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Wikipedia text to speech

A do it yourself Wikipedia text to speech tool from the command line using wget, html2text, espeak and ffmpeg. Continue reading

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HPR episode on RTFM Released

In this months Hacker Public Radio episode 340 I discuss the origins of the acronym RTFM. While the use has negative connotations there is merit in downloading and reading manuals all be it for education but also for reference. Any … Continue reading

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AutoNessus English Screencast

At the end of our Hacker Public Radio episode 298 on AutoNessus we promised that Frank would release a screen cast of the presentation he gave at the Dutch Linux Users Group NLLGG on the 7th of February. I am … Continue reading

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HPR Episode on autonessus

I attended a presentation on AutoNessus at the Dutch Linux Users Group NLLGG on the 7th of February last. I managed to record an interview with the author Frank Breedijk who works as a Security Engineer for Schuberg Philis and … Continue reading

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How to mirror RHN behind your firewall.

Mirroring your RHN Channels and combining them with software from other sources just got a lot easier with RHEL5. In this post I show you how you can manage your own internal RedHat Network repository. Continue reading

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HPR Interview with Ian Southam Released

The cfengine interview with Ian Southam has been released and you can hear it here

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HPR cfengine an interview with Ian Southam

In this months Hacker Public Radio episode I snag a interview with Ian Southam a Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis about cfengine. Continue reading

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Fantastic discussion by Eben Moglen on Origins of Copyright and Patents

I just finished listening to a brilliant discussion by Eben Moglen on Origins of Copyright and Patents over at the The Software Freedom Law Show. He goes through step by step why things are as they are and why the … Continue reading

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The Samsung YP-U3

This months HPR is out and this time I spent some time talking about the evils of media transfer protocol and where to see if your media player supports the ogg format. Continue reading

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Automating connecting with ssh to a series of hosts

I sometimes need to a large number of servers one after the other to run a command. For example if we want to see how full the home partition is on all our servers. The command we want to run … Continue reading

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