Linux For The Rest Of Us #97 – Ultra-Functional

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A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux! With Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek.

Episode 97 Show Notes

Basic Basic

Life is a roller coaster, ride it

Skype goes open source – After microsoft acquiring skype for 8.5 billion dollars and proceeding to add back doors for government to the program, the software has been hacked and it’s source code released.

(https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1799228)

A Real Carputer

(http://shop.vic-ltd.com/product_info.php?products_id=12025)

Two more tiny Linux PCs each cost less than $100

(http://www.itworld.com/software/285760/two-more-tiny-linux-pcs-each-cost-less-100)

(https://www.miniand.com/)

Valve Continues Recruiting Top Linux Talent – Valve Software, in their Linux Steam / Source Engine effort, plus the rumored Steam Box, is continuing to hire top Linux developers. (http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/07/14/217242/valve-continues-recruiting-top-linux-talent)

A blog by the Valve Linux Team – This blog is where you can find the latest information from Valve about our Linux development efforts. Avoid the rumors and speculations that multiply on the Web. Instead, come to the source – a blog where people who are interested in Linux and open source game development can get the latest information on Valve’s efforts in this arena.

(http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/)

Web exploit figures out what OS victim is using, customizes payload – Security researchers have found a live Web exploit that detects if the target is running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux and drops a different trojan for each platform.

(http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/cross-platform-web-exploit/)

Lifehacker Pack for Linux: Our List of the Best Linux Apps – The Lifehacker Pack is a yearly snapshot of our favorite, must-have applications for each of our favorite platforms. (http://lifehacker.com/5924951/lifehacker-pack-for-linux-our-list-of-the-best-linux-apps)

How to Automate Your Ubuntu With CuttleFish – Cuttlefish is an app for Ubuntu that allows you to create a series of tasks that can be triggered based on the result of a prior action.

(http://maketecheasier.com/automate-ubuntu-with-cuttlefish/2012/07/16)

Keep a journal with the lightweight Dayjournal (PPA available) – Dayjournal is a lightweight note-taking utility, designed with time endurance and full compatibility in mind by saving the notes as regular text files, format compatible with every text editor and Ubuntu version.

(http://iloveubuntu.net/keep-journal-lightweight-dayjournal-ppa-available)

GoogleCL brings Google services to the command line.

(http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/)

What lenses for Unity are available?

(http://askubuntu.com/questions/38772/what-lenses-for-unity-are-available)

OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console?ref=live)

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Hello Zack

Great question, most people just put up with it

But this is Linux, you don’t have to!!!

ok, this is a two part answer to ensure the best speed for your system (ok, it is kind of three, but one is really really short)

First you can try this first step and just stop with it, look at the top part “Use The Fastest Downloading Server” here 5 Great Tips For The Ubuntu Software Center [Linux]http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tips–tricks–ubuntu–software–center–linux/

Now if that is not giving you the results you expect or you just want to bang the back out of your computer and have your downloads go up to 5 times faster then, ohh I love doing this

first a quickie, it is replacing the default “apt-get” with “apt-fast”, think of it like a torrent, when you download a file it will not download it from a single server but many servers all at once

I love this site, download and install apt-fast http://modifyubuntu.com/#aptFast

Then follow the steps entitled HOW TO USE APT-FAST WITH SYNAPTIC AND OTHER APT GUI (by the bottom of the posting, not the comments) athttp://www.sourceslist.eu/software–tramite–repository/apt–fast–and–axel–roughly-26x–faster–apt–get–downloads/

This will allow every application to run apt-get but the system will actually run apt-fast, and that site say “26x faster”, well that is a bold statement, I will say 5x faster, 26x is nuts, lol

Great question

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