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Episode: 2221
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Title: HPR2221: HPR Community News for January 2017
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2221/hpr2221.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 15:56:48
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This is HBR episode 2,221 entitled HBR Community News for January 2017 and is part of the series
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HBR Community News. It is posted by HBR volunteers and is about 85 minutes long and carries an
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explicit flag. The summary is HBR volunteers talk about shows released and comment posted
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in January 2017. This episode of HBR is brought to you by an Honest Host.com.
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Get 15% discount on all shared hosting with the offer code HBR15. That's HBR15.
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Better web hosting that's Honest and Fair at An Honest Host.com.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another edition of Hacker Public Radio
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Community News this time for January 2017. Hi Dave. I can, sorry, this is where I traditionally say
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joining me tonight is Dave but my head is all over the shop so how about you? It's fine,
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it's fine. There's another bloke here and it's me. Yes. For those new two HBR, HBR is a crowd
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crowdsourcing podcast network that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday and to give
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everybody who is not on the mailing list and you should be a background into what's going on
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on the mailing list and then the HBR community in general we put on this show once a month and it's
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in, it's been moved around a bit this time due because of one thing and other which we'll no doubt
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get to. Actually it's far stem is coming up this Saturday and we go down to that and well I'm
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going down to that and as a result we're just too busy to to record a show on that Saturday so
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we moved it to Wednesday and then you had some issues then as well. Yes, it looked like sand
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completely failed on my my usual workstation so I'm running a full laptop today. It took me,
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it took me all day to get ready. Yeah so I'll have that and thankfully I'm not sounding like a chipmunk
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this month. I don't think. Now you sound good as far as I'm good soon anyway. For some reason
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they got stuck at 44.1 kHz and when I went to 44.8 that fixed it but then when I plugged it in now
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again this evening and went to 48 kHz or whatever it was I was sounding like Barry Manol over while
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so. You were. Is this your zoom that you're using? Yeah that's the one. That's what I'm doing as well
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yeah well that's what I'm doing as well and so I could sound like chipmunk too wow. Yeah
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or normally it didn't do anything but it might be just something decided to get smart and intelligent.
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I need to remember to bring my all my recording stuff as well. I have impact because it's
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I need to go to get my stuff together and then go to work and then from work I'm taking the train
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Belgium down to Brussels from there and going into the where they're setting up the stands and drop
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off some of the posters and then hopefully I might be able to get some interviews because there's
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something like 74 different tables this time. Wow yeah yeah and I know that there will be more
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because they they media lounge and they open hardware section has always people who kind of
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you know start demoing stuff on the day. Well good luck and yeah enough about I'm also
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processing all the Hitzbjörs shows the New Year's shows in the background so I will be hoping to
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stop this from time to time to enter in passwords and the like. Anyway do you want to go ahead
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and welcome our new host we have a few this month? Yes we have two new hosts and the first one
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is Reg A who was on he was on the New Year's show quite a lot I think and proving this repressuring
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people into doing chores actually works. Absolutely yeah yeah well done and well done Reg for
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for Steppe Lurge and we also have Hannah of Terror of Sol which is the most wonderful
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and absolutely awesome yes. But the the the commas I got I just had to change the layer of this
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thing so that the it was quoted so that you didn't think there were three people there. Excellent
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and so on being a geeks all about. Oh dude don't get me started. So the HBR 2251 is just downloaded
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give me two seconds till I checked to make sure it's playing okay. Tronkade silence hopefully we'll
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do what's the thing. Okay that one looks good I'll just process the next one hold on. Okay we're
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back. Dave can you hear me? Yes yes yes it's as if we hadn't ever been away. Excellent yes I'm on
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the last one now so I was telling you earlier on that the because it converts all they're uploaded
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in August and because it converts it to PCM they go out to five our segment shows which blows up
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the amount of free space we have on the VPS and as it only happens once a year then it's it's not
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that big a deal but yeah anyway every year I could guess but to clean out stuff and then why
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is there no outro on the end of this and then all right okay anyway so starting with the first
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show let's go through the shows and we had it was HBR community news for December 2016 and we had
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no comments on that and the following day we had why you should not say free software which is kind
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of my tongue and cheek suggestion that we should treat the term free software as a bug. Well yes
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yes English is a bug as a version in that respect isn't it although when I was going through this I
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did I did thank you was tongue and cheek but the tongue and cheek Irish people have trouble saying
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tree tongue and cheek and but actually it makes sense see I don't know why he picked free software is
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if he had picked free dumb software then we wouldn't have had this problem yeah I know I know
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it's yeah I guess we get used to the fact that there's so many meanings in English English is a very
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very difficult language in many respects isn't it yeah it's a shame I mean
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everybody knows that there's a difference between the word free and free you learn that in
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in you know national school secondary school and somebody is educated as RMS and the like
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definitely knew that there was two meanings of free yeah maybe he didn't appreciate that it would
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be played upon or misunderstood it's like theory and theory it's a lot of the anti science people
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attack science because it's only a theory but theory means something else in science so you know
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it's another one of those words don't believe it for a second I think he was trying to be funny
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you think yeah so many as a canoe software canoe is not unique it's hilarious what does it mean
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canoe means canoe is not unique yeah yeah there are lots of those at that time
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anyway but if you use that for at first I'll see if I can ask him I'll definitely be asking
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the free software people so you've stored up a lot of a lot of comments so if you want to read the
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first one or whatever yeah you sure yep I'll do my all my replies if you want yeah okay the first
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one is from my zoomed space man spoke spoke wrong but like what about freedom is the question how do
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you get the point of freedom matters across in that sense open source would be a bug because
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seeing the code is not equal seeing the code is not equal to free software it's possible
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to not be free even if you have access to the code people need to get educated and get to know
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what is going on with the software I'm laughing because no matter what topic free software free energy
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veganism nutrition the majority of people just want an iPhone that scratches their butts really
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I've never come across one of that and watch their drones synchronizing channels but yeah keep in
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mind that open source doesn't mean you're free so what word do you want to use I suggest free
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lever or free with an explanation there isn't it still around it's probably because there aren't
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a thousand ways to say freedom so then we have McNallyu saying life has language has a life of its
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own you present a solid clear argument Ken thanks for the show my understanding is that if
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is that they are a mess and code didn't fully appreciate the bug until people started using
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the term free I it's a runtime bug and once it's entered common usage it's hard if not impossible
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to alter the usage from a self I can live with the ambiguity my mind by minding context and saying
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free and open source software when there's likely to be ambiguity and Brian says liberty
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let me say freedom I believe we mean liberty I have no problem with Libra Libra is obviously
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not quite sure why actually as it conveys the message without much misunderstanding I have a
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problem with open source as much open source is still proprietary and I replied space man yes freedom
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matters had they named it freedom software then there would have been no disambiguity and I refer
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to the fact that he himself has used free software that he is referred to the fact that freedom
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matters so had it been called freedom software there wouldn't be a problem McNallyu I don't believe
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it was a runtime bug as it was loads of examples at the time of both paid and gratitude software
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aside from levels of freedom the term free was also known to be the opposite of paid at the time
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changing names has and this is changing names has been done many times in the past post-gress
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inkscape word press Maria DB Libra office Jenkins it's all part and parcel of how free software works
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armass himself puts the better name of opens well what I meant to say well open source as a reason
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why open source was so popular and a brand I reported the bug I leave it up to you to submit a patch
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because that really don't want to suggest other options there but I didn't go back and look
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at bike magazines which are on narcov.org okay there were plenty of advertisements in there for
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where you could buy tapes for money of free software and there was also places where you could buy
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by applications that were proprietary so both were both were being shipped cratis as in zero cost
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and both were being available for being paid so at the time it was well known and I also went
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back and had a look like WordPress have a look at the busy calc word star word perfect lotus one
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two three these were all applications that were around at the time so I cannot believe that the
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concept of having to pay for software was not normal yeah yeah yeah I worked on a boroughs machine
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many years ago and they did actually let you have the source code free I believe anyway
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universities are odd places and sometimes you've got special special deal but we certainly had
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access to the full operating system code to to hack around it and we did yeah exactly and it was
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and rms even said in some of the speeches that yeah it was not on you know they
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you've got the tapes and you paid for the tapes and you paid for transfer that was a different thing
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that's why you know people he's never had an issue with people charging for
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gonna do software yeah yeah anyway moving on moving on how awesome is
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geeks geeks geeks that's the one thanks he did explain that it's French unfortunately should you
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look geeks look geeks we and why it will take over the world yes exactly sorry brain
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can you can you do this one because my brain is busy looking at the htbr conversion that's
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gone over here I don't want to miss since the upgrade we're waiting to upgrade the the
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ssh keys don't work so I need to paste in the password so that's why oh right oh so the distractors
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I wasn't aware of this I am looking forward to the day when we get moved to this new server josh has
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promised us yes indeed so yes there's quite a lot of comments on this one and geeks is a packaging
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system as I understand it yep but it yeah it sounded very cool but yeah it's not too cool for me
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I suspect anyway I think it's handy from the point of view of if you're doing docker containers
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or stuff like that that you want to keep control over particular libraries and versions so it did
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seem quite interesting to me but yeah I really feel I should look into it be more just to find out
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more about it but and claque is very very keen about it he starts the comments with the with
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the comment to himself saying correction 8 sink 0.3 and the show notes are already out of date apparently
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Chris released that version two weeks ago and then Brian says please more preferably basic examples
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of user package management I've installed it and really liked it but as a non-programmer I'm a
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little horrible well into its system management fair enough Jonas says interesting it's interesting
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to know that there's a virtual end thing type thing for an entire user login as well as a distro
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I'll definitely have a look it would be great to hear how your co-host is getting along with using
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geeks in his current setup a year later and claque said slides this is not entirely helpful without
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it's from a presentation I met or maybe someone can lean some information about it and he's got
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their thingy x episode idea there are at this we'll do as improperly on your show
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well he probably will he's he's a way on Chinese in a year at the moment he's a he's out in
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Hong Kong as far as I'm aware so he's probably quite busy good stuff good stuff so he also said
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every every day package operations the most common operations I do are geeks environment
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I won't read this whole thing where it's not that's a sure that's a sure right yeah it's a lot
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that yeah just jump down to basically it's too much to um the next jump to the next comment you
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mean yeah please yeah but I can't read this what is the last last bias opinion see my laptop screen
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is tartaried working programmer like many programmers out there and stuck in the narrow focus of
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my job I found this episode informative and inspiring big thumbs up he said cool what more can
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you say from an episode John this truck is worth its weighting gold cope is replacing the throttle
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precision sensor on his truck when the check engine light came on it turned out to be the
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the throttle throttle positioning sensor and then my bill says when is the new truck eventually John
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will do an episode when he repaces every last piece of this old truck that's a good comment I
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like that yes still the same truck it's still the same truck yeah absolutely yeah and
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somebody called Ken Fallon says no this truck is worth its weight in shows John replies just
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getting started don't worry y'all I expect this truck will give me episode topics regularly for a
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good while I'm going to guess start a motor and initial coil within the next year spark plugs at
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least yeah yeah very good just paste it in the other show but that's that's actually why I don't
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have a car div is just maintenance and while I didn't use it any episode one of the future of free
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software series where it's an introduction to the series and he was trying to post it and then
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never did so both the rest of the shows would be interesting to hear the remainder of the series
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yes indeed yeah that was no I made to myself it's looking forward to the rest and then we had
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Lorde's Memorons and yeah this this was this is a good show thanks to the two for putting this
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together I was very moving I thought and an extremely well assembled and introduced by
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Clarke too very very sad that a young fella like him died so young absolutely absolutely
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droop says dragonblood dude it's hard to listen to this episode thinking about you being gone thank
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you for being there for me and for everybody else too I wish I had been a better friend to you
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I did laugh when they mentioned long-grabbling conversations I just hear you saying well droops
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it was a great episode and it didn't do you enough justice you're a great guy and we are all
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the lesser without you well said okay the following day makers on YouTube I'm trying to learn
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to make various things watching YouTube to find information by Dave Morris Dave did you know
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the whole concept to cause an effect the butterfly thing yeah yeah yeah this caused my nose to
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Philip days yeah yeah yeah this is that's the YouTube effect I think or YouTube download or whatever
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I have a script which I promise to do a show before on on you know just for fetching YouTube things
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using like a bash pottery type thing that so I just put them into that and download
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next morning all of a sudden a terabyte of dis space had disappeared
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these are prolific people yeah I'm I'm glad to see so many women doing this
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sort of hardware stuff absolutely not only like you know just hardcore real engineering going on
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here yeah yeah yeah yeah because I was I was shown my kids on the couch and then you know there
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there were various different people coming up so it was really nice to nice to see that
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yeah absolutely yes my my daughter's also about both my son I'm a daughter a bit my daughter
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and I were looking at some and she was visiting over Christmas and stuff so yeah yeah yeah it's
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good to spread the word so there were a bunch of comments on this one Mira Shade says
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awesome suggestions I love Jimmy de Resta and I've spent more than a few hours on his channel myself
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looking forward to checking out some of the other channels you posted yeah and then Victor
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all said thumbs up I think making things as healthy so what if factories make things better and
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cheaper it's not about that it keeps it's about keeping your handyman as a handyman we don't have
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to be so dependent on what's available we have options good point don't dummy although to be honest
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none of quite a lot of those things you would never see coming out of a factory and the quality of
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them being far higher by virtue of the fact they're manufactured yeah yeah some of them are a bit
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dodgy but I mean some of the taking what's her face let me see here Laura Camp for example her stuff
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is just art rolled up in her oh she's brilliant she's absolutely brilliant yeah she's she's since we
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able to do anything she turns on to yeah yeah yeah she's a definitely a role model I said to my daughter
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there somebody you should you should emulate her yeah she's she probably said shut up
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hundred breath at least well I definitely I deliberately did not try to say that because I'm trying to
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I'm and this is something I want to bring up on the interview with that's coming up shortly and
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how not to overdo it you know what yeah yeah it's just nice subtly to be going all to be watching
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somebody and then you know it gives subconsciously a message that yes it's not all men in this
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feel that it is it is possible for somebody to be to be respected under just under engineering
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capabilities oh absolutely absolutely yeah yeah it's my daughter and I have a have an interesting
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relationship they sort of banter at one another she probably say the same to me at some point
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dad you should watch this you might learn something oh yeah no harm so did you want to do that
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why should I don't don't do me I think it is because it don't with the doubly on the end don't do me
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I've never thought I thought I'd done me for the last ages I do apologize it takes a bit of reading
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why why did you swan eggy so it's easy actually eggy swan he says is another I like and actually he's
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very good so I don't watch him quite as much as the others but and he says I'm a bit of a dive in
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all of us stalker and Paul Sellers de Resta primitive technology I like magic to me and he points
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at some YouTube channels a YouTube channel yeah absolutely awesome I think this is a I need to go
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through some of my series as well that's on my list as well of things to do I've already promised
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that last year but yeah so he missed this last sentence already was watch most on this list but
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there are about five haven't heard of can't wait to check them out he did you should we do the
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the last comment because even though it's yeah for us put added today it's still probably worth
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doing so Jim Weder says do you like to do what do you want to do no I'm actually processing the
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sure when you hesitate I see what you're doing don't don't hold on don't let on no no no no no
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no I said to take it oh gosh yes yes everything's fine anyway he says treat list I think you
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meant great list but maybe not I don't know you definitely put some time in in being that you
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were able to put a great list together I know when I was doing my search for great builders I could
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learn from I made sure I watched many of their videos until I felt confident and comfortable
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about turning to them for ideas and techniques thanks for turning me on to a couple of new names
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I hadn't run into yet can't wait to watch some of these since I really agree with the rest of the
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list so yeah this I always enjoy sharing lists I always enjoy other people sharing lists it's
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you can learn a lot from from these these things podcasts and YouTube and stuff although since I've
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started my list I've taken a few off because they've gotten bit by the bug when they start getting
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more popular than they sometimes they deviate from their core values well yeah yeah it's the
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sponsorship deals and all that stuff can water them down a bit as well but yeah I'm not
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doesn't bother me so much as then you know you're putting up they're putting up videos every week
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and start giving opinions on the US elections when you're thinking oh right for enough yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah just having a mad piece platform to be able to do these things I guess
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yeah anyways just give me one second I want to check the audio yeah looks good
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so oh yeah there was one thing about all the woodworking shows so it doesn't seem to be a hobby
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that you can get into unless you've got this physical space in order to do it yeah I'm
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thinking about them all in common and they all got a router they've all got a saw table they all
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got a pedestal drill they've all got a vertical saw so right there that's a big shed from my point
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of view even if you know well yeah I agree I agree but when I worked at Lancaster University I had
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a flat and had quite a reasonable sized bedroom and half of that bedroom was my workshop and I
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built some furniture in there quite successfully I had to watch about you know stepping at a bed
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into a pile of shavings or the odd nail and the floor and stuff but but you know it and that
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was all hand and stuff you know it was done with a brace and bit and a hand saw and stuff back
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in my day yesterday down down joining is cool yeah yeah no no no I don't know I just I'm very
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into electronics at the minute and it's a lot more compact that's yeah I'm very tempted to
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to acquire some of the those large tools but I don't know I've only got a small
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an ordinary one car garage so I'd have to sort of make the end of it adaptable somehow yeah
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fold up whatever yeah but you're right you're right you want sort of a giant two car three car
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garage with loads of room for tools ideally and lots lots of money although the money didn't seem
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to be I think if you could go round and get you could you could you know get away with reasonably
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cheap stuff if you're lucky give me two minutes I'll be back yeah okay all the HPR show all the
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new your shows are posted and the feed validates and there's no weird XML okay you good I got that done
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okay the following day we had not so smart how I'm fault troubling disk I owe issues
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and this is an excellent show and will be absolutely boiled away for my um disk issues when they
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yeah yeah yeah I um I've never had to do this but as you say it's it's good to know that somebody
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somebody gives you pointers to to have to deal with these sorts of issues when you when
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they do need to so yeah good for that yeah so the following day we had a maskan for 10 dots on
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MG and this is an issue with the vulnerability scanner and destroying discovery times from eight hours
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to one hour with mask and that was pretty impressive I must say yes yes yes again a little bit
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outside my my sphere of existence but still good to know yeah it is especially with reading our
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internal policies about running this sort of thing would be a career limiting inside your own
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organization yes it's very you know it's very interesting to see somebody's daily daily job you know
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that uh you need to check all these ports on uh if you're running hosting services to see what's
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open and stuff so yeah yeah yeah absolutely good look into it so uh quick rumba tips and some silicon
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packets now what was he doing putting silicon packets into a toaster oven do you have any idea
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well um I made a note about this because I was thinking silicon what is he what is he does he mean
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silicon you wrote silicon and these are sort of things I have to check so silicon's the element
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silicon is SIO2 silicon dioxide and it's the naturally cooling mineralized in quartz sand etc
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and silicon is an inert robbery polymer using kitchen implements etc that's quoting my notes um
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and so I have to deal with this man every day well yeah something bend in my brain I'm sorry
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but uh silica gel is what he's talking about silica gel is the little packets you get in stuff that
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needs to be needs to be uh kept away from damp and he's talking about the fact that you can if you
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heat them to a fairly low temperature uh after they have got damp you can dry them out again and make
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them usable yeah that's what I thought you meant but then he was talking about putting them in when
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you're cooking a turkey I forget what temperature is only about 110 or something Fahrenheit or
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something I'm not sure I forget what the temperature is for yeah well I thought he was talking about
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using them in the cooking process to keep to absorb the moisture of a turkey as you roasted
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that that I didn't get probably because I was stuck on the silicon silicon it's just a curse of
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curse of having a brain like man no friend so operator if you could do another show explain
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in that that will be awesome thank you see what it did there see what it did there
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yeah yeah now that I posted all the other shows I can focus on getting getting people to do more
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shows podcasts I listened to by red J excellent list uh quite a few actually that I've never heard of
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before and that have come up on other people's lists again and again I need to book an opiuml
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file together yes I know it's on the list yeah as I said before people's lists are always
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fascinating there's there's too many sports ones here for me but that's just my my prejudices but
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now there's some there's some good stuff the few I if you're listening to I'm sure you do too
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damn darling and people like that yeah cool no don't listen to downcarlin for the very reason that
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when people are seeing how long they are I already have a podcast list that's going
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cool well if I put another podcast in I know need to take a podcast out so that's that's
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that's not good I yeah yeah I listen to podcasts all day long but I'm still at three gigs of
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unlistened to so I need to be listening to two simultaneously I think Paul E.B says update on
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Linux the diets probably recorded the podcast before the new sweet house which is true Linux
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on dice which really was a great show ended in the new year but the two guys went on and started
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late night Linux as follow up podcast so they are now over at lidnightlinics.com
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since you put them on the list I'll give TLLTS another go I could really click and get it into
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the first time I tried best wishes and thanks for all the content as far as TLLTS goals you need to
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do tronkate silence yeah yeah I do I do I can shrink them quite considerably and speed them up
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and everything and red j replies the Linux latex update info thanks Paul B I had not listened to
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the last two LIDOTES podcast when I submitted my list thanks for the info yeah shame about LIDOTES
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but there you go well they're don't plan yeah the new the new show sounds really good I like the
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um i key dochety and uh fail him whittily as they do so the following day we had
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neighborly greetings we covered the title podcast recommendations and well wishes NATO alphabet
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so we got some podcast recommendations in there as well so that was that was kind of great
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which was a cool thing to do I like that yeah I'm leaving it a while before I do the translations
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and add them to the opium l file but I I will do that I have already
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are you are you maintaining an opium l file for the hpr site then
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but that's just you volunteering there well the last time I did a podcast listen took two shows
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and there was an opium l list with it so don't don't don't get me started yeah yeah yeah so
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windigo said what a cool spin on podcast recommendation topics I didn't think I could even
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formally be introduced to the NATO alphabet and your recommended podcast sound intriguing as well
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thanks and welcome to hpr Clinton Roy says thanks thanks very much for this it was wonderful
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little episode I heard this on a plane with all the noise and surrounding all the noise surrounding
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me it was interesting to really listen to it with my headphone noise cancellation off and work out
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how good it was at carrying information when there's a lot of background noise
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god dummy we called it five not five if I'm not mistaken the total five for five tree for tree
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when I was in the army I heard that yeah yeah I've heard that both yeah yeah yeah yeah like the
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nine are business just to make him more more clear but yeah tree is probably because of the
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yeah I imagine where that came from there was yeah I can't I'm not actually a liberty to say
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there's something quite amusing happened this month with that where was I kayak camping yes kayak
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camping is really fun and an affordable way to explore outdoors and get away another episode from
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Louisiana apparently and commons by this with by droops obviously who was kayak camping
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mongo says camping the right way I just listened to your excellent podcast and kayak camping in
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Louisiana and have arrived at the right way of doing you have arrived at the right way of doing it
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and I enjoyed the story for me there is nothing better than walking up waking up in the
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great outdoors I tend to camp for many years sometimes with backpack or bicycle but mostly from
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the car and usually with dogs cheap gear mostly real food nor tech thank you for the podcast
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and drip says thanks thanks for the kind comment mongo after listening to the podcast again I left
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out something cheap gear is not the same as bad gear you want quality gear but not to pay pay much
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for it if I had a four hundred dollar tent and an ember burn a hole in it I would be be much more
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upset than when my forty dollar tent gets a hole I try and test everything in my yard before
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relying on it tent under sprinkler as to not bring worthless gear with me good plan good plan yeah
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yeah absolutely this kind of goes along with the more stuff you bring the worst of a time you have
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gear will get dirty and tear and melt and get lost none of this stuff should be so precious
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that it ruins your time have backups of important things fire starting water filtration navigation
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and just roll with it hmm cool and I said another vacation destination he just invited us all to stay
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which he did and droops replies vacation destination can you know you're always welcome though if
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you overstay I might just leave you in the woods and come visit sometime and bring your battery so
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you can keep running hp I like a champ excellent excellent and john cob says not a camper I'm not a camper
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would you make it sound like it's almost something I might want to try some day very much very much
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a case in point for me I definitely want to try kayaking around the waters here in Louisiana
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but I'm not sure about camping about the camping bit by the way I never realized you were in
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Lee Louisiana give me a holler if you ever come through left yet cool was he talking to me there as
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well yes I think that's another invitation for my inevitable trip around the US yeah yeah yeah
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I think he invited you long too yeah by chance I'll turn some penge in the garage there some time yeah
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professor John cult there at the uni he said I could keep here for
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oh yeah nice try yeah the guy with the broke down truck
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caliber a little ebook server by John cult as I'll quick run down how to share your ebook library
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using caliber server which actually has turned out to be something that I intend to do right now
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well not right now fast and blah blah blah blah blah but I got bought an ebook reader
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cobo touch two and yes I'm wondering if I like I'm still early days so I'm having a look at that
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but this seemed to have stirred up a bit of interest yes it's yeah I found it quite intriguing I
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didn't realize it had that capability it's a very cool feature absolutely and it's nice to be
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you know to have a library in the house essentially just kind of cool yeah yeah yeah and
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dad dummy who'd been very busy posting comments but not as busy posting shows Dave nice
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good voice I've tried this and it works great I don't remember if you if it was noted in the show
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but you need to supply the port number on my kin 3g kindle with a keyboard it's hard to read the
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page had to play about with the display settings and reload the page when the page got garbled but it
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did work I think I'll probably plug in the 3gs if possible though because it takes me a while to
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get to the page work much better on the Kindle DX okay John cult replies ports whoops yes must
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have must have port number appended to oh glad it worked and he just tried it this is again
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dad dummy I just tried it from another GPS 3gs and it worked fine so I compared the two side by
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side and noticed the display on one had a problem I didn't notice that while reading books with
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that in mind I've changed my mind and we'll use this 3gs excluding the one use this for the 3gs
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excluding the one with the display defect interesting yeah so cool stuff another thing for a Raspberry
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Pi as by the by reflections on freedom of speech and this was by Murat Shades and Drupes says
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well said very well said exclamation mark yes this was this was an excellent show it's really well
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well reasoned I thought Bill Miller comments hello hey great podcasts and I agree with you
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pretty much 100% I may not even agree with spaceman but I totally support his right to express his
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opinion no matter how offensive it is to others hope to hear more from you absolutely but I don't
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think anybody was that particularly offended by spaceman it was just the the forum the the location
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where it happened I don't think they were expecting it you know yeah in that position but I think
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we can we can pretty much refer people to episode 2210 is HBR's stance on freedom of speech
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from now on this is the policy yeah it's a good one I mean so and as well it's well explained too
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yeah absolutely cool I love it actually in that in mind I was I don't know if I should say I'm
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lining up a an interview with a guy in work who's who works on what radio stations public access
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radio stations in the UK and was interested to hear that we have content so I'm going to
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probably do an interview with him first and then see if there are people on the network who want
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to submit tech shows or stuff over there in which case this clean and thingy clean and explicit
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becomes you know if you are putting shows over there then they would really need to be clean
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and somebody would need to listen to them and say okay this is this is not going to find some
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we bankrupt some public access radio stations because they put in naughty words and for your
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hour shows oh yes the seven band words in the states and all that stuff yeah exactly if you're
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a 22-11 my broadcast workflow how I'm done on managed listen to and delete podcasts or as I put
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us how to over a kill oh my god damn did I not like reference to your overkill comment in here
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yes I can completely understand how this happened but at some point at some point a refactoring
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of cord is required well yeah that's what I said yeah but it is it's amazing how you can
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it's a bit like that sort of woodwork thing again you've made a chair and then you've added a
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sort of table on the side and then you've you've got to got to think the cover over the top of the
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head and you know it just becomes ridiculous which this does but yeah it's got good ideas in there
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I think good ideas for me but it's just overkill as you say you are right while the problem is
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the problem lies with your SS specer being so loose and the atom spec being so strict that you need
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to deal with all the all the intricacies that people have done in between either deliberately or
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accidentally or one way or the other and then this you know it's it takes 10 minutes to write a
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podcast client and it takes 10 years to maintain it yeah yeah yeah well that's really the point
|
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I think Bash Potter was was brilliant and it's in its time it's just brilliant anyway but it
|
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it was fine for its time but it's it's you know it doesn't have so many exceptions
|
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yes it's because you know I sometimes think a different approach would be to go and say to people
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okay here's your RSS feed is completely you know crap but then you know other we should be thankful
|
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now that you know we should be thankful that people are still producing our SS feeds because
|
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after the Google reader thing that they talk and all's dive yeah yeah I know I know I'm
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I'm enough of a nerd to actually sometimes go and point out deficiencies in feeds to people
|
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and I've had one or two reasonable replies and a few where they've told me to go and boil my
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heed as they say yes yes yes meandering cyberbunk and the mini disk the cyberbunk history of the
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Sony mini disk by kubnu and I found this because personally hated the whole concept of the mini
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disk and it's a proprietary nature but I found this a very interesting show nonetheless yes yes
|
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it was very it's quite timely for me my son had a mini disk and when he got fed up with it and
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wanted to go on something better he left it with me and I was I found it in in a box of interesting
|
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things the other day and I was thinking what can I still work is a portable mini disk plant
|
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what can I do with this so yeah and I didn't really have an answer to fit I might do it it was very
|
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interesting to listen to this as a consequence you know sometimes I think we're living in the matrix
|
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when stuff like that happens you know what I mean yeah yeah yeah what are the odds yes
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yeah great show listen to your show today and I brought back a lot of memories as well I went
|
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through almost the same thing in the timeline of your tech lifetime there and reminded me that some
|
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of the great and not great tech items we used to guess to and where we are now don't tell anymore
|
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I still have some of these don't tell anyone I still have some of these mini disks wall
|
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and kovmo to have an answer oh god butchers name that's why I don't remember my name on the
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text to speech I think it's only it's only fair that text to speech gets to butcher my name
|
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every show yes yes I should have listened to Adam and he was when he said he was did he say
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he was maybe he didn't I don't know how he says anyway he says it's starting to become a bit of
|
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disease picked up a rack mini disk deck of Craigslist still have not told the wife
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yes I can I can understand why you would do that though yeah it's tempting tempting
|
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Matt says mini disk brought me here mini disk is still gone strong and it was via the mini disk
|
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face group group the Facebook group that I discovered this link as an online group they are
|
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approaching nearly two thousand members and shows that there is still a subculture for the format
|
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welcome aboard that's cool no no cool stuff yeah absolutely I didn't realize until I saw this
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comment that there that it was still such an interest in the moment dig deep because it sounds
|
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like a cool thing to be playing with oh it's only a matter of time before the hipsters come along
|
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thank you mini disk is cool we we had a magneto optic drive thingy on some machines at work
|
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and it was never all that good and the drivers for it were rubbish and it got taken off the machine
|
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and put in in the storage cupboard I was really upset when I discovered that one of the senior
|
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managers decided it would want to be thrown out it could have thrown it in migration out of
|
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I'd have played with that for certain anyway following day clay body basic clay theory
|
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this is in response to our request for Brian to do clay body shows thank you this was awesome this
|
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is how you start a series absolutely absolutely yeah yeah yeah absolutely yes yes what a wonderful
|
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response could yeah yeah that was just yeah yeah yeah and really well done to I've felt that he'd
|
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maybe done that he'd explained this before to somebody but well if you have some I mean this is
|
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again liquid gold I was I was thinking of this very show for you know brought as a sampler for
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broadcasting and on radio stations the reason I was talking about because there were
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syndicate shows among other people and we've often had times here where people have asked to syndicate
|
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shows so it would be nice for us to syndicate out some you know the best of HBR to all these radio
|
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stations 14 or 15 different countries around the world kind of nice yeah cool yeah yeah yeah yeah
|
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yeah this is this yeah this should be great continues on with this because that gave me a really
|
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nice understanding of of basically the signs behind it was pretty cool yeah yeah yeah I made
|
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links to myself to go and look into you know what is kale in night what is felled spa and and
|
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all that sort of stuff have you got those because that would be no harm to kind of fluff out the
|
|
the old show notes there with a little bit more with a link to some of the stuff so if you have
|
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your own show notes can you pop them in there I will I will do that yes yes I yeah I would have made
|
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made links if it if it was me in these notes but then I'm you know I'm like with show notes but
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yeah few more few more links would be would be good yeah I will see what I can do okay cool
|
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the following day upgrading vehicle lights from halogen to led by john the man kulp
|
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and steve says what about the blinkers which are indicators for the rest of us it was pretty funny
|
|
I was I was sitting there listening to the episode while you were changing the both bulbs I was
|
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thinking of myself you know I bet the led bulb would mess up the timing and the turn signal signal
|
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no blinkers and then you're at mandem and at the mend and Dave atendem thank you if I ever get
|
|
bladder working here are they the the the trigger word will be Dave I'm not sure what the
|
|
replies going to be yes next nicely done I was waiting for you to say that last bit um Clinton Roy
|
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says so if you replace an inefficient bulb with a highly efficient led and a resistor of the same load
|
|
you're actually saving any power at all which is a good question I think yeah well the answer comes up
|
|
next probably not says john kulp now probably not saving power on the blinkers but if you get 10 times
|
|
more lifespan as they claim as they claim and brighter lights it's still worthwhile and he also replied
|
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to steve saying while you're you're way ahead of me I didn't even consider that this could happen
|
|
to the blinkers until I actually happened and then I had to do research to figure out what was
|
|
going on I don't understand electricity very well but all on our second if if it's drawing less
|
|
current the the reason the resistor is there and somebody is going to be in my bill or whoever
|
|
is going to be your jezra is going to be thrown stuff at the microphone and can you have no concept
|
|
of electricity yes come on and explain it to me but if the reason for the the resistor there
|
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is because it doesn't it doesn't have it's not drawing enough current so therefore the car
|
|
thinks that it is not the bulb is not there but the putting a small resistor there to give it a
|
|
slight amount of current will give it will tell the car that there is a resistor that there is a
|
|
light there but that doesn't necessarily need to be the full resistance of a light bulb I guess
|
|
I am going to imagine so yeah yeah but then again in this case even if you are burning the same
|
|
amount of power or using the same amount of power you're not necessarily you're not necessarily
|
|
could be converting that to light or heat on the bulb itself on the other hand you're driving
|
|
a fucking car guys go with public transport the the resistor is in a metal metal body
|
|
it has to be fixed quite quite firmly to a metal structure but yeah it's got a big
|
|
little heat sink on it so it's turning the the current into into heat yes but it will not
|
|
necessarily need to put it in the 12 watts that would be there it would not necessarily need to
|
|
convert all 12 it could be six watts if you know yeah I would just do not trigger the car
|
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sensor but then again it might be it might be that you actually need to have real light bulbs sorry
|
|
I'm just working through all of this anyway because I am as you know trying to better get a better
|
|
handle on electronics in they myself anyway I also posted smoke and hot canvas LED lamps from
|
|
their big cloud.com channel where he takes some of these light bulbs and basically does what he
|
|
does best. Is there explosion involved I haven't seen that one. Just some of the melt gauve you put
|
|
them in the wrong way and your cheap stuff. Oh right right yeah yeah oh some of these nasty Chinese
|
|
ones because you get sort of matrix of multiple LEDs in it and a thing for a high powered spotlight
|
|
type thing got you. Yeah I think these ones were just little like circuit circuit boards with an LED
|
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on both sides and that was it and they were just run that they had their maximum whack. Yeah
|
|
yeah yeah yeah yeah anyway I was going to say there's a guy who made a made an LED
|
|
torch that was incredibly bright and the amount of heat thinking he had to do to be blowing up
|
|
was sold out right there. Yes and did you want to do John then? No there you can. Okay John says
|
|
yikes mining up canvas so hopefully won't have melt dance. Yeah good stuff. So the kickstarter
|
|
from the Omega 2 plus first time walkthrough and this was from Jurello, Arduino
|
|
related device series and I did not know about the this actually I did I had a little look at the
|
|
time and but never never got into it. Yes yes do you think you meant that to be kickedstarter
|
|
because to be honest I noticed that I didn't notice it was going through. I will I will just
|
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go and fix that when I get a second. Yeah I sort of vaguely heard about this Omega 2 but
|
|
I hadn't paid a lot of attention because it was IOT and I'm not sure quite to the keen on IOT
|
|
stuff in general but no I think it's a it's a good beginner kit but the thing about it is
|
|
the thing to put me off it was there are so many different modules that you could get and by the
|
|
time you get the more you're like 250 euros down the drain but yeah and I've already invested in
|
|
you know the whole Raspberry Pi ecosystem. Yeah well actually what I'm what I've ended up
|
|
happening is like I got the Raspberry Pi because I'm interested in turning on lights and stuff
|
|
and I was thinking oh that's that's interesting I was learned about that and then I learned about
|
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that and I think Arduino is around you let's learn about that actually if I'm doing about
|
|
Arduino I can do it with integration circuits actually how do I just start this work
|
|
let's see who's this one. Yes you can yeah yeah it's easy to turn it with with bags and bags
|
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and leaves and leaves of stuff don't get them. If you hear what this that's something I just bought
|
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from from my Pi0 which turns it into I want to try and connect a serial device to it to see if I
|
|
could drive it to from a Pi. So it's a little serial interface that you stick on the on the top
|
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serial Pi0 so you know it's I probably yeah I don't know how long it will take me to do it
|
|
years probably but could no doubt we will get a show on that when it gets done I shall certainly
|
|
tell you back thank you thank you I actually did a I went through the because I've been buying stuff
|
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I ever since I've started doing tutorials and stuff with the Raspberry Pi and you think oh well
|
|
I'll get I get the I'll send away for that and I'll get that and then it goes back three weeks
|
|
later and then you know you have to bring kids to wherever and then you know life catches up with
|
|
you so I've actually this weekend went and did an inventory using Markdown and all the things
|
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that I've purchased and have their and it's in gate and I have all their their you know PDFs
|
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and breakdowns and links to the site where that explains the project and what it's used for and
|
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oh cool that is really good yes but you know the virtual I think was and my bill who suggested
|
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potten when he does a project he puts it in the components into a static bag and then keeps
|
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the track of it so this is kind of my idea of doing the same thing only one in a Markdown
|
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excellent yes I keep a ring behind it with this paper and I shall also do that because that's
|
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quite handy but I don't actually have space now for a bookshelf yet out here but once I digitize
|
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all my archive tapes and CDs and video tapes then I can have space but that's another project for
|
|
another day probably some woodworking to make a brochure and then change the handle
|
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idea working a all alpha oscar 8.5 with my son and this was the absolute coolest episode sorry
|
|
this was my ideal episode and there was so annoying that he didn't get a contact
|
|
it yeah I thought oh yeah right I'm not all that much into amateur radio I was really
|
|
fascinating I was so rooting for him to to get through and to have a conversation or something
|
|
so shame it didn't didn't happen but it was it was it was quite gripping actually yeah yeah yeah
|
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I am this actual thing this actual thing here is actually why I want to get into amateur radio is
|
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for the tracking the satellite I just think it is so cool yes yeah now that was that was an
|
|
excellent show what I actually want to do is rig a an aerial and antenna so that it can automatically
|
|
track the satellites itself using motors so you don't have the the inconvenience of actually
|
|
having to stand outside that it would do it automatically and I don't know how that is the
|
|
end goal isn't that was that guy post him last year yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so you'll be you'll
|
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be following his in his footsteps or something that's what I was trying to to do with a little
|
|
yaggy antenna and see how how we do they have the automated relay stations that do the tracking
|
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as the satellite comes over they over the horizon then you report back the signals from the satellite
|
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so people doing what was this people doing where they get amateur satellite where there's a space
|
|
on the satellite that goes up they'll put in these amateur satellite boxes for you know universities
|
|
and hobby groups and then they'll just launch them because hey it's they couldn't fit anything else
|
|
in in that space and then you put the space up and but they don't have ground control stations so they
|
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the idea was that you could get a global ground control network so that was what they were doing
|
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very cool yeah yeah absolutely loved that show and the following day was building a new voice
|
|
input device jibber jabber are do you see the photos for this I didn't look I haven't looked in
|
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detail I saw some of the photos as on new social as he was putting it together but yeah I thought
|
|
this phone was even older than 1970s it looks like something else of the 1930s you know what
|
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here lord it's it's it's one with the with the microphone on set on the wall in it yeah detachable
|
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earpiece is it yeah it's beautiful that opened up a lot of ideas for me you know like that you could
|
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go a tube on the wall but you could blow into it oh I know indeed yes you just have to pull
|
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a plug out of it and blow down it yeah exactly that would be awesome okay how do you know for that
|
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yes and of course I'm inviting myself over to Jezre's house because that I think would be the
|
|
ultimate in museum visits he just have fun though didn't he yeah yeah yeah I wouldn't mind one
|
|
of those chip computers I don't know how easy they are to get in the UK yeah yeah it seems to be
|
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a bit harder to get in they're on the states yes but I don't have the time to devote to this yeah
|
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no I know I need to do I really but still okay so that was the shows and where we now we're
|
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talking about are we missed any common stave well there was a bunch to previous shows so we don't
|
|
prepare so I do that so we had and groups was commenting our troops did a show on why people should
|
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use handwriting to gain superpowers and Mauritius replied thanks I'm actually a final fountain
|
|
as well I love them but sometimes it's hard to explain the fascination to people who don't get it
|
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me basically I don't know about anybody else but I've tried I'm get tired of the why every time
|
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I mention fountain pens good to know I'm not one of the only ones yeah yeah well I appreciate that
|
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did Mauritius know that if he does one more show it's a series yeah yeah we need more more
|
|
fountain pensions on the platoon raves about the table top game coup and non-descript says I took
|
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a copy of coup when visiting relatives over the holidays it was a huge success thanks for bringing
|
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the game to my attention cool that's nice and then we had on the why people say should say
|
|
GNU Linux FSA said some languages more offensive than others space man I thought for the most
|
|
part your episode is entertaining take on the subject mostly agree with with you on the philosophical
|
|
points behind it I am strongly opposed to censorship of any kinds FX Accentral don't bother me but
|
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I would just ask to reconsider the retarded retarded as an insult I completely agree that's
|
|
me saying that again I completely against censorship but I'm not saying that you should be forced
|
|
to do or not prevent it from releasing episodes that use them in that way but I do think it's a
|
|
different sort of offense than generic words like folk ones of people just happened to not like
|
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and Christopher M. Hobbs do you mind me doing these comments or do you jump in I'm sort of
|
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following behind slow leave it this was on the Christopher M. Hobbs show about working amateur
|
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radio satellites by Miguel and comments additional links hello Christopher and listeners
|
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cool show now I want to pick up buy on attempts again some comments or answers I'm sat
|
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is the international organization I'm sat-na is an American North American branch there are many
|
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others you already mentioned I'm such UK the Oscar name is still present here's a link that
|
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explains the rules I'm sat page ID2478 in short in the a-o-xx f-o-xx c-o-xx satellite names the
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O stands for Oscar the first letter is usually linked to the organization or group that built the
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satellite the problem of getting misled but dead satellites can be mitigated by consulting with
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the satellite status page which is that I'm sat at a report that status first there you can see if
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they're very recently have heard or worked a particular satellite regards Michael or Michele
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mirror mirror next comment was by space man on the space man show victor commented twice victor
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O comment number one was I love bots but I find it disrespectful when the bottom person it's a
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human being I think a bot should identify themselves as bot I don't think anybody appreciates being
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deceived next comment was on the side note I think you could share your findings I kind of would
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like to open the database of stuff out there that you can download you know you can google anything
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in the internet is easy acceptable but I would like to see to own a couple of turbines database
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that index of the internet it's nice that you can download the DM or Z database and mirror
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shade uh comment by clacky on mirror shades fun with a skills of silenoscopes bubble sort
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and loved that the art artist put in a sorting algorithm illustration in lines I'm pretty
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sure they're all bubble sorts though uh did anyone here watch the sorting out sorting it's a
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classic in 2005 sadly it's no longer part of our algorithm's course we but we watched it
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uh as a student body lore it's originally bhs that's the um that's tape the day day day day day
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one second day for you uh disappeared no I'm still here I'm still here just give me one second no I
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thought uh I'm gonna put a link into the show notes actually do you know what I'm gonna do Dave
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is I want to put the link in an email and then send that to you and then there wasn't um so I
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the video he's talking about is on youtube from bhs but he thought he was talking about the video
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with the um with the dance the Hungarian dancers did you see that video I didn't see that no
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he didn't say sorting yeah sorting uh just one second I'll see if I can get the link
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so just sent both of those links to you one the first video I have not watched the second one
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I have it's Hungarian dancers and they uh they they have like dressed in traditional costume and
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they've got the numbers one to ten on the back and then they just do the dance sorting the
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sunglasses ago that's absolutely mesmerizing I did this I did a sort thing for my
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evening class yesterday and years ago in Pascal and I took in a deck of cards and showed them
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in in one of the suits you know how you would do uh do a bubble sort to sort the thing you think
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not a whole suit just maybe a subset of it and just actually seeing and demonstrating
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in front of your eyes give you great insight into it's just a simple bubble sort it wasn't that
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that's it but it's a fascinating thing I was the thing I used to do coming home from the
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bubble was uh lord up the turbo Pascal had a had a thing where he could look at the
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it had a graphical representation of the sorts and you could put on the the music one of the sample
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programs was and you able to play it was brilliant if I happen to be doing this one night and they
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my brother's roommate came down walked into the kitchen took the plug of the computer
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went back up to fed it didn't say a word yes yes yes yes yes okay then we had a clean
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podcast with no swearing a concern listener was saying I'm complete bullshit that people get
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offended over words at a particular culture your occupants basements had actions speak louder
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for I won't do no back censorship I'm quite concerned that any of this community would bow to
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the fascist who desire censorship nobody was asking about censorship people were talking about
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the shows been marked as clean and not those marked as explicit okay GWS says there's no
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so things not knowledge transfer sure there is no one true method of teaching there's no one single
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style of learning the point is that you're out of order that what you're doing it's not what you're
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out of order is that you're going to alienate your audience is what it says yeah do you want to
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read it yes if show responses stochastic and try not to become a statistic which is nice way
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putting it I have no idea what that means no I don't know really stochastic meaning
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random according to sort of a normal distribution or something like that so is that I don't know
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don't know trying yeah I don't know that it's obviously a joke it looks like it should be
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amusing but I don't really understand it's pure beyond my pay grade okay a couple of Brian said
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excellent show as somebody with a strong interest in both history oh this is on the
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plaques lowdown and what's open the Taiwan straight really enjoyed both history and politics
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I really enjoyed this program love to hear more uh victor all says low I used to watch
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China on sensor done YouTube I think China and Russia are very empirical complex has the rest
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of the word listens to the US right they only act to protect their interests this is just waffle
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okay fine they see the US as an intruder in their sphere of influence I think the mainland China
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wants stations to deal with agents affairs it is convenient for them but that's what they want
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anyway the US country of freedom refuses to allow south to succeed when they want to to
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and the say Trump makes Hispanics really angry and religions dominated by Hispanics so much that
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they want to succeed the government reviews military force to prevent it I doubt any government
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today would allow a region to succeed peacefully okay I don't really know what that has got to do
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with the the show because the show basically was very clear that both China and Taiwan consider
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themselves to be part of China and the fact that I don't think the US was mentioned at all in this
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okay fine that was it that was comments yes thank you very much sorry to uh I'm just a lot
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slower than you no I'm not ahead Dave I need to go to bed here I got a good morning uh yes
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anyway that was an interesting interesting what else was there oh did we miss the
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mailing list now I've been very busy with them uh very busy with getting the HPR uh you know I've been
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doing the posters thing for the foster them every time we go to foster them I will I do all these
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interviews yeah and just give people a background and every time I spend a whole week afterwards
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trying to guess basic things like what the project is about where their logo is and all the
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stuff so this time I had a brilliant idea that if we do that beforehand that I could um you know
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save myself a lot of work which hopefully I will but then I also volunteered to do some posters
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and stuff and then uh wrote a program to convert a spreadsheet into a PDFs and uh actually did you
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see the the latest latest version now Dave you showed me a version last week I think it was
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right I've done a new one I want to make a soldier the link I'm on my other computer and my
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mouse during the other room so uh so i've been following dot com forward slash files forward slash
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stans dot pdf yep camp on dot com forward slash stans dot pdf so basically it's got the projects logo
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at the top portion of the screen and then it's got a QR code to the website a short blur a big
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QR code to the website a left of that then is a description underneath the QR code is the URL
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and then the bottom right hand corner is the um location table location the building and then the
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table number so I now uh spent a lot of time getting the logos yeah yeah yeah it's quite
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quite impressive yeah that's a hell of a task you took on that it was it was one of those
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tasks that you know three hours in you go this is going to take me another two hours but now I'm
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already three hours in so what am I going to do so yeah but I got it done it's I think it I uh
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there are three here but I printed them off and they force are a sorry they're four here but then
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I enlarge them up to a three so hopefully they'll be nice because it's amazing like the number the
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pearl project does not have a logo that you can download that is bigger than the size of a coin
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Google code in doesn't have a logo you know so you just think why do these people like
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grob doesn't have a logo that's weird isn't it you just it'd be uh yeah yeah yeah you just
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thought it was a great Linux right which has got funding from the Linux foundation uh has logos
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for all the car companies that supported yes doesn't have a oh I shouldn't be saying any of this
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actually because people are listening but you've got a tiny little logo on it and then you got
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other websites like um pre-BSD and gnome have entire pages devoted to here's you can get them
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here's the big version here's the version from Mac here's how you book ship up and this is
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dues this is don't which is also excellent so there you go yep yeah anyway doing that's very good
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you know I'm I'm sad I can't make it this year and so to to see all this good stuff so
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yes take a picture take a picture I will do I will I'm not going to guarantee you I'm doing
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anything because uh you know what it's like you go there yeah I know I'm going tomorrow afternoon
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and I heard that they can they're setting up the stands early so I'm gonna try and I'm gonna pass
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out these thingies and I'm gonna try and get some interviews there so then because of 74 or
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something like that different boots so it's a lot of a lot of recordings yeah absolutely absolutely
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and it's it's usually quite a lot as well I mean every year that you you've been you've spent
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just for every every possible yeah I'm actually going to see in it it doesn't do any talks
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or anything it's been pretty much off the table it largely isn't it it's yeah impossible which
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was actually thinking uh you know you were asking about uh whether it was going to um show uh show
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for just 17 the um the one the Netherlands yeah don't you think SHA 2017 yeah that's one I don't
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think so I think with that money and you're only starting with that I would probably get a ticket
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to Liverpool or wherever all comes got to be and you know just sit at the outcome table and enjoy
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sitting at a table with people rather than doing interviews or something 250 euros is the cheapest
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price to get in and seeing and to seem quite expensive haven't fully appreciated yeah but then
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it's a it's a campsite for a week so you know that's cheap by that standard you know you got free
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Wi-Fi you got electricity you got the full works you got the toilets you got the yeah that's true
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it's true it is cheap for the for the price and fairness because it's a shame there's not I thought
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there might be a non camping price or something you know it's pretty uh I could go in begging on the
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HBR ticket but you know at the same time at the same time yes yeah okay fair enough so wherever we
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we are doing they mainly uh mail is the email yeah yeah so a lot of chatter about the amateur radio
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stuff finally getting the amateur radio people out of the closet which is awesome uh some of the
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if you are a ham and want to get involved in the amateur radio round table that's going to be
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coming up shortly and it'll be hopefully a regular show where you can um basically answer my questions
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and uh yeah I'm looking forward to hearing the show yes yes it's uh it's in the queue now I think
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it's it's uh yep it's um but as you know we don't know we don't listen ahead know this very
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bad but yeah looking forward to it sounds good I thought I saw since I processed the notes
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there was some commenty effect that the next one could well be at different time to be more
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Europe friendly so okay so that would be cool yep um let me see they lost and Bronx replied to a
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digest he yeah I said can I take you off the digest list and he said no no no I don't want to be
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off that list because he likes replying to the digest obviously yep um I lit night linux and you
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post a new podcast so uh post it that out um more about the amateur radio there was some trouble
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with the Yahoo and the HVR mailing list can you give us some right right right yes yes um what we
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have is that Yahoo have a strange policy um on their mail so I haven't got the message open in
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front of me just hold on a second so it's they're using a thing called DMARC I linked to it in the
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email and what it means is that anything sent by Yahoo uses anywhere is is checked against their
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policy so if it goes through the mailman list then what mailman does is it it makes it look as if
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it's come from Yahoo because it forwards it and and as a consequence the people the other sites say
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oh Yahoo right they've got this policy oh but it's come through another server it's been relayed
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so we can't have that so we'll throw it away so um what you can do is there's a setting in
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mailman which allows you to to which which which makes mailman deal especially with this case when
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there's a DMARC uh policy of a particular sort and it will um change the the way it sends stuff so uh
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I switched this on but unfortunately it hasn't taken effect because I think Josh needs to go and
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kick the mailman servers but I've asked him to do this but I've not heard back from him so I'm not
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sure where we where we stand with this at the moment I'll I'll hassle him again soon I don't want to
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hassle him too much for the poor guy's busy yeah oh we're um we're also having this thing with the
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mails going to the admin at hackupublicradio.org are getting through the are getting through but
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you get uh no user exists message back so then people are sending mails to the HPR mailing list um
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so what just fine but um I'm a bit concerned now because I've got all the business cards I've got
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admin at HPR on them and I'm going to be handing those out to people so um yes like to get that one
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fixed yeah yeah it's probably something quite simple because the the uh the message server on the
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em I'm trying to think about now the mta on the on the hpr system is saying there is no such
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person there's no such account as admin at um at hackupublic radio which there isn't I mean
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there doesn't have to be because it's a it's a list it's an expander isn't it but I think
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something's something's misconfigured that it thinks that this is an actual user it's got two
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types of security on it so something like that yeah but at the same time we are we are
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under attack yeah yes we don't want to have loose security but on the other hand it seems
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unnecessary I think it just just needs a bit tweaking anyway let's leave it at that yeah but I
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think a lot uh he has another server ready for us um he just needs the time in order to move
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everything over um and I think we'll get a major upgrade at that point as well so
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so i'll leave it with uh leave it with uh Josh he has never let us down as yet
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beef jerky i let Josh dance and i mentioned that because he was in Edinburgh uh at the start
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and we failed to meet we have to be failed to meet it was such such a news so it went to his hotel
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and somehow i couldn't get in touch with him so uh sorry Josh sorry
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anyway you don't exist Dave you're a figment of my imagination you're just in the matrix admitted
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it's the robot yeah anyway sorry to interrupt on you go no beef jerky you can do migraine
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right has a taste while i find the right taz it i don't do not bother us are doing this y'all do
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you know it's not just you sitting there are commenting yeah i just you know why i pay you the big book
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i'm using bloody ubuntu over here and it's such a horrible thing i hate it and for some reason i don't
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anyway um it's it's got some old and can't can't deal with new things so it was um migraine commenting on
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operators show the one where he talked about silica jell crystals and drank them and they
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haven't he made a passing reference to jerky so that was it and that was so it's some beef jerky
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says we don't have here in the uk but uh i think it's a bit like what they call billtong in south
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africa so how about a show about how to make beef jerky with what mike's asking yeah good
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answer you have nice on nice on mike yes catching on jesra emailed about the link not coming through
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which turns out it's the thing it was a spam folder or something oh is that what happened yeah
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yeah okay there's there's a few there's a yeah uh we're also seeing bounces for um
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uh tim timmy marshal uh through the mailing list i've told him about it but i don't think he
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can fix it i don't know i haven't heard back from him i think after three bounces or something
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gets taken out automatically no it's fair number of them but but certainly there will come a point
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where it gets removed from the list they're also getting bounces from the tllts guys but
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no anymore no anymore no i think they they were reconfiguring their mail system
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and uh i tried to contact them and couldn't but then later on i did manage to get through to them
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and they said oh sorry and it was because somehow although they were bad addresses on our on a
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mailing list so um so everything is sold now i think anyway so we had uh uh flinger roi who sent
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a wedge interview from linuxconf.au which i'm looking forward to they're up there on the website
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just because we don't listen to the shows before they're posted you don't have to
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there's even a feed where you can get shows as they come in uh and i'll leave that up to you
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to figure out how to do that and uh he's just interested to know how his new um microphone sounds
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like yeah cool and kevan and the troops were looking forward to basically hearing the shows as
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am i amateur radio roundtable note show notes it's that's more an admin sort of question
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and uh tag interface uh clinton roi asked is there a tag interface uh epst up php tag equals
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something or other and the answer is no there isn't but there could be
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and uh yeah you're doing a show on that i mean you yes i i'm showing so let's just leave it at that
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i think i've got three three shows to do explaining the ins and outs of this stuff i just thought
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i thought you'd be happy it was going to be one humongous show but then i thought uh it's not
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that's not what we're all here it's not three it's three so first ones in the queue next one
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will be long soon so that that'll maybe start the ball rolling i hope although you do have uh
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there there is a way to search an archive.org query the collection hacker public radio and subject
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raspberry pi will return all the raspberry pi itself it's kind of cool yes yes yes it's uh i was
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delighted to find there are nice ways to do in that now you can do some quite powerful stuff there
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so go and uh go and hack it and see what you can get and uh spelling fix and how to pull shows on
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the various horse people on the mailing list are seeing basically my inbox for the month on
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these little issues and things that people have posting shows that we usually just deal with
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it's partly because i had minute at hacker public radio you said go away i'm not here
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yeah what are you gonna do why are you rejecting me like this why have you forsaken me all right Dave
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what i have to do now i have to go pack and i have to make sure to bring this recorder and then we
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need to post the show as well date before i go now that i remember yes i told you we were
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rushing out not having posted the show and then yes okay better do that first thing all right
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yes yes all right you'd have fun fun it for them yes i better take my voice
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tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of hacker public radio
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okay okay i'm not gonna sing the free song for some please please don't
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please don't ask share the software along i'm gonna use the penster one
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i also need to put a thing in my cousin i now have a script which is a yaml script
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which actually is in yaml all uh which turns the uh spreadsheet into a pdf i know
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need to convert that and i need to put additional fields into the spreadsheet for the
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duration field and i also need to remember Dave not to do our sync the things of my
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not to our sync the episodes of my zoom h2 Dave because when you change the batteries what happens
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to the show numbers oh yes that's how i got some shows last year day very happy with that
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yeah so i'm now going to just put everything into a um into folders of the sync time that i do it
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all right okay talk to you later have fun hi you get my regards to brussels bye bye
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you
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