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Episode: 1028
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Title: HPR1028: Jonathan Kulp and NYbill: Goodwill Hunting
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1028/hpr1028.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 17:40:01
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and
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Hello, this is NY Bill.
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I'm Jonathan Kulp.
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And this is your first time on HPR?
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Yes it is.
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I've heard HPR before, but this is my first time ever to participate in one of the shows.
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I'm very excited about that.
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You're another one that we talked about this ages ago, and we never get the ball rolling.
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But here we are.
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Yep, about time.
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Yeah, people may know me who, if they listen to Linux outlaws, they may know a bit of me
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there because they do speak my name sometimes.
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I'm the guy who made the classical guitar arrangement of the theme song and also made
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a version on harmonica, and I got the trumpet guy next door to me to play it on his trumpet.
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The trumpet guy recruiting everyone.
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Right, so I'm the resident music professor in the Linux outlaws community.
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And that's actually how you and I first came together also in the forums at Linux outlaws.
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Yeah, way back in the beginning of L.O.
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Yeah, we, a bunch of us just used to hang out in the forums every night.
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Those were the days.
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I know, it seems so strange now.
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When I think about going to the forums now, it just seems like, man, that would be so much trouble.
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And nobody's going to be there and you don't get that immediate interaction always that you do on the micro blogging and stuff.
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Yeah, you have to kind of read it every day or you get lost.
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Yeah.
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But I have to, well, I don't moderate much because we don't get much spammers anymore, but I still, I read it every day.
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Check it.
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Oh, that's cool.
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I post once about every four to six months.
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Usually when I prod you and say go over and answer this question.
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Or it used to be what happened was when identical went down suddenly we would all go back to the forums.
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Yeah, that's our old standby, I guess.
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Oh, man, I guess we have wind to go to thank for the title of our main topic.
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Right.
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Yeah, he posted the, well, this is a place where you can get technology items that I really know.
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And you are constantly in good wills.
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That's right. Good will is like the main place I shop in life.
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It's your new comp USA.
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Yeah, you're constantly on it.
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I just bought this for five bucks.
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Yeah, it's pretty amazing the stuff that I've been able to find.
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And you know, you don't always find great stuff at good will.
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But if you go often enough, then maybe once out of every ten times you'll find something that really makes it all worthwhile.
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And that's kind of the way I've done.
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I've been going to thrift stores since I was a teenager.
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And back then I went mainly so that I could buy a trench coat or some really bad polyester pants to wear just for fun.
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I think that's how my brother, he goes to Halloween parties every year.
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That seems to be where they get their get ups.
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Yeah, good will at least in Austin.
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It seems like they used to advertise around Halloween.
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You go to Goodwill and get your costume items here.
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You can be a disco guy for $18.
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Right.
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They don't have as many of the just awesome old polyester pants nowadays as they did back in about 1987.
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Got to have some parachute pants in there somewhere.
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Oh man, that would be awesome.
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Did you have them in high school?
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I did not ever have them.
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My mom was prudent enough where she just refused to spend what the 50 bucks or whatever it would cost to buy those stupid things.
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My mother told me years later she goes you got to pick your battles when you're raising kids.
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If he wants to wear those silly pants at least he's not doing drugs.
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There's something to that.
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My mom was very thrifty herself though and just would not pay that kind of money.
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And also I was in kind of the skater community.
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Well, we had a very tiny community and the skaters thought parachute pants were really stupid so we didn't wear those things.
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So the episode is about The Goodwill and we have wind to go to thank for the title of the episode because he made the joke in a identical about Goodwill haunting.
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So that's in the show notes.
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That's right.
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It's about Goodwill.
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You often mention that you shop at Goodwill and you get tech buys there.
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I never think to get that I'd get a computer item in a Goodwill.
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People wouldn't think so because when you first walk in all you see is racks and racks of crappy clothing.
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Yeah, but I've managed to find quite a few things there that have enhanced my tech experience quite a lot.
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I call it my Goodwill cluster.
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I've bought I think I've bought five or six computers there that for a span of about a month I seemed like every time I went I found another one.
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And so I bought a couple of Dell dimension desk tops and actually three of those I think one of them right now is my friendika and own cloud server.
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The my main my first one of these is a box by e-machines that I picked up for seven ninety nine.
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Yeah, you're always popping into identical saying you bought something awesome and it five bucks.
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I know that's amazing everybody jealous.
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The the e-machines box was really the one that started it all because it was actually a pretty decently specced computer for eight bucks.
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And I initially meant it to be just a backup machine for us to have in case the E-Mac ever went belly up but the E-Mac is still going strong.
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And when I decided to turn it into a web server was when we first started having problems with identical almost a year ago maybe eight and nine months ago when status net went up to 1.0 remember that.
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Oh, it started having problems there were database issues and all kinds of things it would be in the unfortunate role that was exactly the rollout for G plus and like exactly.
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The identical people jump ship. Yeah, a whole bunch of people bailed out and went to G plus size unfortunate.
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I was there for a while I was on G plus for a while too but it really G plus didn't really suit me the way identical did.
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And so there were a bunch of people who just bailed out completely and went to G plus and then there were others and some had already been doing this but there were a bunch of others who started saying look this is free stuff let's set up our own instances.
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So I did it and Jeremy Pope did and Windigo has one.
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Actually, Windigo and I have an HPR that will be out soon which is all about this like little era of ours when we all set up the status net stuff.
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Okay, yes that's cool so we don't have to go into that a lot but that was when I decided look if everyone else is doing this I had actually once set up status net over at school on my web server in my office just to use as a...
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Oh I recall that. Yeah, I have a private instance just to use with my students and we chat back and forth about stuff in my music classes and it's only for my students.
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And so I had done it before and I knew basically how to do it so I installed Debian stable on this e-machines box and got my status net instance going and it's been going ever since.
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$10 server. Pretty much.
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Joked one time that you don't go to Goodwill with more than $10 in your pocket.
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Right, it's good policy. Normally you don't need to.
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You don't want to start flashing the cache when you go in there you got to play poor.
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No, no, you don't want to tip them off. I probably should not go as often as I do they would get a heads up that I keep finding great things.
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You see it coming down the street quick go get all the tech stuff out of the back room.
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Yeah, the latest thing that I found there that's maybe my favorite of all of my Goodwill cluster purchases was a Mac Mini for $4.99.
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That's $5.00 bucks, that's great.
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For a Mac Mini and it was perfect. I mean it's not like I wanted a Mac or anything but I had been trying to find a way to get a low powered very small quiet server.
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And I had actually specced out a motherboard and a case and RAM and a hard drive and all that and put it on my Amazon wish list.
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And it was going to cost over 200 bucks I think for all of that.
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And then I found this Mac Mini for $5 and brought it home and it worked perfectly.
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Now these are the ones I'm not like real familiar with Macs but these are the ones that are like the size of like a portable CD drive like maybe twice the height.
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It's like a square weight thing. Yeah, okay.
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Yeah, it's basically the size of the optical drive is what makes it have to be as big as it is.
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It's probably six or eight inches square and then about two inches tall.
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Yeah, I've seen them online.
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It's a little bitty.
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It's got one gig of RAM, a G4, 1.25 gig hertz processor, a 40 gig hard drive.
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And it's basically perfect for my status net server.
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Do you think that they don't know that this stuff is worth a bit more than that or they just want the high turnover?
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It could be both.
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If they listen to this, is it going to mark everything up on you?
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Believe me, they won't listen to it.
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The Mac Mini, I'm not sure they knew it was a computer.
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Oh right.
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Because it doesn't really look like a computer unless you already know what it is.
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But they might not have known.
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Now, here they just have a policy.
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Any computer pretty much is priced at $7.99.
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Wow.
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And except for the one I bought, I was going to buy this one that was priced at $9.99.
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That's crazy tall.
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So, no, no, listen, they had also with it a keyboard and a monitor and a mouse and two speakers.
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And I said, look, I don't want all that other stuff.
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I just want the box.
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And they said, oh, in that case, it'll be $3.99.
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Oh my goodness.
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You got them over a barrel, man.
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Look, I was prepared to pay the 10 bucks and just leave all that other stuff with them.
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Because I didn't want it.
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I didn't want that big CRT monitor and all that crap, but I don't want that.
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Since you started, well, not started, but I mean, for a year now or so.
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You've been, you know, mentioning when you find a good find.
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And then all the bikes, you've gotten a lot of bikes through.
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Yeah, bikes too.
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I've just started to keep my eye open.
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And now I know we're like four or five or six of them are in my area.
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Till then, I just drive right past them and didn't even know they were there.
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Some of them I knew they were there, but I think of them as old people close or something.
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I should go take a look.
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You definitely should.
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I mean, you're not going to find it something every time.
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Most times I go there, I don't buy anything.
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But then as you guys have all heard, I keep finding great things periodically.
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And that's what kind of keeps you going back.
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It's like winning a little bit at the lottery every two months or so.
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This is your scratch off ticket.
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It really is.
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Recently you got a, like a fairly recent WRT.
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Linksist, didn't you?
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I did.
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I got a WRT 310N router, which is great.
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I mean, it's a wireless N router.
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And I had been wanting one because I actually found one maybe two months earlier at a flea market.
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It links this 150N router.
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And I bought that one.
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That was $6.
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That's pretty pricey.
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Yeah, I watched that dent go by as I just spent like about 170 on a router recently.
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Well, yours is better.
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Yours is going to have the dual band and all that kind of stuff.
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I buy tech so infrequently.
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I just get like get the best one I can just so it'll last me a little bit longer.
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That's not, I buy crappy quality very frequently.
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So.
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Here's this quantity, not quality.
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Actually, the 150N and the 310N are both pretty nice routers.
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And now I've got them linked as a, the 150N is a wireless bridge out here in my office.
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And my e-machines server is plugged into that with a patch cable.
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And it works great.
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This was the setup we were just talking about before.
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Recording how.
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Yeah.
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You have your offices detached from your house and you're shooting wireless.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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So that was another $25.
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Yeah, the 310N I got for, I think it was $2.99.
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But it didn't have a power supply with it.
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It was just the router.
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But I had a spare power supply at home that was kind of duct taped together.
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And so I knew I could at least turn it on and see if it was working and load it with DDWRT if it was working.
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So I did all that.
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But then I went to this other goodwill like 15 miles away from the one where I found the router.
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And I found the power supply.
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Nice.
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For 99 cents, it was the Lynxus power supply that clearly went with that router.
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It just got separated at like the drop off center or something.
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Oh, really?
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You think it's D1?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I think it was for the same one.
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That's awesome.
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It looked exactly like it.
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It fit perfectly.
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It says Lynxus on it.
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So for 99 cents, I got the power supply.
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Who was putting all this tech into those bins?
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Is it?
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I don't know.
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I don't know if I'm confusing goodwill with Salvation Army.
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Is that two different operations?
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There are two different things, but they do the same thing.
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That's what we have around here.
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A lot of Salvation Army is where out in front of the grocery stores,
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those big bins that people can put, you know, clothes in and stuff.
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Yeah, it's the same kind of outfit.
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We also have a Salvation Army here.
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But they have terrible prices.
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Like, they had this, like, a compact desktop machine from maybe 10 years ago,
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and they wanted $169 dollars.
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Read.
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It's pure greed.
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Insane.
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Like, nope.
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I mean, you could get a new computer for not much more than that.
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Yeah.
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And so, anyway, I hardly ever find anything worthwhile at that one,
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but I still go just in case.
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I've got some shoes there one time, you know.
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I do get clothes periodically, but mostly I'm just adding to my goodwill cluster.
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What did you recently do with the Mac Mini?
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Oh, yeah.
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That's my main web server now.
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All right.
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Okay.
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That one is hosting my main website, JonathanCulp.org,
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and it's hosting my status net instance.
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And this is when your name changed on identical recently.
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Right.
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I got a new domain name, and I had meant to make this elegant,
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seamless transition over to the new server and the domain name.
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The domain name thing is a little bit tricky with status net,
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because if you change anything, it can break people's subscriptions,
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and then everyone will have to unsubscribe and re-subscribe on the new one,
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or something.
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It's kind of a pain.
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It's pretty messy.
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And so, I wanted to do it with giving everyone a heads up,
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but I did some kind of update on my main server here on the e-machines,
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and I accidentally had it overwrite a really important config file.
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And it broke everything.
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And so, I said, well, you know, here's my opportunity.
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I just went ahead and switched to the Mac many.
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And all of a sudden, there was this new guy talking to us,
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and nobody knew who Jake came up.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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I had a new username, and hopefully when the notification emails came in,
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saying that I had subscribed to you, you would recognize my domain name and stuff.
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Yeah.
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I got figured you out pretty quick.
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So, I'm not sure if we have goodwills now that...
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Is this an organization?
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Or it's just...
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They're nationwide as far as I'm aware.
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Because they definitely had them in Austin,
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and in Nashville, the cities where I've lived.
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And does the sign actually say, like, goodwill on it?
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Yep.
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Oh, okay.
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So, what I've been scouting around my town is there's a couple of salvation armies,
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and then there is kind of like a thrift store.
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Right.
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There's thrift stores, but...
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Independent ones.
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Yeah, I think they must be independent.
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Yeah.
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We've got one here that's run by some church lady, kind of lady.
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I'm not sure.
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They seem often to be associated with churches.
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And I don't know necessarily why, I guess, because people donate things to churches,
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and once they're done giving them to poor people, then they try to sell the rest
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to raise money to support their programs and whatnot.
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And what do they want with a Mac mini?
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I don't know.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, that's cool.
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You know, sometimes companies will, when they upgrade a bunch of their equipment,
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they'll just truck everything off to goodwill.
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And so, like, I've got a, there's a printer over there on the other side of the room
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from me that I got a goodwill for maybe $12.
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It's an HP LaserJet 3200 with a built-in facts and stuff.
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And I remember when I got it home, I printed out the information page,
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and it told me the name of a corporation that used to own it.
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So, clearly, they upgraded and just trucked everything off to goodwill.
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Yeah, that happens here with the state, but it's usually they advertise you have to buy the whole palette.
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So, you might have to buy, like, 48 Delts, not just one.
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An email recently where I'm running around in our log-in, like, some of the people were like,
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well, I'll take three of them if you take four of them, but nothing ever came of it.
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That's pretty funny.
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Yeah, that might be a channel house.
|
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So, some of this stuff is getting into the goodwills.
|
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It could be.
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I don't know how something like that WRT310N router we get there,
|
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unless somebody just upgraded all their networking stuff at once,
|
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or somebody mistakenly took it or something.
|
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Hmm, that's fairly new, yeah.
|
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And I remember you saying, it's kind of overheating, and then the next day you found like a laptop cooler to put under it.
|
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|
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Yeah, and other two bucks.
|
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Yeah, I just go back and buy whatever else I need.
|
||
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Yeah, the laptop cooler was a pretty fun project.
|
||
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I've got images on my PiWigo image gallery of the laptop cooler,
|
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because I took it apart and soldered a USB cable onto it to give it power,
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because it didn't have a power supply.
|
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So now, I've got the laptop cooler plugged by USB into the EMAC
|
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that keeps the fans running, and then the router that tends to overheat is just sitting on top of that.
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You're getting very close to them.
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Whoa!
|
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Getting bad scientists stuff going on.
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Yeah, it's fun.
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Now, the one thing I really want to do next is when my wife and I went thrifting a couple days ago,
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you know, by the way, this is a key for this whole thing to work for me,
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is my wife really loves to thrift also.
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Yeah.
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And when we were in graduate school, like our favorite thing to do was to go out
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and hit the thrift stores around Austin, Texas, which has some of the best thrift stores in the nation, probably.
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But she and I were out the other day at the local, the closest goodwill,
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and there was an Xbox there, one of the classic Xboxes.
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And I just immediately started posting on the micro blog,
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what can you do with an old Xbox, and people started saying,
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well, you can put XBMC, the XB Media Center, or you can put Linux on it.
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And I almost bought it, but it did not have any controllers.
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And you need a controller to be able to hack together a cable to hook up,
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like an SD card or something to it to transfer the Linux image over.
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And so I'm just going to wait until I find one that's got controllers.
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And then that's definitely a project I want to do.
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I want to hack one of those Xboxes and turn it into a server.
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Yeah, I recall people getting Linux on them.
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I've never been like a console guy, but I remember reading about it.
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I've never had a gaming console until, well, we bought a Wii for the kids.
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I had an Atari 2600, that's my last one.
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Yeah, actually, we had one of those when I was about 10 or 12, so I don't know.
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We still have it. If I go to my parents' house, we can get it out and hook it up to a TV and play.
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It's really funny.
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I think we're only a couple of months apart in age.
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And I used to say that we are the first generation that had home computers,
|
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but it turns out your dad is a geek too.
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Yeah, big time.
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Oh, I can't remember the name of it. It's going to come to me.
|
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The Heath Kits, yeah.
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He built his own computer.
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The first computer he had was from Heath Kits.
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And it came in like box after box of little transistors and circuit boards.
|
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That is awesome.
|
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And he put the whole thing together.
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And this was in probably 1982 or so.
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And at that time, he was a professor of mathematics at the Air Force Institute of Technology
|
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up in Fairbono, Ohio.
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Okay.
|
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And he's the first person I knew to do this kind of thing.
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One of my friends had a Commodore 64.
|
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Yeah, and I remember him playing these text games on it.
|
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But my dad didn't do any games.
|
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He learned a program in like Fortran and Coball and all these things.
|
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The old school stuff.
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Yeah.
|
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|
|
But you had that to hack on right off. That's awesome.
|
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|
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Yeah, I didn't, I mean, when I finally got a computer, it was one of his cast off.
|
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|
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I think he gave me the Heath Kits once he upgraded.
|
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|
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I just kept getting a series of his hand me downs.
|
||
|
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And all I used him for was to write papers.
|
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|
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And I had this DOS-based music notation program called...
|
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|
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It was called Music Printer Plus.
|
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|
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And it was like more than $400.
|
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But it did fairly decent music notation printout.
|
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|
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So those are the only things I knew to do with a computer.
|
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|
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It was to write my papers and print music.
|
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|
|
Somehow you found Linux along the way.
|
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|
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I'd never asked you how did you come across this.
|
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|
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That was much, much later.
|
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It's just a question I'm always curious about.
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Talking with people.
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|
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We've never talked about it.
|
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|
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I first heard about it.
|
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|
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I suppose when I was putting together my online music appreciation class here
|
||
|
|
at UL Lafayette in probably the summer of 2004, 2005.
|
||
|
|
It was right around there.
|
||
|
|
And the guy who was helping me with it who was shooting all the videos
|
||
|
|
and he wrote a flash-based interface for my video to appear
|
||
|
|
along with my PowerPoint slides and all that.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, he was a tech guy.
|
||
|
|
And we were wondering how are we going to get these videos
|
||
|
|
to the students?
|
||
|
|
Because at the time we were using Blackboard course management system.
|
||
|
|
Now we use Moodle, thank goodness.
|
||
|
|
It's open source.
|
||
|
|
But Blackboard at the time did not really have a good way
|
||
|
|
to deliver video.
|
||
|
|
And we didn't have space for the files on it.
|
||
|
|
Anyway, we needed our own way to deliver it.
|
||
|
|
So one day he just told me he said, I found it.
|
||
|
|
I got a way to deliver the server, I mean, to the videos.
|
||
|
|
And he pointed at this pile of just crappy old Mac G3s.
|
||
|
|
He said, that's our server right there.
|
||
|
|
I said, what?
|
||
|
|
He said, yep, I found those. They were about to throw them away.
|
||
|
|
So I took it and loaded yellow dog Linux on it.
|
||
|
|
And those are now serving up your lessons.
|
||
|
|
Here, click this link and watch.
|
||
|
|
And so I clicked the link and there was me.
|
||
|
|
And I was like, man, that's amazing, Mark.
|
||
|
|
How'd you do that?
|
||
|
|
And he said, well, you know, put Linux on it.
|
||
|
|
I said, well, what's Linux?
|
||
|
|
And so he told me what it was.
|
||
|
|
The floodgates opened.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, well, not quite yet.
|
||
|
|
What really took hold was about three years later.
|
||
|
|
When I decided I really wanted to have a laptop.
|
||
|
|
But I did not want to have a Windows laptop.
|
||
|
|
And I couldn't afford a Mac.
|
||
|
|
And so one day I was at our...
|
||
|
|
We've got an office on campus where they do hardware repair,
|
||
|
|
like computer hardware repair.
|
||
|
|
And I went over there with our piano professor
|
||
|
|
who was having her computer worked on.
|
||
|
|
And one of the assistants in that workshop there
|
||
|
|
was sitting at a computer and I looked at it
|
||
|
|
and I didn't recognize what it was.
|
||
|
|
I said, man, what is that operating system you're using there?
|
||
|
|
I don't recognize that.
|
||
|
|
And he said, this is Ubuntu.
|
||
|
|
Wow.
|
||
|
|
I said, what's Ubuntu?
|
||
|
|
And he said, well, it's a Linux-based operating system.
|
||
|
|
And I saw that and it looked really nice.
|
||
|
|
And I said, man, that's something I could use right there.
|
||
|
|
And so I started researching it.
|
||
|
|
And then pretty soon my dad got a new laptop
|
||
|
|
and handed me down his old one.
|
||
|
|
And I installed Ubuntu Linux on it.
|
||
|
|
And that's basically where it started.
|
||
|
|
Nice.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
It's a little off track of the Goodwill, but...
|
||
|
|
No, that's okay.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I always like to find out how people stumbled across it.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I remember the first episode I heard you do.
|
||
|
|
I think you and...
|
||
|
|
Was it you and Wendigo that told that shared your stories about?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that was our first one.
|
||
|
|
How we got into Linux, yeah.
|
||
|
|
That's been four years ago now, I think.
|
||
|
|
Four and a half years ago since that happened.
|
||
|
|
Now I'm neck deep in it.
|
||
|
|
Oh, yeah.
|
||
|
|
It's funny.
|
||
|
|
You know, the whole thing, starting with Linux
|
||
|
|
and now running my web server,
|
||
|
|
it feels like I've been getting this kind of slow
|
||
|
|
gradual retraining of myself
|
||
|
|
for a possible alternate career.
|
||
|
|
Because academia, higher education, is kind of in trouble.
|
||
|
|
I mean, there's all kinds of budget problems.
|
||
|
|
And every year we got major budget cuts.
|
||
|
|
We got programs being cut.
|
||
|
|
And people losing jobs in academia.
|
||
|
|
And so I feel like all of this stuff has given me some tools
|
||
|
|
where if suddenly the School of Music went belly up
|
||
|
|
and I was out of a job,
|
||
|
|
I might be able to kind of slide sideways,
|
||
|
|
even right here at the university,
|
||
|
|
and help them out with moodle administration
|
||
|
|
and running the servers here and stuff like that.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, nice.
|
||
|
|
I think.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, so...
|
||
|
|
Sorry, go ahead.
|
||
|
|
No, I think I said, unfortunately I won't be sliding sideways anyway.
|
||
|
|
I'm stuck in a family business.
|
||
|
|
Oh, well.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I'm hoping that I don't have to do that.
|
||
|
|
I don't want it to come to that.
|
||
|
|
But one of the main points I made in my blog post yesterday
|
||
|
|
about my significant tech purchase,
|
||
|
|
the $8 computer,
|
||
|
|
is that basically for the $8 and for a lot of time
|
||
|
|
and fun for me,
|
||
|
|
I've practically retrained myself as a, you know,
|
||
|
|
a Linux guy who could,
|
||
|
|
if not completely run and at least certainly help run,
|
||
|
|
websites and administer things, you know.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, we've all,
|
||
|
|
I feel like I've had to learn quite a bit
|
||
|
|
about outward facing networks
|
||
|
|
in the last couple of months
|
||
|
|
with all the identical stuff,
|
||
|
|
or the status net stuff.
|
||
|
|
It's something I never really paid attention to,
|
||
|
|
but like our little group of friends are all
|
||
|
|
helping each other out
|
||
|
|
and asking questions and answering,
|
||
|
|
so it's an awesome resource.
|
||
|
|
It's fun, isn't it?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, it is.
|
||
|
|
There's so many nitpicky details
|
||
|
|
that I never would have thought of.
|
||
|
|
I mean, things like name servers
|
||
|
|
and, you know, certificates
|
||
|
|
and self-signed certificates,
|
||
|
|
how to deal with...
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I just accepted one of yours
|
||
|
|
when I got on the mumble.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you would have to
|
||
|
|
because it's a self-sign.
|
||
|
|
Do you trust me, Bill?
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I did.
|
||
|
|
I did trust you.
|
||
|
|
Better not backstab me if I should.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I have one certificate
|
||
|
|
that's actually signed by start SSL
|
||
|
|
and I use that for my status net site.
|
||
|
|
And the rest of them are self-signed
|
||
|
|
because I trust myself.
|
||
|
|
And it doesn't really matter to me
|
||
|
|
if other people don't.
|
||
|
|
Oh, man.
|
||
|
|
So, anyway, it's been a huge fun
|
||
|
|
learning experience,
|
||
|
|
all this stuff.
|
||
|
|
And it all really happens
|
||
|
|
because of availability of super cheap hardware
|
||
|
|
that I can play around with.
|
||
|
|
The Goodwill Hardware.
|
||
|
|
That's it, man.
|
||
|
|
I'm going to have to...
|
||
|
|
maybe after the lug sometime.
|
||
|
|
Well, I'll have to scout out
|
||
|
|
where some of these might be
|
||
|
|
and after the lug.
|
||
|
|
Maybe we'll have to stop at a Goodwill one of these times.
|
||
|
|
There you go.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
It seems like you would definitely...
|
||
|
|
as much as you drive around for work,
|
||
|
|
you could stop in for five minutes
|
||
|
|
and see what they got and hop back in the truck.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's true.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, I'm just starting to figure out where they are.
|
||
|
|
I think I know...
|
||
|
|
See, these aren't Goodwill's, though.
|
||
|
|
I think they're independent.
|
||
|
|
That's okay.
|
||
|
|
They might have...
|
||
|
|
I mean, even for someone that's...
|
||
|
|
There's a lot of people that are into retro gaming and stuff.
|
||
|
|
I bet you could find old Nintendo
|
||
|
|
and Super Nintendo stuff in these stores.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
I have found all of those kinds of things
|
||
|
|
in the thrift stores I go to.
|
||
|
|
I mean, they had like an Intellivision one time.
|
||
|
|
I mean, I've seen the old PlayStation,
|
||
|
|
original PlayStation's, original Xboxes.
|
||
|
|
Sometimes Xbox 2.
|
||
|
|
I think a friend of mine had an Intellivision
|
||
|
|
and there was a cartridge called Basic
|
||
|
|
and you stick it in and then you can program on the controller
|
||
|
|
like Basic.
|
||
|
|
That's pretty cool.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, we had friends with Intellivision also down the street
|
||
|
|
and they seemed to recall playing baseball on it or something.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
See, this...
|
||
|
|
You might get me in trouble, John,
|
||
|
|
because I'll end up with a whole computer room full of old crap.
|
||
|
|
You know, I still have a Commodore 64 in the basement.
|
||
|
|
What else will I have if I bring it home?
|
||
|
|
Well, you have to be discreet about it, I suppose.
|
||
|
|
And well, as I said,
|
||
|
|
the reason this all works is because my wife is on board with it.
|
||
|
|
And so if she weren't, then I'd probably be getting in trouble all the time.
|
||
|
|
But right now I've got like hardware everywhere
|
||
|
|
and I've got bicycles and bicycle parts everywhere.
|
||
|
|
But yeah, she's okay.
|
||
|
|
As long as it doesn't get out of hand.
|
||
|
|
Cool.
|
||
|
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
The issue.
|
||
|
|
So is that enough?
|
||
|
|
Wrap it up?
|
||
|
|
That is enough.
|
||
|
|
We have to figure out,
|
||
|
|
think for a minute how much information you want to give people about contact.
|
||
|
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
Do you do show notes for this?
|
||
|
|
So, goodwills are something I've just drove past all my life
|
||
|
|
and there might be good tech finds in there.
|
||
|
|
It's more than just smelly old clothes, man.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, that's kind of the image it has in my head.
|
||
|
|
There's a lot of that to be sure.
|
||
|
|
You just got to dig through it and get past the blue-haired ladies
|
||
|
|
and get to the good stuff.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, you got to go back to those shelves where they keep all the stuff.
|
||
|
|
You know, go past the clothes back to where there is stuff.
|
||
|
|
Cool.
|
||
|
|
And dig through it too, man,
|
||
|
|
because like when I found the power supply from my router,
|
||
|
|
it was underneath a bunch of crap that I didn't want at all
|
||
|
|
and I almost didn't even look under it.
|
||
|
|
But I did and then I found it.
|
||
|
|
So there's a treasure hunt aspect to this as well?
|
||
|
|
There totally is.
|
||
|
|
That's cool.
|
||
|
|
It's really thrilling to find this stuff.
|
||
|
|
I just pictured you in my head holding up the power supply going,
|
||
|
|
I am mighty.
|
||
|
|
So cool.
|
||
|
|
Contact info.
|
||
|
|
Yeah, JonathanCulp.org.
|
||
|
|
And yeah, it's been fun.
|
||
|
|
I'm NY Bill at gunmonkeynet.net for email,
|
||
|
|
or NY Bill on Identico.
|
||
|
|
We'll have to do another one sometime.
|
||
|
|
That'd be great, man.
|
||
|
|
All right, cool.
|
||
|
|
All right, see you.
|
||
|
|
Okay, bye.
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people's own license.
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