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Episode: 616
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Title: HPR0616: Surfraw
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0616/hpr0616.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 23:54:50
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---
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Hello again, this is Dave, this is Hacker Public Radio.
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And in today's episode, I want to talk about the program
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Surferall S-U-R-F-R-A-W.
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And like a lot of most good Linux-y kind of programs,
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that's an acronym.
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It stands for Shell Users Revolutionary Front,
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Rage Against the World Wide Web.
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And this is S-U-R-F-R-A-W.
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You can find Surferall in your Debian repository,
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or you can download it at surferall.allioteh.debian.org.
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Surferall is written by Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame.
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I don't think he's anything to do with the program
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as a developer since 2003, probably.
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I think there's just a group of Surferall developers
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that work on it now.
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Anyway, what is Surferall?
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Surferall is a program that makes your life more convenient.
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It does this simply by allowing you to search the web
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using your command line first,
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and giving you the results in your web browser.
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Web browser choice be a graphical order of the command line.
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I highly encourage you when using Surferall
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to configure it to use a text-based web browser,
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more on that later.
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So how do you use Surferall?
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Well, after you install Surferall,
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you simply type Surferall space,
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and then the name of the search engine script
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that you want to use,
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and there are over 100 pre-configured search engine scripts
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that come packaged with Surferall.
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They're called LVI,
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I guess the plural would be Elvis,
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and then your search term.
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So you simply type Surferall space Google,
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and that's the name of one of the LVI space bunny huggers,
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and that would return the results in a browser,
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preferably text-based,
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and your terminal window,
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the Google search results for the term bunny hugger.
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That's all it does,
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but it's even more convenient than that.
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You don't have to type Surferall space Google space bunny hugger.
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You can just type SR space Google space bunny hugger,
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and you'll get the same results.
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It gets even more convenient than that.
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If you run the program,
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Surferall-update-path,
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another program that comes packaged with Surferall,
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this will add all the LVI that come pre-packaged with Surferall,
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all these search engine scripts is over 100.
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This will add those to your path.
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So once you've done that,
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really all you have to do is type Google space bunny huggers
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to see the results of the Google search for the term bunny huggers
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displayed in your text-based browser.
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That's all it does.
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How does that make your life more convenient?
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Well, there, like I mentioned,
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there's over 100 search engine scripts, these LVI,
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and I'm not going to go through the whole list,
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but just a short abbreviated list,
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there's Amazoners, BBC News,
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there's code search,
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there's devian packages, there's dev packages,
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there's dev wiki,
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there's Google code search.
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Well, I've already said that,
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there's Google group search,
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there's eBay, there's FreeBSD,
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there's FreshMe, there's Gentubugs,
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there's Gutenberg,
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there's Jemando,
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there's LastFM,
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there's MusicBrains,
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there's Slashtide,
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there's RPM Search,
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there's Happy Penguin,
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the list goes on and on.
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So, you know,
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you type SR space,
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Gutenberg space,
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at Princess of Mars,
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and in your text space browser,
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we'll pop up in that same terminal in there,
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and you'll be presented with the results.
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Or you can just type Gutenberg space at Princess of Mars,
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and you get the same results.
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If you've added the LVI to your path,
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that's pretty cool,
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it's pretty convenient,
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but why is this noteworthy?
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If you are like
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most of us probably are,
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and you're running multiple terminal windows,
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let's say you're running a screen session,
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and a Terminator window
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that's divided into three pains,
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you know,
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one half of the Terminator window
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is got your,
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your, your RC chat session,
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even in nine different screen sessions,
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attached to that one.
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And in the other half of your Terminator window,
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you've got two other X terms open.
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So, you know,
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you're in there doing all kinds of stuff.
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Well, if you've got an extra X term window
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laying there on that desktop,
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or in that screen session,
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or anywhere there,
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it's a whole lot more convenient
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to search for something on the way up,
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and at the results presented to you
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in a text-based web browser,
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right there on that desktop
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with all your other X term goodness,
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all the other terminal goodness going on.
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Then it is to actually have to change
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to a different virtual desktop
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and use a graphical browser
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and copy and paste the link
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that you were looking for
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into your chat window,
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or into your notebook file,
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or whatever.
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It's,
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I cannot describe how much more convenient
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your life will be using surf raw.
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That's not something you'll use all the time,
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but if you do use it,
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I can promise you
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that you will find yourself
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using text-based web browsers
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more often than you are now.
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I have spent a lot of time
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in a text-based web browser
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this last week and a half,
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just because of surf raw.
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And I've rediscovered the joys
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of text-based web browser.
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There's links,
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L-Y-N-X,
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which is my text-based web browser choice.
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There's L-I-N-K-S-2,
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which I think is a fork
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of possibly the now-to-funk,
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L-I-N-K-S,
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maybe,
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maybe not,
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and there's E-Links,
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which may be a fork of links.
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I'm not sure I can't remember,
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but that's three
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that I can think of all the time
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I had text-based web browsers.
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There's also W-C-E-M, I think.
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But links, L-Y-N-X,
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is my favorite,
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because it does go for as well.
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And just by using this links browser
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and using surf raw has,
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it's got me rediscovering stuff
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like go for space,
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which is a very small place.
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It's still a very cool place.
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But it's really cool.
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You'll find yourself using it more and more
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because it's useful,
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not because it's neat,
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not because it's a novelty,
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not because it's retro,
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but because it's useful.
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You know, before I discovered surf raw,
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I was doing,
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I had one virtual desktop
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for just,
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my internet chat,
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all my attached SSH sessions
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in screen,
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and a couple of other terminal windows.
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That was just,
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I had one full desktop
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of terminal going on.
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But I had switched
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a virtual desktop to
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to do all my web browser
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and then Chrome-E-M.
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And that just makes no sense.
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If you're in your chat room
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and you're chatting,
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why even leave the chat room
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when you can just like move
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over to the next panel
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on that same screen to surf the web?
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It's really, really cool.
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Now, surf raw by default,
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I don't know,
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it's by default enough,
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but out of the box for me,
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when I first use surf raw,
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it opened up a conquerer,
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I think, is the web browser.
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That's not the behavior I wanted.
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So if you will edit your,
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in your home directory,
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dot surf raw.conf file,
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and if you add the following lines,
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all caps issue are F-R-A-W-S.
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All caps surf raw,
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underscore,
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and then in lowercase,
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graphical equals no,
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this will ensure
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that you don't use a graphical web browser.
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You can also enter
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in all caps surf raw,
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underscore,
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and then in lowercase,
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text underscore browser equals,
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L-Y-N-X,
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or your text-based browser choice.
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This will ensure that you always use
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the browser of your choice.
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And there's other options
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that you can put in your surf raw.conf file.
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The one that strikes me as being useful is,
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I know caps again,
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surf raw, underscore,
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and then in lowercase,
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screen equals,
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and then followed by the name of the screen command,
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you want to run.
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That seems pretty cool as well.
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Anyway,
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if you're a heavy terminal user,
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or if you spend, you know,
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any amount of time
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in multiple terminal windows,
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I encourage you to use surf raw.
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I think you'll find it.
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It makes your life more convenient.
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Anyway,
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that's it for today's
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Hacker Putter Radio.
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to your Hacker Putter Radio listener
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with this.
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I have to say,
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it's just even remotely valuable,
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or just the smallest amount of value,
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then you can too.
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What you can contribute can be even more valuable
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