Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us #87 – Conky Is Cool
A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux! With Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek.
Episode 87 Show Notes
[04:48] Basic Basic
How to set up Raspberry Pi – Liam Fraser, creator of the popular Raspberry Pi Tutorials YouTube series and System Administrator for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, shows us how to set up the Raspberry Pi and write our first Python ‘Hello World’ application…
(http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/
[20:54] Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed for Developers – A few years ago Dell began offering the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on its desktops and laptops, but quietly dropped the option from its online store in 2010 (though it’s still possible to order certain machines with Ubuntu). Today at the Ubuntu Developers Summit Dell announced that it is dipping its toes into back into the Linux laptop market with Project Sputnik, a developer-centric laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 on Dell’s XPS13 Ultrabook hardware.
(http://devopsangle.com/2012/
[23:37] Making A Easy-To-Setup $50 Linux Multi-Seat Computer – While it’s improved a lot recently, in the past setting up a multi-seat computer has been a pain in the ass with a lot of manual configurations needed and other peculiar steps to get the hardware/software combination working right. What if the process were a lot simpler? What if new seats could be added to a computer at a very low cost and the setup was effectively “out of the box” to the point that it’s truly plug-and-play? Well, we are now effectively at that point on the Linux desktop and there is a new Kickstarter effort to help in that initiative.
(http://www.phoronix.com/scan.
[28:28] Cheers! Electronic beer fridge only opens when all work’s in – If you’re anything like me, when Friday rolls around you’ve probably got one eye on the clock and one eye looking forward to a refreshing post-work beverage. Spare a thought then for these office-dwellers toiling hard to finish — their beer fridge only unlocks when the last bit of work is handed in.
[31:51] Mozilla phone will go on sale this year.
(http://www.theinquirer.net/
[36:27] “Secure Shell” in a browser – Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.
[39:35] Conky_5 and Conky_2- Another 2 nice themes for conky
(http://www.unixmen.com/conky_
[41:26] Q.bo open source robot now available to pre-order – Spanish company TheCorpora is now accepting pre-orders for its Q.bo open source and open hardware robot. TheCorpora founder Francisco Paz spent several years working on the rolling robot, which is about 45 cm tall and can be used both in research and around the home.
[45:16] How To Simulate Network Devices Using SNMP Simulator – This tutorial explains how you can simulate network devices for testing purposes with the free Verax SNMP Simulator. Verax SNMP agent simulator is a tool that can simulate multiple SNMPv1/v2c agents on a single host on standard 161 port through multi-netting. It allows IT personnel to build virtual, simulated networks of devices without purchasing any additional hardware, for instance for testing purposes. Individual simulated agent responses can be initially retrieved from existing devices and modified at runtime by user defined rules.
(http://www.howtoforge.com/
[46:59] Ubuntu Server PXE Boot Guide – This should get you up and PXE booting to a menu and have FOG running on a server.
(http://www.technibble.com/
[51:37] Screen capture of Lightworks on Ubuntu Linux – Here, we see a demo of footage from Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” being edited, including realtime color correction, and a brief visit from Lucy the Shark at the end.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?
[53:23] 60+ Practical find commands examples with explanation – find command is very much powerful command which can do good work when its needed to find files with conditions. Find command is useful when finding files with complex requirement such as size, permissions etc. Suppose we want to find a file which is a regular file and its size is more than 1GB and its accessed more than 90 days back and its owner is none and then delete it. This entire requirement is done with single command without even writing a shell script. Let’s see how we can use find command from basics to advanced in this post.
(http://www.linuxnix.com/2012/
[55:42] Forrester: Hire software developers who take part in open source projects – Analyst firm Forrester has encouraged businesses to recruit software developers who take part in open source projects, as it shows they are keeping their skills current.
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