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Akku für Dell Inspiron 1570

HIAWATHA, Iowa, Aug. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Group, a leading designer/manufacturer of rugged computer hardware will be showing its broad range of fully rugged solutions during DSEI 2017 (Defense and Security Equipment International) at the ExCel Center, London, United Kingdom, on September 12-15 (Stand No: N5-182, USA Pavilion).


At DSEI, Crystal Group will demonstrate how its advanced rugged computer technology can address the changing defense & security challenges found in air, land, naval, security and joint operations. The company will showcase its expertise in designing and manufacturing rugged computers specifically for Size, Weight and Power (SwaP) sensitive harsh military and industrial environments.


Crystal Group's exhibition includes high performance rugged computers and SWaP sensitive rugged embedded computers.


The RS363SF Rugged 3U Server is powered by an Intel® processor and provides high-performance computing and high capacity data storage in a small size SWaP package with a depth under 13 inches (33.02 cm) to fit virtually any rack space. The unit's versatility offers three (3) removeable 3.5 HDD or six (6) SATA/SAS bays. The RS363SF CPU options include Intel Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge or Broadwell designs.


The RE1401 NUC (Next Unit Computing) measures 6.3 x 1.9 x 4.8, weighs only 2 lbs. It is small enough for size-constrained areas yet rugged enough to withstand the harshest environments including shock and vibration. It is ideal for military and industrial installations requiring computer processing and data collection where size and weight are a consideration.


About Crystal Group Inc.


Crystal Group Inc., a technology leader in rugged computer hardware, specializes in the design and manufacture of custom and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rugged servers, embedded computing, networking devices, displays, power supplies, and data storage for high reliability in harsh environments. An employee-owned small business, Crystal Group provides the defense, government and industrial markets with in-house customization, engineering, integration, configuration management, product lifecycle planning, warranty, and support services.



Crystal Group products meet or exceed IEEE, IEC, and military standards (MIL-STD-810, 167-1, 461, MIL-S-901); are backed by warranty (5+ year) with in-house support; and are manufactured in the company's Hiawatha, Iowa, USA, facility certified to AS9100C:2009 and ISO 9001:2008 quality management standards.


Andra AP fonden decreased its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 39.7% during the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 25,500 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 16,800 shares during the period. Andra AP fonden’s holdings in NVIDIA Corporation were worth $3,686,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.


Several other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of NVDA. RB Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation during the second quarter worth about $272,000. D. Scott Neal Inc. bought a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation during the second quarter worth about $258,000. Ameriprise Financial Inc. increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation by 46.6% in the first quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 5,257,325 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $572,695,000 after buying an additional 1,672,231 shares during the last quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. NY increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation by 6.7% in the first quarter. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. NY now owns 308,211 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $33,573,000 after buying an additional 19,245 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Menora Mivtachim Holdings LTD. bought a new stake in NVIDIA Corporation during the first quarter worth about $17,244,000. Institutional investors own 66.41% of the company’s stock.


The unfinished books of Sir Terry Pratchett have been destroyed by a steamroller, following the late fantasy novelist’s wishes.


Terry Pratchett docudrama reveals moment author realised he was 'dead'

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Pratchett’s hard drive was crushed by a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller named Lord Jericho at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, ahead of the opening of a new exhibition about the author’s life and work.


Pratchett, famous for his colourful and satirical Discworld series, died in March 2015 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.


After his death, fellow fantasy author Neil Gaiman, Pratchett’s close friend and collaborator , told the Times that Pratchett had wanted “whatever he was working on at the time of his death to be taken out along with his computers, to be put in the middle of a road and for a steamroller to steamroll over them all”.


The news reports that hate groups are growing in size as well as voice is confounding in many ways and deeply disturbing.

First, what does it mean in a person’s life that they get out of bed every morning thinking first and most passionately about the people or groups that bring hate to the mind and heart? Guided by the core of hate, the day passes with anger, hostility and aggression underlying all activities. I know that for some the hate comes from a real or presumed situation. Jobs and economic stability are, and have been for decades, at the core of some of the hatred. It has always been presumed that immigrants willing to work for low wages have taken jobs away from the working class already residing in the United States. So those who are unemployed blame the immigrant or the stranger or the one who is willing to work for low wages. The facts of the situation and the path forward elude the one who is hating because it is always easier to blame others for our problems.



Second, what does it mean in a person’s life that they blame other individuals or groups for their problems? The working world is changing at a pace so rapid it is hard for anyone to keep up. Factories have moved out of the country but those remaining are no longer hiring at the rate or the salary base of even 20 years ago. Robotics and 21st century technology have taken as many unskilled or basic skilled jobs as moving offshore. Statistics are hard to find but it is clear that the factories remaining in the United States do not need the workforce numbers they did even 20 years ago. Blaming other workers for the problem of unemployment might feel good for a while but it is not only wrong but unproductive. A person who wants a good future needs to find ways to become employable — more education or training being the best route to employability. The workforce required by our businesses needs to be skilled, be it mechanical, computer hardware or software, or something else. An example of this problem is the coal mining industry. Coal mining as a profession is finished, much like blacksmithing it is a relic of a bygone era. Coal miners are the current workforce in need of new opportunities. There are so many possibilities for these hard workers but the current government cannot get out of its own way to support new work.


Third, in the 1970’s Alvin Toffler wrote a book called “Future Shock.” He defined this as a condition found in both individuals and entire societies suffering “too much change in too short a time.” Toffler and others posited that in the near future workers would no longer be employed by the same company or even in the same profession for the entirety of their working lives. The estimate was every five years for changing jobs and often careers. Flexibility is the key personally and multi-skilled the key professionally.

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Battery for Toshiba PA3535U-1BAS

The two closest things to Slack in the open source world are Mattermost and Rocket Chat. Both support all the popular features of Slack including inline code snippets (Rocket Chat even offers code highlighting), inline images, archived searchable conversations, easy sign up, web apps, desktop apps and mobile clients. Rocket Chat also includes support for Markdown, and Mattermost can import Slack user accounts and channel archives to smooth the transition.Where the two differ is in the user interface and in the backend setup (Rocket Chat uses MongoDB behind the scenes, while Mattermost uses PostgreSQL). Mattermost user interface is a bit closer to Slack, while Rocket Chat seems to have taken more inspiration from full-featured IRC clients.Both, however, are self-hosted, which means projects can get most of the advantages of Slack over IRC, but retain control of the open source tools. If the history of web services teaches anything, it's that relying on third-party services for key parts of your development infrastructure is almost guaranteed to fail in the long run.While Mattermost and Rocket Chat, along with services like IRCCloud, which piggybacks on IRC to offer a more Slack-like experience, can fulfil 90 per cent of the Slack experience, none of the them match Slack 100 per cent. Mattermost lacks an Android client (it's in the works), none of them have the amount of third-party integration that Slack offers, and none of them have the install base that Slack claims to enjoy - 1.1 million “daily average users in July last year so it said.


It's the last point that open-sourcers needs to consider. Ubiquitous install trumps everything else. With more and more developers using Slack on small teams at work (as it's intended to be used) it's natural to want to use the same tools for other projects.There is an opportunity here for open source, though. Setting up and using Slack may be simple but extending it is not. If more developers turn to open source alternatives there will be more developers to hack on these alternatives. More momentum means more features, more cool hacks and in the end a more useful product. This is why Apache trumps Microsoft IIS, WordPress thrives while Movable Type is a memory, and Linux is the most wildly deployed operating system on the server.On the other side of the argument, lack of developer interest in alternatives is part of why Dropbox has no real open-source competitor, Google Docs continues to be more popular than open-source options, and Foss offers almost no competition to Skype.Slack may be the best choice now, but investing in open source alternatives like Mattermost or Rocket Chat is the best choice for open source coders in the long term.



VMware's popped out its second update to vSphere 6.0 and addressed a long-time vAdmin gripe by adding a new web interface that doesn't rely on old-school plugins.The new VMware Host Client is an all HTML-5 affair. The new code is derived from a “Fling” VMware posted a few weeks back (Flings are useful-but-unsupported code that VMware suggests vAdmins might want to play with) and has now made it into ESX.It's still no masterpiece of usability – as the illustration at top (or here for those reading our mobile site) attests – but is notable for two reasons. One is that VMware has remained loyal to the ancient Netscape derived NPAPI plugin standard. Moving to HTML 5 does away with that. The second is that vAdmins have often bemoaned the state of the web clients available to them. The new enhancements here will therefore be welcome.The headline feature of the vSphere update is support for 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds, handy for obvious reasons.There's also an upgrade to vSphere's VAIO – that's the vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, not a laptop - to better handle all-IPv6 environments.


There's half a dozen security fixes included, none toe-curling, and fixes for the usual range of small problems like “ Hostd randomly stops responding on hosts with 3D acceleration” and “ Unable to perform vMotion with VMs that has two 2TB virtual disks.”AMD's copped a little kick: its Opteron 12xx, 22xx and 82xx series CPUs are no longer supported because they're not on sale so VMware can't be bothered supporting them any more. Wouldn't happen to old Intel kit, we bet.Review I've always wondered what people who pay more than £2,000 for a Windows laptop are thinking when they boot the machine.It's a bit like paying a fortune to gain admission to a secret and exclusive members club, only to discover once you're in, that it's run by the bloke who does the pub quiz on a Tuesday night at your local... and all the bar regulars you thought you'd paid to avoid.


"Oh... hello, Windows. Fancy seeing you here. No, go on, tell me that unfunny story I've heard a hundred times before."Sumptuous and slightly absurd, Microsoft's Surface Book is the most expensive laptop you can get, short of ordering a 24-carat custom gold plated jobbie.Six months after its bombastic unveiling (during which Surface chief Panos Panay looked like he was going to hit someone), it's finally washed up on these shores. And very nice it is too. As you'd expect for £2,249 including VAT (pen included), which is what the top model will set you back. (Or $3,199 in the US.)Sony never had much trouble shifting £2,000 Vaios and Microsoft has cracked it. Redmond claims to have $4.2bn extra cash in the coffers thanks to the Surface line, which is now widely imitated. You could argue (I won't, but you might) that Apple's oversized iPad Pro is Cupertino's response to the Surface – or a hedge against its continuing success.
The Surface Book is a quite different proposition to the Surfaces that have come before it. It's bigger, with a 3200x2000 (267ppi) 13.5-inch display; this beast weighs 3.34lbs or 1.5kg.



And its own lavish custom keyboard, which houses an Nvidia graphics unit, and an extra battery. An Nvidia GPU isn't an option for all Surface Book configurations, but it is in all the i7 configurations, and was in the model reviewed here.The inclusion of a GPU means you can't just yank it out – the software you're running might be using the Nvidia card, so there's a strange little dance where you wait for confirmation that it's OK to remove the Surface from its keyboard.It's the graphics card, a rarity in laptops for years now, that gives it gaming and professional media editing chops. The display itself is dazzling and the sound superb.
Note the orientation of Windows from the photo – that the Surface thinks you're the main user. An obvious use is 1:1 presentations
What gives the Surface Book its distinctive look – the wind blows through when it's closed – is the hinge. The trick here is using a shape memory alloy that can shape and contract. It doesn't fold back flat, which is where the other trick comes in: the machine is reversible. Lift it out, rotate it 180 degrees, and drop it back in. You've got a display tablet with the keyboard still attached. There's a dedicated Eject key for removing it, with an LED that is red if it thinks yanking away the Nvidia GPU will cause the software problems.

Les achats

Battery for Apple iBook G4 14inch

We have not yet reached point where everyone has 2Mbps in 2016. Stalling on the USO consultation and pushing it back adds to the confusion around a long-term vision on where we are heading, she said.Onwurah believes that Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey is too preoccupied with the upcoming referendum on the EU to think about the USO strategy. If the USO is to take the form of a publicly-funded scheme, that would need EU permission to go ahead, under the bloc's state aid laws. Therefore it is also plausible that the strategy may be on hold while we await the possibility of a Brexit.However, some have noted that the USO is a distraction from what needs to be a far more ambitious plan to improve the UK's digital infrastructure. Dan Lewis, a senior adviser at the Institute of Directors, is calling for speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second by 2030 – although that would not be under a USO.Lewis believes the key to getting better connectivity is greater market competition, rather than by setting a relatively low USO. To that end, he supports the aims of Ofcom's Digital Communications Review to open up access to BT’s telephone poles and ducts and thereby dominance of the former state-owned telecoms group.They have the right vision, but what we need now is more details as to how it will happen. We can't afford to wait, he said. BT's uncompetitive cost structure for competitors wanting access to its infrastructure should not set the pace at which we move to a digital future.


Until various regulatory and legal decisions are made, it looks like those lacking in decent connectivity will just have to wait for an update on their legal right to 10Mbps. If you're working on your mobile smart device and desktop, Druva's inSync product will protect your data on that device. Now, if you are using Box, Google Work (Google Drive, Google Docs and Gmail) or Exchange Online in Office 365, inSync will protect that cloud-resident data as well.The updated inSync also provides audit and compliance support, and it's managed through a single platform.Druva says inSync aggregates end-user data, whether it resides on a laptop, mobile device or in cloud applications, so that enterprises have better visibility and control of their data. It's a way of countering mini-data silos and combining them.The EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Privacy Shield require visibility of what data you have for legal and compliance requirements. InSync can help with that.Druva quotes Jeffrey Mann, a Gartner Research VP, who says: The long-expected surge in adoption of cloud office systems has been underway since mid-2014. Very soon, the question facing enterprise collaboration and communications leaders will not be whether to move these workloads to the cloud, but how painful will it be to remain on-premises?



Druva CEO and cofounder Jaspreet Singh told The Reg that inSync will be developed to support the SalesForce cloud next, and it could be ready early next quarter. He thinks SalesForce users have data protection issues at the moment.Druva inSync for Box and Office 365, including OneDrive and Exchange Online, are available today. Google Apps is in limited availability, with general availability next month. Cloud Application support is part of the Druva inSync Elite and Elite Plus subscription plans for an additional charge. Open-source software is not possible without collaboration and collaboration is not possible without communication. Collaborative communication in open source projects typically means some form of distributed chat.In the past, and indeed the present for most projects, that has meant IRC. IRC has some disadvantages, though, and developers love a shiny new toy, which is part of the reason more than a few projects have moved to Slack, the startup attracting crazy amounts of venture investment and equally crazy valuations.While there is nothing wrong with Slack – in fact it's insanely good at managing and organising distributed conversations – Slack is not necessarily the best choice for open-source projects.


Indeed this is not the purpose of Slack. Slack's intended use is to provide a single dashboard or app for all sorts of different communication tools - email, chat, Twitter and more.Slack is not primarily for public chats. The company itself discourages this use case, which should give large open-source projects pause. But more to the point, Slack is closed-source software controlled by a single company. It's the antithesis of open source.In effect, moving from IRC to Slack means replacing an open protocol with decades of open source client software development and a robust distributed system for a single point of failure. Again, not to disparage Slack.Some in open source have spoken out against Slack as a replacement for IRC, notably Drew DeVault, whose post please don't use Slack for FOSS projects made the rounds in programming circles a few months back.According to DeVault: Slack is not a tool built for open source projects to use for communication with their userbase… It's a tool built for teams and it is ill-suited to this use-case.There are essentially three problems with IRC that Slack and its imitators (more on those in a minute) solve. First, creating an account is easier. Enter an email address and password and you're done. Slack is also already widely used; there's a good chance a significant portion of developers looking to contribute to any given FOSS project are already using Slack elsewhere.



The second thing Slack offers is built-in support for attaching files and pasting code. While some IRC clients will follow links and pull in outside data like code snippets or images, some will not which means you can't rely on these features being present for everyone. With IRC you need to rely on a pastebin and file upload service to handle code and files.The other major advantage is persistent, searchable sessions. That makes it easy to see what you missed while you where away. It's possible to do this with IRC, but not easy.There are ongoing efforts to improve IRC, notably the IRCv3 project, but if you're looking for a solution right now, IRC comes up short.And there's no question that Slack is a very well designed, easy to use chat system. But it's closed source, which makes it a questionable choice for open-source projects. Still, if good old IRC really isn't working any more - and I would suggest your project take some time to really evaluate that question before proceeding - there are open-source Slack imitators that can also solve some of the problems with IRC, but are self-hosted and FOSS licensed.

Mes rendez-vous

Battery for Toshiba PA3636U-1BAL

PC World told El Reg that 30 days of historic backups should have been available through KnowHow cloud but this is contradicted by the victim herself, who said only two backup points, each from the same day she was infected with the CryptoWall ransomware, were available.El Reg heard about Amy’s woes after a friend of hers got in touch with us and pointed us towards a post (extract below) about her experiences on PC World’s Facebook page earlier this month.Yesterday an email came through which i opened (it was from what looked like a completely standard email address) a virus flooded my laptop instantly corrupting all my files and saved documents getting pass my antivirus, I was thankful for my cloud. I had someone look at it and eventually completely remove the virus but i had to completely reboot and reset my laptop after, i would lose Microsoft Office but I could cope with that.
We logged on to my cloud and to my horror it had updated all my documents to the corrupted version, I was sure it would be ok so phoned Knowhow thinking i would be able to restore from a different date.Knowhow told me it automatically over writes documents and doesn’t keep revisions of older documents and backups. I have lost everything, years of work and important documents that I've worked hard for gone. I was so shocked they don't offer this, even my IPhone lets me select dates i want to restore from.


Do not rely on Knowhow completely, I would have happily purchased a hard dive but was advised this would be enough. Google drive is good too as it keeps revisions. I'm Gutted!!PC World suggested that Amy’s machine might have been infected with the ransomware for weeks before she discovered the problem, a suggestion she strongly denied.It was Cryptowall, Amy said. It came through as an invoice. It wanted me to pay £1000 to get a key to unlock files and the price doubled every 14 days.“I know exactly where the virus came from and had it removed the day it hit my laptop,” Amy told El Reg. “The ransomware had been on my laptop for a matter of hours when it was removed and I contacted Knowhow that evening the same day.”“30 days worth of back up was definitely not available for me to access from my end, I had a choice of two times on the same day, one being when they had backed up with the corrupted files and one later in the day when my laptop had been reset,” she added.Chris Boyd, a senior malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, said that the case illustrates the wider potential shortcomings of cloud-based backups as a defence against ransomware.“In general, cloud backup is another useful tool to help ward off the threat of ransomware, but isn't applicable in all situations,” Boyd told El Reg. “Individuals and businesses may rightly balk at uploading potentially sensitive documents into the cloud where they suddenly have no control over it, and should look into file encryption of their own to ensure nothing valuable leaks.”



“Offline backups would be the best way to go, especially as you have full control over the data at all times. Not all cloud backup hosts offer the ability to roll back to specific dates, which is a disaster in situations where malware butts heads with an automatic upload. Off-the-shelf backup solutions are fine for most things, but should go hand in hand with a layered approach which could include AV [anti-virus], anti-malware and exploit protection,” he added.Asked what expectation its customers reasonably have about the capabilities of KnowHow cloud in mitigating against the growing problem of ransomware attacks, Dixons Carphone (PC World’s parent firm) said its system keeps 30 days of backups by default. PC World is clear in saying that customers shouldn’t rely on its cloud backup service in isolation while simultaneously saying it offers a safety net – one that seems to have failed in Amy’s case, at least.Our cloud service automatically backs up a customer’s machine and keeps on file 30 days of previous back-ups which is why we are able to restore this customer's data.
Essentially this means that any file back up has 30 different back up version any of which the customer could restore from even if an encrypted file has been backed up. However if a customer had not noticed they had a virus for more than 30 days all of the previous day versions would have also been back up as an encrypted file.The back up servers as a matter of course run daily virus and malware scans however these files would not be identified as suspicious as they were not a virus threat themselves.To ensure total protection a customer would also need to run a form for anti virus / malware software on their machine to ensure no threats occur initially.El Reg also asked for a response to Amy's criticism in general – and the point that older files were over-written so she couldn't back up to the last known safe point – in particular. We haven’t had a satisfactory explanation on this point as yet.


Media interest in the case, or perhaps her own dogged efforts to raise the issue on social media, meant that Amy was recently referred to PC World’s Cloud services team, members of which made a spirited go at restoring her files.Amy praised the efforts of PC World staff in attempts to restore her files despite only partial success on this front.“PC World have been nothing but helpful since I had contact with them last Friday, we have managed to save a few files,” she told us. “Although it seems to have been a struggle and definitely not something I could have restored myself.” Analysis UK Chancellor George Osborne's budget may have provided a sprinkling of sweeteners for businesses and middle class savers alongside the headline-grabbing sugar tax last week, but details on digital infrastructure plans were distinctly lacking.No mention was made of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) in the 148-page document, which David Cameron promised last year would give everybody the legal right to request a broadband connection capable of delivering a minimum speed of 10Mbps by 2020.At the moment providers remain in the dark as to whether connecting the last five per cent of the country will be a publicly funded project, much like the previous Broadband UK (BDUK) scheme from 2012.According to Culture Secretary John Whittingdale, £680m will be spent on providing connectivity to 95 per cent of premises by the end of 2017. Yet, given the budget's radio silence on the USO, it might be reasonable to speculate that if money were to be set aside for the project we'd know about it by now.One alternative for creating a dedicated pot of cash for the scheme, is the introduction of a levy on providers – although it has been pointed out that this may be unfair for smaller urban-based providers. It is also unclear whether consumers would pick up the bill.



It also remains uncertain what tech will be deployed to reach the final five per cent. Speaking in front of a select committee last week, BT's chief exec Gavin Patterson said that if the company were tasked with providing a fibre rich deployment under the USO, it would cost up to £2bn. Such a move would not yield a return on investment for BT, he said, noting that a cheaper option would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and include 4G and satellite broadband.Certainly a strategy that offers a range of options for connectivity, and – crucially – a range of providers, is one a number of observers seem to favour.Chair of the Internet Service Providers' Association Chair James Blessing said a number of its providers are already working toward this goal: ISPA supports the objective of a USO, especially in the hardest to reach areas where commercial rollout is challenging. As we await government’s consultation, it is important that the process is open, technology neutral and does not negatively impact existing networks.But Labour MP Chi Onwurah, a former head of telecoms technology at Ofcom, warned that the absence of a strategy could lead to a repetition of what she's sees as BDUK's mistake of hav63ng one just one supplier responsible for the roll-out.

Les échographies

Batterie pour Sony VGP-BPS10A

Windows 8 est fin prêt à être commercialisé. Microsoft vient de terminer le développement de son OS et l’a envoyé aux constructeurs de tablettes et ordinateurs portables. Le site Liveside a par ailleurs eu l’excellente idée de compiler quelques captures de la version finale, présentant des applications déjà connues des utilisateurs de la bêta, et d’autres totalement inédites… Pour rappel, Windows 8 sortira le 26 octobre prochain et représente une évolution majeure dans l’environnement Windows de par sa forme tout d’abord mais également son parti pris pour le tout tactile.Vendue 49,67€ sur Amazon.de et sur une poignée d’autres sites, la Stealth Touch Mouse est une souris sans fil et sans boutons, qui ne fait pratiquement aucun bruit. Elle s’aligne sur les souris haut de gamme de Microsoft, Logitech et Apple, sans pour autant exploiter le même filon…


Lorsque l’on dit souris sans boutons, on pense bien entendu au tout tactile, qui a tendance à se généraliser avec la gamme “Touch Mouse ” de Microsoft et quelques produits de Logitech et Apple. Pourtant, la Stealth Touch Mouse n’est pas à proprement parler une souris tactile.L’accessoire est vendu en boutique pour une petite cinquantaine d’euros et est accompagné d’une petite prise USB à introduire dans votre ordinateur portable pour l’installation mais également pour l’utilisation wireless. Très moderne dans son design, la Stealth Touch se dirige facilement puisqu’elle conserve des contrôles très proches d’une souris classique : clic gauche, droit, par une simple pression sur la zone correspondante, scroll vertical exactement au même endroit, et slide pour la présentation d’un document Powerpoint ou PDF. Autrement dit, il ne s’agit pas réellement d’une concurrente aux souris tactiles que nous connaissons mais bel et bien d’une souris dont les boutons auraient tout simplement été remplacés par une surface plane…


Quel intérêt dès lors à se la procurer? Tout d’abord, la souris en question ne fait pratiquement pas de bruit. C’est tout juste si on entend un léger crissement lorsqu’on scrolle verticalement. Ensuite, son design uniforme représente à lui seul une raison de craquer pour cette souris si particulière… Enfin, il faut bien reconnaitre que la Stealth Touch est très agréable à manipuler. Ainsi, on apprécie tout particulièrement la sensation très douce au toucher, et l’absence totale de boutons, qui contribue beaucoup au charme de cet accessoire.Niveau caractéristiques techniques, Manhattan a opté pour une technologie laser, tout comme Apple avec sa Magic Mouse. La Stealth Touch Mouse est par ailleurs aussi bien compatible avec les PC Windows que les Mac, ne nécessite aucun logiciel d’installation et dispose d’une garantie “à vie”. Autant d’arguments qui font de cette souris un accessoire très agréable à utiliser et surtout très simple à prendre en mains.Pour devenir ou rester mythique, il faut savoir mourir. Après avoir conquis les téléspectateurs et internautes, la micro-série de Canal + est disponible gratuitement sur smartphone et tablette.



La micro-série de Canal + – 82 épisodes de deux minutes environ – «Bref» donc, s’est arrêtée il y a peu, moins d’un an après son lancement. Présentée trois fois par semaine en clair sur la chaîne cryptée et accessible via Internet, elle a immédiatement trouvé son public, qui se consolera désormais avec une application pour téléphones portables et tablettes numériques.On y retrouve 39 épisodes. Un aperçu de la vie du personnage joué par Kyan Khojandi, un type normal – c’est à la mode en France –, limite loser. Un type qui peine à monter un meuble Ikea, joue à la console, drague comme un manche et se souvient avec émotion du temps où l’on remontait les cassettes grâce à un stylo. Un type qui raconte son morne quotidien – «J’ai fait une soirée déguisée», «J’ai pris le métro», «J’ai passé un coup de fil» – avec la finesse et l’humour des grands observateurs. Un type qui parle vite et enchaîne les propos rapportés: «Elle m’a dit», «Je lui ai dit», «Elle m’a dit». Bref, un type attachant. Mi-juillet pourtant, les créateurs de la série, Kyan Khojandi, Bruno Muschio et Harry Tordjman ont annoncé la fin, craignant de «faire la saison de trop». «Notre leitmotiv depuis le début était de surprendre […] et nous avons maintenant l’intime conviction que le dessin est fini et qu’il serait dommage de colorier la table.»


L’application permet aussi de se glisser dans l’iPhone du personnage. Défilent ses photos: son père, sa «nana», son «plan cul», ses bricolages réalisés en bouchons de champagne. Ses messages: insultes de Marla, excuses de son colocataire ou tentative d’approche d’une fille post-it. Son répertoire même, que nous avons testé; la messagerie Orange de son copain Baptiste déborde, le téléphone de sa «maman» sonne une dizaine de coups avant de bifurquer sur un répondeur. Quelques répliques-cultes encore et un catalogue des publicités croisées au fil des épisodes. Bref, une chouette application.La petite 3DS de Nintendo s’offre un lifting, histoire de booster un peu ses ventes. La firme japonaise vient en effet de sortir en Europe la 3DS XL, une version extra-large de sa console portable, offrant un écran 90% plus grand que l’original.Depuis le 28 juillet, ceux qui souhaitaient mettre la main sur la dernière portable de Nintendo auront sans doute encore plus de mal à ne pas craquer pour la petite dernière de Big N. La firme japonaise remplace en effet sa 3DS par une console disposant d’un écran 90% plus grand que l’original, vendue à 199€. Mais tout cela est-il suffisant pour nous faire craquer? Petit état des lieux…



Sortie en mars 2011, la 3DS avait connu quelques critiques du public, principalement liées à la 3D et à l’écran de taille réduite de l’appareil. Bien décidé à rectifier le principal défaut de sa machine, qui a tout comme la PS Vita de Sony de plus en plus de mal à justifier son achat face aux jeux sur smartphones, Nintendo avait pris la décision de sortir cette année une version XL de sa petite console portable, qui passe pour l’occasion à du 4,88″. En pratique, cela représente une augmentation de 90% de la taille de l’écran, et de seulement 46% de la taille de la machine. Plus optimisée, la machine dispose d’un design légèrement épuré et surtout d’une meilleure autonomie – 6h30 contre 5h précédemment.Côté petits bonus, on retrouve également une carte SD de 4 Go, plutôt que 2 Go, témoignant du succès de l’eShop de Nintendo, désormais entré dans les moeurs. Davantage orientée téléchargement que sa grande soeur, la 3DS XL n’apporte finalement guère de véritable révolution par rapport à son ainée, mais quelques petites modifications qui font toute la différence. L’écran XL est beaucoup plus agréable à utiliser et offre une meilleure visibilité, la console dispose d’une meilleure autonomie et l’acheteur en a davantage pour son argent qu’avec la 3DS. De plus, la console dispose désormais d’un catalogue de jeux beaucoup plus riche qu’à ses débuts, ce qui devrait finir de convaincre les quelques acheteurs dubitatifs.

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Kaum auffällig ist derzeit an der Börse der Kurs von Oracle. Das Wertpapier liegt mit 0,05 Prozent im Minus, verglichen mit der letzten Notierung des vorigen Handelstages. Es verbilligte sich um 3 Cent. Das Wertpapier notierte zuletzt bei 49,22 US-Dollar. Im Vergleich mit dem Gesamtmarkt steht die Oracle-Aktie mit dem geringen Kursverlust nicht so gut da. Der S&P 500 liegt zur Stunde um 0,02 Prozent im Plus gegenüber der Schlussnotierung vom Vortag und kommt auf 2.444 Punkte.


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Die Oracle Corporation gehört zu den weltweit führenden Anbietern von Soft- und Hardwareprodukten. Das Unternehmen entwickelt, produziert, vermarktet und vertreibt Datenbank- und Middleware-Softwarelösungen, Applikationssoftware und Computerhardware wie Server und Speichersysteme. Die verschiedenen Soft- und Hardwarelösungen werden nach entsprechenden Branchenstandards konzipiert und sind sowohl in Komplettpaketen als auch als Einzelkomponenten verfügbar. Im vergangenen Geschäftsjahr erwirtschaftete Oracle unter dem Strich einen Gewinn von 9,34 Mrd. US-Dollar. Der Umsatz belief sich auf 37,7 Mrd. US-Dollar.


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Girard Partners LTD. boosted its stake in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 7.7% during the second quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The firm owned 3,102 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after buying an additional 221 shares during the period. Girard Partners LTD.’s holdings in NVIDIA Corporation were worth $448,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.



A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of NVDA. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 7.4% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 37,580,211 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $4,093,612,000 after buying an additional 2,597,209 shares during the period. Edgewood Management LLC boosted its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 21.9% in the first quarter. Edgewood Management LLC now owns 5,987,970 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $652,270,000 after buying an additional 1,074,303 shares during the period. Janus Capital Management LLC boosted its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 20.0% in the first quarter. Janus Capital Management LLC now owns 5,368,881 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $584,832,000 after buying an additional 895,591 shares during the period. Ameriprise Financial Inc. boosted its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 46.6% in the first quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 5,257,325 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $572,695,000 after buying an additional 1,672,231 shares during the period. Finally, Wellington Management Group LLP boosted its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 499.0% in the first quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 4,104,980 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $447,156,000 after buying an additional 3,419,701 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 66.41% of the company’s stock.


NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 10th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.01 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.32. NVIDIA Corporation had a return on equity of 39.59% and a net margin of 27.41%. The business had revenue of $2.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.96 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.53 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 56.2% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post $3.60 earnings per share for the current year.


The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 18th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 24th will be paid a $0.14 dividend. This represents a $0.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.34%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, August 22nd. NVIDIA Corporation’s dividend payout ratio is currently 15.86%.


Several research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. UBS AG reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $132.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Wednesday, May 10th. B. Riley reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $135.00 price objective on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Monday, May 8th. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $165.00 price objective (up from $130.00) on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Monday, May 15th. Susquehanna Bancshares Inc reiterated a “neutral” rating on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Monday, July 3rd. Finally, Barclays PLC reiterated an “equal weight” rating and issued a $105.00 price objective (up from $90.00) on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Wednesday, May 10th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold rating, twenty-two have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $144.95.



Intel HD Graphics 510: Integrierte Low-End-Grafikkarte (GT1), welche in einigen ULV-Skylake-SoCs (15 Watt TDP) verbaut wird. Einige nicht anspruchsvolle aktuelle Spiele können mit geringen Details noch flüssig gespielt werden. Für Office und Video natürlich ausreichende Leistungsreserven. » Weitere Informationen gibt es in unserem Notebook-Grafikkartenvergleich und der Benchmarkliste.

4405U: Auf der Skylake-Architektur basierender ULV-SoC (System-on-a-Chip) für Notebooks und Ultrabooks. Integriert unter anderem zwei CPU-Kerne sowie eine HD Graphics 510 Grafikeinheit und wird in 14-Nanometer-Technik gefertigt.» Weitere Infos gibt es in unserem Prozessorvergleich Vergleich mobiler Prozessoren und der Prozessoren Benchmarkliste .


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You don't know everything about everything, so keep your contact list and rota up to date and accessible. Make sure the company's starters and leavers process is integrated with this list (I wish I had a fiver for every call-out list I've seen that contained people who had left and/or died). Keep the master on a shared server, and have an automated synch on your laptop that keeps your local version up to date. Why the latter? Because you're stuffed if you need to call someone and the master list is on the failed system. (And yes, I've been bitten by that one).What does BCM have to do with diagnosing faults? In a word: time. If something has gone really pear-shaped, you need to be able to focus on figuring out what's wrong and getting it fixed. With a well-structured BCM regime you can invoke the necessary BCM call-outs and let them get on with all the ancillary stuff like informing customers/press/suppliers and helping supply you with more brains and hands to help out; you can therefore get on with the bit that most needs your skills – diagnosing the issue.When you've figured out the problem and fixed the underlying cause, always set aside time to consider (and preferably discuss with others) how and why the problem happened. Reflect on what you did, and what (if anything) could have been done better. Apply these considerations to your documentation, processes, procedures and training. After all, you can spend your life thinking “what if X went wrong” and catering for those ideas in your processes, but you don't get a better “what if” than a real-life failure.


The Skype story on Microsoft's reinvented Windows platform is anything but smooth. When Microsoft launched Windows 8 in October 2012, complete with a new touch-friendly app environment, it included a new Skype application rebuilt for the new modern platform. This is our big step forward together with Microsoft to introduce a completely new Skype experience, which is designed to be always on, immersive, effortless and fun to use, said then Skype exec Mark Gillett at the time.Windows 10, released in July 2015, featured a revamped Universal Windows Platform (UWP), based on Windows 8 but adapted so that application run in windows, and across multiple devices including phone, tablet, Xbox and desktop Windows.At this point Skype seemed to be retreating from the UWP. We’re updating PC users of the Windows modern application to the Windows desktop application, and retiring the modern application, said Skype's Aga Guzik, while also referring to forthcoming task-based apps for messaging, phone and video.In November 2015, previews of those task-based UWP apps appeared, initially on desktop Windows 10, and then also on Windows 10 Mobile. They were not a big hit with users, who complained of bugs and limited functionality. Most users stuck with the desktop app. Incidentally, those on Windows RT (the ARM version of Windows 8) still have the original Windows 8 Skype app.



Now Microsoft is changing tack again. We’re going to deliver a performant, fully featured UWP hub app. Messaging, calling and video all in the same application. You can think about that as ultimately replacing the Win32 app and of course the Silverlight app on Windows Phone, said Barbie Stafford, Director of Product Marketing.Stafford told The Reg that while the task-focused apps tested really well in research, feedback after release was different, especially for desktop and laptop users with large screens. What people actually do when they get their hands on the tech is different from what they said they would do. Our large screen users top request was to bring messaging, calling and video together in one app, she said.The new UWP Skype will be released shortly in preview, as part of the Windows 10 Insider programme, first on PCs and later on Windows 10 Mobile. The initial release will include calls, messaging, availability, emoticons and Mojis (short video clips), photo sending and joining existing group chats. The preview will NOT include some features, including creating group chats, group voice or video calling, and screen sharing, though according to Stafford it will be a fully functional app when it goes into general availability.The user interface for the UWP app will feature an adaptive user interface so that it is suitable for a variety of screen sizes. It also features what Stafford called a streamlined user experience, removing clutter like rarely-used status updates, and eliminating the old-school top menu in favour of right-click options on objects like contacts.


UWP apps require Windows 10, so the existing desktop Skype will continue for users of Windows 7 and earlier, and will remain an option on Windows 10 as well.Microsoft is also persevering with the separate messaging and video apps. We'll continue to add features, said Stafford. Why not make the new app smart enough to replace the task-focused apps by presenting a simplified UI on small screens? I can't comment on that, said Stafford, though logically this is what should happen. Over time we will streamline all Skype for Windows 10 experiences into the Skype Universal Windows Platform app, says the press release, which may imply that this is the plan long-term.In the meantime, it appears that Skype users on Windows 10 will have three ways to make a call, with the most complete set of features still reserved for the existing desktop application.



As a popular first-party application, Skype gave Microsoft an opportunity to show the benefits of Windows 10, but instead it has illustrated the pitfalls of supporting two distinct platforms within one operating system.Browsing the Skype community forums it is also clear that what users most desire is reliable connections and consistent features across all Skype's platforms, and constant changing of mind about what the Windows 10 client should look like does not further that goal.That said, the Skype team is right to move on from the poor existing task-focused Windows 10 applications, and rolling all the features into a single adaptive UWP app does make sense, so perhaps better times are ahead for Skype's 300 million monthly users.The shortcomings of consumer-grade backup services in protecting against the scourge of ransomware have been exposed by the experiences of a UK businesswoman.Amy W, who runs a small business in the Newbury, Berkshire area, was convinced that the KnowHow cloud was the only backup technology she'd ever need1 when she bought a laptop from PC World.Eight months later, however, in the aftermath of a ransomware infection, Amy discovered that the KnowHow cloud backed up all her newly encrypted files and didn't keep any revisions, leaving her unable to restore files from a historic clean backup.

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Unless you bring your own license and create your own operating system image, a WorkSpace is Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Windows Desktop Experience. This is for licensing reasons, since Microsoft has stringent limitations around the use of Windows 7 in a virtual environment. Windows 7 is only available on Microsoft's own Azure cloud for test and development. In order to bring your own license, you need a Microsoft Volume Licensing agreement with Software Assurance.Amazon has done a good job in configuring Server 2008 R2 as if it were Windows 7; after all, the core operating system is the same. In addition, Amazon told The Reg that "each WorkSpace is a full Windows VM," so there is no multi-user trickery going on under the covers.WorkSpaces ties in with several other AWS services. You can integrate with on-premises Active Directory via Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud combined with a VPN connection. There is also a WorkDocs Sync client which lets the user synchronize documents across two or more computers, including their WorkSpace. WorkDocs, once called Zocalo, is a document storage and collaboration service.


Support for Teradici's PCoIP zero clients was added in October 2014. This enables use of WorkSpaces from lightweight thin client devices such as those from HP or Dell/Wyse.
In April 2015, the AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps opened, together with WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM), offering virtualized applications that can be purchased on a monthly basis and deployed to WorkSpaces. The full WAM costs an additional $5.00 per month. Europe did not get WAM until December 2015.
Amazon exposed a public API for WorkSpaces in April 2015, for programmatic management.
CloudWatch, a service for monitoring AWS servers and setting up alerts, got WorkSpaces support in July 2015.
Optional encryption of WorkSpaces storage volumes was added in October 2015.
In January 2016, WorkSpaces added support for audio in (enabling headset use) and high-DPI screens.
You only ever discover the inadequacy of your system management, monitoring and diagnosis tools when something goes wrong and there's a gulf between what you want to do and what you need to do. Here are 10 things you can do to maximise your chances of diagnosing the problem when the brown stuff hits the ventilator.



The most important thing you can possibly do is have an authoritative time source and ensure all your infrastructure components set their clocks from it. If systems have different times on their internal clocks, whatever logs you have available will be almost impossible to collate either manually or using security information and event management (SIEM) tools. Note that I'm not saying that the clocks actually have to be right to the nearest nanosecond relative to GMT – just that they need to be identical to each other. But use an authoritative time source anyway, as having everything set to the right time is also useful. And just to reflect on that mention of GMT: have everything set to the same time zone regardless of where it is – again, it'll avoid you having to do mental addition and subtraction when the time comes.You need to be able to see who took what action, and when they did it. It's crucial, because who's to say they won't do it again? If the employees start to moan that Big Brother is watching them, tell them, as politely as you see fit, why you are doing this.I have come across relatively few problems in my time that were malicious and deliberate, but loads of instances where users did something wrong unwittingly – in which case I've been able to instruct or train them and/or clarify documentation. Also, remember that it's often not a person who was the last to touch something before it broke: it's often a script, and the audit log will give you a pointer that helps you find which one.


Logs take shedloads of disk space, and are a paradox: when all is well you want to turn it down to report only emergency problems, but if something breaks you want debug-level logs from ten minutes ago. Think hard about every log and set its level appropriately; use log rotation judiciously; and set aside plenty of disk space (it generally doesn't have to be super-fast disk) dedicated to logging so you don't kill your world by filling core volumes with logs.If you're using an enterprise-level server and you don't buy the out-of-band management module, you're a numpty. In my past life looking after a global enterprise's network my servers-and-storage peer and I would always ensure we had full out-of-band console control for all our kit, even to the extent of a dial-up modem connection into a terminal server and KVM unit to cater for WAN and VPN failures. It cost us probably a couple of thousand quid per site and it saved our bacon countless times.I've seen it so often: the out-of-hours guy gets called, can't fix the problem, escalates it to the second-line guy … and his privileges don't let him in with adequate permissions either to look at the problem or to fix it. Use role-based permissions and make sure the support teams have the right profiles – and test them frequently.



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Which brings us onto currency of credentials. If you're the tenth on the call-out list you've probably not been called for months: then when the phone does ring you find your account on the system you're trying to fix has expired. Sometimes you'll be lucky and the system will say: “Your account has expired: click here to change your password”; sometimes you won't and it'll say: “Your account has expired: contact your system administrator”. Again, check your credentials regularly so you know they'll work when you need them.It's common to have the God-level password for core systems unknown to anyone. Sounds a bit daft, I know, but a good way to stay secure is: (a) write a ridiculously complex password on a piece of paper; (b) set the top-level password to that string; and (c) seal it in an envelope and lock it in a safe. If it's sufficiently complex and odd, the person who wrote it won't be able to remember it, which means you always have a last-ditch means of access. But make sure you have the right processes in place for rousing those who have access to the safe when you need the password.


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The Seagate blog says there is an Archive HDD inside the casing, which means it uses shingled magnetic recording, has six platters, reads and writes at 190/150MB/sec respectively, and spins at 5,900rpm. Obviously it is meant as a backup drive for notebook and desktop users.The drive has a natty shiny aluminium wrap-around, six-ribbed side look, one rib for each platter, with textured dark grey top and bottom surfaces. The thing can lay flat or be placed vertically. Its casing was designed by Huge-Design, a firm which has done product designs for GoPro, HP, and Nike.Customers get Seagate Dashboard software, with either one-click on-demand or customisable, scheduled backups, plus 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage and Lyve software compatibility, so users can back up, access and share files from any device/location.The Innov8 drive will be available in April for $349 (US MSRP) through Seagate.com, Amazon and other resellers. Get a datasheet here, although it hardly tells you anything at all, just relatively useless guff like the box dimensions; there being nothing about shingled recording or the spin-speed, rendering it virtually useless. The FAQ is slightly more interesting.


Telecoms regulator Ofcom will not release details of its proposals for greater structural separation of Openreach and BT until the end of the year.In February the regulator stopped short of recommending a full separation of BT and Openreach in its Digital Communications Review.Ofcom will now draft its proposals for discussion between October and December, which will go before the European Commission to force the issue of greater independence.It said: We will develop detailed proposals to bring about greater independence and autonomy of Openreach for discussion with the European Commission, according to its Annual Plan for 2016/17.Ofcom will also publish plans to open access to BT's telegraph poles and ducts by competitors as part of its Wholesale Local Access market review, also due in the third quarter of the financial year.It said enhanced structural separation was needed as it had found evidence that Openreach still has an incentive to make decisions in the interests of BT, rather than BT’s competitors, which can lead to competition problems.


In a briefing following the publication of its once-in-a-decade review, Ofcom's group director Steve Unger said that in an ideal world the regulator would have recommended a formal separation of the businesses, due to the significant failings of the current model. However, the property and pension costs associated with that option led the regulator to reccomend a “formal separation in everything but name” approach.Ofcom chief Sharon White insisted that formal separation would remain an option for the regulator.When we describe this as an option over which we reserve the right, that is genuinely the case. It is not there in the background because we forgot to take it off the table.Jonathan Oxley, group director for competition at Ofcom, said BT had submitted voluntary proposals for reform but they didn't cut the mustard.Also speaking after the publication of the review, Mark Shurmer, BT's group director of regulatory affairs, said BT hoped it could still reach a voluntary agreement with Ofcom.He said: The alternative to a voluntary separation is that we would have to go to Brussels. That will be a long process, so it would be in everyone’s interest [to avoid that route].



The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says that the recalled battery packs - built by Panasonic - were shipped in 91,000 notebooks in the US and 10,000 in Canada between June 2011 and January 2016.The recalled batteries power Toshiba Satellite, Portégé and Tecra models and were sold through Staples, Office Depot and the toshibadirect.com website.The CPSC notes that some of the now-recalled packs were also sold individually or as repair kit by Toshiba.While Toshiba's website calls the recall voluntary, the CPSC is advising that consumers immediately check their notebooks and, if using a recalled battery, remove the unit and use AC power until a replacement is delivered.The CPSC said that it has received four reports of the batteries overheating and melting, though no injuries were reported.This is far from the first time notebook batteries have been recalled. The lithium-ion power packs are notoriously prone to overheating and catching fire when damaged, or due to manufacturing defects.Such recalls have in the past forced PC sellers to call back millions of notebooks from their owners and added up to cost component vendors hundreds of millions of dollars.


Some 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customer records have been stolen and are being sold on a criminal hacking forum, according to reports.A trusted seller on a popular but shadowy unnamed criminal forum asked for US$100,000 for the database or US$10,000 for batches of 100,000 records, investigative blogger Brian Krebs reports.Verizon Enterprise counts 99 percent of the Fortune 500 among its customer base.Verizon told Krebs it had found and fixed a vulnerability in its enterprise client portal and is contacting customers.“Our investigation to date found an attacker obtained basic contact information on a number of our enterprise customers. No customer proprietary network information or other data was accessed or accessible,” the company says.The unnamed seller is also reportedly selling vulnerabilities in the Verizon website. Buyers will receive the stolen databases in MongoDB format.The information will be useful in crafting personalised, and therefore more enticing, phishing messages, which is a crucial first step in many attacks against enterprises. The idea is to simplify what Docker's developer relations director Mano Marks says (video below) is a “dependency hell” created by the multi-layer installation currently required – installing Docker Toolbox, then installing Docker Machine, and then configuring a suitable VM (like VirtualBox on OS X).Announced just before Easter, the Windows and Mac OS beta offerings are designed to let devs get a taste for Docker on the desktop or laptop, without having to run up a server implementation.For OS X users, the Docker engine runs in an Alpine Linux disto, using the xhyve Virtual Machine. Windows users can run it up on Hyper-V and use Docker to manage the virtual machine.



“All you need is Docker, git, and a text editor or whatever version control system and IDE you want to use,” Marks says in the video.The native applications have a native user interface, auto-update, and a bunch of bundled tools: Docker command line, Docker Compose, and Docker Notary command line.DNS servers and networking integration for OS X and Windows, to make it easier to access containers over the LAN;
In Mac environments, the native release is designed to work with the OS X sandbox security model: “we are working closely with Apple to achieve this”, the announcement notes.
Marks also notes that “you can develop apps on your machine without having the runtime or framework installed on your machine”.For Mac, the minimum requirement is OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite) or above running on a 2010 or later machine with Intel support for memory management unit (MMU) like extended page tables. Windows users need a recent Windows 10 Pro and Hyper-V.Amazon Web Services (AWS) released WorkSpaces, Windows desktop-as-a-service, towards the end of March 2014.We took an early look, but encountered several niggling problems. Don't dive in: it will get better, was my conclusion.It is time for another hands-on, but first a quick recap. WorkSpaces provides a Windows desktop on Amazon's cloud. There are three specification levels:In addition, you can pay $15.00 extra per month for Microsoft Office Professional, or you can save $4.00 if you bring your own Windows 7 desktop license. There are clients for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chromebook; other operating systems such as Windows Phone and Linux are not supported. Standard Windows RDP clients are not supported.

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Derrière cette nouvelle tendance, on retrouve bien entendu l’arrivée de Windows 8, qui préfigure le tout tactile sur ordinateurs portables. Il faut dire que l’interface a été pensée dans ce but. Ordinateurs portables en mains, on note immédiatement la différence. Le tactile est d’une efficacité redoutable pour ce qui est de la manipulation des menus, tandis que l’utilisation à la souris traditionnelle rend Windows 8 beaucoup moins agréable à manipuler et beaucoup plus lent à utiliser.Tous les exposants ou presque ont adopté des écrans tactiles, que ce soit pour les PC fixes, les ultrabooks ou les ordinateurs portables. Certains fabricants comme HP ou Samsung n’hésitent d’ailleurs pas à parler d’un futur standard. Dans le cas de Samsung par exemple, deux postes fixes Smart et un Ultrabook sous Windows 8 sont tactiles, alors que seulement deux Ultrabooks ne disposent pas de cette fonctionnalité. Interrogé par nos soins, le responsable produit de la marque nous a expliqué qu’avec Windows 8, c’était une tendance qui allait probablement se généraliser. Ainsi, si les Series 5 en bénéficieront dans un premier temps, les Series 7 et 9 devraient également y avoir droit avec les prochaines générations de hardwares. C’est en tout cas la suite logique de cette transition progressive…


La navigation étant nettement plus facile au tactile, il va de soi que le public devra changer ses habitudes, les ordinateurs portables et fixes se transformant en somme en “hybrides”, à mi-chemin entre les ordinateurs qu’on connaissait jusqu’à présent et les tablettes. Quant à ceux qui gardent de mauvais souvenirs avec les précédents modèles de terminaux, sachez que la nouvelle génération est d’une précision redoutable, même si le toucher n’est pas toujours aussi agréable que sur smartphone…Ceci étant dit, ce sera bien entendu au consommateur de valider cette tendance, les chiffres risquant d’influer beaucoup sur les décisions des constructeurs.Si on s’attendait à ce que Samsung dévoile l’un ou l’autre gadget sous Windows 8, il faut bien admettre qu’on n’imaginait pas voir débarquer tout un line-up de produits, rassemblés derrière une seule marque : ATIV. A l’IFA, Samsung a fait sensation en dévoilant pas moins de quatre nouveaux produits sous Windows 8.
ATIV, c’est le nom choisi pour cette nouvelle gamme de produits. Samsung laisse donc tomber “Focus”, un nom qu’il utilisait pourtant depuis les débuts de Windows Phone 7 pour ces quatre lettres pour le moins étranges qui sont un anagramme de VITA, la dernière console portable de Sony.



Au total, quatre produits de la gamme ATIV ont été dévoilés, mais ils risquent d’être plus nombreux à débarquer en octobre prochain, lors de la sortie de Windows 8. Premier appareil sous le feu des projecteurs : l’ATIV Tab. Cette petite tablette de 10,1″ équipée de Windows 8 RT s’adresse à tout un chacun. Comme l’a expliqué Samsung au cours de sa conférence, c’est l’outil rêvé pour les grands voyageurs, de par sa connectivité (ports USB 2.0 compris), sa légèreté (570 grammes) et sa batterie (8200mAh). C’est également l’une des tablettes les plus puissantes du moment, avec un processeur double-coeur d’1,5 Ghz, 2 Go de RAM, une résolution de 1366×768, la NFC, un port HDMI et deux appareils photos : un dorsal de 5 mégapixels et un frontal de 1,9 mégapixel. L’ATIV Tab sera disponible en deux modèles : de 32 ou 64 Go, selon vos désirs.


Seconde tablette présentée, l’ATIV Smart PC est ce qu’on pourrait appeler un hybride, mi-tablette mi-ordinateur portable. Ce modèle se base bien entendu sur l’excellent Transformer Prime, tant dans son design que sa conception. Il est composé d’un écran-tablette détachable, et d’un clavier qui permet de transformer à volonté la tablette en ultrabook. Equipé de Windows 8 Pro, cet appareil se destine davantage à la classe business. Il est équipé d’une puce Intel i5 et est disponible en deux versions : la version classique à 128 Go, et la version Pro à 256 Go de SSD. Ultra-rapide, il dispose également d’un look très classe et de fonctionnalités haut de gamme. On citera ainsi une connexion Wifi / 3G / 4G, des ports USB, micro HDMI, micro SD, un adaptateur Ethernet, et d’une batterie offrant jusqu’à 13,5 h d’autonomie pour la version classique. Pour les autres fonctionnalités, il faudra malheureusement attendre que Samsung se décide à en révéler davantage sur le sujet…


Sans grande surprise, Samsung a également dévoilé sa nouvelle gamme d’ultrabooks, sous Windows 8. Et ce sont les Series 5,7 et 9 qui passeront en premier sous Windows 8. Au programme : des terminaux entièrement tactiles, qui reprennent le look traditionnel des différentes séries, avec l’habituelle technologie SuperBright, qui permet de pouvoir lire sur l’écran même en plein soleil, des processeurs divers allant du i3 au i5, sans oublier une mémoire interne relativement importante avec pas moins de 500 Go pour le Series 5. Les prix, eux, devraient s’échelonner de 600 à 1300€ environ. Plus de détails sur les différents modèles au cours des prochains jours.
Enfin, et c’est sans doute la plus grosse surprise de cette conférence : Samsung a dévoilé son premier smartphone Windows Phone 8, l’ATIV S. Et selon les premières spécificités révélées, il s’agit d’un terminal haut de gamme, disposant d’un écran de 4,8″ HD Super Amoled, d’un processeur double-coeur d’1,5 Ghz, de la NFC de 16 ou 32 Go de mémoire selon le modèle (avec possibilité de rajouter de la mémoire), d’une batterie de 2300 mAh, et de deux appareils photos : un dorsal de 8 mégapixels et un frontal de 1,9 mégapixel. Bref, une bien belle machine, qui devrait débarquer le 29 octobre chez nous, à un prix encore inconnu.


Depuis plus de 10 ans, des systèmes de localisation permettent de retrouver sa voiture volée après quelques heures seulement. Coûteux (entre 1.000 et 2.000€), ces appareils étaient jusqu’alors réservés à une clientèle aisée. Aujourd’hui, il est possible de s’en procurer un pour la moitié du prix.
Les «systèmes électroniques et services de localisation pour la gestion des risques liés à l’utilisation des véhicules, comme par exemple le vol» sont un marché florissant. Une entreprise française, déclare même que «depuis 2002, elle récupère 93% des véhicules volés équipés de ses systèmes après-vol.» Un chiffre important, quand 50% seulement des véhicules volés (avec et sans systèmes de localisation) finissent par être retrouvés.Jusqu’à il y a peu, ce genre de système était plutôt coûteux. «Entre 1.000 et 2.000 € l’appareil», explique Anthony Tudal, directeur commercial de Cobra France, compagnie qui commercialise ce genre de traceurs, au quotidien économique «Les Echos». Conséquence: seuls les véhicules haut de gamme en étaient équipés. Cela ne valait pas la peine d’investir une telle somme pour protéger des véhicules peu chers.



Mais les choses sont en train de changer. Cobra vient de lancer le «CobraTrak 3.0», le premier système de protection «après-vol» utilisant la technologie GPS et qui permet aux propriétaires d’un véhicule de le suivre à distance grâce à un smartphone ou un ordinateur portable, connectés à Internet. Avantage notable de ce petit bijou technologique: il coûte deux fois moins cher.Cette avancée devrait donc permettre d’augmenter encore le nombre de véhicules retrouvés suite à un vol, puisque le marché s’ouvre désormais à une gamme de véhicules moins coûteux. Surtout si les propriétaires de Twingo 1 et de Smart Fortwo, les voitures les plus volées en France en 2011, commencent à équiper leurs quatre roues de ces traceurs.Point positif pour la Suisse, certaines compagnies d’assurances réduisent les primes de leurs clients s’ils acceptent de s’équiper de ce type d’appareils.Les propriétaires d’un véhicule équipé du nouveau traceur peuvent donc connaître sa position en toutes circonstances. Utile quand on peine à se souvenir de l’étage du parking auquel on s’est garé. Mais le système permet aussi de suivre à la trace les trajets de son conjoint ou d’une personne à qui on prêterait sa voiture. Ou d’être suivi à la trace, vu d’une autre perspective. Une mauvaise nouvelle pour la protection de la vie privée.

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Akku für Samsung R45

Tobam lowered its position in shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) by 32.4% during the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 309,682 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock after selling 148,239 shares during the period. NVIDIA Corporation accounts for about 1.7% of Tobam’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 19th largest position. Tobam owned approximately 0.05% of NVIDIA Corporation worth $44,768,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.


A number of other large investors also recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Arete Wealth Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of NVIDIA Corporation by 0.3% in the first quarter. Arete Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 2,884 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $314,000 after buying an additional 10 shares during the last quarter. Family Firm Inc. increased its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 0.7% in the second quarter. Family Firm Inc. now owns 1,968 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $284,000 after buying an additional 13 shares during the period. Appleton Partners Inc. MA increased its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 1.2% in the second quarter. Appleton Partners Inc. MA now owns 2,570 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $372,000 after buying an additional 30 shares during the period. Miles Capital Inc. increased its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 1.1% in the first quarter. Miles Capital Inc. now owns 3,919 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $427,000 after buying an additional 41 shares during the period. Finally, Broderick Brian C increased its position in NVIDIA Corporation by 0.4% in the second quarter. Broderick Brian C now owns 13,806 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,996,000 after buying an additional 52 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 68.55% of the company’s stock.


At least four suspected women were apprehended during a raid conducted in Khayaban-e-Muslim on Sunday. The accused women were identified as Sana, Khadija, Ariba and Zarmin.


The spokesperson said that the accused women were involved in drug peddling. The spokesperson also claimed to have recovered arms, ammunitions and narcotics. The suspects were handed over to police for further investigations.



Separately, half a dozen suspects including a political worker were arrested during ongoing targeted raids by paramilitary force in parts of metropolis.


A political worker was arrested during a raid conducted by Rangers troops in New Karachi Industrial Area while the raid was conducted on a tip-off. Rangers spokesperson said that the accused identified as Shoaib aka Kodo was affiliated with Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London and has been involved in various cases of crime including anti state speeches.


In another raid, Rangers also claimed to have arrested an accused, namely Hidayatullah alias Enayatullah during a raid conducted in Manghopir area. The spokesperson said that the accused was involved in various cases of robberies.


Social worker escapes another murder attack


A social worker escaped a second consecutive murder attack in less than four months in a city on Sunday. According to details, a 38-year-old Muhammad Ilyas, son of Muhammad Hussain, who is also associated with the computer hardware business and runs his own private company at New Karachi Industrial Area, came under attack near Saba Cinema in New Karachi Industrial Area police remits while he was on his way to his godown in the same area.


Police said that Ilyas, a residential of Block 17, Federal B Area was on his way to go-down in his car when at least four armed men riding on two motorcycles came close to him and opened indiscriminate fire at him. However, the victim remained unhurt in the incident as he sped up his car and reached the police station. The culprits, however, managed to escape.


Police said that this was the second such murderous attack on the victim in four months as earlier the unidentified persons attempted to kill him near Allah Wali Chowrangi in New Karachi area on April 2017.


They said that nothing could say exactly about the motive behind the incident as what the police investigators were investigating the case from different angles as he has been involved in social activities, property business, and computer related business as well as has a political background.


The police was looking for the culprits that would help the investigators in ascertaining the motive behind the incident. The case has been registered while further investigation was underway.


Zu meinen neuesten Erkenntnissen gehört: Wir sind nicht allein. Nein, nicht, was Sie denken, ich bin nicht übergelaufen zu Aluhutträgern und auch nicht auf der Suche nach übersinnlichen Phänomenen. Aber es ist eine Tatsache: Auch wenn bei uns niemand zuhause ist – es ist trotzdem jemand da.


Das weiß ich seit neulich Nacht. Ich lag im Tiefschlaf, als mich eine Stimme aus dem Traum riss. Irgendwo sagte eine Frau: Es ist Rauch im Raum. Äh, was?! Ich fuhr aus dem Bett auf und fragte mich zwei Dinge. Woher sollte der Rauch kommen? Und wer zum Teufel war diese Frau? Ich hörte ein Piepen, dann wieder: Es ist Rauch im Raum, eine sanfte Stimme, überbetont höflich und sachlich. Ungefähr wie die Ansagerinnenstimme bei diesen Filmen im Flugzeug, wenn sie sagen: Blasen Sie die Schwimmweste nicht im Flugzeug auf, und niemals erklären warum: Weil man sonst nicht mehr durch den Notausgang passt und mit dem Flugzeug untergeht.


Von irgendwo im Haus sah ich blaues Licht zucken, irgendwas stimmte da nicht. Während ich panisch durchs ganze Haus raste, Herd, Öfen, Kühlschrank und Katze kontrollierte und nirgendwo auch nur den geringsten Rauch vorfand, rief mir die Frau fast schon gut gelaunt hinterher: Das ist ein Test. Ah, Danke, dachte ich und überlegte, auf wen ich jetzt wütend sein sollte. Oder auf was.



Auf dem Rückweg ins Bett entdeckte ich die Täterin quasi nebenbei. Auf einem Regal lag ein blaues Ding, das rhythmisch blau aufleuchtete. Ein Rauchmelder.


Am nächsten Morgen lernte ich, das es zu einem System aus Kameras, Rauch- und Bewegungsmeldern gehörte, mit denen sich Häuser und Wohnungen per Smartphone überwachen lassen. Das las ich Internet. Angeblich wusste das System auch, was eine Person ist und was nicht, stand da. Hm. Dann war der nächtliche Test also pure, personenbezogene Bosheit?


Das blaue Dings liegt inzwischen in einer Schublade, ohne Batterie, darauf habe ich bestanden. Zusammen mit weiteren Rauchmeldern und anderen Warnsystemen, die sich irgendwie als nicht praktikabel erwiesen haben.

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Battery for Fujitsu LifeBook NH570

This was nothing to be surprised about: in a shared-media setup the devices have to deal with the possibility of two endpoints trying to talk at once (a collision).I remember running PERFORM3 in the test lab of the publications I wrote for in the 1990s and watching with awe as throughput vanished down the toilet more and more as I introduced more endpoints. Wireless networking is a shared-media network. So if you connect more and more machines, it's going to run appallingly – just like Ethernet used to.Oh, and wireless networks run in unlicensed frequency bands. That means bands that aren't assigned to one specific company in a region, but instead are available to be shared by many.As one reference puts it: unlicensed operation typically needs to be tolerant of interference from other devices; and we're not just talking about other Wi-Fi networks. Ever fired up the ancient office microwave and watched what happens to the wireless LAN?That's because the 2.4GHz band is used by loads of stuff including microwave ovens and traditional Wi-Fi networks (802.11b and 802.11g, plus many 802.11n and 802.11ac LANs). (Incidentally, if ever there was a good reason to select the 5GHz option on your wireless kit, that is it.)


Then there's the cost. Yes, you can pick up the access point devices pretty cheaply, but that's just part of the battle. In a corporate network you need the ability to roam seamlessly around the building, with the network happily handing off connectivity as you move between coverage areas. This generally means using thin access points and a pair of central controllers (you'll want a pair for resilience, of course).Something like a Cisco 2504 will cost you around £1,700 per unit if you have 15 access points or fewer. Not bank-breaking, but add more access points and ramp up the licence and you'll be spending real money (£5,300, say, for a device that can run 50 access points).Finally, before we start talking about bits of network string, let's mention one last thing about wireless networking: although it looks easy, it isn't. Anyone who's ever sat in a classroom learning about wireless LANs (I did Cisco's Implementing Cisco Unified Wireless Networking Essentials a few years back, for instance) will have come out with their head spinning – it's a pretty complex area and aside from knowing how things work and how to configure them, you also need to be conscious of how to place your access points to ensure coverage within the building but minimise leakage out of the walls and windows. Again, not trivial.



We've established that there are some drawbacks with wireless, then. But aren't there some problems with cabled networking too?Yes, of course there are – the main ones being cost and inconvenience. LAN switches cost money and decent LAN switches cost quite a lot of money.Structured cabling also does not come cheap; flood-wiring even a medium-sized office can cost you a hefty five-figure sum. And once you've paid for the cabling and the kit, you then have the faff of re-patching stuff when people change desks (nobody with any sense will go to the expense of having enough LAN ports to patch every floor port, after all).The main advantage is the obvious one: if you have a Gigabit network, each endpoint gets 1Gbit/s of bandwidth. The network is no longer the bottleneck – if you have device A talking to device B while device C talks to device D, both pairs of endpoints will get the full network speed, as there's no need for collision detection or avoidance in a switched network.An increasingly big deal these days is the security of cabled networks. Even if you've designed your wireless network very well, you're unlikely to completely avoid leakage through walls and windows. If you use shared-key authentication at all (which is common for guest wireless networks), you'll need to be sure to change the key frequently or, preferably, use a hotel-style system whereby visitors get a one-time key that's valid only for the time they're with you.


(And if you think Oh, that's obvious, of course I'll change the key frequently: my phone still connects to a local company's guest Wi-Fi when I'm driving past, using the key I entered several years ago). With a cabled network, people have to get into the building physically to connect up, you can shut down unused switch ports, and you still have admission control functionality available should you want to be doubly sure that a device appearing on a port is legitimate and welcome.And having said all of this, if you still try to argue that wireless is the way to go, answer me this: if you love wireless so much, why not fit 802.11ac adaptors in all your servers the next time your data centre LAN kit is due for replacement?Don't get me wrong, wireless networking is great ... but only where its advantages are actually advantages. When you're sitting at your desk, a bit of wire is your friend: it gives your computer high-speed access to your data and applications. Where you're wandering around the building with your smartphone, tablet or laptop, the wireless network is fantastic because it gives you mobility at the times when you don't need super-fast performance.



But remember: the reason the wireless LAN is usable when you're bashing on your laptop in a meeting room is that most of your colleagues are sitting at their desks throwing electrons down bits of wire. Like 2.5-inch external drives which abandoned power cords ages ago, the 3.5-inch innov8 draws power from its host through its USB C wire.Seagate says it uses Ignition Boost Technology “which eliminates the need for a power adapter on an 8 TB desktop hard drive for the first time.”We guess it’s a kind of built-in adaptor. Seagate hasn't provided any details about it, saying only that it “is a true engineering milestone and breakthrough.”A Seagate blog about the drive states: An internal battery gives the drive a boost during its spin-up phase. Once the drive is up and running, the speedy new USB 3.1 bus technology works to keep Innov8 humming along—and keep the drive’s battery charged.It continues: Early on, when the drive is still cool, the battery supplies supplemental power to the hard drive ... But once the drive has warmed up, its power requirement is reduced and the host system is able to recharge the battery.So that's it; an internal battery to boost power during spin-up. Neat, but hardly a true engineering milestone.

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Battery for Samsung AA-PB8NC8B

But if someone gets their laptop nicked from the back seat of their car when parked in central London, they're stupid and the agreement should oblige them to stump up the cost.Before you send any email outside the company, think for a second before hitting “send”. If it has attachments, count to 10 before you do so. Are you sending anything that might be confidential or sensitive? Why are you sending it? Are you sure it's within your authority to send it? Is the recipient authorised to receive it? All users should err on the side of hitting “cancel” and consulting their manager or the company's legal officer if there's any doubt.If your company uses ID badges and card-swipe doors, encourage staff to challenge anyone who's not displaying their badge – even if they know them. You can never be 100 per cent sure that someone is meant to be there.Everyone I've ever worked with who's responsible for premises or security has bemoaned how hard it is to get people not to “tailgate” – that is to let the person in front swipe their entry card then follow them in without doing so yourself. And anyway, we're all taught that holding doors open for people is good manners. It's a security nightmare, though.


For instance, I was once sitting at my desk when I spotted someone whose Windows account I'd disabled a few hours earlier at HR's request because he'd left at short notice. I questioned his presence, and it turned out he'd come back to pick up something he'd forgotten and someone had held the door open for him on their way in. Happily he was a good guy and the separation had been amicable but that's not usually the case. So be strict about tailgating. And it's actually really easy to get the message across – check out item 10 for how to do it.Get your users to report stuff that they think suspicious – either hazardous or with the potential for a breach of confidentiality or process. Give them a way to do so identifiably but with guaranteed confidentiality (never anonymously – you can't follow up). Users are your eyes and ears on the ground – put it across to them that by reporting infringements they're helping the firm.Anyone who has gone through some kind of accreditation for process-based activity (ISO9001, for example) will know that the point of a process is that it's a standard way to do things that ensures uniformity. This doesn't mean that every department has to do things the same way: of course, sometimes you have instances where one or another department has a special system that requires some variation to the standard process.



In such cases you simple encompass the differences in an appendix or a separate sub-process. (My preferred approach is to have a company-wide process or policy that applies to everyone and then detail department-specific stuff separately). What isn't acceptable, though, is for self-important individuals to decide the processes and policies don't apply to them and do their own thing – the common situation being that they're desperate to get a lucrative deal over the line. In a company that doesn't have accreditations, it's bloody annoying and rude. In a company with accreditations, this kind of behaviour has the tendency to cause the ISO adjudicator to take away the certification.If you drill security and compliance into people, some may be tempted to take it to extremes and over-apply it. If it sounds daft, I've seen it. Make it clear that security comes second to safety: if my secure data vault's on fire and I'm inside, I really want you to break down the door and help me out.All of the above must be part of what all users sign up to conform to as part of their contract with the company – whether as employees, temps, contractors or part of some other third-party agreement. It's not a big deal – it should be part of the standard employee handbook, after all – and it's hard to think of a reasonable argument why people shouldn't be obliged to work with the company to keep things private.


Be reasonable and fair when enforcing the rules. I'm a great believer that an honest mistake is an opportunity to learn, and I don't beat people for honest mistakes; I help them understand why they shouldn't have done it that way. But if someone does something grossly negligent, get HR involved.You'll be amazed, when someone gets punted for emailing proprietary information to the competition, how everyone else is suddenly a whole lot more conscious of how they conduct themselves. If you want those new features, you'll need to re-install the whole thing rather than just doing an upgrade. If you're willing to endure that process, go get the trial code here and prepared to endure a 10GB download. Samsung Electronics has announced it's started baking RAM using a “10-nanometer (nm) class*” process and says the 8GB chips it's emitting are the first in the world to be manufactured in this way.Don't start trying to figure out how 10nm compares to the width of a human hair or the head of a really small pin, because that asterisk up there is Samsung's and leads to a disclaimer to the effect that “10nm-class denotes a process technology node somewhere between 10 and 19 nanometers, while 20nm-class means a process technology node somewhere between 20 and 29 nanometers.” Samsung's not saying just how big, or small, this RAM is.Even if Samsung is building at 19.9999999999 nanometers, the product is impressive because it involves “quadruple patterning lithography” and “ultra-thin dielectric layer deposition”. The former technology is all about doing more at smaller scales, so that chips end up with a higher “resolution” of features. The latter is about getting useful substances into useful places and in the case of this DRAM means getting insulators in place to stop current leaking.



Samsung's promising 10nm RAM in modules from 4GB to 128GB, the former for laptops and the latter for servers. All should hum along at 3,200 megabits per second while using about ten or twenty per cent less power than their bulk and clumsy 20nm predecessors.128GB RAM modules will be very welcome for those who operate servers at scale, as they will allow lovely loads of memory. Whether that will still matter once storage and memory all-but merge is anyone's guess. While we wait for that to happen, server-wranglers can dream of amazing density, gamers can dream about even faster fragging and laptop-luggers can dream about being expected to work everywhere, all the time, with even battery life removed as an excuse for not answering emails. Wireless networking is regarded by many as the way to go for corporate networking. No need for expensive structured cabling, no need to re-patch stuff when someone moves desk, and sufficiently secure to make it suitable for corporate use.I am inclined to agree with that last point: rank up the encryption to WPA2-AES and use 802.1x for admission control and you'll do OK. As for the rest... it's just tosh. Wireless sucks for general networking.Those of us old enough to remember Ethernet before the switch was invented will be familiar with how a shared-media Ethernet LAN degraded as you connected more and more devices. And for those who aren't old enough to remember: performance dropped like an anvil thrown off a skyscraper.

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Battery for Dell Inspiron N3010D

The projected image from his laptop came up Page not found – a common occurrence for Chinese internet users who live behind the censorship apparatus built by Binxing and run by the Chinese government.To the audience's amazement, Binxing then tried to bypass the firewall using a VPN installed on his computer – the same tool secretly installed by millions of Chinese to get around censorship efforts, but whose use is heavily frowned upon by officials.As his compatriots looked on, Binxing then had the equally frustrating experience of dealing with a slow and unstable connection to the outside world, with the link falling over twice as he tried to access Facebook and Google.In the end, he resorted to using Baidu to grab a screenshot of the Google homepage and continued with his talk. But a planned question-and-answer session at the end of the talk was abruptly cancelled.Binxing's problems were likely linked to an expansion of the Great Firewall in an effort to remove any mention of the Panama Papers leak story from this week.As has been reported by China Digital Times – a service run by the University of California, Berkeley – the Chinese government has expanded its censorship of news surrounding the offshore banking habits of the world's elites to include not only relatives of high-ranking Chinese officials, but any mention at all of the Panama Papers.


The millions of files from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca show that the families of at least eight current and former members of China's politburo are among those shown to have used offshore accounts to hide or obscure their wealth. The company today offered guidance for its first quarter, predicting sales of about 49 trillion Korean won and profits of around 6.6 trillion won ($5.6bn; £3.9bn).The well-received Galaxy S7 is suspected as the engine of the company's growth, with the new handset helping sales to go 2 trillion won past Q1 2015's effort and boosting profits by ten per cent. Sales are down a little compared to Q4 2015's 53.3 trillion won, but a little thing called “Christmas” tends to help in Q4. Even with the season for giving helping Q4 sales along, profit was 6.1 trillion won for Q4 so there should be smiles all round with this new result.One in five doctors’ mobile devices might be at risk of leaking sensitive data due to either malware or poor password security practices, according to a new study.Mobile threat device firm Skycure reports that 14 per cent of smartmobes and tablets containing patient data likely have no passcode to protect them. And 11 per cent of those running outdated operating systems with high-severity vulnerabilities may have stored patient data on them.



More than four per cent of all Android devices were found to be infected with malicious apps. Skycure estimates that 27.79 million devices with medical apps installed might also be infected with high-risk malware.According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, more than 260 major healthcare breaches occurred in 2015. Of those breaches, a small but significant minority – nine per cent – involved a mobile device other than a laptop.Skycure’s second Mobile Threat Intelligence report is based on worldwide mobile data from Skycure and third-party sources. The firm's mobile threat defence platform conducted 51 million network tests in 2015, and detected the installation of nearly 13,000 malicious apps. The report is based in part on millions of monthly security tests from October through December 2015 and includes both consumer devices and devices under management by Skycure in enterprise organisations. Data crunched as part of the study also includes Skycure’s proprietary Mobile Threat Risk Score, which acts as a credit score to measure the risk of threat exposure for mobile devices.


Looking outside healthcare industry specifically, the study also found that the percentage of devices with passcodes enabled rose slightly to 52 per cent in the last quarter of 2015 from 48 per cent in Q3 2015. The slight increase, which still leaves nearly half of devices completely unprotected, may be due to new devices activated over the December holidays featuring biometric passcodes, according to Skycure.The report also found that users of iPhones and iPads are more protected because they are much more likely to have the most current version of their device’s operating system than their Android counterparts.At the end of 2015, 88 per cent of iOS users had upgraded iOS 9, the most recent major version of the Apple mobile operating system. By contrast, only three per cent of Android users were using Android 6.0 or “Marshmallow” by the end of 2015, a shortcoming that leaves the vast majority of Android devices vulnerable to exploits targeting older versions of the OS.Android upgrade adoption is complicated by carrier and device manufacturer release times, so users in healthcare and elsewhere can't wholly be blamed for this. IT is perceived in mixed ways by users. Some look on the amazing stuff it does and think there must be witchcraft going on in there somewhere. Others think that because they configured their Wi-Fi printer and Sky box at home, they're a genius of computing.



If you're to preserve order, security and governance in the use of your technology, then you need to instil in all your users a handful of simple concepts that everyone from beginner to alleged genius can comprehend.You may think these are all really basic and obvious, and that I'm getting paid money for old rope to list them here … but I'll bet well under half of you reading this will find your organisation conforms properly to more than half a dozen.If you let someone know and use your credentials, they can break or steal something and leave your fingerprints all over the crime scene. Drill into users that they should never disclose their password – not even to the Service Desk when they're trying to diagnose something. As the IT person it's your job to give the Service Desk the right facilities to do their job without needing such access.If you use someone else's login, the chances are they may have access to something you don't. You really don't want to become party to information that you shouldn't know – it will inevitably bite you later. As with the previous note on password disclosure, you should put this point over firmly, but with a clear note that they're doing themselves a favour and covering their backsides by complying.If you issue company-owned portable kit – which usually means laptops and phones – make them sign for it and ensure that what they've signed makes clear that they have personal responsibility to take reasonable care of it. Of course, if any loss or damage incurred is reasonable (getting mugged, for instance, or something being nicked from a hotel room safe) then the company should cover the loss. And, in my opinion, if it's humorous enough (a user once reported the loss of his expensive pager to my team as “We think my three-year-old put it either in the bin or down the bog”) then that's fair game.

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Comme son nom l’indique, Animate It est une application qui permet de créer des séances animées grâce à la technologie du stop-motion. Créée par les créateurs du film Wallace & Gromit, l’application facilite la création d’une séquence animée. L’application retouche en réalité les quelques photos que vous avez prises au préalable pour créer une suite fluide et animée. Très simple à utiliser, Animate It permet de créer de petits montages sympas en deux temps trois mouvements. Son seul défaut n’est au final de ne pouvoir ajouter du son après enregistrement de la vidéo…Annoncée lors de l’E3 dernier, la plate-forme PlayStation Mobile est finalement disponible. Elle met à disposition des utilisateurs de certains smartphones et tablettes Android plusieurs dizaines de titres PlayStation.PlayStation Mobile, c’est la nouvelle plate-forme “jeux” de Sony sur supports mobiles. Elle donne accès à un vaste catalogue de jeux téléchargeables exclusivement sur les terminaux compatibles – comprenez par là les smartphones et tablettes Xperia du constructeur ainsi que la gamme One de HTC. Pour l’heure, le catalogue n’est pas encore très large, mais de nombreuses nouveautés devraient être proposées à intervalles réguliers.En plus de tourner sur smartphones et tablettes, PlayStation Mobile est également compatible avec la console portable Vita, ce qui permet au fabricant nippon de booster son catalogue de jeux. Sur Vita, la section apparait automatiquement. Sur smartphones et tablettes en revanche, il faut télécharger l’application “PlayStation Mobile for Android”, disponible gratuitement sur le Google Play.


Pour l’heure, pas vraiment de titre révolutionnaire à noter. Les jeux proposés sont pour la plupart de mini-jeux qui coûtent entre 50 cents et 12,99 euros.Tout comme les autres fabricants, Dell ne se passera pas de Windows 8 pour la fin d’année. Le fabricant mettra en avant une gamme de trois produits, destinés à trois marchés totalement différents…Objet de convoitise pour les amateurs de tablettes, le Latitude 10 est une tablette de 10″ tournant sous Windows 8 “Pro”, plutôt que RT. Un argument de choix pour le fabricant, qui a souhaité offrir un produit compatible avec une large gamme de softwares et ce même si le prix de ce Latitude 10 sera forcément plus élevé que la moyenne. En pratique, il s’agira donc d’un PC portable sous forme de tablette. Il pourra être rattaché à un dock et divers accessoires pourront y être branchés, d’une manette à une souris en passant par un clavier. Pour le reste, le Latitude 10 sera doté d’un processeur Intel dual-core de 2Ghz, de 128 Go de mémoire (+SD), d’un appareil photo de 8 mégapixels, d’une sortie miniHDMI et même d’un lecteur d’empreinte.



Le grand frère du Latitude 10, le Latitude 6430u, s’apparente pour sa part à un ultrabook pur et dur, disposant d’un écran de 14″, et avec une résolution de 1366×768. Il tourne sur base d’un processeur Ivy Bridge (au choix i3, i5 ou i7), dispose de jusqu’à 8 Go de RAM et 256 Go de stockage SSD.Enfin, l’OptiPlex 9010 est un PC tout-en-un de 23″, avec écran tactile et écran rotatif, dont nous vous avions déjà parlé il y a quelques semaines.Si les prix de ces appareils ne sont pas encore connus, on sait déjà qu’ils devraient arriver le 25 octobre en magasin et visent principalement les professionnels. Un parti pris logique de la part de Dell, vu le nombre de fabricants à s’intéresser au consommateur lambda.Pocket Photo, c’est le nom d’une petite imprimante portable de 212 grammes seulement, équipée des technologies NFC et Bluetooth et capable d’imprimer en moins de temps qu’il n’en faut pour le dire une photo prise avec son smartphone ou sa tablette.


A l’heure où les jeunes asiatiques, friandes d’impressions et de mobilité, sont en quête d’accessoires toujours plus “tendance”, cette petite imprimante portable pourrait bien faire fureur en Corée. Certes, le format des photos en 2″x3″ rappelle à plus d’un titre les Polaroid, et ne donne pas une grande liberté aux utilisateurs. Néanmoins, la qualité d’impression montrée dans la vidéo de démonstration démontre à quel point cette technologie continue d’évoluer rapidement et pourrait rapidement remplacer d’autres formats d’impression…Disponible pour environ 130€, l’accessoire est fourni avec une application de retouche photo, téléchargeable gratuitement sur le Google Play.Nous connaissions déjà l’USB, l’USB 2.0 (devenu la norme), l’USB 3.0, censé devenir la nouvelle norme avec ses 4,5 watts. Désormais, il faudra également compter sur l’USB Power Delivery, une technologie révolutionnaire qui devrait permettre de recharger son ordinateur avec un simple câble USB…


Présenté en fin de semaine dernière à l’IDF, l’USB Power Delivery est la nouvelle norme USB, qui devrait devenir une réalité dès la fin de cette année. Soutenu par HP, Intel, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Dell, Qualcomm et ST-Ericsson, l’USB Power Delivery est une technologie révolutionnaire qui permettra d’utiliser l’USB comme moyen de rechargement d’une batterie d’ordinateur portable et de tablette. En d’autres termes, l’USB Power Delivery sera tellement puissant qu’il sera capable de remplacer le câble d’alimentation.Supportant jusqu’à 100 watts, soit 20 fois davantage que l’USB 3.0, il devrait devenir la nouvelle norme dès 2014. Cette année, plusieurs terminaux devraient déjà être équipés de ce nouveau port, qui permettra de recharger des appareils nettement plus volumineux mais également de transférer de plus gros volumes en moins de temps.



Rétrocompatible, l’USB Power Delivery pourrait rapidement devenir un argument de vente pour les prochains modèles d’ordinateurs portables. Les fabricants semblent en tout cas bien décidés à exploiter cette technologie le plus rapidement possible et proposer une vaste gamme de terminaux compatibles aux horizons 2013.Parmi les autres atouts de l’USB Power Delivery, on note la bidirectionnalité de l’alimentation électrique, qui permettra d’interchanger la source de l’énergie et le destinataire. Ainsi, il sera possible de charger un périphérique USB à l’aide d’un ordinateur mais également d’utiliser ce périphérique pour recharger son ordinateur si jamais on tombe par exemple à court de batterie dans un moment critique. Une fonctionnalité qui changera définitivement nos habitudes…Véritable jackpot pour l’industrie des technologies, l’USB Power Delivery pourrait donner un coup de pouce à plusieurs secteurs, dont celui des ordinateurs, qui souffre de fortes carences depuis plusieurs trimestres…

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If you think getting knocked around in your backpack on the subway is tough on a computer, try going into space, where radiation and cosmic rays can cause sensitive computer equipment to degrade and fail.


Aerospace company BAE Systems has just announced a new computer it calls "radiation-hardened." According to the company, the new RAD5545 "provides next-generation spacecraft with the high-performance onboard processing capacity needed to support future space missions," and is faster and more power-efficient than its predecessor.


Because it's a single-card computer with all the components on one circuit board, it's smaller, with fewer parts to potentially fail, and it uses specially insulated components to protect against radiation. Long-term trips, such as to Mars, would especially require computer hardware that could stand up to the long-term rigors of space travel.


Hewlett Packard Enterprise meanwhile is trying a different approach to dealing with radiation. It's space-testing relatively ordinary computers with software to detect and correct radiation-induced computing errors.


The FBI lied to the American Center for Law and Justice, says ACLJ's Jordan Sekulow, about having documents and relevant material regarding a meeting last June between former President Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch.


The meeting took place on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport within days of a scheduled FBI interview with Hillary Clinton regarding classified government emails shared on her private computer server.


The ACLJ is trying to uncover the truth about the 30-minute meeting in which Lynch claims she and the former president only discussed his golf game and grandchildren.


When the meeting was first reported, the ACLJ filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Department of Justice and FBI requesting relevant documents and information. The FBI responded quickly saying it had no documents. The Department of Justice didn't respond.



An initial document dump of 420 pages received by the ACLJ shows both the FBI and DOJ tried urgently to manage talking points and media spin about the Clinton-Lynch meeting.


Appearing on The Global Lane this week, the ACLJ's Jordan Sekulow discussed efforts to uncover the truth and said the documents show the FBI's security detail may have worked together with former President Clinton's detail, but much of the information has been redacted by the FBI.


Sekulow wants to know what was discussed between the two security details, who requested the tramac meeting, and why.


Sekulow also talked about the recent arrest and indictment of Pakistani computer whiz, Imran Awad. He worked for Democrats on the House Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees and was accused of stealing computer hardware and sensitive—perhaps even classified information from ranking members including his employer, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) Florida.


Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC bought a new position in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) during the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund bought 78,544 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $11,354,000.


Other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation by 7.4% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 37,580,211 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $4,093,612,000 after buying an additional 2,597,209 shares during the last quarter. Edgewood Management LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation by 21.9% in the first quarter. Edgewood Management LLC now owns 5,987,970 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $652,270,000 after buying an additional 1,074,303 shares during the last quarter. Janus Capital Management LLC increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation by 20.0% in the first quarter. Janus Capital Management LLC now owns 5,368,881 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $584,832,000 after buying an additional 895,591 shares during the last quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation by 46.6% in the first quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 5,257,325 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $572,695,000 after buying an additional 1,672,231 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Wellington Management Group LLP increased its stake in NVIDIA Corporation by 499.0% in the first quarter. Wellington Management Group LLP now owns 4,104,980 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $447,156,000 after buying an additional 3,419,701 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 68.55% of the company’s stock.


NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 10th. The computer hardware maker reported $1.01 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.69 by $0.32. NVIDIA Corporation had a net margin of 27.41% and a return on equity of 39.59%. The company had revenue of $2.23 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.96 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.53 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 56.2% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts predict that NVIDIA Corporation will post $3.60 EPS for the current year.


The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 18th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 24th will be issued a dividend of $0.14 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, August 22nd. This represents a $0.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.34%. NVIDIA Corporation’s dividend payout ratio is currently 15.86%.



A number of equities analysts have recently weighed in on the company. BMO Capital Markets reissued an “underperform” rating and issued a $85.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Wednesday, May 10th. Mizuho reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $180.00 price target (up from $170.00) on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Friday, August 11th. Susquehanna Bancshares Inc reissued a “neutral” rating and issued a $140.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Wednesday, August 16th. Bank of America Corporation reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $185.00 price target on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Wednesday, June 21st. Finally, Roth Capital reissued a “neutral” rating on shares of NVIDIA Corporation in a report on Wednesday, May 10th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have issued a hold rating, twenty have given a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. The stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $144.95.


In other NVIDIA Corporation news, Director Mark L. Perry sold 16,281 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, August 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $162.24, for a total value of $2,641,429.44. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 48,069 shares in the company, valued at approximately $7,798,714.56. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, Director Tench Coxe sold 50,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, June 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $164.53, for a total transaction of $8,226,500.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 475,518 shares of company stock valued at $73,752,579 over the last quarter. 5.17% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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I lead the engineer into the living room to inspect the offending IoT device which is sitting lifeless on the floor. She rests the toolbox next to it and, after passing me a torx screwdriver for a few moments, calls up a maintenance manual on the laptop. Her actions leave me no opportunity to make any further cheap sexual innuendo. None whatsoever.Inconceivable though it may seem to Generation Z, when I was little, we used to be visited every now and again by a what we used to call a “television repair man”. He would drive up in a van clearly marked “TV Repairs” and enter the house dressed in a boiler suit. He would throw down rubber mats, tether the TV to a cable leading directly to the Earth’s core and insist that everyone stays well back or, preferably, leave the house altogether and stay in a hotel while he completes the life-threatening process of “re-aligning the electron guns”.This sounded so exciting, like he was in Star Trek or something. In my childish imagination, I remember wondering whether, if two TV engineers should ever turn up at the same address by mistake, they would spring into a fight to the death like Kirk and Spock. Lord knows what I would have thought if any of them had ever turned up at the house wearing a red boiler suit: a gonner for sure.
Over the years, the TV repair man has vanished. Modern TVs are more reliable and relatively cheap to replace, and the options for fiddling around the back of an LCD, LED or plasma unit are not as varied as they were for gigantic CRT sets. TV repair men retrained as satellite dish installers, then got sick of technology repeatedly ruining their careers and ended up retraining as licensed taxi drivers.


However, the commonplace sight of the suburban electrical maintenance engineer similar to the old TV repair man could be about to make a comeback thanks to the groundswell of interest in IoT devices in the home. As with connected and autonomous vehicles, before we know it, IoT will rapidly switch from magazine-article silliness to real-world implementation in everyday domestic items.As those of you who already work in the hardware site maintenance sector, the IoT equivalent of TV repair men will be called “field service technicians”. Instead of labelling their vans “IoT repairs”, they will adhere to the modern tech conceit of idiot hipster startup branding that combines an inability to spell with an inexplicably compulsive fetish for dropping vowels – such as TekRpr, GajFix or BggrAyshn.And they will be in competition with each other in more ways than one. At least the old TV repair man only had to contend with standards such as UHF and domestic current, common to all TV sets. With the IoT, as I’ve mentioned before, there are no standards that manufacturers are prepared to adhere to. Every bloody unit will be using proprietary software components jealously guarded by patents and spewing out radio noise that will conflict with all the other devices in your house. To solve such conflicts, field service technicians can just increase the signal of the devices they have been called upon to fix so that it drowns out everything else.



I can see this ending up with fisticuffs between field service technicians. So perhaps my childish Star Trek-heightened imagination wasn’t far wrong. My advice? Wear a blue or yellow boiler suit and you’ll probably survive.The engineer in my living room has finished rebooting my IoT device. It was simply due a replacement for a slightly worn hardware component, she tells me. But not to worry, she has updated the firmware and next time this kind of issue arises, the device will contact the maintenance centre to put a replacement on order while messaging me a reminder that a maintenance visit might be due shortly.This works by the manufacturers keeping a virtual 3D working model of my unit back at the field service centre, the virtual device mirroring the real-world one.Same as for my self-driving car when the tyre tread is running thin, I think to myself. That’s a good thing. On the other hand, I’ve always hated the way printers force me to replace toner and ink cartridges that aren’t quite depleted. I hope I can choose when and how to replace these things, rather than virtualisation being used as another excuse to extort more cash out of me.


Another professional job done, the engineer sends me my invoice from her laptop and begins collecting her implements. In a plain and thoroughly innuendo-free manner, she asks me for me to hand back the screwdriver.ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday frolic through readers' experiences of being asked to sort things out in the office, or outside it and outside office hours.This week, a pair of responses to recent On-Call stories in which readers confronted secret directories full of decidedly Not Safe For Work images.Reader “Dave” told us about the time he worked at a financial services company and was asked to rebuild a PC.Mere minutes into the job and Dave says “a picture of a lady in a compromising position” appeared.Dave was “called over by the excited teenage build guy who couldn't believe what he had seen.” As a wise older hand, Dave told his underling to just delete the image and arranged for a quiet word to be said to the user when the PC was returned.Said user was having none of it and declared “It must have been the IT guy who downloaded the image.”


“By the time the guy had got back to his desk, his login wouldn't work,” Dave says. “He had to return his PC (which he wasn't happy about) as 'we must have missed a step.' As soon as it was returned, I then started work and the user's manager was subsequently presented with a list of the user's dodgy Netscape history and the names of some images in his cache.”Dave didn't tell us what happened next, but it doesn't sound pleasant because he told us the consequences “Served the guy right for not accepting the slap on the wrist.”Reader “Shawn” has a similar story. Shawn works “at a large multi-national corporation, in IT” and that was recently privileged to make the acquaintance of “a new manager, young and just out of college.”Said manager had a problem with his laptop, so Shawn and his crew backed it up before trying to fix it.That process took rather longer than expected, given that the chap hadn't been on the job for long so shouldn't have had much data to back up.



The cause? Shawn says “those types of files names started scrolling by.”“Long story short, we felt obligated to report it. He had over 8GB of smut on his laptop, and even had them in the same My Pictures folder along side his wedding photos.”“Needless to say, he was terminated that day and walked out by our security folks.”“Just goes to show, some folks can earn a degree, but still be as dumb as a rock. LOL.”You'll get no complaints with that one, Shawn. I've got a degree and look how low I've fallen – Reg hack. So help me out by clicking here to send your tale of odd jobs you've been asked to do at odd times. Good 'uns will end up in future editions of On-Call, all appropriately anonymised of course. The architect of China's Great Firewall was forced to use a VPN to bypass his own creation in a lecture this week on internet safety.Fang Binxing was speaking at his old university, the Harbin Institute of Technology in Heilongjiang, China, when he attempted to access webpages hosted in South Korea as a way to illustrate a point about internet sovereignty.

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On newer phones, the researchers say, the most dangerous vulnerability – that the attacker can get access to the Android userspace – has been plugged. An attacker can still, however, place calls and send text messages.On older devices (their example is an S4 mini), commands can be used to abuse some Android settings. For example, the AT+USBDEBUG command enables USB debugging, and AT+WIFIVALUE enables the device's Wi-Fi.ACSC 2016 Australians are having their retirement savings accounts drained as hackers move to breach broker platforms rather than the tougher target that is banking infrastructure.The Australian Federal Police AFP are investigating a spike in breaches against devices used by brokers who administer boutique, self-managed superannuation funds. Some brokers manage hundreds of such funds, a service that helps investors who think they can do better by picking their own retirement savings-boosters instead of relying on a larger fund.Self-managing a fund may be financially prudent. But the AFP warns that service providers are not as security-savvy as large superannuation funds.


“Some of these brokers are running Bittorrent, Counterstrike, and then logging into broker software and managing hundreds of accounts,” Australian Federal Police cybercrime team leader Scott Mellis told The Register.The easy target that is a poorly-managed PC means criminals have “tried their trojans and are now moving away from targeting banks,” Mellis added.Mellis says breached brokers have fixed their poor security postures after being notified by the Federal Police.Australians can withdraw superannuation funds before the age of 55 only under limited circumstances.The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says scammers exploit this allowance by using stolen identity credentials to set up self-managed super funds where balances and be transferred and then withdrawn.The free HTTPS certificate service says that not much will change, other than shedding the beta label.Since our beta began in September 2015 we've issued more than 1.7 million certificates for more than 3.8 million websites, the team said on Tuesday.



We've gained tremendous operational experience and confidence in our systems. The beta label is simply not necessary any more.Along with dropping its beta label, Let's Encrypt announced Tuesday that it had signed a fresh round of sponsorship deals, including one with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which will be joining as a silver sponsor. Meanwhile, Cisco and Akamai renewed their platinum sponsor agreements and Gemalto said it would be backing Let's Encrypt as a gold sponsor. The snafu stemmed from a database crash. Problems first surfaced at 1000 UTC (1100 BST) on Monday and dragged on until lunchtime on Tuesday, as detailed in a series of updates to Symantec.cloud’s client portal (extract below) from Tuesday breakfasttime.Our engineers have advised that the database restoration process is nearing completion with error checking and analysis to follow. Our infrastructure team continue to investigate all possible options to bring the service to production as quickly as possible. Please accept our profuse apologies for any inconvenience caused.
The glitch affected access to the portal and therefore affected customers’ ability to manage their accounts. El Reg understands that the message filtering service offered by Symantec.cloud (formerly MessageLabs) nonetheless operated as normal.


Without this you cannot register/remove email addresses or perform any changes, Jon, one of two Reg readers who notified us about issues, commented. Apparently the $6bn company only has one copy of their Portal database.UK spy agency GCHQ tried to prevent a Harry Potter book from being leaked online, according to its publisher.Reminding people that the listening post doesn't use its extraordinary broad powers solely in the pursuit of terrorism, publisher Nigel Newton of Bloomsbury recalled how he was approached in 2005 by GCHQ after the snoops thought they discovered an early copy of The Half Blood-Prince online.Someone from GCHQ then read out a page from the book to an editor, who said it was actually fake, Newton told Australia's ABC radio. The Sunday Times asked GCHQ for a comment and it responded: We don't comment on our defense against the dark arts.Which is pretty funny if you choose to forget that the agency claims it scours the internet and stores vast databases of information on everyone solely in the pursuit of, er, serious crime and terrorism. IBM Watson Health has closed its $2.6bn acquisition of Truven Health Analytics. The deal is set to bring medical data into Big Blue's health-data business arm, specifically covering cost, claims, quality and outcomes information. El Reg has provided more information on the acquisition here.



Here we go, you’re thinking: yet another puerile SftWS column opening with cheap sexual innuendo. Well, not this time, young Bucky. It’s been four years almost to the day since I first began writing these weekly rantings, so it’s about time I put an end to such smut.Allow me to put things into their proper context. The woman ringing the doorbell is an engineer. She is carrying a metal toolcase in one hand and a ruggedised laptop in the other. See? Perfectly straightforward. No more innuendo from me.Not wanting to waste time, she demands that I show her my Things.OK, sorry, I couldn’t resist – old habits die hard and all that. Let me continue. The engineer has come over to investigate a problem with one of my Internet of Things devices. Things you see? I’m so funny, I could crap myself.My house is full of IoT devices, from stationary items such as my fridge-freezer to those that trundle around the house by themselves all day, such as my vacuum cleaner. One of them has broken down and refuses to self-reboot. The last thing it did before going offline was to send out a distress message to the manufacturer’s service agent, hence the engineer visit.


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What would you do in this situation? We've cooked up a poll that includes Flash's response, plus some sensible alternatives. After you vote, go to page two to learn what really happened.The documents were left unprotected in the folders of the Windows desktops and contained information sufficiently sensitive to cause massive damage to at least three firms.That mess was one of several illustrations Ronaldson offered delegates of the Federal Government's Australian Cyber Security Conference in Canberra yesterday.The co-founder of Adelaide-based consultancy Risk Offensive says corporate sensitive data is being stolen by local and international hackers, taxi drivers and clerks – or simply being lost due to execs' own epic security blunders.“The business centre was jammed with tenders and financial information,” Ronaldson says.“Some taxi drivers get paid a lot of money to hand off information about the people who get in their cabs, to supply their audio and video footage.Ronaldson illustrated other ways executives can be hosed while travelling. One executive for an unnamed Australian firm lost every tender it submitted after a staffer's laptop was compromised at an overseas industry conference.


Those tenders were hoovered up by a rival which used the information to get a cheap head-start on the company.Another individual had blueprints for a new communications system stolen when he was invited to speak on the subject at a foreign industry conference.Ronaldson advised enterprises to enforce a privacy lockdown on executives' social media accounts such as Facebook if the high fliers insist on sharing travel information such as their check-in to airlines' frequent flyer lounges.He says all devices taken on overseas trips must be quarantined before they are connected to corporate networks to mitigate the very real risk of compromise.For best practice, top executives should leave their personal and corporate devices at home and travel with burner phones and laptops.Before you go on your business trip, know the adversary has already watched you, already knows your flight, knows that you love going to the lounge and watching the footy, and that you put your bag down and go for a drink. The specification means makers of USB devices will be able to encode them with information about their source and function. When connecting to those devices, machines like computers or phones will be able to read that descriptor and choose to connect, or not, depending on policies.



The USB 3.0 Promoter group says “For a traveler concerned about charging their phone at a public terminal, their phone can implement a policy only allowing charge from certified USB chargers.” Or perhaps you're worried that your organisation's laptop fleet could be compromised by rogue USB devices, in which case you “can set a policy in its PCs granting access only to verified USB storage devices.” It's not clear if that will allow organisations to specify individual devices, or just devices whose manufacturers have implemented the spec.USB-C needs this spec for two reasons. One is that, not to put to fine a point on it, users are idiots. How else to explain the fact that almost half the people who pick up a USB stick they happen across in a parking lot plug said drives into their PCs. Once USB-C becomes ubiquitous and makes a single wire responsible for carrying power and data, even the dimmest hackers will likely cotton on to the opportunities to craft crooked chargers or other evil devices.The second is that there are lots of scumbags churning out second-rate electronics to make a quick buck. We already know that poorly-wired cables capable of frying kit are enough of a menace that Amazon.com recently banned the sale of non-compliant cables on its digital tat bazaar. If devices flag such kit as sub-standard, or refuse to connect to them, it's therefore a win for all but the junk-slingers.


Details of the spec can be found in the revised USB 3.1 spec (54MB .ZIP file. Feel free to trawl through it for the finer points of the authentication. The TL:DR version is that it “references existing internationally-accepted cryptographic methods for certificate format, digital signing, hash and random number generation,” so it sounds like a conventional issue-certificates-and-check-them caper.Doubtless the revised spec explains the efforts folks behind it tried to make the authentication bullet-proof. And as sure as night follows day, efforts to find loopholes in the spec that make it possible to crank out fake kit that presents itself as authentic will surely commence.A bunch of Samsung Galaxy variants leave their modems open to receiving AT commands over the USB cable, even when they're locked.Before you dismiss the vulnerability as a local privilege escalation (which it is), consider how many people would be happy leaving a locked phone on their desk because you need the code to unlock it.The researchers, Roberto Paleari and Aristide Fattori, write that when connected to a laptop via the USB cable, the phones either automatically expose, or can be forced to expose, a serial interface that communicates with the USB modem.



“This communication channel is active even when both USB tethering and USB debugging (i.e., ADB) are disabled,” they write, “and can be accessed even when the device is locked. An attacker who gains physical access to a (possibly locked) device can thus use this interface to send arbitrary AT commands to the modem. This permits to perform several actions that should be forbidden by the lock mechanism, including placing phone calls or sending SMS messages.”Older devices expose the USB serial modem by default – for example, it turns up on a Linux laptop in /dev as a TTY device. For newer units, the attacker would have to switch the device to USB configuration number 2 – but the phone doesn't have to be unlocked for that to happen, as the researchers explain:“For our PoC we developed a very rough C tool, usbswitcher, that switches any attached Samsung device to USB configuration #2 (this is fine for the devices we tested, but your mileage might vary). The tool uses libusb to do the job, but the same task can probably be accomplished using the /sys/bus/usb pseudo-filesystem.
The trick we used to force the phone to switch the configuration is to first reset the USB device (via usb_reset()), and then switching the configuration (via usb_set_configuration()). Sometimes it doesn't work at the first try, so just run usbswitcher twice to ensure the configuration is switched properly :-)”

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Batterie pour ASUS UX31E Ultrabook

Ce mardi, le fabricant de drones chinois DJI a dévoilé deux nouveaux drones qui promettent d’apporter une nouvelle norme dans l’imagerie aérienne. Découvrez le Inspire 2, qualifié comme la « plateforme prête à voler pour le cinéma professionnel et les créateurs de contenu vidéo », et le Phantom 4 Pro, qui promet d’être « la caméra volante la plus créative et la plus intelligente dans ce format ». Donc, peu importe où vos aventures vous emmènent, ces drones sont prêts à vous aider à mémoriser vos meilleurs souvenirs.« Les cinématographes et photographes professionnels cherchent toujours à aller plus loin et à créer des images jamais vues auparavant. Chez DJI, nous cherchons toujours à leur donner les outils pour qu’ils réalisent leur vision », a déclaré Frank Wang, PDG et fondateur de DJI. « Nos nouvelles plateformes de vol et caméras aériennes stabilisées sont plus intelligentes, plus rapides et plus puissantes que jamais », poursuit-il.Prenez, par exemple, le Inspire 2. Ce dernier bénéficie d’une impressionnante vitesse maximale de 108 km/h, et est capable de passer de 0 à 80 km/h en seulement 4 secs. Le drone dispose d’une caméra orientée vers l’avant, qui donne une vision adéquate au pilote. Le cadreur reçoit le flux vidéo de la caméra professionnelle Zenmuse fixée sur la nacelle. Il est compatible avec les nouvelles caméras Zenmuse X4S et X5S et avec d’autres caméras prochainement. Et, grâce au nouveau système de traitement d’image nommé CineCore 2.0, de gros fichiers d’image peuvent être traités plus rapidement que jamais.


Le Inspire 2 peut capturer des vidéos en 5,2 K à 4,2 Gb/s pour le format Adobe Cinema DNG RAW, et même si vous capturez de la vidéo tard dans la nuit, soyez rassurez, son temps de vol est décent. Après tout, son système à double batterie assure un temps de vol est de 27 min, et assure un retour au point de départ sûr. En cas de panne d’une des batteries, l’autre fournira suffisamment de puissance pour faire demi-tour.Une série d’accessoires DJI puissants sont là, et répondront aux besoins des opérateurs dans des conditions de tournage variées.Quant au Phantom 4 Pro, ce drone promet un système d’imagerie puissant pour les créateurs de contenu vidéo ou photo, mais aussi pour les non-professionnels. Avec un capteur de 20 mégapixels et la plage dynamique de presque 12 diaphragmes, la caméra sur le Phantom 4 peut vous aider à capturer des niveaux de détail et des performances de faible luminosité sans précédent dans un appareil volant de cette taille. Grâce à la fonctionnalité FlightAutonomy, le Phantom 4 Pro peut éviter des obstacles, même dans des environnements 3D complexes, et éviter un atterrissage sur des surfaces accidentées ou sur de l’eau.



Ce drone dispose également ActiveTrack, qui reconnaît des sujets tels que des personnes et des vélos, puis les suits de tout angle, tout en maintenant une mise au point de la caméra. Vous serez ainsi suivi en permanence, avec une excellente qualité.Le Phantom 4 Pro est équipé d’une technologie de batterie haute performance qui fournit un temps de vol de 30 minutes. Il vole à une vitesse de 50 km/h en mode P, avec le système d’évitement d’obstacles actif, et atteint un maximum de 72 km/h en mode sport.Le prix du Phantom 4 Pro est de 1 699 euros avec une radiocommande standard. Le Phantom 4 Pro+, qui inclut un drone Phantom 4 Pro et une radiocommande avec un écran intégré à forte luminosité, sera disponible pour 1 999 euros. Le drone Inspire 2 est quant à lui vendu au prix de 3 399 euros. Le Combo Inspire 2, qui inclut un drone Inspire 2, une caméra Zenmuse X5S, les clés de licence CinemaDNG et Apple ProRes, est disponible pour 7 098 euros.Depuis l’avènement de l’iPad, Apple a répondu aux questions concernant la possibilité pour les ordinateurs Mac d’un écran tactile. Si Microsoft gère ceci avec l’impressionnante gamme Surface, pourquoi pas Apple ? Selon le vice-président senior du marketing d’Apple, Phil Schiller, il n’est pas si simple de glisser un écran tactile sur ses Mac.


En fait, il est allé jusqu’à qualifier le concept « d’absurde » dans une interview accordée à BackChannel, étant donné les défis que cela poserait à la gamme Mac dans son ensemble.« Nous pensons à l’ensemble de la plate-forme d’ordinateurs de bureau », a déclaré Schiller. « Si nous devions faire du multi-touch sur l’écran d’un ordinateur portable, ce ne serait pas suffisant. Pouvez-vous imaginer un iMac de 27 pouces avec une telle expérience ? Essayez de toucher et de faire des choses sur une telle surface. Cela devient absurde », précise Schiller.C’est clairement une problématique de fragmentation. Tandis que les appareils iOS disposent légitimement d’un écran tactile, et qu’ils partagent une interface semblable (même en tenant compte de l’iPad Pro et son Pencil), Apple ne tient pas à avoir des écarts d’ingénierie entre les expériences macOS à travers les dispositifs.L'idée d'un iMac tactile ne sera qu'un rêveL’idée d’un iMac tactile ne sera qu’un rêve
Cela est particulièrement évident lorsque l’on tient compte de la façon dont nous utilisons abondamment la souris et le touchpad. « Vous ne pouvez pas optimiser l’expérience pour les deux », a ajouté Phil Schiller.Cela ne veut pas dire qu’Apple n’a pas expérimenté l’idée, puisque Phil admet que la société a travaillé sur les Mac à écran tactile « un certain nombre de fois au cours des dernières années ». Mais ceux qui ont l’espoir d’un écran tactile pour un Mac devront soit patienter, soit aller voir la concurrence.Mozilla a commencé à mettre à jour le navigateur des utilisateurs vers Firefox 50. L’attraction principale de la nouvelle version du navigateur est le démarrage plus rapide, en particulier pour les utilisateurs ayant beaucoup d’extensions installées. Mais, il y a beaucoup d’autres améliorations pratiques pour améliorer votre navigation quotidienne.



Mais ce qui devrait jouer le plus en faveur de la Surface, ce n’est pas tant son prix mais bien ses caractéristiques. Tout d’abord, l’appareil tourne sous Windows 8, ce qui lui promet un bel avenir côté applications et fonctionnalités. Ensuite, elle est issue d’un système beaucoup plus ouvert que celui de l’iPad, ce qui ouvre aussi de nouvelles possibilités aux possesseurs de cette tablette… Côté connectivité par exemple, elle pourra compter sur un port USB 2.0, une sortie audio jack et une sortie vidéo HD. Compatible Wifi et Bluetooth elle embarque pratiquement toutes les mêmes fonctionnalités que celles de l’iPad de dernière génération avec un écran un peu plus large mais une moins grande densité de pixels. Ses plus gros atouts? Son côté professionnel, ses caractéristiques hybrides et surtout son clavier détachable.