Direct MP3 Download: Linux For The Rest Of Us #118 – Don't Stop
A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux!
With Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek and Cody Cooper
Episode 118 Show Notes
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Basic Basic
Don’t stop …
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NELF
http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org/
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Chromebook Discussion Topics
Physical Build
Screen
Keyboard
Weight
SD Card Slot
ChromeOS
Speed of Apps
Video Playback
100gb Google Drive
ChroSH – Chrome Shell – ctrl+alt+t
ad-hoc “catch 22”
Ohio LinuxFest We want your ideas – Ohio LinuxFest is planning for an even bigger and better 2013 event, and we want your ideas to make it spectacular. We have put a survey up to collect your suggestions at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dElMcmFLVDEtd05BNTZ…. Please take a moment to add your suggestions.
We will follow up with a vote on the top suggestions after January 16, which will be publicized as well.
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Chris writes:
Hello Cody, I love the show. I have a quick question for you. What is the name of the Raspberry Pi case you will have at your side for the zombie apocalypse? Keep up the good work on the show! I enjoy it quite a bit. Thanks,
Chris
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D2d – New METAL Steel Raspberry Pi Model B Case, Made in the USA Powder Coat Painted http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-METAL-Steel-Raspberry-Pi-Model-B-Case-Made-in-the-USA-Powder-Coat-Painted-/281027365093?pt=US_Computer_Cases&hash=item416e8948e5
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Daryl writes:
(in response to our discussion on Money Management Software)
Great show guys and I just wanted to let you know I am using a program called MoneyDance. It is available in Win/Mac/ and best of all Linux. I have used it in Windows for many years and recently in Linux. I have tried KMoney and GNUCash and they are night and day behind MoneyDance. Check out their free trial and let me know what you think. Also I use MythTV all the time. I use Mythbuntu and have 3 sd homeruns with cable cards so I have 9 cable card tuners and they work awesome.
Daryl
D2d – http://moneydance.com/
D2d – http://www.silicondust.com/
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Martin Obando writes:
Last night you had an e-mail from a listener who wanted to know if there was a way to view what has been installed via command line vs. gui.
All typed entries into the terminal are kept in your .bash_history file. This can be found in /home/username. At least that is where it is under my Ubuntu box. It may be located in another location in other distros.
By default this has a 500 line history. If you have 500 lines already, and add one more, the oldest gets line gets dumped.
You can turn off the 500 line limit by typing “unset HISTSIZE” and “unset HISTFILESIZE” in the terminal.
I asked around to my Linux system admin friends, and they have not seen this question before, and are not sure it can be done.
So it looks like the best way for him to tell what has been installed is to look at the /home/username/.bash_history file. In a terminal, type “history” and you will see your history.
Maybe other people, smarter than me will have a better option.
Martin
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David writes:
I continue to listen, every week. You and Cody first, then mint cast and if I have time, Going Linux and linuxbasix. But I run out of drive time and really should spend time on my own professional material. Anyway I was playing with #! yesterday, another neat distro. Also, Kupfer, what a great little tool. It makes a lot of the discussions about competing desktops much overrated since this one tool can take care of about 90% of what most people use computer for anyway.
I know you are more of a doer than a reader but I heard about Linux Format magazine on MintCast I think. I subscribed electronically on my Nook Color. [good for reading while spouse is sleeping] Anyway what a great font of information! They have such a wide range of articles that fill out the background on so many things. You might give them a mention or, maybe you have and I did not remember.
Cody is doing a great job and I am appreciating his knowledge in this newer phase with Linux for the Rest of us.
Continuing Great Thanks and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas with your family!
David
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knuckleheadtech writes:
(INXI for cpu flags, determine if you have PAE
I added Door cause I wasn’t sure if I remembered the email address correct. So to get the flags in the best human readable format use the bash script INXI. Some distros have it pre-installed but many do not. To read about it you can find it on a Google code page:
http://code.google.com/p/inxi/
For installation check the wiki: http://code.google.com/p/inxi/wiki/Installation
Then for some helpful reading after you get it in stalled and you run “inxi -C” you can refer to this page to determine what your cpu flags mean:
http://code.google.com/p/inxi/wiki/cpu_flags_meanings
Now some people might think it is dumb that I would recommend using a script that doesn’t always come pre-installed. But the beauty of using a Linux live disk is that you can install whatever you need provided you have an internet connection. I have booted a Windows machine to a live disk and installed inxi, gparted and many other tools for trouble shooting, gathering info, cracking Windows SAM file (passwords) and so on. In my experience there is NO better hardware script/command than INXI out there.
Hope this helps.
knuckleheadtech
D2d – http://podnutz.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=9759
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Patrick Archibald writes:
Hardware: Lenovo X1 Carbon
Software: Ubuntu 12.10 / Enlightenment 0.17 PPA
Date: 12/24/2012
Initial impressions: Enlightenment is beautiful, quick, nimble, and highly customizable. The file manager is slick. Keyboard bindings are easy to set-up. I’m big on keyboard shortcuts. The GTK apps are not so beautiful but are tolerable. Terminology is a fancy new terminal emulator that intrigues me. I will be exploring Terminology some more.
Problems: After adding GIMP or terminal to the favorites menu, Enlightenment crashes with a segmentation fault. So, I’m staying away from the favorites menu.
Bottom line: I will continue using Enlightenment 0.17 a little while longer.
This documentation page is a good read. Below are a couple of great paragraphs from that page. The developers seem to have a great attitude.
E17 is smaller, lighter, faster, nicer and more flexible that your current WM, and it’s old school with a new-school twist. It’s trendy and fashionable. You will simply be totally un-cool if you don’t use it. Its farts smell of roses and world peace has been known to be solved by E. OK. Just kidding (though really… they do smell of roses!).
And for the tweaker heads amongst you, there is an option for every occasion. We don’t go quietly into the night and remove options when no one is looking. None of those new big version releases with fanfare and “Hey look! Now with half the options you used to have!”. We sneak in when you least expect it and plant a whole forest of new option seeds, watching them spring to life. We nail new options to walls on a regular basis. We bake options-cakes and hand them out at parties. Options are good. Options are awesome. We have lots of them. Spend some quality time getting to know your new garden of options in E17. It may just finally give you the control you have been pining for.
Patrick Archibald
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Ashley
Cody & Steve Good afternoon, and Happy new years gents.
Ash here long time listener, first time emailer.
Cody was talking about children and technology a few shows ago. I wanted to see what you guys thought about this. I am a systems administrator with Windows/SAN/VM/growing Linux experience. I have two daughters one 4 and the sother 7. I have been trying to figure out how best to get the kids to learn technology. Currently they have their own Android Tablets (ICS) but are locked down with Zoodles kid software. I am starting to think that only allowing them access to one small part of the Android ecosystem is not good, but it does help when they need tech support (“HIT THE HOME BUTTOM!”. They both have their own Roku devices in their rooms, and they share their own Netflix account. I just started to teach them how to navigate the Plex Channel on the Roku.
I thought to myself, how can I get them their own desktop environments? Easy enough, I can get these old PCs (Pentium 3 & 4),and install puppylinux. My kids will have a desktop computer, and can start to use and learn linux. Then days later I started thinking further about my decision to push them towards Linux. I started to take into consideration what they will be forced to use in school. I want my kids to be above the curve when it comes to technology giving them a competitive edge over other kids. The computers the schools use are MS XP based, and not Linux. I started to realize that I might be doing them a disservice pushing Linux on them while all the other kids are learning MS XP. While I do want my kids to use and learn Linux, I think that it might need to wait until they have the basics of the school’s computers down first. For the record, YES I am that geek that is trying to make little geek children 🙂 Also I discovered the teachers were sending all the kids to flash based websites to do learning games. We all now how amazing well Flash works on linux 🙂 For the time being I have QTY (2) five year old laptops one running XP and the other Vista. I am hoping that this will allow them to learn the navigation of the MS operating system, and then I can move them on to Linux.
Just thought I would share my kids and technology situation. Interested in seeing what others think. I love the show, and and have listened to all L4TRUO podcasts to and from work in just about 2 months. I’m moving on to Podnutspro, and linux outlaws. Keep up the great work, and I look forward to the next show.
D2d – seamlessRDP – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-vzTXS2KsA
Usefull 100+ Commands – http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2008/09/usefull-100-commands.html
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