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Podcast 87 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
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In today's podcast, dave talks with Nick Ali from the Ubuntu Georgia Loco Team's Ubuntu podcast.

Links:
Atlanta Linux Fest 2008; and
Ubuntu Podcast by Ubuntu Georgia LoCo.

Going Linux #042 - Listener Feedback

00:00 Going Linux #042 - Listener Feedback 00:15 Introduction 01:43 Per: Chmod does not require a root (administrative) user 05:06 Dan: Audio feedback on using chmod, bash vs. sh, xmessage vs zenity 10:05 Jeff: Use !! when you forget sudo before your command 12:13 John: Problems with the variable bit rate episodes of the podcast 17:25 Jeff: Get the old episodes at http://shownotes.goinglinux.com 18:36 Will: Rants about inadequate mp3 players 22:53 David: Recommends podcatcher Podcast Ready 26:36 Jack: Does a Clonezilla backup require reconfiguring the boot loader? 28:27 Tim: Recommends the Midnight Commander command line file manager 30:18 Jeff: Would like an episode on SSH to connect remotely 32:49 A.J.: Wants to know *everything* about his computer hardware 37:30 A.J.: Boost your wireless access point's range 38:53 Jack: Article on moving to Linux. Thanks from Oz 41:47 Karen: Problems sharing networked printer on Ubuntu with Vista 46:37 James: Ubuntu disables Compiz with ATI graphics 49:58 Jordan: Tip for getting the Compiz cube working on Compaq and HP 51:30 Richard: Answers ham radio Linux questions on the Resonant Frequency podcast 54:50 T.J.: Suggest an IRC channel for the Going Linux podcast 58:13 goinglinux.com, feedback, listen, subscribe 59:50 End

Podcast 86 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:
In today's podcast, dave talks with Brad Alexander from the Armored Penguin Podcast.

Links:
The Armored Penguin Podcast

OLF Preparations, Linux Podcasts, other good stuff.

Klaatu talks about screen and using it with irc (thanks to Ping Jocky for that tip), he talks about Nokia Maemo Diablo's new updating system, raves about the CLI and plain-text-based computing, and reads listener feedback. Special outro music is by John Massey.

Sweater Puppies and Moose starring 330, monsterb, Peter64, Chad_W, Xoke, MrsXoke, pegwole, klaatu, jlindsey, Azimuth, and PingJockey. Random topics about Linux, embedded devices, lawsuits, food, software, and more.

Podcast 85 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
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In today's podcast, dave talks about mirroring his web server, partimage, songbird, Dirk Dashing, summersession, debian and ubuntu minimal installs, puppy linux, gscrot, dillo, and terminator.

Links:
lottalinuxlinks;
lottalinuxlinks.com the forum;
lottalinuxlinks the web blog;
partimage;
songbird;
Dirk Dashing;
Summer Session;
ubuntu minimal install;
puppy linux maintainer announces retirement;
gscrot;
dillo;
terminator;
hackermedia;
hacker public radio;
ddp hack radio stream; and
music from jamendo.com.

Linux Basement News

Ontario Linux Fest will be held on October 25th, 2008. http://www.onlinux.ca

Ohio Linux Fest is coming up quick! I'll be there, will you?

As always, you can email me at chad@linuxbasement.com or find me hanging out in #linuxbasement at irc.freenode.net

Tips, Reviews and more:

New Heads First books out statistics, ajax, and Java Servlets 2nd edition.

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Broken Deer and Gay Drinks - Xoke'O we miss you.

101:56 minutes, 47.3 MB — Download or play

In the longest Linux Outlaws to date, Dan and Fab talk lots of open source as well as freedom-hating and interview Evan Prodromou from identi.ca about his Laconica project.

Introduction and Housekeeping (01:03)

• We have a very long show for you this week, including a great and pretty detailed interview
• Fab forgot to thank TLLTS last week for massively supporting us again, we are making up for that this week
• Andreas Gohr, the man behind DokuWiki, told Fab about FrOSCON and he’ll try to get down there and check it out

Releases and News (05:32)

• paldo GNU/Linux 1.15
• Scientific Linux 5.2 “Live CD/DVD”
• EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.20

• German government wants to ban all porn and proposes podcasting license (German story)
• First open source license ruled enforceable — yay!!
• Novell extends evilness
• Canonical joins Linux Foundation
• Dell introduces instant-on Linux with some of their laptops
• Dell Mini Inspiron 910
• SecondLife rolling out Mono servers
• Transgaming to intro SecuROM DRM with Cider
• Debian turns 15 — Happy Birthday!
• OpenGL to reconcile developers with 3.1?
• Completely Free Nessus fork: OpenVAS — Linux Basement episode on Nessus
• A look at some snazzy new Android features

Microwatch

• ISO rejects Office Open XML appeal for good
• Microsoft to pay $10 Million to Seinfeld for Vista ads

Crapintosh

• Massive iFail 3G

The Interview (29:05)

We interview Evan Prodromou of identi.ca (@evan) about open source (especially in conjunction with network services), free content, “microblogging” and how the creation of Laconica came about. During the course of the session we also cover some weirdnesses of the French language, Evan’s use of Linux and how he first installed it, his thoughts on the OpenMoko FreeRunner and much more.

• The Franklin Street Statement on Freedom and Network Services
• Wikitravel

  
  

Listener Feedback (81:14)

• Johan Burell asks us for our opinion on this article — the question is basically if Linux is ready for mass adoption (forum topic)
• 5 Zune Dave thinks Apple is more evil than Microsoft and wants our opinion
• Andrew Sullivan tells us about the Ontario Linux Fest and invites us along
• Chess Griffin of Linux Reality congratulates us on our 50th episode
• Simon Mikkelson tells us why he converts our Oggs into mp3s at his end (using BashPodder)
• Snack Machine B says he has no problems with our files on his Cowon players
• Dylan Coakley asks Fab if he ever tried Hoegaarden and appologises for giving us shit at LugRadio Live about our files not working on his phone
• MalkorTheTechie send us some pretty funny bumpers for the show, which we play

Before we wrap it up, we also mention that Dell is now providing extended warranty for those broken NVIDIA chipsets.

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Podcast 84 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
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In today's podcast, dave jabbers about his recent 5 day long ordeal without an internet connection, and some other seemingly meaningless and random update-type things.

Links:
lottalinuxlinks;
lottalinuxlinks.com the forum;
lottalinuxlinks the web blog; and
music from jamendo.com.

Going Linux #041 - Command Line Basics-Advanced

00:00 Going Linux #041 - Command Line Basics-Advanced 00:18 Introduction 01:36 Best beginner bash tutorial http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ch02.html 02:30 Are we qualified? 04:14 Documentation is better for the command line than for the GUI 06:09 Definition: Bash Shell script 07:17 Test your commands in the terminal first 09:31 Comments 09:45 The first line of any Bash script 12:00 Our first shell script (date.sh) 13:13 Change permissions using chmod (command line and graphical) 16:13 Running a bash shell from the terminal 17:28 Our second shell script (calendar.sh) 18:12 Read command and defining variables 20:38 Calling a variable and writing interactive user prompts 21:51 Saving 22:30 Running the interactive script 23:57 A more advanced script (fetchglp.sh) 24:42 The wget command 26:02 Using variables in a file path 30:47 Using the wget command 32:05 Using quotations marks in scripts 33:51 Running fetchglp.sh to get an episode of GoingLinux 35:34 Learning more about wget 35:46 Creating a cron job (notify.sh) 37:57 Have fun with the tutorials - see the show notes 38:30 goinglinux.com, feedback, listen, subscribe 40:03 End

Going Linux #040 - Computer America #5

00:00 Going Linux #040 - Computer America #5 00:15 Introduction 01:32 CompUSA Contest 03:07 Try a Linux LiveCD on these Sony laptops 04:44 How to get viruses and spyware on Linux 06:47 When will Linux be more GUI friendly? 08:35 Switchers from Windows already find the Linux GUI quite familiar 10:05 Windows is better for gaming, but there are some nice Linux games 13:50 Strong points of Linux: Stability and Security 14:54 Linux-Unix similarities 17:27 Is 64-bit Linux available? 19:59 What Linux does Larry run? 22:40 Can you clone a Linux hard drive to another computer? 24:11 Restoring with CloneZilla 25:20 Where to find Going Linux 29:35 Hour 2 31:32 Computer America Show archives 34:59 How to shut down and reboot in Linux (very similar to Windows) 38:32 Changing mouse clicks is more difficult to find 40:19 Listener Mike: Using Linux and CloneZilla thanks to Computer America 43:12 Listener Frank: Needs help installing Firefox on Kubuntu 44:37 Background: Repositories, Packages and Package Managers 48:22 Installing Firefox using the package manager step-by-step 51:20 What if I want to install something that is not in the package manager 53:15 Can I share my package manager configuration with others? 55:22 Using the package manager lets you get automatic updates for all of your installed applications as well as the operating system itself 57:54 Advantages of package manager over Window updaters 60:52 Are Craig and Carey starting to get "Linux envy" over this? 67:23 End

Debian's Birthday Cake, Eggs, Bacon, Spam, Vegimite, and Spam. Cranks: Threethirty, monsterb, Peter64, Azimuth, jlindsay, klaatu, CyberCod, PingJockey, Xoke, and MrsXoke

81:04 minutes, 40.0 MB — Download or play

Dan Lynch and Fabian Scherschel talk about Storms in the Cloud, Trouble with OpenGL 3.0, Microsoft’s Olympic FAIL and DokuWiki.

Introduction and Housekeeping (00:58)

• Fab forgot to tell everybody about Ubuntu’s Global Bug Jam as he promised and now it’s too late — shame on him for that!
• Beer of the Week: Coffee (from Tchibo)

Releases and News Stories (05:15)

• m0n0wall 1.234
• ClarkConnect 4.3
• Fedora 10 Alpha
• Django 1.0 alpha 2
  
  
• Ars(e) Technica: Storms in the cloud leave users up creek without a paddle
• War in Georgia may involve cyber warfare as well
• Dell is shipping new Hardy systems
• Linspire is going away
• OpenGL 3.0 Released — Developers Furious?
• Open Source food!?
• .org Village at the UK Linux Expo
  
  Microwatch:
• Microsoft’s giant Olympic FAIL

• Chaos Computer Club’s “Freedom Stick”

In-Depth Topics and Listener Feedback (42:22)

Review: DokuWiki, amazingly easy to use and lightweight database-less wiki software

Fab’s Freedom Hating iPhone Tip of the Week™: pTerm

• Kevin prompts us on our Jaiku use
• Martin Reindl, who is an avid listener, sends us pictures from some awesome promotion he arranged for us in Paderborn — thanks a lot, dude!
• threethirty from theLinux Cranks gives Fab the boot about IceWeasel
• Eddie tells us about variable bitrate problems with some audio players
• Peter Cannon answers Dan on the “Free Music Challenge”
• Gregor Bočič aka. dpkgregor sends a message from Starfleet, or rather the Linux Void team, about their show
• Nick sends us a handy tip about gPodder
• Paul Northrup tells us about the band Thermal And A Quarter which he says has some Creative Commons music which we sadly couldn’t find — cool band nonetheless
• Iwan van der Kleijn gives Dan a kicking about Java vs. JavaScript and says we should do a show on Microsoft and Open Source
• Tim send us a link to this great Calvin and Hobbes comic about flamethrowers
• Aaron B. has a theory that all the layed-off coders from Microsoft are doing viruses now
• Steve Riddit sends us a message about Photoshop and the GIMP in two (!) accents, he also has the idea that people could write in and tell us about how they are seeing Linux and Free Software appearing around them which is a great idea

Wrapping it up, we thank everybody who donated to the show to help us cover some of the cost — thank you! We also mention the fact that Software Freedom Day is getting closer. Last but not least, check out our torrents of the LO Extra pack.

Closing Song: Little Mess by BeatSix

Please leave comments on this episode in the forums.

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

Klaatu throws some tutorials and some listener feedback together and calls it an episode. HOWTO edit video in Blender 2.46, HOWTO get transparency and drop shadows going in Flubox, listener email, and a the new LinguistChat podcast.

Special Guest ThreeThirty