Adobe Acrobat Reader Can Now Edit PDFs Directly From Your Dropbox On Android

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Android: I hate dealing with PDFs. I understand why they’re necessary, but loading them is a pain and editing them is even worse. So, Adobe’s news that Acrobat Reader can edit PDFs stored in your Dropbox is a godsend.

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Try Citrix XenApp 7.8 in Microsoft Azure for Free – Fast POC in the Cloud

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You can now try XenApp 7.8 in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This offering is the latest addition to an already existing portfolio in the Azure… Read more at VMblog.com.

Microsoft introduces the Desktop App Converter for bringing Win32 apps to the Windows Store

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O92A2899 In an announcement met by hoots and hollers from the developers at Build, Microsoft introduced the ‘Centennial’ desktop app converter. With this, developers can convert their Win32 and .NET apps into the AppX app format for use in the Windows store, turning legacy apps into current-gen applications. Read More

Microsoft’s Command Line Family Is Growing, Say Hello To Bash

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Microsoft is adding a new command-line tool to Windows 10 and it comes from the Linux world; Bash is headed to Windows.

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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Coming This Summer, New Features Announced

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Microsoft has announced the next major update to Windows 10, called the ‘Anniversary Update’, it will arrive this summer.

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Nexenta wins Lenovo as server partner

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Chinese hardware and geography boost for open source storage SW supplier

Lenovo and Nexenta are developing combined System X X86 server/DAS/NexentaStor software offerings, joint go-to-market strategies, and Lenovo service and support.…

Using Sysprep in Windows 10

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Learn how to use sysprep in Windows 10 to automate the deployment of Windows operating systems.

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Docker goes native with Windows, Mac beta

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Want a laptop full of containers? Here you go

Docker has decided the time is right for native desktop versions of its eponymous wares.…

How Open Source is Changing Data Center Networking

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Want to Learn about OpenStack? Check out this Free eBook!

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There’s a lot of industry buzz taking place around OpenStack. The open source cloud operating system, first released in 2010, has gained considerable Read more at VMblog.com.

Arista takes on the network big boys with switchin ‘n’ routing gear

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More convergence, please

Arista is taking on the big boys of Cisco and Juniper with its new switching and routing platform for cloud service providers and enterprise data centres.…

Cooking app maker wants a standard for smart kitchen devices

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There are plenty of smart cooking devices to help you bring masterpieces to the table. However, they don’t usually talk to each other — your sous vide tool doesn’t know the weight of the ingredients you measured on a scale just a couple of feet away. SideChef wants to fix that. The cooking app developer is building a platform that lets kitchen gadgets work in unison. Once you pick a recipe, every device would know what to do. Your oven would start pre-heating, for instance, while your mixer would run at just the right speed to blend everything together.

This isn’t just wide-eyed optimism on SideChef’s part, as it’s talking to "several hardware brands" about making this a reality. Just how well it’ll work is up in the air, though — it’ll depend on getting the right partners (such as big appliance companies), building sufficiently open code and otherwise avoiding the pitfalls that come with trying to create standards.

Everything You Need to Do to Secure Your Raspberry Pi Home Automation Projects

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When you’re working with connected devices or home automation projects on the Raspberry Pi, it’s important to lock down your Raspberry Pi so it’s secure. Over on Hackster.io, they show you exactly how to that.

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Museum Shows Off Retro Malware

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There’s some debate on which program gets the infamous title of “First Computer Virus”. There were a few for MS-DOS machines in the 80s and even one that spread through ARPANET in the 70s. Even John von Neumann theorized that programs might one day self-replicate. To compile all of these early examples of malware, and possibly settle this question once and for all, [Mikko Hypponen] has started collecting many of the early malware programs into a Museum of Malware.

While unlucky (or careless) users today are confronted with entire hard drive encryption viruses (or worse), a lot of the early …read more

OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest March 19-25

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SuccessBot Says

  • redrobot: The Barbican API guides is now being published. [1]
  • jroll: ironic 5.1.0 released as the basis for stable/mitaka.
  • ttx: All RC1s up for milestones-driven projects.
  • zara: storyboard.openstack.org sends emails now!
  • noggin143: my first bays running on CERN production cloud with Magnum.
  • sdague: Grenade upgraded to testing stable/liberty -> stable/mitaka and stable/mitaka -> master.
  • Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert success]”.
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PTL Election Conclusion and Results

  • Results are in, congrats to everyone! [2]
  • Appointed PTLs by the TC for leaderless Projects [3]:
    • EC-API: Alex Andrelevine
    • Stable Branch Maintenance: Tony Breeds
    • Winstackers: Claudiu Belu
  • Full thread

Candidate Proposals for Technical Committee Positions Are Now Open

  • Important dates:
    • Nominations open: 2016-03-25 00:00 UTC
    • Nominations close: 2016-03-31 23:59 UTC
    • Election open: 2015-04-01 00:00 UTC
    • Election close: 2015-04-07 23:59 UTC
  • More details on the election [4]
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Release countdown for week R-1, Mar 27 – Apr 1

  • Focus:
    • Project teams following the cycle-with-milestone model should be testing their release Candidates.
    • Project teams following the cycle-with-intermediary model should have at least one Mitaka release and determine if another release is needed before the end of the Mitaka cycle.
    • All projects should be working on release-critical-bugs.
  • General Notes:
    • Global-requirements list is still frozen.
    • If you need to change a dependency for release-critical-bug fix, provide enough details in the change request.
    • Master branches for all projects following cycle-with-milestone are open for Newton development work.
  • Release Actions:
    • Projects following cycle-with-intermediary without clear indication of cutting their final release:
      • bifrost
      • magnum
      • python-searchlightclient
      • senlin-dashboard
      • solum-infra-guestagent
      • os-win
      • cloudkitty
      • tacker
    • These projects should contact the release team or submit a release request to the releases repository as soon as possible. Please submit a request by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest.
      • After March 31st, feature releases will be counted as part of Newton cycle.
    • The release team will have reduced availability between R1 and summit due to travel. Use the dev mailing list to contact the team and include “[release]” in the subject.
  • Full thread

Bots and Their Effects: Gerrit, IRC, other

  • Bots are very handy for doing repetitive tasks.
  • These require require permissions to execute certain actions, require maintenance to ensure they operate as expected and do create output which is music to some and noise to others
  • From an infra meeting [5], this is what has been raised so far:
    • Permissions: having a bot on gerrit with +2 +A is something we would like to avoid
    • “unsanctioned” bots (bots not in infra config files) in channels shared by multiple teams (meeting channels, the -dev channel)
    • Forming a dependence on bots and expecting infra to maintain them ex post facto (example: bot soren maintained until soren didn’t)
    • Causing irritation for others due to the presence of an echoing bot which eventually infra will be asked or expected to mediate
    • Duplication of features, both meetbot and purplebot log channels and host the archives in different locations
    • Canonical bot doesn’t get maintained
  • It’s possible bots that infra currently maintains have features that folks are unaware of.
  • Bots that +2 reviews and approve them can be a problem when taking into account of schedules, outages, gate issues, etc.
  • The Success bot for example is and added feature that takes advantage of the already existing status bot.
  • What are the reasons that people end up writing their own bots instead of contributing to the existing infrastructure bots when applicable?
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Semantic Version On Master Branches After Release Candidates

  • The release team assumes three options someone would choose when installing things:
    • Tagged versions from any branch.
      • Clear, and always produces deployments that are reproduceable, with versions distinct and increasing over time.
    • Untagged versions on a stable branch.
    • Untagged versions on the master branch
      • Options 2 and 3 are something around release cycle boundaries.
      • Produce the same version numbers in different branches for a short period of time.
      • The release team felt it was extremely unlikely that anyone would mix option 2 and 3, because that will make upgrades difficult.
  • Some distributions want to package things that are not tagged as releasable by contributors.
    • Consumers
      • They are in their development cycles and want/need to keep up with trunk throughout the whole cycle.
      • A lot of changes are introduced in a cycle with new features, deprecations, removals, non-backwards compatibility etc. With these continually provided up-to-date packages, they are able to test them right away.
    • It’s a lot of work to package things, and distributions want to do it quickly.
      • If distributions started packaging OpenStack only when the official stable release would be out, it would take distributions several weeks/months to get a stable package out.
      • Projects that use packages to deploy are then delayed for their own release to test these packages their consuming. (e.g. TripleO, Packstack, Kolla, Puppet-OpenStack).
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Our Install Guides Only Cover Defcore – What About Big Tent?

  • Until recently, projects like Manila [6] and Magnum have been accepted in the install guides, but we’re having issues initially because they aren’t considered by the defcore working group.
    • With expansion of projects coming from big tent, the documentation team has projects requesting their install documentation to be accepted.
    • The documentation team today maintain and verifies the install documentation for each release can be a lot of work with the already accepted OpenStack projects.
  • Goals:
    • Make install guides easy to contribute for projects in the big tent.
    • Not end up having the documentation team maintain all projects install documentation.
    • As an operator, I should be able to easily discover install documentation for projects in the big tent.
    • With accessible install documentation projects can hopefully have:
      • Improved adoption
      • More stable work from bug reports with people actually able to install and test the project.
  • Proposal: Install documentation can live in a project’s repository so they can maintain and update.
    • Have all these documentation sources rendered to one location for easy discoverability .
  • Full thread

On the Brink of Greatness: Startup Workspaces

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Roost makes it easy to rent out the extra space you have in your home. Like kitchen cabinets and crawl spaces. Rent every nook and cranny to anyone. In this week’s episode of On The Brink of Greatness, Steve Goldbloom and the team embark on a Cribs-style tour of the growing startup. From the cozy office/living room to the meeting room with an innovative mattress lying on the floor, Roost is going to be huge even if its office is teeny tiny.

Scientists push a record 57Gbps through fiber optic lines

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Need proof that the limits of fiber optic technology have been shattered? You just got it. University of Illinois researchers report that they’ve set a record for fiber data transmission, delivering 57Gbps of error-free data. And importantly, they sent the data at room temperature — they didn’t have to cool things down to keep those bits going. Even when things got toasty (185F), the technology could still deliver a brisk 50Gbps.

The scientists currently expect the technology to get the most use in data centers, aircraft and other places where you need to shuffle a ton of information across relatively short hops in unforgiving conditions. The real challenge might be getting it to work across long distances. If that’s practical, the internet could get considerably more headroom and increase the likelihood that your 4K video streams arrive without a hitch.

Source: University of Illinois

Google’s Nik Collection of Photo Editing Software Is Now Completely Free

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Nik Collection, seven powerful photo editing desktop plug-ins from Google, has dropped its price from $150 to being completely free for everyone.

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Retro gaming fans rejoice: Atari Vault is on Steam with 100 games

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Atari Vault Longing for the days of the sticky floored arcades of your youth and long nights spent with the the Atari 2600, but can’t be bothered to dig through your mum’s basement to find all the bits and bobs to throw yourself into a retro-gaming binge? Aren’t you in some industrial-strength luck. Available starting today on Steam, Atari Vault gives you 100 retro games to while away… Read More

Cloud Cruiser for Azure Public Cloud Now Offered on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

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Following increased demand from Microsoft Azure customers, Cloud Cruiser , a provider of cloud analytics solutions, today announced the availability… Read more at VMblog.com.

How Social Engineering Attacks Happen, and How You Can Avoid Them

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We’ve discussed why social engineering should be your biggest security concern
before, but this graphic breaks down how those attacks happen online, on the phone, and even in person, along with what you should be on the lookout for.

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Intel ends Tick-Tock processor release cycle

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Performing a die shrink one year and an optimization the next before repeating the cycle has simply become too difficult as we head towards 10nm chips.

Microsoft’s new AI-powered bot Tay answers your tweets and chats on GroupMe and Kik

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tay Microsoft has unveiled an A.I.-powered chat bot called Tay.ai, which was built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams, with the goal of conducting real-world research on conversational understanding, the company says. The bot, which is aimed at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S., currently works over a variety of popular social applications, including Twitter, Kik, and… Read More

Big tech companies want to make email more secure

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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Comcast and LinkedIn have joined forces to create a new email mechanism that makes sure the messages you send are encrypted. In the proposal they’ve submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force, these tech titans called their creation SMTP Strict Transport Security (SMTP STS). See, the underlying technology behind email has remained largely unchanged since it first became available. An encryption system was introduced some time ago — and big email providers like Gmail do use it — but it’s susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.

For instance, a hacker could insert a fake digital certificate, and the system would recognize it as authentic. That means you could end up sending email to an unsecured server without you knowing. Further, it could continue sending your message even if it detects that the server isn’t secure.

The new system can prevent either scenario from happening. It checks if the domain you’re sending to supports SMTP STS and makes sure its encryption certificate is authentic and up to date. If everything checks out, it allows your message to go through. But if it detects something suspicious, it will stop the email from sending and will notify you of the reason.

It’s safe to say that the companies involved will incorporate the technology into their services if it gets approved — it’s their engineers’ creation, after all. In that case, the encrypted messages sent out and received by Gmail could go up from 83 to 69 percent, respectively, to a hundred percent.

Via: TheNextWeb

Source: Internet Engineers Task Force

BBC micro:bit learn-to-code device finally rolling out to UK schools

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microbit A tiny computer intended to encourage UK kids to get programming is finally being delivered to schools, some half a year later than originally planned. Read More