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Episode: 1200
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Title: HPR1200: CJE Computer Jargon Explained 01
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1200/hpr1200.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 21:30:56
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Hello everybody, my name is Alistam Unro, some people know me from Linux Outlaws and other
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Linux sources as Black Crow. Today I wanted to introduce an idea that I've had which
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is at a very embryonic stage called Computer Jargon Explained. The idea is to set up a website
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where I give an every man description of computer jargon and terms and just technical concepts
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which haven't got a very wide understanding amongst the general public. What I want to
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do is provide a community-based website where there are shorts, YouTube-hosted videos with
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the company audio and they will explain concepts such as DNS or a URL or what is a solid
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state drive and what is its advantages. We'll create these videos, upload them to YouTube
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and then link to those videos from a central site which I'm hoping to call CGE or Computer
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Jargon Explained. You can then, they will all be produced and licensed under CC by SA.
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The same as Hacker Public Radio is so there'll be no restrictions on whether you can redistribute
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them, whether you can send them to other people, how you link to them. It's a completely
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open source for information. Once the videos are uploaded, the only thing I will ask in return
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is to leave a flatter link or possibly a paypal donation on the site. That way there's no
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hesitation for people to use it as a resource and if they find it useful they can always contribute
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back and hopefully we can get a little bit of an income stream going that will just keep the
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thing and sustain the thing. The reason I decided to come to HPR and publicize this a little bit
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is I wanted to get people's thoughts on what are terms that they are often having to explain
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to the non-technical or the technically uninterested and if they could feed those ideas back to me,
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those subjects, those main headings. The ones that I've thought I've already, as I've mentioned
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before, things like URL, DNS and the whole idea came recently, well over the last 48 hours,
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when a website that I am a moderator on a forum website that I'm a moderator on had a problem
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with DNS. Some people were getting re-referred to the new IP of the website when they changed it
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recently and some people weren't because some DNS services weren't updating with the new IP address.
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Now the technical moderators, like myself, the site owners and a few others, were perfectly happy
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discussing this but the non-technical moderators of the site because it's not an IT-based site,
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it's actually a motorsport website. They quickly became frustrated that they couldn't
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contribute anything to the discussion because they didn't understand the term DNS, it was just
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pure jargon to them and they actually became belligerent and annoyed that they couldn't contribute
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to the conversation because we were using all this jargon and that's where the thought came from
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and hopefully when I get the site up and running, that will be the first entry into this resource,
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will be an explanation of what is DNS, what does DNS stand for, why should you be aware of it,
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what are the pitfalls, how can you improve your own home implementation of DNS and
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why you should know about it, what are its implications, for example, for personal web privacy,
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if you've got kids in the house which you can't monitor their internet usage 24-7,
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how could DNS actually help you to improve their safety while you're not supervising them possibly,
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and it's subjects like this where people can get a lot of benefit from a small
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amounts of clearly explained information that I'd like to get up and running as soon as possible.
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If people would like to do that, my first thoughts are that I'm going to use a white boarding
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application in Chrome, full screen it and use a screencasting application to record the notes
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that I do and then use the white board to diagram out some of the things I'm talking about
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and possibly have a little bit of face-to-face video but certainly a clear concise audio track
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which explains the concept thoroughly. If people would like to do that kind of thing and contribute
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into the actual projects on that basis, they're more than welcome to. I'm a little bit thin on
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details and places to point you at at the minute. Initially, I'm going to have it as either subdomain
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or a subsection of one of my personal websites which is aimunrow.net. I'll spell that out for you
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AMUNRO.net. When I get something more tangible up and running, I'll put links
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to where I'm at on that website. You can also email me directly at
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Alistair at aimunrow.net. That's A-L-I-S-T-A-I-R-A-M-U-N-R-O.net. Any contributions, any suggestions,
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any helpful advice you can give me will be gratefully received and hopefully we can put together
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something which is a real value to people and helps people understand the sometimes complicated
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world of the internet and computers. Thanks very much for listening. I hope I haven't
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waffled on too much and I hope this grabs your imagination. Please, please get in touch. I am
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interested in hearing everything the community has to offer on this subject and I look forward to
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hearing from you and also speaking to you again about the progress I've made with it on Hacker Public
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Radio as soon as possible. Thanks everybody. Bye-bye.
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