For a seeming eternity Ubuntu has for whatever reason failed to ship a version which upon install that can pair properly with Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard. Bug after bug has been filed on this to no avail. So to my lack of suprise, after installing the new 10.4 (Lucid Lynx), Bluetooth would not pair with the keyboard.
Luckly, the situation has seem to improved to the point where only two changes are needed to get it working:
aptitude install blueman
- Add hid_apple to /etc/modules (must be first) to allow Bluetooth to survive a reboot.
Progress? Kinda…..
10.4, apple bluetooth keyboard, apple keyboard, bluetooth, lucid, ubuntu
I downloaded the newest Ubuntu to toy with in VMware and I really had the great desire to strangle who ever decided it would be a good idea to move the minimize, maximize, and close buttons to the LEFT side of the window bar.
After my momentary, are you kidding me, thoughts, it occurred to me that OSX has the same setup.
Now, interestingly enough I have a Mac and I use the left side buttons on it. Yet for at least a hour I continued to try to click at the right to get things closed in Ubuntu. Muscle memory, for those who do not think consciously about where to click when getting rid of, was going to cause me headache for the foreseeable future.
So to save you the headache I went through, enjoy the fix (from the command line):
gconftool-2 –set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout –type string “menu:minimize,maximize,close”
I was looking over the WSJ and I stumbled upon an article on video feeds from predator drones being intercepted by insurgents. I had to stop and re-read. Intercepted with a “$26 off-the-shelf software”. Are you kidding me? Let me add some salt to this wound.
“The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn’t know how to exploit it, the officials said.”
Classic security through obscurity. Lets hope they won’t figure out how to exploit it, genius. Every transmission should be protected from interception and tampering. To not do such a thing on a military drone is just incompetence.
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