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My name is Ken Fanon and you're listening to actor public radios, community news for the
month of July 2012.
This is a regular show that we do once a month to give you an idea of what's going on in
the community, what's going on behind the scenes of the community.
Around HPR, we will start off with a show review and then we'll move on to a long list
of tanks and apologies and other notes that I want to talk to you about because they were
on my inbox and I haven't done the community news for the last while so I want to make
sure that I didn't miss anything so I went through on my email today and metalyst
scaringly large list of tank use and apologies.
Okay as we always do, we will go through the shows that were on last since we had the last
community news.
I'd like to thank Klattu for doing an excellent job on community news for June and the
following day we had syndicated Tuesday which is done from the Linux and the Shell project.
Episode 10 was the DF command exploring for our system usage and I'll say it before and I'll
say it again some of these are more obscure commands and some of them I think well I'm
really going to know everything about this command and then he ends up in every show so
far pulling out something out of the man pages that I completely overlooked and yeah so fantastic
work there Dan thank you very much for all the shows that you've sent in and we appreciate
all the work and just so people do know that for everyone of those shows there's a
complete right up tutorial on the website and there's a complete video as well all of
which are really worth looking into.
The following day we had Guanti Kay who gave us a show entitled about Rivendell with Rivendell
and this was I was listening to this show on the way back from work and was very very
impressed with what this application you do even the slick in and out promos they
choice of music was excellent they the whole way that the whole thing was put together
I think he set off to prove that you could do a podcast with Rivendell absolutely
definitely probably if somebody can package it make it a little bit easier to install
it would it would kind of help boss definitely an experiment that went very very
well and I heard they suddenly wanted Linux review people what I was listening
to the show as well and they picked out one of the songs that was used in that
show well the next day obviously we had the massive unbelievable binary and hexadecimal
celebration of our 1,000 and 24th our 1,324th episode depending on how you
look at it I want to really thank 5150 who did an awful lot of work
organized in that and all the other guys who you know joined and really
met a very enjoyable show to listen to and a lot of the links they put together there in
the background are on the on the website and thank you Mr. X for their accordion
intro and outro music so yeah that's monumental and I'd like to thank especially
everybody all the hosts and all the various different people who have worked on
HPR images such a success that it is and looking forward to the next one or two
four episodes and the following day was a syndicated Thursday on a Friday there's been
a few odd ones like that this month as well I wanted to release this one because it's
the infanamacon episode 51 I haven't been able to get troops on really I had done an
interview with Stank to you know give the lineage of Hacker Boblic Radio we played
as well the last episode of radio or a fair radio freak America where they
mentioned the Hacker Boblic Radio project that they were all going to switch to
and I kind of never happened I think they probably had something else in their mind
and them had transpired but it was for me infanamacon was the way that I got
to take and subsequently got tagged about the radio and I played episode 51
it was actually the shortest of all the episodes of infanamacon and they did 52
episodes I think and they were some politically incorrect but very very funny
episodes on troops and troops was also one of the early people behind it started
off as troops radio infanamacon did and then migrated into the infanamacon
podcast. troops is also one of the original correspondence on radio freak
America a few of the emails were where they were read out and it was I think
it's fire by that the troops went ahead and started its own podcast spreading
the word tackers spreading information spreading knowledge and it was he stopped
infanamacon when the toss started up and toss is a direct successor it was an
name change really and that medged to a tech turn into Hacker Boblic Radio
just in case you don't know so that was it a little bit of history and that's
that's probably the end of the catch-up reminiscing shows that we're going to
do for a while on this something comes out of the woodwork you never know
what'll happen here at Hacker Boblic Radio and then we went to the following
day or following Monday was setting up a word press blog part four Frank
Bell who's now our official word press administrator here in Hacker Boblic
Radio great shows again I think I know I'm going to a lot of stuff about
WordPress or about the topic and he just comes along and keeps giving me
more information and that's kind of the whole point the next day was an episode
that I did myself about migration away from Google reader and I guess it's
becoming a little bit of a topic here on Hacker Boblic Radio we had of course
they interview with the founder of Dr. Go which is a search engine that I've
been using essentially since then and it's an adequate replacement if not
yeah sometimes you can go exclamation mark W and here was another one of Google's
products that I personally was using quite a bit and that is Google reader
and essentially the show was about how to replace Google reader with an
I'm up which actually has turned out to be a lot more convenient for me
myself because I have the I'm up available natively and so many different
platforms email lines supported so that kind of work for me also got a
mention on the command line.net as well they were considering that and
decided against this the following day we had Jonathan and in my
build doing goodwill hunting where they were looking for you know going around
goodwill stores, charity shops and getting old technology a great
episode for yeah rooting out that's classical computer so have a listen to that
and it's another great way to find technology. The next day was syndicated Thursday
series and we had one of the episodes put together by Robin Gattling from the
full circle podcast and he aired the Karen Sandler medical devices one aside
from being the head of the GNOME project and a lawyer she also has a heart which
comes a bit of a shock to people who know a whole lot of your jokes but she
has a heart condition and had some proprietary software put in so very
thoughts stimulating and well worth a listen it was one of the shows at
our camp that generated the more stirrer I think. You will be seeing a lot of
the odd camp interviews coming up over the next few weeks and the reason for
that is it's been a year since our camp happened and at the time we didn't
have any predefined rule we did have a discussion prompted by that on how we
would handle episodes coming from shows and events and at the time the
decision well but a month after the time a decision was taken by the community
on the mailing list to to reserve a block of shows after the event so after
our camp 12 we'll be reserving a week of shows where if they get filled they
will be bomb to the top of the queue so we'll get quite a lot of the shows out of the way
in that first block and then later on during the year we'll schedule the
shows as normal ones if they're not that time sensitive or as regular
syndicated Thursday slots if there happened to be interesting talks so in an
effort not to get lynched when I go over there I want to make sure that all the
shows actually are aired before I go over to on-camp the following day we had
Robin a Ruben Rodriguez talk about Tris Caledynics and again this was another
in the syndicated Thursday slots deep geek was on a sabbatical so we had a
fresh slot and I wanted to make sure that we would bomb some of these talks
up the queue as well the following Monday we had Brockton Bob with a how-to-back
up your DVD collection used in memcoder probably not legal in some jurisdictions
believe it or not where fair use doors in the pli but we laugh and the face of
illegalness here in Hackerville radio not all obviously it's for educational purposes
and what's may may not be legal in your jurisdiction there is some comments on
that on the website and which would be another you know options for the VF
part I myself lazy and use handbrake for copying my DVDs over so there
you go but always interested to hear what what commands you can use to do
this because you don't try to get the the best possible quality then we had the
DU command from Linux and the shell and the following day we had the first
episode by a paranoid shell who was suggesting that I think not paraphrasing
too much while the RTFM is probably not very positive at the same time some
people should actually read it up more than they can and then they do and some
people don't actually want to learn and then we had Mike Kingley who gave a very
detailed response to that and I think he'd even prompted him to do an episode on
that which will come into the queue shortly the next day my pixie book episode
came up where I tried to get a compact HB compact T5000 thin client working
and I'm going to echo here you know it's essentially how to the episode was about
how to pixie book over in that rock and it is a convenient way sometimes you
know and I'll turn it away then burning DVDs to get an operating system onto your
computer that you might think about that was kind at the point but this whole project
has been so jinxed I've had for many years they desire to guess a thin computing
silent computing into the living room starting with some Java stations which I had
Linux on with a via an m9000 PC that died after 24 hours of use with this
which presented every possible problem onto the sun eventually I did get a
working just on the day that my Raspberry Pi arrived and I plugged it in and boom
everything worked far faster and also for thirty-five dollars I really don't want
to promote especially after the two episodes on reusing computing but I also
replaced my own server of eight years and four days running with the Raspberry
Pi and you really do have to take into account the amount of power being
wasted as well in reusing this technology so it's it's an interesting topic it's a
balance but that whole project has been jinxed for a long ago anyways the
following day was another syndicated Thursday on a Friday I have no idea
why I did I was on the train and I posted that I thought it was a
Wednesday and it turned out to be Thursday so Thursday became Friday all right just go with
the little it's they I can't believe I'm a parallel discussion and they was also talking
about the mq telemetry transport which was one of these episodes where I find
really interesting but I had the feeling that so much is going over my head
but I really enjoyed it and episode 10 36 the following Monday was Joel and Joel I am
getting really really annoyed with you and Mr Gadgets for that matter and the reason I am
is because we've got two people on hand radios and I want to hear you guys record a
show over a hand radio please get it together and make it happen but the reason I'm
annoyed with Joel is this is a seriously excellent episode and dangling in front of me yet
another hobby where I think yes I really should have a hand radio when the when the
dikes crash here and the the floods come and I'm open my attic desperately cranking up
a hand radio or something so yes thank you Joel yes you food without and the following day if
I don't get to if I don't get to buy my hand radio I might be up there soldering it together
following the excellent episode by Mr X on soldering and who could have thought something so
so painful could make such an interesting show thanks very much for the very detailed
show notes as well and I really do appreciate you when people send in good show notes with the
links and everything it's just really a lot less work for me to do and I really have the feeling
that you're highlighting the things in your show that you want brought to the fore
then the episode 10 38 was an interview with the guys behind the selects or s project
which is a slacker derivative and didn't actually know that much about it until I heard this show
by Poki and it was a really really good interview and kind of almost made me want to try
slacker again I'll put it on the list of things that I really want to do
and then we had again syndicated Thursday we had the Mattley by from the GNU FM and the
Libre FM projects and that was recorded as the North East GNU Linux Fest and there's quite a few
of them in the Q as well so we need to horse through them because of all these shows in the Q
we've respectfully asked that the Sunday morning leans review one to be taken out of the Q temporarily
and we've also the the night cast has also temporarily been removed from the syndicated Thursday
Q you know essentially so we can get through this backlog and we do appreciate those guys
but the men but both of those shows are more than capable of standing on their own now
they're both very popular shows in their own right and we also had a little bit of a bump here
for the next show which was a kind of time sensitive news discussion on the fact that after all
these years steam finally comes to Linux just a matter to me at all because I know interesting
gaming whatsoever after losing many many hours of my life to to the lemmings and yes I know
there is a Linux variant of that where they have penguins falling off cliffs
boss yes I'm a Lord Dragonblood and Downer did next and show their boss up even some concerns
over licensing and and all the rest that good stuff then we had another bump show for the reasons
given earlier that if somebody's going to go to a show rep or a physical event we especially
if they're going to have a booth there and be talking we are going to prioritize that
over other shows that have been submitted to the Q and this was one of them where they
guys got together after hope and there's even talk of them having a booth at hope the next one
which would be absolutely fantastic again the next day Linux in the shell the tail command and
tail minus n plus 30 thank you Dan thank you thank you thank you for that that is such such a useful
command and not only why because you can use grip to find a particular instance in the file
so I know what line number it is so you can have grip search for something in a file and it's
you know as a line 5,072 and then you can tail after that and the number of lines
with the dash n plus 572 whatever it is and then tail that again or head that with
taken 50 lines so you want 50 lines after the first time you find that and they're really really
long file absolutely fantastic the very very moment I found out about that I wasn't in
just groups so I really appreciate Dan thank you for all the work you're doing on that show
secondhand computing yes family con man who that meant nothing to me but polki
polki knew the handle or at least knew the company it was an entendo in Japan apparently
and about archiving all computers flea markets and rummage sales in auctions and all the
rest of that good stuff very very interesting and it's great to see people are archiving things
made me feel a bit guilty about that very day I just dropped off a whole boxfeets load of
my old tech because down to the recycling center where they hopefully recycled it in
environmentally friendly fashion for least it should do we're paying for it but
I had finally given up on all these all computers down in my an old tape drives and that
tapes and all the rest I felt kind of guilty about that but I guess I'll have to get over
we had then the following day JWP with on camp 11 and by the way a secondhand computing
I just had nightwise I am missing thank you you know they found that very interesting
and I'd wise sorry for not getting back to you but my 3G dongle was just going into the
triple tunnel as that came up so I got cut off wasn't been rude or anything there anyway yes
secondhand computing and then on camp 11 we had archalling things our man on the spot roving
reporter or our nice guy Mr JWP and he we had a little interview and the
and what he was talking about was my zoom h2 microphone he expressed an interest in it and
I must yes I must do a review of that sometime on my list and his excellent talk on
arachalanics and you know it's something you don't hear a lot about but it's very interesting
to it's good that somebody is keeping an eye on that side of the on the fence and
Mike Hingley thank you very much again just like Joel give me something else
one of my recurring hobbies is I'm the de facto gene genealogicalist I don't know if that's
word for the family as well and I gathered a lot of this stuff and have been
have our own tree in gramps and that's sort of thank so yeah it's actually a great way to
get started in gramps is pretty cool too actually for keeping track of your family tree so that was it
that was the shows for the month a north lot of shows a north lot of excellent content here on
hacker and public radio now I want to call out a few people special thanks for you on hubbo
sorry I as everybody knows I cannot pronounce people's names so I'm an I really apologize for that
but thanks for the heads up on the wrong CC license we had linked to the wrong CC license
on the website I wanted to thank Dave Morris for all the fantastic work he's doing on the back
in system here in hack and public radio if you want to go to the victorious side you can see a lot
of the stuff that he's doing there we're working currently now on the scheduling system and we're
going to see how that goes I also want to thank Frank Bell and wait as I butcher somebody else's
name ETR homes both of whom are doing fantastic work on the front end they've got a lot
to think about there as we have now decided to drop RSS we being the royal we as in me drop RSS
as the feeding mechanism between the back end and the front end here's the idea we're going to
do some of the uploads a file so be it a a wild file or an MP3 file or a file or whatever
with the associated metadata in a format and that format is going to be the atom XML format for
short course and the reason for that is you can do multiple holes so in the moment we can't
do multiple holes like in my bill and when they go did a show together or if it's a panel discussion
we can only list either one show one host or a weekend I have to create a new host where
all their names and that only appears one so it's a bit of a pain so that's one of the things
we want to do and it also supports multiple entries in the same feed so we can have the MP3 the
arg and speaks and also most importantly it has the date in the correct format year month day two
hours minutes seconds and the time zone at the end has been the correct one that says so that's
what I'm going we're going to be transferring data between the back end the front end using
using an atom feed and the atom feed will be also used when people are uploading shows
it'll be taken in as a blob an atom feed XML and your file and then that will be taken by the back
end system transcode and put into the schedule and system that's Dave Morris is working on
and then when that's ready to rock it'll be added to an atom feed which is then published to the
world one of the worlds being the heck of a public radio main website and it'll be that'll be
the the central site that you can get from but if you want to do embed they feed some
pearls you could also do that okay so that's a little bit about that a lot of work has been
going on there not as much as I guess I'd like I need to do a lot more documentation to explain
what the vision is but I'm actually meeting up with Dave ask on camp hopefully we'll have time
over a few beers to discuss what's going on there then I'd like to have a special word of thanks
to David Whitman who's being keeping up my morale over the last month but also for tracking the
keywords in the previous episodes he's going back and listening to all the shows so I've asked
him to make note of you know the show was about this this and that and we can also add that to
the to the feeds so that's if you're interested in all the shows that we're about I don't know
M&C order for instance that you you will go back and get those all the shows about Linux
are all the pound of discussions whatever so and also I want to thank him for his kind
donation towards the HPR banner they was a HPR banner sponsored by him last month for the
US which I think the guy's brought to one of the shows and he's contributed to get him one of those
here for for me who will be going to all camp have I mentioned that I'm going to all camp yes
all the camp is coming up anyway and I want to also thank Richard Queer and for putting the
fantastic artwork together for that I've done all transfers for the back of some t-shirts so
if there's any of the holes going to a camp you'll be getting a free t-shirt from me hopefully
stocks last and stocks are not that many to start of it and then I want to thank Zulk for his
idea and I want to thank Jonathan Nadu for the control panel script now the apologies section
my bad it's been particularly bad these past months but I knew first of all deep geek
apologies for not announcing that your spatical was on the full schedule of three months
will start in June he's got a new site over there if people want to go over to
to his website tgtm.us I think you can have a look at that and also I'd like to apologize
for not announcing that he would be going to hope although I think it was on the mailing list so
hopefully he's guys made up metal putty geek I want to talk to when to go for missing the fact
that he was new host this is exactly my point he was down here done previous episodes
but with other people so this is the first time he was doing one by himself apologies to
Mike Hingley and door to door geek for not sending you the FTP details and if anybody
doesn't have the FTP details please contact admin at hackerbolicradio.org and I'll send them on to you
again David Morris Frank Bell and ittria homes for not providing enough information about the
website what I want them to do in my bill for not putting up your show sooner apologies about that
and there's a big it's quite a lot of people who have put stuff into the queue I haven't got to
it yet and I usually do it on Thursdays Fridays and sorry Wednesday Thursday from Fridays
from Wi-Frux I'm actually recording the show on the Monday on one of our nights when she's not
working so but it's been a busy week so anyway so those don't don't panic if your show doesn't appear
in the in the processing queue it should go into the processing queue fairly quick and then once
I have it download a transcoded got the show notes together then I put it into the
day into the schedule but I will also put it into the schedule you know even if I have problems
transcoding it or whatever it'll go in at the same in the same order that we received it so
don't panic about that but feel free to email me if you if for some reason it doesn't come
up within a few days and the guys hope sent in a photo and that's attached to the show notes
for this episode and they talks about hope are up and there's a link also on the show notes and this
will come as a shot to many of you but I will be going to our camp this year and if you'd like to
come along we have a boot took a little while to get organized but tank tanks to Dan
Lynch for getting that sorted out for me we have a very limited number of t-shirts
and t-shirts stickers were too expensive this time to do so if there are stickers they will be
just printed off and if a four sheets and you can pull off a few and go on but you could also
just download the sticker they the art and start printing your own stickers if you grant what I'm
hoping to do if I get the time probably won't is make a little boot class with QR codes for
the other podcasts that's around the Linux link.net just to have something on the on the boot to
give away to people as they walk along. We've been asked to announce by Kevin O'Brien that
they're open for registration for the 2012 Ohio Linux Fest and if you want to you can go to
Ohiolinuxfest.org for its slash register and finally you'll be thrilled to be here
the accessible computing foundation fundraiser spurred on by the massive success of the
Hacker Public Radio all y'all day marathon put on there by how good friend and
Lori Slider Poké we they will be doing a fundraiser for the accessible computing foundation
that's going to be held on August the 25th at 12 p.m. Eastern standard time until 12 a.m. Eastern standard
time on August the 26th the event is going to be string live at the new radio for the entire event
and they again the guys over at the Linux Basics mobile server where we are kindly or where we
have a room as well kindly sponsored by the Linux Basics guys they will be doing the mobile server
so go to the Linux Basics website there's 30 people there in the room at once and so what kind
of worked well for the Hacker Public Radio was if the people who wanted to get involved in the
conversation went into the room and then the people who just wanted to listen and dropped out to
the stream that also worked for me as well when I wasn't actually involved in it so far they
have John Obey come from one to Zach from the WM project and the plan is to have one thousand
people become a member of the Accessible Community Computing Foundation the ACF for $2 a month
$2 a month not not even the price of a cup of coffee in fairness not even if you were to go down
and look behind your couch for some cash I guess you would manage two dollars a month I happen to be
a contributor and a proud member of the ACF so please feel free to do that things would be bad if
you couldn't afford to dollars a month and if you can't well very sorry about just like some
of your name and I'll fire you off some stickers not a worry so there you go that's all about that it's
only 50 cents a week they're saying and so it's important also that for as many people as possible
to join this foundation because that's also strengthens their case to become a charity and hopefully
it will then spread the word about accessible computing and we need it and the reason we need it
because it's right it's right to have it for a start secondly if you'll put us the forefront
to get again of something in the Linux community and the free and open source community so that's
why you need to become a member if you can't code and if you can't code become a member
and coding start coding okay that is pretty much it and if anybody becomes a member of the
accessible computing foundation and we have any swag send us a send us over your email address
and every seat and we will see if we can get you some HDR stickers or buttons or whatever
happens to come your way you will be added to the list of people who have contributed to that's
organization okay well that's is for now let me just have a quick look here in the queue
what's coming up we have let me see second part of solvering mystery gadgets makes a welcome
return here zoek has discussions about setting up a Linux charity and you can
freedom and licensing peg wall with a dev random another cutting the cord episode oh oh there's
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