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13 Feb 12:05

New Dungeons & Dragons Video Game Includes "Dungeon Master Mode"

by Stew Shearer

Dungeons & Dragons: Sword Coast Legends will feature a 4-vs-1 Dungeon Master Mode that gives one player a unique tool set to guide, aid or hinder players in their dungeon dives.

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29 Sep 18:29

Call for Testing: Docker 1.0.1 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty)

by Dustin Kirkland

Docker 1.0.1 is available for testing, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS!

Docker 1.0.1 has landed in the trusty-proposed archive, which we hope to SRU to trusty-updates very soon.  We would love to have your testing feedback, to ensure both upgrades from Docker 0.9.1, as well as new installs of Docker 1.0.1 behave well, and are of the highest quality you have come to expect from Ubuntu's LTS  (Long Term Stable) releases!  Please file any bugs or issues here.

Moreover, this new version of the Docker package now installs the Docker binary to /usr/bin/docker, rather than /usr/bin/docker.io in previous versions. This should help Ubuntu's Docker package more closely match the wealth of documentation and examples available from our friends upstream.

A big thanks to Paul Tagliamonte, James Page, Nick Stinemates, Tianon Gravi, and Ryan Harper for their help upstream in Debian and in Ubuntu to get this package updated in Trusty!  Also, it's probably worth mentioning that we're targeting Docker 1.1.2 (or perhaps 1.2.0) for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic), which will release on October 23, 2014.

Here are a few commands that might help your testing...

Check What Candidate Versions are Available

$ sudo apt-get update
$ apt-cache show docker.io | grep ^Version:

If that shows 0.9.1~dfsg1-2 (as it should), then you need to enable the trusty-proposed pocket.

$ echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed universe" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ apt-cache show docker.io | grep ^Version:

And now you should see the new version, 1.0.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu1~ubuntu0.14.04.1, available (probably in addition to 1.0.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu1~ubuntu0.14.04.1).

Upgrades

Check if you already have Docker installed, using:

$ dpkg -l docker.io

If so, you can simply upgrade.

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

And now, you can check your Docker version:

$ sudo dpkg -l docker.io | grep -m1 ^ii | awk '{print $3}'
0.9.1~dfsg1-2

New Installations

You can simply install the new package with:

$ sudo apt-get install docker.io

And ensure that you're on the latest version with:

$ dpkg -l docker.io | grep -m1 ^ii | awk '{print $3}'
1.0.1~dfsg1-0ubuntu1~ubuntu0.14.04.1

Running Docker

If you're already a Docker user, you probably don't need these instructions.  But in case you're reading this, and trying Docker for the first time, here's the briefest of quick start guides :-)

$ sudo docker pull ubuntu
$ sudo docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash

And now you're running a bash shell inside of an Ubuntu Docker container.  And only bash!

root@1728ffd1d47b:/# ps -ef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 13:42 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash
root         8     1  0 13:43 ?        00:00:00 ps -ef

If you want to do something more interesting in Docker, well, that's whole other post ;-)

:-Dustin
18 May 22:48

Spider Altruism

by Katherine Wells

In last week’s podcast, I talk with renowned biologist E.O. Wilson about spite. Although Wilson doesn’t like the term “spite,” he does tell us that there are copious examples of perplexingly self-destructive behavior in nature. Some types of ants, termites, and even bacteria can build up poison within their bodies and then explode in enemy territory – killing themselves as well as several attackers.

Wilson also mentions an act of self-sacrifice that might be better thought of as altruism: a certain species of mother spider lets her children eat her. Isabella Rossellini’s brand new video series Mammas features an episode on this cannibal spider. You can watch it here.