Season 2 Episode 4: Wayne went to a LUG

After a jolly old game of darts, Wayne reports from his night out at a Linux User Group where he learned how to compile a Linux kernel on a Raspberry Pi. Andy has a cold but soldiers on selflessly.



Here's the links bit:

Exeter Linux Users Group (LUG) - http://exeter.lug.org.uk/ - The notes and stuff from the meet Wayne went to: https://github.com/mdinsmore/raspi-notes and their G+ page for hangouts - https://plus.google.com/115032276916379190211/posts
Their next meeting is on Friday 10th April at 1930 (UK time).

Darts for Windows - http://www.dartsforwin.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/makeitdigital. The TV shows Andy found were made by BBC Northern Ireland, clips are at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gvk8k

Linux from Scratch - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Mastering Emacs - http://www.masteringemacs.org/
An emacs power user at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8AqHdZTgNI
Org mode in emacs: https://youtu.be/fgizHHd7nOo
and for balance, here's a good introduction to learning vim: http://usevim.com/2013/01/11/vim101-core-skills/

Redo backup: http://redobackup.org/

The game show Andy remembered was called First Class, and yes they used an arcade machine behind the scenes to run the games on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84rj6-glh4
And here is a full episode of the BBC's God's Wonderful Railway, including an appearance by Dot Cotton! It doesn't look quite as dark and miserable as Andy remembered: https://youtu.be/4I3wkBrD7gg

Only Office: https://www.onlyoffice.com/

As-Easy-As - now free DOS spreadsheet app. http://www.triusinc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10

The online SDR at the Univerity of Twente: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
(some more are listed at http://websdr.org/, Twente has a wider frequency range than the others)

Dokuwiki - https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki#

XPEnology - http://www.xpenology.nl/

CSVkit: https://csvkit.readthedocs.org

Swiss File Knife: http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html

Android apps - Plex: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexapp.android&hl=en
JuiceSSH: https://juicessh.com/

Enjoy!
Wayne & Andy

S02E03

Another dose of UER has arrived!

Among our selection of stuff this time are:

Old software still going strong: STSPLUS
tmux, the terminal multiplexer. It is hard to explain just by talking, it is likely easier understood if you see it in use so here is a Youtube video that goes through the important features and commands.
Handbrake: open source video transcoder
AutoGK: old school video encoder for Xvid and Divx conversion
BBC News: The $100,000 game cartridge
Andy's Happy Friday (annoyingly, this week's edition did not publish due to an ISP outage, it didn't seem right to send it on Saturday when everything resumed)
The "wicks" playlist on Spotify
Debian's net install
VMWare ESXi
Arch Linux

Enjoy!

S02E02 - Operating systems fun

Wayne's been on operating systems try-out overload with his swanky new old laptop and we get a run-down of his successes and failures so far, from the unfathomable Plan 9 to the latest Windows 10. We panic but then calm down over the announced end of Crunchbang and discuss the BBC's Domesday Project, the new Raspberry Pi, arcade games, fishcakes and assorted other stuff. Enjoy!



Links and stuff for this episode:

Operating systems:
Haiku
Ghost BSD (Distrowatch  link - www.ghostbsd.org appears down at time of writing is online again)
Windows 10 Technical Preview
Plan 9 from Bell Labs There's some good help with installation here too.
Open Indiana
Crunchbang

Grub Customizer

The new Raspberry Pi 
Berryboot

Get_iplayer

The BBC's 1986 Domesday Project and here's a video from way back then where the BBC's Nick Ross explains the technology and how to use it.

The three-screen Atari racing game Andy couldn't remember was TX-1. Here's a video of it in action.

Pole Position - the cartoon

Our recommended stuff:
Andy: @refudiator and @prettysadmostly (Meatshirt) on Twitter and Nixie Pixel's Linux Videos on Youtube
Wayne: ReviewTechUSA and Chris Were on Youtube

We're in the studio tomorrow for "S02E02". Lots of stuff to cover including #!, media servers, Haiku, Raspberry Pi gaming, EXSi, Windows 10 & more! Want to add to our list? Get in touch. We're @uerpod on Twitter or email uerpodcast@gmail.com.

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New year, New season, New episode, New address, New feed, New me.

We’re back after our extended summer holidays. As we were away for so long, we’ve called this “season 2”! 

We now have some different (better) delivery options. We’re hosted at www.podbean.com – our address there is http://uer.podbean.com. You can get our RSS feed for your favourite podcast software there, or at the end of episode postings like this one that'll continue to be available here also. We should also be arriving, like a stale smell wafting in through the kitchen window, on iTunes soon.

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Just some of the subjects covered in this edition are:
 

Crunchbang Linux  www.crunchbang.org

I3 Window Manager  https://i3wm.org/

Zorin OS http://zorin-os.com/

Vim vs Emacs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war

Scrobblers: http://last.fm  and http://www.libre.fm

Dirt-cheap Android phones  - Doogee http://www.doogeemobile.com/ and Cubot http://www.cubot.net

SDRSharp for RTL-SDR receivers http://sdrsharp.com Great ideas and help http://www.rtl-sdr.com/

VOA’s experimental data broadcasts http://voaradiogram.net/

HF-FAX frequencies and schedules http://www.dxinfocentre.com/rafax.htm

Number stations – Enigma 2000 www.enigma2000.org.uk/

A little Roberts MW/LW/FM radio for £17 http://www.robertsradio.co.uk/product_details/SPORTS925.htm

UER’s Twitter robots https://twitter.com/livesportuk and https://twitter.com/soapalerts

Synology NAS – here’s a review - http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/4403/synology-ds213j-review-deluxe-entry-level-nas - it has been superseded already so is no longer on the manufacturer’s site at www.synology.com.

Mercenary clone - http://mercenarysite.free.fr/mddclone.htm

Reddit Battlestations https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations and Homelabs https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/

Andy’s favourite/most envied battlestations:

Overlooking Central Park: http://imgur.com/a/HIWiN and a powerful computer in an old retro case: http://i.imgur.com/ff2ZsQj.jpg

Crazily impressive homelabs: http://wahlnetwork.com/my-home-lab/  http://www.davidklee.net/home-lab/

Hercules IBM mainframe emulation http://www.hercules-390.org/ … Required reading: Introduction to z/OS http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246366.pdf (the RedBooks site holds huge amounts of documentation). And a fascinating way you can get software for it: http://www.cbttape.org/cbtfaq.htm

 

See you next time,

Andy & Wayne

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