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Submission + - Lenovo Thinkcentre M92p only like Winows and RHEL (dreamwidth.org)

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Nagilum23
Nagilum23 writes: "It looks like Lenovo only knows of Windows8 and RHEL when it comes to Secure Boot. While investigating UEFI boot issues Matthew Garrett found that the Thinkcentre M92p BIOS actually checks the descriptive string:
"there is a function that compares the descriptive string against "Windows Boot Manager" and appears to return an error if it doesn't match. What's stranger is that it also checks for "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" and lets that one work as well."
Phoronix is also running the story: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTg ."
Media

Submission + - Microsoft's Windows 8 training videos popped up on the web – No user left (pureinfotech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems that Microsoft undeniably sees the challenge for new Windows 8 users, so much that the software maker is gearing up with a set of Windows 8 video training to teach associates how to move around the new operating system, and to make a smooth transition for users.
Linux

Submission + - Linux Developers Still Reject NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Many Linux laptop users are quick to bash NVIDIA over their lack of proper Optimus support. In August NVIDIA confirmed they were working on NVIDIA Optimus Linux support. As part of their Optimus Linux implementation they want to use DMA-BUF for the multi-GPU interactions just like the open-source drivers, so that they can all work together. Unfortunately, the developers of the linux kernel prevent NVIDIA to finish their implementation by not allowing non-GPL drivers to use this unified buffer sharing infrastructure.

Should NVIDIA use the F-word to respond to their intransigence ?
Government

Submission + - FBI Taught Agents They Could 'Bend or Suspend the Law' | Danger Room | Wired.com (wired.com)

Submitted by politkal
politkal writes: According to the FBI's internal inquiry on counterterrorism training, the FBI taught agents that the Bureau "has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedoms of others"; that agents should "never attempt to shake hands with an Asian"; that Arabs were "prone to outbursts" of a "Jekyll & Hyde" nature.
Space

Submission + - There should be billions of habitable alien planets in our Galaxy (tech-stew.com) 1

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techfun89
techfun89 writes: "A new study has shown that in our Milky Way galaxy alone, there should be billions of habitable, rocky planets around faint red stars called red dwarfs. These red dwarfs are thought to make up about 80% of the stars in our galaxy.

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory telescope observed 102 of the most common stars, red dwarfs, in our galaxy over six years. They came up with an estimate of the planets in the habitable zones around each star.

160 billion red dwarfs, the fainter and cooler/longer lasting stars than the Sun exist in the Milky Way according to research team leader Xavier Bonfils. Bonfils is of the University of Grenoble in France. He stated, ''Because red dwarfs are so common this leads us to the astonishing result that there are tens of billions of these planets in our galaxy alone." There are probably 100 of these super-Earths within 30 light years of Earth, he said."

Comment eBay (Score 1) 414

by Nagilum23 (#39468559) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data?
Repeat:
Buy a new 2TB drive, copy your data from your smallest drives to that one, then sell them at eBay.
until you have all your data on new 2TB drives
At the end you should have money for an extra drive.
If you like (and use Linux) you can start a RAID5 with one drive (+1 missing), copy your data onto it, then add another drive, do a reshape, migrate your data...
And at the end add the last drive to regain redundancy..

Comment Re:Maybe they just don't need the fix! (Score 1) 103

by Nagilum23 (#36511426) Attached to: SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched
It's not maybe, it either you need it or you dont! And for the vast majority it's the latter.

it's disabled by default, so it's not a matter of re-enabling it. Besides there is no patch for stupidity.

I could turn that around and say those who blindly always install the latest stuff probably don't know what they really need or do.
New code often means new bugs.

But in this case it only makes sense to warn if the server asks for renegotiation and only accepts an unsecure renegotiation. Browsers can/should warn about that right now.(and maybe they already do)
Of course most SSL connections/servers don't require a renegotiation so for most unpatched servers this will be no problem (as it is security wise).

Comment Maybe they just don't need the fix! (Score 1) 103

by Nagilum23 (#36509986) Attached to: SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched
You are only vulnerable if you combine (for example) client certificate authentication and unprotected but SSL secured stuff on the same webserver process. Only then the server needs to do a renegotiation otherwise you don't need to enable renegotiations (it's disabled by default in Apache). So I'm pretty sure very few sites actually need that and are perfectly fine/secure with what they have.

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