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In this episode Dudeman explains to us his experience of running arch linux the last few weeks. The discussion sidetracks a bit towards the difference between rolling releases versus versioned releases and Source vs Binary distributions where Arch and Gentoo play the part of the rolling/source based distros.

Some useful sites http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications http://gofree.com/Tutorials/ http://en.libreofficeforum.org/ My web site is at http://www.ahuka.com/. Remember to support free software!

Edited version - re sent The Sonar Project has $9,838 raised with 256 people contributing. A big thanks to all the !HPR Listeners who helped out. It's not too late to contribute to the ACF. See http://accessiblecomputingfoundation.org/ for more information. Tomorrow The Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo starts. Running from February 22 to the 24, 2013 in the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport. Speakers include Kyle Rankin, Joe Brockmeier and Matthew Garrett. See http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x for more information The N Days of Christmas? Intro to Recreational Math Part One: Counting Partridges and Gold Rings The complete shownotes can be found here: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/hpr1189.txt http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/Pascal_Calcs_Gnumeric.gnumeric http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/Pascal_Calcs_non-free.xls http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/hpr1189_Charles_in_NJ-N-Days-of-Xmas-Ep-One.zip Pascal's Triangle: http://www.mathisfun.com/pascals-triangle.html http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Pascal's_triangle Background on Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial Theorem, see the excellent videos by Sal Khan at http://KhanAcademy.org Contact: Charles in NJ Email: catintp@yahoo.com Charlie + Alpha + Tango + India + November + Tango + Papa.

The Sonar Project has $9,838 raised with 256 people contributing. A big thanks to all the !HPR Listeners who helped out. It's not too late to contribute to the ACF. See http://accessiblecomputingfoundation.org/ for more information. Tomorrow The Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo starts. Running from February 22 to the 24, 2013 in the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport. Speakers include Kyle Rankin, Joe Brockmeier and Matthew Garrett. See http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x for more information The N Days of Christmas? Intro to Recreational Math Part One: Counting Partridges and Gold Rings The complete shownotes can be found here: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/hpr1189.txt http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/Pascal_Calcs_Gnumeric.gnumeric http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/Pascal_Calcs_non-free.xls http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1189/hpr1189_Charles_in_NJ-N-Days-of-Xmas-Ep-One.zip Pascal's Triangle: http://www.mathisfun.com/pascals-triangle.html http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Pascal's_triangle Background on Pascal's Triangle and the Binomial Theorem, see the excellent videos by Sal Khan at http://KhanAcademy.org Contact: Charles in NJ Email: catintp@yahoo.com Charlie + Alpha + Tango + India + November + Tango + Papa.

11 hours to go. 235 funders Contributed $8,633 USD of $20,000 43% Donate here http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sonar-project Klaatu sneaks in an addendum to his Emacs mini-series on howto use Rmail in Emacs. Bonus topics include how to configure fancy Unix mail tools like msmtp, procmail, tmail, and fetchmail.

I live in GNU/Emacs =================== 1 Emacs on HPR =============== Klaatu's 3 part series - ep0852 - ep0856 - ep0861 2 EmacsWiki ============ - Ultimate source of information for GNU/Emacs - [http://emacswiki.org/] 3 Appearance ============= - no menus nor scroll bars - black background on a tiling window, full screen (no decorations) - people often think that I am on the console (no X) 4 Daemon ========= - [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon] - so that clients can connect (org protocol) - use the same emacs from the consoles - if x crashes, for instance 5 Editing code =============== - c++ - with repls - lisp/scheme/clojure/elisp (slime and geiser) - python - octave - compilation - latex 6 Org ====== - [http://orgmode.org/] - Note taking - GTD, agenda, spreadsheet - Reports, papers, slides, blog - export to mobile org 7 Gnus ======= - [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusTutorial] - Mails - RSS and mailing lists via gwene - store links into and open from org-mode 8 w3m ====== - [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-w3m] - search and more and more navigation 9 Conkeror (in/out) ==================== - [http://conkeror.org/] - only when javascript is required - org protocol for vzpturing links - org open link to open pages 10 ERC for IRC =============== - [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ERC] 11 Small utilities =================== - Info reader - [http://emacswiki.org/emacs/InfoMode] - Calendar - [http://emacswiki.org/emacs/CalendarMode] - Scratch buffer as calculator - Evaluating expressions - [http://emacswiki.org/emacs/EvaluatingExpressions] - Dired - [http://emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredMode] - Docview - [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DocViewMode] - Version control - [http://emacswiki.org/emacs/VersionControl]

61 hours to go 33% there - donate to http://www.indiegogo.com/sonar the spread the word. In today's show, we hear a plea from David Whitman about why you should join us all and donate to the sonar project. The pokey let's us in on what he did wrong when installing sonar

6 days to go 25% there - donate to http://www.indegogo.com/sonar the spread the word. Jezra and NYbill look back on their last episode (http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0923). They review their predictions for 2012. Then go into a bit of what they see happening in the tech world in 2013. Basically, they are just having a geeky conversation. Listen at your own peril! The Yoda/Red Rider mic stand: http://status.jezra.net/attachment/3421

Two weeks ago we aired a show about the Sonar Project which is a specialized GNU/Linux distribution to develop and proof accessibility in a modern distribution. This is a test bed and so every single enhancement and discovery will be sent back upstream so that all distributions will be accessible by default. The Sonar Project show was downloaded a total of 14,219 times so far and yet only 127 people have donated. Today it's a case of the blind leading the (simulated) blind as Jonathan Nadeau walks pokey through an install of the Sonar GNU/Linux distribution without a monitor. So listen along and experience what life is like if you are a blind hacker. Press PAUSE to hear what it would be like if Jonathan had not done so much work already. DONATE NOW The project is here http://www.indegogo.com/sonar The Accessible Computing Foundation can be found at theacf.co or http://accessiblecomputingfoundation.org/ The project itself can be found here www.sonar-project.org

Boise Lug meeting Feb 7 2013, Darin gives a talk on Linux gaming focused on vavoom for Doom wads and the steam client now in open beta, show notes and Lug contacts http://boiselug.org/ and http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

Spring is in the air and valentine's day is just around the corner and Dann Sexy Washko tells us all we need to know about dates on his regular Linux In The Shell series. Linux In The Shell aims to explore the use of many commands a user can run in the Bash Shell. Tutorials include a write up with examples, an audio component about the write up, and a video component to demonstrate the usage of the command. The website is http://www.linuxintheshell.org/ The date command will not only display or let you change the current date and time but is the go to utility for getting date and time information into scripts. Evoked by itself the date command will output the current system date based upon the rules of the LC_TIME format. The LC_TIME format defines the rules for formatting dates and times. LC_TIME is a subset of locale which defines the overall environment based upon the chosen language and cultural conventions. You can see the current LC value by issuing the locale command. You can see time specific information for your system by issueing: locale -m LC_TIME http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2013/02/12/episode-023-date/

I had a couple of requests for more specific information regarding audio quality in mumble, so here I go through a few of the more common audio issues I've run into with a few tips about what you can try to do about them. These issues are: overdriven audio, quiet audio, distorted audio and choppy audio. Eve bot (http://frymaster.127001.org/mumble) is also mentioned as an alternative to using the loopback settings within mumble for troubleshooting. Thanks to Peter64 for his help with generating the choppy audio segment.

Here is a news review: FBI Came to Investigate Wikileaks in Iceland Anonymous Hacks DOJ Site in Retaliation for Aaron Swartz Case Unexplained Blackout of Discussion of CIA Interrogation Centers at 9/11 Pre-Trial Hearing Stealing workers’ pay is illegal, shouldn’t be a partisan issue Report: Brennan Was Regularly Briefed on Torture Under Bush Pirate Bay Founder Could Be Prosecuted For Hacking “Within a Month” Is It Illegal To Unlock a Phone? The Situation is Better - and Worse - Than You Think Anti-Piracy Group Already Demanding That Kim Dotcom's New Mega Service Be Shut Down TechCrunch Admits That Using Facebook Comments Drove Away Most Of Their Commenters The 16th Century Religious Wars And Today’s Copyright Monopoly Wars Have More In Common Than You Think Other Headlines: With New Constitution, Post-Collapse Iceland Inches Toward Direct Democracy The Justice Department does not need to explain why it wanted Twitter information of certain WikiLeaks supporters without a warrant, the 4th Circuit ruled. Government requests for Twitter user data rise 20% in 2012 IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous Staffed and produced by the TGTM news team, Editorial Selection by DeepGeek, views of the story authors reflect their own opinions and not neccesarily those of TGTM news. News from "techdirt.com," "thestand.org," "icelandreview.com," and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. News from "torrentfreak.com" and "eff.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "democracynow.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights.

Frank Bell interviews Mark Davis, It Director for Lake Taylor Transistional Care Hospital and head of the Tidewater Unix Users Group (TWUUG), an organization which predates the creation of the Linux kernel. Mark talks about how his early computer experience and he got started with computers and *nix, the history and development of TWUUG, and the history and architecture of Lake Taylor's Linux-based network. He also shares his thoughts about Ubuntu's Wayland project and distributed versus centralized computing, as well as a summary his reaction to his new Windows 8 computer. Links: TWUUG</a>: http://www.twuug.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page Lake Taylor Transistional Care Hospital</a>: http://www.laketaylor.org/index.php Lenovo Twist</a>: http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/thinkpad-twist/

Creighton and Rigo about PyPy "We're really really really really fast." - Laura Creighton (2011) Today you will hear two interviews, with Laura Creighton and Armin Rigo. You'll get a really unique perspektive of Richard Stallman, as well as of the PyPy project. Below you will find links to most of the projects mentioned in the interviews, but first and foremost I would like to recomend you to have a look at Lauras' keynote interview "Dialogue with Richard Stallman" and Armins' talk "PyPy". Make sure you watch the videos from FSCONS2011 with Stallman, Creighton and Rigo! References HPR #1116 Interview with Richard Stallman FSCONS Laura Creighton Armin Rigo PyPy Wikipedia: SmallTalk and Prolog How to reach me You should follow me and subscribe to All In IT Radio: Identi.ca: @alltinomit Twitter: @alltinomit http://aiit.se/radio/+ http://aiit.se/radio/