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RaspberryPi and the baby Dinosaur

In this Hacker Public Radio episode Ken and his Son hatch a plan to film a Dinosaur egg hatching using fswebcam. http://www.intertoys.nl/speelgoed/groeiend-dinosaurus-ei-577680.html We had to wait 8 days for a Dinosaur egg to hatch, so we rigged up a RasberryPi … Continue reading

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Skype-call-recorder on Fedora

Skype is frowned on by many as it is proprietary software and by more as it is now owned by Microsoft. However you cannot get over the fact that it has enabled millions to keep in touch for affordable cost. … Continue reading

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Can you spare £5 for a meter of broadband ?

#da12bb #HPR  Back in episode #hpr 0980, I spoke with Chris Conder of Broadband for Rural North. Located in the very pretty but the rural Forest of Bowland in Lancashire in the UK, and tired of putting up with slow ‘broadband’ … Continue reading

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HPR Scheduling System

I have been trying to learn inkscape so that I could have a vector based version of the HPR logo. This would be useful for printing out large posters for use at the Linux Festivals that we attend. I had … Continue reading

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Any topic that is of interest to Hackers

It’s not often that I comment on HPR episodes – other than to beg for you to send them in – but I want to make an exception for today’s show. Episode 0853 :: Pat Volkerding of Slackware Linux chats … Continue reading

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Talk Geek To Me Interview

I was honoured to be asked to do an interview by Deep Geek on his site Talk Geek To Me. Although the interview focused on the plans for revitalizing  Hacker Public Radio, there was time for a discussion about technology in general … Continue reading

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Note to future self: Klaatu’s podcast on Audacity

The GNU World Order September 23, 2010: Episode 6×01 Could only be improved by making it a video cast.

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HPR: Shot of Hack – Changing the time offset of a series of photos.

The problem: You have a series of photos where the time is offset from the correct time but is still correct in relation to each other.   Here are a few of the times that I’ve needed to do this: … Continue reading

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HPR: A private data cloud

In this months Hacker Public Radio show I talk about setting up a secure ‘private data cloud’ solution where I use rsync over ssh to backup my data to a remote location. Continue reading

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HPR: Bash Loops

I have been thinking about doing a small episode on bash loops for some time after I heard the guys at the The Linux Cranks discussing the topic. Well I found some time to record the show on my way … Continue reading

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