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Simpana 8.0 and Linux Clients – 19:599

Recent experience with Simpana is that jobs are submitted to for backup yet fail instantly after the job is started with error 19:599. Not much to go by and not much in Google either; nor the forums.

This issue seems to happen after the upgrade of Ubuntu based client to OS and security patches to 14.04.

Re-installing, reboot of the client and connectivity tests (ping, dns resolution, telnet client 8400+8402 to CV, and Media box; then all the way back again) do not resolve the issue.

After enough days of reading longs, the /etc/hosts file was found to be bad in that erroneous entries as such were present:

127.0.1.1 Localhost

One would expect the CV agent to be bound to an IP address, however along the way you will be fooled by the simple fact that the machine is about to answer to pings, had the required ports open, dns also matches its IP address, and firewalls have been disabled for testing purposes, so, from a network point of view; all is well. Change this and you will be in business.

Resolution is as follows:

  • Change the /etc/hosts entry with your favorite txt editor hosts to the actual IP of the client:
    • Original – 127.0.1.1 Localhost
    • New – x.x.x.x fqdn
  • Restart of the Simpana services from terminal using sudo simpana restart 
  • Check that your services are running with sudo simpana list

You will now find out that restarting the job with allow for a successful backup.

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ARM details its new high-end CPU core, Cortex A72

LONDON—At its annual, somewhat exclusive Tech Day event, ARM has detailed its new high-performance CPU core: Cortex A72. In simple terms, the A72 is a faster, more efficient, and smaller version of the Cortex A57. The first 16nm FinFET mobile SoCs with the Cortex A72 CPU will likely ship in 2016, fabricated by TSMC. In the words of Mike Filippo, ARM’s chief architect for Cortex A72, “Our focus on A72 was to achieve next-gen performance and pull a ton of power out of the design. We did that in spades.”

Read on, source: ARM details its new high-end CPU core, Cortex A72 | Ars Technica

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Critical HTTPS bug may open 25,000 iOS

At least 25,000 iOS apps available in Apple’s App Store contain a critical vulnerability that may completely cripple HTTPS protections designed to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks that steal or modify sensitive data, security researchers warned.FURTHER READING1,500 IOS APPS HAVE HTTPS-CRIPPLING BUG. IS ONE OF THEM ON YOUR DEVICE?Apps downloaded two million times are vulnerable to trivial man-in-the-middle attacks.As was the case with a separate HTTPS vulnerability reported earlier this week that affected 1,500 iOS apps, the bug resides in AFNetworking, an open-source code library that allows developers to drop networking capabilities into their iOS and OS X apps. Any app that uses a version of AFNetworking prior to the just-released 2.5.3 may expose data that’s trivial for hackers to monitor or modify, even when it’s protected by the secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol. The vulnerability can be exploited by using any valid SSL certificate for any domain name, as long as the digital credential was issued by a browser-trusted certificate authority (CA).

Read on, source: Critical HTTPS bug may open 25,000 iOS apps to eavesdropping attacks | Ars Technica

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ChromeCast – $35 stick

Via theregister.co.uk..

Review Google’s Chromecast has finally gone on sale in the UK after an age of waiting following its initial US release in July last year. This digital media player in the form of an HDMI dongle delivers streaming content to a telly including support for the BBC’s iPlayer. It’s only 30 quid too – so you might as well buy one even if it turns out to be crap.

Google ChromecastHere at last, Chromecast

Well that’s kind of what happened to get a review sample in a timely fashion – with Amazon delivering the next day as promised. UK buyers can also find it at PC World and Currys for the time being.

The Yanks have had plenty of time to get used to the idea of Chromecast and while streaming sticks and boxes are hardly unique, Google’s approach is rather different for computer use, as it relies on the Chrome browser being installed where individual tabs can be Cast to the Chromecast device.

Google Chromecast Android prerequisites and iOS configuredGoogle Cast app: Android prerequisites (left) and iOS configured (right)

A cynic might argue that Chromecast is yet another way of broadening the user base of the Chocolate Factory’s surfing software. Perhaps, but there are iOS and Android Chromecast apps that locate and set up the device, as well as enabling other apps to cast to the diminutive Google …. article continues here

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And for a little Youtube demo: