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1. Fim Pris P M FEM 4r gal ip ar Dee THEE 3 38 Eom EN m Deem bee Ep Cueto Cerne cesi ges ps turer Oe Full circle magazine 83 o 35 ft contents LINUX LAB an email address for your technicians you can notify them by email when you check in a new repair Once you ve checked in a system PCRT opens up a browser window to print out a repair claim ticket This is where PCRT gets really cool On the repair claim ticket is a QR code which client s can use to check the status of their supported We get around this by taking the client s printer repair claim ticket to our Zebra printer workstation where we scan in the regular barcode which is the work order ID We then print out multiple work order IDs on our Zebra barcode printer for each asset we re checking in repair if you re using PCRT on a web site We use PCRT on our Intranet not the Internet so we don t use this functionality At this point you can also take photos of the equipment using a webcam or upload photographs and screenshots you ve taken through other methods This comes in really handy in a busy shop where equipment doesn t always arrive in the best condition It s also handy for showing physical Faults the client might not be aware of PCRT assigns an assent device ID
2. 3 align know you should quit asking me these questions because hate disappointing you You can make an acrostic using FTP and HTML is that significant bet that s significant maybe not 4 lt meta http equiv Content Languege can L meta http equiv Content Type content What really matters is that FTP bet even money the T stands for Transfer but don t quote me on that IF you see WebFTP it means your host has a web based FTP 2B lt table barder B cellpadding 3 cel program you can upload your index html file right From the browser If not you can use an FTP program on your desktop that connects to your host and allows you to upload files As with most programs Ubuntu offers a free stable and robust version downloaded Filezilla because it had lots of good reviews but mostly because like Japanese monster movies Open Filezilla and you ll see 3 something like the image shown below Again it looks more 3 complicated than it is On the left hand side is the file tree For your local machine This is how you ll LE Full circle magazine 83 o 33 navigate to wherever you saved your index html file On the right hand side it says Remote Site You ve probably already guessed that s our server page where your website pages are stored Once you log in you
3. Condi It has correctly identified the USB Flash drive have on the PC If you have more than one drive connected to the PC ensure you select the correct one that you want to use it will wipe the drive in the following processes The selected drive is highlighted in green Press confirm and the Following screen will appear eins parca i nen t parund for torna B Insert your password and press return and the following screen comes up Au Don t panic this is just saying that as it is the first time you wish to use the USB drive as a 2 MultiSystem disc it needed to label the drive Unplug the drive and remount it now restart MultiSystem repeat the first step and you should get this screen ak 8 Please confirm instalatia Grub iri tie volame desir Select OK and this screen will appear the arrow and another pop up will ER o 9 appear shown above your system and double click to add it to the left hand column then click create Depending on the size e of your drive you can select several ISO s at this stage but you can add ET them at a later date if needed You will be prompted for your You are now ready to start to install as many live ISO images as A d point I should say that not all your USB key did not have a label multisys
4. gt D esign is a complex issue it s a massive issue It s so big that you can find more books than you can squeeze into a normal bookshelf on the subject of What Design Is It s so big that it can become overly complex to be usable So personally I skip it and boil it down to Design is Communication I also skip the massive amount of text written on What Communication Is and boil that down to Communication is the activity of a Community With communication you cannot avoid but be a part of a community underlings who are drilled schooled and perfected in the art of following your every whim anticipating your wishes and ideals community It s harder being so clear with your vision that anyone can see it and understand it It s really difficult when the design language needs to be defined in detail but want to claim that it will always be worth it without it you cannot have one When you exchange information you are a part of each other If you can t exchange information you can and defending their job through the act of obedience never ever Form a community So why is it that the act of creating communication of design crashes so bad that Firemen would have to cut people out with the jaws of life from the wreckage of Ehe design being done Either the is considered something best done either in isolation or by a dictator with
5. Careers expand prove lucrative for qualified IT pros Submitted by Arnfried Walbrecht Full circle magazine 83 6 RED HAT s FEDORA 21 BRIMMING WITH SECURITY CRYPTO UPGRADES edora 21 the next version of Red Hat s Fedora distribution of Linux just received a slew of new feature approvals courtesy of the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee According to Phoronix among the most significant new changes included are a new systemwide policy for the handling of cryptography The idea according to Fedora s own wiki is to unify Ehe crypto policies used by different applications and libraries so that all applications running on a given Fedora system can have a consistent level of cryptography set between them Source http red hats fedora 21 brimming security crypto upgrades 238333 www infoworld com t linux Submitted by Arnfried Walbrecht ri contents NEWS WILL BRING CLASSIC PC GAMES TO LINUX THIS FALL OG com a site that specializes in selling classic PC games For support Linux after all GOG says it has been working on Linux support for the last few months and will add support for the Ubuntu and Mint Linux distributions this Fall with at least 100 games at launch This not only includes classic games that ran on Linux originally but games that never had official Linux support to begin with Sour
6. The course will begin in the k course most popular OpenStack operating third quarter this year Source http ucation mooc watch big rush for free linux PSzsm1ZIMBEJhxCBAY 5o4l Submitted by Arnfried Walbrecht www afr com p national ed www zdnet com openstacks CHANGES OF THE 3 PROPRIETARY DRIVER OF NVIDIA vidia s proprietary drivers will with their upcoming version 343 just support the current graphics cards from the GeForce 400 series Owners of older cards have to pick up the Legacy drivers tudents have rushed to sign up Source http www ad hoc news de linux community de der proprietaere treiber von nvidia de News 35844631 Translated by Arnfried Walbrecht LINUX CAREERS EXPAND PROVE LUCRATIVE FOR QUALIFIED IT PROS here is an abundance of Linux careers but you might not be right For the job The expansion of Linux and the advancement of products that run with the open source operating system have caused a need for Linux talent to fill available jobs Demand for Linux talent has even launched salaries above industry standards In Fact 7796 of hiring managers said hiring Linux talent is a top priority for 2014 up 796 from 2013 according to a report released by the Linux Foundation and Dice a technology career site Source 3 http searchdatacenter techtarget com news 2240216064 Linux
7. can afford at a given time This being said we can also decide on several different software approaches to perform the actual file transfer From a personal standpoint tend to avoid the use of compressed files ZIP or gzipped TAR archives preferring simply to clone the file and directory hierarchy on the backup This way itis easier to navigate through the backup and retrieve a single file or 3 several files if needed without having to uncompress a complete disk image rsync is a utility that has been Full circle magazine 83 15 included in most GNU Linux distributions for some time now Originally designed to perform remote synchronization operations as its name indicates it is also very effective to do local backups to an external drive Supposing that we wish to backup the complete contents of our user s home directory home alan to an external drive that is mounted media alan backups we could issue rsync aruv home alan media alan backups and it will take care of the complete backup for us Output shows us which files are being 3 f h To make such a plain file system ODETE backup several strategies can be used The easiest is simply to copy over the complete directory tree replicating both new files and those already existing in the backup A more advanced option
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9. tp Fullcirclemagazine or ecial edition issue three tp Fullcirclemagazine or special edition volume five Full circle magazine 83 46 5 full circle 1S Oe http Fullcirclemagazine org issue py02 PROGRAM IN PYTHON volume F LIL http Fullcirclemagazine or thon special edition volume four http Fullcirclemagazine or thon special edition volume six ri contents LETTERS FIRST DABBLE First dabbled with Linux back in computer had previously tried BSD but Linux looked like the way Forward continued to play around with Linux when moved on to an Intel based PC in the late 1990 s but never considered using it as an everyday operating system in the early 2000 s soon Forgot about Linux until one fateful day towards the end of 2004 when a Friend gave me an Ubuntu 4 10 livecd had never before heard of Ubuntu Linux but soon learned all about Canonical Shuttleworth etc digital world but 3 through the help of near ones and the years my own exploration with much trial and error did some work on Windows with apps like Office Adobe Corel etc For the first time experienced Linux in this easy to use easy to install Format soon tried Ubuntu 5 04 Kubuntu etc and by mid 2005 I was dual booting Ubuntu alongside Windows XP Since then I have tried just about every Ubuntu var
10. Free online from harvard mit Submitted by Rahul Mehta or much of the Linux operating W ant to learn Linux The Linux Foundation announced peers typically involved downtime In 2014 that s no longer the case as there are now at least three different efforts that all offer the promise of zero downtime kernel patching to Linux servers Source http www linuxtoday com develo dynamic html Submitted by Peter Odigie previous experience in the subject venturebeat com 2014 03 0 6 this summer you can learn linux replacement for Windows XP Plus Areview of Portal 2 for Linux and an interview with the creator of LINUX KERNEL PATCHING GETS DYNAMIC Microsoft will soon end official support for Windows XP and Ubuntu thinks that Lubuntu could system s history patching a kernel has been a process that has be the perfect replacement Lubuntu is a lightweight spin of Ubuntu that provides a more traditional desktop environment and might work well For Windows XP users Source http source 409003 lubuntu might be best linux distro windows xp users A critical Linux bug that many www itworld com open Submitted by Rahul Mehta Linux Bucs Bucs EVERYWHERE LUBUNTU MIGHT BE THE BEST LINUX DISTRO FOR WiNDOWS XP usERS today s open source roundup Lubuntu could be the best educ
11. perhaps at the end of each work day BACKING UP TO EXTERNAL DRIVES External drives are relatively cheap nowadays Many USB connected models can be found either in the 2 Form factor or in 3 form In the first case the enclosure will contain a disk drive designed for laptops and that can usually run on 5V power supplied directly by the computer through the USB cable In the second it will contain a drive designed for desktop computers that needs contents HOWTO BACKUP IN UBUNTU 40 MES i6 MBs 12 MBs iB MBis Disk or Device Last Benchmarked Sample Size Average Read Rate Average Write Rate Average Access Time 0 ms 10 207 HFA 20 eU F R EL FA LOFA Partition 1 of 500 GB Hard Disk TOSHIBA External USB 3 0 0201 01 10 feb 2014 21 21 18 CET Less than a minute ago 10 0 MiB 10485760 bytes 33 5 MB s 100 samples 20 3 MB s 100 samples 17 92 msec 1000 samples both 5V and 12V power and so will require an additional power brick transformer If you need compactness and wish to minimize cabling go for the first If you need large capacities above 1 5 TByte and up to 3 TByte the second type will Fulfill your needs better 3 Besides the disk itself a second Factor to take into account is the connection USB version 2 connectors are rated at 480 Mb s line speed which in practice translates to 30 to 35 M
12. would be to copy over only new or modified files reducing backup times by not transferring existing files This second approach can be performed either by hand slow and error prone or using an automated system quicker On the other hand if we should need to recover backuped files for example when populating a new or freshly Formatted computer we can reverse the process with rsync aruv media alan backups home alan As you can see it is in Fact indifferent whether our home directory is mounted as a separate partition or not though it is ri contents HOWTO BACKUP IN UBUNTU certainly of good practice to do so SYNCING FILES BETWEEN TWO COMPUTERS In this day and age many of us are the happy owners of not one but two or more computers When older machines are replaced by newer ones they are not always sold off The economics of the selling a computer with say three to Five years of continuous use on it will not net us much cash But such older machines while not quite as Fast may in many cases still Function quite well as secondary or backup machines Actual Flavours of Ubuntu or perhaps Lubuntu or Xubuntu work quite well on a 2008 dual core or suchlike IF the computer itself has no major hardware issues the only part that may need replacing in order to convert it into a backup unit would be a larger hard disk dri
13. TX bytes 53174 53 1 KB contents HOWTO BACKUP IN UBUNTU server to the other computer using similar rsync commands rsync aruv 172 16 0 1 home alan home alan rsync aruv fe80 de0e a1ff fe4e 7c86 et intend to talk about automatic backup apps such as the D j Dup program that now comes installed as standard in Ubuntu 1 home alan make sure all Files are up to date on both machines it may be necessary to perform synchronization in both directions especially if both computers are occasionally used to work on and modify Files Naturally this sequence can be automated within a script file that could for example be called backup sh bin bash rsync aruv home alan h0 home alan rsync aruv e80 de0e a1ff fe4e 7c865et h0 home alan home alan The file will need to be made executable with chmod 755 backup sh before use It can then executed with backup sh be asking themselves if ever There are two different points of view regarding this kind of program Automatic backups can help take a little of the hassle out of making backups they do the remembering for you and handle most if not all of the action But it can also be argued that this can in fact become a bit of a fe80 de0e alff fe4e 7c865et liability since depending on automatic actions will over
14. Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE 83 March 2014 HOMEBANK FEEL GUILTY ABOUT YOUR SPENDING i nor endorsed Canonical Ltd Photo wistechcolleges Flickr com Backup In Ubuntu LibreOffice p 19 MultiSystem p 21 Inkscape f Graphics s fAn alias to make the ls command more detailed alias ls ls la color always classify Command amp Conquer p 10 Ask The New Guy E p31 Linux Labs p 35 HomeBank Free easy personal accounting for everyone CryptoCurrency p 42 Letters 541 Fr and now for the local news Tuxidermy p 48 Q amp A p 49 Security p 51 gt Open Source Design p 52 Ubuntu Women p 35 Ubuntu Games EE The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 Unported license ec This means you can adapt copy distribute and transmit the articles but only under the following conditions you must attribute udi uud the work to the original author in some way at least a name email or URL and to this magazine by name Full Circle Magazine and the URL www fullcirclemagazine org but not attribute the article s in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work If you alter transform or build upon this work you must distribute the resulting work under the same similar or a compatible license Full Circle magaz
15. bigger Moving it around the inside The next button on the tool control bar is the Shrink Grow mode This doesn t take its directional cue from the movement of the tool but instead it will always move nodes in towards the center of the path or outwards away from the center if the Shift key is held This example used Shrink For the top half of the star and Grow for the bottom half The penultimate node tweak is Attract Repel In its normal mode the path is distorted as though it s being attracted towards the center to shave away part of an object or to make it gently bulge outwards If you go too far in one direction either hold Shift or move the cursor from outside the shape to inside or vice versa much but delivers so little In theory the Roughen tweak should introduce some randomness and chaos into the shape of your path What actually happens is that the randomness largely cancels itself out leaving you with a lot of extra nodes that haven t moved very far The best results seem to come from using a large value for Width in order to smother as much of the toot Even extension This requires little with both the Width and the Force at their maxima was still able to of the path on the other hand 3 pulls it inwards making it smaller Holding Shift simply reverses the direction of the pull Try using th
16. free Because of this inherent problem when a seller accepts bitcoins he will want to wait until transactions have been confirmed multiple times are older in the block chain to make sure that he 15 not the victim of such a scenario In Bitcoin each block takes an average of 10 minutes to solve and the difficulty is adjusted to maintain that It is considered that waiting 6 blocks 6 confirmations is a good way to ensure security ri contents WHAT IS which means that one hour is needed before a transaction is Fully validated This is pointed out and rightfully so as being one of the weaknesses of Bitcoin as a currency Other alternative coins have adopted shorter block times to fix that issue WHY IS THE BLOCK CHAIN SECURE We have seen that there are only a single version of the block chain propagated across the network in the end by enforcing the longest chain policy in case of next block the Fastest wins In addition it is extremely difficult to tamper with the block chain thereby enabling double contains as part of its payload the hash of the previous block Look at the Following scenario Block 10 Block 11 Block 12 Block 13 Block 14 Say want to change the official order of the transactions by having a transaction that was in Block 10 put into Block 14 enabling me to effect a double spend attack can try to
17. Linux PUSHES WiNDOWS DESKTOP MALWARE ecurity researchers in Europe have reported that over the past two years as many as 25 000 web servers infected with Linux malware have been used to infect Windows desktops The report has Stated that the malware was part OF Operation Windigo a cybercrime campaign that targets both Windows users and system administrators that support equipment for popular websites hile Microsoft and other three decade old companies http Germany s internet security information provider CERT Bund The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and CERN the European Organisation For Nuclear Research Source www welivesecurity com w content uploads 2014 03 operatio n windigo pdf Submitted by Vincent Sesto LINUX worm DARLLOZ TARGETS INTEL ARCHITECTURE TO MINE DIGITAL CURRENCY A Linux worm variant found in the wild targets routers set top boxes and now PCs in order to mine for cryptocurrency According to research firm Symantec a new Internet of Things loT worm was discovered last November Dubbed Linux Darlloz the worm targets computers running Intel x86 architectures as well as devices running the ARM MIPS and PowerPC architectures Android Wear is a version of Android which is optimized for provided by ESET Antivirus Full circle magazine 83 7 The report is base
18. Open Office Written by Ronnie Tucker document Images should be JPG no wider than 800 pixels and use low compression Do not use tables or any type of bold or italic Formatting IF you are writing a review please follow these guidelines When you are ready to submit your article please email it to articles fullcirclemagazine or TRANSLATIONS IF you would like to translate Full Circle into your native language please send an emailto ronnie fullcirclemagazine org and we will either put you in touch with an existing team or give you access to the raw text to translate from With a completed PDF you willbe able to upload your file to the main Full Circle site Full circle magazine 83 29 Write For Full Circle Magazine REVIEWS GAMES APPLICATIONS When reviewing games applications please state clearly title of the game e who makes the game is it free or a paid download where to get it from give download homepage URL e is it Linux native or did you use Wine your marks out of five e a summary with positive and negative points HARDWARE When reviewing hardware please state clearly e make and model of the hardware e what category would you put this hardware into any glitches that you may have had while using the hardware easy to get the hardware working in Linux e did you have to use Windows drivers
19. and a patch was released Monday Source http www pcworld com article 2 105145 what you need to know about the gnutls linux bug html Submitted by Rahul Mehta CRYTEK ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR LINUX Crytek creator of Crysis and Ryse have announced that they will be providing Full native Linux support in the new CRYENGINE Attendees to the March 2014 Game Developers Conference in a presentation and hands on demos of the CRYENGINE software Source http www crytek com news conf erence attendees can also see a brand new mobile game extra engine updates and much more at crytek s booth Submitted by Vincent Sesto VALVE OPEN SOURCES ITS DIRECTX TO OPENGL TRANSLATION SOFTWARE Vive has made Dota 2 s Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine Dota 2 Team Fortress Portal and easily bring it over to Mac OS X or Linux SteamOS The code with G erman development company some tweaks could also be made to work with other DirectX based game engines By open sourcing this code Valve is clearly encouraging developers to release OS X and more importantly SteamOS ports of their Windows San Francisco will be provided with games Source http ing 178276 valve open sources its directx to opengl translat
20. and a work order number To mark devices which are associated with the work order you can print out asset labels using a Dymo label screen is where technicians document the actions they take to repair the machine printer Other printers are not Repairs normally sit on the Waiting For Bench screen until a technician changes the status to On the bench Next assign the bench you re working on from 1 of 4 benches default but you can change this The administrator can assign different benches in the Repair gt Settings screen If you missed printing the claim ticket you can print it again on the work order screen The work order Repair reports thank you letters price cards checkout receipts asset and address labels also be printed or emailed to Ehe client Sometimes we have a repair that starts as a low priority but ends up becoming more urgent priority can also be changed on the work order screen Although clients can check on the status of their work order if you have PCRT on the Internet you often have to communicate with them about your findings bad sectors on the hard drive faulty Stick of RAM dust clogging up the CPU heatsink bad DVD RW etc Beside the Priority drop down is Call Contact status drop down where you can choose from one of Not Called Called Sent SMS Sent Email No Answer o
21. or location external drives network volumes USB keys etc using just one centralized account Download mobile clients OIN SPIDEROAK NOV for iOS amp Android eel tree 685 Get 25 off any SpiderOak package with the code FullcirclemagFans v F T ASK THE NEW GUY H i everyone Welcome back to Ask the New Guy IF you have a simple question contact me at copil yanez gmail com Today s question is Q I want a personal website Can Ubuntu help me build one A Fancy a website do you Well aren t you cutting edge Listen don t mean to tell you your business but if you re only now getting around to thinking about a Website it s possible you ve missed a Few other technological advances scrapbook of your choice and a you should know about Like the wheel And fire Toothpaste is nice two things One you weren t likely to remember the baby fat pictures thought I d destroyed but Mama I m just messing with you Actually a personal website one that you own and control one that Fireplace Two no one and mean NOONE who wasn t supposed to see those scrapbooks got to see them take over the narrative of our lives includes only the information you want to put into the world is a pretty good idea these days Most of us have allowed Facebook to Facebook has essentially replaced my scrapbooking grandmo
22. this article we ll go with the standard of using it to mean IBM compatible systems we re repairing PCRT consists of 2 modules a repair module for tracking computer repairs and a sales module for adding parts to inventory PCRT is quite comprehensive tracking a lot of REPAIR ve E J the repair is scheduled For what other accessories were included keyboard mouse cables display etc any passwords they might have commonly experienced problems viruses noisy fans screen replacement where the client found your shop and their that PCRT displays passwords in plain text and doesn t require the admin to enter the password twice but this just means you do it without anyone around and it s a very minor annoyance checked the mysql tables and the password is hashed in the table If you enter rel zf r qu LL a ih en I dus I E m Repair Claim Ticket Cismim Mane Janes Bande Company Beads Aulo Parta amp Exports Asset ED 102 Tracker Cumterar Werk Pore 45MF13 1 724 Fratan d Conlect Mo fhed miit im Ferie Pa raa Eric my Hermes So Y Oo vedur Pret 0 2 weeny ee dasevbarice Pria Cammie 3 Mors 553 1 23 24 eck F Dato Mirak B HAH 2483 nam or nr eet HUELLA ME Phos Gaok Fro 1 13 8 EFT 7 ET
23. Automabae 2 430 00 Loan amp 1 000 00 Feo Bi Energy 400 00 200 00 full circle magazine 83 40 lt REVIEW HOMEBANK There is a charting and reporting section which provides a bunch of reports and charts very useful for immediate overview of our finances Sophisticated users might miss currency management and automatic web bank connectivity In order to keep the workflow simple this accounting system is single currency and it is not possible to access web bank transactions or to receive is not automatic about controlling your personal Finances and you want a simple tool give HomeBank a try While it is not the most sophisticated personal finance manager available on Linux HomeBank makes it easy to keep track of your incomes and daily expenses Aclean anduser Friendly interface and the ability to useful for new users electronic bank statements and consequently the reconciling task IF you are seriously thinking Balance report Display List yg Line 3 Refresh Account MyBank v from 01 01 14 to 12 31 14 0 7 under 0 00 _ Select all 12 000 12 000 L Each day Zoom X Eg 10 000 10 000 Date filter F Foon 8 000 Range This Year gt From onoii4 b DDD 5 xD To 12 3114 oD dU 2 000 2 000 o110 14 ge
24. Bitcoin requires that the hexadecimal representation of the block hash be inferior to a certain value representing the difficulty of solving a block which leads to block hashes having a certain number of leading zeroes giving results like 0000000000000003bd7d2916ffa0d 112d0797ffa9eef32ba62a219d215 e02b55 This kind of requirement is referred to as a proof of work requirement Because hashes are fully random and generate completely different outputs with each different nonce the only way to Find a hash that satisfies the requirement of the network is to try nonce after nonce after nonce until Finally the hash of the block satisfies the requirement This could take years and years for a standard desktop computer depending on the difficulty chosen linked to the number that the hashed value needs to be inferior to There is a reward system for node that manages to create a Full circle magazine 83 43 block with the correct hash the node is entitled to puta transaction for a pre determined amount to themselves in the list of transactions that make up the block Currently the reward for solving a block and making it part of the block chain is 25 bitcoins equivalent to 20 000 USD at time of writing The very first bitcoin block contained a single transaction for the block author which was the rewar
25. HTML what LibreOffice Writer is to a text document It allows you to write the code that the host can then serve to the people who visit your site Since this is an Ubuntu magazine let s see if the open source community can help Spoiler Alert Duh Full circle magazine 83 32 nnn nnn Pea ke r3 xm EE t a G E 1 i E T a T T E zl E downloaded a program called Bluefish Editor It s free has lots of you want to your website Pictures of the family Your anti aardvark manifesto Recordings of ABBA covers you made in the basement Whatever good reviews and its available at the Ubuntu Software Center Once you ve downloaded it Fire up that bad boy You ll be greeted with a blank page that looks like this e d i am ibi a oe HT Ek Q E f vit j ibiles List I But wait you re saying don t know any HTML that blank page is staring back at me like a hungry tiger How do I feed it went online and looked for some very simple HTML I could use that was crucially free Found some here http free templates or Click on that link select all the HTML in the window that comes up and then paste it into the blank page on your HTML editor template1 html ri contents ASK THE NEW GUY The en
26. TESTING THE INSTALLATION This is similar to step 2 of selecting the LiveCD though you want to select your external drive Give it time to boot up and then you are free to start working so long as no further steps are necessary to complete the installation NOTES IF you plan on using this external drive on multiple machines you may want to consider using VESA drivers instead instead of anything specific to a device IF you re in need of a USB sized portable Linux distribution For Eroubleshooting security peace of mind you may be better off creating a persistent Live USB instead As always hope at least some of you have found this article both interesting and helpful If you have any specific questions or x a il Lucas has learned all he knows from repeatedly breaking his system then having no other option but to 2260487 how to Fix it You can email SIEREGENICE LibreOffice 3 H ahi LIBREOFFICE SM ie 1 3 2 ee ee te http Fullcirclemagazine or special edition volume one htt IEEE azine or E edition volume three INKSCAPE SP SPECIAL EDITIONS m Full Circle LEE es ee DA LIBR EOFFICE MBA MEN oin cli mox Fullcirclemagazine or TEES edition volume two libreoffice htt libreoffice ECIAL EDITIONS 9 JF a
27. appropriate tools for example Firewall using APT MB Lynis in its current form will be mainly Focused on auditing a system and providing help to the hardening is possible but due to the risks involved won t be fully automated For customers of the Lynis Enterprise version however scripts will be provided to assist in hardening with main focus on configuration management tools like cFengine and Puppet From Thomas Brooks Whitelists even more than Blacklists seem to be among the most useful tools in keeping a system from connecting up to a compromised server Does Lynis offer any such support Do you have any recommendations MB Lynis is used for auditing and hardening a system However it does not harden the system itself to pick the right tools and Secu pity configure them according to the goals of the system Whitelisting is a generic concept and usually better than blacklisting The main reason is that you can define upfront what you want to accept instead of deciding what is possibly bad Several software packages support some ways of whitelisting like iptables in which you define owner of the system Automatically allowed and denying all others what information flows are From Jim Barber How do we detect and remove rootkits MB Rootkits are a special case of malware malicious software as their main goal is to provide the attacker with a b
28. back in again Until you log out and log in some of the colors will be wrong want to edit my website Thanks to spectatorx in the TOP NEW QUESTIONS AT ASKUBUNTU 1 webcam for 2 programs http goo gl vPNkuJ Full circle magazine 83 49 How do lower the critical temperature http goo gl sA533c How can I know which DVDs will play on my system http goo gl xqAKGq How can remove a file that 3 looks like a Flag http goo g rwAQwy In gedit what is the file browser panel plugin and what does it do http goo gl How run apt get install in the background Ubuntu Forums For just HTML and CSS editing my personal Favorite editor is bluefish you can Find it in the Ubuntu Software Center also use it for some basic PHP and a few other languages http goo gl fZu5cF How dol install Tox http g00 gl 0aZq4K How can I protect a file from user changes http goo gl 17apmY Did accept the tts mscorefonts installer EULA http goo gl 3JjYlO ri contents Q amp A TIPS AND TECHNIQUES Y More info my desktop double click on it and the information appears in my default browser in great detail However inxi will tell you about F you re asking For help the most important thing you can do is 3 provide relevant information about your system There
29. connection speeds can actually be rather higher than through a switch These days crossover cables are installing the openssh server package on one computer the client package is already installed by default on both This can be done from the terminal usually found in red color though itis best to check it is not actually a straight patch cable slightly cheaper Before connecting the computers we will need to draw up a strategy For file transfers Which protocol do we use and which programs Since we have already seen the rsync utility in this article will continue using it but this time over a SSH link instead of to alocally connected external disk Setting up an SSH link on Ubuntu systems simply implies sudo bash aptitude update aptitude install openssh server or it can also be done from within any graphical software management program you prefer Synaptic the Ubuntu Software center Muon etc ri contents HOWTO BACKUP IN UBUNTU Once installed the SSH server automatically creates its key pair and starts up You can check it is working From the terminal on the same machine it is installed on by ISSUING ssh localhost IF the terminal requests confirmation to continue connecting and then asks you for IF you prefer to use SSH using a certificate without having to enter a password each time you connec
30. contents REVIEW HOMEBANK set up two checkbook counters and they will automatically increase every time we register a check payment When the bank takes the amount for covering credit card expenses move it from the bank account to the credit card account when withdraw cash move it From the bank account to the cash account when pay by cash register transactions on cash account these actions can be done by the internal transfer transaction type We can define a list of payees persons or entities giving to us or we giving to them money in order to speed up transaction recording and to ease filtering sorting and checking At first did not enter a payees list but after a while found it useful and I fixed the payees for the transactions had already recorded Each transaction has a type of payment which activates a specific action an internal transfer brings us a field for a destination account inside the current wallet a check payment brings us an option to mark the second checkpad Each transaction has also a payee in other words who is receiving money from us or is giving money to us We can classify our transactions in categories and split every single Add transaction Tags Date 02 12 14 w Amount 2400 00 ti Payment Deposit Info Account MwyBank p Fill in with
31. for the Legacy branch of their drivers Intel architecture to mine digital currency and Botnet of thousands of Linux servers pumps Windows desktop malware onto web you thought Linux was as Full of holes as Windows XP If you Windigo a Linux capable backdoor take a closer look you ll Find that Linux isn t the problem No the real security hole lies with some of Those in turn have been attacking 3 Linux s administrators and users Source http www zdnet com linux and botnets its not linuxs fault 7000027538 Submitted by Rahul Mehta USERS WITH OLD VIDEO CARDS AND UPDATES THE LEGACY DRIVERS N VIDIA has just released an update for its Legacy display driver 304 121 bringing support For the newer kernels and one important fix There are lot of Linux users out there who use older video cards that can t make use of the recently released NVIDIA drivers which don t have the proper support The changelog for the new update says that the compatibility With recent Linux kernels has been improved and that a bug that prevented the NVIDIA implementation of the Xinerama extension protocol requests from being used when RandR was enabled has been fixed The Full circle magazine 83 8 products being supported by these drivers range From the old 6 series to the new 600 which was released back in 2012 NVIDIA RE
32. it or not you did it If you now go into your browser and point it to your webpage you i l should see a new page that looks we copied earlier Or you can right _ like the one generated by the HTML we saved in that index html File i Th cam T den i brip wi uar march rugis AAA AAA MAPA RARI AMA LLLA E mwai AAA o mA RATA le to show you how simple it is using free and powerful programs in Ubuntu to create and manage your own webpage This would be the tithe of the page Lua ye eee pi ei eee pee ei thee ene es es iom oe m de ee oye und LI ti ndn aiar am mae ee eee ua brip mtd icm bil unn Dreva Sheed Flat know it doesn t look pretty just yet But if you go in and play around in your index html file you can make changes that will affect what you see when you go to your Website know said you could photos and stuff and maybe we ll address those in a future installment My goal for now is just i have forums where beginners ask questions Decide what you want to do and then ask how to do The best part From your control panel you can toggle your own Mama Nana and require a login and password for anyone who wants to view your page the Dreamhost control panel you navigate to Goodies wh
33. movement in one direction than the other For example creating a line with lots of nodes then jittering them in only one This effect randomly shifts the nodes and optionally node handles of the selected path Make a fake line graph Maximum displacement in X px 50 Maximum displacement in Y 5 0 Shift nodes E Shift node handles Use normal distribution Live preview El X Close Apply The next two controls determine whether the positions of the nodes or their handles will be shifted Shifting the nodes gives a more distorted line shifting the to modify the controls in the dialog eet bho will give you a more distorted line that also has spikes and sharp angles The last control simply determines how the random shifts are selected If this is checked they will follow the bell curve shape of the Roughen example you can a normal distribution meaning that small shifts are more likely than large shifts In theory this can give directions Usually you would want a more natural appearance but in to set these to the same value but practice the difference isn t really there are occasions when you want noticeable in many cases So what of our rounded star now that we ve converted it to a ck and path added nodes and jittered it direction Is a quick and easy way to Well it s c
34. we ll succeed in doing is slightly distorting the shape By switching to the Node tool F2 our 10 nodes become visible Next we have to select them all by pressing Ctrl A or using Edit gt Select All Press the Insert key on the keyboard and a new node will be created between each pair of selected nodes Now we have 20 nodes which is better but still not enough Fortunately the newly created nodes have automatically been added to our selection so all we have to do is press Insert again and again and again 20 nodes becomes 40 then 80 and so on ri contents HOWTO INKSCAPE Pt23 Modify Path gt Jitter Nodes Once the dialog opens the First thing to do and this is the case with many of Inskcape s extensions is to check the Live preview checkbox at the bottom This will allow you stopped at 160 because this gave me a fairly dense arrangement of nodes for jittering without asking Inkscape to deal with excessive numbers and see the results applied to the canvas prior to committing them with the Apply button The rest of the controls fairly simple The first two spinboxes are used to set the amount that each node or handle can be shifted in the X and Y You need to switch back to the Select tool F1 and ensure your path is selected before launching the Jitter Nodes extension using the menu entry Extensions more
35. 2 l Fie rx Ee v J libreoffice ESCAPE Volume One a T http Fullcirclemagazine or TEE edition volume one Full circle magazine 83 11 Full Circle em blabi eet ee BLETA PE Lame seduce inkscape htt NEEE azine or edition volume two inkscape lt HOW TO h Written by Alan Ward ne of the constants in the history of desktop computing is disk prices going down over time in terms of money for the MByte cause our disk usage for work or play has also gone steadily up Since a large part of our digital lives could eventually be wiped out in the event of drive failure a lot of attention has been given to the backing up of personal documents photo libraries music collections and other pieces of data But not all backup strategies are equal In the first place it must be easy for us to make backups Otherwise experience shows we three tiered backup strategy that guarantees no data loss if used correctly is in practice next to useless if it is not user friendly needs complicated command line sequences or just introduces yet more hassle into our digital lives On the other hand a backup strategy also needs to take into account the limitations of hardware as regards space and time Most cloud based services are limited to about 5 GBytes of space Bu
36. Apple computer it s the same on any model Simply hold the alt key while the computer boots immediately after hitting the power button press and hold alt It will then give you a list of devices to choose from IF you are running a UEFI machine make sure to choose the entry that reads or EFI Boot or anything referring to EFI Failure to do this will result in booting a typical BIOS system causing issues when installing an EFI bootloader Once your live environment is booted plug in the external drive iF you haven t already and make note of the size device i e dev sdb and any partitions you don t want to delete This helps to avoid confusion when formatting the drive After taking note of this information you re ready to start the installation process h COMMAND amp CONQUER STEP 4 INSTALLATION This step is distribution dependant and is not at all different from an actual installation save for two small notes Make sure the hard drive you select is the external one and not the internal drive When configuring installing a boot manager it s best to use UUIDs instead of device names i e suggestions feel free to email them to me at lswest34 fcm qmail com Also the Form For my FCM 84 C amp C article is still open and can be Found here goo gl jerzKH dev sdb as they may change From machine to machine while UUIDs will not STEP 5
37. B s 36 MB s 32 M s 28 MB s 24 MB s 20 16 MBs 12 MB s B MBs AMB o 0 HBs U 10 205 ap mh 0 ms GLa A pri FFA 100 Disk or Device Partition 1 of 64 GB Hard Disk TOSHIBA External USB 3 0 0201 Last Benchmarked Sample Size Average Read Rate 34 4 MB s 100 samples Average Write Rate 14 4 MB s 100 samples Average Access Time 0 60 msec 1000 samples di 10 2014 21 24 21 CET Less than a minute ago 10 0 MiB 10485760 bytes slow connection using USB 3 would definitely speed things up considerably when transferring large files even more noticeably so than with the preceding spinning platter unit On the other hand we can also see how access times are greatly reduced to the sub 1ms range behind a slow USB 2 connection is still worthwhile when transferring a lot of very small files Access to each file to initiate each individual transfer happens more quickly This advantage can also be retained when using a faster connection such as USB 3 The general take home idea is that in each backup situation we should take into account not only Ehe hardware aspects but also the kind size and number of files to This means that using an SSD even be transferred in order to decide the external disk units and connection technology to be used In general however one can almost never go wrong in buying the fastest and largest disks one
38. Byte s transfer speeds the disk s limit though not the approximately 500 MByte s that USB is capable of pushing IF we are to transfer large use performance depends on both factors the disk and the connection It is important for the actual use of backups Nobody wants to wait half an hour For some videos to be copied over when with another setup five minutes might suffice Files to and from this disk these are the numbers that really matter On the other hand we can also See access times in the 15 20 ms range These values are rather standard for platter hard drives They will affect backup speeds especially when transferring a large number of small files since the disks must make a seek operation at the beginning of each transfer The second benchmark next page top left was made with an SSD Solid State Disk drive also connected through the very same USB 2 link In this case we can see that transfer speeds remain essentially the same even though In the first top left we can see how a standard 500 GByte spinning platter hard drive natively capable of reading and writing at about 100 the disk itself is capable of very high throughputs probably in excess of 250 MByte s This is a Clear case of a speedy hard drive stuck behind the bottleneck of a ri contents HOWTO BACKUP IN UBUNTU AD M
39. Bytes s USB version 3 can in theory go up to 5 Gb s line speed far outstripping current spinning platter disks read write speeds 3 enclosure and a USB 3 port on the computer Finally other IEEE 1394 enclosures or the newer generation of consumer grade NAS stations than can be accessed directly through the network In order of speed USB 3 and high speed Firewire connections outstrip USB 2 and However they do need both a USB Gigabit Ethernet to a NAS with Fast Ethernet also to a NAS a slower alternative Needless to say a WiFi connection to a NAS is to be avoided whenever possible it has the lowest bandwidth and this is shared between all users connected at the same time Whichever connection type you The Disks applet gnome disk comes as standard on current Ubuntu distributions and has several utilities built in One the benchmark can measure several interesting performance parameters for hard disks Two screen captures are included here both created with the same USB 2 solutions also exist such as Firewire adaptor but using different hard drives MByte s is limited to 33 MByte s Full circle magazine 83 14 reading and 20 MByte s writing when connected through USB 2 the USB connection is the limiting factor For transfer speeds IF we were to connect this disk using USB 3 we could expect 100 M
40. Full circle magazine 83 52 convergences and engagements that the designer can squeeze into a five minute Ted talk style presentation description of What Design Is that tells us that it s an elite s game it s something done by people better than us with sharper slacks than us using better headsets than us while they use their media training savvy to hand gesture talk to us from a stage about how good they are Where the value of design is measured in the number of visual stories All it takes is that we all make an effort being inclusive open active and communicative That we start a design project not just by making the best design available but by being able to describe the design language we intend to use The visions we re heading for The KDE Visual Design Group is based on these notions everyone can and should be involved in the design work I ll write a monthly column trying to go into the challenges and gains of this idea of Open Source Design The wins and the fails ri contents A hour and a half ago began playing a new video game right now I m trying to process the ending of the game Wow What a true gem of a game I found in Serena which was designed by Agustin Cordes and developed by Senscape an independent game developer based out of Buenos Aires Argentina Serena was released on January 30 2014 thro
41. ID Integer Primary Key Increment Title varchar 50 Not Null Description varchar 250 Due Date MemberID Integer foreign key Auto TeamMember Table Field Type Properties ID Integer Primary Key Auto Increment FirstName Varchar 25 Not Null LastName Varchar 25 Not Null Shown right is the SQL to create 3 the tables Create a new database document then go to Tools SQL You can also get the above SQL The key to our task is the We are going to create a simple 3 Foreign key MemberID in the Project table which connects to the TeamMember table s ID field When we create our form we will create a drop down list for Below is the structure of the tables selecting the team member who 5 responsible for the project Notice that the TeamMember table provides first and last name fields The list control allows us to use only one field in the list We could display just the last name in the drop down list but what if two team members have the same last name We will solve this problem by creating a view that will combine the first and last name drop table Project if exists drop table TeamMember if exists create table TeamMember ID integer generated by default as identity start with 1 not null primary key FirstName varchar 25 not null LastName varchar 25 not null create table Project ID in
42. MEMBERS LINUX Source http VIDIA Remembers Linux Users with Old Video Cards and Updates the Legacy Drivers 431589 shtml Submitted by Silviu Stahie news softpedia com news N GOOGLE BUYS AN ANDROID GAMING PLATFORM POSSIBLY WITH A SET TOP BOX IN MIND G reen Throttle Games was late to the Android gaming platform party and paid the price for it the company effectively wound down at the end of 2013 However its efforts may not have been in vain Google has confirmed to PandoDaily that it has acquired key parts of Green Throttle s business including its parts labor and two co founders The crew in Mountain View hasn t said what it Will do with its new resources but PandoDaily sources claim that Google wants to refine the ri contents NEWS Bluetooth controller For its long Fabled and possibly gaming Focused TV set top box Whether or not that s true the move suggests that Google s interest in games is extending beyond software Source http 3 12 google buys green throttle games assets Submitted by Jon Fingas RASPBERRY PI GETS ITS OWN SOUND CARD H esides have embedded sound card now the Raspberry Pi gets its own sound card that can buy separately The Pi s makers element14 have just announced a new 33 Wolfson powered audio card that should give the device a broader range of functions This right onto the Pi s P5 pin
43. X QFX and specific CSV Formatted Files and export in QIF only Format It is also possible to export in CSV format some data like transactions From the accounts detailed view this feature could be useful for transferring transactions to a spreadsheet V ore i J F Budget for each month Dining Out is is the same Education Books Fees j is different qu Jan 400 00 2 Jul 250 00 2 Energy Feb 400 00 gt Aug 100 00 Entertainment Fees 300 00 2 Sep 200 00 5 Food ri Apr 200 00 Oct 250 00 Home EZ isi May 200 00 gt 400 00 Gifts Jun 250 00 Dec 400 00 Groceries EI lii iJ Force monitoring this category File Edit View Manage Transactions Reports Help 7 t Ak Your accounts Status Accounts Bank Today Bank MyBank 10 000 00 8 120 00 Cash MyCash 0 00 200 00 v Credit card MyCredit Card 0 00 1 000 00 Grand total 10 000 00 8 920 00 Scheduled transactions next occurence Total 2 050 00 BSAccount xhb Unknown HomeBank 04 ih Where your money qoes Future Top 5 spending 4 030 00 10 170 00 200 00 1 000 00 10 970 00 Payee Memo Amount Account Mext on Remaining Loan 450 00 MyBank 04 06 14 24 days Wage 2 500 00 MyBank 04 10 14 58 days All date Bl
44. a product seller via Transaction 2 also referring to input Transaction A therefore double spending it This chain that includes Block 14 is now the longest and Block 14 refers back to Block 13B Block 14 starts propagating throughout the IF Transaction 2 is accepted in Block 13A and therefore gets confirmed once the seller may ship the product immediately If at the Full circle magazine 83 44 Same time Transaction 1 gets accepted into Block 13B the following will happen eventually Transaction 2 is put back into the pool of unconfirmed orders because Block 13A has been orphaned e however at the same time Transaction 1 has been accepted as part of the main block chain included in block 13A but not block 13B will go back to the pool of unconfirmed transactions Block 13A didn t truly integrate the chain the miner of that block does not receive any reward because there is no record of the reward transaction in the main block chain and therefore block 13A is referred to as an orphaned block Because of this Transaction A which it refers to is considered Spent Once Block 15 starts being built jt will gather transactions However Transaction 2 cannot be included in the block because it refers to Transaction A which is already spent Therefore the seller will have shipped a product for
45. a template Payee gt Category Wage amp Salary Net Pay My Company Memo Reconciled _ Remind 2 Close Add transaction into sub categories e g in a store you buy food and sports wear and pay by debit card you want to keep their expenses checked separately but you have only row on your bank statement Found the category splitting supplied by HomeBank well fitting my requirements special icon will show up on the transaction status There s also a transactions auto Fulfill batch tool that applies to transactions in the same account a template according to words it parses in the memo field of the transactions it is named auto Categories are used in charting and reporting features a good category classification brings meaningful reports and charts assignment and it is available from the transaction view We find a very powerful Filtering Function in the account Adding a new transaction is very easy you can add it once you have chosen the account copy a transaction and modify it by the handy Inherit Function orcreate one from a template A transaction can be marked for reminding and a details it Filters by including or excluding many characteristics of transactions date status pay mode text category payee There is a specific utility For Managing c
46. ackdoor into the system and additionally make detection as hard as possible To avoid detection rootkits will alter binaries intercept special kernel Functions or just hide in plain sight e g in bin So to detect a rootkit software needs to be a little bit smarter than the one who tried to hide it in the first place It must use alternative or static compiled binaries and different ways to Find It is up to the system administrator results etc In some cases we get a If you have security related questions email them to misc fullcirclemagazine org and Michael will answer them in a Future issue Please include as much information as you can about your query different result than expected and From Wade Smart Regarding backdoor control of systems How can 1 explain to Linux users the reality of what is possible compared to what is probable MB The best way to explain to others what is real is to Find real malicious software and try it in a parts of the system were replaced or common binaries were backdoored would never trust the system from that moment Best way to remove rootkits is by a Fresh install of the machine and building it up properly that s usually a first sign to investigate the machine or the discovered binaries Regarding removing would you ever trust a system which was compromised Sure a file wit
47. and side of the i Testalues E sudo apt get install multisystem utilisateurs de Debian audes garmad a 2 ada 55066 USER Free software and select the Full circle magazine 83 21 This is because the translation software removes some of the spaces the commands and if they are not inputted correctly you will get an error message when running them in the terminal this caught me out the first time I installed the application on to a system Assuming you ve done everything correctly you should now have MultiSystem installed To access the application in Mint or Lubuntu I navigate to Applications and MultiSystem is in that menu depending on your version of Ubuntu you may need to search to find it Before opening the application select a USB drive where you want to install it and ensure it is clean and formatted to FAT32 you can use MultiSystem to do this with gparted or use it as standalone application If inclined and able you could use the terminal with fdisc but whatever 1 you use be careful you format the correct drive Remount the drive and open MultiSystem and you should see the following screen contents HOWTO MULTISYSTEM MARMING Grub will be installed in the MERI D arii Mode ET Laer Tras lui I kin _
48. ani Or maybe you do Either way having your Creating your own website is very simple There are plenty of sites that allow you to create a professional looking site with minimal fuss Google Yahoo and Microsoft all offer all in one options that make creating a site a simple matter of point and click For our purposes however we re going to get a tiny bit more Full circle magazine 83 31 New Guy remember If it takes me longer than a few minutes to do something I m already on to the new thing because life is short and Mama Nana s Cuervo isn t going to drink itself But getting your hands a little messy with HTML and FTP is not unlike learning to work at the command line it can be as simple or complex as you want it to be Okay let s set up a website We ll get to the Ubuntu part soon but first you ll need a Domain Name That s the part that goes between www and com or org or Xxx if that s how you roll A Google search will turn up hundreds of services that will sell you a domain My suggestion is that you choose a company that also has some kind of hosting service When someone types your domain name into her browser the hostis the company that serves up whatever web pages you ve designed Having the host and the domain name with the same company can make the process of setting up your page a little ea
49. ar expenses simply Edit Filter Date Filter Status Status Option Include is Fay reconciled Amount remind Text display Added Force _ _ display Edited Category Payee Full circle magazine 83 39 ri contents REVIEW HOMEBANK register all these expenses under a specific category e g MyCar and if it is a Fuel expense in the memo Field put v2 followed by the volume you bought and d and the distance you made a special option in the report section will summarize For us Fuel consumption and other car expenses We Find a budget utility this allows us to set up a category monthly budget For one year and compare it with the actual expenses Repetitive incomes like a wage or expenses like some utility bills or re payments of a loan can be easily scheduled via the scheduler Reconciling statements with our HomeBank accounts is easy we open the account we check and correct and then we select the transactions we are reconciling and then we use the button reconcile In HomeBank the time is sliced in three parts bank i e the opening balance plus the reconciled transactions today incorporating the non reconciled transactions and Future covering the total amount of incomes and expenses scheduled in the Future I did not test import and export of data The Features available From the File menu are import of QIF OF
50. as a distinct advantage over IPv4 Ehe same link local address will always be assigned to the same interface on each machine every time and without needing any 3 ifconfig ethO ifconfig ethO 172 16 0 2 16 You should obtain something 3 like that shown below Note the IPv6 address on the second line down beginning with Fe80 From the other computer can now ping this one using the IPv6 ping6 utility ping6 fe80 de0e alff fe4e 7c865Seth 0 Please note left out the 64 netmask and tacked on the 96ethO interface indicator at the end Now on to doing the actual backup From the other computer I can update all my files on the SSH server using either rsync aruv home alan 172 16 0 1 home alan OF rsync aruv home alan fe80 deO0e alff fe4e 7c86 et h0 home alan IPv6 addresses often need to be placed between keys In either case the server should require my password and then start performing synchronization In the other sense can 3 synchronize all Files From the Link encap Ethernet HWaddr dc 0e a1 4e 7c 86 inet6 addr fe80 de0e alff fed4e 7 c86 64 Scope Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU 1500 Metric 1 RX packets 168 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 354 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 4 collisions 0 txqueuelen 1000 RX bytes 24784 24 7 KB Full circle magazine 83 17
51. at appears for the client For example the Memory Tested information default message is The memory in your computer was tested with a very extensive test to make installs and 11 different notes But appears in this section along with sure it is free from defect Bad tests You could remove the last bad RAM The last section on the work order can be used to enter billing information When you add a billing information item charges appear just below the computer info section Once you ve added up all the billing items you can create an invoice for the client PCRT has quick items section on the side for items you commonly bill for By default PCRT comes with Virus Spyware Removal OS Reload Data Backup Minimum Bench Fee Tune Up Bench Fee Component Install and Install CD ROM l ve only covered a tiny portion of PCRT for this article PCRT l supports d7 integration client the program used Actions Installs email service reminders for tune ups etc several payment plug ins customer source tracking For marketing inventory management sales and technician reporting multiple tax rates and the list continues to grow as PCRT grows PCRT is written in PHP but it isn t free as in beer At the time of writing PCRT costs 200 U S D memory can cause random crashes Your computer pa
52. ational distro Ubermix e are seeing a lot of crypto bugs surfacing lately because these libraries are suddenly getting a lot of review thanks to Snowden s revelations suggested blogger Chris Traver think one has to separate the crypto bugs from others because they are occurring in a different context From what have read about gnutls though it seems to Full circle magazine 83 4 me that this is probably the tip of Ehe iceberg Source http Linux Bugs Bugs Everywhere 80113 html sthash 5jGpVOCk dpuf Submitted by Rahul Mehta www linuxinsider com stor WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GNUTLS LINUX BUG are comparing to the goto fail problem that afflicted Apple last month was recently discovered prompting Linux distribution and application developers to scramble to incorporate a new patch into their code The bug which affects the GnuTLS library for implementing the SSL TLS and DTLS security protocols could cause software to falsely indicate that a particular communications connection is secure when in fact it is not As ri contents NEWS with the Apple flaw that opens the door to man in the middle exploits where an attacker could secretly intercept and manipulate the user s communication The problem was discovered during a code audit last month Red Hat then notified the other affected distributions
53. ce http www pcworld com article 2 109143 gog will bring classic pc games to linux this Fall html Submitted by Arnfried Walbrecht PROPRIETARY FIRMWARE POSES A SECURITY THREAT UBUNTU FOUNDER SAYS ark Shuttleworth the Founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution believes security threat to users and he encourages hardware manufacturers to implement support for their innovations through the Linux kernel instead modern computers has decided to Source http www pcworld com article 21 09267 proprietary Firmware poses 3 google reveals android wear a security threat ubuntu founder says html Submitted by Arnfried Walbrecht GOOGLE REVEALS ANDROID WEAR OPERATING SYSTEM LINUX RULES are trying to Figure out how to stop the momentum of open source Google has become unstoppable Force which has not yet met an unmovable object Google just revealed its seriousness about the wearable computing The company has announced developer preview of Android Wear wearable devices such as smartwatches One of the core components of Android Wear will be Google Now Just like Google Glass users will be able to say Ok Google to activate the HAL and ask questions proprietary and unverifiable Firmware code poses a serious Source 3 http www muktware com 2014 0 rules 23218 Submitted by Arnfried Walbrecht
54. cle magazine 83 57 ha Was ilg mia r GM ii ae 59 34 551 3d Om Pe ere is the configuration of my laptop HP ProBook 6550b with an Intel core i3 M370 6GB RAM and a HDD of 320GB My operating system is Ubuntu 12 04 3 LTS 64 bit l ve found the wallpaper in Full circle magazine 83 gnome look org use Screenlets Jean Yves Delavat For the widgets want to use and Avant Window Navigator instead of Unity 58 MY DESKTOP ELEA sum i oe a ame v have been using Ubuntu current programs My Zune and My Ehe Launcher to get at my stuff Brian Bogdan 13 10 on a HP TouchSmart PC Windows Phone but found love the way you can resize icons to 3 for more than a year after satisfaction in Virtual Box So make mini pictures in my case of dropping Microsoft 10096 had a keep only a few program icons on friends and loved ones couple of issues with Windows the desktop using Cairo Dock and Full circle magazine 83 59 B contents 5 Bees GF EGE S Linux Mint 16 Petra 64 bit Cinnamon 2 0 screen 1920x1080 pixel System Gigabyte H61M DS2 motherboard Intel 13 3200 MHz 4x 64bit Li E it ja 4 LI ki 4 E 1 B m m LM LE E a processor Usually change my wallpaper 4GB 4 1666 MHz me
55. create a fork at the level of Block 10 To create that fork need to e create an alternate version of Block 10 Block 10B containing the transactions want and the hash of block 9 to do so need to very quickly Find a nonce that makes the hash of my new block fit the conditions of the currency difficult mechanisms to ensure that there is then need to create block 11 B with the hash of Block 10B finding the nonce e rinse and repeat until create block 15B a fork the chain that generates the IF have managed that feat BEFORE the true Block 15 from the main chain has been created then my new fork will become the longest chain and therefore be spend attacks because each block accepted as the main chain 3 However to do this need a lot of computing power At least 50 of the total computing power in the network and more as the origin point of my intended fork gets older Currently even the best super computer in the world cannot match 5096 of the network so we are effectively safe Anyway with that kind of computing power it would probably be more profitable just to mine many coins rather than try to subvert the system CRYPTOCURRENCY PARAMETERS In Fact a cryptocurrency has only a few main parameters e the block difficulty which determines on average how much time i
56. culty of Finding prime number chains of certain types and whose mathematical origin satisfies certain criteria such as being a multiple of the hash of the block as the proof of work method We will go into details about what impact that choice has on ri contents WHAT IS mining in the next section Main sources e the bitcoin paper htEp bitcoin org bitcoin pdf e the excellent but fast moving under the hood explanation of bitcoin Ehis explanation follows roughly the same structure but spends more time on some points and less on others http www imponderablethin s CO m 2013 07 how bitcoin works under hood html e the Primecoin paper http primecoin org static primec oin paper pdf an explanation of the paper http www reddit com r primecoi n comments 1rp5vx could someo ne explain in detail the algorith m COMPETITION Win 500 Dogecoin DOGE by answering the following question There are two main hasing algorithms SHA256 and Hint the answer is in the article Email your answer to ronnie fullcirclemagazine org before Friday 18th April The winner will be notified via email for a valid Dogecoin wallet address A Final 500 DOGE will be up for grabs next month in the final part of this series Cryptocurrency Part 3 PYTHON SPECIAL EDITIONS IN PYTHON JUME tp Fullcirclemagazine or Volume Three
57. d for creating that block at the time 50 bitcoins This whole process of creating blocks which is very demanding computationally by having to check the block hash for each nonce value until a hash that satisfies the requirements is found is called mining Mining has two purposes It helps secure the block chain by guaranteeing that very few block candidates can be generated at any given time eit mints new bitcoins by giving reward to the node that successfully mined the block and therefore puts more currency into circulation The block mining process also Further secures the block chain ri contents WHAT IS almost fully but this will be explained after the next section which describes how to deal with multiple block candidates and introduces the concept of the longest chain SECURING THE BLOCK CHAIN DEALING WITH MULTIPLE CANDIDATES arrows indicate a child block that refers to its parent block Block 10 Block 11 The latest block generated is block 11 From this block 11 a miner can start working on submitting a candidate For block 12 For this the miner gathers the unconfirmed transactions in his block adds the block 11 hash in there and starts checking nonce after nonce until he gets a hash output that satisfies the currency conditions Block 12 is thus created and added to the chain assuming no other miner Found a solution first Bl
58. d on research such as routers and set top boxes ri contents NEWS Preloaded with usernames and passwords in order to crack into such systems a new variation has now been found which continuously updates and is now making money through the mining of cryptocurrency Source http www zdnet com linux worm darlloz targets intel architecture to mine digital currency 7000027515 Submitted by Rahul Mehta THE LINUX SECURITY SPELL IS BROKEN he Linux community joins the rest of us schmucks in the sad security state as news breaks of massively infected Unix servers Recently security researchers at Irish think tank ESET uncovered what they re calling Operation Trojan that may have infected up to 25 000 Unix servers worldwide up to 500 000 PCs like yours and mine on a daily basis since then When discussing this with a reader via email the quote came up You know it s bad when even Linux machines need to worry about security coughed up Fine aged scotch on that one I Figured that readers of this column would know better Speaking of here it comes again Source http www infoworld com t cringe ly the linux security spell broken 238717 Submitted by Rahul Mehta LINUX AND BOTNETS IT s NOT LINUX S FAULT H ased on recent headlines such as Linux worm Darlloz targets That is why NVIDIA developers periodically release small updates
59. d result looks something like this eu mx a a Quickbar Standard HTMLS Formatting Tables List SS Forms Regn k any himi bogi button n mi chtal 3 3 eheads ata name suthnr rontentz Copi gt H zcmets Mame DESCRIPTION content Here i lt titlesfree template 1 provided by wes 24 a short Line m zd i LIIG 26 align center gt 7 center lt meta name KEYW RDS content replace is a way of transferring files From your computer to the servers where your website is hosted I d z heads 12 body bgcolorz BlD6E7 14 align center gt n aj 15 pH lt center gt lo table border 1 cellpadding 3 cel 17 G lt tr lt td width 786 valign top alig your logo amd ur title herex fe etr lt table gt HI lt center gt jj text s ne rankings x box cente How amazing do you feel If you didn t answer Totally then you have a life and seriously we can t be friends Do a Save As and name your file index html Make sure you remember where you saved this File we ll need it later The next step is to figure out a way to get this simple code onto the server hosting your webpage Head back to your panel and look For something called FTP FTP stands for well don t Id tir it lt td widthes 745
60. e HomeBank s guiding principle is to have easy money income and expense tracking On first run we re presented with the choice of reading the manual setting preferences create anew file or open an existing one or opening the example file this greeting window shown automatically only once at first run js always accessible by the Help menu My first action was unlucky I The sample shows an accounting situation with two accounts and chart giving us a clue of what we can do with our simple accounting system very attractive and useful for those of us like me who are comfortable with learning by examples My second step was reading the user manual here and there itis easy indeed and the target audience is a common user accounting specialists terms not there After these two steps was ready tosta mv leder tried to open the example file and I y p i HomeBank is based on accounts discovered it was not installed and even worse there was no Jusr share homebank datas directory where should find a bunch of pre configured categories in various languages solved the issue by grabbing the missing directory and its content from another distro I m double booting payees and transactions The main window allows us access to all the functions an intuitive way menus and icons gu
61. e shipped a product for free This also shows that it is difficult to obtain a consensus on the order of the transactions throughout the network The problem can only be solved if the entire network can agree on transaction order TRANSACTION BLOCKS AND THE BLOCK CHAIN The cryptocurrency answer to that has been to group transactions in blocks which are chronologically ordered by their height The first block of transaction has a height of 0 the second block has a height of 1 the third a height of 2 etc All transactions in one block are marked as having taken place at exactly the same time Therefore blocks provide a chronological order of transactions and the chain of blocks dynamically validated by ri contents WHAT IS the peer to peer network processing power is called the Block Chain Transactions are worthless and are referred to as unordered or unconfirmed transactions until they have been made part of a block been confirmed once A transaction that was put into the block directly before that is said to have been confirmed twice etc The reason for that is important and will be explained in the Block Chain Security sections SECURING THE BLOCK CHAIN MINING Of course there needs to bea system to agree on the order of the block chain as well as to tampering which would open the network to double spend attacks The first way to a
62. e spent on geeky things Hmm maybe it s not such a good thing after all AU the best and keep in touch Ronnie ronnie fullcirclemagazine org Full circle magazine 83 3 This magazine was created using SCRIBUS 1 ee i 8 co creative commons LibreOffice The Document Foundation 7 Full Circle Podcast Released monthly each episode covers all the latest Ubuntu news opinions reviews interviews and listener feedback The Side Pod is a new addition it s an extra irregular short form podcast which is intended to be a branch of the main podcast It s somewhere to put all the general technology and non Ubuntu stuff that doesn t Fit in the main podcast Hosts e Les Pounder Tony Hughes Jon Chamberlain fs e Oliver Clark http Fullcirclemagazine org gt EMILE Download ri contents THIS SUMMER YOU CAN LEARN LINUX FREE amp ONLINE FROM HARVARD amp MIT today that it will be offering its 2 400 Introduction to Linux course for free through edX the Harvard MIT online learning platform that supports massive enrollment The Foundation s course scheduled for sometime this summer is intended for anyone interested in learning the open source OS even if they have no McPherson told us that additional edX courses from the Linux Foundation will depend on how Intro to Linux is received Source http
63. emental backups of all the files which have changed Q Is there a command can use to stop my computer from suspending or turning off the screen A Yes xset dpms You might want to experiment Compiled by Gord Campbell with other parameters to see what they are man xset When will the next Long Term other things you would need to 3 install Support release of Ubuntu be available A It s scheduled for April 17 My personal preference is to wait a week or two after an LTSis released then play with a Live USB and finally do a fresh installonto my hard drive have separate root and home partitions so if I specify everything properly during the install my data is preserved but also see the backup question above am trying to install this Q theme from ubuntuthemes using MyUnity and it does not look like the screenshot Thanks to 3rdalbum in the Ubuntu Forums Themes only affect the look of the window borders title bars and the look of IF you have a Linux question email it to misc fullcirclemagazine org and Gord will answer them in a future issue Please include as much information as you can about your query buttons scrollbars checkboxes etc Anything else you see in a theme like docks desktop backgrounds information displayed on the desktop etc are To fully apply a theme you do need to log out and log
64. er the GPL v3 license for creating USB sticks containing can be booted from the USB flash drive This can be useful given that the price of high capacity Flash drives has come down to less than 20 here in the UK It is not uncommon for people to have at least a 16GB or greater stick in hand for creating a USB boot drive Having a selection of distros and utility disks for system rescue or just a partitioning disk can bea useful addition to the Geek s tool box This tool makes it possible to carry all of these on one USB drive instead of having multiple drives with just one image on each Multisystem As this is not currently in the Ubuntu repositories by default we will need to install the ppa the instructions for this are found on the MultiSystem web J nmn page at http liveusb info dotclear The given the recent calls for content first thing you will notice is that the page is in French as this application has been developed by a French developer this is not a problem as most web browsers provide translation tools to convert to the First we need to install installation page ms SSS immi wiih abies amd Mani AD documesaaion MehiSpstem cur packaging This will direct you to the page that has the instructions for installing the PPA into your package manager At this stage note that you must go bac
65. ertainly different to the result of the Roughen tweak but Full circle magazine 83 28 it s probably a lot closer to the result you were looking for As mentioned last time I rarely make use of the tweak tool find it too difficult to control accurately With the effects often being far too Subtle or far too strong Using a pressure sensitive graphics tablet certainly help as it s easier to dynamically modify the Force as you Work but often as in the case get better results using other methods ri Mark s Inkscape created webcomic Monsters Inked is now available to buy as a book from http www peppertop com shop ri contents HOW TO GUIDELINES he single rule For an article is that it must somehow be linked to Ubuntu or one of the many derivatives of Ubuntu Kubuntu Xubuntu Lubuntu etc RULES There is no word limit for articles but be advised that long articles may be split across several issues For advice please refer to the Official Full Circle Style Guide http url fullcirclemagazine org 75 d471 Write your article in whichever software you choose would recommend LibreOffice but most importantly PLEASE SPELL AND GRAMMAR CHECK IT n your article please indicate where you would like a particular image to be placed by indicating the image name in a new paragraph or by embedding the image in the ODT
66. gher end tier We re going with the higher end because we want people who are looking For a very sharp beautiful experience and because our ambition is to be selling the future PC the future personal computing engine Shuttleworth explained as cited by The Inquirer Source http 12134 20140313 ubuntu smartphones to cost between 200 and 400 serve as the future personal computing engine htm Submitted by Rahul Mehta www itechpost com articles ri contents NEWS OPENSTACK S TOP OPERATING SYSTEM IS UBUNTU S teven J Vaughan Nichols from find that Ubuntu Linux was the system Ubuntu has been working closely with OpenStack and as a result Canonical have confirmed that 55 of OpenStack operating systems are Ubuntu even though there is a large perception that Ubuntu is just a desktop operating system Source http top operating system ubuntu linux 7000027360 Submitted by Vincent Sesto MOOC warch Bic RUSH FOR FREE LINUX COURSE to a basic course in Linux computer software being offered by US MOOC provider edX The Linux Foundation which provides the course and which is now an edX partner said 40 000 students had registered in Four days The course which usually costs ZDNet has worked through the 052500 there is a small cost for a verified last OpenStack User Survey data to id certificate of achievementinthe
67. gle Drive They Effective Backups In Ubuntu Providers have their own professional backup plans for their servers so once on there your backed up documents are probably safer than anywhere else it would take a major technological disaster to render them inaccessible However when using this type Of service we should also be aware Of several caveats As mentioned above space is limited on the cloud and transfer times tend to be slow This limits severely its use for storing common data items such as large photo libraries or music collections without mentioning video files or large software packages downloaded from the gubuntu one Files Dashboard Music Photos Contacts o Upload file 4 New folder Files Folder My Storage Pictures Backupedimages Share this folder Recover deleted Files Full circle magazine 83 12 ri contents HOWTO BACKUP IN UBUNTU Internet e g Ubuntu CD images On the security side of things we should also be aware that all Files we store in an unencrypted form may be readable by the organization behind the service receive a subpoena to deliver access to our stuff Depending on the type of information we store this may or may not be a problem To take an example should a general medical data in the cloud Depending on applicable law it may be prudent to at the very leas
68. h a virus could be removed or cleaned But if Fatal From Jim Barber Also have heard of a trojan horse that is currently in the wild for Linux How can it be detected and dealt with MB Trojan horses and backdoors are common on most platforms The best way is to avoid them by not using untrusted software e g not using software not in repositories Malicious binaries can be detected with common malware detection tools like ClamAV Rootkit Hunter Chkrootkit OSSEC and file Files echo and ls l and compare integrity tools like AIDE Samhain and Tripwire Full circle magazine 83 51 Sandbox environment e g a virtual machine without network connections Surprisingly enough there are many attacks and samples available yet it takes some time to find or investigate them Some are even hard to get them working Backdoor control in general is always possible especially if one achieved root access to the system Can we trust the whole chain of people who worked on an operating system Can we trust the compilers which build the binaries we are using At some stage we simply have to trust others For normal Linux users keeping their systems patched should be the number one priority People who are still not feeling safe might switch to OpenBSD less functionality but more focus on security ri contents
69. iant amp countless other distros Now I have a dedicated Linux PC alongside my Windows 7 machine It is now interesting to see Linux being considered ever more as a suitable gaming operating the mid 1990 s on an Amiga 1200 system This has led to rapid improvement in graphic hardware drivers and may lead to greater mainstream acceptance by end users About a third of the people know have already switched to Linux mostly Linux Mint I For one can t wait to see what the future holds With the launch of Windows XP Jimmy Naidoo A CINEMATOGRAPHER Celluloid discovered the After working with Windows ME XP VISTA and 7 saw Ubuntu on my sister s laptop and got interested became confident that any IF you would like to submit a letter for publication compliment or complaint please email it to letters fullcirclemagazine org PLEASE NOTE some letters may be edited for space multimedia production is possible with Ubuntu and that home computing would be faster and more reliable Before heard that working with Linux was very very difficult for persons like me who have no computer knowledge not even a single DOS command But Ubuntu give me courage and I used it with Windows 7 for a week and then completely removed Windows am now using only Ubuntu My thinking was that without Windows there can not be any com
70. ich makes it seem so tawdry and select Htaccess WebDAV From there you can make the whole site or just certain pages within it 3 secure from Mark Zuckerberg that creepy guy who had a crush on you in 10th grade or prospective employers who do NOT need to know about your obsession with eighties hair bands like Poison Warrant and Quiet Riot Remember you can t really break anything It s not like if you Full circle magazine 83 34 make a mistake everyone in France will lose their Internet connection Even if you bork something and suddenly your page won t load you can always reset your site to the earlier index html file or wipe the whole site clean there is usually an option in your panel that allows you to do this And most hosts it Simple as that like to think that if Mama Nana were around today she d be a Website admin uploading our most cherished and embarrassing Family moments and protecting them behind a login screen Good luck and happy Ubuntuing Copil is Aztec name that roughly translates to you need my heart for what again His love of women s shoes is chronicled at can also watch him embarrass himself on Twitter copil ri contents LINUX LAB Written by Charles McColm Running A PC Repair Shop With PERT A a Linux user chances are PCRT is web based so accessing 3
71. ide us easily through our accounting tasks We find a three level accounting hierarchy wallet account transaction where the first is the total amount of financial records we want to keep controlled andit corresponds to the file where the 2916 payments Having three information is stored the second is a balance grouping subdivision for more than one bank account credit cards statement cash expenses HomeBank Free easy Personal accounting for everyone a HomeBank 4 5 2 Froo personal accounting far aeryona Copyright 1995 2013 Maxime DOTEN Visit the Homefiank webste File Edit View Manage Transactions 7 E Y ve 8 6 wx Reports Help Add Mob m Full circle magazine 83 38 tracking and so on the third the transaction level is the atomic money movement we make decided to set up three accounts bank credit card cash l ve my money on a bank account From which periodically the bank takes off the money to cover the expenses incur with the credit card and withdraw cash and use it accounts can reconcile the bank Statements with the HomeBank bank account the credit card Statement with the HomeBank credit card account and the bills pay by cash with the HomeBank cash account By the way while defining our bank account we can ri
72. ine is entirely independent of Canonical the sponsor of the Ubuntu projects and the views and opinions in the magazine should in no way be assumed to have Canonical endorsement EDITORIAL WELCOME TO ANOTHER ISSUE OF FULL CIRCLE W e ve got LibreOffice and Inkscape for you this month as ever Fear not the Blender and Python articles will return next month In their place is an article looking at the various ways you can back up in Ubuntu network cloud etc and a short article by yours truly on using the G MIC plug in within GIMP It s a hugely powerful suite of filters but I ve concentrated on InPaint which is really quite handy Take a look To round that up we have a great how to on using MultiSystem to make a multiboot USB stick Very handy A new section begins this month from Jens on open source design He is quite entrenched in the KDE design group and this month we have his introduction to desktop design what it means to him and what it should mean to you We re running low on security questions so now s the time to submit those queries on bots viruses backdoors and anything else you can think of We also need your desktop screens Linux stories reviews and anything else you d like to submit Remember anyone is welcome to submit articles to FCM not just the regular writers Speaking of reviews we have one this month on HomeBank a nice piece of finance software that can make you feel guilty about how much you v
73. information about clients and their computer information CPU RAM Hard Drive Operating System you ve been asked by friends jt from just about anywhere is easy equipment For example when and family to repair their you can just use your checking in a new repair you re There s even a spot for their computer IF you ve considered or tablet notebook or a system you asked the standard client name Windows product key started a business repairing have stored elsewhere in your phone and address information systems one of your challenges is chop At our computer recycling but also additional contact repair management and customer project we have 8 workstations Information relationships PC Repair Tracker Xubuntu systems on KVM cellphone work email SMS the PCRT is a PHP based computer switches Keyboard Video Mouse preferred contact method the PCRT Technicians are assigned on repair tracking system As the sovetin priority of the repair the the Repair gt Settings gt Manage name implies it s tailored more to workstation and the computer asset device model number when Users screen One annoyance is When you check in a repair you can assign that repair to any technicians you ve entered into the PC market aside The PC moniker always annoyed me because PC is any Personal Computer including Apple systems But for the purpose of
74. ion software here come the steamos and linux games Submitted by Rahul Mehta desperately to their old Windows XP system and face what could be hacker feeding frenzy something we don t recommend even if you take precautions Or they could keep the old PC but install a new free and safe operating system otherwise known as Linux Source http 107641 3 easy linux alternatives for windows xp refugees who www extremetech com gam dont want a new pc html www pcworld com article 2 Submitted by Rahul Mehta Full circle magazine 83 5 UBUNTU SMARTPHONES TO COST BETWEEN 200 AND 400 SERVE AS THE 3 EASY LINUX ALTERNATIVES FOR WinDows XP REFUGEES WHO DON T WANT ANEW PC 3 W indows XP s refugees have two choices on April 8 when Microsoft stops supporting the decade old operating system For consumers anyway This is assuming a new PC with a new operating system even Windows 7 is For whatever reason out of the question They could cling FUTURE PERSONAL COMPUTING ENGINE he first Ubuntu smartphones are expected to hit the market later this year and will apparently cost between 200 and 400 Speaking at the Cebit business IT event Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth revealed some more details regarding the upcoming Ubuntu smartphones noting that they will launch in the mid to hi
75. is The final tweak promises so produce only this living up to its name in this case The path certainly looks rougher in parts But because the effect is IF you do want to randomise a path a better option is usually to be found in the Jitter Nodes preparatory work because it just moves nodes and their handles rather than creating them You Full circle magazine 83 27 have to manually create a number of nodes beforehand otherwise your jittering will be rather ineffective Before we can even think about creating new nodes we need to ensure that our object is a path In the case of our example star it s not That s not a problem as we ve i converted plenty of shapes to TAEAKE paths the past so it should bea familiar operation by now just select the object and use Path stronger towards the center of the Object to Path Shift Ctrl C Now tool the roughness hasn t been applied evenly around the path Trying to draw the tool over the outline in an effort to spread the effect just results in it cancelling itself out again producing a less rough result To make matters worse the rough areas now have huge numbers of nodes this example resulted in our 10 node star growing to almost 2 000 nodes we ve got a star shaped path made up of 10 nodes but if we try to jitter those few nodes all
76. is protected by different mechanisms but one of the main Features used is a hash algorithm The reason why will be discussed later A hash algorithm is simply a Function that maps any input of any each input will give a completely different hash even for a very small difference MyHash and myHash will give completely different outputs length into an output of a fixed length A very simple hash algorithm would be count the number of characters in the input and pad with leading zeros until you have 10 digits For example running a word through this algorithm would yield the result 0000000006 This algorithm would work only For inputs of less than 9999999999 characters so in that sense it is a limited hash function that works only from a specific domain A hash function often used in online banking is SHA256 which maps any input to a binary output of 256 bits length or 64 hexadecimal characters the most common representation It is very interesting as it is very easy to generate a hash for any data input is almost impossible to find collisions two different inputs that give the same output hash the hash cannot be reverse engineered to the original content and of course the same input will always generate the same hash Another essential feature is that ADDITIONAL SECURITY ISSUE THE ORDER OF TRANSACTIONS It is difficult to maintain an propagated acros
77. ity with most users saying that they re just too bland The new one that s being developed right now is a departure from the norm although it stills says Ubuntu at a glance Former Ubuntu wallpapers have 3 been criticized For being too bland and for not taking much bigger leaps between versions Canonical went with consistency and it was a good decision for the most part Ubuntu 14 04 LTS Trusty Tahr which expected to arrive on April 17 promises to be one of the most exciting releases in quite a while The new image even got a name Suru and it represents the connection between the old wallpapers and the new look and Full circle magazine 83 9 news softpedia com news U http he New Ubuntu 14 04 LTS Wallpaper Is Called quot Suru quot and It s Beautiful 431506 shtml Submitted by Silviu Stahie Feel It s all about simplicity and minimalism but at the same time it gives the impression of richness Source news softpedia com news T ri contents CON lt N ast month I put up a link to a Google Form in order to collect requests from readers A great deal of you have responded already by the time of writing just over a week has passed Judging by the responses already present there seems to be a great deal of interest in how to install Linux on an external hard drive As such will run through the process this month a
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79. ll be able to transfer files from the left side of your screen to the right side Let s log Look along the top of the page and you ll see Host Username and Password The Host is the website domain name you bought The Username and Password were set up when you configured a user Fill in those blanks and click Quickconnect You ll see some information appear under Remote Site Click on the right caret and select your domain name from the list that appears The window just below the Remote Site pane will show the Files that make up your website There may or may not be an index html page already On most servers the index html File is the main page for a website The server software knows to look at this file First and present it whenever someone enters your site s URL ri contents ASK THE NEW GUY IF there s already an index html File you can overwrite it Or you could download it and replace whatever is there with the HTML click on it and edit it on screen Whichever you choose suggest renaming any index html file that was there before to something like index old html so that if anything goes wrong you can restore the original page l ve chosen to navigate to my desktop using the left hand pane locate my saved index html and then dragged and dropped that File into the large pane on the right Like this Believe
80. me Finally we name this string Name We also get the ID as it the query to make sure it works but at this point your results are blank but the query should run without error Save the query as QueryTeam Turning the query into a view is name and selecting Create as IF you select Tables under the Database pane you will see TeamView listed under the tables CREATE THE FORMS We will create a team member Form and a project form for data input The team member form is the easiest so let s make it first Click on the Forms icon in the Database pane and select Use Wizard to Create Form The form wizard will display On the first screen select Table TeamMember from the drop down box Move the FirstName and LastName fields into the list box labeled Fields in the form Click the Next gt button There is no subform so just click Next gt again On step 5 use identifies each record You can test the controls except tabular On Step 6 just accept the defaults With Step 7 pick a style that you like When you get to step 8 name the form TeamMemberForm and leave it on Work with the form When you click the Finish button as simple as right clicking the query Few names for testing the project View Name the view TeamView any of the options for arranging the Form will open For input Add a Form when we finish i
81. mory manually using recent AMD Radeon 6670 1GB DDR3 astronomical images to see and videocard abandoned feel the beauty of the Universe Western Digital 500GB HDD Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO Basic T Kov cs Aron Full circle magazine 83 60 ri contents A magazine isn t a magazine without articles and Full Circle is no Sunday 13th Apr 2014 exception We need your opinions desktops stories how to s reviews Release and anything else you want to tell your Fellow buntu users Send your Friday 25th Apr 2014 We are always looking For new articles to include in Full Circle For help and advice please see the Official Full Circle Style Guide http url fullcirclemagazine org 75d47 1 Full Circle Team Editor Ronnie Tucker ronnie fullcirclemagazine org 84 Webmaster Rob Kerfia FULL CIRCLE NEEDS YOU Deadline admin fullcirclemagazine org Podcast Les Pounder amp Co podcast fullcirclemagazine org HOW TO CONTRIBUTE z Editing amp Proofreading Mike Kennedy Gord Campbell Robert Orsino Josh Hertel Bert Jerred Jim Dyer and Emily Gonyer Our thanks go to Canonical the many translation teams around the world and Thorsten Wilms for the FCM logo Send your comments or Linux experiences to letters fullcirclemagazine or Hardware software reviews should be sent to reviews fullcirclemagazine or Questions for Q amp A should go to questio
82. nd overview In any case if in any doubt whether to backup or not please do so and in as many copies as possible Alan teaches computer science at Escola Andorrana de Batxillerat high school He has previously given GNU Linux courses at the University of Andorra and GNU Linux systems administration at the Open University of Catalunya UOC Automatic backups ON Backup location Folders to back up Folders to ignore Mostrecent backup None Next automatic backup Today li deja dup alan Rev 1 0 on Ubuntu One Home alan Trash Downloads Full circle magazine 83 18 ri contents HOW TO LibreOffice Pt36 Base Views amp Written by Elmer Perry F you work with Base long enough you will run into a situation where you need a table structured a little differently or you ll need the results of a query as a table you can use The answer to these problems is Views A viewis and type the commands in by hand or copy and paste a query which acts like a table you can use in other queries forms or controls Today will show you an example of how this is useful when commands on pastebin com at 3 http pastebin com Wyb3R5Fz creating forms Our TABLES database with two tables The database will track projects for a company and allow us to assign a team member to each project we will create Project Table Field Type Properties
83. nd pick another response for next month s article Make sure your PC Laptop supports booting from USB IF not this article is not for you Any UEFI devices should handle booting From USB as well as most new BIOS machines IF doubt a quick Google search or a browse through the UEFI BIOS setup pages will generally give you an answer A DVD USB CD of the Linux distribution you wish to install An external drive either Formatted for the installation or MAND x CONQUEF one you can completely wipe IF your computer can work with USB 3 0 it will help general performance Knowledge whether your device is a UEFI machine Apple devices and most Windows 8 devices are all UEFI based Depending on your computer it Detected Hard disks HCI controller 1 Hard disk Ither boot devices f Floppy CD ROM 1 LAN b Continue booting Full circle magazine 83 Linux on an Exte May automatically try to boot from a CD if one is detected otherwise there should be a key displayed at boot that you need to press to enter a boot menu IF this is also missing change the order of your devices in the BIOS UEFI Setup instead This changes from device to device and should be explained in the user manual For your device or motherboard if it s a custom machine Worst comes to worst the answer will probably be found with a quick Google search If you 10 al HDD happen to be doing this on an
84. nerate nice charts and reports make HomeBank a very helpful tool Furthermore the setup is intuitive and the documentation is written with non accounting people in mind The goal of simple personal Financial management is Fully achieved it deserves a 5 stars rating in my opinion but the incomplete installation I ran into means no examples and no predefined categories both very PITT Name HomeBank version tested 4 5 2 last version on official site 4 5 5 Official site http homebank free fr Cost free The good it is easy to use set up is fast and intuitive there s a good quality user manual jt requires no or very limited accounting skills Full circle magazine 83 41 itis rich in transaction management templates scheduling filtering charts and reports are available with a special car expenses report it offers a simple budget feature The bad my installation was missing useful sample wallet and predefined categories single currency there are no web bank connection Functions HomeBank Free easy personal accounting for everyone HomeBank 4 5 2 Free personal accounting far everyone Copyright 1995 2013 Masse DOTEN Wisit the HomeBank webste ri contents WHAT IS Written by Cuiv Cryptocurrency Part 2 he ledger of transactions
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86. ock 10 Block 11 Block 12 Block 10 Block 12 lt Block 10 Consider the following scenario 1 121 lt Now it so happens that at roughly the same time two miners manage to create a candidate block 13 that satisfies the currency conditions We have two chains that start getting broadcast around the network This is referred to as a Block Chain Fork Block 11 Block 13A Block 11 Block 13B Depending on which block first reached them through the network miners will try to find a child block to either Block 13A or Block 13B Assume that very quickly a miner manages to find a child block Eo Block 13B while no such child block has been found for 13A we now have Block 10 Block 11 Block 12 Block 13A Block 10 lt Block 11 lt Block 12 Block 13B Block 14 network Each node that receives it will understand that the longest chain available is now the one with Block 13B and Block 14 and will discard Block 13A as invalid Therefore the block chain that includes Block 13B is now the Official main chain Any transactions that were This exposes a weakness in the system a double spend attacker could send some currency to themselves via Transaction 1 referring to input Transaction and at the same time send currency to
87. odes even if those paths Written by Mark Crutch are curved be converted to a path bea closed curvy path with more than two nodes A quick option is to use the Star tool with the Roundness parameter turned up a little to produce a rounded star which will be turned into a path when we start to tweak it you have to select the objects you wish to work on before switching Inkscape Part 23 you want to change they re all fair game For tweaking Actually you ll often Find that the connected nature of nodes means that changes will be made to the shape of your path that extend Far beyond what the Width parameter would imply IF it s used on an object such asa circle or rectangle that object will So our example really needs to With our rounded star selected the tool from left to right It s pretty clear what has happened parts of the path have 3 been pushed away from the tool as 3 jt moved across the shape First the 3 As usual with the Tweak Tool to the tool You don t however have to select the individual nodes left side was pushed into the middle then as the tool passed over the boundary of the shape the right side was pushed further out Essentially the path is distorted in the direction that the tool is moved and this tweak actually feels lot like pushing watercolor paint around on a page by bl
88. owing through a drinking straw The amount of distortion and the Push tweak enabled let s make a couple of steady sweeps of speed at which you move the tool IF you move it slowly enough you can even cut an object into Separate pieces depends not only on the Width and Force parameters but also on the At this point it s worth introducing the Fidelity parameter over on the right of the tool control bar This controls the number of nodes that are created as you tweak Manually converting this rounded star to a path results in 10 nodes The example above had the Fidelity set to 10 and resulted in the final path having 41 nodes Increasing Fidelity to 50 and re tweaking the original gave 59 nodes while a fidelity of 80 gave Width 1 Fore 1 m mem o x LEA o s Fill Stroke 1 Full circle magazine 83 26 ri contents HOWTO INKSCAPE Pt23 over 150 nodes Increasing the Fidelity to 100 created many thousands of nodes and slowed my computer down to a crawl recommend keeping this value to 50 or below the accuracy created by the extra nodes is rarely worth the trade off in my experience of the tool with Shift the path is instead repelled away From the center of the tool This is useful for sculpting the shape of a path By moving the tool around the outside of the path you can pull it outwards making it
89. ph The highlighted photograph is the main photograph for the item IF you leave PCRT sitting on the work order screen for a while it switches to the repair touch screen which lists all the orders currently on the bench information section This section is divided into 4 sub sections Scans Actions Installs and Notes PCRT comes stocked with a bunch of default scans actions installs and notes As of PCRT v 1 38 Scans consists of 15 different anti malware registry programs 12 different actions 5 different if the scan action install or note you want to perform is not listed scan action install or note The most recent version of PCRT has added a new section below the Scans Actions Installs and Notes section where you can add a timed task Below the timed task section are a couple of notes sections one for notes for the customer the other for technician only notes Technician only notes come in really handy when you want to add a note for another technician that shouldn t appear the report for the client The Scans Actions Installs and Notes you add appear in the next section When you add a Scan you normally enter the amount of infections found That number Most of the actions you perform on a repair are below the computer and Notes all have information associated with them that gets printed for the client You can customize the message th
90. puting It took me some time fter completed my studies in to switch to a new platform but stuck with it You will be surprised what you have been missing over In India we believed for years that knowledge is never sold It s only distributed and the more you give the more you get It s the Opposite with money And I saw the same philosophy in the Ubuntu Community AURO KUMAR SAHOO Full circle magazine 83 47 Join us w facebook com fullcircle magaz ne azine goo gl FRTMI twitter com Fullcirclemag linkedin com company Full circle magazine ubuntuforums org Forum displav php fz270 FULL CIRCLE NEEDS You A Without reader input Full Circle would be an empty PDF file which I don t think many people would Find particularly interesting We are always looking for articles reviews anything Even small things like letters and desktop screens help Fill the magazine See the article Writing For Full Circle in this issue to read our basic guidelines Have a look at the last page of any issue to get the details of where to send your contributions lt ke qucm amp ap aP DP D P P P P P P P P P P P P P DP P P P P P P DP DP DP DP D DP D D D D D D now for the local news then it was considered an act of war by the We ll spy on others for the safety of our right to privacy barricade and they retaliated
91. r Awaiting Call Back PCRT also keeps a history of this beside the call contact status so you can check back on previous communications Below the client and work order information is the computer information section that contains details like CPU RAM Hard Drive size Operating System Windows Product Key any accessories and REPAIR S BADCDLS US RATE U NEY Sri Full circle magazine 83 36 Scans 2 Actions _ CHKDSK 2 20pm 3 8 14 by chadesm remove customize Memory Tested 3 14 by chidesm remove Blow Dust cut of Case Ben 39 14 remove cushamize pririac inte customize prinied info revert ip default printed inia Installs Microsoft Security Essentials zl zz 1pm 329 14 by chariesm reme e eusiamise prinbed infa Firet x 22 1pm 33 14 by charlesm remove cusiamtine prinbed inita OpenOttice BE s 14 by chariesm remove cusiomize printed inig Spybot 2 21pm 3 08 14 by charaam ramovg customize printed inda ri contents LINUX LAB any asset photographs Asset photographs can be uploaded from pictures previously taken or from an active webcam Asset photographs can also be deleted It s worth noting that when you print a repair report it s also possible to print a report with all asset photographs By default PCRT only prints the highlighted photogra
92. reign key field in the Project table the form wizard the wizard groups Save your changes and close the Full circle magazine 83 20 design window Now if you entered names in TeamMemberForm you can open the ProjectForm and those names will appear the drop label and text box and select Group gt Ungroup Click on the form down list box we created You will want to test creating several projects and assigning members to them to test the workability of your forms In this article we discussed the use of a LibreOffice Base view to create a new table from an existing table We used this view in the construction of a form that automated the retrieval and selection of records from that view Elmer Perry s history of working and programming computers involves an Apple E adding some Amiga a generous helping of DOS and Windows a dash of Unix and blend well with Linux and Ubuntu He blogs at http eeperry wordpress com ri contents HOW TO MultiSystem amp Written by Tony Hughes his is my first tutorial for the magazine having done a My Story piece a few years ago As a member of the community and For those who don t know me currently one of the presenters of the Full Circle Podcast thought would pen a few words to help out This is a tutorial on how to install and use the free MultiSystem application released und
93. ry Full circle magazine 83 There are a few things that did bug me about the game the unnecessary gameplay that they tried to fill the game with has its issues especially with the puzzles that it presents it s basically clicking to make an image It does lag if you click too quickly It may seem odd but the lack of quality 55 To The Moon and quantity of gameplay is not enough to dismiss this game entirely The strength of the game lies in its story and through its soundtrack The visuals will remind you of games like Chrono Trigger and the old Final Fantasy games and this is best suited to this style as it has improved on that design zr UBUNTU GAMES and has made it something special As with many readers of my reviews a soundtrack is very important and Freebird Games have pulled me in with their glorious soundtrack every mood comes across perfectly and placed in the exact spot where it matters The music will move you it has to be one of the best soundtracks have heard in a while and this is something that look for in games serious topics that it will frequently break up with genuine humor from the scientists Both the dialogue as well as the characters grow on you and become believable and the overall message of the game is very powerful To The Moon is a storytelling experience that very few games have accomplished and isa work of art and sho
94. s a new kid on the block when it comes to system information programs inxi temperatures and that s one of my hot buttons REMOTE DESKTOP UPDATE recently wrote about Remote Desktop Since then I have The program has many options To learn about them open a terminal window and enter the command inxi h switched to a different Remote Desktop client KRDC It s graphical and it makes it easy to connectto any of the recent connections IF you have never installed any KDE applications it might install a It s really a two dimensional result as v modifies the other parameters plus the specialty options such as h I m delighted to see new system inFormation options Does inxi unseat the defending champion Not yet To get the most nicely Formatted information I still use these commands cd Desktop sudo lshw html gt config htm The file config htm appears on large number of dependencies a small price to pay to get the KRDC goodness Gord had a long career in the computer industry then retired For several years More recently he somehow found himself The IT Guy at a 15 person accounting Firm in downtown Toronto Full circle magazine 83 50 ri contents Compiled by Michae From Thomas Brooks As part of the hardening determination process will Lynis offer the option to apply its suggestions IF necessary will it download the
95. s and carries a Wolfson audio processor that supports high res audio up to 24 bit 192KHz which can be played via a direct connection to an amp over 3 5 mm line out or via a digital S PDIF output Source http www engadget com 2014 0 3 11 raspberry pi wolfson audio card ncid rss_truncated amp utm Mpaign sf Submitted by Sharif Sakr UBuNTU 14 04 LTS TO www engadget com 2014 0 FINALLY GET IDENTICAL LOGIN AND LOCK SCREENS Ubuntu developers have finally The Ubuntu fans have been asking for this particular feature for quite some time but it probably wasn t a priority until now Now users will be able to access all the normal indications gt that would be available when a new add on sound card board is fits normal session is running in the background just like it s possible to do before logging in and a large numbers of Features Source http buntu 14 04 LTS to Finally Get Identical Login and Lock Screens 431664 shtml Author written by Silviu Stahie have been implemented over the course of the development cycle THE New Usuntu 14 04 ton took them a few years but LTS WALLPAPER 15 CALLED SURU AND IT s BEAUTIFUL managed to get the login screen to look like the lock screen andthe update will ready for Ubuntu 14 04 LTS he Ubuntu default wallpapers have been a source of criticism from the commun
96. s the network it would be possible for the following scenario to happen transaction 1 is done and starts propagating through the network e transaction 2 is done 10 seconds ater and starts propagating through the network e a peer to peer node much closer Eo the origin of transaction 2 receives transaction 2 first and transaction 1 later For that node the correct chronological order of transactions is transaction 2 gt transaction 1 This is an issue because it is critical to know the correct order of transactions to avoid double spending For example the following Scenario can occur a buyer pays for a product transaction 1 referring to transaction A as input seller ships the product e the buyer sends a second transaction to themselves or a different public key they own order of transactions Because new transactions are continuously being transaction 2 also referring to transaction A as input because of speed of propagation of the transaction in the network some nodes may receive transaction 2 before transaction 1 and therefore declare that transaction 1 is invalid because it double spends transaction jf the consensus becomes such the seller of the product will not get paid because transaction 1 has been deemed invalid The seller has Full circle magazine 83 42 therefor
97. scared designers use his because this aspect of creativity is a role often reserved Open Source Design Compiled by Jens Reuterberg for white men the lone genius toiling away with his grand scheme vacant position or they will simply flop around like a stunned haddock on the neo modernist white painted office floor Now design is a matter of knowing what NOT to add to something it s having a design language a goal and then staying true to that goal so as to make it unified That all parts of the design follow this goal When you re an overlord whose word is law in a design group this form of unity is easy It s your Vision or everyone is fired But then you leave Sadly you might die or you might quit and leave behind is a group of And the design work crashes It sudden freedom causes everyone to joyously do whatever they feel like or they will jockey for your What Open Source Development has shown us is that nothing can beat a community doing its work in the open where as many as possible are invited to contribute edit and change To build on the work being done Stand on the shoulders of giants IF this Flat work method has worked for programming why is it that design efforts of the same ideal are met with exclamations of Design by Committee Yes it s harder to build a We have chosen to agree to a
98. sier Many companies offer a contents ASK THE NEW GUY package deal free domain name registration and super cheap hosting all in one The domain name will cost you less than 10 For the year while hosting will run that same amount or less each support and community forums offered by the cheaper host match your level of tech literacy Paying a bit more to have lots of good day or night is a good idea use Dreamhost who just happen to host the FCM website and have been pretty happy with them Once you ve chosen your domain name like www hotubuntuuser com or something you ll be asked for your credit card or bank information This is where you ll be able to add hosting to your package Remember no one will be able to see your page until it s hosted somewhere Once you ve paid your website name needs to be linked to your hosting service If you did this all in one place it may already be set up For you IF not head to your panel This is a browser based window where you can see which domains you own upload HTML Files check payments configure users or add additional services The welcome email you got from your host should include information about how to get to month You ll find many places cost a lot less but be sure that the tech your web panel The panel might look complicated at first but it s essentially the website equivalent of your online bank acco
99. sor 1 6Ghz Memory 1 GB RAM Graphics OpenGL 2 0 compatible with 128MB Hard Drive 500 MB available space r Oscar graduated from CSUN is a Music Director Teacher beta tester Wikipedia editor and Ubuntu Forums contributor You can contact him via h n independent video game company Freebird Games brought out To The Moon in 2011 yes itis a little late but we Ubuntu users have just recently been able to play the game and it is a worthy addition to the ever growing collection of games that are playable on the operating system To The Moon has you play as two scientists who can grant any dying person s last wish they can do this with a special machine that allows them to access the memories of the client and give them memories of something that they didn t do in real life The scientists latest client is Johnny an elderly man who is comatose and has only days to live and the two scientists have been called in to grant Johnny his last wish Yes the name does give it away but Johnny wants to go to the moon The gameplay is minimal and if you are looking for a game to discuss its mechanics and how many different types they have put JBUNTU GAMES into the title you may want to look elsewhere as this is story driven But implore you to give this game your time as this game is one of the Few that capture your heart and play on every emotion as you will want to see the conclusion to the sto
100. ssed these PCRT has a section to add a custom part and add information about This price includes a year of updates after which there is a 125 year renewal fee Our refurbishing project bought PCRT Full circle magazine 83 37 just shy of a year ago Since then there have been two major updates from 1 36 to 1 37 and 1 38 and about 9 point updates PCRT is actively updated and continues to add new features For us it s been well worth the money even though we barely use a Fraction of the features 8 Charles McColm is the author of Instant XBMC and the project manager of a not for profit computer reuse project When not building PCs removing malware encouraging people to use Linux and hosting local Ubuntu hours Charles blogs at http www charlesmccolm com lt REVIEW Written by Gabriele Tettamanzi was intrigued by the section Ask the new guy in FCM 80 a comparison between personal Finance tools with the goal of implementing a simple personal check book At that time was testing LXLE Linux which as other light distros do brings up HomeBank did a fast web search and Found some interesting pieces of information HomeBank is a long story package it is Fully translated to some languages it is available For Windows there is an unofficial release for OS X and we find it in the official repos of most Linux distros Furthermor
101. t you can follow the instructions in this thread on Askubuntu http 6930 how can i set up password less ssh login Once both computers are connected we will need to configure IP addresses Since running a DHCP server on one of on the geek meter for ordinary users that leaves two choices open LO us e manually set an IPv4 address on each computer use IPv6 and its autoconfiguration Feature askubuntu com questions 4 server to ping three times the other computer issue IF using IPv4 suggest you use the 172 16 0 0 16 private network address block since it seems to be rather less used in domestic routers than the more common 192 168 0 0 16 For example you could issue on the SSH server sudo bash ifconfig ethO 172 16 0 1 16 manual configuration To know which address you have assigned Eo the ethO interface issue and on the other machine your password you are in business sudo bash IF this works out well you can now ping back and forward between the machines On the ping 172 16 0 2 c 3 You should see several lines starting with received 64 bytes and with a time in milliseconds at our machines is probably bit high the end If you get lines containing ifconfig ethO ethO Destination Host Unreachable the connection is not working On the other hand IPv6 automatic address configuration h
102. t For the project form we need about the same thing except use Table Project from the drop down in step 1 and select all the Fields except for ID for inclusion in the form Name the form ProjectForm and select Modify the form on step 8 This time instead of the form opening for input it opens for editing When you create forms using a text box for most data types with a label for each field In order to change the control for the data field you have to ungroup the text box from the label In our case we want to change the Member Field so right click the Member background to unselect both Right click on the text box and select Delete From the forms toolbar select the list box If the Form toolbar is not showing then View gt Toolbars gt Form Controls to display it Once you select the list box your cursor will become a crosshair Click and drag to create the list drop down box When you release the mouse button the list box wizard will pop Up Select TeamView as your table and click Next gt The field we want to fill the list box is Name so select Name and click Next gt Finally we need to match the Fields from the two tables For the Value Table select Member ID is the Field to select For List Table as it is the primary key that matches up with the Member Fo
103. t encrypt the data files before uploading them to a server that the user has no direct control of Taking these elements into account a reasonable cloud based backup strategy will probably focus only on documents not other types of media Of these perhaps only part of the user s documents Though we may trust these people will be backed up but not all they may eventually get hacked or Alan Ward Folders Sharelinks Devices Settings My personal Folders im Pictures Backupedimages ad Ubuntu One Account information Go to the web for public and private sharing options 096 used B 7 MiB of 5 File Sync is up to date Get more storage Disconnect Sync Locally Explore Always in sync Explore For example we could create a Backupedlmages subdirectory within Pictures mkdir Pictures BackupedImages that we could then create a Whatever strategy we apply will 3 soft link to in the Dropbox folder probably use the existing Ubuntu directory structure at some point Most applications are already tuned to the default Documents Images Downloads etc F l i directories so we might as well use practitioner store his her patients them But on the other hand the cloud service will be based on a single folder for example Dropbox The simplest solution is then to use subdirec
104. t filling this up from the Internet over a 1 Mbit s asymmetrical link may take up to 37 hours of As a consequence or is it perhaps a supposing a 384 kbit s uplink here So no we will not be uploading the entire contents of our video library magically appear and are updated on all your other computers often with download access from tablets and mobile phones as well Easily sharing documents with other users may be an added perk continuous uploading I m to Ubuntu One and certainly not over a measly ADSL connection Finally a good backup strategy must also be flexible we need to plan for the worst which could mean having to scrap our system completely and simply get a new one But we will then need to get our data back on again and usually jn a bit of a hurry Disaster almost will not make them at all A perfect convenient time never strikes at the most Fortunately enough Ubuntu has some tips and tricks that makes it an easy operating system to back up rather more so in fact than some others Let s review some of the more accessible practices CLOUD BASED STORAGE Cloud based storage is the current in home and up to a point business desktop computing You place your documents in a certain Folder for Services such as Dropbox StrongOak Ubuntu One and many others or even edit them directly online Goo
105. t will take For the network to similar and use two main hashing algorithms e SHA256 solve mine a block the block solving time e the interval after which the block difficulty will be adjusted This is necessary because as the network grows the computing power grows and therefore if the difficulty remains stable the amount of time to mine a block will decrease from the target For Bitcoin the interval is 2016 blocks e the reward for mining a block e the interval after which the reward is revised to ensure a limited supply of currency The reward is revised for Bitcoin every 210 000 blocks the requirement method to mine a block typically just specified as Full circle magazine 83 45 the hashing algorithm used Note that cryptocurrencies usually have a target time for blocks This target time for blocks is 10 minutes for Bitcoin 1 minute for Primecoin An interesting corollary is that the more computing power spent across the network mining a given coin the faster the blocks will be solved and thus it becomes more and more difficult to keep the block solving time Fixed Most cryptocurrencies are e Scrypt for which a Debian package exists Some other currencies have more original methods For example Quarks uses multiple hashing algorithms on top of one another and Primecoin uses the diffi
106. t you LUG and maker space where it is have installed on the drive You can used regularly now select the ISO you wish to boot and you re on your way As have said this is nota perfect piece of software even is a retired Health worker who ft deki has been using PC s for over 20 years Teimscat my 5 Has been using Linux since 2007 after Multisystem will no longer label a tiring of the Windows BSOD Drive and have to start the Occasional Blog process out on a laptop haveit Dttp tony hughes blogspot co uk installed on As a tool for creating a multi booting USB disc have lt Boot And Nuke backup and Recover rm x Full circle magazine 83 23 ubuntu uk podcast The Ubuntu Podcast covers all the latest news and issues facing Ubuntu Linux users and Free Software fans in general The show appeals to the newest user and the oldest coder Our discussions cover the development of Ubuntu but aren t overly technical We are lucky enough to have some great guests on the show telling us First hand about the latest exciting developments they are working on in a way that we can all understand We also talk about the Ubuntu community and what it gets up to The show is presented by members of the UK s Ubuntu Linux community Because it is covered by the Ubuntu Code of Conduct it is suitable for all The sho
107. teger generated by default as identity start with 1 not null primary key Title varchar 50 not null Description varchar 250 Due date Member integer constraint FK_MEM foreign key Member references y 3 into one Field called Name We will use our view to populate the drop down list box CREATE Query VIEW To create our view we will two step process First we create a query then convert the query into a view In our query we combine Full circle magazine 83 19 TeamMember ID the first and last name fields to create one field We will also get the ID field as we will need it to connect back to the Project table If the tables do not show in your table list after running the Commands Review gt Refresh Table will populate the list To create the query we select the Queries option in the Database pane In the Actions pane select Create Query in SQL View The follow SQL command will create our query SELECT FirstName LastName AS Name ID FROM TeamMember ri contents HOWTO LIBREOFFICE Pt36 IF you are familiar with SQL this looks like a standard query except For the double pipe symbols They are used to concatenate strings together In the command we select each FirstName and join it to a space then take the result and join it to LastNa
108. tem please unplug replug your USB key to validate I ve had problems with OpenSuse the Drive will hold although at this distros I ve installed have worked despite its supposed support Full circle magazine 83 22 password enter this and the install Will begin This may take some time so depending on the size of the image or images you have picked Once complete the install screen will re appear At this stage it may seem like nothing has changed shutdown the application and restart you will then see this screen To install a live ISO simply click Search for the ISO you want on Q To add another ISO at a later date just mount the drive start up MultiSystem and you will go to the install screen and you just repeat the process To use the Drive as a boot device install in a USB port on the lt HOWTO MULTISYSTEM selected PC Laptop On startup Found this invaluable and I now select boot from USB drive ona generally carry around a 32GB USB lot of modern systems the boot drive with several Linux distros and menu is accessed by pressing F12 a number of rescue utilities but yours may differ You should installed It comes in handy now see this screen demonstrating Linux to people at Ehe various events I find myself The number of options you have attending and at the Blackpool will vary depending on wha
109. theory on The music when it s heard sets three things the mood accordingly Con s e Clearly from the beginning the The voice acting almost made me Serena is a very short game game seeks to confuse the player _ that be completed in less than pope an hour Think of it as an appetizer S meant to open your appetite before you re served the real deal The game is free thus allowing everyone access to it It s a kind of sampler that you get while you wait For the main meal There is a drawing found in one of the drawers that has the words Waiting For Asylum written on the back This is the biggest clue of all Regardless of whether Serena is an hour long advertisement for Asylum or not it is a great game all by itself You ve got to play this game It s free so you ve got waiting fof nothing to lose except for time and AS jum when you ve finished it you won t AS regret the short time you spent not wasted on Serena Full circle magazine 83 54 put the game down at first but as played it began to grow on me and towards the end I couldn t imagine the game with a different voice Although the voice acting may not seem like the greatest at First give it a chance and don t be turned off by it you ll be greatly rewarded if you stick with it can t help but give Serena a Full 5 out of 5 stars System Requirements Minimum System Requirements OS Ubuntu Proces
110. ther written by Copil Yanez Mama Nana Mama Nana would take old pictures news clippings awards and ribbons and create proud scrapbook showing off each of her grandkids in embarrassing but largely laudatory terms The scrapbooks were kept in the same cabinet where she hid her bottle of Jose Cuervo 1800 Colleccion No one but Mama Nana was allowed to touch the bottle or the scrapbooks If you were family you could put in a request to see one If you were dating one of us you had Eo have visited at least four times and convinced her you weren t just after her Cuervo Once you reached this milestone you got ten minutes own website allows you to choose in a room with Mama Nana the liberal shot of tequila This meant Nana somehow rescued from the In modern security parlance this complicated Don t panic this is is what we call an air gap Good luck trying to hack Mama Nana But today just about anyone you went to high school with can watch something called A Look Back This is Facebook s version of Mama Nana s scrapbook It highlights key moments from your life as chosen by a computer algorithm designed by Mark Zuckerberg Let that sink in Here have some Cuervo while it does Maybe just maybe you don t want people to see you puking into a urinal during Spring Break 1997 set to a score by Y
111. time tend to make us less aware of what the computer is actually doing We willend up not staying ontop of our backup volume s level of free space for example We may take for granted that such or such files are being regularly backup up without noticing that in actual fact they are not Graphical interfaces to the backup process add an element of abstraction that may make things easier to configure for the novice but unfortunately also GRAPHICAL FRONTENDS FOR AUTOMATIC BACKUPS obscure the inner workings of the process which in turn makes mistakes and subsequent disaster By this point some readers may situations all the more probable Doing manual backups on the other hand obligates us to remain aware of what we are doing We can also keep visual track of the Files as they go over if anything that is important for us and really should be copied but it s not copied we see it on the spot If something weird comes up in the messages likewise So while making the backup process as automatic as possible may seem a good idea from the standpoint of hassle reduction remember backups must be easy to do if we want them to actually get done in the real world perhaps a more balanced approach would be to combine automatic Features such as scripts or even graphical applications with a certain level of human control a
112. tories and links to choose which files to include in the cloud backup scheme and which to exclude cd Dropbox ins Pictures BackupedImages Any files placed or modified in Pictures Backupedlmages will be automatically uploaded into the cloud if we are online or as soon as we get connectivity Naturally this scheme will need to be replicated on the other machines we use to make these documents available to them as well When doing so it is best to pause Dropbox syncing before creating the directory and link and start it up back again later This also applies to similar services such as Canonical s Ubuntu One However in this particular case you will need to use One s control panel to add the different folders you want to backup as directly creating a link does not Full circle magazine 83 13 seem to work well It may be tempting to include the Desktop itself within the backup scheme However some people use our Desktop as a temporary work zone We tend to hammer our files quite hard e g while compiling programs so we would not want each and every file change to be reflected up into the cloud clogging up our Internet access in the process In such cases itis best to do our work in another directory and then copy files into the backup zone when they have reached a certain level of stability
113. ugh the Steam game engine For Windows Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux actually found out about Serena after saw it appear in my Steam library even though hadn t purchased it Many Steam users including myself had the game appear in our game library immediately following its release It s a clever marketing design that Steam uses when it releases free new games so that players find out about them After clicking on the Serena game link from my library and Finding out that the game was free and it would only take 500MB of space in my hard drive immediately downloaded it The description available on the JBUNTU GAMES Steam store page says that the game can be completed in an hour which made it even more appealing For me to want to play it So tonight after a long day of work sat down to play Serena began playing it and literally could not put it down It s sort of reminiscent of Amnesia The Dark Descent in that the main character has no memory of what has happened and must look around For clues You play the game with a mouse and keyboard but mostly with the mouse As you point and click your way through your isolated cabin clues begin to manifest It may appear as if nothing s happening and the story Sev ena i rant See you wore clearly d i j Why cant a ever remember full circle magazine 83 53 Serena is not progressing b
114. uick and easier than using the cloning tool Definitely purposely chose this photo as I thought maybe the railings would catch it out but InPaint worked Fine There are a couple of bits on the railings where it isn t perfect but I ll let you see if you can spot them G MIC has literally dozens of great filters in it so have a play around with them Ronnie is the Founder and still editor of Full Circle He s also a self taught part time artist who draws both serious and silly things His es can be seen at fi K HO p reviously we looked at using Inkscape s Tweak Tool to change objects and properties This time we ll take a look at its arguably more useful ability to modify paths The path tweaks are affected by the Width and Force sliders that were described last time and are chosen by selecting one of the four buttons that I ve outlined with a red box in the tool control bar image shown below Because these tweaks modify the nodes in a path our previous array of objects won t make for a particularly useful example Instead we need to create a new path or object to work on There are some rules though which practically limit what we will draw as an example path The tweak tool works on only closed paths If it s used on an open 3 path it will be turned into aclosed one It doesn t work well on straight paths or path segments It doesn t work well on paths with only two n
115. uld be approached as such Its other strength is its writing and storytelling It does stray into gt 2 Oscar graduated from CSUN is Music Director Teacher beta tester Wikipedia editor and Ubuntu Forums contributor You can contact him via luehand or email Change one thing fulfill one Wish Full circle magazine 83 56 Full Circle Podcast Episode 39 Oggcamp Review Our live episode recorded at Oggcamp on Sunday the 20th October in which the guys look back i over the history of the event in this it s Fifth anniversary Your hosts Les Pounder Tony Hughes Joep Chambertain e Oliver Clark and Freaky Clown From the Blackpool UK LUG me Contents Mh 9 2 ne ee Denm zumo peed cumin a 15 Pate wary 2018 dude we ee bee oe n mi os a a orm AL ci d B g E Li LM JA ay Tq e 5 Eere vum LL mili l his is a screenshot of my My recent setup 2 2 GHz AMD Manager Cairo dock with Apple logo is visible Desktop I m using Linux since 4G Memory 20 screen 750G HDD 1015 conky I like Fluxbox a lot is 2004 Ubuntu since 2006 and from it highly configurable and very fast nerdie 2008 on a daily basis re arranged the default Apple wallpaper a little so the Fluxbox Full cir
116. unt Sure support available at any time of the Under your panel s Domain On screen prompts should help you get your domain connected to your hosting supplier Once that s done you re ready to add whatever To do that however you need some HTML What does that stand for Dunno Honestly this stuff is all just magic to me The important your bank offers international bank transfers with fees pegged to LIBOR 1 but if you re never going to use that option you can ignore jt Just focus on the pieces you need for now thing to remember is that HTML is Ehe code that generates your webpage Do you need to know HTML Nope Sure it helps and with time you might want to dig a little deeper But for now we get most of what we need online 3 for free Management section there should be a way to connect your domain name to the hosting service you ve paid for You ll also configure a user that s you with authority to make changes to your site Logging into your panel is the first step to making changes to your site configuring a new user is the second Think of it as your own Mama Nana keeping access to your high school prom pictures under lock and key Let s play around with the simplest of HTML to create a very very basic page How do you generate even simple HTML You need an HTML editor An HTML editor is to
117. using terrible ninja lawyers which caused massive casualties The Evil Software Developers and Mind Monopolists of the World MESS ended today with a little conflict among its participants In the end the whole congress turned havoc when all sides just started throwing obsolete I M icons armed with knives and rotten apples at anyone capable of showing creative ideas full circle magazine 83 48 PENSAPORLOUCO The problem started when all members of I stole that idea first and I ll sue your ss if you take it from me group decided to charge for the turn on button of every electronic device as if it was theirs Our reporters were at the scene trying to negociate their right to record the event but patent bombs started to go boom all around and we haven t heard from them since KIDS PLEASE AZ Contents B Q amp A e What is the best way to back up an Ubuntu machine basically want a complete backup of my internal hard drive where if For any reason the internal hard drive Fails could simply replace it and restore from my backup A D j Dup is preinstalled in Ubuntu and it s a sound choice There are online tutorials on how to use it If you want to make a full image of a hard drive use Clonezilla The two can be used together for example take an image of the hard drive as of Dec 31 then take a backup of the entire Home folder as of Jan 31 and then weekly incr
118. ut it is The trick is to keep on clicking everything until each object begins to tell you the same things again and again that s when you know it s time to move on to another object Without giving away too much of the game I ll clue you in on a little secret if you press the spacebar on your keyboard little blue circles appear on the items that are meant to be explored Once you feel you ve clicked on everything go back to the dining table which is where the game begins and look at the picture again IF you ve explored everything then Serena s face should not be blurred out anymore From here on you must go back and check on things a second third or Fourth time until eventually you open things that originally couldn t be opened and before you know it the game drastically ends By the time the game ends your jaw should have dropped so low that you may need a surgical procedure to put it back where it belongs h may be going out on a limb and it definitely accomplishes that but here it goes anyway Serena task may be nothing more than a sort of The quality of the dark eerie mini game teaser meant to Pro s dimly lit artwork and graphics promote the upcoming game e The game is entertaining and throughout were not expected Asylum which is also designed by Short which leaves you wanting From a game with such low Agustin Cordes and developed by 9 graphics requirements Senscape base my
119. ve though this may not even be the case depending on your storage needs Actually this could be a good way to get even more service out of a laptop with a broken screen or a dead battery A strategy that has worked quite well for me is to actually clone my various computers and keep a complete copy of all of my Files on each computer at all times This way can choose one or the other for any given task taking into account only the needs of that particular task do I need the fast CPU Or the large screen Or the little light un to carry around all day and not the availability of consumer market are set up so that data files My data is always available to me Having accumulated several hundreds of GigaBytes over the years copying over all the files gt am LS TE EX i E M m E T lt p Sa Full circle magazine 83 16 over WiFi can get to be a bother This is when a modest investment less than 10 in an Ethernet crossover cable can help speed up the process considerably This is basically a piece of cable that internally connects one computer s Ethernet TX Transmission port to the opposite side s RX Reception and vice versa It can be used to do away with a network switch and since there are only two computers full duplex communications link
120. view aval lable Ci Preview P Input Output Active default Output mode G MIC for GIMP 64 bits 1 5 8 1 Available filEers 611 Deinterlace Despexc kle lain s fast denaise p lairi s noise reduction Inpaint diffusion Inpaint solidify Local similarity mask Pixel denoise Recursive median Red eye attenuation Remove hot pixels Inpaint patch based Patch size Lookup size Lookup factor Blend size Blend threshold Blend decay Blend scales O Allow outer blending Mask type Repair scanned document Smooth anisotropic Smooth bilateral as 15 Mask by color 22 79 0 10 1 20 E o a a a 0 00 a im 0 05 10 J If Mask by has been selected Mask color decided to test Inpaint by seeing if it could remove the red and white tape simply drew over it with the pencil tool using bright red pure red no green or blue as shown on the previous page ETE Next opened G MIC Filters gt G MIC clicked REPAIR then Inpaint Patch Based T Full circle magazine 83 bottom image VM From the default settings raised the Patch Size setting to 15 and the Lookup Size to 22 After that I clicked OK and waited It does take a Fair bit of computational power to do this so 25 now is the time to grab a tea coffee And below left is the final result Is it perfect No Is it q
121. void tampering is to ensure that each block contains simply a reference to the previous block but nota block height Therefore with the exception of the very First block created a block cannot be created without having a direct parent the previous block and explicitly referring to that parent through that parent s block hash the output of the hash function applied to a block Block heights are deduced from this ordered chain of blocks A Transaction that has been put into the latest block is said to have build a block from unconfirmed transactions it is aware of and broadcast it as a suggestion of what the next block in the chain should be Of course if every node in the network did that there would be too many suggestions for new blocks Any node on the network can One way to avoid getting many block suggestions is to make creating blocks difficult And so a very difficult task is required of every block builder With Bitcoin a block is created in the following protect the block chain against any Way e A node creates a block by grouping transactions and adding a reference to the previous block the SHA256 hash of the previous block e A small random number referred Eo as the nonce is appended to the block e The whole block along with the nonce is passed through a SHA256 hash function with the block hash as output e
122. w is broadcast live every Fortnight on a Tuesday evening British time and is available for download the following day podcast ubuntu uk org contents 7 HOW TO Written by Ronnie Tucker i ill t yack ext thing that GIMP is well known For is its filters Think of them as Photoshop plugins One GIMP filter that is incredibly powerful yet not so well known it seems is GMIC Meaning GREYC s Magic for Image Computing it comes with an incredible amount of filters covering deformations degradations details film emulsion patterns rendering repair and even a section for GIMP plugin directory this is thereabouts so you may need to show hidden files to Find the Filters still in testing In this quick gimp2 8 folder Now when you example I ll talk about the Inpaint start GIMP and click the filters Feature This allows you to mask an area which Inpaint will Fix for you INSTALLING Go to and download the appropriate File 32 64 bit Unarchive the download to your usually home gimp2 8 plug ins or 3 menu you should see G MIC at the bottom of the list USING When you have a photo loaded full circle magazine 83 24 G MIC InPaint in GIMP you use the pencil tool not the paintbrush to cover the parts of the photo you want Inpaint to remove I started with the photo shown above if No pre

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