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+Episode: 1210
+Title: HPR1210: Northeast Linux Fest 2013 p3-3
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1210/hpr1210.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-17 21:40:42
+
+---
+
+Hi, this is Klaatu. I'm supposed to be interviewing Poki about the sign.
+I have no idea.
+It's about his experience.
+Ken wants content, and this is what he's getting.
+Poor guy.
+Epic Candace, is this your first Linux conference?
+Yes, it is. First time here.
+How do you feel about the Linux conference?
+More. I want more.
+Okay, so where are you from?
+You mean now?
+Right now, I'm in the middle of Maine.
+So how long of a drive was that?
+About six hours.
+Okay.
+And it was worth it coming all the way down here for taking out around a bunch of geeks.
+Oh yeah, definitely.
+The cool people are here.
+What have you seen? Have you seen any good talks or what have you been doing?
+Well, well, he was just asking where the cool people are.
+Well, I'm here, of course.
+And then the HPR tables here.
+So, you know, that's all that matters, really.
+Have you seen any good talks?
+Well, the two that I really wanted to go to, you're doing one of them.
+And that's coming up next.
+I got to learn to use Git.
+And the other one, the guy didn't show up, but oh well.
+Like, own cloud.
+I wonder what, sitting on the old cloud.
+Oh really? He didn't show up.
+No, never did show up. I don't know what's going on.
+So, own cloud. Where the heck are you?
+I was going to interview him for my show, actually.
+So, that's really weird that he's not here.
+I want to be sure he's going to show up later.
+Yeah, he might as well.
+Oh, right.
+I was going to interview him for my show.
+But.
+Okay, so what are you hoping to do?
+Or what are you hoping to accomplish at this conference?
+Just hang out with people and learn stuff?
+Or did you have an idea?
+Or did you just want to go to a conference?
+Well, this way I can prove that the people on the other end of the microphones
+and the podcast actually exist and they're not robotic voices.
+I've learned that much. That's true.
+But I figured it's nice to connect with people up here
+and maybe get people to pest or meet or do more stuff.
+I need to do that.
+The truth is he needed a break from his new maniac neighbors.
+Yeah, those moose and squirrels get really a rambunctious sometimes.
+How long have you been using Linux?
+Let's see. I started in 1995 part time, 1997 full time.
+So it's been a while.
+Okay, which district did you start with?
+There's more than one to start with.
+I started with Slackware.
+That's start with.
+Well, then you must still be on Slackware.
+Oh, no, no. I've gone on to Gen 2 and then from there to Arch.
+So now everything's Arch right now.
+I'm sorry to hear that, but you'll get back to Slack eventually.
+Okay, cool. Well, it was great talking to you, Epicanos.
+You want to.
+Epicanos, would you like to throw in a plug for your in?
+You run a bed and breakfast, aren't you?
+Up in Maine?
+If anybody wants to see what real Maine looks like, you go to Portland.
+Everybody goes to Portland.
+That's just North Massachusetts.
+Keep going north.
+Go all the way up to Millinocket.
+It's the ice fish in.
+We're both nerds there that run it.
+So come on up and.
+You got free Wi-Fi in the room.
+Yes, we do.
+I'm working on wiring them too if you're worried about the privacy in this performance.
+Cool. That sounds incredible.
+So what is it?
+It's just a bed and breakfast or something or what?
+Yeah, little seven room bed and breakfast.
+Up there on your backster, State Park.
+So you can go out in the woods and play in the big room for a while.
+You can ask for the Hacker Public Radio discount.
+Is it something that you can do year round or should we avoid it in the winter?
+Actually, there's a lot of stuff going on.
+It goes on in the winter.
+People do snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, ice fishing,
+playing in the snow.
+You'd probably like to avoid it during mud season,
+but all the other seasons are pretty up there.
+Yeah, basically November and between March and April,
+which is why I can get down here.
+The snow is thawing or hasn't frozen or whatever, so it's all muddy.
+But before that, fall is beautiful up there.
+Summer is great.
+All the trees, critters, all the nature out there,
+and then winter is fun for the snow and the ice, so.
+Is that what you do for your day job then?
+Manage the end?
+Yep.
+We actually live on site, so.
+Cool.
+Sounds amazing.
+That's really cool.
+Glad you mentioned that, Poke.
+Thank you.
+What kind of career did you escape from
+to get into a business on your own?
+Because it sounds like the dream life.
+What did you flee from?
+Well, let's see.
+I started out as just a professional nerd,
+and I did that for a while doing tech support,
+and then I discovered tech sports at dead end job.
+Especially if you're good at it,
+because then you're never allowed to do anything else if you're good at it.
+So I decided to go back to college,
+and that's where the nickname comes in.
+One of the things I thought about getting into is
+I was thinking about becoming a canine veterinary behaviorist,
+hence the dog philosopher pun in the online handle.
+But I ended up going into biotech,
+and then, you know, my 20-year-long four-year degree
+finally ended in 2007.
+I got my degree in microbiology,
+and so I became an inkeeper.
+I was wondering how you were going to get from one point to the next.
+As you were.
+I works, yeah.
+Because after a stint at Texas A&M's biochemistry department
+as a Linux systems administrator, so.
+Okay, cool.
+Great talking to you.
+I think that's the interview.
+Bye.
+That's it.
+That's all.
+That's all.
+That's all you want from me?
+No, that's fine.
+What did we ask you about?
+Well, anybody listening wants to pester me to do more shows?
+That's basically what I'm in it for,
+is to have people pester me to do it.
+Do more fricking shows.
+Do more fricking shows.
+Thank you.
+Appreciate that.
+Thank you very much.
+There is the more often I do it, so.
+Cool.
+Nice.
+Another one on the back.
+I'm just saying.
+You got to keep this close to your face.
+You can't bring it away.
+Start up a saying.
+Hello, Hacker Public Radio.
+My name's Jacob, and I'm here to tell you how to put together that.
+Hacker Public Radio.
+A table banner.
+That's all we're really doing.
+Yeah.
+Yeah.
+I'll put this down.
+It's a great idea.
+We're not going to let that die on the vine.
+Are you kidding me?
+Take the mic.
+Take the mic.
+Hold it in your face.
+Can I go?
+Go.
+Everyone.
+Is he going to record?
+Hello, Hacker Public Radio.
+This is Jacob.
+I'm going to teach you how to put together a Hacker Public Radio sign.
+So, I don't know where to start.
+At the bottom.
+That's where the gravity made us start.
+Yeah, that's where the, yeah.
+So, at the bottom, there are these two metal arches.
+They have these loops at the bottom that you put.
+The smaller pole things.
+So, there are, I don't know, I'm basically confusing myself.
+How about we start by putting the short poles in the top of the bottom of the sign?
+Yeah.
+So, there are basically two of the same poles.
+They're a longer pole of the same pole.
+And then shorter poles.
+Shorter poles you put in these at the bottom sign.
+Yeah, in the final sign.
+And, yeah.
+The long poles go into the H bracket.
+Into the H bracket.
+The H bracket goes on the back uprights.
+Yeah, the H bracket goes on the back uprights.
+And then on top of the long poles.
+On top of the long poles, there are some more H brackets, right?
+Yeah.
+And then above those.
+Above those, there are these like poles that look like cattle rods, I guess.
+Yeah, with like a fork at the end.
+Yeah, the fork.
+And then you put the...
+So, then once that whole back section is built, you're back uprights.
+Then you do what?
+You take the sign.
+You take the sign.
+And then you put smaller poles in the final sign.
+And then you slip it in kind of these like loops that are like half-used.
+You get to like hook the things that are at the front of the base.
+Yeah.
+And when the base is like a heavy steel.
+Yeah, it's like pieces of heavy steel.
+Yeah.
+Cross of each other.
+So you hook it under the hooks.
+Yeah, you hook one of the hooks.
+And then when you...
+And then you put the top of the sign.
+That these two little slits.
+In the cattle prod pieces.
+And you put them on the top of the cattle prod pieces.
+And then you push them down until you hear a click.
+Because there's these two little bumps on it.
+So it holds it in place.
+And when the sign is built, it should be tight and straight.
+And the back of it should kind of be arched.
+So yeah, that's kind of it.
+Absolutely.
+And if you listen to Jacob's HPR and work the booth,
+you'll be able to put the sign together without doing it wrong four times
+and having to call NY Bill over to help.
+Yeah, that works like that.
+Thanks for listening.
+Have a great day.
+Thanks for listening.
+Gentlemen.
+Hey there, hacker public radio.
+This is Pokey and NY Bill.
+And we're here at the Canoe Northeast Linux Fest with a Mr.
+I prefer not to be interviewed.
+We're the Mr.
+I prefer not to be interviewed.
+But he was talking with Murf.
+Murf, how are you doing, Ro?
+All right.
+How are you?
+I'm doing fantastic.
+How are you enjoying the Fest so far?
+It's excellent.
+It's excellent.
+A lot of good talks.
+Right on.
+This is third-fast, best so far.
+Or does it live up to you?
+Yeah, I think it does.
+I think it does.
+You know, new locations so they're shaking out some of the bugs.
+But other than that, it's been really great.
+Yeah, right on.
+What's been your favorite part so far?
+Oh.
+Tough to say.
+Mostly the talks.
+You know, I've had some fun doing sort of the haul track here.
+So, I don't know.
+It's all good.
+It's tough for me to pin down a single thing.
+You're the first guy that we've interviewed who hasn't said HPR.
+Oh, really?
+No, not really.
+I was just going to say, I don't believe you anyway.
+That's okay.
+That's quite all right.
+Did you go to the after party last night?
+Yes, I did.
+And did you bring jungle speed?
+You know, I didn't bring jungle speed.
+That bar doesn't really lend itself well to it.
+So I did not bring it home.
+That's a damn shame.
+There was so much.
+I probably will after when we go hanging out after this,
+because that was one of the highlights of last year's
+Northeast Linux Fest for me.
+So, how was the drive up here?
+Long was it?
+Four and a half hours.
+I came up quickly yesterday morning.
+And how much do you enjoy driving in Boston traffic?
+Oh, I don't mind driving.
+It's fine.
+I had no trouble with the traffic.
+Really?
+I hate the traffic here, but it's still worth braving,
+because Nelf is so much fun.
+Yeah, you know, the traffic doesn't bother me,
+so the drive is all good.
+Cool, cool, cool.
+Anything you want to talk about while I got you on mic?
+I know I've stuck this thing in your face before.
+Oh, nothing offhand unless you have questions for me.
+Anything else about the show?
+How are you so damn pretty?
+I, the question is so incongruous, I can't even answer it.
+You do it for Dan, just in case you ever,
+in case Dan with two ends.
+That's an even better reason not to answer it.
+Can I be an impartial judge about this pretty crap between you two?
+I don't think you can be impartial.
+You can judge.
+All right, dude.
+Well, it's great to see you again.
+Thanks for talking.
+Great talking to you.
+And, you know, more of the HPR crowd should come out to this,
+because it's a great little event.
+We say hello to Ken Fallon, please.
+I will say hello.
+Hello, Ken. How are you?
+Thanks for everything, Ken.
+We love you.
+I don't know what you're doing.
+Can you go in and talk in that room?
+Oh, I just started recording it.
+I don't know.
+Hello, this is NY Bill, and I'm at Northeast Linux Fest with Jonathan.
+How's the fest going?
+Everything's going well.
+We're here on Sunday.
+It's a lot slower pace today than it was yesterday.
+That's for sure.
+Yeah, it's just the diehards here after the party last night.
+Yeah, seriously.
+But it's a good fest.
+It was a good fest again.
+It's great to get over here.
+It's growing every year.
+Yeah, definitely.
+I mean, every year, it's better and better.
+I would have to say, overall, it was a great success.
+But every event has its snap foods and snacks.
+But we powered through and everything turned out fine.
+You're not supposed to say that.
+You're supposed to say that.
+You're supposed to say that.
+You're supposed to say that.
+We got this stuff nailed down.
+Yeah, exactly.
+So what's going to happen again next year?
+Oh, yeah, absolutely.
+I was 100% sure yesterday we were going to be having it here
+by talking to Bruce.
+Maybe he will be somewhere else in Boston.
+We don't know.
+But I thought we're going to be here, definitely.
+But we're definitely having it next year around the same time
+as always.
+So I guess the venue will be, we'll find out later.
+To be announced.
+Yeah, exactly.
+If you build it, they will come.
+Exactly.
+That was only two minutes.
+Pokey's better at this than I am.
+Great.
+I think there's something else to say.
+I'll cut that out.
+Yeah, we had a great turnout.
+Lots of great events.
+Yeah.
+I think there's something else to say.
+I'll cut that out.
+Yeah, we had a great turnout.
+Lots of great events.
+Yeah, we had a great turnout.
+Lots of great talks.
+Unfortunately, the only talks I saw was the one
+that I gave at the start of the event.
+And Mad Dogs, which ended the event.
+Those are the only two I was able to see.
+But we did record everything.
+I'm not sure how they all turned out yet.
+We'll have to find out, you know, Monday or Tuesday
+when we start going through the files.
+You're going to post them up.
+Yeah, yeah.
+We recorded everything in Mumble.
+So basically what we did is we just hit record on the laptops
+and walked away and just recorded one giant file.
+So we just made it.
+Who gets to edit 20 hours of them?
+Not me.
+I'm not talking.
+I'll do it.
+It'll just be 20 hours of raw audio.
+Yeah, there you go.
+We'll just put a...
+I think when I did the Accessible Computing Foundation fundraiser,
+the 12-hour show we recorded in Aug in Mumble.
+And it was like 300 megs.
+Oh, good.
+So we'll just upload a couple 300 meg files
+and let everyone parse through it.
+It's your downloader's ready?
+Yes.
+And that's it.
+I run out of things to say.
+All right, cool.
+So I hope to see you next year.
+And, well, I will be here next year.
+And I hope to see a lot more people.
+All you people drive over.
+Yeah.
+N.Y. Bill has been to all three.
+He is the NELF diehard.
+So, and he brought about 10 guys here this time, right?
+Yeah, more of a CD-LOG keeps coming every year.
+And Mrs. N.Y. Bill came.
+She came to the first one and the third one.
+There you go.
+She's been here.
+She's been here.
+She's been here.
+She's been here.
+She's been here.
+She's been here.
+She found a few talks.
+She found enjoyable.
+So she goes, hmm.
+These aren't that bad.
+That's it.
+That's it.
+High praise.
+I took her to hope a couple, about three years ago.
+And she goes, this is my last conference.
+She couldn't get into the real hackers.
+Yeah, yeah, yeah.
+Cool.
+So, everybody get over to NELF next year.
+And we'll see you there.
+Yeah.
+Visit northeastlinuxfast.org.
+And you'll see what's going on there.
+Okay.
+Thanks, John.
+All right.
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