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Everyone is going nuts on /r/linux and /r/programming about this, but having looked into it a bit, let me try to break this down:

• This is not visual studio. It's a new code editor written in Typescript (MS's JavaScript wrapper) based on github's Atom editor that has the Visual Studio brand and (to some degree) UX.

• From what I can tell, it only properly supports a handful of high-level, non-compiled languages aimed at web dev: Javascript, nodejs, ASP.NET, C#, Typescript. Debugging support seems to be limited to ASP.NET and Typescript.

• It has basic support (read: syntax highlighting) for most of your popular languages. See this.

Personally I don't see anything here that interests me as a programmer, it doesn't support languages I use (at least, not more than syntax highlighting, which any editor can give me), but maybe someone who codes ASP.NET on Linux will be excited about this?

I think the really big story here is that Microsoft is actually packaging this for Linux and treating desktop Linux like a first-class citizen in this case.

The $64k question is whether this represents the future of VS -- if it will evolve into the flagship IDE and retain feature-parity across platforms -- or if it's just a sideshow to rope developers into the VS experience so they feel compelled to go for the "full experience" (VS on Windows).

I would advise agains't such measures.

In your everyday life of using linux you won't be prompted for your sudo password everyday unless you are doing something system wide such as updating packages through the command line or installing software, installing a new printer, etc.

What you are describing is running your computer as root and that is not recommended as explained here and here.

In windows you might be used to run under an admin account but that is a security problem and it should not be mirrored in linux.

What are you doing to get password prompts so often? Once a system is setup and updated you usually don't get many prompts for password...

> curl -s https://mailinabox.email/bootstrap.sh | sudo bash

NO! No no no no no no no. Do not pipe things from the internet straight into a root shell. I don't know how this trend got started, but holy shit is it bad.

How do I do this in the least self promote-y way possible...

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjw8TtHePk

Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/bryanlunduke

My patrons get the DRM-free, HD version first. Everyone else has to wait (I figure my patrons pay for me to do this... so they get the goodies). :)

It's not "their own bootloader".

The guy in the video is using a newer Macbook Air, which only does EFI boot, so he's using the rEFInd boot manager, which uses EFI to boot the kernel directly, instead of doing the old BIOS -> bootloader -> kernel (new: EFI -> kernel).

Since it was launched in 1990 (a year before the famous post), I highly doubt that Hubble itself is running Linux. It's possible though that some of the fundamental infrastructure for Hubble research runs Linux though (I doubt the earthbound parts stayed running on the same hardware or software).

There are options to opt out of everything listed here. If I've overlooked something, then feel free to consider your options. Thanks -

I've used Firefox for a long time, and want to note that I created an account just to post this response. I think that sometimes we read headlines and about 20% of any given page before coming to a final conclusion. I'm asking that anyone ready to jump ship re-read the posted link, and the items I've listed below.

Yes, they do have "marketing features", however, they are so freaking honest about it that it's almost weird for a software product in 2016.

Take the time to re-read the link, and expand the tabs. They provide ways to opt out of all of it. There has been the user.js file since version 1? 2? that allows you to keep your config (about:config) options and throw it in any Firefox install folder. Heck, upload it to GitHub or back it up anywhere you want.

I've used the community project hosted over at ghacks as a "base" user.js for a while. It is probably the most comments/SLOC for any JS file I've seen. Good stuff, really. So you can even be lazy and pick the parts you want to block (Hint: DONT blindly copy and paste this as your settings. Read it and decide which parts of Firefox you'd like to change)

http://www.ghacks.net/files/user.js%20[ghacks]-0.08-light.html

The fact that vmkernel was once loaded into the kernel by a module is enough to conclude that it is a derived product of the kernel and, thus, only distributable under the terms of the GPL.

But there is more... vmkernel loads and uses quite a bit of Linux kernel code, sometimes in heavily modified form. The primary purpose for this use appears to gain access to device drivers written by Linux, but supporting those drivers requires bringing in a fair amount of core code as well.

>If one downloads the source-release ISO image from the page linked ( https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=ESXI55U1_OSS&productId=352 ) and untars vmkdrivers-gpl/vmkdrivers-gpl.tgz, one will find these components under vmkdrivers/src_92/vmklinux_92. There is some interesting stuff there. In vmware/linux_rcu.c, for example, is an "adapted" version of an early read-copy-update implementation from Linux. vmware/linux_signal.c contains signal-handling code, vmware/linux_task.c contains process-management code (including an implementation of schedule()), and so on. Of particular interest to this case are linux/lib/radix-tree.c (a copy of the kernel's radix tree implementation) and several files in the vmware directory containing a modified copy of the kernel's SCSI subsystem. Both of these subsystems carry Christoph's copyrights and, thus, give him the standing to pursue an infringement case against VMware.

>The picture that emerges suggests that vmkernel is not just another binary-only kernel module making use of the exported interface. Instead, VMware's developers appear to have taken a substantial amount of kernel code, adapted it heavily, and built it directly into vmkernel itself. It seems plausible that, in a situation like this, the case that vmkernel is a derived product of the Linux kernel would be relatively easy to make.

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/635290/ff8760ec6a6eae6b/

>Criticising systemd from a technical, architectural or (as is the case here) social perspective is not hate.

Link to quote: http://lwn.net/Articles/621478/

This 1000%. I like systemd, yet everytime I point out issues that concern me I'm instantly labeled as a systemd hater and get torn apart by the systemd-fanboys claiming all of the anti-systemd thoughts are wrong.

"The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote." ~Kosh

1. No Linux client. Why this is showing up on every Linux related Reddit is a mystery to everyone.
2. This seems to be quasi open source. You get to see all the pieces but you don't get to see how they are used together.
3. Show me the money trail. What are the implications of this "free" service? I can't trust you unless I understand your motivations. The bills have to be paid somehow. I just can't bite into "amazing service for free."
4. It's interesting that "calls" are protected with end-to-end encryption but "chats" are not. Section 2.3
5. Of course there is a Darth Vader clause. Yep, gonna alter that deal whenever they want. There's an indemnification clause meaning you are 100% at their mercy. They've did their legal homework they are na-nana-na-na untouchable. Even if they do break your crayons it's your fault for playing with the bullies.

I don't think it is ubuntu's fault that AMD have left users of their (slightly) older graphics cards in a lurch. Ubuntu ships what is available when they freeze.

You can check out the graphics drivers ppa https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa but you'll need to see what is supported.

Sounds like you should stick to 14.04.

If you read the Blog post you will see that they call this a revision to the Model B hardware, the B+ NOT a Raspberry Pi 2. It is well known they will do a successor model at some later point but this is not it.

Considering that they took a lot of the feedback from users and integrated those suggestions into the revision for the same price is just awesome. Simple things like more GPIO pins, proper mounting holes and the alignment of all the ports to the board is very cool for project builders like me. And all for the same price. Awesome!

EDIT: SP

A commenter over at OSNews http://www.osnews.com/comments/29231 says it better than I could:

"My read on this is that it does set a pretty clear line for the "public APIs". This lawyer seems to want to expand that to include to any and all copyrighted material. That's a bizarre jump, as that is absolutely not what is being discussed in the case."

It appears the Oracle lawyer's attempt at stirring the FLOSS community's pot has succeeded.

They've stated a desire to open source the the whole OS eventually.

From their page about licencing:

"We are currently in the process of putting in place the processes and licensing structures that will enable you, the community, to take part in developing Sailfish. For now, if you are eager to contribute code, we encourage you to join and contribute to existing open source projects such as Mer and Nemo, in which our developers are also active participants."

In the meantime, I'll admit, the lack of complete source code is pretty off-putting.

I've done something similar to this without the hidden encrypted partition. I installed grub2 on a flash drive and using a custom grub.cfg file, I have a menu to select and boot directly from the iso files.

See here for my inspiration: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/

Here's a a copy of my grub.cfg file: http://slexy.org/view/s2LIopPRnp

SimpleScreenRecorder has a GUI that lives up to its name, and is still very powerful. =) Was also a featured app on LAS, I believe.

Our feed is soooo damn old it took us a bit. But a bunch of you have been asking for it.

I'm sticking with Pocket Casts on Android, and Overcast on iOS for now, but let me know how you like it if you try out Google Play Music for podcasts!

-Chris

I somehow feel bad that casual games pushes more complex games totally into shadow nowadays. Gaming sites are all about console games. In that sense PC games seems to be dying.

Fortunately there are tons of great games still coming for PC/Linux and some of them sell quite nicely.

• Dwarf Fortress
• Dungeon Crawl Soup Stone
• Unreal World RPG
• Crusader Kings 2
• Europa Universalis 4
• X-series
• Wasteland 2
• Football Manager 2014
• ...

I understand that LAS wants to give best possible picture about Linux gaming but it would be interesting to hear discussion about its shortcomings as well. At least to me it is much more interesting to hear how current problems are going to be solved instead of talking about what works.

For example what are those kludges SteamOS uses in X server and is the bad code fixed in steamcompmgr. Kludges and "bad code" are things I wouldn't like to hear being in SteamOS. Unfortunately SteamOS still feels really fragile and hackish and that is why it would be interesting to know what is going on and what kind of changes are coming in future.

lwn: X and SteamOS

What are the status of PhysX and Mantle and are drivers (Intel, AMD, NVidia) going to be ready to make SteamOS good enough for gaming. How about HOTAS systems, gaming streering wheels and Oculus Rift?

Any plans to do SteamOS Beta review? An deep comparison versus Windows + Steam Big Picture.

Hi, /u/rubenquidam! Thank you for all your hard work on the Trisquel project.

Lets talk money! How much better would the free Trisquel Operating System project be if it were to receive a reliable annual donation of $10,000, $50,000 or $100,000?

Such sums are nothing from a government budget standpoint.

What is the main bottle neck in development of free software? Is it lack of dunding?

Are the top IT people in large corporations making sure that they use some company money to sustain free software development?

Very disappointing as i'd been leaning towards replacing my home network with their stuff after i finish with some other projects. I'll have to rethink that now.

GPL violations are also one of the reasons i recommend avoiding DD-WRT (the others being broken features and general crappiness) and going with the far superior OpenWrt (or TomatoUSB if OpenWrt doesn't work on your router model and it's a choice between DD-WRT, Tomato or manufacturer's firmware).

I guess my next network upgrade will probably end up being a small pfSense or OPNsense box with the APs running OpenWrt.

I use DuckDuckGo on all my devices as default search engine too for more than a year now. Mostly I am happy, sometimes I use "!sp" if I can't find something. So yeah, there are people who are using DuckDuckGo, Chris.

For E-Mail I can recommend FastMail - it's from Australian company with strict privacy policy. Not free of cost, although I think now you have to pay for privacy (and try to avoid trusting US companies as well).

For many "cloud" services I use ownCloud running on my private server.

Also I am running CyanogenMod on my Nexus devices without Google Apps and trying to find what I need in the F-Droid repository and contributing as much as I can to the free (libre) projects.

Right now I am almost fully google-free user (the only exception is YouTube, although I am not logged in and using browser extension which removes unwanted cookies). It was not easy, but since I disagree with Google policy I don't want to use it any more.

This app pick may not be of interest to most of you, but since it was crucial for my work the last two years, I decided to donate to the project and pitch it here, in case some of you might need something similar at some point.

So I just quit my job working for a small TV station where I was responsible for – among many other things – translating/subtitling two monthly TV programs. When I started working there, there was nothing set up for this type of work. Up until my arrival they were outsourcing the subtitles and an additional translator was proofing and manually entering each subtitle at the exact location the subtitle-company indicated. This puts “small” in “small TV station” on a whole other level ;)

Anyways, so when I started working there, things needed to change. During my first two weeks, I was researching solutions and when I found some time to properly test aegisub, I found the type of software that helped me and my work colleagues to reduce our work time considerably (bare in mind, at the beginning of this Job I had no prior experience working for TV etc.). So once I figured out how to work with the software, I set up the rest of the work flow for what became a new kind of job, trained my colleagues to work with aegisub, and it was smooth sailing from then on. The best thing, this software is really powerful (we didn't need most of the features it has to offer), opensource and cross-platform (which meant my colleagues could use their Windows machines whereas I stayed most of the time on Linux).

You can play it in VLC.

Though, you make a great point. It is bloody annoying to play it on Linux, and then no menu either. That being said, I have no doubt that now with SteamOS inbound their will be a Bluray player. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it was added to SteamOS itself. They are trying to make it your "living room" system. So, yeah, could be. Would be smart of them. Even if you have to buy it from their store (so they could pay for the licensing).

I am guessing you ran it for 5 mins and then tried to do a tailored search on general criteria. For one thing Yacy does not work that way and just like seeding a torrent you need to keep your node running for a significant amount of time before you can hope to get access to the 'good' stuff. Also if you are keen to help out the network you need to set you node up to scrape content and share it with your peers.

I don't have a Yacy node running atm because the server I was running on had to be moved, but I was running it for about 6 months and found the results to be quite illuminating. That is, you would search for something that was perhaps viewed as risque or inflammatory material and you would find a good number of hits in the top 50, where as, using precisely the same term on google, Bing, yahoo or even duckduckgo didn't show those sites in the top 500, if at all. So those sites were effectively invisible. Just demonstrated to me how manipulated we have all become by search engines and kinda makes me yearn a little to go back to the good old days of FTP list sites and peer to peer knowledge. In short we all have become so used to using google we have all become extremely lazy and think whatever is in the first page of hits must be what we are looking for or it doesn't exist.

I have often thought a subversive tactic that should be used by the darker net would be to make sure their sites are the worst performing site when it comes to searching for their content. That way search engines rank them extremely low and to most people they are just plain invisible. Effectively become a SEP for Google etc.

So yes.. just like FreeNet you need to set aside bandwidth, storage and CPU if you want to get the best out of it. And while you are doing that you are also helping the network become just that little bit more resilient.

Not as dynamic as I would have liked.

On the one hand, if your a hadcore Linux/Red Hat/Industry fan, this is some good stuff. And as far as getting a snapshot of the state of Red Hat in 2015, it's great for that.

In the future, as our funding grows we'll go in with two cameras, multiple mics, have the abilty to move around their space.

So this is step one, what we can do basically out of pocket right now. But it's something were so passionate about we are pushing forward and hoping the funding comes! :)

-Chris

I too would like to know the issues they are having because Jitmeet has worked pretty flawlessly for me. Granted I don't have multiple input devices or output devices and to be honest I have no idea how you even change those dynamically in Chrome, but pulseaudio works pretty good so.

If there is one interview worth having I'd say reach out to Emil and ask him not only about the current state of the project but also their future visions on it. You'll be surprised how far thinking he is.

I wonder if all Mint apologizers knows how their update classification mechanism work....

I've used to be neutral about this matter but one day I made the mistake of looking at the source code that classifies when an update is safe and what not.

mintUpdate.py

if is_a_mint_package: level = 1 # Level 1 by default else: level = 3 # Level 3 by default rulesFile = open("/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules","r")

rules

banshee||2|| firefox||2|| thunderbird||2|| *language-pack||2|| flashplugin||2|| wine||2|| pidgin||2|| *libreoffice||2|| chromium-browser||2|| transmission||2|| shotwell||2|| shutter||2|| evince||2|| gnome-calculator||2|| gthumb||2|| dbus||4|| xorg||4|| acpid||4|| mountall||4|| mesa||4|| systemd||4|| plymouth||4|| upstart||4|| base-files||5|| linux-||5|| linux||5|| grub||5|| grub2||5|| virtualbox|5.0.4-dfsg-2|5||This version is built against the LTS Vivid Xorg/MESA stack. Upgrading it removes virtualbox-guest-x11. Reinstalling the package breaks Xorg. bcmwl||3|| ubuntu-drivers-common||4|| *nvidia||4||

There many web browsers/mail clients out there in Ubuntu repo.... Why only Firefox and Thunderbird are prioritized?

>I am not familiar with his history, but he has indubitably been a big >contributor to Debian, otherwise he would not be on the TC.

Ian Jackson has been involved with Debian for ~20 years, since 1994. Search the A Brief History of Debian Chapter 4 - A Detailed History page for his name. Off the top of my head, I don't know what packages he's contributing to currently.

I'm a maintainer of Etherpad and doc/docx is one of the highest fidelity document formats we can import, it's a horrible format, don't get me wrong, but dropping support for it in your application is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I'm not sure any offline editor wins this war though, the cloud offerings now are just so powerful and geared towards the modern user that likes to collaborate.

Hmm, let's see what I have on this computer right now:

• Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon
• Clearly
• Copy Urls Expert
• DuckDuckGo Plus
• Flash Game Maximizer
• FoxyProxy Standard
• Gmail Notifier
• GNotifier
• HTTPS-Everywhere
• IdentFavIcon
• It's All Text!
• JSONovich
• LastPass
• µBlock
• MEGA
• meta-q-override / Warn Before Quit
• Menu Editor
• NoScript
• OneTab
• Privacy Badger
• Reddit Enhancement Suite
• Scroll Progress
• SSL Version Control
• Stylish
• Tabhunter
• Tree Style Tab
• User Agent Overrider
• YouTube ALL HTML5

If you care enough about privacy to VPN, why go through a 3rd party? Who are these guys and why should I trust them? How do they pay their bills?

Edit: > But we had some resources over from other project and were able to launch FrootVPN.

They have "other project" that they're to shy about to mention? Really? Something smells here.

As of Sep 22 2013, Steam has 100 million active users. 1.16% would be 1,160,000 Linux users, so in one month we have 100,000 new Linux users. ;)

>Can you provide references for the packages namespaces, packages being hold, etc?

Yes I can.

1. namespace issue and being held back - https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
2. priority issue - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/kde-connect-sync-android-linux/ (scroll down to the Mint section)

>I left Mint because the majority of ppl in the forums are beginners and unable to answer a question like that. Worst of it developers doesn't seems to have time to answer or clarify such doubts.

That's disappointing that the developers are not informed.

I don't know about the HFS+ part but he totally gets the driver part wrong.

Apple writes the OpenGL and Metal implementation like Microsoft does with DirectX and specifically Direct3D. Nvidia, AMD and Intel write the drivers that do the actual work.

You can also use drivers supplied directly by nvidia for your Mac:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/180741-nvidia-releases-alternate-graphics-drivers-os-x-10-11-2-346-03-04-a.html

They're not the newest stuff like we get on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD but they're available.

I run 3 personal pages (1 WP, 2 static), 3 dev WP sites, and an OwnCloud instance on the same droplet that you have (all low traffic). Early on, I had a lot of problems with DB crashes every few hours. What solved my issue was using this DO guide to add a swapfile, and I've had 0 issues ever since.

Edit: Saw you're on Centos7 so switched the link.

What details do you want to know ? Mostly everything about 2.0 (in terms of UI changes) were shown on Mobile World Congress earlier this year. I doubt they changed much from that version.

As for technical details there is the devlopment roadmap that shows what is planned and what already implemented. Though I am not sure if it up to date. https://sailfishos.org/developmentroadmap/

This guy did something similar with a TP-Link router for half the cost of the Mikrotik using OpenWrt.

It also has support for VPN with a button to toggle it on or off (so you can connect to the hotel's captive portal and authorise your router, then toggle the VPN on and redirect all your devices through a secure connection).

>I wonder what kind of degree you should have for becoming kernel engineer ?

If you plan on doing it for a company it'll probably depend on the them if you plan on doing it as a hobby i don't think maintainers discriminate against people without degrees as long as the code follows all the criteria for acceptance.

>What kind of skills you should have ?

1. Know how to use git
2. Know C
3. Read this and take a look at other relevant documentation in here

This has to be a joke. Reading that broke my brain for the day. I'm done X.X

I just love this:

"External Resources and References

References

[0] https://www.wikipedia.org/
[1] http://www.science.com <--can't argue w/ that!!
[2] ...
[3] ...
[...] ...
...just Google it... "

I found freeIPA very easy to set up for my home LAN. I'm using Fedora on the server end and a mix of Centos and Fedora clients. Debian didn't seem to be well supported, but Ubuntu was. I haven't tried it yet, but I was very pleased to see the freeIPA client listed for Ubuntu Mate on the Raspberry Pi.

I just migrated my NAS setup from freeNAS (on BSD) to ZFSonLinux running on a Centos box. I made a half hearted attempt to connect the freeNAS node to freeIPA, but setting the NAS up as freeIPA under Linux was easy. The ZFS drives written on freeNAS mounted right up on the Linux box. Maybe your use-case only requires authentication, but I think most LDAP setups will also want to make sure there is some shared network storage tied to the user identities managed by the LDAP server.

I was not as impressed by the state of documentation. There was some detailed but dated documentation on the Red Hat site. The more recent docs at http://www.freeipa.org seemed incomplete and uneven.

"Following news of the rejections, Apple told Business Insider that it's not rejecting apps or app updates that work with Pebble's devices. Pebble also chimed in on Reddit, saying it was working with Apple, which was being "super responsive" to concerns that existing apps might get the kibosh:

Update: Still a work-in-progress, but we're working with Apple to clear up any misunderstandings to make sure rejections like the handful of recent ones don't happen again—they're being super responsive the concerns that bubbled up (much appreciated!). Apps are still getting approved with mentions of Pebble support in the description or metadata (e.g. RunKeeper). For now, developers should continue with their iOS app update plans and approval submissions to the iTunes store as normal (i.e. include Pebble support in your app info if that was your original intent)."

Source and Pastebin

http://slexy.org/view/s2afeJUijq

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8493483/apple-app-update-pebble-policy

I'm worried about that Microsoft start to get things right again.

Today starts BUILD 2014 and most likely there will be lots of new information about Windows 9, gaming, etc.

Chris, what is the problem with KeePass? Have you checked keepassXC? https://keepassxc.org/

In android I use: Keepass2android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android

Kind of sad to see no Linux client is currently available. Hopefully we'll get something soon. I also wanted to mention there was an edit on the article with the link to go leave feedback, and request a Linux client. It just takes a second, and you don't even need to sign in with your Google account. Maybe if we can collaborate our feedback they'll listen.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG45cFM2TGRHUjhTRzkzay12eEtuWFE6MA#gid=0

In 2016, the categories were a little bit different: https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016#technology-desktop-operating-system

Windows had a share of ~52% back then. So even Windows is dropping like a stone

I think that's a really rude comment.

Not only does it give away the fact that you did not either read the article, or at least properly process what the information was. (Its basically a promo/affiliate program to help students get a good discount on some SysAdmin LA courses. )

But it also is just a rude thing to say about our coverage. The entire point of JB growing its crowd funding base at Patreon is so that we have the leverage to say whatever we want on air. And I'm really proud of that.

Kind of a lack of insight on both accounts, just rude.

-Chris

Just use the standard webapp in any browser at all. What's the point in using this?

I have mine setup in Epiphany using the great Application Mode.

Article I wrote about the topic: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/epiphany-web-apps-integrate-web-desktop/

AFAIK they do some python scripts and a python daemon to enable some hotkeys on the keyboard and to fix some suspend issues. Not so far fetched as firmware development.

https://launchpad.net/~system76-dev/+archive/ubuntu/pre-stable/+build/10516715

I would user podcaster myself. It is super simple to set up and can be set up as a cron job to fire up when you are sleeping.

It is based on bash and python and supports bittorrents and rss. Simply put the URL in the config file and run. Very easy.

> I suppose KDE Neon team needs proper sysadmins.

On one side of the coin it seems like a simple oversight of permissions that any sysadmin could make or forget to change after publishing the project.

But on the other hand, this part of the announcement...

> The package archive used by KDE neon was incorrectly configured allowing anyone to upload packages to it. There is no reason to think that anyone actually did

...seems incorrect. Allan Jude always says that after a vulnerability one should work on the assumption that they were compromised, and try to prove otherwise. It was the same thing with the terrible zero-day "Drupalgeddon" Drupal vulnerability that was discovered a few years back, they basically recommended scrapping the site and re-installing from a known good backup.

I don't believe so. It has depots for 32 and 64bit versions of Windows and 64bit for Linux

https://steamdb.info/app/365670/depots/

Edit: Downloaded it and seems to run fine on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit.

/u/Chrislas Firefox has had HTML5 playback for YouTube (and other video sharing sites) for a while now, and it fell back to using it if flash was not installed on the computer. What Firefox 47 introduced was ability to play old embedded YouTube files in HTML5 if there was no flash installed.

More street cred than being the most deployed distribution on Amazon EC2, Digital Ocean and if we're to believe Canonical, even on MS' Azure?

Hmmm, I know absolutely nothing about video encoding, but it does look like it's possible to record to lossless H.264 using OBS:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/21ga7r/tutorial_how_to_make_lossless_high_framerate/

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/nvencs-lossless-preset-artifact-issue.27170/

As far as I know, the new practice is to store the keys in the computer firmware and Windows knows where to check for them.

More info in this article: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/four-places-find-windows-8-product-key/

Tor works very basically by asking a Tor node to send requests for you, instead of your computer sending the request directly. The address of Tor nodes is publicly available or else you wouldn't be able to find one to use, so Comcast can see that you are sending a request to one, they can't actually know what you requested though only how much you sent/received.

A more detailed explanation can be found here, there are quite a few more precautions involved that make it a lot harder to track users.

Not entering on a text editor flame wars (VIM is my guide through the valley of darkness) but I found a gedit plugin for search replace in a recursive file/directory on the first result on my first google search. Luck, i guess?

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/gedit-plugin-to-search-and-replace-in.html

Although I prefer:

grep -rl filename-pattern-to-look-for* | xargs sed -i 's/what-to-change/actual-change/g'

As a sysadmin I think this is faster and cleaner than any GUI editor. But every tool is fine as long as it gets the work done.

If you are interested and want to see native support without changing the User-Agent, comment on my twitter post. Let's get Linux added officially.

Here is a quick tutorial to get you started. This requires the closed-source version of Chrome directly from Google. Chromium will not work as it does not come with the binary blobs required for DRM.

Arch users can install from the AUR with the 'google-chrome' package.

DEB and RPM distros can grab the package here: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html

1. Install the User-Agent Switcher Plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US

2. After the plugin is installed, right click on the extension icon and select 'Options'.

3. Create a new preset with the User-Agent string found below. You can choose any name and indicator flag. I recommend using the group "Chrome".

4. Left-Click the extension icon, select chrome, select the preset you just created. Now you are ready to sign in to Directv Now.

User Agent String:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36

Some people are too eager and leave out the actual clues:

https://steamdb.info/app/233130/history/

> Added this app to a package Shadow Warrior Mac and Linux Testing

/r/linux_gaming is a good place to stay up to date on this stuff :)

Markdown + pandoc + syncthing + git + writely pro(android)..

http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown

and markdown

https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

Save to Read - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-to-read/

which is a Firefox extension to accomplish the same thing.

Maybe they wanted a hosted solution that could be used across multiple devices ? . . ?

If that were the case there is also "wallabag" which they could host themselves in Firefox Sync and provide the same functionality as Pocket. Wallabag is Open Source and is a self-hosted solution. - https://www.wallabag.org/

most will be, most POS software is a badly designed VB.net program

If you want to have floss POS, there is unicenta that is quite nice and provide e-receipts, that it will nag you to get, but you can disable it

I used KXStudio for a while and it's good, with lots of custom programs to make the experience easier, real-time kernel etc.

http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/

Still, the traditional modular approach to music production on Linux is a puzzle I don't want to solve. And I never quite 'got' Jack. I like sticking to a single DAW with plug-ins. As on Windows.

It's really nice what KXStudio is going for. Seems like they're more focused on just getting this good software out to people, but offer the distro as an all-in-one solution for editors. One thing I noticed, that really isn't a big deal, is they should remove their add-ons from the applications page and set them under the specific application. I'm going to have to try some of these programs out, namely Carla.

I use Music on Console. It runs in the terminal, but can also run in the background as a server. I have my music directory set in my home folder with folders for podcasts (which are downloaded in the background using podget), playlists (which can be created by using MOC), a symbolic link to a network drive mounted on boot, a symbolic link to my downloads folder, and then a genre folder which has /artist/album (year)/ subfolders and simply named files (track title). I use puddletag to fix tags and rename files.

I use to run clementine too, but my current setup is so simple that I doubt I'll ever go back.

systemd-networkd has been around since 210 and we are at 215 now. Why is it needed and why did RedHat hire the Arch developer who started it? Because CoreOS.
https://coreos.com/blog/intro-to-systemd-networkd/

Also who doesn't want to be able to accurire a DHCP lease in 750µs compared to the regular 500ms?
It's funny how people like to overreact to systemd. We had the same thing years ago in the Arch Linux community when the switch to systemd was made. People acted like the Apocalypse was upon use and in a year nobody would be using Arch anymore..Weeeelll that didn't happen. Arch is more popular than ever. Now Debian and Ubuntu peeps are acting like they're stepping on uncharted untested territory, lol.

I used to run Linux on a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and even an iMac. For the most part, they all worked alright, but there were a few small issues that needed to be tweaked. For example, the wireless and display needed proprietary drivers installed for them to work properly.

You can dual boot using something like rEFInd, but I found it easier just to do a single boot and run Mac OS on an external disk when needed.

Just bear in mind that it's not going to run perfectly. You're going to run into some issues here and there (sometimes my laptop wouldn't wake from sleep, and the trackpad driver was awful), but it'll do the job fine enough.

In the end, I stopped using macs altogether and just went with a ThinkPad.

Good luck!

I have been using easy2boot for years. I have a dozen distros on a USB - with no manual work needed. Its like a software version of the Zalman thing they talk about on LAS. And I have written in about it several times. Dont be fooled by their terrible web site (http://www.easy2boot.com/), its a great project.

Well... Ubuntu made the decision NOT to go with Gnome 3 and to make their own thing... and I'd say it looks more like Gnome 3 than Unity... so I wouldn't really say Mac copied Ubuntu...

But the resemblance is a bit uncanny...

More reference images...

Wayland will fix this&hellip;

Joking aside I agree with /u/Hkmarkp. Kubuntu is pretty much irrelevant now that KDE Neon exists. It might take a while, but I recommend backing up everything and installing a different OS of your liking. Perhaps try the live discs / USB first to test different OS's and see which one works best?

I use yakuake (quake like terminal, which I trigger with ctrl-') and for the shell, it's fishshell. It's very easy to use, completes commands very well, it's very fast and has a very sane set of functions.

Just some thoughts about Shotwell. Using Shotwell to manage a few thousand photos on a laptop has worked pretty well for me, but considering the use case here with two orders of magnitude more data, I just wanted to bring up a few points.

From my limited experience, Shotwell needs two things during importing, CPU and disk IO. It hashes every photo into a "photo ID" that goes into its database. The hashes are used for de-duping and more. Shotwell also monitors folders for changes, however this can (and probably should) be disabled during initial importing (see https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell/FAQ).

Shotwell uses SQLite which, although it is a great little database, doesn't scale well. My advice would be to time the importing of a month's worth of photos (or however they are stored) and then compare the time of importing another month's worth, and another... then graph it to get a rough idea of how much time the full import is going to take.

Another advice would be to start up a Task Manager before starting any import, Shotwell's own progress indicator can be unreliable, sometimes making it difficult to tell whether importing has stalled or not. Although Shotwell crashed or hung a few times during my own initial import, it never messed up or lost any data.

Another idea that might be worth considering is to do the importing on another machine with beefier CPU and IO, if the MacBook itself is too weak. How to transfer the data and database is also described in the FAQ.

The latest version is 0.22.0, not sure if it's available for Elementary. In any case, you'd probably want a version > 0.20.0 due to a bug in earlier versions (see FAQ).

An interesting (and slightly scary) endeavor in any case. Good luck!

I honestly thought Criss meant "propitiatory" software, when he said in the open source community people quickly suggest stuff like blender. But that also could just been my imagination. ;)

Because of that I thought instantly about BlackMagic's Fusion 8 which has now Linux support. But like you I'm not a expert on this field :)

edit: Sorry I didn't see that you already mentioned fusion.

Awesome episode guys! It's one of my favorites. I really enjoyed watching Noah's dad (btw good looking and well dressed) and having a pragmatic look in the importance of open source and linux in such an important field. And in the end even a job opening for a PHP developer! Too bad I don't know PHP :D

UPDATE: /u/ChrisLAS The tool you've been thinking is MKVToolNix. Perfect for its job ;)

The BOINC client can run other projects out there besides Searching for Extra Terrestrial life that are great for Mankind, such as .

Rosetta@home description: Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's.

Check out the Project List here https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Project_list

Not exactly what I call alternatives but not that is moot as Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced that the devices are being sent out by distributors from the first batch

Yeah that's what I've been using but recently I've been looking at keeweb.

Till now only keepass has keepasshttp support which means that with a plugin on your browser you can have autofill. keeweb has this feature on its to-do and there is a fork of keepassx that implements keepasshttp.

I feel a bit uneasy about using these "private" search engines, because I have no real reason to trust them. Sure, they say they respect your privacy, but do they really? I have no way of knowing.

If you want a decent measure of privacy, connect to the internet through Tor. Be sure to avoid revealing your personal info to whatever search engine you use (I know, easier said than done), and to be on the safe side, disable cookies by default. If you do all this, it doesn't matter which search engine you use; your searches will be associated with a random assortment of Tor exit node IP addresses, just like countless other people's searches. You will blend right in.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that you should really only browse to https sites while using Tor, to prevent potentially evil Tor exit nodes from sniffing your traffic.

At the end of the episode, ChrisLAS made a request for trivia software. I think the google search will go in your favor if you change the query from "trivia" to "quiz". Then I also got to thinking... Edubuntu or any of the other education distros, which ultimately brought me to the moodle at https://moodle.org, which is essentially a Learning Management System with the feature of quizzes. I do not know if they have leader boards, but they do have a complete demo of different scenarios on their site.

Great show guys, I really enjoyed it!

Recently there was a post on the ownCloud blog about a new ownCloud Pi Drive prototype that was being worked on in partnership with WDLabs.

https://owncloud.org/blog/pioneer-our-owncloud-pi-drives/

I got my hands on one and I thought I'd share some photos. It worked as advertised in the linked post. The super interesting part is that it runs Ubuntu Snappy Core and the ownCloud Snap, which will update automagically. Pretty cool stuff, really.

I got 40% off a yearly subscription to Laracasts. I was already a $10/month paying member.

Edit: I just got 75% off lifetime price for synergy!

There is nothing to download yet, I want to iron out the most glaring issues before I release any .iso images for testing. It is essentially Ubuntu but Unity is replaced with MATE. Compiz is not installed by default. The article is a bit misleading, Ubuntu MATE Remix has work on real hardware and VirtualBox since day one, although I improved the auto hardware detection on Thursday which seamlessly integrates with VirtualBox.

All development is taking place on Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate and the project website will be updated very soon - http://ubuntu-mate.org

Id love to see more stuff like Vagrant ( https://www.vagrantup.com/) on the show. I recently discovered Panamax (http://panamax.io/)

These are awesome utilities that rival or utalize docker.

Id love to see users suggest linux blogs other then phronix, or linux insider. Nothing wrong with those blogs, but linux is about more then the biggest and brightest star in the sky.

KDE and Gnome are great, Arch and ubuntu are cool too, but there is only so much offshoot from that same old stick you can talk about.

I love the show, i can honestly say ive been listening for years, but there is so much more stuff that could be covered.

Yes, i understand its just a couple guys n gals working your butts off, working for sponsers and donations. How about a show for non noobs? A show that assumes we know what we are doing and to push us further then a basic os.

Like have Matt build LFS, build a cloud of vagrant images for us to pull down, host a public github for coder radio or something for us to play with. Idk, im kind of rambling i know.

My point is you guys have the crowd now, lets take this up a notch, and or out a notch.

Hey LAS, I have been using an Asterisk distro called Elastix. They are fully GPL 2.0 and the development is current. Takes a lot of work out of setting up a usable Astrisk server. http://www.elastix.org/index.php/en/

He uses Quassel for both.

Quassel has the "client" and the "core" versions so that you can put the "core" on the droplet and connect as many clients as you want to on whatever device you want. - http://quassel-irc.org/

If you want a more universal IRC Bouncer then I would suggest ZNC. - http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC

Personally I use Synaptic, but there are alternatives like Lubuntu Software Center or Deepin Software Center

I'm also recently back to Ubuntu, and specifically Unity, after failing to enjoy Unity enough to stay with it through all previous iterations that I tried.

I missed your earlier posts, and just read them now. Thanks for linking back to them!

I noticed you commented about the notification bubbles - I find the default behavior annoying as well. It didn't look like anyone has pointed you to this in the comments (I only did a quick skim) - so please have a look to the link below if you want to get some control over them. It was one of the first things I did after installing.

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/configurable-notification-bubbles-for.html

I'm crossing my fingers that we don't lose little things like this when Unity8 is released...

if you are getting an error right after login check if the error message is about apport. If it is then be aware that there was some diagnositic code implemented during the last beta that is not in the released Ubuntu 14.04. There are web posts describing how to eliminate it from happening again. Webup8d is just one posting describing it. http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/how-to-get-rid-of-internal-system-error.html

I think if anyone tried to use upstart, they would see how lacking its day-to-day use is from the command line. Take a gander at this. Reads like something from The Onion:

http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#disabling-a-job-from-automatically-starting

Compare to systemd enable/disable services:

https://medium.com/p/e024758ca63d

I would recommend Wire instead. The call quality is awesome, they've got clients for everything, including web and Linux, the clients are free software and they've promised to open up the code of their servers too within this first half of 2017. And they're using quality e2e encryption that's passed the scrutiny of a third party audit. Take a look at this comparison. :)

How about the new messenger coming from Germany. It is called Wire uses Signal protocol and works without Play Services. It even has some more features in terms of sharing files, sketches and such. It works out of the box on SailfishOS and BlackBerrys Android Runtimes and yes you can get the APK without using Google Play. iOS App and Windows + Webbrowser App are also available. Code is on Github: https://github.com/wireapp https://wire.com/

Hmm, looks like it isn't.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19373730/opentok-open-source-license

Bummer. Jitsi Meet is open source though, and also looks super slick.

The first differences that come into mind between most VPNs and Freedome is the background (we're a publicly listed company with over 25 years of history, we'd never risk losing our clients' trust), the anti-tracking features (in addition to being just a VPN, we're also blocking malware and third party trackers) and the user interface (elegant, simple & works, incredibly easy to install - try it for yourself).

Also, we're active on Reddit.

Disclosure: Hi, we're Freedome VPN! :)

There are tons of programming podcasts. Here's one for instance: https://www.codingblocks.net/ Among the latest episodes they have gone through several chapters of the book Clean Code, while still managing to keep it entertaining. Discussing, for instance, how to organize classes is something Mike will never be able to do with Chris.

Unhelpful response. Let's try that again.

Hey everyone, please note that this is not open source software and, therefore, cannot be verified in how it works, causing potential security risks. The same problem exists with Google Authenticator.

But there's a free and open source alternative, using the same protocol and, therefore, compatible with the aforementioned app and Google Authenticator. It is called FreeOTP and can be found here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fedorahosted.freeotp

See, was that so hard?

Seriously? This is 2014 that we live in. We have voice input expense trackers that can tell which client you are at through GPS. (Zoho Invoice on Android for example) No distracting things, just input using your voice or keyboard the amounts and nothing else.

If it's for nostalgia sake, missing the days of Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS great! Have fun.

This is the exact same as sticking a windows exe that runs as admin somewhere that the user will click (and then approve the UAC confirmation).

Or sticking an ELF somewhere in your path (or bash script, whatever). This is just fear-mongering

"A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed via email that the plan to allow free upgrades for non-genuine copies of Windows applies to all markets and is not limited to China."

source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-to-launch-this-summer-with-free-upgrades-for-pirated-copies/

I don't know why Linux users aren't more concerned about Windows 10; this should have 100x more upvotes. Windows 8 already borrowed a lot from Linux, now Windows 10 is doing everything from virtual desktops to a package manager and possibly a rolling release model. Now they're going to give it away for free for a year too.

Linux is going to lose a lot of bragging points and will even have competition on price for a time too. What's the plan of attack going to be for dealing with this?

Ok, this may just be ignorance, but at best, is making a link to a dedicated browser window mean you have just created a web-app?
Also this: "A software is native to a platform if it was designed to run on that platform."
taken from here: http://superuser.com/questions/583337/what-does-it-mean-for-software-to-run-natively#583339

I was thinking that a "native" application would be something like Minitube, which is a way to search and watch YouTube, not using a web browser where as Chrome is written for many different operating systems... so, not native?
I am a bit confused, maybe a wiser mind can enlighten me?

Edit, in other words, there is no Netflix application, only a web browser capable of running Netflix.