Category Archives: Podcasts

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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HPR episode on using a squid proxy server locally

This month my HPR episode featured using a local squid proxy. You might want to to run your own proxy server to provide yourself with a secure web connection when you are out and about by tunneling your traffic over … Continue reading

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HPR: thisrunslinux.org

My HPR episode for October was released today. This one’s all about 3:30’s idea to get video material to promote linux. It’s still in very very soft launch beta so if you want to offer help or suggestions please have … Continue reading

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I spoke to Dave !!!

In episode 91 Dave Sexy Yeats announced his first ever call-in show. Fortunately this was at a time that I should be awake I thought it would be too good an opertunity to miss. For some reason my land line … Continue reading

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faster: a bashpodder plugin

I’ve been asked to supply the script that I use to speed up podcasts. So here it is: #!/bin/bash # v0.3 20080919 https://kenfallon.com if [ -d “${*}” ]; then cd “${*}” ls -1 2>/dev/null | while read FILE;do FILENAME=${FILE##*/} sox … Continue reading

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HPR Episode 3 tips posted.

Three bash tips from HPR 185. Progress updates with a bash loop, speeding up podcasts and copying directories with tar. Continue reading

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HPR Episode on dvgrab

The episode I recorded about my last post has been posted on Hacker Public Radio.

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Archiving your DV tapes

I was listening to a podcast about archiving your data and I decided it was time to archive my Digital Video tapes. Good thing I did because although the oldest were only four (4) years old they were giving read … Continue reading

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