Windows 8 Conusumer Preview is available for free download on Microsoft site here, or even skip directly to ISO download page.

Please be aware that there is no rollback procedure and that you will either have to buy it, or reinstall your computer once it's released on the market so try to backup your hard-drive before upgrading, or try it in VMWare/VirtualBox/....

If you install Windows 8  using the Windows 8 Setup program, you won't be asked for a product key  If you skipped to the ISO download page, you'll need to enter this product key:NF32V-Q9P3W-7DR7Y-JGWRW-JFCK8.

Want to be in the first Windows 8 Devs ?  Microsoft is starting bootcamps to get started like this one.

If you had this issue  when updating your Google Chrome version from the market, you're a vistim of a new Google Security Check for Chrome.

Google decided to force a compatibility check to verifiy that you are using one of the official Ice Cream Sandwich Builds.

The fix is to edit a line in /system/build.prop.

$ su
# mount -o remount,rw /system
# vi /system/build.prop

You will need to replace "ro.build.id=GWK74" with "ro.build.id=IML74K" with your favorite editor. Eg: s/GWK74/IML74K/ in vi .

If you are not comfortable with this modification people have already packaged the change for various platforms, like Eyeballer for HT TouchPad.

Hope this helps.

Current post applies to Ubuntu 10.04LTS, but procedure should be the same on any Debian flavoured distribution.

Once again, first thing first, let's install pound using aptitude

$ sudo aptitude install pound
Setting up pound (2.4.5-3) ...
 * pound will not start unconfigured.
 * Please configure; afterwards, set startup=1 in /etc/default/pound.

Let's configure :

$ sudo vi /etc/pound/pound.cfg
ListenHTTPS
Address 127.0.0.1
Port 443
Cert "/etc/pound/cert/rapidssl.pem"
xHTTP 0 

Service
  BackEnd
    Address 127.0.0.1
    Port 40404
    End
  End
End

echo "startup=1" > /etc/default/pound

You're almost done. Guess what's next. Starting it up

How much confidence do you have in those ?

Do you store your eBanking or Paypal passwords here ?

Perhaps you should not.

All cloud based services are claiming they are secure, and I really hope they are but there are some caveat you have to be aware of before using such services.

First thing first, ensure the service is "protected" by a master password that CANNOT be recovered but still can be changed.How likely is it to lose you master password ? Yes, very unlikely, I'm sure you wrote it somewhere (That's bad) or know it by heart because you use it everywhere (That's also bad). You'll think I'm paranoid, I'm not, not enough.

You master password should be unique,strong and never written, ever. Unique because you might tell someone your dropbox password to print that document you need, your amazon password to check if your order has been delivered before going to the post office, and so on. You can't trust others, they will try to use your password to connect to you GMail, your Paypal, your .... anything. And guess what, if they saw your using <pick a cloud password service here>, they might also try it here too. And guess what, they will know much more about you there than what you'd have expected to.

You password should not be recoverable for similar reasons,  let's put up a simple scenario based on real office life. You're at your desk with some browser open, some guy come up to ask you for anything in his office, you leave your desk without locking your computer... You'd never do that ? Perfect. Let's continue the story, your email client is open and/or password is "Always remember me on this computer", guess what's next ? "Reset password".

Now if you still want to store you passwords in the cloud, I don't mind, it's you, not me. By the way you should still think about free and open alternatives such as KeePass, a safe and cross platform alternative to the cloud.

Why using KeePass ?  It's free, open, encrypted, works with Two-Factor authentication, and YOU, and only YOU know who can access it, your USB Pendrive, your home folder, not a stranger that Keylogged your password randomly.

Still sceptical ? LastPass Security Notice - LastPass Vulnerability -   CVE-2009-1781 ...

According to the changelog it should improve your Wifi experience :

ALPHA3.5
* Video playback improvements
* UI Composition improvements(nothing major)
* 3D speed improvements in some circumstances
* 3D game compatibility improvements(Shadowrun tested, but other games may work better as well)
* Some changes to wpa_supplicant, remains to be seen whether it makes any difference

You can of course download the latest update at the usual place : RootzWiki forums

• The iPhone support is quite good, if IOS is your target of choice, MobileIron is definetly a MDM platform to try.
• Good provisionning support for VPN, Certificates, mail accounts, Wifi settings
• Requires an Apple Enterprise license
• Good public/company app store support
• Android support is somehow messy :
• No support of the native android mail app, (Android limitation)
• Tightly integrated with "Touchdown" an App from Nitrodesk, which is not as good as expected and costs more or less $20 by device,
• No good VPN support yet, (Android limitation)
• Admin platform is quite usable with little training
• Integration with Lotus Notes Traveler instead of MS Exchange is working
• Jailbreak detection is reliable so far

We also faced a few issues:

• Out of sync devices might not be able to sync again
• Bad wrong password support (Esp. on password changes + android)
• Changing ActiveSync settings might lead to HUGE battery + data usage

- Bluetooth proximity sensor plugin
-> Use BlueZ for python, sample here : Google code repo
- Twitter/Facebook posting plugin
-> Use Twitter python bindings : Google code repo

Domogik has a quite modular database approach, I was quite lucky as my schema was quite close to theirs.

1. Install apache2 + php5 + phpmyadmin on your domogik host

$ sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin


1. On your old host

Go to your table, Operations > Copy table to
Choose Structure + data, new table should be named `core_device_stats`

1. Check the schema used by domogik, at the time of my writing columns are as follows :

id date timestamp skey device_id value_num value_str

1. Check the device numbers used in domogik DB, table is `core_device`
2. Match your sensors ids with domogiks
3. Rename / edit your column to match domogik's schema
4. Export as CSV
5. Imports onto Domogik host

Enjoy !
If you need help, please add a comment, I'll help if the question is clear enough.

This is a small step-by-step of how I installed domogok + domoweb from mercurial on a clean Ubuntu Server 10.04LTS + OpenSSH Server role.

All the steps below are a compilation of infos from the wiki + IRC chats.

First thing first ... connect to your box using ssh as user and update the system before installing required packages.

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
$ sudo reboot  # I'm sure you also add a kernel update in there 
$ sudo aptitude install mercurial python2.6-dev gcc libssl-dev libmysqlclient-dev\
 mysql-client  mysql-server-5.1 make ed autoconf libusb-dev swig git-core\
 libyaml-syck-perl libanyevent-perl

Create MySQL Database

$  mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 39
Server version: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 (Ubuntu)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>  CREATE DATABASE domogik;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql>  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON domogik.* to domogik@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'domopass';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit
Bye

Fetch the mercurial sources

$ hg clone http://hg.domogik.org/domogik/
$ hg clone http://hg.domogik.org/domoweb/

If needed, install OWFS :

$ cd
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/owfs/owfs/2.8p4/owfs-2.8p4.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf owfs-2.8p4.tar.gz
$ cd owfs-2.8p4
$ ./configure --with-python
$ make
$ sudo make install

Install domogik :

$ cd domogik/
$ sudo ./install.sh
$ sudo /etc/init.d/domogik start
$ sudo cp /etc/default/domogik /etc/default/domogik.sav # Workaround
$ cd ~/domoweb/
$ sudo ./install.sh
$ sudo rm /etc/default/domogik # Workaround
$ sudo mv /etc/default/domogik.sav /etc/default/domogik # Workaround
$ sudo /etc/init.d/domoweb start

Enjoy your installation on http://your_ip:40404

Additional, udev rules :

$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 04fa:2490 Dallas Semiconductor DS1490F 2-in-1 Fob, 1-Wire adapter
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC

The rule will be :

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", SYMLINK+="teleinfo", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04fa", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2490", SYMLINK+="onewire", MODE="0666"

Into /etc/udev/rules.d/domogik.rules

CM7 for HP Touchpad is out !!!!

Short Changelog :

ALPHA3
* Last prominent form of "sleep of death" fixed
* Webkit backing store(smoother scrolling)
* Minor improvements to 2D/3D performance in some apps
* Bluetooth DPad/arrows do not rotate with screen
* Battery stats now available to Android
* Serial# now populated
* Shorter hostname as a result of serial#
* General wifi fixes
* Preliminary Touchpad 4G support(no radio)
* Status bar should take less resources after an app goes full screen
* Possible fix for A2DP and wifi interference
* Possible fix for SD card not mounting
* Camera FPS improved but still nearly nonfunctional

You can find the download link + full topic on RootzWiki original thread