The Command Line Podcast

This is news cast 228, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro a quick review of the board game, Ra. This week’s security alerts are new tactics attackers are using to evade network security and compromise turns security vendor’s site into a malware hub. In this week’s news Mozilla announces open web apps (which might take advantage of Prism) and experimental app store, breakthrough could eliminate need for computers to boot, how Allies used math against German tanks, and turning brain waves into music. Following up this week barriers to real competition in the wake of the Google Books settlement and Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave the OOo council. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, apologies for the missed news cast, though I had a very productive weekend on other show related tasks as well as on the volunteering Saturday. My thanks to Wild Biker and James M. for their donations this past week. And a reminder that DC’s CopyNight is this coming Tuesday, the 26th. Listener feedback this week was from Jed who wrote in about the Singularity feature as well as hacker health habits and post-peak resource technology. The hacker word of the week this week is firehose syndrome. The feature this week is a book review of “Out of Control” by Kevin Kelly. I also reference the books “Complexity” by Mitch Waldrop and “Godel, Escher, Bach” by Douglas Hofstadter. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, just a heads up that due to a volunteer commitment, there may not be a news show this weekend. The hacker word of the week this week is firefighting. The feature this week is a book end to my switching to Linux feature from back in June. I mention the tag I used on the blog to track my incremental progress. I also refer to one of my earliest rants, on the subject of geek fatigue. The audio software I mention, the one written by Paul Davis and with the very active community, is Ardour. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 227, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro my thanks to PseudoMorph for his monthly donation and some suggestions for ways listeners can help with the show beyond donations. This week’s security alerts are Comcast warns customers infected with botnet and borrowing health models to understand online security risks. In this week’s news historic audio recordings are at risk in part due to bad copyright laws, opting out of behavioral advertising which is a further development in some earlier work and may require more work still, an escalation in preventing jail breaking phones though we should probably avoid calling it a rootkit, and encryption pioneers formally recognized after initially being left out of history. Following up this week the final ACTA draft is not as bad as feared and the new Document Foundation has a strong first week. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, an update on last month’s finances for the podcast. The hacker word of the week this week is firebottle. The feature this week is a monologue on an idea I find fascinating and yet at the same time of which I am skeptical, the technological singularity. In the feature I mention the history of the idea, the Omega Point, “Accelerando” by Charlie Stross, True Names by Cory Doctorow and Ben Rosenbaum, the Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker, my review of Rucker’s more recent duology, the “Eclipse Two” anthology containing David Moles story, “The Singularity is Near” by Ray Kurzweil, the Singularity University, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, my Inner Chapter on why programming is hard, Gordon Moore’s criticism of the singularity, other criticisms, Rudy Rucker’s response to the ideal of simulating the earth, and “Diaspora” by Greg Egan. [display podcast] More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 226, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, I sent off the Sham Rock CD to Michael in Israel and the signed Wizzywig books to Steve. I have also completed moving my podcast production to Linux. This week’s security alerts are malware running on graphics cards and map based passwords. In this week’s news the US government is pushing for wiretapping capabilities for the net which may have father ranging consequences though the private sector has been slow to react thus far, OpenOffice.org fork frees it from Oracle setting it up under its own foundation, working computer components crafted in a game, and an inherent peak with today’s OSes for many core computing. Following up this week net neutrality bill dies sending the issue back to the FCC and the Pirate Bay appeal gets under way. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.