Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us #110 – Support Those Who Support You
A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux!
With Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek and Cody Cooper
Episode 110 Show Notes
Basic Basic
Support those who support you.
(http://www.kickstarter.com/
Follow up
Disabling “looking for updates”, doesn’t complete the “answer”.
But you can limit “sudo” access.
This guide is aimed at giving a beginners transition into configuring sudo, and builds up the knowledge enough to tailor permissions for a basic multi-user system (ie: Family Computer).
(http://ubuntuforums.org/
What’s As Good As a $35 Raspberry Pi? How About 35 Free Incredible PBX Apps. (http://nerdvittles.com/?p=
Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction – What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa. (http://dvice.com/archives/
Interesting – How do they make money off you!
(http://rcs.seerinteractive.
HOWTO: Wireless Security – WPA1, WPA2, LEAP, etc.
(I think mainly for servers or non-gui installs)
(http://ubuntuforums.org/
Apt-Pinning for Beginners – Do you run Debian? Have you ever gotten annoyed at how Debian Stable always seems to be out of date?.
(http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/
This is for once you want to step outside Ubuntu, it isn’t as needed imo
Linux Mint Inks Another Hardware Deal – The Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution have announced a new tie-up with small American hardware reseller ThinkPenguin.
(http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/
OpenELEC-2.0 Linux distro released, turns your PC into an ‘appliance-like’ home theater device.
If you’re itching to park that AMD or Intel PC beside your TV as a dedicated home theater device, OpenELEC would like to offer up the first stable release of its Linux distro, version 2.0, for your consideration. The new build is now available for free (with the option to donate, of course), and the group behind it says that the installation takes less than five minutes and requires “zero Linux experience.”
(http://www.engadget.com/nock/
Unbuntu 12.04 Installed on Samsung Chromebook – Ubuntu 12.04 has been successfully made to run on the new Samsung Series 3 Chromebook, which has been on sale for less than 2 weeks.
(http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/
(http://www.kickstarter.com/
(http://hackerpublicradio.org/
LFTROU Mail 109
John Z writes:
Cody rocks! That is all.
John Z
Jonathan Nadeau writes:
Hey Guys,
My ten year old son has been using GNU/Linux for 3 or 4 years now. The way to get
them to use GNU/linux is make it the only thing to use. He also helps me
with building Sonar and without his help it wouldn’t be possible. He can
install Fedora,, Ubuntu, linux mint and debian by himself. He is a Free
software advocate already.
Johnathan Nadeau
Denning writes:
Hello Steve, Hello Door
There is a kickstarter project for a parallel computer that will cost $99 and apparently the size of a credit card. Take a guess at what the OS is going to be? Looks it will ship with Ubuntu. I do not know if they will get their funding hopefully they can make it.
Cheers
Denning
Jacob writes:
Hey, just listening to the latest podcast. I had an interesting story to share about the pi, I ordered mine on the 29th of september, and was waiting all month to get it. I just got it today *well yesterday now it’s 4am i’ve been up all night messing with the pi* I received an email I believe on the 14th or 16th that my 256 had been free upgraded to the 512! I bet they were out of stock for a little on the 256, and they were just waiting for a big shipment of the 512’s to come in. I got mine off of newark.com Very happy with it so far, going to leave it running and try to ssh to it from outside my house to access my own personal files without a dropbox.
Cheers!
Jacob
Toby writes:
Dear Steve,
I’ve been an avid listener of all your podcasts (apart from the podbrewers one – as a recovering alky, it probably wouldn’t be too appropriate!) for almost a year now. Which is roughly when I started to get interested in tech, before which I was a complete luddite technophobe! Listening to you and others like you has a transformed me into a full on Linux and Android geek, with an insatiable thirst for techy knowledge, in less than a year! Also, it has contributed in giving me a new, positive focus and fresh set of goals and aims in life.
Basically, I just wanted to get in touch to thank you for all the hard work you put in. I wanted you to know how appreciated and inspiring it is. Through the shows you contribute to I have not only learned a lot about tech, but also, thanks also to the amazing work of Jonathon Nadeau (apologies if I’ve spelt that wrong) about related issues such as accessibility and in your most recent contribution to HPR, about your struggles with a speech impediment. Although I don’t share the exact issues of either you or Mr Nadeau, like most people listening, I’ve suffered my own trials and tribulations, and find it immensely powerful and inspiring to hear about those of someone I look up to and consider to be an exceptionally nice human being.
Anyway dude, keep up the awesome work, your helping to make the world a better place, and I hope that someday I can follow in your footsteps. I’m currently just starting an Open University course (in the U.K it’s a way to get a degree part time without getting into crazy debt), in Computing and ICT, I recently joined my local L.U.G, and went to my first conference (Oggcamp 12 in Liverpool) this summer, and hope to one day have Linux mavin status like yourself!
All the best mate, and good luck with all your future projects and goals,
Toby
Randy Noseworthy for posting on Google+
Well, since I don’t drive as much, I don’t have as much time for other voices in my head, as I’m thinking about something here or there, or reading. But I think that I CAN play around with a social network and listen, and drink coffee.
.. But reading a book. Not so much.
In the message he also attached a screencap from gPodder showing episode #108 and the description.
Ryan writes:
This is my first time contacting Steve and Steve. I’ve been extremely
impressed with the show and haven’t missed a show yet.
Quick question: what is needed to connect to an IRC chat room? This sounds
like a dumb question but I was listening to a recent episode and Door was
making a comment about getting connected, no matter how small. I also
chuckled at the comparison of walking into a crowd and shouting—“Hello
everyone, how do you ……”. I agree, building a rapport within a community
is crucial.
Good luck on the upcoming videos.
Ryan M.
James writes:
Thanks for yet another great show (lftros 106).
You mentioned an app that you can’t live without. I forgot what it was. I
re-listened to the show, and blow me down, I can not find it. Could you
please let me know what it was?
I have been re-listening to all of your shows recently, and it could have
been in anyone of them as well. I have an hour long commute into work
every
day and then another hour coming home. What a better way to spend this
time
than filling my mind with knowledge.
Thanks again.
James
Tamworth, NSW, Australia.
Ryan Ridenour writes:
Hey guys,
Since wine allows you to run some windows exe’s on linux is it possible to get a windows virus through wine or play on Linux?
Also it seems there is a faster turn around time on posting of the show since Cody took over. One of the many benefits that I am sure to come. Keep it up!
Ryan
Ric writes:
Coop,
On last week’s podcast, you talked about getting your kids into tech–how early is too early, how to get them interested, and so on. As a long-time techie parent (with very techie kids), I thought I’d share my experiences.
First of all, I don’t know that there is a “too early.” From the time he was born, I would hold my son in my lap while I would play games. He would watch the screen, listen to the sounds and enjoy being with his dad. By the time he was two, he was playing his own computer games–starting with a Winnie the Pooh game. The game basically consisted of clicking on things and seeing what happened. He would laugh hysterically when Pooh would get pelted with acorns from a nearby tree.
It wasn’t just games, either. By the time he was nine, he knew his way around a computer. I once got a frantic call from my accountant who needed some numbers for our business tax return. Unfortunately, my wife and I were out of town and weren’t near the computer. So I called my son, had him log onto our computer, open the Excel file, and get the number for me.
The other day at our local library, I looked over my 9-yr-old daughter’s shoulder as she played educational games on the library computer. To my surprise, the computer was running Lubuntu–and she was navigating it like a pro!
Don’t worry about getting them interested in tech–it’ll happen, and faster than you think.
Ric
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