Leave an Android phone in the freezer for an hour and you may be able to access private user data, including encrypted data, without the PIN.
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Dagon Adventure Game Engine Open-Sourced
The Dagon Game Engine that powers the first person adventure “Asylum” horror game has been open-sourced…
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Bottomley: Owning Your Windows 8 UEFI Platform
James Bottomley describes the process of taking control of a UEFI secure boot system. “Even if you only ever plan to run Windows or stock distributions of Linux that already have secure boot support, I’d encourage everybody who has a new UEFI secure boot platform to take ownership of it. The way you do this is by installing your own Platform Key. Once you have done this, you can use key database maintenance tools like keytool to edit all the keys on the Platform and move the platform programmatically from Setup Mode to User Mode and back again. This blog post describes how you go about doing this.“
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OpenShift Gears Up With Enterprise 1.1 Release
The new version of Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise comes with a web console to make development easier and a reference architecture to make deployment simpler.
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Vivaldi Tablet in Harmony With New Vendor
In a video, KDE and Plasma developer Aaron Seigo has given an update on the state of the planned Vivaldi tablet. After difficulties in sourcing the hardware, the team has now decided to design its own device.
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Monitoring Linux And Unix Server Temperatures With Opsview
Monitoring Linux And Unix Server Temperatures With Opsview
Managing power consumption in a Datacenter is a key factor in helping keep overall business energy costs down and ensuring servers are running at optimum performance. Overheating can lead to increased costs for cooling and also runs the risk of servers crashing. Opsview server monitoring software can be used to check and alert on server temperature and also the temperature of individual components within a server (Memory, CPU and Hard drives). Thresholds and alerts can be set for when critical temperatures are exceeded, helping to keep hot-running servers in check. This blog post details how to configure Opsview to monitor the temperature of Linux and Unix servers.
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An SDK Is Being Developed For Wayland’s Weston
Kristian Høgsberg has shared that he’s been working on some code that’s ultimately a Software Development Kit (SDK) for dealing with Wayland’s Weston compositor…
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NVIDIA’s PRIME Helpers Are Ready For Linux 3.9
Aside from a lot of other exciting DRM driver happenings for the Linux 3.9 kernel, it looks like the DRM “PRIME Helpers” that were conceived by NVIDIA to help them support DMA_BUF in their binary driver will be merged…
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Secure Boot Comes to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
The second support release for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” can now be booted on systems that use UEFI firmware and have Secure Boot enabled. A second alpha for Kubuntu 13.04 and Ubuntu Cloud 13.04 has also been released.
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