Tracking and advertising. These things emit BLE beacons that apps on your smartphone pick up. This allows for analytics in malls, geofencing ads,... (Look up Eddystone and iBeacon.) That coupon app for your supermarket chain? Allows them to track your every move through their store, from the moment you enter to when you check out.
Other uses include "indoor GPS" (having the app show your location in the building on a map,...).
I found it interesting that Apple's 'digital crown' concept apparently isn't very comfortable to use while my Android Wear watch (an LG G Watch R) is perfectly serviceable with just a single button (to wake it up) and the rest of the UX being driven via the touch screen itself. (The apps you open most often are always at the top of the list, so getting to my groceries app is a simple swipe left and a tap.) Similarly, it's screen is always on, so the most basic function of telling the time is always right there, no matter whether the accelerometer noticed me raising my wrist or not.
Of course, it does suffer from the same 'what can you do with it' problem that the Apple Watch does. Apart from dismissing notifications, using voice commands to set Google Now reminders or start the occasional timer/countdown, there really isn't that much useful functionality to benefit from. App-wise, I really only use two: one to track my groceries (Bring!) and one to tell me I've left my phone somewhere by alerting me of the Bluetooth connection loss (Cerberus).
The linked article doesn't mention this but the way FinFisher got into the Backup server was by simply mounting its iSCSI volumes which required no authentication at all. (Technically, the iSCSI targets were supposed to be on a separate network, but it turns out you could still get at them from the main network.)
The lesson there: It doesn't matter which network the service is in, turn on authentication!
Probably means 'folks who grew up with Windows XP, where Microsoft yet again abused their OS monopoly to peddle one of their services (MSN) and push the others (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo-IM) into obscurity'.
Not that the others weren't working hard on obsoleting themselves, cf. ICQ's very obnoxious later clients.
Mine is the Logitech G15, and yes, the not_having_that_bloody_'double'_delete_key was a factor, as were the not-rearranged home/end/pgup/pgdn keys and the presence of the insert key in its normal position.
I frequently use shift+insert to paste (especially in places where CTRL+V fails) and will not put up with a keyboard where it was removed.
And don't even get me started on the 3-by-3 arranging of F-keys that I've seen on some recent keyboards.
I like my keyboard as it is. The one key I absolutely never ever use is that windows/menu key on the right (next to right-CTRL), but it doesn't bother me enough to even ponder its removal.
If the keyboard manufacturers want to add value to the keyboard, they can feel free to add multimedia buttons at the top, which I can use or ignore. (Preferably they'd agree on an industry-wide standard for them and then use that on all keyboards, so I don't have to relearn the buttons every time.)
The 2.0.0 release of Bacula (released yesterday) actually introduced the server components (called director and storage daemon) on Win32, so you don't even need a Linux server any more to run Bacula.
As for the database, it depends: Bacula uses Volume Shadowing to try and grab open files, if your database system takes VSS requests and dumps a proper state to disk for the snapshot, then there should be no problem. If not, you'll probably have to script something that dumps the databases to separate files and backs up those.
So basically, we should eliminate the mouse clicks altogether. People who know dontclick.it know what I mean: You could just 'touch' the numbers with the mouse cursor for them to register. That way, the screen logger would have to record an entire video to get the password.
Of course, implementing such a thing without Flash and the likes will be a little more tricky.
They DO submit their patches upstream, and will continue to do so. The issue is that in released versions of the Debian Distribution, none of the software gets updated to newer releases. This forces Debian to backport security fixes to make sure that the old software remains secure but THAT would change Mozilla's software to something that wasn't released as such my the Mozilla foundation. So either Debian has to include new releases of all Mozilla software each time a security issue is fixed, or they stop using the name. They chose the latter.
Try Bacula, it supports backing up to DVD (though the functionality is pretty new and not as thoroughly tested as the rest of Bacula) and does span accross DVDs. In fact, that's what I use to back up my Debian system at home.
I have to disagree, I used AMANDA several years ago when somebody in the SAMBA project changed smbclient (I think, they added a single empty line to its output) with the result, that my backup system immediately failed. Worse yet, it took them quite a while to fix this and I ended up switching to Bacula where I have yet to see a similar issue. (It has been doing my backups and restores ever since and the only failures I had were hardware issues with my drive.)
Bacula's 'proprietary' data format may deter some people from using it, but on the other hand I know that I'm not dependant on other tools/packages on my system for it to work (apart from maybe the database server).
Half-right. The so called security bar arrived, together with popup blocking, in IE with XP SP2 and quickly found its way into Firefox. The popup blocker itself though was in Phoenix^WFirebird^WFirefox a long time before that (it used to display a little icon in the status bar when it blocked a popup).
So yes, IE was the first to have the security bar, but not the popup blocking.
The BIOS prevents locking your HDD by telling the HDD to freeze the security state. Once the HDD has received that command, it will not accept any other security commands (including the ones to lock it) until it gets reset.
Why do you cite "1) wait a month or so"? First of all, Doom 3 wasn't playable under Linux either until several weeks after its release so that point applies to it as well. And second, I'm not sure that Valve will ever release a Linux client of HL2 (they never did for HL/CS) so I doubt waiting will help.
... that the article talks about System Shock 2 as if it was the original game? I mean, they mention what lead to the inclusion of the logs, weapons caches etc etc but all of that was already in System Shock 1! Not a single one of those aspects was new in SS2, all they had to do was copy them from the original game. The only real news was the weapons breaking down (that created some nicely hectic moments) and the co-op multiplayer (which wasn't even in the first release of SS2 but only got added later on via a patch).
I'm not saying SS2 is a bad game or anything (it's one my all-time favourites) but in my opinion the first part was better and I find the article quite misleading on the history of the two.
Also, I have a GF4Ti4200 128MB AGP4x with sideband and fast write, and I can still only play smoothly at 800x600 on this system. This is hardly the latest greatest video card but it was pretty hot when Halo PC came out,
Nope, I have to correct you there. When Halo PC came out I was already running a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and a friend of mine had just gotten one of the first GeForce 5s (you know, the ones with the integrated hair dryer;) ). The game ran well on my card and was basically unplayable on the GeForce (later nVidia drivers should have fixed that but I wouldn't know for sure).
In addition to that, I barely saw the pauses 'Loading' dialog. They were more like a fraction of a second 'stutter' on my PC than anything else (and mind you, my box isn't that great, it's only a P IV 2.533 with 512MB PC1066 RDRAM and a normal Maxtor 80GB IDE drive).
That said I still agree the PC port was badly done given the number of systems it apparently has severe performance problems on.
I'm currently setting up one of these for a friend of mine (we started the project about 2 weeks before Anandtech posted their article). We're using a Shuttle SN41G2 V2 XPC as case and a Samsung Spinpoint harddrive.
You can hear it at POST time (the fan spins up and runs at full speed for a second or so) but apart from that and the awfully noisy DVD-ROM (an old Pioneer DVD Slot-in) there's not a sound to be heard at normal load. I still have to try and run a CPU burn-in test to see how loud it gets then and as long as we're not finished it's standing freely whereas later on it will be put away into a small compartment in a shelf that should further isolate the noise the case fan makes. I can only recommend the Spinpoint HDD though, it's very silent!
The key to it is XMLTV. It can basically use any listing grabber you throw at it.
For the US MythTV prefers the Zap2it service as mentioned in another post.
Here in Europe, we use tv_grab_ to either parse websites of listing providers (magazines,...) but there's also a grabber (tv_grab_dvb) that can get the included EPG data from a dvb stream, the latter being quite popular over here.
In short: As long as you can get something that outputs listings to XMLTV format, you can get listings in MythTV (going from just the titles of the show to the full description including the actors, genre, etc)
[i]I'd be willing to bet that this lock sets itself when you slide the end of the cable in. Kinda like a door latch. It slides over the angled bolt, and once it's over it is trapped til you use the key.[/i]
That's not how Kensington Locks work. Basically you have a cable with the locking cylinder on one side and a 'loop' on the other. To attach your Laptop (or TFT display), you wrap the end with the loop around some fixed part (desk,...) and then pass the locking cylinder through the loop (so basically you have a sling, wrapped around your desks feet,...) and then you attach the locking cylinder itself to your laptop (notice the small rectangular hole? In there goes the lock and when you turn the key by 90 degrees, the lock's in place).
Just edit 2 bytes in the Doom 3 executable and play it on Win98: Open it in a hex editor, search for 'GlobalMemoryEx' and change the 'Ex' to 00 00. Save and enjoy.
Alternatively: Do the above and play the game in WineX/Cedega... http://www.linux-militia.net/howtos/doom3/doo m3.ht ml
I have the same situation here. Somebody once asked for a place to store some screenshots in our forums and I gave him some space on my server. He died a few weeks ago (after a car accident), and while I did revoke his password on my system, I can't get myself to delete his publicly accessible gallery (even though I didn't really know him too well).
Not to mention it doesn't even play MODs (like.XM et al). OK, that would make it unaffected by this vulnerability but it also makes it "a media player I don't want"(tm).;)
I've found Foobar2000 to be the perfect alternative for me. Simple GUI, highly customizable and it gets the 'job' done.
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Tracking and advertising. These things emit BLE beacons that apps on your smartphone pick up. This allows for analytics in malls, geofencing ads, ... (Look up Eddystone and iBeacon.) That coupon app for your supermarket chain? Allows them to track your every move through their store, from the moment you enter to when you check out.
Other uses include "indoor GPS" (having the app show your location in the building on a map, ...).
https://documentation.meraki.c...
https://www.arubanetworks.com/...
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/...
I found it interesting that Apple's 'digital crown' concept apparently isn't very comfortable to use while my Android Wear watch (an LG G Watch R) is perfectly serviceable with just a single button (to wake it up) and the rest of the UX being driven via the touch screen itself. (The apps you open most often are always at the top of the list, so getting to my groceries app is a simple swipe left and a tap.) Similarly, it's screen is always on, so the most basic function of telling the time is always right there, no matter whether the accelerometer noticed me raising my wrist or not.
Of course, it does suffer from the same 'what can you do with it' problem that the Apple Watch does. Apart from dismissing notifications, using voice commands to set Google Now reminders or start the occasional timer/countdown, there really isn't that much useful functionality to benefit from. App-wise, I really only use two: one to track my groceries (Bring!) and one to tell me I've left my phone somewhere by alerting me of the Bluetooth connection loss (Cerberus).
The linked article doesn't mention this but the way FinFisher got into the Backup server was by simply mounting its iSCSI volumes which required no authentication at all. (Technically, the iSCSI targets were supposed to be on a separate network, but it turns out you could still get at them from the main network.)
The lesson there: It doesn't matter which network the service is in, turn on authentication!
Probably means 'folks who grew up with Windows XP, where Microsoft yet again abused their OS monopoly to peddle one of their services (MSN) and push the others (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo-IM) into obscurity'.
Not that the others weren't working hard on obsoleting themselves, cf. ICQ's very obnoxious later clients.
So, all we need now is a way to trick the local client (iTunes) into thinking you have a file that you do not ... -> unlimited music for $24.99!
There's SipToSis, but you need to be running one (or more) Skype Clients to use it. (One Skype Client per Skype Account you intend to use.)
There are several other solutions that use the same method, but I use SipToSis since it is available under the GPL.
Yep ... November 2008:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/14/2138205
Mine is the Logitech G15, and yes, the not_having_that_bloody_'double'_delete_key was a factor, as were the not-rearranged home/end/pgup/pgdn keys and the presence of the insert key in its normal position.
I frequently use shift+insert to paste (especially in places where CTRL+V fails) and will not put up with a keyboard where it was removed.
And don't even get me started on the 3-by-3 arranging of F-keys that I've seen on some recent keyboards.
I like my keyboard as it is. The one key I absolutely never ever use is that windows/menu key on the right (next to right-CTRL), but it doesn't bother me enough to even ponder its removal.
If the keyboard manufacturers want to add value to the keyboard, they can feel free to add multimedia buttons at the top, which I can use or ignore. (Preferably they'd agree on an industry-wide standard for them and then use that on all keyboards, so I don't have to relearn the buttons every time.)
The 2.0.0 release of Bacula (released yesterday) actually introduced the server components (called director and storage daemon) on Win32, so you don't even need a Linux server any more to run Bacula.
As for the database, it depends: Bacula uses Volume Shadowing to try and grab open files, if your database system takes VSS requests and dumps a proper state to disk for the snapshot, then there should be no problem. If not, you'll probably have to script something that dumps the databases to separate files and backs up those.
So basically, we should eliminate the mouse clicks altogether. People who know dontclick.it know what I mean: You could just 'touch' the numbers with the mouse cursor for them to register. That way, the screen logger would have to record an entire video to get the password.
Of course, implementing such a thing without Flash and the likes will be a little more tricky.
They DO submit their patches upstream, and will continue to do so. The issue is that in released versions of the Debian Distribution, none of the software gets updated to newer releases. This forces Debian to backport security fixes to make sure that the old software remains secure but THAT would change Mozilla's software to something that wasn't released as such my the Mozilla foundation. So either Debian has to include new releases of all Mozilla software each time a security issue is fixed, or they stop using the name. They chose the latter.
Try Bacula, it supports backing up to DVD (though the functionality is pretty new and not as thoroughly tested as the rest of Bacula) and does span accross DVDs. In fact, that's what I use to back up my Debian system at home.
Here's the part from the manual that specifically applies to DVDs:
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/DVD_Volumes.html
I have to disagree, I used AMANDA several years ago when somebody in the SAMBA project changed smbclient (I think, they added a single empty line to its output) with the result, that my backup system immediately failed. Worse yet, it took them quite a while to fix this and I ended up switching to Bacula where I have yet to see a similar issue. (It has been doing my backups and restores ever since and the only failures I had were hardware issues with my drive.)
Bacula's 'proprietary' data format may deter some people from using it, but on the other hand I know that I'm not dependant on other tools/packages on my system for it to work (apart from maybe the database server).
Half-right. The so called security bar arrived, together with popup blocking, in IE with XP SP2 and quickly found its way into Firefox. The popup blocker itself though was in Phoenix^WFirebird^WFirefox a long time before that (it used to display a little icon in the status bar when it blocked a popup).
So yes, IE was the first to have the security bar, but not the popup blocking.
The BIOS prevents locking your HDD by telling the HDD to freeze the security state. Once the HDD has received that command, it will not accept any other security commands (including the ones to lock it) until it gets reset.
Why do you cite "1) wait a month or so"? First of all, Doom 3 wasn't playable under Linux either until several weeks after its release so that point applies to it as well. And second, I'm not sure that Valve will ever release a Linux client of HL2 (they never did for HL/CS) so I doubt waiting will help.
... that the article talks about System Shock 2 as if it was the original game? I mean, they mention what lead to the inclusion of the logs, weapons caches etc etc but all of that was already in System Shock 1! Not a single one of those aspects was new in SS2, all they had to do was copy them from the original game. The only real news was the weapons breaking down (that created some nicely hectic moments) and the co-op multiplayer (which wasn't even in the first release of SS2 but only got added later on via a patch).
I'm not saying SS2 is a bad game or anything (it's one my all-time favourites) but in my opinion the first part was better and I find the article quite misleading on the history of the two.
Also, I have a GF4Ti4200 128MB AGP4x with sideband and fast write, and I can still only play smoothly at 800x600 on this system. This is hardly the latest greatest video card but it was pretty hot when Halo PC came out,
;) ). The game ran well on my card and was basically unplayable on the GeForce (later nVidia drivers should have fixed that but I wouldn't know for sure).
Nope, I have to correct you there. When Halo PC came out I was already running a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and a friend of mine had just gotten one of the first GeForce 5s (you know, the ones with the integrated hair dryer
In addition to that, I barely saw the pauses 'Loading' dialog. They were more like a fraction of a second 'stutter' on my PC than anything else (and mind you, my box isn't that great, it's only a P IV 2.533 with 512MB PC1066 RDRAM and a normal Maxtor 80GB IDE drive).
That said I still agree the PC port was badly done given the number of systems it apparently has severe performance problems on.
I'm currently setting up one of these for a friend of mine (we started the project about 2 weeks before Anandtech posted their article). We're using a Shuttle SN41G2 V2 XPC as case and a Samsung Spinpoint harddrive.
You can hear it at POST time (the fan spins up and runs at full speed for a second or so) but apart from that and the awfully noisy DVD-ROM (an old Pioneer DVD Slot-in) there's not a sound to be heard at normal load. I still have to try and run a CPU burn-in test to see how loud it gets then and as long as we're not finished it's standing freely whereas later on it will be put away into a small compartment in a shelf that should further isolate the noise the case fan makes. I can only recommend the Spinpoint HDD though, it's very silent!
The key to it is XMLTV. It can basically use any listing grabber you throw at it.
...) but there's also a grabber (tv_grab_dvb) that can get the included EPG data from a dvb stream, the latter being quite popular over here.
For the US MythTV prefers the Zap2it service as mentioned in another post.
Here in Europe, we use tv_grab_ to either parse websites of listing providers (magazines,
In short: As long as you can get something that outputs listings to XMLTV format, you can get listings in MythTV (going from just the titles of the show to the full description including the actors, genre, etc)
[i]I'd be willing to bet that this lock sets itself when you slide the end of the cable in. Kinda like a door latch. It slides over the angled bolt, and once it's over it is trapped til you use the key.[/i]
...) and then pass the locking cylinder through the loop (so basically you have a sling, wrapped around your desks feet, ...) and then you attach the locking cylinder itself to your laptop (notice the small rectangular hole? In there goes the lock and when you turn the key by 90 degrees, the lock's in place).
That's not how Kensington Locks work. Basically you have a cable with the locking cylinder on one side and a 'loop' on the other. To attach your Laptop (or TFT display), you wrap the end with the loop around some fixed part (desk,
Just edit 2 bytes in the Doom 3 executable and play it on Win98:
...o m3.ht ml
Open it in a hex editor, search for 'GlobalMemoryEx' and change the 'Ex' to 00 00. Save and enjoy.
Alternatively: Do the above and play the game in WineX/Cedega
http://www.linux-militia.net/howtos/doom3/do
I have the same situation here. Somebody once asked for a place to store some screenshots in our forums and I gave him some space on my server. He died a few weeks ago (after a car accident), and while I did revoke his password on my system, I can't get myself to delete his publicly accessible gallery (even though I didn't really know him too well).
Sounds like TMDA or Sneakemail (the former is software, the latter is a free service).
Not to mention it doesn't even play MODs (like .XM et al). OK, that would make it unaffected by this vulnerability but it also makes it "a media player I don't want"(tm). ;)
I've found Foobar2000 to be the perfect alternative for me. Simple GUI, highly customizable and it gets the 'job' done.