cool old term This retro styled Terminal Emulator could be the coolest weve seen yet!

cool old term This retro styled Terminal Emulator could be the coolest weve seen yet!

Weve seen Terminal Emulators of all sizes and shapes for Linux, but nothing like this yet. cool-old-term is one gorgeous looking Terminal emulator. 

How to install cool-old-term Terminal Emulator in Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17?

• Developed by Swordfishs Labs,  cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

• Uses the Konsole engine which guarantees a trouble-free experience. Heres what you need to do install and use cool-old-term in Ubuntu 14.04.

• Copy-paste the following command into Terminal.

sudo apt-get install git build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qtdeclarative5-controls-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin libqt5qml-graphicaleffects qtdeclarative5-dialogs-plugin qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-window-plugin

• All the important dependencies are now installed. Compile and install cool-old-term in Ubuntu 14.04 by using the following commands. 

git clone https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term.git
cd cool-old-term
cd konsole-qml-plugin
qmake && make && make install
cd ..
./cool-old-term

• Execute the commands one by one. The final command will launch the cool-old-term for you. Heres a few more screenshots. Let us know how well it worked for you.

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Could This Be The End For Bitcoin Unlimited

Could This Be The End For Bitcoin Unlimited

20 Bitcoin Exchanges have agreed to list Bitcoin Unlimited (BTU/XBU) as an altcoin, if a hard fork should occur.

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BTC & BTU

In the midst of a heated discussion on the scalability and future of Bitcoin, a group of 20 Bitcoin exchanges, including major eastern and western ones, have announced that should a hard fork occur, they will list BTC (Bitcoin Core) and BTU (Bitcoin Unlimited) as two separate currencies.

This decision, backed by BitFinex, BitStamp, Kraken, BTCC, BTCChina, ShapeShift, BitSquare, QuadrigaCX, and other exchanges, was announced in a joint statement.

This announcement reads:

Since it appears likely we may see a hardfork initiated by the Bitcoin Unlimited project, we have decided to designate the Bitcoin Unlimited fork as BTU (or XBU). The Bitcoin Core implementation will continue to trade as BTC (or XBT) and all exchanges will process deposits and withdrawals in BTC even if the BTU chain has more hashing power.

These exchanges have pledged to only add Bitcoin Unlimited (BTU) as an altcoin only if both chains can be run without any conflicts, something that currently is a concern due to the risk of transaction replays.

A few hours after this announcement, Poloniex and BitMEX joined in as well, both supporting the plan released by the other exchanges. BitMEX in particular stated:

BU will not be listed or used as a deposit/withdrawal currency until replay protection is implemented and BU is not at risk of a blockchain reorganization if the Core chain becomes longer.

Transaction Replays & Hard Forks

This isn�t the first time a major cryptocurrency has come under danger of hard forking; in fact, Ethereum experienced a similar situation last year. However, this wasn�t without mishaps; Ethereum experienced a number of replay attacks after the fork.

A replay attack is where a transaction carried out on one chain is broadcasted on the other chain. For example, Bob may want to send BTU to Alice. However, this transaction could be rebroadcast on the BTC chain, meaning that Bob would lose both his BTU and BTC.

The announcement states that the exchanges will only list Bitcoin Unlimited if the replay attack vector is eliminated, such as by changing address formats or moving coins to new addresses.

�[N]one of the undersigned can list BTU unless we can run both [blockchains] independently without incident. Consequently, we insist that the Bitcoin Unlimited community (or any other consensus breaking implementation) build in strong two-way replay protection,� the group said. �Failure to do so will impede our ability to preserve BTU for customers and will either delay or outright preclude the listing of BTU.�

The End of the Road for Bitcoin Unlimited?

This new decision could be a devastating blow to Bitcoin Unlimited�s (BU) approach in what has been a tough week for BU. Earlier this week, a critical bug was discovered and later patched, but not before taking half the network�s nodes offline and leading many in the community, including Andreas Antonopoulos, to question BU�s code QA (quality assurance) process.

BU has shipped an exploitable bug on a code base that is 0.001 of the size of Cores. Thats several orders of magnitude worse QA process

� Andreas (@aantonop) March 15, 2017

Additionally, according to coin.dance, a large majority of the companies and services in the Bitcoin Space prefer SegWit over Bitcoin Unlimited by a wide margin.

Furthermore, a majority of miners also support Bitcoin Core. However, if Bitcoin were to fork off into Bitcoin and Bitcoin Unlimited, the loss of a large amount of hashpower could still be detrimental to Bitcoin.

Many users and prominent community members have also voiced out against Bitcoin Unlimited, believing that it is a rash and unprofessional attempt to scale bitcoin or even an �attempted robbery.� Some have even gone as far as to suggest a User Activated Soft Fork (UASF), a type of fork where nodes actively reject blocks that don�t signal for SegWit activation.

However, this might not even be necessary, seeing that many exchanges will now only see Bitcoin Unlimited�s approach as an attempt to create an altcoin.

Do you think that Bitcoin Unlimited will try to hard fork the network? If so, do you think that their chain will survive? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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Images courtesy of Coin Dance, AdobeStock, Shutterstock

The post Could This Be The End For Bitcoin Unlimited? appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.

Original article:http://dlvr.it/Nfjns8

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Cron to be deprecated in favor of Upstart in Ubuntu

Cron to be deprecated in favor of Upstart in Ubuntu

Ubuntus Upstart is an init daemon replacement, quite analagous to OS Xs launchd. Launchd also replaced cron on OS X - and upstart plans to replace cron on Ubuntu. No telling when, but all my cron jobs will need to be reformatted.

Update: Sept 2011. Three years later and still waiting...

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Could this be the new more beautiful Moto 360

Could this be the new more beautiful Moto 360

As the first circular Android Wear watch the Moto 360 certainly impressed in terms of style, but a better successor was always inevitable. It looks like that successor might be here sooner rather than later, as an image of it has apparently been spied.

The photo was posted to Weibo by none other than Lenovos own CEO Yang Yuanqing, so it seems likely that its the real deal.

Its since been removed, but not before it was spotted by MyDrivers, alongside a quote which translates roughly to "Moto 360, matching the arrival of the era of freedom, in the future we want to increase the store features a watch shop."

Well take answers on a postcard as to what that means, perhaps its hinting at more customisation options? Thats certainly what the image itself seems to show, with a watch that looks a lot like the Moto 360 but seemingly with two different sizes available.

Small and colourful

The larger one looks like its probably around the size of the current Moto 360 and then theres another slightly smaller option, a promising sign for anyone who finds the current model too chunktastic.

As well as two size choices theres a wider variety of colours on show, with straps and watch faces in various gold, silver, black, brown and grey shades.

The design of the watch appears slightly different to the current Moto 360 too, with lugs on either side of the face to connect the strap to, rather than attaching it underneath the body. That may also mean that it supports normal watch straps.

There are enough changes here that it looks likely that this is an entirely new smartwatch, rather than just a variant on the existing Moto 360, but sadly one thing seems to have stayed the same: the black bar beneath the screen, leaving it as not quite a full circle.

Hopefully the final version ditches that, as well as packing in a better processor and a bigger battery. With an image already in the wild we might know more soon.

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Copy and CudaDrive will be discontinued

Copy and CudaDrive will be discontinued

Today I got one questionable mail survey about cloud services and I thinking about the cloud and prices.
Now I saw one news about Copy and CudaDrive after my Dropbox take some space.
The news its come from Copy and CudaDrive and will be closed.
This is the message from oficial website: copy.

Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued. We are announcing today that the Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued on May 1, 2016. Copy and CudaDrive have provided easy-to-use cloud file services and sharing functionality to millions of users the past 4+ years. However, as our business focus has shifted, we had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the Copy and CudaDrive services and allocate those resources elsewhere. For more information on this decision, please view the blog post from Rod Mathews our VP & GM, Storage Business.

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