Python will be the language I do my HPR on. Well I say 'do' because I just recorded it (although still have to edit it). I am thinking I will create a new section for programming here, with the scripts I started with (I do ad-lib a fraction mind) and the code examples and similar. I will also of course have show notes on the HPR site, but think putting a list here will be helpful.
So I have closed the poll. Thank you everyone who voted / commented / spoke to me about it in IRC.
My next HPR ep is due on the 28th I believe, so look for it then!
I talk about Encryption, various ways and some examples. Hopefully it's not completely confusing! Link is in the podcast section.
The notes seemed to have gone from the HPR website so they are below:
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
There is a new 'tips' section (top right) I made using views in Drupal. Not much there so far but I will try to add things when I try them out. It's mainly for notes for me but if you find something useful there, so much the better 
It is Mrs. Xoke's birthday today. Happy Birthday honey, I love you.
Been playing around with Conky using this guide. Although it didn't work (perhaps because of NVidia driver issues?) Had to change own_window_type override to own_window_type normal and then it worked.
I'm still playing around with it, but will post my .conkyrc file once I'm happy with it.
It appears some spam is floating around claiming to be from this domain. Specifically wubutofased@xoke.org is the originating address. To be clear here, this was not from here. I have received various bounce backs from people, various mailbox full and out of office messages. It appears to be a 'greeting card' which probably means it's a virus. It links to http://laureselignac.com/e-card.exe (please note, that link will NOT take you to the bad file – it bounces to a non-existant page within this domain) which, chances are, is a Trojan.
If you got here by Googling wondering where the email came from, I did not send it and if you clicked the link you need to virus check your computer. There are various free virus scanners out there that should hopefully pick it up such as AVG by a company called Grisoft.
I am sorry this happened, it had nothing to do with me – spammers just create a fake email address to send messages out from. This is why you get sent to a different website. If I had sent you an email link it would point back here. You should never trust links in an email especially if they link to an exe file (files ending .exe).
Xoke
So I was listening to the HPR episode about favourite podcasts and I thought I would look at gpodder. I installed it, added some podcasts and then decided I wanted to move the directory into my podcasts directory. I had it open and a bunch of unintelligable filenames appears which I didn't like.
I decided to move to a new 'gpodder' dir and it moved all the files. By that I mean ALL the files. Including all my bashpodder stuff. Also by adding some podcasts it had somehow downloaded over a GIG. Now I didn't tell it to download anything so wtf was taking up so much space? Plus if you're going to give stupid names then I can't just grab whatever files I want from there – I have to use the GUI.
Long story short, it is now uninstalled and won't be reinstalled any time soon. Bashpodder FTW! Gpodder FTL!
