The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 2 – Wall Construction and Music

2016-11-04 KENNETH 0

The “Internet of Stranger Things” Wall, Part 2 – Wall Construction and Music Overview I do a lot of woodworking and carpentry at home. Much to my family’s chagrin, our house is in a constant state of flux. I tend to subscribe to the Norm Abram school of woodworking, where there are tools and jigs for everything. Because of this, I have a lot of woodworking and carpentry tools around. It’s not often I get to use them for my day job, but I found just the way to do it. In part one of this series, I covered how to use Windows Remote Wiring to wire up LEDs to an Arduino, and control from a Windows 10 UWP app. In this post, we’ll get to constructing the actual wall. This post covers: Constructing the Wall Music and UWP MIDI [ more… ]

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USN-3123-1: curl vulnerabilities

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USN-3123-1: curl vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3123-1 3rd November, 2016 curl vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in curl. Software description curl – HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP client and client libraries Details It was discovered that curl incorrectly reused client certificates whenbuilt with NSS. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to hijackthe authentication of a TLS connection. (CVE-2016-7141) Nguyen Vu Hoang discovered that curl incorrectly handled escaping certainstrings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl tocrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrarycode. (CVE-2016-7167) It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled storing cookies. A remoteattacker could possibly use this issue to inject cookies for arbitrarydomains in the cookie [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for Mobile and PC

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for Mobile and PC Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14959 for Mobile and PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. The Windows 10 Creators Update Last week, we held an event in New York to share our aspiration to empower a new wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Creators Update and new devices such as the Surface Studio and Surface Dial. You can catch up on all the details on the things we announced at the event by checking out this blog post from Terry Myerson. As I mentioned last week, Windows is an iceberg, the features that people “see” are quite a small percent of the engineering work that we do to enable new UI to be visible. Windows Insiders [ more… ]

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Introducing Unified Update Platform (UUP)

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Introducing Unified Update Platform (UUP) We’ve updated over 400 million devices running Windows 10 to date and release new builds to Windows Insiders nearly every week. That is pretty incredible if you think about where we were just 2 years ago. But we know we can do even better! Our customers have told us they would like updates to be more seamless, that they’d like more control over the timing of when updates are installed, that they’d like updating to require less local processing and thus improve battery life, and that they’d like download sizes to be reduced. We’re working on all of the above. In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we added active hours and improved the control capabilities for our customers. In the next Windows 10 update, we’ll be improving that and more. Today, we are ready to [ more… ]

Why legal admin and film festival manager, Luci Hamilton, loves Surface

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Why legal admin and film festival manager, Luci Hamilton, loves Surface “I truly believe that the Surface is a superior product for what we do in our industry.” Legal administrator Luci Hamilton at the 2016 Broad Humor Film Festival. No two days are the same when you’re managing a legal office, and efficiency counts. Surface saves Luci time every day as she runs from meeting to meeting and crisis to crisis. Initially she got Surface Pro because “I can take my desktop with me without having to carry a 100-pound laptop.” She was traveling a lot and just wanted something light but powerful. Surface works for Luci because she still gets the “prettiness of a tablet,” but gets to keep all her files with her. Luci has been a law practice management consultant for nearly 30 years, from the department [ more… ]