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Ep0988: LFNW: Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services

2012-05-15

Linux Fest North West Week Special All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012 http://linuxfestnorthwest.org Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services Dawn McKenna of McKenna Interpreting Services organized a group of volunteer sign language interpreters for the Linux Fest. http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sponsor/mckenna-interpreting-services If you want to get more information about how to organize sign language interpretation at your event contact Dawn at spiderterp@gmail.com Dawn had a very cool computer mouse with a spider trapped inside. The HPR table was next to this group and these folks were really fun to be around. Lots of energy and you could tell they were really into their craft. Thanks to all the volunteer sign language interpreters! YOU ROCK!

Ep0987: LFNW: Larry Cafiero - the Crunchbang guy

2012-05-15

Linux Fest North West Week Special All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012 http://linuxfestnorthwest.org Larry Cafiero - the Crunchbang guy http://larrythecrunchbangguy.wordpress.com/category/lfnw/ Larry the CrunchBang Guy is Larry Cafiero, 54, who runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, which provides Free/Open Source Software solutions for the small business/home office environment. He has been an advocate for Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) since the fall of 2006. Toward the end of 2006, he had an epiphany or satori regarding the social, philosophical, political and economic benefits of using FOSS on his favored hardware, which at the time consisted of the Mac PowerPC platform (although he has warmed up to Intel machines as of late). He organized a project to promote GNU/Linux which turned out to be the Lindependence events in Felton, California, in 2008. Larry’s brush with fleeting fame came in 2006 as the Green Party’s candidate for Insurance Commissioner in California (270,218 votes, 3.2 percent). He has been using CrunchBang on a regular basis since July 2011. See Larry's video of his LFNW Presentation at: http://archive.org/details/LinuxfestNorthwest2012

Ep0986: LFNW: Interview with Scott Newlon of MintCast

2012-05-13

Linux Fest North West Week Special All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012 http://linuxfestnorthwest.org mintCast mintCast is "a podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux." Keep up to date on the latest happenings in the Mint community along with reviews and tutorials on how to get the most out of you Linux system. http://www.mintcast.org/ I interviewed Scott on April 29, 2012 at a picnic table outdoors. dw

Ep0985: LFNW: A Short Talk with Thomas Stover

2012-05-10

Linux Fest North West Week Special All week we are airing the interviews that were recorded at the Linux Fest Northwest took place on April 28 and 29, 2012 http://linuxfestnorthwest.org Thomas Stover presented: User Space C Development Contact Thomas at: http://www.thomasstover.com/ A special Thank You to Thomas for the interview.

Ep0984: Going Linux: Introduction to Podcasting with Linux

2012-05-09

Ep0983: Freedom is not Free 5 - Get Involved

2012-05-08

Rounding off his series on "Freedom", Ahuka finishes off with "Get Involved" Remember that you should check out the following link https://ohiolinux.org/node/187, and http://www.zwilnik.com/

Ep0982: LITS: Episode 005 - pmount

2012-05-08

In our continuing journey around the command line, Dann takes us to visit the outer edges and talks about the pmount command. NAME pmount - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user As ever the very very detailed shownotes can be found on his site http://www.linuxintheshell.org Don't forget that he also has a video component, and as ever this one is worth a watch.

Ep0981: Review Indiana LinuxFest 2012

2012-05-06

Indiana LinuxFest is at http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/ My web site is at http://www.zwilnik.com/ To submit a talk for Ohio LinuxFest, please go to https://ohiolinux.org/callfortalks for more information. Remember to support free software!

Ep0980: Broadband for Rural North

2012-05-03

#da12bb #HPR In todays show Ken talks to Chris Conder of the Broadband for Rural North (http://b4rn.org.uk/). Located in the very pretty but the rural Forest of Bowland in Lancashire in the UK, and tired of putting up with slow 'broadband' they decided to put together their own network. They tried shared wifi, 3 and 4G mobile networks, MMDS and Satellite yet all proved to be unreliable. So over tea and cake they came up with a plan. A 240 Kilometer (150 mile) plan. A 1 gigabit (1000mb/sec) fiber optic connection plan. A let's give a connection to every one of the 1700 homes, farms, schools, churches and businesses, in the area plan And while they were at it they designed it to be: redundant with a dual homed backbone direct to the UK's Internet exchange upgradeable with ducts large enough to take multiple fibers laid through some of the most rugged, mountainous area of Lancashire to get to the people that need it most. (And let's be clear here, nothing to do with the fact that they will need to use dynamite to blast their way through the rocks.) Chris herself has lived in the Lune Valley for many years and is married to a farmer in Wray. She has been involved with the community in many roles over the years; for instance school governor and chair of Wray Endowed school during the eighties and early nineties and more recently supporter of a number of rural broadband projects. In 2002 she began campaigning for rural broadband and over the next few years helped establish a wireless network around Wray and a satellite network for rural farms. A founder member of Wray Com Com in 2003 (http://www.wraycomcom.org.uk/) and Wennet CIC in 2005 (http://www.wennetcic.co.uk). She is a pioneer of self installation fibre and a regular speaker at broadband events on the topic of rural broadband and DIY fibre build. She is also a 'online animator' for high speed broadband for Europe. She posts on the blog (http://daa.ec.europa.eu/group/2/content") and your feedback would be MORE than welcome. Europe assures her that they are listening. You can contact her at c.conder@b4rn.org.uk and be sure to tweet the hash tag #da12bb The Photos The Map View B4RN core route phase 1 in a larger map The Movie The Links http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Building-a-GSM-network-with-open-source-1476745.html http://b4rn.org.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/b4ruralnorth/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/B4RN-rural-broadband/105319176241916 https://plus.google.com/u/0/107690974539762837235/posts https://twitter.com/#!/dig2agig http://www.wraycomcom.org.uk/ http://www.wennetcic.co.uk http://daa.ec.europa.eu/group/2/content

Ep0979: Sunday Morning Linux Review Episode 029

2012-05-02

http://smlr.us Total Running Time: 54:30 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 4:56 Release Candidate: No Release Candidate This Week Mainline: 3.4-rc4 Stable Updates: On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:47:47 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.29 There were 55 files changed, 500 inserted, 207 deleted On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:49:38 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.2.16 There were 69 files changed, 488 inserted, 247 deleted On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:50:18 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.3.3 There were 78 files changed, 538 inserted, 319 deleted On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:14:55 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.0.30 There were 66 files changed, 314 inserted, 266 deleted On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:54 PDT Greg Kroah-Hartman released kernel 3.3.4 There were 96 files changed, 544 inserted, 382 deleted Distro Talk: Tony Time: 7:13 Distrowatch.com 4-24 – Tails 0.11 – Debian-based live DVD designed for anonymous Internet surfing 4-24 – Scientific Linux 5.8 – distribution rebuilt from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and enhanced with extra software and tools useful in academic environments 4-24 – Linux Mint 201204 “Debian” – Linux Mint 201204 “Debian” edition 4-24 – Untangle Gateway – Debian-based distribution designed for firewalls and gateways 4-25 – Tiny Core Linux 4.5 – ast and minimalist Linux distribution for desktop use 4-25 – Dragora GNU/Linux 2.2 – “libre” distribution built from scratch and featuring Xfce as the default desktop 4-25 – ClearOS 6.2 “Community” – based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and designed for small business servers and gateways 4-25 – Swift Linux 0.2.0 – lightweight desktop distribution with IceWM – now based on Linux Mint’s “Debian” edition 4-26 – BackBox Linux 2.05 – Ubuntu-based distribution designed to perform penetration tests and security assessments 4-26 – * Ubuntu 12.04 – Canonical’s flagship operating system featuring the Unity user interface and Head-Up Display menu system 4-27 – Proxmox 2.1 “Virtual Environment” – an open-source virtualization platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines, based on Debian GNU/Linux 4-28 – ROSA 2012 RC – Mandriva Linux and enhanced with a variety of innovative desktop utilities and applications ROSA Icons – Making KDE look even better http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/04/21/replace-oxygen-with-rosa-theme-on-any-kde-powered-distribution/ Creepy – A python program that aggregates twitter and flickr geolocation information. http://diveintoinfosec.wordpress.com/ Distro of the Week: Tony Magia – 1453 Swift – 1457 Fedora – 1727 Ubuntu – 4732 Mint – 5153 Tech News: Time: 21:09 Google Drive Released, Not So Much For Linux The long rumored on line storage from Google has been announced as a reality. Unless of course you are running a Linux desktop. I don’t know but if it where me and my entire business was built on top of Linux that it might be the first client I produced. They have an Android client how difficult can it be. Every subscriber will get 5GB for free with the opportunity to upgrade to any of the following plans. Storage Monthly Rate 25 GB $2.49 100 GB $4.99 200 GB $9.99 400 GB $19.99 1 TB $49.99 2 TB $99.99 4 TB $199.99 8 TB $399.99 16 TB $799.99 You can access the service at dirve.google.com. Although it is currently not ready for me (insert picture). It will support over 30 file types that you will be able to open right in your browser. It will integrate with Google+, Gmail, and Google Docs. You can share files or folders with anyone, and control whether they will be able to view, edit or comment on your stuff. Extensive search capabilities including OCR for pictures and scanned documents. And my favorite feature document rollback for up to thirty days. Google Drive tracks all changes so that when you save a document, a new revision is saved. You can look back as far as 30 days. Slackware Alive And Well Despite Rumors When the main website for Slackware went down the rumor mill went into hyper-drive. These Discussions where hot and heavy on LinuxQuestions.org and DistroWatch. The discussions very quickly shifted from website problems to the long term viability of Slackware. This was compounded by Eric Hameleers, a top Slackware contributor, when he posted this early in the LinuxQuestions discussion “Old hardware, lack of funds…”. I am sure that it was not his intended effect but this was like throwing gasoline onto an already raging fire. The conversation quickly veered into the what can be done to save Slackware land. The fires where then fanned even higher when Caitlyn Martin, developer of Yarok Linux, made this statement on Distrowatch disparaging the long term viability of Slackware: “You remember that comment about my involvement in the development of a Slackware derivative? Forget it. We’re already discussing about delaying the release and rebasing off of something with a more secure future,” This successfully torqued off a large number of people in the discussions on both websites. She responded to these comments by maintaining her stance that she was only concerned about upstream stability. The positive to come out of Martin’s comments was that it prodded Hameleers into clarifying his comments: “The slackware.com server is down. This is a technical malfunction. It costs money to do something about that. Something will be done about that server, but if it takes a while, it is most likely caused by prioritizing and finances. Slackware was without its own web server for a long time in the past. And still active are ftp.slackware.com and connie.slackware.com, so what’s the big deal? This turning of the rumour mill is pretty much unfounded, and I see some of the same old people pouring oil on the fire as usual. There is no reason to doubt the availability, stability and long term viability of Slackware, the distribution. It has not been a one-man show for some time, the development effort is substantial and plainly visible in the ChangeLog, and there are no plans to switch to another development model or even ditch the distribution.” Hameleers went into greater detail about Slackwares finacial situation on LinuxQuestions: “It’s not that difficult: if everybody suddenly stops buying stuff from the Slackware store, then Slackware will not last another year in its present form–the Store sales are Pat’s income (and it feeds several other people too), but remember, the core team surrounding Pat do not get a penny of these revenues at all. Therefore, the rest of the team is not impacted in any way by Slackware sales figures and we will keep working with Pat on the distribution just like we have been doing for the past years. Look at the ChangeLog–sometimes there is a period of relative silence but that does not mean that no work is being done. Like last week, the updates can come in big gulps. Slackware will not die, its philosophy will not change, the team is dedicated and full of ideas. “If people start chickening out and cancel their subscriptions, then that is a pity. Thankfully, I see lots of other Slackware users who decided that this is a good point to make a donation or buy something at the Store (if their financial situation allows it). Thanks to all of you for ‘supporting the cause.’ And remember–if you can not financially support Slackware, then helping your fellow Slackware users in forums like this one is an invaluable form of support as well! Slackware will not die because of financial issues, it will die if all of its users leave.” As Hameleers points out a project like Slackware can never really go away as long as there is a strong community around it. Even if the project folds financially and Patrick did not transfer the copyrights on Slackware to the community it would continue under a different name. However for now there is absolutely no indication that any of that is either in the near or distant future. Hungarian Government Solidifies Commitment To ODF Last year the Hungarian government announced that from April 2012 forward all government documents needed to be produced in an internationally recognized open document standard. To further this commitment they are going to invest 370 million HUF (Hungarian Forint) which is approximately 1.7 million USD in applications that utilize the open document format (ODF). The two main beneficiaries of this investment will be the Department of Software Engineering at the University of Szeged and Multiráció, an open source development company. Multiráció developed an open office suite, originally based on OpenOffice.org, called EuroOffice. they are now going to produce a version for tablets and improve the collaborative functions within EuroOffice. Kázmér Koleszár, a developer at Multiráció, said that the development responsibilities would break out like this: “The University of Szeged will do the quality assurance and usability related research and tool development. Multiráció will develop the office application and work on several extensions.” All I have to say is good on you Hungary I wish that countries like mine would do more to push open formats. I have even considered suing entities like may state government for their continued use of proprietary formats on their websites. Microsoft Office 15 to support ODF 1.2 Microsoft has told attendees at the ODF Plugfest in Brussels that the next versions of Microsoft’s Office products, Office 15 and Office 365, will support Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-Office-15-to-support-ODF-1-2-1560464.html Less Than 25% Of OSS Used In Corporations Managed Correctly Sonatype released the results of a recent survey showing that 500 out of 2500 respondents said they were locked down to only use corporate approved components. Only 49% said that their companies had a policy in place. Then 63% indicated that their corporate standards where not enforced or that they did not have a policy. Sonatype also noted that the use of open source components is on the rise. Almost 80% of respondents said they used open source tools regularly. Around 50% have migrated to an open source development stack. Also over 65% claimed to contribute to open source projects. In their press release Sonatypesaid this about the use of open source: “Key to modern development practices is the use of open source components to build mission critical applications,” Red Hat, SUSE, And IBM Form Partnership While Canonical Stays On The Sidelines IBM’s new POWER server line will be available with either Red Hat or SUSE Linux but not Ubuntu. After more than a year in development IBM rolled out their new POWER server systems and solutions. These machines are Linux specific utilizing the POWER7 processor-based hardware. These machines are targeted at midrange to large range enterprises. they are designed for big data analisis and delivering open source infrastructure services. Canonical chose not not to offer their server product on these units. Coould that be due to a fear of having to actually support an enterprise class customer. This is how IBM envisions the use of this new server line: “The new PowerLinux Solutions and supporting systems are designed to provide customers with lower deployment time and costs, and greater performance, dependability and workload density than competitive x86 platforms at similar price points.” So where was Canonical in all of this? they had been working with IBM to deliver Ubuntu on IBM’s System p mini computer. That partnership however floundered into nothing. Here is how Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder, spun the announcement: “We don’t support POWER because, by mutual agreement with IBM, there’s little to no overlap between the POWER user base and Ubuntu. People are choosing Ubuntu for farms of commodity servers, and POWER has been adopted for highly-specialized mission-critical roles. If IBM ever wanted to reach either the cloud or bulk computing market with POWER, then I expect the stats above would be relevant for their choice of OS, because they reflect the real choices of those markets.” Hunh? I had a hard time following that statment but what I think it boils down to is this. IBM and Ubuntu agree that Ubuntu would be hard pressed to actually support a large enterprise customer. IBM, Red Hat, and SUSE still believe that their is a market out there for the big machine built on quality hardware. As opposed to large farms of x86 systems trying to do the job of a bigger machine. Convention Scene Time: 36:17 AnDevCon III Android Developers conference May 14 – 17 AnDevCon III is the technical conference for software developers building Android apps. http://www.andevcon.com/AndevCon_III/index.html Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 May 2 – 5 2012 The 7th Libre Graphics Meeting will take place in Vienna at the UAS Technikum. The conference is the number one event for users and developers of free software for graphic design, photography, 3D modeling and animation. http://libregraphicsworld.org/ Flossie 2012 May 25 – May 26, 2012 , London Flossie 2012 is a free, two-day event for women who work with or are otherwise interested in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) and in Open Data, Knowledge and Education. http://www.flossie.org/?tribe_events=flossie-unconference-for-spring Linaro Connection May 28/ through 6/1 Gold Coast Hotel Hong Kong. Convention to discuss and develop features, infrastructure and optimizations for the Linux kernel, Android, Ubuntu and beyond on ARM. http://www.linaro.org/ LinuxTag May 23 – 26, 2012 Linux Tag the most important place for Linux and open source software in Europe. The 18th LinuxTag will take place o at the Berlin Fairgrounds. http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/ FOSSCOMM May 12 – 13 2012 FOSSCOMM (Free and Open Source Software Communities) is a Greek conference aiming at Open Source enthusiasts, developers, and communities. The fifth FOSSCOMM will take place at the Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Greece. http://serres.fosscomm.gr/ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2012 May 21-22 2012 San Francisco, CA, USA – Hyatt Regency San Francisco Open sources influence on cCloud, data, mobile software https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/31601/50188/?& The Samba eXPerience 2012 in Göttingen, Germany is the 11th international Samba conference for users and developers. Meet the Samba Team and discuss requirements, new features and get an update on current developments! The conference is organized by SerNet. May 8th – 11th, 2012 – Hotel Freizeit In Göttingen – Germany The Utah Open Source Foundation Utah Open Source Conference “Storming the cloud 5/3-5 This year’s conference will be graciously hosted by Utah Valley University in their Computer Science and Engineering Building, Mil-OSS Military Open Source Software The Rise of Open Source in a Declining Budget Charleston, SC 5/22-24 Penguicon Time: 39:36 Mat – grsecurity, sound redirection (ls -la > /dev/dsp) Mary – HP Lovecraft Tony – BYOBU Chrome Remote Desktop – Provide remote connection between two computers. Chrome Remote Desktop is available in the Chrome Web Store Listner Feedback Time: 46:19 J. Mathis – Trisquel Gnu/Linux Outtro Music Time: 48:32 Can’t stop it by Shearer

Ep0978: Dead_Hunt

2012-05-01

In this episode of the HPR audio book club resno, Klaatu, and pokey discuss the podiobooks.com presentation of Dead Hunt written and produced by Kenn Crawford. This episode contains spoilers, in the second half, so please listen to the audiobook for yourself before listening to the podcast all the way through. This audiobook was loved by two of the panelists, and liked by the third. You can download this audiobook for free (or voluntary donation) from http://www.podiobooks.com/title/dead-hunt During this show the hosts also discuss beverages, and we suspect that one of them may not have contained ANY alcohol!!! Klaatu was drinking (surprise!) coffee; a brew called Winter Blend which is seasonally available from Trader Joe's. http://www.traderjoes.com/ resno was drinking Snow Day Winter Ale from New Belgium Brewery http://www.newbelgium.com/home.aspx pokey was drinking Yellow Tail Chardonnay http://www.yellowtailwine.com/chardonnay Our next audiobook will be Space Casey by Christiana Ellis. It is available at podiobooks.com The direct link is: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/space-casey This audiobook comes with a thumbs way up rating from pokey (as he's heard it already). So if you agree with his other picks then don't miss this one. If you enjoy this episode of HPR, you can find more podcasts by our hosts at: http://techmisfits.com/ http://gnuworldorder.info/ We all had a great time recording this show, and we hope you enjoyed it as well. Thank you very much for listening. Sincerely, The HPR_AudioBookClub P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, we have included a few.

Ep0977: Setting Up a WordPress Blog 2

2012-04-30

This is the second Frank's series on setting up a WordPress blog, now projected to be four episodes. This episode discusses navigating the WordPress administrative interface and discusses important concepts, such as Posts and Post Categories, Pages, Links and Link Categories, and preventing comment spam. The next episode will be about tweaking appearance. Links from the show: Wordpress Development blog: http://wordpress.org/news/ Wordpress News blog: http://wordpress.tv/ WordPress Codex (documentation site): http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page Wordpress "Extend" site (plugins and themes): http://wordpress.org/extend/ Akismet comment spam plugin: http://akismet.com/wordpress/ My Local Weather plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-local-weather/ Statpress plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress/ Download some screenshots (JPG) of WP administrative pages: http://www.pineviewfarm.net/misc/WP-screens.zip Contact Frank: frank at pineviewfarm dot net.

Ep0976: HPR Community News (March 2012)

2012-04-30

HPR Community News A monthly look at what has been going on in the HPR community. This is a regular show scheduled for the first Monday of the month. New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: Klaas-Jan Koopman, and DoorToDoorGeek. If you would like to become a HPR host then please head over to http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php id title host 957 Freedom is not Free 3 - Documentation Ahuka 958 KDE Gathering-Plasma Active-THE Tablet David Whitman 959 The Orca Screen Reader Various Hosts 960 TGTM Newscast for 2012/04/04 deepgeek 961 Experiences in a mental hospital sigflup 962 LITS: Episode 004 - paste Dann 963 How I cut the cord part 3 BrocktonBob 964 Sunday Morning Linux Review Episode 026 Various Hosts 965 TGTM Newscast for 2012/4/4 deepgeek 966 The wisdom of our elders DoorToDoorGeek 967 Raspberry Pi spec review Klaas-Jan Koopman 968 FFMPEG for video Conversion BrocktonBob 969 The Crivins Audiocast Various Creative Commons Works 970 TGTM Newscast for 2012/4/15 deepgeek 971 /dev/random episode 00 pegwole 972 LITS: Episode 005 - wc Dann 973 Freedom is not Free 4 - Money Ahuka 974 NELF: FreeNAS Various Creative Commons Works 975 Why 16 Cores ? deepgeek Other News Deep geek will be taking some time off from recording Talk Geek to Me, to upgrade some of his technology. He should be back in June or July. David Whitman says that the HPR conference kit, such as it is, has arrived safely and in time for LFNW (http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/). He has built quite a display to go behind the table, and he'll probably draw quite a crowd. He's making good use of Ken's presentation slides too, and those will play on a loop at the table. LFNW is going on as we record this, so we hope to hear back from David this month. Episode 1000 and 1024 We're a little desperate for show 1000 submissions. Please send in yours, and ask your favorite shows to play our ep1k promo. Tweet it, dent it, blog it, G+ it, facebook it... whatever you have, please help us get the word out that we need these QUICKLY. We are asking listners, hosts and fellow podcasters to send in a short greeting and email it to ep1k@hackerpublicradio.org If you have a podcast yourself we would appreciate it if you could play one of the following promos on your show: 5150_pokey_ep1k_promo.wav 01:32 pokey_NZfangirl_ep1k_promo.wav 01:37 hpr-ken_fallon-episode1000.wav 00:34

Ep0975: Why 16 Cores ?

2012-04-27

DeepGeek is on sabbatical but as luck would have it we have one of his regular contributions to fill the gap. The title says it all.

Ep0974: NELF: FreeNAS

2012-04-25

Syndicated Thursdays Syndicated Thursday is chance to showcase other Creative Commons works. We try to expose podcasts, speeches, presentations, music, etc that you may not have heard. If you have suggestions for items then send your recommendation to admin at hpr and we'll add it to the queue. Today we listen in on a presentation given at the North East Linux Fast (http://northeastlinuxfest.org/). The speaker was Dru Lavigne - Director of the FreeBSD Foundation and her talk was about FreeNAS. The sildes can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/dlavigne/nelf2012

Ep0973: Freedom is not Free 4 - Money

2012-04-24

In the fourth of his series "Freedom is not Free" Ahuka discusses how you can contribute money to support projects. https://ohiolinux.org/node/186

Ep0972: LITS: Episode 005 - wc

2012-04-24

Fear not Dann has not decided to branch and do a plumming show. Rather he sticks with the plaan and brings us yet another excellent explanation of a common unix utility, namely wc http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/04/24/episode-005-wc/ Ever want to know how many lines are in a file? How about how many words are in a file or even how many characters? Well then the “wc” command is just for you. The “wc” command, short for word count, is a very simple command that will print “new line, word and byte counts for file specified, and a total count for all files combined if more than one file is included.” Consider the following little ditty: the linux wc command for those not in then know stands for word count and does a lot you should know It counts lines and words and bytes producing output on site quickly giving you the numbers without any blunders Executing the following command: wc poem.txt Results in the following output: 9 40 215 poem.txt To break it down: 9 lines 40 words 215 characters

Ep0971: /dev/random episode 00

2012-04-23

/dev/random SHOWNOTES: Drizzle DB http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/non-oracle-mysql-fork-deemed-ready-prime-time-853 Horde's Backdoor http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Horde-Groupware-contains-backdoor-1433972.html Horde Android App http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Horde-Groupware-4-0-released-1261533.html Lego ZX81 http://www.flickr.com/photos/hairydalek/sets/72157629011228815/ The Value of Debian's Code. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Developer-values-Debian-at-Lb12-1-billion-1434751.html WebKit CSS to be Supported by Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/WebKit-dominance-threatens-the-open-web-1431969.html Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/EnterpriseDB-s-Postgres-Plus-Advanced-Server-9-1-ships-1431888.html VLC 2.0 Released http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html Ethical hacker jailed for discovering Facebook security vulnerabilities http://slashdot.org/submission/1948605/ethical-hacker-jailed-for-discovering-facebook-security-vulnerabilities DARPA's Avatar Project http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/17/1910222/darpa-researches-avatar-surrogates WindowMaker 0.95.2 Released http://windowmaker.org/news.php

Ep0970: TGTM Newscast for 2012/4/15

2012-04-19

TGTM Newscast for 2012/4/15 From http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-67.html Here is a news review: US Policy Increasingly Out of Touch with Latin America’s New Political Reality Banks Fight Credit Unions over 5% of Small Business Loan Market Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Privately Signs Anti-Abortion, Sex Ed Laws Vermont Yankee: A Nuclear Battle Over States’ Rights Federal Court Orders FBI To Turn Over Evidence for Independent Forensic Analysis in 1990 Judi Bari Car Bombing Case Megaupload Host Refuses to Delete User Data and Evidence, For Now Homeland Security and Navy Award Contract to Hack into Gaming Systems Breaking: U.S. Sues Apple, Publishers Over eBook Price-Fixing No, Violating Your Employer's Computer Use Policy Is Not Criminal Hacking Facebook consumes Instagram, grows more massive Other Headlines: Inter-Parliamentary Union Calls for Freedom for PLC Members US anti-terrorism law curbs free speech and activist work, court told Coping with Clopening: Retail Worker’s Most Dreaded Shift Russia accuses Georgia of swine fever sabotage How the West Used Libya to Hijack the Arab Revolts News from "techdirt.com," "iww.org," "inthesetimes.com," and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. News from "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "venezuelanalysis.com," "democracynow.org," and "peoplesworld.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-67.html http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6916 http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Banks_Fight_Credit_Unions_over_5_Percent_of_Small_Business_Loan_Market_120409 http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/10/headlines#14 http://inthesetimes.com/article/13022/vermont_yankee_a_nuclear_battle_over_states_rights/ http://www.iww.org/en/content/federal-court-orders-fbi-turn-over-evidence-independent-forensic-analysis-1990-judi-bari-car http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-host-refuses-to-delete-user-data-and-evidence-120410/ http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Homeland_Security_and_Navy_Award_Contract_to_Hack_into_Gaming_Systems_120411 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120411/07155418453/breaking-us-sues-apple-publishers-over-ebook-price-fixing.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120410/10512618441/no-violating-your-employers-computer-use-policy-is-not-criminal-hacking.shtml http://peoplesworld.org/facebook-consumes-instagram-grows-more-massive/ http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1204/S00211/inter-parliamentary-union-calls-for-freedom-for-plc-members.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/29/journalists-us-anti-terrorism-law-ndaa http://libcom.org/blog/coping-clopening-retail-worker%E2%80%99s-most-dreaded-shift-11042012 http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Industry-Markets/Russia-accuses-Georgia-of-swine-fever-sabotage http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1262

Ep0969: The Crivins Audiocast

2012-04-19

Ep0968: FFMPEG for video Conversion

2012-04-17

Hello Hacker Public Radio BrocktonBob here with my tutorial on how I use FFMPEG to convert video's to any format I like. FFMPEG is a terminal program used in linux,but windows and mac users can use WINFF which is the gui frontend for FFMPEG. FFMPEG is more powerful than WINFF because you have more controll when you use the terminal than a gui.Below are the examples I used in this podcast. I hope you give it a try My Examples: ffmpeg -i glue.flv glue.avi ffmpeg -i glue.flv glue.mp3 ffmpeg -i glue.flv -target ntsc-dvd output.mpg

Ep0967: Raspberry Pi spec review

2012-04-16

In todays show Klaas-Jan walks Ken throught the possibilities of the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming. All for under $35. Connectors Composite video is the format of an analog television (picture only) signal before it is combined with a sound signal and modulated onto an RF carrier. In contrast to component video (YPbPr) it contains all required video information, including colors in a single line-level signal. Like component video, composite-video cables do not carry audio and are often paired with audio cables (see RCA connector). HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting encrypted uncompressed digital data. HDMI implements the EIA/CEA-861 standards, which define video formats and waveforms, transport of compressed, uncompressed, and LPCM audio, auxiliary data, and implementations of the VESA EDID. HDMI supports, on a single cable, any uncompressed TV or PC video format, including standard, enhanced, high definition and 3D video signals; up to 8 channels of compressed or uncompressed digital audio; a Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) connection; and an Ethernet data connection. General Purpose Input/Output (a.k.a. GPIO) is a generic pin on a chip whose behavior (including whether it is an input or output pin) can be controlled (programmed) through software. GPIO pins have no special purpose defined, and go unused by default. The idea is that sometimes the system integrator building a full system that uses the chip might find useful to have a handful of additional digital control lines, and having these available from the chip can save the hassle of having to arrange additional circuitry to provide them. For example, the Realtek ALC260 chips (audio codec) have 4 GPIO pins, which go unused by default. Some system integrators (Acer laptops) employing the ALC260 use the first GPIO (GPIO0) to turn on the amplifier used for the laptop's internal speakers and external headphone jack. A Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, abbreviated UART is a type of "asynchronous receiver/transmitter", a piece of computer hardware that translates data between parallel and serial forms. UARTs are commonly used in conjunction with communication standards such as EIA, RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485. The universal designation indicates that the data format and transmission speeds are configurable and that the actual electric signaling levels and methods (such as differential signaling etc.) typically are handled by a special driver circuit external to the UART. A UART is usually an individual (or part of an) integrated circuit used for serial communications over a computer or peripheral device serial port. UARTs are now commonly included in microcontrollers. A dual UART, or DUART, combines two UARTs into a single chip. Many modern ICs now come with a UART that can also communicate synchronously; these devices are called USARTs (universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter). I²C ("i-squared cee"; Inter-Integrated Circuit; generically referred to as "two-wire interface") is a multi-master serial single-ended computer bus invented by Philips that is used to attach low-speed peripherals to a motherboard, embedded system, cellphone, or other electronic device. Since the mid 1990s, several competitors (e.g., Siemens AG (later Infineon Technologies AG), NEC, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics (formerly SGS-Thomson), Motorola (later Freescale), Intersil, etc.) brought I²C products on the market, which are fully compatible with the NXP (formerly Philips's semiconductor division) I²C-system. As of October 10, 2006, no licensing fees are required to implement the I²C protocol. However, fees are still required to obtain I²C slave addresses allocated by NXP. SMBus, defined by Intel in 1995, is a subset of I²C that defines the protocols more strictly. One purpose of SMBus is to promote robustness and interoperability. Accordingly, modern I²C systems incorporate policies and rules from SMBus, sometimes supporting both I²C and SMBus with minimal re-configuration required. The Serial Peripheral Interface Bus or SPI (pronounced like "S.P.I." or "spy") bus is a synchronous serial data link standard named by Motorola that operates in full duplex mode. Devices communicate in master/slave mode where the master device initiates the data frame. Multiple slave devices are allowed with individual slave select (chip select) lines. Sometimes SPI is called a "four-wire" serial bus, contrasting with three-, two-, and one-wire serial buses. Links http://www.raspberrypi.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Purpose_Input/Output http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_asynchronous_receiver/transmitter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Peripheral_Interface_Bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Mini_and_Micro_connectors

Ep0966: The wisdom of our elders

2012-04-16

In his first (HPR) podcast, professional podcaster, and friend of HPR, Mr. Stephen McLaughlin, aka DoorToDoorGeek honors us with an episode on listening. He has taken some time to listen to older people and advises us to avail of this untapped resource. http://doortodoorgeek.com/

Ep0965: TGTM Newscast for 2012/4/4

2012-04-13

TGTM Newscast for 2012/4/4 Shownotes are available at Show Notes for TGTM news 66 Here is a news review: An Example to the West Wisconsin Greens Win 7 of 7 in Local Races Obama Administration Drastically Steps Up Deportation of Parents of U.S.-Born Citizens Promises Broken, Promises Kept Arkansas Supreme Court Okays Sex between Teachers and 18-Year-Old Students The Fight Against Copyright Enforcement & The Fight For Civil Liberties Are The Same Spanish ‘SOPA’: 79 Site Takedown Requests in First Month Megaupload Points Out That The Feds Want To Destroy Relevant Evidence In Its Case Viacom v. Google: A Decision at Last, and It's Mostly Good (for the Internet and Innovation) April 2012, the State of Do Not Track: Lead Up to Tracking Protecting Working Group Negotiations in Washington, DC Other Headlines: The Syrian Crisis Needs a Political Solution Australian Government's escalating hostility toward WikiLeaks and Julian Assange Op-Ed: Anybody but Obamney Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You Worker Ownership For the 21st Century? News from "techdirt.com," Audio of "Moment of Clarity #129," "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com," "inthesetimes.com," and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "wisconsingreenparty.org" is a press release. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-66.html http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/an-example-to-the-west/ http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org/?q=node/167 http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Obama_Administration_Drastically_Steps_Up_Deportation_of_Parents_of_US_Born_Citizens_120406 http://inthesetimes.com/article/12971/promises_broken_promises_kept/ http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Arkansas_Supreme_Court_Okays_Sex_between_Teachers_and_18_Year_Old_Students_120405 http://torrentfreak.com/the-fight-against-copyright-enforcement-the-fight-for-civil-liberties-are-the-same-120404/ http://torrentfreak.com/spanish-sopa-79-site-takedown-requests-in-first-month-120404/ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120406/12172918409/megaupload-points-out-that-feds-want-to-destroy-relevant-evidence-its-case.shtml https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/viacom-v-google-decision https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/april-2012-state-do-not-track-lead-tracking-protecting-working-group-negotiations http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1258 http://wlcentral.org/node/2535 http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/322271 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/11351-a-gulag-coming-near-someone-you-love-soon.html http://www.thenation.com/blog/167048/worker-ownership-21st-century

Ep0964: Sunday Morning Linux Review Episode 026

2012-04-11

http://smlr.us Downloads: MP3 format (for Freedom Haters!) OGG format (for Freedom Lovers!) Total Running Time: 1:07:31 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 5:47 Release Candidate: Sorry I missed this last week but Linus did not release it until all most 8pm EDT on Saturday and I did not check Sunday morning before we recorded. On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 at 19:58:35 Linus Torvalds Released Kernel 3.4-rc1 On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 19:09:38 Linus Torvalds Released Kernel 3.4-rc2 “So go forth, my eager minions. Go forth, and compile and test. Because nothing beats that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that you’re on the bleeding edge, but at the same time -rc2 is not quite so bleeding edge that you need to worry too much.” Mainline: 3.4-rc2 Stable Updates: On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 at 12:52:39 Greg Kroah-Hartman Released Kernel 3.0.27 121 files changed, 1172 files inserted, 450 files deleted On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 at 13:35:54 Greg Kroah-Hartman Released Kernel 3.2.14 168 files changed, 1606 files inserted, 793 files deleted On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 at 13:54:51 Greg Kroah-Hartman Released Kernel 3.3.1 227 files changed, 2007 files inserted, 1207 files deleted Kernel Quote: This was posted by Linus in response to Greg Kroah-Hartman publicly making fun of a kernel contributor for doing something massively stupid. “Publicly making fun of people is half the fun of open source programming. In fact, the real reason to eschew programming in closed environments is that you can’t embarrass people in public” — Linus Torvalds Distro Talk: Tony Time: 8:27 Distrowatch.com 4-4 – Puppy Linux 5.3 “Wary”, “Racy” – “Wary” and “Racy” editions of Puppy Linux, targeting older computers, are ready and available for download 4-2 – DEFT Linux 7.1 – Ubuntu-based distribution designed for forensic analysis, penetration testing and related tasks 4-2 – Fuduntu 2012.2 – the latest of the regular quarterly release updates of the project’s rolling-release distribution previously forked from Fedora Distro of the Week: Tony Fedora – 1511 Fuduntu – 1612 Puppy – 1714 Ubuntu – 2355 Mint – 3763 Tech News: Time: 27:56 Udev Source To Be Merged Into Systemd tree Kay Sievers, lead developer for udev, announced on the Linux hotplug mailing list plans to merge the source code for udev into the systemd tree. When this happens systemd will continue forward using the udev version number, so it will jump from 45 to 184. After the merge it will still be possible to build it for non-systemd systems. He went on to say that builds of this nature will be supported for a long time to come. This is necessary so as not to break systems with initrds that lack systemd. Distributions that do not want to adopt systemd can build as they always have except they will need to use the systemd tar ball. The decision to merge the two projects was based on the fact that init needs to be completely hotplug capable. Making udev’s device management and knowledge of device life cycles integral to systemd. This makes this merge a change in build scheme not a change in direction or interface. This leaves the libudev API untouched. So what all of this boils down to after the brouhaha settles down is that in essence nothing really has changed. Google Glass, Jetpacks Must Be Just Around The Corner I have been a fan of science fiction since I could read. Well everyday reality seems to be catching up with the science fiction of my childhood. If you have not seen the video yet head on over to YouTube and check it out: These are the kinds of things we geeks have been saying are coming since we were children. They are so futuristic that I am still having a hard time believing that they are actually in testing. The Internet rumor mill has been swirling around this for awhile now. Google calls it Project Glass and it is being developed at Google[X], Googles R&D laboratory. The announcement on Wednesday, 4/4 about field testing for Google Glass was released in a post on Google+ (https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts). It is however for Google employees only. The designs shown on Wednesday are just a selection they have more including one that can be incorporated into your existing eyewear. The biggest questions raised by this announcement have already been answered. Those questions being, won’t these get in the way of reality, and, won’t these just separate us more from from real life, well according someone who has used these, in an interview with the NY Times, the answer is no: “They let technology get out of your way. If I want to take a picture I don’t have to reach into my pocket and take out my phone; I just press a button at the top of the glasses and that’s it.” The glasses do have a unique look about them, and people will know you are wearing them right away. They will hopefully get smaller and be able to be integrated into a regular looking pair of glasses. I don’t care if these are impractical or don’t work I want a pair of these right now. This is the science fiction stuff I used to dream about when I was a kid. How far away are the personal jetpacks. ICANN Writes A How To For Governments To Seize Domains Coming to you directly from the “Not Cool” department. It was pointed out to ICANN that it was providing a disservice by not speaking out against governments seizing domains. So what does ICANN do? They publish a white paper that is basicly a how to for governments to seize domains. They have also made public statements that they will work closer with governments to help them seize and censor domains. This unfortunate turn of events just further illustrates the uselessness of ICANN to protect the Internet. It instead shows how they are actively undermining the very principals of the Internet. IBM And Red Hat May Join OpenStack From the I made this up to sound important bag. GigaOm reports that IBM and Red Hat are joining OpenStack. Neither company nor OpenStack has confirmed this report. OpenStack was started about two years ago as joint effort between NASA and Rackspace. Since its inception it has grown immensely with over 150 companies and 2,000 developers. I do not know how much cache these two will bring to the party however as the list of companies already includes the likes of HP, Dell, Intel, AMD, and Cisco. OpenStack released the fifth version of its software this week code named Essex. They are having a Design Summit April 16-18 in San Francisco. This could be where new partners will be announced. April 4, 2012. KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Significant bugfixes include * making encryption of multiple folders using GPG work, * XRender fixes in the KWin window and compositing manager, * a series of bugfixes to the newly introduced Dolphin view engine * improvements in the Plasma Quick-based new window switcher, * Kontact and its device counterpart Kontact Touch have received a number of important bugfixes as well as performance improvements. Yahoo Open-Sources Mojito JavaScript Framework KDE Tooltips— when is too much, too much? Well for me when it’s associated with KDE tool-tips Despite the fact that I am a big fan of KDE, there is one thing that annoys me every time I install a KDE-based distro—the numerous tool-tips and pop-ups that appear in an attempt to be helpful. Recently while searching for some KDE information, I found that someone else also had expressed similar sentiments and went on to list all of the tool-tips that he had disabled. His version of KDE was 4.5—but it had not changed too much for 4.8.1. Here are the various tooltips that I have deactivated. System Settings tool-tips: Are you bothered by KDE displaying the list of items for each configuration category within the System Setting area: Disable it thusly:. 1. Open System Settings 2. Select the Configure button 3. Uncheck the “Show detailed tool-tips” Icon-only Task bar tool-tips: If you’re using the icon-only task bar, you will appreciate this information instructing how to suppress task bar pop-ups. 1. Right-click on the task bar. 2. Select Icon-only Task Manager Settings 3. In the Appearance section, Select “Do Not Show” in the tool-tips drop-down and save. Panel balloon pop-ups: Do these balloons make you want to blow up? Selecting this option will suppress the pop-ups that appear when you hover over shortcuts and icons on the desktop. 1. Open System Settings 2. Select Workspace Appearance and Behavior 3. Select Workspace Behavior 4. Select Workspace 5. In the Informational Tips widget, select the “Do not show” option. . Title bar buttons (Maximize, Minimize, Close): Open System Settings Select Workspace Appearance Select Window Decorations Select the Configure Buttons button Uncheck the “Show window button tool-tips” check box This feature appears to be broken on my desktop—no tool-tips either way, plus my extra buttons with spacing are not appearing on the title bar. Perhaps my just downloaded and installed upgrade to 4.8.2 will fix this problem. Dolphin: Stopping the mother of all pop-up tooltips…This action prevents Dolphin from taking the content of the information panel (which can be set to appear on the right side) and repackaging it as a tool-tip..a very large tool-tip This may come in handy for some people, but for me it was over the top. 1. Select the Settings menu 2. Select the Configure Dolphin… option 3. Select the General tab 4. Uncheck the “Show tool-tips” check box. LibreOffice: The tool-tips that appear when you hover over the tool-bar will disappear. 1. Select Tools, Options. 2. Under General, uncheck the Tips box. Listner Feedback Time: 47:29 Keith Pawson Steve Barcomb Brad Alexander Mats Soap Box Time: 50:00 Outtro Music: Time: 1:03:36 MultiPunk by Bilou le skankerfou

Ep0963: How I cut the cord part 3

2012-04-10

Hello H.P.R. BrocktonBob here in my third episode on how I cut the cable cord. I discuss http://www.eztv.it/ using this website we will be able using a bittorent client like transmission to download our favorite cable and network T.V. Programs.We also talk about putting these shows on an external harddrive. And how to convert them to any video codec and play them using the netgear settop box.

Ep0962: LITS: Episode 004 - paste

2012-04-10

In the fourth in his series Dann, shows us the benifits of the paste command: The paste command merges the lines of two or more files or a file and standard in if a second file is not specified or a "-" is used in place of the second file. Consider the following two files. The first file, test1.txt contains the following lines: a one three cat good The second file, test2.txt contains the following lines: tuna blue finch dogs fish eats The paste command can be used to paste these two files like so: paste test1.txt test2.txt producing the following output: a tuna one blue finch three dogs cat fish good eats Each line in test1.txt has been “pasted” to the corresponding line in test2.txt. http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/04/10/episode-004-paste/ for the complete shownotes, including video.

Ep0961: Experiences in a mental hospital

2012-04-09

This is about the time Sigflup spent in a mental hospital for paranoia. This is a personal log that takes place just after sigflup regained the ability to talk. You can find a by-foot made map of the psych-ward here: https://devio.us/~sigflup/map.jpg

Ep0960: TGTM Newscast for 2012/04/04

2012-04-06

TGTM Newscast for 2012/4/4 Here is a news review: EFF Again Reminds Court Forced Warrantless DNA Collection Violates Fourth Amendment U.S. Escalates Drone War in Yemen Amnesty Accuses Cuban Government of Harassing Colia Clark Wins NY Green Party Nomination for US Senate On financial blockades as a political tool for censorship French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforcement Use of National Biometric ID Database NSA Chief Appears to Deny Ability to Warrantlessly Wiretap Despite Evidence Trademark Lawyers Push For Crazy New Domain Rules Making It Easy For Them To Take Away Others' Domains AMD Launches New Platform for Dedicated Web Hosting Providers RapidShare Declared Legal In Court, With a Twist Other Headlines: The Root of All Evil? The Dollar, the BRICS and South Africa Hanford contractors admit big safety problems remain The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost Courthouse News Service on Hedge's NDAA suit against Obama Power Management of Online Data-Intensive Services News from "techdirt.com," Audio of "Moment of Clarity #126," "havanatimes.org," and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "gpnys.com," and "amd.com" are press releases. News from "wlcentral.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/eff-again-reminds-court-forced-warrantless-dna-collection-violates-fourth http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/US_Escalates_Drone_War_in_Yemen_120331 http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=65391 http://www.web.gpnys.com/?p=11728 http://wlcentral.org/node/2518 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/french-constitutional-court-bans-law-enforcement-use-biometric-data https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/nsa-chief-denies-ability-warrantlessly-wiretap-despite-evidence http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120324/01292018233/trademark-lawyers-push-crazy-new-domain-rules-making-it-easy-them-to-take-away-others-domains.shtml http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-launches-new-platform-2012mar20.aspx http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-declared-legal-in-court-with-a-twist-120327/ http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1253 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017819435_hanford23m.html http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_polite_conference_rooms_where_liberties_are_saved_and_lost_20120326/ http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/28/45128.htm http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/03/29/PowerManagementOfOnlineDataIntensiveServices.aspx

Ep0959: The Orca Screen Reader

2012-04-05

Joanmarie Diggs talk entitled "The Orca Screen Reader, how it does what it does and how you can help" Joanmarie Diggs is the Lead Developer for Orca and this talk was recorded at the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest 2012-03-17

Ep0958: KDE Gathering-Plasma Active-THE Tablet

2012-04-03

KDE will get hosting a regional meeting of KDE for the Northwestern United States April 28 and 29, 2012 at LinuxFest Northwest http://linuxfestnorthwest.org Akademy 2012 30th June - 6th July 2012, Tallinn, Estonia http://akademy.kde.org/ KDE is 15 years old Kool Desktop Environment KDE desktop is called the Plasma Workspace Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE. (from Wikipedia) Owncloud http://owncloud.org/ Krita - Painting and Image Editing http://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/krita/ This OS is open unlike other tablet operating systems. plasma-active.org http://makeplaylive.com/ Vivaldi Tablet Anyone can attend this KDE gathering which is co-located with LinuxFest Northwest Plasma Active is not locked down and has office applications Calligra http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Word Processor,spreadsheet presentation software, drawing optimized for touch Calendaring, PIM aspect to KDE has been refocused to touch and is avaiable right now Some KDE programs are still being optimized for the touch environment Qt-questions about it's openness has been resolved Might be some Raspberry PI's at the gathering and they will be raffled after the KDE coders get done with them at the LinuxFest Northwest world famous raffle. You can make your own tablet and use the OS for your project. OS uses Qt and C++ QT Quick http://qt.nokia.com/qtquick/ A continuation of Megoo - Mer http://merproject.org/ Can be used on some smart phones basyskom.com Check out KDE and Plasma Active These notes based on the interview by David Whitman with Carl Symons and John Blanford for Hacker Public Radio.

Ep0957: Freedom is not Free 3 - Documentation

2012-04-02

https://ohiolinux.org/node/186 http://www.zwilnik.com

Ep0956: HPR Community News for Feb 2012

2012-04-01

HPR Community News A monthly look at what has been going on in the HPR community. This is a regular show scheduled for the first Monday of the month. New hosts Welcome to our new host: Digital Maniac, David Whitman, Neodragon, and all the ZombieMasters. If you would like to become a HPR host then please head over to http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php Show Review id title host 936 Monthly Review show 2012 Feb HPR Admins 937 How I started with linux riddlebox 938 Cloning Windows WiFi Profiles and Installing Skype... FiftyOneFifty 939 Sunday Morning Linux Review: Episode 021 HPR Admins 940 TGTM Tech News for 2012-03-07 deepgeek 941 Whats in my bag / Portable Apps Digital Maniac 942 Zentyal Linux Small Business Server riddlebox 943 Freedom is not Free 2 - Bugs Ahuka 944 LITS: Episode 002 - tr Dann 945 TGTM Tech News for 2012-03-14 deepgeek 946 HPR Interview David Whitman with Carl Symons and J... David Whitman 947 Presentation by Jared Smith at the Columbia Area L... Neodragon 948 Exchanging Data Podcast 2 dmfrey 949 The cchits 2011 overview HPR Admins 950 TGTM Newscast for 2012/03/21 deepgeek 951 Roku XD box riddlebox 952 How I cut The Cable Cord Part 2 BrocktonBob 953 LITS: Episode 003 - cut Dann 954 All Things Chrome Robin Catling 955 Zombie Circus 00 - Pilot ZombieMaster Other items HPR site was down for a few hours on 2/March but Josh had it back in a few hours David Whitman writes to say that he will be having a table at http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sponsors and he is still looking for volunteers to help out or even be the 'Big Cheese'. Some bad news from the HeliOS project, http://www.fixedbylinux.com/about HPR Images, can you send your feedback to the list Haxradio.com is airing HPR episodes regularly Were we having FTP login Issues ? NELF Talk David Whitman made us buttons HPR vetting policy relating to adult, political, etc.... We don't have one Episode 1000 and 1024 We should come up with an idea to celebrate Ep1000 ? Answer = YES For episode 1000 we will be gathering a sample of community members emailing their congratulations but for episode 1024 :) FiftyOneFifty will be coordinating a EPIC "live" show so please email your contributions to ep1k@hackerpublicradio.org

Ep0955: Zombie Circus 00 - Pilot

2012-03-29

Zombie Circus 00 - Pilot Recorded: 20120204 Cast: Azimuth, monsterb, pegwole, Peter64, Sndchaser, Threethirty Music: Beware The Dangers Of A Ghost Scorpion - Zombie Dance Party Links: Desura FUDCon: Fedora Users and Developers Conference Homeland Security deports tourists for Twitter jokes. Galaxy Zoo Moonbase Alpha NSA releases ultra-secure open source Android derivative. Planet Hunters Previous owners data found on 100 Motorola Xoom tablets sold online. Raspberry Pi Rebecca Black Linux Steam US bars friends over Twitter joke. WineHQ More info can be found at Zombie Circus Links http://www.musicalley.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?BandHash=772ecf06f0581a80b23f1d73a702afdf http://www.desura.com/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/245639/homeland-security-deports-tourists-twitter-jokes http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/index.html http://androidcommunity.com/nsa-releases-ultra-secure-open-source-android-derivative-20120117/ http://www.planethunters.org/ http://tech2.in.com/news/tablets/previous-owners-data-found-on-100-motorola-xoom-tablets-sold-online/278922 http://www.raspberrypi.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/ http://store.steampowered.com/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html http://www.winehq.org/ http://oggcastplanet.org/zombiecircus/

Ep0954: All Things Chrome

2012-03-28

Cast your minds back to Summer 2011, when Google Plus still looked like a good idea, before the HP Touchpad came and went in a fire sale and before the Euro debt crisis turned into a Keystone Cops movie. A presenter formerly of this parish, one Ed Hewitt, went out and bought himself a new toy; a Samsung Chromebook. ChromeOS marches on, but for how long? I stand back and referee as Ed and Dave Wilkins, fight it out. The Full Circle Podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Your Hosts: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter) Dave Wilkins (…had to go cook the dinner. @davidawilkins on Twitter) Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 24mins 0seconds

Ep0953: LITS: Episode 003 - cut

2012-03-28

In the third in his series Dann, shows us the benifits of the cut command: The cut command, as the man page states, "removes sections from each line of a file." The cut command can also be used on a stream and it can do more than just remove section. If a file is not specified or "-" is used, the cut command takes input from standard in. The cut command can be used to extract sections from a file or stream based upon a specific criteria. An example of this would be cutting specific fields from a csv (comma separated values) file. For instance, cut can be used to extract the name and email address from a csv file with the following content: http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/03/28/episode-003-cut/ for the complete shownotes, including video.

Ep0952: How I cut The Cable Cord Part 2

2012-03-27

Hello HPR, Just BrocktonBob here again with part 2 of How I Cut The Cable Cord. In this episode I talk about adding a second settop box,and getting the Playon Server software on a computer so you can get alot more content.I also talk to you about adding an external harddrive.And how I made my own HD tv antenna.

Ep0951: Roku XD box

2012-03-25

I recently bought a roku XD box and I want to do a little review for you guys. First I would like to say that we have basic cable, and werent really looking to become "cord cutters". You can check out the roku site at www.roku.com. First I bought it from Best buy for 79.99 I think it was 84 dollars with tax. First I cant believe how tiny this thing is! When you open the box, you have the device, a remote and some RCA AV Cables. The XD also only works with wireless internet. The one I bought does have a HDMI port on it. It works great and does Netflix and other services like Amazon and Hulu Plus. You sign up for a roku account on the website and associate the roku box to that account. Which is close to what you do with most media type boxes now a days like blueray players and stuff. The only difference is those devices only give you content from a couple places. The roku actually has channels, that you can add to your roku box. I have added many channels on it and I am watching lots of content from the web. With services like Popcorn flix, which shows you movies and during those movies there are some commercials. They arent really that bad its like 1 commercial when they show it. It is always the same commercial though. Which kinda gets annoying. I use Netflix, and Crackle on it was well. There are lots of news channels like NBC also I know that MLB and I think NHL have channels too. I was amazed at the selection of channels on the device. It would be nice if the roku site had a listing of all private channels. As it is hard to search the internet to find a list, then add the code on the roku site only to find out that the channel code doesnt work anymore. There really are so many channels that you can add it is hard to explain them all. My wife and I both have android phones and we installed the roku remote control app which works great! As long as you are on the same wifi network as the roku you can control it. My wife is using the roku box for netflix and other services more than our blueray players because she likes the interface to netflix better. She says that just getting around the netflix channel is just so much easier! I even found a mythtv channel. All in all I am real happy with the Roku box and would recomend it to anyone to supplement their basic cable package. I think it really goes hand in hand with a basic cable or HD Antenna where you can get your network channels, but still get alot of the extra content for free or a reasonable price. I will say that I would like to try Hulu Plus and see if I can slowly ween myself from Cable or HD Antenna. I really doubt it because of the way the cable companies are in the US. Right now since I get my internet from the cable company(Charter) if I get basic Digital television with it then I actually get the two of them for a cheaper price than if I just got the cable internet from them. I would like to end by saying that I know I have only mentioned a few of the channels that roku offers but there really are so many of them and they are scattered in many places that it is tough to know about them all. So if you want you can email me james.middendorff@gmail.com I am on google+ as well. Thanks

Ep0950: TGTM Newscast for 2012/03/21

2012-03-24

TGTM Newscast for 2012/03/21 Here is a news review: Not All Labor Leaders Happy With AFL-CIO’s Obama Endorsement Hit and Run U.S. and Korea implement free trade agreement Romney’s Bain Capital Helps Chinese Dictators Monitor Dissidents Elected Officials Get An Average 1,452% Salary Increase When They Take A Lobbying Job Supreme Court Decision on GPS Surveillance Sparking Good Court Rulings ISPs To Begin Punishing BitTorrent Pirates This Summer Domain Registrar Confirms New Pirate Bay Investigation This American Life Retracts Entire Episode About Apple Factories After Mike Daisey Admits To Fabricating Parts Of The Story Megaupload Seizure Order “Null and Void” Says High Court Other Headlines: LONGVIEW: Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory State Prosecutor’s Closing Arguments Interview: Stanley Siegel The Long Road to Socialism in Cuba Yahoo sues Facebook over 10 disputed patents in the US News from "inthesetimes.com, " "techdirt.com," Audio of "Moment of Clarity #124," and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "peoplesworld.org," and "plri.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12894/not_all_labor_leaders_happy_with_afl-cios_obama_endorsement/ http://www.plri.org/hit-and-run http://peoplesworld.org/u-s-and-korea-implement-free-trade-agreement/ http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Romneys_Bain_Capital_Helps_Chinese_Dictators_Monitor_Dissidents_120317 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120315/23155418121/elected-officials-get-average-1452-salary-increase-when-they-take-lobbying-job.shtml https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/jones-decision-banning-warrantless-use-gps-devices-starting-percolate http://torrentfreak.com/isps-to-begin-punishing-bittorrent-pirates-this-summer-120315/ http://torrentfreak.com/domain-registrar-confirms-new-pirate-bay-investigation-120314/ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120316/12522618142/this-american-life-retracts-entire-episode-about-apple-factories-after-mike-daisey-admits-to-fabricating-parts-story.shtml http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-seizure-order-null-and-void-says-high-court-120318/ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/17/18709481.php http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=29314&ew_0_a_id=388298 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/interview-stanley-siegel/ http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=64562 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17345935

Ep0949: The cchits 2011 overview

2012-03-21

Ep0948: Exchanging Data Podcast 2

2012-03-20

This podcast is the first in a series about accessing the data you have on your web site in any number of other locations. These can be other web sites or apps running on your mobile phone. Over the next few episodes, I will describe the different formats used for sharing your data, what goes into building the web application that serves up your data, how to access your data from other locations such as other web sites or mobile apps, and, finally, I will talk briefly on how to make something like this scale to support higher load demands. This episode discusses the different types of web services and the test restaurant application. Thanks for listening!

Ep0947: Presentation by Jared Smith at the Columbia Area Linux Users Group

2012-03-20

In todays show our newest host Neodragon brings us a presentation by Jared Smith at the Columbia Area Linux Users Group. You can email him at linuxgeekster.stahl@gmail.com or contact him as Mathew Stahl on Google+ Links LinuxBasix Podcast: http://linuxbasix.com CALUG or Columbia Area Linux Users Group: http://www.calug.org The Fedora Project: http://www.fedoraproject.org

Ep0946: HPR Interview David Whitman with Carl Symons and John Blanford

2012-03-19

SHOW NOTES HPR Interview David Whitman with Carl Symons and John Blanford LinuxFest Northwest 2012 Bellingham, Washington 98225 USA April 28th & 29th, 2012 http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/ Admission Free or support the fest as an Individual Supporter - 60 USD ****************** Sessions A’salt’ing Your Computers * Accessibility: It’s about you!-(Beginner) Alan Turing: The First 100 years, by author George Dyson Alpha Geek Amazon and the Future of the Open Cloud An Intro to CrunchBang Ask Your Users: Redesigning the Western website for Drupal with user feedback (Beginner) Automate Your Infrastructure With Chef Automated License Plate Recognition use by law enforcement BAIRS (Bellingham Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Society) (Beginner) Blender: a 3D introduction Border Crossings Bring Intelligence Back to Your Scheduled Tasks BSD Virtualization Building my first module with Drupal! Building RPMs for enterprise deployments Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing Creative camera control under GNU/Linux. Creating Solutions with CentOS Studio Custom Live Linux Customizing Linux for the Classroom Deploying an IaaS cloud with CloudStack DIY Man in the Middle for Security and Privacy Embedded Hardware Development In Linux Enterprise Systems Management with Spacewalk Fedena: Open Source School management system Git Deep: A deep dive into Git File Security: Lock Down Your Data Free (as in speech) brewing (as in beer) FreeNAS: Open Souce Storage Solution Game Den Get Cloudy! Getting started with Ubuntu Gnome 3 on it's own merit. Help us get open source used in local schools High Availability Clustering with Linux Introduction to Drupal Introduction to Joomla! Introduction to the i3 Window Manager jQuery Tips and Tricks Jump Start with Symfony2 kismet BOF Lean startup overview/The Idea Lab Lean startup/Agile development Linux SSTP Server - VPN For Windows Clients Linux Alternative Rescue Disk Linux Groups 2.1: Noob Morning in America Linux Logical Volume Manager Advanced Topics Linux Made Easy Linux Performance Analysis Linux Permissions Linux SSTP Server - VPN For Windows Clients Logical Volume Management: Maximize your Hard Disk Space Meet Fedora: The Not-So-Miraculous story of a successful community, and where the Fedora Project is today. Messaging for Free Software Groups and Projects Microcomputer Firmware Development using Linux Minimizing IT Infrastructure Costs in a Stressed Economy Monitoring What Matters Multitouch linux- Utouch and Ginn MySQL Overview MySQL Security Beyond The Obvious Open Source On The Farm Open Source Software and the Healthcare Data Revolution openSUSE--It's not just a distro! ownCloud - Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way! Panel Forum with ACLU and EFF Penetration Testing at the Speed of Metasploit Perl Regular Expressions PHP Multitasking without forking Polyglot Paas Without Vender Lock-In Powerful Team Collaboration with Trac Prerequisites for success in the cloud Programming Location Based Services applications w/Qt Repairing a Hacked Drupal Website Revvy - Are your programs out of date? rshall: A Tool for Managing Hosts in Parallel Security Enhanced Linux for Mere Mortals Scalable HTML5 Video Player - Development, Extensibility and Targeting Multiple Platforms Security Worst Practices Software Patents: What You Can Do Supporting Classrooms - 101 Teaching Linux and Linux System Administration as Distance Education Classes The future of web's video – Open, Streamlined, Exciting The LFNW World Famous Raffle The MySQL Diaspora in 2012 The new MySQL eco-system The MySQL Ecosystem Meets the Cloud Traffic Redirection With Apache The Pop Culture Guide To Open Source Tutorium User Space C Development Using BackTrack 5 for fun and profit. Using the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance (Gluster) Utilizing Travis CI We are Legion: Decentralizing the Web What Makes Android Tick What's new in MariaDB 5.5 and what's coming in MariaDB 5.6 Why Linux Does Not Suck (Not Even A Little) Why Linux Sucks (As Usual) Wireshark as used by a non-guru XenClient: Client-side virtualization, and how to take Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offline ************************ Friday night- Tech Night Gathering Meet and Greet, Job Fair, meet and socialize with other Linux Geeks/ Users ************************** Saturday after-Fest party Appetizers, drinks, dessert, celebration, fun, games and conversation for LFNW attendees at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention (formerly the American Museum of Radio and Electricity) (1312 Bay Street). 6:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Ep0945: TGTM Tech News for 2012-03-14

2012-03-16

TGTM Newscast for 2012/3/14/ DeepGeek Shownotes are available at Show Notes for TGTM news 63 Here is a news review: Admin Orders Military Planning for Syria Intervention Noam Chomsky Endorses Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Crime and Punishment (BJ) ALBA Expands its Allies in the Caribbean Transparency Double Standard: UK Public Inquiry Requests Info From Wikileaks It’s Official: US Demands Extradition of Megaupload Suspects "A Time Bomb For Civil Liberties": France Adopts a New Biometric ID Card Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay Torrent-less Pirate Bay Sees Massive Drop in Bandwith Venezuelan Scientific Achievements Aimed at Social Progress Other Headlines: Japan tightens radiation limits on meat products LGBT Tourism in a Cuban Magazine History Shows That Copyright Monopolies Prevent Creativity And Innovation Untitled Angst: the curse of lethargy in a time of monsters Global Spring: Towards an advanced and mature world civilisation | Another World, Now! News from "icelandreview.com, " "techdirt.com," and "venezuelanalysis.com" used under arranged permission. News from "Indybay.org" used under permissions granted at the website. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "democracynow.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license.News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-63.html http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/8/headlines#0 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/10/18709079.php http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=29314&ew_0_a_id=388124 http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6855 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120308/12004618039/transparency-double-standard-uk-public-inquiry-requests-info-wikileaks.shtml http://torrentfreak.com/its-official-us-demands-extradition-of-megaupload-suspects-120305/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/french-national-assembly-proposes-new-alarming-biometrics-bill http://torrentfreak.com/police-plans-to-raid-the-pirate-bay-120309/ http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-less-pirate-bay-sees-massive-drop-in-bandwith-120308/ http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6858 http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Industry-Markets/Japan-tightens-radiation-limits-on-meat-products http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=63934 http://torrentfreak.com/history-shows-that-copyright-monopolies-prevent-creativity-and-innovation-120205/ http://wlcentral.org/node/2484 http://wlcentral.org/node/2483

Ep0944: LITS: Episode 002 - tr

2012-03-14

In the third in the series, Dann introduces us to the tr command. Here's a flavour: The tr, or translate (aka: transliterate) command, substitutes one more characters for another set of characters or it will delete a specified set of characters. The tr command takes input from standard in and writes to standard out. This simple example of the tr command translates some numbers into a world: echo "12234" |tr '1234' 'aple' The output: apple The entire article, including links to the videos can be found on his site: http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/03/15/episode-002-tr/

Ep0943: Freedom is not Free 2 - Bugs

2012-03-14

http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/guide-to-bug-submitting-and-bug-tracking-in-linux https://ohiolinux.org/node/186 http://www.zwilnik.com

Ep0942: Zentyal Linux Small Business Server

2012-03-13

Today I talked about Zentyal Linux Small Business Server,found at www.zentyal.org. From the website: "Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified Communication Server or a combination of them. One single, easy-to-use platform to manage all your network services." Check out their youtube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/zentyal?blend=5&ob=video-mustangbase Here is the screencast about the server: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL7dqdibv60&list=UU1uVrKfbxMXk_yeclYOSwFg&index=23&feature=plcp if you have any comments or questions please email me at james.middendorff [@] gmail.com

Ep0941: Whats in my bag / Portable Apps

2012-03-12

In today's show Digital Maniac becomes our newest host and shows us what's in his bag. He also gives us a run down of his favourate http://portableapps.com/.

Ep0940: TGTM Tech News for 2012-03-07

2012-03-08

Shownotes are available at Show Notes for TGTM news 62 DeepGeek TGTM Newscast for 2012/3/7/ Here is a news review: Iran, Israel and the U.S.: the slide to war The Reality of the Single-Party System in Cuba A&P Bankruptcy Saga Nears End, but Pain Just Beginning for Thousands of Workers Hackers and Cybercriminals Enjoying Field Day in 2012 The Immunity Syndrome Communicating Data Beyond the Speed of Light Appeals Court Upholds Constitutional Right Against Forced Decryption Mexico Adopts Alarming Surveillance Legislation Pirate Bay ISP Block Challenged For Censoring Lawful Content Kim Dotcom: US Govt Is Protecting An Outdated Monopolistic Business Model Other Headlines: Does WikiLeaks still matter? How Financial Crisis, Economic Inequality, Social Media, and More Brought Revolutions in 2011 Social Change in Venezuela Debate over non-GPL version of BusyBox supposedly settled Gigabit Internet for $70: the unlikely success of California's Sonic.net News from "havanatimes.org," "inthesetimes.com," the audio "Moment of Clarity #121-Privacy," "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com," "perspectives.mvdirona.com," and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "peoplesworld.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. Audio interludes "NSA" and "Vote" courtesy youtube user "anonyops". News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-62.html http://peoplesworld.org/iran-israel-and-the-u-s-the-slide-to-war/ http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=62926 http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12777/ap_bankruptcy_saga_nears_end_but_pain_just_beginning_for_thousands_of_worke/ http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Hackers_and_Cybercriminals_Enjoying_Field_Day_in_2012_120303 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/the-immunity-syndrome/ http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/21/CommunicatingDataBeyondTheSpeedOfLight.aspx https://www.eff.org/press/releases/appeals-court-upholds-constitutional-right-against-forced-decryption https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/mexico-adopts-surveillance-legislation http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-isp-block-challenged-for-censoring-lawful-content-120216/ http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-us-govt-is-protecting-an-outdated-monopolistic-business-model-120301/ http://gigaom.com/2012/02/27/does-wikileaks-still-matter/ http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1220 http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6849 http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Debate-over-non-GPL-version-of-BusyBox-supposedly-settled-1441740.html http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/gigabit-internet-for-80-the-unlikely-success-of-californias-sonicnet.ars

Ep0939: Sunday Morning Linux Review: Episode 021

2012-03-07

Ep0938: Cloning Windows WiFi Profiles and Installing Skype Under 64-bit Fedora

2012-03-06

The other day I was copying a customer's files and settings from a old laptop to a new one. Much of this tedious task was handled automatically by Fab's Autobackup (http://fpnet.fr/ , and 25% until Valentines Day BTW ), but I was disappointed that his dozen WiFi access point profiles and passwords were not one among the settings that Fab's copied for me. For a family laptop, you usually just have to re-enter the password for just the home router, and maybe once again for your work wireless. If your are a tech for an enterprise, and the new mobile workstation needs to connect to multiple access points, you always wind up walking around the business or campus, connecting to each in SSID in turn and entering a different key. This time, the laptop would be used in multiple remote offices. The user would have been able to re-create those connections as he traveled to each office, but he asked me if it wouldn't be possible instead to transfer the profiles with the rest of his data. I had no doubt that I would be able to find a free tool to backup and restore wireless connections, but I have become wary of Windows utilities that can be found at the end of a Google search but have not been recommended by other techs or a trusted website. I was surprised to find my answer in some functions added to the DOS netsh, (or "net shell") command, starting with Windows Vista. Open a Windows command prompt on the laptop that already has the WiFi keys set up, ergo the old one, and type: netsh wlan show profiles then press return. This will give you a list of your existing wireless connection profiles by name (i.e. by SSID). Now you can pick a WiFi profile name and enter on the command line: netsh wlan export profile name="SSID_above_in_quotes" folder="C:destination" Quotes are required for the WiFi profile name, but not for the destination folder unless you use spaces in you Windows directory names. If you want to create export files for all your wireless connections, you may omit the "name=" part. netsh wlan export profile folder= Omitting "file=" of course creates export files in the current directory. The netsh wlan export profile command generates a .XML export file for each selected profile. Each export file contains an SSID, channel, encryption type and a hash of the encryption key to be transferred to the new laptop, except that it doesn't work, at least not for me and several others who posted articles to the web. On my first try, I was able to import everything but the encryption key, all the access points showed up in "Manage Wireless Networks", but I was prompted for a key when I tried to connect. I thought maybe this was Microsoft's attempt at security, but I could see a field for the hash in the .XML and when I went back to the article on netsh and it was clear I was supposed to get the keys too. A little more googlsearch revealed a second article on netsh that gave me an argument the first one omitted, adding key=clear at the very end of the netsh command causes the keys to be exported in clear text! Our command now looks like: netsh wlan export profile folder= key=clear Copy your .XML profile files to the new laptop (I am assuming via USB key). The filenames will be in the format: Wireless Network connection-.xml You understood me correctly, this DOS command generates file names with spaces in them. Copy the .XML files to the new system and import the profiles with: netsh add profile filename=".xml" It's not quite as odious as it looks because DOS now supports TAB completion, so you just have to type: netsh add profile filename="Wi and press The rest of the name of the first profile will be filled in, complete with the terminating quote. Press and you should get a message that wireless profile has been imported. To import the remaining profiles, just use or the up arrow and edit the last command. Since it was set to auto-connect, the laptop I was working on made a connection to the local access point the instant the corresponding profile was imported. Learning these new netsh functions may make configuring WiFi more convenient (I can maintain a library of wireless profiles for the organizations I service, or I could implement an encryption key update via a batch file). I can also see ominous security implications for networks where users aren't supposed to be privy to the connection keys and have access to pre-configured laptops, such as schools. One could whitelist the MAC addresses of only the organization's equipment, but there is always that visiting dignitary to whom you are expected to provide unfettered network access. Besides, anyone with access to the command line can use ipconfig to display the laptop's trusted MAC address, which can be cloned for access from the parking lot or from across the street. The only way I see to secure the connection from someone with physical access to a connected laptop is to install kiosk software that disables the command line. Installing Skype on 64-bit Fedora Last week I decided to install Skype as an alternative way to contact people with land lines. I haven't played with Skype since I had it on my Windows workstation, so I downloaded and installed the .rpm for Fedora 13+. All Skype has is a 32-bit package for Fedora, and sure enough, when I tried to launch Skype, the icon bounced around Compize fashion, then the application item on the taskbar closed without doing anything. I looked for information in troubleshooting Skype from the logs, and an Arch wiki article told me I might have to create ~/.Skype/Logs , which I did. The application continued to crash without generating a log. I heard someone mention once in a call in podcast that they'd had to perform additional steps to make 32-bit Skype work in 64 bit Fedora 15, and a Google search took me to the khAttAm blog (link below). I experienced some trepidation because the steps involve installing additional 32 bit libraries (if you heard me on the Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve shows, you might have heard me say I've experienced a bit of dependency hell over conflicts between 32 and 64 bit libraries) but the instructions in the article went flawlessly (I don't know if khattam.info represents one person or more than one, but you rock!). http://www.khattam.info/howto-install-skype-in-fedora-15-64-bit-2011-06-01.html First, as root run yum update Next, add the following line to /etc/rpm/macros (create it if it doesn't exist): %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch} Finally, install these 32-bit libraries: yum install qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 After that, I was able to launch the application and log into my Skype account.

Ep0937: How I started with linux

2012-03-05

In today's show, regular contributor riddlebox takes some time out to tell us of his journey to linux You can reach him at: james.middendorff[ @ ]gmail.com

Ep0936: Monthly Review show 2012 Feb

2012-03-05

NEW HOSTS Bob Wooden rootoutcast NEW SERIES Linux in the Shell by Dann Washko OTHER ITEMS Stickers Ep1k New Logos http://rfquerin.org/hprstuff/hpr_splash_samples.png http://rfquerin.org/hprstuff/hpr_atomic_surround_x.png http://rfquerin.org/hprstuff/hpr_02_samples.png http://rfquerin.org/hprstuff/hpr_atomic_samples.png SHOW REVIEW ep0917 :: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio 6 Hosted by sigflup ep0918 :: How I Started with Linux Part 2 Hosted by Frank Bell ep0919 :: Elfstedentocht - To be or not to be Hosted by Ken Fallon ep0920 :: TGTM Newscast for 2012/02/08 Hosted by deepgeek ep0921 :: Tag Team Chase Douglas Interview with Alison Chaiken Hosted by marcoz ep0922 :: Updating a Garmin GPS for free Hosted by riddlebox ep0923 :: 12 Gazillion Buttons Hosted by Jezra and NYbill ep0924 :: Episode 000 redirection Hosted by Dann ep0925 :: TGTM Tech News for 2012-02-15 Hosted by deepgeek ep0926 :: Heresies in the year of the apocalypse ep 1 - computer languages Hosted by MrGadgets ep0927 :: Setting up a WordPress blog: part 1 Hosted by Frank Bell ep0928 :: My Linux Adventure, Pt. 1 Hosted by Bob Wooden ep0929 :: The Knightcast KC0060 : "Storytime" Hosted by Knightwise ep0930 :: TGTM Tech News for 2012-02-20 Hosted by deepgeek ep0931 :: The ratpoison window manager Hosted by rootoutcast ep0932 :: Programming languages 1 – Introduction Hosted by garjola ep0933 :: Freedom is not Free 1 Introduction Hosted by Ahuka ep0934 :: LITS: Entry 001 – qrencode Hosted by Dann ep0935 :: Indiana LinuxFest Hosted by Ken Fallon EVENTS We need an event manager Please add your event to http://fossevents.org/ When What Where Who 2012-01-20..22 Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 2012-02-04..05 Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) http://fosdem.org/2012/ March 5, 2012 sipX-CoLab http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipx-colab Fort Collins, CO 8:00 AMto5:00 PM 2012-03-17 The Northeast GNU/Linux fest http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/ Pokey/Klaatu 2012-04-28..29 LinuxFest Northwest http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ David Whitman (davidglennwhitman@gmail.com) 2012-09-28..30 Ohio LinuxFest 2012 https://ohiolinux.org/node/186 (Call for talks)

Ep0935: Indiana LinuxFest

2012-03-02

In what has proven to be the most difficult show to put together ever, Ken and his most noble Lordship of the shire of Drachenblut, talk about the Indiana LinuxFest. Summary of Indiana LinuxFest's Goals Indiana LinuxFest is a community F/OSS conference, which is showcasing the best the community has to offer in the way of Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware, and Free Culture. We are also highlighting the best and brightest from all of these communities from the hobbyist to professional level. Indiana LinuxFest 2012, April 13th to the 15th at the Wyndam Indianapolis West, is free to attend and Open for any to attend be it the hobbyist to the professional. So join us for the Reign of Freedom! http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/

Ep0934: LITS: Entry 001 – qrencode

2012-02-29

In the second in the series, Dann concentrates on producing a image from the command line, QR codes to be precise. He says: "The qrencode application is a tool to rapidly produce qrcodes. Qrcodes are handy little images that embed information many cell-phone cameras can read to do a number of tasks like provide a link to install applications, provide links to web sites or videos, or to add contacts into the address book. With qrencode, in seconds you can generate these images. Find the excellent write up and video at http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/03/01/entry-001-qrencode/ or if you prefer:

Ep0933: Freedom is not Free 1 Introduction

2012-02-28

Richard Stalman Free Software foundation Richard Stallman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and he has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against software patents, digital rights management, and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Debugger, and various tools in the GNU coreutils. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989. The Free Software Definition http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. Free as in Freedom Free as in freedom oggcast - http://faif.us Free as in Freedom is a bi-weekly oggcast, hosted and presented by Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler. The discussion includes legal, policy, and many other issues in the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) world. Occasionally, guests join Bradley and Karen to discuss various topics regarding FLOSS. You can email feedback on the show to oggcast@faif.us, or join bkuhn and other listeners in our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net. Free Software Foundation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software. The FSF is incorporated in Massachusetts, USA. From its founding until the mid-1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software for the GNU Project. Since the mid-1990s, the FSF's employees and volunteers have mostly worked on legal and structural issues for the free software movement and the free software community. Consistent with its goals, only free software is used on FSF's computers. How you can support free software Bug Reports Documentation Financial Support Advocacy

Ep0932: Programming languages 1 - Introduction

2012-02-27

This is the first episode on a series about computer programming languages. In this episode, I will start by discussing why you may want to learn a programming language, then I will give an introduction about what programming languages are, which are the different types of programming languages, their history, and I will also give some pointers to ressources which can be useful to get you started with programming. Eric Raymond's "How to become a hacker" essay, available at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html 1 Wikipedia sources: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Categorical_list_of_programming_languages https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History_of_programming_languages 2 Ressources for learning to program 2.1 Easy 2.1.1 List of ressources on Wikipedia https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_educational_programming_languages 2.1.2 The Python tutorial http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ 2.2 Intermediate 2.2.1 Structure and interpretation of computer programs http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ Book free online Videos of the lectures: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/

Ep0931: The ratpoison window manager

2012-02-26

Links The tutorial talked about in the episode Dion Moult Ratpoison: an efficient and minimalist WM. http://thinkmoult.com/2009/05/13/ratpoison-an-efficient-and-minimalist-wm/ My ratpoisonrc file escape F13 exec ./.fehbg & exec /usr/bin/conky & bind Next exec amixer -q set Master 10- unmute bind Prior exec amixer -q set Master 10+ unmute unbind k unbind c bind j focusdown bind h focusleft bind k focusup bind l focusright bind J exchangedown bind H exchangeleft bind K exchangeup bind L exchangeright bind C-k delete exec /usr/bin/rpws init 4 -k set winname class set border 0 set padding 0 15 0 0 set barpadding 0 0 warp on startup_message off bind space exec aterm bind a exec aterm -e alsamixer bind f exec firefox bind o exec libreoffice bind t exec import MyScreenshot.png bind c exec codeblocks bind v exec aterm -pixmap false -e vim bind g exec ~/.my-scripts/scripts/gimp.sh #Displays a calender # make sure to have ccal installed on your box so you can use this calender bind d exec ratpoison -d :0.0 -c "echo `date +'%r - %A %n %D - %B'` `cal | tail +2 | sed -e 's/^Su/nn Su/' -e 's/.*/ & /' -e "s/ $(date +%e) //"`" ~

Ep0930: TGTM Tech News for 2012-02-20

2012-02-23

DeepGeek TGTM Newscast for 2012-02-20 Shownotes are available at Show Notes for TGTM news 61 Here is a news review: Trial of Jimmy John's Bosses for Mass Firing of Whistleblower Workers Begins Today: Organizers Vow to Continue Fight for Change at Poverty-Wage Corporate Chains 600 percent increase in racial stop-and-frisk policing in NY Longshore workers name Occupy movement as crucial in EGT settlement Greek Hospital workers decide to occupy the hospital and run it themselves Prominent Republicans may be getting nervous about Romney’s chances Google Circumvents Safari Privacy Protections - This is Why We Need Do Not Track Pirate Bay: The RIAA Is Delusional and Must Be Stopped IIPA Reports BitTorrent Sites and Cyberlockers To US Government Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US Australian Government Holds Secret Anti-Piracy Meetings; The Public Is Not Invited Other Headlines: Will We Choose a Chinese Future? Athens burns: has Greece entered its Argentina moment? Co-operatives, capitalism and the IWW Roseanne Barr at 6% in national presidential poll, behind Romney by only 5% among 18 to 29 year old voters Bradley Manning for Nobel Peace Prize? News from "iww.org, " "rawstory.com, the audio "Moment of Clarity #116," and "techdirt.com" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "peoplesworld.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News from "indybay.org" used under terms of the webpage. News from "takethesquare.net" is copyleft, translation from Greek courtesy the reddit community. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-61.html" http://www.iww.org/en/content/trial-jimmy-johns-bosses-mass-firing-whistleblower-workers-begins-today-organizers-vow-conti" http://peoplesworld.org/600-percent-increase-in-racial-stop-and-frisk-policing-in-ny/" http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/02/14/18707374.php" http://takethesquare.net/2012/02/07/greek-hospital-workers-decide-to-occupy-the-hospital-and-run-it-themselves/" http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/17/prominent-republicans-getting-nervous-about-romneys-chances/" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-google-circumvents-privacy-settings-safari-users" http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-the-riaa-is-delusional-and-must-be-stopped-120217/" http://torrentfreak.com/iipa-reports-bittorrent-sites-and-cyberlockers-to-us-120214/" http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17154217785/congrats-us-government-youre-scaring-web-businesses-into-moving-out-us.shtml" http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120214/09284317757/australian-government-holds-secret-anti-piracy-meetings-public-is-not-invited.shtml" http://inthesetimes.com/article/12758/will_we_choose_a_chinese_future/" http://wlcentral.org/node/2457" http://libcom.org/blog/co-operatives-capitalism-iww-18022012" http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2012/02/14/roseanne-barr-at-6-in-national-presidential-poll-behind-romney-by-only-5-among-18-to-29-year-old-voters/" http://rt.com/news/manning-nobel-peace-prize-631/"

Ep0929: The Knightcast KC0060 : "Storytime"

2012-02-23

Ep0928: My Linux Adventure, Pt. 1

2012-02-21

Release year - 2012 Contact Info: bob.wooden@comcast.net Links mentioned: Redhat http://www.redhat.com http://fedoraproject.org SuSE http://www.suse.com http://www.opensuse.org Micro Center - (my opinion - great retail environment for computer parts) http://www.microcenter.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Center The properitory software device that does not allow printing or saving information without "key" was called "Design Key" or "Software Dongle" by myself. This is the brand "we used" (were provided) by design software (CAD type) kitchen and bathroom design program. (This is the "dongle" device. I do not care if I mention the properatory software name. It's not very good and it's . . . well, properatory.) http://www.petrotechnics.com/sentinel.html Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) http://www.ltsp.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Terminal_Server_Project Network File System (NFS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol

Ep0927: Setting up a WordPress blog: part 1

2012-02-21

Frank Bell summarizes the steps involved in setting up a WordPress blog. This episode covers creating a database and database user, installing the WordPress software, and configuring basic WordPress settings. Related links: WordPress Software, including the codex, themes, and plugins. (http://wordpress.org/) Wordpress blog hosting site (http://wordpress.com/) Xampp LAMPP server stack. (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) MySQL (http://mysql.com/) Some other blog hosting sites: Blogger (http://blogger.com) Blogspot (http://blogspot.com) Typepad (http://www.typepad.com/) Tumblr ()

Ep0926: Heresies in the year of the apocalypse ep 1 - computer languages

2012-02-20

Mr Gadgests calls in Apokoplictic year 2012 where he discusses Assembler, cobal and Grace Hopper From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches (motivated by an actual moth removed from the computer). Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace." The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) was named for her, as was the Cray XE6 "Hopper" supercomputer at NERSC.

Ep0925: TGTM Tech News for 2012-02-15

2012-02-16

TGTM Tech News for 2012-02-15 Shownotes are taken from Show Notes for TGTM news 60 Here is a news review: One Year Later (case of Florida cop Jimmy Dac Ho murdering a sex worker.) U.S., Banks Reach $26 Billion Settlement for Mortgage Abuses Mitt Romney: Relish the Rich, Ignore the Poor Beware Of Those Who Claim They're 'Saving The Culture Business' When They're Really Protecting Those Who Strip Artists Of Rights The Wrong Path on Cuba India’s Downward Spiral Letters to the Copyright Office: Why I Jailbreak BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good Congress Actually Helping The Internet, Rather Than Mucking It Up? Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It’s Only 90 MB Other Headlines: The Haditha Massacre: No Justice for Iraqis How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the "One Percent" WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning arraignment for February 23 Army Private Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for role in leaking documents Roseanne Barr's Candidacy for President of America Via the Green Party News from "havanatimes.org, " "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com, "techdirt.com," and "ufcw.blogspot.com" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "democracynow.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-60.html http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/one-year-later/ http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/9/headlines#0 http://ufcw.blogspot.com/2012/02/mitt-romney-relish-rich-ignore-poor.html http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120201/00433217612/beware-those-who-claim-theyre-saving-culture-business-when-theyre-really-protecting-those-who-strip-artists-rights.shtml http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=61712 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/india%E2%80%99s-downward-spiral https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/letters-copyright-office-why-i-jailbreak http://torrentfreak.com/btjunkie-shuts-down-for-good-120206/ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120208/00260717693/congress-actually-helping-internet-rather-than-mucking-it-up.shtml http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-its-only-90-mb-120209/ http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1191 http://www.truth-out.org/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-one-percent/1327942221 http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/wikileaks-suspect-bradley-manning-arraignment-for-february-23/ http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/army-private-manning-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-r/nHYNR/ http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1201

Ep0924: Episode 000 redirection

2012-02-15

Welcome to the first entry of Linux in the Shell. Before delving into specific commands, redirection will be explored as redirection will be used frequently in the examples going forward. The Unix philosophy posits program simplicity and that a program should do one thing and do it well (Mike Gancarz, the Unix Philosophy). Eric Raymond adds the Rule of Composition: "Design programs to be connected to other programs." Redirection is the glue that achieves this design. Redirection is applied to any of the following standard streams to achieve results beyond simply outputting some value from a single command: Standard Input (stdin) – 0 Standard Output (stdout) – 1 Standard Error (stderr) – 2 For the rest of this article and accompanying video please go to http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/02/16/entry-000-redirection/ The video can be downloaded http://www.archive.org/download/LinuxInTheShellEpisode000-Redirection/lits-000.ogv

Ep0923: 12 Gazillion Buttons

2012-02-14

Jezra and NYbill discuss their predictions for 2012 and the things they are looking forward to in the new year. The discussion moves on to LUG's. Jezra takes Bill on a trip down memory lane. Then Bill strikes a nerve with Jez who rants about 3D movies (Language warning). They finish up talking about their current hardware and software projects. Links http://www.jezra.net/blog Jezra http://identi.ca/nybill NYbill http://www.raspberrypi.org/ Raspberry Pi http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ Teensy http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/ Northeast Linux Fest http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x The Southern California Linux Expo http://nblug.org/ The North Bay Linux Users Group http://cdlug.net/ Capital District Linux Users Group http://http://www.2600.com/ 2600 http://2600albany.wordpress.com/ Albany2600

Ep0922: Updating a Garmin GPS for free

2012-02-13

Notice **I am not condoning this method I am just reporting that I have read on numerous sites the steps and procedures on how to do this.**** Sources: http://www.haklabs.com/2011/garmin-2012-map-update/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBlS0fzWjbY http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6536173/Garmin_City_Navigator_North_America_NT_2012.10_IMG Updating a Garmin GPS for free This is a guide that I have compiled on how to upgrade a Garmin GPS to the 2012 maps for free. First you must torrent the "Garmin City Navigator 2012.10 torrent file, or the 2012.20 torrent file. 2012.10 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9DAC19AT 2012.20 http://www.multiupload.com/L4AVMTU4WA Then you extract the contents of that into a folder and Connect your device to the computer. Go into the Nuvi files and backup the file named gmapprom.img to your computer. Delete the gmapprom.img file from the device. (note: make sure you empty the recycle bin after this step) Delete any unused Language files too.. Copy the unlocked gmapprom.img file that you downloaded into the device. If the downloaded file is named something else, rename it to gmapprom.img and then put it on your devices internal memory. Restart your device and check your map info via : Tools>Settings>Map>Map Info. There you have it! You have done it.

Ep0921: Tag Team Chase Douglas Interview with Alison Chaiken

2012-02-12

Chase Douglas is a software developer at Canonical working primarily on multitouch user interface support. For the past year, Chase has been involved with developing gesture support through Canonical’s uTouch framework and multitouch support through the X.org window system. Prior to working on multitouch, Chase spent three years performing Linux kernel and plumbing layer development and maintenance at Canonical and IBM. Alison's questions: 3:49 - Alison asks "Chase, back up for a moment, can you talk a little bit about what X input is and how X in general works in Linux." 6:13 - Alison asks "Do you have any particular target hardware that you are thinking about during its development?" 11:57 - Alison asks "Do we expect the mouse and keyboard to be with us in the long term? Are you really thinking of all these touches used in concert with the mouse and keyboard or that we may be evolving away from that?" 17:45 - Alison basically asks "Is there talk about an agreed upon gesture language?" 20:56 - Alison asks "What is the state of device driver support for capacitive screens that will support multitouch in Linux?" 26:34 - Alison asks "Speaking of software coupling, are you looking at Wayland already or is that still over the horizon?" 28:43 - Alison says "The automotive case seems like a fascinating one. As far as touch and gesture goes and Ubuntu has an IDI and recently Cadillac has a multitouch screen that has haptic feedback and some gesture support. This looks like a very exciting area for development. Actual shipping products in 2012. I don't know if you're familiar with that at all." 32:11 - Alison asks "Do you anticipate contributing the multitouch work to GNOME and Debian as well? 35:0 - Alin asks "What new features can we anticipate that will be user visible for precision in the area of multitouch and gestures?" 43:56 - Alison says "I think I'm happy although I must mention I was pained to hear that it was 24 years ago that you were an infant because I was at M.I.T when they started the X project. heh heh. you young whippersnappers. ... that was very fascinating. I had no idea there was that much activity going on. I'm really excited to see what's coming out and what new features are being added." launchpad.net/utouch multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net #ubuntu-touch irc.freenode.net

Ep0920: TGTM Newscast for 2012/02/08

2012-02-09

TGTM Newscast for 2012/02/08 DeepGeek We have had alot happen in the world since the last newscast, so let's jump right in! We're also rich in audio interludes, so I will be inserting them almost between the non-tech news stories. Here is a news review: Calls for Julian Assange to be tried as terrorist under NDAA-like law in 2010 This story is important because there was a movement to have multiple political parties in Cuba. Cuba Keeps One Party, Sets Term Limits Let's start a segment of three stories regarding United States of America politics. First, a story about the struggle against the "Electoral College" system of voting, which is a key method this country uses to suppress anything besides to two dominant fascist (in the technical sense of being a marriage between corporations and government) parties. We will see how the state of Washington is fighting that system. After this, a story about the fight for decent medical care for the country within the state of California. Lastly, an editorial written by one of the co-chairs of the Socialist Party USA about Ron Paul. It should be noted that I am not yet "endorsing" the Socialist Party USA, merely covering their point of view which the corporate media ignores in order to keep them out of the minds of the people of the USA. That's the point of TGTM news, to report the stories they suppress. The Green Party USA is very interesting also. Jill Stein is fighting for candidacy for President with them, and she recently issued her own "Peoples State of the Union (which I will link to in the "other headlines" section)" right after Obama's State of the Union. While Obama's State Of The Union was very Ronald Regan, you know, with it's tough-guy statements about forcing other countries to respect us via Military Force and it's "trickle down economics" statements about boosting the economy by giving even more handouts to mega-corporations; Jill Stein's message was about "the Green New Deal," about stimulating the economy with direct-to-locality stimulus. As matter of fact, she held a video chat direct to the people who got to ask her questions via chat room. Remembering that a union I regularly cover, the IWW, encourages it's members to work via worker co-operatives, I asked if co-ops would be locked out of the "Green New Deal." Ms. Stein answered my question by stating that co-operatives were valid recipients of contracts, and that the point was that, historically, big corporations pocket too much for their owners, so she only wanted to lock out the Interstate and large corporations to aid small business units. Jill Stein is currently running against Roseanne Barr for the candidacy for presidency in the Green Party USA. Court Approves Washington State System of Limiting November Ballot Access to Two Candidates California's single-payer health bill moves forward The Misadventure of Ron Paul ACLU & EFF to Appeal Secrecy Ruling in Twitter/WikiLeaks CaseEditorial Comment: After the ruling the Icelandic Member-of-Parliment, Ms. Birgitta Jonsdottir, "broke silence" on the matter of this case. So I included, in the "other headlines" section, links to her blog entry about it, as well as a link to a Radio Netherlands International english podcast that includes an interview with her. The Right to Anonymity is a Matter of Privacy MegaUpload: What Made It a Rogue Site Worthy of Destruction? Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land New Venezuelan Social Network Takes Off Other Headlines: People's State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America Supreme Court rules Congress can re-copyright public domain works MY TWITTER CASE AND "THOUGHTCRIME" The State We're In - Freedom's Road 27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama News from "havanatimes.org, " "allgov.com," and "dissidentvoice.org" "used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "wlcentral.org" and "peoplesworld.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News from "venezuelanalysis.com" is copyleft. Audio Interlude, MOC #112, used under permission of Lee Camp. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=60933 http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Court_Approves_Washington_State_System_of_Limiting_November_Ballot_Access_to_Two_Candidates_120122 http://peoplesworld.org/california-s-single-payer-health-bill-moves-forward/ http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/01/the-misadventure-of-ron-paul/ https://www.eff.org/press/releases/aclu-eff-appeal-secrecy-ruling-twitterwikileaks-case https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/right-anonymity-matter-privacy http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-what-made-it-a-rogue-site-worthy-of-destruction-120120/ http://torrentfreak.com/mega-aftermath-upheaval-in-pirate-warez-land-120128/ http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6772 http://www.web.gpnys.com/?p=11479 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/supreme-court-rules-congress-can-re-copyright-public-domain-works.ars http://joyb.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-twitter-case-and-thoughtcrime.html http://www.rnw.nl/english/radioshow/freedoms-road http://bigbatusa.org/david-swanson-27-of-35-bush-articles-of-impeachment-apply-to-obama/

Ep0919: Elfstedentocht - To be or not to be

2012-02-08

In today's show Ken interviews Klaas-Jan Koopman about the Elfstedentocht a particularly Dutch phenomenon. He gives us some background to the tour and tells the story of his Father who has a permit to participate should it go ahead. This interview was recorded yesterday and since then the organisation committee have said that the tour will not be going ahead this weekend as the ice is not thick enough. We can all wait and see together if it happens or not. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/02/poor_ice_growth_on_tuesday_nig.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht Elfstedentocht From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Elfstedentocht (or, in West Frisian, Alvestêdetocht, sometimes in English : Eleven Cities Tour), at almost 200 km, is the world's largest speed skating competition and leisure skating tour, and is held in the province of Friesland, Netherlands only when the ice along the entire course is 15 cm thick. The tour, almost 200 km in length, is conducted on frozen canals, rivers and lakes between the eleven historic Frisian cities: Leeuwarden, Sneek, IJlst, Sloten, Stavoren, Hindeloopen, Workum, Bolsward, Harlingen, Franeker, Dokkum then returning to Leeuwarden. The tour is not held every year, mostly because not every Dutch winter permits skating on natural ice. The last editions were in 1985, 1986 and 1997. Adding to that, the tour currently features about 15,000 amateur skaters taking part, putting high requirements on the quality of the ice. There is a stated regulatory requirement for the race to take place that the ice must be (and remain at) a minimum thickness of 15 centimetres along the entirety of the course. All skaters must be a member of the Association of the Eleven Frisian Cities. A starting permit is required. Further more, in each city the skater must collect a stamp, as well as a stamp from the three secret check points. The skater must finish before midnight.

Ep0918: How I Started with Linux Part 2

2012-02-07

In his long waited second part Frank continues his Linux story, describing how he used Linux to self-host his website from his guest room and some of the things he learned along the way. Some links mentioned in the show: Slackware (http://www.slackware.com) Debian (http://www.debian.org) Samba by Example (http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/) The Slackware Wiki (http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware-FAQ) Linux Questions Linux Forums (http://www.linuxquestions.org/) no-ip dot com dynamic DNS service (http://www.no-ip.com/)

Ep0917: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio 6

2012-02-06

In a welcome return to HPR, SigFIUP talks to us about two of her projects: concr concr is an encryption framework for use to partially encrypt configuration files, or any file for that matter. concr is for use in UNIX systems and consist of two parts, libconcr and confcrypt. libconcr is an API for reading partially encrypted files and generating keys. confcrypt is a user-application for encrypting files using keyfile database or manually specified keys. concr leverages the own-by-root aspect of programs in UNIX systems and stores it's decryption key inside of the application. Applications that use libconcr must be installed with execute-only permissions. When an application is linked with and makes use of concr it, when run for the first time, will generate a copy of itself containing a private rsa-key and output a public rsa-key. confcrypt is a user program that encrypts messages to be decrypted by second runs of the application. concr provides an api similar to that of libc for reading in files thus making it transparent to the application developer what is and is not encrypted in those files. https://devio.us/~sigflup/concr yesplz yesplz is a screeenshot uploader command line utility written by sigFLUP that will take a screenshot, tag your photo, log into unixporn.com, post the picture to your photo album, and return an ascii bunny on success. In order for it to work, you must have an account at unixporn.com but that is free and you can enter nothing but fake information into it. Then simply run yesplz --help to see the possible tags and instructions for yesplz. https://devio.us/~sigflup/yesplz_dec_19_2011.tgz

Ep0916: HPR Community News for Dec 2011/Jan 2012

2012-02-05

HPR Community News A monthly look at what has been going on in the HPR community. This is a regular show scheduled for the first Monday of the month. New hosts Welcome to our new host: Frank Bell, NYbill and Windigo, garjola, Ahuka, Akranis, mordancy, MrX, BrocktonBob, and dmfrey. Show Review id title host 871 HPR Community News for Nov 2011 HPR Admins 872 Packaging YUM klaatu 873 Philip and Rebecca Newborough of CrunchBang Ken Fallon 874 Interview: Lucy Chambers, Open Knowledge Foundation Robin Catling 875 Replacing Older Hardware JWP 876 Packaging applications: BSD ports klaatu 877 Welcome Frank Bell Frank Bell 878 OpenShorts Episode 4 MrGadgets 879 SMLR 009 HPR Admins 880 Handbook for the Criminally Insane HPR_AudioBookClub 881 Intel Atom processor JWP 882 RPM format klaatu 883 Dan Lynch interview Ken Fallon 884 Cross Platform Streaming Knightwise 885 Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.1. Johninsc 886 Product lifecycle management (PLM) Ken Fallon 887 init() NYbill and Windigo 888 EMACS Help Sources JWP 889 New Year's Eve Show Announcement HPR Admins 890 Where's my flying car ! MrGadgets 891 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 1/8 HPR Admins 892 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 2/8 (A Bit About Fedora) HPR Admins 893 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 3/8 (Everybody loves Crunchbang... except Klaatu) HPR Admins 894 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 4/8 (Mrs Cornominal brings the naughty) HPR Admins 895 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 5/8 (Funding Free Culture) HPR Admins 896 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 6/8 (The Unix Fight and Thank You Kevin) HPR Admins 897 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 7/8 (The Grand Finale) HPR Admins 898 Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 8/8 (The After Show) HPR Admins 899 Sunday Morning Linux Review - New Year Show HPR Admins 900 Episode 000 - Introduction garjola 901 Ahuka: Intro and How I Got Into Linux Ahuka 902 TGTM Tech News for 2012-01-09 deepgeek 903 SOPA Protest HPR Admins 904 Frostcast Northeast GNU/linux fest. HPR Admins 905 Akranis: How I got into Linux Akranis 906 FOSDEM 2012 Ken Fallon 907 Learning mordancy 908 TV Downloader TED riddlebox 909 KC0058 : Streampunking with Instapaper HPR Admins 910 Introduction to Pagekite. Kevin Granade 911 Hobbies MrX 912 How I cut The Cable Cord Part1 BrocktonBob 913 Exchanging Data Podcast 1 dmfrey 914 Sunday Morning Linux Review: Episode 014 HPR Admins 915 TGTM Newscast for 2012/01/17 deepgeek New Regular Slots 1st Monday every month: HPR Admins with "Community News" Every Thursday: HPR Presents: Syndicated Shows/Talks/Other works of note. 1st Thursday every month: Sunday Morning Linux Review. Most Fridays: Talk Geek To Me. Every second Tuesday: linux in the shell Thanks To Too many to thank. Sorry To Too many to apologise to. Other items HPR vetting policy relating to adult, political, etc.... Should we release at weekends Episode 1000 and 1024 We should come up with an idea to celebrate Ep1000 ? Answer = YES For episode 1000 we will be gathering a sample of community members emailing their congratulations but for episode 1024 :) FiftyOneFifty will be coordinating a EPIC "live" show so please email your contributions to ep1k@hackerpublicradio.org Events Wow t We need an event manager Please add your event to http://fossevents.org/ When What Where Who 2012-01-20..22 Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 2012-02-04..05 Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) http://fosdem.org/2012/ 2012-03-17 The Northeast GNU/Linux fest http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/ Pokey/Klaatu 2012-04-28..29 LinuxFest Northwest http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ David Whitman (davidglennwhitman@gmail.com) 2012-09-28..30 Ohio LinuxFest 2012 https://ohiolinux.org/node/186 (Call for talks) Sailor 1: That new wife of your's isn't there Derik Sailor 2: We're back at the same time that the Milk man is doing his rounds Anna: Derik !!! Derik: Anna !!! Those Fisherman's Friends are strong, hey !

Ep0915: TGTM Newscast for 2012/01/17

2012-02-02

Shownotes are available at Show Notes for TGTM news 58 TGTM Newscast for 2012/01/17 by DeepGeek Here is a news review: Presiding Officer Recommends Court-Martial for Manning Glitnir Winding-Up Committee Sues Executives New Hampshire Primary Results — No Not That One The More the Better (spike in sex workers.) Left, Right or the truth? The Internet Goes to Washington on January 18 Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy The Pirate Bay Shows Futility of Domain and DNS Blocks Why Apple Will Not Be Part Of The Real Tablet Revolution The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents Other Headlines: Calif. Carwashes Agree to $1 Million Back Pay Settlement New pilot project allows collecting society SACEM members to use Creative Commons licenses Assange Extradition Fact Sheet: 15 Overlooked Facts Argentina to Brazil: Please Don't Get the Bomb 100 Years After Lawrence Strike, the Cry for ‘Bread & Roses’ Still Resonates News from "icelandreview.com, " "dissentingdemocrat.wordpress.com," "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com," "spankthespooki.blogspot.com," and "techdirt.com" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "democracynow.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. Audio Interlude, MOC #106, used under permission of Lee Camp. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-58.html http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/13/headlines#1 http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=29314&ew_0_a_id=386295 http://dissentingdemocrat.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/new-hampshire-primary-results-no-not-that-one/ https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-more-the-better/ http://spankthespooki.blogspot.com/2012/01/left-right-or-truth.html https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/internet-goes-washington-january-18 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/biometrics-argentina-mass-surveillance-state-policy http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-shows-futility-of-domain-and-dns-blocks-120109/ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120102/04270317251/why-apple-will-not-be-part-real-tablet-revolution.shtml http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-will-stop-serving-torrents-120112/ http://blog.aflcio.org/2012/01/11/calif-car-washes-agree-to-1-million-back-pay-settlement-2/ http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31205 http://wlcentral.org/node/2429 http://wlcentral.org/node/2426 http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12504/one_hundred_years_after_lawrence_strike_the_cry_for_bread_roses_still_reson/

Ep0914: Sunday Morning Linux Review: Episode 014

2012-02-01

Syndicated Thursdays A chance to showcase other Creative Commons works. We try to expose podcasts, speeches, presentations, music, etc that you may not have heard. If you have suggestions for items then send your recommendation to admin at hpr and we'll add it to the queue. Sunday Morning Linux Review: Episode 014 January 15th, 2012 http://smlr.us Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Kernel News: Mat Release Canidates None Main Line 3.2 no change Stable Releases Greg KH announced the release of the 2.6.32.54 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:13:20 UTC There were 18 files changed, 167 files inserted, and 66 files deleted Greg KH announced the release of the 3.0.17 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:21:36 UTC There were 52 files changed, 364 files inserted, and 179 files deleted Greg KH announced the release of the 3.1.9 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:22:18 UTC There were 53 files changed, 367 files inserted, and 179 files deleted Greg KH announced the release of the 3.2.1 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:25:05 UTC There were 63 files changed, 465 files inserted, and 200 files deleted Kernel Quote "Here’s the different active kernel versions that I am maintaining at the moment: 3.2.y – this will be maintained until 3.3 comes out 3.1.y – there will be only one, maybe two, more releases of this tree 3.0.y – this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me. 2.6.32.y – this is the previous "longterm" kernel release. It is approaching it’s end-of-life, and I think I only have another month or so doing releases of this. After I am finished with it, it might be picked up by someone else, but I’m not going to promise anything. All other longterm kernels are being maintained in various forms (usually quite sporadically, if at all), by other people, and I can not speak for their lifetime at all, that is up to those individuals." – Greg Kroah-Hartman There was also a bit of a dust up between Tim Gardner of Canonical and Greg Kroah-Hartman over maintenance of the 2.6.32 kernel once greg gives it up. It appears to have been started by a misunderstanding and a conclusion jump by Tim. Distro News: Tony Distrowatch.com 1-13 – PC-BSD 9.0 – desktop-oriented distribution based on the latest stable FreeBSD 1-12 – FreeBSD 9.0 – a major new version of the BSD operating featuring a brand-new system installer 1-12 – Webconverger 11.0 – a web browser-only specialist distribution for Internet kiosks 1-11 – Astaro Security Gateway 8.3 – specialist distribution for firewall and gateways 1-10 - Asturix 4 – Ubuntu-based desktop distribution with a custom desktop environment and many usability improvements 1-10 – Fuduntu 2012.1 – a new quarterly update of the distribution that was forked from Fedora last year 1-8 – Porteus 1.1 – Slackware-based live CD with a choice of Trinity (a KDE 3 fork), KDE 4 and LXDE desktops Mat did you know about the KDE 3 fork, Trinity? Distro of the Week: Tony Fuduntu – 1433 openSUSE – 1440 Fedora – 1495 Ubuntu – 1873 Mint – 4248 Tech News: Microsoft Now Collects Extortion On Approximatley 70% Of All US Sales Of Androids LG is the latest victim to pay Microsoft’s extortion demands. They are the eleventh victim in this extortion scheme. A list of the other victims includes Samsung, HTC, and Acer. This leaves Motorola Mobility as the only major manufacturer to not sign an extortion agreement with Microsoft. I would wager that Microsoft has not even approached Motorola as Google now owns Motorola and those pockets are deep enough to scare off the Microsoft patent trolls. Microsoft now claims that they are collecting "royalties" on over 70% of all Android smart phones sold in the US. The terms of this latest agreement are unknown as Microsoft makes part of the agreement that the parties can not make public the patents covered by Microsoft’s claims. In other words a typical extortion agreement. The MPAA Instigates A Dustup with Ars Technica On 1/10 the MPAA (Motion Picture Associtation of America) said on it’s blog, "… Ars Technica, a tech blog with a long history of challenging efforts to curb content theft,". This entire claim by the MPAA appears to be Ars Technica opposing things in the past like the broadcast flag which would have allowed remote control of peoples home entertainment recording devices, along with their stand against DRM that prevents owners from ripping legal backup copies of their DVDs. Ars also has publicly opposed the horrendous SOPA legislation currently in front of Congress. It is obvious that the MPAA’s position is the wacky correlation of fighting for consumers’ rights is the equivalent of having no enforcement at all. Not that any representative of the MPAA would ever engage in outlandish statements to further their cause. Like this quote from Jack Valenti when he appeared before congress in 1982, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." United States Migrates Spy Drone Control Panels From Windows To Linux Last September the ground control systems for the Reaper drones, which reside at the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, became infected with a virus. When it happed the Air Force dismissed this intrusion as a nuisance that posed no real threat, it was however taken very seriously. Still the discovery of this virus on the Air Force’s systems was a huge embarrassment. This is what they had to say at the time: "The malware in question is a credential stealer, not a key logger, found routinely on computer networks and is considered more of a nuisance than an operational threat. It is not designed to transmit data or video, nor is it designed to corrupt data, files or programs on the infected computer. Our tools and processes detect this type of malware as soon as it appears on the system, preventing further reach.", they also went on to say, "The ground system is separate from the flight control system Air Force pilots use to fly the aircraft remotely; the ability of the pilots to safely fly these aircraft remained secure throughout the incident," Screen shots of drone control computers posted by security researcher Mikko Hypponen show that some of the systems have been migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux. In a statement Mikko Hypponen said, "If I would need to select between Windows XP and a Linux based system while building a military system, I wouldn’t doubt a second which one I would take." Open Source Surgery, a Robot called Raven takes Flight The Raven 2 is a surgical robot with 7 degrees of freedom, compact electronics and two wing-like arms which end in tiny gripper claws designed to perform surgery on simulated patients. The robot’s software is compatible with Robot Operating System, an open source robotics coding platform. January 20, 2012 is Penguin Awareness Day ep0898 :: Hacker Public Radio New Year’s Eve Part 8/8 (The After Show) fiftyonefifty mentions us as one of the new podcasts that he likes!! Thanks! Raspberry Pi Linux micro machine enters mass production The Commodore 64 is 30 Outtro Music: Across my way by Matthew Morris

Ep0913: Exchanging Data Podcast 1

2012-01-31

This podcast is the first in a series about accessing the data you have on your web site in any number of other locations. These can be other web sites or apps running on your mobile phone. Over the next few episodes, I will describe the different formats used for sharing your data, what goes into building the web application that serves up your data, how to access your data from other locations such as other web sites or mobile apps, and, finally, I will talk briefly on how to make something like this scale to support higher load demands. This episode is an introduction to the data formats available when talking to web services. Thanks for listening!

Ep0912: How I cut The Cable Cord Part1

2012-01-30

In his very first episode our latest community memeber to step up to the plate takes on the topic of cutting the cord.

Ep0911: Hobbies

2012-01-29

A show about the hobbies I've had over the years The Secret Life of machines videos by Tim Hunkin, originally broadcasted in the UK in around 1980 http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/ Ohms Law http://people.usd.edu/~schieber/psyc770/resistors/ohms4beginner.html Information about the thermionic valve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube Calculating Wavelength http://www.ewart.org.uk/physics/index.php?l=44 Small Yaseu FT 817, Multi Mode Hf, VHF and UHF transceiver http://www.g4ilo.com/ft817.html 19:00 Base Station Kenwood TS 940S, Multi Mode Hf Transceiver http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/ts940s.html 19:00 Amiga 500 Computer http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/amiga500/ Beginning Ubuntu Linux from novice to professional http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ubuntu-Linux-Novice-Professional/dp/1590596277 Linux Pocket guide http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Pocket-Guide-Daniel-Barrett/dp/0596006284/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327077298&sr=1-1 Wicked cool shell scripts http://nostarch.com/wcss.htm Raspberry PI, micro Computer for $35 http://www.raspberrypi.org

Ep0910: Introduction to Pagekite.

2012-01-26

Welcome to my awkward second episode. Today I'll be introducing you to pagekite, a service for giving a public face to your local servers. Check it out at http://www.pagekite.net Bring your localhost servers on-line. PageKite is software that gives your localhost servers names and makes them globally visible. It works with any computer and any Internet connection. It's so easy you'll never want to think about routers, IP addresses or other technicalities again. It's open source, too!

Ep0909: KC0058 : Streampunking with Instapaper

2012-01-25

Ep0908: TV Downloader TED

2012-01-24

Hello everyone its riddle box, sorry its been so long since I have done a podcast. Today I am going to tell you about my kinda sorta home dvr that I have at the moment. No, this isn't another show talking about mythtv....even though the mythtv project is a good one... our myth box at home died a while back and we lost three tuner cards which I hadn't realized how expensive the setup was getting to be needing all of the tuner cards and a back end server that could handle everything. So I looked at a debian server I have been using as my zoneminder server which just records two a cameras when there is motion. I found a Java app called TED - or torrent episode downloaded from www.Ted.nu. as the name states it uses torrents to download the shows. with this application which you download and launch from the jar file.. I had to use a --no-tray switch to get it to run. Once you open the jar file you are greeted with the app and a list of the popular shows. You can tell it to start torrenting those shows and you can tell Ted the frequency of how often to look for new shows. You can even tell it to he past shows. So Igot Ted all configured the way I wanted then I setup a guest samba share on my downloads folder so my blue ray player can see the share and now I just go to my blue ray player and see what shows are available to watch. Some shows may show up a couple days after they air but overall it works great.

Ep0907: Learning

2012-01-23

This is the first episode recorded by mordancy using text to speech technology. In this episode I want to bring attention to 3 cool learning websites that I have found useful in my autodidactic (self taught) pursuits http://codeacademy.com http://ocw.mit.edu http://arachnoid.com http://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/alien.html email me : hpr [at] mordancy [dot] com If there is interest, I will record a show on you how to record an HPR episode using test to speech (tts) tools - specifically espeak

Ep0906: FOSDEM 2012

2012-01-22

In Today's show Ken interviews Pascal Bleser of the FOSDEM. FOSDEM is the biggest free and non-commercial event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. If you are going to FOSDEM, please contact Ken http://fosdem.org/2012/ Apologies for the crackling on the recording

Ep0905: Akranis: How I got into Linux

2012-01-19

A 5 minute show about how I came to know Linux and the distribution I use today. You can find my modified bashpodder script here: http://pastebin.com/zGtMRA9m And you can find the original script here: http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/ hexagenic@gmail.com

Ep0904: Frostcast Northeast GNU/linux fest.

2012-01-18

Ep0903: SOPA Protest

2012-01-17

In protest at the attempt to restrict the Internet the HPR community have decided to take part in a say of action by redirecting the http://hackerpublicradio.org domain to http://www.nosopa.org/ for January 18th.

Ep0902: TGTM Tech News for 2012-01-09

2012-01-17

Shownotes are available at http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-57.html TGTM Tech News for 2012-01-09 NewsCast Shownotes are available at Show Notes for TGTM news 57 TGTM Newscast for 2012/01/09 DeepGeek Here is a news review: Largest Dutch Pension Fund Pulls Investments in Walmart over Poor Labor Practices Yoani Sanchez Makes New Plea to Exit Cuba Attacks on minimum wage are back in 2012 Living in Truth Private Sector Cuban Workers to Join Unions Belarus Bans Browsing of All Foreign Websites Thailand Continues Massive Crackdown of Online Speech BitTorrent Releases New "Share" Application File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden ARM V8 Architecture Other Headlines: Occupy the Electoral Process Green Party Says Cuomo’s State of the State Does Little for 99% of New Yorkers Canaries in the Data Mines Gigabit Wi-Fi chips emerge, will power super-fast home video streaming The Truth about the Economics Behind the Blacklist Bills News from "allgov.com," "havanatimes.org," "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com," "perspectives.mvdirona.com," and "thestand.org" used under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. talkgeektome.us Talk Geek To Me Newscast by DeepGeek is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Quoted news sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/gigabit-wi-fi-chips-emerge-will-power-super-fast-home-video-streaming.ars http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://inthesetimes.com/article/12427/canaries_in_the_data_mines/ http://inthesetimes.com/article/12486/occupy_the_electoral_process/ http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/living-in-truth/ http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/01/02/ARMV8Architecture.aspx https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/thailand-continues-massive-crackdown-online-political-speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/truth-about-economics-behind-blacklist-bills http://torrentfreak.com/belarus-bans-browsing-of-all-foreign-websites-120103/ http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releases-new-share-application-120105/ http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-recognized-as-official-religion-in-sweden-120104/ http://www.allgov.com//ViewNews/Largest_Dutch_Pension_Fund_Pulls_Investments_in_Walmart_over_Poor_Labor_Practices_120108 http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=59164 http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=59254 http://www.talkgeektome.us http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-57.html http://www.thestand.org/2012/01/attacks-on-minimum-wage-are-back-in-2012/ http://www.web.gpnys.com/?p=11418

Ep0901: Ahuka: Intro and How I Got Into Linux

2012-01-16

Another hosts steps up to the plate and introduces them selves to the Hacker Public Radio elite. Today it's the turn of Ahuka who opens with the now traditional "How I Got Into Linux" show. His website is at http://www.zwilnik.com

Ep0900: Episode 000 - Introduction

2012-01-13

In this episode, the first of a hopefully long series, Garjola introduces himself and explains how he got into computers, programming and free software. You can get in touch with Garjola by e-mail at garjola@garjola.net.

Ep0899: Sunday Morning Linux Review - New Year Show

2012-01-11

Episode 012 http://smlr.us Total Running Time 1hr 22:48 Intro: Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 3:15 Linux 3.2-rc7 There it is, likely the last -rc in before final 3.2, so please do check it out in between your holiday festivities. Most of the changes are faily simple one-liners, but some qla4xxx driver updates stand out and in fact account for about 40% of the diff ("qla4xxx: fix flash/ddb support"). That, together with a VMWare DRI driver update and some dvb updates and the regular random driver fixes means that 80+% of the changes are in drivers. Some net updates, some SH updates, and then a (tiny) smattering of other stuff. The appended shortlog gives the (fairly boring) details - Linus Distro News: Tony Time: 7:14 Distrowatch.com 1-1 openSUSE 12.1 Edu Li-f-e 1-1 - aptosid 2011-03 - 12-31 - siduction 11.1 - desktop-oriented distribution and live CD/DVD based on Debian’s unstable branch, recently forked from aptosid 12-31 - ExTiX 9 - Ubuntu-based desktop distribution for 64-bit computers with GNOME Shell and Razor-qt as the available desktop environments and the latest stable Linux kernel 12-31 - Linux Deepin 11.12 - from China based on Ubuntu, announced its 11.12 release on the last day of the year 12-30 - Netrunner 4.0 - a Kubuntu-based desktop distribution featuring a carefully-tuned KDE desktop and integrated KDE and GNOME applications 12-30 - Endian Firewall 2.5 - an updated version of the project’s Red Hat-based specialist distribution for firewalls 12-26 - Calculate Linux 11.12 - Gentoo-based distribution set with focus on desktop and server computing 12-26 - Tiny Core Linux 4.2 - a nomadic, ultra-small graphical desktop operating system 12-25 - Superb Mini Server 1.6.3 - a Slackware-based distribution for servers 12-25 - Semplice Linux 2.0.0 - a lightweight desktop distribution based on Debian’s unstable branch and featuring the Openbox window manager 12-23 - Grml 2011.12 - a Debian-based live CD with an excellent collection of GNU/Linux software and scripts for system administrators Distro of the Week: Tony Debian - 1172 CentOS - 1223 Fedora - 1284 Ubuntu - 1571 Mint - 3909 Tech News: Time: 29:27 Vote On SOPA Delayed Until Mid January At The Earliest The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) vote scheduled for 12/21/11 was postponed until January. A committee spokesperson said that they will not set a new vote date until they return from break in January. This means that the earliest that a scheduled vote could take place would be mid January. This is the second postponement of the committee vote on SOPA, which requires ISPs, Search Engines, and other content providers to alter DNS records and search results. Resulting in the censorship of foreign websites supposedly "dedicated" to providing copyright infringing material. The committee has already had two marathon sessions that ended abruptly after opponents expressed staunch apposition. The artists are not the one behind this law. The huge corporations, lawyers, and boards who are pushing this incredibly bad legislation. Here is a list of the companies behind just one of the lobbying groups pushing SOPA: ABC AFTRA - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists AFM - American Federation of Musicians AAP - Association of American Publishers ASCAP BMG Chrysalis BMI CBS Corporation Cengage Learning DGA - Directors Guild of America Disney Publishing Worldwide, Inc. EMI Music Publishing ESPN Graphic Artists Guild Hachette Book Group HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. Hyperion IATSE - International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada International Brotherhood of Teamsters Kaufman Astoria Studios Macmillan Major League Baseball Marvel Entertainment, LLC McGraw-Hill Education MPA - The Association of Magazine Media NFL - National Football League National Music Publishers’ Association NBCUniversal News Corporation New York Production Alliance New York State AFL-CIO Pearson Education Penguin Group (USA), Inc. The Perseus Books Group Producers Guild of America East Random House Reed Elsevier SAG - Screen Actors Guild Scholastic, Inc. Silvercup Studios Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sony Music Entertainment Sony/ATV Music Publishing Time Warner Inc. United States Tennis Association Universal Music Group Universal Music Publishing Group Viacom Warner Music Group W.W. Norton & Company Wolters Kluwer Now you know who to boycott, but you also have to let them know why you are boycotting them. Several grassroots organizations along with a few tech companies are putting forth a strong effort against this legislation. They have had some effect as arguably the most egregious section has under gone a quick rewrite by Rep. Lamar Smith, Judiciary Committee chair and sponsor of this bill. The changes revealed on Monday 12/12/2011, make the definition of "rogue websites" more narrow. It also clarifies that the take down provisions only apply to foreign websites. There were also several changes intended to alleviate concerns that this legislation would interfere with the architecture of the Internet. Because as it it stands this bill would force American companies to break dns. The NetCoalition which counts AOL, eBay, Facebook, foursquare, Google, IAC, Linkedin, Mozilla, OpnDNS, PayPal, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, and the Zynga Game Netwrk as members is proposing a blackout day where all of these websites would go down and just show an anti-SOPA message to visitors when they come to these sites, claims Markham Erickson, who heads the NetCoalition trade association. If all of these sites went dark at the same time it would bring national commerce to a screeching halt. This action would also totally disrupt the lives of the majority of Americans hopefully alerting them to this serious issue and causing them to act. There is still time to try and defeat this horrendous legislation and the people at "DAILY KOS" have made it incredibly easy. If you click on this link it will take you directly to a page the have set up that will walk you through sending your representative an email telling them to vote no on this steaming pile of fecal matter. GoDaddy Rescinds SOPA Support After Huge Boycott Initiative Full disclosure, I have a domain registered with GoDaddy they are just the registrar not the host. On 12/22/2011 the fact that GoDaddy was actively supporting SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). The really egregious part was that not only did GoDaddy support SOPA they actually took such an active roll as righting parts of it. So a boycott was started on reddit, which took off like wildfire across the internet. One day later they announced that they were withdrawing their support for SOPA. It is however to late for many high profile domains. Wikimedia Foundation’s Jimmy Wales announced on Twitter that all Wikimedia’s domains will be moved off of GoDaddy. Cheezburger’s Ben Huh also pledged to move his 1000+ domains off of GoDaddy. Hundreds maybe even thousands more people across the internet joined them in leaving GoDaddy. YCombinator founder, Paul Graham issued a ban on all employees of any company on the official list of SOPA supporters from attending YC Demo Day. Here is what he had to say about the ban: "Several of those companies [on the list] send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we’ll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list," He then went on to say this: "If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?" Warren Adelman, Go Daddy’s CEO, had this to say about them rescinding their support for SOPA: "Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," He then went on to say this also: "It’s very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it." This is a huge win for the free and open internet. It shows that when you can manage to hit a company where it counts, in the bottom line, you really can make them change their position. When you read GoDaddy’s statement the weasilyness jumps right out at you. Which leads me to believe that they are just trying to take the heat off right now and will jump at supporting the next minor revision of SOPA. The Debian Administrator’s Handbook I am going to try and synopsize the information for you, however if you go to http://debian-handbook.info/ you can read the whole story ab out the book. The book is currently published in French under the title Cahier de l’admin Debian. It is the work of two Debian developers Raphaël Hertzog who maintains dpkg along with several other packages and Roland Mas who maintains argyll and a few other packages. They attempted to have several editors take on the English translation but none where willing to take the risk. The two then decided to do the translation themselves, and then self publish the work. In order to facilitate the translation they did a crowdfunding campaign which raised almost 15,000 EUR. They expect the translation to be done around April 2012. They however wanted to take this further and release the book under an open source licenses acceptable to Debian so that the book can be included in Debian as an installable package. Making it a simple apt-get away for anyone running Debian. They have set this goal at 25,000 EUR, you can make a donation to the "liberation fund" here , If you donate 10 EUR or more you are guaranteed a copy when it is ready. If they meet their goal of 25,000 EUR then everyone will be able to get a free copy. I made my donation already if I remember correctly it was about 13.74 USD. So i will get my copy but if we can push this over it would be a great thing. The last time I checked they were at about 65% of their goal. And now a little about the book. This book requires no prior knowledge of Debian. It will cover all of the topics that anyone needs to become an effective Debian administrator. From installation and update to compiling your own kernel and creating Debian packages from sources. Along with backup, migration and advanced topics like SELinux, automated installations, and virtualization. The first half of the book is for anyone who wants to run Debian. It will teach the basics like installing Debian with the Debian installer, finding documentation, basic troubleshooting, and problem solving. Then the second half of the book is server administrators. It will discuss things like securing the server, automating installations, using virtualization, and setting up common services like Apache, Postfix, OpenLDAP, SAMBA, NFS and many more. You can check out the complete table of contacts here There is also a free sample chapter available "The APT Tools." If you would like to check this out to ensure that the book is up to the quality that you expect then you can click here for a PDF of this great chapter. It covers all of the APT tools like apt-get, aptitude, and other associated tools Now to answer some of the questions you may have about this book: Q) Who is this book for? A) Anyone who’s interested by Debian. From a regular user, to the administrator of a small network, or that of a large corporation. Q) How long is it? A) The French paperback was about 450 pages. Q) What version of Debian does it cover? A) the current stable version "Squeeze" So come people lets get out there and get your copy today and move the project that much closer to their goal of Open Sourcing this book. 2011 The Year Of The Tech Giant Passing 2011 has been a year in which we lost more tech giants than ever before, a total of fourteen. Lets start with arguably the best known on this list and end with the one I believe had the biggest impact: Steven Paul Jobs Febuary 1955 - October 2011 Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in the Jobs’ family garage. Steve Jobs vision in the consumer electronic market is un paralleled. Hence Apple’s many revolutionary products, such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Which are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology. Robert Morris The Unix Encryption Guy July 1932 - June 2011 Among the Bell Labs researchers who worked on Unix with Thompson and Ritchie was Bob Morris, who developed Unix’s password system, math library, text-processing applications and crypt function. In 1986 Morris left to join the NSA, where he led the agency’s National Computer Security Center until 1994. John McCarthy Originator Of AI September 1927 - October 2011 The creator of the Lisp programming language and the "father of artificial intelligence" (he coined the term in 1956). In 1957 McCarthy started the first work on time-sharing on a computer. That original project led to Multics, which then led to Unix. In the early 1970s he predicted online shopping. This prediction led researcher Whitfield Diffie to create public-key cryptography used in the authentication of e-commerce documents. Ken Olsen The Digital Man February 1926 - February 2011 When he worked at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory in the 50s took note of students queuing up to use an older model computer, called TX-0, even when a more modern and much faster mainframe was available. The big diffrence and the reason that the students lined up for the TX-0 was that the mainframe ran batch jobs and the TX-0 allowed for online interactivity. So in 1957 he and a colleague, Harlan Anderson, ran with that information and $70,000 in start up capital to start DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) DEC went on to create PDP series of computers of which Ritchie and Thompson created Unix on a PDP-7. Paul Baran The Packet Man April 1926 - March 2011 Baran while working as a researcher for the Rand Corp. in 1961came up the idea that messages can be broken down into smaller pieces, then sent to a destination even via multiple routes if necessary and then put back together when they arrive to ensure delivery. Arpanet adopted Packet switching as its means of communication, Arpanet then grew into the Internet, and eventually for local-area networks in the form of Ethernet. Jean Bartik Last of the First Programmers December 1924 - March 2011 She was the last surviving member of the original programming team for the ENIAC. But that understates her work, she was the only female math graduate in her 1945 college, and she served as a lead programmer on the ENIAC project. Bartik also developed circuit logic and did design work under the direction of ENIAC’s hardware developer, J. Presper Eckert. Jack Keil Wolf Disk Drivin’ Man February 1926 - February 2011 Wolf did more than almost anyone else to use math to cram more data into magnetic drives, flash memory and electronic communications channels. In 1984, he moved to the new Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. It was a good choice. Wolf and his students, dubbed the "Wolf pack," cross-pollinated magnetic drive design with information theory, applying compression in increasingly creative ways, and spread Wolf’s ideas throughout the industry. Julius Blank Creator Of The Silicon In Silicon Valley June 1925 - September 2011 Julius Blank one of the "Traitorous Eight" engineers who founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. He and his seven colleagues had acquired that unsavory nickname when they left Nobel Prize-winning physicist William Shockley just a year after being recruited to create a new kind of transistor at Shockley Labs. Before going to college, he had been trained as a machinist. Along with eventual venture capitalist Gene Kleiner, Blank built Fairchild’s machine shop, and created the manufacturing machinery that would produce the first silicon based transistors. Robert Galvin Breaker Of The AT&T Mobile Monopoly October 1922 - October 2011 Galvin broke AT&T’s monopoly on mobile-phone service in the U.S. when he demonstrated a Motorola phone for president Reagan at the White House in 1981. Ronald Reagan then pushed the FCC to approve Motorola’s proposal for a competing cellular network. By the time Galvin retired as Motorola’s chairman in 1990, the company dominated the cellphone hardware business. Gerald A. Lawson Creator Of The Video Game Cartridge December 1940 - April 2011 Jerry Lawson a 6-foot-6, more than 250 lbs. African-American, which was even more of an IT industry rarity in the 1970s than today. Lawson’s creation, the Fairchild Channel F, arrived in 1976, a year before Atari’s first home game system, and sparked an industry of third-party video games. Lawson discovered that the biggest challenge with plug-in cartridges was satisfying the FCC’s radio-frequency interference requirements. In a 2006 interview he describes the process: "We had to put the whole motherboard in aluminum. We had a metal chute that went over the cartridge adapter to keep radiation in. Each time we made a cartridge, the FCC wanted to see it, and it had to be tested." Its biggest impact was on Lawson’s friends at Atari, who rushed their own cartridge-based home system into production. The rise of the video game had begun. George Devol The Man With The Robot Arm February 1912 - August 2011 George Devol developed the first digitally programmable robot arm. He also invented a system for recording sound for movies in the 1930s, then switched to systems that used photoelectric cells to open and close doors and sort bar-coded packages. Devol turned his inventiveness to factory automation in the 1950s. The large programmable "Unimate" arm he developed used magnetic drum memory and discrete solid-state control components. It made its factory debut in 1961 on a General Motors assembly line in New Jersey, stacking freshly die-cast (and very hot) metal parts. Within 20 years, Devol’s Unimation was the biggest robotic-arm company in the world. Lee Davenport Anti-Aircraft Innovator December 1915 - September 2011 Lee Davenport didn’t invent battlefield radar. He developed an anti-aircraft gun that combined radar with a computer to control anti-aircraft guns. At the Battle of the Bulge, the radar system was also used to spot German ground vehicles in the snowy terrain. In addition, the SCR-584 was used in 1944 to defend London against German buzz bombs. The SCR-584 crews were very effective in shooting down the buzz bombs. Wilson Greatbatch Heartbeat of the Century September 1919 - September 2011 In 1956 Wilson Greatbatch, an electrical-engineering professor at the University of Buffalo, made an electronic mistake that led to the invention of the pacemaker. He was building a heart rhythm monitor for the school’s Chronic Disease Research Institute when he attached a wrong-size resistor to a circuit, causing it to produce intermittent electrical pulses. Greatbatch realized that this might be used to regulate a damaged heart. Two years later, doctors at the Veterans Administration hospital in Buffalo demonstrated that a 2-cubic-in. implantable device built by Greatbatch could regulate a dog’s heart. In 1960 in Buffalo, 10 patients (including two children) received Greatbatch’s device, and its battery lasted two years or more. In 1972, Greatbatch was able to re-engineer the device with a new battery that worked for more than a decade. Dennis M. Ritchie An Originator of Unix, Inventor of C September 1941 - October 2011 Dennis Ritchie is one of the authors of the Unix operating system, and designed the C programming language. And he promoted both, starting in the 1970s. You may ask how influential all of that work was? Well just look at the number of closed source Unix clones we have today, not to mention their Open Source brethren the BSDs. Along with Linux a Unix work alike. Not to mention C, which eight of the top ten programming languages descend from. Raspberry Pi, a Tiny But Powerful $25 PC - The final Raspberry Pi will come in two flavors: A $25 version with 128MB of RAM and no network connection and a $35 one with Ethernet. Both versions will have USB and HDMI ports as well as analog video and audio outputs. It’s driven by a The 1080p video magic is driven by a 700MHz ARM processor, and the whole thing is powered by a 5-volt power supply. The Year in Review: Desktop Linux Developments in 2011 The "year in review" pieces that proliferate old and new media alike around this time of year get tedious pretty fast. But because I’ve yet to see a good compilation of the major developments — and there were plenty of them — that affected desktop Linux in 2011 Outtro Music: Time: 1hr 14:48 Jamendo.com Stopping the World by Of The I

Ep0898: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 8/8 (The After Show)

2012-01-11

Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 8/8 (The After Show) This is episode eight of a eight part Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey Howdy folks, this is FiftyOneFifty. What you are about to hear is the result of me starting a mixdown recording in Mumble when Pokey said he was about ready to stop recording and go to bed. While it's all pretty tame, it's not entirely safe for work. I started recording sometime after midnight Central Time and the original file shows we talked for another two hours and fifteen minutes (deleting the pauses brings it down to about an hour and a half). At the end it's just me and Cobra2, proving that as in real life, I never know when it's time to gracefully leave a party :) Among the other voices you will hear are Pokey, Delwin, JNeuster, Deltaray, DoorToDoorGeek, and I thought it was especially cool when the world wrapped around and Ken Fallon came back in after having gone to bed the night before. I didn't have the forethought to make note of all the handles active in the room, and the festivities of the evening did not enhance my recall, so I apologize to those I have overlooked. With the help of the community, I hope to get you proberly credited in the show notes, even if it is after the fact. I regret I wasn't able to participate or listen too in the entire thirteen hour scheduled recording, since I am speaking to the future I am sure I will be enjoying those missed hours even as you hear this. I want to add my voice in gratitude and congratulations to those who organized and participated in making this event a success. FiftyOneFifty

Ep0897: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 7/8 (The Grand Finale)

2012-01-10

Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 7/8 (The Grand Finale) This is episode seven of a eight part Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey

Ep0896: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 6/8 (The Unix Fight and Thank You Kevin)

2012-01-08

Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 6/8 (The Unix Fight and Thank You Kevin) This is episode six of a eight part Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey

Ep0895: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 5/8 (Funding Free Culture)

2012-01-06

Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 5/8 (Funding Free Culture) This is episode five of a eight part Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey The discussion focused on how you can support free software and free culture with many paying more for "Free" software than they ever had for proprietary software. Many feel they pay what the can when they can. The discussion move on to how artists can make a living. Should we draw the line between digital replication and physical replication as copyright infringement, although illegal, is not stealing. Not every download is a lost sale and the argument was made that in some cases "piracy" promotes the use of the software. There was much talk of the continual increase of the copyright terms. Time was then devoted to how artists could be compensated for their art and several examples were brought up of alternative means of generating revenue by cutting out the record labels and other middle men. http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/Main_Page http://www.joerogan.net/ http://blog.meetthegimp.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_C.K. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Pain http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/louis-cks-special-1-million/ http://www.examiner.com/comedy-in-boston/louis-ck-talks-new-sitcom-and-creative-freedom

Ep0894: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 4/8 (Mrs Cornominal brings the naughty)

2012-01-05

Hacker Public Radio-NYE Part 4/8 (Hacker Public Radio-NYE Part 4 (Mrs Cornominal brings the naughty) mildly nsfw) May not be safe for work This is episode four of a eight part Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey This segment started with a discussion on accessibility. We are looking for a way to convert the audio to text so that deaf/hard of hearing people can enjoy our content. That lead to a discussion on Text to speech and that if you are uncomfortable or unable to record a show for HPR, then there are loads of people who will narrate a scrip for you. The discussion turned to the question of how to pick topics for HPR and while the advice is to pick a topic that you're excited about you can always look at the Requested topics section of HPR at http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php#requested_topics. If there is something that you would like to hear then mail the mailing list at hpr@hackerpublicradio.org (which you can join at http://hackerpublicradio.org/maillist ) or just email admin@hackerpublicradio.org and we'll add it to the Requested topic page. For the record when we say topic we are not talking about the topic choclate bar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_(chocolate_bar) After discovering that HPR has a explicit tag in iTunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#explicit) the conversation took a turn to how the topic of Adult content and that there are two sides to the story. http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0069 There's Pr0n on them there internets! http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0586 Miscellaneous Radio Theater 4096- The Internet is For Porn This lead to the question of whither government censorship will force developments in how the Internet is used. This brought up mesh networks (we had a discussion in http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0069 with Juergen Schinker open wireless network) and how the Chaos Computer Club had a presentation on the Hackerspace Global Grid. From their FAQ "We want to build a distributed network of ground stations to receive satellite communications. The first step is establishing a means of accurate synchronization for the distributed network. Next up are building various receiver modules (ADS-B, amateur satellites, etc) and data processing of received signals. A communication/control channel (read: sending data) is a future possibility but there are no fixed plans on how this could be implemented yet." http://shackspace.de/wiki/doku.php?id=project:hgg Hackerspace Global Grid. Sounds a bit like an open version of the Iridium satellite constellation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellation Iridium satellite constellation After a discussion on Google+, the topic came on whither you needed to encode all 3 audio formats for HPR. The answer is no, not if you don't want to. If you do then you can download the script that Code Cruncher made from http://hackerpublicradio.org/incoming/processing/prep_audio.sh. That said it's enough to upload the show in almost any format and we'll convert it. To round off the segment was a discussion of the http://theflatearthsociety.org/ who argue that "The Flat Earth model is a belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk." (source wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Theory. .... Which inevitably lead to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down and of course that had to lead to http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/ Terry Pratchett. At that point the Mumble server gave up and decided to go cry in a corner.

Ep0893: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 3/8 (Everybody loves Crunchbang... except Klaatu)

2012-01-04

Hacker Public Radio-NYE Part 3 (Everybody loves Crunchbang... except Klaatu) This is the third part of the Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey Philip Newborough (aka corenominal) project lead for CrunchBang Linux and their community manager Rebecca Newborough join the session. We interviewed them back in hpr0873 CrunchBang is a Debian GNU/Linux based distribution offering a great blend of speed, style and substance. Using the nimble Openbox window manager, it is highly customisable and provides a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance. In September 2011, Philip gave up paid employment to concentrate on personal projects and is now working full-time on CrunchBang Linux. During the interview he mentioned that he couldn't afford to FOSDEM so if you want you can throw him a few credits over at http://crunchbang.org/donate Links http://crunchbang.org/donate http://www.fosdem.org/2012/ http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0873/ http://crunchbang.org/ http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://openbox.org/ http://www.xfce.org/ http://technologyserved.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchBang_Linux http://www.debian.org/

Ep0892: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 2/8 (A Bit About Fedora)

2012-01-02

Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 2 (A Bit About Fedora) This is the second part of the Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey Fedora Review Got to RPM Fusion to get all the evil proprietary stuff. http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ From the console run "yum update" and accept the keys Then run "yum install synergy openssh-server audacity-freeworld ffmpeg sox mplayer inkscape vlc vim firefox poppler-utils wget sshfs kdiff3 terminator kid3 speex-tools filezilla gimp hpijs kate kdiff3 kdirstat # systemctl start sshd.service # systemctl enable sshd.services Firewall restart Follow these instructions to get the vpn working http://kenfallon.com/how-to-install-checkpoint-ssl-extender-vpn-snx-under-fedora-16/ Follow these instructions to get the citrix working http://kenfallon.com/installing-citrix-on-fedora-14/ Chromium http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium - Flash http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ -- skype.com download linux fedora install

Ep0891: Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 1/8

2012-01-02

Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve Part 1 This is the first part of the Hacker Public Radio New Year's Eve event and you can expect more of them all week long. Thanks to: PipeManMusic of the Open Source Musician's Podcast for the Murmur server, and audio streaming Tracy Holtz for stream mirror Dann Washko of The Linux Link Tech Show for stream mirror cobra2 for stream mirror John Neusteter for stream mirror KevinW for creating the Mumble How-To, and for manning the testing room during most of the show. Ken Fallon for being Ken Fallon The Hacker Public Radio Community for coming together and pulling this off, and for making it so much fun for everone. I was so wrapped up in the actual show, that it didn't occur to me to take notes and write down the names of all the people who helped us out. The few I listed above are all that I can remember 24 hours later. If you helped out in any way, and would like to be mentioned in the show notes of the remaining parts of this show (there will be a few of them) please email hpr (at) hackerpublicradio (dot) org with your name and I'll be glad to thank you publicly and properly. -pokey PipeMan recommends the Behringer U-CONTROL UCA202 has 2 in 2 out rca ports for $40 or so. http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA202.aspx For a mixer he recommends the Behringer XENYX 802 going for $38 on amazon http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/802.aspx

Ep0890: Where's my flying car !

2011-12-30

In today's show Mr Gadgets asks the questions that needs to be answered. He reminds us that a New Year is about to begin and a easy new year resolution to achieve is contributing to HPR http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php

Ep0889: New Year's Eve Show Announcement

2011-12-28

The Hacker Public Radio LIVE New Year's Eve event will be streamed live from noon to midnight EST This Saturday December 31st. That's UTC 2011, Dec 31, 1700 hours to 2012, Jan 01, 0500 hours. All HPR contributors and listeners are welcome to call in via mumble and discuss their favorite HPR shows and topics of 2011, or bring a topic that you think would help us to have a good show. We'll be taking calls up to the limit of the server. We'll be streaming the whole thing, as well as distilling it down to one or more podcasts for the rss feed. Whether you've contributed to HPR or not, please consider calling in and helping us to make this a great HPR community event. Mumble server: 174.123.227.204 Port: 43556 Password: OSMPMumble For callers, there will be a seperate room to test your setup before jumping in the live room just to avoid doing on air mic checks. Please check your sound there before jumping into the main room. Please set compression to the 31.8Kb/s speex codec for compatibility (NOT the CELT codec), and use push to talk. Stream Address: Mirrors to be announced. We have at least one high bandwidth offer so far. Thank you for listening.

Ep0888: EMACS Help Sources

2011-12-28

In today's show we get proof that Klaatu lured another over to the dark side. So much so that JWP has gathered some resources for you on where you can get help on EMACS they are all on his site at http://jwp1.weeman.org/ links http://www.rgrjr.com/emacs/emacs_cheat.html https://ccrma.stanford.edu/guides/package/emacs/emacs.html http://abdallah.hiof.no/dmpro/intro-2008/emacs-cheat-sheet.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PldhTEu1VRo http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html http://cmgm.stanford.edu/classes/unix/emacs.html http://www.astrohandbook.com/ch20/emacs.pdf

Ep0887: init()

2011-12-27

Gun-toting chimp NYbill and cat-riding neer-do-well Windigo detail their first steps into Linux, from humble beginnings to current day. Links http://identi.ca/nybill http://micro.fragdev.com/windigo

Ep0886: Product lifecycle management (PLM)

2011-12-26

In today's show Ken has a discussion with Alister Munroe about product lifecycle management at OggCamp 11 Product lifecycle management From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A generic lifecycle of products

Ep0885: Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.1.

2011-12-22

This is a short podcast on Redo Backup and Recovery 1.0.1. www.redobackup.org Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore Redo Backup and Recovery is so simple that anyone can use it. It is the easiest, most complete disaster recovery solution available. It allows bare-metal restore. Bare metal restore means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes. All your documents and settings will be restored to the exact same state they were in when the last snapshot was taken. Redo Backup and Recovery is a live CD, so it does not matter if you use Windows or Linux. You can use the same tool to backup and restore every machine. And because it is open source released under the GPL, it is completely free for personal and commercial use. More Features, Less Complex Redo Backup has the most features coupled with the simplest, most user-friendly interface: Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines Automatically finds local network shares Access your files even if you can't log in Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files Internet access with a full-featured browser to download drivers Live CD download size is only about 200MB Links http://www.redobackup.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redo_Backup_and_Recovery http://freecode.com/projects/redo-backup-and-recovery http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/redo-backup-recovery-live-cd-that-recovers-your-hard-drive/ http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3909906/50-Awesome-Open-Source-Apps-Youve-Probably-Never-Heard-Of.htm http://oakdome.com/k5/tutorials/clone-with-usb-drive/clone-with-usb-drive.php

Ep0884: Cross Platform Streaming

2011-12-21

Ep0883: Dan Lynch interview

2011-12-20

Today we give you another of the interviews from OggCamp where we interview Dan Lynch. Here's his bio from his own site http://danlynch.org/ Dan Lynch Hello and welcome, I'm Dan. A writer, musician, developer, broadcaster and hopeless geek from Liverpool in the UK. This site is the hub of everything I do online, or at least it's supposed to be but it still needs work. I'm committed to Free & Open Source Software and Creative Commons, I write and broadcast about both, mainly through the Linux Outlaws and Rathole Radio podcasts. You may also know me as a host of FLOSS Weekly on the TWIT Network. Rathole Radio is my music show where I play a wide selection of the best music on the net. I interview artists, tell silly stories, have live votes and even play songs myself. The music is very eclectic because I believe that all styles have good and bad within them. I want people to open their minds and not pigeon-hole everything. I only play one "style" of music, stuff I like. Linux Outlaws is a weekly show where I discuss the latest happenings in the Open Source technology world and with my German co-host and friend Fab. It's grown beyond anything we could have imagined. We get tens of thousands of downloads per show, it's taken me to different parts of the world and allowed me to meet and share time with many of my technology heroes. I'm very lucky. Below you will see the latest content from my blog and both these podcasts. You can also use the links on the menu to find more specialised information about my music and other things. I sing and play guitar in a band called 20lb Sounds. We recently launched our website with free music downloads and we hope to build up a community there. I'm calling it the 20lb Army, so sign up and join the fun :) I organised a large Free Software and Free Culture event in Liverpool called OggCamp10. Strange name I know but the site explains all that. It took place on 1st and 2nd of May 2010, we were joined by many great FOSS fans and developers from around the world. Not only that but on Friday April 30th 2010 I also ran a successful Rathole Radio gig with David Rovics and Attila The Stockbroker to kick the weekend off. I support the Open Rights Group and I'm very concerned about digital rights and political matters in the UK. I'm a proud member of both Liverpool LUG and Chester LUG and regularly attend meetings at both. Is this two timing or just a real commitment to FOSS? I'll let you decide ;) Thanks for visiting. Feel free to hang around a while and put your feet up.

Ep0882: RPM format

2011-12-19

Klaatu continues his three-part series on packaging applications for GNU Linux and BSD. In this second episode, he covers the RPM format and howto use rpmbuild to create both binary and source RPM packages. He uses SigFLUP's yesplz as an example again, so be sure to grab the source if you'll be following along. Fedora Project RPM HOWTO Maximum RPM at rpm.org yesplz.spec Get this episode in ogg vorbis courtesy the GNU World Order.

Ep0881: Intel Atom processor

2011-12-18

In todays show JWP gives us the low down on the Intel Atom processor Intel Atom From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom Intel Atom is the brand name for a line of ultra-low-voltage IA-32 and x86-64 CPUs (or microprocessors) from Intel, designed in 45 nm CMOS and used mainly in netbooks, nettops, embedded application ranging from health care to advanced robotics and Mobile Internet devices (MIDs). On December 21, 2009, Intel announced the next generation of Atom processors, including the N450, with total kit power consumption down 20%. Intel Atom processors are based on the Bonnell microarchitecture.

Ep0880: Handbook for the Criminally Insane

2011-12-15

In this episode of the HPR audio book club Broam, resno, Dann Washko, Integgroll, and pokey discuss the podiobooks.com presentation of Handbook for the Criminally Insane written and read by Brian Holtz. This episode contains spoilers, in the second half, so please listen to the audiobook for yourself before listening to the podcast all the way through. This book was met with polarizingly mixed reviews. Some thought it was a light hearted horror comedy in the spirit of Bruce Campbell while others thought it was something less entertaining. You can download this audiobook for free (or voluntary donation) from http://www.podiobooks.com/title/handbook-for-the-criminally-insane During this show the hosts also discuss alcohol beverages. Integgroll was drinking Jepsom's Malort, which he says pairs very nicely with "The Handbook" resno was drinking Dogfish Head Brewery's Pumpkin Ale http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/seasonal-brews/punkin-ale.htm Broam was drinking Romana Black Sambuca http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=romana%20sambuca pokey was drinking Long Trail Harvest Ale http://www.longtrail.com/ Dann missed the beverage review this time, but he would have been drinking a crap American rice beer anyway. http://www.anheuser-busch.com/s/ Our next audiobook will be Dead Hunt by Kenn Crawford. It is available at podiobooks.com The direct link is: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/dead-hunt If you enjoy this episode of HPR, you can find more podcasts by our hosts at: http://techmisfits.com/ http://linuxindahouse.org/ http://www.tllts.org/ We all had a great time recording this show, and we hope you enjoyed it as well. Thank you very much for listening. Sincerely, The HPR_AudioBookClub P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, we have included a few.

Ep0879: SMLR 009

2011-12-14

Welcome to syndicated Thursday on Hacker Public Radio Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content from around the web. If you know of some creative commons material that you would like to bring to the attention of the community then send an email to admin. Sunday Morning Linux Review http://smlr.us Intro: Mat Enders and Tony Bemus Intro Sound bite by Mike Tanner Kernel News: Mat Time: 1:56 Latest RC release is 3.2-rc5 released on Friday 12/9 at 6pm Eastern standard time. It has been slightly over a week since the last rc release. And rc5 is bigger in number of commits. Many of the commits are small, so it is possible that the *diff* will be smaller than both -rc2 and -rc4 were. A big part of this release is that Ingo is back, and had a backlog. That isn’t enough to explain it all. There were xfs and btrfs changes, along with network updates, and the usual 50% random driver updates. Greg KH announced the release of the 2.6.32.50, 3.0.13, and 3.1.5 stable kernels 12/9. The 2.6.32.50 kernel had 28 files changed, 164 insertions, and 54 deletions. The 3.0.13 kernel had 93 files changed, 659 insertions, and 201 deletions. The 3.1.5 kernel had 135 files changed, 1170 insertions, and 471 deletions. Kernel Quote of The Week: Hey Linus stop working on Subsurface, The Scuba Diving Log that doesn’t suck, during the week so you can get the latest RC out before 6pm eastern time so it is easier for me to do these updates. (insert appropriate smiley here) –Mat Enders Distro News: Tony Time: 4:53 Distrowatch.com 12-10 – Semplice Linux 2.0 RC1 – 12-10 – KahelOS 111111 – 12-10 – CentOS 6.1 – 12-06 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 – 12-06 – Ultimate Edition 3.0 – 11-06 – TurnKey Linux 11.3 – 11-06 – Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r2 – Distro of the Week: Tony Debian – 1367 Fedora – 1427 Ultimate – 1742 Ubuntu – 1977 Mint – 4115 Tech News: Time: 15:45 jQuery Tells The Real Story About Plugin Site, or Why You Should Have a Backup More Recent Than a Year Old The jQuery plugins site devolopers have finaly told the real story, in a blog posting. The plugins site went down about a week ago with just this message: “The plugins site is currently unavailable. We’ve been looking to provide a higher-quality, spam-free expierence at the plugins site for some time and we have decided to temporarily shutter the existing site. We will be providing more details on the new plugins site soon, so that plugin authors can hit the ground running with our new submission process.” What really happened was, in an attempt to clean up the spam using Drupal Views Bulk Operations, all of the plugins were deleted. And the only backup was a year old. The developers asked for forgiveness and some help in developing a completely new plugins site. The plugins site needed renovations for quite some time. Due to the spam issue and because of how plugins were manged through the CMS that was cluttered and awkward. They were planning on replacing the site when events caused an imdeiate need. When I say events I mean the accidental deletion and lack of backup was the impetus to move those plans into action. jQuery plugin developers should create a GitHub presence, even if they just mirror their existing source code management. The new site still being developed on github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com/ and there is currently no date for its launch. Download.com accused of wrapping nmap in a “trojan installer” Nmaps author says CBS Interactive and CNET’s Download.com are wrapping the open source application in a proprietary installer. In the past, they have never altered the application downloads they serve up, they have been changing that over the last six months. Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon, lays out his issues in a posting to the Nmap Hackers mailing list. He claims the installer does thing like install the ‘StartNow’ toolbar”, makes Bing the default search engine, and then sets the users home page to MSN. This is how a “trojan installer” functions. If the installer is seperated from the download and sent to VirusTotal it shows that ten of the 42 scanners, they run it against, identify it as a trojan or adware installer. Also the Nmap trademark is displayed next to offers to install software, as if the Nmap organization supports these products. As Nmap is not under the plain GPL but under an enhanced version that specifically prohibits aggregation into a proprietary executable installer. Download.com initially claimed its scheme is simple for developers to opt-out of. The opt out is not automatic though. Download.com says “all opt-out requests are carefully reviewed on a case by case basis.” Lyon is looking for a US copyright attorney and wants to get the word to the hundreds of users who use Download.com every week to download Nmap. CBS’s Download.com site has been called out for this type of behaviour before. In August, ExtremeTech claimed similar behaviour with the media player VLC. According to an FAQ from CBS this installer software was rolled out in July. After the fecal matter hit the fan on this Download.COM back pedaled in a big way. In a statement, Sean Murphy, the Vice President and General Manager of Download.com said, “The bundling of this software was a mistake on our part and we apologize to the user and developer communities for the unrest it caused.” Then adding that they had “reviewed all open source files in our catalog to ensure none are being bundled”. Lyon posted an update, stating that Microsoft had been in contact with him and claimed they “didn’t know they were sponsoring CNET to trojan open source software”. Microsoft also stated that they had stopped the practice, which seems odd since they said that they were unaware that it was happening. So now the Download.com installer changed to install the “Babylon toolbar” which did different search engine redirection. CNET then later removed that and is now installing its own “techtracker” tool for updating downloaded software. However they are also restoring the “Direct download link” which allows users to download files without having to download the “download manager”. Who knows if these changes will quell the controversey. The changes only affect open source software and the proprietary freeware and trial software on Download.com will still have the Download.com Installer packaging. A number of open source programs at Download.COM still had an installer wrapping them. There has been no general apology for bundling GPL software with closed source installers. Researchers at Google Have Proposed s Fix to The SSL Dilemma Google researchers Adam Langley and Ben Laurie have proposed a new method for ensuring the trustworthiness of the public key infrastructure (PKI) underpinning HTTPS. Thier idea is based on a public list of all certificates ever issued by certificate authorities. The two problems with how the current system works are. First, if an attacker can comprimise any of the more than 100 certificate authorities and aquire a certificate for a server such as amazon.com, end users would not be able to tell the fraudulant site from the real one. Second, the way the system currently works Amazon would not be able to detect the fraud either. Langley and Laurie believe that a public list would mitigate both problems. Whenever a website offered up a certificate, the browser would check the supplied certificate against one of these public lists. If the browser did not find the certificate on any of the lists, the site would be treated as untrusted. Companies would then be able to check these lists regularly, to locate any fraudulent certificates. Which means that even if a criminal was able to obtain a fake certificate, they could not use it efectively. Merkle signature trees would be used to maintain the integrity of the lists. The proposals might not be implemented and, if it is, noone knows over what sort of timescale. There are also other alternatives being proposed like Firefoxs’ extension Convergence being pursued by security expert Moxie Marlinspike. Android’s Revenge on Apple’s iPhone & iPad Could Apple be regretting its world-wide war on Android? A German court issued a preliminary injunction on Motorola’s behalf that prevents European sales of all Apple’s 3G-enabled devices. Android-power Motorola Mobility, soon to be a part of Google, used a patent to thwart the competition. Apple has been using design and software patents in order to attack Android world wide. So I don’t think this could have happened to a nicer company. Regretably the patent being used, Method for performing a countdown function during a mobile-originated transfer for a packet radio system, is an excellent example of brain dead software patents. Almost as bad as Apple trying to block anybody from creating a rectangular phone or tablet as it would infringe on thier “unique” design. Thing like this sadly are not unusual but equate to little more than Intelectual Property (IP) blackmail. Just check out U.S. Patent No. 6,359,898 and its European Union equivalent, EP1010336 (B1) ? 2003-03-19. They basicly describe performing a countdown over a 3G connection. You know lik, “Ten seconds to complete your download, three, two, one, download complete.” Oh, obviously an original idea indeed. So you say why is a countdown mechanism so essential that a court would rule that Apple would be in violation and unable to sell thier products in Europe. Well so does Apple which is why they have appealled using a Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) defense. [Tony this is a link to a PDF that explains a frand defense please embed it http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/jevons/papers/colloquium_2007/jevons07_glader.pdf] This defenses core argument is that this feature is not an essential component to 3G mobile telephony. I and I also assume you all understand that, but the German court wasn’t going for it. So this will go on for a while in the court system with suit and counter suit. And in the end it will only delay the sale of Apple products in the EU. But another side effect is that no matter where you buy your smartphone it will cost you more because thes kinds of court battles do not come cheap. I have a suggestion to all of these patent mongers and trolls, knock it off and just compete in the market place instead of the court room. Get top-quality open source security tools in one distro If you could have just one toolkit for network security, which one would you choose? I mean the one toolkit that had all of the functionality you needed for securing, analyzing, monitoring, and validating your network. Would it be BackTrack, Deft, or Helix? Well I have used two of those and I have found a distro that I think kicks thier ass. After you have checked out Network Security Toolkit (NST), I believe that you will choose it also. This live DVD is based on Fedora. NST was designed to bring you easy access to the best Open Source Network Security Applications. It should run on most x86/x86_64 platforms. The intent of this distrobution is to provide network security administrators with a complete set of tools. Most of the tools in INSECURE.ORGs Top 100 Security Tools are in this kit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system administration, navigation, automation, geolocation and configuration for many of the network and security applications in distribution. Here are some of the tools that come with NST: Aircrack NG: A wireless sniffer and WEP/WPA-PSK key cracker Airsnort: A wireless LAN (WLAN) tool that recovers encryption keys. Amap: A next-generation scanning tool that identifies applications and services even if they are not listening on the default port by creating a bogus communication and analyzing the responses. Argus/Argus-Clients/Argus-Monitor: An audit record generation and utilization system Arp-Scan: A scanning and fingerprinting tool Arpwatch: Network monitoring tools for tracking IP addresses on a network. Awstats: Advanced Web statistics Bandwidthd: Tracks network usage and builds HTML and graphs Beecrypt: An open source cryptography library Bit-twist: A simple yet powerful libpcap-based Ethernet packet generator BlackOwlMIBBrowser: A Visual SNMP MIB browser with MIB variable graphing. Cadaver: A command-line WebDAV client CheckDNS: A Domain Name Server analysis and reporting tool Chkrootkit: A tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit ClamAV: Antivirus Conntrack-tools: Tools to manipulate netfilter connection tracking table DNScap: A DNS traffic capture utility DNSenum: The tool gathers as much information as possible about a domain. DNSmap: A network tool that performs brute force search/query of domains. DNSwalk: A DNS debugger Dsniff: Tools for network auditing and penetration testing. Etherape: A graphical network viewer modeled after etherman. Firewalk: Active reconnaissance network security tool. Foremost: Recover files by carving them from a raw disk. Freeradius: A high-performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server Fwbuilder: A firewall builder Geoclue: A modular geoinformation service GPGme: GnuPG Made Easy — a high level crypto API Greenbone-Security-Assistant: A Web-based interface to the Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner GSD: A desktop (GUI) interface to the Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner Honeyd: A honeypot daemon Hunt: A tool for demonstrating well-known weaknesses in the TCP/IP protocol suite. Kismet: Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and IDS. Mbrowse: A GUI SNMP MIB browser Nagios: Nagios monitors hosts and services and yells if something breaks. NBTScan: A tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks. Netmask: A utility for determining network masks. Netwag: The GUI for the network toolbox Netwox Nload: Monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage in real-time. Wireshark: A network protocol analyzer Installing NST is as simple and easy as any other major Linux distribution out there today. After downloading the DVD image burn it out to disk, then pop it in and and boot up. You can choose to either boot into console or graphical mode, recommend the graphical mode even though it is GNOME 3. If your hardware will not support GNOME 3 you can opt to fall back on Classic GNOME. After bootup you will see the default live user enter the password nst2003 and let the desktop load. Once the desktop has fully loaded you can either take it for a test drive or jump right into the install. In order to install it you have to go to Applications > System Tools > Install NST To Hard Drive. If you have installed any Linux distribution before you will find no surprises here. When the installation is complete, or the live version is up and running, you can start experimenting with the tools. There are hundreds of available tools here to help you monitor, secure, analyze, and do practicly anything else on your network. Carrier IQ hit with privacy lawsuits as more security researchers weigh in Carrier IQ [...] has been hit with two class-action lawsuits from users worried about how the company’s software tracks their smartphone activity. Carrier IQ, of course, professes its innocence. But the company has also received some public support from security researchers who say Carrier IQ’s software is only tracking diagnostic information and likely is not violating user privacy. SFLC Asks the US Congress for a DMCA Exception The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a request with the US Librarian of Congress for a DMCA exception that would allow users to freely decide what software they can install and uninstall on devices they own. Arduino 1.0 Released A long time coming, this release brings small but important changes to clean up the Arduino environment and language – as well as adding lots of additional features. Updates to the environment include a new file extension, toolbar icons, and color scheme as well as a progress bar on compilation and upload. The language changes include modifications to the Serial class, addition of DHCP and DNS support to the Ethernet library, a new SoftwareSerial library, multi-file support in the SD library, modifications to the Wire library and UDP class, etc. Gnome Shell Extensions Website Launched The site, which is primarily provided for GNOME 3.2 users, only works in Firefox presently. Support for additional browsers is planned. Amongst the extensions already on offer are an old school ‘GNOME Applications Menu’, ‘Frippery Bottom Panel’ (which adds a window switcher panel to the bottom of the screen), and a ‘Places Status Indicator‘. Outtro Music: Time: 53:52 Jamendo.com Dropping out of School by Brad Sucks

Ep0878: OpenShorts Episode 4

2011-12-13

Mr. Gadget's quest to get us interested in hardware continues. Today we learn about making three-dimensional parts using inexpensive computer-controlled manufacturing equipment. Both additive (RepRap, CandyFab) and subtractive (Lumenlab Micro CNC) systems are covered. Links http://makezine.com/21 http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel_Buyers_Guide http://store.makerbot.com/ http://www.makergear.com/products/mosaic-3d-printers http://www.makergear.com/products/3d-printers http://makeprojects.com/ http://blog.sculpteo.com/2011/10/20/3d-printers-are-the-next-gen-entrepreneurs/ http://www.amazon.com/Printing-Plastic-Printer-Technology-Action/dp/1430234431 http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-MakerBot-English/dp/1449399061 http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-RepRap-Printing-Desktop/dp/1449310427

Ep0877: Welcome Frank Bell

2011-12-12

Today our newest host, Frank Bell describes how he started on the road to Linux and some of the things he noticed along the way. In this episode, he goes from a empty computer to one running Slackware 10.0.

Ep0876: Packaging applications: BSD ports

2011-12-11

Klaatu concludes his three-part series on packaging applications for GNU Linux and BSD. In this episode, he covers BSD ports; how to get them, how to write one, and how to install it. Then he gives his opinion on the myriad packaging options that unix users have available to them. FreeBSD Porter's Handbook yesplz port Get this episode in ogg vorbis courtesy the GNU World Order.

Ep0875: Replacing Older Hardware

2011-12-08

In today's show JWP talks to us about replacing some of his old amd boxes. He investigates what he can get for $250. He heads over to http://geeks.com for a P4 with HDMI out.

Ep0874: Interview: Lucy Chambers, Open Knowledge Foundation

2011-12-07

Hello World and welcome to our show on Hacker Public Radio. This episode is the last of our three interviews resulting from the Opentech Conference over the Summer by my co-host, Les Pounder We're going to jump straight in and skip the introductions; if you want to find out about the conference and our other interviews, you can listen back to the earlier preview show with conference organiser Sam Smith and interview shows with speakers Greg Mehne of Social Innovation Camp and Paula Graham of Fossbox. | Interview: Lucy Chambers of the Open Knowledge Foundation "Founded in 2004, we’re a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: any kind of data and content – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. We promote open knowledge because of its potential to deliver far-reaching societal benefits." OpenTech 2011 Saturday 21st May 2011,Union Building, University of London. OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends. Your Hosts: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/) The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 20mins 17seconds

Ep0873: Philip and Rebecca Newborough of CrunchBang

2011-12-06

Today we interview Philip Newborough (aka corenominal) project lead for CrunchBang Linux and their community manager Rebecca Newborough. CrunchBang is a Debian GNU/Linux based distribution offering a great blend of speed, style and substance. Using the nimble Openbox window manager, it is highly customisable and provides a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance. In September 2011, Philip gave up paid employment to concentrate on personal projects and is now working full-time on CrunchBang Linux. Feel free to donate a over on his sitehttp://crunchbang.org/donate Links http://crunchbang.org/ http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://openbox.org/ http://www.xfce.org/ http://technologyserved.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchBang_Linux http://www.debian.org/

Ep0872: Packaging YUM

2011-12-05

A bonus episode in the Packaging Applications for Linux mini series! Inspired by Thrice in IRC, Klaatu discusses the yum package manager and how to weild it like an ancient RPM warrior.

Ep0871: HPR Community News for Nov 2011

2011-12-05

HPR Community News A monthly look at what has been going on in the HPR community. This is a regular show scheduled for the first Monday of the month. New hosts Welcome to our new host: Kevin Granade and Deltaray Show Review id title host hpr0852GNU Emacs 1klaatu hpr0853Pat Volkerding of Slackware Linux chats with Klaatuklaatu hpr0854All In IT Radio0007 - Should Cars Get Smarter ?Syndicated Thursdays series. hpr0855Packaging for your distroMike Hingley hpr0856GNU Emacs 2klaatu hpr0857Sam Tuke - Free Software Foundation EuropeOggCamp11 series. hpr0858Pre micro computer tech in the home #2MrGadgets hpr0859Sourcetrunk: OwnCloudSyndicated Thursdays series. hpr0860Kaizendo, GNU Parallel and some more FSCONSFSCONS series. hpr0861Emacs Part 3: The Reckoning.klaatu hpr0862Breaking Down TFTPKevin Granade hpr0863Tony Hughes Free CycleKen Fallon hpr0864Opentech Conference 2011: Glen Mehn, SI CampFull Circle Podcast series. hpr0865Desktop TransparencyDeltaray hpr0866Publican, the user-friendly Perl frontend to Docbook XMLklaatu hpr0867Gift Guide for Electronics Engineers of the FutureMrGadgets hpr0868Emacs ConsoleJWP hpr0869The Count of Monte CristoHPR Admins hpr0870Computer MemoriesDeltaray New HPR Community Spokesperson for 2012 Communities like Debian and Fedora regularly change the person in the position of community manager so that the community is better represented, ideas are kept fresh and team work is fostered. With this in mind we are looking for a new member of the community to come forward and represent HPR as the community spokesperson. The job is focused on encouraging people to contribute to the project, spreading the word and building the community. If you are interested or would like to suggest someone for the position then please send your comments to the Mail list. Don't worry Ken and all the other 'regulars' will continue to support HPR. Give to FLOSS Paying homage to the tradition started my Chess Griffin of Linux Reality we are asking people to contribute financially over the coming month to a to a FLOSS of CC project. Just email us what you contributed to and we'll mail you one of the last few HPR stickers and give you a shout out on the end of year show. Please Spread the word! End of Year show We will be organizing a open mic end of year show next month so please have your "best of hpr" story ready for the event. More information on time and date to follow. If you cant make it to the live recording, then please record a short segment and send it on in. Contribute Shows We're short of shows so please stop procrastinating and record that show today. http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php has more information on how to do that.

Ep0870: Computer Memories

2011-12-02

In his second HPR episode, Deltaray looks back at his early computer experiences, from the Commodore to the Amiga, early computer stores, a BBS, and...The Strip. Sound effects by jppi-stu (117647) and timbre (84427) of freesound.org Apple Lisa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa The Apple Lisa - also known as the Lisa - is a personal computer designed by Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple, Inc.) during the early 1980s. Development of the Lisa began in 1978 as a powerful personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) targeted toward business customers. In 1982, Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project, so he joined the Macintosh project instead. The Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although there are obvious similarities between the systems and the final revision, the Lisa 2/10, was modified and sold as the Macintosh XL. The Lisa was a more advanced system than the Macintosh of that time in many respects, such as its inclusion of protected memory, cooperative multitasking, a generally more sophisticated hard disk based operating system, a built-in screensaver, an advanced calculator with a paper tape and RPN, support for up to two megabytes (MB) of RAM, expansion slots, a numeric keypad, data corruption protection schemes such as block sparing, non-physical file names (with the ability to have multiple documents with the same name), and a larger higher-resolution display. It would be many years before many of those features were implemented on the Macintosh platform. Protected memory, for instance, did not arrive until the Mac OS X operating system was released in 2001. The Macintosh featured a faster 68000 processor (7.89 MHz) and sound. The complexity of the Lisa operating system and its programs taxed the 5 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor so that consumers said it felt sluggish, particularly when scrolling in documents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_lisa TRS-80 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS_80 TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation's desktop microcomputer model line, sold through Tandy's Radio Shack stores in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first units, ordered unseen, were delivered in November 1977, and rolled out to the stores the third week of December. The line won popularity with hobbyists, home users, and small-businesses. Tandy Corporation's leading position in what Byte Magazine called the "1977 Trinity" (Apple, Commodore and Tandy) had much to do with Tandy's retailing the computer through more than 3000 of its Radio Shack (Tandy in Europe) storefronts. Notable features of the original TRS-80 included its full-stroke QWERTY keyboard, small size, its Floating Point BASIC programming language, an included monitor, and a starting price of $600. The pre-release price was $500 and a $50 deposit was required, with a money back guarantee at time of delivery. One major drawback of the original system was the massive RF interference it caused in surrounding electronics. This became a problem when it was determined to violate FCC regulations, leading to the Model I's phase out in favor of the new Model III. By 1979, the TRS-80 had the largest available selection of software in the microcomputer market. .... In July 1980 Tandy released the Model III. The improvements of the Model III over the Model I included built-in lower case, a better keyboard, 1500-baud cassette interface, and a faster (2.03 MHz) Z-80 processor. With the introduction of the Model III, Model I production was discontinued as it did not comply with new FCC regulations as of 1 January 1981 regarding electromagnetic interference. The Model I radiated so much interference that while playing games an AM radio placed next to the computer could be used to provide sounds. The Model III could run about 80% of Model I software, but used an incompatible disk format. Customers and developers complained of bugs in its BASIC and the TRSDOS operating system. The computer also came with the option of integrated disk drives. Since they took power from the same supply as the motherboard and screen, which was not upgraded for the disk drive models, it was common to see the screen image shrink noticeably during drive access. http://web.archive.org/web/20060425163924/http://www.kjsl.com/trs80/model3info.html Commadore 128 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_128 The Commodore 128 (C128, CBM 128, C=128) home/personal computer was the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM). Introduced in January 1985 at the CES in Las Vegas, it appeared three years after its predecessor, the bestselling Commodore 64. The C128 was a significantly expanded successor to the C64 and unlike the earlier Commodore Plus/4, nearly full compatibility with the C64 was retained, in both hardware and software. The new machine featured 128 KB of RAM, in two 64 KB banks and an 80-column RGBI video output (driven by the 8563 VDC chip with 16 KB dedicated video RAM), as well as a substantially redesigned case and keyboard. Also included was a Zilog Z80 CPU which allowed the C128 to run CP/M, as an alternate to the usual Commodore BASIC environment. The primary hardware designer of the C128 was Bil Herd, who had worked on the Plus/4. Other hardware engineers were Dave Haynie and Frank Palaia, while the IC design work was done by Dave DiOrio. The main Commodore system software was developed by Fred Bowen and Terry Ryan, while the CP/M subsystem was developed by Von Ertwine Amiga 2000 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Amiga 2000, or A2000, is a personal computer released by Commodore in 1986. It is the successor to the Amiga 1000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_2000

Ep0869: The Count of Monte Cristo

2011-11-30

Ep0868: Emacs Console

2011-11-29

In today's show JWP returns with a look at emacs console.

Ep0867: Gift Guide for Electronics Engineers of the Future

2011-11-28

In today's show Mr. Gadgets continues his quest to encouraging young people to get interested in technology. http://www.radioshack.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=4446519 http://www.thesource.ca/ http://www.maplin.co.uk/ http://makezine.com/ http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/ http://www.frys.com/template/ecomponents http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.phtmlNtt=arduino&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

Ep0866: Publican, the user-friendly Perl frontend to Docbook XML

2011-11-28

Klaatu introduces you to Publican, the user-friendly Perl frontend to Docbook XML from the Fedora Linux Project. Also, how to set up vim with XML tag completion. Links Also see Docbook The Definitive Guide nXML-mode for GNU Emacs. Feel free to glance over the dot-emacs file that Klaatu uses, mostly stolen from Unix guru Bill Von Hagen (who in turn stole it from lots of other people; read comments for credits) XML Completion for Vim

Ep0865: Desktop Transparency

2011-11-24

Deltaray talks about the (true) history of Desktop Transparency.

Ep0864: Opentech Conference 2011: Glen Mehn, SI Camp

2011-11-23

Hello world and welcome to our show on Hacker Public Radio. This episode is our de-brief on the Opentech Conference in London, plus an interview with Glen Mehn of Social Innovation Camp by my co-host is Les Pounder OpenTech 2011 Saturday 21st May 2011,Union Building, University of London. Interview: Glen Mehne of Social Innovation Camp: Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems – all in just 48 hours OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends. Your Hosts: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/) The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 18mins 26seconds

Ep0863: Tony Hughes Free Cycle

2011-11-22

Free Cycle In todays show Ken talks to Tony Hughes about how he got into linux The Freecycle Network From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freecycle_Network The Freecycle Network (often abbreviated TFN or just known as Freecycle) is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Arizona, USA, and separately registered as a UK charity, that organizes a worldwide network of "gifting" groups, aiming to divert reusable goods from landfills. It provides a worldwide online registry, and coordinates the creation of local groups and forums for individuals and non-profits to offer and receive free items for reuse or recycling, promoting gift economics as a motivating cultural outlook. "Changing the world one gift at a time" is The Freecycle Network's official tagline. http://www.freecycle.org/ Xubuntu Xubuntu is a community developed, Ubuntu-based Linux operating system that is well-suited for both laptops and desktops. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, document and spreadsheet editing software, instant messaging and much more. http://www.xubuntu.org/ LibreOffice LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. You, too, can get involved! http://www.libreoffice.org/ Ucubed What is Ucubed? UCubed is an event that focuses on Ubuntu and Debian based distributions, and encourages users to become more involved in the community. http://ucubed.info/ Software Freedom Day Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in. Go along to your local event or start your own event and meet a wide range of people, all working together to help ensure our freedoms are maintained by the technologies of tomorrow. http://softwarefreedomday.org/ BLACKPOOL LUG http://blackpoollug.blogspot.com/ BLACKPOOL LUG membership is free, no sign up required. Just turn up, or follow us here, or on the mailing list, Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. mailing list, subscribe here:- https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/blackpool/ post to:- blackpool@mailman.lug.org.uk Read list: list archives here The facebook page is here Twitter:- @blacc2 RSS Subscribe Meetings every Saturday 10-12 excluding school holidays At 29-35 Ripon road, Blackpool. FY1 4DY Format - 'Free for all' open day. Members, non members, friends, passers by, everybody welcome. Ripon road is residents only parking, don't get a parking ticket Link to map :- Ripon road, Blackpool FY1 4DY The sign says: PCRECYCLER LTD. Use the buzzer/intercom on the wall next to the door in the yard to get in. Picture of Ripon road building by Jim Huntsman:- Ripon road LUG Main contact:- Mike Hewitt admin[at]pcrecycler[.]co[.]uk Tel 01253 293258 between 10-2, Mon,Tue,Thur,Friday. Fax:-07092162209

Ep0862: Breaking Down TFTP

2011-11-21

In the inaugural episode of Breaking Down Protocols, I dig into TFTP, what it's good for and what makes it tick. You can contact Kevin on identi.ca as @kevingranade The original rfc http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc783.txt The errata http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt An update http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1350.txt The option extension http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1782.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1783.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1784.txt An update to option extension http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2347.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2348.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2349.txt The multicast RFC. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2090.txt Trivial File Transfer Protocol From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a file transfer protocol known for its simplicity.[citation needed] It is generally used for automated transfer of configuration or boot files between machines in a local environment. Compared to FTP, TFTP is extremely limited, providing no authentication, and is rarely used interactively by a user. Due to its simple design, TFTP could be implemented using a very small amount of memory. It is therefore useful for booting computers such as routers which may not have any data storage devices. It is an element of the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) network boot protocol, where it is implemented in the firmware BIOS of the host's network card. It is also used to transfer small amounts of data between hosts on a network, such as IP phone firmware or operating system images when a remote X Window System terminal or any other thin client boots from a network host or server. The initial stages of some network based installation systems (such as Solaris Jumpstart, Red Hat Kickstart, Symantec Ghost and Windows NT's Remote Installation Services) use TFTP to load a basic kernel that performs the actual installation. TFTP was first defined in 1980 by IEN 133.[1] It is currently defined by RFC 1350. There have been some extensions to the TFTP protocol documented in later RFC's (see the section on Extensions, below). TFTP is based in part on the earlier protocol EFTP, which was part of the PUP protocol suite. TFTP support appeared first as part of 4.3 BSD. Due to the lack of security, it is dangerous to use it over the Internet. Thus, TFTP is generally only used on private, local networks.

Ep0861: Emacs Part 3: The Reckoning.

2011-11-20

Ep0860: Kaizendo, GNU Parallel and some more FSCONS

2011-11-18

Interviews and a look at FSCONS 2011 Today you will hear two interviews from FSCONS 2010. The audio is of "conference quality", that is, there are a lot of noice in the background. Not much to do about that, I am sorry. But it is two really great interviews, so well worth it! But as a start I have a look at what will take place during the coming FSCONS 2011, that will start 2011-11-11 and continue through the whole weekend. I read from the schedule, and mention some of the topics and presenters who will be there. FSCONS 2011 FSCONS 2011 Schedule Salve J. Nilsen - Kaizendo: Customizable schoolboks Imagine a schoolbook where the pupil and her teacher can choose the topic depth, clarity of text and homework difficulty as needed and necessary. Add alternatives for teachers (supporting different instructional methods, teaching styles), schools (variations in chapter content based on time constraints or policy) and parents (having a topic summary to read before helping with homework.) This is what we mean with customizable textbooks. http://kaizendo.org/ http://vimeo.com/20875583 Ole Tange - GNU Parallel GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel. http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/ http://vimeo.com/20838834 Shameless plugs You should follow me on Identi.ca and Twitter: @alltinomit or subscribe to All In IT Radio at http://aiit.se/radio/ By the way, we now also have a Google+ Page, find it at http://aiit.se/radio/+

Ep0859: Sourcetrunk: OwnCloud

2011-11-16

Welcome to syndicated Thursday on hacker public radio Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content from around the web. If you know of some creative commons material that you would like to bring to the attention of the community then send an email to admin. Today we highlight: Sourcetrunk ~ your trunkload of open source http://www.sourcetrunk.com This show is released under cc-by-nc-sa Sourcetrunk (Episode 077) : OwnCloud Originally aired on on Mon, 2011-11-14 20:36 This episode will demonstrate OwnCloud, the Open Source solution for your own cloud where you can manage your files, bookmarks, contacts and appointments without security or privacy issues. (and even can listen to your own music while doing that) OwnCloudOwnCloud Demoinstall OwnCloudcontribute to OwnCloud Android pick : Tivo Commander music from Tag theme from Brand New Sin on music.podshow.com Beer on this episode : Wieze Tripel http://www.sourcetrunk.com/podcasts/sourcetrunk_077.mp3 http://www.sourcetrunk.com/podcasts/sourcetrunk_077.ogg http://owncloud.org/ http://demo.owncloud.org/files/index.php http://owncloud.org/install/ http://owncloud.org/contribute/ https://market.android.com/details?id=com.arantius.tivocommander&hl=en http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=5848a0485a0f4eff28c22288a2396a57 http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=96f18a09714d01b833268854cf39d82c http://music.podshow.com

Ep0858: Pre micro computer tech in the home #2

2011-11-15

In today's show Mr Gadgets talks about the access children of the space age had to science The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments was a children's chemistry book written in the 1960s by Robert Brent and illustrated by Harry Lazarus and published by Western Publishing in their Golden Books series. Many of the experiments contained in the book are now considered "dangerous for unsupervised children"[citation needed], and would not appear in a modern children's chemistry book[citation needed]. OCLC lists only 126 copies of this book in libraries worldwide. The book was a source of inspiration to David Hahn, nicknamed "the Radioactive Boy Scout" by the media, who tried to collect a sample of every chemical element and also built a model nuclear reactor, which led to the involvement of the authorities. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments http://www.scribd.com/doc/21654883/The-Golden-Book-of-Chemistry-Experiments Sears Chemistry Set http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/collections/collection-items/artifacts/sears-chemistry-set.aspx Wish book web: The vintage Christmas catalog archive project and home http://www.wishbookweb.com/ Radio Shack Catalogs: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html Phantom's Vintage Catalog Collection - 1975 Lafayette Radio Catalog http://reel2reeltexas.com/cat75Lafay.html Radio Daze Catalog: http://www.radiodaze.com/catalog-online.htm BlackGirlsCode is Dedicated to Inspiring Girls of Color to Become the Next Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg - on PR.com http://www.pr.com/press-release/366388

Ep0857: Sam Tuke - Free Software Foundation Europe

2011-11-14

In todays show we interview Sam Tuke the British Team Coordinator and Editorial Team co-ordinator for the Free Software Foundation Europe The Free Software Foundation Europe is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software and working for freedom in the emerging digital society. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. The freedoms to use, study, share, and improve software allow equal participation, and are extremely important. http://fsfe.org/ http://fsfe.org/about/tuke/tuke.en.html http://www.fsf.org/ http://oggcamp.org

Ep0856: GNU Emacs 2

2011-11-13

Second episode of three in Klaatu's GNU Emacs mini series. This time, you and Klaatu will tackle the .emacs file and learn how to bring text highlighting, modern-style copy/paste keybindings, and even a little taste of buffers and frame-type things.

Ep0855: Packaging for your distro

2011-11-10

In this episode Mike tries to highlight the advantages of packaging content for your distro. The Ubuntu content packaging team can be found at : http://bit.ly/cpackage More articles about content packaging can be found at http://www.titaniumbunker.com . Mike can be reached at mike@titaniumbunker.com

Ep0854: All In IT Radio0007 - Should Cars Get Smarter ?

2011-11-09

Welcome to syndicated Thursday on hacker public radio Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content from arond the web. If you know of some creative commons material that you would like to bring to the attention of the community then send an email to admin. Today we hilight the Hello and welcome to All In IT Radio! http://aiit.se/radio/ Hello and welcome to All In IT Radio! Join us as we talk about everything related to Information Technology, and some other random stuff as well. Help us, as we try to find how IT relate to everyone of us, and what the story headlines really mean. This is a show made by Swedes, in english. Some think this is endearing, other think it is stupid. You are welcome to listen to us strugle with the language barrier any way. On your right, you find the episodes, at the bottom you can (and should) subscribe to our feed and in the upper right corner you can stream the latest show. We release a new episode when we feel like it. Welcome to All In IT Radio! :-) Episode 0007 - Should Cars Get Smarter? Subscribe! Then you won't miss any new shows. There are feeds for both ogg and mp3. You may also find other formats at Archive.org. How intelligent should your car really be? What will happen to the MeeGo operating system now that Nokia has abandoned the project? Will the new guy contribute to the show in any way? (Spoiler: He did.) Duration: 56:05 Show notes On it's way... http://www.genivi.org/ABOUT/GENIVIMembers/tabid/430/Default.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo_%28operating_system%29 http://www.automotorsport.se/news/22366/saab-satsar-p%C3%A5-iqon--infotainment-med-android/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/06/nokias-new-meego-based-n9-is-set-up-for-failure.ars http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/23/nokias-first-windows-phone-images-and-video/ https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=nokia+3110c http://bixhorn.com/?p=125 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/about.aspx Let us wrap this up! To reach us: Send your message to the group !aiitr at Identi.ca or mark it with hashtag #aiitr at Twitter, you find us at both Identi.ca and Twitter at @AlltInomIT and you find Henrik at @Sonnergard and @Warpfuz. Theme music today by The Motyw / Wojciech Wszelaki. Music is CC BY-SA 3.0

Ep0853: Pat Volkerding of Slackware Linux chats with Klaatu

2011-11-08

Pat Volkerding of Slackware Linux chats with Klaatu and whomever happens to wander by (Maco, Vincent Batts, Chad Wallenberg, and others) at the SELF afterparty. Slackware From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Slackware is a free and open source Linux-based operating system. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the Linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993. The current stable version is 13.37, released on April 27, 2011. Slackware aims for design stability and simplicity, and to be the most "Unix-like" Linux distribution, making as few modifications as possible to software packages from upstream and using plain text files and a small set of shell scripts for configuration and administration. Warning: this is not a proper interview, just 40 minutes of aimless and fairly noisy chit chat at a party. So it's probably not for everyone, although if you're a Slackware fan then it might be of some interest. http://www.slackware.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware

Ep0852: GNU Emacs 1

2011-11-07

A small mini series (three parts) on GNU Emacs; Klaatu tells you how to use it, when to use it and when not to, why you'd want to use it, and most of all - how to become a pro on it! Not a sales pitch for Emacs, just a harmless introduction. First try is free. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include: Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human languages and their scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A large number of extensions that add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more. Many of these extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available separately.

Ep0851: HPR Community News for Oct 2011

2011-11-06

HPR Community News A monthly look at what has been going on in the HPR community. This is a regular show scheduled for the first Monday of the month. New hosts Welcome to our new host: Seetee Show Review id title host 826HPR Community News for Sep 2011HPR Admins 827HPR booth and HostGatorklaatu 828a+g=-bMrGadgets 829Interview with Prof Jocelyn Bell-BurnellHPR Admins 830Peter Hutterer Interview at X.Org Developer Conference (XDC) 2011marcoz 831Chris from Sourceforge.netklaatu 832OggCamp11 RoundupKen Fallon 833Ian Romanick Interview at X.Org Developer Conference (XDC) 2011marcoz 834The Knightcast KC0056 : Best of KWTV LiveKnightwise 835Amazon sets the world on FireMrGadgets 836Jeff from No Machineklaatu 837Juergen Schinker open wireless networkKen Fallon 838Martin Peres @ XDCmarcoz 839Full Circle Podcast: The Lubuntu TeamRobin Catling 840Android Shoppingcobra2 841Jonathan Nadeauklaatu 842DJ from h-online.comKen Fallon 843What holiday tech itemMrGadgets 844The Flying HandbagHPR Admins 845Open Source Radio SoftwareAukonDK 846Jared Smith from Fedoraklaatu 847FSCONS, MeeGo and the story of TizenSeetee 848Alan Cocks, the info point projectKen Fallon 849Sunday Morning Linux ReviewHPR Admins 850Another Tech Giant Passes - Household Tech in the Pre-Micro EraMrGadgets Thanks To Stitcher for feedback on the intro Apologies To Seetee for the mixup in the show scheduling Contribute Shows We're short of shows so please stop procrastinating and record that show today. http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php has more information on how to do that.

Ep0850: Another Tech Giant Passes - Household Tech in the Pre-Micro Era

2011-11-03

In today's show Mr Gadgets pauses to remember the passing of some pioneering greats in the tech field. He focuses on personal heroes who have had a profound impact on the direction of his life. Edgar Villchur From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Villchur) Edgar Marion Villchur (28 May 1917 - 17 October 2011) was an American inventor, educator, and writer widely known for his 1954 invention of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker which revolutionized the field of high-fidelity equipment. A speaker Villchur developed, the AR-3, is exhibited at the The Smithsonian Institutions Information Age Exhibit in Washington, DC. Villchur's speaker systems provided improved bass response while reducing the speaker's cabinet size. Acoustic Research, Inc. (AR), of which he was president from 1954 to 1967, manufactured high-fidelity loudspeakers, turntables, and other stereo components of his design, and demonstrated their quality through live vs. recorded concerts. The companys market share grew to 32 percent by 1966. After leaving AR, Villchur researched hearing aid technology, developing the multichannel compression hearing aid, which became the industry standard for hearing aids. Henry Kloss From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kloss) Henry Kloss (1929, Altoona, PA - January 31, 2002, Cambridge, MA) was a prominent American audio engineer and businessman who helped advance high fidelity loudspeaker and radio receiver technology beginning in the 1950s. Kloss (pronounced with a long o, like "close") was an undergraduate student in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (class of 1953), but never received a degree. He was responsible for a number of innovations, including the acoustic suspension loudspeaker and the high fidelity cassette deck. In 2000, Kloss was one of the first inductees into the Consumer Electronics Association's Hall of Fame. He earned an Emmy Award for his development of a projection television system, the Advent Video Beam 1000. Acoustic Research From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Research) Acoustic Research was a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that manufactured high-end audio equipment. The brand is now owned by Audiovox. Acoustic Research was well known for the AR-3 series of speaker systems, which used the 12-inch (305 mm) acoustic suspension woofer of the AR-1 with newly designed dome mid-range and high-frequency drivers, which were the first of their kind. AR's line of acoustic suspension speakers were extraordinary for their time, as they were the first loudspeakers with flat response, extended bass, wide dispersion, small size, and reasonable cost. http://homepage.mac.com/oldtownman/recording/villchur.html

Ep0849: Sunday Morning Linux Review

2011-11-02

Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content. In todays show we focus on Sunday Morning Linux Review with Mat and Tony, a weekly news show for the Linux community http://www.smlr.us With: Tony Bemus from http://www.bemushosting.com Mat Enders from http://www.charter-school-it-techs.com Kernel News: Mat The Current Development kernel 3.2 The Stable release is 3.1 Distro News: Tony Distrowatch.com 10-27 SalineOS 1.5 Debian-based distribution with Xfce 10-25 Puppy Linux 5.3 Slacko binary compatibility with Slackware Linux Last week releases: ZevenOS 2.0 Neptune and Finnix 103 Coming up: FreeBSD 9.0 and openSUSE 12.1 Distro of the Week: Mint Ubuntu openSUSE Fedora Debian Other Distro News: Tech News: Amazon Introduces New Ebook Format The new file format, Kindle Format 8 (KF8), is based on HTML5, and with it, Amazon aims to bring some of the flexibility and power that HTML5 offers to the world of e-books. HTML5 features such as CSS3 formatting, nested tables, SVG graphics, embedded fonts, and borders are all now supported. The new format includes much richer layout options, including fixed layoutsessential for accurate reproduction of many childrens booksand panel-based layouts for comic books. Books can include sidebars and callouts, text overlaid on background images, boxes, drop caps, and more. Open Source: You Know, For Kids! Recently SCALE announced that the 2012 event, January 20-22 in Los Angeles, will include a SCALE Kids Conference More about: ICANN is Taking Over the Olson Time Zone Database Astrolabe not looking for money but just wanted to make a point about infringement. Other Talk: Apple Threatens Small, Family-Run Caf Over Trademark Apple is threatening to sue a small, family run caf in Bonn because they are of the opinion that their logo infringes on Apples trademark. The owner of the caf Apfelkind, Christin Rmer, has registered her logo as a trademark for the service and fashion industry in June in Munich. Now Apple is claiming in a cease and desist letter that there could be confusion between the small caf in Bonn and their global entertainment brand. Linux Malware: Are We There Yet? Untrusted package sources Bots, rootkits and unknown commands More Talk: Tonys Projects: XBMCbuntu HTPC: Fast Boot, Internet content, Local and network Content! Mats Projects: PFsense

Ep0848: Alan Cocks, the info point project

2011-11-01

In todays show Ken talks to Alan Cocks about the info point project setup by Jono Bacon. It is an outreach program to get the message of open source to visitors at and how he has spread the open source message at the Bracknell Computer Fair each month http://www.britishcomputerfairs.com/cgi-bin/floorplan?vnu_id=5 http://infopointproject.org/wordpress/ From HPR @ OggCamp11

Ep0847: FSCONS, MeeGo and the story of Tizen

2011-10-31

Who am i? Hello everyone, in todays show you will hear my first show on Hacker Public Radio! You may know me as "Seetee", or as "Kenneth from the All In IT Radio podcast", or most likely, you do not know me at all. Hopefully you will hear more shows from me in the future, tough. You find me all over the internet, and you can follow me at both identi.ca and twitter as @alltinomit The story in short At FSCONS 2010 (http://fscons.org/) I had the privilege to watch many interesting talks. Something that really peeked my interest where the talks of Knut Yrvin and Jeremiah Foster, two talented gentlemen who I was lucky to get a little private interview with as well. Their talks are avalible on Vimeo, and in this episode of Hacker Public Radio you get to hear my interviews, together with my interpetation of what has happened in the past to lead up to the creation of the operating system Tizen. Mentioned links Knut Yrvin "Qt on MeeGo" (http://vimeo.com/22229208) Jeremiah Foster "GENIVI alliance and how biz can adapt FOSS" (http://vimeo.com/21970744) All In IT Radio - Should Cars Get Smarter? Me and my mates talk more about MeeGo. This was just before the Tizen anouncement. We cover a bit more of the toughts around this emerging market. (http://aiit.se/radio/0007) Further reading MeeGo The GenIVI Allience "Dear Intel & Samsung, Can Tizen have some Qt?" "What community?" Tizen.org

Ep0846: Jared Smith from Fedora

2011-10-30

Klaatu, losing his voice from too much Ohio Linux Festivities, interviews Jared Smith, the project manager of Fedora Linux. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki http://www.jaredsmith.net/

Ep0845: Open Source Radio Software

2011-10-27

In todays show AukonDK leads us on a tour of Open Source Radio Software Icecast http://www.icecast.org/ Icecast, the project, is a collection of programs and libraries for streaming audio over the Internet. This includes: icecast, a program that streams audio data to listeners libshout, a library for communicating with Icecast servers IceS, a program that sends audio data to Icecast servers BUTT http://butt.sourceforge.net/ butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast. butt runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. IDJC http://idjc.sourceforge.net/ Internet DJ Console is a project started in March 2005 to provide a powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers. Because of the large number of streaming applications that already existed but did little more than stream a pair of audio channels or a fixed playlist, it was decided that IDJC would be the opposite and simulate audio hardware to cut down the expense of creating a home studio. In addition to providing a large number of show production features, this software has been written with the aim of producing the best possible experience for the listeners and DJ alike. To that end features like VoIP integration were conceived of from the very start resulting in the choice of Jack Audio Connection Kit to base the audio. This has afforded IDJC audio processing capabilities that were they built in would be considered excessive. Enjoy integration with powerful programs such as the well known Skype, Jack Rack (offering audio sound effects plugins), Jamin (the powerful audio compressor/equalizer), and many more. Fortunately IDJCs power does not come at the expense of a well organized user interface, nor have requests for features been permitted to diminish the application's intuitive feel yet throughout development the main goals have always been that of stability and audio quality. Liquidsoap http://savonet.sourceforge.net/index.html Liquidsoap is a powerful and flexible language for describing your streams. It offers a rich collection of operators that you can combine at will, giving you more power than you need for creating or transforming streams. But liquidsoap is still very light and easy to use, in the Unix tradition of simple strong components working together. Airtime http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/ Airtime is the open radio software for scheduling and remote station management. Remote access to the station’s media management, multi-file upload and automatic metadata verification is coupled with a collaborative online scheduling calendar and playlist management. The scheduling calendar is managed through an easy-to-use web-interface and triggers audio playout with sub-second precision for fading. Rivendell http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Rivendell is a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. It has all of the features one would expect in a modern, fully-fledged radio automation system, including support for both PCM and MPEG audio encoding, full voicetracking and log customization as well as support for a wide variety of third party software and hardware. As a robust, functionally complete digital audio system for broadcast radio applications, Rivendell uses industry standard components like the GNU/Linux Operating System, the AudioScience HPI Driver Architecture and the MySQL Database Engine. Rivendell is available under the GNU Public License. RAAbuntu http://rrabuntu.sourceforge.net/ Rivendell Radio Automation Live CD installer for Ubuntu. This is a modified version of Ubuntu 10.04. It has been customised using the Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) and the Rivendell DEB packages developed by Alban in France. http://blog.tryphon.org/alban/ Frederick Henderson created all the install scripts for the greatly improved installer Email: aukondk@aukondk.com Twitter/Identica: aukondk gplus.to/aukondk www.aukondk.com

Ep0844: The Flying Handbag

2011-10-26

Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content. In todays show we hear the behind the scenes banter at Barcamp Blackpool 2011. You might remember that we interviewed Gemma Cameron aka @ruby_gem back in episode 813 This episode was originally posted on October 15th 2011 by Dan Lynch of Rathole Radio and linuxoutlaws fame. The following are the shownotes posted with the show. The Flying Handbag Hello all, apologies for the lack of Weekly Rewind updates lately. Things have been crazy. I do have a rather special treat for you today instead. A podcast recorded at Barcamp Blackpool on October 15th 2011. Let me fill in a little background detail to this. I was in Blackpool catching up with my fellow podcaster Pete Cannon of Dick Turpin Roadshow fame. Our good friend Les Pounder of Blackpool LUG came over and asked "are you two up for doing a podcast?". Of course we were but had no idea what about or what the structure would be. We also didn't book a space on the barcamp schedule board. This was all very last minute. One of the talk areas at the barcamp was named The Flying Handbag after a well known Blackpool gay bar apparently. This caused much hilarity. We saw it was free and planned to record our discussion there. Upon our arrival another bloke was already there waiting to start his talk and he didn't look too impressed by our rag tag bunch. So off we wandered in search of another recording location and ended up sat on the stairs by the gents toilets in Blackpool Pleasure Beach Casino. You can hear what followed next. A rambling and fun conversation between 6 opinionated blokes, with some additional comedy value added by the really loud hand dryer noise coming from the toilets. Ladies and gentlemen we present. The Flying Handbag Cast!!! Running time: 50mins (ish) The culprits are: Les Pounder Peter Cannon Dan Westley (Our Microsoft spy) Tony Hughes Heeed (Michael) Dan Lynch Contains swearing and adult humour from the start. You've been warned. This was a one-off thing really and I don't know if there'll ever be more. We all live in different parts of the UK so it might be tricky. Hopefully we'll get together at another event in future and chat some more. http://ratholeradio.org/ http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0813 http://danlynch.org/blog/2011/10/handbag/ http://barcampblackpool.com/ http://tdtrs.tumblr.com/ http://blackpoollug.blogspot.com/ http://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/ http://about.me/lespounder http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk/ http://heeed.net/ http://danlynch.org

Ep0843: What holiday tech item

2011-10-25

In todays show Mr. Gadgets starts the run up to the festive season asking what your holiday tech item would be. He encourages you to send in your own suggestion.

Ep0842: DJ from h-online.com

2011-10-24

http://hackerpublicradio.org In todays show Ken is at OggCamp and talks to DJ about the online OpenSource and Security news site the H at http://www.h-online.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/honline @honline twitter From HPR @ OggCamp11

Ep0841: Jonathan Nadeau

2011-10-23

At the Ohio Linux Fest, Klaatu interviews Jonathan Nadeau about the FSF, Trisquel Linux, Linux and accessibility, and how non-programmers can get involved with software projects.

Ep0840: Android Shopping

2011-10-20

In todays show Cobra 2 gives us the advise never to impulse buy an android device. Do your research on the hardware, wireless and the software. Start your research on the cyanogenmod wiki. He continues with tips on what to look out for on each device. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Ep0839: Full Circle Podcast: The Lubuntu Team

2011-10-19

Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content. The Full Circle Podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Guests Lubuntu Team interview: Mario Behling and Hong Phuc Dong introduce the Lubuntu Project Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 23mins 36seconds

Ep0838: Martin Peres @ XDC

2011-10-19

Martin Peres works on the nouveau driver for X.org. Nouveau project site - http://nouveau.freedesktop.org Nouveau mailing list - http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau Nouveau irc - irc.freenode.net #nouveau The program that reads information from your Nvidia card that Martin talks about is called nvacounter. It can be found at: https://github.com/pathscale/envytools/tree/

Ep0837: Juergen Schinker open wireless network

2011-10-18

In todays show Ken talks to Juergen Schinker about the OWN Open wireless network at Deptford in London. They run a community network that has cheap routers providing dual wifi networks, one which is private and the other open to your neighbour. They run the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol From HPR @ OggCamp11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimized_Link_State_Routing_Protocol http://own.spc.org/drupal/ View Larger Map

Ep0836: Jeff from No Machine

2011-10-16

Klaatu interviews Jeff from No Machine.

Ep0835: Amazon sets the world on Fire

2011-10-13

Mr Gadgets continues his investigation into tablets and wonders what Amazons Fire will bring.

Ep0834: The Knightcast KC0056 : Best of KWTV Live

2011-10-12

Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content. Todays show is The Knightcast KC0056 : Best of KWTV Live and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License. It was originally aired on Sunday, 09 October 2011 06:25 The link to the show is http://www.knightwise.com/knightcast-podcast/871-the-knightcast-kc0056--best-of-kwtv-live In this weeks extra long podcast we bring you the excerpts from Septembers KWTV Live episode. Three interesting guests talk in depth about 3 interesting topics that is sure to interest anyone who runs ANY operating system. Larry Buschey from the Going Linux podcast talks about what is wrong with Linux, Bart Busschots comes to talk to us about OSX Lion and the future of the Apple operating system and Keith Murray brings us his views on the newest Windows 8 Developer preview. We ask skeptical questions and ponder on the future of the computer os in light of the Tablet revolution. All of that and more on this weeks Knightcast. www.goinglinux.com www.kdmurray.net www.bartb.ie Next months KWTV Live Schedule The ENTIRE episode of KWTV Live (Video)

Ep0833: Ian Romanick Interview at X.Org Developer Conference (XDC) 2011

2011-10-11

Ian Romanick works on Mesa at Intel. Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification - a system for rendering interactive 3D graphics. Mesa project site - http://www.mesa3d.org/ Mesa mailing list - http://www.mesa3d.org/lists.html Mesa irc - irc.freenode.net #dri-devel

Ep0832: OggCamp11 Roundup

2011-10-10

In today's show Ken gives a round-up of OggCamp 11. We start with a chat with Les Pounder who is crew manager http://oggcamp.org/ From HPR @ OggCamp11 Next was a discussion with Stuart Langridge formally of lugradio and now working for Canonical on Ubuntu One http://www.lugradio.org/ http://www.canonical.com/ https://one.ubuntu.com/ From HPR @ OggCamp11 Next he meets up with one of our own hosts Robin Catling who runs the Full Circle podcast and HPR series. http://fullcirclemagazine.org/category/podcast/ http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=160 From HPR @ OggCamp11 Next was a chat with the organisers Laura Cowen and Alan Pope. Unfortunately the interview with Laura was of too poor audio quality to recover. http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/ http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws From HPR @ OggCamp11 Then it was a quick catchup with Adrian Bradshaw also formally of LugRadio and now working at Red Hat http://about.me/adrianbradshaw http://www.redhat.com/ After a live and very poor recording of the song The Elephant In The Room preformed by Dan Lynch of the Linux Outlaws and Rathole Radio http://danlynch.org/elephant http://ratholeradio.org/ Finally we round it all up by talking to Les again about how it all was organised, how it went and the future http://ucubed.info/ http://www.flossie.org/ http://www.fossbox.org.uk/ http://blackpoolgeekup.wordpress.com/

Ep0831: Chris from Sourceforge.net

2011-10-09

Klaatu interviews Chris from Sourceforge.net, at the Ohio Linux Fest.

Ep0830: Peter Hutterer Interview at X.Org Developer Conference (XDC) 2011

2011-10-06

Peter Hutterer works on X.org, specifically the input system, at Red Hat. Xorg project site (input is one of several parts to X) - http://x.org/wiki Xorg mailing list - http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/ Xorg irc - irc.freenode.net #xorg-devel Peter's blog - http://who-t.blogspot.com

Ep0829: Interview with Prof Jocelyn Bell-Burnell

2011-10-06

Welcome to hacker public radio Each Thursday we play Syndicated creative commons content Todays show is from the Jodcast podcast and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License "The Jodcast is a volunteer podcast about astronomy set up by astronomers based at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank but aims to cover astronomy carried out all over the Earth and beyond." In todays show, aired in June two thousand and seven they interview Jocelyn Bell-Burnell on the 40th aniversary of her discovery of pulsars. Todays Syndicated Thursday show was recommended by DelWin If you have a recommendation for syndicated thursday then please email it to admin at hacker public radio dot org enjoy http://www.jodcast.net/ http://www.jodcast.net/archive/200706/

Ep0828: a+g=-b

2011-10-04

In this episode Mr Gadgets talks about the demise of physical retail stores and ponders what the effect will be.

Ep0827: HPR booth and HostGator

2011-10-03

Klaatu talks about howto establish an HPR booth at your favourite tech conference, and gives a report about HPR's presence at the Ohio Linux fest this year. Also, an interview with Lance from HostGator.com

Ep0826: HPR Community News for Sep 2011

2011-10-02

New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: AukonDK, Tracy Holz (Holzster), and Joe Wakumara Show Review id host title 806 HPR Admins HPR news for Aug 2011 807 klaatu MaraDNS 808 Broam Interview with Yancy Smith 809 deepgeek talk geek to me 810 Joe Wakumara Hello HPR! 811 Thistleweb creative commons torrent tracker 812 MrGadgets Are they a patent trool 813 Ken Fallon Gemma Cameron aka @ruby_gem about Barcamp Blackpool 814 Knightwise The Knightcast KC0054 : Setting up Amahi 815 Ken Fallon Software Freedom Day Dundee 2011 816 Tracy Holz (Holzster) Modern Survivalism part 1 817 AukonDK Installing Linux and Windows 7 to a USB Hard Drive 818 pokey Sansa Clip Plus for podcasting 819 Robin Catling Editing Part Five Post and Packing 820 klaatu Setting up a web server and a mySQL server 821 MrGadgets Why Android tablets suck ! 822 Ken Fallon Vivean Parkhouse about the GiffGaff Community Phone project 823 klaatu Klaatu talks to Trevor, a programmer for Phonon's Gstreamer backend 824 Robin Catling Opentech Conference 2011: Paula Graham, FOSSBox 825 marcoz Jamey Sharp Interview at X.Org Developer Conference (XDC) 2011 Apologies To Kris Findlay, and Thistleweb for scheduling mixups Scheduling Shows Hi Earthlings, Along with the scheduling rules http://hackerpublicradio.org/calendar.php there is the line "while avoiding having any one host/series repeated in a week". The idea was to allow for someone uploading an entire series in one go and us having to schedule it. That has worked well so that the queue is full and that host still gets their series played fairly often, but ... After an event like OggCamp/ILF/OLF/SELF etc we tend to get a load of shows at once that are outside the traditional series concept. Some of these have the "feel of the fest" and may go stale after a time. Should we schedule those according to the same rules meaning there would be no more than one a week, or should we open the floodgates and have a few weeks dedicated to post festival interviews ? Discuss. Month in Review DerbyCon : Louisville, Kentucky – September 30th to October 2nd, 2011 Augmented podcast on HPR Outro Contribution Curbuntu, pokey HPR Theme Music HPR Roundtable at Phreaknic Code Cruncher in Amsterdam HPR at OLF

Ep0825: Jamey Sharp Interview at X.Org Developer Conference (XDC) 2011

2011-09-29

Jamey Sharp was placed on Ritalin, briefly, in fifth grade. His interests and activities have been varied ever since. Today his day job involves a computer test for attention deficit disorder, but his biggest projects have been the Portland State Aerospace Society, a student rocketry club at Portland State University; XCB, a new low-level binding to the X protocol, in the process of replacing Xlib; and Serialist, because his other projects didn’t leave him enough time to read his favorite webcomics without tool support. Jamey’s interests span computer science fields including cryptography, combinatorial search, compilers, and computational complexity; systems-level programming, such as file format and network protocol implementations, Linux kernel development, and boot-loader hacking; computer architecture and its impact on software design; and functional programming, preferably in Haskell. This interview focuses on Jamey's work on X.org, specifically the XCB project. The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility. XCB project site - http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ XCB mailing list - http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb XCB irc - irc.freenode.net #xcb http://opensourcebridge.org/users/432 http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/jamey http://www.tovatest.com/ http://psas.pdx.edu/ http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ http://serialist.net/

Ep0824: Opentech Conference 2011: Paula Graham, FOSSBox

2011-09-28

Hello world and welcome to our show on Hacker Public Radio. This episode is our interview with Paula Graham of Fossbox by my co-host is Les Pounder, following the Opentech Conference in London OpenTech 2011 Saturday 21st May 2011,Union Building, University of London. 17:44 | Interview: Paula Graham of Fossbox Fossbox is a non-profit organisation supporting digital inclusion and helping other non-profits move towards lower-cost ICT systems with more flexibility and lower environmental impact. OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends. Your Hosts: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/) The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 15mins 59seconds

Ep0823: Klaatu talks to Trevor, a programmer for Phonon's Gstreamer backend

2011-09-27

At the Ohio Linux Fest, Klaatu talks to Trevor, a programmer for Phonon's Gstreamer backend.

Ep0822: Vivean Parkhouse about the GiffGaff Community Phone project

2011-09-26

Ken interviews Vivean Parkhouse about the GiffGaff Community Phone project in the UK while at OggCamp11 http://giffgaff.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffgaff

Ep0821: Why Android tablets suck !

2011-09-25

In today's show Mr. Gadget discusses his history with Android tablets.

Ep0820: Setting up a web server and a mySQL server

2011-09-22

Klaatu continues his Networking Basics series with an overview on setting up and configuring a web server and a mySQL server. Get the ogg vorbis version from the Gnu World Order.

Ep0819: Editing Part Five Post and Packing

2011-09-21

Today's show is part of the Syndicated Thursday series Hello world and welcome to our on Hacker Public Radio. This is Part Five in our series on producing the podcast. We've prepped, recorded, edited and assembled, now it's time to release the show onto an unsuspecting world. All the hard work done? Not quite... Runtime: 8mins 14seconds Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org

Ep0818: Sansa Clip Plus for podcasting

2011-09-20

Long story short is that the Clip+ is pretty great as a cheap all-in-one recording device. I go into a little more detail here, and I have an idea that may make it even better. Since recording this, I have discovered how to change the recording directory. Press the Home button to get to the main menu. Go to the "Files" option in the main menu, and navigate to the directory (even if it's on the SD card) that you want to use for recording. Highlight it, but don't open it. Hold down the center button to open a context menu. Scroll down and select "Set As Recording Directory". If you have comments, please leave them in the comments section for the show here at http://hackerpublicradio.org

Ep0817: Installing Linux and Windows 7 to a USB Hard Drive

2011-09-19

Script to install Windows to USB described in forum post here: http://reboot.pro/10126/ Email: aukondk@aukondk.com Twitter/Identica: aukondk gplus.to/aukondk www.aukondk.com

Ep0816: Modern Survivalism part 1

2011-09-18

In today's show we start a new series on Modern Survivalism where you do everything you can to make your life better now by lessening dependency, trying to live debt free and learning basic skills. Today's recopies are: Simple whole wheat honey deserts ¼ cup milled whole wheat per tortilla pinch salt pinch sugar water very little butter honey mix four, water, salt, sugar & let sit for 5-10 minutes, roll out with dowl or rolling pin & cook over stove - no butter or Pam in pan. put a little butter on the tortilla right after it comes off the heat & put honey on it & cut with a pizza cutter & serve. Quick beans - dried to eating in 65 minutes. 7 Cups water 5 beef bullion cubes 1 pound dried pinto beans ¼ cup dried onions tyme sprigs 1-2 cups meat - use frozen ham. Add everything to a pressure cooker & bring it to pressure (10-15 lbs) & keep it at pressure for 60 minutes - serve over rice or potatoes.

Ep0815: Software Freedom Day Dundee 2011

2011-09-15

Software Freedom Day Dundee 2011 An event to celebrate and promote the use of free and open source software Who Are We "The Open Society" and the "Tayside Linux User Group" have long been establishing their names within the local Free and Open Source Community, as centres of support and advocacy for people from all walks of life. This September we will be showcasing some of the best that our local community has to offer. What is Software Freedom Day Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality software in education, in government, at home and in business - in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, give-aways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.visit softwarefreedomday.org Scheduled Talks Introduction - 10:00am What is Free and Open Source Software by Ryan Ward Track 1 in Cinema room On Expectations, Requirements and Survival when Starting with Linux by Markus Tauber What is Android by Kris Findlay Track 2 in Gallery Area Packets, Freedom, Networks and Neutrality by Rorie Hood Wine and Gaming: A Novice's Guide by Gavin Ewan Lunch - 1.00pm Free Software for Indie Games Development by Hazel McKendrick Track 1 in Cinema room Open Source and Broadcasting by Kenny Coyle Introduction to PKI by Robert Ladyman UPnP by Arron Finnon Track 2 in Gallery Area Blender by Garry Whitton Geo-Caching by Scott Cowie With the event drawing to a close at 5:00pm which will traditionally follow with a few beers and more geeky chat down the pub. http://the-os.org.uk http://dundeelug.org.uk/index.php/TayLUG_Home http://softwarefreedomday.org/en/sfd/software-freedom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCD

Ep0814: The Knightcast KC0054 : Setting up Amahi

2011-09-14

In todays syndicated Thursday origionally aired on Friday, 09 September 2011, we have The Knightcast KC0054 : Setting up Amahi. This week we do a deep-geek-dive into setting up Amahi , A powerful server for the home with the ease of use of a smartphone. Web based interfaces, Point-and-click addition of applications, tons of Geeky functionality : Its all there in Amahi. With a spot of music from Planet Boelex and a recording made 'on the road' its another "Knightcast". http://www.knightwise.com/knightcast-podcast/854-the-knightcast-kc0054-setting-up-amahi

Ep0813: Gemma Cameron aka @ruby_gem about Barcamp Blackpool

2011-09-13

In todays show Ken talks to Gemma Cameron aka @ruby_gem about Barcamp Blackpool Barcamp Blackpool is a free ‘unconference’ with no scheduled speakers. Attendees arrive on the day armed with talks and decide which ones they want to go along to! The talks can be on anything, from android application development to learning the British Sign Language to Electronic Organs played by BBC Micros! But don’t worry, you don’t have to do a talk to participate! The event is paid for by lovely sponsors. Get in touch if you want to sponsor us! When: Saturday 15th October 2011 Where: Blackpool Pleasure Beach (inside the white Casino Building) Twitter: @bcblackpool Tags: #bcblackpool Google Group: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/bcblackpool

Ep0812: Are they a patent trool

2011-09-12

Mr. Gadgets gives us useful tips on how to determine if one is a patent troll or not.

Ep0811: creative commons torrent tracker

2011-09-11

Klaatu and Thistleweb talk about the creative commons torrent tracker project Thistleweb and Cobra2 have embarked upon. http://unseenstudio.co.uk/tracker

Ep0810: Hello HPR!

2011-09-08

Joe introduces himself and takes the podcasting (and the automobile) for a spin. (Note: podcast 'n drive responsibly!)

Ep0809: talk geek to me

2011-09-07

In todays syndicated Thursday DeepGeek allows us to play TGTM #28 - Segmented Downloading aired on 2011-09-05 “Segmented downloading” is a way of getting your file by getting pieces of your file from different webservers, which mirror each other with identical content. If “bittorrent” comes to mind, then you’re following me. It is essentially using full-fledged webservers as if they were bittorrent seeds. But in order to understand why you would want to do this, you need to understand some things about old-school downloads and some things about bittorrent, before you can understand the “why,” then the “how,” of segmented downloading For Complete shownotes see http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtm-28-segmented-downloading.html

Ep0808: Interview with Yancy Smith

2011-09-06

Cheapskate Computing Transcriber's notes: This is probably 95%-97% accurate. I made sure to get most of the important parts, even slowing down the recording - but some stuff just did not come out clearly. We were in a very quiet room, but the Fuze's mic is not professional quality. Transcriptions marked with an asterisk * are my best guess / paraphrase. There aren't many. The Carolina Free PC organization that Yancy mentions can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/carolinafreepc/ Audio notes: Volume normalization & removal of bias, and the noise of me pressing buttons on the Fuze was removed. There is no editing for content. Broam: So hi, I'm here with Yancy Smith, he was doing a...like a donation project he called the "Scrapper Project" here at SELF, I just wanted to ask him a couple questions about it. Broam: Hi Yancy. Yancy: Hi. Um. Broam: So tell me about it. Yancy: Well basically we take the time*, we take old computers from labs and computer stores, they give them to me; I recycle them to someone else. And a couple weeks ago I got clearance in talking Dave Yates, our president, said, "can we do this here at our function" here at SELF. and I sent out to all our club members and to most of my facebook friends, we didn't put on the general list, we just tryin' this out. We didn't have no donations this time, but some of us bought some stuff in, mainly me, brought some old stuff in, to get rid of because I don't have the room...and... it didn't turn out so well, but had a couple of bags to send with the Athens [?] team home, so they enjoyed that. Broam: That's cool. I have some other questions here... let's see here... um. so professional. So is this mostly you organizing this on your own, or? Yancy: Yeah. But I'm working with the Carolina Free PC Foundation. I emailed them, they said they would be glad to take, and they emailed me back. Emailed Athens a week ago, but they didn't get my email in time, but they said next year, talk to such & such and they would know who to talk to. I'd be willing to open it to anyone. Broam: Okay. Is this the first year you've done this, or? Yancy: Yeah, it's first time. It's an ad-hoc thing, our group - the club, Upstate Carolina Linux user group. ( www.uclug.org ), is a meritocracy, but I still asked for permission. Broam: Cool obviously crossing off a ton of questions here and who are you going to give the donated computers to? Other foundations, or? Yancy: Mainly, um, if there had been some this year, there would have been a three-way split - who needs what parts. I found out that the Carolina [group] wanted the hard drives and certain memory sets and things, they would have gotten that. Free PCs they had certain amounts that wanted, and the rest I would have taken home or send on to someone else down the road. Broam: Ok. And uh, and did you look at any other projects - I know you contacted some people, but did you look at other, like, similar things that people have done on line, like, say Freegeek or Helios Initiative for anything like that, for ideas? Yancy: Mainly it's between, um, I haven't heard of them too much; but like what I said I'm following the guidelines of the Carolina PC and some of the Athens stuff. I happen to know um, what we - I had contact with them last year and so if there's something they can use... Broam: Ok. You said something in the Facebook post you sent me about Linux being required by South Carolina state law. Could you explain that a little more? Yancy: Well it's... that was a misstatement. What I was saying was that by State law requires you to send off the parts and metals stuff, not in the trash they send it off to a scrapyard - Broam: Oh, ok... yeah I... Yancy: but the part about the Linux is I put Linux on there because it wipes the drive down completely and clearly because of the data retention laws, that's why Broam: aaaah, ok. Yancy: see a lot of the stores, I go into a thift store, like a Goodwill or a church store, they don't really wipe down the systems they build. They don't have the [expertise]. They just wipe* a couple directories and think it's sanitized. That is a dangeorus thing to do. Broam: Yes, I know... (In retrospect, sounds kinda flippant, sorry. I meant to agree with him here. ed.) Yancy: That and the license - any issues of rebuilding windows, I do that only when I have a holographic key. So it's just like even if I have a key I still put Linux on top of it, so if there's an issue with Windows, I can recover but also I still can introduce them to Linux, because games, software, photos... Broam: Everything is free, everything is legally transferrable. Yancy: Yeah. Especially there's an application called Photo...photo wall or photoroom, it's sorta like Apple's album* for all your photos. It's the coolest thing. Broam: Cool! And I have one last question ...got any stuff for me? Yancy: Um... Broam: *laughter* Yancy: Not much left. Athens took off with all of my stuff. Broam: All right. Thanks a lot, Yancy. I appreciate your time.

Ep0807: MaraDNS

2011-09-05

Klaatu continues his Networking Basics series with a howto set up a simple DNS server using MaraDNS. Get the ogg vorbis version from the Gnu World Order.

Ep0806: HPR news for Aug 2011

2011-09-04

New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: JVoeltz, diablomarcus, Mike Hingley, Germ, Sunzofman1, and saras fox Show Review id host title 782 MrGadgets Technological ethics of Open Source Software 783 Dismal Science Libertarianism + IT, a match made in heaven? 784 Robin Catling Full Circle Podcast Part Three The Edit 785 Quvmoh binaural recording 786 droops Streaming sporting events 787 Ken Fallon Grep for tab 788 JWP Bitcoin 789 HPR Admins GeekNights Git: the fast version control system 790 diablomarcus guake a drop-down terminal emulator 791 Ken Fallon Interview with Moose about Ohio LinuxFest 792 MrGadgets Biaural Recording 793 klaatu Server/Client relationship, DHCP server 794 Robin Catling Full Circle Podcast U-Cubed De-brief 795 Ken Fallon John Uren on FLOSS in the UK Civil Service 796 Ken Fallon Shane Marks Hacker Space Week Ireland 797 Mike Hingley How I got into linux 798 Germ The IBM Model M Keyboard 799 Robin Catling Part Four Assembly, Editing the Podcast 800 Sunzofman1 WebOS 801 klaatu Slackbuilds 802 Ken Fallon Ana Nelson on Dexy software documentation 803 saras fox A novacut support call 804 Ken Fallon Wayne Myers from Fit and the Conniptions at OggCamp 805 MrGadgets How Monster Cable got it's name Thanks To Finux, Tony, Laura, Popey, Henderik, Yvonne, Pokey, Code Cruncher, Manon, Kevin O'Brien, Ivan Privaci, DoorToDoorGeek, Kevin Barry for all the help getting ready for OggCamp Joshua Knapp for the server admin work Becky Newborough, Philip Newborough Johan Paul for checking our RSS feed Everyone that gave feedback on the podcatcher you use Everyone that gave feedback on the new feed Le Krayon for the tip on get_flash_videos Henry Patrick Reilly for allowing us to use his Google+ account Andy Piper for the website feedback All the organisers and crew of OggCamp 11 Apologies To Billy Crook for missing his mail about s3cmd : command line S3 client Germ for the delay in getting the stickers out StankDawg/Lunar Pages for not getting the Ad in faster OggCamp All the presentations and material are on the website http://hackerpublicradio.org/media/hpr-presentation-oggcamp/ Shows in the main and syndicated Thursday queue will follow scheduling rules Scheduling Rules, so we still have free slots. VORC001-john-unin-uk-civil-service.WAV VORC002-vivean-parkhouse.WAV VORC003-jurgan-open-wireless-network.WAV VORC004-laura.WAV VORC005-ack.WAV VORC006-les-porter.WAV VORC007-robin-catling-full-circle.WAV VORC008-popey.WAV VORC009-dj-the-h.wav VORC010-alan-cocks.WAV VORC011-wayne-myres.WAV VORC012-alister-munroe-plm-software.WAV VORC013-jwp-oracle-linux.WAV VORC014-kris-finley-software-freedom-day-dundee.WAV VORC015-steve-lee-accessability.WAV VORC016-fsfe-sam-tuck.WAV VORC017-tony-hughes-free-cycle.WAV VORC018-philip-beky-crunchbang.WAV VORC019-ade+2hours.WAV VORC020-kris-freenode.WAV VORC021-dann.WAV VORC022-nathan-open-hardware.WAV VORC023-austrian-germans.WAV VORC024-amburn-elder-politics.WAV VORC025-marie-assen-flatter.WAV VORC026-marie-assen-flatter-her-email.WAV VORC027-les-roundup.WAV Also Shane Marks and some time Fab. New Outro We have moved provides some time ago and we need to include an advertisement for our sponsor (Lunar pages) in the outro. I have edited all the episodes that are currently in the queue to have the new outro but going forward I would appreciate it if you could switch to the new outro which can be found here http://hackerpublicradio.org/media/theme-music/outro-mono.mp3. All the versions including the original slick0 master flac, can be found at http://hackerpublicradio.org/media/theme-music/ The text for the outro is in the file hpr-outro-text.txt and I'd like to get a versions from every host and listener, with the idea of editing them together to have multiple versions with each line read by different people. Please submit those in high quality WAV or FLAC with spaces between each line to allow for easy editing. After recording a HPR news segment at my brother-in-law's studio he was inspired to record a intro and outro for HPR and he'd appreciate your feedback. Give the files starting in http://hackerpublicradio.org/media/theme-music/ rollercostermusic.com* a listen. It would also help greatly if you could provide shownotes with your episode in html as otherwise I need to listen to your shows and make the shownotes for you which will result in a delay in your show getting posted. We are now also officially CC-BY-SA so if you are releasing your show in any other format you need to make note of that in your show and in the shownotes. Month in Review We have ogg and spx feed ! We changed the mp3 feed to make it RSS 2.0 compliant - finally ! Updated the Contribute page Are you going to Derby Con Augmented podcast on HPR Chack out the test site http://hobbypublicradio.org Casting Call A while back 5150 proposed that we produce an audiobook using only HPR contributors as actors. Several people Responded positively, and said they would like to participate. Well, we now have a script. It was originally written as a screenplay, so it needs a little work to make the visual bits work as audio only, but I don't think that will take too long. It's almost ready to go as is. 5150 and Integgroll have stepped up to help me make editorial and casting decisions and get other producer type stuff done. This is a casting call of sorts. We need some voice actors, but we'll also need some sound effects, and perhaps some music. I may ask people to create sound effects, and upload them to the freesound project, or just to find such sounds. I'm not sure what We'll need yet, but I'd like to know who's interested in helping out. I was considering asking the Open Source Musician's Podcast to consider doing a "tune storm" for some music, but I'd like to know if you guys think we should keep it all in house, or collaborate on that. The story is a SciFi/adventure that's also a lighthearted Free Software allegory, so it's a perfect fit for HPR. It will run between 50 and 80 minutes, I think, so it may be broken up into two or three episodes if it's too long for just one. I'm really not sure. The plan is to record with actors using mumble but also recording locally to get the best possible sound quality. I'll mix it all in audacity, unless someone else wants that job, or wants to do it with ardour or whatever. As is, There are 4 male roles, 3 female roles, and 6 androgynous roles. Most of the male and female roles could be swapped also to match our supply of actors. If we get more people than that, We'll add parts to make sure that everyone who's interested can participate. The protagonist and major roll is female. She will have a majority of the speaking parts, thus the biggest time commitment of all the actors. If you're interested, please send me a voice sample so I can sort out the cast, or let me know what you're willing to do so I have some idea about that too. Please use my personal email address for this so that we don't clutter up the regular mailing list. pdailey03@gmail.com Thank you for hearing me out on this. pokey The Linux News Podcast Hi fellow podcaster, I have just launched a new podcast. You know as well as I do it is hard to get the news out. I was wondering if you would please be so kind as to give it a listen. Any feedback would be appreciated. And if you like it, a mention in your podcast would be very kind. If you do, please email me so I can put a link on my website to your show. Also if you ever need a guest on your show, please feel free to email me and let me know. If you want to know a little more about me please check out my website under About. You can also email me any questions you may have. So what is my new podcast? The Linux News Podcast. The Linux News Podcast was designed to fill a much needed gap in audio shows covering exclusively Linux, Android, and Open Source news. The podcast aims to be relevant, accurate, fair, clear, timely, interesting and concise. The podcast aims to be relevant by focusing on topic of interest to Linux users. I focus on such topics such as software freedom, Linux development, Open Source software, Android and mobile devises, security issues, and Linux distribution releases. Special attention is given to the top ten Linux distributions: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, Arch, PCLinuxOS, Puppy Linux, Sabayon, and CentOS. The podcast is less than 15 minutes long and is released every Tuesday and Friday evenings. Thank you so much for your help in spreading the news. Here is the Official Press Release: http://www.prlog.org/11624836-new-linux-news-podcast.html Sincerely, Jay Forrest,

Ep0805: How Monster Cable got it's name

2011-09-01

In todays episode he explains how Monster Cable got it's name and why you needed them then but do you still need to use them now ? With notes on innovating MrGadgets will be at the OhioLinuxFest

Ep0804: Wayne Myers from Fit and the Conniptions at OggCamp

2011-08-31

@conniptions !hpr. In todays show Ken interviews Wayne Myers from the band Fit and the Conniptions recorded at http://www.oggcamp.org. Following the interview we play the presentation and edit in the full length song "Solemn Ground" From HPR @ OggCamp11 About I'm Wayne Myers, a singer-songwriter from London. I've been recording and performing bluesy folk-rock under the name Fit and the Conniptions since December 2005. Sweet Sister Starlight, my second studio album, was released online on 21st March 2011, and is now also available on CD while stocks last. The first album, Bless Your Heart, was released in July 2007, followed in November 2008 by an acoustic live EP Live At Monkey Chews. All releases are available to download from Bandcamp - you can pay as much or as little as you want / can afford, including zero. If you like CDs, there are still some copies of the first two releases left at CDBaby also. http://blip.tv/episode/5491751 http://blip.tv/file/get/Oggcamp-ProAudioOnLinux127.mov http://blip.tv/file/get/Oggcamp-ProAudioOnLinux259.m4v http://a.images.blip.tv/Oggcamp-ProAudioOnLinux127-791.jpg http://www.slabexchange.org http://www.jazzplusplus.sourceforge.net http://ardour.org http://jackaudio.org http://music.conniptions.org/ http://music.conniptions.org/track/solemn-ground http://www.linuxdsp.co.uk http://linuxaudio.org http://twitter.com/conniptions https://www.facebook.com/fitandtheconniptions This is an augmented podcast, for the blind, visually impaired, or for those of us away from a screen. If you would like to help out creating the text of the OggCamp presentations for me to read out, then please email admin at hacker public radio dot org.

Ep0803: A novacut support call

2011-08-30

This is a the "hour call" to Jason DeRose after making a $100 pledge to novacut. http://novacut.com/ @novacut @hpr !hpr Back in episode 0780, klaatu interviewed Jason DeRose about NovaCut. At the time they were running a kickstarter campaign to raise money to fund the project. saras fox was one of the contributors and that earned him a hour long conversation which we bring to you today. Find NovaCut on: website: http://novacut.com/ Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/groups/novacutartistdiaries Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Novacut Twitter: http://twitter.com/#%21/novacut/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Novacut/116598565052941, IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=novacut blog: http://blog.novacut.com/ You can contact saras fox on Google+ https://plus.google.com/106479011389609622954/posts

Ep0802: Ana Nelson on Dexy software documentation

2011-08-29

Today Ken interviews Ana Nelson on Dexy a software package to make documentation easy fun and maintainable. @dexyit !hpr What is Dexy? Dexy is a tool for writing documents which relate to code. This might mean software documentation, journal articles relating to computational research, a code tutorial on your blog, writing up computer science class assignments, pretty much anything. You can think of Dexy as a very fancy 'make' tool with lots of document-related features and powerful filters. Dexy is open source, licensed under the MIT license. Follow on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/dexyit From HPR @ OggCamp11 http://ananelson.com/blog/2010/09/introducing-dexy/ http://blog.dexy.it/13 http://blog.dexy.it/ https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GQgTuJ5j2f04-i3qkWv-lw?feat=directlink

Ep0801: Slackbuilds

2011-08-28

Klaatu begins a three-part series on packaging applications for GNU Linux and BSD. In this first episode, he covers Slackbuilds using SigFLUP's yesplz as an example. SlackBuilds.org yesplz_aug_4_2010.tgz source yesplz slackbuild Get this episode in ogg vorbis courtesy the GNU World Order.

Ep0800: WebOS

2011-08-25

In todays dial in show Sunzofman1 talks about the danger of a open source monoculture in the mobile OS space. http://dkaeg.org agreen@bkaeg.org

Ep0799: Part Four Assembly, Editing the Podcast

2011-08-24

Hello world and welcome to our on Hacker Public Radio. Part four in our series on producing the podcast. We've prep'd, recorded and edited all the segments, it's time to bolt it all together to try to produce something greater than the sum of its parts. Runtime: 7mins 56seconds Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org

Ep0798: The IBM Model M Keyboard

2011-08-23

In this exciting adventure Germ talks about the wonders of the best keyboard ever produced. Links: Unicomp : http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/ Linux Variant : http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/linux101.html Other Keyboard Worth Mentioning: Das Keyboard : http://www.daskeyboard.com/ Cherry : http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/keyboards/index.htm Happy Hacking : http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhkbpro2&pid=pdkb400b : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard

Ep0797: How I got into linux

2011-08-22

In today's show we are introduced to a new host Mike Hingley as he explains how he got into linux. Duration: 00:04:47

Ep0796: Shane Marks Hacker Space Week Ireland

2011-08-21

The HPR feed will be changing this week please email admin at hpr if you have issues Apologies for the cliping on Ken's side In today's interview Ken talks to Shane Marks from the Nexus maker space in Cork Ireland. The Irish Hackerspaces Weekruns from Saturday 20th until Sunday 28th of August. http://www.tog.ie/ http://hackerspacecork.com/wp/ http://091labs.com/ http://www.milklabs.ie/files/ http://identi.ca/smarks Duration: 00:20:15

Ep0795: John Uren on FLOSS in the UK Civil Service

2011-08-18

In this episode Ken talks to John Uren who works in the UK Civil Service. They discuss the issues around Crown Copyright and how it relates to open source. John maintains an etherpad server and has been involved in organizing a open source week to highlight the benefits of open source and free software to Government departments. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/EtherPad Duration: 00:05:49

Ep0794: Full Circle Podcast U-Cubed De-brief

2011-08-17

01:51 | De-Brief of the U-CUBED Event... Les Pounder takes us through the day of Sat. April 2nd at Mad-Lab, Manchester, UK. U-Cubed is a free 'unconference' for devotees of free and Open Source software. Co-inciding with the release of Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1, the event drew Linux enthusiasts from across the North-West of England for testing, demo's, talks, Linux installs and workshops. We also go over some of the technology news. Your Hosts: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/) The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community. Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 32mins 17seconds

Ep0793: Server/Client relationship, DHCP server

2011-08-16

Remember back in the 400s of HPR when Klaatu was doing a Networking Basics miniseries? Well, its back, with an introduction to the concept of the Server / Client relationship, how to set up a server as an internet gateway and a DHCP server.

Ep0792: Biaural Recording

2011-08-16

MrGadgets calls in feedback on episode 785 on binaural recording that was hosted by Quvmoh

Ep0791: Interview with Moose about Ohio LinuxFest

2011-08-14

In today's episode Ken talks to Moose one of the organizers of Ohio Linux Fest About the Ohio LinuxFest The Ohio LinuxFest is a grassroots conference for the GNU/Linux/Open Source Software/Free Software community that started in 2003 as a large inter-LUG meeting and has grown steadily since. It is a place for the community to gather and share information about Linux and Open Source Software. A large expo area adjacent to the conference rooms will feature exhibits from our sponsors as well as a large .org section from non-profit Open Source/Free Software projects. The Ohio LinuxFest welcomes people from all 50 states and international participants. We've had participants from Canada, England, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia in years past. Contact Info Contact us if you have any questions or would like to volunteer to help. name email irc nick General Info team@ohiolinux.org Sponsorship Robert Ball sponsorship@ohiolinux.org steakum Web site Michael Meffie webmaster@ohiolinux.org meffie You may reach us on IRC at irc.oftc.net, channel #ohiolinux Diversity Statement The Ohio LinuxFest is dedicated for making Open Source truly open to everyone. We do not discriminate based on ethnic background, religion, gender, sexuality, body shape, disability, or even what operating system you use. We also do not tolerate harassment based on discrimination. We understand that some people need special assistance to fully enjoy our conference. If we can help you find a wheelchair, arrange for an ASL translator or a guide for the sight impaired, or any other special need, please let us know at assist@ohiolinux.org. Sorry, we cannot help with child care needs. Please understand that organizing some things take time and are best pre-arranged. If you need help the day of the event please contact a staff person for assistance. We will handle your request or complaint as quickly as possible.

Ep0790: guake a drop-down terminal emulator

2011-08-11

An episode proclaiming the wonders of guake, a drop-down terminal emulator in the tradition of the terminal in Quake. I also mention Yakuake if you're a big fan of KDE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_%28video_game%29 http://www.guake.org

Ep0789: GeekNights Git: the fast version control system

2011-08-10

You are listening to syndicated thursday on hacker public radio Each thursday we high light a creative commons work and today it's GeekNights In this episode they talk about Git: the fast version control system The technical discussion begins about 30 minutes in. From http://frontrowcrew.com/geeknights/20110801/git/ Git Monday August 1, 2011 Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about Git: the fast version control system. First, Scott discovers the sadness of attempting to develop iOS Applications on our poor old Mac Mini (Core Solo), Rym built his HTPC, and GeekNights has a fancy new Facebook page. In the news, commodity face recognition, data mining, and data aggregation will do exactly what we expected and can, among other things, reveal your SSN. Adobe releases a preview of Edge. Scott's Thing - Follow the Sun Rym's Thing - The Batman Equation Download Forum Discussion More Monday shows

Ep0788: Bitcoin

2011-08-09

Inspired by episode 769, JWP gives some feedback on Linux Outlaws 215 - Bitcoin Discussion

Ep0787: Grep for tab

2011-08-08

In todays summer short Ken tells us about how you can grep for a tab in a file. grep "first{ctrl+v}{tab}second" file.txt for more information see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/tab-in-bash-script-242400/#post4386714

Ep0786: Streaming sporting events

2011-08-07

In this show droops asks for help on live recording a sporting event.

Ep0785: binaural recording

2011-08-04

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quvmoh/5976661064/in/photostream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording Yes I am the dummy head.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quvmoh/

Ep0784: Full Circle Podcast Part Three The Edit

2011-08-03

It's the one you've all been waiting for, the meat and potatoes of this series, the edit process for our show. This is where is gets seriously messy... Runtime: 12mins 34seconds Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org

Ep0783: Libertarianism + IT, a match made in heaven?

2011-08-02

Today I play the role of a fortune teller, I will give you my predictions for the future. Contact me @ dismal.science.hpr AT gmail DOT com

Ep0782: Technological ethics of Open Source Software

2011-08-01

MrGadgets discusses Open Source Software. He compares software running on Windows and Mac OS X.It just works appeal and is this something that we should chase. How easy should the user experience be ? Should you make a stand in order to support your technological ethics ?

Ep0781: HPR news for July 2011

2011-07-31

New hosts There were no new hosts this month. We're always looking for new hosts so please contribute a show. Show Review id host title 761 HPR Admins HPR Community News for June 2011 762 lostnbronx THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION: 04 763 MrGadgets Worst movie ever 764 Robin Catling Matt Grove of Miserware - Energy-saving computing 765 klaatu South East Linux Fest organizers 766 MrGadgets MrGadgets finds Linux 767 klaatu Maddog and "super dumb terminals" 768 Ken Fallon Sort 769 HPR Admins Linux Outlaws 215 - Bitcoin Discussion 770 JWP byobu 771 Thistleweb Mischief Managed 772 NewAgeTechnoHippie Circuit Bending 773 Ken Fallon Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo 774 Robin Catling Full Cirle Podcast Part Two Recording Editing the Podcast 775 HPR_AudioBookClub HPR AudioBookClub Shadowmagic 776 MrGadgets Open Shorts ep 3 777 Josh Knapp, Voeltz, StankDawg What is Cloud? 778 lostnbronx George Washington Carver 779 Lord Drachenblut 10 Buck Review: War Games 780 klaatu NovaCut Thanks To Scott Dicks for pointing out a bad link in episode 759 Everyone that replied to the call for change of license Apologies To those that have bad memories Month in Review HPR ranked #8 Geek Podcast by Linux Format Jason Scott has a new way to upload to Archive.org New Outro Short of shows Summer Shorts Request for an episode on Internet Shooping bill What would you like to hear in a hpr presentation RFC Changing show to CC-BY-SA Some old shows may contain music that we cannot re-license 49 hosts agree to the change, representing 376 shows 76 hosts disagree or have not replied, representing 400 shows Events ` OggCamp 11 is a free two-day unconference (unscheduled conference) for anyone who loves anything related to technology, data, culture, community, open source...and more! AUGUST 13 & 14, FARNHAM MALTINGS When is PhreakNIC? November 4-6, 2011 Where is PhreakNIC? Days Inn Stadium 211 North First Street Nashville, TN 37213 What is PhreakNIC?PhreakNIC is Nashville's annual hacker con. Anyone is welcome to attend. We create an environment where people who are interested in the more underground elements of technology can meet, exchange ideas and hopefully teach/learn. The primary focus is on computers and computer security, but we also cover other topics, such as radio (ham, pirate & low-power/community), SETI work, robotics, high-power rocketry, satellites, phones and phreaking, cryptography, etc. PhreakNIC is organized annually by Nashville 2600 a non-profit organization. Pre-Registration is available again through click and pledge at store.phreaknic.info. If you pre-register this year please use the "Customize your con badge" link in the menu to submit your visage/logo for your badge. This will be our fifteenth year and we hope you will make plans to join us. Who is PhreakNIC PhreakNIC is attended by anyone with a curious mind. That being said we are now accepting papers for this year. If you would like to give a talk submit your name and a brief synopsis of what you'd like to talk about to president -at- nashville2600.org.

Ep0780: NovaCut

2011-07-29

klaatu talks to Jason DeRose about NovaCut (http://novacut.com/) The fund raiser will end on Friday Jul 29, 11:00pm EDT and they have 774 Backers. They already have raised $25,435 of their $25,000 goal http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/novacut/novacut-pro-video-editor

Ep0779: 10 Buck Review: War Games

2011-07-28

Today on HPR we dip into the past and pluck out a gem for our Syndicated Thursday slot. Taken from http://tenbuckreview.net/2010/episode-13-wargames-2/ Would you like to play a game? How about a nice game of thermonuclear war? Strap in as we review a classic movie about hacking and nuclear tensions. Special Thanks go to Kilroy2.0 for the intro bumper and not hijacking our site for his own purposes yet. As well as DualCore for the permission to play there track War Games for the closing music. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

Ep0778: George Washington Carver

2011-07-26

The summer shorts are intended to be shortform twitter like audio updates. In this summer short we are introduced to George Washington Carver, a personal hero of lostnbronx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

Ep0777: What is Cloud?

2011-07-25

In today's HPR, Josh, StankDawg and Voeltz discuss what "cloud" is and what questions you should ask before moving to the cloud.

Ep0776: Open Shorts ep 3

2011-07-24

MrGadgets revives his old show http://openshorts.wordpress.com/ OpenShorts Podcast Revelation of Open Source and Hackable Hardware, and gives us episode three.

Ep0775: HPR AudioBookClub Shadowmagic

2011-07-21

In this episode of the HPR audio book club Dann Washko, Integgroll, and pokey discuss the podiobooks.com presentation of Shadowmagic written and read by John Lenahan. Also Ken Fallon has recorded a very special opening segment which we've included for your edification. This episode contains spoilers, in the second half, so please listen to the audiobook for yourself before listening to the podcast all the way through. All three hosts and our guest, Ken Fallon, enjoyed and recommend the book. You can download this audiobook for free (or voluntary donation) from http://www.podiobooks.com/title/shadowmagic For more information regarding Shadowmagic and it's author, please visit http://www.shadowmagic.co.uk/ The paperback edition of Shadowmagic can be purchased at http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781905548927/Shadowmagic The music from Shadowmagic was pervormed by Lúnasa. It received mixed, but enthusiastic opinions form our hosts. You can find out more about Lunasa at their website http://www.lunasa.ie/ During this show the hosts also discuss alcohol beverages. Integgroll was drinking Samuel Adams Noble Pils. http://www.samueladams.com pokey was drinking Samuel Adams Irish Red. http://www.samueladams.com Dann was drinking Budweiser, the king of beers. http://www.budweiser.com/en/default.aspx Our next audiobook will be Handbook for the Criminally Insane by Brian Holtz. It is available at podiobooks.com The direct link is: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/handbook-for-the-criminally-insane If you enjoy this episode of HPR, you can find more podcasts by our hosts at: http://techmisfits.com/ http://linuxindahouse.org/ http://www.tllts.org/ Ken's Link to the correct pronunciation of Oisin http://www.pronouncenames.com/search?name=oisin We all had a great time recording this show, and we hope you enjoyed it as well. Thank you very much for listening. Sincerely, The HPR_AudioBookClub P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, we have included a few.

Ep0774: Full Cirle Podcast Part Two Recording Editing the Podcast

2011-07-20

The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Some time ago we received a listener request to talk about how we record and edit the Full Circle Podcast. So here it is, in several parts. Part Two is all about the recording itself. Runtime: 5mins 14seconds

Ep0773: Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo

2011-07-19

Todays interview is with Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo is a search engine based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania that uses information from crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia) with the aim of augmenting traditional results and improving relevance. The search engine philosophy emphasizes privacy and does not record user information. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+public+radio https://duckduckgo.com/about.html https://duckduckgo.com/faq.html https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/DuckDuckGo

Ep0772: Circuit Bending

2011-07-18

I realize that what I have done is not truly circuit bending, but I felt that it was interesting and was the closest related topic to my hacking. Tools I have used: Precission Screw drivers: flat,philips, torx, triwing, and allen knife or wire cutter soldering iron electrical tape package of various resitors varialbe resistors ( potentiometers) Capacitors super glue Here are some links that may be useful for this type of hacking. Disassemply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_drive Actual Circuit bending http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending http://www.circuitbending.com/ http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/ Passsive Audio Filtering http://www.dact.com/html/passive_preamp.html http://fluxmonkey.com/electronoize/passiveDividersFilters.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor Soldering http://www.kingbass.com/soldering101.html Contact NewAgeTechnoHippie at gmail for question or comments

Ep0771: Mischief Managed

2011-07-17

With Customs in various countries acting as Copyright Cops, using any excuse to rifle through your personal and private data not only for threats, but copyright infringement. Wouldn't it be great to have invisible ink? You can get your private data through Customs, under the scrutiny of the Copyright Cops while also being a fully cooperative model citizen. ThistleWeb discusses three ways to do this with the drawbacks of each. Using a Cloud service of some sort to store your data on as you travel, where you upload then download after going through Customs. Using a decoy user account on your regular installed distro Using a decoy distro as a dual boot Harry Potter got the Marauders Map in book three, which transforms to blank parchment with a tap of the wand the words "mischief managed" so nobody knows it's a dynamic map of Hogwarts and it's inhabitants. Now your laptop or netbook can have the same invisible ink qualities. So repeat after me "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good!" Just like the GPL, use at your own risk.

Ep0770: byobu

2011-07-14

byobu is a script that launches GNU screen in the byobu configuration. This enables the display of system information and status notifications within two lines at the bottom of the screen session. It also enables multiple tabbed terminal sessions, accessible through simple keystrokes. https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/byobu.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/en/man1/byobu.1.html

Ep0769: Linux Outlaws 215 - Bitcoin Discussion

2011-07-13

On HPR, Thursdays are reserved to showcase other Creative Commons works. We try to expose podcasts, speeches, presentations, music, etc that you may not have heard. If you have suggestions for items then send your recommendation to admin at hpr and we'll add it to the queue. Linux Outlaws 215 - Bitcoin Discussion Released: June 29, 2011Length: 1:59:54 Dan and Fab discuss the technology and politics of the Bitcoin crypto-currency. In this special in-depth episode of the show, Dan and Fab discuss the Bitcoin crypto-currency. This is a very detailed episode, so you better settle in and get a hot beverage of your choice. Links for the show: Security Now episode on Bitcoin Chaos Radio Express on Bitcoin (German) Bitcoin Charts The book Dan recommended: Reefer Madness (on Google Books) Our Bitcoin address: 1GC2PU7nPi8vnDni3NoywTtKYsJHJ9SJHA http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws/215

Ep0768: Sort

2011-07-12

Examples on Wikipedia From http://www.unix.com/man-page/Linux/1/sort/ and on your computer man sort NAME sort - sort lines of text files SYNOPSIS sort [OPTION]... [FILE]... sort [OPTION]... --files0-from=F DESCRIPTION Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Ordering options: -b, --ignore-leading-blanks ignore leading blanks -d, --dictionary-order consider only blanks and alphanumeric characters -f, --ignore-case fold lower case to upper case characters -g, --general-numeric-sort compare according to general numerical value -i, --ignore-nonprinting consider only printable characters -M, --month-sort compare (unknown) < `JAN' < ... < `DEC' -n, --numeric-sort compare according to string numerical value -R, --random-sort sort by random hash of keys --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE -r, --reverse reverse the result of comparisons --sort=WORD sort according to WORD: general-numeric -g, month -M, numeric -n, random -R, version -V -V, --version-sort natural sort of (version) numbers within text Other options: --batch-size=NMERGE merge at most NMERGE inputs at once; for more use temp files -c, --check, --check=diagnose-first check for sorted input; do not sort -C, --check=quiet, --check=silent like -c, but do not report first bad line --compress-program=PROG compress temporaries with PROG; decompress them with PROG -d --files0-from=F read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input -k, --key=POS1[,POS2] start a key at POS1 (origin 1), end it at POS2 (default end of line) -m, --merge merge already sorted files; do not sort -o, --output=FILE write result to FILE instead of standard output -s, --stable stabilize sort by disabling last-resort comparison -S, --buffer-size=SIZE use SIZE for main memory buffer -t, --field-separator=SEP use SEP instead of non-blank to blank transition -T, --temporary-directory=DIR use DIR for temporaries, not $TMPDIR or /tmp; multiple options specify multiple directories -u, --unique with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run -z, --zero-terminated end lines with 0 byte, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit POS is F[.C][OPTS], where F is the field number and C the character position in the field; both are origin 1. If neither -t nor -b is in effect, characters in a field are counted from the beginning of the preceding whitespace. OPTS is one or more single-letter ordering options, which override global ordering options for that key. If no key is given, use the entire line as the key. SIZE may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes: % 1% of memory, b 1, K 1024 (default), and so on for M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. *** WARNING *** The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native byte values. AUTHOR Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert. REPORTING BUGS Report sort bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ General help using GNU software: http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/ COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO The full documentation for sort is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sort programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'sort invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.4 October 2009 The command that promped me to record this episode cat camera-x.txt | sed 's[Camera Model Name : [[g'| awk -F ';' '{print $2" "$1}' | sort -i -b -k1,1 -u | grep -v "^ "

Ep0767: Maddog and "super dumb terminals"

2011-07-11

At the South East Linux Fest 2011, Klaatu talks to Maddog about "super dumb terminals", super computing, a sys admin's rightful position in the world, and much more. For lovers of ogg, the episode can also be found at the Gnu World Order website.

Ep0766: MrGadgets finds Linux

2011-07-10

Mr Gadgets continues his journey from Micro Computer to Linux stopping by O/S 2 Warp and Windows 98

Ep0765: South East Linux Fest organizers

2011-07-07

Klaatu talks to the organizers of this year's South East Linux Fest, Dave S. Yates (of the Lotta Linux Links podcast) and the tireless Mr. Jeremy Sands. For lovers of ogg, the episode can also be found at the Gnu World Order website.

Ep0764: Matt Grove of Miserware - Energy-saving computing

2011-07-06

Energy-saving computing. It’s a neat concept, saving you money by saving you electricity. That’s money off your utilitiy bill while you do your bit to save the planet. Granola is software that improves the energy efficiency of your PC or laptop. A few weeks ago I spoke to Matt Grove from Miserware, who explained how it works… Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Guest: Matt Grove of Miserware (find Grano.la at http://grano.la/) Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 21mins 43seconds The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org

Ep0763: Worst movie ever

2011-07-05

Ring of the Musketeers (TV 1992) Highway Honeys 1983

Ep0762: THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION: 04

2011-07-04

MY SITE http://info-underground.net/lnb ========== MY MICROPHONE CAD GXL2200 (This is not where I bought mine, but the price seems pretty good -- better than I paid, anyway) ========== SHOWS MENTIONED Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (At the Internet Archive) ----- H.M.S. Lydia ========== MUSIC Citizen Nyx Undercover Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) ----- Fat Chance Lester Napalm Lounge (ZIP file, OGG format) Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported ========== SOUND EFFECTS freesound Ahgghh_ses2.wav Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License ----- ljudman grenade.wav Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License

Ep0761: HPR Community News for June 2011

2011-07-03

New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: Dave, NewAgeTechnoHippie, and Epicanis. Show Review 741 HPR Admins HPR Community News for May 2011 742 Dave How I Got Into Linux 743 KFive ILF 2011: Interview with Jason Kridner of BeagleBoard 744 Skirlet The Language Frontier Episode 5 745 MrGadgets Wings 746 Ken Fallon Interview with Tony Whitmore about OggCamp11 747 finux and code.cruncher Botnets and DNS Tunnelling 748 Dismal Science My Favorite Audiocasts 749 Robin Catling Full Cirle Podcast Editing the Podcast Part One Preparation 750 NewAgeTechnoHippie My path to Linux 751 Lord Drachenblut and Downer Binary Evolutions 752 MrGadgets My Path to Linux: Knoppix 753 KFive ILF 2011: Interview with Klaatu of Slackermedia 754 Skirlet The Language Frontier Episode 6 755 Bariman LINUX JAZZ BALLIN' THE JACK 756 Joel Basics of RF 757 Epicanis Episode 0: "Acknowledgement Courtesan" 758 Ken Fallon Interview with Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs 759 HPR Admins LPI study group 760 klaatu /dev/Rob0 of maintainer of the SlackBuilds.org mailing list Thanks To Fifty OneFifty for the picture of the combine Lostnbronx, MrGadgets for allowing rescheduling Jonathan Nadeau for looking at the site Apologies To Ice Gnu # at the end of recording Month in Review Business Cards for SELF and OggCamp11 Shownotes in HTML A hair brained idea from 5150 CC *cast and video torrent tracker Selecting a CMS hopr mirror pegwol Callisto.fm A Callisto.fm user suggested that you add "Hacker Public Radio" to Callisto.fm!. Unfortunately the terms of service are not compatibel with a Creative Commons lisence. CMS BACKEND All three are on par from an accessability point of view. Each would require additional coding to support the features of HPR For now we'll stick with the droops(tm) cms RFC Changing show to CC-BY-SA 17 hosts have replied and 100% of those that replied gave permission for the change to CC-BY-SA 107 hosts have yet to reply. This means that a little over 1/3rd of the shows have been re-licensed. I intend to email them directly as they may not be on the mail list. Hi All, This is an official request for a change of license that *NEW* shows are uploaded as. The proposal is to change from: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ To http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The RFC will be open for a month and the results will be announced here and on July's HPR Community News. If approved all shows after that time will be by default CC-BY-SA unless indicated in the show notes. Further, I would then contact everyone that has hosted so far asking if we can relisence their show(s) as CC-BY-SA. This is entirely up to the community so please use the mail list you voice your opinion. Even a one liner is fine. Ken.

Ep0760: /dev/Rob0 of maintainer of the SlackBuilds.org mailing list

2011-06-30

Klaatu talks to /dev/Rob0, a Slackware user, maintainer of the SlackBuilds.org mailing list, and a presenter at the South East Linux Fest 2011. For lovers of ogg, the episode can also be found at the Gnu World Order website.

Ep0759: LPI study group

2011-06-29

This is a 13 week podcast of the LPI study group which was conducted with the linuxbasix.com group. This is a weekly meeting from June 8th to August 31 of 2011. Details can be found at the linuxbasix forums - www.linuxbasix.com Syndicated Thursday is a channel on HPR to expose our listeners to other podcasts, interesting talks, or just the weird and wonderful.

Ep0758: Interview with Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs

2011-06-28

CCHits.net is a site promoting and featuring Creative Commons licensed music and the podcasts that play them. The site was designed with more than just this in mind. Here are some of the highlights Encourage and Discover Great Music There's a lot of great Creative Commons Licensed Music out there, and not enough people know just what you can get hold of! To help ease the burdon of this issue, there are three things that we do: By linking directly to artist's home sites rather than to our own holding pages for artists, we ensure that the artists get maximum exposure for their own material, without having to update our site when their own information changes! By linking to the source of the individual track, gives listeners a greater awareness of music sources, which hopefully should increase the exposure for sites who promote and list Creative Commons licensed music. By linking to podcasts which play Creative Commons licensed music, we give listeners the opportunity to find other shows that play the music they like - ultimately giving listeners a greater fountain of great music to select from, and hopefully giving them the opportunity to discover new artists and genres to add to their personal list of favourites. Support Communities An attendor at various social groups, the original author of the code which drives cchits.net was unable to provide consistent, suitable background music for events he was involved in organising or just attending. This site was originally designed to find tracks which are generally acceptable for public play, and are available under a suitable license for public performance (which Creative Commons music should be!) By asking all submitters of music to identify the license under which the tracks are made available, as well as selecting whether tracks may not be suitable for work or family listening, it should be possible (once the code is in-place) to request from the site a suitable selection of music for playback at venues such as hackspaces, youth centres, or even just hold music for a business. Note that this site is not being created to build a re-licensing business, but instead to promote awareness of great music - there are other, better sites, that can advise and assist in the selection of Creative Commons music which are suitable for your business endeavour, but if you just want something for backing music for an hour or a whole day, this site might be (eventually!) just the thing for you. Create Podcasts and Improve Coding Techniques At the time of writing, cchits.net is the work of one person. For several months, Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs had been considering starting a podcast, however, he's not exactly known for finishing projects! By making a system which is automated enough to create a daily podcast, a weekly podcast and a monthly podcast, playing music that he likes to hear, he thought it might encourage him to stick to it - especially when there are other amazing goals (see above) which come out as a side benefit. He normally has described himself as a writer of "bad PHP code", and each project he starts improves the techniques he has learned. In this instance, CCHits.net has introduced Jon to the concept of writing an API that works, a system of remote execution of code, the generation of synthesized speech and the generation of an audio track, entirely in code! Never being shy of criticism from the community, especially where code is concerned, the code has all been released under a license which encourages reuse and requires the code is re-released under the same license. If you already podcast, and you play Creative Commons Licesed Music on a regular basis, you might be interested in using the API on this site to track the music that people who listen to your show have expressed an interest in. Contact show@cchits.net to find out more

Ep0757: Episode 0: "Acknowledgement Courtesan"

2011-06-28

My attempt to get started, finally, with HPR, including a rambling introduction and, more usefully, a review of the OpenBook DO laptop from natively Linux laptop vendor "Ohava Computers".

Ep0756: Basics of RF

2011-06-26

Links for this episode Wikipedia - Amplitude Modulation Wikipedia - Frequency Modulation Wikipedia - Single-sideband modulation Wikipedia - Superheterodyne reciever Superheterodyne transmitter Wikipedia -Heinrich Hertz

Ep0755: LINUX JAZZ BALLIN' THE JACK

2011-06-23

The Jack Audio Driver . . . For serious audio it is essential that the Linux kernel operates in real-time mode. Switch on through the 'Set-up' tab, under 'Parameters, from the QJackCtrl. Set the sample rate, say 44,100 for maximum compatibility. Set the buffer size ('Frames/Rate'), say 256 which (for me) produces an 11.6 ms latency. Add two lines of code to the file 'limits.conf' in the '/etc/security/' folder (before the '# End File' marker), as follows @audio - rtprio 99 and @audio - memlock unlimited Check you are part of the 'Audio' Group. Or use your 'username' instead of '@audio' (in my case 'tonydenton'). Updating My Hardware . . . I've invested in an audio mixer - a Behringer Xenyx X1204USB Mixer. (http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/1204FX.aspx) Re-considering My Software Bag . . . The Podcast is now being recorded in 'Ardour' (I shall to subscribe to 'Ardour' to keep Paul Davis developing the programme and urge others to do so.) I am using 'Audacity' for mastering, with, klaatu's configuration file. Another useful programme for setting or editing ID3 Tags is 'Kid3Tag' I'm currently trialling 'MMA' 'Musical Midi Accompaniment' and 'Muse' and 'Lilypond' (Hope I can dispense with Windows-based software all together.) My website and Blog can be found at 'www.tonydenton.com' and I am on Twitter as 'tonydenton.' My Identica name is 'Bariman' and I am occasionally found on IRC, also as 'Bariman' Cheers for now . . .

Ep0754: The Language Frontier Episode 6

2011-06-22

In this last episode of the language frontier on syndicated Thursday and was recorded some time ago. The final episode of The Language Frontier tackles the question of a universal language. Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis via aesdiopod.

Ep0753: ILF 2011: Interview with Klaatu of Slackermedia

2011-06-21

In this episode KFive does unto klaatu as he has done unto others. http://www.slackermedia.info/ What is Slackermedia? Slackermedia is documentation providing the information a user will need to create a full multimedia studio from a Slackware base install. Inspired by Linux-From-Scratch, it is intended to be a "distro from text"; a do-it-yourself Linux studio beginning with installing Slackware and ending with what we will call "Slackermedia" with all the custom-compiled and configuration of only the best in multimedia content creation tools that Linux offers and the user requires to achieve their artistic goals. Slackermedia is not a distribution, and merely builds upon Slackware proper. Slackermedia is not a laundry list of multimedia apps that are half-finished, it is not a blueprint for how to make your distribution contain lots of multimedia apps you'll never use, it is not a series of brainless install scripts. It is a series of tutorials on what a user will need to understand, and how they can go about installing or compiling or configuring important tools like jackd, software synths, soundfonts, gimp brushes, fonts, individual apps, backends like ffmpeg and mencoder, and much more. NOTE: Slackermedia is currently optimized for Slackware 13.1. A 13.37 version with the 2.6.38.4 kernel is in progress.

Ep0752: My Path to Linux: Knoppix

2011-06-20

We rejoin MrGadgets path to Linux stopping off at the Knoppix station

Ep0751: Binary Evolutions

2011-06-19

This is a submission to HPR by Lord Drachenblut and Downer Some links to go along with the show. http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-be-considered-unsafe/ http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/10/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-tld-overlords-with-bare-arms.html http://mashable.com/2010/10/06/vbly-domain-seizure/ http://torrentfreak.com/streaming-site-rolls-out-lawyers-to-fight-domain-seizure-110614/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/no-the-feds-didnt-seize-your-domain-youve-just-been-punked.ars http://torrentfreak.com/google-censorship-gee-no-evil-add-on-110613/ http://hothardware.com/News/Turkey-Arrests-32-Anonymous-Members/ http://bangordailynews.com/2011/05/30/business/pbs-website-defaced-hackers-claim-famed-dead-rapper-alive-new-zealand/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/titanic-takeover-tuesday-lulzsecs-busy-day-of-hacking-escapades.ars http://lulzsecurity.com/ http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/

Ep0750: My path to Linux

2011-06-16

1995 Redhat Linux 2 2003 Redhat Linux 9 Full time Linux Usage Starts 2004 Fedora Usage starts and felling a bit unhappy with my Distabution Slackware Gentoo Suse Mandrake/Mandrivia Debian Ubuntu 2008 Switch to Arch Linux and Can't Be happier 2010 Started using Maemo on my N900 Contact NewAgeTechnoHippie at gmail for question or comments

Ep0749: Full Cirle Podcast Editing the Podcast Part One Preparation

2011-06-15

The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Some time ago we received a listener request to talk about how we record and edit the Full Circle Podcast. So here it is, in several parts. Part One is all about the preparation. Runtime: 4mins 46seconds

Ep0748: My Favorite Audiocasts

2011-06-14

Today I share with you my list of favorite audiocasts w/ratings and reviews. Contact me @ dismal.science.hpr AT gmail DOT com

Ep0747: Botnets and DNS Tunnelling

2011-06-13

HPR podcasting: "It's just as easy as getting two geeks onto skype!" Finux Tech Weekly podcast: http://www.finux.co.uk/ BOTNETS 53% increase in command and control servers in Canada This number was published by Websense. They decided to invest the situation after seeing an increase in targeted attacks against the Canadian government. Interesting Statistics! http://community.websense.com/blogs/websense-news-releases/archive/2011/05/19/new-research-shows-cyber-criminals-moving-operations-to-canada.aspx Patrick Runald's story that gets summarized, reblogged, quoted, misrepresented all over the place: http://community.websense.com/blogs/websense-insights/archive/2011/05/09/the-next-hotbed-of-cyber-crime-activity-is-canada.aspx?cmpid=prnr11.5.11 Book: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stroll Burce Schneier's blog: http://www.schneier.com/ Tunnelling over DNS inquires Finux gave a number of talks (most recently at BSides London) about how you can use DNS tunnelling to bypass some of the usual protocols to access online systems that would not let you access them without being subscribed. Here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/bsideslondon/dns-tunnelling-its-all-in-the-name with lots of links on slides 27-29, including NSTX and OzimanDNS

Ep0746: Interview with Tony Whitmore about OggCamp11

2011-06-13

In todays episode Ken interviews Tony Whitmore of the Ubuntu-UK Podcastabout OggCamp11. OggCamp 11 is a two-day technology festival bringing together the most interesting people from the Linux, Open Source and Hardware Hacking communities to share their passion and knowledge on all things geeky in a barcamp-style atmosphere. Taking place AUGUST 13 & 14, FARNHAM MALTINGS, UK OggCamp 11 is a two-day unconference where technology enthusiasts come together to exchange knowledge on a wide range of topics from Linux and open source software to building home automation systems. Now in its third year, the event is steadily growing and attracting interesting speakers from all over the UK, the rest of Europe and even the US. Since OggCamp is an unconference, speaking schedules are set on the first day and everyone is free to propose a talk themselves. You are of course free to come along and just listen to other people's talks but we strongly encourage everyone to take part and talk on something they are passionate about in technology. OggCamp was first organised by the combined forces of the Linux Outlaws and the Ubuntu UK Podcast as a filler event after the last LugRadio Live was decided to be a one-day only event. For the latest news, follow OggCamp 11 on the microblogging service of your choice: identi.ca / Twitter If you are interested in joining the OggCamp crew or sponsoring the event then please email oggcamp at ubuntu dash uk dot org.

Ep0745: Wingz

2011-06-09

Company: Innovative Software (Primary: software suite smart software) Product: Wingz a spreadsheet software First for the Mac, stupidest possible product, because there already was Excel They hired Leonard Nimoy for the ad video, because Wingz was all about the future They had a Wingz bag in different colors , which was awarded laptop accessory of the year one year by Jerry Pournelle (scifi writer) in the Chaos Manor column he wrote for BYTE Magazine. After two years the Wingz Software came out, also for Os2 and Windows and was very successful, up to 15% of the Mac market A special feature was that it could connect to databases and the lesson learned ... (not to be spoiled here, listen to the podcast)

Ep0744: The Language Frontier Episode 5

2011-06-08

The penultimate episode of The Language Frontier. Skirlet talks about the world's newfound ability to communicate with one another via "the digital revolution". Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis via aesdiopod.

Ep0743: ILF 2011: Interview with Jason Kridner of BeagleBoard

2011-06-07

In this episode KFive interviewes Jason Kridner of BeagleBoard. http://beagleboard.org/about About BeagleBoard.org BeagleBoard.org is an all volunteer activity started-up by a collection of passionate individuals, including several employees of Texas Instruments, interested in creating powerful, open, and embedded devices. We invite you to participate and become part of BeagleBoard.org, defining its direction. Support for the Beagle Board comes from the very active development community through this website, the mailing list, and the IRC channel. Distribution is handled by Digi-Key, a major international distributor. The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on low-power Texas Instruments processors featuring the ARM Cortex-A8 core with all of the expandability of today's desktop machines, but without the bulk, expense, or noise.

Ep0742: How I Got Into Linux

2011-06-06

This is an ad hoc interview with Dave, recorded on the teamspeak.cc server prior to yesterdays interview.

Ep0741: HPR Community News for May 2011

2011-06-05

Mumble Server GeneralSettings Server Name: This is your choice Address: ch1.teamspeak.cc Port: 64747 Username: This is your choice http://wiki.linuxbasix.com/tiki-index.php?page=Linux+Basix+Mumble New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: Slurry, Dismal Science & Sunzofman1, Brotherred, ArigornStrider, Joel, and Josh Knapp. Show Review 716 :: HPR Admins :: Behind the Scenes at HPR. A community update for the month 2011-04 717 :: Slurry :: My Switch from Windows to Linux 718 :: Brotherred :: How I got into Linux 719 :: Skirlet :: The Language Frontier Episode 4 720 :: klaatu :: CLI Magic 721 :: lostnbronx :: THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION -- PART 03 722 :: Claudio Miranda :: How I Upgraded My PC - Motherboard 723 :: klaatu :: How to be a safe computerist 724 :: Robin Catling :: Full Circle Podcast: Ubuntu Manual Project 725 :: pokey :: NELF_Review 726 :: MrGadgets :: Journey to Linux 727 :: klaatu :: HOWTO root and mod an Andr0id phone. 728 :: Dismal Science & Sunzofman1 :: Sex, Race and Open Source 729 :: Robin Catling :: Syndicated Thursday: FSP Sam smith, Opentech Conference 2011 730 :: code.cruncher :: LFNW: Some Facts and 2 Interviews 731 :: klaatu :: Klaatu the ubiquity and potential danger of the rm command 732 :: sikilpaake & badbit :: sikilpaake and badbit - spics on tech - episode 02 733 :: marcoz :: Linux Packaging Systems (too many) 734 :: Skirlet :: The Language Frontier Episode 4.5 735 :: Ken Fallon :: Interview with Dave Yates about SELF 2011 736 :: JWP :: Stop the Ubuntu 11.04 whining 737 :: ArigornStrider :: My Start in Computing and Linux 738 :: Joel :: Short History of Ham Radio and How I got Involved 739 :: Knightwise :: The Knightcast KC0053 : Wirelessly syncing content to your Ipad and Ipod. 740 :: Josh Knapp :: DDoS : What is it and how to protect yourself Apologies To Droops for not been there stankdawg not dwag Month in Review This was a busy and bumpy month as I recall it ... Ken went on holidays and the server felt abandoned and went on strike and then it pretended that there is no more space in the queue and once there was more space we almost ran out of shows and we are still looking for people to do HPR-PR at SELF, for which they will get 2 fantastic HPR T-Shirts. Ken? did you also move the server this month? HPR Outro Klaatu proposal to mention binrev in the outro. Hacker Public Radio is brought to you by the BinRev Radio, the Infonomicon Computer Club and our Sponsor ${SPONSOR}. ${SPONSOR} is ${Marketing speak} HPR is a Community podcast network that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. All the shows are made by the community fellow listeners like you!. For more information on how you can contribute a show please go to hackerpublicradio dot org and click on the contribute button There is no restrictions on how long the show can be, nor on the topic you can cover as long as they are of interest to hackers. Updated the Syndication page to include OGG, SPX and Comments Feeds. People had problems getting on the Mailing list Ira put a drupal website together imahuph.net/hpradmin1 Code Cruncher is working on automation Show prep script upload form security issues? The books for the business card competition have been sent or have they ? Added a md5 script to the site. lostnbronx ran a spell check on the "Contribute" page We ran out of shows - you replied. Curbuntu is going to a lug meeting and wanted a history of HPR. We want droops on for an interview. Ken is going to OggCamp11 - ordered business cards. Fifty OneFifty found the Ultimate interview device Cobra 2 create a torrent tracker for podcast/oggcast/videocast Advanced Android hacking series HPR Guidelines for fests. Wiki Trend micro unblocked us Zibby Keaton says that James Turnbull published his latest book "Pro Puppet" through Apress Media RFC Changing show to CC-BY-SA Hi All, This is an official request for a change of license that *NEW* shows are uploaded as. The proposal is to change from: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ To http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ The RFC will be open for a month and the results will be announced here and on July's HPR Community News. If approved all shows after that time will be by default CC-BY-SA unless indicated in the show notes. Further, I would then contact everyone that has hosted so far asking if we can relisence their show(s) as CC-BY-SA. This is entirely up to the community so please use the mail list you voice your opinion. Even a one liner is fine. Ken.

Ep0740: DDoS : What is it and how to protect yourself

2011-06-02

In today's HPR, I will talk about DDoS attacks and ways to protect yourself and what actions you have in recourse. If you have questions, please email me at josh@darksideofperfection.com, or message me on binrev's IRC.

Ep0739: The Knightcast KC0053 : Wirelessly syncing content to your Ipad and Ipod.

2011-06-01

This show was aired on "Saturday, 07 May 2011 06:23" The Knightcast KC0053 : Wirelessly syncing content to your Ipad and Ipod. In this deep-geeky episode we unlock the secret of automatic podcast downloading and distribution to android and IOS Devices without using itunes or a cable. We mash together Ubuntu, Gpodder, a bash script a couple of SSH Connections and an Ipad app to unlock the secrets of wirelessly pushing content to your IOS Devices. As a bonus we take a glance at calibre and show you how to have your favorite rss feeds available to read offline.

Ep0738: Short History of Ham Radio and How I got Involved

2011-05-31

Show Notes for More Information This show is a short history of the beginning of Ham Radio and how I got involved. http://www.qsl.net/ab0cw/sparktx.htm http://www.arrl.org

Ep0737: My Start in Computing and Linux

2011-05-30

This is how I got started building custom computers and began using linux. It was a slow process for me dipping my feet deeper and deeper until I found a daily usefullness for both and have not turned back since.

Ep0736: Stop the Ubuntu 11.04 whining

2011-05-29

In this episode JWP discusses the negativity surrounding the Unity desktop.

Ep0735: Interview with Dave Yates about SELF 2011

2011-05-26

In todays episode Ken interviews Dave Yates of the Southeast LinuxFest. The Southeast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Free & Open Source software. It is part educational conference, and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips and ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux/Free and Open Source Software. LinuxFest is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun! The third annual Southeast LinuxFest is scheduled for June 10-12, 2011 in Spartanburg, SC. Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Identi.ca

Ep0734: The Language Frontier Episode 4.5

2011-05-25

Syndicated Thursday Presents: The Language Frontier Episode 4.5 Please note that this series originally aired some time ago. Skirlet takes some listener feedback about her miniseries, The Language Frontier. Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis via aesdiopod.

Ep0733: Linux Packaging Systems (too many)

2011-05-24

Packaging systems: rpm, rpm5, deb/dpkg, ebuild, compressed files (archlinux), pisi, .tgz (tar.gz file) slackware/vector linux, .tlz (Vector Linux) Package managers: Program Distro(s) website notes apt debian conary Foresight Liux/rPath company handles distributed repositories, commit/rollback entropy Sabayon consists of Equo client (textual), Sulfur client (graphical) kpackagekit kubuntu uses policykit (any problems if booted computer from a live cd and mounted and chroot'd?) opkg openmoko lightweight; based on ipkg pacman archlinux pirut fedora it calls yum so it's just a gui wrapper? not sure how widely used...? pisi pardus (Turkish distro) was based on gentoo. as far as I can tell it now uses its own pkg format poldek Fedora RPM portage gentoo ebuilds, slapt slackware tgz slapt vectorlinux tlz; smart UnityLinux RPM5 synaptic ubuntu DEB; graphical frontend to apt urpmi mandriva RPM yum redhat/fedora RPM zypper opensuse RPM Other useful links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_management_systems http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html apt - http://wiki.debian.org/Apt conary - http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary entropy - http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=En:Entropy kpackagekit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPackageKit, http://www.packagekit.org opkg - http://code.google.com/p/opkg/ pacman - http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/ pirut - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8_User_Guide_-_Managing_Software_with_Pirut pisi - http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Making_Pisi_Packages poldek - http://poldek.pld-linux.org/ portage - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 slapt - http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/docs/vl58/manuals/vl5_slaptget_en.html smart - http://niemeyer.net/smart synaptic - http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/ urpmi - http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi yum - http://yum.baseurl.org/ zypper - http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Zypper Concerns: 1) package burn out - will it get to the point where only either large distros or commercial distros have large repos due to the effort involved? 2) I've lost track of the number of times i've heard from people 'our distro doesn't have enough manpower to package ...' wouldn't it be helpful to not have to use our limited manpower in building redundant packages? 3) in 10 (or less) years when non-technical people take over at Redhat/Ubuntu/other large distro, will they use the package system as a club to beat the other distros with? I'm not sure how, but where money is involved, you can feel assured it _will_ happen. 4) current state of packaging systems in linux is like sound systems were 10 yrs ago. remember esd vs arts vs vs ...? each desktop environment had its own system. sound in linux was painful and a complete joke. it still has a ways to go but it's _SO_ much better now that it was. does anyone want to go back to that? pulseaudio isn't perfect but it's so much better than what we had before. and it's ONE system! can you image if printing and authentication were like the packaging systems? image if everyone had their own printing system instead of CUPs? imagine if there was no pam.d? 5) I believe packaging systems are NOT about choice. the exact opposite. it's about vendor lockin and NIH. (we'll do it OUR way because we can do it better or the 'proper' way. "so-and-so does blah, which is completely stupid") choice is being able to write a script in php,perl,python,bash,csh,... on the SAME system. that's choice because I can CHOOSE. If I have a debian box I can't choose to use RPM or ebuilds, same for those other systems. of the systems I've used: deb, rpm, rpm5, portage, (and tarballs if you count linuxfromscratch) and the managers I've used: yum, urpmi, smart, kpackagekit, synaptic, apt-get, emerge each system has little features the others don't. but there is nothing that one system has that couldn't be added to the others.

Ep0732: sikilpaake and badbit - spics on tech - episode 02

2011-05-23

sikilpaake & badbit - spics on tech - episode 02 ensenada hackerspace (norte lab) taller de electrónica para artistas miguel monroy http://miguelmonroy.com.mx/work/ hackerspaces.org the hacker ethic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_hacker_ethic nortec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nortec hacker meetings, workshops & spaces 2600 http://www.2600.com/ shdh http://shdhmid.pbworks.com/w/page/39648441/shdh-mid-05 tequila valley http://www.tequilavalley.com/ protolab http://protolab.ws/site/ sdhacklab http://bang.calit2.net/sdhacklab/ kindle unexploited features and jailbreaking screensavers, fonts, usb networking microphone game boy flash cartridge, lsdj, chiptunes http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/ http://blog.gg8.se/images/camvliez/gmb-0001.gif minimalist composers brian eno stockhauses philip glass ubuntu 11.04 upgrading unity sucks http://is.gd/fgshwa shuttleworth boxing the project in, à la steve jobs http://is.gd/r8jydh what was so bad with gnome3? http://is.gd/xiadoh wayland http://is.gd/w5pvgv an improvement but just too young probably lacks a lot of historical functions that most people in ubuntu haven't realized it needs on openbsd & freebsd will have to wait for eventual kernel mode setting http://is.gd/xtaghe support al quaeda security measures contact sikilapakee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_Yucat%C3%A1n info@carlosduarte.info http://twitter.com/#!/tulakalbeyo http://vallabien.carlosduarte.info/ badbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mexicali badbit@gmail.com http://twitter.com/#!/b4db1t http://badbit.blogspot.com/ music! hermanos calderón - el camian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uy3wchqmze little-scale - demons that devour human flesh http://www.lazerscale2010.com/track.php?id=55 sonido lasser drakar - visions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kjdCJgFM1I

Ep0731: Klaatu the ubiquity and potential danger of the rm command

2011-05-22

Klaatu discusses the imbalance between the ubiquity and potential danger of the rm command. He proposes the alternative command, trash. Get this episode in ogg vorbis. Git the trash shell script from gitorious.org/trashy

Ep0730: LFNW: Some Facts and 2 Interviews

2011-05-19

LinuxFest Northwest Bellingham Facts from Carl Symons: about 1000 visitors, 738 registered, 350 meals sold on Saturday 12th year, started in 2000 in a room of 8x8 meters (25x25 feet) No president, jsut a team of organizers who meet twice a month Non-profit since 4 years 2 days since 4 years (before it was 1 day) Party on Saturday since 2 years http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ Interview with Bill Wright about the LinuxFest Interview with Sabrina Roach from Brown Paper Tickets about 2 interesting radio projects: http://www.prometheusradio.org/ and http://knightmozilla.org Let me know if you're going to have a table for Hacker Public Radio at a Linuxfest or any other fest, I will send you our PR-Stuff: Tablecloth, Stickers, instructions to order minicards, QR-code books, and T-Shirt sets. Here are some images of the table at LFNW:

Ep0729: Syndicated Thursday: FSP Sam smith, Opentech Conference 2011

2011-05-18

Hello world and welcome to our on Hacker Public Radio. This episode consists of our interview with Sam Smith, one of the organisers of the Opentech Conference in London this May. My co-host is Les Pounder OpenTech 2011 Saturday 21st May 2011. (10:45 start) Union Building, University of London. Cost: £5 on the door. Registration via the event website OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends. Some highlights of previous Opentech Conferences Ipod shuffle shuffle: Ewan Spence just-do-it.org.uk chasingspring.co.uk Your Hosts: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/) The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 19mins 50seconds

Ep0728: Sex, Race and Open Source

2011-05-17

Today we discuss the role of race and sex within the culture of open source and computing in general. Topics include the digital divide, wasge gaps among the population. And a tip on how to find an open source geek to date! Contact me @ dismal.science.hpr AT gmail DOT com

Ep0727: HOWTO root and mod an Andr0id phone.

2011-05-16

Klaatu's HOWTO root and mod an Andr0id phone. Links: developer.android.com/sdk addictivetips.com addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-clockwork-recovery-to-your-android-phone cyanogenmod This episode is also available in ogg vorbis.

Ep0726: Journey to Linux

2011-05-15

Mr Gadgets continues his journey from Micro Computer to Linux stopping by O/S 2 Warp and Windows 98

Ep0725: NELF_Review

2011-05-12

NELF 2011 was a blast. Here's my take on it. Thanks to everyone who made it so much fun. Thanks to sponsors: Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Frostbyte systems. Thanks to Johnathan and Mrs. Nadeau for making it all happen.

Ep0724: Full Circle Podcast: Ubuntu Manual Project

2011-05-11

Full Circle Podcast: Interview: Benjamin Humphrey, Ubuntu Manual Project The Full Circle Podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Guests Benjamin Humphrey, Editor, Ubuntu Manual Project Site: http://ubuntu-manual.org Launchpad Project home: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Benjamin’s blog: http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/ Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 22mins 51seconds

Ep0723: How to be a safe computerist

2011-05-10

Klaatu brings his Urban Camping series to a close with a discussion of how to be a safe computerist whilst urban camping. He covers ssh, X Forwarding, tor, tcpdump, and general computer common sense. The ogg version is available from GNU World Order.

Ep0722: How I Upgraded My PC - Motherboard

2011-05-09

In this episode, Claudio recaps episode 1 and covers the what, why, and how of his motherboard purchase. AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4025/holiday-2010-system-builders-guide AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3877/asrock-890fx-deluxe-full-review-and-an-investigation-of-thuban-performance-scaling Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=asrock_880_mobos&num=1 Hardware Secrets: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/ASRock-890FX-Deluxe4-Motherboard/1094/1

Ep0721: THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION -- PART 03

2011-05-08

by lostnbronx ----- SITES MENTIONED: ccmixter.org Jamendo Magnatune Podsafe Audio A good Creative Commons list of music sites Freesound.org ----- MUSIC: Pitx Pitx_-_A_year_ago.mp3 Creative Commons Sampling Plus (1.0) ----- MY OWN SITE lostnbronx

Ep0720: CLI Magic

2011-05-06

Klaatu talks to Mark, aka deltaRay, from CLI Magic and suso.com about the command line, the Indiana Linux Fest, and more! Git yer ogg version from the GNU World Order.

Ep0719: The Language Frontier Episode 4

2011-05-05

Skirlet discusses what language -- the way you speak and write -- suggests about you as a person. She provides a basic intro to linguistics, and reviews some dead languages and why they died. Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis via aesdiopod.

Ep0718: How I got into Linux

2011-05-04

In his first podcast Brotherred talks about how he got into GNU/Linux after seeing a website powered by Linux in approx. 2001. Bought RedHat 9 with PC magazine. Not all Linux experience was rosy. Still loves GNU/Linux for playing games, download torrents, and audio/video editing.

Ep0717: My Switch from Windows to Linux

2011-05-02

First exposure to Linux on ancient laptop Next several years into adulthood with Windows Never ran with crowd / always techie Opinions formed about Linux In spite of fondness, abandonded Linux Several years later 1 yr from retiring Dooms day - pop up virus explorer web page All this arround the time Vista Stuck with XP through Vista debachle Learned some things about Windows7 proverbial straw Devising a plan Ubunto on desktop and on wifes laptop Only remnants of windows on dual boot desktop Purchased my own Vista laptop / never booted in Vista Learned alot using Ubuntu Thats my switch to linux story More productive, knowledgeable, satisfied user under Linux

Ep0716: Behind the Scenes at HPR. A community update for the month 2011-04

2011-05-02

Welcome to our new admins Code Cruncher and pokey. Also welcome to our new hosts: HPR_AudioBookClub, Robin Catling, Jonathan Nadeau, code.cruncher, Brad Carter, scriptmunkee, Bob Evans, Disaster Protocol, imahuph, and sikilpaake & badbit. We welcome new hosts. Show Review 695 :: Ken Fallon :: Behind the Scenes at HPR. 696 :: MrGadgets :: MrGadgets Path toward Linux 697 :: Jonathan Nadeau :: Aaron Seigo talks about accessibility in KDE. 698 :: code.cruncher :: How I Found Linux 699 :: Brad Carter :: r0xy interviews Cap'n Crunch on cacti radio 700 :: MrGadgets :: Tech Tales of April's Past 701 :: scriptmunkee :: Backing Up Your Data Introduction 702 :: Ken Fallon :: 50th anniversary of human space flight 703 :: Bob Evans :: My Computer History 704 :: Disaster Protocol :: Disaster Protocol: Annoyed! 705 :: imahuph :: My first linux box 706 :: Jonathan Nadeau :: What to do when confronted with a blind person 707 :: Dismal Science :: Ubuntu on trial 708 :: JWP :: Enterprise resource planning 709 :: Skirlet :: The Language Frontier Episode 3 710 :: sikilpaake & badbit :: spics on tech 711 :: klaatu :: Klaatu and Verbal chat about web2py 712 :: Bariman :: Linux Jazz - Recording my Audio 713 :: pokey :: NELF Interview With Matt Lee and Donald Robertson 714 :: fullcirclepodcast :: Amber Graner from Ubuntu Women Project 715 :: Ken Fallon :: Interview With StankDawg Hobby Public Radio - Wordpress http://www.hobbypublicradio.org Read the posts and give Feedback Should we relicense under cc-by-sa ? Dropping the non-commercial Interview with stank The server has moved Ken used skype call recorder to record the call Who got fooled ? Thanks to klaatu, Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler We updated the RSS feed to use [cdata] Congratulations to Linux Outlaws on reaching 200 Counting TWAtech we have passed 1015 OggCamp 11 - we'll be there HPR Music is ours - thanks slick0 What is a syndicated show ? The language frontier is a special case HPR Design competition all get a book Will be mailed out in a week or two Will HPR be wanting a booth at SELF this year? HPR Stickers

Ep0715: Interview with StankDawg

2011-04-28

Ken talks to the founder of BinRev and the patron of Hacker Public Radio

Ep0714: Interview with Amber Graner

2011-04-27

The Full Circle Podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Guests Amber Graner Amber talks about: the health of the Ubuntu Women Project (Home page) Ubuntu Women Wiki page Ubuntu weekly Newsletter Ubuntu User Magazine American Dairy Goat Association: Dairy Goat Festival and Parade of Spindale NC Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard Runtime: 22mins 51seconds

Ep0713: NELF Interview With Matt Lee and Donald Robertson

2011-04-26

Please consider contributing to the Free Software Foundation. http://www.fsf.org/ Please forgive the audio quality of this recording. Due to the acoustics of the room, and my crappy mic, I had to "massage" the recording an awful lot to be able to hear all three people at a reasonable level without overwhelming you with background noise. I did my best. I want to thank Donald and Matt for making it such a great interview. They were firendly, respectful, and kind. I had a great time with them durring the interview, and at the afterparty. They represent the FSF well.

Ep0712: Linux Jazz - Recording my Audio

2011-04-25

My thanks to Pokey and ClaudioM for their kind comments on my first show. Recording . . . How I record the show and use Linux in support of my jazz activities and work-flow. Set up and Gear: Main microphone - Behringer USB Condenser Microphone C-1U with boom mike stand and 'pop' screen. Sennheiser e815S with a Tascam US-100 Audio Interface or Zoom H4n Recorder. Audio Capture: Behringer USB mike straight into Audacity on an EeePC. (Klaatu's config file is at http://www.thebadapples.info/eastereggs/audacity.cfg.zip) Processing . . . Laptops Asus EeePC 1005HA and a Sony Vaio VGN-BX297. All recordings saved as WAV or FLAC files initially. Spoken part of the show is scripted and each segment recorded separately. Assembly of segments and audio in Audacity, with adjustments, fades and overlaps, etc. Exported and mixed down into composite, sterio, MP3 file. Music Production . . . Music writing, arranging and composing: Band-In-A-Box 2009 and Sibelius 5 as there is no suitable Linux equivalents. Using Virtualbox with Windows XP. Band-In-A-Box use of sampled sounds for the backing voices. Use of Band-In-A-Box and Sibelius. I just wish there was the equivalent software the Linux to do this kind of thing I would move there 'in a flash' if I could find some. Other Activities . . . Problem with keeping files up to date when using multiple machines. Use of 'Dropbox' is my solution. Folders moved from 'Dropbox' to large 1TB external drive when projects are complete. Next time . . . Linux software in the production of websites and other uses. My website and Blog . . . At 'www.tonydenton.com' and I am on Twitter as 'tonydenton.' My Identica name is 'Bariman' and I am on IRC, also as 'Bariman.'

Ep0711: Klaatu and Verbal chat about web2py

2011-04-25

At the first Indiana Linux Fest, Klaatu and Verbal sit down to chat about web2py. Free codec lover? Get your ogg here.

Ep0710: spics on tech

2011-04-22

contributing content to hpr introductions badbit http://badbit.blogspot.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicali sikilpaake http://carlosduarte.info http://vallabien.carlosduarte.info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrida,_Yucatn reminiscing c64 and old junk from flea markets excuses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONAFE hacker practice cultural studies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_studies ensenada hackerspace http://miguelmonroy.com.mx/work/

Ep0709: The Language Frontier Episode 3

2011-04-21

The third episode in Skirlet's third episode in The Language Frontier miniseries. This one, about the inefficiency of language. Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis via aesdiopod.

Ep0708: Enterprise resource planning

2011-04-20

JWP talks about Linux in the Enterprise Space espically in relation to ERP (Enterprise resource planning) software.

Ep0707: Ubuntu on trial

2011-04-19

Today I try to argue that Ubuntu is no longer necessary, Ubuntu users should explore other Linux paths (probably Debian).

Ep0706: What to do when confronted with a blind person

2011-04-18

If you are in the way of a blind person say "hi" so they know your there. If a blind person is looking for a seat, tell them where there is a vacant space. Ask if they need help (warning not all people might appreciate this) See you later, Did you watch this movie doesn't bother Jonathan but some people may be. When leading a blind person (across the street), walk normally and let the bling person hang on to your elbow.

Ep0705: My first linux box

2011-04-15

This is my first podcast it begins with my first linux box, why I still run linux. Followed by a quck review of arch linux the distro I am currently running. Lastly a quick shout out for the NWLF.

Ep0704: Disaster Protocol: Annoyed!

2011-04-14

Syndicated Thursday presents Disaster Protocol: Annoyed! Origionally aired on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:58:54 +0000 No alcohol, what more can we say? Enjoy the bile and vitriol. About Disaster Protocol The Disaster Protocol Podcast is an IT Security Podcast which aims to educate the listener about current news and stories regarding the IT security sector. Originally name S.H.I.T.cast (Student Hacker Information Technology podcast), it was aimed at a lower level of audience and was more about having fun then getting anything technical across. There are two hosts to the podcast, Matthew Hughes and Thomas Mackenzie. Matthew Hughes is an Ethical Hacking student at a British University and is the leader developer of SecurityBSD.co.uk. He is known on the podcast for his random facts and amazing shoot downs towards Tom. Thomas Mackenzie is a student studying the same course at the same University as Matt. He is the co-developer of upsploit.com and works part-time from randomstorm.com.

Ep0703: My Computer History

2011-04-13

Digiac3080 http://www.flickr.com/photos/queensborough-at50/3746353292/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11 http://www.pdp11.org/

Ep0702: 50th anniversary of human space flight

2011-04-11

50 years ago today a historic event took place and here on Hacker Public Radio we take time out to celebrate the occaision with recordings of the Radio communications between Yuri Gagarin, Sergei Korolev and Ground Control during launch. Then we listen to a 45 rpm record at the Soviet Exhibition in London in 1961. After this we listen to the The flight of Vostok 1 as described on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1 and play a promo for the film "first orbit" http://www.firstorbit.org/watch-the-film been released as part of Yuris Night http://www.yurisnight.net/ a world wide celebration of the event. To close with the biography of Yuri Gagarin from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin. Radio communications between Yuri Gagarin, Sergei Korolev and Ground Control Yuri Gagarin in Space (English Commentary) from a 45 rpm record at the Soviet Exhibition in London in 1961 First Orbit Star Trek Theme Faith of The Heart Remake: Sputnik & yuri gagarin

Ep0701: Backing Up Your Data Introduction

2011-04-11

In this HPR episode I'm going to talk to you about the ideas, concepts and things to thing about when you want to start backing up your data. This is part 1 of a series of shows.

Ep0700: Tech Tales of April's Past

2011-04-08

Ep0699: r0xy interviews Cap'n Crunch on cacti radio

2011-04-07

This interview was held a little over a month ago on cacti radio. http://www.cactiradio.com John Thomas Draper (born 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman (after Cap'n Crunch, the mascot of a breakfast cereal), is a computer programmer and former phone phreak. He is a legendary figure within the computer programming world.

Ep0698: How I Found Linux

2011-04-06

After years of using Unix, Mac, and Windows I finally converted my two Windows computers to Linux for real. The journey into Linux started with not being successful at writing a startup script for Linux. A few years later I discovered some Linux love when writing a driver that would make the keyboard LED lights blink the morse code of the letters being typed. A year ago I did a few virtual Linux installations (archLinux, Debian) in VirtualBox to test out some Cloud Computing stuff. Before Christmas 2010, I was considering contributing to the KDE project and installed Kubuntu as well as Ubuntu. This year, because I am going to the LinuxFest NorthWest (and I am going to have a table there for HackerPublicRadio) I had to install Linux on my old Windows Laptop. I also converted my Samsung Q1 Ultra Tablet computer from WindowsXP to Ubuntu. Both conversions were successful, but a few problems had to be solved for which https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu is a great place to go and find or get answers. BTW: If you're going to http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/ please come and say "hi" at the HPR table and if you can help out at the table please let me know code.cruncher_hpr at yahoo ca.

Ep0697: Aaron Seigo talks about accessibility in KDE. An outtake from Frostcast Episode 36.

2011-04-05

After his outspoken criticism of accessibility in Ubuntu, Jonathan Nadeau has become the standard barer for accessibility on the FLOSS desktop. In his interview with the KDE spokesperson Aaron Seigo, Jonathan didn't ask any questions about accessibility. I was expecting to hear what accessibility improvements are in the pipeline for KDE. When I contacted Jonathan about it he immediately replied saying that they did talk about accessibility. He didn't add it as the show was running to long and that he might release it as a separate podcast. I floated the idea of releasing it on HPR and he was kind enough to mail me the segment. A link to the rest of the interview: http://frostbitemedia.libsyn.com/frostcast-episode-36 HPR has now no shows in the queue. HPR is a community feed and without shows it will cease to exist. Many people have stepped up and recorded shows but I know there are many more out there who have it in them to contribute. With that in mind please record a show today. Thank you.

Ep0696: MrGadgets Path toward Linux

2011-04-04

MrGadgets final episode on his Path toward Linux

Ep0695: Behind the Scenes at HPR. A community update for the month 2011-03

2011-04-01

New hosts Welcome to marcoz MrGadgets, and MrsXoke. We welcome new hosts. Show Review 676 :: Ken Fallon :: Behind the Scenes at Hacker Public Radio. A community update for the month 2011-02. 677 :: lostnbronx :: THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION: PART 2 678 :: MrsXoke :: Terminally Stupid Episode 1 679 :: Michael Foord :: A Little Bit of Python: Episode 14 2010-06-06 680 :: Broam :: Auctions yard sales and flea markets 681 :: MrGadgets :: My first computer 682 :: pokey :: NELF & Taxes 683 :: marcoz :: Xorg GSoC call for students 684 :: Ken Fallon :: Eben Moglen Freedom In the Cloud 685 :: riddlebox :: Product Review SunVolt 686 :: MrsXoke :: Terminally Stupid Episode 2 687 :: MrGadgets :: pre-IBM PC computer history 1 688 :: HPR_AudioBookClub :: Badge Of Infamy 689 :: Various Creative Commons Works :: Eurotrash Security Podcast Episode 19: Haroon Meer 690 :: Curbuntu:: Resources for Autodidacts 691 :: MrGadgets :: pre-IBM PC computer history 2 692 :: Quvmoh :: audacity to mess with satan 693 :: Mrs. Xoke :: Terminally Stupid ep 3 694 :: Full Cirle Podcast :: The U-Cubed Event Apologies To: To Dave Yeats for apologising like him MrGadgets for messing up the encoding of his first episode Dodgy Geezer for the audio intros to the syndicated Thursdays shows klaatu for sugesting that he had abandoned HPR. Thanks to The mail list for checking MrGadgets first show> droops for clarifying that HPR own the Mic logo To the person that assisted in clearing up an issue in the last podcast all the podcasts that play our promo Dann Washko, Integgroll, and pokey for tracking down episode 28 of shadow magic morgellon the lowtek mystic for the photos of the indiana linuxfest again pokeys mom for the HPR promo pokey for sending out all the stickers out of his own pocket code cruncher for paying for the buisness cards out of her own pocket pokey and code cruncher for been amazing - more info next month Podcasts by Phone Every listener is strongly encouraged to send us one contribution per year. In episode 636 pokey told us that his Mother also listens to the show from time to time and this month she upheld her end of the bargain. The call in lines US: +1-206-312-5749 UK: +44-203-432-5879 Please include your name and email address. DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE # SIGN AT THE END Thanks to Russ Woodman - K5TUX and Arron 'Finux' Finnon for making this possible. Hobby Public Radio dot org I have put up a test wordpress site on my shared server with the intention of seeing if we can replicate and improve on the functionality of our current site. Please don't link to this site. Account Management Comments Scheduling Anyone with experience of wordpress and want's to help email admin at hpr dot org. Changes afoot at Binrev BinRev is our parent site and HPR is hosted on a binrev server. StankDawg pays the bills for this service and I was tiped off to a post that he made on 23 March 2011 where he notifies us that a server move is on the cards. http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/blog/1/entry-269-here-we-go-again/ I'm trying to arrange an interview with StankDawg to explain to us what BinRev is and what it's goals are. HPR Stickers Photos from pokey, Ken Fallon, droops, FiftyOneFifty, Curbuntu, smartasstronaut, Bruce_Patterson, Fabian Scherschel (@fabsh), code_cruncher, axis and Mrs. Xoke. Audio Book Club Our next audiobook will be Shadowmagic by Lohn Lenahan. It is also available at podiobooks. The direct link is: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/shadowmagic If you are missing Episode 28 then you can get it here : http://hackerpublicradio.org/incoming/media/PB-Shadowmagic-28.mp3 HPR Appeal Last month I mentioned that klaatu has not posted a show that month. I was contacted by Karen from the Free as in Freedom oggcast (http://www.faif.us/) to tell me that klaatu had been arrested by the department of immigration while urban camping in some corporate head quaters in Cupertino. She wasn't allowed to say much apart from that the department of homeland security is now involved as well and have confiscated his laptop and are holding him at an undisclosed location. We are collecting some money to aid in his release so if you can help please go over and donate at: http://hackerpublicradio.org/freeklaatu Events Northeast GNU/Linux Fest Details Saturday, April 2, 2011 Worcester MA More information. THE U-CUBED EVENT... organised by Les and Jon. When: Sat. April 2nd, 10.00am. Where: Mad-Lab, Manchester, UK . Cost: Free, tickets via the web-site. Info: ucubed.info. Linuxfest Northwest 2011 - April 30th-May 1st Bellingham, WA More information. HPR is going Northeast and then Northwest with tables at both Linuxfests. We would like people to help out at the table, finding equipment etc. How it all started: here is the link to pokey's first mail about the table at NELF: http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/2010-December/000161.html We are also running a Competition to design Mini Business Cards for HPR which we would like to have for the fest. They submitted entries have all won a book and they are all up on the picasaweb site https://picasaweb.google.com/108536234968997542346/DesignCompetition# Upcoming Shows MrGadgets Path toward Linux Series of Best Of Full Circle Interview with Captain Crunch

Ep0694: The U-Cubed Event

2011-03-31

The full circle podcast is the companion to Full Circle Magazine, the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Community Find us at http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast. Feedback; you can post comments and feedback on the podcast page at fullcirclemagazine dot org forward slash podcast, send us a comment to podcast (at) fullcirclemagazine.org Your Host: Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter) Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter) Dave Wilkins Guests Jon Spriggs Les Pounder Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard 01:51 | THE U-CUBED EVENT... organised by Les and Jon. When: Sat. April 2nd, 10.00am. Where: Mad-Lab, Manchester, UK . Cost: Free, tickets via the web-site. Info: ucubed.info. Runtime: 11mins 48seconds

Ep0693: Terminally Stupid Episode 3

2011-03-30

MrsXoke presents Terminally Stupid Episode 3

Ep0692: audacity to mess with satan

2011-03-29

security cam http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome http://www.chriswpage.com/tag/dropbox/ books http://calibre-ebook.com/ http://www.phys.uu.nl/~0020621/CP/unixforthebeginningmage.pdf http://unixmages.com/ http://shop.fsf.org/category/books/ reverse speach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_speech http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Ep0691: pre-IBM PC computer history 2

2011-03-28

We continue our historical journey with MrGadgets as we explore how computers used to be.

Ep0690: Resources for Autodidacts

2011-03-25

Proposal for a new HPR "series" What web resources (instructional sites, podcasts, video tutorials) and dead-tree resources have you found helpful in learning Linux, programming, and F/LOSS software? In the tradition of our standard contributor podcasts (like “How I Got Started with Linux” or “My First Computer”), Curbuntu proposes an ongoing category in which we share these learning resources with each other. The topic is kicked off with these suggestions: The Hewlett-Packard Learning Center (http://h30187.www3.hp.com/all_courses.jsp). While signing in with a username and password is required, the courses at the site are free. The ODFAuthors.org site (http://www.odfauthors.org), the place to find outstanding, comprehensive, and (best of all) free manuals for the various OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice modules like Writer, Calc, and Impress. An example of the printed, for-pay versions of the ODFAuthors.org books can be found at http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/openofficeorg-3-writer-guide/6570202.

Ep0689: Eurotrash Security Podcast Episode 19: Haroon Meer

2011-03-24

Originally Aired on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:55:00 GMT The Eurotrash Security Podcast Most podcasts in the Information Security realm are US-focused. While we love and continue to listen to these, we thought something was missing: a EU-focused Information Security Podcast. And this is our attempt to provide you with one. Easy? Not at all. Podcasting is hard, no doubt about that, and we will probably suck for some dozen episodes to come. But we believe that we will get there, just bear with us ... Episode 19: Haroon Meer is one kick-ass dude from South Africa and found some spare time to talk to us on infosec, his new venture Thinkst, Zacon and other stuff! And Wicked Clown is back!

Ep0688: Badge Of Infamy

2011-03-23

In the first HPR audio book club show Dann Washko, Integgroll, and pokey discuss the podiobooks.com presentation of Badge Of Infamy written by Lester Del Rey, and read by Steven Wilson. This episode contains spoilers, in the second half, so please listen to the audiobook for yourself before listening to the podcast all the way through. All three hosts enjoyed and recommend the book. You can download this audiobook for free (or voluntary donation) from http://www.podiobooks.com/title/badge-of-infamy During this show the hosts also discuss alcohol beverages. Integgroll was drinking Flying Dog Tire Bite Golden Ale. http://www.flyingdogales.com/Beer-Tire-Bite.aspx pokey was drinking 2009 Apothic Red Winemaker's Blend. http://www.apothic.com/ Dann was drinking Miller Genuine Draft. http://www.mgd.com/ Our next audiobook will be Shadowmagic by Lohn Lenahan. It is alsoavailable at podiobooks. The direct link is: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/shadowmagic If you enjoy this episode of HPR, you can find more podcasts by our hosts at: http://linuxindahouse.org/ http://www.tllts.org/ http://techmisfits.com/ We all had a great time recording this show, and we hope you enjoyed it as well. Thank you very much for listening. Sincerely, The HPR_AudioBookClub P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, we have included a few.

Ep0687: pre-IBM PC computer history 1

2011-03-22

We continue our historical journey with MrGadgets as we explore how computers used to be. If you had problems with the first show please download it again http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0681.mp3

Ep0686: Terminally Stupid Episode 2

2011-03-21

MrsXoke presents Terminally Stupid Episode 2 Full show notes at http://captaindramaticsmom.blogspot.com/2011/03/episode-2-terminally-stupid.html

Ep0685: Product Review SunVolt

2011-03-18

Today, I am going to do a product review today, this product is one that I think almost anyone will find a good use for! The product is from Scosche, and is the Solar-Powered Universal Charger/ Backup Battery or SunVolt. A description of the product from the manual that comes with it says: The Scosche sunVolt provides a convenient and environmentally friendly way to charge your USB portable device. The specifications for the product are: Output 5V 500mA, the battery is a Lithium-ion, Battery capacity: 1500mA, solBAT solar charge:4-5 days and it varies............ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_15?url=search-alias 3Daps&field-keywords=scosche+sunvolt&x=0&y=0&sprefix=scosche+sunvolt Manual: http://www.scosche.com/ecom/download/SOLBAT2_SglPg.pdf

Ep0684: Eben Moglen Freedom In the Cloud

2011-03-17

Beannachta L le Pdraig/Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Beannachtai na File Pdraig ar chlann mhr dhomhanda na nGael, sa bhaile agus ar fud na cruinne, ar r l nisinta ceilirtha fin. Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing A Speech given by Eben Moglen at a meeting of the Internet Society's New York branch on Feb 5, 2010 http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freedombox-foundation-from-0-to-60-in-30 http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/10/highlights-eben-moglens-freedom-cloud-talk/ http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc-ny/FreedomInTheCloud-transcript.html If you would like to suggest creative commons works for Syndicated Thursday please email admin @ hpr NOTE TO ITUNES LISTNERS Please reload Mondays show "HPR ep0681 :: My first computer Hosted by MrGadgets on 2011-03-14"

Ep0683: Xorg GSoC call for students

2011-03-16

The Xorg project, http://www.x.org, wants students to participate in Google Summer of Code. Details for Xorg's projects can be found at: http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas More information on GSoC in general: http://www.google-melange.com/

Ep0682: NELF & Taxes

2011-03-15

I'm still looking for help at the HPR table at the North East Gnu/Linux Fest, and I've also found a good way to file my taxes without using windoze. Oh yeah, and I have a cool, fun song this time. The main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/ Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright The direct link to today's song is http://www.songfight.org/music/back_from_juvie/joneric-bfj.mp3 Jon's Website is http://www.jon-eric.com The main website for NELF is http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/ Hacker Public radio's most prolific contributor (by more than twice our second place host) is Klaatu. While we all try to catch up to him, have a look at his website. http://thebadapples.info/ Thank you so much for listening. P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, I have probably included a few.

Ep0681: My first computer

2011-03-14

MrGadgets calls in a series of shows on the HPR line

Ep0680: Auctions yard sales and flea markets

2011-03-11

Broam talks of Auctions yard sales and flea markets

Ep0679: A Little Bit of Python: Episode 14 2010-06-06

2011-03-10

<a href="http://bitofpython.com/">A Little Bit of Python</a> is an occasional podcast on all things <a href="http://python.org">Python</a>. The four protagonists on the show are all core Python developers and members of the Python Software Foundation. They are: <a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk">Michael Foord</a> (author of IronPython in Action and maintainer of unittest), <a href="http://www.amk.ca/">Andrew Kuchling</a> (creator of PyCrypto and one of the python.org webmasters), <a href="http://holdenweb.com/">Steve Holden</a> (PSF chairman), <a href="http://sayspy.blogspot.com/">Dr. Brett Cannon</a> (author of importlib amongst other things) and <a href="http://jessenoller.com/">Jesse Noller</a> (maintainer of multiprocessing). Episode 14.Bit-of-Python-2010-06-06 Interview with Christian Tismer Christian Tismer is a long standing member of the Python community and, amongst other things, he is the original creator of Stackless and has worked on both psyco and PyPy. In this interview we discuss all of these projects, both their history and what the future holds for them.

Ep0678: Terminally Stupid Episode 1

2011-03-09

Terminally Stupid Episode 1 Full show notes at http://captaindramaticsmom.blogspot.com/2011/03/episode-1-terminally-stupid.html

Ep0677: THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION: PART 2

2011-03-08

---------- A convenient link to Part 1 ---------- Shameless Self-Promotion Blue Heaven ---------- MUSIC BY morgantj http://ccmixter.org/people/morgantj/profile morgantj_-_caf_connection.mp3 http://ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/18947 Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep0676: Behind the Scenes at Hacker Public Radio. A community update for the month 2011-02.

2011-03-07

New hosts Welcome to sp0rus and biosshadow, Heisenbug, JBu92, Sven, Mark Katerberg and Courtney Schauer, Trixter, Bariman, dodddummy, Claudio Miranda, and Doug Farrell. Show Review 652:: sp0rus and biosshadow:: Nameless Infosec Podcast Ep 1 653:: Heisenbug:: Intro to Black Box Testing 654:: JBu92:: Offline Filesharing 655:: Flaviu Simihaian:: Read 'n Code - 2 Camus's The Plague and Reddit.com 656:: Sven:: My first steps in recovering pictures 657:: droops:: HPR Video Proposal 658:: Mark Katerberg and Courtney Schauer:: Music Management Consoles 659:: Lord Drachenblut:: 10 Buck Review - Serenity 660:: Trixter:: An argument against emulators when retrocomputing 661:: Quvmoh:: War walking with smart phone 662:: Xoke:: DD-WRT 663:: brother mouse:: What is on your mp3 player 664:: Michael Foord:: A Little Bit of Python: Episode 13 665:: KFive:: Hacking the Craps Table 666:: brother mouse:: Salvaging old Coleman lanterns and stoves 667:: Johninsc:: Your Local Library 668:: Flaviu Simihaian:: Read 'n Code - 3 Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five and Erlang 669:: KFive:: QSK Netcast 6: The Origin of Open Source 670:: Bariman:: Linux - A Jazz Musician's Viewpoint 671:: dodddummy:: How I Found Linux 672:: Claudio Miranda:: How I Upgraded My PC - CPU 673:: droops:: droops returns to geocaching 674:: Skirlet:: The Language Frontier Episode 2 675:: Doug Farrell:: Python Response to Bad Apples Podcast 5x18 Host 107 brings us BLUE HEAVEN A dramatized science-fiction short story written and read by lostnbronx Get it now at http://www.info-underground.net:70/lostnbronx/fiction/blue-heaven Apologies To: sp0rus and biosshadow for not crediting them correctly. Doug Farrell for missing the show he emailed me Jason Dodd for missing his show on the ftp server Pokey and Code Cruncher for messing up their been two fests Claudio Miranda for the unnecessary spam about his episode klaatu for anything I may have said or done to cause him to abandon HPR. Thanks to brother mouse for his mp3 tagging utility http://pastebin.com/t7dH8bK3 Tony Baechler for his research into Google voice Code Cruncher for the entries to the business cards mordancy for volunteering to look into Archive.org automating droops for all the man love droops and slick0 for the flac version of the theme song David Stafford for constructive comments on how to improve the site pokeys mom for the HPR promo Podcasts by Phone Every listener is strongly encouraged to send us one contribution per year. In episode 636 pokey told us that his Mother also listens to the show from time to time and this month she upheld her end of the bargain. The call in lines US: +1-206-312-5749 UK: +44-203-432-5879 Please include your name and email address. DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE # SIGN AT THE END Thanks to Russ Woodman - K5TUX and Arron 'Finux' Finnon for making this possible. Scheduling Rules update Shows will be released based on the following rules that gives content produced for HPR priority, while avoiding having any one host/series repeated in a week. Hosts are encouraged to release their shows on other feeds after uploading them to HPR. Time critical Where the host has requested a show to be posted at a particular time or that the show contains newsworthy information. Scheduled Slots Where a host has been assigned a regular day to release a show. New Hosts In order to encourage new hosts we will prioritize shows submitted from new hosts so they can experience the excitment of podcasting. HPR Content on a First in First Out basis. Syndicated shows will be released on their own scheduled slot following the same rules as above. HPR Stickers Hot off the press ! The HPR stickers have been distributed to our Global distribution network in North America, Europe and Australia. For anyone else on this who wants them, now is the time to ask; before they all get handed out at the first couple of Linux fests. They're free as in beer btw. We're also sending stickers out to the other podcasters who promoted HPR in the past. Audio Book Club Several of the HPR contributors in the IRC channel have formed the beginning of an audio-book club. We'll be doing reviews which include spoilers, so I was wondering if you could announce our first audio-book title in case anyone wanted to listen to it before we spoiled it on them. We're hoping this will become a(n ir)regular show for HPR, but we'll see how the first one goes. All audio-books that we review will be free (as in beer) and easily available, so the barrier to entry for the listeners and participants will just be the time involved in listening to the audio. The first audio book is a short one. It runs about 3.5 hours total, and I can tell you it is a very good book which will appeal to both science fiction fans and political critics alike. The book is Badge Of Infamy by Lester Del Rey and read by Steven Wilson. It is available from podiobooks.com. The direct url is http://www.podiobooks.com/title/badge-of-infamy. From podiobooks.com: "Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now, he's a pariah, shunned by all, forbidden to touch another patient. But things are more loose on Mars. There, Doc Feldman is welcomed by the colonists, even as he's hunted by the authorities. But, when he discovers a Martian plague may soon wipe out humanity on two planets, the authorities begin hunting him for a different reason altogether." We'll be announcing the next book at the end of our first show. Site improvements Each hosts have their own folder ie: hackerpublicradio.org/droops/ Vimeo Group http://vimeo.com/channels/hpr Site redesign more up-to-date looking. All comments and posts need a rel=nofollow tag on links. All the RSS feed needs to be put in the address bar Each episode title link should link to the individual show page A separate link/graphic should play the audio, maybe have a built in player and a download link. Each episode should have a unique url with the shows title in it, ie hackerpublicradio.org/geocaching_with_droops/ We need more of a call to action about recording a show, its kinda hidden. The total comment viewer needs to link to the episode page, so that people can see all of the comments about the episode. A way to upload our episodes and automate everything. We also need the ability for the hosts to add episodes of hpr and other shows to a "Select" RSS feed. This way, when we find something super cool that someone else recorded, we can share it with the community. News from the Admin Channel HPR is been blocked by some companies because they can filter the find the word hacker - money well spent. During the spam fest, HPR got listed on sites as a source of malware. I've been contacting the sites but each blames the next one for the listing and the trail runs cold. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239162 http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/hackerpublicradio.org/comment#comment http://www.malwaredomains.com/wordpress/?p=1340 http://malwaresurvival.net/2011/01/21/courtney-cox-search-leads-to-fake-av-malware/ http://www.dshield.org/tools/suspicious_domains.html I registered Hobby Public Radio but cPanel doesn't seem to have a way to have HackerPublicRadio and HobbyPublicRadio served from the same directory. Question: Off the shelf or Self Build ? Can we make a HPR site using standard Wordpress plugins ? User account management Podcast plugins Released according to a schedule email from the server is broken through cPanel and this is delaying up automation Any PHP programmers want to help Proposal to make droops, finux, klaatu admins Still no update on the Ice Cast server Events Indiana LinuxFest is a community F/OSS conference, which is showcasing the best the community has to offer in the way of Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware, and Free Culture. We are also highlighting the best and brightest from all of these communities from the hobbyist to professional level. Indiana LinuxFest 2011, March 25th to the 27th at the Wyndam Indianapolis West, is free to attend and Open for any to attend be it the hobbyist to the professional. So join us as we March to Freedom. Every 50th person who signs up for the following passes, Supporter Passes and LPIC-1 Exam Cram Session, will receive their choice of a Nook Color or Archos 70 while supplies last. http://www.indianalinux.org/cms/PrizesForParticipation Beep from http://www.freesound.org/: btn402.mp3 :: (0:00) :: Short button beep. Recorded in cAve studio... added by junggle Northeast GNU/Linux Fest Details Saturday, April 2, 2011 Worcester MA More information. Linuxfest Northwest 2011 - April 30th-May 1st Bellingham, WA More information. HPR is going Northeast and then Northwest with tables at both Linuxfests. We would like people to help out at the table, finding equipment etc. How it all started: here is the link to pokey's first mail about the table at NELF: http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/2010-December/000161.html We are also running a Competition to design Mini Business Cards for HPR which we would like to have for the fest. They submitted entries have all won a book and they are all up on the picasaweb site https://picasaweb.google.com/108536234968997542346/DesignCompetition# Upcoming Shows HPR Admins with "Community News" SCHEDULED SLOT biosshadow and sp0rus Nameless Infosec Podcast. SCHEDULED SLOT lostnbronx THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION 2 Syndicated Thursday ---> 10 Buck Review Broam auctions yard sales and flea markets --- pokey NELF Taxes riddlebox Ep1 Product Review SunVolt

Ep0675: Python Response to Bad Apples Podcast 5x18

2011-03-04

In episode 5X18 of the Bad Apples podcast, Klaatu challenged me to create my own podcast explaining my Python version of his bash script. His bash script created a list of files that matched a file name pattern, then read the first line from each of those files and wrote that to an output file. My Python program does exactly the same thing, but in Python. Here is the body of that program with the comments stripped out: #!/usr/bin/python import glob outfile = open("toc.output", "w") for filename in glob.glob("*.txt"): outfile.write(open(filename).readline()) The above text can be used to follow along with the audio of the podcast. Here is the English explanation version of the above program: Tell the system the rest of the text in the file should interpreted by Python Import the glob module, which is one of the library modules that comes with Python Create a new file object called "toc.output" that we can write to Iterate over the list of files that match the pattern "*.txt" created by the glob function, and assign each matching file in turn to the filename variable Open each filename, read the first line from the file and write it to our previously opened output file. It's not shown above, but each matching filename that we open is closed at the end of the looping construct. In addtion, the output file is also closed at the end of the programs execution. Hopefully you enjoyed the podcast!

Ep0674: The Language Frontier Episode 2

2011-03-03

Skirlet continues The Language Frontier; in this episode, she talks about language's effect on art, and upon governments. Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis via aesdiopod.

Ep0673: droops returns to geocaching

2011-03-02

droops talks about his return to geocaching and how he is trying to solve the worlds problems. http://vimeo.com/20037421droops/hprdroops1 http://mytopo.com/maps/ http://store.usgs.gov Geocaching with droops and Johndoc from droops on Vimeo.

Ep0672: How I Upgraded My PC - CPU

2011-03-01

In this episode, Claudio talks about his current desktop PC and covers the what, why, and how of his new CPU purchase. AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4025/holiday-2010-system-builders-guide Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Phenom_microprocessors

Ep0671: How I Found Linux

2011-02-28

Another in the series on the journey to linux. Announcement Visit our booth at Linuxfests Northeast and Northwest Book Review The book is Badge Of Infamy by Lester Del Rey and read by Steven Wilson. It is available from podiobooks.com. The direct url is http://www.podiobooks.com/title/badge-of-infamy. From podiobooks.com: "Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now, he's a pariah, shunned by all, forbidden to touch another patient. But things are more loose on Mars. There, Doc Feldman is welcomed by the colonists, even as he's hunted by the authorities. But, when he discovers a Martian plague may soon wipe out humanity on two planets, the authorities begin hunting him for a different reason altogether."

Ep0670: Linux - A Jazz Musician's Viewpoint

2011-02-24

This 10 minute Podcast outlines my experience as a jazz musician using Linux. History . . . My start in 1982 with a BBC Micro Computer. On using a 1977 business machine by Real Time Computer Systems, Crewe, UK. Gary Kildall's CP/M operating system with four, linked, 7 floppy disk drives. Moving to the PC about 1988 and becoming a Microsoft operating system user. Using the PC for educational material and for musical arrangements. The main pieces of software used for the music Sibelius and Band-In-A-Box. Some web designing using Macromedia Dreamweaver. Towards Linux . . . Awareness of Linux about 2000 first 'proper' distro SuSE; (six CDs to install!) Poor press for Linux in the past and not much better now. Modern distros offer close to the full solution for the average user. Retailers still telling customers that Linux is difficult and should be avoided. My trials of most of the available distros and awareness of Wine as a solution to using Windows-based software. Some limited success with early copies of Sibelius, Band-In-A-Box and Dreamweaver. Discovery of Ubuntu 6.06 and the installation on my Desktops and Laptops. Maintainance of a Laptop as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP. Linux used for all my work; only very rarely using the Windows partition. Brief trial of Virtualbox initially, with not too much success. Currently, Ubuntu 10.10 on all machines and the 'ditching' the dual-boot. Look at Virtualbox again, thanks to the recent Hacker Public Radio Podcast by arfab (hpr-0618) on installing XP in Virtualbox. (Thanks arfab.) Virtualbox on all my machines now running my 'essential' Windows software. Practicing . . . Need for regular practise using a variety of techniques (improvisation, scales, etc,). Good use of Band-In-A-Box as a practice aid. Most backing tracks in the form of a simple piano, bass and drums rhythm section. Good aid to meet the needs of students at various stages of ability. Backing tracks tailored to support each musical instrument in a musical ensemble. Where Are We Now . . . Awareness of current developments in support of the musical requirement. Still can't say to my colleagues - Yes, Linux is now the complete solution. Website and blog at 'www.tonydenton.com' on Twitter as 'tonydenton' Identica name is 'Bariman' and occasionally on IRC, also as 'Bariman.'

Ep0669: QSK Netcast 6: The Origin of Open Source

2011-02-24

Originally aired on OCTOBER 15TH, 2010 This episode of the QSK Netcast is the audio recording of my talk at Ohio Linux Fest 2010 entitled “The Origin of Open Source.” The talk turned into a strange but, I think, interesting melange of Open Source philosophy, history, sociology and religion. The biggest problem was the poor audio recording equipment used in a very large room so the audio many be difficult to understand in a few places. I did what I could to clean it up using Audacity, but it’s simply not great. Hope everyone enjoys it, though. I’m going to attempt to put up written transcripts of all my episodes starting very soon.

Ep0668: Read 'n Code - 3 Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five and Erlang

2011-02-23

In this podcast I discuss Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-five. I then talk a little about Erlang, the computer language. As always, I end with an attempt to reconcile and compare these apparently dissimilar concepts. Raw show notes: We're in iTunes! Using Ken Fallon's RSS podcast from HPR, I managed to create the RSS feed required for a podcast to be in iTunes. Kurt Vonnegut born after WWI, died in 2007. Served in WW2 wrote Slaughterhouse-five the year Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. postmodernism (started after WW2), and I guess continues today, since Thomas Pynchon is still alive. In short, postmodernist literature takes everything with a large grain of salt, and the stories are often a commentary on the story itself. (like a recursive function) (e.g.: "That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.") Slaughterhouse-five About an emaciated, fatalistic, and ill-trained soldier named Billy Pilgrim in WW2, who is once compared to a broken kite. The narrative is nonlinear, but it follows some of Billy's experiences in Germany, and then getting caught and shipped to Dresden for community work, where they stay in an old meat-packing house called "Schlachtof-funf" When Dresden is bombed, most are killed, but the American soldiers survived and experienced the total destruction of the city Billy then returns to the US, where he becomes and optometrist, and marries an undesirable obese woman, whose father has a lot of money, and they have children. He suffers head injuries in a plane crash (of which he is the only survivor) and starts thinking he has made a connection with the alien people of Tralfamadore, with whom he has traveled in time and has seen all that will happen in the future. He starts giving radio talks and speeches about the nature of time and flying saucers, and he dies shot at one of these events in Chicago. Quotes: All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said -- and calendars. All this responsibility at such an early age made her a bitchy flibbertigibbet. The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty "There's more to life than what you read in books," said Weary. Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. One scout hung his head, let spit fall from his lips. The other did the same. They studied the intinitesimal effects of spit on snow and history. Now they were dying in the snow, feeling nothing, turning the snow to the color of raspberry sorbet. Rosewater told a psychiatrist: "I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living." So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe. Science fiction was a big help. "That's the attractive thing about war," said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something." "I'm afraid I don't read as much as I ought to." said Maggie. "We're all afraid of something," Trout replied. "I'm afraid of cancer and rats and Doverman pinschers" And then Russians came on motorcycles, and they arrested everybody but the horses. So it goes. (appears 106 times in the novel) There used to be a dog named Spot, but he died. So it goes. The champagne was dead. So it goes. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of that dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out. Erlang: based on a one day training session with Kevin Smith @kevsmith designed by Ericsson in 1986 to support big fault-tolerant applications, released open source in 1998. Stands for Ericsson Language. multicore main feature: great support for concurrency (doing multiple things at the same time) Though I'm not an expert, languages such as Java and Python struggle to efficiently use machines that have tens or hundreds of cores. Erlang has these lightweight processes with minimal overhead, allowing the rapid creation of hundreds of thousands of these processes. These processes have no shared state. They know nothing about each other. They communicate through asynchronous message passing. each process has a mailbox, which it checks to see if it has the message it wants, and then deletes it after it's consumed. Very much how we would ideally check our own email inboxes. to start one of these you just call spawn(Fun), which returns a pid (process ID) functional Immutable variables assignment only functions are first class citizens, that can be used like any other data, like an integer. this basically replaces the need for objects in OO languages proven CouchDB, Membase, Riak, RabbitMQ Similarities: All this happened, more or less. spawn(Module, Function, Args) -> pid Pack a lot of meaning in a few lines: He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. "But that isn't enough anymore." 1> A = [1,2,3,4,5]. [1,2,3,4,5] 2> [X || X

Ep0667: Your Local Library

2011-02-22

This is a short podcast about the resources available at local libraries. Comments or criticisms can be emailed to johninsc@myway.com.

Ep0666: Salvaging old Coleman lanterns and stoves

2011-02-21

This show discusses getting neglected lanterns/stoves back into running condition. It is not about restoring them to pretty, like-new, "shelf queen" condition. errata and clarifications, roughly timecoded @18mins - The little cup is to hold alcohol, which is burned to "prime" the system. The burning alcohol preheats the generator so the higher- flashpoint kero can ignite without drama. s/sided lantern/sided globe/g @19mins - s/possible/practical/ @20mins - varnish might be removed by sitting in fresh fuel, or more likely by sitting in 90% isopropyl or methanol. I filter the alcohol after use and use it to prime kero gear, as above. @27mins - the generator can get internally gummed up, particularly when running unleaded in a unit not designed for that. @29mins - black _body_ luminosity @30mins - might want to plug the air tube on a stored suitcase stove to block the progress of the aforementioned spiders. s/impermeable/impervious/ @33mins this isn't that unusual; stove/lantern fettlers skew older, demographically speaking links American Coleman forum: http://oldtownyucca.websitetoolbox.com/ European forum: http://www.spiritburner.com/fusion/index.php Fear the "turd": http://goo.gl/Q9seh Troubleshooting, [dis-]assembly, etc: Petromax lantern cutaway: http://goo.gl/yMEZG My page about picking a stove, including fuel selection: http://www.mousetrap.net/mouse/prep/whatstove.html Last completed: 1944 242c single mantle round globe http://goo.gl/zaXkT Current project: 1990 222b single mantle hiking lantern http://goo.gl/qddDn Sportster stove stored in a coffee can: http://goo.gl/u2aIo Parts for older gear: http://www.oldcolemanparts.com/home.php

Ep0665: Hacking the Craps Table

2011-02-18

How to play craps the proper way, using the odds to your advantage even if it's against conventional wisdom. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Craps_table_layout.svg

Ep0664: A Little Bit of Python: Episode 13

2011-02-17

A Little Bit of Python is an occasional podcast on all things Python. The four protagonists on the show are all core Python developers and members of the Python Software Foundation. They are: Michael Foord (author of IronPython in Action and maintainer of unittest), Andrew Kuchling (creator of PyCrypto and one of the python.org webmasters), Steve Holden (PSF chairman), Dr. Brett Cannon (author of importlib amongst other things) and Jesse Noller (maintainer of multiprocessing). Several topics are covered in this 40-minute episode: Python 2.7 beta 1 released. PEP 3147: New bytecode directory layout. Google's Summer of Code beginning. SEC proposes mandating Python's use in financial filings. PyCon interview: Dr Tim Couper How to Fund Python Development Python for Beginners: Getting started on Windows.

Ep0663: What is on your mp3 player

2011-02-16

errata and clarifications I use hpodder to catch podcasts. Great podcast client for hackers IMO; Easy to script and make it do what you want. I run it from a cronjob nightly. links Planet Money: http://goo.gl/KC7Fb rockbox: http://www.rockbox.org/ hpodder: http://jgoerzen.github.com/hpodder/ hpodder documentation: http://goo.gl/lTAyc Super Mono BT to redirect audio on Android: http://goo.gl/LYdZ4 Cyanogenmod: http://goo.gl/fUQ4

Ep0662: DD-WRT

2011-02-15

Apologies for the bad quality. I really was installing DD-WRT whilst recording, for the first time! I tried to tidy it up but it’s still fairly rough! Go the the DD-WRT website. Go to Router Database. Search for your Router (or one you might want to buy), in my case the Linksys WRT54GL from NewEgg (note: NOT a sponsored link and other shops are available). Read this stuff: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486 Notes: Initial flashing ‘Mini Generic’ via web interface. Give it at least 2 mins after reboot! Installation guide: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation Lifehacker article: http://lifehacker.com/178132/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router Short version: Plug in the router Install the mini-generic DD-WRT firmware Reboot the router if it doesn’t restart itself Install the full DD-WRT firmware. It should restart Enjoy the shininess of the new firmware! Reset the password and username! Thoughts. The router restarts itself when you flash the firmware, which is nice. If you change the IP of the router you may have to disconnect and reconnect the network through linux to force it to update the new IP address. Don’t forget like I did! To set up a Wii via Wi-Fi you need to set the router up as ‘Ad-Hoc’ else it doesn’t seem to show in the Wii menu. I had problems with my previous router being 192.168.1.1 and the DSL being 192.168.0.1 making me hard reset and set the details back up. Might be unrelated to this, however changing the IP to 192.168.10.1 for the router and keeping 192.168.0.1 for the DSL resolved this problem. It was pretty damn simple! At least a lot simple and faster then installing windows! Total time isn’t too long, but I’d recommend having a second router on hand (if you can) to keep internet access in case things go hairy!

Ep0661: War walking with smart phone

2011-02-14

War walking with smart phone quvmoh@gmail.com http://webword.com/moving/warchalking.html http://code.google.com/p/wardrive-android/ http://wigle.net/

Ep0660: An argument against emulators when retrocomputing

2011-02-11

I was moved by Ken Fallon's cry for submissions, so here's my first podcast: An argument against using emulators when retrocomputing. In short, there are some semi-intangible things you can't get from an emulator that you can only get from the real hardware, so use real hardware when you can. Examples contained within. Mentioned or hinted at on the show: Andrew Jenner's proposal to rewrite the CRTC emulation for MESS: http://www.reenigne.org/blog/crtc-emulation-for-mess/ Ian Bogost's work on adding more realistic display techniques to Stella, a 2600 emulator: http://www.bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator.shtml Send feedback, criticism, etc. to: trixter@oldskool.org

Ep0659: 10 Buck Review - Serenity

2011-02-10

Step into the verse where the signal can’t be stopped. http://tenbuckreview.net/2009/episode-5-serenity/

Ep0658: Music Management Consoles

2011-02-09

Degrees of Freedom is a podcast about Free-Libre Open Source Software brought to you by Courtney Schauer and me. We're still exploring goals and dreams for the show (in other words, the degrees of freedom are high) but we do know that the show will be bi-monthly (in the fortnight way, not the every two months way) and will start with reviews of different applications for GNU/Linux. Rhythmbox Songbird Gnome Music Project Banshee Amarok Miro Guayadeque Muine

Ep0657: HPR Video Proposal

2011-02-08

Myself and others would like to release video shows to acompany regular HPR shows. I am propsing this to the HPR audience and am looking for comments.

Ep0656: My first steps in recovering pictures

2011-02-07

This is my first podcast ever and I show you how easy it is to recover pictures from a dying disk. It's not high-tech as I found out (using the commands anyway). Links to the used tools and PartedMagic: Photorec (recover pictures and other files on havily dammaged filesystem) http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Ddrescue {fancy imaging-tool to get data from dammaged media} http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html PartedMagic http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start The switches I used in ddrescue as given in their documentation: ddrescue -f -n /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 logfile ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 logfile Please send feedback, advise, whatever to: sven@@noblanks.org

Ep0655: Read 'n Code - 2 Camus's The Plague and Reddit.com

2011-02-04

In this podcast I review the comments I received for the first one as well as bring the good news of the website being complete. Also, I go over a few quotes from The Plague by Albert Camus and compare it to the popular hacker news website, Reddit.com. More time is spent on the Read part than the Code part, but maybe that will even out in the future. It's easier to cover book quotes than code snippets from Erlang on a podcast.

Ep0654: Offline Filesharing

2011-02-03

Sorry about the coughing and stuttering, I'm fighting off a cold and am not a particularly strong speaker. NY Dead Drops http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/11/02/usb-ports-on-new-york-city%E2%80%99s-streets-plug-in-if-you-dare/ PirateBox http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox Droopy http://stackp.online.fr/?p=28

Ep0653: Intro to Black Box Testing

2011-02-02

Heisenbug and Cloud4 give a basic introduction to Black Box Testing. This is a first lesson of how to find problems or vulnerabilities in software without access to the source code, and explanation as to why companies and individuals should black box test products. Please email comments to littlecodemonkey@gmail.com.

Ep0652: Nameless Infosec Podcast Ep 1

2011-02-01

Introduction Who we are What this podcast is What we're working on Stories E-mail Spam Statistics http://bit.ly/g2WRny Hackers steal $150,000 with malicious job application http://bit.ly/f7b08z Kama Sutra Virus http://bit.ly/exZY8c The Disappearance of Dancho Danchev http://zd.net/hhVkAw More Problems With GSM? http://bit.ly/dTFg4y Botnets in 2011http://bit.ly/ihstA1 Conferences Shmoocon January 28th-30th Washington, D.C. http://www.shmoocon.org BSidesSF February 14-15 San Francisco, CA http://bit.ly/BSidesSF RSA February 14-18 San Francisco, CA http://www.rsaconference.com/ Indiana Linux Fest 2011 March 15-17 Indianapolis, IN http://www.indianalinux.org/ Outerz0ne 7 Atlanta, GA http://www.outerz0ne.org/ Closing Thoughts Witty Banter Where to find us: @biosshadow - http://www.biosshadow.com @jmstitt - http://squaringcircles.blogspot.com

Ep0651: HPR Community News 0x03

2011-01-30

New hosts Welcome to Dismal Science, N50 and Broam. Show Review 632 Droops:: Notebook Method for ADHD 633 Skirlet:: The Language Frontier Episode 1 634 klaatu:: Urban Camping ep 5 - finding food 635 Dismal Science:: Cloudy Predictions 636 pokey:: Kid3-qt 637 brother mouse:: Every Day Carry 643 droops:: Whats on my MP3 Player 644 N50:: The Plop Boot Loader and UNetbootin- A Great Team 645 Curbuntu and Baylee Juran:: The Dinosaur's Dilemma 647 brother mouse :: How I Got Into Linux 648 Ken Fallon:: Wput: a command-line ftp-client 649 Quvmoh and Phantom Hawk:: Doing your own auto repairs Podcasts by Phone Every listener is strongly encouraged to send us one contribution per year. In episode 636 pokey told us that his Mother also listens to the show from time to time To make it easy for everyone and anyone to contribute we now have call in lines US: +1-206-312-5749 UK: +44-203-432-5879 Please include your name and email address. DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE # SIGN AT THE END Thanks to Russ Woodman - K5TUX and Arron 'Finux' Finnon for making this possible. Automation and RSS feed RSS Feed: Delayed as it requires DB changes Website: Site update that will allow you to upload a show on the website. Syndicates Shows I'm running into some difficulties with how best to address syndicated shows and I'd appreciate your feedback. The background is that I'm trying to specify scheduling rules (http://hackerpublicradio.org/calendar.php) trying to been fair to everyone but also with a view to automating the task. I've taken the view that shows produced for HPR will get priority in the schedule before syndicated shows. This brings up the question of what is a syndicated shows. If a show is posted to a RSS feed before been posted to HPR then it would be considered to be a syndicated show. However we have had resubmission of a series that was on a podcast that faded so probably no one heard them. Are theses shows now syndicated or do I schedule them as HPR shows ? We have also had submissions from a host that posts to the HPR FTP server and their own feed at the same time. Because of the delay in HPR scheduling they come out later than their own RSS feed. So are these also now syndicated ? After hearing 635 Dismal Science:: Cloudy Predictions I was reminded that the speech Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing by A Speech given by Eben Moglen at a meeting of the Internet Society's New York branch on Feb 5, 2010 would be ideal for HPR. Then Fifty OneFifty emailed to say "I noticed there hadn't been any recordings from LUG meetings in a while. I thought you might want to ask for submissions where meetings or talks (from various fests) are already recorded." With the scheduling rules as they are at the moment, the syndicated don't ever get played. Time critical Scheduled Slots New Hosts HPR Content on a First in First Out basis. Syndicated shows on a First in First Out basis. On the other side I've had comments that the "Flood Gates" had been opened on the HPR feed. So thinking about it I was thinking of reserving Tuesday and Thursday for syndicated shows, LUG talks, Speeches and the like. Feedback to the mailing list http://hackerpublicradio.org/maillist Design Competition I would like to have some mini-business cards made. Go to http://kenfallon.com/?p=827 for more information. HPR Promotion Going Linux podcast re-purposed the "Tom Merritt" episode for their Christmas-break episode 124. Finux interviewed me on the first episode of his new podcasts Finux's Tech Weekly Dan and the lads at TLLTs have been pimping HPR all month. Linux Outlaws gave us a big plug on episode 187 Jonathan Nadeau over at Frost Cast for playing our promo Pokey has ordered the HPR stickers and thanks to Code Cruncher, Maia came to our rescue again. She uploaded all those shows to archive.org last month Mirrors Archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio Jason Scott's textfiles.com http://audio.textfiles.com/shows/hpr/ Other News Thanks Dave P. for point out that Caro.net link not working sp0rus has signed up for a "Nameless Infosec Podcast on the first Tuesday of the month. Stank tells us that there is already an icecast server set up and running so we can stream HPR shows Ilan Rabinovitch links to banners for scale 9 which is on between 2011/02/25 and 2011/02/27 If you have promotion banners please send them along and we'll add them to the site. I still haven't found a way to automate the upload to Archive.org - anyone want to investigate that ? We have a facebook group at hackerpublicradio.org/facebook

Ep0650: Dumpster Diving

2011-01-28

Dumpster Diving Cheapskate Computing Broam talks about how to obtain, clean, and rehabilitate computing equipment that others have thrown away, and shares a few stories.

Ep0649: Doing your own auto repairs

2011-01-27

Quvmoh and Phantom Hawk discuss doing your own auto repairs, getting help on forums and the infamous $50 paint job http://www.tirerack.com/index_w.jsp http://www.rickwrench.com/index79master.htm?http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40341

Ep0648: Wput: a command-line ftp-client

2011-01-26

Wput is a command-line ftp-client that looks like wget but instead of downloading, uploads files or whole directories to remote ftp-servers. Main Features wget-like interface TLS-encryption resuming speed-limit time-stamping (compares local and remote dates) proxy-support (socks5, http) i18n windows-compatibility Wput is a free utility that is able to upload files to a ftp-server. Wput is non−interactive and background-capable. It can upload files or whole directories and is meant to be a robust client even for unstable connections and will therefore retry to upload a file, if the connection broke. Wput supports resuming, so it automatically continues uploading from the point where the previous upload stopped, meaning that you can kill Wput anytime and it will (if the remote ftp−server supports this, being most likely the case) finish the partial uploaded file. Wput supports connections through proxies, allowing you to use it in an environment that can access the internet only via a proxy or to provide anonymity by hiding your ip−address to the server. For SOCKSv5−proxies Wput supports also listening mode, allowing you to use port-mode ftp through a proxy (useful if the remote ftp is behind a firewall or a gateway). Wput supports timestamping, so it will (in the ideal case and if timestamping is enabled) only upload files, that are newer than the remote-file. The upload-rate of Wput can be restricted, so that Wput won’t eat all available bandwidth. http://wput.sourceforge.net/ http://wput.sourceforge.net/wput.1.html

Ep0647: How I Got Into Linux

2011-01-25

Linux-specific content starts at the 15min mark. Until then is all the computer geekery that led up to my first linux exposure. Feel free to skip forward if you don't want to hear about old systems like the Commodores, TI, 5.25" floppies, FidoNet BBS, etc. URLs referenced in this episode FidoNet http://www.fidonet.org/ Apple data stored on audio cassette tape at 1200 baud: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=31 Xubuntu (w/xcfe lighter desktop environment): http://www.xubuntu.org/ fluxbox lightweight window manager: http://www.fluxbox.org Puppy linux: http://www.puppylinux.com/ Tiny Core - brutally small, not for beginners:: http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ antiX, a light distro: http://antix.mepis.org/ Linux on Eee or under virtualbox: http://muedemaus.blogspot.com/search/label/linux Clarifications and corrections: The Apple ][e setup I describe was almost exactly $2000. I still own the TI 99/4A and BASIC manual; I cranked it up a few years ago. The thing that sticks out is how terrible the keyboard is -- it's almost unusable but seemed fine at the time..

Ep0646: Do you need a carrier plan with Android

2011-01-24

My argument is that Android OS is so power that you do not need a phone or data plan with it. A simple WiFi connection will provide everything that you could ask for.

Ep0645: The Dinosaur's Dilemma

2011-01-21

Intro: Most of us grow into our computer knowledge gradually, starting because of an innate curiosity, figuring things out through trial and error, desiring to accomplish certain tasks, or just possessing a genetic predisposition to geekiness. But what would it be like as a non-geek to come from a non-technical background and be thrown into “the deep end of the pool,” challenging yourself to learn as much as you could from scratch, and to learn it all as quickly as you could? In Curbuntu’s first interview with “Baylee Juran,” a career public-school teacher (and self-described technological “dinosaur”), Baylee shares what motivated her to lay aside a comfortable, if frustrating, teaching paradigm in the hope of evolving into a 21st-Century instructor. (Note: No cockatiels were harmed in the recording of this interview.) Links: Books and websites mentioned— Making Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary by Danielle Babb and Jim Mirabella Where Baylee’s “second life” started: SecondLife Baylee’s website: TeaCupCoffeeHouse.com Technical notes: For those of you interested in contributing first-time episodes to HPR, this interview was recorded in Ubuntu 10.04.1 over Skype using Skype Call Recorder for Linux. (The version for “Ubuntu / Kubuntu 8/9, i386“ seems to work fine, even on the 64-bit, 10.04 version of the operating system.) Post-processing (e.g., editing, adding musical HPR intro & outro, normalization, exporting to MP3, etc.) was done with Audacity 1.3.12-beta. Audacity-generated MP3 meta-tags were verified with EasyTAG 1.2.6.

Ep0644: The Plop Boot Loader and UNetbootin- A Great Team

2011-01-20

Have you ever ran across older computers that did not have BIOS options to boot from USB? Are you tired of burning ISO discs all the time to install an operating system on machines like these? This episode could help you in reducing your collection of ISO discs down to one, and then using a single USB flash drive for all the rest of your needs. The software can be downloaded from the following sites: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Direct quotes about UNetbootin and the end music used in the show are referenced below: Sourceforge, N.D. (Designer). (2011). Introduction to unetbootin. [Web]. Retrieved from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ http://www.archive.org/details/Blind_Willie_Mctell-Statesboro

Ep0643: Whats on my MP3 Player

2011-01-19

Not all of it it tech, there is some history and some business thrown in there. If I do not listen your show, it is either too smart for me, to awesome for normal listening, or I do not know about it. Please tell me. Some of this can be found on http://Hackermedia.org, let me know what the site is missing. The big list: Anonymous Audio (http://anonymousaudio.com/) Common Sense with Dan Carlin (http://dancarlin.com/) Coverville (http://coverville.com/) Dan Carlins Hardcore History (http://dancarlin.com/) EuroTrash (http://www.eurotrashsecurity.eu) Flatland, a romance of many dimensions - (http://www.podiobooks.com/title/flatland) Freakonomics (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/) Hack Radio Live (http://www.hackradiolive.org/) Hacker Public Radio (http://hackerpublicradio.org/) Harvard Business Review Ideacast (http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/) NPR - Talk of the Nation (http://www.npr.org/programs/talk-of-the-nation/) NPR - From Scratch (http://www.npr.org/series/126166186/from-scratch) NPR - Planet Money (http://www.npr.org/money) NPR - Fresh Air (http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/) NPR - Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me (http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/) The Cotton Club (http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com) The Drill Down (http://thedrilldown.com/) The Moth (http://www.themoth.org/) This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) What Endures (http://oralhistory.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/) Radiolab (http://www.radiolab.org/) I did not mention a new show that I just started listening to that is pretty awesome and about photography, Tack Sharp (http://tacksharp.tv). http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0643.opml

Ep0642: Hacking Your Suburban Backyard with Chickens

2011-01-18

Remember that feeling you got when you compiled your first executable and ran that sucker? You can get that feeling again every time you reach in the nestbox and pull out a freshly laid egg from birds you tend with your own hands. "Roll your own" eggs, then "share and enjoy" the surplus. Topics covered: Chickens == biological glue code Benefits of backyard chickening Challenges and misconceptions What you need (hardware): coop or tractor, feeders/waterers, materials What you need (wetware): chicks v. pullets v. hens. Breeds: egg production, meat production, dual purpose, ornamentals Don't panic: things that freak out newbie chickeners Links Chicken selector: http://www.mypetchicken.com/chicken-breeds/which-breed-is-right-for-me.aspx Backyard Chickens forum: http://www.backyardchickens.com Wiki overview of chicken tractors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tractor Some other tractor ideas: http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractors.html Some pictures of my setup: http://s722.photobucket.com/albums/ww222/fratermus/chickens/

Ep0641: Urban Camping ep 7

2011-01-17

What does an urban camper do all day? Find out in this exciting seventh episode of the HOW TO be an Urban Camper mini series! Say, is that Irving Gillette and the lovely Ada Jones singing "In the Heart of the City That Has No Heart" at the end? Why yes! it is. But don't thank me, thank archive.org

Ep0640: About microphones

2011-01-14

Errata: Sample rate issues with previous shows. It's called sample rate not bit rate. Bit rate has to do with compression formats. Links for more information on mumble. Info on the new recording feature in mumble. http://mumble.sourceforge.net/1.2.3 Info on compiling Mumble from source. http://mumble.sourceforge.net/BuildingLinux A not very good walk-through on recording mumble output using pulse audio. http://files.kral.ws/Tobias/Gentoo/mumble-conference_record_with_pulseaudio_and_gstreamer.txt How does a microphone work? Condenser Phantom Power Dynamic Ribbon What does a microphone pre-amplifier do? What types of capture devices you can use? USB v1.0 vs. v2.0 PCI FireWire

Ep0639: Podcasts are not Radio

2011-01-13

Radio hosts and Podcasters have different goals and ways to go about them. Do not follow my example, but instead keep your podcasts all about the content.

Ep0638: Urban Camping ep 6

2011-01-12

Episode 6 of HOW TO be an Urban Camper. This one talks about making money whilst urban camping. End song is "Play or Give me my Money Back" by Michael Tokarick via archive.org

Ep0637: Every Day Carry

2011-01-11

In my youth I was an Eagle Scout and then a soldier so I tend to err on the side of overpreparedness. To keep this episode a manageable length I will only cover my on-the-body carry and leave discussion of packs, BOBs, car carry, etc for another day. Photo of items discussed: http://goo.gl/CuTew SAS Cricket dark safety glasses, usable as sunglasses: http://goo.gl/vXd9m Done Hume holsters of the type I describe: http://goo.gl/VqoHV A comparison of original and current Endura models: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiX5tqXD38I If you dislike the new Endura4 style you may want to consider the new Pacific Salt line; it appears to be based on the classic Endura. Corrections and Clarifications: The Scala 700 blinks by default, but the LED can be turned off. While streaming a2dp the Jabra 530 does blink briefly after button presses then stops. The Endura's blade is less than 4" from tip to handle, making it compliant with most pocketknife laws. Be sure to check your local laws and measure your blade including the tang, because a LEO might do the same. It has been said, wisely, "You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride."

Ep0636: Kid3-qt

2011-01-10

An id3 tag is meta-data attached to an audio file, and is (ideally) about the file to which it is attached. If you've ever tried to edit id3 tags through a media player, then you know what a pain that is. If you haven't... Well, now you never have to. Rejoice! Kid3-qt is an id3 tag editor, and it is awesome. The main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/ Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright The direct link to today's song is http://www.songfight.org/music/shreds/brickpig_shreds.mp3 Hacker Public Radio will have a table at the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest. Please come visit us to learn about contributing to HPR and for a free HPR sticker (while they last). You can also join in and help us out. If you're a contributor to HPR, represent. Please Join the Hacker Public Radio mailing list to keep up to speed on what we're doing. You can sign up for the HPR mailing list at http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org The main website for NELF is http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/ Thank you for listening. P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, I have probably included a few.

Ep0635: Cloudy Predictions

2011-01-07

A case against cloud computing. Migrate your mission critical applications to your own personal cloud. Thousands of engineers have donated software which allows you to host almost any application genre that you like; including but not limited to web mail, wikis, social bookmarking, blogs, storage and sync, etc. Contact me @ dismal.science.hpr AT gmail DOT com

Ep0634: Urban Camping ep 5

2011-01-06

The fifth episode in Klaatu's HOW TO be an Urban Camper mini series, about where to find food.

Ep0633: The Language Frontier Episode 1

2011-01-05

Skirlet introduces her new six-part miniseries, The Language Frontier. In this episode, she talks about the importance of language in everyday life, the media, ads, buzzwords, and more. Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis via aesdiopod. http://www.aesdiopod.com/thelanguagefrontier/hpr_TLF-1.ogg

Ep0632: Notebook Method for ADHD

2011-01-04

I recently graduated college and wanted to share a coping skill that I call the Notebook Method, it is used for organization and study.

Ep0631: HPR Community News 0x02

2011-01-03

Welcome New hosts guitarman, arfab, Ruji, and brother mouse Show Review 612 guitarman:: Urban cyclist - Commuting 613 JWP:: alternative investing and how the internet changes... 614 PipeManMusic:: Intro To Audio and Pod/Oggcasting 615 klaatu:: Urban Camping ep 2 616 Dave Yates:: Surfraw 617 Thistleweb:: So You Wanna Start A Band? 618 arfab:: Installing Windows XP in VirtualBox 619 KFive:: QSK: Episode 5: You're Driving Me Crazy 620 klaatu:: Klaatu holds an interview with Tek Systems 621 Dann:: Dann and CafeNinja Book Review: Ayn Rand's Atlas ... 622 janedoc:: Influenza 623 JWP:: nano editor 624 klaatu:: Urban Camping ep 3 625 pokey:: Network Cabeling at Resno's House 626 klaatu:: Urban Camping ep 4 627 Ruji:: From OS X to OS Whoredom to Linux 628 brother mouse:: Tasker - Automation for Android Devices 629 Ken Fallon::RSS 2.0 Specification with iTunes namespace 630 pokey:: HPR at the Northeast GNU-Linux Fest Other News Comments: All comments need to be approved which led to a 50% reduction in bandwidth. Captas have been disabled. A rewrite of comment system is needed. Comment feed behind P in HPR Searching for WAV versions of the intro/outro Ken was promoting HPR on the KnightWise KWTV LIVE 2010 : Day one. Hour 4 Special thanks to Miai who endured the pain of uploading all episodes from ep0001 to ep0620 to archive.org Mailing List News sigflup offered to put up an ice cast server to play hpr reruns and Dave Yates answered the call More talk about the new RSS feeds. I still need more feed back on the test RSS 2.0 feed Pokey has ordered a booth for North east linux fest and has ordered HPR stickers and is looking for help. Listen to episode hpr0630 for more information HPR TV - Droops want's to do TV on HPR - everyone seems to like the idea. More on this as it develops. Jason Scott of textfiles.com has offered to mirror hpr for us. A year in review We Published 131 of a possible 261 shows in 2010. We will need 260 shows for 2011 and so far we have 17 needless to say we need shows. There were 37 hosts. Contributing one show: tmacuk, Patrick L Archibald, Dave Yates, janedoc, Enigma, Roundtable, elel, thewtex, Johninsc, Thistleweb, Ruji, pegwole, cobra, FiftyOneFifty, Curbuntu, arfab, brother mouse, StankDawg, Flaviu Simihaian, guitarman, and Dann Contributing two shows: PipeManMusic, Quvmoh, Jared Mayes, and Urban Koistinen Contributing three shows: JWP, sp0rus, deepgeek Contributing four shows: lostnbronx, monsterb, and pokey Contributing five shows: Xoke Contributing seven shows: SigFlUP, and K5TUX Contributing eight shows: Drake Anubis Contributing ten shows: Ken Fallon Contributing eleven shows: Michael Foord Contributing thirteen shows: finux Contributing twenty shows: klaatu Droops has offered to help improve the site stats. Thank You ! Thanks to everyone who supported HPR in 2010 and have a great new year A word from our spammers Despite all the comments been approved our dedicated team of spammers continue to visit. Links http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11700546 http://hackerpublicradio.org/comments_viewer.php http://maia.enge.li/ http://hackerpublicradio.org/test.xml http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php

Ep0630: HPR at the Northeast GNU-Linux Fest

2010-12-31

Hacker Public Radio will have a table at the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest. Please come visit us to learn about contributing to HPR and for a free HPR sticker (while they last). You can also join in and help us out. If you're a contributor to HPR, represent. Please Join the Hacker Public Radio mailing list to keep up to speed on what we're doing. You can sign up for the HPR mailing list at http://hackerpublicradio.org/maillist The main website for NELF is http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/ The main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/ Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright The direct link to today's song is http://www.songfight.org/music/she_already_knows/barelyadequate_sak.mp3 Thank you for listening. P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, I have included a few.

Ep0629: RSS 2.0 Specification with iTunes namespace

2010-12-30

Like HTML, RSS is a form of XML and today we take a look at the RSS 2.0 specification specifically how that will relate to the Hacker Public Radio feed. RSS 2.0 is offered by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School under the terms of the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license. The author of this document is Dave Winer, founder of UserLand software, and fellow at Berkman Center. RSS 2.0 Specification iTunes RSS Name Space Tags Really Simple Syndication Best Practices Profile The W3C Feed Validation Service HPR test Feed http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile http://validator.w3.org/feed/ http://hackerpublicradio.org/test.xml http://www.w3schools.com/html/ http://www.w3schools.com/xml/ http://www.w3schools.com/rss/

Ep0628: Tasker - Automation for Android Devices

2010-12-29

This first attempt is about Tasker, an Android app that enables the user to tweak and automate the Android smartphone. I have no connection with the author but find the app endlessly useful. URLs Tasker site: http://tasker.dinglisch.net Tasker support: http://groups.google.com/group/tasker Tasker wiki: http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index My personal site: http://www.mousetrap.net/mouse/

Ep0627: From OS X to OS Whoredom to Linux

2010-12-28

Ruji tells her story of discovering FOSS and installing Sabayon Linux on a MacBook Pro. She also discusses Mac OS X, virtualization, and multimedia software. Links: Ruji's main site: http://rujic.net Ruji's image gallery: http://supposedly.rujic.net/lookwhaticando Musical guest Russian Paul's page: http://myspace.com/russianpaulband

Ep0626: Urban Camping ep 4

2010-12-27

The third episode in Klaatu's HOW TO be an Urban Camper mini series, about organization of your gear, and the eternal quest for the perfect coffee travel mug.

Ep0625: Network Cabeling at Resno's House

2010-12-24

Cabeling at home can be tricky. In this episode pokey and resno discuss some ways of creating a wired network in a residential space. Resno was kind enough to let us use his own home as the example for this discussion. The Main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/ Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright The direct link to today's song is http://www.songfight.org/music/tw3rp/anarchaeologists_tw3rp.mp3 P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, we have included a few.

Ep0624: Urban Camping ep 3

2010-12-23

The third episode in Klaatu's HOW TO be an Urban Camper mini series, about the always engrossing topic of personal hygiene.

Ep0623: nano editor

2010-12-22

JWP Aurthor Nano is a lot like Pico which is included as the editor in pine. It uses the Control key to execute commands and is very easy to use. http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/faq.html http://www.nano-editor.org/ Also be sure to donate to Wikipedia. Show notes at http://jwp5.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/what-is-nano/

Ep0622: Influenza

2010-12-21

I discuss the biology, signs, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of influenza. http://www.cdc.gov is also a good place to go for information on inflluenza and has the latest information on influenza's spread.

Ep0621: Dann and CafeNinja Book Review: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

2010-12-20

Dann and CafeNinja provide a synopsis of the book and then discuss the points of objectivism in relation to historical, political, and personal impact. A good time had by all. References Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Objectivism - The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Ayn Rand on Wikipedia Atlas Shrugged the Website Dann's Notes for this episode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand http://www.atlasshrugged.com http://www.thelinuxlink.net/~dann/atlas_shrugged_review.txt

Ep0620: Klaatu holds an interview with Tek Systems

2010-12-17

Klaatu talks to Tek Systems at SELF 2010. Listen to the ogg vorbis version courtesy of the Bad Applez.

Ep0619: QSK: Episode 5: You're Driving Me Crazy

2010-12-16

In this episode of the QSK Netcast, your hero takes his road rage into the netcast arena. With a top-ten list of bad driving buffoonery to choose from, I stand on my soapbox for an entire episode and spout off to my heart's content. Be warned, the explicit tag on this episode means EXPLICIT. No two ways about it. It just so happens that when I'm passionate about something, I don't hold anything back. Please enjoy this latest episode and tell all your friends about the show. Don't forget to send feedback, too. I'd love to hear what you think.

Ep0618: Installing Windows XP in VirtualBox

2010-12-15

I use GNU/Linux for everything except one program that I need for work. Even the odd Windows games I've played run nicely in wine now, but not this. I have looked for Open Source alternatives but so far have not come across anything I can use in the same way so that means I have to have an install of Windows on hand just for this one purpose. In this podcast I am talking through setting up a virtual machine using VirtualBox, and installing Windows XP on that virtual machine. If you would like me to make further episodes on this topic, maybe installing a different OS, or how to tweak this WinXP install once it is up and running then please drop me a line either on Twitter or identi.ca; I am @arfab; or email me on: arfab@lavabit.com

Ep0617: So You Wanna Start A Band?

2010-12-14

Many people only think about it from the fans perspective, without realizing the different steps it's taken to get to them. ThistleWeb talks about the current copyright cartel thinking in how it affects musicians. The same people who claim to speak on behalf of artists, lobby to enshrine laws supposedly for the artists. He talks through the process of starting a band and how often these laws crop up forcing the next generation of musicians to spend a LOT of money to stay legal, or be criminalized. Staying legal means coughing up to maintain the status quo. He ends with a brief comparison of how things can work under a Creative Commons license. He forgot to mention the parallels with the Musicians Guild in Discworld by Terry Pratchett, who send the assassins in to deal with people who think they can play music without being paid members of the Guild.

Ep0616: Surfraw

2010-12-13

Surfraw: Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web About Surfraw Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.

Ep0615: Urban Camping ep 2

2010-12-10

The second episode in the HOW TO be an Urban Camper mini series. This one covers finding shelter, things to look out for, scouting out the neighborhood, police and other thugs, and where not to stay.. End song excerpt by the Princess Orchestra, courtesy archive.org

Ep0614: Intro To Audio and Pod/Oggcasting

2010-12-09

In this show we talk about what sound is and how we represent it digitally. * A sine wave * Analog to digital conversion o Chopping it up. (Bit rate) o How big is each slice. (Bit depth) o What is a WAV and what is a broadcast WAV. o What is a codec o Lossless audio codecs o Lossy audio codecs http://opensourcemusician.com irc.freenode.net #opensourcemusicians

Ep0613: alternative investing and how the internet changes the game

2010-12-08

Shownotes from http://jwp5.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/alternative-investing-and-how-the-internet-changes-the-game/ For My hacker Public Radio spot.Recently, I had a chance to review about 30 years of my investing and savings.Being a live long member of the save 10% club and having been debt free for a number years I thought I needed a review. Having been in the military I had picked almost all the wrong kinds of things to invest in in the pre-internet era that one could think of.A few years ago when Ron Paul was running for President.I stumbled upon his web site.Having shared many views with Mr. Paul and him being a small town doctor from Texas. I was very interested in what he invested in.I read that he had about 50% of his assets in hard assets like Gold Coins and the rest T bills.Of course he was debt free and owned his home and land out right as well. I use Etrade and I am slowy moving the mistakes of the Army.Its just hard to get in touch with folks that deal with paper. The reason I like Etrade so much is that they show the total loss or gain each investment right away. No guessing you can see it.You also pay as you go with them and it is very clear what you have to pay in total fee’s. I like the treasury direct site as well. But what really interested me.Is what is coming. And this is the Hacker part of that really says wow.I have been a user of pay pal for a long time.I have a German and American account with them and find its a great way to move dollars to euros with out a lot of over the top fees.Most people do not think about having two types of money but I assure you the dollar is not worth very much today vs. the Euro.Which is great for American Jobs. Being a Pay Pal user I a saw this Microplace site they have.I used my pay pal ID and it worked.There was no tricks or anything. You make a small loan to women in south texas or coco farms in the islands and they really pay you back.I have done it for a few years and it made feel a lot better about sharing my money and getting a fair return. I also look into owning a share of Windmill or truck or locomotive but the incoming costs are pretty high. About 15K to starting in Germany to own a share of ship or locomotive. I like this because its a set investment a train that works in the Hamburg harbor and its there you can go and see it on your web cam and see it work. It pays back your entire principle over the 30 years of its life and it pays a share of the profit for that year. I have not found very many American investments like that. But have heard that some Oil trusts can do that. Can I have a web cam of it working would be a qualifying point for me. Well enjoy and thank about it.Keep it simple if you do save and watch fee’s.The younger you start the easier it is.And do not borrow money with credit cards or by car with credit or buy home unless you put 20% down. Would be the only other advice.I read book one time about wealthy barber and another about a guy who saved three years living expenses.I used much from both. The one that really changed my life was when I had the living expenses worked out.It changed how I felt about my Boss and what I would be willing do a lot. The spirit to take chance also came from that. In any case I am off enjoy and be safe.

Ep0612: Urban cyclist - Commuting

2010-12-07

Intro - I am guitarman in IRC, got the nick from a Jerry Reid song which Elvis borrowed - just liked the lyrics and the performance. Not a health Nut, Nor an Expert on bike repair but do cycle every day and have for over 2.5 years. Complete show notes http://hackerpublicradio.org/shownotes/hpr0612.html

Ep0611: HPR Community News 0x01

2010-12-06

HPR News 0x01 Welcome New hosts Show Review Promo played on shows Fixed comment spam RSS feed link to episode The great ogg debate Archive.org Hpr Submission Policy README.txt Calendar Syndication Requested Topics Other News A word from our Spammers Full shownotes at http://hackerpublicradio.org/shownotes/hpr0611.html

Ep0610: First Robotics Competition

2010-12-03

First Robotics Competition First & the FRC Dean, Woodie, DLavery Construction season Competitions, matches, awards History & origin My involvement Your involvement Useful links FIRST -- For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology (usfirst.org) Info to get involved List of events Geographical search to find teams & events near you Archieved competition info mayesja (at) gmail

Ep0609: I Blame Tom Merritt

2010-12-02

After more than a year of using Linux, Curbuntu shares some of the "why's" behind his switch. Although they are "ancient history," if a listener is curious about the CNet episodes in which Tom Merritt mentioned Ubuntu, the video links are here: 2006-09-18: Try a Free Operating System 2007-07-26: Install Ubuntu on Linux with no muss or fuss 2008-03-21: Run Ubuntu Linux on a USB drive

Ep0608: sp0rus: My Linux Experience

2010-12-01

My experience with Linux: distros I've used and currently use, and where I plan on going from here.

Ep0607: Klaatu talks to Rebecca from bueda.com

2010-11-30

Klaatu talks to Rebecca from bueda.com about the Semantic Web, social networking, privacy and the internet, hipsters, and hipster boxing. Want to hear all of this in the free codec ogg vorbis? get it from the good folks over at the Gnu World order

Ep0606: Thread_Repair

2010-11-29

Not all threads are perfect, but they can be. Hackers sometimes become makers, and makers sometimes use threaded fasteners. Fasteners sometimes need a little TLC before they can serve you as well as you'd like. Also Whiskey pairs surprisingly well with Cheez-its® and Play-Doh®. If any of this sounds familiar, then this episode is for you. The Main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/ Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright The direct link to today's song is http://songfightorg.dreamhosters.com/music/outside_paradise/andrewayers+guest_op.mp3 P.S. Some people enjoy finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, I have included a few.

Ep0605: How I found Linux

2010-11-26

This is a short podcast on how I found linux.

Ep0604: Community Run Projects

2010-11-25

Links to projects talked about: - Free Rainbow Tables http://www.freerainbowtables.com - Boinc http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php - Archive Team http://www.archiveteam.org http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities - Security B-Sides http://www.securitybsides.com - Infosec Mentors Project http://infosecmentors.com - Hackerspaces http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ https://makerslocal.org/ - Open Source Software Projects http://sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/ - Code Raid http://www.reddit.com/r/coderaid You can find sp0rus at his blog http://www.squaringcircles.blogspot.com on twitter @jmstitt and on IRC.

Ep0603: QSK Episode 4: AM vs. FM

2010-11-24

After a discussion on IRC that I've had several times before over the past few years, I decided to put my thoughts on the difference between AM and FM radio into a podcast. This talk gets a little bit technical but I think it's easy enough for the average listener to follow. Thank you, Linux Basement, for mentioning the show. I really appreciate it!

Ep0602: Urban Camping ep 1

2010-11-23

Klaatu's first episode in his HOW TO be an Urban Camper mini series. Trombone sample from freesound.org catalogue number 73581 End song by Jimmy Rogers, courtesy archive.org

Ep0601: A community icecast and mumble server for recording podcasts

2010-11-22

In this show I talk about the new icecast and mumble server that I have made available to FLOSS/Hacker pod/oggcaster dworth a opensourcemusician.com http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com http://live.opensourcemusician.com

Ep0600: Handling spam

2010-11-19

Xoke gives us tips on How to handle spam

Ep0599: Interview with Rudi van Drunen on IPv6

2010-11-18

An interview with Rudi van Drunen at LISA 2010, the Large Installation Systems Administration conference in San Jose, CA. Rudi discusses the past, present and future of IPv6, how soon we as a community will need to implement it, and the benefits and drawbacks of the new Internet numbering scheme.

Ep0598: Bash Scripting: Episode 2 Command Line Basics

2010-11-17

In the second installment Ken resolves to not do any work and so get's permission from Chess Griffin to reuse extracts from Linux Reality Episode 14 - Command Line Basics May 17, 2006 http://www.linuxreality.com/archives.php#14 Shownotes can be found at http://hackerpublicradio.org/shownotes/hpr0598.html

Ep0597: QSK Episode 3: Old and in the Way

2010-11-16

QSK: Episode 3 of QSK is a rantcast. Cheryl, my significant other, and I ruminate on the state of motor vehicle licensing in the world, how ridiculous the situation has gotten and what we're planning on doing about it. This one is a fun ride, so sit back and enjoy the total lack of political correctness. We did.

Ep0596: The Importance of Community

2010-11-15

Speaking on the importance of the community in hacker culture, and how the community has affected my life. You can find sp0rus at his blog http://www.squaringcircles.blogspot.com and on IRC.

Ep0595: Read 'n Code - 1 Seneca and Python

2010-11-12

This is the first episode of the Read 'n Code podcast, the only podcast about literature and computer programming. In this episode we will take a look at Letters from a Stoic by Seneca and the Zen of Python by Tim Peters.

Ep0594: Using FFMPEG To Convert Video Shot With An Android Phone

2010-11-11

This episode comes with detailed shownotes which can be found on the hpr site http://hackerpublicradio.org/shownotes/hpr0594.html

Ep0593: My Linux Experience

2010-11-10

What got me into linux. Running linux at home and stuff I use. Some linux at work. Other linux experiences. mayesja (at) gmail.com

Ep0592: FOSScon: An interview with CrissiD and Charles

2010-11-09

Klaatu interviews CrissiD and Charles, two organizers of FOSScon 2010. Listen to the ogg vorbis version of this interview courtesy your friends at the Bad Apples GNU Linux Oggcast. http://www.fosscon.org http://www.thebadapples.info/audiophile/hpr_fosscon2010.ogg http://www.thebadapples.info

Ep0591: sdf and openvms deathrow

2010-11-08

first I wanted to share my contact information. and my rss feed to my show http://jwplinux.libsyn.com/rss I wanted to talk about two places that really helped me in learning about the command line. Both do not run linux one runs net bsd and the other runs open vms. Both are so geeky you need to beat it away with a stick. I use really often and have learned so much from the use of sdf public access unix system. It was first done up in 1987 and I really like it. I saw it once in Seatle it is great thing to view. If you liked the old compuserve you are going to love this place. Its free but if you donate I think 10 bucks you get a lot more out of it. The second place is death row vms I did a pod cast with bev a while back and its agreat place to do unix. its based on open vms which if you can not love it you must hate cute kittens to. Bev has a lot compilers there which can save you so bucks. Free raid storage at both places. free email at both places free IRC at both places# A lot that geeks like at both places http://www.sdf.org/ http://deathrow.vistech.net/

Ep0590: QSK Episode 2: MP3 v. OGG

2010-11-05

Thanks to Klaatu for coming on board tonight to talk about the debate over software patents and the MP3 format vs. Open Source audio codecs like OGG. The audio leaves a little bit to be desired but everything is understandable. Please tell everyone about the netcast. Thanks for listening and hope to have you back for Episode 3.

Ep0589: DownThemAll SongFight and a Song

2010-11-04

DownThemAll can be found at http://www.downthemall.net/ or search for DownThemAll in FireFox under Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons The Main website for Song Fight is http://songfight.org/ Song Fight's official stance on Copyright may be found at http://songfight.org/faq.html#copyright The direct link to today's song is http://www.songfight.org/music/the_proposal/bradsucks_tp.mp3 Brad Sucks is "a one man band with no fans." To hear more of Brad's excellent music, please visit

Ep0588: Klaatu interviews Brian Smith from dns.com

2010-11-03

Klaatu An interview with Brian Smith SELF Interviews Klaatu interviews Brian Smith from dns.com. Listen to the ogg vorbis version of this interview courtesy your friends at the Bad Apples GNU Linux Oggcast.

Ep0587: HPR Community News

2010-11-02

In this show we look behind the scenes at HPR. Giving details of what has changed over the last month.

Ep0586: Miscellaneous Radio Theater 4096- The Internet is For Porn

2010-11-01

In this episode of Miscellaneous Radio Theater 4096 SigFLUP offers a much needed criticism of the popular internet meme, The Internet is For Porn

Ep0585: QSK1: Devil in the Details

2010-10-29

This is the very first episode of the QSK Netcast. I want to thank everyone who supports podcasting, netcasting, Internet broadcasting or whatever you want to call it. I also want to thank all those who believe in Open Source, who strive to mentor with every breath and who believe the world is a better place with more knowledge in it. Please have a listen to my latest effort and send me feedback using the contact form or by leaving comments on the Web site. You can also call the show at 417-200-4811 and press the option for QSK Netcast. I really want to hear from you: Your likes, your dislikes, your requests, your questions--whatever. Just remember, it can only get better from here.

Ep0584: A Little Bit of Python: 12 Global Interpreter Lock; Concurrency

2010-10-28

A Little Bit of Python is an occasional podcast on all things Python. The four protagonists on the show are all core Python developers and members of the Python Software Foundation. They are: Michael Foord (author of IronPython in Action and maintainer of unittest), Andrew Kuchling (creator of PyCrypto and one of the python.org webmasters), Steve Holden (PSF chairman), Dr. Brett Cannon (author of importlib amongst other things) and Jesse Noller (maintainer of multiprocessing). We discuss the significance of the Global Interpreter Lock (or GIL) and recent work at improving it, PEP 3148 proposing futures as a new asynchronous execution method, some recent IronPython work, and a new Python podcast.

Ep0583: An interview with Alan Hicks

2010-10-27

Klaatu interviews Alan Hicks of Slackbook and the Slackware team about SELF 2010, Slackware 13.1, encryption, and the wifis Listen to the ogg vorbis version of this episode courtesy of teh Bad Applez.

Ep0582: Talk Geek To Me #23:Interview:Ken Fallon

2010-10-26

In this brief interview, Ken Fallon talks to me about reviving the podfaded Hacker Public Radio (hpr,) and using the right tools for the right job when it comes to building something on the interwebs.

Ep0581: Open Source Games and the community

2010-10-25

A presentation from Software Freedom Day Event 2009 organised by the UAD Linux Society, Hannah Maclure Centre, and the Tayside Linux Users Group. This talk is by Phillip Geyer and is about Open Source Games and the community.

Ep0580: Hacker Public Radio Panel at Ohio Linux Fest 2010

2010-10-22

Listen!! to the Hacker Public Radio panel at the Ohio Linux Fest held in September 2010. Panelists include Klaatu, Dave Yates, SigFLUP, Lord Drachenblut and Dann Washko.

Ep0579: Interview with Jeff and Loafy, two SELF volunteers

2010-10-21

Klaatu talks to Jeff and Loafy, two volunteers at SELF 2010. For the ogg version, click riiiight here.

Ep0578: Open Source Security Concepts

2010-10-20

A presentation from Software Freedom Day Event 2009 organised by the UAD Linux Society, Hannah Maclure Centre, and the Tayside Linux Users Group. This talk is by Nick Walker and is about Open Source Security Concepts.

Ep0577: Episode 11.Bit-of-Python-2010-04-07

2010-10-19

A Little Bit of Python is an occasional podcast on all things Python. The four protagonists on the show are all core Python developers and members of the Python Software Foundation. They are: Michael Foord (author of IronPython in Action and maintainer of unittest), Andrew Kuchling (creator of PyCrypto and one of the python.org webmasters), Steve Holden (PSF chairman), Dr. Brett Cannon (author of importlib amongst other things) and Jesse Noller (maintainer of multiprocessing). Episode 11.Bit-of-Python-2010-04-07 Interview with Antoine Pitrou An interview recorded at PyCon 2010, Atlanta, with Antoine Pitrou. Antoine Pitrou is the core CPython developer responsible for creating the "new-GIL".

Ep0576: Interview with HeathenX

2010-10-18

Klaatu, at the Ohio Linux Fest 2009, interviews HeathenX from the screencasters about art on Linux, Inkscape, GIMP, multi-platform applications, and more. The ogg version provided by The Bad Apples.

Ep0575: Free and open source software on windows

2010-10-15

A presentation from Software Freedom Day Event 2009 organised by the UAD Linux Society, Hannah Maclure Centre, and the Tayside Linux Users Group. This talk is by Robert McWilliam and is about using Free and Open Source Software for Windows.

Ep0574: Interview with Maco

2010-10-06

Klaatu interviews Maco about her new Sign Language Tutor application, Gally, as well as why Qt and KDE are better than all the rest, plus Ubuntu Women and women in computing, Linux and security, and some other stuff. Listen to this episode in ogg vorbis courtesy the Bad Applez.

Ep0573: Linux in a Ham Shack

2010-09-24

Ep0572: Interview with Mark Zareason

2010-09-21

p>Klaatu talks to Mark from Zareason. Wanna hear this episode in ogg? Sure ya do!

Ep0571: Hack Radio Live 9

2010-09-15

For complete show notes please visit hackradiolive.org DIY radar

Ep0570: New google privacy policy

2010-09-11

googles new privacy policy

Ep0569: Win7

2010-09-11

Xoke talks about installing Win7 ultimate edition in VMware

Ep0568: Hack Radio Live 7

2010-09-08

Enigma and drake talk about Mythtv

Ep0567: Miscellaneous Radio Theater 4096 2,

2010-09-02

Join SigFLUP, Cyrpto, Zack and friends in a tour of the U of M Supercomputer Center! Pictures of the event can be found here: http://hobones.dogsoft.net/sup

Ep0566: Shotgun

2010-08-21

SHOTGUN Hyper-Scheduling For Maximum Effect follow the progress of this likely-ineffective experiment gopher://gopher.info-underground.net/1/lostnbronx/lostnblog

Ep0565: Hack Radio Live 6

2010-08-21

For complete show notes please visit hackradiolive.org Scanners, Scanners and more Scanners with Drake and Enigma

Ep0564: robomofo

2010-08-14

shownotes at http://mmmccormick.com/hardware/robomofo/robomofo.html

Ep0563: Hack Radio Live 5

2010-08-12

For complete show notes please visit hackradiolive.org No set topic for this show Enigma and Drake talk about whatever is on their minds.

Ep0562: Introduction to bash scripting

2010-08-11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface A list of "Hello World" programs in many different computer languages: http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm For Windows: Editor: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Bash (and more): http://x.cygwin.com/ (run setup, and selecting the 'xinit' package from the 'X11' category.) $ echo '#!/bin/bash' > hello.bash $ echo "echo hello world" >> hello.bash $ cat hello.bash #!/bin/bash echo hello world $ chmod +x hello.bash $ ./hello.bash hello world feedback-(a)-kenfallon.com More information http://www.kenfallon.com

Ep0561: Hack Radio Live 4

2010-08-04

For complete show notes please visit hackradiolive.org Drake discusses the WEP and WEP based cracking.

Ep0560: Old soldiers

2010-08-02

Podcasting, Podfading, and Ordinary Voices Saying Extraordinary Things Music in this episode: "Test Drive" by Zapac Available at ccmixter.org Script for this episode available on my gopherspace: gopher://gopher.info-underground.net/1/lostnbronx/

Ep0559: Hack Radio Live 3

2010-07-28

For complete show notes please visit hackradiolive.org Enigma discusses basic security concepts

Ep0558: xscreensaver

2010-07-21

Shownotes: http://www.kenfallon.com xscreensaver howto: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#9 Commands: vi .kde/Autostart/xscreensaver.desktop sudo cp /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker

Ep0557: Hack Radio Live 2

2010-07-20

For complete show notes please visit hackradiolive.org Story time with Drake and Enigma

Ep0556: Basekamp Interview

2010-07-18

Klaatu talks to Meg and Scott from Basekamp.com about possible art worlds, free culture, free software, economics, social organization, collaboration, and a lot more. Find the ogg version courtesy your friends at the bad applez.

Ep0555: Hack Radio Live 1

2010-07-13

For complete show notes please visit hackradiolive.org In this pilot, Drake and Enigma discuss WiiRD.

Ep0554: Wireless

2010-07-13

Xoke talks about wireless access points in his home

Ep0553: interview with celesteLynPaul

2010-07-10

klaatu interviews celesteLynPaul of the KDE project

Ep0552: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio 5

2010-07-08

In this episode we talk to Krue about his flash-cart and then to Mat Jones about his web-framework and work in D. Links include: BatchPCB: http://batchpcb.com/index.php/Products/24239 http://batchpcb.com/index.php/Products/23319 AtariMax Flash Cart: http://atarimax.com/usbcoleco/documentation/ All USB specifications can be downloaded from: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Krue's site: http://krue.net/ Mat's site: http://workhorsy.org

Ep0551: Interview with Wendy Seltzer

2010-07-01

another interview from klaatu at SELF 2010

Ep0550: Interview with jledbetter

2010-06-25

klaatu interviews jledbetter a java developer

Ep0549: Interview with Richard Jones

2010-06-17

10.Bit-of-Python-2010-03-24 Interview with Richard Jones Richard Jones organizes the PyWeek game programming challenge. Richard and Andrew discuss how the challenge is run, what sort of games people write, and the libraries that are used.

Ep0548: How to Prevent Spam

2010-06-14

Xoke talks about spam and how to prevent it.

Ep0547: openCSW Interview

2010-06-07

Klaatu talks to Philip Brown of the openCSW project about Solaris, SunOS, portability and code, and lots more. You may also listen to this episode in glorious ogg vorbis. Word up! the anti-talkshoe producers of this episode: Timrit and cobra2

Ep0546: Shot of Hack – Changing the time offset of a series of photos

2010-06-03

The problem: You have a series of photos where the time is offset from the correct time but is still correct in relation to each other. Here are a few of the times that I’ve needed to do this: - Changing the battery on my camera switched to a default date. - I wanted to synchronize the time on my camera to a GPS track so the photos matched the timestamped coordinates. - At a family event where images from different cameras were added together. You can do edit the timestamp using a GUI and many photo manipulation applications like the GIMP support metadata editing. For example on KDE: gwenview -> plugins -> images -> metadata -> edit EXIF The problem is that this gets tiresome after a few images, and anyway the times are correct in relation to each other – I just need to add or subtract a time correction to them en masse. The answer: exiv2 – Image metadata manipulation tool. It is a program to read and write Exif, IPTC and XMP image metadata and image comments. user@pc:~$ exiv2 *.jpg File name : test.jpg File size : 323818 Bytes MIME type : image/jpeg Image size : 1280 x 960 Camera make : FUJIFILM Camera model : MX-1200 Image timestamp : 2008:12:07 15:12:59 Image number : Exposure time : 1/64 s Aperture : F4.5 Exposure bias : 0 EV Flash : Fired Flash bias : Focal length : 5.8 mm Subject distance: ISO speed : 160 Exposure mode : Auto Metering mode : Multi-segment Macro mode : Image quality : Exif Resolution : 1280 x 960 White balance : Thumbnail : image/jpeg, 5950 Bytes Copyright : Exif comment : The trick is to pick a image where you can that figure out what the time was and work out the time offset. In my case I needed to adjust the date forward by six months and four days while changing the time back by seven hours. I used the command exiv2 -O 6 -D 4 -a -7 *.jpg -a time Time adjustment in the format [-]HH[:MM[:SS]]. This option is only used with the 'adjust' action. Examples: 1 adds one hour, 1:01 adds one hour and one minute, -0:00:30 subtracts 30 seconds. -Y yrs Time adjustment by a positive or negative number of years, for the 'adjust' action. -O mon Time adjustment by a positive or negative number of months, for the 'adjust' action. -D day Time adjustment by a positive or negative number of days, for the 'adjust' action. When we run this we can see that the timestamp has now changed. user@pc:~$ exiv2 *.jpg | grep timestamp Image timestamp : 2009:06:11 08:12:59 That’s it. Remember this is the end of the conversation – to give feedback you can either record a show for the HPR network and email it to admin@hackerpublicradio.org or write it on a post-it note and attach it to the windscreen of Dave Yates’s car as he’s recording his next show. http://www.hackerpublicradio.org http://kenfallon.com/?cat=12

Ep0545: Little Bit of python episode nine

2010-06-03

9.Bit-of-Python-2010-03-22 Bits of News We discuss a variety of recent news items: some recent CPython changes, the new PyPy 1.2 release, crypto support and Debian packaging for IronPython, the PyWeek game programming contest, upcoming conference plans, and upcoming podcast plans.

Ep0544: HPR: A private data cloud

2010-05-28

LINKS: Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf Nas solutions http://www.drobo.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage Clowd Solutions https://one.ubuntu.com/ https://www.dropbox.com/ http://www.carbonitepro.com/ProPricing.aspx Rsync http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_net Setting up the sshkey http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/ Getting a well known url for your changing home IP address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS Cron howto http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0507 http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-the-mail-alert-by-crontab-command/ Sponsored Podcast http://screencasters.heathenx.org/

Ep0543: Xoke's Podcasting Script

2010-05-24

Xoke talks about his podcasting script that is available on xoke.org

Ep0542: Little Bit of Python Episode 8

2010-05-18

Episode 8.Bit-of-Python-2010-03-20 Interview: Mark Shuttleworth Steve Holden interviews Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project and a keynote speaker at PyCon 2010.

Ep0541: Interview with Moxie Marlinspike

2010-05-12

finux and the Tracsec guys interview Moxie Marlinspike

Ep0540: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio 04

2010-05-05

HEELLLLLOOOO!!!!! In this episode of the Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio sigflup releases a couple of things and talks with cobra2 of unixporn.com and Command Line of the Command Line Podcast. you may email the Uber Leet Hacker Force at pantsbutt@gmail.com and visit our web-site at http://uberleethackerforce.deepgeek.us

Ep0539: Little Bit of Python Episode 7

2010-04-30

Episode 7.Bit-of-Python-2010-03-15 Unladen Swallow PEP 3146 proposes that the Unladen Swallow branch, which adds a just-in-time compiler to Python, be merged into the main Python repository. We discuss what Unladen Swallow does, and what impact it's likely to have.

Ep0538: asterisk-cast

2010-04-19

cobra2's asterisk-cast

Ep0537: Episode 6.Bit-of-Python

2010-04-16

Episode 6.Bit-of-Python-2010-03-10 Interview: Van Lindberg Michael Foord interviews Van Lindberg, conference chair for PyCon 2010 in Atlanta GA, on the success of the conference, plans for the 2011 Atlanta conference, and his work as an intellectual-property lawyer.

Ep0536: Spud Guns

2010-04-13

Websites listed: http://spudtech.com/ http://spudfiles.com/ http://www.advancedspuds.com/ Books: Backyard Balistics by Wiliam Gurstelle Gun plans: http://www.advancedspuds.com/gunplans.htm

Ep0535: New Features in Python 2.7

2010-04-06

Episode 5.Bit-of-Python-2010-02-10 New Features in Python 2.7 We discuss some of the new features coming in Python 2.7.

Ep0534: Mercurial Transition and comments on the Python Package Index

2010-04-03

Mercurial Transition / Python 2.7 alpha 1 / Comments on the Python Package Index We cover the status of the transition to using Mercurial for the Python source code, the first alpha release of Python 2.7, and the recent controversy over adding commenting to the Python Package Index.

Ep0533: Professional Certs versus Hacker Degree

2010-03-30

Finux's Tracsec segement about Professional Certs Versus Hacking Degree

Ep0532: Ubuntu interview

2010-03-29

Patrick L Archibald interviews her sister Wynn Godbold who recently starting using Ubuntu Linux. She is a kindergarten teacher in SC. They talk about her experience as a new Linux user. The also discuss open source adoption in the education field. At times it sounds unintentionally like an Ubuntu promo but there are some good snippets in the interview.

Ep0531: bash loops

2010-03-24

user@pc:~$ for number in 1 2 3 > do > echo my number is $number > done my number is 1 my number is 2 my number is 3 user@pc:~$ for number in 1 2 3 ; do echo my number is $number; done my number is 1 my number is 2 my number is 3 user@pc:~$ cat x.txt|while read line;do echo $line;done one-long-line-with-no-spaces one ling line with spaces user@pc:~$ for line in `cat x.txt`;do echo $line;done one

Ep0530: Setting up the samson C01u in linux

2010-03-18

pegwole explains how to set up the samson C01u in linux

Ep0529: Interview with Peterwood

2010-03-16

finux and the tracsec crew interview Peter wood

Ep0528: Bordless Networking

2010-03-11

Robert Laymans Borderless networking talk

Ep0527: HPR RoundTable 9

2010-03-09

The roundtable discussesthe low budget (no budget?) science fiction film "Infest Wisely", available from the Internet Archive at: http://www.archive.org/details/InfestWisely

Ep0526: Interview with a whitehat

2010-03-08

Finux interviews TmacUK

Ep0525: Seccubus

2010-03-05

Frank, Jason and Secubuss - HPR spreading the word The first show is a continuation for a previous show http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0467 Frank Breedijk, asked HPR listeners to supply him name suggestions for his security assessment tool, autonessus. One of HPR listeners supplied him a name which he liked and now the project is known as Seccubus. The show is an interview with both Frank and the fellow that supplied the name Jason.

Ep0524: TiT Radio 019 - interview with sigFLUP

2010-03-04

TiT Radio 019 - interview with sigFLUP monsterb chats with sigFLUP about the demoscene, old gaming consoles, and so much more. Please visit http://titradio.info/019.html for shownotes.

Ep0523: Miscellaneous Radio Theater

2010-03-01

AUTHOR: SigFLUP TITLE: Miscellaneous Radio Theater 4096- Teaching Kids Math With Petunia DESCRIPTION: In this episode we talk with Petunia about teaching kids math. You may contact either Petunia or SigFLUP at pantsbutt@gmail.com

Ep0522: Piratprat Ep 02

2010-02-26

Piratprat - Subjects related to the Swedish Pirate Party In this episode from February 18 we discuss the internal Pirate Party election fraud. Extra short episode due to cold weather. (recorded under the winter sky) Show page

Ep0521: Talk Geek to me Ep 07

2010-02-23

In this episode I discuss my opinions on Nuclear Power. I give a brief history as well as assess the problems of the Industry. Closing Music is Stian-2003001.

Ep0520: Selecting Talks for PyCon 2010

2010-02-19

Selecting Talks for PyCon 2010 In this episode, we discuss how talks were selected for the upcoming PyCon conference, and what else is being planned.

Ep0519: TiT Radio 018 - moooo! Baby

2010-02-18

TiT Radio 018 - moooo! Baby. monsterb, klaatu, Peter64, Azimuth, and JMan talk about search enigines, codecs, video editing, and so much more! Please visit http://titradio.info/018.html for shownotes.

Ep0518: Life Without a GUI

2010-02-17

Getting Things Done - Life Without a GUI by Jared Bernard Oct 9th 2009 at the Utah Open source conference http://2009.utosc.com/presentation/44/ http://www.jaredandcoralee.com/

Ep0517: Interview with a blackhat 2 - CC

2010-02-16

2nd in the series of interview with a BlackHat CC talks to us about where he started hacking, what he has done in the past and the reasons why he does hack. tmacuk - http://www.tmacuk.co.uk tmac@tmacuk.co.uk

Ep0516: Interview with Astera

2010-02-13

The interview was orginally recorded for http://www.tracsec.com Astera has been an evangelist for hacker spaces across europe. Lots of interesting information about hacker spaces

Ep0515: Network Basics Part 6

2010-02-11

Klaatu continues his network basics series

Ep0514: Talk Geek To Me ep 06

2010-02-10

Deepgeek reviews the OS "Debian-GNU-KFreeBSD," which is Debian-GNU running with a FreeBSD kernel. Also covered a latin Free Software news item Closing Music:Mike Burgess-Audio Love Song

Ep0513: Piratprat Ep 01

2010-02-08

Piratprat - Subjects related to the Swedish Pirate Party Nilsson and Koistinen talks about the Swedish Pirate Party. In this episode from February 6 we discuss the Pirate Party, program, who are members, the primary election and grandmother Gun. Show page

Ep0512: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio 3

2010-02-06

TITLE: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio #3 AUTHOR: SigFLUP DESCRIPTION: Links in this episode include http://uberleet.atari.org http://hobones.dogsoft.net/mega/mega_distrib.tgz http://hobones.dogsoft.net/pits_distrib.tgz http://hobones.dogsoft.net/bump.avi

Ep0511: TiT RAdio 017 - Klaatu's Window Manager Challenge

2010-02-04

TiT RAdio 017 - Klaatu's Window Manager Challenge Please visit http://titradio.info/017.html for shownotes.

Ep0510: Python Language Moratorium Python 2.7 End of the Line?

2010-02-02

Python Language Moratorium / Python 2.7 End of the Line? A round-table discussion of the moratorium on Python language development and whether Python 2.7 will be the last of the 2.x series.

Ep0509: Binrev Radio Lost episode - Telephonic Craptacular

2010-01-29

Original Release Date 2006-07-18 Hosts StankDawg, et al. BONUS EPISODE! This episode was a bonus episode that I created just to work out the timing between seasons. We had completed the last season 3 at episode 156 (52 episodes * 3 years) but the first episode of season 4 (#157) was planned as a live event at hope NEXT week so I had a week gap with no show and I didn't want to ruin the live event, so I created this "half episode" to fill the slot this week.. This rare episode was streamed but was not on our archive. There may be a few copies floating around here or there, but this is the first official release of this episode on this site.

Ep0508: Pocket Full of Miracles

2010-01-29

lostnbronx talks about the contents of his pockets, in this latest edition of the "What's In Your Toolkit" series.

Ep0507: Cron with Ken Fallon

2010-01-28

LINKS ============================================== https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk.CGI/man-cgi?crontab+5 http://unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron http://ratholeradio.org/ SCRIPT ============================================== username@computer:~$ vi /home/username/bin/hello.bash username@computer:~$ cat /home/username/bin/hello.bash #!/bin/bash echo "hello world" username@computer:~$ /home/username/bin/hello.bash bash: /home/username/bin/hello.bash: Permission denied username@computer:~$ chmod +x /home/username/bin/hello.bash username@computer:~$ /home/username/bin/hello.bash hello world username@computer:~$ export |grep EDITOR declare -x EDITOR="vim" username@computer:~$ crontab -l no crontab for username username@computer:~$ crontab -e no crontab for username - using an empty one No modification made username@computer:~$ crontab -e no crontab for username - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab username@computer:~$ crontab -l # m h dom mon dow command * * * * * /home/username/bin/hello.bash > /home/username/hello.output 2>&1 username@computer:~$ cat /home/username/hello.output hello world

Ep0506: TiT Radio 016 - HPR Potluck Roundtable

2010-01-22

TiT Radio 016 - HPR Potluck Roundtable Recorded live on Jan 9th 2010. We talk about... Way to much to list. Please visit http://titradio.info/016.html for shownotes.

Ep0505: Interview with a blackhat - n0 g00d

2010-01-21

Interview with a blackhat - n0 g00d And so commences the new series of interview with a BlackHat n0 g00d talks to us about where he started hacking, what he has done in the past and the reasons why he does hack. tmacuk - http://www.tmacuk.co.uk tmac@tmacuk.co.uk

Ep0504: Hacker Public Radio Round Table 8

2010-01-13

Join us as SigFLUP, Deepgeek, lostnbronx, and Klaatu discuss the sci fi movie THX 1138

Ep0503: Quvmoh talks to Clint Tinsley about SLAMPP

2010-01-08

SLAMPP

Ep0502: What Is Free Software

2010-01-08

Finux gives a talk at the Dundee Free Software Day event. Topic: what is free software? Ogg version. Click riiiight here on the little f (for free), to download it.

Ep0501: Klaatu interviews Rikki Kite of Linux Pro Magazine

2010-01-06

Klaatu, at the Ohio Linux Fest 2009. interviews Rikki Kite, associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine. The ogg version provided by The Bad Apple Linux Oggcast.

Ep0500: 2009 Year in Review

2010-01-01

Enigma and Klaatu talk about 2009, and what 2010 may bring for the Hacker Public Radio and Binary Revolution (binrev) world. An ogg version is also available.

Ep0499: TiT Radio Ep 15

2009-12-30

TiT Radio Episode 015 - 330 Moisture Control Please visit http://titradio.info/015.html for shownotes.

Ep0498: Talk Geek To Me Ep 02

2009-12-25

Deepgeek discusses upgrading from old style HTML to Modern HTML. He uses, as a feature example, device independence between Cell Phone Micro Browsers and Desktop Browsers like Firefox. Alternate audio formats are available at

Ep0497: Kris Findlay discusses Secure Socket Handler

2009-12-23

or grab the ... ogg vorbis version

Ep0496: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio Issue 2

2009-12-22

git clone git://repo.or.cz/hrr.git We still are looking for someone to donate web-space so if you're interested contact usat pantsbutt at gmail

Ep0495: Gary Whiton talks about the Blender Game Engine

2009-12-14

Gary Whiton talks about the Blender Game Engine. Ogg version

Ep0494: Klaatu interviews Russ from Linux in the Ham Shack

2009-12-11

Klaatu, at Ohio Linux Fest 2009, interviews Russ from the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast. The ogg version provided by The Bad Apple Linux Oggcast.

Ep0493: Free and Open Source Software in Business

2009-12-10

Robert Ladyman talks about Free and Open Source software in the Business world. Also available is the ogg version of this episode.

Ep0492: TIT Radio Ep 14

2009-12-09

TiT Radio Episode 014 - Potluck Roundtable of Geeksmonsterb starts the show by mentioning the great shows on Hacker Public Radio like "Demo or Bust by SigFlup", "Talk Geek to Me by deepgeek", and mentions the active contributors like finux, Ken Fallon, Thistleweb, and lostnbronx. He also reads some email from Denny (Polarwave's OpenBSD Tips and Tricks for Newbies) and Jos (Camp KDE 2010).Azimuth talks about setting up a dirty, quick, temporary, unsecure, simple HTTP server to share files.1.) alias webshare='python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"'2.) cd to directory to be served3.) webshare # ctrl-c to exit.Az also mentions FOSSCasts (free screencasts covering Linux, Unix, and Open Source software in general).monsterb mentions Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set). ISOs can be found at the Georgia Tech FTP.Klaatu talks about Quanta Plus (a highly stable and feature rich web development environment) and KDevelop (free opensource IDE).artv61 talks about Axel (a command line application which accelerates HTTP/FTP downloads by using multiple sources for one file).threethirty mentions the first FSF endorsed netbook running gNewSense.Source: In other words, DRM from top to bottom ... From LWN.netCOtW (Command of the Week):Azimuth$ inxi (command line information script)Download & Install: # cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/inxi && chmod +x inxiKlaatu$ find ~ -type f -iname '*.ogg'Jman$ pinfo (viewer for Info documents, which is based on ncurses. The key-commands are in the style of lynx.)Other things mentioned: Chromium OS, Cranky Geeks, DistroWatch, KOffice, Linux Mint, Powerpill, Qt Creator, TuxRadar, and TuxRadar's "Code Project: create an ffmpeg front-end" Caller: SndChaser TerryF's Song of the Week: Shine by Cactus Please visit http://titradio.info for more information.

Ep0491: Null_Pointer Interview

2009-12-07

Quvmoh interviews Ken McConnell on his new geek mystery Null_Pointer http://www.w0pht.org/wordpress http://nullpointer.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

Ep0490: TIT Radio Ep 13.1ec

2009-12-02

From PC Radio Show website: "Our guest was Richard Stallman, the man behind GNU and the Free Software Foundation. He condemns the Amazon Kindle (his term for it is the "swindle") because it takes away freedoms that readers of hardcopy books enjoy. Freedoms such as the ability to lend a book to a friend, to borrow one from a library, to buy one anonymously by paying cash, to keep a book as long as we like and to give it away. The Amazon Kindle implements DRM - digital rights management - to restrict your use of books. He is not against eBook readers per se, just the DRM, which in addition to the above also requires you to run proprietary software to read eBooks. He urged listeners to go to Defectivebydesign.org and sign up to participate in his protests." The complete episode from July 22nd can be found here. Ending Song: Free Software Song by Mr. Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager) Please visit http://titradio.info for more info.

Ep0489: SSL Attack

2009-12-01

Finux talks about SSL attacks Shownotes are on Finux's blog

Ep0488: Pegwole interviews Debbie Nicholson

2009-11-27

At Ohio Linux Fest 2009, Pegwole sits down for a lil' chat with FSF's Debbie Nicholson.

Ep0487: Demo or Bust 2010 Ep 6

2009-11-26

demos in this episode: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51438 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53223 http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=15216 closing song: Fractured by Azazel of The Black Lotus You may contact Demo or Bust at pantsbutt@gmail.com or +1-206-312-1618

Ep0486: HPR Round Table 6

2009-11-24

Klaatu, SigFLUP, Skirlet, and Deepgeek gather around the venerable HPR Round Table to discuss the classic sci fi film, Forbidden Planet.

Ep0485: Newsbeuter

2009-11-19

ThistleWeb talks about the cli RSS reader called Newsbeuter, and it's podcatching abilities. He also gives an overview of the concept and advantages of RSS as he found many PC literate people he met had no clue about them or how they could be of use. The accompanying blog post which gives much more detail can be found here.

Ep0484: Her PR Problem

2009-11-17

Rikki Kite of The Rose Blog and Linux Pro Magazine gives her "Her PR Problem" talk at Ohio Linux Fest 2009's Diversity in Open Source Workshop. The ogg version provided by The Bad Apple Linux Oggcast.

Ep0483: TiT Radio - Filthy Grunt and Bloopers

2009-11-16

Recorded on November 14th, 2009. Please vistit http://titradio.info/013.html for shownotes.

Ep0482: Lugging it Home

2009-11-14

LUGGING IT HOME Getting By Without A Local Linux Users Group Music in this episode: Bluejuice Check out their page at the Podsafe Music Network here Vitriol The Reductionist And Big John Bates His page at the Podsafe Music Network Mystiki

Ep0481: Mashpodder

2009-11-12

Ken Fallon talks about Mashpodder. Some useful links: baspodder homepage: http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder mashpodder homepage: http://code.google.com/p/mashpodder/ Linux Reality Podcast: http://www.linuxreality.com/ Spudshow: http://spudshow.libsyn.com/ The Ogg Vorbis version of this show can be found courtesy The Bad Applez --> download hpr0481.ogg

Ep0480: TiT Radio 012 - Happy Halloween

2009-11-11

TiT Radio 012 - Happy Halloween Recorded 10-31-2009. monsterb, klaatu, Peter64, Azimuth, JMan, and 330 talk about Tiny Core Linux, Suse Studio, Ubuntu 9.10, Phoronix Test Suite, Commands of the Week, and so much more! Ending song by Kelly Allyn - 07 Whiskey Can. Please visit http://titradio.info/012.html for shownotes. Recorded 10-31-2009. monsterb, klaatu, Peter64, Azimuth, JMan, and 330 talk about Tiny Core Linux, Suse Studio, Ubuntu 9.10, Phoronix Test Suite, Commands of the Week, and so much more! Ending song by Kelly Allyn - 07 Whiskey Can. Please visit http://titradio.info/012.html for shownotes.

Ep0479: OLF 2009: Interview with Dwick

2009-11-06

Klaatu at Ohio Linux Fest 2009 interviews DWick, a math professor, about math programs on Linux. The ogg version kindly provided by The Bad Apples.

Ep0478: Demo or Bust 2010 Ep 5

2009-11-06

Demo or Bust 2010 #5 DESCRIPTION: This is the party version of Demo or Bust in which SigFLUP specifically focuses on upcoming parties. We talk to Jason Scott and Nrr. Please note that in editing this Jason Scott may sound to be not enthusiastic about @party and Nurupo, this was far from the case, he was actually very enthusiastic! In editing out something that was meant to be a secret SigFLUP may of made him sound a little dismissive of these parties BlockParty: http://www.demoparty.us Nurupo: http://wiki.corvidae.org/nurupo @Party: http://www.atparty-demoscene.net Demos played in this episode: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9424 (This is only 64 god-damn k!!!) http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53090 (Mobile phone) You may contact Demo or Bust at pantsbutt@gmail.com or +1-206-312-1618

Ep0477: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio

2009-11-05

UTHOR: SigFLUP TITLE: Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio issue 1 DESCRIPTION: In this issue of Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio SigFLUP releases a helpful patch to gnu-screen. Show notes include http://hobones.dogsoft.net/screen-4.0.3-ulhf.1.tar.gz and http://hobones.dogsoft.net/ulhf_patch1.tgz You may contact us at pantsbutt@gmail.com

Ep0476: FOSS In Business

2009-11-03

RobertLadyman tals about Free And Open Source Software In Business

Ep0475: Lord Drachenblut Interviews Scott Sigler

2009-10-31

Lord Drachenblut Interviews Scott Sigler

Ep0474: Talk Geek To Me Ep 05

2009-10-30

DeepGeek gives a software review of the Aria2 download manager.

Ep0473: Tit Radio Ep 011.1a - RMS and Aftershow

2009-10-28

BSDBetty kicks off the show with an interview with Richard Stallman before his talk at the Edinburgh University Informatics Colloquium, with particular focus on ethics in the field of software. Transcription of this interview can be found at Indymedia Scotland. At the Roundtable: monsterb, klaatu, Peter64, Azimuth, JMan, 330, and pegwole. Caller: SndChaser Please visit http://titradio.info/011-1a.html for shownotes and ogg.

Ep0472: Interview with Ryan Dewhurst

2009-10-26

finux interview Ryan Dewhurst

Ep0471: Interview with Andrej Hajto about VOIP

2009-10-23

Download the ogg vorbis version courtesy Finux & the Bad Apples.

Ep0470: Interworx

2009-10-21

Klaatu interviews Jon from Interworx at Ohio Linux Fest 2009.

Ep0469: TiT Radio 011 - puppies, tails, and a gnome

2009-10-21

Recorded live on Oct 17th, 2009. Pick your price for World of Goo, Gnome 3, Puppy Linux, KaOS, Commands of the Week, and so much more! Shownotes and Ogg: http://titradio.info/011.html

Ep0468: Quvmoh's UTOS trip

2009-10-19

tosc http://2009.utosc.com/pages/home/ no gui http://cli.homelinux.net/CLIapps.html Quvmoh's pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/quvmoh/sets/72157622421938901/detail/

Ep0467: AutoNessus News

2009-10-16

finux and the author of Autonessus talk about some upcoming news about this software

Ep0466: A technique for drum 'n' bass

2009-10-16

In this show SigFLUP shares a program that can be used to make drum 'n' bass songs. You can download it at http://tmd.freeshell.org

Ep0465: Failsafe security

2009-10-14

WARNING: It's easy to lock yourself out of a system implementing these changes so make sure you have physical access to the console of the system you are securing. To display all processes listening netstat -anp | grep -i listen Deny all connections to any port from any external IP address /etc/hosts.deny all:all /etc/hosts.allow sshd:192.168.1.54 # My other pc IPTables Tutorial: http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/ A good starting point to block all except ssh: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-iptables-4-block-all-incoming-traffic-but-allow-ssh.html Disable root login via ssh: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/security-tip-disable-root-ssh-login-on-linux/ Setting up ssh keys and disabling password logins. http://www.debuntu.org/ssh-key-based-authentication

Ep0464: Barefoot Running

2009-10-14

Barefoot running resources How to run barefoot- excellent beginner resource. Learn from the master - Ted Learn about Vibram Fivefingers and Huarache Sandals. Great resource. Running barefoot has articles, forums and all resources. Great videos. Born To Run the official fan website for the book by Christopher McDougall - Read this book! NY Time interview with Christopher McDougall

Ep0463: Finux Interviews Moxie Marlinspike about SSL

2009-10-13

Finux talks to Moxie Marlinspike about a variety of vulnerabilities in most common implementations of SSL, such as hijacking the switch from http to https, universal wildcard certs, SSLsniff and more. ogg version!

Ep0462: Talk Geek to me Ep 4

2009-10-08

The main feature of this episode is a software review of "Lyx," the document processor. A "not a word processor" front end to the powerful Latex typesetting environment, and multiplatform too. Deepgeek also offers updates on his "Beowulf cluster" and "Running Linux on Compact Flash" episodes of HPR. Closing music is "Sevish - Consciousness."

Ep0461: Mibbit

2009-10-08

ThistleWeb discusses why you should have an embedded Mibbit client on your projects home page. Users needn't know about IRC or have a client installed. Users can connect from any PC, regardless of restrictions with only a web browser. Real time language translation allows you to vault over the langauge barrier and be properly international, regardless of the size of your userbase. Pastebin is only a click away, for those times where you need to share or see code / logfiles etc

Ep0460: TiT Radio Ep 10 - OLF

2009-10-08

Episode 010 - Warning - Bad Levels Recorded on Oct 3rd, 2009. monsterb and the TiTs talk about Ohio Linux Fest, Leo Laporte, OpenShot Video Editor, gimp, seeing through walls, and so much more! Please visit http://titradio.info/010.html for detailed shownotes.

Ep0459: Sine Nomine Interview

2009-10-06

At the Ohio Linux Fest 2009, Klaatu talks to David from Sine Nomine about reviving old technology to create better new technology. The ogg version provided by The Bad Apple Linux Oggcast.

Ep0458: Blender-Game-Engine-A-Short-Guide

2009-10-02

GaryWhiton talks about Blender

Ep0457: automatic car

2009-10-02

ken fallon talks about an automatic car

Ep0456: What is Free Software

2009-10-01

finux talks about what is free software.

Ep0455: Interview with Dann at OLF

2009-09-30

pegwole interviews Dann at OLF

Ep0454: BruCon Interview

2009-09-29

finux interviewing Benny from BruCON

Ep0453: Talk Geek to me Ep 2

2009-09-26

Deepgeek discusses upgrading from old style HTML to Modern HTML. He uses, as a feature example, device independence between Cell Phone Micro Browsers and Desktop Browsers like Firefox.

Ep0452: Demo or Bust 2010 Part 4

2009-09-24

In this episode SigFLUP talks about software rendering and then interviews blackpawn of xplsv. Leave you feedback at +1-206-312-1618 or email pantsbutt@gmail.com

Ep0451: Podcasting: From Mic to Audience

2009-09-23

Podcasting: From Mic to Audience finux talks all about podcasting

Ep0450: TiT Radio 009 - peggy, piggy, and pat

2009-09-23

Recorded Live Sept. 19th, 2009; The TiTs talk about QT 4.6, DreamScreen 100, new Arch Magazine, Sexism in FOSS, and so much more. Please take a look at the shownotes for detailed information. http://titradio.info/009.html

Ep0449: Fericyde and Damin talk about Ohio Linux Fest

2009-09-21

Ah, a trip down memory lane with Fericyde and Damin. They talk about geek fests and the upcoming Ohio Linux Fest. ogg version

Ep0448: TiT Radio 008 - Something Kinda Tacky

2009-09-18

Recorded Live Sept. 5th, 2009; monsterb and friends talk about a perl script called exiftool, Jibbed a NetBSD livecd, something shocking on Planet Gnome, Hannah Montana distro, and so much more. Please take a look at the shownotes for detailed information. http://titradio.info/008.html

Ep0447: Lord Drachenblut Recovers Data After a Failed Dist-Upgrade

2009-09-17

Daring to upgrade to an Alpha version of Kubuntu, Lord Drachenblut learns the finer points of data recovery. OGG VORBIS

Ep0446: Building Live CDs with Fedora

2009-09-16

Clint Savage at SouthEast Linux Fest 2009 on how to build Live CDs and Live USB sticks ("remixes" and "respins") using Fedora tools like kickstart, live usb creator, revisor, and more. Note that this is Klaatu's edit and is shorter than the source audio on southeastlinuxfest.org because the delay due to technical difficulty has been chopped out. Ogg is available here: hpr0446.ogg

Ep0445: HAR Update with Chris n' Frank

2009-09-15

Finux interviews Frank and Chris for an update after the Hacking At Random (HAR) event. What is Hacking At Random? listen to the episode! You can download the ogg version here --> download the ogg version.

Ep0444: Cherokee And Asyncronous Servers

2009-09-14

ThistleWeb discusses the difference between process based and asynchronous servers, then goes on to talk about Cherokee server and a few flat file PHP applications. Lighty V's Nginx Wiki Cherokee Server Cherokee Ubuntu PPA XAMPP The one-click server for Linux, Windows or OSX. How to forge has plenty of tutorials, including a few on Cherokee. DokuWiki Nano CMS Project Homepage. This domain seems to have expired, so the code is hosted on Google for now. FlatPress The Admin process: sudo cherokee-admin localhost:9090 Copy and paste the temprary password. You can bind it (or a virtual server) to 127.0.0.1 if it's meant to be a private server. I kept refering to "spawn-cgi" in the recording. This is supposed to be "spawn-fcgi". I also inferred that it didn't use config files, it does; it just generates them via the admin web GUI and will overwrite any changes made manually. My new blog is thistleweb.co.uk, my new email is gordon (at) thistleweb (dot) co (dot) uk.

Ep0443: How to Sign C Files with GPG

2009-09-11

In this show SigFLUP shares a script that can be used to sign your c files with gpg so that they may be directly verifiable by gpg and look un-changed to your c compiler. You can download it at tmd.freeshell.org/gog_bless

Ep0442: Chris DiBona Speaks at SELF 2009

2009-09-11

Chris DiBona at the South East Linux Fest 2009. This file available as ogg here: Ogg Version

Ep0441: Migrating Your GPG Key and Starting GPG-Agent

2009-09-09

Klaatu continues his discussion of GnuPG related matters (see episode 0222 for Alpine+GPG and some random Bad Apple Linux OggCast ep 2x04 on GPG in general). In this exciting episode, he talks about the proper way to migrate your GnuPG keys, how to manage gpg-agent in your Slackware+KDE desktop, and advises everyone who will be attending Ohio Linux Fest this year to attend the GnuPG Key Signing Party.

Ep0440: Developing Through Virtualbox

2009-09-08

Brian Leonard at the SouthEast Linux Fest 2009. See episode title for a clue about what the talk is about!

Ep0439: TiT Radio Episode 007

2009-09-07

Waaaaay back on August 15th, 2009... monsterb and friends talk about Slack Mini Server, Ohio LinuxFest 2009, 10 best Linux cheat sheets, writing udev rules, Linux audio, and so much more. Check out http://titradio.info for shownotes.

Ep0438: Podcasts I Listen To

2009-09-05

Dave Yates from the "Lotta Linux Links Linux User Podcast" does a show about all the podcasts he listens to. And, as you'd expect, he provides a LOT of linux links here in the shownotes. Dave's List of RSS Feeds: http://www.linuxuserpodcast.com/feed/podcast/?format=ogg http://feeds.feedburner.com/cmdln_free http://feeds2.feedburner.com/SomethingKindaTechy http://talkgeektome.us/ogg.xml http://trygnulinux.com/ogg.rss http://www.tuxradar.com/files/podcast/podcast_ogg.rss http://linuxgeekdom.com/rssogg.xml http://linuxvoid.technographer.net/soundfeed.xml http://www.softwarefreedom.org/feeds/podcast-ogg/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/TenBuckReview http://www.fossgeek.com/feeds/rss-ogg-full.xml http://ubuntupodcast.net/?feed=rss2 http://setbit.org/lt-ogg.xml http://jwplinux.libsyn.com/rss http://linuxcranks.info/ogg.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/thetechiegeek/ogg http://www.thebadapples.info/fedorareloaded/ogg.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/UbuntuUkPodcastOgg-high http://www.thebadapples.info/ogg.xml http://linuxcrazy.com/podcasts/ogg.xml http://thelinuxlink.net/files/lager_ogg.rss http://www.hwhq.com/rssOGG.xml http://www.linuxbasement.com/ogg/feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedburner/knightcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast http://lottalinuxlinks.com/podcast/uclugogg.xml http://www.tmbg.com/_media/_pod/podcast.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/GNSciTech http://goinglinux.com/mp3podcast.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/sourcetrunk http://www.thelinuxlink.net/tllts/tllts_ogg.rss http://hackervoice.co.uk/feed.xml http://distrowatch.com/news/podcast.xml http://pauldotcom.com/podcast/psw.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/freshubuntuogg http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxoutlaws http://distrocast.org/?feed=podcast&format=mp3 A Lotta Linux Links: http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder http://linuxplanet.org/casts http://linuxplanet.org/casts/?feed=rss2 http://thelinuxlink.net http://hackermedia.org http://netboot.me

Ep0437: refit

2009-09-03

Skirlet tells you how to install and use rEFIt for Intel-based Mac computers. Listen to this episode in the Skirlet-approved ogg version!

Ep0436: Talk geek to me ep 01

2009-09-03

Deepgeek reviews the webiste mirroring software "Httrack" then puts it to good use by combining it with Cpanels "Entropy Search" to create a custom web search.

Ep0435: Lightweight Apps: Enlightenment, Part 2

2009-09-01

Lightweight Apps: Enlightenment, Part 2 Klaatu and Bryanstein from the Florida Linux Show rave about e17. Easy-E17 Install Script This episode in ogg

Ep0434: HPR Roundtable 4

2009-09-01

Klaatu, Deepgeek, Charles from MintCast, Russ from the Techie Geek, Russ from The Linux Ham Shack, and Seal gather at the official HPR Round Table to discuss what free software apps they use to make life easier. Projects mentioned in this episode: Portable Ubuntu Remix Xming OpenSwan - IPsec for Linux Handbrake Mozilla Sunbird Filezilla Celtx Org Mode for Emacs gVim ...and a LOT more... You can also download this episode in the controversial ogg format.

Ep0433: Demo or Bust 2010 Part 3

2009-08-28

In this episode SigFLUP talks about FM-synthesis, raytracing, and then interviews iq of rgba talking about real-time raytracing and ray marching. rgba's site can be found at rgba.org. A low-rez image of slisesix can be found at http://bayimg.com/image/ladhgaacg.jpg

Ep0432: How to use walkies

2009-08-27

If you're putting on an event such as a Linux Fest, a film production, an organized [a]political demonstration, then you may find yourself using walkies ("walkie talkies" or "CB Radios"). Klaatu talks all about walkies in this episode; deciding whether to buy or rent, how to use them effectively, how to use them efficiently, and other matters of etiquette & protocol. You can also listen to this walkies episode in the free audio format, ogg vorbis.

Ep0431: Logwatch

2009-08-26

Ken talks about Logwatch, a customizable log analysis system. Logwatch parses through your system's logs for a given period of time and creates a report analyzing areas that you specify, in as much detail as you require. Logwatch is easy to use and will work right out of the package on most systems.

Ep0430: Copyright

2009-08-25

Xoke talks about Copyright and creative commons

Ep0429: She went back to Windows

2009-08-25

My Wife And Her New Machine Music in this episode: The incomparable Albert Collins His very brief listing at the Podsafe Music Network can be found here, but it doesn't do this great man justice. By all means, check out his Wikipedia page for a nice overview. His career was shorter than it should have been, but he had no equal. May he rest in peace.

Ep0428: FreeBSD Ports for Beginners

2009-08-21

rkirk gives an introduction to FreeBSD

Ep0427: Intro to Networking

2009-08-21

Alan Hicks gives an intro to networking talk at SELF 09

Ep0426: Hacking Sprint Voicemail

2009-08-19

Will talks about sprint voicemail systems

Ep0425: Daves Quick Tips

2009-08-18

A couple of quick tips.

Ep0424: TiT Radio Episode 006

2009-08-17

Hello and welcome to TiT Radio 006! On tonights show... monsterb, Peter64, Klaatu, jlindsay, Azimuth, Xoke, and 330 talk about tircd, Blood Frontier, Concordance, Pro Git Book, Xephyr, KDE 4.3, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Tiny Tiny RSS, ROX-Filer, ROX-Desktop, and so much more. Please visit http://titradio.info for full shownotes. apt-get moo.

Ep0423: Interview with Ian Geiser of the KDE Project

2009-08-14

Klaatu talks to Ian Geiser of the KDE project. You can download this episode as an ogg file. KDE dot News

Ep0422: Comfortably Numblock'd

2009-08-13

ThistleWeb explains 2 tips with the keypad / numblock function. First is numblockx, a simple app which remembers the status of the numblock key across reboots. This is already installed and running in many distros but if it's not it can be added. Second is CTRL+ALT+NUMLOCK which toggles the keypad into a different mode, allowing you to move the pointer with the keypad. Numlockx Numlockx Project Homepage OpenBox - /.config/openbox/autostart.sh numblockx & Keyboard Pointer Control Penguin Pete's Blog CTRL+ALT+NUMBLOCK to toggle mode on and off, there should be a beep each time you toggle 1-9 = moving pointer around the points of the compass 0 = right click enter (on keypad) = enter a menu backspace = back to previous menu

Ep0421: History of Copyright

2009-08-12

Stephen Fry talks about the History of Copyright

Ep0420: Defcon 17 Interview

2009-08-12

finux interviews ChrisJohnRiley and Frank Breedijk about Defcon 17.

Ep0419: ConfCon09 - Project MF

2009-08-10

Shownotes

Ep0418: 700 Numbers

2009-08-07

Although we aren't really sure when exactly the first 711 number showed up, they've been kind of a phreaking anomoly over the years. They were spotted in the letters section of the 1997 Spring issue of 2600 Magazine, and have appeared on many popular phreaking forums since then, like BinRev in 2005 (http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php/topic/11638-number-i-found-scanning)

Ep0417: Mozilla Addon usability

2009-08-06

ThistleWeb discusses usability issues and potential improvements to Mozilla's add-on functionality in Firefox & Thunderbird. FAO the Mozilla community; developers & users. Screencast available here . Running time 45mins approx.

Ep0416: Mer Project Interview

2009-08-06

Klaatu, at SELF, talks to Andrew from the Mer project, for the Nokia N770 and N8x0 tablets. The Mer Project This episode in ogg vorbis.

Ep0415: Demo or Bust 2010 Part 2

2009-08-04

This episode of Demo or Bust 2010 I cover software-synthesizers and interview Polaris of The Northern Dragons.

Ep0414: Networking Basics Part 5

2009-08-01

Klaatu goes over IP (Internet Protocol), its header information, the mechanics of datagram fragmentation, and RFC 791 in general. see also RFC 791 iana protocol number assignments Listen to this episode in ogg.

Ep0413: Ontario Linux Fest Interview

2009-07-30

p>Klaatu talks to Richard W. about Open Street Maps -- why it exists, why it's important, and what it's good for -- and the upcoming Ontario Linux Fest. Download this episode in the ogg vorbis format.

Ep0412: Episode 005 - Potluck Roundtable

2009-07-30

On July 25th 2009, monsterb, Peter "J" 64, Azimuth, Klaatu, threethirty, Snacky, and the Xokes sit down at the sixth TiT roundtable. For complete shownotes visit http://titradio.info

Ep0411: Free Software Foundation Interview

2009-07-28

Klaatu talks to Deborah from the Free Software Foundation. The FSF If you're gonna listen to an episode about the FSF, you may as well listen to the ogg vorbis version, no?

Ep0410: How I found Linux Part 6

2009-07-27

How I Found Linux 006_guitarman_ - Open Source MusicianOscar DachtNoel (weirdedout)EddieDaniel (linuxfandan)UkytreatsCheck out http://titradio.info/howifoundlinux.html for more information.Send your "How I Found Linux" audio clip to monsterb (at) linuxcranks (dot) info.

Ep0409: Bug Reporting

2009-07-24

In this exciting continuation of HPR Episode 92, Klaatu talks to Mackenzie at the SouthEast Linux Fest about bug reporting and bug triaging. Download this here episode over yonder in the ogg vorbis format.

Ep0408: Interview with JonathanD from Freenode

2009-07-23

Klaatu talks to JonathanD of the Freenode network. The Free-as-in-Node Podcast geeknic The ogg version of this episode.

Ep0407: Mono,Java and FOSS in Education

2009-07-22

In this episode Mark gives his views on the Mono controversy and why the FOSS/GNU community should embrace Java for Desktop development and to levergae Linux's dominance on the server. Darlene discusses FOSS in education and talks about some of the great FOSS application that are available.

Ep0406: Moonshine

2009-07-21

While everyone else at the SouthEast Linux Fest was watching the fine closing keynote by Mr. Paul Frields, Klaatu was hanging out in the hallways talking to Cobra2 (of unixporn.com), Alan Hicks (from the Slackbook project), and a few other SELF attendees as they discuss howto make Moonshine. Bonus topics include Brunswick Stew, moonshine mash recipes, building transmissions, and trucks. You can download this episode as an ogg file.

Ep0405: Electronic Medical Records

2009-07-20

janedoc talks about open source and electronic medical records.

Ep0404: Tikiwiki

2009-07-17

Klaatu installs Tiki Wiki, a simple but full-featured wiki software. You may also listen to this episode in ogg vorbis.

Ep0403: TIT Radio ep 4

2009-07-16

On July 11th, 2009, monsterb, Peter "J" 64, Azimuth, Artv61, Klaatu, threethiry, and pegwole sit down at the fifth TiT roundtable. For more information and shownotes. Please visit: http://titradio.info

Ep0402: Interview with Paul Frields of the Fedora Project

2009-07-15

Klaatu talks to Paul Frields (of the Fedora Project) about Linux in computer forensics and government. You can also get this episode in ogg vorbis courtesy the good folks over at the Bad Apple Linux Ogg Cast.

Ep0401: web2speech

2009-07-14

web2speech http://kenfallon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/web2speech.txt Converting wikipedia text to audio. http://kenfallon.com/?p=240

Ep0400: Homeless where the heart is

2009-07-13

FOSS and the Barrier To Acceptance music in this episode: from AlienSeduction by Giuliano Lombardo Traner and Inshallah found at The Podsafe Music Network

Ep0399: Talk Geek to Me 1: WebHosting

2009-07-10

Episode 00 of Talk Geek To Me, topic is "webhosting."

Ep0398: Intro to Iptables

2009-07-09

Just a brief and basic overview of IPtables with some mad ramblings about network packets, pornography, and ramen noodles.

Ep0397: Nerdapalooza 2009

2009-07-08

Stankdawg interviews the founder of Nerdapalooza which is a nerdcore event that will be held in orlando florida this weekend

Ep0396: RoundTable 3 - Social Networking

2009-07-07

In the third official Hacker Public Round Table, Klaatu, Deepgeek, and Tottenkoph talk about "social networking", personal information on the web, the concept of identity, and so on. Some of the links they mention in this episode are: memestreams.net goodreads mydeathspace.com This episode also available in glorious low quality ogg vorbis.

Ep0395: Foss Migration

2009-07-06

Mark and Darlene talk to Mohammed Ayad about Linux security. A good resource for Linux Migration info can be found at http://www.guide.conecta.it/

Ep0394: Networking Basics Part 4 TCP and UDP

2009-07-03

Klaatu continues his Network Basics series. This episode covers TCP and UDP. You can download the ogg version of this episode, or if you are using Firefox 3.5 then you can just listen to it right in your browser, by clicking here.

Ep0393: Wine

2009-07-03

The June 2008 meeting of the Ogden Area Linux User Group. Seth House presented on Wine.

Ep0392: Interview with Dual Core

2009-07-01

Klaatu interviews int eighty and Remy from the group Dual Core. You can download this interview as an ogg file. Check out Dual Core on the world wide interwebs.

Ep0391: TiT Radio 003 - Potluck Roundtable

2009-06-30

This show was recorded live on June 27th 2009.Please visit http://titradio.info for shownotes and more information.

Ep0390: Interview with Alan Hicks

2009-06-29

Klaatu and Alan Hicks (from the Slackbook project) chat about Slackware, 64bit support, slack hacking methodology, what's in the works for Slackbook 3.0, Slackware' intended audience, the SouthEast Linux Fest, and more. Check out the book that got Klaatu addicted to Slack, Slackware Essentials Or check out the revised Slackware Book project online at slackbook.org And check out Slackware itself at slackware.com This episode is also available in ogg vorbis format.

Ep0389: Demo or Bust 2010

2009-06-26

This is the First episode of Demo or Bust 2010 by SigFLUP, which is a series of HPR episodes dedicated to narrating the construction of a demo. If you'd like to see video of this episode you may at youtube username assemblyassembly

Ep0388: Interview with Beth Lynn of OLF

2009-06-25

Klaatu first debates with his SouthEast Linux Fest pal, 8 year old Ethan, about where to conduct interviews...then talks to Beth Lynn about Ohio Linux Fest 2009 and all the new and exciting events planned for it! Get the ogg version of this episode by clicking on this link right.....here.

Ep0387: Linux Security

2009-06-24

In the episode Darlene and I chat with Mohammed Ayad, a Linux Sys admin from Lybia about Linux security and the first Linux Day held in Libya.

Ep0386: SSH config file

2009-06-23

GSSAPIAuthentication no ForwardAgent yes EscapeChar none ForwardX11 yes Protocol 2 Host hometunnel User homeuser Hostname mymachine.dynamicdns.org LocalForward 8080 192.168.1.100:80 Port 1234 Host home User homeuser Hostname mymachine.dynamicdns.org Port 1234 Host work User workuser Hostname mywork.mycompany.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/work_id_dsa.pub Host isp User ispuser Hostname isp.example.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/isp_id_dsa.pub

Ep0385: Why Xandros doesn't suck

2009-06-22

Enigma reviews Xandros on the asus eee 900 netbook

Ep0384: Red Hat Interview

2009-06-19

Klaatu talks to Eric from Red Hat about RHEL, Fedora, Linux in tha corporate world, and how proprietary blockades to adopting free software can be worked around for those of us who wear ties to work. Speaking of proprietary blockades...you can download this episode as an ogg file. For extra credit, check out Red Hat's blog.

Ep0383: TOR Interview

2009-06-18

Klaatu talks to Wendy Seltzer of the TOR project about...the TOR project. Please note that even though Klaatu continually refers to the TOR Project as "The Onion Router", officially the TOR Project is now properly referred to as simply "the TOR Project". You can download the ogg vorbis version of this episode from the Bad Apples.

Ep0382: TiT Radio 002 - Potluck Roundtable

2009-06-17

Please visit http://titradio.info for shownotes and more information.

Ep0381: OpenOffice.org, Twisted and Python

2009-06-16

Justin Findlay gave a tutorial on scripting OpenOffice.org with Python, and Paul Cannon gave an overview of Twisted

Ep0380: Troubleshooting Blue screens of Death

2009-06-15

Debugging Tools link Some Common STOP codes: Bug Check 0xA: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL The IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL bug check has a value of 0x0000000A. This indicates that Microsoft Windows or a kernel-mode driver accessed paged memory at DISPATCH_LEVEL or above. The following parameters are displayed on the blue screen. Parameter Description 1 Memory referenced 2 IRQL at time of reference 3 0: Read 1: Write 4 Address which referenced memory Cause This bug check is issued if paged memory (or invalid memory) is accessed when the IRQL is too high. The error that generates this bug check usually occurs after the installation of a faulty device driver, system service, or BIOS. If you encounter bug check 0xA while upgrading to a later version of Windows, this error might be caused by a device driver, a system service, a virus scanner, or a backup tool that is incompatible with the new version. If a kernel debugger is available, obtain a stack trace. To resolve an error caused by a faulty device driver, system service, or BIOS 1. Restart your computer. 2. Press F8 at the character-based menu that displays the operating system choices. 3. Select the Last Known Good Configuration option from the Windows Advanced Options menu. This option is most effective when only one driver or service is added at a time. To resolve an error caused by an incompatible device driver, system service, virus scanner, or backup tool 1. Check the System Log in Event Viewer for error messages that might identify the device or driver that caused the error. 2. Try disabling memory caching of the BIOS. 3. Run the hardware diagnostics supplied by the system manufacturer, especially the memory scanner. For details on these procedures, see the owner's manual for your computer. 4. Make sure the latest Service Pack is installed. 5. If your system has small computer system interface (SCSI) adapters, contact the adapter manufacturer to obtain updated Windows drivers. Try disabling sync negotiation in the SCSI BIOS, checking the cabling and the SCSI IDs of each device, and confirming proper termination. 6. For integrated device electronics (IDE) devices, define the onboard IDE port as Primary only. Also, check each IDE device for the proper master/subordinate/stand-alone setting. Try removing all IDE devices except for hard disks. If the message appears during an installation of Windows, make sure that the computer and all installed peripherals are listed in the Microsoft Windows Marketplace Tested Products List. Other stop codes can be found at Interpreting Bug Check Codes

Ep0379: SSL Ep 1

2009-06-12

Klaatu reveals the mysteries of SSL certifications and why self-signing is not such a bad thing after all. CAcert.org - the self signing collective The ogg vorbis version of this episode can be downloaded here.

Ep0378: apt-move

2009-06-11

Deepgeek talks about apt-move

Ep0377: Future of Artificial Intelligence in Open Source

2009-06-10

Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have enabled a basic computer system with no additional components to advance from a beginner in chess, to a master level in less than 300 games. This presentation will examine what a learning algorithm consists of, and why it may be important to Open Source in the future. By the end of this presentation the audience should have a foundational knowledge of what AI is and whether it may be useful in their own projects.

Ep0376: How I Found Linux 005

2009-06-09

How I Found Linux 005 Randy Noseworthy - The Juiced Penguin & Randomized Radio NetcastSend your "How I Found Linux" audio clip to monsterb (at) linuxcranks (dot) info.

Ep0375: SAP - the Simple Audio Player

2009-06-08

SAP the Simple Audio Player The Sap Homepage: http://www.jezra.net/projects/sap SAP's Launchpad Page: https://launchpad.net/sap+ Music In This Episode: Pineapple Rag by the one and only Scott Joplin; a recording of the piano roll (the original electronica -- or would that be mechanica?), available in ogg vorbis, among other formats, at the Internet Archive.

Ep0374: TiT Radio - Fluxbox 001

2009-06-05

monsterb and friends talk about the light weight window manager called Fluxbox. Please visit http://titradio.info for shownotes and more information.

Ep0373: Qemu

2009-06-04

Klaatu, on vacation in Niagra Falls (or so it sounds from all the background noise...), talks about Qemu. Qemu Pre-built Virtual Machines to run with Qemu You may also choose to download the ogg version.

Ep0372: All Songs Considered 8: Gnu Day

2009-06-03

Another Song by Chad from the linuxbasement

Ep0371: Introduction to SELinux

2009-06-02

The traditional Unix security model is simple and beautiful. For decades it has been good enough for most people. However, it is starting to show its age. In the highest security settings, a more fine grained control system is needed. In the past, this meant using expensive, complicated, special purpose versions of Unix: trusted systems. (Trusted Solaris, Trusted AIX, Trusted HP-UX) SELinux, created by the NSA, is the most mature and complete response to the need for Trusted Linux systems. Unfortunately, because of the difficulty creating and maintaining trusted systems, their success has been limited. This is no longer acceptable. Today, even desktop systems and cell phones need high quality security. Imagine being able to sandbox your Web browser and e-mail client. The traditional Unix model makes this difficult and only partially possible. SELinux, on the other hand, makes fine grained security available to everyone. When it first appeared, SELinux was hard to learn and mysterious to troubleshoot. As a result, many people fear it. However, SELinux and the tools to manage it have come a long way. It's time to lay fear aside. Stuart will teach what SELinux is, why it is great, basic troubleshooting and maintenance.

Ep0370: How I Found Linux 004

2009-06-01

How I Found Linux 004 Skirlet - Fedora Reloaded Podcast Nicholas from PA SigFLUP Nick Ali - Ubuntu Podcast Kristin Shoemaker - Ostatic Blog & Sudo Wrestling Podcast Todd N Lawton Paul - Lawton Paul Design Send your "How I Found Linux" audio clip to monsterb (at) linuxcranks (dot) info.

Ep0369: UCLUG May Meeting

2009-05-29

Upstate Carolina Linux User Group

Ep0368: GPS with gpsbabel, gpicsync and Google Earth

2009-05-29

Marc Christensen presents on Geo Tagging pictures and overlaying GPS Data aligned with photos on Google Map and Google Earth

Ep0367: Screw you Hacker

2009-05-28

another song by Chad from the linux basement

Ep0366: The Open Source Data Center

2009-05-27

During the last 10 years of system administration I have been involved in a number of data center migrations and build-outs. As these projects came and went I began to see patterns emerge in the set of services and software required to run a successful operations infrastructure. This presentation will describe these patterns, and provide an overview of the Open Source software available to implement them. About Dan: Dan Hanks has been involved with Linux System administration since 1998, when he worked for EagleNet Online, a small ISP in Provo, which, in a sense, was the birthplace of PLUG. After EagleNet he worked as a systems and database administrator for Nothsky/About.com/Primedia/United Online and is currently a system administrator for Omniture. He has varied interests, ranging from computers and technology to astronomy, geology, music, art, and family history research. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BYU, and is the father of 4 adventuresome children. He (occasionally) blogs at http://brainshed.com, and tweets as @danhanks.

Ep0365: Green Computing

2009-05-25

Mark and Darlene talk about Green Computing

Ep0364: TiT Radio Pilot

2009-05-23

TiT Radio - Pilot 000 monsterb and friends kick off the pilot of TiT Radio. A new series on HPR, streaming Live on ddphackradio.org. Please visit http://titradio.info for shownotes and more information.

Ep0363: Networking Basics Part 3

2009-05-22

In the third episode of Basic Networking, Klaatu talks about all things Ethernet; from the physical construction of the cables to the structure of the data frames being sent over them. As usual, an ogg version is available over on the bad apples.

Ep0362: Libre Planet 2009 Part 5

2009-05-21

FSF Annual Meeting :: Libre Planet 2009 Conference Episode 5 of 5The event was held at the Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA on March 21st and 22nd, 2009.[00:00:00 to 00:33:45] - Ciaran O'Riordan, End Software Patents[00:33:46 to 00:51:38] - Richard M. Stallman, Hardware for Free Software and the presentation ceremony of the Free Software Awards[00:51:39 to 01:20:19] - Routing for the day[01:20:20 to 01:45:15] - End of Unconference (with special musical guest, Kat Walsh)For more information please visit: http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2009/

Ep0361: Programming 101 Part 4

2009-05-20

Xoke continues his programming series

Ep0360: How I found Linux 3

2009-05-19

How I Found Linux 003A.J. - Linux Geekdomthreethirty - FLHL, Linux Cranks, SKTNathan Hale - Productive LinuxVerbal - Verbal's Linux Trivia PodcastCharles - mintCast Jeremy & J.D. - DistroCastSend your "How I Found Linux" audio clip to monsterb (at) linuxcranks (dot) info.

Ep0359: Control 4

2009-05-16

Ryan Erickson works for Control4 (http://www.control4.com), and has worked and played with Home Automation for over 10 years. He will present an introduction to Home Automation, and discuss Control4's Home Automation products. Ryan will cover: # What is Home Automation? # How does it work? # Open Source Home Automation projects # DIY vs. 'Professional' # Control4's approach to Home Automation

Ep0358: Libre Planet 2009 Part 4

2009-05-15

FSF Annual Meeting :: Libre Planet 2009 Conference Episode 4 of 5The event was held at the Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA on March 21st and 22nd, 2009.[00:00:00 to 00:46:45] Evan Prodromou, Identi.ca and engineering for free network services [00:46:46 to 01:25:45] Rob Savoye, Gnash and Cygnal project.For more information please visit: http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2009/

Ep0357: Network Basics Part 2

2009-05-13

In episode 2 of Networking Basics, Klaatu covers Routers, Switches, and Hubs. He also discusses the concepts of Collision Domains and Broadcast Domains. The ogg version is available here.

Ep0356: BBS

2009-05-13

Lord Drachenblut and others talk about BBS's

Ep0355: Star Trek

2009-05-11

deepgeek reviews star trek

Ep0354: The Jerks Among us

2009-05-08

THE JERKS AMONG US Music in this episode "Give Me Your Hand" and "Voicedance" sung by Danny Fong, et al, details here Danny's page on the Podsafe Network "Whipass" by Ray (the man's a genius) Found all over the Internet, but here's a link to it over on Zefrank's site, along with a page of funny remixes.

Ep0353: Pete Wood Interview

2009-05-07

finux interviews Pete Wood

Ep0352: Open Source Business Models

2009-05-06

Mark and Darlene talk about Open source business models

Ep0351: Network Basics

2009-05-05

klaatu talks about basic networking

Ep0350: How I found Linux 002

2009-05-05

Thistleweb - HPR CorrespondentTerryF - IRC MasterDavid from NYCweex - Try GNU + Linux Free Software Podcastscriptmunkee - Try GNU + Linux Free Software PodcastRuss Wenner - The Techie GeekSend your "How I Found Linux" audio clip to monsterb (at) linuxcranks (dot) info.

Ep0349: The Hacker Within

2009-05-01

thewtex talks about the hacker within

Ep0348: How I Found Linux 001

2009-04-30

How I Found Linux 001LilMiss64 - Professional BZFlag PlayerPeter64 - Linux CranksDavid Abbott - Linux CrazyKlaatu - Fedora Reloaded, & The Bad Appleslostinbronx - This guy is lost in Bronx.dwick - dwick.orgKen Fallon - kenfallon.comAzimuth - Linux CranksSend your "How I Found Linux" audio clip to monsterb (at) linuxcranks (dot) info.

Ep0347: Watchmen: the motion comic

2009-04-29

Watchmen: the motion comic Watchmen Motion Comic on wikipedia. Watchmen Motion Comic on IMDB. Watchmen Comic Movie official website.

Ep0346: GridBackup

2009-04-28

Shawn Willden presents on GridBackup: A peer to peer backup system built on top of the allmydata.org Tahoe distributed file system.

Ep0345: Editing the auto-generated menu in Linux

2009-04-27

Locations Menu files (requires root to edit) /usr/shar/applications Icon files /usr/share/pixmaps /usr/share/icons/foo Edit files in plain text editor like GEdit Ellements pointed out in episode (there are plenty more, they vary per app, & distro) Name : the name it will display on the menu (may need to change Name[foo] to reflect your language) Language : speaks for itself Comment : the rollover text Exec : the command it will execute when clicked Icon : the path to the icon shown in the menu OnlyShowIn : useful when trying to find why an application may not be showing the menu Terminal : runs the command in a terminal Categories : (I think) this is the submenu groups where it'll appear on the menu Changes sometimes take a little while to update, restarting X or rebooting will force it to re-read that folder and apply the changes. XCFE Tip Right click to edit menu. Click on something like a separator, move it up, then down to it's original place. Save.

Ep0344: EC Lug March 12th Meeting

2009-04-24

EC Lug March 12th Meeting

Ep0343: Virtualization

2009-04-23

Mark and Darlene talk about Virtualization

Ep0342: Libre Planet 2009 Conference Episode 3 of 5

2009-04-22

FSF Annual Meeting :: Libre Planet 2009 Conference FSF Annual Meeting :: Libre Planet 2009 Conference Episode 3 of 5The event was held at the Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA on March 21st and 22nd, 2009.Toward a LibrePlanet - Free Software Activism worldwide (Brian Gough, Ryan Bagueros, Bradley Kuhn)For more information please visit: http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2009/

Ep0341: Libre Planet 2009 Conference Episode 2 of 5

2009-04-21

FSF Annual Meeting :: Libre Planet 2009 Conference Episode 2 of 5The event was held at the Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA on March 21st and 22nd, 2009.[00:00:00 to 00:47:37] Mako Hill, Cloud Computing/Software as a Service - defining Freedom for Network Services[00:47:38 to 01:19:22] Alexandre Oliva, Freeing the kernel and the Linux Libre projectFor more information please visit: http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2009/

Ep0340: RTFM

2009-04-20

ken talks about the history behind RTFM

Ep0339: Reasons to love Symlinks

2009-04-17

rkirk talks about the reasons he loves symlinks

Ep0338: cappuccino

2009-04-16

Klaatu reveals the methodology and secrets of making the perfect cappuccino. Here's the ogg version.

Ep0337: Linux at Work

2009-04-15

Knightwise talks about linux in the workplace

Ep0336: Asterisk

2009-04-14

Mark Clarke and Darlene Parker talk about Asterisk

Ep0335: Linux Netbooks

2009-04-13

Linux Netbooksmonsterb, Azimuth, Klaatu, LilMiss64, Peter64, and the Gutsy Geeks talk about Linux Netbooks.Netbooks Mentioned: Acer Aspire One, Asus Eee Pc 700, 900, 1000, Dell Mini 9, HP, MSI, Sylvania G MesoGoing Linux http://goinglinux.comGutsy Geeks http://www.gutsygeeks.com

Ep0334: Toti

2009-04-10

THEATER OF THE IMAGINATION Dramatic Audio Media, And Its Context Shownotes -- In No Particular Order (Yay!) First off, there's the Wikipedia page for audiobooks (strangely, they don't seem to have one specifically for podiobooks -- at least, when I looked. Someone should fix that. But not me. I'm too busy. Or something.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiobook The Internet Archive's Old Time Radio "Gunsmoke" collection http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Gunsmoke Darker Projects (lots of fun going on here) http://www.darkerprojects.com Decoder Ring Theatre (The Red Panda is da man -- and his female sidekick is too...rowaar!) href=http://decoderring.libsyn.com/ BrokenSea Audio Productions (lookin' good) href=http://brokensea.com/ For live stage productions, check this guy out -- I haven't seen him, myself, but he's got right idea! http://www.ruyasonic.com/ Again, not anyone I've seen, but they sure have the fire! http://www.atbplayers.com/ Original street sound f/x By gezortenplotz (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=11536) NYC_street leve02l.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=44796) remixed by yours truly Intro and Outro music by the Benny Goodman Orchestra, "Sing, Sing, Sing", performed on the "Camel Caravan", on November 4th, 1939 (public domain, and available at the Internet Archive here)

Ep0333: BruCON Interview

2009-04-09

finux interviews Benny, a security consultant and organizer of BruCON

Ep0332: Libre Planet 2009

2009-04-08

Libre Planet 2009 conference 1 of 5 FSF Annual Meeting :: Libre Planet 2009 Conference Episode 1 of 5 The event was held at the Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA on March 21st and 22nd, 2009. [00:00:00 to 00:04:47] Welcome. Peter Brown (FSF Executive Director) [00:04:17 to 00:06:24] Un-conference Orientation - Rob Myers and Matt Lee [00:06:25 to 01:11:54] Jeremy Allison, The Elephant in the Room: Microsoft and Free Software For more information please visit: http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2009/

Ep0331: Snort Part 2

2009-04-07

Operat0r hosts a follow up episode to his snort ep

Ep0330: Listgarden

2009-04-06

deepgeek reviews listgarden an rss generator shownotes: deepggeek.us/listgarden.html http://talkgeektome.us

Ep0329: SSH Part 2

2009-04-03

HOWTO use ssh keys and ssh-agent to provide easier SSH'ing in your network! Listen carefully for bonus subliminal messages delivered by Klaatu's friend's (black) cat. This episode also available in ogg.,/a>

Ep0328: Puppet, Systems Building Systems

2009-04-02

Andrew Shafer works full time on the Open Source system management framework, Puppet. He brings with him a background in computational science, embedded Linux development, web frameworks and Agile methods. Andrew has been an Open Source user and advocate since the late 90s. He was a speaker at the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference.

Ep0327: Mozilla Profiles

2009-04-01

Commands firefox -P : opens Firefox at profile prompt firefox -P "Foo" : opens Firefox with Foo profile Change "firefox" for "thunderbird" to do the same for email profiles. Locations (on Linux), these are hidden .folders. Firefox : /home/foo/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini Thunderbird : /home/foo/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini Locations for Windows & Mac users. Profiles.ini settings Name : name used in profile Path : path to profile folder Default : default profile used when just "firefox" or "thunderbird" are exectuted Firefox Extensions FEBE : Firefox Environment Backup Extension OPIE : Ordered Preference Import/Export CLEO : Compact Library Extension Organizer Thunderbird Extensions Gmail IMAP

Ep0326: Setting up a Monitor

2009-03-31

xoke explains how he sets up his monitor

Ep0325: RoundTable Ep 2: Is There such a thing as Ethical Hacking?

2009-03-30

Three-Thirty, AJ, Nick, and Klaatu discuss the question "Is there such a thing as Ethical Hacking?" An ogg version of this episode is also available.

Ep0324: webmin

2009-03-27

Mark talks about webmin

Ep0323: zenity

2009-03-26

zenity zenity in a bash script example.

Ep0322: EC Lug Feb 19th Meeting

2009-03-25

EC LUG Feb 19th Meeting

Ep0321: Parrot

2009-03-24

Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator. Parrot is not about parrots, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons. Guru at Guru Labs for 1.5 years. I teach, work on courseware, and assorted Perl programming. In my spare time I work on Parrot and recently a roguelike. I've been working on Parrot for about a year, in which time I've written a LOLCODE and Ruby compiler and done a lot of work on Exceptions and some work implementing features in Perl 6. I'd like to talk about Parrot and/or Perl 6! That's about as specific as I get. If nobody has any more-specific requests, I'd like to run through implementing a simple language and the parts of a Parrot compiler. Maybe scheme? I haven't decided yet.

Ep0320: Audacious

2009-03-23

Running Order Little dogs XMMS Winamp similarities Layout (3 magnetic windows) Compatible skins System tray icon & control Plugins Status icon Global hotkeys Audio compressor Big dogs Multi section windows Podcatchers Last.fm Syncing of media folders & MP3 players

Ep0319: EC LUG Feb 12th Meeting

2009-03-20

EC LUG Feb 12th Meeting

Ep0318: Git

2009-03-20

UTOS presentation on GIT

Ep0317: NewsCast Ep 2

2009-03-19

finux continues his news cast series

Ep0316: Raid LVM

2009-03-17

Mark discusses software raid and LVM

Ep0315: Interview with ChrisJohnRiley

2009-03-16

finux interviews ChrisJohnRiley

Ep0314: LVM2

2009-03-13

Kevin gives a brief and basic overview of Logical Volume Management, or LVM. Please note that I will be using a Debian GNU+Linux frame of reference, and that there is a possibility that some of the command-line details of some of he commands may differ to some extent. Also note that the current LVM package is "LVM2", and that when I use the term LVM, that I am, indeed, referring to LVM2.

Ep0313: Recesion Era Media

2009-03-12

DO-IT-YOURSELF ANTENNA The Gray-Hoverman Antenna (a GPL 3.0 version) The Digital Home forum TV Fool The Linux Outlaws Antenna thread A few do-it-yourself antenna designs on Instructables MYTHTV AND THE LIKE Info about MythTV is not at all hard to come by these days, but here's a few places to start off with, just in case it is new to you. MythTV Mythbuntu Mythdora Boxee This is an app that some people bill as an alternative to Mythbox ROCKBOX Rockbox rocks! WEB-ONLY SHOWS Gemini Division Drawn By Pain Star Trek: Phase II Star Trek: Of Gods and Men Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (I figure there might be a few people on Earth who haven't yet seen Dr. Horrible. A really wonderful production, and a nice example of the wide breadth that Web content can take.)

Ep0312: Illustrious Programmer Ep02

2009-03-11

the thrid episode of the Illustrious programmer series

Ep0311: Firewall Distros

2009-03-10

Mark discusses a few different firewall distros

Ep0310: SSH tunneling

2009-03-09

Knightwise talks about using ssh connections for terminal applications, filesharing and ssh tunneling.

Ep0309: Compiling a linux kernel

2009-03-06

Deepgeek briefly gives his impressions of custom compiling a linux kernel.

Ep0308: EC Feb 05 Meeting

2009-03-05

EC Feb 05 Meeting

Ep0307: Krita

2009-03-04

Klaatu compares Krita, Gimp and, obligatorily, Ph0t0sh0p.

Ep0306: News Cast Ep 1

2009-03-03

second ep of finux's series

Ep0305: Hard core Ogg player on the cheap

2009-03-02

Sansa e250 $29.99 8gb MicroSDHC $24.99 Rock box for sansa Boot loader instructions

Ep0304: Phone Line Troubleshooting

2009-02-27

Wintermute talks about phone line troubleshooting

Ep0303: lottanzb, my computers, and a quick movie review

2009-02-26

lottanzb, my computers, and a quick movie review lottanzb; deepgeek's newsgroup hpr episode; my computers; and a boy and his dog.

Ep0302: Python Programming Part 3

2009-02-25

for x in range(1, 10): print(x) for x in range(1, 11): print(x) y = 0 for x in range(1,101): y = y + x print(y) y = 0 x = 1 while x < 101: y = y + x x = x + 1 print (y) x = 0 y = 0 z = 1 while z < 100: x = y y = z z = x + y print (z) x = 0 y = 0 z = 1 while z < 100: print (z) x = y y = z z = x + y x = 0 y = 0 z = input('What number do we start from?') i = input('And up to which number should we calculate') while z < i: print (z) x = y y = z z = x + y

Ep0301: News Cast Ep0

2009-02-24

Ep 0 of finux's newscast series

Ep0300: Big 300

2009-02-23

interviews from various hpr hosts... thanks to everyone who makes HPR possible

Ep0299: LInuxTalk

2009-02-20

LinuxTalk

Ep0298: AutoNessus

2009-02-19

Ken Fallon interviews the autonessus developer

Ep0297: Open VPN

2009-02-18

UTOS OpenVPN presentation

Ep0296: EC LUG Jan 15 meeting

2009-02-17

EC LUG Jan 15 meeting

Ep0295: Illustrious Programmer E1: Vocab and Basics

2009-02-16

Jelkimatis continues his Illustrious Programmer series

Ep0294: Copyfight Vol5: Filtering

2009-02-13

original story : http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/10/mpaas-beloved-networ.html Petition : http://publicknowledge.cmail1.com/T/ViewEmail/y/18C852B44675F35A/D60B49FF968D258D9A8E73400EDACAB4

Ep0293: Illustrious Programmer Ep 0

2009-02-12

first ep in Jelkimantis' new series

Ep0292: All Songs Considered 6: Freedom was born

2009-02-11

Another song from Chad from the linuxbasement

Ep0291: moonlight discussion

2009-02-10

monsterb, threethirty, klaatu, jlindsay, and dann talk about moonlight, mono, silverlight, flash, licensing, and patents. Plus the debut of a votekick ending.moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.mono is a cross platform, open source .NET development framework.mono licensing GPL, LGL, MIT X11Fox Movie Trailers to test moonlight and silverlight.

Ep0290: NaNoWriMo.org

2009-02-09

NaNoWriMo.org or "I Gotta Be Outa My Friggin' Mind" NaNoWriMo.org (National Novel Writing Month) is an organization that sponsors an event each November wherein participants set out to write a novel in thirty days. The challenges and obsticles are many, not the least of which are the writers themselves. nanowrimo.org Also of interest to writers: Critters Story Group

Ep0289: Running Linux on Compact Flash

2009-02-07

Shownotes are located on deepgeek's website. Go there for ogg and flac versions as well as full show notes with photographs, mirrors of other podcasts that influenced this one, and an example of /etc/fstab for the project.

Ep0288: EC Lug Meething Jan 12th

2009-02-06

Audio from the EC Lug Jan 12th meeting

Ep0287: sysctl

2009-02-04

Klaatu talks about the lil' kernel paramater command "sysctl" and how it enables your computer to stop responding to pings, and more. ogg version located at http://www.thebadapples.info/audiophile/sysctl.ogg

Ep0286: Zoneminder Install

2009-02-03

jelkimantis talks about Zoneminder , a Linux video camera security and surveillance solution

Ep0285: Hacker

2009-02-02

Definitions taken from different dictionaries, with non-IT related definitions removed for relevance. "Hacker" :n A programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism [syn: cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk] A programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; "true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers" A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. A person capable of appreciating hack value. A person who is good at programming quickly. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence `password hacker', `network hacker'. The correct term for this sense is cracker.

Ep0284: Roundtable 1: Is Google Evil?

2009-01-30

Morgellon, Plexie, Klaatu, Drake Anubis, and Skirlet discuss whether google is evil.

Ep0283: Convert Ogg to MP3

2009-01-29

Convert Ogg to MP3monsterb, threethirty, klaatu, and Peter64 talk about audio converters.ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert multimedia files between formats.Linux Cranks Oggcast forum thread on converting Ogg to MP3.Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another.SoundConverter - GNOME Sound Conversion.SoX is a cross-platform command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats.

Ep0282: Python Programming 101: Part 2

2009-01-28

print ("Hello World") print ("Hello "World") x = 1 print (x) x = 1 x = x + 5 x = x * 7 print (x) x = 1 + 5 * 7 print (x) x = (1 + 5) * 7 print (x) # This is a comment x = (1 + 5) * 7 # print ("5") print (x) x = "Hello World" print (x) x = "Hello" y = "World" print (x+y) x = "Hello" y = "World" print (x + " " + y) sFirstName = "John" sSurname = "Smith" print ("Dear " + sFirstName + " " + sSurname) x = 13 sFirstName = "John" sSurname = "Smith" if x < 12: print ("Good Morning " + sFirstName + " " + sSurname) else: print ("Good Evening " + sFirstName + " " + sSurname) x = 11 sFirstName = "John" sSurname = "Smith" if x < 12: print ("Good Morning " + sFirstName + " " + sSurname) else: print ("Good Evening " + sFirstName + " " + sSurname) print ("When does this get printed?")

Ep0281: Expressive Programming 6: How, do you, view programming: artisticly, scientificly, or staticly?

2009-01-27

Uberchick continues the Expressive Prgramming series

Ep0280: Aftershow

2009-01-26

An unintended, and impromptu, aftershow conversation between kajarii and threethirty, recorded after a call-in episode of the lottalinuxlinks.com linux user podcast.

Ep0279: cfengine

2009-01-23

Ken talks to Ian Southam about using cfengine to manage your servers. Overview of CFengine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfengine The Promise of System Configuration: Google Tech Talks - November 5, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CCXs4Om5pY A simple overview of cfengine: Debian Administration http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/223 Centralized Host Configuration With Cfengine: Sun BigAdmin System Administration Portal http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/cfengine_part1.html http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/cfengine_part2.html Ian Southam: http://www.schubergphilis.com/

Ep0278: Squashfs

2009-01-22

deepgeek talks about squashfs

Ep0277: tmpfs

2009-01-21

thewtex talks about tmpfs

Ep0276: ANCIENT ORANGE MEAD

2009-01-20

makes roughly 1 US gallon after headspace and spillage are factored in Ingredients 3 1/2 pounds (1.5 kgs.) of honey 1 large orange 1 small handful of raisins 1 cinnamon stick 2 cloves pinch of nutmeg and allspice (optional) 1 sachet bread yeast water to just under 4 liters Procedure Cut orange into eigths. Add orange slices (peels and all) to a 4 liter jug, then add honey, spices, and water to 4 liters, less headspace. Cap and shake, mixing well. Uncap, add yeast. Cap and shake again. Uncap and attach waterlock. Let sit for 2 to 2 1/2 months. When mead is clear syphon it into clean bottles. Cap or cork these. Mead is now ready to drink, but gets better with age. Additional Reading The obligatory Wikipedia article A nice overview of mead history and nomenclature. (I've contributed to it myself, so you just know it's good!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead Gotmead.com The single biggest mead resource on the Web. The forums are particularly useful. Many very knowledgeable and friendly people hang out here. http://www.gotmead.com The Mead Lover's Digest A venerable email forum, that gets sent out whenever there's enough content to fill and issue. Lots of good advice and recipes here. This is the introduction/signup page. http://www.talisman.com/mead/

Ep0275: giver

2009-01-19

monsterb, threethirty, klaatu, and Peter64 talk about "giver" and apps they use on eeepc.Giver is a simple file sharing desktop application. Visit the original Giver Hack Week Page and check out the video.The ogg version of this episode is located on http://monsterb.org/hpr.html.

Ep0274: TiddlyWiki

2009-01-16

Show Notes & Running Order (More Or Less) What it is / what it's not What people expect a wiki to be Server based Database storage Multiple users Revision control Where TiddlyWiki is best suited Journal Start a new clean wiki each month / year and tar.gz the previous one to be archived Personal wiki you can take with you on a thumbdrive A scratch pad for ideas on a project, ideal to zip and send to a client JavaScript & CSS Platform Neutral Gecko based Opera etc require additional TiddlySaver.jar file GTD Variants (b3cubed) Alternates (didiwiki, woas) No install needed Backstage Tiddlers Plugins Installing plugins Themes Blackicity theme from tiddlythemes.com Installing themes - Importing themes Installing themes - Empty file, importing tiddlers No passwords, encryption or theme switching by default A wiki for each project Separate folders for each TiddlyWiki Backups created by default Rename your empty-tiddlywiki.html file anything you want Some config info kept in cookies Upgrading Syncing with a version of TiddlyWiki on a different PC Free TiddlyWiki hosting at tiddlyspot.com, can be private Every wiki uses it's own syntax Why I needed something like TiddlyWiki DidiWiki requires a port opened to work Links The main project site The official wiki Themes for TiddlyWiki Guides for TiddlyWiki WikiOnAStick DidiWiki A free hosted TiddlyWiki site. DCubed GTD TiddlyWiki Monkey GTD TiddlyWiki

Ep0273: The socal Linux Expo

2009-01-15

http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/ SCALE 7x, the premier Open Source Community conference in the southwestern United States, returns to the Westin LAX Hotel, site of the 6th Expo! For 2009, the main weekend conference at SCALE 7x has been expanded. In addition to the three main tracks, a Beginner's track and a Developer's track have been added. Wintermute interviews Orv Beach and Ilan Rabinovitch, both staff members of the ScaLE conference

Ep0272: EC Lug December 18th Meeting

2009-01-14

EC Lug December 18th Meeting

Ep0271: Stallman on Free Beer

2009-01-13

This is an interview with Richard Stallman framed as a "review" of FREE BEER, the worlds first collaborative "free" beer ("free'' as in `free speech", not as in "free beer")By SUPERFLEX in 2005. Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike

Ep0270: Licensing Part 2 - AGPL and LGPL

2009-01-12

Affero GPL (AGPL) Lesser GPL (LGPL) GNU website Episode 3 of the Software Freedom Law Center Podcast AGPL Wikipedia page LGPL Widipedia page Dann's notes for this episode

Ep0269: Cups

2009-01-09

klaatu talks about printing in linux

Ep0268: Lightweight Web Browsing With Arora

2009-01-08

Deepgeek continues the lightweight applications series

Ep0267: Copyfight Volume 4: Free Beatles

2009-01-07

Story: Podcast Feed:

Ep0266: EC Lug Decemeber 11th Meeting

2009-01-06

EC Lug December 11th Meeting

Ep0265: CrunchBang Linux

2009-01-05

monsterb and threethirty talk about CrunchBang Linux, Openbox and Terminator.Links:CrunchBang LinuxOpenboxTerminatorUnix Porn!Screenshots: pic1, pic2CrunchBang Repo:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu intrepid maindeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ubuntu intrepid maindeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/spring/ubuntu intrepid maindeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ubuntu intrepid main

Ep0264: Interacting with GSM Modems

2009-01-02

Seal talks about GSM Modems

Ep0263: 1 year anniversary special

2009-01-01

Enigma and Wintermute21 talk about their favorite episodes from Season 1 and discuss changes that Season 2 will bring.

Ep0262: Programming 101: The Basics

2008-12-31

Xoke starts the Programming series giving some background on his experience as well as some programming fundamentals.

Ep0261: Force Unleashed

2008-12-30

Enigma starts things off with the first episode of the Game review series, he reviews Force Unleashed for the Wii

Ep0260: All Songs considered 5: Big Dave Yates

2008-12-29

An Ode to Dave Yates by Chad from the linuxbasement

Ep0259: Drupal: From blank to blog in 30 minutes

2008-12-26

UTOSC 2008: Drupal: From blank to blog in 30 minutes by Dirk Howard Drupal is an extensible Content Management System (CMS) that is used for blogs, forums, photo galleries and many other uses. Installing Drupal on a blank website can be done in as little as 30 minutes. All you need is a web server that can handle PHP, a MySQL or PostgreSQL database, and either FTP or shell access to the web server. Within 30 minutes you can be blogging on your own site that you can customize anyway you want.

Ep0258: Xmas Special

2008-12-25

Xmas "Live" Special, Hosts include slick0, droops morgellon, Tottenkoph, killersmurf, fawksfyre, Enigma, PlexiE, threethirty

Ep0257: Apps I Installed on my eee pc

2008-12-24

Apps I installed on my eee pc. debian eee pc

Ep0256: Ditching ITunes

2008-12-23

In which pixel_juice describes the steps he took to kick the iTunes habit and embrace freedom. Rockbox - http://www.rockbox.org gPodder - http://gpodder.berlios.de/ EasyTAG - http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ OGG Vorbis - http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Ep0255: Pmount

2008-12-22

The glories of pmount - allowing you to mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as a normal user. Pmount home page See your distribution repository for the file Slackware users can find it in sbopkg oh yeah!

Ep0254: Expressive Programming Ep 5

2008-12-19

Episode 5 of uberchicks Expressive Programming series

Ep0253: Encryption

2008-12-18

Three Prime Numbers: 2, 3 and 5. I will call them A, B and C so A=2, B=3 and C=5 Working through x as the current position, and i being the unencrypted password and j being the encrypted as an array, so i[x] is the 'current' position we get: j[x] = ((j[x-1] + i[x] + A) * B ) MOD C The password example I give is: Encrypting 123 1 (unencrypted password) + 2 (Prime A) = 3 3 * 3 (Prime B) = 9 9 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 4 4 (previous encrypted) + 2 (current unencrypted) + 2 (Prime A) = 8 8 * 3 (Prime B) = 24 24 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 4 4 (previous encrypted) + 3 (current unencrypted) + 2 (Prime A) = 9 9 * 3 (Prime C) = 27 27 MOD 5 (Prime C) = 2 So the encrypted password is 442

Ep0252: Google App Engine 101

2008-12-17

oogle launched the App Engine service earlier this year to immense interest from the web development community. App Engine allows running applications on Google infrastructure, including BigTable, Google’s non-relational, massively scalable database. App Engine is appealing both at the low end, where small shops don’t want to have to deal with hardware procurement and systems administration, and at the high end, where the kind of “instant scaling” App Engine promises to deal with bursty traffic is the holy grail of infrastructure planning.

Ep0251: All Songs Considered 4 Livin With a Geek

2008-12-16

Another song by Chad from the Linux Basement

Ep0250: What Ogg Player

2008-12-15

Samsung YP-U3 Supporting without updating firmware Where to look for a ogg player MTP International Firmware: Use the U3J MTS mode use it

Ep0249: Puppy 411

2008-12-12

Getting Compiling Working in Puppy Creating a Pet Package Puppy Custom Re-Spins Puppy Custom Version for the EEE PC

Ep0248: Cross Stitching with Morgellon

2008-12-11

Cross Stitching with Morgellon o.O ...wtF!?

Ep0247: Voice Over IP for fun and profit

2008-12-10

Chris Cameron will show how to setup a voice over IP phone system from beginning to end. Using open source software we will explore how simple it is to have a high end phone system running in little time and on commodity hardware. We will take a computer and some inexpensive phones and install and configure the system through the presentation. Using web based administration tools to easily configure an upstream Voice Over IP trunk and make and receive calls. original audio

Ep0246: Whats in My Toolkit Part 3

2008-12-09

dwick describes what's in his toolkit

Ep0245: Icewm

2008-12-08

Deepgeek reviews "Icewm," the "cool" window manager with an alias, A.K.A., "The imitator." Then Deepgeek goes on to show the solution to a technical problem with it, which is running unsupported WindowMaker Dockapps on it. Companion article can be found at http://deepgeek.us/icewm An ogg audio version can be found there also.

Ep0244: Enlightment

2008-12-05

Klaatu hijacks deepgeek's "Lightweight App" series and discusses one of his favourite lightweight desktop environments. You can also choose to download Klaatu's ogg version of this episode.

Ep0243: All Songs Considered 4 Special Piece of Hate

2008-12-04

Special Piece of Hate by Chad

Ep0242: Open Source in Government Panel Discussion

2008-12-03

Open Source in Government Panel Discussion moderated by Jason Hall

Ep0241: What I learned from Oggify

2008-12-02

What I learned from Oggify by Scott Paul Robertson

Ep0240: All Songs considered 3: The Php Song

2008-12-01

Chad sings about php

Ep0239: SourceCast Ep 6

2008-11-28

original Audio from Sourcecast ep 5.5 @ sourcecast.org

Ep0238: All Songs Considered 2: Linux Johnny Appleseed and me

2008-11-27

Linux Johnny Appleseed and me by Chad from the linuxbasement.com

Ep0237: Creating Identification Cards Part 2

2008-11-26

p>Klaatu talks about using the phone company as a leaping-off point toward a new You! Also, gift cards and spreading the word about your new identity. Get Klaatu's ogg version of this show if you hatez the MPEG.

Ep0236: UCLUG November 11th Meeting

2008-11-25

Dr. Richard Hipp D. Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite and CVSTrac This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License

Ep0235: EC Lug November 20th Meeting

2008-11-24

EC Lug November 20th Meeting

Ep0234: Creating Identification Cards Part 1

2008-11-21

Get yer supplies at Poison ID .A simple laminator example is the ABC HeatSeal Download the ogg version if you are a codec snob.

Ep0233: rox-filer

2008-11-20

Lightweight apps, Deepgeek reviews "rox-filer," a lightweight gui file manager. An excellent jumping off point on the web is this link... http://polishlinux.org/apps/window-managers/rox-filer-a-lightweight-file-manager-that-simply-rocks/ The add-on for an integrated trash can can be found here... http://www.skepticats.com/rox/trash.html

Ep0232: EC Lug November 13th Meeting

2008-11-19

EC Lug November 13th Meeting

Ep0231: All Songs considered 1: Cause I am Free

2008-11-18

Cause I am Free by Chad from the linuxbasement

Ep0230: Escapism and Alternative Resources

2008-11-17

uberChic continues her Expressive programming series

Ep0229: CopyFight Vol 4 - SFL Podcast

2008-11-14

http://softwarefreedom.org/podcast

Ep0228: nokia

2008-11-13

Klaatu talks about setting up your Nokia N8*0 or N770 to be a robust computing platform, and the importance of doing so before you need it rather than waiting, like he does, until the last minute and scrambling to get all the packages you need installed. He concedes that he's failed to mention a lot of cool apps, so feel free to make suggestions in the comments. Nokia N-series Repository Site You can also download Klaatu's ogg version of this episode if you prefer ogg.

Ep0227: Local Squid

2008-11-12

Ken Fallon talks about Squid for local use

Ep0226: EC Lug November 11th meeting

2008-11-11

EC Lug november 11th meeting

Ep0225: What's in my Toolkit part 2

2008-11-10

Cybercod talks about what's in his toolkit

Ep0224: Installing gwibber webkit

2008-11-07

Installing gwibber webkit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gwibber This is a guide to install the gwibber micro-blogging client on Ubuntu 8.04 From PPA Create a file called /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibber.list. It should contain the gwibber PPA: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu hardy main deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu hardy main and then the Webkit PPA (you probably don't need it if you're on Intrepid): deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ubuntu hardy main sudo apt-get install bzr subversion libwebkit-1.0-1 libwebkit-dev python-webkitgtk build-essential autoconf automake libtool libgtk2.0-dev python-dev python-gtk2 python-gtk2-dev libsexy2 libsexy-dev python-sexy libxslt1-dev python-cairo-dev python-simplejson python-egenix-mxdatetime $ sudo apt-get update $ svn checkout http://pywebkitgtk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pywebkitgtk-read-only 7. Goto pywebkitgtk-read-only directory - Configure, compile and install pywebkitgtk. * $ . cd pywebkitgtk-read-only $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local $ make $ sudo make install 9. Download gwibber webkitui * $ cd ~ $ bzr branch lp:~segphault/gwibber/webkitui 10. Goto /webkitui directory to run gwibber * $ cd ~/webkitui $ ./run 11. or install * sudo python setup.py install

Ep0223: git

2008-11-06

Klaatu talks about how to set up, navigate within, commit, and push with git. This is a beginner level howto that will also help you understand SVN and CVS. More information about git and similar apps can be found here: git.or.cz kernel.org git tutorial CVS, another versioning system Subversion You can also download the ogg version of this episode.

Ep0222: Alpine GPG

2008-11-05

For more info on PGP and GPG: The Bad Apples episode 2x04 ogg The Bad Apples episode 2x04 mp3 Linux Reality episode 47 you can also download the OGG version of this episode.

Ep0221: Being Powerless

2008-11-04

xoke talks about being powerless

Ep0220: EC Lug October 30th Meeting

2008-11-03

EC Lug October 30th Meeting

Ep0219: Halloween WebDAV howto

2008-10-31

WebDAV howto

Ep0218: Source Cast Ep 5

2008-10-30

orginal audio from sourcecast 3.14

Ep0217: Linux Media and Home Automation

2008-10-29

Linux Media and Home Automation by Brandon Beattie Utah Open Source Podcast @ http://podcast.utos.org/

Ep0216: What's in your toolkit part 1

2008-10-28

threethirty talks about what he carries around in his backpack

Ep0215: Guide to using linux Rainbow tables

2008-10-27

finux's student-hacker guild to using linux rainbow tables

Ep0214: EC Lug October 23 Meeting

2008-10-24

EC Lug October 23rd Meeting

Ep0213: Fav Podcasts

2008-10-23

monsterb and Peter64 talk about their favorite podcasts. Links: monsterb.org/Favorite Podcasts monsterb.org/Podcasts Podiobooks.com The Linux Link

Ep0212: The Dark Art of Autotools

2008-10-22

The Dark Art of Autotools by John Jolly Utah open source podcast http://podcast.utos.org/

Ep0211: Copy fight Vol 3

2008-10-21

threethirty continues his copyfight series

Ep0210: SourceCast Episode 4

2008-10-20

original audio from sourcecast ep 4 found at sourcecast.org

Ep0209: Speeding Up Database Development with GenORMous

2008-10-17

Speeding Up Database Development with GenORMous by Brian Hawkins Utah Open source podcast found at http://podcast.utos.org/

Ep0208: Expressive Prgramming Part 3

2008-10-16

uberchick continues her expressive programming series

Ep0207: Vulgar Esperantist Part 3

2008-10-15

klaatu continues his Vulgar Esperantist series

Ep0206: This Runs Linux

2008-10-14

ken fallon talks about thisrunslinux.org

Ep0205: Open Source for the Windows Addict

2008-10-13

Utah Lug Presentation http://podcast.utos.org/

Ep0204: EC Lug October 9th meeting

2008-10-10

EC Lug October 9th meeting

Ep0203: Alpine: How to

2008-10-09

Klaatu talks about the virtues of the Alpine (or Pine) email client, how to set it up, special settings for using it with IMAP servers, how to configure the reply-to address correctly, and much more. Alpine Official Site Pine Official Site OGG version

Ep0202: cpanel whitelisting

2008-10-08

Deepgeek talks about using cpanel, a common web front-end for budget webhost accounts, to create spam-free mobile email via whitelisting. companion article

Ep0201: phreaknic

2008-10-07

droops interviews skydog the lead organizer of phreaknic

Ep0200: 200th Episode Special

2008-10-06

Meet the Hosts of HPR

Ep0199: EC Lug October 2 meeting

2008-10-03

EC Lug October 2 meeting

Ep0198: Installing Windows

2008-10-02

xoke installs windows in virtual box

Ep0197: Vulgar Esperantist Part 2

2008-10-01

klaatu continues his Vulgar Esperantist series

Ep0196: linux file managers

2008-09-30

How to plug a tire, linux file managers, world's smallest linux distro, and what's in your bag? tkdesk; emelfm2; vifm; and slitaz.

Ep0195: Sourcecast Ep 3

2008-09-29

original audio from sourcecast ep 5

Ep0194: EC Lug September 25 meeting

2008-09-26

EC Lug September 25 meeting

Ep0193: What is Free Software

2008-09-25

finux's talk from Software Freedom day

Ep0192: Linux User

2008-09-24

threethrity talks about promoting linux.

Ep0191: EC Lug August 14 Meeting

2008-09-23

EC Lug August 14th Meeting

Ep0190: Media Centers for Linux

2008-09-22

monsterb, klaatu, and Peter64 talk about Media Centers for Linux.Boxee, Elisa, Entertainer, Freevo, GeexBox, LinuxMCE, Miro, MythTV, XBMC

Ep0189: Source Cast Part 2

2008-09-19

original audio from sourcecast 4.5 sourcecast website

Ep0188: Expressive Programming Part 2 Perfection vs Production

2008-09-18

Part 2 of uberchicks expressive programming series.

Ep0187: Maemo

2008-09-17

riddlebox and Jza talk about Maemo

Ep0186: Vulgar Esperantist part 1

2008-09-16

klaatu's first part in his "Vulgar Esperantist" series done for the LinguistChat web series

Ep0185: 3 tips

2008-09-15

More info Tip 1: while [ "x" = "x" ]; do ls -al ; sleep 5; done Tip 2: sox in.mp3 out.ogg tempo 1.5 Tip 3: tar -cf - . | ( cd /media/backupdisk; tar -xvf - )

Ep0184: Licnese Pt1: GNU GPL v3

2008-09-12

GNU website

Ep0183: UCLUG Sepetember meeting

2008-09-11

UC Lug's September meeting

Ep0182: LinuxMCE: Interview with Thomas Cherryhomes

2008-09-10

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10' UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only basic computer skills. Links: Home Demo Videos: IRC: irc.freenode.net #linuxmce Ohio LinuxFest 2008 10.11.2008 SouthEast LinuxFest 6.13.2009

Ep0181: Setting up vsFTPD

2008-09-09

Klaatu talks about setting up an FTP server. vsFTPd site ogg version

Ep0180: Beagle Board

2008-09-08

Beagle Board HQ Wiki Info Hardware Info: http://beagleboard.org/hardware http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/mkt/beagleboard.html Beagle Board Media: http://beagleboard.org/media http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/en/tod/Texas_Instruments/BeagleBoard/BeagleBoard.html

Ep0179: Hack This Site

2008-09-05

Xoke talks about a legaltraining ground for hackers. http://www.hackthissite.org/

Ep0178: Google Chrome

2008-09-04

download link Here's a thread on the binrev forum all about Chrome: http://www.binrev.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38885

Ep0177: Rythmnbox Streaming

2008-09-03

weex talks about streaming audio with Rythmnbox

Ep0176: EC Lug August 21 Meeting

2008-09-02

EC Lug August 21 Meeting

Ep0175: Sourcecast ep 00

2008-09-01

original audio http://sourcecast.org/

Ep0174: VIM is my IDE

2008-08-29

Django: This Week in Django VIM SnippetsEMU Nerd tree taglist add to ~/.vimrc for shortcuts Taglist shortcut line: nnoremap :TlistToggle NERDtree shortcut line: nnoremap :NERDTree Notes: *.vba is a vimball file open a .vba file and follow the instructions. once in the file type :so % and hit enter to run the .vba file. that should install the vim scripts into your ~/.vim directory. it's always a good idea to run the unzip or .vba files from the directory you want to install them into, as you may come across scripts in the future that assume that's were you are. default Debian/Ubuntu setting file is here: /usr/share/vim/vim71/debian.vim yours may be under vim70 or something else depending on your version the global /etc/vim/vimrc runs the debian.vim file SnippetsEMU notes: open any SOMELANGUAGE_snippets.vim file to see examples of how to setup a snippet. once snippets are installed, open a file with vim and type a snippet phrase followed by hitting the key and the phrase should be replaced with the bits from the snippet file. NERD tree notes: normal vim keyboard keys work in the NERD tree window. :NERDTree starts it q from the NERDtree window quits u for up a level t for down a level (traverse) :help NERDTree for extensive command help Taglist notes: normal vim keyboard keys work in the taglist window. taglsits are cumulative, meaning that as you open different files in the same vim session taglist creates a new taglist tree for new files you edit. :TlistOpen starts :TlistToggle toggles between opening and closeing the taglist window F1 for help q quits/closes taglist window Lodgeit Pastebin for VIM NERDCommenter for VIM easily comment out lines and blocks of text inside code for many languages http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1218

Ep0173: Configuring Pulse Audio

2008-08-28

Klaatu and notJlindsay discuss Pulse Audio and how to configure it so it doesn't bork your system. One thing Klaatu fails to mention is that before you try any of this, you should just run whatever software updates may be available for your OS. Pulse configuration and compatability seems to be improving rapidly over time, so many thing may "fix themselves" by simply making sure your distro is up to date. Wiki Article the ogg version of this episode

Ep0172: fluxbox tabbed windows

2008-08-27

dave yates discusses fluxbox's tabbed windows feature

Ep0171: AVID 101

2008-08-26

jelkimantis discusses a program called AVID shownotes

Ep0170: Resetting Windows Passwords

2008-08-25

finux discusses a tool that allows you to reset windows passwords

Ep0169: Steganography

2008-08-23

deepgeek dicusses steganography

Ep0168: EC LUG August 14 Meeting

2008-08-22

EC LUG meeting for august 14

Ep0167: UCLUG august Meeting

2008-08-20

upstate carolina linux user group august meeting

Ep0166: 10 Minute Mail

2008-08-19

10 Minute Mail Ogg Version of this Episode

Ep0165: Expressive Programming

2008-08-18

uberchick's first installment of her expressive programming series

Ep0164: Copyfight Vol 2

2008-08-15

threethiry continues his copyfight series

Ep0163: Circuit Bending

2008-08-14

HPR Circuit Bending http://www.expertvillage.com/video-series/5058_circuit-bending-audio.htm http://www.expertvillage.com/video-series/4432_circuit-bending.htm Circuit bending is the creative, DIY (Do It Yourself) short-circuiting of electronic devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small digital synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with "bent" instruments. Circuit benders remove the rear panel and connect circuits on a trial and error basis. More experienced benders use a soldering iron and add other components such as potentiometers, resistors or capacitors, which creates an even broader range of sounds.

Ep0162: Webkit

2008-08-13

Jza, Andymeows, and riddebox have a improvised discussion about an article in the July issue of Linux Journal, called "Using Webkit In Your Desktop Application." pg 54 - 58. Linux Journal = www.linuxjournal.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit What is webkit? It has a LGPL license Webkit is an open source application framework that provides a foundation upon which to build a web browser. It was originally derived from the konqueror browser's khtml software library by Apple Inc. for use in Safari. You can use Designer to create a nice gui and use the classes for QtWebKit inside it. Which means that you can drag and drop forms and create the gui real fast. The best part of QtWebKit is that you can pull stuff from the internet for you applications. In the article they created an app that will download the pdf files from past issues for you. With a nice search feature for their website. Examples of applications using Webkit: Adium Colloquy MSN Messenger Mac OS X's Dashboard The IPhone uses it as well

Ep0161: Hacking WEP

2008-08-12

finux explains just how insecure WEP is

Ep0160: DVgrab

2008-08-11

http://kenfallon.com/?p=51 http://torrez.us/archives/2007/05/14/530/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-job-terminating/index.html

Ep0159: Basic Electronics

2008-08-08

Digital & Analog The 7 Logic Gates From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps

Ep0158: EC LUG July 31 Meeting

2008-08-07

audio from EC Lug meeting on july 31 2008

Ep0157: New Hackermedia Content

2008-08-06

Some new Hackermedia The Hacker Voice Digest Issue 3 Download Rough guide to number stations - Part 3 By Demonix History of BT Strowger Systems - By Belial List of interesting phone numbers - Blue_Chimp VoIP spectacular with 10nix and Belial Hacking Vonage - Belial Easy Peasy ID theft - Hyper Urban Exploration - BT exchanges Rants News Interviews and a fuckton more!...... Citizen Engineer Website LadyAda http://www.adafruit.com http://www.ladyada.net/ Phil Torrone http://www.makezine.com/ http://www.makezine.com/pub/au/Phillip_Torrone They Might Be Giants, Friday Night Video Podcast Video Making of Rss Feed Lyrics

Ep0156: FRS/GMRS Walkie Talkie Review

2008-08-05

Deepgeek reviews FRS/GMRS walkie-talkies from Radio Shack (He also waxes nostalgic about CB radio.)

Ep0155: Installing Xubuntu

2008-08-04

Xoke talks about installing Xubuntu

Ep0154: Linguistic Public Radio Episode 0

2008-08-01

Plexie introduces her new site, forum, irc channel and podcast. Linguist Chat Home page offical irc channel: linguistchat.org #Linguistchat LinguistChat Forum

Ep0153: What is an algorithm

2008-07-31

What is an algorithm? Review Question: Try answering the follow review question by leaving a comment or answering it in your head. If you want you can even write it down on paper. Write an algorithm for your morning routine. From the time the alarm clock rings until you leave the house for work or school. If you're like me and do not have a job try writing an algorithm on how to write a resume. Recommended Reads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid's_algorithm http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question717.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-algorithm.htm This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License

Ep0152: Pulse Audio Intro

2008-07-30

Klaatu interviews Kajarii about Pulse Audio. Pulse Audio Website Since I'll be listening to this episode in OGG format, I figured I'd post the ogg version in case anyone else wants it. --klaatu

Ep0151: Copyfight Vol 1

2008-07-29

http://www.freesound.org/ http://www.creativecommons.org

Ep0150: Debloat Windows

2008-07-28

Cybercod explains how to debloat a windows install disk

Ep0149: DynamicDNS

2008-07-25

klaatu talks about dynamic dns

Ep0148: LinuxFest

2008-07-24

LinuxFest Ohio LinuxFest; Ontario LinuxFest; Southeast LinuxFest.

Ep0147: New DNS vunerablity

2008-07-23

miro talks about the new DNS vunerablity

Ep0146: MC Smedley

2008-07-22

another track by MC Smedley

Ep0145: Stop smoking

2008-07-21

The one step plan to stopping smoking: Don't smoke another one. Audio for the record scratch by Halleck http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=29938 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0

Ep0144: Death Note

2008-07-20

deepgeek talks about Death Note anime

Ep0143: Open GPS Tracker

2008-07-18

http://opengpstracker.org http://www.opengpstracker.org/wordpress/ http://www.opengpstracker.org/phpBB3/ http://www.ladyada.net/make/usbtinyisp/index.html

Ep0142: Home Brew Part 2 - Bottling and Fermentation Fun

2008-07-17

jelkimantis' part 2 of his home brewing adventures

Ep0141: Tech Music: Tele-Datu boogie

2008-07-16

check out his other tracks at: http://www.zombie.el.cx/music/

Ep0140: LPI Certification Part 6 Device Configuration

2008-07-15

Part 6 of the LPI series by ken fallon

Ep0139: Compiling a Kernel over the Nework with distcc

2008-07-14

klaatu talks about compiling a Kernel over the network with distcc.

Ep0138: Bee Soft Commander

2008-07-11

Deepgeek talks about the light weight app Bee Soft commander

Ep0137: July UCLUG Meeting

2008-07-10

dave yates as always records his UCLUG meeting

Ep0136: Intercepting Satellite Transmissions

2008-07-09

Drake Anubis demonstrates the basic setups to decoding APT satellite transmissions. A detailed tutorial is available on his blog.

Ep0135: LPI Ceritification Part 5 PCI Cards

2008-07-08

GNU Free Documentation License elpicx Live-CD/DVD Leading Edge Training Notes Commands Used: lspci -h|less lspci -n|less locate pci.ids | less less 'locate pci.ids | head -1 ` lspci | less lspci -s 00:1d -v |less less /proc/pci echo "Read http://www.rt.com/man/pnpdump.8.html" less /proc/interupts less /proc/ioports less /proc/iomem less /proc/dma

Ep0134: Kernal Patching

2008-07-07

Part 2 of the How to Build your own Kernal Series

Ep0133: Talk to Drake

2008-07-04

Drake invites quiet listeners to come on the show and share their interests with him.

Ep0132: OpenDNS

2008-07-03

openDNS website transcript of the episode rowinggolfer's notes on using openDNS with a dynamic IP

Ep0131: Adding Stereo to a Computer

2008-07-02

"Deepgeek talks about adding a Stereo to his Computer"

Ep0130: Unhosing a spyware infected system

2008-07-01

* Ad-Aware * Spybot Search and Destroy * Either AVG or Clam AV * HijackThis * Rootkit Revealer * Autoruns * C Cleaner * Disk Clean (part of Windows) * Scan Disk (part of Windows) * Defrag (part of Windows)

Ep0129: Panama City Linux User Group Meeting

2008-06-30

PCLUG meeting notes 0058

Ep0128: Misunderstanding Privacy Part 2

2008-06-27

Drake continues his series of Misunderstanding privacy. SSRN Paper Daniel J. Solove Drake Anubis

Ep0127: How to be Nosey on the Interwebz

2008-06-26

How to be Nosey Presentation

Ep0126: Ripping the Web

2008-06-25

operator explains how to rip content from websites.

Ep0125: Home Brew Part 1

2008-06-24

Equipment needed for Home Brew: 8 Quart Pot Fermenting Vessel (glass or food grade plastic) Bottling Vessel (again, food grade plastic) Siphon Hose & Bottling tool Spoon Funnel (if using a glass fermenter) Bottle capper bottles caps sterilizing solution (c-Brite or B-brite) Hop Bag Thermometer Hydrometer Beer Kit (ingredients) Links: http://www.leeners.com http://www.homebrewtalk.com

Ep0124: Digital Picture Frame

2008-06-23

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/mirovengi/2598843693_9ffee7e4c2_o.jpg http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/mirovengi/2598843655_b4fd44222f_o.jpg http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/mirovengi/2598843621_30287ffdc3_o.jpg

Ep0123: Misunderstanding Privacy Part 1

2008-06-19

SSRN Paper Daniel J. Solove Drake Anubis

Ep0122: Batch processing on Linux

2008-06-18

Deepgeek discusses batch processing on a linux platform

Ep0121: Linguistics Public Radio

2008-06-17

Plexi talks about her new upcomming project.

Ep0120: Tech Music: Landline Party!!

2008-06-16

check out his other tracks at: http://www.zombie.el.cx/music/

Ep0119: Tech Music: No Seat Attached

2008-06-13

MC Smedley garage basement demos. No seat attached - 1st recorded track ever

Ep0118: June UCLUG Meeting

2008-06-12

At the UCLUG: Jas continues his bash shell scripting for newbies tutorial, and Allen Valliencourt of FGPTech.

Ep0117: Bilderberg Group and the Crimespace project

2008-06-11

The Bilderberg Group met in VA last weekend, including European royalty, a CEO of Google, Craig Mundie from Microsoft, along with hundreds of the most influential people in the world, and no one noticed.

Ep0116: Linux Boot Process Part 6 - Init

2008-06-10

Linux Boot Process pt. 6 - Init Init is the mother of all processes. See my Notes for a brief reference. Also check out these resources: Wikipedia page on init init man page inittab man page Upstart

Ep0115: Promoting Linux

2008-06-09

Ken Fallon discusses ways to promote linux

Ep0114: Linux video editing

2008-06-06

This is Salsaman's Bio page. This is his videojack project Very good LiVES Tutorial page that Salsaman recommended LiVES homepage Fundraising for LiVES 1.0 Sourceforge user nominations page for LiVES as best multimedia app http://www.youtube.com/sorteal www.serverwillprovide.com/sorteal/ http://www.serverwillprovide.com/hpr/

Ep0113: Nintendo Wii Review

2008-06-05

Plexi reviews the Nintendo Wii video game console.

Ep0112: SSH Tunnelling

2008-06-04

This month, I'm taking a break from HPR, but I have a special guest host filling in for me: John Wesley Pruitt from JWPLinux's Podcast, who will give us an overview of SSH tunneling.

Ep0111: Steal this movie 2

2008-06-03

www.stealthisfilm.com - short review of the documentary film "steal this film 2.

Ep0110: Xoke's Favorite Apps

2008-06-02

* Xubuntu # Thunderbird * Flock Firefox Extensions (these work on Flock too) * NoScript * Tab Mix Plus * Custom user chrome file to have tabs on the left as this laptop is widescreen. * Firekeeper * All-in-one-sidebar * Secure Login * Adblock Plus * Download Statusbar These I use just on Flock * Morning Coffee * Greasemonkey * Scrapbook These are my 'dev' profile extensions * Firebug - has major issues with FF3 though :( * Web Developer * Fire PHP * User Agent Switcher * Tracks * Tiddlywiki # Prism # XChat * Uberscript # PC Man * Air * Twhirl # KeePassX # Ardour # Amarok # Rockbox * Bashpodder # Audacious # FileZilla # BaoBab # KTorrent # Pidgin * FunPidgin # DigiKam # GQView # GIMP # Inkscape # AutoFSCK Most of these (those with a # not a *) are available in the Ubuntu repositories though or are installed by default though.

Ep0109: KDE 4 Tips

2008-05-30

Skirlet gives some tips and tricks about the KDE 4 desktop enviroment

Ep0108: Handbrake - Howto

2008-05-29

The podcasting machine hosts another episode of hacker public radio

Ep0107: Console fonts

2008-05-28

dave yates talks about Console fonts

Ep0106: Tech Music: Payphone Dreaming

2008-05-27

check out his other tracks at: http://www.zombie.el.cx/music/

Ep0105: urban golf

2008-05-26

deepgeek talks about urbangolf

Ep0104: Not about Airsoft

2008-05-23

droops discusses feedback in the internet age, leave comments now, leave them before, during and after this show! Link to Video Link to Hacktv

Ep0103: Community Rant

2008-05-22

Tottenkoph talks about community involvement

Ep0102: Linux Professional Institute Certifications Part 4

2008-05-21

Ken continues his series on LPI Certifications

Ep0101: This old Hack Part 8

2008-05-20

Fawkesfyre's tales of hacking

Ep0100: Hackermedia Awards: RFA

2008-05-19

100th episode special droops and enigma cohost with special guest. RFA Hackermedia Award Thanks to all the Hosts for all their hard work!!

Ep0099: Tech Music: Blackhat Life

2008-05-16

check out his other tracks at: http://www.zombie.el.cx/music/

Ep0098: Subversion

2008-05-15

http://subversion.tigris.org/

Ep0097: An Interview with Tony Wright

2008-05-14

Tony Wright (RescueTime.com) Drake Anubis (DrakeAnubis.com)

Ep0096: Xfce, Oh I how I love you

2008-05-13

droops rehashes a presentation he has given to his local lugs on why he loves xfce. you can download the presentation and follow along. Link to presentation

Ep0095: Security Wow!

2008-05-12

parody episode

Ep0094: Initrd and Initramfs

2008-05-09

Systrhead.net Monolithic vs MicroKernel Wikipedia - Microkernel Wikipedia - Monolithic Kernel Wikipedia - Initramfs IBM - Initrd Overview Linux Devices - Introduction to initramfs

Ep0093: Newsgroups for Media

2008-05-08

Deepgeek discusses using newsgroups to get media files. While using newsgroups may be old school, using them for this application is often faster than bittorrent

Ep0092: bugs

2008-05-07

klaatu talks about bug reporting and bug triaging.

Ep0091: Hosts File

2008-05-06

Hosts file locations Linux: /etc/hosts Windows: c:windowssystem32drivesetchosts Mac: /private/etc/hosts file Example line: 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net Example hosts file (blocking ads): http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Open DNS

Ep0090: Ironman

2008-05-05

Iron Man Movie site Wikipedia Article IMDB page Marvel's Iron Man page

Ep0089: Notacon Wrapup

2008-05-02

notacon.org blockparty bloomingtonfools.org

Ep0088: Hiding and stripping program symbols

2008-05-01

thewtex explains how to Hide and strip program symbols

Ep0087: Compling a Kernel

2008-04-30

get the latest Linux kernel source code download Dave Yates's Kernel Compile Episode Peter64's Kernel Compile Monsterb's Kernel Compile

Ep0086: Kismet

2008-04-29

original audio from http://www.linuxbasement.com/ finux discusses kismet

Ep0085: Faubackup

2008-04-28

Deepgeek reviews Faubackup http://faubackup.sf.net

Ep0084: Phone interview with Kajarii: Linux for the blind user

2008-04-25

Orca linux speakup RC Syatems mplayer elinks; and nmh.

Ep0083: Flock

2008-04-24

Xoke rants about Doctor Who and talks about flock

Ep0082: Root kits

2008-04-23

Wikipedia, defines Rootkit as “.. a program designed to take fundamental control of a computer system, without authorization..”. Rootkit means “pwned”. In this episode, Finux, gives a detailed account of how rootkits work. He also reveals ways to expose and - better yet - avoid them. original audio from http://www.linuxbasement.com/ finux discusses rootkits Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0081: Linux Boot Process Part 3 - Boot Prompt Parameters

2008-04-22

Dann's Notes Linux Boot Prompt HowTo

Ep0080: Coffee

2008-04-21

klaatu talks about coffee

Ep0079: Tech Music: PLA Radio

2008-04-18

check out his other tracks at: http://www.zombie.el.cx/music/

Ep0078: Interview Tips

2008-04-17

Ken Fallon gives some interview tips for job seekers

Ep0077: This old Hack Part 7

2008-04-16

fawkesfyres part 7 of his ongoing series

Ep0076: Tech Music: W1f1 Hax0r

2008-04-15

check out his other tracks at: http://www.zombie.el.cx/music/

Ep0075: Collapsar

2008-04-14

Collapsar Paper

Ep0074: UCLUG - Linux Gaming

2008-04-11

Upstate Carolina Linux User Group Meeting 30 minute newbie session: Jas Eckard's bash shell scripting for newbies; Main topic: Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon speaks about the linux gaming industry. icculus.org

Ep0073: Google 411 Update

2008-04-10

Lunarsphere gives an update on his original twatech episode original episode

Ep0072: Imagemagick

2008-04-09

klaatu gives a review of Imagemagick

Ep0071: Beowulf Cluster Introduction

2008-04-08

Deepgeek gives an introduction to the Beowulf cluster, using video encoding as a short example.

Ep0070: Dr. Who

2008-04-07

Official Sites: Official Site BBC You Tube page (other non-Who stuff here also) Various You Tube VIdeos: Series 4 Trailer. Although the BBC have this you can't watch it outside the UK. This one you can. Some of my favourite episodes (links to Wiki page for full story and spoilers): The Tomb of the Cybermen The Terror of the Autons - The Master (Roger Delgado) and some Autons! Day of the DaleksSilver Nemesis The Sea Devils - The Master again (and some Sea Devils) The Three Doctors - Meet Omega, a Time Lord. Death to the Daleks Planet of the Spiders - Spiders, Time Lords, UNIT and more! Robot Genesis of the Daleks - where it all began Revenge of the Cybermen Pyramids of Mars The Brain of Morbius The Deadly Assassin - a trip to Gallifrey The Robots of Death The Invasion of Time - back to Gallifrey The Key to Time - and entire season devoted to this Destiny of the Daleks Logopolis - the last Tom Baker episode Castrovalva - The first Peter Davison and the Master Four to Doomsday Earthshock - Cybermen! Arc of Infinity The Five Doctors - (well actually four of them) Resurrection of the Daleks The Caves of Androzani - Peter Davison -> Colin Baker Attack of the Cybermen Revelation of the Daleks Remembrance of the Daleks Silver Nemesis New series are all good! Tie-in websites Go watch it now!

Ep0069: There's Pr0n on them there internets!

2008-04-04

"In this light-hearted VNSFW (VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK) episode 69 of HPR, StankDawg's alter ego "Buck Dangler" joins up with "T.T. Creamer" (deepgeek) to discuss some history of pr0n on the internet. They also discuss many places to find different types of pr0n and conclude with a technical analysis of many dangerous sexual positions that have become popular in some internet subcultures. TO CLARIFY: THIS EPISODE IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK"

Ep0068: Shoulder Stretches!

2008-04-03

The companion screencast for this show can be found here and here. Links referenced in this show: Yahoo! Pipes Molly Wood's Blog Buzz Out Lout Digg Techmeme Scobleizer Peter's Blog Scott's Blog Fresh Ubuntu

Ep0067: k-meleon

2008-04-02

http://k-meleon.org/ http://adblockplus.org/en/kmeleon Screenshot

Ep0066: April Fools Day Traditions

2008-03-31

.ǝuı1uo sʞuɐɹd ʎɐp s1ooɟ s1ıɹdɐ ʎuunɟ puıɟ oʇ sǝʇıs poob ǝɯos sǝɹɐɥs puɐ sǝxɐoɥ ʎɐp s1ooɟ s1ıɹdɐ snoɯɐɟ ʇsoɯ ɥǝʇ ɟo ǝɯos sǝssnɔsıp bʍɐpʞuɐʇs 'ǝposıdǝ sıɥʇ uı

Ep0065: Cowon iAudio U3 review

2008-03-31

Cowon iAudio U3

Ep0064: Tech Music: Payphone under Streetlight

2008-03-28

check out his other tracks at: http://www.zombie.el.cx/music/

Ep0063: WebCalendar

2008-03-27

WebCalendar WebCalendar wiki Hackerevents

Ep0062: More than a wii bit of fun with the Wiimote

2008-03-26

http://www.wiili.org http://www.wiili.org/index.php/How_To:_Windows_Wiimote Wii-Saber code Light saber sounds Wiimote Mouse code

Ep0061: Punk Computing

2008-03-25

How not to get stuck by the man, while sticking it to the man. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0060: Claws Email client

2008-03-24

deepgeek talks about a lightweight app called claws

Ep0059: Interview with scorche

2008-03-21

Interview with scorche from the Rockbox Project

Ep0058: Microcontrollers

2008-03-20

General page about avr products free c compiler for avr forum for avr people, also has lot of projects

Ep0057: LPI Certifications Part 3

2008-03-19

http://www.kenfallon.com http://www.acsdata.com/how-a-hard-drive-works.htm http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/bios/sizeMB504.html

Ep0056: Open Street Map

2008-03-18

openstreetmap.org

Ep0055: Slax

2008-03-17

http://www.slax.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._patricks_day

Ep0054: This Old Hack Part 6

2008-03-13

fawkesfyres latest tale of hacking

Ep0053: Codecs Part 4

2008-03-13

In this final episode of the series, Klaatu covers some proprietary codec packages. He then explains how to use free software and the linux command line to transcode a video using the open codec, Theora. http://theora.org/ http://linuxreviews.org/man/ffmpeg2theora/ Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0052: UCLUG: Newbie Shell Scripting

2008-03-12

Upstate Carolina Linux User Group: Jas Eckard gives a talk aimed at newbies on shell scripting. Upstate carolina Linux User Group

Ep0051: TalkBox

2008-03-11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box http://www.instructables.com/id/SN6RLCIF4LPLSYA/ http://www.instructables.com/id/%22Talk-Box%22/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EIQxwotn3k

Ep0050: Linux Boot Process Part 2B - Grub

2008-03-10

GRUB - Grand Unified Bootloader The bootloader of the gods. Grub Website Grub Manual Dann's Notes

Ep0049: XPlane

2008-03-07

Operat0r, is on approach at KLAX, runway 07R. Will he make it? - maybe not. He can crash and live to tell the tale with his X-Plane flight simulator. X-Plane is a proprietary, multi-platform, flight simulation program. While, he's no flight instructor, Operat0r's got a 'system' for landing X-Planes. http://x-plane.com http://www.atcmonitor.com http://stoenworks.com/Aviation%20home%20page.html http://xplane.org/ Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0048: Virtualization Part 2: Qemu quickstart

2008-03-06

The commands: =================================== qemu -soundhw es1370 -cdrom knoppix-std-0.1.iso tar -xvf freebsd6.1rel.qcow.img20060526.tar cd freebsd6.1rel.qcow.img qemu-img info freebsd6.1rel.qcow.img cat README qemu freebsd6.1rel.qcow.img The Links: ================================== http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Category:OS_images http://www.knoppix-std.org/download.html

Ep0047: Sys Internals Part 2

2008-03-05

part 2 of the sys internals series with Xoke

Ep0046: Yahoo Pipes

2008-03-03

Ep0045: Shell Scripting

2008-03-03

Dosman, gets the daily gas price report read to him by his computer. Why? - because he can. He knows shell scripting, and can manipulate commands to get things done. Here, he discusses shell scripts, and how he uses them to automate tasks on his computers. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0044: My desktop, and the apps I use everyday

2008-02-28

blosxom; emelfm2; openssh; sshfs; fuse; fish protocol; stormsiren; fluxbox; nuevat3k-glacier fluxbox theme; screen; gkrellm; gkrellkam; firefox; tab mix plus; google notebook; konqueror; vim; listgarden; audacity; easytag; music player daemon; gftp; and xchat.

Ep0043: Docdroppers

2008-02-27

W3lshrarebit, introduces Docdroppers.org ; a resource for the hacking community. Search and submit hacker articles, at DocDroppers. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0042: Zune Review

2008-02-26

Enigma reviews the Zune mp3 player

Ep0041: Codecs Part 3

2008-02-26

Codecs aren't containers. Klaatu explains the difference. He also presents some legal and technical factors to consider when choosing a codec. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0040: Sys internals Part 1

2008-02-24

an introduction to the sys internals suite

Ep0039: Debian Live CD

2008-02-22

Information on Debian Live CD's and a small framework to build them. Debian Live: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/ http://live.debian.net/cdimage/ DFS Live CD Video of live-helper

Ep0038: R4DS Review

2008-02-20

Stankdawg reviews the R4DS adapter for the Nintendo DS

Ep0037: This Old Hack Part 5

2008-02-19

In this editon of this old hack fawkesfyre builds a shmooball cannon Video demo

Ep0036: LPI Certifications Part 2

2008-02-19

Continuing his journey toward LPI certification, Ken covers computer buses and system resources. Please note, there is a minute and a half, gap in this recording – your player's battery didn't die. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pci.htm/printable Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0035: An interview with John Whaley

2008-02-18

droops interviews John Whaley from Moka5.

Ep0034: Cowon D2 Review

2008-02-15

Chess Griffin's, got a Cowon D2, portable media player. He likes it. He likes it a lot. When he gets done reviewing all its features, you're going to want one, too. Linux and BSD users, this may be the device you've been searching for. Cowon D2 Product Page Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0033: Linux Boot Process Part 2a - LILO

2008-02-14

LILO = Linux Loader I discuss the ins-and-outs of LILO, hot it is configured and how it is initialized and what to do when it screws up. This is part 2a in my Linux Start Process series. Be on the look out for 2b discussing GRUB very soon. Links: Lilo Mini-Howto LILO Wikipedia Page LILO home page

Ep0032: UCLUG - Ken Wehr Presentation

2008-02-13

Google employee Ken Wehr speaks to the Upstate Carolina Linux Users Group.

Ep0031: Intel Virtualization Technology

2008-02-11

Mirovengi, reports on an IEEE.org article that details Intel's VT technology. The advantage of bringing virtualization down to the hardware level, is discussed. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1430631 Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0030: Network Backups

2008-02-10

Network Backups – how hard can it be? Dosman, gives an overview of some free software, backup solutions. He, then describes his home network, backup project. There's an autochanger involved, so he's got some hackin' to do. SCSI Generic Driver (SG) MTX tape library tools Amanda Bacula Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0029: Codecs Part 2

2008-02-07

Klaatu continues his four-part series. This episode focuses on the technique of video compression. He explains the variables involved, and how they relate to file size and delivery method. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0028: Project Chanology

2008-02-06

Project Chanology (Anonymous vs. Scientology). Important details missing from a majority of reports on the story are brought up front to those unaware. Common 'anonymous' forums: http://www.4chan.org http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Talk:PROJECT_CHANOLOGY http://partyvan.info/index.php/Project_Chanology Links with information on Scientology: http://www.scientology.org http://www.xenu.net http://www.xenutv.com

Ep0027: How to Record a HPR episode

2008-02-05

Have something to say, on HPR? Enigma, unwraps the riddle of recording an episode. If you've got a computer, a microphone, and are on the tubes, you're well on your way. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ HPR Theme Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0026: Intro to codecs

2008-02-04

In this first of a four-part series, Klaatu begins a discussion of free and non-free video codecs. Specifically, why they are needed and how they work. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0025: Social Network Aggregation

2008-02-03

Peter and Harlem, have waded chest-high into the social networking sea. Before rescue is needed, they share how to unify profiles, feeds, and authentication, for many popular sites. The OpenID project is well explained, here. Links discussed in this episode: OpenID.Net ClaimID MyID.net (OpenID provider) IDProxy.net (OpenID provider) Yahoo! Twitter TwitterFeed My Twitter account My Twitter updates, with friends (rss) Facebook My Facebook profile Delicious My Delicious account My Delicious account's feed (rss) Pownce My Pownce public notes (rss) My Blog My Blog's feed (rss) My Jaiku account My Jaiku's feed (rss) How I aggregate social network updates with Pownce, Jaiku, Twitter, Del.icio.us, my blog, and TwitterFeed The A-Team Shrine Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0024: An interview with Jonathan Bartlett

2008-02-01

Deepgeek, gets the low-down on the amazing Cell BE processor that runs on the PlayStation 3. Author, instructor, and developer, Jonathan Bartlett, explains how the chip's unique architecture (how many cores?!), makes it a multimedia master. Jonathan Bartlett's ibm.com developer works articles. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0023: Software Review: K e e P a s s

2008-01-31

Wouldn't be nice to have a secure and flexible way to manage all of your usernames and passwords? StankDawg, suggests you turn to K e e P a s s. Strong encryption, dual-factor authentication, and portability, are just some of the reasons he likes this Open Source package. link removed to prevent spammers Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0022: Chunk Parsing

2008-01-30

Getting a machine to parse natural human language, can't be easy. Plexi, describes 'Chunk Parsing', and the work being done to develop it. References and further readings: http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tsuruoka/papers/IWPT05-tsuruoka.pdf http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/ProNTo/Brooks.pdf Steven Bird Chunking.pdf Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0021: The Festival Speech Synthesis System

2008-01-28

Dave Yates, and his co-host Lynn, demonstrate the voice synthesis package, Festival. Dave, discusses how he employs Festival, along with other packages to extend its capabilities. Lynn, clears-up a few of the finer points, for Dave. Howto use alsa output; HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS) - Release Archive or where to get CMU_US_SLT_ARTIC_HTS voice for festival ver 1.4.3; Online voice demos; Yet another online voice demo site; Linux Gazette article on festival; Hackosis festival article; Festival ver 1.4.3 manual; Article with info on how to change default voice; Perlbox Voice is an voice enabled application to bring your desktop under your command; Mini linux tts howto; an older document with some still useful information; How to Make Your Instant Messenger Talk in Ubuntu Linux; Another good festival article; Gentoo forum:Festival tips: more understandable and books to audiobooks; Festtival MBROLA info; and MBROLA binary and voices Shownotes by diggsit

Ep0020: lighttpd

2008-01-27

Looking for a nimble and secure web server? Chess Griffin, suggests you look into the LIGHTTPD (Light-tee). He uses it, and in this episode he illuminates the reasons you may want to, too. http://www.lighttpd.net/ Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0019: SILC

2008-01-24

Alk3, deciphers the “Secure Internet Live Conferencing” (SILC), protocol and project. You, can synchronously communicate in secrecy, with Open Source, SILC. http://silcnet.org/ SLIC Wikipedia article Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0018: An Interview with Ed Piskor

2008-01-24

An interview with Ed Piskor, writer and artist of the graphic novel "WIZZYWIG" which is about a young hacker growing up in the 1980s. He also talks about some of the influences and stories that helped shape the book.

Ep0017: Torrentflux

2008-01-22

Enigma, shares how TorrentFlux helps him manage bit torrent traffic on his LAMP server. There's lots of features in this web-based, Open Source system. http://www.torrentflux.com/ Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0016: Benefits of Virtualization

2008-01-22

Virtual Machines Part 1. Deepgeek, defines 'Virtual Machine', and gives examples of when it's advantageous to use one. The docdropper companion article can be found at the following address: http://www.docdroppers.org/wiki/index.php?title=Benefits_of_Virtual_Machines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0015: Spring Cleaning

2008-01-20

“Too much information”, that's what Plexi, finds on old papers and receipts. Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0014: Databases 101 Part 2

2008-01-18

part 2 of Database 101 with Stankdawg

Ep0013: LPI Certifications Part 1

2008-01-17

Ken Fallon, wants his 'Linux Professional Institute Certification' (LPIC). He must be serious, because he's publicly preparing for it on HPR – no pressure, Ken. In this first episode of the series, he explains the certification process, sets up his practice system, and begins covering study material, for the 101 exam. He's using a detailed study guide, provided by IBM developerWorks. IBM Developer Works: (LPI) exam prep The Booting Process of the PC System Boot Sequence ttp://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/boot_Sequence.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28computing%29 ---------------------------------------------- Other Links: ---------------------------------------------- LPI Certification Self-Study Guide ttp://www.happy-monkey.net/LPI/ Wiki Book: LPI Certification http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LPI_Linux_Certification ---------------------------------------------- Software: ---------------------------------------------- Vmware Server http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz CentOS http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/ CentOS-5.1-i386-netinstall.iso Select FTP Site from mirror list http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13 ./5.1/os/i386/ E.g for ftp location: ftp.tudelft.nl pub/Linux/centos.org/5.1/os/i386/images Debian Netinstall http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/iso-cd/ debian-40r1-i386-netinst.iso ---------------------------------------------- Online Assesment ---------------------------------------------- https://www.redhat.com/apps/training/assess/ http://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim/lpi101sim/index.html Shownotes by: diggsit

Ep0012: Xen

2008-01-16

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-xensosp.pdf http://xen.org/ http://xensource.org/ http://www.howtoforge.com debian_etch_xen_from_debian_repository

Ep0011: dd_rhelp

2008-01-14

http://del.icio.us/operat0r/dd_rescue

Ep0010: The Linux Boot Process Part 1

2008-01-13

Linux Boot Process - Part I SystemV vs BSD Style Scripts In part one of the Linux Boot Series we take a top level look at the Linux boot process and discuss some of the differences between SystemV based systems and BSD style systems. I focus on RedHat, Slackware, Ubuntu (Debian) and Arch Linux. Below are some resources for further information. Redhat - RHL 9 boot - shutdown process Slackware Boot Process Debian Boot Process Basic overview of SystemV vs BSD Systems IBM developer works book - Linux Boot Process Gentoo Handbook for x86 - It's hard to specify one chapter because Gentoo's documentation is top notch and very informative. Review the installation and initscripts chapaters in particular.

Ep0009: This old Hack 4

2008-01-10

Part 4 of the series this old hack

Ep0008: Asus EePC

2008-01-10

Mubix and Redanthrax discuss the EEpc

Ep0007: Orwell Rolled over in his grave

2008-01-09

deepgeek reviews a film

Ep0006: Part 15 Broadcasting

2008-01-08

dosman and zach from the packetsniffers talk about Part 15 Broadcasting Part 15 broadcasting resources SSTRAN AMT3000 part 15 transmitter

Ep0005: Database 101 Part 1

2008-01-06

1st part of the Database 101 series with Stankdawg

Ep0004: Firefox Profiles

2008-01-03

Peter explains how to move firefox profiles from machine to machine

Ep0003: Lost Haycon Audio

2008-01-02

Morgellon and others traipse around in the woods geocaching at midnight

Ep0002: Customization the Lost Reason

2008-01-01

deepgeek talks about Customization being the lost reason in switching from windows to linux Customization docdroppers article

Ep0001: Introduction to HPR

2007-12-31

StankDawg and Enigma talk about what HPR is and how someone can contribute