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What is an inode?

Inodes and filesystems are important concepts in computer science that are often discussed in the context of operating systems. An inode is a data structure used to store information about a file or directory on a computer’s filesystem. This information includes the file’s size, ownership, access permissions, and the location of the file’s data on the physical storage device. A filesystem is the underlying structure that an operating system uses to organize and manage the files and directories on a computer’s storage devices.

What is ext2?

What is the ext2 filesystem? The ext2 (second extended) filesystem is a type of file system used in Linux operating systems. It was the default file system in many Linux distributions in the 1990s, and it is still in use today, although it has been largely superseded by newer file systems such as ext3 and ext4. The ext2 file system was developed as a successor to the original ext (extended) file system, which was released in 1992.

What is a disk partition?

What is a disk partition? Introduction A disk partition is a logical division of a hard disk that is used to separate and organize data. A disk partition can be created to store specific types of data, such as operating system files, application files, or user data. In Linux, disk partitions are typically created during the installation process. In traditional Unix systems, system administrators would create many partitions, each of which would be used for a different purpose.

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Linux Commands list for beginners

An article that will show a basic Linux Commands list for beginners. Linux Commands list for Beginners Linux is one of the most popular open source operating system that is used by programmers around the world. It is easy to install and is loaded with incredible features that work efficiently on any hardware. Linux is also fully customizable and can be modified as per your hardware and software requirements. Whether you’re new to Linux or have been a fan of this operating system for a long time, you should be familiar with a basic Linux command list for beginners that will improve your user experience.

Android Emulators for Linux

Android Emulators for Linux  An emulatoris a program or a hardware device that allows your connected device like a computer to imitate a different system. Usually, an emulator is used for popular hardware devices when they become outdated or are not compatible with the majority of machines in the market. Terminal emulation is a term that refers to the use of emulators to make an older program work with a new device.

Chrome vs Chromium

Chrome vs Chromium. A detailed article for the differences of Google Chrome and Chromium internet browsers. In the previous article for how to install Chrome on Ubuntuand Mint we mentioned an internet browser that is called Chromium and we also said that Google Chrome is based on it. Those two browsers seem to look alike and in this guide we’ll see with what criteria we’ll choose which one to install.

Install Chrome on Ubuntu and Mint(step by step)

In this article we’re see how to install Chrome on Ubuntu and Mint. Google Chrome is one popular internet browser developed by Google. The most popular Linux Distroshave pre-installed Mozilla Firefox. While it’s definitely a good browser, many users don’t want to change Google Chrome. In this tutorial we’ll see how to install Chrome on Ubuntu and the same applies for Lubuntu and Mint Linux. Also we’ll see how to install Chromium.

Linux Operating System

Linux Operating System Linux operating system (Linux or GNU/Linux) is a free source Unix Type operating system that was initially created by Linus Torvalds and then it developed with the help of developers from all over the world. Its use is similar to that of Unix, but all of the source code has been written from scratch as free software under free license GNU General Public License. That means that it’s source code is accessible to anyone.

Linux Games – Is it time to try them out?

Linux games started as an extension of Unix games and later evolved to introduce its titles in various genres like racing games, sports games, trading card games, and much more. As the Linux operation system grew by each passing year, open source and free games increased in scalability and complexity. Linux gaming platform began in 1994 with the introduction of Doom by Dave D. Talyor and today there are high-end games like Dirt Rally, Rocket League, and much more.

How to Install Ubuntu Studio

How to Install Ubuntu Studio. Ubuntu Studio is Linux Community’s biggest addition to Linux Operating System and its multimedia applications. This software is dedicated to video and audio editing, along with thousands of other free applications that are available with its package. This multimedia app is used by millions around the globe for editing and publishing their audios and videos, with minimum hardware requirements and cost. It is available in four different languages: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Linux Distros Part 2

This is the continuation of our previous article, where we list some of the most popular Linux Distros. You can read the first part here.   Linux Distros Part 2  1. Slackware For many people, Slackware is considered the… Hackers distribution. It is the oldest Linux Distro that managed to “survive” until today, and no, it’s not the first Linux Distro as many people believe. It’s very strong and stable since 1993.

Linux Distros

One of the best characteristics of Linux is the unlimited choices of **Linux Distros**that offers to its users. Linux technically refers to the core of the operating system but usually when we’re talking about Linux, people usually understand that besides the core we’re also talking about the applications and the programs that surround it. The core package and also the applications and programs compose what we’re naming as Linux Distro. There are a lot of Linux Distros and in this article we’re going to talk about the most popular ones.

Linux Distro Comparison

Linux Distro Comparison In this article you’ll see a Linux Distro Comparison. This way some new users will be helped, because when it comes to Linux, there are always a lot of choices. Even if you’re not a new user then and you’d like just to change from one distro to another, this is going to be a helpful guide for you in case you’re not already a pro. Choosing a Linux distribution isn’t always an easy choice.

Does Linux needs antivirus

Does Linux needs antivirus?  Using Windows OS without an updated AntiVirus is not really responsible. Many users though who switch to a Linux Distro like Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Manjaro or Fedora, ask them self’s if Linux needs antivirus . The short answer is no, and we’re going to see why. What is a virus, or else, a malware? In order for us to understand why an antivirus isn’t necessary in Linux it’s important to understand first how a virus/Trojan/key logger/work/whatever kind of malware works.

How to install Arch Linux (on VirtualBox)

This guide shows how to install Arch Linux on virtual box. In our last guide, we showed just how to install arch Linux as a main OS. We will do this as a step-by-step guide. Once more we would like to say that the most detailed guide is always the official. The guide you’re about to read though, is considered as simplified. The Desktop Environment we use is Gnome, but since it’s the last step of this guide, you can choose your own.

How to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux Distros. It is one of the most user friendly distribution and it is also common for a newbie to start with Ubuntu his Linux experience. That doesn’t mean that Ubuntu isn’t good enough fro more advanced users though. In this article we’re going to share a step-by-step guide on how to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS by either using a DVD either a USB drive.

Recover deleted files in Linux

Since everyone once in while acccidently deletes a file, in this article we’re going to show how you can recover deleted files in Linux. Since there are different ways to delete a file there are different ways to recover it also.    Recover deleted files in Linux Case 1 – You deleted the file using the “Del” key. In that case, just go to the “Trash” and search for the file in order to restore it.

Ubuntu Core 16 Released

The parent company of Ubuntu, named Canonical, released Ubuntu Core 16. It’s a minimal edition for embedded devices, Internet of things and cloud deployments.  What is new in Ubuntu Core 16 The new version released with Update control. This allows publishers of software and also manufactures to make some validations to the updates before they actually apply them. A great Ubuntu Core feature is that its updates are transactional. This means that every failure is going to automatically be rolled back so there are no compromised devices.

Released: Lubuntu 16.10

A new version of Lubuntu16.10 was released. Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system. It’s core is based on Linux and Ubuntu. Lubuntu uses the LXDEdesktop, it is focused on speed and energy efficiency. Lubuntu has very low system requirements and it can be installed on older PCs. A fresh installed Lununtu 16.10 consumes 300Mb of memory , compered with Ubuntu 16.10 that is consuming 800 Mb. What’s improved since 16.

How to download and install Steam on Ubuntu Linux

Before we install Steam on Ubuntu Linux we have to open the terminal and install the following packages: When installation is finished just follow this link and press ” Install Steam Now” button.  Next step is to open the file with the Ubuntu Package Center. If it doesn’t prompt you ; just find the file you downloaded and double click it. Accept Steam Terms and you are ready to play.

How to install Arch Linux

The following article is going to show you how to install Arch Linux by using Arch Install Scripts. BEFORE starting we would advise you to read this FAQ. “Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686/x86-64 general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling-release model. The default installation is a minimal base system, configured by the user to only add what is purposely required.

How to configure SFTP server on Centos

In this article we’re going to see how to configure SFTP server on Centos. What is SFTPServer? Secure File Transfer Protocol(SFTP) is barely used to encrypt connections between the client and the FTP server. SFTP can provide file transfers, file management and file accessover SSH tunnels. It also allows you to provide isolation between different SFTP users.  SFTP server on Centos  First you must install the following :

Manjaro Linux 16.10 Fringilla Released

In a previous post we announced the updates of the rolling distribution Manjaro Linux, but as it seems the update, upgrades the system in to the edition Manjaro Linux 16.10 Fringilla. The edition of Xfce remains the default desktop administrator and according to the post announcement of Manjaro Linux 16.10 not a few can claim to offer such an integrated and innovative experience Xfce.  So, the new distribution comes with Xfce 4.

Manjaro Linux: Update brings Linux Kernel 4.5.8-2

Manjaro Linux operating system updated yesterday, and the update was just announced. For those that don’t know about this OS, the Manjaro distribution is based on Arch Linux and it’s goal is to make things easier for the non-experienced Linux user. The Manjaro installation is simple and it can be done with 2 different ways, one via GUI and one via terminal.   In general Manjaro linux is good for your attention, and it brings a lot of promises for the future.

Install Bugzilla On Ubuntu Linux

In this article we can see a guide on how to install Bugzilla on Ubuntu Linux. Bugzillais a free help desk software. You can’t rate bugs according to importance or color code them. But that lack of features also means a clean, simple, easy-to-use interface. It does have some advanced features, such as advanced search which can remember your searches, and editable user profiles. Email preferences and bug permissions are comprehensive.

How to Install Mattermost with PostgreSQL and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

A tutorial on how to install Mattermost with PostgreSQL and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04. Mattermost is an open source messaging system written in the programming languages Golang and React. It’s a slack alternative, we can build our own messaging service like slack or hipchat with it. Mattermost brings your team communication to a single place and makes it accessible anywhere. You can access it from your desktop, Android device, and iPhone.

Unity 8 preview session in Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak has landed and brings with it the Unity 8 technical preview desktop session. Unity 8 has been the face of the Ubuntu phoneand tablet for a few years and has quickly evolved its convergence feature set to allow it to work seamlessly between form factors such as phones, tablets and desktops. You can now chose to log in to a Unity 8 session directly from the greeter.

Install LAMP server on Linux(Ubuntu)

In this tutorial we’re going to give you a step-by-step guide, on how to install LAMP server on Ubuntu. For those who don’t quite understand what a LAMP server is you can check here. Supposedly you should be sure that you understand also how to create a website from back end, and also you should know how to install a software by using either the Software Centereither the Terminal. If you don’t, you can learn here for the Terminal and here for the Software Center.

Repair Restore or Reinstall Grub 2 with Ubuntu CD or USB

In this article we’ll show you how to r****epair restore or reinstall Grub 2 with Ubuntu CD or USB. Grub 2usually gets overridden when you install another OS. In order to make Ubuntu to control the boot process you’re going to need to Reinstall Grub using and Ubuntu live CD.     Warning: By using the “sudo” commant, especially form a live CD you can seriously harm your system.

Skype Alpha 1.11 released with improvements in Video Call

Recently Skype released an update to the Skype for Linux Alpha client. It includes many new features and improvements compared to the previous version as they say, but that is not necessarily true or exact !   Now you can have support for setting an avatar in group chats and there are also some performance improvements during a video call. Some of the early users mentioned that they have already experienced issues, by receiving notifications when skype isn’t in focus.

Fedora 25(Beta) resets Linux performance bar

Fedora 25 beta version released this month by Red Hat. This release gives more to cloud and developer features which makes this Linux distribution more attractive to enterprise users. Fedora Linux is the version of Enterprise Linux(RHEL), and it includes a set of base packages that form the basic foundation of: Cloud, Server and Workstation. Each one of those targets a different group of users.   Fedora 25 Targeted Users So Fedora 25 release is most likely for enterprise users.

Released: Lumina Desktop 1.1

This weekend, a new version of Lumina got released, Lumina Desktop 1.1 . Lumina is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment. It uses an approach “plugin based” to the whole interface, and this is allowing the user to tune and tweak the desktop according to his personal needs and preferences. You can install it in almost any Linux distribution even though the developer says that it works best with TrueOS, including also Fedora, Arch and ofcourse Ubuntu.

How to have Netflix on Firefox for Linux

If you’re a Firefox user if you run Netflix in the Mozilla browser now, you’ll see the old Silverlight error page. But there is a solution. For a reason , Netflix expects Silverlight when a user is running firefox.  There is a simple solution on this. The only think you have to do is trick Netflix into thinking you are running something like Chrome and you can do it by changing the browser user-agent.

How to install GitLab on Ubuntu 16.04

GitLab is an open source app that mostly is used in order to host Git repositories. It also give your additional features such as issue tracking. It is developed to use your own infrastructure, it’s flexible to deploy as an internal repository store for your dev team. The Gitlab project makes the procedure of installing Gitlab pretty much straight forward. Here you will see how can you install it in an Ubuntu 16.

How to fix Linux Kernel from Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) – Debian/Ubuntu

Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is a privilege escalation vulnerability that Linux Kernel has and exists since 2005. CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). The explanation why this can be referred as Dirty COW is as a result of a race condition that was found in Linux kernels memory subsystem, handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. That means that a local user that did not have the privilege, could use this flaw for gaining access to read only memory mappings.

Install Legacy “xorg” Apps on Unity 8 in Ubuntu 16.10

You can install and use legacy “xorg” apps on Unity 8 Desktop Session on Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.10 comes with an optional Unity 8 pre-installed. Using Unity 8 on a Ubuntu 16.10 machine is actually a good experience. You can install more ‘Snap’ apps, like photo gallery, from the command line using: sudo snap install --edge --devmode gallery-app But what happens when you need the classic apps that we all know?

How to install VirtualBox 5.1 to RHEL/CentOS and Fedora

VirtualBox is a software that created for virtualization and it is open source x-platform. It is possible to be installed in all operating systems and give to user the capability to install and run a lot of “guest” operating systems in the same machine. A simple example is that if you install it in your Linux machine, then, you can ran Windows OS as a GuestOS and also the opposite. Same concept applies to more OS, which means that you can compine more than 2 with only limitation is your hard drive capacity and ofcourse your systems memory.

Fedora 26 removes the synaptics driver

Jan Kurik , Red Hat’s Fedora program Manager informed us about a system-wide change on the fedora 26 release. His proposal is the retirement of synaptics X11 drivers , provided by xorg-x11-dvr-synaptics package. Ferora project’s dev team decided the removal to offer users a better touchpad experience from the default install on Fedora 26 Linux default install that is released in june 2017. For users who prefer synaptics instead of libinput can still install it.

Wine 1.8.5 with Nvidia GT 740M fix and many more

Windows Movie Maker 2.x needs ole32.dll.StgOpenPropStg Microsoft Publisher 2007 and 2010 crash when opening documents/templates Windows utility ‘relog.exe’ crashes on unimplemented function ‘pdh.dll.PdhGetLogFileTypeW’ PDF Factory 3.x/4.x installer fails to install printer drivers (winspool.SetPrinterW lacks support for level 8, global default printer settings) CAPCOM games using gamepad start with axes X/Y pressed up/left SmartMusic 2012/2014 crashes on startup (Core Audio adapter ‘PKEY_DeviceInterface_FriendlyName’ property not supported) Photos opened in Nikon Capture NX 2.

Kdenlive 16.08.2 released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> This cycle saw the launch of the <a href="https://kdenlive.org/toolbox/">Toolbox</a> section of the website, a collection of posts covering in depth reviews of new and existing tools and features. </p> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;">Kdenlive 16.08.2 Changelog</span> </h3> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Fix MLT Playlist proxying after recent proxy profile changes </li> <li> Fix proxy profiles to keep aspect ratio </li> <li> <span class="commit_title">Fix broken keyframes on image/title clips</span> </li> <li> Fix automatic playback of file with space in name </li> <li> Fix simplekeyframe effects (eg.

NetBeans IDE 8.2 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<p style="text-align: justify;"> – There are diferent NetBeans IDE <a href="https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html" target="_blank">download bundles</a> available. Download the desired bundle or download for all bundles. For the purpose of this post, I am downloading for ALL </p> <pre>sudo apt-get purge openjdk* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer wget http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/8.2/final/bundles/netbeans-8.2-linux.sh chmod +x netbeans-8.2-linux.sh ./netbeans-8.2-linux.sh<p style="text-align: justify;"> – Follow on-screen wizard to install your IDE </p>

Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Final Beta released

The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 16.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 13th, 2016. Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Cloud Images: Yakkety Final Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 4.8 kernel, and much more.

digiKam 5.2.0 released, with better shape and face recognition

<pre>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:philip5/extra sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install digikam5<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;">How to remove digiKam 5.2.0 from Ubuntu 16.04</span> </h3> <pre>sudo apt remove digikam5 sudo apt autoremove

SmartGit 8.0.1 available, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<li> Log: memory leak if having the Log window open for a long time </li> <li> Refresh, File Monitor: smartgit.fileMonitor.excludeIgnoredDirectories=false does not work properly </li> <li> Stash-on-demand: possible internal error related to progress display </li> </ul>

VMware Workstation Player 12.5 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

VMware Workstation Player 12.5 recently released, is a free for personal use piece of software that can be used by anyone to run (or playback) virtual machines that were initially created with the Oracle Virtualbox or VMware Workstation applications and exported as appliances. VMware Workstation Player 12.5 Changelog   What’s New How to install VMware Workstation Player 12.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 Follow on screen installer to complete the installation

cURL 7.50.3 released with cmake and openssl fix

  CVE-2016-7167: escape and unescape integer overflows mk-ca-bundle.pl: use SHA256 instead of SHA1 checksrc: detect strtok() use errors: new alias CURLE_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY http2: support > 64bit sized uploads openssl: fix bad memory free (regression) CMake: hide private library symbols http: refuse to pass on response body when NO_NODY is set cmake: fix curl-config –static-libs mbedtls: switch off NTLM in build if md4 isn’t available curl: –create-dirs on windows groks both forward and backward slashes  

Wine 1.9.19 Dev released with World of Tanks crash fix

Wine 1.9.19 Dev recently released, comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfixes. This includes Initial version of a udev bus driver for HID, various improvements in joystick support, Initial implementation of DC rendering in Direct2D, Improved metafile support in GDI and various bug fixes. Wine 1.9.19 Dev Changelog WinUAE settings window reappears after being dismissed PDF Export problem on Delphi 7 applications stamps.com installer hangs The Geometer’s Sketchpad 5.

VirtualBox 5.1.6 released, Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver

VirtualBox 5.1.6 was recently released as a 5.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Some addressed issues includes fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases, keyboard grabbing fixes and many others. VirtualBox 5.1.6 changelog   GUI: fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.

Vim 8.0 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

Vim 8.0 released after more than a year since it was last released. This release gives you interesting new features, such as channels, JSON, Jobs, Timers, Partials, Lambdas, Closures, Packages and more. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. Vim 8.0 Update Jobs DirectX support for Microsoft users Support for asynchronous I/O, channels, JSON New style testing Lambdas and Closures Partials Packages estamp Timers (asynchronous) Support for GTK+ 3 Viminfo merged by tim See changelog for complete lists

qBittorrent 3.3.7 released – New feature delete torrent files with shift

qBittorrent 3.3.7 Open Source BitTorrent Client recently released, is a BitTorrent client that comes loaded with all the modern functionality necessary for daily torrenting which includes an integrated search engine, web interface, sequential download support, bandwidth scheduler, RSS support and other useful features. qBittorrent 3.3.7 Changelog   FEATURE: Delete torrent+files with Shift+Delete (pieniacy) BUGFIX: Fix 6-hour speedplot point push rate. Close #5545 (Daniel Segesdi) BUGFIX: Avoid spawning a new explorer.

Lollypop 0.9.113 released with Lastfm scrobbler fix

Enhanced search engine MTP sync for albums Move stats to settings dialog Move artist artwork outside cache Fix Lastfm scrobbler Guess tracknumber from filename Fix issues with Unity Rework all code (may have introduced unwanted regressions)

How to install XnView MP on Ubuntu 16.04

XnViewMP is the enhanced version of XnView Classic. It is a powerful cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing graphical & video files. Compatible with more than 500 format. In this article we’ll guide you through the process of how to install XnView MP on Ubuntu 16.04 [Bugs] GPS map issues [Requests] QT 5.6.1 [Bugs] Delete in view mode doesn’t work [Bugs] Thumbnail size change thumbnails view [Bugs] Copy instead of Move action [Bugs] Print custom size [Bugs] Thumbnail mode & thumbnail size menu [Bugs] Export after join/Capture

EME – An Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux

EME is an Elegant Markdown Editor recently released for Linux. EME was developed with Electron framework. The goal of EME is to give you teh best markdown editor experience and its available for Windows, Mac, Linux. EME Features It just suits, show editor or preview or both just as you wish. Focus mode, writing without distractions. Exportable, from Markdown to HTML/PDF… You name it. Supporting math typesetting, good for students and professionals.

How to install Node.js 6.4.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre>sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Download the nvm installation script from the<a href="https://github.com/creationix/nvm">project&#8217;s GitHub page</a> and run it </li> </ul> <pre>curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh bash install_nvm.sh<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Close your Terminal screen and open it again to gain access to the nvm functionality. Then run the following commands </li> </ul> <pre>nvm list nvm ls-remote nvm install 6.4.0 nvm use 6.

Ardour 5.0 Open Source Audio Editor for Linux released

Go to http://ardour.org/ website and register your email address to get the download link for Ardour 5.0 Open terminal, change directory to where you saved the ardour “.run” file and run following commands to install Ardour Wait until installation is completed Search for Ardour in dash

ScudCloud – Linux Client app for Slack, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

ScudCloud is a non official open-source Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Arch, Fedora) desktop client app for Slack. ScudCloud improves the Slack integration with Linux desktops featuring: multiple teams support native system notifications count of unread direct mentions at launcher/sytray icon alert/wobbling on new messages channels quicklist (Unity only) optional tray notifications and “Close to Tray” follow your desktop activity and will stay online while you’re logged in (if correct packages are installed) How to install ScudCloud – Linux Client app for Slack on Ubuntu 16.

Firefox 48.0 released with Multi-Process support (Electrolysis)

<li class="bbli"> WebRTC embetterments: <ul> <li> Delay-agnostic AEC enabled </li> <li> Full duplex for GNU/Linux enabled </li> <li> ICE Restart & Update is supported </li> <li> Cloning of MediaStream and MediaStreamTrack is now supported </li> <li> Searching for something already in your bookmarks or open tabs? We added super smart icons to let you know </li> <li> Windows folks: Tab (move buttons) and Shift+F10 (pop-up menus) now behave as they should in Firefox customization mode </li> <li> The media parser has been redeveloped using the Rust programming language </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed: <ul> <li> Heyo, Jabra & Logitech C920 webcam users.

Fotoxx 16.08 Photo Editor released

<li class="bbli"> Slide Show: <ul> <li> The last image remains displayed until Escape is pressed </li> <li> Transition preferences: fix large dialog that can overflow a small monitor. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Select Hairy: <ul> <li> Show the tones currently being selected or deselected. </li> <li> Select and deselect thresholds were adjusted for finer selectivity. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Select Area: <ul> <li> Area edit: edge blending appearance was made smoother.

LibreOffice 5.2.0 released with new features

<li class="bbli"> Calc: <ul> <li> New functions have been added, along with extensive tooltips that describe what a function does as you type it. </li> <li> Multiple status bar functions can be active at the same time, to provide a quick overview of your data. </li> <li> The currency toolbar icon now includes a drop-down menu to quickly choose the currency you want to use. </li> <li> When removing the border from selected cells, you can also choose to remove the border from adjacent cells as well.

cURL 7.50.1 released with cmake fix

<pre>wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.1.tar.gz tar -xvf curl-7.50.1.tar.gz cd curl-7.50.1/ ./configure make sudo make install

Install Anatine “Pristine Twitter app” on Ubuntu 16.04

Anatine is an opensource Pristine Twitter like app developed for OS X, Linux, and Windows OS. Anatine offers you some nice features which includes a lovely Dark mode theme and it also runs at the background when you close the app. Highlights of Features Dark mode You can toggle dark mode in the Anatine menu or with Cmd Shift D / Ctrl Shift D. {#user-content-background-behavior}Background behavior When closing the window, the app will continue running in the background, in the dock on macOS and the tray on Linux/Windows.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) reaches End of Life on July 28 2016

The Ubuntu Release Team recently announced the End of Life of Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) which was released almost 9 months ago, on October 22, 2015. All security related updates wil no longer be made available after the scheduled date “July 28, 2016. According to the announcement posted by Adam Conrad (A member of the release team): As a non-LTS release, 15.10 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.

Duplicity 0.7.08 Released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1573957 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> upload last chunk with files_upload_session_finish to avoid extra request </li> <li> upload small files using non-chunked api </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1586934 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> fixes error handling in wrapper </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1586992 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> Patch adds _delete_list to Par2Backend. And _delete_list fallbacks to </li> <li> _delete calls if wrapped backend has no _delete_list.

Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install the encode addon</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Remove Kodi v17</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get remove kodi*</pre>

FileZilla 3.19.0 released with bug fix

<li class="bbli"> Bugfixes and minor changes: <ul> <li> Fixed context menu in search dialog if not connected to server </li> <li> OS X, *nix: Fix displayed text in file list status bar if selecting a single item in the file list out of multiple already selected items </li> </ul> </li>

Calibre 2.60.0 released with news download feature

<li class="bbli"> Bug Fixes: <ul> <li> ToC Editor: Fix ToC detection in EPUB 3 files with only an NCX and no nav not working </li> <li> E-book viewer: In paged mode, when the window is toggled between full screen and window, repeatedly, preserve the position more accurately. </li> <li> E-book viewer: Fix incorrect page turning when multiple pages are displayed on screen for books that wrap all their content in a single 100% height tag.

Lollypop 0.9.109 Gnome Media Player released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lollypop<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>For Unity only, disable the overlay scrollbars:</strong></span> </p> <pre>gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal</pre> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;">Install Lollypop on OpenSUSE 13.2 and derivative systems:</span> </h3> <pre>sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gnumdk31/openSUSE_13.2/home:gnumdk31.repo -O /etc/zypp/repos.d/home:gnumdk31.repo sudo zypper refresh sudo zypper install lollypop<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Remove lollypop:</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo zypper remove lollypop</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Lollypop on Fedora 22 and derivative systems:</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo yum install dnf-plugin-copr sudo dnf copr enable gnumdk/lollypop

Wine 1.9.12 released with fix to Dragon Age 2 demo sound

Dance eJay Demo 7 crashes due to unimplemented interface relating to devenum Bad hlp table rendering Threads not allocated to multiple processors. Dragon Age 2 demo – sound in cutscenes is muffled mspaint.exe from windows 8 wants ntdll.WinSqmStartSession Lemmings Revolution: can’t rotate playing field Lego Mindstorms EV3 Home Edition (.NET 4.0 app) needs msctf DocumentMgrSource_AdviseSink implementation Problems with DC Universe Online and Virtual Desktops Robot animations glitch in main lobby of Lego Mindstorms EV3 software Wine should take dosbox’s configuration instead of creating a new one “Trainz: A New Era” needs msvcr120.

How To Install PhotoFiltre LX 0.9 Demo Image Editor on Ubuntu 16.04

PhotoFiltre LX 0.9 Demo recently released, is a powerful image editing software developed by Dylan Coakley. PhotoFiltre LX is inspired by the image editor currently only available on Microsoft Windows – PhotoFiltre. However, it will not be a straight clone. It is being built from the ground up to be much improved and cross platform too! PhotoFiltre LX 0.9 Demo Changelog New colour selection palette Styling improvements to the colour selectors.

How To Install ImageMagick 7.0.1-5 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Derivatives

ImageMagick 7.0.1-5 recently released, is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. ImageMagick 7.

How To Install Krita 3.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

Krita 3.0 had been released and this is a really big release: animation support integrated into Krita’s core, Instant Preview for better performance painting and drawing with big brushes on big canvases, ported to the latest version of the Qt platform and too many bigger and smaller new features and improvements to mention!. Krita 3.0 Highlights Animatable raster layers – Animated raster images with frames, and use the time-line docker to order them.

Vivaldi Snapshot 1.2.479.8 released with more keyboard shortcuts

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/snapshot/vivaldi-snapshot-1.2.479.8-1.i386.rpm -O vivaldi-snapshot.i386.rpm sudo rpm -i vivaldi-snapshot.i386.rpm</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/snapshot/vivaldi-snapshot-1.2.479.8-1.x86_64.rpm -O vivaldi-snapshot.x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -i vivaldi-snapshot.

How To Install PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 on Ubuntu 16.04

PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 which was released early this year is now available for Ubuntu 16.04. PlayOnLinux as we know is a frontend piece of software for Wine, that allows you to easily install and run many Windows applications with relative ease on Linux and Mac OS X. PlayOnLiux is free and does not require a Windows licence for use. PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 changelog Wine 1.8 staging is now the default wine version on OSX.

How to Install Skype 4.3 in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04

Skype 4.3 for Linux was released a few years back and there had not been any further updates. This tutorial is primarily focused on showing those that are currently running Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04 on how to install Skype for Linux on their machine. Quick Highlight of Skype 4.3 An updated UI Our new cloud-based Group Chat experience More reliable file transfer support when using multiple devices at once Greater accessibility by blind and visually impaired users PulseAudio 3.

Install Vuze 5.7.2 BitTorrent Client on Ubuntu 16.04

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> UI: Sort order icon was reversed in torrent options dialog </li> <li> UI: Better flushing of cached color resources on scheme change </li> <li> UI: Sort order for file priority was inconsistent </li> <li> UI: When one of multiple instances of a view was closed some menus were lost </li> <li> Core: Don&#8217;t pause incomplete downloads when an aggregate tag&#8217;s share ratio is hit </li> <li> Core: Fixed bug with peer connections for torrents with unlimited peer connection limits </li> <li> Core: Fixed unnecessary rechecking on start of downloads with do-not-download files </li> <li> Core: Don&#8217;t process aggregate share ratio rules while downloads are being deleted </li> <li> Core: Ensure &#8216;on download complete&#8217; actions aren&#8217;t fired while incomplete downloads are in a pending state </li> <li> Core: Backup/Restore now ignores corrupted config and temporary files </li> <li> Core: Fixed broken synchronization in DHT tracker causing 99% CPU usage </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>How to Install Vuze 5.

Opera VPN App for iOS released

Opera VPN is a service provided by SurfEasy, Inc., an Opera company. Opera’s 20-year history of web innovation enables more than 350 million people worldwide to do what matters most to them online. Get the performance you need from people you can trust.  

Tor Browser 5.5.5 released

<li> Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.1.6 </li> <li> Update NoScript to 2.9.0.11 </li> <li> Bug 18726: Add new default obfs4 bridge (GreenBelt) </li> </ul>

FileZilla Client 3.17.0 released

FileZilla Client 3.17.0 recently released, is an open source, cross-platform graphical FTP (port 21), SFTP (port 22), and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS – Port 990) client with lots of features and an intuitive graphical user interface. Among others, the features of FileZilla includes Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Cross-platform. Chnagelog since v3.17.0-rc1: New features: Recursivly queing local files for upload now displays the progress below the local file list MSW: Use dynamic TCP send buffer sizes to improve upload speeds on high-latency connections SFTP: Use hardware-accelerated AES on x86_64 CPUs if available by using the AES implementation from Nettle instead of PuTTY Building FileZilla now depends on the Nettle library, version 3.

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS released

Martin Wimpress recently announced the release of Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS which has been in development for nearly 2 years. This latest release features the latest MATE desktop environment, and support for Ubuntu Snappy command-line package manager.  Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS Update: Added ubuntu-snappy-cli to the default install. Updated Ubuntu MATE Welcome to 16.04.9. Updated translations and assorted bugs fixes Updated to install Telegram from a PPA maintained by Martin Wimpress that has fixes Indicator icons.

Firefox 45.0.2 released with fix to video playback crash

Mozilla Firefox 45.0.2 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release is purely in relation to some important bug fixes, which Mozilla have deemed necessary to bring the browser to a new client version which requires a physical update. These include a fix for Firefox crashing in relation to video playback with Media Source Extension and also a fix an issue impacting the cookie header, when third-party cookies are blocked.

Opera 38 Browser Integrates Free VPN for better online privacy

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Mac</strong> users just need to click the Opera menu, select “Preferences” and toggle the feature VPN on, while <strong>Windows and Linux</strong> users need to go to the “Privacy and Security” section in “Settings” and enable VPN there. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> A button will appear in the browser address field, from which the user can see and change location (more locations will appear later), check whether their IP is exposed and review statistics for their data used.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS unveiled today – featuring the new ‘snap’ package format

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Main highlights: Enable faster and simpler software delivery and operations Adds new “snap” application package format, enabling further convergence across IOT, mobile and desktop The introduction of LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka. Support for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing. Steps made towards converged Ubuntu across IoT, phone, desktop and server. The introduction of ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage. “The leading cloud-based operations and the most advanced robotics run largely on Ubuntu, and this new release is the basis for the next wave of their innovation” said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical.

Scylla 1.0.1 The world’s fastest NoSQL database released

<th> </th> <th> </th> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-server_1.0.1-20160411.bacc769-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-server-dbg_1.0.1-20160411.bacc769-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-jmx_1.0.1-20160411.3d39ece-ubuntu1_all.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-tools_1.0.1-20160411.b9fe89b-ubuntu1_all.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 0.9.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/libthrift0_0.9.1-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Scylla 1.0.1 on Fedora 22</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> Scylla packages are available for 64-bit (x86_64) Fedora 22. You can either install from a <a href="http://www.

Budgie 10.2.5 released – How To Install Budgie Desktop

An elegant slide-in animation now used for the first launch of the panel, ensuring its only shown when the panel is fully loaded, and while loading the applets will show up in their correct order Increased the spacing between panel applets. Stylish animations for revealing or hiding icons added, and you will notice that application icons remain consistent, whether or not the application is running. Introduced a new applet for managing Bluetooth devices, including setting Bluetooth to “Airplane mode”.

WebTorrent Desktop 0.3.3 Beta – A Streaming Torrent Client released

WebTorrent Desktop is a streaming torrent client that connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers and its currently in Beta stage. Whether it’s video from the Internet Archive, music from Creative Commons, or audiobooks from Librivox, you can play it right away. You don’t have to wait for it to finish downloading. WebTorrent Desktop Features Lightweight, fast torrent client Beautiful user experience Free, non-commercial, ad-free, and open source Instantly stream video and audio WebTorrent fetches file pieces from the network on demand for instant playback.

How to Install zbackup 1.5 alpha on Ubuntu OS

zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also re-use any data found in any previous backups. This way only new changes are stored, and as long as the files are not very different, the amount of storage required is very low.

KeePass 2.32 Password Manager released

New Features: The quick search box (in the toolbar of the main window) now supports searching using a regular expression; in order to indicate that the search text is a regular expression, enclose it in ‘//’; for example, performing a quick search for ‘//Michael|Adam//’ shows all entries containing ‘Michael’ or ‘Adam’. Added ‘Advanced’ tab in the ‘Open From URL’ dialog (easily extensible by plugins); added options: timeout, pre-authenticate, HTTP/HTTPS/WebDAV user agent and 100-Continue behavior, FTP passive mode.

Vivaldi 1.0 Stable version released

<li> Speed Dial Folders <ul> <li> Organize your Speed Dials into folders for convenient access. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Quick Commands <ul> <li> Control everything in Vivaldi with simple text commands </li> </ul> </li> <li> Fast Forward <ul> <li> Jump to the next page in a sequence. Great for search results. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Rewind <ul> <li> Return to the first page you’ve visited at a site. </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <li> Web Panels <ul> <li> View any site in your Vivaldi side panel.

Audacious 3.7.2 Advanced Audio Player released

Cuesheet support issue: ‘Album Title’ missing (replaced with current directory name), as well as Year and Genre in playlist when adding songs from cue files Audacious crashes on missing .wvc files for hybrid wavpack files audacious -j does not open jump-to-file dialog scrobbler complains of network problem when checking permission GCC 6 fix for JACK plugin Network connection dropped then resumed, but Audacious does not refresh status

Wine 1.9.7 Development released with fix to Civilization II crash

Civilization II crashes on startup Internet Explorer 8 fails to start an InPrivate Browsing session ElsterFormular crashes when trying to print already sent income tax return IE8 shows corrupted previews on the quick tabs screen Nvidia force antialiasing no longer works Alien8 and Head Over Heels crash when window is moved partly off-screen Multiple 64-bit applications need __CxxFrameHandler implementation (Ableton Live 9.1, Adobe Cloud apps) Powerpoint viewer 2003 & 2007 show weird characters (appinstall) Microsoft Publisher 2007 and 2010 crash when opening documents/templates Allied Telesis Smart Switch Management Utility v1.

Uptown Funk Parody By OpenSUSE Linux team

I recently came across an interesting OpenSUSE Linux video called – “Uptime Funk” music video (parody of Uptown Funk) from SUSECon 2015 in Amsterdam. This is a must watch video. [youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbABy9ul11I[/youtube] Lyrics: This bit Uncontrolled A bad bug, Make my system fold This bug, in the kernel My kernel My uptime ceases Freakin’, Spazzin’ My manager’s mad, it ain’t pretty I need caffeine, a big screen Gotta fix this server in a jiffy

Install PileMd 0.8.3 – A Markdown Note App for Linux

<li> Rich Editor <ul> <li> PileMd is really a rich editor like a word processor. It has Undo/Redo histories, Completion of lists and also Opening links in editors. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Syncing <ul> <li> PileMd will sync your data with local files. So if you put the folder to sync into a folder syncing with cloud services, you can back up and use same data on multi devices. </li> <li> You can move the folder to sync, and also open existing folders for PileMd.

Atom 1.6.0 Text Editor Released

Add functionality and API for pending pane items Improvements to multi-pane usage Block Decorations Async Git Top and bottom bar API See release notesfor full change details

Vivaldi Beta 3 is here – Download Now

<li dir="ltr"> Tab specific zoom allows you to set zoom level for each tab, rather than for each website domain. It avoids having all the tabs zoomed when visiting the same website in different tabs and allows you to keep one zoom level while browsing in a tab. </li> <li dir="ltr"> New Tab Hibernation Options <ul> <li dir="ltr"> This new option gives you more control on your resources. If you are like us and want to have many tabs open, simply right click on the active tab and choose &#8216;Hibernation Background tabs&#8217;.

[GAME]Bounce Upward

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Sublime Text 3 – Build 3103 released

Added new Syntax Definition file format, .sublime-syntax Added a custom regex engine that matches multiple regexps in parallel, for faster file loading and indexing Improved Unicode support, including combining character rendering, character classification in regex searches, and case insensitivity in Goto Anything matching Packages are now on GitHub Incorporates many community provided improvements to the above packages, with significant improvements to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, D and SQL

Kadu 3.0 Instant Messenger Final released

<div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"> <a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://www.kadu.im/w/File:Kadu-3-file-transfer-window.png"><img src="http://www.kadu.im/wiki/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11" /></a> </div> <p> Kadu 3 File Transfer window </p> </div> </div> </div> </td> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"> <a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://www.kadu.im/w/File:Kadu-3-file-transfer-unity-launcher.png"><img src="http://www.kadu.im/wiki/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11" /></a> </div> <p> Kadu icon in Unity with file progress </p> </div> </div> </div> </td> <td> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner"> <a class="image" href="http://www.kadu.im/w/File:Kadu-3-file-transfer-windows-launcher.png"><img class="thumbimage" src="http://www.kadu.im/wiki/images/b/b3/Kadu-3-file-transfer-windows-launcher.png" alt="" width="60" height="40" /></a></p> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"> <a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://www.

Firefox 44.0.2 released with bugfix

Mozilla Firefox 44.0.2 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release primarily focuses on bugfix. A notable update to this release is it fixes an issue where Firefox hangs or crashes on startup. Mozilla Firefox 44.0.2 changelog Same-origin-policy violation using Service Workers with plugins Lightweight themes on Firefox for Android do not verify a secure connection Application Reputation service disabled in Firefox 43 Unsafe memory manipulation found through code inspection Addressbar spoofing attacks Delay following click events in file download dialog too short on OS X Errors in mp_div and mp_exptmod cryptographic functions in NSS Missing delay following user click events in protocol handler dialog Addressbar spoofing through stored data url shortcuts on Firefox for Android Firefox allows for control characters to be set in cookie names Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:44.

uGet 2.0.5 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

uGet ChangeloguGet 2.0.5:  curl plug-in: Disable SSL verification for host. curl plug-in: Don’t check post and cookie file if no HTTP setting data. curl plug-in: Don’t assign data if plug-in start failed. avoid crash when program re-enter signal handler. (e.g. SIGINT) adjust width of download properties form by width of category chooser. Fix: Can’t stop all task when program into offline mode. uGet 2.0.4: save and restore width of download column.

Calibre 2.51 released with new features and bugfix

New Features Add an action to the context menu for the search bar to paste and instantly execute the search. When adding multiple books from a single directory, added the books in order of the last modified time of the book files. Bug Fixes Fix a regression in 2.50 that prevented a small number of devices from being detected on windows PDF metadata: Workaround for PDF files with corrupted XMP metadata packets, generated by Nitro PDF.

Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” Release Candidate 3 Out

Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” Release Candidate 3, is the third Release Candidate for Kodi v16. With this release candidate, a small number of fixes that users mentioned where added. Kodi as we know is an award-winning free media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android. Fixes done in Release Candidate 3: Fix some possible DVD menu problems Fix selection of stacked multiple ISO files (movie.

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 Released

Mozilla Firefox 44.0 was recently released by Mozilla team. This latest release comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfix. A notable new feature is an improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections. Mozilla Firefox 44.0 changelogNew Improved warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections Enable H.264 if system decoder is available Enable WebM/VP9 video support on systems that don’t support MP4/H.264 In the animation-inspector timeline, lightning bolt icon next to animations running on the compositor thread Support the brotli compression format via HTTPS content-encoding Screenshot commands allow user choice of pixel ratio in Developer Tools Fixed

Audacity Audio Editor 2.1.2 Released

Other Changes Upgraded from wxWidgets 2.8.12 to wxWidgets 3.0.2. Restructuring of the Preferences Menu Restructuring of the Track Dropdown Menu (for the Spectrograms) The Noise Reduction “Frequency smoothing” default has been increased to 3 to help avoid metallic artifacts. Resetting Preferences or deleting audacity.cfg will set the new default. (Windows) The location of Audacity’s work-in-progress folder has been changed, to avoid problems where certain disk cleaners treated them as deletable temporary files.

[GAME] Jelly Clash Mania 2

Jelly Clash Mania 2 is a whole new match-3 gaming experience. Get ready to discover a new fresh and yummy Jelly Sugar Pops world with new candies, new story with challenging delightful levels. Swap and match 3 or more of the new Jelly Sugar Pops candies to create shiny explosions and get higher score to reach the new ice cream Sugar Pops land. Download it for Free now and unlock lots of sweet jellies.

Telegram Desktop 0.9.18 released

v 0.9.19 Choose an emoticon and see the suggested stickers Bug fixes and minor improvements v 0.9.18 Bug fixes and minor improvements v 0.9.17 Crash fixed v 0.9.16 GIFs autoplay and automatic download Inline bots support Automatic download settings added All media redesigned

Atom 1.3.3 Text Editor released

Fixed an exception that would occur when undoing after closing a split pane. Fixed a crash that would occur when closing a full-screen window on OSX. Fixed an infinite loop that would occur when opening multiple files with the same names in different directories. Install Atom 1.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.

Wireshark 2.0.1 – Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer released

Zooming out (Ctrl+-) too far crashes Wireshark IPv6 Mobility Header Link-Layer Address Mobility Option is parsed incorrectly About → Plugins should be a scrollable Profile change leaves prior profile residue Wireshark crashes when using the VoIP player Incorrect presentation of Ascend-Data-Filter (RADIUS attribute 242) Not possible to stop a capture with invalid filter “No interface selected” when having a valid capture filter Malformed packet with IPv6 mobility header Wireshark crashes dissecting Profinet NRT (DCE-RPC) packet All fields in the packet detail pane of a “new packet” window are expanded by default Malformed packets with SET_CUR in the USBVIDEO (UVC) decoding Display filters arranges columns incorrectly Scrolling and navigating using the trackpad on Mac OS X could be much better Lua Proto() does not validate arguments Pointers to deallocated memory when redissecting Suggestion for re-phrasing the TCP Window Full message Wireshark Portable is not starting (no messages at all) IPv6 RPL Routing Header with length of 8 bytes still reads an address

MuseScore 2.0.2 – Free music composition and notation software released

MuseScore 2.0.2 which was recently made available for installation via PPA, is an open-source music composition and notation software, allowing the users tp create, edit and print music in an WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) environment. This release, focuses primarily on stability, with over 100 more bugs fixed. But we couldn’t resist making a few additional enhancements! New Features Playback of trills and other ornaments as well as glissandi and bends, with controls to customize or disable the effect New templates: various classical chamber groups, vocal ensembles, orchestras, and concert band Palette improvements: clefs, key signatures, time signatures, lines, and other palette elements that formerly required drag and drop can be added to a selected range via double click Search box in Symbols palette Zoom to 100% shortcut (Ctrl+0) Tremolo rendering improvements New symbols: treble clef with parenthesized octave indicator, pedal line with release symbol Improvements to Bravura and other music fonts Improvements to the default FluidR3 soundfont Install MuseScore 2.

Mixxx 2.0 – Free MP3 DJ Mixing Software released

Dynamic, Resizable Skins Each of our three professionally-designed skins can stretch to fill whatever size screen you have. Turn parts of the interface on and off to reveal the features you use most. Decks with Master Sync Supporting the latest DJing techniques, Mixxx supports up to four decks playing back simultaneously. Combine tracks with loops and samples to create sophisticated on-the-fly remixes. Built-in Effects Mixxx’s new effect processing system allows you to apply up to 4 chains of effects to any mixer channel.

uGet 2.0.4 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

Main features: Downloads Queue Resume Downloads Advanced Download Categories Clipboard Monitor Batch Downloads Multi-Protocol Multi-Connection FTP Login & Anonymous FTP Scheduler Quiet Mode Robust Keyboard Shortcuts Computer Shutdown After Completion

Virtualbox 5.0.12 released – Supports Kernel 3.10.0-327.el7 with latest RHEL 7.2

VirtualBox 5.0.12recently released, is a cross-platform virtualization application that installs on your Intel or AMD-based computers, and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your computer so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time. VirtualBox 5.0.12 changelog Fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules Improved handling of text selection mouse pointer added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks Fixed .

Street Fighter V to support Linux with help from Valve

Capcom has just announced that the upcoming Street Fighter V game will also be adapted for SteamOS, with the help of Valve. Street Fighter V is an upcoming fighting video game produced by Capcom, which co-developed the game together with Dimps. It is the fifth main numbered entry in Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise. Following a recent post on capcomwebsite: “Hey everyone. I’m excited to announce that Street Fighter V will be officially supporting Steam OS!

PyCharm 5.0.3 EAP released

Install PyCharm 5.0.3 EAP on Ubuntu Linux OS– First install Oracle Java JDK/JRE Install Oracle Java JDK/JRE – Install PyCharm via PPA

Photoflow 0.2.5 Image Editor released

<p> Bug fixes: </p> <ul> <li> Clone stamp: fixed bug in region selection affecting strokes after the first one </li> <li> Fixed compilation issues under Fedora 23 </li> </ul> Here is a screenshot showing the adjustable smoothness settings for the freehand brush:

ClearOS 6.7.0 released with upgrade to latest Dropbox CLI

ClearOS 6.7.0 recently released for both Community and Professional Editions, is an operating system for your Server, Network, and Gateway systems. It is designed for homes, small to medium businesses, and distributed environments. ClearOS is commonly known as the Next Generation Small Business Server, while including indispensable Gateway and Networking functionality. It delivers a powerful IT solution with an elegant user interface that is completely web-based. Simply put.. ClearOS is the new way of delivering IT.

KDE Frameworks 5.17.0 released

KDE team recently announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.17.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this VersionBaloo Fix date filter used by timeline:// BalooCtl: Return after commands Clean up and armour Baloo::Database::open(), handle more crash conditions Add check in Database::open(OpenDatabase) to fail if db doesn’t exist Breeze Icons Many icons added or improved use stylesheets in breeze icons (bug 126166) BUG: 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen (bug 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen) Add 24px dialog-information for GTK apps (bug 355204) Extra CMake Modules

Manjaro Drops KDE 4 for good, Switches to Plasma 5.5

This is one of the biggest updates we did so far. Mostly due the C++ 11 ABI change within gcc. It is recommended to rebuild your AUR packages for this ABI. With this we finally dropping KDE4 for good. All users of this desktop should either switch over to Plasma 5 or any other maintained desktop, like LXQt. So what changed? We have now Plasma 5.5 with all its goodies, updated Mesa and LibreOffice.

Sony Launches PlayStation Messages App for Android and iOS

We know that Messages is the most used feature of the PlayStation App, so we created the standalone PlayStation Messages app with a more streamlined design in order to get you into your Messages and communicating with your friends faster than ever before.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Mobile for Android 1.4 now available and free

We’re really excited to continue our focus on Android and pleased that Lightroom for mobile was recently listed by Google as one of the top apps of 2015. We’ve seen Android grow as a platform over the years, with billions of users around the world. As a photography platform, Android is making huge leaps and strides. New devices are being launched all the time with better and better cameras, and with the launch of Lollipop and the ability to shoot raw DNG files, Android provides one of the most powerful photography platforms available.

Destiny 2.1.0 Update released – Multiplayer Shooter Online Game

Destiny 2.1.0 Update recently released, is a shooter at heart and combines action and adventure gameplay to create a new evolution in storytelling, gaming and entertainment. Create and customise your character, and build your own legend with each deadly enemy you defeat in a variety of gameplay modes, a unique multiplayer experience, and new social features. Destiny 2.1.0 update will introduce a big set of changes for all the weapons, limiting the efficiency of pulse rifles and making sure that gamers have options for the other types, especially when they engage in Player versus Player combat.

Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.235 released

Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.235 security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Vulnerability Details These updates resolve heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution These updates resolve security bypass vulnerabilities These updates resolve a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution

qBittorrent 3.3.1 Open Source BitTorrent Client released

FEATURE: FEATURE: New “Set as default label” option in Add torrent dialog FEATURE: Support wildcards for filtering torrent list and torrent content BUGFIX: Fix -1 is displayed instead of the infinity symbol BUGFIX: Fix scan dirs settings saving BUGFIX: Exported torrents now use name instead of hash BUGFIX: Improve upgrade to v3.3.0. Now undownloaded magnets will be migrated too BUGFIX: Fix wrong encoding for listen failed error message BUGFIX: Fix RSS not automarking articles as read BUGFIX: Fix possible deadlock during application exit WEBUI: Cookies support on WebUI when downloading torrent from a URL WEBUI: Modified download and upload windows to allow autocompletion of browsers WEBUI: Fixed the spinner in the WebUI upload page WEBUI: Modified height of the WebUI download page.

ClamTK 5.20 Clam Antivirus released

<pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://bitbucket.org/dave_theunsub/clamtk-kde/downloads/clamtk-kde_0.16-1_all.deb sudo gdebi clamtk-kde_0.16-1_all.deb<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Install plugin for ClamTK in Cinnamon’s file manager &#8211; Nemo:</strong> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://bitbucket.org/dave_theunsub/nemo-sendto-clamtk/downloads/nemo-sendto-clamtk_0.02-1_all.deb sudo gdebi nemo-sendto-clamtk_0.02-1_all.deb <p> &nbsp; </p>

Mozilla Stops Ads on Firefox, Now focused on Advancing Content

One of the many benefits of the Web is the ability to create unique, personalized experiences for individual users. We believe that this personalization needs to be done with respect for the user – with transparency, choice and control. When the user is at the center of product experiences everyone benefits. Our learnings show that users want content that is relevant, exciting and engaging. We want to deliver that type of content experience to our users, and we know that it will take focus and effort to do that right.

Apple’s Swift Programming Language Now Open Source

“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Swift’s power and ease of use will inspire a new generation to get into coding, and with today’s announcement they’ll be able to take their ideas anywhere, from mobile devices to the cloud.”

Windows 10 Mobile ROM for Xiaomi Mi4 released

Windows 10 Mobile ROM for Xiaomi Mi4 has just been made available for download. For Xiaomi Mi4 users wanting to give their Microsoft’s mobile operating system a try, can download the ROM from the MIUI forums and flash it on your device. Note that the ROM is only compatible with the LTE version of the Xiaomi Mi4. Alternatively you can get the ROM as well as the detailed tutorial for flashing it by registering yourself in the microsoft insider program.

Huawei Enjoy 5S with Octa-Core CPU, Finger Print Scanner Goes Life

The Huawei Enjoy 5S is powered by 1.5GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753T processor and it comes with 2GB of RAM. The phone packs 16GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 128GB via a microSD card. As far as the cameras are concerned, the Huawei Enjoy 5S packs a 13-megapixel primary camera on the rear and a 5-megapixel front shooter for selfies. The Huawei Enjoy 5S runs Android 5.1 and is powered by a 2200mAh non removable battery.

Google Chrome 47 update released

Google Chrome 47 update (47.0.2526.73 ) recently released, comes with a 41 security fixes, very tiny UI changes (except for the built-in PDF viewer, which was redone entirely), and the removal of the desktop notification center. The iOS version has added new keyboard shortcuts and support for 3D touch. Google Chrome 47 Highlights: Use-after-free in AppCache Cross-origin bypass in core Cross-origin bypass in DOM Out of bounds access in v8 Out of bounds access in Skia Use-after-free in Extensions Type confusion in PDFium Out of bounds access in PDFium.

uGet 2.0.3 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

Main features: Downloads Queue Resume Downloads Advanced Download Categories Clipboard Monitor Batch Downloads Multi-Protocol Multi-Connection FTP Login & Anonymous FTP Scheduler Quiet Mode Robust Keyboard Shortcuts Computer Shutdown After Completion

Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Daily Images now available

32-bit PC (i386) preinstalled touch image For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure. ARM EABI (Hard-Float) preinstalled touch image For ARMv7 processors and above (Hard-Float).

Mozilla Firefox 64-Bit Scheduled to Support Microsoft Silverlight

At least for a while as Mozilla still plans on deprecating Silverlight support sometime in the future (much as Google and Microsoft already have). Bug 1225293 which was made public today indicates Mozilla’s short term plans to support Silverlight in the Win64 builds. When exactly Silverlight will return to the Firefox 64-Bit builds is not exactly known. It could (but not likely) be with Firefox 43 already in Beta and due out December 15th, 2015 or (more likely) Firefox 44 still in Developer’s Edition (Aurora) and due out in late January 2016 or Firefox 45 currently in Nightly builds and due out early March 2016.

Star Wars Battlefront – New Features and Contents expected soon

“Star Wars Battlefront is the biggest launch of a Star Wars video game ever and is the largest digital launch in the history of EA”. In two weeks, The Battle of Jakku launches. Taking place 29 years before the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Battle of Jakku is a free DLC pack* that adds two new maps (including one for popular modes like Walker Assault and Supremacy) and a new mode to the game.

Microsoft Welcomes Nokia 230 and Nokia 230 Dual SIM Smartphones

<td width="262"> Nokia 230 and Nokia 230 Dual SIM </td> <td width="262"> Nokia Series 30+ </td> <td width="262"> 2,8” QVGA (240*320) </td> <td width="262"> BL-4UL ,1200 mAh<a href="https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/11/25/welcome-the-new-nokia-230-and-nokia-230-dual-sim/#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a> </td> <td width="262"> Talk time: up to 23 hours<br /> Standby time: up to 27 days for Single SIM, and up to 22 days for Dual SIM variant </td> <td width="262"> Main camera: 2MP with LED flash<br /> Front camera: 2MP with LED flash </td> <td width="262"> 900/1800 MHz, micro USB, 3.

LG Ray SmartPhone with 5.5-Inch Display and Octa-Core SoC Launched

<div class="details_content"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr class="firstrow"> <td width="50%"> Release date </td> <td width="50%"> November 2015 </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> Form factor </td> <td width="50%"> Touchscreen </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> Dimensions (mm) </td> <td width="50%"> 152.50 x 76.40 x 9.30 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Weight (g) </td> <td> 158.00 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Battery capacity (mAh) </td> <td> 3000 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Removable battery </td> <td> Yes </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Colours </td> <td> Silver, Gold, Titan Black </td> </tr> <tr> <td> SAR value </td> <td> 0.

Pale Moon 25.8.0 – Firefox Based Browser released

Fixes/changes: Updated LibVPX to 1.4.x to be able to play more kinds of VP9-encoded videos. Updated the JPEG decoder library to 1.4.0. Fixed and cleaned up XPCOM timer thread code to avoid intermittent issues with events not firing (especially after stand-by). Updated overrides to work around issues with Facebook and Netflix. Fixed an issue where too-old system-supplied NSPR and/or NSS libraries would be accepted for use. Security fixes:

OxygenOS 2.1.3 update on OnePlus X will start to rollout soon

We generally start our OTA rollout with a small percent (~10%, randomly chosen) of our users to ensure that the OTA system is working correctly. The reason we do this is so that in case we find any serious issues, we can contain the problem quickly and find a solution before it impacts a wider audience. This also allows us the address the affected users quickly without too much of a queue.

Vuze 5.7 Bittorrent Client released

New Features: UI : Added peer menus to peers in the swarm view UI : Tags now visibly grouped by their group in Tagging view UI : Torrent List for Tags Overview now has “Any/All” checkbox when multiple tags are selected UI : General view now shows file boundaries and skipped file zones UI : Network bindings can now be cleared via status icon context menu UI : Raw hashes entered as search expressions now support arguments UI : Added last-error column for subscriptions UI : Added alternative network hints to seeds/peers column UI : Network Information added to the top-view (F8 to show) UI : Files view now supports multiple download managers UI : Show files menu option added to Tags UI : Detect existing archived downloads when adding a new one UI : Added button to create RSS feeds from chats UI : Added description column for downloads to allow viewing and modification UI : Added context menus to set a download’s thumbnail and torrent source UI : Option to set a tag’s group when creating it UI : Tags Overview can now edit some settings when multiple tags selected Core : Added option to reset long term stats and tag session totals Core : Session up/down, Total up/down values per tag now recorded Core : Support tag-based and peer-set based network limits Core : Speed limit handler now supports tag based upload prioritization Core : Added sliding window support to network limits Core : Added an auto-restart feature Core : Option to add a unique prefix to files to avoid name clashes Core : Added ‘seedingfor’, ‘downloadingfor’ to Tag contraints Core : Tags now support ‘start/force-start/stop’ actions on assign Core : Option to abort actions such as ‘closedown computer when seeding complete’ Core : Decentralized websites now support linking via torrent, magnet or other sites Core : Decentralized websites auto-tagged as such Core : Option to move torrent files to separate golder on completion/removal Core : Added option to Timed Rotation Queue rule for longer min seeding time when torrent is connected to a peer Plug : Web plugins can now bind to interfaces as well as IP addresses Plug : Magnet plugin now has default network options Plug : RSS to Chat plugin now supports website presentation Changes:

GIMP 2.8.16 released to mark 20 Years of it’s General Image Manipulation Program

GIMP 2.8.16 was recently released to celebrated GIMP 20th anniversary. GIMP 2.8.16 features support for layer groups in OpenRaster files, fixes for layer groups support in PSD, various user inrterface improvements, OSX build system fixes, translation updates, and more changes. Our immediate future plans are to release first public version in the unstable 2.9.x series that will feature fully functional GEGL port, 16/32bit per channel processing, basic OpenEXR support, vastly improved color management implementation, new tools, on-canvas preview for many filters, and more.

Samsung W2016 Clamshell Smartphone released with a Flip Style

Samsung recently announced its Samsung W2016 Clamshell Smartphone now official in China. Samsung W2016 is a dual card dual standby single-pass terminal support dual card standby at the same time, does not support simultaneous calls, that is, when one of the cards in a call, another card can not access or dial out. Running on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system, the flip phone sports a 3.9 inch Super AMOLED dual displays offering 1280 x 768 pixels resolution.

Microsoft Launches AppComparison to Tell Which Apps Are Also on Windows Phone

Microsoft has just launched a new application for Android devices called AppComparison, but this time, it’s not an exclusive tool that could make Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile users angry. The company has decided to go for a tool that’s supposed to ease the transition from Android to Windows Phone, most likely because they expect more people to give a shot to their platform now that Windows 10 Mobile is just around the corner.

NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability update for Ubuntu OS

It was recently discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly sanitized user mode inputs. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges. What this means in summary is that NVIDIA graphics drivers could be made to run programs as an administrator. This vulnerability affects the following drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Halo 5: Guardians Battle Of Shadow And Light Update released

Basin by the 343 Multiplayer team Deadlock by Nokyard & the 343 Multiplayer Team Guillotine by The Psycho Duck & the 343 Multiplayer Team Recurve by The Fated Fire & the 343 Multiplayer Team Fixed an aiming issue that could occur due to variance in controller hardware.

Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” Cinnamon Beta features Cinnamon 2.8, MDM 2.0, Linux kernel 3.19 and Ubuntu 14.04 package base

<li> The Update Manager now also performs more checks than before. </li> <li> Drivers in Driver Manager are now sorted by status and the Driver Manager now indicates if drivers are Open Source or not </li> <li> The Driver Manager features both UI and under-the-hood improvements. </li> <li> The Driver Manager now also loads much faster and detects drivers in the background. </li> <li> When a Broadcom chipset is detected, along with the recommended Broadcom STA drivers, the Driver Manager now also lists B43 installers </li>

Xcode 7.2 beta 4 released includes support for building and debugging apps for tvOS 9.2

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Watch Framework and Static Library targets do not display a “General” tab. Workaround: Configure general settings manually in the target&#8217;s Info.plist file or in the Build Settings tab</em> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <em><strong>Xcode Server</strong></em> </p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> <em>Xcode Server may be unable to join new development teams with versions of OS X Server other than version 4.1.5. Existing team memberships will continue to work correctly</em> </li> </ul>

Linux Kernel 4.4 RC1 released

The driver changes are all over, although staging, networking and GPU drivers stand out (and those three areas account for over half of the driver changes – roughly 40% of the whole patch). On the architecture side, ARM (when counting both 32-bit and 64-bit) accounts for about half the changes, with x86, powerpc, mips, chris and s390 accounting for the other half.

MPC-HC 1.7.10 – Windows Media Player released

<p> Note that you need to select the new renderer in options in order to use it</li> <li> Windows 10 related fixes: <ul> <li> Improved mouse behavior </li> <li> Fixed volume control with scroll wheel </li> <li> Window snapping to desktop edges </li> </ul> </li> <li> Allow hardware decoding of UHD video with AMD cards </li> <li> Big video rendering stability improvement </li> <li> New Indonesian, Lithuanian and Punjabi translations </li></ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://mpc-hc.

Calibre 2.44 released with new features and bugfixes

Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book’s formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel. Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog. Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.

Cumulative update for Windows 10 released

Microsoft had just release Cumulative update for Windows 10. This update for Windows 10 includes functionality improvements and resolves the vulnerabilities in Windows that are described in the following Microsoft security bulletins and advisory: Windows 10 updates are cumulative. Therefore, this package contains all previously released fixes. If you have previous updates installed, only the new fixes that are contained in this package will be downloaded and installed to your computer.

The ASUS ZenFone 2 Dulex Edition has been launched

<div id="tablepress-3_wrapper" class="dataTables_wrapper no-footer"> <table id="tablepress-3" class="tablepress tablepress-id-3 dataTable no-footer"> <tr class="row-1 odd"> <th class="column-1 sorting_disabled" colspan="1" rowspan="1"> </th> <th class="column-2 sorting_disabled" colspan="1" rowspan="1"> ZE551ML-23-4G128G-SE </th> </tr> <tr class="row-2 even" style="text-align: justify;"> <td class="column-1"> OS </td> <td class="column-2"> Android Lollipop 5.0 </td> </tr> <tr class="row-3 odd" style="text-align: justify;"> <td class="column-1"> Processor </td> <td class="column-2"> Intel® Atom™ Quad Core Z3580 (2.3GHz), Power VR G6430, with OpenGL 3.0 support </td> </tr> <tr class="row-4 even" style="text-align: justify;"> <td class="column-1"> Storage </td> <td class="column-2"> 128GB with Micro SD Card slot support up to 64GB </td> </tr> <tr class="row-5 odd" style="text-align: justify;"> <td class="column-1"> RAM </td> <td class="column-2"> LPDDR3 4GB RAM </td> </tr> <tr class="row-6 even" style="text-align: justify;"> <td class="column-1"> Display </td> <td class="column-2"> 1080&#215;1920 FHD IPS (403 ppi) with Gorilla Glass 3 </td> </tr> <tr class="row-7 odd" style="text-align: justify;"> <td class="column-1"> Battery </td> <td class="column-2"> 3,000 mAh, non-removable battery </td> </tr> <tr class="row-8 even" style="text-align: justify;"> <td class="column-1"> Camera </td> <td class="column-2"> 13MP Camera f/2.

BlackBerry launched it’s “BlackBerry Priv” smartphone running Android OS

“Coming with a device that tries to address security on Android is a good idea, but may have been better three years ago,” said Francisco Jeronimo, research director for industry analysts IDC. “It will be difficult to regain clients who have already moved to other handsets, and it’s quite an expensive device.”

Google Maps upgraded to work offline

“Entry-level Android smartphones sometimes only have four gigabytes of onboard storage, making it a precious resource,” commented Ben Wood from CCS Insight. “Once you’ve downloaded a few applications, some music and perhaps a video, that memory quickly disappears.

Microsoft to acquire Secure Islands – a leader in data protection technology

Secure Islands’ technology enhances the data protection capabilities available today with Azure Rights Management Service, Microsoft’s cloud-based information protection solution. The company has long been a close Microsoft partner and built its solutions using our rights management technology. Secure Islands will continue to sell its existing solutions and support its customers. After completing this acquisition, we will integrate Secure Islands’ technology into Azure Rights Management Service to provide a flexible architecture able to meet the most rigorous protection and compliance requirements.

Microsoft Launches MyMoustache.net website to Calculate the Length of Your Facial Hair

Our aim? Show what a healthy imagination and a Project Oxford API can build. Our hope? Work with the Movember organization to raise money and awareness for men’s health while showcasing the possibilities of machine learning technology. We started with a simple question, “What if we could use machine learning technology to detect the length of facial hair?” Many hallway jokes, brainstorming sessions, and mockups later, our early ideas have been realized far beyond our initial expectations.

PlayStation 4 Firmware 3.11 released to enhance system performance

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> System software stability during use of some features has been improved. </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> New for 3.10 </p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> You can now follow verified accounts of games as well as verified accounts of people and companies that are associated with games. When you follow these accounts, you can keep track of their activities in [What’s New]. Select [Follow] in the profile screen of the verified account.

Diablo III Patch 2.4.0 PTR Preview – The next big patch, landing soon on the PTR

New Zone: Greyhollow Island Expanded Areas: The Eternal Woods and Royal Quarters Revamped Set Items New Feature: Set Dungeons New Feature: Empowered Rifts New Legendaries Revised Buff UI More Stash Space Season Journey Revisions Season Rebirth New to PC: Action Combat Note: Please note that this is only a preview. The above hightlights does not reflect all changes available in Patch 2.4.0 and is subject to further change

Apple’s iPad Pro will go on SALE from tomorrow – Wednesday

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <img class="size-full wp-image-14640 aligncenter" src="http://sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/apple-ipad-pro.jpg" alt="apple ipad pro" width="765" height="472" srcset="https://sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/apple-ipad-pro.jpg 765w, https://sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/apple-ipad-pro-150x93.jpg 150w, https://sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/apple-ipad-pro-390x241.jpg 390w" sizes="(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px" /> </p>

Mozilla to discontinue support for Firefox Heavyweight Theme

As part of Firefox great-or-dead, we’ve decided to stop support for “heavyweight” themes which can do arbitrary styling and replace chrome packages. We may simply remove that support completely, or we may extend lightweight themes with some additional features such as changing colors or icons.

NetBeans IDE 8.1 IDE released

NetBeans IDE 8.1 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. See release notesfor all new features and enhancements made

Tor Browser 5.0.4 is released with important security updates

<li> Bug 16937: Remove the en-US dictionary from non en-US Tor Browser bundles </li> <li> Bug 17318: Remove dead ScrambleSuit bridge </li> <li> Bug 17473: Update meek-amazon fingerprint </li> <li> Bug 16983: Isolate favicon requests caused by the tab list dropdown </li> <li> Bug 17102: Don&#8217;t crash while opening a second Tor Browser </li> </ul> <ul> <li> Windows <ul> <li> Bug 16906: Don&#8217;t depend on Windows crypto DLLs </li> </ul> </li> <li> Linux <ul> <li> Bug 17329: Ensure that non-ASCII characters can be typed </li> </ul> </li> </ul>

Google to introduce Smart Reply for your Gmail Inbox

Starting this week, your Gmail inbox will be able to do Smart Reply. So what is Smart Reply? If you regularly receive lots of emails and unable to respond on time to all as its time consuming and cumbersome while on the go, now with Smart Reply, your inbox guesses which emails can be answered with a short reply, prepare a few responses on your behalf and present them to you, one tap away.

Cinnamon 2.8 released and will be featured in Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa”

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Window list</strong> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> The window list is now able to show window thumbnails. This is configurable and it can be disabled in the applet preferences if you would rather just see tooltips. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> Click <a href="http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/11/cinnamon-2-8-released/" target="_blank">here</a> for full details </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Cinnamon 2.8 on Linux Mint</strong></span> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly sudo apt-get update

Samsung Galaxy View now offers better Video and Media experience

<th id="456"> </th> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="1" headers="123"> Processor </th> <td headers="1"> 1.6 Ghz Octa-core </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="2" headers="456"> Display </th> <td headers="2"> 18.4-inch, Full HD 1920 x 1080 </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="3" headers="3"> OS </th> <td headers="3"> Android 5.1 (Lollipop) </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="4" headers="4"> Camera </th> <td headers="4"> 2.1 MP Front facing </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="5" headers="5"> Video </th> <td headers="5"> Video Streaming, Video Player<br /> Recording: Full HD (1920 x 1080)<br /> Playback: Full HD (1920 x 1080) </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="13" headers="13"> Audio </th> <td headers="13"> MP3, M4A, 3GA, AAC, OGG, OGA, WAV, WMA, AMR, AWB, FLAC, MID, MIDI, XMF </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="14" headers="14"> Google Mobile Service </th> <td headers="14"> Chrome, Gmail, Google Search, Maps, YouTube, Hangouts, Play Store, Play Movies & TV, Play Music, Drive, Photos </td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: justify;"> <th id="15" headers="15"> Connectivity </th> <td headers="15"> 802.

The new Apple TV now available – Buy now

Apple TV comes in 2 storage sizes: 32GB going for £129.00 64GB going for £169.00 Extras: Add AppleCare Protection Plan – £26.00 Add HDMI-to-HDMI Cable – £15.00 Add iTunes Gift Card – From £25 Buy yours NOW

[GAME]Play Jelly Clash Mania Sugar Pops – Game Free

Jelly Clash Mania: Sugar Pops is a whole new match-3 game experience. Get ready to discover a new fresh and yummy Jelly Sugar Pops world with new candies, new story with challenging delightful levels. Swap and match 3 or more of the new Jelly Sugar Pops candies to create shiny explosions and get higher score to reach the new ice cream Sugar Pops land. ☆☆☆☆☆ New Features of Jelly Clash Mania: Sugar Pops ☆☆☆☆☆

WordPress 4.4 Beta 2 now available for download

WordPress 4.4 Beta 2 which is slated for release on December 8 is now available for download and testing. This is software still in development, so it is recommend that you don’t run it on a production site. To get the beta, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge night-lies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip). WordPress 4.4 update: Twenty Sixteen — The newest default theme for WordPress.

Advanced Phone Cleaner & Optimizer

Advanced Phone Cleaner & Optimizeris the latest Android phone master optimizer & cleaner with new user interface. Amazing features had been added to this app to improve and boost your phone’s speed by over 80%. This had been tested and confirmed to work. So what makes Advanced Phone Optimizer different from others: Memory (RAM) Optimizer This features enables you to clean up your phone memory and optimize it’s speed by cleaning out redundant running tasks in background Application Manager With this feature, you can easily move apps to SD card, backup apps, install and uninstall multiple apps at the same time.

Unity 5.2 Game Development Tool released

Improvements 2D Improvements Allow sprites to be dragged into scene view in 3d mode. Add temp GO while dragging for visual feedback similar to when dragging prefabs/model into scene view Frame selected command (F) now works in the sprite editor window for the selected sprite rect Implement undo functionality for sprite editor window’s slice menu New grid slicing method that uses column and row count Pivot snapping on sprite frame rect in sprite editor window only happens when Ctrl is pressed while mouse dragging the pivot handle Provide a custom pivot field in the slicing menu for the sprite editor window Zooming on sprite editor window’s texture will zoom towards mouse cursor Editor Improvement

DB Browser for SQLite 3.7.0 released

Download SQLitesqlitebrowser-3.7.0-win32.exe sqlitebrowser-3.7.0-win64.exe sqlitebrowser-3.7.0.dmg sqlitebrowser-with_sqlcipher_support-3.7.0.dmgSource code (zip)Source code (tar.

Linux Lite 2.6 Beta released with Systemback

As usual you still get the latest Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Wine (via Lite Software) and Gimp. Linux Lite 2.6 Beta Changelog: Features:The Linux Lite Control Center: This was built as one central central location for everything that you needed to configure your computer. Lite Control Center was built much like a web page, Lite Control Center has a menu on the left as categories, and within those categories buttons that launch whichever application you are wanting to use.

Play Jelly Clash Mania

Align or match 4 jellies and you will get a powerful jelly which clears all jellies in the same horizontal or vertical lines Align or match 5 jellies, this will create a special jelly which remove all jellies with same color When jellies are linked in a T or L shape, you get a special fire jelly that explodes twice and clears the surrounding 4×4 jellies Combine 2 special jellies and you get a super powerful blast Each levels comes with its own special jelly quest which you must complete ( achieve a set score, bring special items to the bottom, remove frozen jellies and many more…) Complete levels with stars to get bonus coins (3 Stars = 150 coins; 2 Stars = 100 coins; 1 Star = 50 coins) You can use special skills to support playing.

NativeScript 1.2 released – live sync, push notifications, native plugins

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://docs.nativescript.org/setup/ns-cli-setup/ns-setup-linux.html" target="_blank">Install on Linux OS</a> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://docs.nativescript.org/setup/ns-cli-setup/ns-setup-win.html" target="_blank">Install on Windows OS</a> </p>

Rendera 1.7 Painting App released

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Paint preview uses the current color now instead of the ugly pattern </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Implemented redo </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Quit dialog </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Soft edge is hidden when not applicable to the current painting mode </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Rendera 1.7 on Ubuntu OS</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rendera

GeForce GTX confirmed Game Ready For Windows 10 & DirectX 12

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> In addition to new and more realistic visual effects, DirectX 12 promises to improve performance through a number of API changes, software features, and hardware features. Of these improvements, draw call optimizations are likely to have the most immediate impact, relieving CPU bottlenecks in open world games, and in large-scale strategy titles. </li> <li> Under DirectX 11, NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs were the most efficient, with the lowest overheads and the best multi-threaded performance.

ImageMagick 6.9.1-8 – Image Processing App released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG). </li> <li> Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image. </li> <li> Transparency: render portions of an image invisible. </li> <li> Draw: add shapes or text to an image. </li> <li> Decorate: add a border or frame to an image. </li> <li> Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image. </li> <li> Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images.

Doomsday 2.0 Portable game engine released

In version 2.0 we are also applying a number of technical changes that have waiting in the wings. The project’s build system changes to CMake, and distribution packages will be generated by CPack. The Doomsday SDK (foundation libraries and headers) will be included in the installers. The OS X version will be distributed as a plain.dmg disk image, with applications on it that you can launch directly. The Windows version will be distributed as an .

Entangle 0.7.0 “Charm” Camera Control & Capture released

The main features introduced in this release are a brand new logo, a plugin for automated capture of image sequences and the start of a help manual. The full set of changes is Require GLib >= 2.36 Import new logo design Switch to using zanata.org for translations Set default window icon Introduce an initial help manual via yelp Use shared library for core engine to ensure all symbols are exported to plugins Add framework for scripting capture operations Workaround camera busy problems with Nikon cameras Add a plugin for repeated capture sequences Replace progress bar with spinner icon

Tor Browser 4.5.2 released with Latest Tor Anonymity Network Software

Tor Browser 4.5.2 changelog All Platforms Update Tor to 0.2.6.9 Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1n Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.0.5 Update NoScript to 2.6.9.26 Update Torbutton to 1.9.2.6 Bug 15984: Disabling Torbutton breaks the Add-ons Manager Bug 14429: Make sure the automatic resizing is disabled Translation updates Bug 16130: Defend against logjam attack Bug 15984: Disabling Torbutton breaks the Add-ons Manager Linux Bug 16026: Fix crash in GStreamer Bug 16083: Update comment in start-tor-browser

Thunderbird 38.0.1 Mozilla mail client released

New: GMail supports OAuth2 authentication, removing the need to manually select “allow less secure applications” in Google options for the account Ship Lightning calendar addon with Thunderbird and enable with an opt-out dialog Filter sent messages Filter messages when archived Enable search in multiple/all address books Add support for Yahoo Messenger in Chat Support Internationalized domain name URLs for RSS feeds Show expanded columns in folder pane Allow file-per-message (maildir) local message storage Add a Learn more link to the support page in feeds subscribe dialog Add reading position marker line to conversations The editor for twitter should show inputtable character count Changed:

Pale Moon Browser 25.5.0 released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">wget sourceforge.net/projects/pm4linux/files/25.5.0/palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon* sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">wget sourceforge.net/projects/pm4linux/files/25.5.0/palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf palemoon-25.5.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/palemoon* sudo mv palemoon /opt/palemoon sudo ln -sf /opt/palemoon/palemoon /usr/bin/palemoon<p style="text-align: justify;"> Import Firefox profile like bookmarks, history, extensions, etc </p> <pre style="text-align: justify;">cp -R ~/.

Apple Swift Programming Language to go Open Source

Federighi also announced Swift v2 will be released this year and that will come with numerous new features. Developers will be able to use Markdown in comments, pattern matching in “if,” and synthesized “headers” in Xcode alongside other improvements like a faster runtime and shorter compile times.

Android Studio 1.3 Preview 2 available

<li> The Setup Wizard now longer installs the Android M preview by default; it installs the most recent stable version (currently API 22). You should only install and use the Android M preview (and buildtools 23-rc) if you are also going to use version 1.3.0-beta1 of the Android Gradle plugin. </li> <li> The layout editor and layout preview windows only use the Android M preview layout library if the project is compiled with the M preview library.

Porteus KIOSK 3.4.0 Linux OS released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://porteus-kiosk.org/download.html" target="_blank">Download Porteus Kiosk ISOs</a> </p>

How to Install Ubuntu on your Dell PC

The Preparing to install Ubuntu window appears. Choose the applicable options and click Continue. The Keyboard layout window appears. Select the correct keyboard layout for your system and click Continue. The Who are you? window appears. You want to fill in your information at this point. Ubuntu is now installed.

Everpad 2.15.8 now available for Ubuntu 15.04

Everpad Evernote client is well integrated with Linux desktop and the Everpad Client has: unity lens indicator applet unity launcher The Everpad Client supports Notes, Tags, Notebooks, Resources, Places, En-* tags

CentOS 7 Linux now runs on ARM64 (AArch64) hardware

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://seven.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screenshot-from-2015-05-08-155701.png"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://seven.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screenshot-from-2015-05-08-155701.png" alt="Screenshot from 2015-05-08 15:57:01" width="300" height="190" /></a> </p>

Telegram Desktop 0.8.11 Messaging app released

Telegram Desktop Features Connect from most remote locations Coordinate groups of up to 200 members Synchronize your chats across all your devices Send documents of any type Encrypt personal and business secrets Destruct your messages with a timer Store your media in the cloud Build your own tools on our API Enjoy feedback from your customers Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct. Telegram lets you access your messages from multiple devices.

Webmin 1.740 released

<pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin/files/webmin/1.740/webmin_1.740_all.deb sudo gdebi webmin_1.740_all.deb<p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Now access the url ‘https://localhost:10000/‘. Enter your root user account and password </p>

Thunderbird 31.6.0 browser released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Thunderbird 31.6.0 on Ubuntu OS</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.6.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird* sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.6.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird* sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

Install MyPaint 1.1 on Ubuntu OS

<li> Symmetry mode <ul> <li> An icon on the toolbar allow you to activate the symmetric painting mode. The axis displayed is a bold dotted orange line also part of the new &#8216;on canvas &#8216; feedbacks </li> </ul> </li> <li> Line Mode <ul> <li> Mypaint 1.1 is now really able to do precise drawing, more technical, such as perspectives, or comics frames. This is not aimed to be a feature as flexible as in a vector programs (ex: Inkscape ) , but its now very capable to get the work done and having very cool results for your perspectives drawing, concept art of props , etc &#8230; </li> </ul> </li> <li> New layer blending modes <ul> <li> One of the revolution in the precedent release were the addition of 4 layer blending modes.

Popcorn Time 2.5 for Android released

Popcorn Time’s interface is elegant and intuitive. On the first screen of the app you can quickly access any of the latest releases available to download, and you can access the selection of series or the search tool just by tapping on the screen. Note that the video file might end up stored on your device, so it’s a good idea to clean the temporary file folder for Popcorn Time every so often.

FlightGear 3.4 Flight Simulator released

<th> Aircraft </th> <td> <a title="Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II">Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> </td> <td> <a title="Airbus A380" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Airbus_A380">Airbus A380</a> </td> <td> <a title="Boeing 747-400" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Boeing_747-400">Boeing 747-400</a> </td> <td> <a title="Boeing 707-420" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Boeing_707-420">Boeing 707-420</a> </td> <td> <a title="Douglas DC-3" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Douglas_DC-3">Douglas DC-3</a> </td> <td> <a title="Robin DR400 Dauphin" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Robin_DR400_Dauphin">Robin DR400 Dauphin</a> </td> <td> <a title="Eurocopter EC130 B4" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Eurocopter_EC130_B4">Eurocopter EC130 B4</a> </td> <td> <a title="North American P-51 Mustang" href="http://wiki.

TeXstudio 2.9.0 LaTex Editor released

TeXstudio 2.9.0recently released, is a fully featured integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. The goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar TeXstudio 2.9.0 changelog  link overlays for urls close editor tab by pressing middle mouse button more standard shortcuts (in particular for OS X) support optional filename argument in txs:///view-pdf-internal add “expand/collapse all documents” to context menu of structure add tabulary support open correct log file if output filenames are changed due to “%& -job-name=targetfile” (note: changed pdf filename not yet supported) user-defined icons are now portable: if possible icon paths are stored relative to settings dir or application dir windowed pdf viewer now supports –no-focus argument improved detection of label name for “Insert \ref to Next Label” improved context detection for preview (multi-line math, cursor inside multi-char delimiter) improved search for texdoc location improved log parsing including support for LaTeX3 warnings and errors resize with soft line warp: keep vertical cursor position constant support .

Wireshark 1.12.4 released with new and updated Capture File Support

Wireshark 1.12.4recently released, is a free, open source packet analyzer used for network troubleshooting, monitoring, analysis, software and communications protocol development. The latest release Wireshark 1.12.4 comes with a number of vulnerabilities & bug fixes, including new and updated Capture File Support – NetScaler, PacketLogger, and Pcapng. Wireshark 1.12.4 changelog RTP player crashes on decode of long call: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) “Telephony→SCTP→Analyse This Association” crashes Wireshark on manufactured SCTP packet IPv6 Mobility Header Link Layer Address is parsed incorrectly DNS NXT RR is parsed incorrectly IPv6 AUTH mobility option parses Mobility SPI and Authentication Data incorrectly IPv6 Mobility Header Link-Layer Address Mobility Option is parsed incorrectly HTTP chunked response includes data beyond the chunked response.

CoreOS Alpha 612.1.0 & 612.0.0 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Revert to systemd 218 </li> <li> Set LimitNOFILE for etcd.service </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>CoreOS Alpha 612.0.0 changelog</strong></span> </p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> systemd 219 </li> <li> Add volume for SSL certs to flannel </li> <li> Prevent networkd from attempting to configure flannel interfaces </li> <li> TI-RPC 0.2.5 </li> <li> Include TI-RPC configs in all images </li> <li> Linux 3.19 </li> <li> Enable RAM-disk LKM </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://github.

Mozilla Firefox 36.0.1 released

Mozilla Firefox 36.0.1for desktop had been released and available for download and install. This latest release comes with additional issues been fixed, one of which is the “Hello may become inactive until restart”. Other issues fixed in this release includes: Disable the usage of the ANY DNS query type Fixed a startup crash with EMET Hello may become inactive until restart Print preferences may not be preserved Hello contact tabs may not be visible Accept hostnames that include an underscore character (“_”) WebGL may use significant memory with Canvas2d Option -remote has been restored Fix a top crash See releasenotesfor full details Install Mozilla Firefox 36.

Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps” </li> <li> Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets </li> <li> Improve webserver caching control </li> <li> External subtitles over UPnP </li> <li> Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library” </li> <li> Allow different sort orders for different sort methods </li> <li> Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it </li> <li> Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV </li> <li> ffmpeg 2.

[GAME]Circle Pong Challenge

Introducing the latest entertaining game on the Android platform – Circle Pong Challenge for your Android operating system devices. All you need to do is keep the ball bouncing in the circle <p> ** What make this game unique ** </p> <p> ✔ Keeps your mind fresh when bored<br /> ✔ Game comes with regular updates<br /> ✔ Simple and easy to play<br /> ✔ Makes you even sharper<br /> ✔ Help you control your thoughts<br /> ✔ Runs on all Android devices<br /> ✔ Unique and colorful HD graphics<br /> ✔ Very addictive and can keep you all day </p> <p> <a href="https://play.

QupZilla 1.8.6 released

added TabManager and FlashCookieManager plugins added CTRL+L shortcut to clear download list in download manager allow closing Download Manager and Browsing Library with Ctrl+W revert option to disable SSLv3, it is now correctly handled by Qt fix issue with tabs with empty url were removed from session fix zoom shortcuts with +/-/0 on numeric block fix hiding iframes that have completely blocked contents in AdBlock fix showing navigation bar when typing into locationbar in fullscreen fix visual issues with FTP listing with RTL layouts fix removing profiles from preferences fix crash when moving bookmarks on FreeBSD

Darktable 1.6.2 released

Please note that this release is a new stable point release, no big new features added. The general improvements made in this release are: Better names for key accels (no more ) Local gallery export limited to useful web formats (JPEG/PNG/WebP) Add a way to control the brush size with keys Default X-Trans Demosaic to markesteijn (single pass) get full release notes details

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (2013.5) CTP 2 released

Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 5Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP 2). This latest release now has added support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and made fixes in Team Foundation Server, Git support, and the IDE. This update is the latest in a cumulative series of technology improvements and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013. Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2

IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3 update build 139.1117 released

IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3 build 139.1117has just been released and this comes with long-awaited enhancements and bugfixes. If you’re running IntelliJ IDEA 14 and haven’t received a notification about the update yet, check for it via Help → Check for Updates.  The following are some the key changes, improvement and bug fixes: Android device list contains non-device lines A part of method name is improperly reported as undefined path variable Live template is evaluated inside another live template placeholder (scope: JSON) Intellij does not work with android-maven-plugin 4.

Wine 1.7.35 released

Wine 1.7.35 has been released and this comes various bug fixes including support for OpenGL core contexts, initial support for glyph placement in DirectWrite and some more WBEM objects. Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) as we already know is a software for running Windows applications on Linux machines. Wine 1.7.35 update Multiplayer crashes Heroes 4 Screen corruption in Evernote 1.1 3DMark 2001: Nature Test (#4) renders incorrectly around 40th second ProntoEdit NG 2.

SMPlayer 14.9.0.6672 released

SMPlayer 14.9.0.6672recently released, intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. Notable feature of SMPlayer is, it remembers the settings of all files you play. When you watch a movie and leave, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume.

FFmpeg 2.5.3 released

FFmpeg 2.5.3 “Bohr”– is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play any audio or video files. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. The most important new features are AVFoundation screen-grabbing support, animated WebP decoding support, and Animated PNG support. In addition, many exciting features for video streaming are also implemented, including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer, and UDP Lite support.

Android Studio 1.1 Preview 1 Released

<li> There is a new template for creating watch faces for Android Wear: <div> <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png?attredirects=0"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://tools.android.com/_/rsrc/1421370620201/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png" alt="" width="376" height="256" border="0" /></a> </div> </li>

Windows 7 mainstream support ended yesterday

With Microsoft Windows 10 anticipated launch currently circulating on air, the first phase of support for Microsoft Windows 7 SP1mainstream support for the OS ended yesterday 13th January 2015. According to report, Microsoft has pledged to continue to offer extended support for Windows 7 for another five years, until January 14, 2020.  By ending the “mainstream support,” the Windows 7 OS users will continue to on the “extended support” period under Microsoft.

Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 released

<ul> <li> Queries will run faster and more consistently </li> <li> You can consolidate servers on powerful hardware </li> <li> Sharding is delayed or avoided entirely </li> <li> You can save money on hosting fees and power </li> <li> You can spend less time tuning and administering </li> <li> You can achieve higher uptime </li> <li> Troubleshooting does not require guesswork </li> </ul> <p> <a href="http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.6/" target="_blank">Download Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0</a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></div>

Dropbox 3.0.5 released

Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Windows XP Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Fedora 20 Fix a rare issue that could cause crashes when using Camera Uploads on Windows Pause icon on Mac is no longer tiny on Retina displays

VLC for Windows Phone is now available for download

<li> <div> Music playback </div> </li> <li> <div> MKV playback </div> </li> <li> <div> FLAC playback </div> </li> <li> <div> Mini audio player and background audio </div> </li> <li> <div> Media Library </div> </li> <li> <div> Support for 10bits video </div> </li> <li> <div> Subtitles </div> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://www.windowsphone.com/s?appId=44fa83f7-a98d-4647-b9d4-c35ed729d0c9">Download VLC for Windows Phone</a> </p> </div>

Deepin 2014.2 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Enabled brand-new Deepin themes, making the system interface more beautiful </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the feature of drag and drop re-ordering to the residing icons in Dock </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added four kinds of re-ordering modes in the Launcher (by name, by category, by installation time and by frequency of use) </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the functions of Icon, Cursor and Fonts setting in the Personalization Setting module </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> improved multi-screen display function </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> strengthened the network function and added the function of state memory </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> simplified the operation of choosing time zone in Control Center </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> newly added the function of daylight saving time </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> For more details, see the <a href="http://planet.

Audacious 3.6 Alpha 1 released

A completely new Qt-based user interface, which can be installed alongside the existing GTK+ and Winamp Classic interfaces. The new interface is usable today but not yet as feature-rich as the existing interfaces. In future, it will be the basis of a Mac OS X port of Audacious—stay tuned. We have switched back to using GTK+ version 2.x by default. It has now been over three years since the release of GTK+ 3.

Robocode 1.9.2.4 – Tank combat simulation engine released

<li style="text-align: justify;"> Changes <ul> <li> Upgraded Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ) to version 4.4 </li> <li> Upgraded jni4net to version 0.8.7.0 </li> </ul> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Other <ul> <li> Got rid of various issues (e.g. license headers) with the source files of Robocode in order to create a Debian distribution of Robocode </li> </ul> </li>

SeaMonkey 2.31 Beta 1 released

SeaMonkey 2.31 beta 1recently released, is an open source, free all-in-one internet application suite. It consists of Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools. SeaMonkey is built on the open source Mozilla Gecko engine, the same code which underlies the highly successful siblings Firefox and Thunderbird. Testers are encouraged to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

Android Studio 0.9.0 released

<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you are already running <a title="Android Studio 0.8.12 released" href="http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/10/android-studio-0-8-12-released/" target="_blank">Android Studio version 0.8.12</a> or later, just restart it, or manually check for updates via Help > Check for Update&#8230; (on OSX, look in the Android Studio menu). This will download and install a small patch rather than download a full IDE image. If you are using an older version, you&#8217;ll need to download a full install from <a href="http://tools.

WPS Office for Linux Alpha16 released

Remove Kingsoft WPS Office for Linux Alpha16[button href=”http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/08/install-kingsoft-office-linux-ubuntu-14-04/” style=”flat” size=”medium” color=”#1e73be” hovercolor=”#0066bf” icon=”info”]Install missing fonts[/button]

Sysstat 11.0.2 stable released

Sysstat 11.0.2package contains utilities to monitor system performance and usage activity. Sysstat contains various utilities, common to many commercial Unixes, and tools you can schedule via cron to collect and historize performance and activity data. Sysstat supports UP and SMP machines, including machines with hyperthreaded or multi-core processors, supports hotplug CPUs (it detects automagically processors that are disabled or enabled on the fly) and tickless CPUs. Sysstat’s features Can monitor a huge number of different metrics Average statistics values are calculated over the sampling period Most system statistics can be saved in a file for future inspection On the fly detection of new devices (disks, network interfaces, etc.

OpenSceneGraph 3.2.1 released

OpenSceneGraphis open source, real-time graphics middle-ware used by application developers in fields that range from visual simulation (flight, marine, vehicle, space simulator) to virtual and augmented reality, to medical and scientific visualisation, to education and games. OpenSceneGraph is written in Standard C++, taking advantage of the standard template library (STL) for containers. The software uses the scene graph approach to representing 3D worlds as a graph of node that logical and spatially group subgraphs for behaviour and high performance.

Time to Install Gnome 3.14 on Ubuntu 14.10

GNOME 3.14the latest version of GNOME 3, which was recently releasedbrings many new features and improvements. The new release includes over 28,000 changes by 871 contributors. This latest release includes major improvements for developers, including GTK+ Inspector (a new utlity to examine and modify running GTK+ applications), the ability to use SVG assets as a part of GTK+ themes, improved touchscreen support, and major progress towards Wayland. Jeff Fortin, GNOME Foundation President, said: “With multitouch and gestures support coming to GTK+, as well as maturing support for the next-generation Wayland display protocol, GNOME is paving the way for the future of the Free Software desktop and mobile ecosystem at large….

Automotive Grade Linux has arrived

[button href=”http://content.linuxfoundation.org/auto/downloads/” style=”flat” size=”medium” icon=”download”]Download Automotive Grade Linux [/button]

Android Studio 0.8.11 Released

<p> Similarly, if you try to import a Gradle project which does not contain a gradle wrapper, it will offer to let you insert one: </p> <div> <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent/androidstudio0811released/add-wrapper.png?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/_/rsrc/1411084729614/recent/androidstudio0811released/add-wrapper.png" alt="" border="0" /></a> </div> </li> <li> Lint errors can now display the full issue explanation text in-place in the editor. This is helpful when the short single-line error message does not fully explain what the problem is. <div> <a href="https://sites.

Ubuntu Touch Terminal in Action

The video shows Ubuntu Touch Terminal running on Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 for this demonstration, but the application is the same on an actual Ubuntu Touch Device

Install KiCad – Electronic Circuit Board Design

kicad – project manager eeschema – schematic editor pcbnew – PCB editor gerbview – GERBER viewer cvpcb – footprint selector for components Libraries: Both eeschema and pcbnew have library managers and editors for their components and footprints You can easily create, edit, delete and exchange library items Documentation files can be associated with components, footprints and key words, allowing a fast search by function Very large libraries are available for schematic components and footprints Most components have corresponding 3D models Install KiCad on Ubuntu 14.

Calibre 2.2 Released with Improved news sources

Calibre 2.2 updates Kindle driver: Add option to not overwrite existing page number (apnx) files on the device when sending books to the device Kindle driver: Add option to allow customization of the page number (apnx) generation algorithm based on values in a custom column Metadata jacket: Allow customizing the jacket template to show the tags in alphabetical order View specific format window: If a conversion finishes in the background making a new format available, update the window E-book viewer: Automatically hide the mouse cursor if the mouse has not been used for a few seconds.

Get valuable insights into your website’s visitors with Piwik

Real time data updates – Watch real time flow of visits to your website. Get a detailed view of your visitors, pages they have visited and goals they have triggered. Track different user interactions – Automatic tracking of file downloads, clicks on external website links, optional tracking of 404 pages Event Tracking – Measure any interaction by users on your websites and apps. Site Search Analytics – Track searches done on your internal search engine.

Install sqlmap on Ubuntu 14.04

Full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, IBM DB2, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase and SAP MaxDB database management systems Full support for six SQL injection techniques: boolean-based blind, time-based blind, error-based, UNION query, stacked queries and out-of-band Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, by providing DBMS credentials, IP address, port and database name Support to enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, roles, databases, tables and columns Automatic recognition of password hash formats and support for cracking them using a dictionary-based attack Support to download and upload any file from the database server underlying file system when the database software is MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server and many more

Install Cafu 3D Game Engine on Ubuntu 14.04

High-quality, real-time 3D graphics with a very powerful and flexible material system Cross-platform and cross-compiler portability Very fast built-in network code for multi-player internet and LAN games Dynamic per-pixel lighting and shadows, combined with physically correct Radiosity Very large terrain rendering, skeleton based model rendering 3D sound effects with a powerful sound system Uses the powerful Lua language for map scripting, entity scripting and GUI scripting Freely available under the GPL or a custom license that is tailored to you needs and many more feature

Secure Your Email Traffic with Scrollout F1 Email Gateway

Scrollout F1is an easy to use, already adjusted email firewall (gateway) offering free anti-spam and anti-virus protection aiming to secure existing email servers, old or new, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail and others. It combines simplicity with effective protection using powerful open source with additional set of rules & filters. Scrollout F1 Features 256 bit TLS/SSL encryption with Perfect Forward Secrecy Host-to-host IPSec transport encryption with pre-shared key Free and commercial Anti-Virus for inbound and outbound emails Different Quarantine per domain Different scores per domain for Tagging & Blocking Additional SMTP ports.

Linux Kernel 3.15.10 Update Released

32bit OS 64bit OS Uninstall Linux Kernels 3.15.10– Reboot into previous kernel (Grub -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run the following command

Linux Kernel 3.16.1 Released

32bit OS 64bit OS Uninstall Linux Kernel 3.16.1– Reboot into previous kernel (Grub -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run the following command

Second Release of KDE Frameworks 5 Out

Install KDE Frameworks 5 on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS– For Kubuntu 14.04LTS users, Project Neon is available as PPAs which offers regularly updated development snapshots of KDE Frameworks. Packages will be installed to /opt/project-neon5 and will not contaminate your normal environment. Feel free to try it out and comment.

Install Suricata 2.0.3 – Network IDS & IPS on Ubuntu 14.04

Suricatais an open source high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Suricata is the OISF IDP engine, the open source Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. Suricata is developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation), its supporting vendors and the community. This latest release Suricata 2.0.3 fixes a number of issues in the 2.0 series. Most importantly, this release addresses a number of IPv6 issues that can lead to evasion.

SeaFile 3.1 Released with Redesigned Syncing Protocol

<th> Description </th> <th> Note </th> <td> Name of this seafile server </td> <td> 3-15 characters, only English letters, digits and underscore (&#8216;_&#8217;) are allowed </td> <td> The IP address or domain name used by this server </td> <td> Seafile client program will access the server with this address </td> <td> The TCP port used by ccnet, the underlying networking service of Seafile </td> <td> Default is 10001.

Evolve OS Alpha 3 Released

All updates have been included in this release, bringing the main components of the stack up to date ALSA should now be correctly configured and integrated with PulseAudio – you can verify this by attempting to listen to a flash video in YouTube via headphones. The volume should also stay set now.

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

<li> Map changes <ul> <li> Fixed unbalanced ammo kits in Blu base near the vault </li> <li> Added flashing light in the vault that will activate when a player is stealing points </li> <li> Added larger one way glass windows to spawn exit doors </li> <li> Added small ammo pack to top of the stairs at the cave exit </li> <li> Shortened length of pipes in vents that require players to crouch </li> <li> Increased track length for A robots.

Calibre 1.47 Released with New Features

Cover Grid: Now you can have your own defined emblems (icons) to be displayed next to covers, based on simple rules you create E-book Viewer: Now you can use wiktionary.org and wordnik.com as dictionary providers instead of dict.org Edit Book: You can now customize the templates used when creating new, blank HTML/CSS files via Preferences->Editor settings Comic Input: When sorting the pages inside a comic, recognize numbers, so that page2 sorts before page10 Conversion: When inserting a metadata jacket, format the series number using roman numerals.

Install OpenRA 20140722 Game on Ubuntu 14.04

The RA and TD game music can now be downloaded and installed from the in-game music player Capturing enemy structures in RA and TD will now let you build units from their faction The maximum tech level can be configured in the lobby options Fixed a number of crashes that were introduced in the last release Fixed issues that occurred when installing from CD Improved performance and memory usage Improved scroll-panel behaviour Added an option to lock the mouse cursor inside the game window Multiple players can now repair a building at an accelerated rate Added engine support for diamond-shaped (“isometric”) terrain (an important milestone for our TS mod)

Install Node JS 0.10.29 on Ubuntu 14.04

Node JSis a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript run-time for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. npm is a NodeJS package manager that allows you to install node programs. npm now comes pre-packaged with Node.js Node JS 0.10.29 update openssl: upgraded to 1.0.1h which fixes the openssl vulnerability npm: upgrade to 1.

Install Enlightenment 0.19 in Ubuntu 14.04

Enlightenment Desktop Environmentis a rich feature set, fast, modular and extensible window manager for X11 and Linux with a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work. It provides an efficient yet breathtaking window manager based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) along with other essential desktop components like a file manager, desktop icons and widgets. Enlightenment is comprised of both the Enlightenment window manager and Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), which provide additional desktop environment features such as a toolkit, object canvas, and abstracted objects.

Install Calibre 1.45 in Ubuntu 14.04

Calibreis a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create electronic books based on recipes of your very own ideas. New Features Edit Book: Add in-context help for HTML and CSS Now, you can right click on any HTML/OPF/NCX tag name or CSS property and the editor will open some help for that item in your browser.

Install Format Junkie 1.08 on Linux 14.04

Format Junkieis a Linux graphical user interface, user-friendly application with lots of options, which can allow you to convert your audio, video and image files to all the popular formats. The program is just a frontend to avconv and to ImageMagick. Format Junkie Features Audio: This tab allows you to convert between multiple different audio formats: mp3, mp2, wav, ogg, wma, flac, m4r, m4a and aac Video: Format Junkie supports the following video conversion formats: avi, ogv, vob, mp4, vob, flv, 3gp, mpg, mkv, wmv Image: Format Junkie uses the very powerful ImageMagick command line tools in order to perform conversion between the supported image formats.

Install gbrainy 2.2.3 – Brain Teaser Game on Ubuntu 14.04

Logic puzzles:Games designed to challenge your reasoning and thinking skills Mental calculation:Games based on arithmetical operations designed to prove your mental calculation skills Memory trainers:Games designed to challenge your short term memory Verbal analogies:Games that challenge your verbal aptitude

Install Variety 0.4.20 Wallpaper Changer on Ubuntu 14.04

Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux desktops. It changes the desktop wallpaper on a regular basis, using user-specified or automatically downloaded images. Variety sits conveniently as an indicator in the panel and can be easily paused and resumed. The mouse wheel can be used to scroll wallpapers back and forth until you find the perfect one for your current mood. Apart from displaying images from local folders, several different online sources can be used to fetch wallpapers according to user-specified criteria.

Install Dropbox 2.10.3 / 2.11.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Dropbox 2.10.3</strong></span> is the latest release for 2.10 series and comes with following updates </p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Prevents Finder crash on update </li> <li> Fix an issue that was unlinking some users </li> <li> Other small fixes </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Dropbox 2.11.0</strong> </span>is the first 2.11 series and comes with some new features and changes </p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Rewrite of the Windows & Linux UI.

Install FlareGet 3.2.42 on Ubuntu 14.04

FlareGet Features It integrates with all the browsers to replace their default download manager and start the download by itself It uses an intelligent file management system to automatically categorize your files based on their extensions It can resume unfinished downloads even on power failures or system crash It supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols to let you download files from internet It supports segmented download of a file from multiple mirror sites with automatic link checking of expired URLs and many more FlareGet 3.

Install Mailnag 1.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

Mailnag is desktop-independent now (was GNOME3-only) Added plugin system to allow easy extensibility Cut down the core daemon functionality to mail checking only and moved everything else to plugins Released GNOME 3/Ubuntu Unity extension/plugin for a tighter desktop integration Added account assistants for popular email providers like Gmail Added DBUS service (for remote control/integration in other apps) Redesigned and simplified config UI Added propper logging (log messages are sent to stdout and the system log now) Heavy code cleanup & refactoring Reduced disk write access, other performance improvements Fixes for various major and minor bugs New icon by Reda Lazri

Install BleachBit 1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04

BleachBit 1.2 updates Add cleaner for APT package lists. Update Konqueror cleaner (thanks to tiemay). Update Debian package for Debian and Ubuntu. Add Fedora 20 RPM package. Add Ubuntu 14.04 DEB package. Do not crash on startup for new platforms (in this case, for FreeBSD)

Install Stellarium in Ubuntu 14.04

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. The latest release Stellarium 0.13.0 brings some interesting new features: New modulated core. Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping. Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now. Comet tails rendering. New translatable strings and new textures. New plugin: Equation of Time – provides solution for Equation of Time.

Install MythTV 0.27.3 on Ubuntu 14.04

Watch and record analog and/or digital TV, including HDTV. Pause, skip, and rewind live TV shows. Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping, with manual correction via an intuitive cutlist editor. Intelligently schedules recordings to avoid conflicts. Parental controls to keep your kids out of the good shows. Watch and archive DVDs. Listen to your digital music collection. Schedule and administer many functions remotely via a web browser. Flexible client/server architecture allows multiple frontend client machines to access content served by one or more backend servers (although the most common installation consists of a single computer running both the client and server together).

Install GUFW Firewall 14.04 on Ubuntu 14.04

More preconfigured games Confirm delete rules Sort your rules Sort the Report More beautiful Refresh interval for Report Adapted for small windows Create rules from Report Search the columns Filter apps

Install Corebird 0.8 Twitter Client on Ubuntu 14.04

<th align="left"> Description </th> <td align="left"> Compose Tweet </td> <td align="left"> Go one page back(this can be triggered via tha back button on the keyboard, the back thumb button on the mouse or <code>Alt + Left</code>) </td> <td align="left"> Go one page forward(this can be triggered via tha forward button on the keyboard, the forward thumb button on the mouse or <code>Alt + Right</code>) </td> <td align="left"> Go to page <code>num</code>(between 1 and 7 at the moment) </td> <td align="left"> Show/Hide sidebar </td>

Install KDE Plasma 5.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

An updated and modernized, cleaner visual and interactive user experience Smoother graphics performance thanks to an updated graphics stack The “converged Plasma shell” that loads up the desktop in Plasma 5.0 can be extended with other user experiences Modernized launchers Workflow improvements in the notification area Better support for high-density (high-DPI) displays

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.394 on Ubuntu 14.04

Adobe has just recently released security updates for Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.378and earlier versions for Linux and Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system / desktops including servers running Adobe Flash in a production environment. Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.378 and earlier versions for Linux including Adobe Flash Player 14.

Install AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta on Ubuntu 14.04

Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above (up to 1.15) Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.13) glibc version 2.2 or 2.3 POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

Install FFmpeg 2.2.5 on Ubuntu 14.04

ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert multimedia files between formats. ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts. ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries. ffprobe is a is a simple multimedia stream analyzer.

Install Phototonic 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04

[box type=”danger”] Phototonic 1.0.1 has just been released 2 days after 1.0 was released. This is to fix the following: Note, the PPA had been updated to 1.0.1 as same procedure as below would install the latest release [/box]

Install Meld 3.11.2 on Ubuntu 14.04

Meldis a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems. File and folder comparison panes can now be resized (Marco Brito) Folder comparisons now support scrolling between chunks using the mouse wheel in the link map, like file comparisons (Kai Willadsen) Don’t draw spurious actions for equal chunks (Kai Willadsen) Remove default sourceview behaviour for Alt+Left/Right (Kai Willadsen) Fix storing translated column names in configuration (Kai Willadsen) Several fixes for multiple windows in single-instance handling: Resolve relative paths relative to the correct instance (Kai Willadsen) Don’t create windows in the original instance when the calling instance errors out (Kai Willadsen) Raise the correct window for new windows in the same instance (Kai Willadsen) Exit correctly for command line errors in the calling instance (Kai Willadsen) Fix display of unicode paths in repositories (Kai Willadsen) Fix handling of unicode paths in recent files store (Kai Willadsen) Improve behaviour of Open External action, and handle spaces in filenames for the custom editor option (Kai Willadsen) Improve support custom installation prefixes (Kai Willadsen) Install Meld 3.

Install Selene 2.4.3 on Ubuntu 14.04

Encode videos to MKV/MP4/OGV/WEBM formats. Encode music to MP3/AAC/OGG/OPUS/FLAC/WAV formats. Option to pause/resume encoding Option to run in background and shutdown PC after encoding Bash scripts can be written to control the encoding process Commandline interface for unattended/automated encoding Added option for SOX Audio Processing Added check for missing encoders Added new About and Donation windows Fixed: ‘Add File’ button will remember the last input folder Fixed: Encoding fails if the /tmp directory is mounted with ‘noexec’ option

Install QuiteRSS 0.16.1 on Ubuntu 14.04

QuiteRSSis an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader with the aim to make it quite fast and comfortable for user. QuiteRSS is written in Qt/С++, and available for Linux, Windows, OS X, OS/2. QuiteRSS comes with following features; Embedded browser (Webkit core), Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted (for news until restart application), User filters, Proxy configuration: automatic or manual, Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered, Adblock and many more

Install Calibre 1.44 in Ubuntu 14.04

Edit Book: Syntax highlight links, images, stylesheet includes, etc. Links that point to missing files are marked as errors. You can Ctrl + click on a highlighted link to jump to the file it points to directly. Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for manifest items missing href attributes. When clicking in the search box, select all existing text, for easy replacement. Edit Book: Add buttons to change the text alignment of the current paragraph.

Install Transmission BitTorrent 2.84 on Ubuntu 14.04

Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, webseed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.  Change Log Licensing change: the GNU GPLv2 code can now be used under GNU GPL v2 or v3 Fix network hanging issues that could occur when both UTP and DHT were enabled Fix 2.

Install Geany 1.24.1 IDE on Ubuntu 14.04

New plugin Pohelper New plugin PairTagHighlighter New plugin Autoclose New plugin Geanypy (Python bindings) New plugin Defineformat Experimental support of Gtk3 on many of the plugins If the Geanypy plugin is closed when any Python plugins are still running it may cause a crash Closing Geany having GeanyLaTeX and Devhelp-plugin active, might cause a not clean shutdown of Geany

Install Linux Kernel 3.14.12 LTS on Ubuntu 14.04

Time to install Linux Kernel 3.14.12which has just been released and this release comes with a number of bug fixes and improvements. As announced by Greg KH email, all users of the 3.14 kernel series must upgrade to this latest release. Some of Kernel 3.14.12 updates Numerous fixes on both Radeon and Nvidia graphics cards Bug fix in stack alignment exception  fix a memory leak on sta rate selection table ALSA: usb-audio: Suppress repetitive debug messages from retire_playback_urb() Bluetooth: Fix SSP acceptor just-works confirmation without MITM Bluetooth: Fix check for connection encryption xhci: Fix runtime suspended xhci from blocking system suspend.

Install the latest Transmageddon Video Converter on Ubuntu 14.04

First of all if you have the GStreamer VAAPI plugins installed (and be sure to have the driver too) then the VAAPI GPU encoder will be used for h264 and MPEG2 Secondly I brought back the so called ‘xvid’ codec (even though xvid isn’t really a separate codec, but a name used to refer to MPEG4 Video codec using the advanced-simple profile.)

Install Evolve OS Alpha 1 with Budgie Desktop on VirtualBox

gnome-screenshot fails to launch, missing schema (workaround: install scrot from repo, sudo pisi it scrot) Stray development files in system: Please report them so these packages can be improved, i.e. the -devel packages need splitting correctly! Budgie Desktop doesn’t “start” until mouse moves. Move it after log in, its really not slow. It just waits until input (weird bug, investigating) No automatic login (Deliberate due to budgie/mouse issue) No automatic partitioning in installer.

Install Angry IP scanner in Ubuntu 14.04

MAC vendors updated Update site URLs Debian/Ubuntu: allow more different JREs Mac: Specify Java 1.6+ in plist Upgrade JNA to 4.0 Windows: remove license step from the installer Minor bugfixes

Install Linux Kernel 3.12.24 on Ubuntu 14.04

ACPI / video: clean up DMI table for initial black screen problem USB: usbtest: add a timeout for scatter-gather tests efi-pstore: Fix an overflow on 32-bit builds net/compat: Fix minor information leak in siocdevprivate_ioctl() aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10 aio: fix aio request leak when events are reaped by userspace aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10

Install Double Commander in Ubuntu 14.04

 Install Double Commander in Ubuntu FeaturesAlternatively you can see that video on install **double commander in Ubuntu **  If you want to get more information on development of Double Commander see Developmentpage. You can check the latest version on the Versionspage. See if Double Commander is supported for your platform on the Supported platformspage. Source How to install Ubuntu 16.04 tutorial

Install Minetest 0.4.10 on Ubuntu 14.04

Big Gameplay Changes Added third person view Removed finite liquid and weather Smaller Gameplay tweaks Create bones only when the player’s inventory is not empty & remove the bones when emptied Made pause menu actually pause singleplayer game and use lower maximum FPS in it Prevented placing node when player would be inside new node Drop an item instead a stack while sneaking Added support for exiting formspecs by doubleclicking outside Fixed objects being selected behind a node Fixed absence of images when compiled with RUN_IN_PLACE=0 (xyz) Added option to link to OpenGL ES Fixed CMake list parsing in build Fixed cutting of multi-line error messages at half of second line in main menu dialog Created new instance of mesh every time it’s required Escaped error messages in error dialog Added operating system to user agent Prevented auto-rotated nodes from replacing the nodes they were placed on (ShadowNinja) Added protection support to auto-rotated nodes (ShadowNinja)

Install Linux Kernel 3.15.4 / 3.16 RC4 on Ubuntu 14.04

cpufreq: unlock when failing cpufreq_update_policy() powernv: Fix permissions on sysparam sysfs entries powerpc: 64bit sendfile is capped at 2GB Input: synaptics – fix resolution for manually provided min/max RDMA/cxgb4: Fix memory leaks in c4iw_alloc() error paths MIPS: KVM: Fix memory leak on VCPU hpsa: add new Smart Array PCI IDs (May 2014) powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared on fork() Revert “MIPS: Save/restore MSA context around signals” pNFS: Handle allocation errors correctly in filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr() NFS: Don’t declare inode uptodate unless all attributes were checked RDMA/cxgb4: add missing padding at end of struct c4iw_alloc_ucontext_resp IB/mlx5: add missing padding at end of struct mlx5_ib_create_cq

Install Linux Kernel 3.14.10 LTS in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

USB: usbtest: add a timeout for scatter-gather tests USB: EHCI: avoid BIOS handover on the HASEE E200 efi-pstore: Fix an overflow on 32-bit builds phy: exynos-mipi-video: fix check on array index fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10 fix incorrect OPP count handling in of_init_opp_table ACPICA: utstring: Check array index bound before use. lz4: fix another possible overrun media: saa7134: fix regression with tvtime SCSI: Fix spurious request sense in error handling ARM: mvebu: DT: fix OpenBlocks AX3-4 RAM size USB: sierra: fix urb and memory leak in resume error path USB: sierra: fix urb and memory leak on disconnect media: uvcvideo: Fix clock param realtime setting

Install soundconverter in Ubuntu 14.04

Clean and easy interface – GNOME HIG compliant interface. Just get the job done and forget about it Fast, multithreaded, conversion – Process huge number of files in record time. Finally use all these cores Powerful automated renaming – Change filenames and create folders according to tags

Fotoxx 14.07 Released – Install in Ubuntu 14.04

The main menu was made smaller to save space. Some menu-icons now use left/right mouse clicks for two functions, e.g. edit undo/redo. An image with selected areas can be saved to a PNG file with unselected parts transparent. This can be useful in other image editors, e.g. Gimp. Mashup: draw lines and arrows on an image, similarly to writing text. Mashup: control of overlapping and transparent images was made easier.

Install Linux Kernel 3.15.3 / 3.16 RC3 in Ubuntu 14.04

CIFS: Fix memory leaks in SMB2_open aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10 aio: fix aio request leak when events are reaped by userspace genirq: Sanitize spurious interrupt detection of threaded irq Bluetooth: Fix properly ignoring LTKs of unknown types random: fix nasty entropy accounting bug scsi_cmnd: Introduce scsi_transfer_length helper target: Report correct response length for some commands iscsi-target: Fix ABORT_TASK + connection reset iscsi_queue_req memory leak Bluetooth: Fix authentication check for FIPS security level Bluetooth: 6LoWPAN: Fix MAC address universal/local bit handling ext4: fix data integrity sync in ordered mode x86_32, entry: Do syscall exit work on badsys lz4: fix another possible overrun Btrfs: fix scrub_print_warning to handle skinny metadata extents btrfs: allocate raid type kobjects dynamically Btrfs: send, account for orphan directories when building path strings Btrfs: output warning instead of error when loading free space cache failed

Install VidMasta (Watch Movies) in Ubuntu 14.04

Set default download link timeout to 0 for instantaneous opening of download links when auto-downloading is enabled Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches Improved error recovery and reporting when opening/saving download links Added ability to email and copy download links, stream links, and trailer links. Added ability to copy subtitle links Improved sorting of title, year, and rating table columns by conversion from formatted text to plain text, from text to whole number, and from text to rational number respectively prior to sorting Improved positioning and timing of windows Fixed bug preventing copying of discontiguous table rows

Install Texmaker in Ubuntu 14.04

script support has been added (only for the text editor part – “User” menu) with the new option “-n” for the command line, a new instance of Texmaker can be launched (will break the synchronization with the pdf viewers and others feautures) hu and nl translations have been updated the windows and macosx lion/maverick versions are now compiled with Qt 5.2.1 while loading the last session, the bug about the focus has been fixed a bug about the “commands” combo box in the main toolbar has been fixed a typo in the russian translation has been fixed a bad trigger detection for the snippets has been fixed

Install Popcorn Time 0.3.2 in Ubuntu 14.04

Bug Fixes Fixed tooltip for IMDb stars for TV shows Fix to enable drag & drop again Make sure cursor disappears in fullscreen mode Fix French translation Store dropped torrents in Temp folder Stop movie pausing on drag Removed dangling whitespace/tabs, excessive newline Fix updater and some promise binding issues Patched installer to fix all the issues introduced with installing to program files

Install Qt Creator in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Code editor with C++, QML and ECMAscript support Rapid code navigation tools Syntax highlighting and code completion Static code checking and style hints as you type Support for source code refactoring Integrated, context-sensitive help system Code folding Parenthesis matching and parenthesis selection modes Integrated GUI layout and forms designer Project and build management tools Visual debugger Supports multiple platforms

Install Font Manager in Ubuntu 14.04

Preview installed fonts Compare installed fonts Easily install or remove fonts Easily activate and de-activate installed fonts Specify different directories to search for fonts Group fonts into “Collections”, and easily activate or de-activate groups of fonts Export “Collections” to an archive for easy backup, sharing, etc. Provides quick access to all GNOME font utilities Font Manager suggests the installation of python-reportlab to allow users to export font collections in the PDF format.

Install MPV Media Player in Ubuntu 14.04

Add client API in the form of the libmpv library, which is intended to be a stable API to get some rough control over the player (this is not supported on Mac OS X). Add option for approximating BT.709 gamma for the opengl vo (similarly to many programs in the Apple ecosystem). Add support for non-BT.709 primaries. Add support for BT.2020 colorspace. Generate and install zsh completion script (disabled by default since it may interfere with cross-compilation).

Install Esmska in Ubuntu 14.04

Send SMS through various gateways (local or international, free or paid) Supports all common operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc.) Free, under open-source licence GNU AGPL3+ Import contacts from vCard files or third-party programs (DreamCom) Send SMS to multiple recipients at once History of sent messages Pluggable gateway system – easy to provide support for more gateways directly by users Extensive possibilities of changing appearance Gateway updates Moved signature to message start Added a way to easily add new contacts from unknown numbers When a message is split into several fragments (to be sent separately), they are no longer visible as separate pieces in the history (which makes it hard to forward the message), but they are instead visible as the original single message Gateway script API changed: removed SENDER_NAME, getExtraSignatureLength() and getMaxParts() Show the user signature inside the message text Split message text by word boundaries

Install Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu 14.04

Easy-to-use user interface Quick channel(s)-only selection Custom channel names and icons Category filter Title-, actor- and description search Hidden in tray while not used Favourite show highlighting Realtime updates with colour encoded time Grabbing of TV-listings Custom channel icon size A popup window alerting the user when favourite show starts Favourite overview with quick removal and more..

Install Qt 5.3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04

What’s new in Qt 5.3.1 Performance optimizations for Qt Quick Engine’s JIT compiler code generation and important bug fixes, especially on ARM QAbstractProxyModel::sibling to now works in the same manner as with Qt4 Many small fixes to Qt Quick Controls, for example to TableView, TabView, ComboBox and Calendar QQuickWidget now works properly also with ANGLE Qt Quick animations now work also with static builds Fix for a regression of QPushButton with QMenu Fix for a regression on Mac for passing click event to underlaying widget Initial support for Mac OS X 10.

Install TeamSpeak 3 in Ubuntu 14.04

Install TeamSpeak 3 in Ubuntu 14.04  – Now you can open teamspeak:// links, which will automatically launch TeamSpeak and connect to the specified server when you click them!

Install aTunes in Ubuntu 14.04

Store metadata for all kind of files, even if it does not support an internal tag New option to show a navigation table filter New option to hide navigation tree and use only navigation table to select elements Can store ratings both in files and in an external database to not modify files Faster podcast download New playlist option to stop playback after the current track New options to load / save play list replacing play list or creating a new one NPE updating tag in properties file check audio object exists not controlling null references Errors when dragging columns Problem creating folders when ripping CDs in Windows Removed next and previous buttons when editing tags

Install FlightGear Flight Simulator in Ubuntu 14.04

<th> Aircraft </th> <td> <a style="color: #0b0080;" title="Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II">Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> </td> <td> <a style="color: #0b0080;" title="Airbus A380" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Airbus_A380">Airbus A380</a> </td> <td> <a style="color: #0b0080;" title="Boeing 747-400" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Boeing_747-400">Boeing 747-400</a> </td> <td> <a style="color: #0b0080;" title="Boeing 707-420" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Boeing_707-420">Boeing 707-420</a> </td> <td> <a style="color: #0b0080;" title="Douglas DC-3" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Douglas_DC-3">Douglas DC-3</a> </td> <td> <a style="color: #0b0080;" title="Robin DR400 Dauphin" href="http://wiki.flightgear.org/Robin_DR400_Dauphin">Robin DR400 Dauphin</a> </td> <td> <a style="color: #0b0080;" title="Eurocopter EC130 B4" href="http://wiki.

Linux Kernel 3.14.8 Released

PCI/MSI: Fix memory leak in free_msi_irqs() ahci: add PCI ID for Marvell 88SE91A0 SATA Controller fs,userns: Change inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid auditsc: audit_krule mask accesses need bounds checking rtl28xxu: add 1b80:d395 Peak DVB-T USB netfilter: ipv4: defrag: set local_df flag on defragmented skb rtl28xxu: add USB ID for Genius TVGo DVB-T03 rtl28xxu: add chipset version comments into device list ahci: Add Device ID for HighPoint RocketRaid 642L MIPS: asm: thread_info: Add _TIF_SECCOMP flag iser-target: Fix multi network portal shutdown regression target: Allow READ_CAPACITY opcode in ALUA Standby access state Target/iscsi,iser: Avoid accepting transport connections during stop stage rtl28xxu: add ID [0ccd:00b4] TerraTec NOXON DAB Stick (rev 3) mei: me: fix hw ready reset flow mei: me: drop harmful wait optimization mei: me: read H_CSR after asserting reset

Install System Load Indicator 0.4 in Ubuntu 14.04

Fixed – Advanced preferences text boxes should have unit labels Fixed – indicator-multiload crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message() Fixed – Change “Open System Monitor” Link Fixed – Menu monitor items do not display on Ubuntu 13.10 New – Add GUI option to turn off autoranging on graphs New – Provide monochrome option

Wine 1.7.20 Released with lots of Game fixes

To compile from source, follow steps documented on WineHQ wiki [button link=”http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit” style=”info” color=”primary”]Building 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit (x86-64) system[/button] [button link=”http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64″ style=”info” color=”primary”]Win64 Support for Wine[/button]

Install Aptana Studio 3 in Ubuntu 14.04

Aids in authoring of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Supports the latest HTML5 specifications. Includes information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers Support for one-shot as well as keep-synchronized setups. Multiple protocols including FTP, SFTP, FTPS and Capistrano. Ability to automatically publish your Ruby & Rails applications to hosting services such as Heroku and Engine Yard. Set breakpoints, inspect variables, control execution.

Install MKVToolnix in Ubuntu 14.04

If a single subtitle track contains two or more entries at the same timecode then the cue duration and cue relative position elements written were wrong fixed wrong progress percentage shown during saving the information to text files Added a global option for disabling writing the tags with statistics for each track When identifying a Matroska file in verbose identification mode track-specific tags will be output as well mkvmerge will write track-specific tags with statistics for the average number of bits per second, for the duration, and for the track’s size in bytes and its number of frames/packets) Changed the file type detection order again.

Install Phoronix Test Suite 5.2 in Ubuntu 14.04

Runs On Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows & BSD Operating Systems Extensible Testing Architecture Embedded To Cloud Scale 450+ Test Profiles 100+ Test Suites Automated Batch Mode Support Automated Test Downloading & Installation Dependency Management Support Module-based Plug-In Architecture Minimum / Average / Maximum Result Reporting Standard Deviation Monitoring & Insurance PNG, SVG Graph Rendering Support PDF Result Reports Detailed Software, Hardware Detection System Monitoring Support

Install IntelliJ 13.1 in Ubuntu 14.04

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102);"><strong>Create App Launcher for Intellij</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Install gnome-panel if not already installed </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Next run command below to launch the Create Launcher app. Enter details as follows; </p> <pre>gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new</pre> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> <strong>Type:</strong> Application </li> <li> <strong>Name:</strong> IntelliJ </li> <li> <strong>Command:</strong> /home/sysadmin/idea-IC-135.

Install Blender 2.7.0 in Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17

Include initial support for volumetrics in Cycles, and faster rendering of hair and textures The motion tracker now supports weighted tracks and has improved planar tracking For mesh modeling there are new Laplacian deform and wireframe modifiers, along with more control in the bevel tool The game engine now supports object levels of detail The first results from the new user interface project are also in this release, with dozens of changes to make the interface more consistent and powerful This is also the first release of the multithreaded dependency graph, which makes modifier and constraint evaluation faster in scenes with multiple objects

Install SketchUp Make 2014 in Ubuntu 14.04

What’s New Fixed a crash that occurred when exporting an animation while any Ruby tool was active. Fixed an EntityObserver crash in onEraseEntity that could occur if the observer removed itself. Fixed a bug in ViewObserver which caused observer methods to not fire properly in certain rare cases. This occurred when an observer was being removed and a new one being added within the same notification loop of another event. Fixed an issue where launching SketchUp by double-clicking a skp file on another drive would corrupt $LOAD_PATH and render the Standard Library inaccessible.

Install phpLDAPadmin in Ubuntu 14.04

LDAP tree browser (see screenshots) Template-based entry editing Copy LDAP entries (even copy between different servers) Recursively copy entire trees Delete LDAP entries Recursively delete entire trees View and edit image attributes (like jpegPhoto) Advanced LDAP schema browser Template-based entry creation LDAP searches (both simple and advanced) LDIF and DSML export LDIF import Rename LDAP entries Manage user password hashes (supports sha, crypt, md5, blowfish, md5crypt) Browse RootDSE LDAP information Automagically determine your LDAP server’s root DN Configurable authentication (anonymous, web login, or static) Friendly attribute translation (ie, display “Fax” instead of “facsimileTelephoneNumber”) Binary attribute support Configurable support for aliases and referrals Automatically increment UID numbers Hyperlinks for mailto and href attribute values.

phpMyAdmin 4.2.2 Released

– During installation you will be asked to select a Web server to run the phpMyAdmin interface. Select either Apache or lighttpd and press enter. – Configure phpMyAdmin database

Install Linux Kernel 3.14.5 in Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17

Fix reference counting imbalance while sending fragment Fix local TT check for outgoing arp requests in DAT Added support for Sierra Wireless Network Usb: option driver, add support for Telit UE910v2 SCSI: dual scan thread bug fix Do not waste memory on mods with no tracepoints ipv4: ip_tunnels: disable cache for nbma gre tunnels tracing/uprobes: Fix uprobe_cpu_buffer memory leak

Install Transmission BitTorrent 2.83 in Ubuntu 14.04

According to the developers: Transmission doesn’t bundle toolbars, pop-up ads, flash ads, twitter tools, or anything else. It doesn’t hold some feaures back for a payware version. Its source code is available for anyone to review. They don’t track users, and their website and forums have no third-party ads or analytics Uses less CPU than any other GUI client, including some non-GUI clients Transmission also has the lowest memory footprint of any major BitTorrent client Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, webseed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.

Nvidia 337.25 Linux Graphics Driver Released

Fixed a performance regression when running KDE with desktop effects using the OpenGL compositing backend Fixed a regression that could cause OpenGL rendering corruption on X screens with 30 bit per pixel color Fixed several cosmetic issues in the clock control user interface of nvidia-settings. Added support for the GLX_EXT_stereo_tree extension Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL programs to freeze under some low memory conditions. Updated the display configuration page in nvidia-settings to uniquely identify DisplayPort 1.

uGet 1.10.4 Released with added Celebration

Resume downloads. Queue downloads. Classify downloads in categories. Mozilla Firefox integration (through Flashgot plugin). Clipboard monitoring. Import downloads import from HTML files. Batch download. It also can be launched from the command line. Added support for Magnet Links via the aria2 Plugin Added GnuTLS support (configure –enable-gnutls) Added new languages & updated existing languages Added a new “Check for Updates” feature. Added a new “Message Banner” which allows us to provide uGet related info to all uGetters.

Install TV-Maxe 0.10 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

TV-MAXEis an application similar to soap, allowing users to watch TV stations and listen to radio via different streams. Currently it has a large number of channels, both romanian and international as the default channel lists. See listfor available channels Key changes: per-channel image settings; Unity AppIndicator support; Project Petrodava, a feature that allows the application to bypass blocked ports by redirecting the audio/video stream through port 80. This feature is also useful for users with slow Internet connections.

Install Apache Directory Server 2.0.0-M16 in Ubuntu 14.04

The Apache Directory team has just announced the release of ApacheDS 2.0.0-M16, the sixteenth milestone towards a 2.0 version. ApacheDS is an extensible and embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol. It has been designed to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and views to the world of LDAP which has lacked these rich constructs.

The New GeForce GTX TITAN Z: Ultimate Power

CUDA Cores 5760 Base Clock (MHz) 705 Boost Clock (MHz) 876 Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 338 Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps Standard Memory Config 12288 MB Memory Interface GDDR5 Memory Interface Width 768-bit (384-bit per GPU) Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 672

Security Vulnerabilities found in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS fixed

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.

Install Evolution mail client in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10, Linux Mint

Evolutionmail client is an open source, default email client for GNOME desktop environment that integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools functionality. Additional features include integration with Exchange servers, newsgroup client, LDAP support and web calendars. Evolution comprises of several components, such as Evolution Data Server, Evolution EWS and Evolution Mapi. The last two are optional, but required if you want to add support for Exchange Web Services or many other mailer features.

AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta for Linux Out

Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above (up to 1.15) Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.13) glibc version 2.2 or 2.3 POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

Google Chrome 36.0 Beta Out

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Install Webmin 1.690 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

Install Webmin 1.690: Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely – From webmin site  Key Changes Several security fixes for XSS attacks in popup windows. Added the Fail2Ban module, for blocking the IP addresses of systems that have many failed logins.

LightDM GTK+ Greeter 1.8.5 released

Fix tooltips stealing focus Fix get_session to not get corrupted Fix “zoomed” implementation to correctly place the wallpaper Updated translations

Install Linux Kernel 3.15 RC 7 in Ubuntu, Linux Mint

<h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Install Kernel 3.15 RC 7</strong> </h2> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 32bit</strong> </p> <pre>wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-rc7-utopic/linux-headers-3.15.0-031500rc7_3.15.0-031500rc7.201405251935_all.deb wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-rc7-utopic/linux-headers-3.15.0-031500rc7-generic_3.15.0-031500rc7.201405251935_i386.deb wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-rc7-utopic/linux-image-3.15.0-031500rc7-generic_3.15.0-031500rc7.201405251935_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.15*.deb linux-image-3.15*.deb<p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>For 64bit</strong> </p> <pre>wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-rc7-utopic/linux-headers-3.15.0-031500rc7_3.15.0-031500rc7.201405251935_all.deb wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-rc7-utopic/linux-headers-3.15.0-031500rc7-generic_3.15.0-031500rc7.201405251935_amd64.deb wget -c kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.15-rc7-utopic/linux-image-3.15.0-031500rc7-generic_3.15.0-031500rc7.201405251935_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.15*.deb linux-image-3.

Install Qt 5.3 in Ubuntu 14.04

What’s New Focus on stability and usability Support for new platforms Tooling Improvements Purchasing API Compiled Qt Quick QQuickWidget Websockets and cloud

Facebook now Offers Free Anti-Malware scanning

When an infected or suspicious traffic is detected on a device interacting with Facebook, infected users will see pop-up notification, along with a recommendation to use F-Secure’s malware scanning and cleanup technology or HouseCall from Trend Micro. When you click the download button, the software will download and install itself on your system. Then the scanner will run on your machine for cleanup. When the scan is complete, you’ll receive a notification through Facebook and you’ll be able to review the results of the scan

Install Nautilus 3.12.2 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

[infobox color=”#dd3333″ icon=”warning”]Extra care should be taken when updating, as there might be undesired issues as reported by a user. This package had since been updated after this post was made.[/infobox]

Install TestDisk & PhotoRec in Ubuntu, Linux Mint – Simple Steps

In this tutorial we’ll talk about TestDisk and PhotoRec in Ubuntu and Linux Mint .PhotoRecis file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. Install PhotoRec in Ubuntu

Install Winusb in Ubuntu 14.04

Les us know if you have any questions or problems during the installation in the comments section. We’ll try to answer to every comment. You can also let us know simply if this guide worked for you, that way you’re also helping other visitors of the site to see if they can trust this solution or not.

Pipelight an alternative to Silverlight for Ubuntu

Update Silverlight to 5.1.30214.0 Add ViewRight for Caiway plugin Update Flash to 12.0.0.77 Update Shockwave Player to 12.1.0.150 Update Roblox plugin Added Vizzed RGR plugin Add pipelight-plugin commandline switch –list-enabled-all Silverlight now works even with less strict user agent settings Made pluginloader 64-bit compatible and added experimental 64-bit version of Flash Add implementation for NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall Fixed compilation of 32bit pluginloader with wineg++

Microsoft announces Halo 5: Guardians for Xbox One

In the past, “Halo” games have pushed the Xbox forward, showcasing the console and its ecosystem in entertaining and innovative ways. Making a “Halo” game that runs at 60 frames per second, on dedicated servers, with the scope, features and scale we’ve been dreaming of for more than a decade, is non-trivial. It’s a task that we, at 343 Industries, are taking very seriously to ensure we deliver the “Halo” game that fans deserve, and a game that is built from the ground up for Xbox One.

Game – AssaultCube 1.2.0.2 in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 zlib1g libogg0 libvorbis0a libopenal1 libcurl3sudo yum install SDL SDL_image zlib libogg libvorbis openal-soft libcurl.

Google Standalone Mobile Apps for Docs, Sheets and Slides

When you open the new apps, you’ll see your most recently edited files, which means less time searching and scrolling The apps also come with offline support built in, so you can easily view, edit and create files without an Internet connection Download from Google Play[Docs] [Sheets] Download from App Store[Docs] [Sheets]

Unreal Engine 4.1 to Support Linux

<p style="text-align: justify;"> Deploying projects to Linux-SteamOS, PS4 or Xbox One for now requires compiling the source from GitHub using a Windows based computer. According to a Gamasutra report, quoting Epic&#8217;s technical director Mike Fricker, <em>the Xbox side of the code is &#8220;the same as Bluck Tusk is using to build the next Gears of War&#8221;</em>. The PS4 support will also allow developers to make games that will work with Sony&#8217;s VR headset Project Morpheus.

Install TeamViewer 9 in Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

Copy images, screenshots, and formatted text from one computer to another via the clipboard Other improvements and fixes TeamViewer QuickSupport for instant support Open multiple connections in different tabs Wake-on-LAN with TeamViewer Protect your TeamViewer account with two factor authentication Save customized customer modules Process customer cases in the service queue together with your team TeamViewer API for integration into your applications Notifications – Everything at a glance Optimized video Redesign for even easier use [button link=”http://www.

Next Generation of Lightweight DE – LXQt 0.7.0

The inclusion of PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE’s desktop and file manager An all-new modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps Several improvements to the system settings along with the inclusion of screens management, keyboard settings and file associations Improvements to cursor and appearance settings Improved support for systemd-based setups Ongoing work on Qt 5 compatibility. Most of our components already build on Qt 5!

Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn” – What to expect

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Deprecate gnome-session and use upstart/systemd as the root process </li> <li> Deprecate gnome-screensaver (following upstream) and unify screensaver management into the shell </li> <li> Deprecate policykit-gnome and use the shell for PolicyKit handling in both Unity 7 and Unity 8 </li> <li> Deprecate unity-settings-daemon by decoupling the plugins and migrating to new services </li> <li> Add more desktop capabilities in Ubuntu System Settings to replace unity-control-center </li> <li> Enhance the core apps to replace current defaults e.

Install PyCharm 3 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

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Install Faenza Icons 1.3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

New weather symbolic icons New apps: UbuntuOne Music and Ubuntu Online Accounts New designs for Twitter, Spotify and adressbook Icons for system settings categories on Ubuntu Fix some missing links

Google Web Designer made available for Ubuntu

Note:some Google Web Designer doesn’t work on non-English systems. If you run into this issue, then try this: – remove its folder under ~/.local/share/: – Start Google Web Designer using the following command:

Install SteamOS on Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.10

If you fancy trying out StemOS without the need to invest on expensive hardware’s, then this post would guide you on how to install SteamOS on a Virtual Machine using Oracle VirtualBox. I am testing this on VirtualBox version 4.3.10. The performance on a Virtual Machine cannot be compared to installing on an actual physical machine but using a VM would suffice for test purposes. Heads Up: You must exercise patience if you are to successfully install SteamOS on VirtualBox 🙂Step 1: Download latest VirtualBox and Install[button link=”https://www.

Canonical Releases A New Ubuntu Touch Version

Following the recent release of Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS, Canonical had been busy preparing the launching of Ubuntu Touch Operating System which is based on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for both mobile phones and tablets. With the introduction of Ubuntu Touch into the Ubuntu 14.04 family, this is clear indication of how passionate Canonical are in ensuring that every Ubuntu enthusiasts and developers have great experience with this products.

Install Virtualbox Guest Additions in Ubuntu 14.04

If you have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr on Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, you may notice that your screen isn’t re-sizing and you are unable to copy and paste into the terminal even after you had set both ‘Shared Clipboard’ and ‘Dran’n’Drop’ to Bidirectional. You need to install the VirtulaBox Guest Additions to resolve this. Below is recommended steps to accomplish that: Install Steps– Install DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) Package

NVIDIA GeForce R337.61 Hotfix BETA Display Driver Released

Half display or no display on Dell UltraSharp UP3214Q/UP2414Q LCD monitor Code 43 error message after installing driver 337.50 on a PC with Hyper-V enabled All performance optimizations, profile updates, 3D Vision enhancements and more introduced with GeForce R337.50 BETA Performance Driverare also part of this driver release.

Salvation Prophesy in Ubuntu

Salvation Prophecy is a military space epic. Human, mutant, and robotic factions are at war for galactic domination. Battles rage as space fleets collide. Invaders clash against fortified enemy colonies. Yet the greatest danger is the impending annihilation foretold by an apocalyptic prophecy. You must seek out the mysteries of distant alien worlds, and master ancient powers to withstand the coming storm Linux System RequirementsMinimum: Watch Preview

Install/Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1 Trusty in Ubuntu

The first release candidate to Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1 is now available for the users, announced by Linus Torvalds. This Linux Kernel version comes with plenty of fixes and improvements. This article will guide you on how to install or upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1 in your Ubuntu or Linux Mint system. Click button below for full details of fixes and features: [button link=”http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1404.1/03040.html” style=”tick” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Linux Kernel 3.15-RC1[/button] [hr]

Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr now out

Ubuntu 14.04 LTScode named “Trusty Tahr”, finally released yesterday 17, April 2014. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the latest release of Ubuntu which is designed to work beautifully on the latest laptops, desktops and touch screen devices, it looks incredible on high resolution screens — and with touch screen enhancements and interface refinements including individual menu bars in each application window, it’s now even easier to useThis release includes the Linux kernel v3.

Install Handbrake 0.9.9 in Ubuntu

Improved HandBrake pineapple icon Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application Assorted bug fixes and improvements Use some system libraries rather than bundling fontconfig, freetype, libxml2, libass, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora and libsamplerate Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support works with Foreign Audio Search can be Burned-In can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4) Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC Click herefor more details on changes made

Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL

Find more details and update instructions: Amazon Linux AMI: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/security-bulletins/ALAS-2014-320/ Red Hat: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0376.html Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2165-1/ For more information about this vulnerability, please visit AWS Security Bulletin page: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/ OpenSSL’s official advisory: www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt/ The Heartbleed Bug: http://heartbleed.com/ Verify VulnerabilityFilippo Valsorda’s online tool: [button link=”http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Filippo Valsorda’s online tool[/button] Qualys online SSL scanner: [button link=”https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Qualys online SSL scanner[/button] Google Chrome’s extension: [button link=”https://chrome.

How to install Sublime Text in Ubuntu

Sublime Text is a sophisticated cross-platform text and source code editor, with a Python application programming interface (API). Sublime Text is proprietary software. Its functionality is extendable with plugins. You’ll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance. Sublime Text has a powerful, Python based plugin API. Along with the API, it comes with a built in Python console to interactively experiment in real time. Expected Features Speed.

Install Oracle Java JDK/JRE 7/8 in Ubuntu 13.10

New rcache Types in Kerberos 5 Replay Caching Support for Kerberos 5 Protocol Transition and Constrained Delegation Kerberos 5 weak encryption types disabled by default Unbound SASL for the GSS-API/Kerberos 5 mechanism SASL service for multiple host names JNI bridge to native JGSS on Mac OS X Support for stronger strength ephemeral DH keys in the SunJSSE provider Support for server-side cipher suites preference customization in JSSE The new Modena theme has been implemented in this release.

Install latest Skype in Ubuntu

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HTML5 Security Cheatsheet

See what your browser does when you look away…Here you will find quite useful information on the following: [box type=”info” style=”rounded” icon=”info”]A collection of HTML5 related XSS attack vectors A set of useful files for XSS testing A set of formerly hidden features useful for XSS testing[/box] Source:[button link=”https://html5sec.org/” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]HTML5 Security Cheatsheet[/button]

Install Latest Google Chrome in Ubuntu 13.10

Integrated capabilities audio and video playback. View google Voice Flash plugin (Pepper flash) Automatic Update System Projector image processor (only Chrome OS) File Manager (File manager) (only Chrome OS) Wallpaper and applications on windows (only Chrome OS) audio test tools, network, battery, etc. (only Chrome OS) Installing latest version of Google Chrome is quite easy and I will be installing it on a x64 Ubuntu OS.

Create a Chrome App for your Website

[code lang=”js”] { “manifest_version”: 2, “name”: “Sysadmin Blog App”, “short_name”: “Max of 12 characters”, “description”: “Your website description in 132 characters or less.”, “version”: “1.1”, “icons”: { “128”: “icon.png” }, “app”: { “urls”: [ “http://www.sysads.co.uk/" ], “launch”: { “web_url”: “http://www.sysads.co.uk/" } }, “permissions”: [ “unlimitedStorage”, “notifications” ] } [/code]

Install latest VirtualBox on Ubuntu 13.10

[code lang=”js”]sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib” » /etc/apt/sources.list'[/code] [code lang=”js”]wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -[/code] [code lang=”js”]sudo apt-get update[/code] [code lang=”js”]sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3[/code] [code lang=”js”]virtualbox[/code]

Installing Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 13.10

[code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get update[/code]  [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras[/code]

Install Spotify on Ubuntu 13.10

[code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-add-repository -y “deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free”[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 94558F59[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get update[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get install spotify-client[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ spotify[/code]

Install Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Alpha 2 on VirtualBox

[code lang=”js”]lsb_release -a[/code] [code lang=”js”]Installing the Window System drivers Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not installing X Window System drivers[/code] [code lang=”js”]apt-get install dkms[/code] [code lang=”js”]cd /media//VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.7_92080/[/code] [code lang=”js”]sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run[/code]

zabbix_agentd cannot run as root

[code lang=”js”] Starting Zabbix agent: zabbix_agentd [10808]: user zabbix does not exist zabbix_agentd [10808]: cannot run as root![/code] [code lang=”js”]groupadd zabbix[/code] <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]chown zabbix:zabbix /var/run/zabbix/[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]rm -f /var/log/zabbix/*[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]rm -f /var/run/zabbix/*[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]service zabbix-agent restart[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p> [code lang=&#8221;js&#8221;]chkconfig zabbix-agent on[/code] </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> This should fix the agent start-up problem.

Keep An Eye On Your System With Glances Monitor

[code language=”js”]# yum install glances[/code] [code language=”js”] $ sudo apt-get install python-pip build-essential python-dev $ sudo pip install Glances $ sudo pip install PySensors [/code] <span style="color: #00ff00;">GREEN</span>: the statistic is “<span style="color: #00ff00;">OK</span>” <span style="color: #0000ff;">BLUE</span> : the statistic is “<span style="color: #0000ff;">CAREFUL</span>” (to watch) <span style="color: #842dce;">VIOLET</span> : the statistic is “<span style="color: #842dce;">WARNING</span>” (alert) <span style="color: #ff0000;">RED</span> : the statistic is “<span style="color: #ff0000;">CRITICAL</span>” (critical) c: Sort processes by CPU% m: Sort processes by MEM% p: Sort processes by name i: Sort processes by IO Rate d: Show/hide disk I/O stats f: Show/hide file system stats n: Show/hide network stats s: Show/hide sensors stats b: Bit/s or Byte/s for network IO w: Delete warning logs x: Delete warning and critical logs 1: Global CPU or Per Core stats h: Show/hide this help message q: Quit (Esc and Ctrl-C also work) l: Show/hide log messages

Install Wine on Linux Mint/Ubuntu using WineHQ Repository

[code language=”js”]sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa[/code] [code language=”js”]sudo apt-get update[/code] [code language=”js”]sudo apt-get install wine1.6[/code] [code language=”js”]wine npp.6.5.3.Installer.exe[/code] [code language=”js”]Notepad++[/code] [code language=”js”]wine /home/sysadmin/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe[/code]

Install Gnome 3.10 on Ubuntu 13.10

[code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get install gdm[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get update[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo reboot[/code]

Install Unity 8 on Ubuntu 13.10

[code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get update[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get install unity8 unity8-fake-env unity8-private[/code] [code language=”js”]# export UBUNTU_ICON_THEME=ubuntu-mobile[/code] [code language=”js”]# unity8 -mousetouch[/code] <a href="http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Unity8Ubuntu.mp4">http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Unity8Ubuntu.mp4</a></video>

Install WordPress on Godaddy Subdomain

For some of us that host our websites with Godaddy, its always best practice to create a subdomain of your main site for development work. In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how I have gone about this. Step 1: Create Subdomain– Log into your Account – Click the plus (+) sign for WEB HOSTING to expand it. Then click on Launch – Next click on Hosted Domains – Under the domain you want to create a subdomain if you have more than one domain, click either Manage or Add under Subdomains column.

Install latest Firefox on CentOS 6.5

[code language=”js”]# yum list firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# wget Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm[/code] [code language=”js”]# wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm # rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm[/code] [code language=”js”]# yum –enablerepo=remi list firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# yum –enablerepo=remi install firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# yum –enablerepo=remi update firefox[/code] [code language=”js”]# firefox[/code]

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on CentOS/RHEL 6.5

[code language=”sql”]# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux[/code] [code language=”sql”]# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux[/code] [code language=”sql”]# yum check-update[/code] [code language=”sql”]# yum -y install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl[/code]

Powershell command to monitor disk fragmentation level using Zabbix

I love zabbix a lot because of its ease of use and the simplicity of the configuration when it comes to monitoring anything. I recently added a monitor to check the fragmentation level of volumes on a machine once a week and set it to trigger an alert when the fragmentation level reaches the set threshold. I wrote a simple command line statement that would run the defrag check and output just the value.

Install Xfce desktop environment on CentOS/RHEL 6

[code language=”js”]# yum install wget[/code] [code language=”js”] # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [/code] [code language=”js”] # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [/code] [code language=”js”]# yum -y groupinstall Xfce[/code]  [code language=”js”]# yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-fonts-misc[/code] [code language=”js”]# /sbin/telinit 5[/code] [code language=”js”]startxfce4[/code]

JConsole download and install (Step by step)

<p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Click this <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen" target="_blank">link</a> to download latest Java SE JDK or simply Google in case the link isn&#8217;t available. Click on Java Platform (JDK) <version update> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/java-jdk01.png"><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/java-jdk01-300x183.png" alt="JConsole download" width="300" height="183" /></a> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Under Java SE Development Kit <lastest version>, Accept License Agreement and click the download for either 32bit or 64bit version of Windows you intend to install on </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://www.

Installing Google Chrome 32 on CentOS 6.5

[code language=”js”]# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo[/code] [code language=”js”] [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [/code] [code language=”js”]# yum update -y[/code] [code language=”js”]# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh # chmod u+x install_chrome.sh[/code] [code language=”js”]# ./install_chrome.sh[/code]

Set KDE as CentOS 6.5 default desktop

[code language=”js”]# vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop[/code] [code language=”js”]DESKTOP=“KDE” DISPLAYMANAGER=“KDE”[/code]

Install K Desktop Environment on CentOS 6.5

[code language=”js”]# yum -y groupinstall “KDE desktop” “X Window System” “Fonts”[/code] [code language=”js”]# vi /etc/inittab[/code] [code language=”js”]# init 6[/code]

Installing GNOME GUI on CentOS 6.5

 <pre># yum -y groupinstall "FTP server"</pre> <p> <em><span style="color: #000080;">Any questions, please feel free to ask 🙂</span></em> </p>

Prevent Google crawling using ZXTM traffic script

[code language=”powershell”]User-agent: * Disallow: /[/code] [code language=”powershell”] $host = http.getHostHeader(); $qs = http.getpath(); if (($host == “sysads.co.uk”) && ($qs =="/robots.txt")) { if (resource.exists( “robots.txt”)) { # robots.txt exists on ZXTM, return content of txt file to client http.sendResponse( 200, “text/plain”, resource.get(“robots.txt”), “ZXTMServed: True”); } } [/code]

Error: Cannot use file for clustered server

Recently I was trying to restore 100 databases into a newly provisioned shared clustered disks and ran into this error message using Commvault: [code language=”SQL”] ERROR CODE: Query Result [Cannot use file ‘G:\Data\database1.mdf’ for clustered server. Only formatted files on which the cluster resource of the server has a dependency can be used. Either the disk resource containing the file is not present in the cluster group or the cluster resource of the Sql Server does not have a dependency on it.

Creating a WordPress Child Theme

/* Theme Name: Swift-Basic Child ThemeTheme URI: http://example.com/swift-theme-child/Description: Swift Basic Child ThemeAuthor: Author URI: http://example.comTemplate: swift-basic Version: 1.0.0 */ @import url(“../swift-basic/style.css”); /* =Theme customization starts here ————————————————————– */ Note: The following lines needs to match and its case sensitive: – Template: The name must be exact name of the parent theme folder – @import url: the path must be exact same name as parent theme folder – Its also worth checking the parent theme folder and confirm the name of the css style is same as you have above

Installing the Amazon EMR Command Line Interface for Windows

I was working on a simple project on how to manage my Amazon EC2 and S3 buckets from my local machine and decided to document how to achieve this using the Amazon EMR CLI for Windows. There are several tools and options how there that you can also use to manage your Amazon EC2 and S3 buckets, for instance Windows PowerShell. For the purpose of this post, I will focus mainly on Amazon EMR CLI.

How to create an Amazon S3 bucket

Year First → Months (Jan – Dec) → each month will have two folders one per server– Click on the newly created bucket → click Create folder – Enter a name for the folder → press enter – Click on the newly created folder → click on Create folder and repeat same for other folders → when done, you should have the following: 3. Delete a folder:If for any reason you decide you want to delete a folder

My list of useful apps

Will update list from time to time and if you want to share other tools you have used, please feel free and reply: [button link=”https://evernote.com” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Evernote[/button] [button link=”https://www.avianwaves.com/Tech/Tools/RDTabs.aspx” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]RD Tabs[/button] [button link=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-tab/” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Firefox IE Tab[/button] [button link=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Firefox Firebug Plugin[/button] [button link=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Firefox Tree Style Tab extension[/button] [button link=”http://nmap.org/download.html” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]NMAP[/button] [button link=”http://www.openspf.org/” size=”mini” style=”info” color=”success” class=”sys_btn”]Senders Policy Framework[/button]

Determine SQL Server install date

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT createdate AS [SQL Server Install Date] FROM sys.syslogins WHERE [sid] = 0x010100000000000512000000; [/sourcecode] – This T-SQL command helps to determine the date and time that SQL Server was installed

Use T-SQL command to get Windows information

[sourcecode language=”sql”]SELECT windows_release, windows_service_pack_level, windows_sku, os_language_version FROM sys.dm_os_windows_info OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] – Gives you major OS version, Service Pack, Edition, and language info for the operating system

Find SQL server and OS Version information for current instance

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT @@VERSION AS [SQL Server and OS Version Info]; or SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(‘productversion’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘productlevel’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘edition’) [/sourcecode] – This T-SQL command will help to determine the version of SQL server you are running and corresponding Windows Operating System version

Install Windows 8.1 on VirtualBox

– This is how the new Windows 8.1 Operating System looks like with the Start menu Why not comment on what you think about this Operating System

Installing Zabbix 2.0 package from EPEL on CentOS 6.4

[code lang=”js”] vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables -A INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 10050 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 10051 -j ACCEPT [/code] [code lang=”js”]service iptables restart[/code]

Installing CentOS 6.4 on VirtualBox

– Lets quickly configure the networking by clicking on Configure Network, highlight appropriate network if you have more than one adapter enabled and click on Edit…

Installing WSUS Server Role on Windows Server 2012 with Microsoft SQL Clustered Database

Bonjour à tous (For those of us who don’t know French, its ‘Hello Everyone’ :)). I just started learning French, so hoping to do better than this. WSUS is one of my favorite application and I taught it wise to show us how to setup one on a Windows Server 2012 but this time using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster. To begin with, you need to ensure you have a clustered SQL environment already in place.

Top Cached SPs By Execution Count (SQL 2008)

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT TOP(250) p.name AS [SP Name], qs.execution_count, ISNULL(qs.execution_count/DATEDIFF(Second, qs.cached_time, GETDATE()), 0) AS [Calls/Second], qs.total_worker_time/qs.execution_count AS [AvgWorkerTime], qs.total_worker_time AS [TotalWorkerTime], qs.total_elapsed_time, qs.total_elapsed_time/qs.execution_count AS [avg_elapsed_time], qs.cached_time FROM sys.procedures AS p WITH (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats AS qs WITH (NOLOCK) ON p.[object_id] = qs.[object_id] WHERE qs.database_id = DB_ID() ORDER BY qs.execution_count DESC OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] – This script tells you which cached stored procedures are called the most often – This helps you characterize and baseline your workload

Top Cached SPs By Avg Elapsed Time (SQL 2008)

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT TOP(25) p.name AS [SP Name], qs.total_elapsed_time/qs.execution_count AS [avg_elapsed_time], qs.total_elapsed_time, qs.execution_count, ISNULL(qs.execution_count/DATEDIFF(Second, qs.cached_time, GETDATE()), 0) AS [Calls/Second], qs.total_worker_time/qs.execution_count AS [AvgWorkerTime], qs.total_worker_time AS [TotalWorkerTime], qs.cached_time FROM sys.procedures AS p WITH (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats AS qs WITH (NOLOCK) ON p.[object_id] = qs.[object_id] WHERE qs.database_id = DB_ID() ORDER BY avg_elapsed_time DESC OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] – This helps you find long-running cached stored procedures that may be easy to optimize with standard query tuning techniques

Top Cached SPs By Total Worker time (SQL 2008)

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT TOP(25) p.name AS [SP Name], qs.total_worker_time AS [TotalWorkerTime], qs.total_worker_time/qs.execution_count AS [AvgWorkerTime], qs.execution_count, ISNULL(qs.execution_count/DATEDIFF(Second, qs.cached_time, GETDATE()), 0) AS [Calls/Second], qs.total_elapsed_time, qs.total_elapsed_time/qs.execution_count AS [avg_elapsed_time], qs.cached_time FROM sys.procedures AS p WITH (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats AS qs WITH (NOLOCK) ON p.[object_id] = qs.[object_id] WHERE qs.database_id = DB_ID() ORDER BY qs.total_worker_time DESC OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] — This helps you find the most expensive cached stored procedures from a CPU perspective — You should look at this if you see signs of CPU pressure

Top Cached SPs By Total Logical Reads (SQL 2008)

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT TOP(25) p.name AS [SP Name], qs.total_logical_reads AS [TotalLogicalReads], qs.total_logical_reads/qs.execution_count AS [AvgLogicalReads],qs.execution_count, ISNULL(qs.execution_count/DATEDIFF(Second, qs.cached_time, GETDATE()), 0) AS [Calls/Second], qs.total_elapsed_time, qs.total_elapsed_time/qs.execution_count AS [avg_elapsed_time], qs.cached_time FROM sys.procedures AS p WITH (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats AS qs WITH (NOLOCK) ON p.[object_id] = qs.[object_id] WHERE qs.database_id = DB_ID() ORDER BY qs.total_logical_reads DESC OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] – This helps you find the most expensive cached stored procedures from a memory perspective – You should look at this if you see signs of memory pressure

Top Cached SPs By Total Physical Reads (SQL 2008)

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT TOP(25) p.name AS [SP Name],qs.total_physical_reads AS [TotalPhysicalReads], qs.total_physical_reads/qs.execution_count AS [AvgPhysicalReads], qs.execution_count, qs.total_logical_reads,qs.total_elapsed_time, qs.total_elapsed_time/qs.execution_count AS [avg_elapsed_time], qs.cached_time FROM sys.procedures AS p WITH (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats AS qs WITH (NOLOCK) ON p.[object_id] = qs.[object_id] WHERE qs.database_id = DB_ID() AND qs.total_physical_reads > 0 ORDER BY qs.total_physical_reads DESC, qs.total_logical_reads DESC OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] — This helps you find the most expensive cached stored procedures from a read I/O perspective — You should look at this if you see signs of I/O pressure or of memory pressure

Default Style CSS overides Custom CSS

<div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> padding: 0 0 28px;</span> </div> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> position: relative;</span> </div> </div> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> padding: 0 0 28px;</span> </div> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #0000ff;"> position: relative;</span> </div> </div> <div role="group"> <div role="listbox"> <div role="option"> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><del>padding: 0 0 28px;</del></span> </div> </div> </div> <div role="presentation"> } </div>

Linux Baby Rocker

This is a great idea for Dads who are currently or about to babysit their kid 🙂 Awesome…

Mozilla prototype Firefox OS Simulator v1.0

Late last year the Mozilla crew introduced its Firefox OS simulator v1.0 as promised, allowing web developers to begin testing of their applications from within the comfort of their Windows/Mac/Linux computers hence allowing for more user testing. Currently its mobile phone Firefox OS is still under development, release date not yet announced. Click herefor more details on the simulator… Watch the screencast showing Firefox OS Simulator in action… What is the future like for this OS compared to the big players like the Android, Apple IOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Blackberry … ?

Top Cached SPs By Total Logical Writes (SQL 2008)

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT TOP(25) p.name AS [SP Name], qs.total_logical_writes AS [TotalLogicalWrites], qs.total_logical_writes/qs.execution_count AS [AvgLogicalWrites], qs.execution_count, ISNULL(qs.execution_count/DATEDIFF(Second, qs.cached_time, GETDATE()), 0) AS [Calls/Second], qs.total_elapsed_time, qs.total_elapsed_time/qs.execution_count AS [avg_elapsed_time], qs.cached_time FROM sys.procedures AS p WITH (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats AS qs WITH (NOLOCK) ON p.[object_id] = qs.[object_id] WHERE qs.database_id = DB_ID() ORDER BY qs.total_logical_writes DESC OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] — Logical writes relate to both memory and disk I/O pressure — This helps you find the most expensive cached stored procedures from a write I/O perspective

Lists top statements by average input/output usage for current database

[sourcecode language=”sql”] SELECT TOP(50) OBJECT_NAME(qt.objectid) AS [SP Name], (qs.total_logical_reads + qs.total_logical_writes) /qs.execution_count AS [Avg IO], SUBSTRING(qt.[text],qs.statement_start_offset/2, (CASE WHEN qs.statement_end_offset = -1 THEN LEN(CONVERT(nvarchar(max), qt.[text])) * 2 ELSE qs.statement_end_offset END – qs.statement_start_offset)/2) AS [Query Text] FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS qs WITH (NOLOCK) CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS qt WHERE qt.[dbid] = DB_ID() ORDER BY [Avg IO] DESC OPTION (RECOMPILE); [/sourcecode] — Helps you find the most expensive statements for I/O by SP

Backup all SQL instance databases

Note: — This scripts backs up all databases without having to explicitly state them — Also names them according to database name with the date appended to the end e.g ‘DB_SYSADS_20121210.BAK’ — Change the @path parameter to where you want the backups to be dumped to — The databases stated after the WHERE command will not be backed up. In the example above the system databases are omitted. You can add other databases within the parentheses if you want them omitted, e.

Installing Windows Server 2008 (64bit) Domain Controller in an existing Windows Server 2003 (32bit) domain

If this domain controller is the first Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller in the forest, you must prepare the forest for Windows Server 2008 R2 by extending the schema (that is, by running adprep /forestprep) on the schema operations master if this has not already been done. If this domain controller is the first Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller in a Windows Server 2003 domain, you must prepare the domain by running adprep /domainprep on the infrastructure master.

Install and configure CA Online Responder – AD CS Part3

I will be covering the final piece of the AD CS configuration, configuring CA Online Responder. This will include configuring the Certificate Autoenrollment using group policy; adding the Revocation Configuration to the OCSP Responder; and Verify the AD CS setup. Setup Guide:1. Configure Certificate Autoenrollment using group policy – Log onto the domain controller -> click Start ->Administrative Tools -> click Group Policy Management – Expand the Group Policy Objects in the forest\domain containing the Default Domain Policy Group Policy object (GPO) -> Right-click the Default Domain Policy GPO -> click Edit

Install and configure CA Online Responder – AD CS Part2

certutil -vocsprootcertutil -vocsproot delete2. Configure Certificate Template – Open Server Manager -> Expand Roles, Active Directory Certificate Services -> Right-click the name of your CA -> click Properties – Click the Extensions tab -> In the Select extension list, click Authority Information Access (AIA) – Click Add -> In the Location box, type http:///ocsp (Note: ServerDNSName is the hostname of the Online Responder server) -> click OK

Netsh Commands

Some simple netsh command to manage your network interface. Please that the “PublicTeam” in quote is what I named my teaming network. So when running this command, change the PublicTeamto whatever you have named your teaming. 1. Change IP Address of PublicTeam NIC:netsh interface ip set address “PublicTeam” static 192.168.0.41 255.255.255.0 192.168.0. 12. Adding multiple IPs to the PublicTeam NIC:netsh in ip add address “PublicTeam” 192.168.0.42 255.255.255.0netsh in ip add address “PublicTeam” 192.

Installing SCOM Server 2007 R2 Agents – SCOM Part5

After the agent had been deployed, review the result and resolve any failure. In my case, the account used for deployment “sysads\scom-msaa” does not have domain admin access to my domain controller. So I will repeat the deployment but this time I would specify an account with domain admin access

Install SCOM 2007 R2 ACS/Import Management Pack – SCOM Part4

Extract: Audit Collection Services (ACS) provides a means to collect records generated by an audit policy and store them in a centralized database.   – In the Connect Using section -> Ensure Windows Integrated Security is selected -> click Apply – From the console -> Right-click on Management Packs and click Import Management Packs   In Part5, I will be looking at deploying the SCOM agent to the servers and Configure Client Monitoring.

WinDbg Download, Install and Configure tutorial (Windows Debug Tools)‏

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>1. Install WinDbg</strong> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Navigate to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDbg" target="_blank">Debugging tools for Windows</a> on the Microsoft site and download the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) file from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx" target="_blank">here</a>. (<em>Please bear in mind that as at the time of this post, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom 🙂 have merged the standalone version of the tool as part of the Windows Drivers Kit</em>).

SQL Server Backup Simulator

[Event ID: 1, SQLVDI: Loc=TriggerAbort. Desc=invoked. ErrorCode=(0). Process=2716. Thread=2148. Server. Instance=MSSQLSERVER. VD=Global\331e46ea-551a-4bb1-b628-5abbeb9fa10f_SQLVDIMemoryName_0.] – You also have options to Backup Log & Restore Database from the operation drop down list.

Add new disk resource to existing cluster group‏

– Under Other Resources -> Right-click on the SQL Server Instance name -> click Take this resource offline – Under Please confirm action -> click Take SQL Server Instance offline – When the instance is offline -> Right-click on it and select properties -> click on Dependencies tab -> click the Insert botton -> click the drop-down botton and select the new disk -> click Ok – Right-click on the SQL Server Instance -> click Bring this resource online

Split SQL TempDB per number of Processor Core

Note: If you have more than 8 tempdb data files created, delete the data files after the eight (i.e. tempdev9 and above) by simply selecting each file and click remove. Split SQL TempDB Script[sourcecode language=”sql”] USE master GO CREATE TABLE #numprocs ( [Index] INT, [Name] VARCHAR(200), Internal_Value VARCHAR(50), Character_Value VARCHAR(200) ) DECLARE @BASEPATH VARCHAR(200) DECLARE @PATH VARCHAR(200) DECLARE @SQL_SCRIPT VARCHAR(500) DECLARE @CORES INT DECLARE @FILECOUNT INT DECLARE @SIZE INT

Install SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2

– Click Finish and you should have two targets – SQL1: Click on Start -> Administrative Tools -> iSCSI Initiator. – Click Yes to start the iSCSI service – Click the Configuration tab and click change – Under new intiator name, type in the name of the IQN initiator and click OK – Click on Discovery tab -> Discovery Portal…. – Enter the IP address of the Target server.

Configure Active Directory DNS Server 2008R2

Active Directory DNS role by default was installed during the installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory in my earlier post. DNS is comprised of two zones “Forward Lookup Zone – Resolves hostname to IP address” and “Reverse Lookup Zone – Resolves IP address to hostname”. In this post I will configure the Reverse Lookup Zone which isn’t configured by default. Requirements: Ensure Active Directory had been installed. Refer to this post

Known issues with disabling IPv6

The following issues listed be had been to be caused when IPv6 is disabled on the server. Please share your experience with disabling IPv6. LDAP test over UDP may not work against domain controllers that are running Windows Server 2008. See Microsoft article Some applications might not work like Remote Assistance, HomeGroup, DirectAccess, and Windows Mail. On Windows Small Business Server 2008, the following issues might appear after reboot:

Disable IPv6

– The Cable GuyDisable IPv6 on LAN Interfaces:Disable IPv6 Tunnel Interfaces:The first step is to verify that the interface tunnels are showing.

Event ID: 10154

Event ID: 10154 – Windows Remote Management warning Solution:– Click on Start, Run, type ADSIEDIT.MSCand click OK. – Click on Action menu, Connect to…, and click OK to accept “default naming context” connection. – Expand down to the OU=Domain Controllers, right click your domain controller and select Properties. – Select the Security tab and click Advanced. Click Add and type in NETWORK SERVICE.Click Check Names to validate the account and click OK.

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory

[table id=1 /] When a server is promoted to a Domain Controller, the following event logs are created “DFS Replication, Directory Service, DNS Server and File Replication Service“. As best practice (but not compulsory), set the Maximum Log size for each of the above events to 20mb.

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2

Requirement:If your computer has less than the “minimum” requirements, you will not be able to install this product correctly. Please refer to the Microsoft article for more information – Click hereInstallation Guide:Post Installation Guide:After installing Windows Server 2008/2008R2, the following should be carried out.