New insurer FWD Insurance to sell policies directly to consumers

New insurer FWD Insurance to sell policies directly to consumers
 Mr Bhatia says FWD Insurance's focus will be on customer experience, "from product features to how policies will be bought online".
Mr Bhatia says FWD Insurance's focus will be on customer experience, "from product features to how policies will be bought online".PHOTO: FWD
PUBLISHEDSEP 12, 2016, 5:00 AM SGT

Rachael Boon
There is a new life and general insurer in town hoping to transform the insurance business by simplifying the process of buying policies.

FWD Insurance opened its direct- to-consumer business last Friday, starting with travel and car insurance products.

There are plans to introduce direct purchase insurance soon, perhaps in the next few weeks, beginning with term policies.


FWD Singapore chief executive Abhishek Bhatia told The Straits Times: "The model we've chosen is not to recruit tied agents, which is what most of the players in the industry do."

The firm, which is investing $500 million in Singapore over the next five years, is directly selling travel and car insurance online, without the need for an agent to call back with a quote.

It has replaced lengthy forms with a simple website application where people can get a quote for car insurance in under 60 seconds and one for travel insurance in 10 seconds - the fastest in Singapore, said FWD.


The firm is also introducing a term in its motor insurance policies, where drivers who have a 50 per cent no-claim discount will have the discount protected for life, even if they have multiple accidents in the same year.

Mr Bhatia said: "As soon as you make the payment, you get an e-mail with the policy, and you get an SMS reminding you that you've got the e-mail. The customer experience is at the centre of the whole thing, from product features to how policies will be bought online."

He acknowledged that when it comes to travel insurance, other firms do provide a good buying experience but noted that the process of making a claim is still not ideal.

That has led FWD Insurance to give its travel insurance policyholders the option of submitting claims using WhatsApp.

"If your flight's delayed, you can take a photo of your boarding pass and send it to us on WhatsApp, and we'll process your claim," said Mr Bhatia. "In any area, unless we need the information from the customer, we're not going to ask for it. There will be no needless information just because it's good to have."

The aim is to minimise the effort for customers and hopefully change how they feel about insurance.

FWD Insurance Singapore is part of FWD Group, the insurance arm of investment group Pacific Century Group chaired by Hong Kong businessman Richard Li. The Hong Kong-based insurer acquired a 90 per cent stake in Shenton Insurance in April, and has 120 staff here, with plans to grow headcount by 50 per cent over the next five years.

Mr Bhatia, who moved to FWD from insurance giant Prudential, said: "At the macro level, Singapore is the gateway to South-east Asia. The Singapore business is about making a sustainable and feasible business here."

There are also plans for the prototypes of products to be produced and approved here, and then get accepted by other markets in the group, including Macau and Thailand, he said.

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on September 12, 2016, with the headline 'New insurer to sell policies directly to consumers'. Print Edition | Subscribe



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NetBSD 7.1 released (March 11, 2017)

Introduction

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.

Some highlights of the 7.1 release are:

• Support for Raspberry Pi Zero.
• Initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics cards via nouveau (Disabled by default. Uncomment nouveau and nouveaufb in your kernel config to test).
• The addition of vioscsi, a driver for the Google Compute Engine disk.
• Linux compatibility improvements, allowing, e.g., the use of Adobe Flash Player 24.
• wm(4):
  • C2000 KX and 2.5G support.
  • Wake On Lan support.
  • 82575 and newer SERDES based systems now work.
• ODROID-C1 Ethernet now works.
• Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 7.1 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found athttp://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/. We encourage users who wish to install via ISO or USB disk images to download via BitTorrent by using the torrent files supplied in the images area. A list of hashes for the NetBSD 7.1 distribution has been signed with the well-connected PGP key for the NetBSD Security Officer: http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/hashes/NetBSD-7.1_hashes.asc

NetBSD is free. All of the code is under non-restrictive licenses, and may be used without paying royalties to anyone. Free support services are available via our mailing lists and website. Commercial support is available from a variety of sources. More extensive information on NetBSD is available from our website:

http://www.NetBSD.org/

Changes Between 7.0.2 and 7.1

Below is an abbreviated list of changes in this release. Note that all of the changes found in NetBSD 7.0.1 and NetBSD 7.0.2 are present in this release. The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES-7.1 file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 7.1 release tree.

Security Advisory Fixes

The following security advisories were fixed:

• NetBSD-SA2017-001 Memory leak in the connect system call.
• NetBSD-SA2017-002 Several vulnerabilities in ARP.
• NetBSD-SA2017-003 Xen-amd64: weak privilege separation.

Note: Advisories prior to NetBSD-SA2017-001 do not affect NetBSD 7.0.2.

Other Security Fixes

• BIND: Update to 9.10.4-P6, fixing CVE-2017-3135.
• expat: Update to 2.2.0, fixing CVE-2016-0718, CVE-2016-4472, CVE-2016-5300, and CVE-2012-6702.
• ISC DHCP: Fix CVE-2015-8605.
• libICE: Fix CVE-2017-2626.
• OpenSSL: Fix CVE-2016-7056 and CVE-2017-3731.
• tcpdump: Update to 4.9.0, fixing CVE-2014-8767, CVE-2014-8768, CVE-2014-9140, CVE-2015-0261, CVE-2015-2153, CVE-2015-2154, CVE-2015-2155, CVE-2016-7922, CVE-2016-7923, CVE-2016-7924, CVE-2016-7925, CVE-2016-7926, CVE-2016-7927, CVE-2016-7928, CVE-2016-7929, CVE-2016-7930, CVE-2016-7931, CVE-2016-7932, CVE-2016-7933, CVE-2016-7934, CVE-2016-7935, CVE-2016-7936, CVE-2016-7937, CVE-2016-7938, CVE-2016-7939, CVE-2016-7940, CVE-2016-7973, CVE-2016-7974, CVE-2016-7975, CVE-2016-7983, CVE-2016-7984, CVE-2016-7985, CVE-2016-7986, CVE-2016-7992, CVE-2016-7993, CVE-2016-8574, CVE-2016-8575, CVE-2017-5202, CVE-2017-5203, CVE-2017-5204, CVE-2017-5205, CVE-2017-5341, CVE-2017-5342, CVE-2017-5482, CVE-2017-5483, CVE-2017-5484, CVE-2017-5485, and CVE-2017-5486.
• xorg-server: Fix CVE-2017-2624.

General kernel

• Add net.inet.arp.log_unknown_network sysctl(7) to selectively log ARP packets from non-local networks.
• Allow binding to detached IPv6 addresss. PR 51435.
• carp(4): Fix an issue in mixed IPv4/IPv6 environments where a carp interface tries to get MASTER status even though the master is still advertising.
• compat_linux(8): Fully support sched_setaffinity and sched_getaffinity, fixing, e.g., the Intel Math Kernel Library. PR 50021.
• compat_netbsd32(8): Add support for nfssvc(2).
• DTrace:
  • Avoid redefined symbol errors when loading the module.
  • Fix module autoload.
• In kernel configuration files, it is now possible to specify a wedge name (e.g., "wedge:NAME") as a root device.
• IPFilter:
  • Fix matching of ICMP queries when NAT'd through IPF.
  • Fix lookup of original destination address when using a redirect rule. This is required for transparent proxying by squid, for example.
• ipsec(4): Fix NAT-T issue with NetBSD being the host behind NAT.
• NFS: Fix soft force unmount.
• npf(7): Handle delayed checksums for IPv6.
• procfs: Maps don't change that frequently between reads, so allow reading from an offset. Notably, this makes the Linux Flash player 24 work.
• SACK: Fix issue that resulted in, e.g., dropped SSH connections. PR 51753.

Drivers

• Add vioscsi driver for the Google Compute Engine disk.
• btmagic(4): Add support for Apple Magic Trackpad.
• ichlpcib(4):
  • Add Core 5G (mobile) LPC support.
  • Disable gpio(4) attachment by default, fixing resume for some machines. GPIO functionality can be enabled by setting ichlpcib_gpio_disable to 0, for instance with "gdb -write". PR 50733.
• ichsmb(4): Add support for Braswell CPU and Intel 100 Series.
• iwn(4): Fix issue connecting to 5GHz access points. PR 50187.
• ixgbe(4): Fix various bugs and crashes.
• puc(4):
  • Add support for SystemBase SB16C1050 PCI serial card. PR 49819.
  • Add support for another Intel Q45 KT.
  • Add support for Intel 100 Series Chipset KT.
• sdtemp(4):
  • Add support for Atmel AT30TS00, AT30TSE004, Giantec GT30TS00, GT34TS02, Microchip MCP9804, MCP98244, IDT TS3000GB[02], TS3001GB2, TSE2004GB2, On Semiconductor CAT34TS02C and CAT34TS04.
  • Add JEDEC TSE2004av support.
  • Fix temperature resolution on some devices.
  • Show accuracy, range, resolution, high voltage standoff and shutdown.
• uchcom(4): Make newer (0x30-on) CH340 devices work.
• uplcom(4): Avoid a kernel page fault when opening the device.
• ucom(4): Add the port number to the device properties to make it easier to relate a specific ucom instance with the physical port of multi-port devices like the FTDI 4232.
• wd(4): Put the drive in standby before detach when powering off the system. PR 51252.
• wm(4):
  • Add C2000 KX and 2.5G support.
  • Add Wake On Lan support.
  • Fix a lot of bugs to make 82575 and newer SERDES based systems work.
  • Fix a bug where the input drop packet counter is not counted correctly.
  • Fix a problem where I210 and I211 sometimes don't have a link if the NVM image version is less than 3.25.
  • Fix a problem where 82574 and 82583 sometimes drop packets if the NVM image version is less than 2.1.4.
  • Fix a bug where some Intel AMT based systems don't linkup at 1000BaseT. PR 44893.
  • Fix bugs to make ICH and PCH devices stable.
  • Disable Low Power Link Up function correctly.
  • Improve the behavior of suspend/resume on 82544 and newer chips.
  • Avoid chip hang on 82575 and newer devices.

Platforms

• alpha: Fix buffer overflow causing wrong host controller SCSI ID for DEC 3000.
• arm:
  • Add Raspberry Pi Zero support.
  • Fix pmap regression that prevented XScale-based boards from booting.
  • Fix X server on big endian ARM systems. PR 50356.
  • Fix ODROID-C1 Ethernet.
  • Support 8-bit eMMC for TI AM335x.
• dreamcast: Fix panic after wsconscfg(8) from serial console.
• luna68k:
  • Make kernel work with 8kB/page (PGSHIFT==13) settings.
  • Add preliminary support for LUNA's HD647180X I/O processor (aka XP).
• macppc:
  • adb(4):
    • Ask the keyboard to distinguish between left and right Control, Alt, and Shift keys.
    • Add us.dvorak keymap variant. PR 51255.
• mips:
  • Fix a crash related to executing N64 binaries.
  • Lemote YeeLoong:
    • Fix Xorg.
    • Fix screen blanking.
    • ohci(4): Make low-speed and full-speed devices work.
• powerpc: Fix single precision floating point arithmetic. PR 51368.
• sandpoint:
  • altboot:
    • Correctly identify and power up a second disk on the same SATA channel.
    • Fix misdetection of LinkStation and KuroBox(HG) as KuroT4.
  • Fix panic in sandpoint DIAGNOSTIC kernel.
• sparc64:
  • Restore binary compatibility for old binaries.
  • Fix interrupt routing on machines with Tomatillo PCI controllers.
• x68k:
  • Fix poweroff.
  • Fix crashdump on machines with EXTENDED_MEMORY. PR 51663.
• x86 (amd64, i386):
  • Add initial DRM/KMS support for NVIDIA graphics cards via nouveau. Disabled by default, but can be enabled by uncommenting the nouveau and nouveaufb drivers in the GENERIC kernel config file, building a new kernel, and configuring X to use the nouveau driver instead of nv.
  • procfs:
    • Always output 2 digits for the CPU frequency decimal part.
    • Numerous improvements to make /proc/cpuinfo more informative and accurate. PRs 49246 and 39950.
• xen:
  • Add machdep.xen.version sysctl(7) to easily get hypervisor version.
  • Make Xen process and file limits match the native ones.

Userland

• blacklistctl(8): Make -n actually work.
• cat(1): When invoked with -se, print a '$' on blank lines. PR 51250.
• cp(1): Make the '-i' flag work regardless of whether the standard input is a terminal.
• cpuctl(8) Add data for newer x86 CPUs.
• dump(8):
  • Default the read block size for dump to kern.maxphys. This gives a noticable performance boost on large filesystems.
  • Fix tape usage report for large filesystems.
  • Allow file system pathname lengths greater than 16 characters. PR 50434.
• db(3): Fix handling of 64k blocksize, which overflows a uint16_t. PR 50441.
• ftp(1):
  • Handle proxy authentication correctly.
  • Fix crash in ftp when given an IPv6 URL that's missing a slash. PR 51558.
  • CONNECT method support.
  • Use the proper format "[IPv6 address]:port" when reporting connection attempts to IPv6 endpoints.
  • Fix downloads of local files using file:// URLs.
  • Add Server Name Indication (SNI) support for https.
• getpass(3): Fix a bug where ctrl-c in a password prompt resulted in tty settings not being restored. PR 50695.
• iostat(8): Support fnmatch(3) patterns for disknames. For example, "iostat wd*" works now.
• jemalloc(3): Avoid long linear searches for code heavy on medium sized allocations. PR 50791.
• ld.elf_so(1):
  • Add basic support for indirect functions. It allows providing a public function symbol with an implementation choosen at run time.
  • Fix deadlocks. PRs 49813 and 49816.
• man(1): Make "man /" work again.
• opendisk(3): Instead of trying to open files in the current working directory first for paths that don't contain "/", first try the /dev paths to avoid confusion with files in the working directory that happen to match disk names. PR 51216.
• pthread_key_create(3): Make PTHREAD_KEYS_MAX dynamically adjustable.
• racoon(8):
  • Fix memory leak. PR 50918.
  • Allow using IKE Mode Config in a plain "rsasig" (signed certificates only) configurations.
• resize_ffs(8): Fix handling of ffsv2 inode initialization. PR 51116.
• scsictl(8): Add "getrealloc" and "setrealloc" commands to get/set automatic reallocation parameters/enables for error recovery, similar to {get,set}cache.
• sh(1):
  • Fix the parsing of references to shell parameters when given without braces (i.e., $2). Only the first 9 shell parameters ($1 .. $9) and the special parameter ($0) can be referenced this way, $10 is ${1}0 not ${10}. PR 51027 .
  • Process pending signals while waiting for a job, and report the signal that wait was interrupted by.
• stdio(3): Allow changing the default buffering policy for a stdio stream during construction by setting environment variables. See setbuf(3).
• terminfo(3): Fix memory leaks. PR 50092.
• mv(1): Add support for SIGINFO.
• libperfuse(3): Make FUSE socket buffer tunable through the PERFUSE_BUFSIZE environment variable.
• mld6query(8): Make "-r" option actually work. PR 51353.
• httpd(8):
  • Add -G option to display version.
  • Fix some content type issues.
  • Fix an infinite loop in cgi processing.
  • No longer send encoding header for compressed form.
• funopen(3): Fix memory leak. PR 51572
• vi(1):
  • Fix memory leaks in vi when resizing. PR 50092.
  • Fix the script command of vi(1). PR 50484.
  • Fix > 1024 char lines in script.
• zic(8): Backport changes from newer tzcode to allow proper parsing of newer tzdata files.
• /etc/rc.d/rtadvd: Don't fail to start if rtadvd's config file doesn't exist.
• /etc/rc.subr: Speed up multiuser boot time on slow machines. PR 50046.
• 3rd party software updates:
  • gcc(1): Update 4.8.5.
  • Lua: Update to 5.3.3
  • root.cache: Update to 2016102001.
  • tzdata: Update to 2017a.

Good time to download and test!


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VirtualBox 5.1.22 (released 2017-04-28)

VirtualBox 5.1.22 (released 2017-04-28)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_INSTR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditation under certain conditions (5.1 regression; mostly Mac OS X hosts; bugs #15693, #15801,#16274, #16569, #16663)
• VMM: fixed software virtualization on Solaris hosts (5.1.20 regression)
• Storage: fixed a potential hang under rare circumstances (bug #16677)
• Storage: fixed a potential crash under rare circumstances (asynchronous I/O disabled or during maintenance file operations like merging snapshots)
• Linux hosts: make the ALSA backend work again as well as loading the GL libraries on certain hosts (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16667, #16693)
• Linux Additions: fixed mount.vboxsf symlink problem (5.1.20 regression; bug #16670)

VirtualBox 5.1.20 (released 2017-04-18)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: don't check if the Extension Pack is up-to-date if the user is about to install a new Extension Pack (bug #16317)
• GUI: fixed a possible crash when switching a multi-monitor VM into full-screen or seamless mode
• GUI: fixed non-literal shortcuts if the keyboard is not captured (5.1.10 regression; Windows hosts only)
• GUI: several mini-toolbar fixes in full-screen / seamless mode (X11 hosts only)
• GUI: don't crash on restoring defaults in the appliance import dialog
• Windows Additions: another fix for automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (bug #15904)
• ICH9: fix for Windows guests with a huge amount (>64G) of guest memory
• BIOS: fixed El Torito hard disk emulation geometry calculation (thanks Dwight Engen)

VirtualBox 5.1.18 (released 2017-03-15)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bug #16549)
• Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bugs #14651, #16564)
• API: fixed snapshot handling of medium attachments and PCI device attachments (bug #16545)
• API: make 32-bit Windows guests in raw mode boot again if the ICH9 chipset is used (5.1.16 regression)
• VBoxBugReport: fixed VM log collection issue
• Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #14955)
• Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (5.1.4 regression; bug #15904)

VirtualBox 5.1.16 (released 2017-03-08)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: don't access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
• VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
• VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
• VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
• VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
• VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
• GUI: hide the mini-toolbar from the taskbar and the pager on certain X11 hosts
• GUI: better error handling on the global settings / network / host-only / DHCP server settings
• GUI: fixes for full-screen with multiple screens
• Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows 10 hosts (bug #16379)
• NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server
• ICH9: fixed incorrect initialization of the primary bus for PCI bridges (5.1.14 regression)
• Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10
• USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956)
• USB: several fixes for the USB/IP support (bug #16462)
• VBoxSVC: fixed another crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
• VBoxSVC: fixed a stack overflow on (Windows debug builds only; bug #16409)
• OVF: when importing an appliance handle more than 10 network adapters if the OVA was created by VirtualBox (bug #16401)
• OVF: fixes for exporting and importing appliances with many disks (bug #16402)
• VBoxManage: fixed regression with modifyhd --resize (bug #16311)
• rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
• Linux Installers: do not rebuild kernel modules unnecessarily (bug #16408)
• Linux hosts: added an action for opening the VM manager window to the .desktop file
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506)
• Linux Additions: added vboxsf FS modules alias (bug #16404)
• Linux Additions: fix for the shared folders kernel module to compile on Linux 4.10
• Linux Additions: properly install the Linux kernel module override rule on distributions without /etc/depmod.d
• Windows Additions: fixed a crash with recent Windows 10 builds if 3D is disabled (bug #15973)

Skipped a couple of versions

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Neko Atsume Updates

Neko Atsume Updates

Released version: 1.9.3
Various Display errors have been corrected.

Updated mine!


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I missed eating my Fish Dippers

I missed eating my Fish Dippers...



- Pic from MacDonald's Singapore


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Homage to the 36 trillion, 119 thousand, 500 Amitabha Buddhas

Homage to the 36 trillion, 119 thousand, 500 Amitabha Buddhas

Homage to the 36 trillion, 119 thousand, 500 Amitabha Buddhas

Homage to the 36 trillion, 119 thousand, 500 Amitabha Buddhas

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pfSense 2.3.3 RELEASE Now Available!

Feb 20 2017

pfSense 2.3.3 RELEASE Now Available!

• by Jim Pingle
• Announcements Releases
• Comments: 7

We are happy to announce the release of pfSense® software version 2.3.3!

This is a maintenance release in the 2.3.x series, bringing numerous stability and bug fixes, fixes for a handful of security issues in the GUI, and a handful of new features. The full list of changes is on the 2.3.3 New Features and Changes page, including a list of FreeBSD and internal security advisories addressed by this release.

This release includes fixes for 101 bugs, 14 Features, and 3 Todo items.

If you haven’t yet caught up on the changes in 2.3.x, check out the Features and Highlights video. Past blog posts have covered some of the changes, such as the performance improvements from tryforward, and thewebGUI update.

Upgrade Considerations

As always, you can upgrade from any prior version directly to 2.3.3. The Upgrade Guide covers everything you’ll need to know for upgrading in general.  There are a few areas where additional caution should be exercised with this upgrade if upgrading from 2.2.x or an earlier release, all noted in the 2.3 Upgrade Guide.

Known Regressions

While, nearly all of the common regressions between 2.2.6 and 2.3-RELEASE have been fixed in subsequent releases, the following still exist:

• IPsec IPComp does not work. This is disabled by default. However in 2.3.1, it is automatically not enabled to avoid encountering this problem. Bug 6167
• IGMP Proxy does not work with VLAN interfaces, and possibly other edge cases. Bug 6099. This is a little-used component. If you’re not sure what it is, you’re not using it. This has been fixed on our 2.4 development branch.
• Those using IPsec and OpenBGPD may have non-functional IPsec unless OpenBGPD is removed. Bug 6223

Packages

Compared to pfSense 2.2.x, the list of available packages in pfSense 2.3.x has been significantly trimmed.  We have removed packages that have been deprecated upstream, no longer have an active maintainer, or were never stable. A few have yet to be converted for Bootstrap and may return if converted. See the 2.3 Removed Packages list for details.  pfSense 2.3.3 does bring back tinc (Mesh VPN), LCDproc, TFTP Server, and a new package “cellular” for use with some Huawei model 3G/4G cellular cards. Also noteworthy in case you missed it is the recently added ACME package for use with Let’s Encrypt which is available on 2.3.2-p1, 2.3.3, and 2.4.

pfSense software is Open Source

For those who wish to review the source code in full detail, the changes are all publicly available in three repositories on Github. 2.3.3 is built from the RELENG_2_3_3 branch of each repository.

Main repository – the web GUI, back end configuration code, and build tools.
FreeBSD source – the source code, with patches of the FreeBSD 10.3 base.
FreeBSD ports – the FreeBSD ports used.

Download

Downloads are available on the mirrors as usual.

Downloads for New Installs and Upgrades to Existing Systems – note it’s usually easier to just use the auto-update functionality, in which case you don’t need to download anything from here. Check the Firmware Updates page for details.

Supporting the Project

Our efforts are made possible by the support our customers and the community. You can support our efforts via one or more of the following.

• pfSense Store –  official hardware, apparel and pre-loaded USB sticks direct from the source.  Ourpre-installed appliances are the fast, easy way to get up and running with a fully-optimized system. All are now shipping with 2.3 release installed.
• Gold subscription – Immediate access to past hang out recordings as well as the latest version of the book after logging in to the members area.
• Commercial Support – Purchasing support from us provides you with direct access to the pfSense team.
• Professional Services – For more involved and complex projects outside the scope of support, our most senior engineers are available under professional services.

I hope I have time to explore it!

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Meowths are watching

Meowths are watching the sky



- Pic from Internet


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PostgreSQL - End Of Life (EOL) dates

End Of Life (EOL) dates

Version	Current minor	Supported	First release date	EOL date
9.6	9.6.2	Yes	September 2016	September 2021
9.5	9.5.6	Yes	January 2016	January 2021
9.4	9.4.11	Yes	December 2014	December 2019
9.3	9.3.16	Yes	September 2013	September 2018
9.2	9.2.20	Yes	September 2012	September 2017
9.1	9.1.24	No	September 2011	September 2016
9.0	9.0.23	No	September 2010	September 2015
8.4	8.4.22	No	July 2009	July 2014
8.3	8.3.23	No	February 2008	February 2013
8.2	8.2.23	No	December 2006	December 2011
8.1	8.1.23	No	November 2005	November 2010
8.0	8.0.26	No	January 2005	October 2010
7.4	7.4.30	No	November 2003	October 2010
7.3	7.3.21	No	November 2002	November 2007
7.2	7.2.8	No	February 2002	February 2007
7.1	7.1.3	No	April 2001	April 2006
7.0	7.0.3	No	May 2000	May 2005
6.5	6.5.3	No	June 1999	June 2004
6.4	6.4.2	No	October 1998	October 2003
6.3	6.3.2	No	March 1998	March 2003

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Where are Magnemites?

Caught that Magnemite last year. Now, where are they hiding?



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Ditto caught on Feb 2017

Caught Ditto on 2nd Feb!



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Magnemite?

Walked and hatched this Magnemite last Nov 2016. I have no luck catching Magnemite.



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Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 - Known Issues

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 - Known Issues

Known Issues

• For macOS users:
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X. This is a feature to help guard against malware on recent Mac OS X systems.
    • For Mac OS X up to 10.11 "El Capitan": There is a procedure laid out at the following link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App store to run. See the Mac support article.
    • For Mac OS X 10.12 "Sierra": In Finder, Control-click or right click the icon of the app. Select Open from the top of contextual menu that appears. Click Open in the dialog box. If prompted, enter an administrator name and password.This is needed just the first time you launch Apache OpenOffice.
  • Due to a known bug in Oracle Java installations of Apache OpenOffice on OSX that do not have the legacy Apple Java 6 installed will not be able to recognize Oracle Java 7, 8, and possibly 9. The work around until the Java bug is fixed is to install the legacy version of Apple Java from the following link: Legacy Apple Java 6. This will allow the portions of AOO that require Java to run properly.
• For Windows users:
  
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 supports Java 8, which is the recommended configuration; but (especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java version being defective. In that case, download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.
• For developers:
  • The source package of OpenOffice 4.1.3 will not build on 32-bit versions of Ubuntu 14.04 and similar distributions. The source fails to build in main/svl with this error: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'. This can be worked around by copying and pasting the command that fails and running it manually with "-lc" appended (as the missing __stack_chk_fail symbol is present in libc, but the linker doesn't search there).
  • The OpenOffice SDK won't build with Java 8. Either build with --disable-odk or see the dev list archives for possible solutions.

Installed openoffice 4.1.3 on my machine.


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Release Notes for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3

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• Release Notes for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3
  • General Remarks
  • Improvements/Enhancements
  • Bug Fixes
  • Language Support
  • Platform Support
  • Known Issues
  • Installation Information
  • Stay informed about Apache OpenOffice

General Remarks

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes, security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build fixes. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 or earlier are advised to upgrade. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 at the usual place. Please review these Release Notes to learn what is new in this version as well as important remarks concerning known issues and their workarounds.

Improvements/Enhancements

• BZ 125980 Set default currency to Euro in Lithuanian locale
• Updated dictionaries.
• Enhancements to the build tools
• Security Fixes

Bug Fixes

• BZ 126622 Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX. This 4.1.2 regression, fixed in 4.1.3, affected all database tables and queries on Mac OS X
• The fix for security issue CVE-2016-1513,  previously only provided in source code and as a hotfix patch, is incorporated in the 4.1.3 binary distribution. See BZ 127045 Enforce Polygon API contracts at run-time.
• BZ 127100 Make NSIS 3.* a build requirement for building Windows installers

For a complete overview of all resolved issues please see the list in Bugzilla.

Language Support

• OpenOffice 4.1.3 supports the same languages as the previous releases.
• No translations were updated.
• The following dictionaries were updated:

English (en_GB)	English (en_US)
German (de)	German Austria (de_AT)	German Switzerland (de_CH)
Dutch (nl)	French (fr)	Italian (it)
Spanish (es)	Romanian (ro)	Russian (ru)
Khmer (km)	Scottish Gaelic (gd)	Basque (eu)
Slovanian (sl)	Norwegian (no)	Swedish (sv)
Portuguese European (pt_PT)	Catalan (ca_XV)

For a complete list of available languages and language packs see the download webpage (click the language drop-down-box)

Platform Support

Binaries are still provided for the same platforms as for the previous OpenOffice 4.x releases:

• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux 32-bit (RPM and DEB)
• Linux 64-bit (RPM and DEB)

Known Issues

• For macOS users:
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in Mac OS X. This is a feature to help guard against malware on recent Mac OS X systems.
    • For Mac OS X up to 10.11 "El Capitan": There is a procedure laid out at the following link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App store to run. See the Mac support article.
    • For Mac OS X 10.12 "Sierra": In Finder, Control-click or right click the icon of the app. Select Open from the top of contextual menu that appears. Click Open in the dialog box. If prompted, enter an administrator name and password.This is needed just the first time you launch Apache OpenOffice.
  • Due to a known bug in Oracle Java installations of Apache OpenOffice on OSX that do not have the legacy Apple Java 6 installed will not be able to recognize Oracle Java 7, 8, and possibly 9. The work around until the Java bug is fixed is to install the legacy version of Apple Java from the following link: Legacy Apple Java 6. This will allow the portions of AOO that require Java to run properly.
• For Windows users:
  
  • Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 supports Java 8, which is the recommended configuration; but (especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java version being defective. In that case, download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.
• For developers:
  • The source package of OpenOffice 4.1.3 will not build on 32-bit versions of Ubuntu 14.04 and similar distributions. The source fails to build in main/svl with this error: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'. This can be worked around by copying and pasting the command that fails and running it manually with "-lc" appended (as the missing __stack_chk_fail symbol is present in libc, but the linker doesn't search there).
  • The OpenOffice SDK won't build with Java 8. Either build with --disable-odk or see the dev list archives for possible solutions.

Openoffice 4.1.3 already available for download from 12 Oct 2016. I need to find some time to upgrade from 4.0



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