blaster built in to the top, and it can function as a universal remote.

T-Mobile
Not much specific to this gadget to talk about, but the article includes a bunch of videos of Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) in action.

Motorola XOOM
Chris thinks that this is THE tablet to watch in the coming months, as the top competitor with the infamous iPad.
GREAT specs, but no price point listed. Assuming it’ll be pricey, though.

Motorola Atrix
This nifty gadget is pretty much a phone that comes with a netbook-type peripheral that converts the entire phone into a laptop-style interface!

Samsung DualView
A second LCD on the FRONT of the camera! GENIUS!
Could this be the end of duck-lips and dirty mirror shots? Or will this create a renaissance in the world of half-naked teenagers sending dirty pics to one another?

Next Gen MS Surface
Finally eliminating the cameras and bulky under-carriage, the Surface has lifted itself up into the current generation of touch technology!
Especially impressive is the “Pixel Sense” technology that they use inside their screen that, “Turns every pixel into a camera” making the unit able to read words and sense all ten (or twenty!) input points separately.

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Joint Failures Episode 1: eBooks and Weed

chris — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:31:16 +0000

Joint Failures Episode 1: John and Chris discuss their thoughts on Obama’s recent medical marijuana policy. Then we discuss the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Nobel Nook, is it time to switch to eBooks? We follow that up with a series of questions for the audience and then give you our reviews of Bruce Willis movie Surrogates, this season of Mad Men. Then we debate if we should be watching or skipping Stargate Universe and Fringe, plus a review of Dollhouse.

We cap off the show with a look at why it’s becoming particularly harder for geeks to find jobs, and explorer the idea of quitting your day job and going back to school.

Tech Section:
-Medical Marijuana, useful or just an excuse to get high?
-eBooks the future? A look at the Kindle and Nook.
-Do people want video? Audio? Both sometimes? Should we only do tech? Or is there a place for non-tech stuff but with a geek focus? HARD for us to figure out.

Entertainment Section:
– Surrogates Review
– Mad Men
– Stargate Universe
– Dollhouse
-Fringe Update
-Chris loves Audiobooks turns out.

BS Section:
-One geek’s trail of looking for a job in a market sucks for geeky jobs
-Can you be to far down the path to restart the career?
-The game of finding a job

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