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Its late summer and we all know what time that is…….. Conference time. Thats right  all the big conferences (except shmoocon)   happen around late summer. Every year all the conferences make badges for the people to access misc things at the events. Well Defcon always has the best badges and this year is no different ! Introducing the The Ninja Party Badge is all about ninja battles between badge holders. Each badge can detect other badges in the area and allows the wearer to fight them. Winning a fight means more experience points.

The fun doesn’t stop there though. Base stations running Android and placed around the party will collect information about these battles and post up results on a leaderboard. Did we also mention virtual items are awarded for completing missions too, which can then be used as power-ups during fights?

The DefCon Ninja badge is like a real-life equivalent of an MMO and is sure to be a hit with DefCon attendees. The cost of creating the badges has been covered by Facebook and Lookout sponsorship.

Read more and see a load more images of the badge at Wired.com

ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE !!

To upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -d” (without the quotes) into the command box. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ’10.04′ is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

To upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 on a server system: install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed; edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set Prompt=normal; launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d; and follow the on-screen instructions.

To upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on a server system: follow the same instructions as for Ubuntu 9.10, but set Prompt=lts instead of Prompt=normal.

A newly released report shows that based on more than a trillion Web requests processed in 2009, the use of malicious PDF files exploiting flaws in Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat not only outpaced the use of Flash exploits, but also, grew to 80% of all exploits the company encountered throughout the year.

Are the flaws in Adobe’s product line becoming the cybercriminal’s favorite exploitation tactic? Depends, since from another perspective malicious attackers don’t have preferences, they exploit whatever is exploitable.

Here is the rest of the article ….

Great article  on secure operating systems …

Me personaly I love it installing it this morning on my rooted moto droid.
There was no need to reflash to old firmware before. Just updated over the air and it was up and running.
The only thing was it un-rooted my phone, no big deal though. By the end of the day I allready saw a post on how to root the new 2.1 firmware

Click to read more about how i put together this server

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Mobile Parabolic Dish with SMA connection

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Follow the parts list ….

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Click to read more about Debricking Fon and Serial Port Install

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