Minecraft Saving Worlds Mac/PC/Linux

Quick reference for saving, backing up, or transferring Minecraft saved games.

I'd like to find good, meaning clear audio & clear presentation, Youtube for PC, Mac, & Linux. 

Mac Lion 10.7 (show how to without using Terminal)
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2011/12/15/transfer-saved-minecraft-worlds-to-another-computer-on-mac-os-x-10-7-lion/

Instructions for Linux, PC, & Mac (via Terminal)
http://www.howtogeek.com/60264/how-to-backup-restore-and-sync-your-minecraft-saves-on-all-your-pcs/



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Nerd News: "Google to launch wireless service this year?"

Rumors, via Ars http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/report-google-to-launch-wireless-service-this-year/, that Google is going to be operating a pilot MVNO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operator) combining Sprint & T Mobile networks.

Also Ting, a Sprint MVNO, is adding GSM to it's offerings https://ting.com/blog/ting-to-offer-service-on-a-gsm-network/.

[Wikipedia on GSM & CDMA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_phone_standards]

Suspect there is some connection here, not necessarily that they are working together, perhaps T Mobile & Sprint are partnering at some level?

Ting has a very interesting pricing structure, you pay for what you use, see https://ting.com/rates for details.

I'm planning on giving Ting a try around March/April 2015, to see how good it is with GSM.

I'll post my thoughts on Ting's GSM here on my Blog.

Security & Hacking: Tor warns of Possible Attack on Network

Snippet:  "The Tor Project has learned that there may be an attempt to incapacitate our network in the next few days through the seizure of specialized servers in the network called directory authorities"

Full story:

• https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-disable-tor-network
• https://threatpost.com/tor-project-warns-of-possible-upcoming-attack-on-network/110013

Lee Hutchinson fed up with AT&T unlock policies

Personal frustration with AT&T from staff member of Ars Technica, Lee Hutchinson arstechnica.com/staff/2014/11/atts-outdated-unlock-policies-cost-it-a-loyal-customer-me/

Doesn't surprise me, AT&T was first carrier I used many years ago, won't ever use them again.

There are things Verizon & T Mobile do that frustrate me, but they at least have some things they do well than balance the negatives much better than AT&T IMO.

Devil's Advocate:  I can think of a single reason for AT&T to do this, though one would still have contract, enforcing that on someone who has unlocked device and isn't happy with AT&T is more expensive than using leverage of not unlocking phone.

That could be significant for AT&T's cash flow if many others share my opinion that AT&T is the worst carrier in USA after they become a customer.

Nerd News: "U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data"

Washington Post article about how US Government forced Yahoo to hand over information & messages from its users.

And forced their participation in PRISM.

Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/us-threatened-massive-fine-to-force-yahoo-to-release-data/2014/09/11/38a7f69e-39e8-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html

Wikipedia PRISM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29

Nerd News: LastPass Back Up

LastPass has been down for a while, but according to LastPass and other reports it should be back up, though there may still be some issues.

Sounds like they only use 2 datacenters, or maybe even only single primary one with a "backup".

"Update: 1:28 pm EST

Though one of our data centers remains completely down, the service is generally stable and should be available to the majority of users (with the exception of login favicons). Some users may see connection errors but should still be able to access their data. We continue to work as quickly as possible to get the service back to 100%. "

       Source http://blog.lastpass.com/

"Aug 12, 2014 - One of LastPass' datacenters has been down since 3:57am EDT. The service is now running fully off one Herndon VA datacenter and we have been engaged with our provider all morning. Currently favicons/sprites are impacted. We are doing what we can to minimize the impact and apologize for the inconvenience. "

       Source https://lastpass.com/status.php


Also http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/lastpass.com.html 

For LastPass users that want an offline solution to prevent this type of problem in future consider LastPass Pocket

This is LastPass link specifically about offline access https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/password-manager-basics/your-lastpass-vault/offline-access-to-your-lastpass-vault/ 

Neat tool: Wolfram Alpha Integral Calculator

http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp

Really slick.

I'll have to play with this some, though I am sure many already know about it, I just discovered it today.

Nerd News: TorGuard VPN with Chutzpah

Amusing and interesting article on Ars (though 4chan party van meme is used incorrectly) http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/how-one-site-beat-back-botnets-spammers-and-the-4chan-party-van/ about TorGuard, a VPN provider, http://torguard.net/.

Full disclosure:  I have not received any monetary or other compensation from TorGuard, though I am certainly interested in such, since I really admire their Chutzpah!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah

PSA: TwitchTV & Xsplit password reset Alert

Links:
http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/11/xsplit-password-protecting-your-twitch-account/
http://www.xsplit.com/posts/410

Short version, if you have streamed using Xsplit you should reset your passwords for both TwitchTV & Xsplit.

Nerd News: Anandtech Live Stream

Link:  http://www.anandtech.com/show/7487/the-anandtech-mobile-show-live-tonight-at-7pm-et


Will be on Anandtech Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/blogs/anandtech, after live stream, and Andand said will be on Audio Podcast later

List of Topics to be covered:

The iPad Air
Investigations into Apple's A7 and Cyclone CPU Architecture
ASUS Transformer Book T100 & Retail Bay Trail
A Discussion of 64-bit in Mobile
The Haswell MacBook Pros
HTC's One Max
Brian's Initial Thoughts on Google's Nexus 5

Nerd News: Minecraft 1.7 update Friday Oct 25, 2013

Tweet from Jeb (Jens Bergensten) on Minecraft Update, https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/393400494405980160

"In case you were wondering, Minecraft 1.7 (1.7.1), "The Update that Changed the World", will be released tomorrow, at around 15:00 CEST"

Looking forward to the fishing update, you can catch "junk" (including enchanted items), plus additional types of fish.

DIY Hardware Controller for OBS, Xsplit, & Wirecast from PC Perspective

"Here is a quick demo of the hardware switching/tally interface I have been developing that works with Wirecast, Xsplit, and OBS!" ~About blurb for this Youtube http://youtu.be/X0osoJy35Ec

Full article at PC Perspective http://www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/DIY-Control-Surface-Wirecast-and-Xsplit

Looks like a useful alternative to TriCaster, especially if your budget doesn't stretch to buying TriCaster!


PC Perspective links:

• Twitter https://twitter.com/pcper
• Stream (weekly podcasts & special events) http://www.pcper.com/live/
• Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/pcper?feature=watch
• Podcast http://www.pcper.com/podcast
• Webpage http://www.pcper.com/

Nerd News: Paypal likes to freeze accounts it seems

Article today at Ars about Paypal freezing Mailpile's account http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/paypal-freezes-45000-of-mailpiles-crowdfunded-dollars/

Paypal has frozen Notch's, the Master of Minecraft, Paypal account at least twice before, according to his blog posts: (15 Jun 2009) I wonder why I used paypal.. & (10 Sep 2010) Working on a Friday update, crying over paypal.

If you live in US or Australia you can buy Minecraft Prepaid cards from many stores, I blogged details at http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2013/08/minecraft-prepaid-pc-mac-cards-in-usa.html

I am not a fan of Paypal, I have blogged about the reasons before, see Paypal Make It Right!

Just click on Paypal or Minecraft labels to see all my posts on those topics, labels can also be found in cloud at left side of blog, or at bottom left of every post.

Nerd News: Samsung September 4, 2013 Event & Live Stream

[Note: if you start embedded live stream before event, it will display a countdown timer]

Live Stream link https://www.youtube.com/user/SAMSUNGmobile

If rumors are correct we will get to see new Galaxy Note 3!

We might also see a new Smartwatch.

As I blogged about a year ago http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2012/09/nerd-news-samsung-october-24-2012-event.html I was really interested in the Note 2, unfortunately I couldn't fit that into my budget until a few months ago, so I decided to wait for Note 3, got a cheap Nokia Lumia 521 (WP8) to tide me over, since my Blackberry was failing.

Of course Google dropped price on the Nexus 4 week after I went with the Lumia 521, seems like the way it always goes for me T_T

I am hoping we see a Google Play edition of the Note 3, really really want that.

Nerd News: Twitch being Hacked?

Update:  http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/04/regarding-todays-assorted-incidents/

Twitch is saying admin account was compromised via social engineering, I suspect that means a Spear Phishing attack http://us.norton.com/spear-phishing-scam-not-sport/article



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http://www.gamebreaker.tv/pc-games/breaking-news-twitch-hacked-like-right-now/

Sounds like Day9, Athene, among others can't even log in according to link above.

Snippet from link above:

At this point most of these have been already fixed. Twitch.TV is reacting as fast as they can and are unbanning streamers. - 3:32 p.m. EST

If you know of any other hacks, let us know here or tweet at us @GAMEBREAKER.TV and/or use #gbtips.

Bioshock Infinite Problems and Fixes

Best single resource I have found so far listing problems and known fixes or workarounds for Bioshock Infinite http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/BioShock_Infinite

Has Yahoo been hacked again? Lot of users getting "Suspicious activity was detected on your account"

Update 2/26/2013

Found this news story today, http://www.channel4.com/news/yahoos-email-system-hacked-by-criminal-spammers

So it does sound like Yahoo having problems with hackers, but they don't want to admit it?

Yahoo's Twitter https://twitter.com/YahooCare doesn't seem to contain any useful information (nothing you can't find in under a minute with basic Google search).

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Lot of Yahoo email users are getting "Suspicious activity was detected on your account" message when they try to send email.

I have Yahoo accounts, as well as Google accounts, and I have been seeing that message for two days now.

Some related recent complaints:

•  http://wiki.ookla.com/view.php?id=20130324132816AAYXeEg
• http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130323223029AAnHlrW
• http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130325150931AARjHri
• http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130325152048AAEGEDh
• This one is ironic https://plus.google.com/115106448444522478339/posts/QAmaPZ3z996

Funny thing is when I tried to send a report to Yahoo again today, like I did yesterday, the report failed, couldn't be sent.  LOL

Pretty sure that isn't because of problems on my machine, I am fully patched, use a long random password, run AV, test router security, etc.

Also there is page from Yahoo email help under Known Issues http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&id=SLN3406&impressions=true

Makes me think either they have been hacked, again, or they have some significant bug somewhere in their software.

Nerd News: "2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report"

Microsoft has released a Transparency Report about Law Enforcement requests for information, you can view the report at http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/reporting/transparency/

Microsoft introduces the reports with this blog post http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/03/21/microsoft-releases-2012-law-enforcement-requests-report.aspx, they also state that it will be updated every 6 months.

They also offer a few observations based on the data.

For easy comparison here is link to Google's Transparency Report http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/

Nerd News: SendGrid Response to Adria Richards situation & events at PyCon

Current response outlining SendGrid's thoughts behind their decision http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/

This link contains SendGrid's initial announcement, http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/, "SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards."

Personally I hope everyone involved really learns from this event, unfortunately, often in life the truly difficult lessons, have to be learned the hard way.

Kim Dotcom Saga "NZ spies knew Kim Dotcom shouldn’t have been spied on, did it anyway"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/nz-spies-knew-kim-dotcom-shouldnt-have-been-spied-on-did-it-anyway/

Get the popcorn out.

More I learn about this story, the more I feel for Kim & his family, also the more I really wonder about the motivations behind the Government Agencies involved.