keskiviikko 31. joulukuuta 2014
tiistai 30. joulukuuta 2014
The 2015 Linux predictions thread.
Let's have some fun trying to predict what will happen in 2015.
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maanantai 29. joulukuuta 2014
Twitter for Android appears to have just experienced a massive outage. Wide reports of users being logged out, unable to log back in.
I got a notification for both of my accounts that I had been logged out "due to authentication error" and have been unable to log back in since, even via mobile Chrome/Firefox. Any ideas what could have caused this?
Edit: I was just able to login to Fenix (at 5:12PM PST) after a few failed attempts. Still unable to login via official app.
So as far as I can tell Twitter is experiencing issues across the board, but it seems to be primarily Android users who were forcibly logged out.
Update #2: From the Twitter status page: "Some users are currently having trouble signing in to twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve this."
Update #3: via Engadget, @_Ninji tweeted, "I MITMed Twitter for Android's login to see why it was failing. The Twitter servers think it's 2015. Amazing."
Update #4 [7:53 PM PST]: WORKING NOW (for me). I was just able to log back in via the official app.
Update #5 [9:41PM]: Tweet from Twitter Support: "The issue that prevented some users from signing in to Twitter has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience: status.twitter.com"
From status.twitter.com:
Sign in issue
[ Update 9:28 PST ]
Between 4:00 and 9:25 PST today some users were unable to sign in to twitter.
This issue was due to a bug in our front end code, which has been patched.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this.
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tiistai 9. joulukuuta 2014
How a dreamcast quirk almost cost 100k
So, this is more of a publishing story, but I think it's funny everytime I think about it and is very relateable to what you poor developers have to deal with. b.t.w. I am no longer in the industry.
I used to work at a small US videogame publisher; we were licensed to publish on all the major platforms at the time, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony. We were known for putting out niche games we localized from Japan. Most of the games were so small that the big publishers didn’t think it was worth their time or effort and as a small publisher with a few employees we were able to bring over interesting titles and still make a profit. These were games that today you would probably find regulated to Xbox Arcade or something similar.
We made a deal to localize an independent Dreamcast game out of Japan. It was a very unique game and was developed basically by one Japanese guy. He had help with the art and music but he did all the designing and coding himself. The game had been mentioned a few times on import sites as something for US gamers to look out for so we jumped at the chance to localize it and bring it over to the states.
So we get the game localized and send it out for approval to Sega. Anyone who was in videogame publishing back then will tell you that getting a game through technical approval was a long and rigorous process. It probably had to do with the lack of online connectivity at the time and ensuring games didn’t need to be patched or your game didn’t kill the console. You literally had to test for everything such as, ‘what happens when you plug a second controller into the console when the game is at the loading screen?’. You had to get approval for everything, from the disc art to the instruction manual. After months we finally got final approval from Sega for the game and we sent the game out for manufacturing. Let’s just say when the game is being manufactured you don’t want to realize you made a mistake and have to recall your entire product and remanufacture everything. That is a mistake that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So… I notice there is a commotion in the CEO’s office and my coworker tells me he is yelling at some guy in Japan. The CEO had put the build of our game that was sent out for manufacturing in the Dreamcast test kit in his office. The game played well enough but after a few minutes of inactivity the game switched to a screensaver of very scantily dressed Japanese woman. So the game we are currently manufacturing has a very NSFW screensaver of big busted naked Japanese woman which for some reason no one caught during the approval process. So the CEO, my boss is yelling at the Japanese developer on the phone. I have no idea what is going on so I pop into the crowded office hoping I might be of assistance and I immediately recognize the pictures of the Japanese woman on the screen and I say “what are my pictures doing on the TV screen?” Just like out of a movie, everyone in the room stops what they are doing and their gazes lock in on me.
So, before I tell you how this all came about there is a small bit of explaining and backtracking involved. Everyone who worked at the game publisher was gamers, you had to be because the pay wasn’t great and the hours were long. But we loved gaming and it was not strange to hear the CEO announce over the phone intercom during the middle of the work day that he had set up a Quake III Arena server and everyone would stop what they were doing a play a few death matches. At the time one of our big game addictions was 4 player Virtua Tennis on the Dreamcast. After work we would huddle in the CEO’s office and play Virtua Tennis for at least a good hour. Anyways with 4 players we needed additional Dreamcast controllers so I brought in my personal one I had from home.
Well at home I was playing a game for the Dreamcast called Jet Grind Radio. For those that don’t know, it’s a game set in Neo-Tokyo where you play as a youth spray painting up the town and avoiding the cops. One of the neat features of the game was you could download pictures off the internet to your controllers virtual memory unit (vmu) and use them as graffiti in the game. As a young man at the time I thought wouldn’t it be cool to spray paint graffiti of nearly naked Japanese woman on the walls in Tokyo. You know for authenticity. So I downloaded some pictures off the internet on to my controller’s vmu.
Well I brought in that same controller to work to play with my co-workers Virtua Tennis, and it was still plugged into the Dreamcast when my boss was showing off his newly approved Sega Dreamcast game that was already in manufacturing. And what we didn’t realize is that when a game for the Dreamcast has no activity for a short duration the Dreamcast screensaver automatically starts and if you have pictures on your VMU it will use them for your screensaver. Thus the pictures of naked Japanese woman were not hidden somewhere in our localized Japanese Dreamcast game but were in the VMU of the controller.
Boss said he was minutes away from calling the manufacturers to have the production line stopped. The Boss called back the Japanese developer he woke up in the middle of the night and apologized for yelling at him and we all learned about an interesting Dreamcast screensaver feature none of us knew about previously.
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maanantai 8. joulukuuta 2014
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Advice? I need OCR for 200+ pages
I'm recreating a 200+ page typed document. Thankfully I saved my paper copy, but I lost/deleted the text of it all.
I now need to OCR and format this doc. Any advice on what prog to use?
I run Ubuntu 14.04 on my desktop.
Here's what I have to make this quick: ●Xsane ●60 page per min scanner
Can't figure out a workflow or what program to use. Any help is appreciated!
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17 year old 'Carmageddon' debugging symbols file dumped
In the Carmageddon Splat Pack folder, there is a file called ‘DETHRSC.SYM’, last modified 13th November 1997.
It has sat there, un-noticed and un-loved for the last 17 years, ignored by the internet. Having made a remake of the Carmageddon engine, and being generally curious about random binary files, I tried to figure out the file format. Immediately by looking at it in a hex editor, it was obviously a debugging symbol file, the question was which type of symbol file? Of course, there are many symbol files with a .sym extension, and after some trial and error, it turned out to be a Watcom symbol file. I grabbed a copy of OpenWatcom and fired up the debugger, wd. It could read the symbols, but I never found any Carmageddon executable that matched up with it. It seems likely it was left there by mistake from a debug build.
Using wd to look at the symbols 1 by 1 in a little DOS window quickly becomes tiring, so then I wanted to dump the symbols out. For that, I needed the source code for the Watcom tools, and a working Open Watcom development environment.
…Fast forward a while getting the environment up and finding where the code for handling symbol files lives…
In the Watcom world, symbol file support is provided by various DIPs. To use a DIP dll requires the calling program to implement various client-side methods to allow the DIP to alloc memory etc, and then to provide callback functions for the DIP to call when walking the symbol list. It’s all pretty complex, but luckily there are a couple of utilities which illustrate generally how it should be done. I based jsonsymdump off dipdump (which is advertised as dumping symbol files to text format, but crashes on DETHRSRC.SYM). I did the minimal amount of work in C required to generate a valid json file, then wrote a node.js script to take that json file and generate some semi-valid-ish c files.
- Browsable symbol output here: http://bit.ly/1FM53Gj
- More details here: http://bit.ly/1FM55y1
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tiistai 2. joulukuuta 2014
I'm Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel developer, AMA!
To get a few easy questions out of the way, here's a short biography about me any my history: http://bit.ly/12lFVKh
Here's a good place to start with that should cover a lot of the basics about what I do and what my hardware / software configuration is. http://bit.ly/1FKT9yq
Also, an old reddit post: http://bit.ly/1FKTb9y explains a bit about what I do, although those numbers are a bit low from what I have been doing this past year, it gives you a good idea of the basics.
And read this one about longterm kernels for how I pick them, as I know that will come up and has been answered before: http://bit.ly/12lFYG0
For some basic information about Linux kernel development, how we do what we do, and how to get involved, see the presentation I give all around the world: http://bit.ly/1FKT9yr
As for hardware, here's the obligatory /r/unixporn screenshot of my laptop: http://bit.ly/12lFYG7
I'm also a true believer of /r/MechanicalKeyboards/ and have two Cherry Blue Filco 10-key-less keyboards that I use whenever not traveling.
Proof: http://bit.ly/1FKTbpP and http://bit.ly/12lFVKm
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Affordable Linux box under $99
Hi,
I want to start playing around with linux but I have a very low budget (I'm a student). I'm wondering if anyone is aware of a Black Friday deal on a linux box or anything cheap that doesn't have much processing power, but can do decent work. Any insight would be appreciated.
Best, u/decoy98
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sunnuntai 23. marraskuuta 2014
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TIL there is a "Zip Bomb" called 42.zip that when downloaded is only 42 Kilobytes, but actually contains 4,500,000 Gigabytes uncompressed. The file crashes computers when Anti-Virus software comes across it during a routine scan and tries to open the entire file, using up all the computer's memory.
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torstai 20. marraskuuta 2014
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What are some cool Linux games suitable for a LAN party?
So I've actively been converting people to Linux lately (2.5 converts so far!) and I was hoping to stoke my friends' enthusiasm by hosting a little LAN party based around Linux gaming. However, when I think about games we could play I mainly come up with Windows native games that we would have to port (I'm still rather new to Linux gaming myself.) I would welcome all suggestions!
Edit: Wow, that was fast. Lot's of great suggestions, and the post hasn't been up three hours, so thanks a lot! (feel like I'm using way to many exclamation marks ITT, but I feel the need to express my enthusiasm somehow :D) I have to poll whether people are tending more towards FPS or strategy, but I love both, so as far as I'm concerned there will be two LANs. Keep the suggestions coming, if you can think of any more!
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lauantai 15. marraskuuta 2014
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tiistai 11. marraskuuta 2014
CD/DVD/Blu-Ray AutoRipper
I have been working on this project for a little over a week now, and i want to share it with everyone that would be interested.
Its a Zero-Touch Ripping program for all your CDs/DVDs and BluRays.
I have found this very useful for ripping all my BluRays to my plex server to save all the discs. I just like to collect them for some reason...
Check it out please, and let me know what you all think.
Blog Post - http://bit.ly/1tBIv40
Github - http://bit.ly/147JTa5
Thanks!
-Sk8
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GNOME Foundation starts fundraiser to defend its GNOME trademark from Groupon
GNOME Foundation is starting a fundraiser to help fund its legal costs in defending its trademark 'GNOME' from infringement by Groupon's point of sale product of the same name. See http://bit.ly/1uYQnny.
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Alternative to Dansguardian
Are there any alternatives to Dansguardian? The project seems like it hasn't had any life for a long time. Are there any active web filtering projects or is Dansguardian still the best options?
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So I started testing systemd on my home server...
Updated system, installed, was happy it worked out of the box... and then looked into monitoring:
And suddenly I've got every service's CPU, mem and disk usage monitored every 10 seconds "for free".
A little bit of background: few months ago, when I was experimenting with cgroups and lxc I made a simple script to traverse cgroups and get statistics (cpu, mem, disk IO) and pipe it thru my monitoring system ( collectd -> riemann -> influxdb -> grafana ).
I was lukewarm about mandatory cgroups per service before ("meh, limiting is useful in 2 out 50 running services because most of them dont misbehave and package maintaners probably wont set them or set them wrong") but that is just awesome.
Now debugging any system slowness has become sooo much easier.
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maanantai 15. syyskuuta 2014
sunnuntai 14. syyskuuta 2014
Running services in containers on a headless server
I've got a headless server running Archlinux which has worked reliably for many years. I'd like to start getting away from using aur packages for things like seafile and instead install them in their "native" environment (debian). I looked at docker but it seems that because it shares the OS kernel I'm locked to the host distro.
Would vagrant be a good candidate? I've only used it on my laptop so I'm not sure if virtualbox will work headless (even though vagrant uses it that way).
edit: got off my ass and looked at the docker docs and it seems it can do a different distro.
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lauantai 13. syyskuuta 2014
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tiistai 9. syyskuuta 2014
Reddit, what do we think of your country?
Post your country down below, and we'll tell you the boderline-offensive stereotypes and ideas we have about this country/people from it. Make sure to answer others too.
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maanantai 8. syyskuuta 2014
Notepad++ replacement for programming?
I love Notepad++, specifically for Python scripting, and haven't come across anything in Linux that I like nearly as well. As a result, I often find myself with a Win7 VM side-by-side with my terminal, coding in N++ and running it in the bash shell.
There must be a better way. What Linux-native editors do you guys use, and what do you like about it? I'm open to GUI or CLI editors.
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sunnuntai 7. syyskuuta 2014
What is your password management strategy?
To avoid writing my thesis, I started cleaning my computer. Now I arrived to the passwords step. I listed all the passwords that I need:
- bios
- hard drive encryption
- root
- user
- firefox
- ten or fifteen sites
- thunderbird
- two accounts
- ssh key
- gpg key
- skype
- the bank
- irc
- xmpp
- etc.
- firefox
So I have more than 20 passwords to memorize. For now, I rely on my brain to remember them. Ok I also use the password managers of firefox and thunderbird, but still, I have more than 10 passwords to remember!!
The perfect solution would be the one that make me remember only one password, but I don't think that it is possible (because of the bios and the hard drive).
So what is your overall strategy to minimize the number of passwords that you have to remember?
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What was your biggest misconception about linux?
The first time I fiddled with ubuntu, i thought : "Oh my god, software center is so awesome and useful and I'll never need to learn any command prompt to install stuff"
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sunnuntai 31. elokuuta 2014
What do you use your free year of Amazon AWS for?
Just set up my free year of AWS and am looking for some ideas. I set up an email server on an EC2 instance but am looking for some interesting ideas on what else can be accomplished on the free tier.
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It's the first weekend of Linux games on Gog; what will you be playing?
I'm definitely picking up Darklands; been wanting to play Teslagrad and Kentucky Route Zero as well.
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Music Discovery with Elementary OS's Noice App
Just "discovering" the Noise app on Eelementary OS. The Similar Media feature that links to Last.fm is awesome for music discovery. What are you Elementary tips?
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torstai 17. heinäkuuta 2014
Questions thread: Ask /r/photography anything you want to know about photography or cameras! Don't be shy! Newbies welcome! - July 15th Edition - World Champions Edition!
Have a simple question that needs answering? Feel like it's too little of a thing to make a post about? Worried the question is "stupid"? Worry no more! Ask anything and /r/photography will help you get an answer.
Please don't forget to upvote this and the other weekly threads to keep them on the frontpage longer. This will reduce the amount of spam and loose threads in /r/photography. Also remember that this is a text post, I do not get karma for it. This is a /r/photography community service, not a karma grab for the mods. However; if you want free karma, answer people's questions!
Please be sure to take a look at the Weekly Album Threads! If you would like to share your photos or want some critique, post an album to that thread and leave some comments on other people's albums (preferably people who have not been commented yet, or have few comments) even writing "This photo [link] is my favourite" is enough.
Also, please remember the reddiquette - Upvotes are also useful for pushing good photos to the top and showing appreciation. Please avoid using downvotes.
Current Active Official Threads:
Newbies;
- Please watch this video if you want to have the 3 basics of Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO explained in a very easy to understand way.
- Also check out /r/photoclass2014 and /r/photoclass.
- Using the Album Thread is a great way to learn, by both forcing yourself to select which of your photos are worth sharing, and by judging other people's albums, which forces you to think about what you like in other people's photos.
- If you want to buy a camera, take a look at www.snapsort.com or www.dpreview.com
- If you want a camera to learn on, or a first camera, the beginner camera market is very competitive, so they're all pretty much the same in terms of price/value. Just go to a shop and pick one that feels good in your hands.
- Canon vs. Nikon? Just choose whichever one your friends/family have, so you can ask them for help (button/menu layout) and/or borrow their lenses/batteries/etc.
- /u/mrjon2069 also made a video demonstrating the basic controls of a DSLR camera. You can find it here
There is also a /r/photography FAQ.
PSA: We have /r/photography affiliate accounts. More details here and here. If you are buying from Amazon, Amazon UK, B+H, Think Tank, or Backblaze and wish to support the /r/photography community, you can do so by using the links. If you see the same item cheaper, elsewhere, please buy from the cheaper shop. We still have not decided what the money will be used for, and if nothing is decided, it will be donated to charity. The money has successfully been used to buy reddit gold for competition winners at /r/photography and given away as a prize for a previous competition.
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