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Episode: 480
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Title: HPR0480: TiT Radio 012 - Happy Halloween
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0480/hpr0480.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 21:27:15
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Happy Halloween and welcome to Tit Radio Episode 12.
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Let's meet our round table of geeks.
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Clot 2.
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Hello everyone.
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Peter 64.
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Yes I am.
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Hazmat.
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Adi Howdy.
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G-Man.
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Hello.
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330.
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Oh well.
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And I'm Monster B.
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And let's dive right into the feedback.
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The first feedback I got was from Terry F.
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I got a private message from him the other day I think.
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I mean he mastered IRC.
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It's just amazing what he can do now.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But he sent me a message.
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He created a new juiced penguin feed.
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So if there's anybody that used to listen,
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because I was having problems downloading the shows.
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Because I guess like, you know, like G-Pider would try to pull down,
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you know, like all their blog posts too.
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Because I guess Randy had all the everything into one feed.
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Oh yeah.
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So Terry created a new feed and I'll go ahead and put that in the show notes.
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And another one, an email I got was from Andy Owen.
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He says he was catching up on some of the older podcast.
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And he was walking home the other day, listening to Tit Radio.
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And people were talking about Hannah Montana Lennox.
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As soon as Peter started singing, his headphones started playing.
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By the time he was done, the right ear of his headphone
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completely stopped working.
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And he says, I think it takes quite some talent to be able to sing so badly
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that equipment is destroyed.
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That he's put respect to Andy.
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Where do you think of that, Peter?
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The only thing I got to say to that Andy is,
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ain't you got no gingerbread?
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Ain't you got no candy?
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Ain't you got no extra fed for me and little Andy?
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That's all I've got once done by you.
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Is that a real time?
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Yeah, it is.
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It's not like Parkinson's.
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I mean, little Andy.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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That's a passby.
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Andy, I can sing worse.
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You might tell me I get a couple of bees, you see me?
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Well, hopefully you broke the other side.
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We did have some other feedback from Cafe Ninja.
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He was listening to us and he said, just his sense worth.
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If you're going to use green, it's a good idea to install the screen profile's package.
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I don't know what that is, but it's probably worth looking up.
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He said he likes to use his H space dash to then the host then screen space dash R.
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Which is actually quite good because I was just hating into my machine
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then running screen in there, but this way it's just automatic.
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You just run that in the terminal and straight away you're in your screen session.
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Oh, of course.
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Yeah.
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I want to say that that is something else that some about has better session connected
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and drop updating since the local TTY isn't being opened.
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And something to that effect.
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So yeah, anyway, that's a good one to know.
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Thanks, Cafe Ninja.
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Anybody else getting a feedback?
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Nope.
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I did get another one, but I'm not going to read it.
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I'm going to do some research on it.
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Somebody with a name, Nikki, with a K.
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And they made a comment about my hair.
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I don't know.
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What's the matter?
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Don't they like mullets?
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Well, I don't have a mullet.
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But I'm going to have to find out if this is real email or not.
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Or if somebody's just goofing around.
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But they do like my hair.
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They see me at it.
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Oh, hi, Lennox.
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Yeah, it's kind of weird.
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All right.
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Anyways, you can send us feedback at titredio.info.
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And you can also post on hackerpublicradio.org.
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And also, we have a thread going over it.
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Ben rev forums and Lennox cranks forums.
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I didn't know we were in the Ben rev forums.
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Yeah, there's a, I guess, I think it's him.
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He, somebody posts every show over there.
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Oh, that's the spider, the little crawler thing.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah, okay.
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But you can definitely leave comments over there.
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Oh, cool.
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Okay.
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And also on the Lennox cranks forum.
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And I'll put the links in the show notes.
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All right, Claud, do you want to start off with the first topic?
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Yeah.
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Have you guys heard about, I mean, you probably have,
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but have you heard about tiny core linux?
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Yeah, I heard about it.
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Never tried it.
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Okay, what do you, what do you believe it is?
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I want to see if I'm the only one who had a misperception of it.
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I thought it was just like a tiny little Lennox distro.
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That was about 10 megabytes.
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Okay, yeah, actually, that's more than I really understood it.
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To be, I thought it was like literally just almost like a really basic kernel image.
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Well, I guess I kind of thought it was a distro.
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But what it is, as it turns out, is it is.
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It's small.
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It's 10 megabytes, little distro.
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You boot up.
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It boots in literally like five seconds or something.
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I mean, it's super fast.
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And then it actually gives you a desktop, a GUI desktop.
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And from this desktop, you can start building up your own little,
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almost a Linux from scratch distribution.
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I mean, except that it's not Linux from scratch, obviously.
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It's a tiny core.
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But I mean, what you do is you can copy, you know, their little boot folder over to your,
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either your USB drive or your hard drive wherever you're installing it.
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I installed it on my triple EPC just for kicks.
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I wanted the cards in there.
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And then you set up grubs.
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And they have this little repository that they maintain,
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filled with what are called tiny core extensions, TCEs.
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Or actually, I think, now it's TCEs, but I was using an older version of tiny core.
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And these are little packages, a little bit like the Slack modules,
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if you've ever looked into running Slacks, how they have their little modules
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that you can install for extra applications.
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They're a little bit like that.
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They're basically self-contained, tar.gz,
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little, I guess, self-contained binaries of the applications that you might want to run on your computer.
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And those go into one directory.
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And your little core Linux distribution is in another directory.
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And then you can redirect it.
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You can say, okay, I want the core of the OS to be on this partition,
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and then my home to be over here, so you can have a persistent home,
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or you can have your extension directory somewhere else,
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so that it can be, you know, when you install applications,
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after you reboot, you don't lose all those applications.
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And there are all kinds of little extensions.
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They have the Atharose drivers for the Wi-Fi stuff.
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They've got the, I mean, they've just got everything, you know, GCC.
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Well, I don't know if they have GCC,
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but they've got a lot of new utilities and stuff like that.
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So basically, TinyCore is a busy box installed, I guess,
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with a GUI desktop.
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You can install like FluxBox extension,
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so you can boot into FluxBox,
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or what they call hacked box,
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which is like FluxBox with some open box extras included into it somehow.
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That's what I'm running right now.
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And just all kinds of cool things.
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And writing your own extensions is even that hard, actually.
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It's a little bit like a Slack build in that you just basically,
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you compile the application that you want,
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but you compile it into a separate, you know,
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a different destination directory.
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It's a destination, DUR equals whatever.
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Now, then you move the documentation over and stuff like that,
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and then you just tar it and zip it up,
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and call it dot TCZ,
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and drop it into your little extension directory,
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and next time you boot up TinyCore,
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you now have that application installed in your path,
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and you just type it in and start running it.
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So, a lot of cool little applications in their repo right now,
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and a really, really fast boot time,
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and everything just works really, really fast,
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as you can imagine, because the thing is tiny.
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And at least on the triple EPC,
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it's unbelievable how it just out of the box,
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and everything just kind of like,
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I mean, not everything just worked,
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but it was really easy getting everything installed,
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so that it worked really promptly,
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including the resolution of the screen and everything.
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It was really easy to adjust and stuff like that.
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It's really, really cool.
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Lots of fun to play around with.
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And a 10 megabyte download,
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I mean, that's almost can't help but play around with it.
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I mean, it's like 10 megabytes.
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I've downloaded podcasts that are like five times that size,
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and just download it, try it out, it's really fun.
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So, what do you think of the Window Manager?
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I like it a lot.
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Like I said, oh, you mean the default one?
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Yeah, I think it's called the Fast Light Window Manager, FL.
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The Fast Light Toolkit is what it's using,
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and it does its job.
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It's got a nice little pretty dock down at the bottom.
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I don't care much for that much.
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I switched over to hacked box almost immediately,
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but nothing's wrong with it.
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I mean, it's definitely functional and everything.
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It didn't do anything for me,
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so I just switched over to hacked box.
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Okay, that's a new one, Ami.
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What did you say it was hacked box?
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Yeah, it's basically flux box with some,
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I think basically with open box pieces hacked into it somehow.
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I don't know enough about open box still to be able to tell you,
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you know, what exactly the difference is.
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I haven't gotten around to configuring flux box enough
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to really notice that anything's noticefully different
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than my other flux box installs,
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so not really sure.
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Mainly right now, I've just been playing around with writing some of the extensions
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for some of the packages that they don't have,
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notably EMAX and IRS as I.
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They don't have extensions for either of those two,
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so I'm trying to hack an install script for that,
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and just trying to configure my environment.
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I mean, this is what's so cool, you know,
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because I was looking at all these little,
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I was looking at flip-tas,
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you remember that one, right, Monster Reef?
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Oh, yeah.
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That was a cool one,
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but I was thinking I couldn't solve that,
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but you know, everything I was looking at
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had just like one or two little applications
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that I didn't want or just had the wrong set of applications,
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you know, like Woolfix I was really enjoying,
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but it had all these GNOME apps that I've just not used to.
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I'm like, what I really want is either,
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you know, just like the things I'm used to
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and either KDE but without KDE or the stuff
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that I'm used to and enlightenment or, you know,
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just whatever,
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so it's really a cool way to just build up your own,
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quickly build up your own little custom distro.
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I mean, it's not really that hard,
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it's just plugging in basically modules
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that other people have written.
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I mean, it's a lot like,
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it sells a lot like slacks in that sense,
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except I perceived that it's a lot easier,
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for me it was a lot easier to customize
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because it's just so bare bones from the very beginning,
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you know, I mean, even slacks has KDE 3,
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you know, I mean, if you don't want that,
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then you have to spend all this time
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pulling out KDE 3 and trying to make that persistent
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and then putting in the module of the thing that you actually want
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with TinyCore,
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the only the base install is persistent,
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and you can just do whatever you want to
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in your little extension directory and your home directory,
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so it's really, really nice.
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So the one weirdness of it is that it doesn't have
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that traditional kind of user and super user feel to it
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because, you know, I don't know if this is a function of busybox
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or just being a persistent like live OS,
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but you don't really go in and add user blah, blah, blah,
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you know, you're just kind of like this user
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and all you have to do to type in, you know,
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to get root access as you say pseudo, you know, whatever.
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And there's no, there's not really a password,
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so I'm working on trying to figure out
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what's up with all that stuff
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and having to read up on whether that's
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because of the live OS or because it's busybox.
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So, but aside from that, it's really fun to play around with.
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I highly recommend you look at it.
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Like I say, it's 10 megabytes.
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I mean, you can't, it's almost like ridiculous not to look at it.
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It's just really neat.
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Right, you can't go wrong with 10 megabytes.
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Yeah, I mean, it took me no time.
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I mean, literally I had it on my hard drive, you know,
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the time less than it takes me to download most of the podcasts that I listen to.
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You know what I mean?
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It's just such a quick download.
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Sparing it to a CD or whatever,
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boot into it and just go for it.
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It's really neat.
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You can build it onto a USB drive,
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you can build it onto your hard drive,
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you can build it onto a tiny little
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partition of your hard drive, whatever you want.
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And it's really, really flexible.
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You can put the core OS like on your hard drive
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but then have your home partition on a USB drive, you know,
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or you could have the core OS on a USB drive and your home on your hard drive,
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or your end-your-extensions on something else.
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You know, it's just, it's really, really flexible.
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You just pass certain options in the, in the grub,
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in the kernel line, defining where,
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where the local extension directory is,
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and where the, and where your home directory is,
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and it will bind it to whatever you tell it to bind it to.
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Super easy.
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I mean, literally, it just took me no time to get this thing up and running,
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coming from not knowing even really,
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not really understanding what it was.
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I thought it was something for, for distribution people,
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you know, to take, to take this tiny core,
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make this kernel or something,
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and then do whatever people do with kernels.
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And I didn't understand that it was kind of a,
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really kind of easy sort of simple,
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build up your own environment kind of thing.
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So it's really, really cool.
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And they just, I think they just tonight released 2.5,
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released candidate 2 or 3 or something.
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I'm actually over-inspired.
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See channel right now talking to them about packaging,
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so they seem to be a pretty active,
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little community and stuff.
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That's fair enough.
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And their website's really good.
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Yeah, their website's really good.
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It's got lots of tutorials on it and stuff,
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so, and their Wiki is good.
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Have neat projects.
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Anybody got any questions for Clot 2?
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No, it looks cool.
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I know I saw this all the time,
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but it's just another,
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another example of how you can never ever get bored with this.
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Yeah.
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There's always something to play around with.
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|
Yep.
|
||
|
|
You know?
|
||
|
|
Not the chances are that you'd ever run something like,
|
||
|
|
oh, for me, in particular, it wouldn't run it.
|
||
|
|
But I certainly get on there and have a play with it for a while.
|
||
|
|
But that's something, Clot 2,
|
||
|
|
you can back on the USB,
|
||
|
|
keep in the car when you go to a friend's house, fix their computer.
|
||
|
|
You've got it handy, huh?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, and that way you can only bring along what you know
|
||
|
|
that you need and are familiar with and stuff like that.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, yeah, good stuff.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it's really, really cool.
|
||
|
|
So, speaking of good stuff,
|
||
|
|
how much candy did you get tonight?
|
||
|
|
You went and trick a treating, right?
|
||
|
|
Of course.
|
||
|
|
I went as a human being.
|
||
|
|
So, you changed.
|
||
|
|
You put on your mask.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
You didn't actually let your hair get back to natural color for one night.
|
||
|
|
Well, I dyed it to, like, a brown, you know, for fun.
|
||
|
|
People need to go out.
|
||
|
|
Really good stuff.
|
||
|
|
And speaking of costumes,
|
||
|
|
what are you wearing, Peter?
|
||
|
|
Between that and seven parties.
|
||
|
|
I've just got the napkins taught around more waste.
|
||
|
|
That's it.
|
||
|
|
I think what they'd be.
|
||
|
|
Did anyone have a Windows 7 party?
|
||
|
|
Did anyone know, though?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I mean, I wonder if they were really,
|
||
|
|
really, these parties.
|
||
|
|
I mean, that just seems a little bit odd to me.
|
||
|
|
I think that's it.
|
||
|
|
Well, there were enough of them bake out.
|
||
|
|
They actually turned a guy down.
|
||
|
|
He applied to get the whole kit and everything
|
||
|
|
and they turned him down.
|
||
|
|
I believe when I see it,
|
||
|
|
I think it's all media.
|
||
|
|
Fake stories being leaked into the media
|
||
|
|
by Microsoft Marketing Machine.
|
||
|
|
So, you know,
|
||
|
|
fake stories being leaked into the media
|
||
|
|
by Microsoft Marketing Machine.
|
||
|
|
Well, it just seems so obvious
|
||
|
|
that if you did run Windows,
|
||
|
|
it's just the two-way
|
||
|
|
getting a bloody disc, isn't it?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, really.
|
||
|
|
You'd be stupid if you didn't.
|
||
|
|
Apply for one.
|
||
|
|
They're dumb enough to give them away.
|
||
|
|
I still wouldn't use it.
|
||
|
|
I still wouldn't.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I know, but I mean,
|
||
|
|
plenty of people obviously do.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, they had to get them on and fill out a form, I think.
|
||
|
|
There was much to it, but anyway.
|
||
|
|
I'm sure we'll hear more about
|
||
|
|
the Great Windows 7.
|
||
|
|
Totally off to a good start.
|
||
|
|
I'm kind of like the tilt guys.
|
||
|
|
I didn't really...
|
||
|
|
I mean, I heard a lot about it
|
||
|
|
sort of before it happened,
|
||
|
|
but I really haven't gotten the...
|
||
|
|
I haven't seen the, like,
|
||
|
|
Windows 7, a mind-blowing success,
|
||
|
|
kind of story that I really had expected to see.
|
||
|
|
But maybe those are still, you know,
|
||
|
|
yet to come, I don't know.
|
||
|
|
Are you sure?
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
Look, we're lost here.
|
||
|
|
It's dark.
|
||
|
|
Dark is night, right in the middle of the afternoon.
|
||
|
|
And we've lost the path in that tree.
|
||
|
|
Easy, Clayton.
|
||
|
|
Keep your head, man.
|
||
|
|
I'm getting out of here.
|
||
|
|
I'm not going to stay here and be murdered.
|
||
|
|
Clayton!
|
||
|
|
Stay with us.
|
||
|
|
No, no.
|
||
|
|
I'm going to find a path and get out of here.
|
||
|
|
Clayton, stay here.
|
||
|
|
We'll find a way back.
|
||
|
|
I don't want to stay here and die.
|
||
|
|
I want to get away from this fight.
|
||
|
|
Stop being a fool!
|
||
|
|
Freeze!
|
||
|
|
There's...
|
||
|
|
Anyone heard?
|
||
|
|
I think we talked a little bit about this studio
|
||
|
|
on Crankstown Week.
|
||
|
|
When you had to have an invite?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I think we did.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I think that's how I heard about it.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, well, okay.
|
||
|
|
So, as we know, like,
|
||
|
|
one of the biggest benefits of limits is that
|
||
|
|
you can modify practically anything to see your needs.
|
||
|
|
In fact, that's almost one of the...
|
||
|
|
Well, that is...
|
||
|
|
To me, that's the main foundation
|
||
|
|
that limits is based on why I use it.
|
||
|
|
In this studio, sort of,
|
||
|
|
expands on this and just makes it for anyone,
|
||
|
|
you know, anyone,
|
||
|
|
it's easy for them to do it.
|
||
|
|
And they provide all the online tools
|
||
|
|
that allow you to...
|
||
|
|
just to build your own customized limits distribution.
|
||
|
|
What I did, I jumped on there,
|
||
|
|
and I just wanted to have a play with you.
|
||
|
|
So, I thought what I was going to do was build
|
||
|
|
distribution that had myth already installed,
|
||
|
|
so I could just take it,
|
||
|
|
pop it in any machine,
|
||
|
|
and turn it into a myth-front-end.
|
||
|
|
And I was just so impressed
|
||
|
|
at how easy all that was.
|
||
|
|
But, virtually,
|
||
|
|
well, once were you've used it too,
|
||
|
|
like, when you go to the front screen,
|
||
|
|
and practically just ask your questions,
|
||
|
|
doesn't it?
|
||
|
|
Like, you choose a template,
|
||
|
|
whether you want just,
|
||
|
|
what they call it,
|
||
|
|
a J-E-O-S,
|
||
|
|
just enough OS,
|
||
|
|
which has no window manager
|
||
|
|
or anything like that,
|
||
|
|
or just get you booted to the command line.
|
||
|
|
You can set up a server,
|
||
|
|
text-based server addition,
|
||
|
|
a minimal X,
|
||
|
|
which is the one I used,
|
||
|
|
which uses ice-win,
|
||
|
|
or you can do a GNAME,
|
||
|
|
or K-2-4, or three desktop.
|
||
|
|
So, by just entering one of those questions,
|
||
|
|
that'll get you started,
|
||
|
|
then the challenge is,
|
||
|
|
I suppose, then a package is the absolute bare minimum packages
|
||
|
|
that you need to get that system up and running.
|
||
|
|
And from then on,
|
||
|
|
you start to customize it
|
||
|
|
to do exactly what you want it to do.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, exactly.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Make sure that,
|
||
|
|
if you select that you want on live CD,
|
||
|
|
they take care of all the packages
|
||
|
|
that you would need to do the install.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Now, you mentioned the other day
|
||
|
|
that to do this sort of stuff
|
||
|
|
has been around for a long time.
|
||
|
|
But really, you could do this
|
||
|
|
with any distribution practically.
|
||
|
|
The thing with this
|
||
|
|
has just made it so easy, didn't it?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
You can do kickstart files
|
||
|
|
and Red Hat and Fedora,
|
||
|
|
but, you know, those are just text files.
|
||
|
|
And if you get something wrong,
|
||
|
|
you're going to have to go fix it again.
|
||
|
|
And this makes it super simple to do.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
And that was the other beautiful thing about this,
|
||
|
|
is once you've gone to design your customized distribution,
|
||
|
|
you can then go and test drive it
|
||
|
|
before you even download it.
|
||
|
|
So what you can do after you go through,
|
||
|
|
the other thing I did like about this is
|
||
|
|
you could add external repos.
|
||
|
|
So that way,
|
||
|
|
because I want to miss,
|
||
|
|
which is some part of the actual open source repos,
|
||
|
|
I think would go on to say,
|
||
|
|
I want to put it to Pacman repos,
|
||
|
|
which has a lot of the employer
|
||
|
|
and all the codecs and stuff like that,
|
||
|
|
as part of it.
|
||
|
|
Then I just said,
|
||
|
|
I want to install,
|
||
|
|
have miss TV installed when this thing is built.
|
||
|
|
So it went and pulled out,
|
||
|
|
miss packages off the Pacman repo,
|
||
|
|
put it in my ISO,
|
||
|
|
and then I was able to go and test.
|
||
|
|
Well, you build it,
|
||
|
|
and it's built,
|
||
|
|
I take it online,
|
||
|
|
and then you get to run it in a virtual machine.
|
||
|
|
And then if you're happy with the way it is,
|
||
|
|
then you just go and tell it that you want to
|
||
|
|
build this as a
|
||
|
|
bootable live CD
|
||
|
|
that is capable of an installation,
|
||
|
|
is what I did.
|
||
|
|
Wow.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it really is,
|
||
|
|
I know as much as people don't like,
|
||
|
|
I suppose it's novel they don't like,
|
||
|
|
and opens this to a degrees
|
||
|
|
a little bit different, I suppose.
|
||
|
|
But yeah, it really is a brilliant thing
|
||
|
|
just to go in and have a play with.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, really,
|
||
|
|
you can't get wrong.
|
||
|
|
Even if you didn't know what you were doing,
|
||
|
|
you'd have to be pretty bad to build something
|
||
|
|
and it didn't work.
|
||
|
|
In fact, I don't think you could.
|
||
|
|
So the base install is sort of that just enough
|
||
|
|
to ask where it,
|
||
|
|
I mean, there's no way you're going to build something
|
||
|
|
with like Myth TV,
|
||
|
|
but you forgot to install,
|
||
|
|
you know, like,
|
||
|
|
I don't know,
|
||
|
|
X, you know,
|
||
|
|
something like that, right?
|
||
|
|
I mean, it wouldn't let you do something like that.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's right.
|
||
|
|
It would be no different
|
||
|
|
than if you were running Zeus
|
||
|
|
and you wanted to install Myth TV
|
||
|
|
on that,
|
||
|
|
and you were running all that,
|
||
|
|
the Zypro or did it through Yast.
|
||
|
|
As soon as you told it,
|
||
|
|
you want to install the Myth TV Package.
|
||
|
|
It goes through and does all the dependencies for you.
|
||
|
|
So you couldn't get that wrong.
|
||
|
|
There's only things like that for other repos.
|
||
|
|
Pardon?
|
||
|
|
And you can even pull stuff from other repos.
|
||
|
|
Well, yeah,
|
||
|
|
and you can pass tours.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you can go through,
|
||
|
|
and I'd take it any disc,
|
||
|
|
any repository that opens Zeus users.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Like I said,
|
||
|
|
all the Pakman ones for there,
|
||
|
|
you could have included all the Nvidia Addy drivers
|
||
|
|
if you wanted to,
|
||
|
|
because you could include them
|
||
|
|
when you added repos.
|
||
|
|
I mean,
|
||
|
|
the sky's the limit when it comes to that.
|
||
|
|
Whatever you can do with Zeus,
|
||
|
|
you could just do with Zeus Studio.
|
||
|
|
The only problem I ran into was,
|
||
|
|
when I recently set up my distribution,
|
||
|
|
I wanted auto login,
|
||
|
|
because I was building this
|
||
|
|
is a media distribution.
|
||
|
|
You know, like I said,
|
||
|
|
to turn any computer into a media front end,
|
||
|
|
I also included XBMC in it.
|
||
|
|
I'll get into that a bit later.
|
||
|
|
But I set up for an auto login.
|
||
|
|
So when I logged in,
|
||
|
|
for some reason,
|
||
|
|
in the VM,
|
||
|
|
I couldn't use my keyboard.
|
||
|
|
My mouse was working fine.
|
||
|
|
I had to,
|
||
|
|
and then I logged out,
|
||
|
|
and I came to the,
|
||
|
|
it's the GDM log on screen,
|
||
|
|
it's a little KDM,
|
||
|
|
whatever it uses.
|
||
|
|
And my keyboard worked.
|
||
|
|
Then I logged back in,
|
||
|
|
and sure enough,
|
||
|
|
my keyboard was working in it.
|
||
|
|
And I actually,
|
||
|
|
I mentioned that,
|
||
|
|
because I was talking to him,
|
||
|
|
and I see what I was doing all this.
|
||
|
|
And anyway, I thought,
|
||
|
|
this could be a problem with that VM,
|
||
|
|
whatever it uses for the
|
||
|
|
virtual machine that you tested in.
|
||
|
|
When I actually built it,
|
||
|
|
and tried it on a machine,
|
||
|
|
long behold,
|
||
|
|
exactly the same thing.
|
||
|
|
When it booted into my
|
||
|
|
customized learning distribution,
|
||
|
|
I had no keyboard.
|
||
|
|
I had to get out.
|
||
|
|
Logged back in,
|
||
|
|
and it worked.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, Jay Lindsay found
|
||
|
|
out that that is a problem
|
||
|
|
at the moment.
|
||
|
|
If you use auto log in,
|
||
|
|
it's actually skipping a couple of steps
|
||
|
|
that it should be.
|
||
|
|
That's obviously something
|
||
|
|
that I'll rectify pretty soon.
|
||
|
|
I'd imagine.
|
||
|
|
Because no one uses
|
||
|
|
auto log in on Linux Peter,
|
||
|
|
except you.
|
||
|
|
I'm probably the only one
|
||
|
|
ever found that bug.
|
||
|
|
I mean,
|
||
|
|
oh, people,
|
||
|
|
do that feature?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
But if you can appreciate,
|
||
|
|
if you want to build a multi-medium
|
||
|
|
distribution,
|
||
|
|
that's what you want to do.
|
||
|
|
It's for the booting.
|
||
|
|
And it was great.
|
||
|
|
I could stick it in any
|
||
|
|
laptop, any computer,
|
||
|
|
and it just start
|
||
|
|
myth TV,
|
||
|
|
and it just used that
|
||
|
|
UNP or whatever it might
|
||
|
|
have used,
|
||
|
|
and logged on to my
|
||
|
|
back end,
|
||
|
|
and there you had it.
|
||
|
|
Now, like I said,
|
||
|
|
I did install XBMC as well.
|
||
|
|
However, XBMC needs hardware acceleration
|
||
|
|
to actually run.
|
||
|
|
So that was a bit of a fail.
|
||
|
|
I'd have to, you know,
|
||
|
|
but if I did this again,
|
||
|
|
I'd just include the drivers,
|
||
|
|
the Nvidia,
|
||
|
|
and drivers on the thing
|
||
|
|
or at least include the repays,
|
||
|
|
anyway.
|
||
|
|
Oh, God.
|
||
|
|
Now we use inputit.
|
||
|
|
We're better off
|
||
|
|
by staying together.
|
||
|
|
I don't know,
|
||
|
|
whether we are or not.
|
||
|
|
Listen!
|
||
|
|
It's great.
|
||
|
|
Sounds like he's crangling.
|
||
|
|
Come on!
|
||
|
|
Oh, he couldn't have gotten far.
|
||
|
|
Well, I don't think he had
|
||
|
|
ice cream.
|
||
|
|
I'd take it easy now.
|
||
|
|
Be careful.
|
||
|
|
Oh, there he is.
|
||
|
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
Stitched out on the ground.
|
||
|
|
But I actually tried it too.
|
||
|
|
I made a,
|
||
|
|
just like a minimal,
|
||
|
|
you know, install with fluxbox,
|
||
|
|
and all the KDE4 games,
|
||
|
|
and the ISO was only
|
||
|
|
250 megabytes.
|
||
|
|
You know, the download size?
|
||
|
|
That's cool.
|
||
|
|
I think that's kind of a good way
|
||
|
|
for distributions to minimize,
|
||
|
|
like a lot of a bandwidth usage,
|
||
|
|
you think, you know,
|
||
|
|
let people just decide what they want
|
||
|
|
on their, on their download.
|
||
|
|
But also what you can do with this too.
|
||
|
|
You can upload RPM.
|
||
|
|
So if you create like a custom kernel,
|
||
|
|
or maybe I could custom RPM package,
|
||
|
|
you can upload that.
|
||
|
|
You can change everything about it,
|
||
|
|
like the logo, the boot end screen,
|
||
|
|
the wallpaper.
|
||
|
|
Wow.
|
||
|
|
So you can make it look like your distro.
|
||
|
|
Crazy.
|
||
|
|
That's really cool.
|
||
|
|
I didn't get into all the scripts.
|
||
|
|
Maybe, I don't know, Jalen,
|
||
|
|
could you explain those scripts,
|
||
|
|
what you can do with them?
|
||
|
|
Well, they have an overlay section,
|
||
|
|
where you can upload individual files
|
||
|
|
that you want on the image,
|
||
|
|
which means that you could put
|
||
|
|
your existing configuration files in there.
|
||
|
|
And when you boot up the first time,
|
||
|
|
they're already there.
|
||
|
|
And there's a script section
|
||
|
|
where you can tell it,
|
||
|
|
you want the script to run
|
||
|
|
at the end of the build,
|
||
|
|
or when it boots.
|
||
|
|
And, you know,
|
||
|
|
pretty much anything that you could
|
||
|
|
put in a shell script,
|
||
|
|
you could do it in this.
|
||
|
|
Like, you could add users,
|
||
|
|
copy files around,
|
||
|
|
echo things into configuration files.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it's, I mean,
|
||
|
|
it's really great technology.
|
||
|
|
I mean, I like to see,
|
||
|
|
you know, other distros doing this.
|
||
|
|
It would seem,
|
||
|
|
and I don't know anything about it,
|
||
|
|
but it would seem like,
|
||
|
|
people building distributions
|
||
|
|
are probably using a set of shell scripts
|
||
|
|
to kind of throw all their stuff together.
|
||
|
|
I mean, I'm sure they're not doing it all by hand.
|
||
|
|
And probably what Zeus did
|
||
|
|
was take those scripts
|
||
|
|
that they're using to build their distro,
|
||
|
|
and just kind of like,
|
||
|
|
we can get into a web interface.
|
||
|
|
And so you're just answering questions,
|
||
|
|
and then it's kind of like,
|
||
|
|
running everything that they do anyway.
|
||
|
|
So you'd think that other distributions
|
||
|
|
would have that same kind of workflow
|
||
|
|
that they could in theory
|
||
|
|
link into a web interface.
|
||
|
|
It'd be pretty cool.
|
||
|
|
You couldn't go wrong with this.
|
||
|
|
That's the thing.
|
||
|
|
Even if you'd never done anything like this
|
||
|
|
before which I hadn't,
|
||
|
|
just automated everything for you.
|
||
|
|
And I even went after I made my life CD,
|
||
|
|
I made it so it could be installed
|
||
|
|
and not installed on a computer too,
|
||
|
|
because it just had everything I really needed
|
||
|
|
for that particular computer, really.
|
||
|
|
The only thing I didn't check,
|
||
|
|
which I meant to,
|
||
|
|
was after I built my like Zeus,
|
||
|
|
you know, customized distribution,
|
||
|
|
I didn't check how fast it actually booted
|
||
|
|
compared to actual something,
|
||
|
|
which would have really interested me
|
||
|
|
to see how light it was.
|
||
|
|
There's no way it could be arched.
|
||
|
|
I want to be bloody good too, I tell ya.
|
||
|
|
No, I mean,
|
||
|
|
and when I say how fast I case,
|
||
|
|
it might take 20 seconds.
|
||
|
|
I don't think any modern distribution
|
||
|
|
boots that slave does it.
|
||
|
|
They're all bloody quick these days
|
||
|
|
on the machines we run.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, look,
|
||
|
|
do yourself a favor,
|
||
|
|
and you can go and have a play with it.
|
||
|
|
You do have to sign up for the invitation,
|
||
|
|
but now it's almost instantaneous.
|
||
|
|
As soon as you sign up for it,
|
||
|
|
then you'll get something in your mailbox,
|
||
|
|
some activation card,
|
||
|
|
and you just go there,
|
||
|
|
and on the way you go.
|
||
|
|
Yep, it's worth a look at.
|
||
|
|
You can plus that you can make 32-bit,
|
||
|
|
64-bit,
|
||
|
|
and then you even have a server addition,
|
||
|
|
and you can even pick not only OpenSusa,
|
||
|
|
but Sled,
|
||
|
|
10-11,
|
||
|
|
and I'll put the link in the show notes.
|
||
|
|
Anything else in this one?
|
||
|
|
No, for me.
|
||
|
|
Well, let's move on to Asmeth.
|
||
|
|
Oh, howdy, howdy.
|
||
|
|
This week got to spend most of it
|
||
|
|
trying to get a Mythbox back up,
|
||
|
|
but this was a week
|
||
|
|
that Carmen Koala come out,
|
||
|
|
and they were born too,
|
||
|
|
and I did take enough time out
|
||
|
|
of working on my junk file Mythbox
|
||
|
|
to sample some of the new Ubuntu distro.
|
||
|
|
There's not a whole lot to say about it
|
||
|
|
other than it works.
|
||
|
|
Did some installs that I don't normally do.
|
||
|
|
I did just an online distro upgrade
|
||
|
|
with my MesoNetbook,
|
||
|
|
and the whole thing worked
|
||
|
|
when it got through,
|
||
|
|
which surprised me I was figuring,
|
||
|
|
well, I'll probably end up having to download the ISO
|
||
|
|
and rebuild this thing
|
||
|
|
when I get through,
|
||
|
|
but the distro upgrade worked.
|
||
|
|
It did download a whole bunch of crap though,
|
||
|
|
but that's just what it takes to upgrade
|
||
|
|
from an earlier version.
|
||
|
|
And I also got
|
||
|
|
Ubuntu 9.10,
|
||
|
|
and like I said,
|
||
|
|
it just plain work.
|
||
|
|
No flies it.
|
||
|
|
Anyplace.
|
||
|
|
There are nothing broke anywhere.
|
||
|
|
And this is pretty wide range computers
|
||
|
|
that I've put it on too.
|
||
|
|
Most of my antiques.
|
||
|
|
And that's about all I can say for it.
|
||
|
|
You know, when you don't have problems with it,
|
||
|
|
you kind of run out of conversation fast.
|
||
|
|
Even put it on your server?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's what's running on the server.
|
||
|
|
Rather than the server addition this time,
|
||
|
|
I put Ubuntu.
|
||
|
|
Well, the server's going to go on the shop
|
||
|
|
and I want to, you know,
|
||
|
|
use it as a music
|
||
|
|
and an augcast player too out there.
|
||
|
|
I haven't heard much about it,
|
||
|
|
but I haven't listened to that many podcasts this week
|
||
|
|
about the release.
|
||
|
|
I don't think I think it's about it,
|
||
|
|
but I know a lot of people who were running, you know,
|
||
|
|
it...
|
||
|
|
Well, I think just about everybody's been running,
|
||
|
|
you know, the RC,
|
||
|
|
or the BADES,
|
||
|
|
or the ELFIS,
|
||
|
|
and, you know,
|
||
|
|
and all the way through the development on this thing,
|
||
|
|
while people kept saying,
|
||
|
|
yeah, it just works.
|
||
|
|
We're not having problems.
|
||
|
|
That's really cool.
|
||
|
|
I remember, you know,
|
||
|
|
not two or three releases ago.
|
||
|
|
I remember one that, you know, broke X for a while,
|
||
|
|
or something,
|
||
|
|
and...
|
||
|
|
Oh, hardy, hardy was bad.
|
||
|
|
Everybody but me had problems with it,
|
||
|
|
and I was running the ELFIS,
|
||
|
|
and I just kept upgrading it
|
||
|
|
until I had the full release,
|
||
|
|
and I never had any problems.
|
||
|
|
But everybody else I hear,
|
||
|
|
well, it was all hardware-related issues.
|
||
|
|
I just happened to have the right combination of...
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
...hardware for hardy.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it's really good to hear about a solid, solid release.
|
||
|
|
Is this an LTS one or no?
|
||
|
|
No.
|
||
|
|
The next one is LTS.
|
||
|
|
Is it the next one next spring?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
Anything else?
|
||
|
|
Nothing else for me.
|
||
|
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
Next up, G-Man.
|
||
|
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
We're playing with this thing called
|
||
|
|
Forronics Test Suite,
|
||
|
|
and it is just all kinds of cool.
|
||
|
|
So, basically, they built this thing with PHP 5.
|
||
|
|
It's primarily G-Man line,
|
||
|
|
but you can get the PHP GTK stuff
|
||
|
|
and the graphical interface will let you do the same thing.
|
||
|
|
But pretty much, you run it,
|
||
|
|
and you do list tests,
|
||
|
|
or list suites,
|
||
|
|
and it will tell you
|
||
|
|
the possible tests that you can install.
|
||
|
|
And this thing tests various aspects of the system,
|
||
|
|
and it will later save the results or print them out to you.
|
||
|
|
But the suites,
|
||
|
|
there's specific ones for BSD,
|
||
|
|
and such as that,
|
||
|
|
but you can test, like,
|
||
|
|
ray tracing, 3D rendering,
|
||
|
|
feel right to the file system on the RAM,
|
||
|
|
and do all these speed tests,
|
||
|
|
and they have this cool thing called
|
||
|
|
Forronics Global,
|
||
|
|
where people can upload the results of these benchmarks,
|
||
|
|
and the software itself will do a,
|
||
|
|
it will read the hardware
|
||
|
|
and see what kind of motherboard and processor,
|
||
|
|
and hard drive and everything like that.
|
||
|
|
It'll tell what kind of X version you have,
|
||
|
|
and it uploads all this to the server
|
||
|
|
for everybody to compare their results.
|
||
|
|
It was pretty cool stuff.
|
||
|
|
So, it's just to the gray like that.
|
||
|
|
Was it 3D marks that they used to do in Windows?
|
||
|
|
That sort of stuff?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, exactly.
|
||
|
|
It's going to stress test the video card,
|
||
|
|
and pretty much every piece of the system,
|
||
|
|
they can test with this thing.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that is cool.
|
||
|
|
I've often asked,
|
||
|
|
there's some benchmarking tool for Linux,
|
||
|
|
and I'm getting a bit sick of JLX keys.
|
||
|
|
But...
|
||
|
|
Diligence codems ask IRC
|
||
|
|
if it's the same thing as hard info.
|
||
|
|
I don't know what hard info is.
|
||
|
|
I don't know what he's talking about either.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, when you list the available tests,
|
||
|
|
it'll tell you whether the test is actually 3,
|
||
|
|
or if there's a retail component involved,
|
||
|
|
like Doom 3,
|
||
|
|
you're obviously going to need some kind of retail thing.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I'm looking at the screenshots,
|
||
|
|
and it looks like it,
|
||
|
|
it outputs it to an HTML file,
|
||
|
|
or is that HTML?
|
||
|
|
I was just wondering if you can use it for your own website,
|
||
|
|
like if you're going to do some tests
|
||
|
|
and like different motherboard,
|
||
|
|
could you actually use all this for your website,
|
||
|
|
or do they have like a disclaimer?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I mean,
|
||
|
|
I'll think there's going to be a problem with that.
|
||
|
|
The global thing is just so they can have it all in one spot,
|
||
|
|
so everybody can compare.
|
||
|
|
I'm not sure about the anonymous thing.
|
||
|
|
It asks you,
|
||
|
|
on the first run,
|
||
|
|
it asks you if you want to submit anonymous statistics.
|
||
|
|
I'm not sure what extent they go to.
|
||
|
|
When you look on for Linux Global,
|
||
|
|
there's a bunch of entries marked anonymous,
|
||
|
|
but I don't sure if that's the same thing.
|
||
|
|
Let's say it's already in the community repository on that.
|
||
|
|
It's been ran for a wall in, hasn't it?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I think you probably want to go ahead
|
||
|
|
and get the most up-to-date one you can get.
|
||
|
|
The development one.
|
||
|
|
Because it's available in like Fedora,
|
||
|
|
you can get version 18 something.
|
||
|
|
But you start to run into the problems of links being dead
|
||
|
|
in their scripts.
|
||
|
|
And some of them will start to fail.
|
||
|
|
But if you get the newest one now,
|
||
|
|
those will be up-to-date with the links.
|
||
|
|
Because it's essentially a bunch of shell scripts.
|
||
|
|
It downloads all this to your home directory
|
||
|
|
and runs the scripts that way.
|
||
|
|
Pretty easy to install.
|
||
|
|
Oh yeah, very.
|
||
|
|
If it's not, you can get it in most repos now,
|
||
|
|
but you can grab the development version.
|
||
|
|
It's just an install script.
|
||
|
|
Like you can run it directly from the tarball if you want it.
|
||
|
|
I'm going to wipe till 330.
|
||
|
|
Mike's a package for me to install.
|
||
|
|
It's right, man. Did you hear that?
|
||
|
|
I'm not making any packages for you.
|
||
|
|
You're still welcome.
|
||
|
|
I make you a package.
|
||
|
|
It'll be ticking, sir.
|
||
|
|
So what kind of package do 330 make?
|
||
|
|
It was a present.
|
||
|
|
I wrapped it.
|
||
|
|
I put a bow on it.
|
||
|
|
It was pretty.
|
||
|
|
I forgot you guys mentioned it,
|
||
|
|
but I already forgot what he made.
|
||
|
|
No comment.
|
||
|
|
Oh, I said enough yesterday.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I felt bad.
|
||
|
|
I felt bad.
|
||
|
|
Completely.
|
||
|
|
It, my neck,
|
||
|
|
until the blood was flowing freely,
|
||
|
|
and then she,
|
||
|
|
a leadership,
|
||
|
|
sucked at it,
|
||
|
|
and swallowed it.
|
||
|
|
I'm alive.
|
||
|
|
I'm alive.
|
||
|
|
My daughter speaks truth, sir.
|
||
|
|
She has never lied in all these years.
|
||
|
|
So what's your story 330?
|
||
|
|
How to make our PM packages?
|
||
|
|
Well, actually,
|
||
|
|
I have a dilemma here.
|
||
|
|
Do we want to hear about how
|
||
|
|
Adobe is pushing for flat and PDF
|
||
|
|
in our new open government?
|
||
|
|
Or do we want to hear more about
|
||
|
|
the laptops that they're giving
|
||
|
|
to Australian kids that are spying on them?
|
||
|
|
Talk about the Australian thing, 330.
|
||
|
|
If anything, I saw there was,
|
||
|
|
it was a while back.
|
||
|
|
They were talking about this back in March,
|
||
|
|
but I haven't heard anything about it,
|
||
|
|
but I may not have a kid in college,
|
||
|
|
or you know, and I would say,
|
||
|
|
no, talk about that.
|
||
|
|
That's interesting what they're going to do
|
||
|
|
with that monitoring software and stuff on it.
|
||
|
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
We have one vote for Australian story.
|
||
|
|
I really don't care about Australian stories.
|
||
|
|
They have no application to my life,
|
||
|
|
so go with the other one.
|
||
|
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
We're at one and one.
|
||
|
|
I just want you to speak up so I can hear you.
|
||
|
|
I'm sorry.
|
||
|
|
We're at one and one.
|
||
|
|
Tom, what's sound bright and draw-wise?
|
||
|
|
I'm going to say the laptop story
|
||
|
|
because Peter's bigger than Clot 2.
|
||
|
|
Well, one's the second story.
|
||
|
|
I must admit I didn't hear the second story.
|
||
|
|
I forget.
|
||
|
|
I don't know.
|
||
|
|
Talk about them, bud.
|
||
|
|
Let's talk about them.
|
||
|
|
Talk about them.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, do something about them.
|
||
|
|
Well, I didn't want to joke it
|
||
|
|
and have a whole bunch of stories.
|
||
|
|
That's true.
|
||
|
|
No, go for Australia.
|
||
|
|
I'm all about that.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
And Australia, they're giving these,
|
||
|
|
there's the loan.
|
||
|
|
It'd be great if I could talk now.
|
||
|
|
The Lenovo ID had S10E.
|
||
|
|
It's a netbook that they're shipping
|
||
|
|
with Windows 7 on it.
|
||
|
|
And what they've done is they're specifically
|
||
|
|
made by Lenovo for school kids and their teachers
|
||
|
|
because in Australia they gave the teachers
|
||
|
|
and the kids the same laptop.
|
||
|
|
But they've put in innovative technologies, quote unquote,
|
||
|
|
that they have advanced network security
|
||
|
|
and remote manageability tools,
|
||
|
|
which means that they can watch,
|
||
|
|
they can look at the content that you're serving on the internet
|
||
|
|
and they can disable it remotely at any time.
|
||
|
|
And they also put RFID tagging in it,
|
||
|
|
which means that if the laptop was lost or stolen
|
||
|
|
or otherwise destroyed,
|
||
|
|
they would still be able to find it
|
||
|
|
because RFID chips are pretty resilient to,
|
||
|
|
I think, everything but a microwave.
|
||
|
|
Even if you took it and pitched it in the river,
|
||
|
|
they could still find it.
|
||
|
|
Hey, just run it to the microwave first.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, but then you're destroying school property,
|
||
|
|
which could be an issue.
|
||
|
|
But one of the things that I'm seeing is, you know,
|
||
|
|
RFID isn't that hard to track.
|
||
|
|
I mean, it's kind of what it's made for.
|
||
|
|
So, you know, we can go into, you know,
|
||
|
|
paranoid parent mode here and go,
|
||
|
|
well, what about the pedophile
|
||
|
|
that gets himself an RFID reader
|
||
|
|
and starts tracking kids around
|
||
|
|
or the simple fact that you don't need to spy
|
||
|
|
on your damn kids all the time.
|
||
|
|
Hey, that's a parent's job.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I still reckon that parents
|
||
|
|
are going to type responsibility
|
||
|
|
for what their kids are doing.
|
||
|
|
And that's nice, not just what they're doing
|
||
|
|
on their bloody computer, either.
|
||
|
|
I'm all school when it comes to that,
|
||
|
|
so the stuff on the front.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, and just take your kid down
|
||
|
|
to the dinner table and ask him what they did.
|
||
|
|
I mean, you put a student in front of a kid
|
||
|
|
and they'll start telling you the truth.
|
||
|
|
It's crazy.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, just being involved.
|
||
|
|
Getting involved in what they're doing.
|
||
|
|
I don't think so, but I'll soon have
|
||
|
|
a blog post up on something kind of techy,
|
||
|
|
teaching kids how to get around this
|
||
|
|
by using Linux off of a thumb drive.
|
||
|
|
I'd have to look at the hardware specs
|
||
|
|
more because I think they all have
|
||
|
|
Broadcom wireless chips in them.
|
||
|
|
Well, my name is supported, aren't I?
|
||
|
|
These days?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I have to make sure that that one is
|
||
|
|
or go them all how to go immediately
|
||
|
|
and install the driver.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I think just, you know,
|
||
|
|
booting just about any live distro
|
||
|
|
with a persistent directory in it
|
||
|
|
and they'll be good, you know,
|
||
|
|
your public.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, there's a way around the Broadcom, too.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, as long as you're going to run a live distro
|
||
|
|
off a USB, we'll use another USB port.
|
||
|
|
Plug another...
|
||
|
|
Plug a different Wi-Fi card in.
|
||
|
|
Plug a different Wi-Fi card in.
|
||
|
|
One that you know will work.
|
||
|
|
I'm sure on top of giving these kids these laptops,
|
||
|
|
they've got to be giving them thumb drives
|
||
|
|
and all that crap.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, they probably...
|
||
|
|
I mean, what kid doesn't have a thumb drive at this point?
|
||
|
|
So, they've already got everything at their disposal.
|
||
|
|
They just need to put all the things in the right order.
|
||
|
|
Stay in the...
|
||
|
|
The other story is more US-centric.
|
||
|
|
So, Claw2 can, you know, feel relevant.
|
||
|
|
But, um, the Obama administration
|
||
|
|
has made transparent and public access
|
||
|
|
to government information priority bullshit.
|
||
|
|
But, uh, Adobe is trying to weasel its way in.
|
||
|
|
Uh, they have a...
|
||
|
|
The Adobe opens up website,
|
||
|
|
which is Adobe.com slash opengov,
|
||
|
|
where they're trying to convince people that flash and PDF
|
||
|
|
need to be a part of this open and transparent government thing.
|
||
|
|
The only problem is the entire website's in flash.
|
||
|
|
No, everything.
|
||
|
|
You can't select text.
|
||
|
|
You can't search it.
|
||
|
|
You can't run scripts against it.
|
||
|
|
You can't copy it.
|
||
|
|
You can't do anything.
|
||
|
|
Hold on, I want to try to get to that side.
|
||
|
|
I just want to see it not work.
|
||
|
|
What is it?
|
||
|
|
Adobe.com slash opengov.
|
||
|
|
Opengov.
|
||
|
|
It's done.
|
||
|
|
It's done.
|
||
|
|
Nothing.
|
||
|
|
Absolutely nothing.
|
||
|
|
So, you know, in their...
|
||
|
|
They're open and transparent and, you know,
|
||
|
|
you know, lovey-dovey.
|
||
|
|
You know, let's be happy and nice and play with everyone.
|
||
|
|
If you're blind, you're screwed.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
You know, if you don't run flash or any of this stuff
|
||
|
|
because of, you know, free software ideals, you're screwed.
|
||
|
|
I mean, I don't mind PDF except for the fact that it's not a very good
|
||
|
|
format for being transparent.
|
||
|
|
I mean, you know, it's kind of a pain in the rear to
|
||
|
|
get PDFs to behave in screen readers and the such.
|
||
|
|
You know, just good old fashioned text documents
|
||
|
|
would probably be a better solution.
|
||
|
|
But I think this kind of shows the,
|
||
|
|
the uselessness of the word open at this point.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, well, that is funny.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that site is useless.
|
||
|
|
It's like a grayish thing.
|
||
|
|
And actually, if I try to go to, like,
|
||
|
|
open those flash index about HTML,
|
||
|
|
it just threatens to crash conquerer entirely.
|
||
|
|
So, yeah, wow, funny.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I mean, you can't increase the text size.
|
||
|
|
You can't decrease it.
|
||
|
|
You can't change the font.
|
||
|
|
You can't do anything to it.
|
||
|
|
I think it's a brilliant point, though.
|
||
|
|
We should tell, I'm going to tell all my blind friends to go to that site.
|
||
|
|
I'm going to, and I'm going to do it sarcastically.
|
||
|
|
And I'm going to be like,
|
||
|
|
that's a really great initiative.
|
||
|
|
It's great.
|
||
|
|
Adobe is really opening up.
|
||
|
|
Just go to Adobe.com slash opengov.
|
||
|
|
And then when they start to lose their mind,
|
||
|
|
they have them write a letter to both the president and to Adobe.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, maybe help them edit it.
|
||
|
|
You know, remove all the swear words and the...
|
||
|
|
Yeah, exactly.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's pretty funny.
|
||
|
|
I'm actually really curious now as to what their site could possibly say,
|
||
|
|
but I guess I'll never know,
|
||
|
|
because I'm not going to really bother,
|
||
|
|
and I'm not curious enough to install Flash.
|
||
|
|
Well, in the story, there's a little bit of some of it,
|
||
|
|
but no one was really interested in talking about what the site actually said,
|
||
|
|
because of the obvious and unmistakable irony that was it being completely in Flash.
|
||
|
|
And there's a group of web developers and designers called Sunlight Labs,
|
||
|
|
which is a...
|
||
|
|
It's like an EFF of web coders that kind of ripped this thing apart
|
||
|
|
in a absolutely hilarious and psychotic way.
|
||
|
|
What's the name of the group again?
|
||
|
|
Sunlight Labs.
|
||
|
|
Sunlight Labs.com.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
All right, some good finds, 330.
|
||
|
|
You guys ready for the commands of the week?
|
||
|
|
Yep.
|
||
|
|
All right, glad to.
|
||
|
|
Oh, I'm first, okay.
|
||
|
|
Well, this is pretty easy,
|
||
|
|
and hopefully not everyone knows it yet.
|
||
|
|
It's just something I've been noticing a lot lately
|
||
|
|
because I've been playing around, like I said, those Slack build scripts
|
||
|
|
and the little tiny core Linux scripts.
|
||
|
|
It's a...
|
||
|
|
Everyone knows the make-der command, right?
|
||
|
|
Mkdir, of course, to make a new directory.
|
||
|
|
But did you know that you could do a make-der dash p as an parent?
|
||
|
|
And then you can say, okay, so I want to make...
|
||
|
|
I want to make, you know, like a podcast directory,
|
||
|
|
and in podcasts, I want there to be a Linux cranks directory,
|
||
|
|
and then in Linux cranks, I also want there to be a TIT radio directory.
|
||
|
|
So what you can do is say make-der dash p dot slash podcast slash Linux cranks slash TIT radio.
|
||
|
|
And it will make each...
|
||
|
|
You know, it will make all those directories,
|
||
|
|
even though so far there's not a podcast,
|
||
|
|
there's not yet a Linux cranks that will make those two,
|
||
|
|
and it will make that TIT radio directory.
|
||
|
|
So you've got instead of saying make-der podcasts,
|
||
|
|
and then seeding into podcasts,
|
||
|
|
and make-der Linux cranks,
|
||
|
|
and then seeding into Linux cranks,
|
||
|
|
and make-der TIT radio.
|
||
|
|
So make-der dash p will make the directory that you want to make
|
||
|
|
plus all the directories that need to be made
|
||
|
|
in order to lead up to it, if that makes sense.
|
||
|
|
Guys, that gave me a headache.
|
||
|
|
Can you put that in the IRC where I can see it?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I probably just didn't do a very good explanation.
|
||
|
|
So...
|
||
|
|
No, it was a good explanation.
|
||
|
|
It was just what you put a switch and then some flashes after it.
|
||
|
|
We all kind of blazed over.
|
||
|
|
Sorry.
|
||
|
|
Just so people know, with the command of the week,
|
||
|
|
if you get out of the Linux cranks forum,
|
||
|
|
all the commands with either a bit of the main page
|
||
|
|
or just a national nation of what's happening with them,
|
||
|
|
you'll find them over there.
|
||
|
|
One of the threads, what did we call it?
|
||
|
|
I think it was just called CARE,
|
||
|
|
or for me that I like, or something?
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
So for people who sort of miss it,
|
||
|
|
but would like to know, go over there and have a look.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, there'd be a link to that in the show notes too.
|
||
|
|
And thank you, Quattu.
|
||
|
|
I can see what you're talking about now,
|
||
|
|
but that will make all the whole directory chain.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, yeah.
|
||
|
|
It's pretty cool.
|
||
|
|
Yes, that is cool.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
It saves me a lot of time.
|
||
|
|
I used to make the directory, and then I'd change directory.
|
||
|
|
Make the next one.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
This is the way to do it.
|
||
|
|
Very nice.
|
||
|
|
What do you got for us, Peter?
|
||
|
|
Unfortunately, if you don't run CARE or Conqueror
|
||
|
|
to be more specific, you won't get much out of this one.
|
||
|
|
But I know a lot of people who do run Conqueror
|
||
|
|
just either click on the icon or type Conqueror
|
||
|
|
in the terminal or whatever.
|
||
|
|
But that typically just opens it up, I think, in the webpage view.
|
||
|
|
I'm not quite sure, because it's been long time since I've started that way.
|
||
|
|
But if you start it with KFM client,
|
||
|
|
then space open, say, profile,
|
||
|
|
and profiles with the capital P, that's all one word, profile,
|
||
|
|
then you can either open it up straight in its file management view
|
||
|
|
or the web browsing view, or if you go to the trouble
|
||
|
|
to set up your own profiles and name them,
|
||
|
|
for instance, I just have one that I've called Peter,
|
||
|
|
which opens up in the file manager view,
|
||
|
|
but with split windows in the two directories
|
||
|
|
that I want to move files, typically the most,
|
||
|
|
which is from my missbox to any of my other computers.
|
||
|
|
So that's very easy to do.
|
||
|
|
Once you get to go into Conqueror,
|
||
|
|
set up, you get it set up the way you want,
|
||
|
|
then you just go up to the settings, I think it is,
|
||
|
|
and say, save profile, call it whatever you want,
|
||
|
|
then simply when you get to start it,
|
||
|
|
instead of opening Conqueror and type and Conqueror,
|
||
|
|
whatever, just type KFM client, space open,
|
||
|
|
profile, whatever you call it, too easy.
|
||
|
|
The other thing you can also do, I think,
|
||
|
|
is do open URL,
|
||
|
|
and then type the URL in there,
|
||
|
|
and open up on that particular webpage.
|
||
|
|
There's quite a few things you can do with it.
|
||
|
|
Because that's the web page, too,
|
||
|
|
it can be a location on your system.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's right, you're fine.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's right, in your directory.
|
||
|
|
So that's exactly right.
|
||
|
|
It really is handy, but the other thing,
|
||
|
|
the reason I like it the most, obviously,
|
||
|
|
and I imagine you can do this in Conqueror in KDE,
|
||
|
|
is when you set up shortcut keys,
|
||
|
|
like I'll just have Alt Zed,
|
||
|
|
because they're right there,
|
||
|
|
so they're the two creatures to hit,
|
||
|
|
because typically it's what I use the most,
|
||
|
|
to open up the file manager view,
|
||
|
|
then I set up another profile,
|
||
|
|
which I just associate with the keys Alt X,
|
||
|
|
and you just go through and do that.
|
||
|
|
And after a while, you just don't even think about it,
|
||
|
|
and you just hit him in the next minute Conqueror's pop up,
|
||
|
|
and open the way, exactly the way you want it.
|
||
|
|
It's just too easy.
|
||
|
|
And for people who use Name,
|
||
|
|
do yourself a favor,
|
||
|
|
and piss off Nautilus,
|
||
|
|
and start using Conqueror.
|
||
|
|
So there you go.
|
||
|
|
The profile is stored.
|
||
|
|
I don't think there's that many anyway.
|
||
|
|
I think there's only file management,
|
||
|
|
and you are real, I think.
|
||
|
|
But there in your home directory,
|
||
|
|
.KDE4,
|
||
|
|
4-slash-air,
|
||
|
|
4-slash-apps,
|
||
|
|
4-slash-conquer,
|
||
|
|
4-slash-profiles,
|
||
|
|
if you want to know where they're stored,
|
||
|
|
and go and have a look at them.
|
||
|
|
Well, web browsing is the other one that's in there.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it's web browsing file manager.
|
||
|
|
I thought they had a split view,
|
||
|
|
but I could be wrong.
|
||
|
|
There's KDE development.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, there's Midnight Commander.
|
||
|
|
That's the thing.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's right.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it's a few web browsing.
|
||
|
|
It's like five, you're right.
|
||
|
|
By default, anyway.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
But like I said,
|
||
|
|
take the time,
|
||
|
|
set up specific ones that you want,
|
||
|
|
and all of a sudden Conqueror becomes that much better.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, combine with the keyboard shortcuts,
|
||
|
|
like you said.
|
||
|
|
That's pretty cool,
|
||
|
|
because you can just...
|
||
|
|
I've got my meta,
|
||
|
|
and you know,
|
||
|
|
whatever letter
|
||
|
|
assigned to all kinds of different things.
|
||
|
|
It's really fast.
|
||
|
|
I don't know how easy it is to set those up, you know.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you wouldn't think it'd be very hard.
|
||
|
|
Surely.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, K,
|
||
|
|
if I'm client good,
|
||
|
|
that's a good one.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, of course,
|
||
|
|
if you do run those things in a terminal,
|
||
|
|
once you run them,
|
||
|
|
they're in your history,
|
||
|
|
and I'm sure there's a very simple way
|
||
|
|
to get back through your history
|
||
|
|
and run them again
|
||
|
|
without having the type at all.
|
||
|
|
Would that be right most of it?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you can just type history
|
||
|
|
and grab what you're looking for,
|
||
|
|
and then just hit the explanation point,
|
||
|
|
and with the number that it outputs
|
||
|
|
to the left of it.
|
||
|
|
It was easy, you know.
|
||
|
|
Wait, what if that I heard that tip before
|
||
|
|
and I didn't ever get it?
|
||
|
|
So it's history,
|
||
|
|
and then you grab whatever you want.
|
||
|
|
And then it's going to output it,
|
||
|
|
and there's going to be a number to the left of it.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
And it's going to type in the explanation point
|
||
|
|
in that number,
|
||
|
|
and then start that command again.
|
||
|
|
Nice.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
And you can also use a string
|
||
|
|
after the explanation.
|
||
|
|
Like if you put
|
||
|
|
a bang SSH,
|
||
|
|
it's going to run the last command
|
||
|
|
to start with the SSH.
|
||
|
|
Oh, cool.
|
||
|
|
So it control R in hash.
|
||
|
|
And since we're talking about history,
|
||
|
|
that was my command of the week.
|
||
|
|
Not actually history,
|
||
|
|
but just like a little tip for it.
|
||
|
|
You can add a history time format
|
||
|
|
to your output.
|
||
|
|
It's a, see, real quick.
|
||
|
|
I'll pull it up here.
|
||
|
|
It's export history time format,
|
||
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and then just like a regular date type format.
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And you can,
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you can add,
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I'll put this in the show notes
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because it's hard to explain.
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But you can add this to your,
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your bash RC,
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or you can,
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or you can make it global
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and add it to your Etsy slash profile.
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So it works on all the users.
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You can actually type that in.
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Now it will,
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it'll start working.
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I mean, when you read,
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log in,
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it won't be there unless you add it to your bash RC,
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or your profile.
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Wow.
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That is really cool.
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I did not,
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I've never seen that before.
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I like that.
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I just posted an example of mine.
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Oh, I wanted to make sample of Moe.
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I got in trouble doing that last night.
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But you can get the, you know,
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the date code,
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you know, for the time format,
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you can just do like a man date.
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That doesn't, that sounds like some 330 would say.
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But you can type in man date.
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And you can see all the different time formats.
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You know, if you don't want the seconds on there,
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or if you don't want the month or the year.
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All right.
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And what's your command of the week, J-Man?
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Mine is a very simple command,
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but also very useful.
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It's L-S-O-F.
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And if you just type it by itself,
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it's going to list every open file on the system.
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And you can give it a path.
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You can say what program has this particular file open right now,
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which could help you if you couldn't unmount a device, maybe.
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And it does suck it.
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You can do dash I-T-C-P.
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And it will tell you all the TCP connections.
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So, pretty cool.
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Wow.
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That's just cool.
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I have a lot of stuff open.
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I had to pipe the L-S command to that one to see everything.
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It really gives you an idea of what's going on on your system, actually.
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It's a really interesting look at.
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All right.
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That was a bunch of cool commands.
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I just noticed in the chatroom,
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330 said Nodless is shit.
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I thought he was a big fan of Nodless.
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I thought he was all about Nodless all the time.
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But what I heard.
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I thought once you know how to build out the impackages,
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you mature enough to say goodbye to Nodless.
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Yeah.
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So, if anybody wants to know what kind of package he made,
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just drop into the Linux Cranks IRC on FreeNode and ask 330.
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Is there a place you can download it?
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Not yet.
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I've got to put it up somewhere for when I reinstall.
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But since you guys are making fun of me,
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I'll go ahead and tell everybody how to do it since it's a command.
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And it'll be the first time I've done a command of a week, I think.
|
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Just being a recent convert to Fedora,
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I didn't know any of this shit was possible.
|
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|
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Because I had been under the assumption for years that people that used
|
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RPM-based systems were either retarded or just didn't know better.
|
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Because no one had told me that this existed.
|
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But if you take a source RPM,
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which I'm still not exactly sure why they exist,
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because all it is is the source code and a spec file.
|
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But I'm sure that I'll get an email about why they exist.
|
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And I'll still be confused because I'm still a huge RPM noob.
|
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|
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But there's this thing called RPM build.
|
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And if you do RPM build space, dash, dash, rebuild,
|
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and then the package name dot source dot RPM,
|
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it'll spit out just a regular RPM.
|
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It's often like that.
|
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|
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What does it say? It says,
|
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|
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I mean, what does it name it?
|
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|
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Does it say I 586 or something?
|
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|
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Yeah, that's what mine spit out.
|
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|
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Okay, yeah, that's pretty cool.
|
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|
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Yeah, you can do a similar thing in Debian when you're compiling.
|
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|
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If you do check install instead of make install,
|
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|
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and it'll go through and do all the dependencies,
|
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|
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you know, tell you all your dependencies that you need,
|
||
|
|
and then spit out a dev package,
|
||
|
|
which is actually kind of nice when you're building something
|
||
|
|
for someone who has no idea how to compile software.
|
||
|
|
And you're like, dude, just hold on, I'll do it,
|
||
|
|
and you can download this.
|
||
|
|
But yeah, I was excited because I actually got something
|
||
|
|
to work the first time playing with it in Fedora.
|
||
|
|
So I was over excited about my minor achievement.
|
||
|
|
And it can't be overexcited about your own achievement.
|
||
|
|
It's cool, it's really neat.
|
||
|
|
Well, I get excited that I put pants on every day too.
|
||
|
|
Okay, you're right, you can't get too excited.
|
||
|
|
That's a mere achievement.
|
||
|
|
But I put them on myself.
|
||
|
|
I mean, there were two legs.
|
||
|
|
I mean, come on.
|
||
|
|
Give me a break here, all right?
|
||
|
|
Well, I've been doing it for like 24 years,
|
||
|
|
and it's not a big deal.
|
||
|
|
Except for it is, it's a huge deal.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that was my minor achievement of the week
|
||
|
|
and full thing that I did.
|
||
|
|
And if anyone needs an RPM for BT scanner,
|
||
|
|
they should just email me because I've got one.
|
||
|
|
Actually, I wouldn't mind getting that 330.
|
||
|
|
Count building a bloody self-cloud to you,
|
||
|
|
not having that.
|
||
|
|
That'd be so lazy.
|
||
|
|
Well, I think, didn't you say that it was hard to find that
|
||
|
|
source RPM 330?
|
||
|
|
It was kind of a pain.
|
||
|
|
It was in a way off the beaten path.
|
||
|
|
I actually didn't find the source RPM.
|
||
|
|
Somebody in Hash Fedora did.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, so it doesn't sound like it's just like
|
||
|
|
sitting around necessarily.
|
||
|
|
I mean, I'm sure I could find it,
|
||
|
|
but I mean, if you've got it,
|
||
|
|
it would be kind of easy to just grab it from you.
|
||
|
|
Then I'll be hosting the RPM that I built,
|
||
|
|
you know, my minor achievement and all.
|
||
|
|
The source RPM I used and the actual tarball,
|
||
|
|
if people don't trust me, they can just get the tarball
|
||
|
|
and look at it.
|
||
|
|
Because I wouldn't trust me.
|
||
|
|
I mean, how I was excited that, yeah,
|
||
|
|
I used RPM built.
|
||
|
|
I'm hoping now that the entire world knows
|
||
|
|
Peter and Jay Lynch, you'll get off my ass.
|
||
|
|
Probably not.
|
||
|
|
I was going to say not likely.
|
||
|
|
You guys still have a whole bag of stones to throw.
|
||
|
|
Not until, not until Zote comes back.
|
||
|
|
You'll read, you've been tagged.
|
||
|
|
I've got to get him sacked from that job.
|
||
|
|
Or bring Peggy Sue on.
|
||
|
|
I mean, shit.
|
||
|
|
I wear a different shirt at least once a week.
|
||
|
|
That gets to wear in the tilt shirt he was given.
|
||
|
|
Hey, Claught, too.
|
||
|
|
I listened to the bad apples.
|
||
|
|
And you mentioned that you're a slacker media project?
|
||
|
|
Yes, yes it is.
|
||
|
|
Checking out the website now looks really nice.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, well, thanks for the logo.
|
||
|
|
Oh, that was nothing.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it's coming along pretty nicely.
|
||
|
|
Actually, I've been working at it fairly diligently.
|
||
|
|
So there's still a lot of stuff to be to be worked on.
|
||
|
|
But it's a real time kernel issues and stuff like that.
|
||
|
|
But yeah, it's pretty cool.
|
||
|
|
Then where is this logo?
|
||
|
|
It goes blackermedia.info.
|
||
|
|
And you will see the logo that Monster B designed
|
||
|
|
at the very top.
|
||
|
|
That page is actually my minor achievement thing
|
||
|
|
that I was all excited about because I actually did it from scratch
|
||
|
|
with a proper like, you know, capgating style sheet
|
||
|
|
that wasn't embedded in the HTML page.
|
||
|
|
You know, it probably doesn't look right on all browsers.
|
||
|
|
But because I don't, I still don't get that whole relative font size thing.
|
||
|
|
But, you know, it's cool.
|
||
|
|
It's fun.
|
||
|
|
That's pretty good.
|
||
|
|
Oh, cool.
|
||
|
|
It's better in my website.
|
||
|
|
So, and you mentioned that the slacker media.info domain
|
||
|
|
you're just going to let it expire after a year?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, probably.
|
||
|
|
I mean, it was only 89 cents to get.
|
||
|
|
So, really, it's straightedgelinux.com slash slacker media.
|
||
|
|
That domain I've had for a while, and we'll continue to have.
|
||
|
|
So, that's a good name, though, slacker media?
|
||
|
|
Well, maybe I'll get slackermedia.com at that point or something.
|
||
|
|
Or maybe I'll renew it.
|
||
|
|
Who knows?
|
||
|
|
What we'll see?
|
||
|
|
Well, before I end this show, anything else?
|
||
|
|
Everybody's tired from their Halloween festivities.
|
||
|
|
And Windows 7 parties.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I can't believe we had eight trick-or-treaters this year.
|
||
|
|
And six of them showed up on a tractor.
|
||
|
|
So, you're doing better than me.
|
||
|
|
The only one I had was Peggy Sue.
|
||
|
|
And he lives here.
|
||
|
|
Not the pumpkin with the hole on the side.
|
||
|
|
We don't discuss that anymore.
|
||
|
|
Not since the lawsuit.
|
||
|
|
Well, I think it's a good time to end the show.
|
||
|
|
And that's disgusting, though.
|
||
|
|
Well, thanks, everyone, for joining me, and thanks for listening.
|
||
|
|
And I'll talk to you guys in a couple weeks.
|
||
|
|
Hey, thanks for having us, Monster Beef.
|
||
|
|
Say hi, Zlida.
|
||
|
|
Hi, everybody.
|
||
|
|
Good night.
|
||
|
|
Come on, J-Man.
|
||
|
|
Oh, good night.
|
||
|
|
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
|
||
|
|
Gotta make that end of every shower again.
|
||
|
|
can cranks and be it always with the Jaymeet.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, really.
|
||
|
|
That can be, yeah. What is it, legacy?
|
||
|
|
Oh, what do you call it?
|
||
|
|
Tradition.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Something like that.
|
||
|
|
And the Jayman's case is latency.
|
||
|
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
I know you want me.
|
||
|
|
And I'm right within your reach.
|
||
|
|
I know you know me.
|
||
|
|
And I need some company.
|
||
|
|
I know you some me.
|
||
|
|
When you walk through that door,
|
||
|
|
And now you got me.
|
||
|
|
What are you waiting for?
|
||
|
|
And I do against all this.
|
||
|
|
Don't ask for it when I go down.
|
||
|
|
Don't you miss me just as much as I miss you?
|
||
|
|
Hold another round and let me hold you.
|
||
|
|
I don't even need a ring on my head.
|
||
|
|
Don't walk within the world.
|
||
|
|
Just as risky care.
|
||
|
|
How dare you help me?
|
||
|
|
Just look at you now.
|
||
|
|
Can you live without me?
|
||
|
|
Yes, you've finally figured out before what you're done.
|
||
|
|
But with me, you feel no pain before the future.
|
||
|
|
But how long will you kill the great?
|
||
|
|
And I call against all this.
|
||
|
|
I'm sorry, when I go down.
|
||
|
|
I'm so glad you want to give me one more chance.
|
||
|
|
Hold another round and let me hold you.
|
||
|
|
I don't even need a ring on my head.
|
||
|
|
Don't walk within the world.
|
||
|
|
Hold you tight.
|
||
|
|
Just as risky care.
|
||
|
|
I forgive you for all those times you touch me.
|
||
|
|
Now what I've got you, you won't get away from me.
|
||
|
|
But I can look in your lips.
|
||
|
|
Don't I burn when I go down?
|
||
|
|
Don't you wish you could lift me?
|
||
|
|
But you can't.
|
||
|
|
Hold another round and let me hold you.
|
||
|
|
I don't even need a ring on my head.
|
||
|
|
Don't walk within the world.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Just as risky care.
|
||
|
|
Now what I've got you, you won't get away from me.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Hold your tight.
|
||
|
|
Thank you for listening to Hacryft Public Radio.
|
||
|
|
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|
||
|
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|
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|
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