The Command Line Podcast

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Listener feedback this week is from Eric, Bryan and Will all in some way responding to the last feature about switching my wife back to Linux. The hacker word of the week this week is for free. The feature this week is a further discussion of a topic I’ve visited before, geek fatigue, this time focusing more on combating it, especially the form the arises from experiences like my return to Linux. 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.u Share

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are a Firefox extension that illustrates password reuse and researchers break video CAPTCHAs. In this week’s news, the first free-software, Linux tablet is on its way with more details and a video, researchers find flaw in key generation with popular cryptography including responses from several respected security researchers and some further details, a single atom transistor that pushes silicon to its limits, and a hint of what the next generation of post-relational data stores may bring. Following up this a successful Kickstarter for Code Hero and firmed up dates for Mozilla’s open web app store. 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. If you are going to be in the North Eastern part of the US in March, check out North East Linux Fest and LibrePlanet. Thanks, Jonathan, for pointing these out to me. Listener feedback this week is from Lachlan and Steve both of whom wrote in response to my feature on hackish assumptions. Lachlan also questioned why hackers should cultivate some awareness of public policy. Steve is in favor of my proposed talk for Ohio Linux Fest. I hope to have a beta of the talk at Balticon in May. The hacker word of the week this week is footprint. The feature this week is the story of how and why I switched my wife back to use Linux full time.. 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.u Share

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. The details about the call for papers for the tenth Ohio Linux Fest are here. This week’s security alerts are passwords are not going away any time soon and wasting hacker’s time to keep web sites safe. In this week’s news, The Pirate Bay launches a promo platform for artists, how quantum computing could move to the cloud, smallest transistors from nano-tubes outperform silicon, and Google’s new privacy policy including first reactions and Google’s response to them. Following up this Mozilla adds BrowserID support to all its sites and Kirby Ferguson and EFF seek a remix exemption to the DMCA. 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. Please check out Flattr if you haven’t already and send me an email if you’d like a voucher for a few euro or dollars if you are a new user. The hacker word of the week this week is fool. The feature this week is a monologue that attempts to bring to the surface some of the assumptions that inform my world view as a self identified hacker for examination and hopefully discussion. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are a new slow motion DoS attack and mapping malware into beautiful 3D models. In this week’s news, a semantic line interface, considering internet access as a human right, why you don’t need a college degree to be a profession coder, and a call to bring back the busy signal, at least metaphorically. Following up this week file sharing religion officially recognized in Sweden and first SOPA’s DNS blocking provision is deferred then the entire bill is delayed indefinitely. 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. Listener feedback this week came from Thomas who wrote to let me know PuTTY is available in Debian based Linux distros as well as on Windows. The hacker word of the week this week is foobar. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter in the challenges and opportunities of working at all levels. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This is likely to be the last podcast of the year. Next Sunday is Christmas with familial obligations if not personal observation. The Sunday after is New Year’s day when I am likely to need to quietly recover from the evening before. If you want to hear more from me before 2012, try the latest Living Proof Brew Cast, my latest stint guest co-hosting Tecnorama or the travelog from my most recent business trip to Paris (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4 and day 5.) Appropriate to the shortening days, listener Florian sent a link to a great blog post talking about hacking your metabolism to offset seasonal effects. This week’s security alerts are OpenDNS adds encrypted security and security problem in PuTTY ssh client fixed. In this week’s news, potential for small and low energy chips demonstrated with first molybdenite prototype, the condescending UI, no copyright infringement intended and 3D printing in space. Following up this week alternate bill to SOPA proposed with open feedback site and early analysis and Other OS class action against Sony dismissed. 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. There is no hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is the recording of the live interview I conducted with Cory Doctorow at the New America Foundation (where I now work.) We talked mostly about his new essay collection, “Context” but as usual the conversation ranged widely from there, especially when we opened up to audience questions. My thanks to both Cory for his time and John Taylor Williams for getting me this audio. 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. There is no hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is a conversation I had with my friend and friend of the podcast, Chris Miller, about digital scofflaws, inspired by Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” documentary. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, if you are interested in my recent trip to Brussels, check out my four part travelogue (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4), a great short film about the EU Hackathon, or my beer focused take on it in the most recent episode of Living Proof. I will be heading back to Europe, to visit Paris for the first time the week of December 5th. On the events side, I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow live at New America this Tuesday and the organizers of the fantastic Southern California Linux Expo have extended a special discount code to my listeners. Just put “CMDLN” (without the quotes) in when registering to receive 50% off. In addition, they’ve given me one free pass to give away, just be the first to email me asking about it. This week’s security alerts are study finds privacy tools are failing to protect users and security researchers bypasses Windows 8 secure boot. In this week’s news, gamers create recipes for protein-folding algorithms, a public library completely re-imagined, high resolution microscopy advance could shrink CPUs beyond current limits, and a super computer on a chip. Following up this week Senate votes down anti-network neutrality resolution and the online piracy debate is far from over. 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 I gave another brief travel update as I am leaving right after releasing this episode for Brussels to participate in the EU Hackathon. I have booked my travel to Paris for the first full week of December. Speaking of events, Cory will be in DC November 22nd and I will be interviewing him at a live book event followed by Q&A. Another event, which I won’t be attending, but looks worth checking out is the Indiana Linux Fest. The hacker word of the week this week is fontology. The feature this week is a rant on how copyright is becoming toxic. This is partly informed by currently events and partly by my current and recent reading. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, Dennis Ritchie Day, John McCarthy passes away, and a quick review of “Children of the Sky” by Vernor Vinge, his sequel to “Fire Upon the Deep.” This week’s security alerts are using a smartphone as a keylogger and ASLR comes to Android 4.0. In this week’s news, salted disks hold up to six times more data, Kinect turns any surface into an interactive touch screen, 18th century cipher cracked with the aid of machine translation, and massively parallel computer built from a single layer of molecules. Following up this week the House version of the Senate’s flawed copyright bill is even worse. 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 I gave a brief travel update–I’ll be in San Francisco for the Silicon Valley Human Rights conference, Brussels for the EU Hackathon and Paris in December. I thanked Jed for treating me to dinner and beer while he was out in the DC area. I observed a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of Dennis Ritchie. Listener feedback this time was from Eric in response to the interview from last week. The hacker word of the week this week is FOD. The feature this week includes a couple of readings from Cory Doctorow’s just released essay collection, (c)ontext. 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 I mentioned Chris Miller’s post about info-suicide and my thoughts on the passing of Steve Jobs. Listener feedback this time was from Charles who also supplied a follow up, Chris Miller, and Kevin. The feature this week is an interview with int 0×80, the MC of the hip-hop, nerd core group, Dual Core. 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.