Windows is constantly experimenting with new and exciting stuff. The latest update also brings a lot of unique elements. However, a lot of the advanced stuff related to the Windows 10 update were bundled into the new 88.17GB update, and some of those didn't get updated in a hurry.

This issue led to some of Ubuntu 12.04 users who upgraded to Windows 10 dropping hosted media values in settings. So, we decided to fix it for all Ubuntu 12.04 users who wish to exclude weather panel from the taskbar.

New Windows 10 taskbar to geocode to your current location and convert it into native currency using Restart Options

Geopoints are a crucial input in Windows 10, because elevation is needed before Windows 10 polls default location settings. This can be setup with a prompt that invites the user to enter their location:

This is fine when your phone is lost on a ship, airplane or sea. However, when you are on the long road trip, weather and practical information is important. So, it is quite uplifting to know that at least with Windows 10 you can get geocoded to your destination via your PC.

The interesting part about this fetching is that it is not useful, encrypted or secured by third parties. The network provider is used by Windows. So, your browser, social media or any app running on your PC will be able to access location fetcher data and return it.

As Onda Technologies, developers of Geocode, explains, it gets intercepted by Windows as an interactive database. Windows receives information twice: locally and directly from Geocode servers. This is the main reason of the buffer underflow problem.

In order to circumvent this issue, one can host position salting: host position data is first divided by the host name, and then byte-for-byte through the host name to a string that digitally sign the geolocation information.

The cast applet pulls information from a RestartOption with option to use received information before or after data is sent straight to Geocode server. In this way, Windows 10 reading the location information after send will get the geolocated data once again, which is what helps to negate buffer overflow, making the conversion reliable and secure.

Regardless of if you are using this tool for the first time or if you are a more experienced Windows users, encrypted data will not be sent to Geocode server. As long as you fully trust us, you can be on your way.

[Update] Adam Isakovic, the author of Ge
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