Paul Baliker - sculptor of nature’s.

Paul Baliker has been sculpting wood and bronze for 35 years, working out of his studio in the Hammock, where he also maintains a gallery.

I like this:

 

News: Tutorials with node.js and jpm.

Dear friends,
... today I started a new series of tutorials.
The subject from this is firefox add-ons with node.js.
Into this tutorial, we can see the first steps to make one unsigned default addon.
I used Windows OS, but also you can install under Linux OS easy node.js.
Most of Linux users can know how to do it.
The first tutorial is here.
Thank you. Best regards.

 

News: OpenBSD and Nightly Mozilla Firefox security.

W^X ("Write XOR Execute"; spoken as W xor X[1]) is the name of a security feature present in the OpenBSD operating system. It is a memory protection policy whereby every page in a process' address space is either writable or executable, but not both simultaneously. from wikipedia.

The new Nightly Mozilla Firefox comes with enabled the security feature W^X.
Also will be it available to other versions of its web browser once they are upgraded to version 46.
The implementation of W^X makes all Just in Time ( named JIT) code page working with the browser.
This will need to write to pages, a function needs to be called to explicitly make the page writable. Also, that will remove the execute flag at the same time. The good thing is the permissions for memory pages which allows the compiler to patch code without performance overhead.

Joanna Rutkowska talk on the 32C3 streaming site.

Joanna Rutkowska covered the last few decades of security on computers.
You can see Joanna Rutkowska 32c3 streaming media.

Nemesis Bootkit Malware the new stealthy Payment Card.

After I read many articles I got this infos about Nemesis Bootkit Malware:
 - suspected to originate from Russia;
 - infect PCs by loading before Windows starts
 - has ability to modify the legitimate volume boot record;
 - seam to be like another Windows rootkit named Alureon;
 - intercepts several system interrupts to pass boot process;
 - can steal payment data from anyone's not just targeting financial institutions and retailers;
 - this malware hides between partitions and is also almost impossible to remove;

I think about the antivirus and internet security solutions can deal with this type of issues.

Take a look at how fast working the scan disk and how it's working the memory traps, how it's working the booting process or maybe try to see how selinux works.
In my opinion these Antivirus and Internet security solutions are just not effective in design and heuristic detection.
Most of that the prices of this softwars is huge versus non make anything all.

Maybe will see into the future a mega malware wich jump from first boot to any operating system and this because the hardware is more complex and fast.

How to fix Grub2 bootloader flaw.

According to researchers Ismael Ripoll and Hector Marco,who wrote this article:

A vulnerability in Grub2 has been found. Versions from 1.98 (December, 2009) to 2.02 (December, 2015) are affected. The vulnerability can be exploited under certain circumstances, allowing local attackers to bypass any kind of authentication (plain or hashed passwords). And so, the attacker may take control of the computer.

Just hit the backspace key 28 times at the Grub username prompt during power-up.
This will open a Grub rescue shell with the rescue shell allows unauthenticated access to a computer and the ability to load another environment.
The Grub versions 1.98 to 2.02 are affected and suffer integer overflow problem.
The basic of the fault lies within two functions; the grub_password_get() function and the and grub_password_get() script.
To fix it use this patch.

5 Sci-fi Body Hacks That Actually Exist .

Ghostscript tutorial ...

Today I wrote a simple tutorial about Ghostscript under Windows 10.
Most parts of this tutorial can be used also with Linux - example only.
Also the part of stack working on Linux like Windows.
I will come also with one tutorial about Ghostscript and Linux only.
The tutorial can be found here.

News: Nvidia VR with SDK.

November 18, 2015: NVIDIA released the GameWorks VR and DesignWorks VR Software Development Kits.
The 1.0 SDK releases also add support for Windows 10.
The main reason is a complex challenge VR versus graphics processing to traditional 3D apps and games.

You can read more about this here and can also see this video:

Fedora 23 - error with win qemu and virtualbox.

First I try to use WinQemu from here : qemu-w64-setup-20151115.exe 2015-11-15 11:15 22M QEMU Installer for Windows (64 bit).
I use this commands for qemu:
C:\qemu>qemu-img create -f qcow2 fedora23_disk.img 8G 
C:\qemu>qemu-system-x86_64w.exe -hda fedora23_disk.img -cdrom Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso -boot d
The output error come with this image:
 
I try also with VirtualBox - using same size 8Gb of disk image but seam come with errors.
 I use Intel CPU 2117U @ 1.80Ghz / 4Gb Ram and Nvidia Geforce GT 740M video card, but seam this not help me.
Why Fedora team ? Why ?

MultCloud - free provide 10TB.

MultCloud(https://www.multcloud.com/), a FREE and easy-to-use web app, supports for Managing Files and Transferring Files across Cloud Drives. Free provide 10TB traffic for data transmission.

News: Google Play Store increasing file size .

To help developers build apps , Google Play Store increasing file size limit from 50 MB to 100 MB.
Seam Google wants to encourage developers to create richer apps and games.
Also, users will see a warning only when the app exceeds the 100MB quota and makes use of Expansion Files.
You can read more at support googleplay apk

GIF file animated with open-source software.

I tested the Blender 3D version 2.76 with Inkscape and Synfig to make this GIF animated.
This is the result :

I used the default cube from Blender 3D to make a SVG image. 

Also I working with Synfig software to create this GIF. 

I will make one good tutorial about this GIF. 

I hope this will help you to find new ways to deal with the open-source software.