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Episode: 1671
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Title: HPR1671: LinuxLugCast Episode-002 Outtakes
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1671/hpr1671.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 06:47:40
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This is HPR Episode 1671 entitled Linux Lootcast Episode 2 Out-Ox.
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It is hosted by Kevin Wischer and is about 82 minutes long.
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The summary is, some good content that we do not publish.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by an honesthost.com.
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Hello HPR community.
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This is K Wischer from the Linux Lootcast community podcast.
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I'm here to bring you some more outtakes from our recorded podcast.
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This will be from Episode 2.
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Listen for the intro-outro music in between sections and a reminder to tune in to the HPR
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New Year's show.
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Please check the HPR website for details.
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Thank you for listening.
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Linux Lootcast, you don't need to feel obligated to record, but if you can, if you want,
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that sense it's on your local machine that you don't have to if you don't want to, you
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are not required to.
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Are you going planning on joining in the conversation tonight?
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Do you not have a mic?
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Oh, sorry about that.
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I was distracted for a second.
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That's...
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If any of our guests do not want to speak and just plan on hanging out listening, go ahead
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and turn your mic off that way we know you're not going to speak.
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Yeah, I'll probably just listen in for a little while.
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I've got a couple things I'm fortunate to work and I've got a client with a website
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that got hacked and so it's got me a little distracted.
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That's fine.
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You're more than welcome to join in.
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We've got some comments or whatever additions, corrections, so anything we have to say
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because we're not the gospel here.
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Me either.
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Appreciate it though.
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Thank you.
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So how did you first find out about us?
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Do you want to be addressed by your nickname or do you want to be addressed by your proper
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name?
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Oh, feel free to just call me Tom.
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I've seen a post on Facebook and I can't remember which one of my friends posted it
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right now.
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Well, what has been for me if I don't be Facebook?
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Honking you to Facebook?
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Oh no.
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I know Chadder does.
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He's so chatty.
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Yeah, I have so many friends.
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It's like I couldn't.
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I remember bookmarking it when I seen it posted, I clicked a link, bookmarked it, but then
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I never really did anything because last month's podcast or logcasts that you did and I said
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all this looks cool on a bookmarked it and then I just followed up later with the RSC
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channel.
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Oh, whatever friend that is.
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We like him or her.
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Yeah, getting my thumbs up or a like or whatever you do on Facebook.
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Yeah, I'll start out for a little bit, but I might drop out partway through.
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That's fine.
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Just if you're not going to be involved, just turn your picture of Mike Picon up there.
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It's top of the toolbar or not where we know not to try that to chat with you.
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We'll do that when I know I got to drop out.
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Thank you, though.
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How do we want to introduce everybody in the room when we first start off?
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Well, that's why it's kind of the way Dore does his meet up thing is he kind of ask
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everybody that doesn't want to be addressed or spoke, you know, going to be actually participating
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to turn their mic off that way he can introduce at the start of the show.
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I think it's a good way to go and then just kind of go down the line and then just kind
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of say the person's name and they can just kind of either say hi and introduce themselves
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whatever.
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That way that later on if somebody, you know, Chimes Inter says something, at least they'll
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know who's talking.
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We also offer a live stream if you just want to listen online and don't want to be here.
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If you want to remain anonymous, we can listen to the live stream and chat with us on
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IRC at the same time.
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We'll answer questions that way also.
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Kevin, would you put the URL in the mumble chat or the IRC for the live stream?
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I'm assuming that it's a stable URL.
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It's not going to change from episode to episode, is that right?
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Correct.
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Never mind.
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I see it's already in the topic for the IRC channel.
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Tom, how long have you been in the PC repair IT field?
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You just disconnected?
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Oh.
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Sorry.
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I like talking to myself.
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I think we scared him away with all that stream talk.
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Kevin, you've mentioned that you've been sold five, done five managed arrow installs
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recently for clients?
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Yes.
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And you know what?
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I hear I have to do less follow-up support with them than I do with Windows clients and
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I'm loving it.
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I mean, not that I don't want the extra money for the extra support, but I just really
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get blown away by even, I mean, I'm finding, I'm getting a lot of senior citizen customers
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and I'm putting them on clinics and they just use it, so I mean, they don't call, you
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know, I give them a brief.
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Brief overview of how to do, you know, get on the browser, check their email and I don't
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have very many, I mean, they don't have very many demanding needs for an operating system
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and they're not doing, I got a few to, you know, some photo editing for Facebook, you
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know, stuff like that, but we get very little calls about problems with clinics and the
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reason I chose them is because I'm using them now pretty much for the last five months
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and it's a very good rolling distro.
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I mean, I have not had any breakages with, I think they, about every two weeks, they
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have major updates and have not had a failed system yet.
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Yeah, I was going to ask why you chose Mangero and whether the choice was because that was
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what you were familiar with or what you ran, sounds like that's what went into the decision.
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Well, you know, previously I was a big math user and then I got tired of every two years
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having the retrieve of a customer's computer and reinstalling and going through all that
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mundo jumbo and then I started using Linux Math devian, so you know, that was a semi-rolling
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so required less time on my part to do updates and I can do about everything remotely
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on a rolling release as far as system updates or I show the user how to do it and I tell
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them, you know, if you don't feel comfortable, I can do it for you or where you don't have
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to do them at all.
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I mean, it's not that, it's real serious not to do them because a lot of times I find
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customers that haven't done them for quite a long time but haven't experienced that yet
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on Mangero.
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I'm trying to keep an email group and my Mangero customers and I was, if I see an update
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come down, I send out a reminder to go ahead and do the updates so they kind of keep
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more of the updates.
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I'm not that familiar with the arch and Mangero system yet, but you know, I was wondering
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how you handled that, how you handled updates and upgrades whether you just left it in
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their hands or you, when the upgrades, when you get notifications of the upgrades to
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your customers contact you and say, listen, you take care of this from the employees.
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I haven't had that request yet.
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I've showed everybody how, you know, they get, it's got an update notification to
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down the taskbar.
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I show them, I tell them how to do it, but I haven't received any calls yet for me to
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do it.
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Now, there's one customer I know that would probably never call me and he would probably
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never do them.
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So I just do them boring remotely whenever they're in the middle of the night or early in
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the morning when I know he told me he's not a night owl, he never gets up before 9
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a.m.
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So I just, when I go to work at 6.30 in the morning, I'll remove them to his system real quick early
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in the morning and do it boring.
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And so far you've found them and general upgrades are clean or stable, don't know the exact
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words enough that you don't actually have to physically visit the site.
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Correct.
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From what I've gathered from the following men 0 on the forums and their IRC channel,
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they default to a, what's called a stable branch.
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They have a testing brand, it's kind of like Debbie and they have the testing branch
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and the stable branch and it defaults to the stable and they do some testing in the
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testing repos before they get, it gets released to the stable branch.
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So I feel, and like I said, that's where I've stayed all along just on the stable repos
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and I've not experienced any system wreckages.
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I did hear some disparaging comments about Ninja.
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I think it's because I think was on the last segment of the HPR after show from New
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years and essentially statement came out was, yeah, we're to believe a three man team.
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I don't know how many people they've got at Pincharo.
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Actually can do testing and pronounce everything stable before they let it out, you know, running
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a week or whatever it is behind arch.
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Yeah, I think I remember that conversation from the New Year show and I, not having ever
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run arch or mangero or anything arch based, I don't have any personal experience but I
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seem to be pretty valid point.
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The only real experience I have with stuff in a testing edition is Debian and testing
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for Debian of course is testing for the next stable release and so you're going to always
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have bugs and people point them out and there are ways in Debian to find out if there are
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bugs against the particular versions that you're possibly going to upgrade to and I don't
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know.
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Kevin in mangero, if say that package is going to get upgraded from one version to another
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higher numerical version, there's some kind of bug tracker that mangero runs where you
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can see if there are bugs filed against that.
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I do not know that, whether it's an official bug tracker.
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I watch the forums every day to see reports of stuff and I know there's a lot of users
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that follow the testing branch, I don't know, I don't even know the number of developers
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if Pepti you said you heard 3, that kind of surprised me.
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Yeah, maybe it's 3 that have the authority to actually commit more recent newer packages.
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Well, the way they said it, I don't know if that's something they just pulled from outer
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space.
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Well, I think, wasn't it Cobra 2 that was making that comment?
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If it was Cobra 2, I would tend to give his comments a decent amount of weight rather
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than just somebody out of the blue that I don't have any background on.
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Yeah, I think you're right.
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I know I planned to try mengero my little portable laptop, I had CINARCH which became
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ENERGOS and I was really happy with that.
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It wasn't anything to do with the distro, it's just that I had no O-C-Z stay dry if the
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guy didn't get it up and I haven't got it done yet.
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I bought an Intel solid state drive, I've heard if you're going to buy a solid state drive
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that's the way to go, but I've had, last year I've had two SSDs from O-C-Z up a quit
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on me.
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Of course, I'm always buying behind, you know, I buck stuff off new egg that was the cheapest
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way to do an SSD that was usually a couple of technologies behind the current, so you
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pay your money and you take your chance, I guess.
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But this time around, I think I'm going to try mengero on it.
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Kevin, on those mengero, installs their oil XFCE, awesome, correct, no, there's a sped
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in a mengero for just about anything, I think XFCE comes out first.
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Well, we were talking before you got here about an installed mengero on five of my client
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customers, that's what he meant, I think.
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Yeah, and I was the context.
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Yeah, they do have different desktop environment, spins, XFCE being the main one, but they've
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got an open box, a KDE, they've even got a known three.
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The sentiment that our community spends, they've got about anything you want.
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Yeah, I think I had an enlightenment, in fact, that was the thing, after Synarch became
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Annergos, I could never get cinema to work again, so I moved over to E17, but this, you
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know, when they came out with the different spins, about two weeks after the last mangero
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release, I grabbed the sentiment, mangero, and of course, it really doesn't matter, the
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desktop, because you can always install what you want, and then install whatever desktop
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you want from the repos.
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15, do you have your mic extra close to your nose or mouth, I'm here in freedom?
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I can move it away some, and then I've heard you've read anything before, does that
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matter?
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I think so.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't have like a cough shield on it, but I can put one on.
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50, just for what it worth, for what it's worth, I have Kingston SSD in this machine.
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When I, when I decided to spend the money on an SSD, I hooked around a new egg and kind
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of got scared off by a bunch of OCC bad ratings by people that purchased OCC SSDs, and I think
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I might have mentioned it before, somebody mentioned it, I think OCC actually went bankrupt
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recently, within the past couple months, because maybe because of the poor quality of their
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hard drives.
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Yeah, that did, that did take them down, a lot of people, I looked into it, it seemed
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to me like OCC was as good as anybody else, and then the questions about quality came
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after I bought all of mine, because I bought a couple, I bought one for the computer in
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the dining room, and another one for this little laptop, because it's, it's only one
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megahertz to a core, you know, I want something to speed it up, plus, you know, have any mobile
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machine that's better to have a SSD in, so if it falls or anything like that, less likely
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to lose your data, but I had not seen the bad reviews, everything I'd heard when I bought
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all of mine was OCC as good as anybody else, I think right after that, these things started
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becoming.
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Yeah, and again, for what it's worth, I, looking at some hardware reports that I've got on
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this system here, looks like I've had this Kingston about a year and a half now, October
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2012 is when I created the file system on it.
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Well, are we ready to get started?
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I thought we were, you mean I'm on top of time?
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We were waiting on you, I'm just kind of doing a little pre-show chatter.
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Yeah, I am sorry about that, it's kind of a near thing I'm here at all.
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I was looking up the TV schedule for tonight, and while starting an hour and a half ago,
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my local PBS station was actually running the three doctors.
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I guess at least I got to see the first half of it, I've never seen that.
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I'm fine with starting now, sure.
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Who wants to kind of be the main MC tonight?
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I can't do it last week, I'd like to do somebody else a chance.
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I'll do it since I didn't bring any content tonight, how's that?
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Works for me.
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You're on.
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Okay, we're going to do a little five seconds of silence here.
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I'm going to write down show start time at 0.25.
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So why isn't madbot working?
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50, madbot.
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Oh no, that ought to be working.
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At one point, I had seen some kind of list of commands that you could issue to madbot,
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and now I can't find it.
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That's why I was trying to help command to see if that would output anything helpful,
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but as I don't see anything.
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What could be, I clicked into Linux Basics, and I thought I was in Linux Logcast earlier,
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and then, oh, the bots are down, because it was a big net split in Linux Basics.
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And so I ran the launcher again, so it could be that if running twice on the server,
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I may need to kill it and start again.
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How do curiosity, do you have a VPS that you can run madbot on,
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or are you limited to just what's at your home?
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Yeah, it's just my home server.
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It's just command line.
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Are you running a logbot?
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What's on your home server?
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Yeah, they're both mine.
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Like I said, I put up madbot under approval.
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So, like I said, I'll kill one and use madbot for everything, but I'll change its name.
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Because it seems like the time on your home server is off.
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It's ahead maybe eight minutes.
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Well, everything syncs up with five times.
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Take a look in the IRC channel.
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The last thing from logbot at 2249, my local time says,
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KWisher 0357 Zulu, which is fast.
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Okay, I see what you mean.
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You know, you run an NTP date,
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Kronga?
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What, it should be pulled, it's time off the internet.
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Just SSH into it and type date with it date.
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It's coming in the show with current date and time.
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Yeah, that's just a minute or time.
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Yeah, you're right.
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It's about minutes fast.
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I'll look in that model and see if I reset when the time comes.
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Well, I guess I just assumed it was getting it in that time.
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Yeah, I run a Kronga job every hour to think the time on this machine with the NTP server.
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Can't you just tell it like any other device to just always use and be teated all the time?
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Maybe you can, that's not how I understand how NTP works.
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I think you have to, as I understand it, you have to grab the correct time off the NTP server,
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and then your system, if you grab it, then your system uses that time, but may run fast or slow,
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depending on your system.
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So you need to, as I understand it, you need to periodically refresh the machine time
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with the NTP server time.
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Okay, I'll look into that tomorrow.
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I'm sure it's easy enough to do.
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Yeah, and Debbie, and the only gotcha is that you have a naming convention for the files
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in Slash, it's the Slash Krong dot hourly.
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I can't remember what the naming convention is, but I just created a script in that
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directory named Time that with no extension.
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I think if you give it an extension, Krong will not run the job on Debbie, but I'm not sure about that.
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You know, it probably applies to me.
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Mine's actually you've moved to server, and the only reason I did that,
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I wanted to go with, oh, shoot it.
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Getting foggy here, that the, not free, because we're both free, the non-pay version of Red Hat,
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but it did not support my natively, the Ray to Ray in the machine, and I'd recently
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been bitten when I started out by having Debbie and not having to compile everything for Debbie.
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So I went, if you go to instead, which is probably my worst choice, but that's why it's a
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you've moved to server. I'm going to call it a night.
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Have a good one, Harvey. Oh, good one. Thank you.
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Santos, that was trying to thank you.
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You're out there, Thadge. You are allowed to talk during the podcast if you want.
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Yeah, I'm here. My attention is in and out. I have a big licensing test to take in
|
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the morning, so I've been kind of studying and listening, so I didn't participate too much.
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Well, that's fine. Yeah, if you got a test, you can concentrate on that.
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I'm doing my best to try not to concentrate on it, but you know how that works.
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Well, sometimes you can concentrate too hard, and you know, there's nothing works.
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I can't feel like that's probably where I'm at. I've been looking at this stuff for weeks,
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and really, I already know it. It's just, I'm freaking myself out a little bit about it.
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I know one thing. I'm going to take this test tomorrow. I'm probably going to play with Rockbox.
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We have a convert. Well, I usually listen to everything on my phone, which is great, except for
|
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it's kind of bulky when I'm working out or I'm working out in the field or anything like that.
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It'd be nice to just have a little small one, and my daughter has a clip,
|
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so I know kind of how they were, but the big sticking point for me was the variable speed on the
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podcast, because I listen to podcasts that like two to three times speed, but it's some crazy.
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I have never gotten to a point where I can listen to a podcast, speed it up that fast time.
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I for a long time, I was using tempo 1.4 with socks, then I went to tempo 1.45,
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and now I'm tempo 1.48. I think when I went to 1.5 tempo, it just couldn't fall along.
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It depends on the topic matter and stuff. Sometimes I can kick it up near 200,
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but I'm usually a lot more comfortable about 150.
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I usually, I just looked every pretty much everything I listen to 2.75.
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There are a few that I can't, I don't know what it is, Ken Fallon. I cannot listen to him
|
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past 2. I don't know why his accent particular. It's not like it's not clear.
|
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Just something about it, just lurs me Kevin, and I can't understand where he says.
|
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Yeah, that's what one of the staff could do with HPR.
|
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Excellent show, man. From Fallston, the guy who's involved in
|
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Sabba, but I had it about 150 from 1.4, I think it was a hook, and I know,
|
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|
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but I was driving the time, trying to feel my way through it and slow it back down to about
|
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100. Actually, first I slowed it down to about 80, and I said, no, if everybody sounds like
|
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|
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they're drunk, I went too far. Yeah, I think you might. I was just going to say that wasn't
|
||
|
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excellent episode with Jeremy Allison. Yeah, it was actually. My big thing is usually not
|
||
|
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who's doing it is usually the recording quality. It's the stuff in the background that kills me
|
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|
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if she speed it up, because it just turns into this massive sound.
|
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|
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Well, I said, it was kind of point of contention on the stuff a year ago that went to the
|
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|
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first in, first down on HPR, because they called for shows, and many had three in mind for six
|
||
|
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months, but some of the stuff that had been in there, that had been from Fallston, but recording
|
||
|
|
speakers, not recording interviews, but all those shows. I was listening to the Clepper
|
||
|
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P's, maybe if I'd been listening to headsets and add a computer, but there were just a bunch of
|
||
|
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those shows and it's the meat, they were just nearly un-listenable because people were constantly
|
||
|
|
opening popcorns and sliding their chairs. It picked up all kinds of background noises,
|
||
|
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like I listened to it. It was, I was getting one word out of three on this.
|
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|
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Yeah, it's very rare. I have to not listen to something because of how bad it is, but yeah,
|
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|
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I think that was probably one of the ones I skipped. It was some of the positive stuff, even though
|
||
|
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some of it was really good, they just get to a point where some of it was terrible, as far as the
|
||
|
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quality. Well, I'm going to go grab a beer, and this is probably not good voice tags or
|
||
|
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badger, but you know the whole wise tale about you, you know, you drink beers while you're
|
||
|
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studying, and then you drink beer right before the test and it all comes back.
|
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|
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Is that the trick? I don't drink, so I wish I did, and maybe that would help.
|
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Oh, and it's Taj, the agent silent, everybody screws it up, does, it'll feel good.
|
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Yeah, I think I said that way first, Taj, okay. I answer to all of them.
|
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|
|
So, Taj, how did you find Lennox?
|
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|
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It's a really long story. Give us the condensed version.
|
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|
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I originally went to school to be a musician, got into audio and video production, lived the
|
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|
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Apple world for a long time, and Apple was terrible, and I didn't want to go to Windows because
|
||
|
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that's what I kind of grew up with for the most part, and so I just played around until I found
|
||
|
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Lennox, and it just kind of clicked like the whole philosophy behind it. I was just like, oh yeah,
|
||
|
|
this is what I've been missing. It also helped. It also helped. We can do it. It also helped
|
||
|
|
like all the command line stuff that I need for Mac, because it was BSD based, kind of just came over.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I've just recently started using a Mac, it's because of my job. That's not because of personal
|
||
|
|
preference, but I find a lot of similarities between Mac and Lennox.
|
||
|
|
It is, it's just the whole, everything is locked down. Like, that's the thing that irritated me
|
||
|
|
to no end. It was just the, you have to do it their way. There's no other way to do it. You
|
||
|
|
don't like doing it the other way. You wind up with this Clujie hack to make things work, and then
|
||
|
|
they'll come around and break it, and it's a problem. Sorry for stepping on your toes there,
|
||
|
|
Scotch. I was just going to bring up something that's been going through my mind lately, and that is
|
||
|
|
with Wayland on the approaching horizon, it's, I'm going to reach a point myself where
|
||
|
|
my window manager is not going to be an alternative, an option. I use FBWM, and I don't think
|
||
|
|
there's going to be any effort at all to make the thing run on Wayland, maybe under some
|
||
|
|
X-11 layer on top of Wayland, but it's going to get to a point where I'm going to have to switch
|
||
|
|
to something else, and I started looking at Fox Fox, and I started looking at Enlightenment
|
||
|
|
within the past couple of weeks, just to see if, first of all, whether they're, they have plans
|
||
|
|
to get their window managers running on Wayland. I don't know what Fox is, Enlightenment. There's
|
||
|
|
some kind of, well, we might maybe, if we have a time who knows, you'll have to just wait and see,
|
||
|
|
but because I've used FBWM for such a long time, I have extremely specific preferences,
|
||
|
|
and I would really, really, really rather not switch to a window manager that does not allow me
|
||
|
|
to configure the preferences to something I'm used to and gotten used to and really prefer. So
|
||
|
|
that's something maybe, at some point, people can throw out ideas on that subject.
|
||
|
|
Chatter since I've never used FBWM, is there anything else that's real similar that I would
|
||
|
|
be more familiar with? I don't think, I can't take up anything off the top of my head.
|
||
|
|
There are a gazillion options that you can set in FBWM, and you can, you can use one
|
||
|
|
single text file configuration to set up your environment, or you can split the configuration
|
||
|
|
file into smaller ones and load the smaller files. But, you know, when I, just to give an example,
|
||
|
|
when I, when I try to out Fluxbox recently, I do not like a panel at the bottom or the top or any
|
||
|
|
side of a workspace. I don't want that. And maybe there's a way in Fluxbox to get rid of that.
|
||
|
|
If there is, I didn't poke around deeply enough, persistently enough to locate how to do that.
|
||
|
|
And another example with Fluxbox, in the panel by default on devian here, you, you get a
|
||
|
|
pager, which shows your workspaces, and you can switch to certain workspaces various ways.
|
||
|
|
But I want to, I want a separate panel. I mean, I want a separate pager with my workspaces.
|
||
|
|
And I got a, I got a separate panel running, I'm sorry, I got a separate pager running,
|
||
|
|
but I couldn't move the darn thing. It was stuck in the bottom right hand corner. I couldn't
|
||
|
|
put it where I wanted it to go on, on my display. Now, if I can't do that, then, you know,
|
||
|
|
that's a minus on my opinion. Now, with that XFCE, you can, you can remove the default panel,
|
||
|
|
like the bottom, or the top, depending on which, where the distribution puts it. And then,
|
||
|
|
you can create your own user-defined panels with, you know, specific things right on them,
|
||
|
|
and you can move those panels around anywhere on your screen.
|
||
|
|
I kind of like the way of writing it, because it's a little hard to get used to. And though,
|
||
|
|
I think you probably do this on any desktop, but I just know it does this by default.
|
||
|
|
If you move your mouse pointer to the right or left edge of the screen, you'll, you know,
|
||
|
|
go to the next workspace, the trick with that is you've got to go in and, you know, set it to
|
||
|
|
no window kit. You've always got like a three pixel buffer between the edge of your window and
|
||
|
|
the edge of the screen. That makes it a lot easier, so you're not constantly switching desktops by accident.
|
||
|
|
The default action on Manjaro's XFCE is the, if you're getting your mouse in
|
||
|
|
all over your wallpaper and blank area, if you're not over in an open window or whatever,
|
||
|
|
just use your mouse wheel and switch to workspaces. And that's easier to figure out in the desktop
|
||
|
|
setting, of course. I think it's like that through a lot of desktops.
|
||
|
|
But I find myself just using the control all arrow keys to switch workspaces.
|
||
|
|
I do use the applet that's on my bottom panel also. It has a panel for switching. So there's
|
||
|
|
three different ways I can switch workspaces depending on where my hand is.
|
||
|
|
How many workspaces do you usually run?
|
||
|
|
I used to run four, but I found that I never used more than two. So I just here lately I've just been
|
||
|
|
setting up two workspaces. And this is in XFCE, right? Correct. Can you tell XFCE that if you start
|
||
|
|
application poo, you want it always to run on workspace bar?
|
||
|
|
I don't get that deep into the configurations, but I think you can't. I think there is a
|
||
|
|
selling event. Now I could do it in E17, so I assume that's not, of course, XFCE, the little sparse,
|
||
|
|
but I assume it's in. It's just known where to do it. See, I put a link to an image of my desktop
|
||
|
|
in the mumble chat. And so you can see how many simultaneously running applications that I've
|
||
|
|
got. And the the pager up there in the top left, not only does it display many icon for the application,
|
||
|
|
if the application has a many icon, if you move your mouse cursor over that application in the
|
||
|
|
pager, a little pop-up appears, and it'll say, might, or it'll say, extract, or it'll say,
|
||
|
|
Firefox or something else. And I don't know if XFCE has that or enlightenment has that
|
||
|
|
capability. My first Google search for XFCE start application on workspace tells me that the default
|
||
|
|
settings, there's no way to do it in the default XFCE, but there is an add-on application called
|
||
|
|
Devil's Python, allow you to do that. Hey, Shannon, what's going on on the background?
|
||
|
|
Oh, that's my Wi-Fi antenna, don't you know? It's a pretty serious Wi-Fi antenna.
|
||
|
|
No, actually, what that is, there's a there's a blog called Short-P-S-H-R-R-P-Y.com, and it has
|
||
|
|
antique photo images, photographs, and the guy who runs the site will have, you know, maybe a
|
||
|
|
couple of weeks to go by where there's nothing interesting, and then there'll be something which is
|
||
|
|
got awfully unusual that I grab it and make it my background. Now, that's another thing. Kevin,
|
||
|
|
in XFCE, if you've got, let's say you've got four workspaces, can you have each workspace have
|
||
|
|
its own wallpaper or background? Yes, and I have dual monitors, and I can specify which background
|
||
|
|
on which monitor and which workspace on each one of them. And I imagine you can custom
|
||
|
|
my, if you use right or left or middle mouse button click on the background, you can pop up a
|
||
|
|
like an application menu, like appears in the images of the workspace that I put out.
|
||
|
|
Yes, there is a pop-up menu to get to applications and your menu, yes.
|
||
|
|
Is that a text file, if you know? The menu itself, I'm sure, is a text file,
|
||
|
|
yes, you can go in there, where it's located, I don't know, so I can say I don't get real deep in
|
||
|
|
the customizing. And I imagine you can make things sticky so that like certain system monitors
|
||
|
|
will appear on all workspaces, right? I'm not sure, I run conky, so I have a conky going on,
|
||
|
|
it stays on all this, all workspaces. I used to use before I switched to XFC, well even when I
|
||
|
|
first started switched to XFC, there's some screenlets, I think it's the name of the application
|
||
|
|
where you can put little widgets all over, wherever you've got, you know, clocks, calendars,
|
||
|
|
weather, time, you know, system resource monitors, stuff like that. And like by the time I started
|
||
|
|
adding five or six screenlets, widgets, it seemed like it was eating up too much resources, so I
|
||
|
|
finally learned how to set up conking, and I like it a lot better. Yeah, that's one thing that's
|
||
|
|
really endeared me to, another thing that's really endeared me to FVWM is that with some of what
|
||
|
|
is displayed in that image that I put into the mumble chat, some of that are FVWM modules,
|
||
|
|
and with FVWM running along with all the modules, it takes about 20 meg of RAM.
|
||
|
|
In XFC or Enlightenment is it possible to create custom tidal bar buttons so that you can
|
||
|
|
like click on a button and send the application to another workspace or shade and D-shade,
|
||
|
|
you know, roll up, roll down the window. I'll speak for XFC, E, if you right click on the
|
||
|
|
header bar of any open window, you can choose which workspace to send, it's got send to C.
|
||
|
|
You can roll up, which is I think you can roll up the open window into just a tidal bar.
|
||
|
|
It's also got always on works visible workspace and then moved to another workspace and then
|
||
|
|
depending on how many workspaces you have enabled you can choose which one to send it to.
|
||
|
|
If you know, can you FVWM has something called styles for different applications? So if I enter
|
||
|
|
if I open up the terminal, I don't have a tidal bar. Is that something that you can customize in
|
||
|
|
XFC, E, if you know, create, and I might have asked you this question before. I have a feeling I
|
||
|
|
did. Can you can you create a style or something for like let's say X term, where X term when you
|
||
|
|
open up X term, it doesn't have a tidal bar. I'm not sure about that one. How are you? If you've
|
||
|
|
not assuming you have not loaded up XFC, no, I can't remember the last time I even ran XFC,
|
||
|
|
was probably years ago. You only have the one computer. Yes, that's right. Can you run a virtual
|
||
|
|
box on that one computer to play around with different distributions that specialize in specific
|
||
|
|
desktop environments? Well, I wouldn't even have to do that. I could just drop down to a TTY and
|
||
|
|
log in and then start a second X session. That's what I've been, that's what I was doing, what I
|
||
|
|
was poking around in enlightenment and in watch box, just have X stored on a different display.
|
||
|
|
But you have to install each window manager desktop environment, right? Right, yes. I just don't like
|
||
|
|
it. It's all moldable. I read into issues when I had moldables trying, I don't know, I think
|
||
|
|
I was back when I first started Linux, I was playing around KDE and now I'm two at the same time
|
||
|
|
then I got wonky. Yeah, with KDE, I think I, and this was a while ago, a couple of years maybe,
|
||
|
|
I think I started some kind of KDE control center or settings manager and it changed my mouse cursor
|
||
|
|
to this, to me, extremely ugly oxygen mouse cursor and I had to, I had to log out of X and log
|
||
|
|
back in for the original mouse cursor to be used. I couldn't, couldn't figure out how to get rid of that
|
||
|
|
KDE style mouse cursor or that, that was the only trouble really that I had where something
|
||
|
|
was stomping on the way I wanted to actually have things appear because I have, I have dropped
|
||
|
|
it with TTY, logged in and started up KDE and who knows, maybe, maybe I'll have to go to KDE,
|
||
|
|
but as near as I can tell it seems like KDE, everything is basically done graphically instead of
|
||
|
|
poking around in text files, configuration files and I will have to learn a whole new set of jargon
|
||
|
|
words because I doubt whether what something is called in FVWM is going to be called the same thing
|
||
|
|
in KDE, so if I, you know, have something stored on a particular desktop, there's a KDE,
|
||
|
|
there's a FVWM term for that and it's probably something really different in KDE, just as an example.
|
||
|
|
So you, you know for a fact that FVWM like not work with Wayland? Well, I haven't had it specifically
|
||
|
|
told, nobody specifically told me, but I would be astonished if it did. First of all, it's not a
|
||
|
|
compositing window manager and as I understand Wayland, if you're going to have a window manager
|
||
|
|
running that's not Weston, I think Weston is the window manager that comes with Wayland by default,
|
||
|
|
it's got to be a compositing window manager, it's got to be able to do 3D stuff and FVW,
|
||
|
|
I know for a fact that FVWM will not go to become a compositing window manager, that's been,
|
||
|
|
that I have specifically remember seeing said in the IRC channel and on the mailing list,
|
||
|
|
but it's, but FVWM has served me well for more than a decade and, you know, it'll, it'll be sad
|
||
|
|
have to put the thing to sleep, but you know, it's just something that I'm going to have to face
|
||
|
|
at some point in the future, because I don't think, I think after a period of time when Wayland actually
|
||
|
|
hits the mainstream distributions, it's the X11 development is really going to drop off the clip,
|
||
|
|
and you're going to get to a point where, hey, you can't do these things anymore, you've got to move.
|
||
|
|
Well, gentlemen, it's been fun, but I got to get to bed so I can get up to this test in the morning,
|
||
|
|
hopefully I'll be on here next time and actually be able to focus and contribute a little bit more.
|
||
|
|
Good luck on the test. Yeah, definitely, good luck and thanks for dropping in.
|
||
|
|
What, which, which test is it? I am adding a endorsement to my teaching license for a,
|
||
|
|
a higher level math certification than I have now to teach some advanced classes.
|
||
|
|
We have a strange situation where we have a lot of special ed students that are in really advanced
|
||
|
|
math, so they need somebody to get the license, so I agree to do it. That's kind of interesting
|
||
|
|
here. You've got to come in sometimes, play now that works. That seems like a contradiction to me.
|
||
|
|
Well, technically, special ed is anything that is not normal, so I always try to relate it to kids
|
||
|
|
when they find out they're special ed and they get bummed about it is, special ed goes all
|
||
|
|
away from somebody changes your pants to this kid as 12 years old and should probably have a master's
|
||
|
|
degree. And so we have a few kids that are really scaredy's right now.
|
||
|
|
Oh, okay, I've got kids like that, so that includes the gifted programs there.
|
||
|
|
Technically, we don't, we don't have a gifted program, which is kind of silly, but yeah, most,
|
||
|
|
I know in my state, which is Indiana, we, it all gets lumped under special ed or actually,
|
||
|
|
now it's not special ed, it's exceptional child education is the new term. Indiana,
|
||
|
|
well, you ought to be, you ought to be hanging out with 330 and peg wall then.
|
||
|
|
I'm in Indiana too. No way. Yeah, I totally, I want to hang out with 330,
|
||
|
|
because we have a lot of similarities. I always love when he actually pops in, which is not very
|
||
|
|
often anymore. If you don't have to be specific, but whereabouts in Indiana?
|
||
|
|
I can be in Louisville, Kentucky in about 10 minutes, so I'm right on the border,
|
||
|
|
right on the river. No, I'm up in the Kokomo area. Well, I know nothing from Indiana,
|
||
|
|
but 330 and peg wall and Richmond understand even when she was coming there, a crack pipe,
|
||
|
|
big touch. Indiana has a lot of meth everywhere. It seems like every,
|
||
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everywhere you go in Indiana, that's what everybody wants to talk about as a meth,
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or at least that's what I explained. All right, guys, let's catch it.
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Take care. Yeah, see you, Todd. Well, I see we have two live listeners on the stream.
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Oh, fine. Nobody during the show. Well, I may have forgot to refresh the web interface for the
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ice cast to check that, but at the start we didn't have any, but then I posted something in
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all cast plants, so I don't have to pick up a couple from there. Well, if you're listening to us,
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and you're in the planet, uh, mess up, so we know who our listeners are. And why aren't you in
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pound Linux lug cast? It may be rare for me. He finally found us today on IRC. Yeah,
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what happened to, uh, what's his name like to get you swore up and down he was here at the start,
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and then he said he may have to drop out again. A client that had a website that was crushing
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or something. So he wasn't here. He talked to us a little bit before you, John. I guess that's
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a valid excuse. Flipside creation. The voice is IRC handled. Yeah, that's who I was thinking.
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So do we want to set my hockey's down here so I couldn't be left abruptly before I get a chance
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to discuss. We want to officially invite John and on a show to discuss the state of his fundraiser
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and everything. Well, not that I'm opposed to it. You know, I asked you brought that up, but you
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reminded me that I listened to that, uh, uh, uh, meetup. You know, I think they did a pretty good
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job of kicking them whole thing around. Now, you know, now that money Jonathan had, I, you know,
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if I've been involved in making a decision, which I'm not, I might have said pointed out to them,
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okay, you know, uh, Orca, obviously people obviously don't want your money, but they've said,
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you know, half the problem with Orca is that other programs don't report, uh, you know, don't do
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notifications in a standardized way. And that's why Orca doesn't work with them. And, you know,
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if I was Jonathan, I wasn't fine. What we'll, you know, we'll do is we'll, you know,
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uh, we'll, we'll, if they'll give us a list of those bugs, then, you know, we'll put a, uh,
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bounty on those other applications to do those bugs as either I, I hadn't looked at the final
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poll, but I don't think you know, I'm not sure you actually collecting that. Hey,
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anybody enough to actually fork the thing and do anything with it.
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Is, so is the fundraiser has been completely stopped that way? No, what you're saying?
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I think it's over now. Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Stop it because of this kerfuffle,
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buddy. Well, I didn't, uh, is it, is it still going, man? I didn't think it was.
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I haven't, I haven't looked at the fundraising page lately. Maybe probably in a couple weeks,
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But I had the impression that there was an expiration date and the expiration date has passed and as near as I know
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He didn't he didn't stop the fundraising
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Early, so the question of whether he stopped here because of you know the differences he had with
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Joanne Marie. I don't even think came up
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Like like I said in the emails or somebody said in the emails it started seem to be that it started off on the wrong foot
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And
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You know, maybe if it maybe if it had been done differently from the start the
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Responsive Joanne Marie digs would have been different, but who knows
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You know sometimes sometimes you and tag and I somebody without even knowing that that's what's gonna happen
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And I got I got the impression from Jonathan that that's what the situation was here. He had he had
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Very little contact if any contact with Joanne Marie digs before starting the fundraiser and
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So he didn't know he had no heads up or idea what her response was going to be at all
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Well, I get the impression this is kind of a closed project. I know there's not it
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You know, they're they're not even set up to take contributions from well-meaning people who were you know who would donate their time to
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Work on bugs or enhance the program. So I can kind of understand her you know her thinking well
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She's a sole person working on it
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So anybody who's collecting money pay other programmers is saying to her well, you're not doing the job
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I you know, so I mean obviously they're not even set up take code contributions
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From volunteers
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Well, actually the the order page itself has a has a way of how to submit a patch
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So, you know, I don't know if they're on GitHub or some other place. They do use git. So
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There's got to be some get repository somewhere that you can submit patches to and
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You know see it's it
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I'm obviously I don't have any inside information or information as anything more than what
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Jonathan said on the pod next meter
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But the one of the impressions that I got was that is
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Focus was we're going to work on orca but looking at the orca project ages the focus is
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On applications that are trying to talk to orca or orca is trying to talk to
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You know vice versa and
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So Jonathan was was trying to fix something that they don't think needs fixing instead of going after what orca
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Thinks needs to be fixed and maybe maybe I'm not explaining that clearly, but
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That that was one of the impressions that I got from looking at the orca project pages and seeing the couple of things that
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Don't Marie did said put up on can fall in sight and she had put in the
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reddit correct
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You know, there's a there's a on the orca page
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There's a and on the orca website. There's a how can I help page which gives instructions on how to
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submit patches so they are looking for patches
|
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The the thing that I remember Jonathan saying in the pod nuts meet up is that somebody had asked in the
|
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mailing list how do I get involved or what what what can I do to help well
|
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If the person hasn't taken the time to find out is there a how do I how can I help page on the project how serious are they about
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Making a contribution because this is an extensive page about what what they want to do
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And how to do it
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So the person doesn't even need to post anything to the mailing list. It seems to me
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Does that make sense to people?
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Yeah, I mean, I see I see the points on both sides, but what's really got me baffled is
|
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You know club john for his cause and everything going after you know make trying to get this
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Make orca, you know, the premier screener you're in everything
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But why wouldn't he have contacted the developers first and said hey, I am a blind user. I use your product
|
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This is the shortcomings. I see and I'd like to start this fundraiser to solve these problems
|
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Where where do you need to help? Where's the help needed instead of trying to I mean I just don't understand the planning behind
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I mean I plot his effort and there's and I have nothing
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Bad to say about what he's trying to do
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But yeah, I can understand the developers point of view also is that she
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Need the help me to be in the applications
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Access in orca and I think he could have done a better job of pointing his efforts in that direction
|
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You know and being
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Communicating with the developers from the get go to find out where the help was needed. Yeah, like I said
|
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As step out for a couple minutes
|
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What you said chatter that they actually have a place to
|
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Accept patches and submissions that completely changed the tone changes the tone now because
|
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You know that ask for help and then when somebody says okay, we'll give you the help and we'll pay somebody
|
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To help you out and then they say no, no, we're gonna not have that the guy talk, you know that
|
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John was in contact with who offered to do code review to see if they can make things for efficient
|
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And so no, we don't want that either. It just sounds like she's being and reason real protective of her job
|
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And you know, I can I can kind of understand that kind of flies in the face of the spirit of open source
|
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Well, refresh my memory because I remember some discussion about code review
|
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Was that on the work of mailing list or was that in the private mails that
|
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Jonathan had with somebody who had posted to the orca mailing list?
|
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I think that was both because it was something about he you know somebody who had heard about the project and said
|
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Well, I can't contribute any money, but I often tribute time and he contacted
|
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On the mailing list and we said well, you know, I'm pretty good at
|
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Checking stuff, but you know, I you know, I'll for do a code review and he said I've talked to Jonathan
|
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And then she came back slap Jonathan the private knows says how dare you send this guy to to say that I need to code review
|
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Yeah, I
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I can speak from personal experience
|
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That if somebody takes me off it's very easy for me to stay ticked off at them and if somebody is ticked off at me
|
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It's very easy for them to stay ticked off at me
|
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um, and sometimes from put again from personal experience sometimes that will never change or it might take years to change
|
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And the reason for me being ticked off at them or them being ticked off at me
|
||
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Could be something that is a complete misunderstanding. So, you know
|
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|
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Maybe maybe something can get repaired. Maybe it can
|
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|
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Um, like you said Kevin. I I don't know why it never it just seems never to have occurred to Jonathan to
|
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Notify, you know to bring bring this up before he started it
|
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|
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It just it just seems never to have occurred to Jonathan and I'm I'm more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on that
|
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|
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It wasn't like he was trying to go behind their backs or start up something that he was in control of and that
|
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|
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They they would have no input about. I don't believe that's how Jonathan works
|
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|
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I've met you know
|
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I've never had any indication of all the tests how he works. So I'm like it
|
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|
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willing to give him the benefit of the doubt
|
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|
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I agree totally um, but and I'm making a big assumption here from what I
|
||
|
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From what information I've gathered from ever since he started you know started the fundraiser and was, you know
|
||
|
|
Always on every other podcast speaking of it just
|
||
|
|
Impression I got without him actually confirming it is that it sounded to me like he'd already been in contact with the developers and this is where the
|
||
|
|
This is what they what they needed and this is why he was doing this now he never
|
||
|
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Said that but I just took that from the context of all his promotions for it
|
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|
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Yeah, I think part part of the thing is that I'm in a bubble
|
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|
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I get my news in certain areas and
|
||
|
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Joe marr it maybe Joe Marie digs or other people at the Orca project get their news from some other sources
|
||
|
|
They may have never even heard of
|
||
|
|
Jonathan's fundraising efforts for them. They may have heard that oh, there's this sonar project thing and they they
|
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|
|
Read two sentences about it and that's the last thing that they ever find out about it and then all of a sudden this thing appears out of nowhere
|
||
|
|
Um, maybe that's what happened
|
||
|
|
Um, I know it like you said it was being promoted to the health
|
||
|
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Uh, and in many places that I follow but that doesn't necessarily mean that she's gonna get a heads up about it
|
||
|
|
unfortunately
|
||
|
|
Well, I mean that kind of surprised me
|
||
|
|
I thought the part of the podcast from Jonathan is why I started getting emails from
|
||
|
|
uh
|
||
|
|
DeFess F E F F. Yeah, you know, I thought they would have been they would have been you know
|
||
|
|
I thought you should say there were supportive emails and you know
|
||
|
|
I'll get let's talk to explain what you're doing
|
||
|
|
But it was like all the emails are who the hell are you and why are why are you collecting money?
|
||
|
|
Well to me that indicates that he didn't even run if I
|
||
|
|
The FSF that he didn't that or if he did he didn't sit down with them and say look
|
||
|
|
This is what I'm planning. This is this is what my target is if I reach my
|
||
|
|
target. I'm gonna do this if if I don't reach my target. I'm gonna do the other thing that
|
||
|
|
It was if he talked to somebody about planning it like I think he I think he mentioned that he talked to Jason
|
||
|
|
Calacanis at one point who's like this super mega
|
||
|
|
multi-billionaire practically or for
|
||
|
|
startups and venture capital you got like 15 minutes with with the guy
|
||
|
|
um
|
||
|
|
You know when he
|
||
|
|
With some advice, but I don't know who else he contacted for this kind of thing
|
||
|
|
It's it's really a shame because you know something that started out as with a outstanding
|
||
|
|
goal is now caught up in all this extraneous
|
||
|
|
Bad films. It's really a shame
|
||
|
|
Well like I said, it's not like I've got any place telling Jonathan what he could do
|
||
|
|
But I mean if it was me the way I would have handled
|
||
|
|
The hammery saying you know our our major problem is that
|
||
|
|
All these other applications and programming frameworks do not report data in the way they should in the standard way
|
||
|
|
They should be
|
||
|
|
Instead of instead of saying okay, let's let's do a cause like fork of
|
||
|
|
uh
|
||
|
|
Of orka and I don't think he's got enough money to do that, but I would have said okay fine
|
||
|
|
Get get give me a list of these divergent occasions and I will pay a bounty for people to submit patches to make them work in a way that
|
||
|
|
Or to can deal with yeah, but that's dealing with that's not dealing with your project
|
||
|
|
I'm dealing with flunderbird or you know some other code base
|
||
|
|
um
|
||
|
|
That's and I'm repeating myself. I know but the impression I got was that
|
||
|
|
Orka doesn't have any problem with your own code. It's the code in these other applications
|
||
|
|
Rebrow office for
|
||
|
|
Underbird and I think they give some other examples
|
||
|
|
But all that stuff all that stuff is is on and I'm getting on repeat myself
|
||
|
|
All that stuff is on your project website
|
||
|
|
Well, that's why I'm saying that that least would have kept peace in the family
|
||
|
|
I don't you know there's others that I mean I think the way they're standing uh
|
||
|
|
It kind of would have broke if if everything started working the way it should be it would break orka
|
||
|
|
Because orka does some clutches to get around you know the way the way these things are the way the other
|
||
|
|
Applications are doing are doing things in the way they should not be doing, but I don't think there's a you know
|
||
|
|
You know in that position. I don't think Anne Marie could could possibly and
|
||
|
|
You know, I don't know if anybody
|
||
|
|
I guess what you're saying chatter is people donated to or donated to the project
|
||
|
|
Would say oh no, I you know you're spitting my money in a wrong way because you're fixing other applications
|
||
|
|
Other in orka. I don't I can't imagine anybody donated would would make a complaint like that
|
||
|
|
You know and as it stands
|
||
|
|
You know people saying well the money's not not going to orka
|
||
|
|
But at least not not the work that we know and you know
|
||
|
|
I don't think anybody's gonna go come up and shout fraud or something at that. No
|
||
|
|
No
|
||
|
|
Well getting back to the first question kevin when you know you what this up
|
||
|
|
I my I'm inclined to think no, let's not if no, let's not have Jonathan on the show to talk about this
|
||
|
|
If if we talk if we have Jonathan on the show, he should talk about northeast limits best or something else
|
||
|
|
But not bring up at all and fundraiser
|
||
|
|
um
|
||
|
|
It I think he's grown up enough that he's not going to you know feel like we're picking at a scab or something
|
||
|
|
but you get to a point where if he
|
||
|
|
This is this is what I expect it would happen. You get to a point where for him to give a complete explanation
|
||
|
|
He's gonna have to get into private stuff and stuff that's none of my business
|
||
|
|
So if he's if he's on the show just make it clear that we're not gonna talk about the
|
||
|
|
work of and the
|
||
|
|
Indiegogo stuff
|
||
|
|
You know that's that's just my feeling. I mean, I'm I'm curious
|
||
|
|
But you know, I can I can understand myself well enough to think well I'm curious because it's like hey
|
||
|
|
I'd like to find out the inside scoop about stuff and you know a lot of times the inside scoop is like I said none of my business
|
||
|
|
So well, I mean the main reason I asked the question that wasn't to like you said the put him on the spot
|
||
|
|
Is do we want to make that part of our show? I mean, we never really discussed bringing on
|
||
|
|
You know special guest
|
||
|
|
Is that something we want to do? Well loves hat, you know
|
||
|
|
Uh, yeah, that's a good point clear. Let's be clear. We're not Linux basics. I mean I was like in the other day
|
||
|
|
You know, we're not you know Linux basics tried to keep everything for for new Linux users and it was real hard
|
||
|
|
Because everybody wanted to talk about the new and shiny
|
||
|
|
And you know, it was hard to keep them on top to something help out that the the the newbie user
|
||
|
|
But we're a lug and a lug like we said lug is talk about what worked what didn't work and you know
|
||
|
|
Lugs definitely have guests on
|
||
|
|
Occasionally, you know have speakers in so yeah, I don't think it's at all having problems having Jonathan on and when you first mentioned a chat
|
||
|
|
Sorry, I can't wish her. I thought well, I didn't know about this. I know I want to know more about it
|
||
|
|
But let listening to the audience meet up other than you know me criticizing the way Jonathan handled
|
||
|
|
Like I said, I would I would have done it way
|
||
|
|
Uh, and pointing out there is
|
||
|
|
You know
|
||
|
|
The chatter brought up that
|
||
|
|
That the orca website does have a path to submit patches
|
||
|
|
Uh, and then obviously they don't want to be to do that
|
||
|
|
Uh, you know, that's the only other point. I think I could we could bring out but that wasn't covered in in the
|
||
|
|
In the meet up, so I don't know what we could possibly add now. I mean as far as far as talking Jonathan say
|
||
|
|
No, we're not going to talk about that subject. I don't know if that's necessary if you you know say we
|
||
|
|
Jonathan would just like to have you on and talk about
|
||
|
|
North Eastlitt is fast and if this thing if he brings this thing up well fine
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I think I think having guessed like like you said 50 that's fine because uh, but I mean
|
||
|
|
The love meetings I've been to and it's been you know
|
||
|
|
10 or 12 years since I was at physically out of love meeting the uh, we always had somebody come in and make a presentation
|
||
|
|
And it could have been a love member or it could have been
|
||
|
|
a representative of a
|
||
|
|
commercial company or it could have been you know somebody who's not connected at all with the love
|
||
|
|
I tell you who I would like to interview and and 50 if you you might run this by the KPO people
|
||
|
|
There's the Rochester Institute of Technology announced this week that they are starting up an academic minor program
|
||
|
|
Not a not a major but a minor in free and open-source
|
||
|
|
projects and basically it's coding and and programming is a small part of that
|
||
|
|
But it's actually the the operation of the projects
|
||
|
|
It seems to be what a lot of the
|
||
|
|
Emphasis or focus is in in that minor and I would like to see
|
||
|
|
I would like to hear somebody interviewed from
|
||
|
|
RIT departments that are involved with that as to how they how they develop this what kind of
|
||
|
|
What kind of materials are going to be used in the different classes is there going to be like a clinical program where
|
||
|
|
The students in the in the minor go out and actually get involved with a project and have to
|
||
|
|
you know
|
||
|
|
Percent information make a presentation to the other students in the minor about what their experience was
|
||
|
|
It's just going to be a MOOC where where anybody can sign up for the classes and take them over the web
|
||
|
|
And all these kinds of things have been going through my mind list a couple of days when I saw the
|
||
|
|
The notice on reddit about that. I think it was on reddit where I saw the notice about the
|
||
|
|
So KPO the when you when KPO had that fellow from Penn Manor that was it to me that was far in a way
|
||
|
|
The best KPO I ever listened to and if
|
||
|
|
If you could do something with the Rochester Institute of Technology
|
||
|
|
Faculty that would be excellent in my opinion
|
||
|
|
Yes, I'll see what I do that's in a very interesting. She had the the Penn Manor deal was you know
|
||
|
|
Completely a field for I mean, it's not like we haven't had guests on for
|
||
|
|
You're right, but I I saw those things and I said that you know
|
||
|
|
Well, you got you probably know it was it was me made the context and I am going to get that guy on for
|
||
|
|
Tilt's does good for you
|
||
|
|
And the mar night
|
||
|
|
If he's on I you know him really done as nearly as much formal planning
|
||
|
|
But handsome pirate has been a red hat employee for about six months now
|
||
|
|
And I hit him up two weeks ago at the end of the show if your members
|
||
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I want to have him on have him talk about what it's like to be a red hat employee
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Well, you know, there's things about red hat and there's things about red hat
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And I'm looking to see if I have something that I can drop into the mumble chat about that
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You know, they they sell an awful lot of
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Services to only and security the CIA the NSA the military and
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I you see you see it mentioned every so often, but
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Not an awful lot, but yeah, I bring that up between the three of us
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I would I would never try and ambush and some pirate with questions along those lines
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But I think it's I think it's interesting how you know, there's there's another there's another side to red hat that really doesn't get covered
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Well, he's on arm development side, so I don't I don't really think you would probably be involved in any of that
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So it's a you know arm becoming more and more popular embedded device. You don't eat you don't know sure surely those agencies will be
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But very
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Interested at some point. I mean, I think with everything going to tablets and smartphone where I I think in 10 years
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It may be the closest thing that we have to desktop computer is one of these little arm boxes with with an external
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USB drive plug your TV
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I don't you know, I don't know if the desktop computers we know it has a future or at least if it does it would be incredibly expensive
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You know where where everybody's got one now maybe one out of 10 to one out of 20 people
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Yeah, that that may be true. I haven't I don't know the television set now and last time I owned a TV was
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2007 and that would sit for a couple months
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So I'm really not up on what's happening with televisions
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Well, I think the future there'll be a whole lot of convergence with
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computer monitors and TVs
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I bet it'll come to a point where there really won't be much difference in price
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For that matter, I think for a lot of people's I mean TV now any TV you buy now is is is just a computer
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You just don't you don't have access to
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You know any normal kind of interface, but you know a TV right now is just a computer in the monitor or not
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I think give it a few years there'll be more and more they will you know, they will they will bring out those computer functions
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So instead of people buying two devices their their TV will be there to echo echo echo echo
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I'm sorry. I was trying to see if I had I had some
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Web page opened at one point which was a listing
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I think from redhat.com, but I'm not sure that listed all the
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upcoming conferences or
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Trade shows that they were going to either participate in or have a booths
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Have representatives at and there was an awful lot of
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You know, there's an awful lot of ordinary commercial data big data kind of places, but there was a number of
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Things that might have a different aspect of them spying in that scene
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Yeah, I just opened up the indiegogo thing for
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Jonathan. He raised six thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars of the fifteen thousand and
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I don't know at one point I tried to
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See if some of these places I don't remember if it was Kickstarter or indiegogo to see if there was some kind of way
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You could follow up to see
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with the money is going to and
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one of the places again
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I don't remember if it was Kickstarter or indiegogo there were there was like a
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Comments section and you could ask questions, but whether the
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people at the
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At the fundraising place
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Whether the people that were raising trying to raise the funds would reply which
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You know you kind of hit a remits
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So I don't know if there's a way there for Jonathan to publicize
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On this indiegogo thing what the money is what money he has actually received and what he has
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spent the money on
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I mean, that's my point. It's like you know johnson's always been awful and vicious to the reaching
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You know his goals
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You know and breathe they got to be paid or what 50 grand the year
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At least work on this I can't imagine anybody to less and
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You know, I can't imagine six grand is going to make a significant dent in you know, leaving the
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You know, I divergent version of work and said I think I'd keep parping on this
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But I think you know, it'll be a lot better spent with that list of other pat
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You know the other software that does not play well for doesn't pay a bounty on
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Getting people submit patches of course just because you have somebody work out a patch
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Doesn't it's going to be except because it's accessibility is not high priority obviously for for these other packages or they would work with
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Anyway, I think he's going to be pretty busy between now and
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Beginning of April when knelt
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Actually happened so you know, maybe maybe sometime after knelt was over
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We can ask him to come on that's just that's just thought maybe maybe he's got three time that he would want to dedicate to
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Coming on the podcast, but you certainly given the option to wait until after after knelt
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I think you're right now that would be time, you know, to see how all this is worked out
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You know cuz yet, you know, you want better voices for through orca and six grand. I don't think we get very far on that
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Now there is this other
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There's other project talk about on hbr the South America's like one three something and again
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It sounds like these guys are through their law didn't Jonathan or the other way around but everybody's like no
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This is my project not non-interested cooperated with
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You know somebody else even the same goal especially since the southern project did you know was interested in
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In trying to month, you know, they had they had the preversion and the premium version. They were trying to monitor us
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Did you hear that one shattered was what it was one of the
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Interviews that Kim did they you mean the what you said about the South American and voices. I don't remember
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I don't remember noticing that in any of the thought them interviews. No, I don't think this is far as them
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I think this was this was something else. Let let me see if I can bring up hbr without
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The crashing mumble
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Called at night. All right. Thanks. Thanks for hosting. Thank for being the host
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Did we ever come up with some intro well-true music? I have I haven't neglected that
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I have not looked so we should probably just throw him putting out this episode without
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Well, we could leave it up to the host heaven
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So whoever whoever hosts the next time gets to choose the intro and after of music, which I think is a good
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Good way for me to never be a host, right?
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Yeah, you could you could be our
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Dan you can just
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Click claim the shirt
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Your lousy-tasted music up close you can host it. Well, I'm gonna head out. I'll show you guys later. Night
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