The Binary Times – Series 1 Episode 4

Series 1 Episode 4 – A variey of topics discussed this fortnight, including LimeSDR, Raspberry Pi, Command Line Linux tools, have a listen.
00:28 intro
00:48 Mark and Wayne talk about Mark’s new LimeSDR
11:58 Wayne talks about his latest adventures in Raspberry Pi and how he has purchased a new Raspberry Pi Zero W
13:54 Wayne wonders if he has the proper mindset for python, while sensehat’s api gets an honourable mention.
15:31 Wayne talks about how good the resources are for the AstroPi and Sensehat
17:10 This brings the conversation around to the technologically revolutionary times we’re living in, how to cope with it and how little linux we actually discuss
20:45 Baby steps: Mark brings up the fact that he’s completed the vimtutor and notes that vimtutor is installed by default on KDE Neon

24:01 Wayne summarises the astropi stuff, , sensehat resource sites he’s been looking at, and codeacademy learn python, because sharing the knowledge is why we’re here.
25:41 Wayne wonders are prices going up in Memory and SSDs
29:05 Under the Hood: – Mark talks about the tree command and how the -X switch and redirecting output to file could prove useful to help create system documentation / tutorials
32:09 Continuing under the hood, Wayne talks about Byobu, with some tutorial links here and here
35:35 Wayne tells an Irish joke!
36:19 Mark brings up trend 4 in Ericsson’s 10 hot consumer trands 2017 and this starts a discussion around AR and VR and watching spaces and changing worlds
40:26 The Irish saying for this show is Tóg go bog é and festina lente

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