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Noah Switches to Arch | LAS 442

chris — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 21:20:05 +0000

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Noah’s Last Ubuntu Straw

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Runs Linux

The NES Classic, Runs Linux

Unless you want to desolder flash memory from the motherboard, looks like it's impossible to add new games to NES Classic. pic.twitter.com/jc99WSrNJj

— Peter Brown (@PCBrown) November 2, 2016

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The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux – Slashdot

With a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7, 256 MB of RAM, and 512 MB of NAND Flash, it is typical of the hardware found in Linux single board computers, like the Raspberry Pi 2. Surprisingly for Nintendo, there does not seem to be any custom components in it, and it looks like it even does run Linux.

Brutal Doom 64 mod – Mod DB

Desktop App Pick

SSH Power Tool

The SSH Power Tool (sshpt) enables you to execute commands and upload files to many servers simultaneously via SSH without using pre-shared keys. Uploaded files and commands can be executed directly or via sudo. Connection and command execution results are output in standard CSV format for easy importing into spreadsheets, databases, or data mining applications.

Advantages

Since sshpt does not utilize pre-shared SSH keys it will use provided credentials for all outgoing SSH connections. This has many advantages:

Can be used immediately: No need to spend enormous amounts of time setting up pre-shared keys.
More secure: A server with pre-shared keys is a huge security risk. It literally holds the keys to the castle! With sshpt you can perform all the same tasks as with pre-shared keys with less risk to your infrastructure.
More compliant: Executing commands as root via pre-shared keys makes it hard to figure out after-the-fact who did what (root as a shared account). When an administrator (or user!) uses sshpt to execute commands it is much easier to figure out “who did what and when” from an auditing standpoint.

Spotlight

Gruik.

It’s a free & open-source note-taking service. A space where you can store notes, tutorials, code snippets… by writing them in markdown and then keep them private or public.

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LessPass

Stop wasting time synchronize your encrypted vault.
Remember one master password to access your passwords, anywhere, anytime.
No sync needed.

It’s official: Oracle will appeal its “fair use” loss against Google

Oracle’s post-trial motions, which the district court judge rejected, indicate the tack it might try to take on appeal. It could focus on jury instructions that it viewed as improper, or Oracle could simply argue that the evidence presented at trial was so overwhelming that no reasonable jury could have found in Google’s favor.

VoCore2: $4 Coin-sized Linux Computer with WiFi

Coin-sized Linux computer & smart router, target to make wireless life easier, fully open source.

Move over Raspberry Pi, here is a $4, coin-sized, open-source Linux computer | ZDNet

VoCore2 is an open source Linux computer and a fully-functional wireless router that is smaller than a coin. It can also act as a VPN gateway for a network, an AirPlay station to play lossless music, a private cloud to store your photos, video, and code, and much more.

The Lite version of the VoCore2 features a 580MHz MT7688AN MediaTek system on chip (SoC), 64MB of DDR2 RAM, 8MB of NOR storage, and a single antenna slot for Wi-Fi that supports 150Mbps.

All this for $4.

Spend $12 and go for the full VoCore2 option and you get the same SoC, but you get 128MB of DDR2 RAM, 16MB of NOR storage, two antenna slots supporting 300Mbps, an on-board antenna, and PCIe 1.1 support.

Both versions of the VoCore2 have a power consumption of 74mA at standby, and 230mA at full speed. With this low power consumption, a small 9800mAh battery pack can power it for more than four days.

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Mail Bag

Name: Name: Andrew D
Subject: Chris was right

I think Chris’ stance on Lenovo being the problem and how they should be ashamed for building a non linux compatible machine was off target. Yes Intel are the issue here, but not Lenovo.

If Microsoft or any other company goes to a hardware manufacturer asked for a feature or specification to make their product stand out (like in this case better battery life), then there is no reason why that hardware manufacturer should not do that.

Just because it makes it makes it Linux incompatible seems to be the uproar here.

I didn’t see people grabbing pitchforks when the Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 etc didn’t have standard windows support from the ARM processor.

Noah was dead right with this one. It’s disappointing that the last words on the topic were ‘Shame on Lenovo, they will never make that mistake ever again. +1 for the good guys’

Apart from that, loved the rest of it.

Name: James S
Subject: F.LUX approval by me

Hello, this is James from past las chatrooms and i recently saw where both of you use flux and i have been having back and other pain and was wondering if this would help. Doubtful to most, but between using flux and staying out of the sunlight considering the medications i am on i thought i would give it a try.

What have i got to lose right? I am in process of saving money for starting up a linux laptop business and i want to express my sincerest thanks to the developers of this program as well as you at jb for putting this flux program into the spotlight. I no longer have much joint back or shoulder pain and though i was having seizures and falls i have had none since Monday of last week. Thanks to you and the developers i am leading a new life. Thanks so much!

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Kernel of Truth | LINUX Unplugged 113

chris — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:38:07 +0000

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Performance tips for keeping your Linux install running like new, some basic tricks & some advanced tips.

Why Microsoft’s new Surface Book might be able to run Linux & we reflect on the larger issues behind the recent public exits from the Linux Kernel development team & more!

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Rover Electrical Upgrade | Rover Log 10

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World Without Linux Episode #1: What’s the Name of That Song?

Remembering who sings your favorite song is a lot harder without Linux.

N1 Is A Beautiful Open Source Email App for Linux – OMG! Ubuntu!

N1 is a new open source e-mail app from Created by Nylas Inc., built using React, Flux, and Electron.

Like a web-browser or modern text editor, N1 is designed to be built on and improved through extensions.

Rover Log

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Surface Book – The ultimate laptop

Ultra-thin, meticulously crafted, with incredible screen resolution. This is the ultimate laptop.

Hands On: Microsoft Surface Book | PCMag.com

The latching mechanism has a wide electrical connector, no doubt PCIe-based to facilitate communication between the GPU and the rest of the system.

DigitalOcean

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

Keeping Linux Performing Well.

Tips and tricks for keeping your Linux box in top performance.

If you gotta swap, swap on a sep disk

Creating your swap files on a separate disk can also help quite a bit, especially if your machine swaps frequently. It happens if you do not have enough RAM for your environment. Using KDE with all the features and applications that come along may require several GiB of memory, whereas a tiny window manager with console applications will perfectly fit in less than 512 MiB of memory.

XFS – ArchWiki

Although the extent-based nature of XFS and the delayed allocation strategy it uses significantly improves the file system’s resistance to fragmentation problems, XFS provides a filesystem defragmentation utility (xfs_fsr, short for XFS filesystem reorganizer) that can defragment the files on a mounted and active XFS filesystem. It can be useful to view XFS fragmentation periodically.

Is it REALLY worth Tuning your IO scheduler?

The kernel supports different schedulers for storage disk in-/output (IO). These are the CFQ scheduler (Completely Fair Queuing), the NOOP and Deadline. Another, the BFQ (Budget Fair Scheduler) is available in the linux-zen kernel.

A HDD has spinning disks and head that move physically to the required location. Such structure leads to following characteristics:

random latency it quite high, for modern HDD it is ~10ms (ignoring a disk controller write buffer).
sequential access provides much higher throughput. In this case head needs to move less distance.

In case if we have a lot of running processes that make IO requests to different parts of storage (i.e. random access) then we can expect that a disk handles ~100 IO requests per second. Because modern systems can easily generate load much higher than 100 requests per second we have a queue of requests that have to wait for access to the storage. One way to improve throughput is to linearize access, i.e. order waiting requests by its logical address and always choose the closest request. Historically this was the first Linux IO scheduler called elevator scheduler.

One of the problems with the elevator algorithm is that it makes suffer processes with sequential access. Such processes read a block of data then process it for several microseconds then read next block and so on. The elevator scheduler does not know that the process is going to read another block nearby and, thus, moves to another request at some other location. To overcome the problem anticipatory IO scheduler was added. For synchronous requests this algorithm waits for a short amount of time before moving to another request.

While these schedulers try to improve total throughput they also might leave some unlucky requests waiting for a very long time.

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Going my own way

In the end it’s a mixture of just being tired of dealing with the crap associated with Linux development and realising that by continuing to put up with it I’m tacitly encouraging its continuation, but I can’t be bothered any more. And, thanks to the magic of free software, it turns out that I can avoid putting up with the bullshit in the kernel community and get to work on the things I’m interested in doing. So here’s a kernel tree with patches that implement a BSD-style securelevel interface. Over time it’ll pick up some of the power management code I’m still working on, and we’ll see where it goes from there. But, until there’s a significant shift in community norms on LKML, I’ll only be there when I’m being paid to be there. And that’s improved my mood immeasurably.

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Household Tips | FauxShow 156

chris — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:34:59 +0000

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Angela and Chris share some clever tips and tricks to take existing items around your house you are done with, and reuse them for something better. Plus a live SteamOS watch, and more!

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101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home
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TING WINNER!
Seth Writes:

Greetings Angela and Chris!

I had the very pleasant surprise of learning that I was the winner of the FauxShow Ting $300 service credit promo! My Motorola XPRT was flaking out on me, so I decided to take advantage of the $25 FauxShow offer to pick up a Chris-Fisher-recommended HTC One (it arrived yesterday, and it\’s very nice so far).

Let me take this opportunity to thank you for introducing me to Ting–my wife and I love it. Also, in addition to regularly enjoying the FauxShow, I\’m a big fan of LAS, Linux Unplugged, TechSnap, and Coder Radio. To celebrate the unexpected windfall in mobile savings, I\’ve upped my support from the affiliate browser extension to a monthly JB subscription (it was a bit overdue–my consumption of JB content now rivals my listening to NPR, so it made sense to support both through the subscription model). I\’m a heavy user of the JB Roku channel, so kudos and thanks to \”cbojar\” for that. Keep up the great work; the excellent JB content is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Seth
(SpinDoctor in the chatroom, when I can catch a live show)

Matt M Writes:

Hey Ang and Chris!

With YouTube\’s recent usage of their Content ID system, many respectable YouTube channels have had their content removed. Many popular channels have given the middle finger to YouTube recently and decided to serve videos instead on their personal pages.

Keeping that in mind and with FauxShow and other JB shows using content in their videos (fair use or not), does this threaten the content of the show? I know that Scale Engine hosts the audio and video and you can do without YouTube in the future, but I would admit that it would suck for JB to lose their YouTube audience.

So what are your thoughts on YouTube\’s Content ID? Is this the beginning of the end of the site?

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FizzBuzzed! | CR 62

chris — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:54:44 +0000

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Hiring can be a real pain in the butt. The guys share the horror stories from interviews they’ve conducted that went horribly wrong. Plus a few tips for getting a gig.

Then the guys chew on the dev hoopla of the week, and read some great emails.

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Mike’s Email: Speaking of Lawyers…

Dev World Hoopla

Indian IT firm accused of discrimination against “stupid Americans”

Infosys allegedly achieved this ratio \”by directly discriminating against individuals who are not of South Asian decent in hiring, by abusing the H-1B visa process to bring workers of South Asian descent into the country rather than hiring qualified individuals already in the United States, and by abusing the B-1 visa system to bring workers of South Asian descent into the United States to perform work not allowed by their visa status rather than hiring individuals already in the United States to perform the work.\” Infosys \”used B-1 visa holders because they could be paid considerably lower wages than other workers including American-born workers,\” the lawsuit states.

Stupid Americans

Interviewing

Fizz Buzz Test

The \”Fizz-Buzz test\” is an interview question designed to help filter out the 99.5% of programming job candidates who can\’t seem to program their way out of a wet paper bag.
The text of the programming assignment is as follows:

Fizz buzz – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fizz buzz (also known as bizz buzz, or simply buzz) is a group word game for children to teach them about division.[1] Players take turns to count incrementally, replacing any number divisible by three with the word \”fizz\”, and any number divisible by five with the word \”buzz\”.

Coding Horror: Why Can\’t Programmers.. Program?

Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can\’t write code at all. I repeat: they can\’t write any code whatsoever.

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Spending Your Coins | Plan B 6

chris — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:24:59 +0000

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We’ll cover some of our favorite ways to buy things with bitcoin, from the new and exciting, to the dark and shady.

Plus we chat with Forbes writer Kashmir Hill about her week of Living on Bitcoin, tackle the big stories of the week, answer your emails, and more!

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Gates, Buffet, and Munger on Bitcoin

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger on Bitcoin, tax rates, bank regulation and the Federal Reserve policy.

Liberty City Ventures Launches $15 Million Fund To Invest In Bitcoin And Other Digital

New York City-based Liberty City Ventures is announcing its Digital Currency Fund, a $15 million commitment to Bitcoin and other digital currency startups.

A bet on Bitcoin: new VC fund invests in currency startups

The latest buzz comes by way of the Bitcoin Boost Fund, a new Silicon Valley fund that announced on Tuesday that it will hand out $50,000 to seven or so Bitcoin startups.

All of the startups will be graduates of Boost VC, an accelerator program that seeks to mentor would-be Bitcoin barons. The accelerator, created earlier this year, is run by Adam Draper, who describes himself as a “fourth generation VC” and who is hosting a hackathon at the “Bitcoin: Future of payments” conference in San Jose this weekend.

Keiser Report: Virgin Bitcoin vs Old Hag Pound

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the currency of an independent Scotland. Max argues that bitcoin will force the banking system to reinvent itself or die, for what can be more of an invisible hand but a cryptologically guarded, invisible currency.

Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined

The bitcoin network hashrate estimate on bitcoinwatch.com passed 1 exaFLOPS (1,000 petaFLOPS) this week – over 8 times the combined speed of the top 500 supercomputers.

The FLOPS estimate is based on the opportunity cost of computers using their hardware for mining instead of other applications. Miners are using their graphics cards to perform hashes instead of other FLOPS-based distributed computing.

Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox

The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin trading platform. A Dwolla representative confirmed the move to Betabeat.

Dwolla no longer allowed to do business with MtGox?

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21 Things I Learned About Bitcoin From Living On It For A Week

I lived on Bitcoin for a week. This is what I learned.

Humble Bundle now accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase bitcoin merchant tools

Humble Bundle, known for its flash sales of millions of $s worth of games from high quality developers, is now accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase merchant tools.

Mobile Gift Card App Gyft Partners With BitPay To Start Accepting Bitcoin Payments In Its Android App

Mobile gift card company Gyft has partnered with BitPay to start accepting bitcoins within its app.

This is a big partnership for both, as BitPay’s CEO, Tony Gallippi, says that the company currently processes $5 million per month in bitcoin transactions for its merchants. Gyft allows you to purchase gift cards at more than 50,000 retail locations in the U.S., including Brookstone, Lowe’s, GAP, Sephora, Gamestop, American Eagle, Nike, Marriott, Burger King and Fandango. So, technically, you’ll now be able to use bitcoin to pay for a Whopper.

Gyft – Mobile Gift Card Wallet

BitPremier

BitPremier’s mission is to provide astute buyers in the Bitcoin community with access to unique, high-end luxury items and opportunities. We believe in a customer-centric, secure, and friendly marketplace environment where we give individual attention to every item proudly listed on our site.

BitPremier is backed by the NYC-based Bitcoin Opportunity Fund. Other investments of the fund include CoinLab, BitPay, BitSpend, OpenCoin/Ripple, Coinsetter, TradeHill, and Coinapult.

Pot Shops Can’t Take American Express or Deposit in Banks – Bitcoin Opportunity?

“We’re just looking for a solution where we can bank legitimately like any other industry,” Smith said. “Wherever you stand on the marijuana issue, it serves everybody’s interest to have banking access.”

Aaron Smith, executive director of the Washington-based National Cannabis Industry Association

Bank officials say they are complying with federal law:

At Wells Fargo, “our policy of not banking marijuana dispensaries is based on applicable federal laws and our own assessment of our responsibility,” said Seitz, the bank’s spokesman.

American Express Co. (AXP), the biggest U.S. credit-card issuer by customer purchases, “has made a decision to not allow card acceptance for medical marijuana,” Sanette Chao, a spokeswoman for the New York-based company, said by e-mail. “It is our policy to adhere to federal law in such matters.”

Credit Card Processors & BitPay Discriminate Against Medical Marijuana

U.S.-based BitPay, has refused to enter the fray. As a processor, BitPay offers same-day conversion of merchant bitcoin into a US dollar bank account. CEO Tony Gallippi explained in an interview that although several have applied, “medical marijuana is not allowed in our terms of service.” Of course to be consistent, other merchant types not allowed by BitPay include ecstasy, MDMA, any controlled substances, weapons, gambling, and sports betting. They will however support transactions for file sharing, storage/backup services, and VPN services, because “freedom of information is important.”

Enter the Silk Road

Underground Website Lets You Buy Any Drug Imaginable

Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road.

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Starting A Job | FauxShow 116

chris — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:45:26 +0000

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Angela and Chris talk about some of the things to think about when starting a new job. They discuss some of Angela’s recent experiences after being a stay-at-home mom for 3 years.

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To help you get through the holidays:

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Mail Sack:

Jacob writes:

I\’m about to publish my third book and plan on doing the audio version of it over the next few days. When complete would you like to incorporate it into your radio stream? I\’m releasing it under a creative commons license. Despite the fact that it\’s a fantasy book for my daughter\’s birthday I\’ve included a few allusions to Linux throughout the book. I\’ve got different ways of using names like Red Hat, Fedora, Knoppix, and Debian within the book.

Let me know if you still need content for the radio stream. I\’ll send you a link to the book once it\’s up.

Adam writes:

I was just looking at my bank statement and realised my bank does the rather pleasant thing of charging me £1.25 every time amazon.com takes money from me because they\’re in the US! Do you know if there\’s anyway to set up the payment through amazon.co.uk? Otherwise I\’m thinking I might cancel the monthly subscription and just pay the year up front via paypal.

Cheers,
Adam (barblewarble)

Blake writes:

I just wanted to let you know that I was tuned in to the live stream election night. You were my primary source for election coverage. I had your live stream going in the back ground and I also watched a few websites. I thought your coverage was superb. I would like to see more of this type of live coverage from Jupiter Broadcasting. Techsnap could cover large tech announcements in this way.

On another note I think it would get great if you would cover how technology and social media affected the election coverage.

Thanks for great coverage of the election. I look forward to more events like this.

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Life Pro Tips | FauxShow 87

chris — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:32:41 +0000

Angela and Chris share topics that help you through life like a pro. Plus a few things you probably never knew, and some announcements!

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Robert Lay
You may have already received complaints about the RSS video feed not working on Android devices, or at least on the Galaxy Nexus, which I have. The feeds stopped downloading probably about a month ago or so. I *am* able to continue to download and watch video podcasts from other groups like TWIT, etc. It\’s just your feeds and I have tried both the Large and the Mobile – Large is what I was using that used to work just fine. I even purchased and downloaded another podcast player on my Nexus, just to learn that it\’s the same thing there too. The primary app that has been working for me is \”BeyondPod\” and I just tried \”DoggCatcher.\” I hope you can either get this resolved or get back with me so that we can troubleshoot this because both TechSnap and LAS are my favorite shows to keep up with and I only do so on my phone while I get ready in the mornings – and sometimes when I do my long distance aerobic runs on elipt ical, etc. at the gym. Again, the issue I\’m having is only with your feeds and they stopped working about a month ago or so. Thanks!
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Cole Simmons
Just wanted to tell you guys how great of a job you are doing. I have always liked technology, but never really thought about it as a career field for me to go into. I was working as a chef at a local casino and caught an episode of STOked and thought you guys were awesome. You guys do such a great job that I am now a regular LAS and Techsnap viewer. Not only that but I enjoy you guys so much and you seem to really enjoy working with tech that I thought that I should do it myself. So 10 years after high school I have gone back to college for Network Admin/Programming and changed my career field and work for a local IT company. Keep up the great work!!!!

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Life Challenges | In Depth Look

chris — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:05:34 +0000

I recently began to overcome a challenge I\’ve been facing in my life for a few years. In this episode, I\’ll share my story in the hope it can help you overcome a challenge you may be facing.

Find out how I finally got my butt in gear to take care of my life challenge!

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Minecraft Addiction | FauxShow 75

chris — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:49:01 +0000

Angela shares her new obsession, Minecraft. Chris and Angela also show you a few highlights from Jupiter City, the player created Minecraft world on the Jupiter server. Plus a few tips and tricks, and some fun stories!

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Rhode Island Q&A | STOked 93

chris — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:15:32 +0000

Star Trek Online’s lead designer, Al Rivera, joins us to chat about the new Rhode Island variant, STO’s latest Tier 2 science starship! In another segment of “Rumor Busting” he also lays down long-term plans on bringing more and more starships to the game, new special abilities, and so much more behind-the-scenes info.

Then the Foundry Files team returns to report on their latest player created adventure, and we cover the community’s STO beginner tips and collection of “tribal knowledge” that all captains must know.

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NEWS:

Rhode Island Variant lands on Tribble – Patch Notes
Info Thread from Jupiter Force
STOWiki – Console Details

Rumor Busting with Al “CaptainGeko” Rivera:

Is there a canon reference that this ability is based on? (Picard maneuver? TNG – Peak Performance? Voyager – Basics?)
How good is the cloak?
Can the decoy be destroyed? How resilient is it? It does damage, right?
What does “Aggression Stealth” mean?
What’s the C-Store cost? Bought with emblems?
Is the current Boff setup finalized?
Any chance of a T5 version?
KDF equivalent?
The tooltip for the console lists like 2 dozen skills that affect it… are there any that affect it more than others?

Star Trek Convention in Vegas – Aug 11 – Aug 14
* Gozer, Zero, Thomas and JHeinig, hosted by Priority One
Holding
* Twitter-based contests for prizes, including autographed versions of Ent-F poster

Cryptic is Hiring again! – LINK
Only one position specifically calls for “Star Trek knowledge” – Systems Designer

Suricata’s Ship Chart has been updated!

Amazon JB Chrome Extension!
Support the show with your reckless spending!

Tweet Leaks

FOUNDRY FILES:

Mission: “First Cause, Then Effect”
Author: RogueEnterprise
Total Plays: 3749
Total Star Rating: 4.26

* Intended for SOLO play *

FULL REVIEW DOCUMENT (pdf version)

FINAL REVIEW SCORE
Story: 7.57
Technical: 6.40
Gameplay: 7.20
TOTAL: 7.13

Links
+ Starbase UGC
+ Wiki UGC Tutorials
+ Podcast UGC
+ Podcast UGC Review

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK:

Bobdoesthejob Wrote:

Disable Kit visuals so you can strut your hot stuff

Hevach Wrote:

Mission Replay and other ship interior functions, great way to get missing parts of a reward set!

OggOfSkish Wrote:

When you run a scan (by pressing the V Key)

PlayfulDreamer

You need to go through 11 grades of spent skill points to get promoted to the next rank. So many people see their 9th

hatchery Wrote:

… there’s actually an auto-fire option?

… you can buy schematics for crafting?

… you can replay some missions to get new level appropriate rewards?

… accepting a map transition to a team mate’s bridge will put you alone in their bridge with your BOFFs?

… you can share most missions with team mates?

… you can breed tribbles?

… you can have high-end skills trained to your BOFFs by other players?

… you can display trophies in your ship’s interior?

… the cooldown timer on repeatable missions will start to count down at the time of accpeting the mission?

… you can win the bat’leth contest on Forcas III?

… release notes contain important information?

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Caught in the Crossfire | STOked 92

chris — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:49:28 +0000

We’ve packed together the latest leaks and news about upcoming features, including details of the impending Borg Invasion, a KDF Flagship, and the Rhode Island class starship. All of this, PLUS a bonus helping of “Daniel Stahl SAYS STUFF” in this week’s news feed!

After that, we’ll share the results of our Starfleet Academy feature poll from last week, and lay out a whole new Community Feedback question for you all to make your voices heard!

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NEWS:

Massive Star Trek DVD Sweepstakes on Facebook

TNG on Blu-ray Coming In 2012

Borg Invasion Teases:
* STOwiki has been gathering info
* Contact dialog popup leaked into recent patch
* 5x skill point rewards?!

The Foundry makes a TRIUMPHANT return!
… and then went away again, until Monday (so they could look at the collected data)

Tribble Test Reward is LIVE

KDF Flagship? WORK IN PROGRESS
Info on CapnLogan’s “free time” work on this project

Another compilation shot of the Odyssey Class (EntF)

Rhode Island Class vessel coming soon
* Decoy + Cloak power (Console? Type?)
* d’Stahl@dstahl: The RI power allows you to create an exact holo copy of your ship while you go stealthy and slink away. Any ship that was targeting you now targets decoy

Daniel Stahl SAYS STUFF

Stahl on Trek Radio
* Confirmed that Cryptic wants to split Ground and Space skills (no timeline)
* Acknowledges the current content drought, and plans to change that soon, and permanently
* SFA: Trivia daily coming, which will possibly reward doffs

He popped online and held an impromptu Q&A
* A replica Defiant interior is in the works for an episode in the next series – it is possible that will become available
* i’m trying to get CBS approval to expand on some story points in Shatner’s “The Return” novel..
* there is a new King of the HIll pvp map coming in next feature episode series

COMM FEED:

POLL RESULTS
Next Feature Requested for Starfleet Academy:

Testing Builds : 31.75%

Mission Replay Upgrade : 29.63%

Firing Range : 19.05%

Trek Trivia Quiz Game : 11.77%

PvP Arena “Dodge Ball” : 7.4%

StormyMaverick (and MANY others):
The NUMBER one thing I’d like to see at Starfleet Academy is THE KOBAYASHI MARU!

Divvur:
My idea would be for a mini-game. First you need to gain a Universal Cadet, perhaps through missions or recruitment assignments. You then ‘sponsor’ them for Starfleet Academy, much like Sisko did for Nog. Throughout their training, you use the mini-game to advise them (like a mentor) what to study for their upcoming tests.

eng09:
I would like to see SFA In a weekly Series, Like Paradise Lost, where the Changelings Infltrate Earth, But start Wuth the SFA.

New question:

Tell us your top “newbie” tip!

Something not covered by the tutorial
Tribal knowledge
I wish I knew then, what I know now

Leave your submission on our SHOW PAGE (where you are reading these show notes!)

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Ground Combat 2.0 | STOked 87

chris — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:00:18 +0000

Now that Ground Combat has been completely overhauled on Tribble, we’ve decided to not just get OUR hands on all the inner workings, but also invited Al “CrypticGeko” Rivera to give us an insider’s look at all of the finer details. Join us as MATH makes a triumphant and stylish return, as Geko walks us through all of the new mechanics, as well as some tips & tricks on getting the most out of Ground Combat 2.0.

Before that, join us as we explore the latest Engineering Report. PvP changes by the dozen are on their way, and we’ve got the details you need to hear. We round out the episode with an editorial review of the Qo’nos revamp, and tell you why TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO (not) DIE. Q’apla!

Ready… Aim… FIRE!

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NEWS:

June Engineering Report: https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=220124
Consensual PvP ground combat in Qo’nos!
New KDF patrols are OPEN cross-faction PvP
– Areas will be clearly marked. Zoning in won’t immediately flag you, you can examine the situation first.
– Gozer clarifies how they’ll work.
New Ground & Space FAs coming soon, to flesh out the PvE queue
DELAY: Doff System will NOT launch with S4, but will be ready soon (sounds familiar…)
DELAY: Borg DSEs planned for June will now come alongside S4 launch

Tweet Leaks!
– New character artist J-Nas, working on 2409 Cadet Uniform
– Cadet Uniform concept art
– Gozer promises STF pics/tweets
– Gozer delivers, with a pic of a new Infected tidbit (Accolade?)

Qo’nos Review

It feels, finally, like a CITY!
- Roaming NPCs, varied architecture, flavor text/dialogues
- The changing street signs are an awesome touch
The Bank (run by Ferengi)
- First, awesome touch to have Ferengi in charge… just makes sense to a certain degree
- Second, the “warehouse” area beneath the platform is just a mind-bogglingly awesome touch
The Boff Arena
- This was my favorite part of the old Qo’nos, so I’m glad it’s still intact. Although having to “zone” to it was a bit jarring. I hope that transition can be smoothed out.
The Shipyard
- O. M. G.
- Not intuitive to find, but once you do it makes PERFECT sense
- The fact that there’s no zoning when you transition, means that they managed to combine ground and space in some sort of epic fashion. Compliments to the gurus behind that.
  - Side Note: This was my first time seeing the new Ship Acquisition UI and it is TOTAL HAWTNESS.

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MATH

o   New Options – there is now a new set of shooter mode controls and keybinds in the options menu, so you can manage both independently.
o   All values have been updated – Although the classic control mechanics are preserved in STO, the ground game has been completely rebalanced. All values including HP, damage, and most ground Kit and Captain abilities have been modified and updated.
o   Tooltips – All ground combat powers have been given complete and accurate tooltips.
o   Swap to shooter mode – use the N key to Swap between Shooter and RPG mode (we are probably remapping this). If you open a menu (like your skill page) while in shooter mode, you will temporarily drop back to RPG mode, so you can maintain control over your character. Use L-Mouse and R-Mouse to fire your primary and secondary attack on your weapon. Middle mouse will activate your melee attack. You can, however, still use the keyboard keys – 1, 2, and 3 – if you prefer. Notice you can fire your weapon without a target.
o   Cover – STO has a simple cover mechanic. Crouching behind a tall object can break line of site from your foe. I don’t want to over-sell this, but it does work.
o   R and T key – Using R and T will temporarily change the focus of your Mouse buttons. (This may change a bit. We already have a new iteration that may even be out in time for the interview).
o   Kit and Captain abilities – In RPG mode, like always, all abilities require a target. However in Shooter mode, it works differently. If an ability can target self or friend, you won’t need a target. For instance, if you target an ally with a heal, you will heal that target. If you have no friendly target, you will heal yourself. Kit or Captain abilities that harm or debuff a single foe still requires a target, even in shooter mode. This is to prevent misfires of abilities that have large cooldowns. However, Kit and Captain abilities that are AoE do not require a target to activate in shooter mode. If you have no target, the ability will activate at max range. So, for instance, you can place a Dampening field at a point on the ground in shooter mode.
o   Grenades – As an aoe, they do not require a target to activate in shooter mode. Most significantly, they can be thrown over walls.
o   All weapons updated – You will now see a significant difference between each weapon. They each have noticeable advantages and disadvantages, and swapping weapons will become much more meaningful.
o   Weapon melee – Melee can be activated with the middle mouse button or the 3 key. It is now a combo. The rifle combo is the most advance, while the Assault combo is more limited. Rifle Combos will change attacks automatically. The first always tries to push the target back, but if the target has grown resistant to knock backs, the combo will automatically change to expose attacks. Once the target is exposed, the combo will again change to Exploit attacks.
o   Notable Weapon changes – Some weapons have been completely changed. When you log in, they will be updated. We can go through as many as you like, outlining the key differences of each. But the following had the most significant change:

- - Assault Rapid sweep – Is now a Full Auto Rifle, and now uses Soldier skill instead of Special Forces. Its much faster and responsive, and its secondary attack can be swept across targets. Note the Dual Pistol secondary attack can also be swept.
  - Pulsewave rifle and Assault Arcwave – Both of these weapons are now the Pulsewave. We combined the secondary attacks of both weapons into one. The Pulsewave is now effectively an energy shotgun. Its fast and powerful, and both attacks do more damage the closer you are to the target.
  - Assault Multi-Beam – This weapon was given the most significant upgrade. It is now a minigun! Both attacks have a spool-up time, but are very high in damage. Its secondary attack fire an extremely long burst that can be swept across multiple targets.

o What else is planned – Possible iteration on R and T with UI updates, Boff powers and Commands, splitting Aim and Crouch, bug fixes, tuning.
o Questions and feedback – any additional questions or comments from you

TAC VIEW / COMM FEED

Ground Combat Review

We’ll be dragging in Al Rivera for a hands-on of the mechanical changes, and a few tips/tricks. Before we do that, we wanted to give just some basic impressions of the system.

Responsiveness of the UI
Aiming, How It Feels
8-direction movement

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Infected Perfected | STOked 85

chris — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:00:22 +0000

In the first of a 3-week long series of events, the STOked boys are taking you on an in-depth tour of the Borg Special Task Force missions. Up this week is a guide to “The Infected” which includes tips and tricks for painlessly eliminating the Borg drones, and their leaders.

Before we dig into that however, BIG NEWS landed this week regarding the impending purchase of Cryptic Studios by Perfect World International. Despite the community’s uproar over this news, we’re taking a more level-headed approach to the corporate nature of this acquisition, and intend to share our thoughts on why this could be one of the best business moves STO could potentially see.

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PERFECT WORLD BUYING CRYPTIC
It was announced this morning that “Perfect World” has penned a deal to purchase Cryptic Studios for 35million Euro.

Other links/Cryptic responses:
Compilation of pre-responses
Official announcement from PR Newswire

Thoughts:
J-RANT: Chinese Racism on Forums (for shame!)

F2P, Pay-to-Win
Star Trek IP in China?
“Angelica” 3D Engine — aging? Perhaps this acquisition is for the Cryptic engine?
PWE obtained Runic (makers of Torchlight) in 2009 and haven’t meddled at all.
R&D / Tech angle
“More importantly, Cryptic Studios’ highly reputable development team and its technology platform will further strengthen our well-established R&D capabilities.”
Jupiter Uniforms are here! C-Store: 280 pts
– Not a bad price for 5 new tops and pants.
– Pooooor Klingons…

TWEET LEAKS
– Earth Badge: https://twitpic.com/559m31
– Gatling Turrets: https://a.yfrog.com/img610/8388/62484048.jpg
– Qo’nos Courtyard: https://a.yfrog.com/img611/4751/dq60.jpg
– Exocomps to replace Drones: https://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg612/scaled.php?tn=0&server=612&filename=7xvjt.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640
— REALLY, DAN? A picture of an EMAIL?! Now you’re just taunting us.

Enterprise-F Dev Diary (How The Winner Was Chosen)
– Includes a “clay model” with more angles to view (still a WIP)

Infected Tips

Watch the uncut full stream here & Part 2 here:

General Tips:
– If you’re new, get experienced players to lead you through. There’s plenty out there now.
– Voice chat is highly recommended. (Vivox coming soon!)
– Follow directions. Or if you’re leading, give clear directions that are easy to follow!
– Do not progress any dialog pop-ups until the Team Leader gives the OK, or does it him/herself.
– Do not go in unprepared! Make sure you have a solid spec that plays to the specific strengths of both your Space AND Ground abilities.

SPACE:
Zip around BEHIND the gate, and do not activate the two popups until the team is in position.
With high DPS, you may be able to destroy the gate in a single activation sequence.
If you destroy the gate without killing transmitters, you get better loot.
If you do not destroy the gate in a single activation, you will be faced with 3-4 waves of borg ships that get progressively more and more powerful with each wave.

Good Space Boff Abilities:
Hazard Emitters (practically a must-have)
Tactical Team
A lot of DPS/buffs/debuffs
Gravity Well — good for chain reactions on warp cores!

Tactical Cubes have a ~5km explosion radius. If you are trying to keep the Transmitters alive, and have a Tac Cube spawned, be sure to lure it away from them before destroying the cube.

Tweet Update:
Cryptic_Gozer Dan Griffis
Weekly STF Update… Infected space 85% complete. Battle to destroy the Transwarp Gateway is much more interesting now

GROUND:
Ground Weapons:
Tactical — Sniper(x2)
Engineer+Science — CRM200 + Melee

Ground Kits:
Engineer: Fabrication or Bunker Kit
Tactical: Fire Team or Squad Leader
Science: Medic (at least one on the team)… if you want to DPS, I recommend Geophysicist

Order of Ground Targets:
Interlink Node
Infected
Drone
Medical
(Protos? Can be cleaned up at any time after Medical. May despawn on their own.)
AFTER ONLY TACTICALS ARE LEFT, SWITCH TO MELEE WEAPON
Tactical
Heavy
Elite

FIRST BOSS: Ogen
Pull him OUT of his room, into the hallway.
He will stop and summon friends halfway through the fight. If you are in the hallway, they will not join the battle.

END BOSS: Manus
Get into the alcoves on the wall opposite from the entry doorway.
This blocks line of sight between group members (meaning, no heals!), which prevents her “chain lightning” attack from hitting more than one target at a time.

NEXT WEEK: “The Cure”
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Hardcore Window Management | LAS | s16e06

chris — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:37:15 +0000

We break out our ugly sticks and beat our desktop into an ultimate nerd power-station! Find out about xmonad, a tiling window manager that might just blow your mind!

THEN – We’ve got the details on Fedora 15 and how to wipe the location tracking data off your Android phone!

PLUS so MUCH MORE!

Thanks to:

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Runs Linux:
Chinese robotic triceratops, Runs Linux, no horns

Linux Fest Northwest Meet-up:
https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/

April 30th – May 1st
Bellingham, WA
Follow Bryan and Chris on Twitter to track us down!

Android Pick:
Location Cache – Android app

Linux Pick:
Vendetta Online

NEWS:
Google Loses Bedrock Suit, All Linux May Infringe
—Good comment over at OS News
Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Beta!!
Yahoo! Joins Linux Foundation

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xmonad:

kveras’ blog

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War on Terror Suffering Info Overload? | Jupiter@Nite | 7.21.10

chris — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:57:48 +0000

Before we get started, I want to tell you about my INSPIRATION for tonight’s show. I spent more than 4 hours today recovering data from a pile of old HDs I had sitting around, thanks to receiving a new toy from ThinkGeek.

(link: https://bit.ly/9jSu4O)

This thing is fantastic, but a little touchy. I had to make sure that the drive was already spun up and whirring contently before plugging in the USB portion, which I didn’t realize until I went and looked up some reviews on another website. So actually the first hour was spent cursing violently and attempting to troubleshoot past my own stupidity, after which the thing performed perfectly. Eventually I defeated the data goblins, and recovered the buried treasures of my family’s past. Photos, tax documents, old emails, everything. About 30gb worth, spread over 9 different drives.

INFORMATION OVERLOAD:

We all suffer from complete data saturation today. With our busy email inbox, steady Facebook and Twitter feeds, news radio, and cell phones our mind never seems to get a moments rest, and truthfully it’s all just too much for us to retain and process.

This is exactly the situation the US Government’s Intelligence agencies are in. So, tonight’s show is gonna be about the perils of living in the Information Age. Namely, the concept that by proliferating so much information out over potentially faulty hardware, and over networks and far-flung bureaucracies, sometimes it can all become too big. Too much to handle.

War on Terror is now so big, nobody knows its true size or cost

https://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

* 3,100 firms & agencies involved, across more than 10,000 locations.

* ~854,000 people (1.5x the population of Wash DC) have Top-Secret Clearance.

* In the Wash DC area, more than 17 billion square feet of buildings have been built (or are under construction) since 9/11, for the purposes of intelligence agencies.

* Wasted duplication of effort is inevitable because there is no single source of oversight.

* More than $100 BILLION of our national budget has been spent over the past 3 years, on intelligence gathering efforts

*Every day, the National Security Agency’s systems “intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications.”

(Good summary-style re-post: https://yhoo.it/ce3k0u )

TIPS TO COMBAT INFO OVERLOAD:

● No data silos allowed. IE, if you use a task manager on your Smart Phone, make sure it syncs to a service that fits with your current work flow.

● Don’t use a service/app that is outside your current normal routine. For example, don’t use an app that syncs to Remember the Milk if you don’t typically already login to that service on a regular biases. Out-of-site and out-of-mind. I opted to go with the less functional Google Tasks simply because it integrated so well into my Android/GCal/Gmail work flow. I know RTM is a better service, but that means nothing if I won’t ever remember to use it.

● Use a memory enhancer, the digital kind. Evernote comes to mind. It’s a software/service combo that supports syncing notes of all kinds (audio, text, images, pdf, doc, etc) across desktops and handheld devices.

● Focus on your top 3 or so tasks for the day. If you come across something shiney online that you don’t want to loose track of, take advantage of a service like Read it Later to store it for your attention at a better time.

● More great info over at Worthless Genius

Traffic counts are wrong, nobody knows why

https://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-traffic.html

* Reddit admins use Google Analytics widgets to track page traffic vs. major tracking services. Numbers from these independent trackers are as little as 10% of the Analytics data.

* Reddit’s ‘unique visitor’ count = 8,000,000

* Compete.com = 927,000

* Quantcast = 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 since Jan 1, 2010

– Also shows 2 months of declining traffic, which Reddit says they have not had since 2007. So even if the numbers are off, they aren’t consistently off in the same way each month.

* Alexa = weird. It uses some strange metric to measure your % of total internet traffic. But doesn’t provide numbers on how they compute these percentages.

* Nielsen (yes, the ratings people) = total audience of 652,000 people

Comments on this story are very interesting…

* One comes from the webmaster @ Penny Arcade:

— Apparently those services’ numbers become more accurate if you install their tracking service which invariably slows down your service response times, so nobody wants to do that. Or wants to buy the software.

* Another comes from the Google DoubleClick Ad Planner project manager:

— Explains how to “certify” your Analytics data using a program called Ad Planner.

— Also explains that the primary difference here is not actual traffic measurements, but the definition of a “unique visitor.”

CLOSING NOTES:

San Diego Comic Con, July 22-25. Tonight is “preview” night.

Over the next few days, we’ll probably be keeping a close eye on all the geek media news that will come streaming out of there, and so the next couple nights will probably have a heavy slant towards covering that stuff.

‘Thor’ And ‘Captain America’ Posters Debut!

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Space / Ground / Crafting / Sector Space Tutorials

chris — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:54:26 +0000

We say goodbye to open beta in style, with four new tutorials that will help you be the most efficient Captain you can be! This latest batch focuses on hints to make you the ultimate in space combat, how to think strategically in ground combat, tips for getting started with crafting, and last but not least a quick guide through Sector Space.

You can download the full videos below, or stream in the embed player!

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