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Episode: 469
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Title: HPR0469: TiT Radio 011 - puppies, tails, and a gnome
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0469/hpr0469.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 21:16:27
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Truth is stranger than picture.
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This is the truth. This is replace.
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Believe it or not.
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Bedrooms in the canton of Grison, Switzerland have tiny windows opened when the occupant is dying.
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So his soul can escape. They leave it or not.
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In a moment I'll tell you about cows who grow their own gold teeth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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In a moment I'll tell you the truth.
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People will be confused with the goose who laid the golden eggs,
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with the cows in the state of Washington, who housed a grown gold-steed one.
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Amazing! Well a matter of fact, these bovines graced in the alder Creek Basin near a famous school mine.
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And as they chewed, they picked up gold dust embedded in the ground.
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The chemical combination of lime, the cow's teeth,
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in the cow's teeth, and the gold dust created a perfect and permanent and valuable gold
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devil crown, they leave it or not.
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Hello, I'm Austin B, and welcome to Tip Radio episode 11 for October 17th,
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2019. If you're a first time listener, this is a potluck round table series on Hacker Public Radio.
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And I just won't let everybody know, Tip Radio also has an org feed, just navigate your browser to tipradio.info
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and underneath the cow logo, click on Feed Bag.
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Okay, let's meet tonight's round table, Clot 2. Hello everyone.
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Peter 64.
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Jedi.
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Asmith.
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I've got even a monster bait.
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J-Man.
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Hello.
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330.
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Howdy, howdy.
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And Pigwall.
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Hey.
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And I just got a quick announcement here.
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A world of goo has turned one year old, and to celebrate, 2D boy has a special offer until October 19th, which is Monday.
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You can get the game for any price you want.
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You just go over to the website and click on Buy.
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And if you want to like pay him a penny, $1, $5, whatever, $20, you can get the game.
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And it's only good until Monday.
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So this is only good for our aug listeners and our live listeners.
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Because by the time people in EPR hear this, it's going to be expired.
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That's a great game too.
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I've played it on the French computer.
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It's really fun.
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I don't think I'm going to go ahead and buy it for 10 bucks.
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That seems fair, doesn't it?
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It's a year old.
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Yeah, and it's like native Linux support, which is pretty cool.
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Does it work on 64-bit?
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Good question.
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It's a very good question.
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I'll probably buy it anyway just to have it around.
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I could at least play it on my triple EPC or something.
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All right.
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How about that feedback, Clot 2?
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We got one, didn't we?
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Yeah, we did.
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Actually, it's from 51-50.
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That's the person's email handle.
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And they say that Clot 2 inquired as to the profit incentive for the ViewCAT, which this is me.
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It was that radio shack thing that people were telling me about one episode, a couple episodes ago.
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So I'm going to scanner that they were giving out at radio shack.
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And 51-50 says, it wasn't so much to look up product pages using the item bar code.
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I think that was an afterthought and only work for participating advertisers.
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Advertisers and publishers, Parade Magazine, the big one, would include a bar code
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at the bottom of an ad or article in place of or in conjunction with the to learn more, go to this URL tag.
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Advertisers had discovered many of their customers were simply incapable of reading a URL and typing it into the address bar of their browser.
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So ViewCAT was just a way to connect web pages to the print media.
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Today, I still have customers who can't load a web page unless this is linked to whatever homepage the system came with.
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I tried and never did find a way to use mine as a generic barcode scanner.
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I know it's still somewhere at the bottom of my closet.
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Next time I uncover it, I'll find out if Linux recognizes it.
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That's the email about ViewCAT, fascinating information.
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I just remember when I had to think I could scan anything in the cover or anything they had a barcode it would fire up.
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I don't really know that much about barcodes. I don't know how much information you can store in a barcode.
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So possibly they started associating websites with more barcodes than maybe advertised or that scanner was just translating anything into some random website.
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Was it a pre-random website? Do you remember or was it something actually connected to what you would scan?
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It was connected to what you would scan. If you scanned a Mountain Dew scan, it would take you to the Mountain Dew website.
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Maybe they're just packing more information into those things than people realize.
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Either way, it's a weird idea, I think.
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But I can see how, yeah, literally some people just can't seem to navigate their web browser.
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So they wouldn't need like some hardware interface for that.
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I've seen people struggle with that URL bar before.
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All right. Thanks for that feedback and call it too. Thanks for reading it.
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And what's your story for today or topic?
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Boot.Colonel.org. It's a very, very cool little project.
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Obviously something that I'm going to sponsor by or under the wing of colonel.org.
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Just the page where we all get our Linux colonel from, one way or another.
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And boot.Colonel.org is a project to make.
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From what I can gather, it's to make pixie booting just really, really simple.
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Because basically all you do is download an image file of boot.Colonel.org.
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Like they're a little, I guess they're calling it BKO.
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And I think it's like, it could be wrong, but it means a tiny, tiny little download that you have to do.
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And then you can boot a computer using this boot file.
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And it will essentially boot, you know, as long as you know what network you are able to boot to,
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it will boot via the interweb to some kind of live environment where you can actually
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either install Linux from or maybe diagnose things from or whatever, just depending.
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Right now they've got like Debian, a Debian environment, Ubuntu, damn small Linux,
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Kinopix, and Fedora 11.
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So is it a full desktop or just a shell that you boot into?
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Actually a full, well, it depends.
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Like I know that Fedora 11, it says it's just single user mode, and I think it's just a shell.
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But like damn small Linux, you actually get the full desktop that you boot to.
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So it just depends on which one you're choosing.
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And presumably which like, because you can also use the little, I guess it's called,
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GPixie, GPXE.
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You can use that also to just boot into any, I guess, pixie boot environment.
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So if you have, if you know the address of the Debian, you know, net install server,
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you can use GPXE to boot there.
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But in terms of what they're doing at boot.crown.org,
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yeah, you actually do get a full desktop in some instances.
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Okay, this is pretty neat.
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So you can put it on a CD or a USB.
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Yeah.
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That's cool. Or a floppy.
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Right.
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People still use them.
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Apparently, yes.
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So this image you download, it has all this on there, it has Debian Ubuntu,
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damn small Linux, canopics, and Fedora all on one image,
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or do you have to go out and download all that stuff separate?
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Well, it's on the server, if I'm not mistaken.
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All you're doing is downloading the, I guess, the shell to enable you to boot, you know, via a network.
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And you can go into whatever server with these live environments on it that you choose.
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So these are remote servers that they're supplying you?
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Are it supplying the person using it?
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Or do you put it on your own server somewhere?
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Yeah, they are supplying the server's remote.
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Unless, of course, you want to put it on your own, in which case you can do that.
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But then I guess you don't technically need this necessarily.
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If you've got your own Pixie server, I mean, at least the Toshiba that I recently acquired
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has something, you know, in the BIOS you can set, okay, look at the network card to see if there's a local environment to boot from.
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So I wouldn't need this.
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But if you want to be able to boot off of some remote server with a live environment on it,
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often Washington University or something, you could do that with this GPXC.
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It's like a 220 kilobyte download.
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It's nothing. It's just what I can tell it's basically a really kind of fancy boot loader.
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Well, it sounds pretty neat, but trying to understand what it's for.
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You know, what is it just to really just try out things?
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I think it would be more of like a diagnosis tool and also probably an installation tool as well.
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For a DD?
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Yeah, I mean, it's kind of cool because this kind of flexibility, I mean, I don't know.
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If you can look at a project and say, well, yeah, so, you know, what would I use this for?
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I mean, that means you've by now gotten so many options in Linux and the way that you can install it or use it on a computer
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that you're literally running out of things to do with all your options.
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And I mean, that's a good thing. That means that we've got a lot of options.
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And that's not something that every OS, I think, really has that many ways to boot, you know, your computer into that OS.
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I mean, Linux just, I mean, there's just practically anything you have.
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You know, if you've got a little bit of know-how, you can boot the thing into Linux one way or another.
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That's a good thing.
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Not that you'll need every day of your life, but the one time you need it, you're going to love that it's there.
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Yeah, I'm going to have to try it out just to fully understand.
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Yeah, I'm going to try it out pretty soon here.
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All right, cool. Anything else on this one?
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Uh, nope. That's it. Just something I came across and thought was really cool.
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Nice find, and how about you, Peter, 64?
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Yeah, I haven't really done much this week.
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One thing I did want to have a play with was the name 3.
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Now, running Arch, it's been in the AUR, where you can just get a build, I think it is, and pull it down.
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And I already started installing it on the laptop and have a play with it.
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But still not true, Arch and AUR took me bloody half a day because you have to go through
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and well, I had to edit quite a few of the pack builds to get it to work, how to read a fair bit of documentation.
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And when I finally did get it running, it was very slow on the laptop.
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But I think that's because, for some reason, under Arch, the Intel drivers aren't working particularly well.
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I think club 2, you mentioned that that could be the version because I was running the 2.9.
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I did go back to the 2.7, and it did make it slightly better, but typically it was nowhere as good as under Zeus.
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But anyway, with Game 3, I was talking to the J-Man, and he pointed out that one of the best ways to sort of install it and have a look.
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And when we're talking Game 3, we're talking just the shell.
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Which I understand is that what's that mean, J-Man?
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It doesn't actually have any of the applications that you can expect.
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Yeah, the way they have it laid out is with 2.28, most distros will have the shell in their repose, and you can just run that on top of 2.28.
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But really, once they get going, they have to add in support for their zeitgeist searching, and they have geolocation libraries and all that stuff.
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Yeah, and what I can understand, or what I'm not entirely sure, this is right, but we should set first in a Ubuntu 10a4 and Fedora 13 from what have been out to read.
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But anyway, there's the simplest way to install it, and I hadn't heard of this, and I was talking a few plates actually in the IRC channel, and they hadn't come across it.
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Either it's a J-hage build, J-Linsey, that you pointed out.
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So if you go over to live.nome.org, for at least J-hage build.
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And really, if you follow the distractions on the page, it's a matter of, I think, about four steps.
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One thing's very important, though, if you want to try this out, you have to get rid of the G-stream a bad plug-in.
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And trust me, if you don't, you won't get this thing built.
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And if you do it through the arch, A-U-V-A, you have to remove that, too.
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There's obviously some problem there that got to fix.
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Now, I understand that I'm not a G-name user.
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In actual fact, I don't think I've ever used the IRC here.
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So I don't get over to live.nome.org, J-H-Build, go over to live.nome.org,
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forward slash capital G-name shell.
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This is where you'll find the simple instructions on how to do it.
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Anyway, I understand I'm not a G-name user, but I just wanted to have a look at it.
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And after playing around with it for probably 15, 20 minutes, I must say,
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people who have left G-name, and from what I understand, there's quite a few, go over to KDE4.
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Purely, I'd say a lot of that's to do for the IRC and the KDE4 office.
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I see a lot of people going back.
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Now, that's only my personal opinion, because look-wise, it's pretty.
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Now, usability-wise, it depends.
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Are there any screenshots anywhere online that we can see the beauty that is G-nome 3?
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Yeah, I think if you just go to that live.nome.org, G-name shell on the right-hand side,
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I think it might point them out, does it?
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Okay, of course I'll check it out.
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Somewhere around there.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it's actually got a half-way down that page, you'll see screenshots.
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Cool.
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Current status.
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But anyway, one thing I felt found a little bit disconcerting.
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When you go up the top, you have your taskbar, and on the left-hand side it has activities
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which is typically like, you know, KDE start menu.
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When you click on that, it goes into this overview mode, which is where I think in KDE,
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they might call it sort of, it's like that mosaic.
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When all your applications become small sort of icons, you know what I mean?
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On the desktop, say, yeah, so if you've got four desktop's workspaces,
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and then you move up to your activities, it goes into this mosaic look,
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or what did I call it before?
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I think it was there, I think.
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Yeah, that's what I was looking for, I suppose.
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Yeah.
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It goes into this overview mode.
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Now I didn't get that.
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Because that is the trademark term by Apple.
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Oh, is it?
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Okay, yeah.
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But people understand.
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Yeah, like I said, it's a little bit disconcerting at first,
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and after playing with the 15-20 minutes, I still watch and use to it.
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Every time I went up to this activity, all the desktop's appeared,
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and I've got this menu down the left-hand side, but give it a while,
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and I think it will certainly grow on you.
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But the first impression, yeah, I think it has moved,
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going into the 21st century.
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Because I always thought, your name is a little bit older looking,
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and honestly, not particularly impressive.
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But once again, I never used it that much anyway.
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Also, I've read a lot of things like, you know, they say that, you know,
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it's going to improve your workflow and the usability of your whole GUI.
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Now, yeah, that could be the case, because when you go into this overview mode,
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it's quite easy to drag applications from one workspace to the other.
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However, if you've been used to fluxbox or something,
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and you know, you set up your keys file to simply hit keys and send applications
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to workspace as well, I really don't see that as a usability improvement.
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But maybe for game it is.
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Tell me to you. What do you reckon?
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You've been running for quite some time.
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Yeah, I think a lot of people are going to like it and some won't.
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But for the most part, it's pretty nice as an upgrade.
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Yeah, I candy wise, certainly.
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Well, from what I've seen of the game,
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and I hadn't seen the game for quite some time, it's a hell of an improvement.
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I mean, obviously, I think people know that I'm a fluxbox man.
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And I can't some of self-changing.
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But if I was a KDE user, I think I could quite happily get used to GNOME.
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Pretty quickly, that's for sure.
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This I will talk about again later on when it gets a bit more established.
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But certainly, anyway, there's a link.
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Go on, it's very easy to build with that JH build.
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Yeah, it seems pretty cool.
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I'm trying to figure out if you're right about the whole people switching away from GNOME,
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running to KDE.
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I thought it was kind of the inverse, actually.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I seem to think a lot of...
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Well, if I was a KDE user,
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I would purely move to GNOME 3 just to get away from whatever 330 uses.
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So you've gone over to KDE, I'm going the other way.
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Yeah, so you think a lot of people left KDE when it went to 4?
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KDE name?
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Famously Linus, 4 of all, did and has Larry Bushy from going Linux did, I know.
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Yeah, so I don't know.
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My impression was that some people were jumping ship.
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I never heard anyone say it the other way.
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Oh, yeah, I thought one person went the other way.
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Yeah, I thought originally a lot of people,
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when it was just 4, a lot of people didn't like it.
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Although, what's...
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What's his name?
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KDE 4 Black?
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Aaron Psycho.
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Oh, sorry.
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Yeah, I mean, he said that 4 is not for the average user.
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He went to great decks to say that.
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I remember him saying that on PILTS,
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that 4.0 is not going to be for the average user and all this sort of stuff.
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And people still complained about it.
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Even after they're told, that's what it makes me.
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Well, I guess that's the other question then.
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I mean, when is GNOME 3.0?
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You know, when is that...
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I mean, there's this whole desire, I guess,
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within open source to release or release often.
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But I imagine they're going to try to avoid a KDE 4-like backlash.
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So I wonder what they're going to be doing about that.
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Oh, I actually could read some of that somewhere,
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but I can't even remember what they said.
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But in saying that,
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challenging the switch from GNOME,
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what's out of the moment?
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Is it 2.28 or 2.26?
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What's the actual wonder?
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Yeah, the new release is 2.28.
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Yeah.
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So the release...
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The jump from 2.28 to 3 is going to be nowhere near as big as...
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3.5 to 4 was just almost the total rewrite of KDE, wasn't it?
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Correct, yeah.
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And part of that from what I understand is because Q itself was a big change.
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You know, Q4 from Q3 was such a huge jump.
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I'm wondering...
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I mean, I know GNOME 3 is using clutter a lot.
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Are there going to be big gaps in like, you know, GTK 2 to GTK 3,
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or is there no GTK 3?
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This is just GNOME 3.
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Okay, I have no idea.
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It's not going to create a big problem.
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GNOME, they're pretty conservative anyway.
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And they state it from the beginning that they want this to be a gradual and smooth transition.
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Although it seems like their UI is changing really, really drastically.
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I mean, at least from these screenshots that I'm seeing.
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Yeah, the UI change is pretty big, but they don't think that it's going to throw users nearly as bad as KDE.
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Okay.
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But with KDE, it wasn't just you, it was the applications made.
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They seemed to make all the applications made that jump too, didn't they?
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Whereas this is still going to run a lot of the 2.2-weight applications.
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Is that the way it works?
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Yeah, everything will pretty much work the same as they move across.
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Yeah, now when you've discussed this too, I can't remember if it's on Linux cranks or TIT about,
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this is going to use OpenGL to draw the windows and all that sort of stuff.
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You're going to need a 3D capable cart to run this, aren't you?
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Yeah, the presenter at Ohio Linux first mentioned that they're trying to do a fallback to a non-accelerated metacity.
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But I'm not sure how that's going to work.
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Yeah, we're just looking at the performance.
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And once again, when I say this, this is still only what this is.
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But you know what, what would you call this?
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This is no way ready for release yet.
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On the laptop, yeah, it's really sad.
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I mean, obviously, that might improve that.
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Yeah, I tell you, it wouldn't be unchallenged on that alone.
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I mean, just from all the different screenshots I'm trying to wrap my head around,
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is there a traditional desktop?
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I mean, everything that they're showing me has kind of weird interface and stuff down the side.
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Is there just a normal desktop?
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Yeah, I don't know.
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That's what you're saying in those screenshots is what I've got running.
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Every time you move up to the activities, you get all that menu stuff there, the left hand side.
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Well, that's the answer then probably.
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So that's the activities environment.
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But there is a tradition.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Desktop environment.
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Yeah.
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Once you move away from that, like you might have an application or whatever,
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then all of a sudden that'll disappear and you'll back to just your desktop.
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It has that menu bar at the top, menu bar at the bottom and your whole workspace in front of you.
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Gotcha.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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The whole overlay is to try to get people to realize that they have multiple desktop,
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right?
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I don't think many people actually use them.
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Yeah, people see like all their applications disappear off their desktop or off their screen,
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you know, and they just don't understand what's happened.
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And when you started for the first time, you're only going to have one desktop until you click that little plus
|
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and it starts adding more.
|
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Oh, interesting.
|
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That's an interesting idea.
|
|
I like that.
|
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So maybe I'm wrong in this, but it's just going to make comp his like obsolete or at least open home.
|
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Yeah, it sounds like they're integrating all that stuff into GNOME.
|
|
They're kind of like merging with that project or whatever.
|
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So once this comes out, the only window manager you can use comp his on is probably XFCE.
|
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Charlie, you mentioned something about that when we talked before, didn't you?
|
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Yeah, the analyst said too bad.
|
|
Yeah, the comp is guys we're talking to the GNOME guys.
|
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Well, it pretty much turned into we don't see a future for the comp his project.
|
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That's what I'm saying.
|
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You think I did more or less all this, didn't I?
|
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Really?
|
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Yeah, but I mean, you know, they're still going to probably be able to, I mean, their work was,
|
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was a lot of it was experimental anyway.
|
|
And they just, they just kind of threw out or it seemed to me like they just threw out all these cool ideas for effects and stuff.
|
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And I mean, they can still do that.
|
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I'm sure.
|
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I mean, they can probably just, they can probably kind of work with GNOME.
|
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I would imagine on effect.
|
|
It seemed to me like it's a better, it's better to have it integrated and not, like it would be wrong.
|
|
But that's what it felt like to me back when I was using it more.
|
|
Yeah, and comp is, it just looks kind of bad when things go wrong.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
When you have your title bar disappearing or you have screen tearing or something like that.
|
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Yeah.
|
|
Charlie, did you something I didn't try?
|
|
You mentioned before where you click the plus and you get the extra workspaces.
|
|
And I feel like four workspaces.
|
|
And then you have that, when you go into that activities and you get the overview,
|
|
then there's the minus superimposed in the center of each workspaces.
|
|
If you've got applications open, oh, that minus didn't show, did it.
|
|
I was going to say what if you click the minus and you have applications open on that workspaces,
|
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did they all disappear?
|
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But no, you can't see that minus if you've got something open.
|
|
Don't worry about that question.
|
|
Hey, Monster B.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Looks like World of Boo is available for 64 bit in the default World of Boo setup.1.41.tar.gz.
|
|
There's a binary for a 32 and for 64.
|
|
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
|
|
So did you go ahead and buy it?
|
|
Yeah, I went ahead and bought 20 bucks.
|
|
Can you download both of them?
|
|
You can download the tar.gz, the .deb and the RPM, all from the same screen.
|
|
So that's what I did.
|
|
I just figured I might as well because I wasn't sure what I was getting in each.
|
|
But the tar.gz is probably realistically the one I'll probably use.
|
|
And it's got everything that you need.
|
|
It looks like, I mean, to play the game, not to rewrite it or anything,
|
|
but it's got all the files.
|
|
That's pretty cool.
|
|
Would you pay a penny?
|
|
Yeah, they wouldn't allow, like, the half-sent thing.
|
|
You went all the way out.
|
|
Yeah, I went to one cent because I couldn't talk them down.
|
|
There was a flaw in their donation page.
|
|
It wouldn't allow fraction values.
|
|
I paid 20 bucks.
|
|
That's what their suggested donation was.
|
|
Well, I'm going for 10.
|
|
Yeah, I'll just have to eat like SpaghettiOs for the next week.
|
|
That's fine.
|
|
Was that it for your topic, Peter?
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
I'm definitely going to try it.
|
|
I like KDE and I doubt if anything can, you know, pull me away from KDE.
|
|
But I do like the screenshots.
|
|
I mean, I'll try it on on the trip we eat.
|
|
It looks like a netbook screen to me.
|
|
That's what I keep thinking.
|
|
Every time I see a screenshot, I'm like, is this on their netbook?
|
|
Or is this, like, the normal distribution?
|
|
But now I understand it was the activity screen, I guess, that we're seeing.
|
|
Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry.
|
|
I know that KDE or I'm person, but I just like to play with all this stuff.
|
|
And once again, it's a case of, you know, you never get a chance to get bored with the, like, windows.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
There's always something new happening.
|
|
We all know how to run additional excessions, you know.
|
|
Instead of having two open, now we get it through you.
|
|
We have flash box KDE and game running.
|
|
Well, I just can't wait to it's standard on Ubuntu.
|
|
When does I say 10, when does I say 10.04?
|
|
I think the name is 4, why not?
|
|
Really?
|
|
Is that close?
|
|
Yeah, Fedora 13.
|
|
I thought I read.
|
|
When Fedora 13, you add, they should be the two first distributions of release as, you know, 10 packages.
|
|
Because that's a year from now, isn't it?
|
|
Well, 10, I follow myself.
|
|
I'll write for you.
|
|
Isn't it?
|
|
Yeah, I think so too.
|
|
I guess that's not that close.
|
|
It sounds like it feels close.
|
|
It'll be right around the corner, you know what I mean?
|
|
When you sell to ads and money, that's just a couple of slates.
|
|
Trust me.
|
|
Come forward when you get to LH.
|
|
Yes.
|
|
Well, ads are still awake.
|
|
Go ahead, ask.
|
|
If you're a story.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
Well, yeah, I was surprised to find that Puppy Linux is still alive and well.
|
|
And in active development.
|
|
That's Puppy Linux.
|
|
The fellow that originally came up with the Puppy Linux, Barry Collar.
|
|
He is back at the project now.
|
|
He tried to retire, but his replacement found it was too much work, so he's back doing it himself.
|
|
But while he was in Hyetus from the project, he had time to play around with a system
|
|
that he is named Wolf, W-O-O-F, allows him to build the Puppy packages from any of the
|
|
distros out there.
|
|
Where there's Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Slackware, you name it.
|
|
And their new release, which is 4.3.1.
|
|
It has a modern kernel in it.
|
|
2.1.
|
|
I want to see what is it.
|
|
It's a 2.6.3.30.5 kernel.
|
|
It's got the SMP kernel for multi-processors, as well as the inter-processors.
|
|
Well, Puppy's always kind of moved to the beat of a different drum.
|
|
Looks like they're coming along as far as maturing.
|
|
Now, I don't know how much of that cut out, or if I'm still on there.
|
|
Now, you're still on?
|
|
Yeah, and it did.
|
|
All right, now.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
Well, nobody was interrupting me.
|
|
I couldn't tell.
|
|
We're too bloody scared, because we know how big your chainsaw is.
|
|
I didn't know that Puppy still includes, is it P-P-P for dial-up modems in there, somewhere?
|
|
I'm pretty sure it does, yeah.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Which they still support a dial-up modem, but they'll also support dial-up by 3G devices.
|
|
Oh, well.
|
|
Now, I've never had anything to do with Puppy.
|
|
Puppy's, like, really good for, it's small.
|
|
Like, you could put it on the dish-use plate, always play around with the little thumb drives, can't you?
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
But the cool thing about it is it feels like it feels like a normal, great little desktop.
|
|
I put it on my friend's old IBM once, her ThinkPad, and I mean, she was totally using it, loving it.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Anything I was thinking of, say you do a lot of traveling, I don't know, over there, but over here.
|
|
A lot of the hotels in that don't offer Wi-Fi, or wireless internet access.
|
|
So, if I was stuck in my hotel room, I could pull out my thumb drive, stick it in, I've got dial-up there,
|
|
and I'm a laptop, and I could just use Puppy just to get on the internet too easy for you to use this the other day.
|
|
Yeah, it is easy.
|
|
One thing nice about Puppy is it will let you install it to a USB device.
|
|
It's only has a hundred megabyte download to start with, but you can install the whole system on a USB device, you know, on a USB key,
|
|
and you can move it from computer to computer.
|
|
Really?
|
|
And they are supporting the EXT for a file system now too, so they are in active development, and they are keeping up, it looks like.
|
|
They still kind of do things their own way, but nothing says that way is absolutely wrong, it just happens to be different.
|
|
Well, that's all I got on it.
|
|
Well, it looks like their website has been updated too.
|
|
Yeah, it actually looks like it.
|
|
Yeah, well, you go over, and well, I'm Barry's blog, he's actually already blogged tomorrow.
|
|
Of course, he's in Australia, so that is tomorrow, there today.
|
|
So, you know, he's very active yet.
|
|
I just wish I had the time to try out all these things out.
|
|
It will be on a USB key here this weekend, and I'll tell you how it turned out.
|
|
Charlie, did you know that Gennome 3 has a built-in video desktop recorder?
|
|
I did not know that.
|
|
I knew something that you didn't first time ever!
|
|
Well, you got those hits.
|
|
I think it's all controlled shift.
|
|
Ah, that'll start it, and you get a little red dot flashing in it.
|
|
Wow, that's very nice.
|
|
Yeah, it is.
|
|
That is cool, just now.
|
|
I haven't tried it.
|
|
Try it, watch it crash.
|
|
Don't be nasty.
|
|
You got to give a fit of your name, live on this show occasionally.
|
|
No, I just know how those desktop recorders are, especially in like an alpha kind of software.
|
|
I would just get ready for the crash.
|
|
I must admit, I was going to put into it to do the show, and I just thought better of it.
|
|
Yeah, but right.
|
|
Is that it, is?
|
|
For that one?
|
|
Yeah, that's a, you know, a short and sweet like puppy.
|
|
All right.
|
|
And let's move on to J-Man.
|
|
I've been reading this magazine called Open Source, where the E is actually a 3.
|
|
You got that off of one of my picks for one week.
|
|
Do what?
|
|
You got that from one of my picks.
|
|
That was one of my picks one week, I think, for either Tid or Linux Cranks.
|
|
That you found out about that magazine?
|
|
And I don't even know what you're talking about.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
He does it less than the show.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
I mentioned to that magazine because it just, it just recently, I mean, its first issue was like,
|
|
I don't know, maybe two months ago now, but, and I had mentioned it.
|
|
But please continue.
|
|
The focus on Unified Computing, which is basically this term for virtualization,
|
|
networking storage, pretty much anything that goes on in a data center.
|
|
But it's very professional quality, advertisement supported.
|
|
They have, you know, lots of topics about the data center.
|
|
They brought up this K-A-O-S, which I've never even heard of until now.
|
|
Apparently, you just replace your kernel and you have a different system
|
|
that's built off of KVM for virtualization.
|
|
It's very professional, I think.
|
|
They do all their work with the GAMP and Scripus.
|
|
And that's issue three, right, for K-A-O-S.
|
|
Right.
|
|
So the K-A-O-S thing, it's just, it's like a KVM optimized kernel or something,
|
|
and then you opt that in, and then you can run all your virtualizers off of that,
|
|
or is that what it is?
|
|
Or is it something completely different?
|
|
Yeah, it's a hypervisor, but they use the KVM that's already in the kernel.
|
|
I'm not sure what benefit there is.
|
|
That sounds cool, to look into that.
|
|
I'm going to have to download the magazine to find a link to the K-A-O-S.
|
|
Doing a search, I can't find a website.
|
|
Wow, you're right.
|
|
Be a super top secret project.
|
|
Yeah, apparently it's carbon mountain.com.
|
|
Is it really just a botnet or something?
|
|
Well, that's the link I'll put in the show notes.
|
|
Yeah, it is, it's right.
|
|
Yeah, it looks very interesting.
|
|
I mean, I don't understand much of it, but yeah, it's cool.
|
|
I probably don't even have a CPU.
|
|
I can do all that stuff, but it does look neat.
|
|
Am I right?
|
|
J-L-N-Z for KVM to really work, you have to have a CPU that has like a certain flag.
|
|
When you do a cat on the proxy, there's a certain flag that you need to look for
|
|
to see if it can actually do like KVM for real.
|
|
Right, you need to have at least VME support.
|
|
VMEX will be better.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
Okay, so you can technically do it with the VME.
|
|
One of your kernel has all the KVM stuff compiled into it.
|
|
Right.
|
|
Cool, okay.
|
|
Anything else, J-M-N?
|
|
Nope, that's it for me.
|
|
Cool, let's move on to 330.
|
|
I don't know how mine will be taken.
|
|
I may be shot down like PECWOL was last time, but is anyone interested in hearing about the EFF
|
|
failing out a couple of guys who were hacking their TI calculators?
|
|
Not really.
|
|
Not really.
|
|
All right, we'll then continue on gentlemen.
|
|
Yeah, we're just kidding.
|
|
Let's hear it.
|
|
Don't be so touchy.
|
|
I want it.
|
|
I want it.
|
|
I found this was posted on Boying Boying by my Mancrest Corridogra.
|
|
Basically, some guys were writing their own software for the TI calculators.
|
|
And because the calculators perform a signature check, which is a type of DRM,
|
|
they somehow had violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
|
|
and were being sued under the terms of the DMCA by TI.
|
|
And the EFF came to their rescue, and they actually won the case, and TI had to leave them alone.
|
|
I'm posting a link right now.
|
|
So I just wondered everyone's thoughts on the legalities of reverse engineering
|
|
and thoughts of how pissed they'd be if they were writing their own calculator software,
|
|
and were sued by TI for it.
|
|
Wouldn't it just be so much more constructive for TI to knock on their door and say,
|
|
hey, cool, you're doing some really interesting programming here,
|
|
of, you know, working with learn from what you're doing or something.
|
|
I mean, they really have to waste their time on suing these people,
|
|
and they give me a break, either ignore them or leave them alone.
|
|
These are their best customers.
|
|
They really enjoy it.
|
|
Yeah, they like, yeah, it's crazy.
|
|
I mean, yeah, it is kind of a dick move to, you know, sue the hobbyist
|
|
that also buy your product.
|
|
Yeah, because the thing was that you had to buy the hardware
|
|
to be able to run the software that these guys were writing.
|
|
Yeah, so it's like a great advertisement for the hardware if it's something else.
|
|
And therefore you legally own it.
|
|
How can we do Linux cranks listeners?
|
|
Can we figure out some clause about it?
|
|
Start suing people for the fee for our show?
|
|
If they're listed, well,
|
|
or if they have our show on their computer, you know,
|
|
we could like, we could extort money from them somehow.
|
|
Okay, I got it, I got it.
|
|
If they also listen to my show, they're getting sued.
|
|
Perfect.
|
|
It's like some kind of conflict of interest or something.
|
|
We don't have to worry about three people.
|
|
That's true.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
And all three of them are on this show right now.
|
|
That's a condition that's hard to meet.
|
|
And one of them is people.
|
|
List of my own show.
|
|
That just means that, you know, one of you listen
|
|
because I download and then immediately delete it.
|
|
So when we find the one listener,
|
|
we're going to sue this shit out of you.
|
|
That's right.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Just looking at this article,
|
|
it seems to be a problem that calculators have to have a certain certification
|
|
or something.
|
|
Well, for some, it's actually the big testing groups
|
|
that allow only certain certified calculator models.
|
|
And that if these are one of the certified models
|
|
and they're found to be easily hacked
|
|
or whatever they can end up being decertified,
|
|
which I suppose could lose a lot of money
|
|
for access instruments or whatever this was.
|
|
And maybe that could be why they're so worried about it.
|
|
Yeah, but should it be an issue that is, you know,
|
|
if nothing else,
|
|
should it be the DMCA that people are taking the corridor of rooming?
|
|
Couldn't just a simple violation of contract work?
|
|
I mean, I think this is a gross misuse of the DMCA.
|
|
Isn't any use of the DMCA, gross misuse of the DMCA?
|
|
Well, yeah.
|
|
No, I mean, yes, it's a shit law,
|
|
but there are ways to use it that aren't as exploited as others.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
But like, as it says in the story here,
|
|
the DMCA specifically allows for reverse engineering
|
|
to create interoperable custom software.
|
|
And I'm sure that TI knew it,
|
|
and TI's lawyers knew it,
|
|
but you take three or four college kids to court,
|
|
they're all just gonna pay up and shut up.
|
|
Right, yeah.
|
|
But you get a great organization like the EFF,
|
|
which I full disclosure,
|
|
I pay them money to be a member.
|
|
But you get wonderful people like that coming to your aid,
|
|
these cases turn around pretty quickly.
|
|
So I'm glad to see this didn't fall completely on its face,
|
|
like Pegwalls did.
|
|
I don't remember Pegwalls from last week.
|
|
I had no memory of that.
|
|
That's how bad it was.
|
|
There's something about wearing the EFF.
|
|
The playthrough, Blighty,
|
|
looking through friggin' walls.
|
|
I'll never forget that story.
|
|
Oh, that's right.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Yeah, that was pretty bad.
|
|
It could have been about having a lemon tuna mouth
|
|
that could have been the story.
|
|
That was really bad.
|
|
Get to the bin 335 and mention the lemon tuna mouth on this show.
|
|
Yeah, I mean, that was like a shameless self-promotion
|
|
or whatever that was.
|
|
In fact, I'm starting to think we should be in people
|
|
if they mention on lineage cranks.
|
|
Works for me.
|
|
Well, then let it be written this day,
|
|
the 18th day of the year 2009 of the Lord
|
|
or whatever they say.
|
|
What do they say?
|
|
In the year of our Lord.
|
|
Yeah, that'll do.
|
|
He's not what I think.
|
|
I'm just wondering what he really does.
|
|
Yeah, thank God.
|
|
I mean...
|
|
We have a laugh track over there.
|
|
Is that even real?
|
|
No, I just had me a good chuckle.
|
|
Oh, it's good.
|
|
So he's tickling them.
|
|
But the people who go ahead,
|
|
those 330s in the bin,
|
|
I don't have a story, remember?
|
|
Oh, get to the bin.
|
|
What do you even do?
|
|
Put him in the bin, too.
|
|
Well, you come on to a show where, like,
|
|
the point of it is that a story
|
|
and you don't bring a story.
|
|
I don't pick on pig,
|
|
because he's got a really good...
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
I just come on to offer my opinions
|
|
and I won't hear my lovely voice.
|
|
Oh, yeah, there is that.
|
|
Well, go ahead and give us your command of the week.
|
|
Let me actually pull it up here.
|
|
When you first run it else,
|
|
a no database found nothing to do.
|
|
Use, you know, dash, dash, help for help, of course.
|
|
We'll say a new database can be created with the following command.
|
|
Be in that, dash, u,
|
|
face, dash, i, face,
|
|
whatever interface, like, you know,
|
|
p0, or, you know, wland0, whatever.
|
|
And you can also have it do it
|
|
instead of just, like, sampling,
|
|
how much information is going across that interface.
|
|
You can have it just give you real-time output
|
|
of how much bandwidth is going across that.
|
|
Then, say, like, in an hour,
|
|
after you're done using it,
|
|
you can just hit Ctrl-C
|
|
and it'll give you a full output of all the bandwidth
|
|
you've used in that hour.
|
|
And, you have a...
|
|
Do you type that into IRC
|
|
and I'm just missing it?
|
|
Do that because I keep trying it
|
|
and I'm not getting that that command exists.
|
|
You'll probably have to.
|
|
You might have to install it.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
I wanted this...
|
|
When I was set up my aspects box,
|
|
I wanted to see the throughput it could handle,
|
|
how many people it could host on it.
|
|
And I was trying to get some idea
|
|
of what sort of bandwidth each person was using.
|
|
And this is the thing that people told me to install on it.
|
|
And it didn't come stand on this
|
|
or actual CentOS.
|
|
So, you probably have to install it quite a bit.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
But it's really good.
|
|
I used to use NetStat, I think it was.
|
|
That's what I was going to mention.
|
|
Yeah, it sounds a lot like NetStat, but...
|
|
Ah, yeah.
|
|
This is heaps better.
|
|
Well, maybe not heaps better,
|
|
but it's a lot easier to read.
|
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It gave me exactly what I wanted to know
|
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and then gave me an overview at the end of it all,
|
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like your maximum throughput,
|
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your minimum, your average.
|
|
Ah, cool.
|
|
Yeah, typically what people are going to need.
|
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Is it its own program,
|
|
or is it some kind of shell script using NetStat on the back end?
|
|
Because I mean all that stuff I'm pretty sure can be gotten from NetStat.
|
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It's just you have to put about a dozen switches in to get to that point,
|
|
unless I'm wrong.
|
|
Pretty easy.
|
|
Yeah, because I used to have to use NetStat a lot at my old job,
|
|
and I'm pretty sure we got all that.
|
|
It sounds like we got all that information.
|
|
I wonder if the endstat is just a more friendly way to use NetStat features.
|
|
Where did you find it, Pegwold?
|
|
You remember?
|
|
Was it just in the repo,
|
|
or did you go to some website for it?
|
|
I forget why I installed it,
|
|
or what I was looking for,
|
|
but I did find it in the repos.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
I'm going to definitely look for that one.
|
|
That sounds pretty nice.
|
|
It's pretty awesome.
|
|
Yeah, that is pretty awesome.
|
|
I found the website I'm going to paste in the IRC for you once to be.
|
|
I just installed it.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
Says I'm able to write a database.
|
|
Yeah, you have to do the initialization thing to dash you, dash whatever.
|
|
Try running it as root.
|
|
Okay, Harley says he just installed it using SBOPKG.
|
|
Well, actually, I didn't even think to look in SBOPKG,
|
|
so I guess that is good to know.
|
|
On the subject, Clot 2,
|
|
your bad apples episode on Slackware was really good,
|
|
and you're going to follow that up, aren't you,
|
|
with SBOPKG?
|
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On your next one.
|
|
Yeah, sure.
|
|
Looking forward to it.
|
|
Very much.
|
|
Not that I listen.
|
|
I know.
|
|
I assume you're just going off of what you've heard on the IRC or something.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
The work that I do.
|
|
I'm into that.
|
|
The Clot 2, to make things that I listen to a show.
|
|
I ran into a fellow in the Main Street of Baton's Bay
|
|
who was talking about the bad apples of Slackware.
|
|
Listen to it.
|
|
Wow, cool.
|
|
Yeah, I guess you tended over your conversations,
|
|
because that apples just in the most random places.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
There you go.
|
|
Har said you're the one who is boiling to use SBOPKG.
|
|
Awesome.
|
|
How much of a boot, Har?
|
|
I think he's a bit of a sack.
|
|
I know, we should.
|
|
You have to clap.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
We don't put up with that.
|
|
Well, it's back machine B.
|
|
He just said it was a good episode as well.
|
|
A little bit too much there.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
He gets to reprove because he's been hanging real long enough.
|
|
Oh, OK.
|
|
To the area in his way.
|
|
But, Har, he's a new boot here.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
He'll get rid of him, for sure.
|
|
That, you know, everybody loves snacky with his lumpy head.
|
|
Clot 2, why don't you go ahead and give your commander the week
|
|
and drive these guys crazy.
|
|
I don't know if they can handle it.
|
|
That, actually, mine is nowhere near as cool as VN stat.
|
|
But I was just, it's more of a command line flag of the week.
|
|
Everyone, obviously, knows Tail, right?
|
|
T-A-I-L, the show, the last, by default, 10 lines of a log file
|
|
or a document or whatever.
|
|
But the switch that I use a lot of times on Tail is a dash F,
|
|
which means it's going to follow that document, meaning that basically,
|
|
if you do a tail dash F, you know, and let's say,
|
|
now I can't think of a log file that I'd do this on,
|
|
but on any given log file in a terminal window,
|
|
then each time a new line is written to that log file,
|
|
that pops up on your terminal window.
|
|
So you're looking at that file in real time as it occurs.
|
|
So when you're doing network testing and stuff like that,
|
|
or as much as I know about that sort of thing,
|
|
if you're trying to see if you're getting data from someplace or something like that,
|
|
you can do a tail on a log file and see what kind of entries are being made to that log file.
|
|
So it's actually quite handy for kind of monitoring what's happening on your system
|
|
as maybe you're doing some other kind of test.
|
|
That's tail dash F, as in follow.
|
|
I've seen a, that's more, I can't remember what,
|
|
you've got a log file on to why one having to some file,
|
|
if I flip over the TTY1 there will be,
|
|
what information will be continually get written to the terminal?
|
|
That is true, yeah.
|
|
Yeah, now I've seen a place more that continually printed that out,
|
|
so I'd imagine that's exactly what it was using.
|
|
It probably is, you're probably right.
|
|
Yeah, that's a good one to know, actually.
|
|
I used to use it a lot at my old job where we were,
|
|
I forget exactly what I was doing,
|
|
I think I was having to do testing to see if the evahi or whatever,
|
|
yeah, the evahi thing,
|
|
what was being picked up or something like that,
|
|
or error messages,
|
|
and I had to like tail dash F,
|
|
all these different files to see what kind of error messages
|
|
or confirmation and messages was being written out to the log file,
|
|
and it really made the job a lot easier.
|
|
On my devian box here I have a command just called tail F,
|
|
you know, without the dash.
|
|
Oh, okay.
|
|
I don't know if it's a devian thing,
|
|
let me look at the man page.
|
|
You mean it's tail, or you mean it's,
|
|
you just type it tail.
|
|
Yeah, it's tail.
|
|
It's probably like an ali, I felt that.
|
|
I don't know, let me type it.
|
|
Yeah, it's two in hard same thing,
|
|
but it's probably two different.
|
|
Man, sure.
|
|
Yeah, I think you're right,
|
|
it is a different thing.
|
|
I'm doing a man on it now.
|
|
But it does the same thing.
|
|
Yeah, it does the same thing.
|
|
Yeah, it follows the grace of the log file.
|
|
Yeah, there you go.
|
|
It says it's part of the,
|
|
you tell Lennox.ng package.
|
|
Oh, okay.
|
|
Yeah, I see, I see.
|
|
Yeah, you tell that.
|
|
It's similar to tail F,
|
|
tail space dash F,
|
|
but does not access the file when it is not growing.
|
|
So I take it,
|
|
it doesn't use any system resources.
|
|
Is that what it means?
|
|
Yeah, probably.
|
|
I bet you're right.
|
|
I bet that's exactly it.
|
|
That sounds kind of nice.
|
|
So it's almost like a,
|
|
almost like a Damon,
|
|
or it goes to sleep until it,
|
|
I guess it makes that file ping-it
|
|
when that file changes, maybe.
|
|
This has the side effect of not updating
|
|
the access time for the file.
|
|
So if file system flash does not occur
|
|
periodically,
|
|
when no log activity is happening,
|
|
it will crawl intensive purposes,
|
|
I think, for our,
|
|
what we want it for,
|
|
either one's going to work.
|
|
Well, I like tail better than tail dash F then.
|
|
I like them both.
|
|
Okay.
|
|
I like the name,
|
|
TELF.
|
|
Well, you know,
|
|
TELF, I'm sure I could get it somehow,
|
|
but the system,
|
|
the unit systems that I was using at this other job
|
|
was not Linux.
|
|
And so,
|
|
I don't believe it had TELF,
|
|
especially since,
|
|
I'm,
|
|
even since it was in Util dash Linux dash in G,
|
|
I really doubt that it had TELF on it.
|
|
So I had to use TEL dash F anyway.
|
|
So PIGWAL,
|
|
you are no longer PIGWAL,
|
|
you are TELF now.
|
|
Look,
|
|
I am one shirt V in stat PIGGY.
|
|
Well, I guess we learned something today, huh?
|
|
I think we all learned a little something today.
|
|
Well, let's learn some more.
|
|
How about you, Peter?
|
|
What do you got for us?
|
|
X-A-V.
|
|
Have you said of that?
|
|
Which is the X-Advent Viewer.
|
|
And what that's going to do,
|
|
if you run it,
|
|
it's going to open up a little window.
|
|
And in that window,
|
|
it's going to continually print out
|
|
all the events that are happening in X.
|
|
Now, typically, if you just run X-A-V,
|
|
you're going to have to have your cursor
|
|
over in that window.
|
|
Then you might hit the keys on your keyboard
|
|
and it's going to print out a heap of data.
|
|
If you start clicking the mouse,
|
|
it's going to print out a heap of stuff as well.
|
|
You can pass options to it,
|
|
so it doesn't happen in that particular window.
|
|
It happens in any window you want, I think.
|
|
Now, what do you use it for?
|
|
Good question.
|
|
I typically use it.
|
|
These days, a lot of remote controls
|
|
you don't need to look.
|
|
You can just plug them in.
|
|
They register as a USB keyboard or mouse.
|
|
Then when you push buttons on them,
|
|
you really don't know what signals are sending.
|
|
So what you can do is start up X-A-V
|
|
and start hitting buttons on your remote.
|
|
And you're going to see stuff like key press event,
|
|
serial blah blah blah,
|
|
set 30 blah blah blah.
|
|
And you're going to get about six or seven lines.
|
|
But the line you're typically going to be interested in
|
|
is going to say something like key code,
|
|
and it will give you a number.
|
|
And it will go key symbol.
|
|
And that might be key if you're hitting the play button
|
|
or the pause button typically in a moment
|
|
like sending the key.
|
|
So it's one way of doing that.
|
|
The other thing you can actually use this for,
|
|
if you have a multimedia keyboard,
|
|
and for some reason you have to have those keys going,
|
|
but you don't know what they're doing.
|
|
You can start this up and start hitting all those keys
|
|
on your multimedia keyboard.
|
|
You're probably going to get a key code,
|
|
but you may not get any key symbol.
|
|
What you have to do then is you've got to go and look up.
|
|
There's only X amount of key symbols you can use, I think.
|
|
But that to actually get in and tell you how.
|
|
You're going to have to also modify your X-Mod map file,
|
|
I think, is the other thing you've got to do.
|
|
But I can't get into all that now.
|
|
But if you're interested in doing that sort of stuff,
|
|
do a Google for X-AV X-Mod map,
|
|
and that should get you started in that.
|
|
So there you go.
|
|
I just want more.
|
|
I'm going to send myself to the bin here,
|
|
because I heard Dan talking about trying to see if his remote
|
|
was working the other day.
|
|
They were using IOW.
|
|
But IOW will only work if you have work and figured correctly.
|
|
The simplest one to do is use HexDum.
|
|
Has anyone used that before?
|
|
If you haven't heard of that,
|
|
where you just do a HexDum space dash C,
|
|
then the device,
|
|
and for a remote,
|
|
your device might be dash, dev, dash, remote.
|
|
Start pushing buttons in on the dump,
|
|
or the HexDum,
|
|
or the HexDesimal output to the terminal,
|
|
and at least you know that you're remote worker.
|
|
And you don't need to look or set up to do that.
|
|
So do you actually use HexModMap really frequently?
|
|
I've never used it.
|
|
Never.
|
|
No, I typically use XEV for the remote.
|
|
I'm not around a hell of a lot of micro trials.
|
|
So that's where I've come across it and used it.
|
|
But XEV,
|
|
I mean, just do a Google XEV.
|
|
It can be used for a hell of a lot more than that.
|
|
It's showing every,
|
|
it's not just keyboards,
|
|
it's showing everything that's happening in that,
|
|
in your extra session.
|
|
When you move a mouse,
|
|
you'll see a heap of data going across the screen.
|
|
I think when you highlight windows,
|
|
you know, you bring them to the forefront and background
|
|
and all that,
|
|
it's telling you everything.
|
|
But unfortunately,
|
|
I don't need to know that.
|
|
So I wouldn't know what to do with it all.
|
|
Yeah, I've used XEV and I've never known really what to do with it.
|
|
But that's interesting to hear what you actually do use it for.
|
|
It's pretty cool.
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Yeah, Jesse Jones has just done his output there,
|
|
the X Mod Map.
|
|
And that's where it goes.
|
|
KeyCode 178 equals.
|
|
Okay, that's the key code that you'll find in that X Event Viewer.
|
|
So then you can associate it and see it's got there the XF86 audio raise volume.
|
|
I'll put a link that I've got.
|
|
And these lists,
|
|
most of the you might put in the show notes.
|
|
These are the only things you can use.
|
|
The multi symbols or whatever you call them.
|
|
The references that X will understand.
|
|
You don't want yours?
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
All right, very cool, Peter.
|
|
Now let's move on to Asmet.
|
|
Well, I want to revisit the screen command
|
|
since we had a discussion about this this week.
|
|
Somebody who I was sure knew all about screen turned out knew nothing.
|
|
And so I got to thinking,
|
|
well, maybe there's a lot of people that don't know about screen.
|
|
Who was that, GMN?
|
|
Well, I wouldn't know, but it starts with them.
|
|
And ends with B.
|
|
No idea.
|
|
You fell in the rest.
|
|
Yeah, I don't either.
|
|
Well, screen is a Windows Manager.
|
|
It's not a GUI Windows Manager.
|
|
You don't even have to have X-Organ Sold or RX on the machine.
|
|
But you can use just the screen Windows Manager
|
|
and have multiple terminals without logging into every terminal you open.
|
|
You just log into one terminal
|
|
and you keep opening different windows for it and add what you need.
|
|
There's some very basic commands.
|
|
It's really all anybody pretty much needs on it.
|
|
But it has a quite complete set of issues with it.
|
|
And it will do amazing things.
|
|
If you read the L here, let me paste the...
|
|
Yeah, there's the manual for it.
|
|
You read that and you will find things that screen will do
|
|
that none of us may ever use.
|
|
But you should know at least the basic commands on it.
|
|
The most basic one is the screen dash LS
|
|
or screen dash list, which you just do from the terminal.
|
|
And it will tell you if you have a screen session running and detach
|
|
that screen from wherever it is running
|
|
with the dash capital D command in...
|
|
Well, it's not the command.
|
|
It's actually a switch on the screen command.
|
|
It will detach that screen from any place that it is connected.
|
|
And you can add the R-switch to it
|
|
and it will reattach to the terminal that you have open.
|
|
So whatever screen you have running, you can open it right there.
|
|
There's also a dash X-R command
|
|
which will allow any screens that are running to still be running
|
|
but it will reattach them to the terminal you are in.
|
|
And that will allow you to multiple terminals
|
|
on the same screen session, which is what I myself do a lot with RISC.
|
|
I run RISC in a screen and I attach to it with computers all over the place here
|
|
and I never disconnect from it.
|
|
The screen session is always set in there running and RISC is running
|
|
and I can pick up any computer on my land
|
|
and jump right into the IRC right where I left off.
|
|
And most of the time nobody even knows that I've moved from one computer to another.
|
|
But the beauty of screen is that not only is for things that you are actually running
|
|
but you can open a screen window with the Control-A-C
|
|
and that will open a new screen window.
|
|
And in that screen window you can run another program.
|
|
And it's completely independent whatever you have running in the first screen.
|
|
It's just like any window manager.
|
|
It bets off running by itself and what you are running in this window is running by itself.
|
|
In fact, I even have the lease of bought from the IRC is running in a screen window all the time,
|
|
which is it's really convenient to get over if the bought screws up.
|
|
I can just jump into a Control-A-C in that window and stop the bought and restart it
|
|
and it goes on about its very business.
|
|
It connects back up again.
|
|
I'll be running along there.
|
|
This all SSH didn't to my server.
|
|
And so I may have one window that's open into as a super user to where I can do rich stuff over there.
|
|
But it's set in there running independent of what's running in the other windows.
|
|
And it is a windows manager.
|
|
But it is a text-based windows manager as opposed to black box or flux box or open box or anything else that would require X.
|
|
Yeah, you can even split the screen.
|
|
Horizontal and vertical have different sessions going on in different split.
|
|
It's a great program I love screen.
|
|
Yeah, anybody that hasn't played with it, they need to go play with it and just go through the manual that I listed there.
|
|
And just try the different switches in it and watch it go crazy.
|
|
Because you'll find things that it does that you just shake your head and say, well, wait a minute.
|
|
I don't even need to have X running.
|
|
Well, I've got some machines that it's kind of like you get an X up and running on.
|
|
But I guess you put screen in them and you've got all the advantages of a window manager without the graphical problems that you end up with on some of these display cards.
|
|
Yeah, you're not exaggerating.
|
|
It'll change the way that you use your text console, that's for sure.
|
|
And it's one of those things, the more you learn about it, the more you find out that you never imagined it would do.
|
|
That's just like today I was on my desktop, you know, connected to my free BSD box with screen in the chat room.
|
|
I detached, took my trip lead to the coffee shop today and then connected to my free BSD box again, reattached and nobody knew it.
|
|
And I could look over and see what was said in the chat room. I never know anything.
|
|
Yeah, that's cool.
|
|
Other than we just thought you was rude because you were ignoring us, but that's different story altogether.
|
|
Yeah, see I was on my way to the coffee shop, you guys were talking to me.
|
|
But it's very handy.
|
|
Do you know if it's really easy to change the default, either the key binding, like the control A and then whatever letter, to change it away from control?
|
|
Is it just a simple config file somewhere, or do you know?
|
|
Yeah, there's a screen RC file, dot screen RC file that you need to go look at and you can set up your key bindings in it.
|
|
Well, some of those control key bindings kind of override some of the default bash key bindings.
|
|
And I always found that kind of annoying, but other than that, I love it.
|
|
We'll spend some time digging through the manual on it then you've, especially after you've been using it for a while.
|
|
And you say things that, well, I wondered why it did that.
|
|
And that's how I can get past, you know, some little idiosyncrasy that you thought it had and it was all, well, it turns out it was just your operation of it.
|
|
Yeah, yeah.
|
|
And you only need screen on the one box you're connecting to?
|
|
Yeah.
|
|
Of course, I've been finding screen comes stock in a lot of distros anymore.
|
|
Yeah, I don't remember the last time I had to actually install it.
|
|
But the only one I run it on is my server.
|
|
Everything else has got a good around here.
|
|
Another one, what?
|
|
Another like screen type application.
|
|
I thought it was like contact.
|
|
Tuck's window manager.
|
|
It's like very similar.
|
|
I think I've heard it's the only thing I haven't.
|
|
I don't think it's called Tuck's window manager though.
|
|
Unless there is one called that, but I think I know what you're talking about.
|
|
I heard screen was quote unquote better.
|
|
I don't know why.
|
|
They just said use screen.
|
|
It's better.
|
|
I think you're thinking about team up.
|
|
Yeah, how do you spell that?
|
|
That's TMUX.
|
|
Yeah, that's it.
|
|
Now, can you, well, never mind, I was going to ask you about the colors.
|
|
But that depends on whatever terminal you're using, right?
|
|
Yeah, if you have your terminal set to Linux colors or whatever, then that'll be used.
|
|
And if it's a text console, I guess it's just whatever settings you've got for that.
|
|
Well, too.
|
|
Now, screen sets are in runs until you actually close it.
|
|
And if you detach from a screen session, the screen session is still set in a running,
|
|
where you can come back in and reattach to it, either from the computer that is running on or you can SSH into it.
|
|
And you can go right back to the session that's just been set in there idling along doing its own thing,
|
|
even though it had no terminal connected to it.
|
|
Yep.
|
|
It is an amazing application.
|
|
Perfect.
|
|
We're out of time.
|
|
Anything else on this one?
|
|
Before I end the show?
|
|
Nope.
|
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All right.
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You can send us feedback at feedback at titradio.info.
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And remember to visit titradio.info for the org feed and show notes.
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And I'm going to say another tit is in the can.
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An explosion happened between my legs.
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