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I am trying to write a script which will implement the scheduling rules for HPR. I spoke to Ken Fallon about this, and where it would fit in the overall design of the HPR system, when we met up at OggCamp 2012 in August, but we didn't manage to resolve very much. So, recently Ken and I began a discussion over Mumble to try and make progress. A few minutes in we decided to record our discussion for posterity, and this is the result. The notes which I had sent Ken before our Mumble session are available in PDF format. http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1148_Design_Notes_20121108.html http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1148_Design_Notes_20121108.pdf

In this episode I talk about my first netbook and the sadness that comes from knowing the tablet has replaced it. No music for this somber affair. Contact me at aukondk.com

Wireshark Tutorials The introduction to wireshark is to introduce protocols, and lead people to the existing material and ask for more detailed desires. Protocols 101 Wikipedia thinks it is long but not as long as college courses but it covers the basic level stuff but the article should open the rabbit hole a bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_protocol A great Compendium of Protocols is here and very usefull in under standing what wireshark shows you http://www.protocols.com/ To downlaod for Windows or MAC use http://www.wireshark.org/download.html For Linux use a trusted Repository Documents and training videos http://www.wireshark.org/docs/ The Wireshark Users Guide http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ Contact NewAgeTechnoHippie at gmail for question or comments

Here is a news review: Chavez’s Farewell? CIA Torture, Rendition Victim Wins Landmark European Court Case Right-to-Work in Michigan Is About Politics, Not Economics HSBC Hit with Fine for Helping Drug Cartels and Dictators; Executives Too Big to Jail Calling on Congress: Time to Fix Copyright ITU Boss In Denial: Claims Success, Misrepresents Final Treaty, As US, UK, Canada And Many More Refuse To Sign Sony's New German Ebookstore Features Thousands Of DRM-Free Books “Six Strikes” Scheme May Lead to Lawsuits Against Pirates Microserver Market Heats up: Intel Atom S1200 (Centerton) Announcement Verizon Determined to Expose BitTorrent Copyright Trolls Other Headlines: Julian Assange Moves Forward Plans To Run For Senate And Start A Wikileaks Political Party AFL-CIO calls for universal voter registration Economic BS in Rich Countries is Reinforced by BS about Venezuela Swedish Pirate Party Defends Role As Pirate Bay ISP Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement Production and Editorial Selection by DeepGeek, views of the story authors reflect their own opinions and not neccesarily those of TGTM news. News from "techdirt.com," "havanatimes.org," "perspectives.mvdirona.com," "inthesetimes.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. Links http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=83616 http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/14/headlines#12142 http://inthesetimes.com/article/14281/right_to_work_in_michigan_is_about_politics_not_economics/

Indie and Creative Commons Soundcloud - This is a music and audio sharing site, primarily. Free Music Archive - Lots of CC-licensed music. Jamendo - One of the premiere CC music sites. Bandcamp - I just learned about this site from my friend Craig Maloney, who does the Open Metal Cast. This site has Creative Commons music from bands who want to build a relationship with their fans and sell them music. Good artists like Amanda Palmer are here. e-Books When it comes to books, you really are at the mercy of the individual publishers. Most music labels have finally come to accept that no DRM is the best way to go, but must book publishers are still being dragged into the 21st century kicking and screaming. But there are some good places to find e-books that respect your freedom. Project Gutenberg - This is the granddaddy of the DRM free book sites. Project Gutenberg makes available books that are in the Public Domain, i.e., where the copyright has run out. These are mainly older books, but a lot of classics are in here. They make books available in all of the major formats. Baen Books - This publisher specializes in the harder Science Fiction, but they really understand the new media landscape. They not only offer most of their books DRM-free and in multiple formats, but they also have the Baen Free Library, where they offer selected books free of charge. The hope is that with the first taste free, you will want to buy more. And it works. I went there to see what they had, discovered that they had the entire collected works of one of my favorite authors (James H. Schmitz) for sale, and bought the lot of them. Tor/Forge - A major publisher in the Science Fiction and Fantasy fields, they just moved to going DRM free a few months ago. They did this because other publishers had been successful in so doing. Angry Robot - Along with Baen, a pioneer in selling DRM-free books in the Science Fiction and Fantasy fields. Avon Romance - A major publisher of romance novels, they just announced that they are experimenting with DRM-free ebook sales. O'Reilly Media - The premiere publisher of technical books, they pretty get everything right. They sell e-books without DRM. When a new edition of a book you already bought comes out you can "upgrade" for a nominal fee (e.g. I upgraded my Kevin Purdy "Android" book for $1). And with older books that they think are no longer worth in print, they are removing the copyright and making them freely available. ManyBooks.net - This site has a lot of overlap with Project Gutenberg, but also has some newer works that have been made available, such as Charles Stross's Accelerando. Fictionwise - Although h

Hacker Public Radio: 206 203 5729 The N Days of Christmas? Intro to Recreational Math Part Zero: Calendar Counting First episode of HPR that contains a direct discussion of a math topic. - Episode 479 Ohio Linux Fest, Klaatu interviews DWick about math software for Linux - Episode 523 Using Petunia software to teach math Inspired by a traditional song that is proof that some songs do not need to be recorded by William Shatner to be annoying. - Repetitive and formulaic - Involves a lot of counting, and that's our focus here. What is the 12 Days of Christmas? - Starts on Christmas Day, runs through the day before the next Season - Hint: That's 'Epiphany', which starts January 6. - Counting calendar days comes hard, so we tend to use our fingers - Turns out that using our fingers is quite mathematical. Here's why. Finger Counting: How do I count Twelve Days? - Let's start easy, with the fingers on one hand. My hands have five. - To name the Five Days of New Years is easy: January 1-5 - What about the Five Days of Christmas? Physical way General way * Christmas Day gets 1 (thumb) Dec 25 is one day after Dec 24 * Dec 26 gets 2 (index) 26 - 24 = 2 days * Dec 27 gets 3 (salute finger) 27 - 24 = 3 days * Dec 28 gets 4 (ring) 28 - 24 = 4 days * Dec 29 gets 5 (pinky) 29 - 24 = 5 days - Notice that counting 5 days, starting with Dec 25, is the same as numbering the days after Dec 24 (Christmas Eve). * In math, we call this "1-1 correspondence with natural numbers" * Math can give you the same certainty as using your fingers. * But it handles larger problems, because you don't run out. - Example: I'm booked to speak on Day 4 of a 5-day conference * Starts on the 25th of the month * When do I have to show up? - Wrong: Add 4 to first day (25), and arrive a day late. - Correct: Add 4 to date of pre-registration cocktail party (24), and arrive on time. - OK. Back to Twelve Days of Christmas. * The labeling approach tells us that December can hold only the first seven of the Twelve Days of Christmas, * December 31 - December 24 gives me 7 days. Partitioning: Adding hands full of additional fingers as needed - How do we handle the case where we go into the next month? - Key insight: Running out of December days for the Twelve Days is like running out of fingers on one hand when we count to 8. - We are so good at counting on our fingers that we don't recognize the act of partitioning the number 8 between our two hands. * Left hand gets 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. * Right hand picks up 6, 7 and 8 by mapping them to fingers 1,2,3. - To count even higher, we could: 1) keep borrowing other people's hands, or 2) track the number of times we reuse our two hands as we go * First method mirrors calendar math ("Annexing" hands, or months) * Second is positional notation ("base 10" and all that) Back to the Twelve Days - I have Twelve Days: 1, 2, ... 12 to assign to dates, even though I may only be interested in the first and last dates right now. * Start: How many can I fit into December? * December 31st is last. It gets assigned 31 - 24, or 7. * By "finger math", that means I have mapped 7 of the Twelve Days * That leaves 12 - 7, or 5 days into January. - Who can tell me which days are assigned in January? Anyone? * That's right, Ken. January 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. * So the Twelve Days of Christmas runs 25 December to 5 January Question: What if there were 72 Days of Christmas? When would it end? - Note: Don't worry. This is purely hypothetical. - Let's attack this with finger math, with partitioning and annexing * December, as we have seen, accounts for 7 days: 25 thr

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/ This episode the focus will be on two commands that go hand-in-hand: pgrep and pkill. Like the kill command, pkill is used to send a signal to a process usually with the intent to terminate or stop the process. Instead of passing the Process ID (PID) you can pass the process name: pkill xterm For the rest of this episode please check out the shownotes and video at http://www.linuxintheshell.org/2012/12/18/episode-20-pgrep-and-pkill/

This is a very brief introduction to the mumble client, highlighting some of the basic options and gotchas involved in setting it up.

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Psst... Ken is busy setting up servers for the new year episode, we're just going to slip out this episode that Mr. Gadgets himself forgot about. In this episode Mr. Gadgets shares with us his discoveries as he does some spring cleaning. Where were we 15 years ago, Power PC's, MB hard disks And the Kansas city air pirates - what more do you want....

Programming languages 2 - Getting started with Python 1 Characteristics 2 Installation 3 Syntax and semantics 4 Interpreter 5 Standard library 6 Documentation and tutorials Python is a very interesting language in the sense that it covers a very wide range of use cases. It can be useful for simple scripting tasks, that is automating repetitive tasks that you usually do by hand. It can also be useful for text file processing, like parsing log files or specific formats like XML. You can use use it as a glue language, that is a mix of system calls to command-line programs, like in scripting, but also by calling foreing language libraries which provide Python bindings. You can use Python as a first language in a Computer Science curriculum, since it is simple to learn and supports different programming paradigms (Object Oriented, Procedural, Functional). You can it also as an extension language, since a Python interpreter can be embedded in C/C++ programs. Python being a very rich language with a very rich standard library, you can use it to build very complex applications. There are many ways of using it to build complex Graphical User Interfaces, since many graphical libraries provide Python bindings (http://www.diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/PyQt4, GTK, etc.). Python also provides a default library for GUIs, which is called Tkinter and is based on Tcl/Tk. You can also use Python for web development, either by using the standard library utilities or by using one of the very popular web frameworks like Zope, Plone or Django. Finally, Python is also extensively used in scientific computing, since projects like SciPy, Numpy or Matplotlib provide a set of tools which allow Python to be as powerful as languages like Matlab or IDL with the advantage of being a full fledged language with a very rich standard library. 2 Installation There are 2 current versions of Python: version 2 and version 3. Version 3 is not fully compatible with version 2, so if you are starting with Python, I think is is wise to go with version 3, but be aware that most existing applications and Open Source projects use version 2. If you are using a GNU based system, chances are that Python is already installed in you system. Otherwise, it will be available in your distribution repositories. As far as I know, Python is also available on the Mac via the terminal. On widows, you will have to download a Python distribution from http://python.org/download. On this page you will also find links for downloading Python for Linux, MacOS, etc. If you go to this site, you will notice that they mention alternative implementations of Python. The implementation I will be talking about here is the one done in C. To install Python, you also can download the source code and compile it yourself. 3 Syntax and semantics Have a look at this link Python is intended to be a highly readable language. It is designed to

New Age Techno Hippie Open Street Maps Short call out for Open Street Maps Puplic Discriptions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap Main Sites http://www.openstreetmap.org/ http://www.openstreetbrowser.org/ Wiki Links for main mobile OS http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IOS http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maemo Link to Getting started http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide This Beginners' guide will show you how to add data to OpenStreetMap. Tutorials are available in many languages which you can select from the table at the top of this page. You need a computer connected to the Internet and some time to gather information and then enter it. A GPS unit and connecting cable are purely optional, but will be required if you want to collect data that way. Given the excellent aerial photography available in the editors these days a GPS is less important than in the early days of the project. Create a free account so that you can contribute. Collect data using a GPS unit or by other methods. Upload GPS data (skip this section if you are not using GPS). Edit maps to make changes to OpenStreetMap. Edit data, add tags and upload changes.

LibreOffice 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 hhttp://www.ahuka.com/. Remember to support free software!

Here is a news review: Florida Republicans Admit Suppression of Democratic Votes Was Goal of New Law Obama Team Made Attempt to Solidify Drone Policy in Event of Romney Win Rafael Correa's New South America Independent Media Now! Kenyan Filmmaker Looking To Cuts Costs By Using 'Pirates' As His Distributors Attempt to Modernize Digital Privacy Law Passes the Senate Judiciary Committee Cuba Gov. Creates Biotech/Pharmaceutical Conglomerate Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker TV Shack Admin Richard O’Dwyer Will NOT Be Extradited To U.S. Six Strikes Delayed Until 'Early Part' Of 2013 Other Headlines: The Israeli-Palestinian Holocaust Huge Argentina human rights trial begins How Walmart and Other Huge Companies Support Horrific Conditions That Kill Workers Gender and Sexuality Groups Rally for Greater Gender Equality in Venezuela BitTorrent Site Owners Fear European Domain Name Seizures News from "techdirt.com," "inthesetimes.com," "havanatimes.org" and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. Audio Clip from "thecommandline.net" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution share-alike license. News from "torrentfreak.com" and "eff.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "wlcentral.org," and "democracynow.org," used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights. Links http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/27/headlines#11279 http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/obama-team-made-attempt-to-solidify-drone-policy-in-event-of-romney-win-121128?news=846329 http://wlcentral.org/node/2777 http://inthesetimes.com/article/14203/independent_media_now/ http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121125/17525521138/kenyan-filmmaker-looking-to-cuts-costs-using-pirates-as-his-distributors.shtml

a Buyer Brown joint Interview with blogger and Science Fiction Writer Lola Lariscy Author of "End of Life Projections" and producer of "Space Janitors"     Scannerdrome https://plus.google.com/106038292741469535152/posts     Lola Lariscy     http://www.lolalariscy.com/     http://ceruleanlobster.blogspot.com