UER: The Unhandled Exception Report Podcast

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Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Season 3 Episode 3

Another meander down the internet superbridleway.

Andy was a little hungover and as a result perhaps failed to set up his microphone properly. Apologies if audio quality is not always as it should be.

Among this episode's cornucopia of anorakism:

Stuff

Super Miss World (arcade game) - http://www.emuparadise.me/M.A.M.E._-_Multiple_Arcade_Machine_Emulator_ROMs/Super_Miss_World/178654

A new US TV streaming service - http://www.ustvweb.com

Radio

Cosycave HF upconverter - https://www.cosycave.co.uk/product.php?id_product=315

Short-wave.info http://www.short-wave.info

Eibi database http://www.eibispace.de/

Mailing lists: HCDX http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ and DXLD http://www.worldofradio.com/

G5RV and his antennas http://www.radioworks.com/Varney/G5RVmain.htm

Video

Youtube:The Spectrum Show https://www.youtube.com/user/BuckingTheTrend2008

Guru Larryhttps://www.youtube.com/user/LarryBundyJr

Chinneyvisionhttps://www.youtube.com/user/chinnyhill10

Toytrains4u - https://www.youtube.com/user/ianrphillips

Thomas the Dank Engine (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzmWzXLPa6I

Thomas the Tank Engine – George Carlin redubbed (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iwvu-j7BuY

Para Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7xm1xzLyrcJgWUX2cqKGQw

Music

Andy’s ‘Perfect Hardcore’ playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw9TVLl3y-fGPqdCosPpxwq41WdnMqB6s

Helpful stuff

Andy’s IFTTT recipe to notify you of discounted apps (uses Reddit’s‘Google Play Deals’) https://ifttt.com/recipes/417479-email-notification-of-google-play-app-deals

Android apps

Water Drink Reminder https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northpark.drinkwater&hl=en_GB

Sleep as Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en_GB

Beeter Twitter client (it’s been updated to work with images sinceour recording, Twicca still has not) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.b0ne.android.apps.beeter&hl=en_GB

Hermit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chimbori.hermitcrab&hl=en_GB

Netguard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en_GB

Enjoy.

Saturday, 2 April 2016

Some little t scripts to help with Twitter list management

In UER S03E02 I promised some scripts to help with Twitter list management, finally here they are. To use them you first need to install the application t which you can find here: https://github.com/sferik/t As t is a hard thing to search for, it is a good idea to keep this link handy - or a way to remember it. I usually search for sferik if I need to find it again. t requires Ruby - follow the instructions on that page to get it all set up & working for whatever platform you're on.

The scripts presented here run fine with sh or bash, but they are simple and could easily be adapted for DOS or wherever else you're using them. They're based mostly on the author's own examples - you can get more examples from t's page.

Please note I am certainly not a script guru and there may well be better ways to do these tasks. However they work (at least for me!). My naming convention contains the letters tw_ so that twitter scripts stay together; you can of course call them whatever you like.

1. tw_addtolist

#!/bin/sh
# usage: tw_addtolist user tolistname
t set active <yourusername>
t list add $1 $2

With all of these, the t set active command is only needed if you use more than one account with t. This simply adds one or many usernames to the specified list. Usage for multiple usernames - use quotes to keep the whole thing inside the one variable:

tw_addtolist 'user1 user2 user3' destinationlist

2. tw_listaddfromlist

#!/bin/sh
# usage: tw_listaddfromlist listtocopyfrom listtocopyto
t set active <yourusername>
t list member $1 | xargs t list add $2

This enables you to copy users from one list to another, including from someone else's list. So let's say you wanted your own copy of my situationroomlist called mysitroomlist, you could use:

tw_listaddfromlist feedmetv/situationroom mysitroomlist

3. tw_listcopy

The above example needs the list to be already created, do this with a t command or on the Twitter site itself. If you use t to create a list with an already existing name, it'll create a new one. A version of the above that'll create a list and copy to it is:

#!/bin/sh
# usage: tw_copylist fromlistname tolistname
t set active <yourusername>
t list create $2 'your list description'
t list member $1 | xargs t list add $2

I use 'TW_LC' as the description to show myself that I used this script to create the list. You can use the description however you like or pass it from the command line with $3 etc.

4. tw_listfromfollowings

#!/bin/sh
# gets list of people user is following, adds them to list
# tw_listfromfollowings user tolistname
echo NOTE - MOST 50 RECENT TWEETERS ARE CHOSEN
t set active <yourusername>
t followings $1 -l --sort=tweeted |head -50 |grep -v 'RT @' | awk '{print $13}' | xargs t list add $2

This script takes the followers of a user and adds it to your list. This of course works best for a person whose followings are tightly focused on a single subject. You may find problems adding a large number, so my example here takes the top 50 users in order of their last tweet and reminds you of this in annoying great big capital letters.

5. tw_unfollowtolist

This one gives you the ability to unfollow one or many accounts and add them to a list at the same time.

#!/bin/sh
# takes user(s) from $2 & adds them to list named in $1
# takes list of twitternames from $2
t set active <yourusername>
t unfollow $2
t list add $1 $2

usage for multiple users - use quotes to keep the whole thing inside the one variable:

tw_unfollowtolist destinationlist 'user1 user2 user3'

These are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to some of the clever things that could be done with scripting knowledge or data processing. I for example use the power of t's csv output to enable me to import twitter data into SQL server or Excel for further use or analysis. If anyone would like a follow up to this post with some of that stuff explained, get in touch.

Thursday, 18 February 2016

Season 3 Episode 2

An hour-long bumper edition of UER, including an introduction of Wayne's upcoming new Way Back When podcast, and the first episode of Andy Plays Games He's Never Heard Of featuring the awful arcade game 'Ripper Ribbit'.

Notes & Links for this episode:

Social networks
Plag http://plag.com/
tsu http://www.tsu.co/

TV
Monarchy: The Nation Decides – the historic, (in)famous ITV special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KY6HQWxqxM (bonus: all the 1997 commercials are included)Get_iplayer https://squarepenguin.co.uk/

Twitter
T – command line twitter power tool https://github.com/sferik/t (Andy’s scripts for list manipulation will be on our blog soon, watch our Twitter account for notification of when it is there)

Andy’s ‘Situation Room’ list https://twitter.com/feedmetv/lists/situationroom

Corebird - Linux Twitter Client http://corebird.baedert.org/

Brian Pilton https://twitter.com/brianpilton (please note his Twitter name doesn’t have an underscore despite what Andy said in the podcast)
Brian from Placerville: https://twitter.com/Beebee880
Moonshine Bonanza https://twitter.com/moonshinebnanza
Liz Hersey https://twitter.com/lizannehersey
Manwhohasitall https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall

Games
The awful arcade game Ripper Ribbit http://gamesdbase.com/game/arcade/ripper-ribbit.aspx

Medium wave radio
MWLIST http://www.mwlist.org/
Herman Boel’s EMWG http://www.emwg.info/ (no longer updated but still some good info, especially in the section ‘DX documentation’ section)The Perseus SDR http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

And finally
Nigel Mansell plays a F1 simulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCiWf7WEViM

Sunday, 25 October 2015

Season 3 Episode 1

We're back after a summer on the beach with a whole new season - season 3!

Wayne's got a new cheap laptop to unleash a six-year old onto the information superhighway and a new cheap digital TV receiver too. Andy has been looking around the wacky world of Shodan and has a bunch of useful Android apps. We also waffle on about other stuff like US radio, how to watch the NHL in the UK, moan about printers and our unexplained ban from ***tube, an app to bring the wonderful sport of speedway into the 21^st century, and more.

Links for all the stuff:

Boot Repair Disk http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/

August DVB400 freeview receiver (Amazon) http://www.amazon.co.uk/August-DVB400-Freeview-Set-Top/dp/B00BPAZGCG

A lovely video of the last days of Exeter Speedway: https://vimeo.com/87180337

Shodan https://www.shodan.io/

Shodan Explorer http://explorer.shodanhq.com/

NHL Gamecenter https://subscribe.nhl.com/

Android apps:

Yahoo Sports https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.protrade.sportacular&hl=en_GB

Rotation Manager: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meerkat.rotationmanager&hl=en_GB

Gravity Screen: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree&hl=en_GB

Twilight: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.lux&hl=en_GB

Speedway Programme: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.krygiel.speedway.programme&hl=en_GB

Synchronize Ultimate: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.synchronizeultimate&hl=en_GB

Tunein stations:

WQED http://tunein.com/radio/KQED-FM-885-s34804/

IPR http://tunein.com/radio/IPR-News-Radio-915-s37193/

Radio & TV shows:

Prairie Home Companion http://prairiehome.org/

Radiolab http://www.radiolab.org/

Mr Robot (IMDB) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/

Thursday, 30 July 2015

S02 E06 - Summertime Special

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Monday, 18 May 2015

S02E05 - The Day After the Night Before

Andy and Wayne return with more stuff from the side-roads of the information superhighway. This episode was recorded on the day after the UK's General Election (sorry for the slight delay). Links are below, some of the other things we promised will be on our Twitter feed in the coming days.

Enjoy...