Wednesday, December 29, 2010

LBK Post 054 Quietly France Sinks Deeper into Windows Deep Pockets





Quietly France Sinks Deeper into Windows 
Deep Pockets

From http://www.osnews.com


France To Impose Levy on Tablets, 
But Not if They Run Windows




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Also From http://www.osnews.com


Microsoft's New Browser Demos Included Vorbis, 
Now Removed

Internet ExplorerMicrosoft added a couple of new Christmas themed HTML5 demos to their IE9 test drive site which included Vorbis audio in addition to the AAC audio in the audio tags. They've since modified both demos to remove the Vorbis audio. It seems Microsoft is happy to use Vorbis in HTML5 pages internally, just not publicly.


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and Also From http://www.osnews.com


Creating an LVM-backed FreeBSD DomU 
in a Linux Dom0


OSNews, Generic OSesDocumentation on how to create a FreeBSD DomU is scarse, so I wrote this step-by-step guide, to guide users from the initial download to a complete, running FreeBSD DomU under a Linux Dom0 Xen host. The guide covers creating the initial Xen kernel, configuring the Xen host, generating the correct configurations, resizing FreeBSD partitions in Xen and cleanly booting the final OS. In the process, we will also create a template disk image which can be used to generate new VM's very quickly. The entire process can be completed in under an hour the first time, and only takes 5-10 minutes to re-generate future VM's.

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

LBK Post 053 Mozilla Releases Eighth Firefox 4 Beta

 
Eighth Firefox 4 Beta


The latest version of the browser for Windows PCs and Macs includes a streamlined synchronization tool for browsing history, bookmarks, open tabs, and passwords across computers and smartphones. In addition, the latest beta supports WebGL, an open standard for accelerated 3D graphic rendering in the browser without the use of a third-party plug-in.



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Tracking the Open BSD /
 Backdoor Story



OpenBSD Code Audit Uncovers Bugs, 
But No Evidence of Backdoor

 
In a follow-up e-mail published this week, de Raadt outlined his current perspective on the controversy and his interpretation of the findings that have emerged from the ongoing code audit. Reviews are being conducted on the history and provenance of code in the IPSEC stack as well as the current implementation. Reviewers have uncovered several bugs that could have security implications, but the nature of the bugs suggests that they were not intentional, nor were they intended to facilitate a backdoor.

Theo de Raadt is the OpenBSD project leader

Link:  http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/openbsd-code-audit-uncovers-bugs-but-no-evidence-of-backdoor.ars


TinyURL:  http://tinyurl.com/242lkx6


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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

LBK Post 052 OpenBSD Chief Believes Contractor




OpenBSD Chief Believes

Contractor Tried to Write Backdoors

IDG News Service - The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications.

Posting to an OpenBSD discussion list Tuesday.


The Stupidest Link I've Ever Seen: 289 characters.  
I call it Web .25 (that's Point 25).





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Sunday, December 5, 2010

LBK Post 050 Best New Show on TV Ends Season Tonight on AMC





When to watch: 'Walking Dead' marathon

When • 3:30 p.m. Sunday, beginning with the pilot and leading into the season finale at 9 p.m.

Where • AMC





AMC Has Become The Must See Channel on TV This Year

This Year's Best of the Best Started the Season on Halloween Night with a "killer" Opening Shot.





I expect there will be an explosive "Finale" to it tonight 

and leading to a 13-Episode 



Season 2, although it won't shuffle onto the small screen until next fall










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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

LBK Post 047 Dealing with the Graphene Band Gap


And No, It has Nothing to Do with the Delay in Getting the Beatles on iTunes.



Check Out:  Damaging Graphene to 
Create a Band Gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene offers a lot of interesting potential 
applications for nanoelectronics," Florian Banhart tells

PhysOrg.com, "but there is no band gap. This is a well-known problem. Without the band gap, switching as needed in electronic devices is difficult."









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Sunday, November 21, 2010

LBK Post 046 A Bouquet of Letters For Algernon and the CIA Kryptos in the Times







Maybe It's Not The Rubicon Code Hidden in The NYT Crosswords, But You Can Work UP to That.



That Link IS at the Very Bottom




 This One Sits in Front of the CIA



And It Still Hasn't Been Cracked





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Just a little Sunday Times Fun
From Wingman.


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Thursday, November 18, 2010

LBK Post 045 How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

From http://www.howtogeek.com



How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC

 Image by dmyhung



Afraid of the dreaded “p” word?  You’re not alone.  Partitions can get complicated, so here’s an explanation of what they are, how they’re used, and a simple template to use for your own Linux installation.






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LBK Post 044 Even A Little Light At Night Could Be Depressing





Light At Night Could Be Depressing


Exposure to even dim light at night is enough to cause physical changes in the brains of hamsters that may be associated with depression, a new study shows.

Researchers found that female Siberian hamsters exposed to dim light every night for eight weeks showed significant changes in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

This is the first time researchers have found that light at night, by itself, may be linked to changes in the hippocampus.









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Sunday, November 14, 2010

LBK Post 042 Open Kinect Says: Whose Your Linux Daddy Microsoft?




Kinect Hacker Hector Shows Redmond Who's Daddy




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CBS News Sunday Morning and
http://www.npr.org Reminds Us
That Trudeau's 'Doonesbury' Turns 40.




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Thursday, November 11, 2010

LBK Post 041 From My Virtualized Peppermint Fortress, I Can See Laughlin...

The Fedora Project announced 
the Fedora 14 Final Release, 
adding Amazon EC2 support


 Fedora also features faster boot-times and JPEG downloads, the MeeGo for Netbooks UI stack, improved debugging, and a new "Spice" virtualization desktop framework, says the project.


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What Is EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.





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Monday, November 8, 2010

LBK Post 040 Ubuntu Going For Some Unity




Ubuntu To Abandon X11

For Unity Desktop

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On a post on his blog, Ubuntu founder 
Mark Shuttleworth has said that, in the medium term, 
the Ubuntu project plans to switch to a new graphics system. 

In about a year's time, Wayland, a lean, OpenGL-based graphics 
and window system, is to replace the X Server and the X Window system. 

According to Shuttleworth, X11 isn't set up to deliver the 
user experience the project intends to create 
by switching to the Unity desktop.


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Project development is now coordinated by Freedesktop.org. 


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A while back, Ubuntu dropped The Gimp
from it's installed programs.
 It seems Things are-a-changing at 
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

LBK Post 038 Did Linksys Media Extenders "just" Lose the Number to Phone Home?








Linksys Media Extenders Suddenly Stop Working, 
Did Cisco Pull the Plug?

Thanks to a lot of investigations by members it's been determined that the boxes are trying to dial home to an address that no longer exists. 

Naturally this is causing wild speculation about DRM checks 
and the boxes being remotely disabled, 
but for now there are some manual work-arounds.

Hmm...









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Friday, October 29, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010

LBK Post 036 Facebook Forces MySpace to Put on a New FACE






For MySpace, a Fresh Coat of Paint


Deep in the red, News Corp.'s social-networking site gets a redesign.

The "cool" factor is still to be determined
 
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

LBK Post 035 Why You Should Kiss Your Frak Firesheep Goodbye

From http://techcrunch.com

 
How To Protect Your Login Information 
From Firesheep



 




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 From http://www.betanews.com

Frak Firesheep: The Whole Internet Needs 
 
to Run on SSL -- NOW






210 crappy Characters instead of 26....




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Friday, October 22, 2010

LBK Post 034 LSE Hits Record Trade Speed with Linux

From http://www.osnews.com



London Stock Exchange Smashes 
Record Trade Speed with Linux

Linux "The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times. 


The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on the groups main stock exchange.


The LSE had long been criticised on speed and reliability, grappling with trading speeds of several hundred microseconds.

The record breaking times were measured on the LSE's Turquoise smaller dark pool trading venue, where trades are conducted anonymously.

That network switched over to Linux from Cinnober technology two weeks ago. Speed is crucial as more firms trade automatically at lightning speed, using advanced algorithms."





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