Series 1 Episode 5 – A variey of topics discussed this fortnight, including iw4m, Raspberry Pi, Command Line Linux tools, have a listen.
00:25 Intro, the guys would prefer to be outside enjoying the good weather
01:18 Mark tells us about his continuing adventures with KDE Neon and how he got his erm, let me see, his nextcloud box working.
04:49 Wayne discusses Let’s Encrypt, load balancing and redundancy.
08:51 Wayne tells us how he’s been trouble shooting his read only on boot qcow2 drives using gparted
10:52 Wayne tells us why the servers were down, the importance of good documentation and the fun to be had with ssl certs.
13:10 Mark bemoans the Nextcloud box documentation while Wayne goes on to speak about upgrading his nextcloud instance.

15:22 Mark wonders whether he likes the Snaps concept anymore. Wayne ponders Snaps, Ubuntu Core and Ubuntu’s Corporate Nature.
17:58 Mark queries Wayne on what is the purpose of Mate and Cinnamon Desktop
22:06 Late Night Linux gets an honourable mention.
22:25 Wayne tells us about our first email from Tom talking about the i3wm window manager.Good Docs!
22:54 Mark rambles on about his adventures with KDE Neon, Handbrake and Unity while Wayne comments on how as Sysadmins we are prone to tinkering.
31:38 Wayne talks about the Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Zero W otg cable problems and three api libraries, namely gpiozero, picamera and sense-hat.
34:00 The conversation changes to one around frogsand Castlegregory in Ireland.
35:54 The conversation returns to the Raspberry Pi, Pinet and Tiger VNC gets a mention.

39:05 Mark mentions Crowd Supply and GnuBee Personal Cloud 1 NAS in conjunction with the pinet.
40:17 Mark tells us he’s started reading Python Crash Course.
40:58 Under the Hood: Wayne’s terminal tricks are clear and ctrl-l and also in the news to us bit, ctrl-g to exit and clear the command line in the bash shell. In Wayne’s ongoing saga to convert the world to vim, he tells us to put “set -o vi” into our .bashrc. Follow the links for more tips and a cheat sheet on vim. Wayne goes on to tell us about Vimperator, an addon for firefox which gives you vi keybindings.
49:13 Mark’s under the hood: Hollywood.
51:50 Irish Saying for the show is…. Lá Breitha Sona duit, Happy Birthday to you

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