Series 1 Episode 9 – A variey of topics discussed this fortnight, including Intel AMT vulnerability, Humble Bundle offerings, spreading the good word of Linux, more Midnight Commander , Command Line Linux tools and another epic Irish saying, have a listen.
00:24 Intro, only some weather and nail gazing. Mark is calling from the tech hub of Coolick, Killarney. Pick up the number of blips due to wireless tech and you could win a NICE biscuit.
01:52 Mark’s been trying to get everything working (successfully) in his mobile studio and has also come to the conclusion that he needs to spend some time tweaking his KDE Neon set up.
02:52 Wayne’s installed Ubuntu Mate on his CEO’s Toshiba Satellite and a HP Mini 210. Wayne’ll report back on this linux noob’s experiences.
12:45 Wayne extolls the virtues of Gumtree as compared to other trading sites.
14:45 Wayne’s extolling the virtues of Gumtree because he was able to pick up a roll of Kortex CAT5e for £15! He’s hoping to do some outdoor Raspberry Pi CCTV IP stuff with it.
19:12 Wayne’s made a template in Ardour for the podcast recordings!
20:09 Wayne talks about his servers’ setups, isolation, port setup and nginx reverse proxy servers.
24:46 Wayne talks about the Intel AMT vulnerability. Mark accepts the fact that security vulnerabilities will always exist because creators create and crackers crack. The intel software checker is not available for linux yet but apparently is on the way
NOTE: for those concerned an AMT status checker is available for linux, courtesy of Matthew Garrett.
31:58 Mark mentions the Humble Indie Bundle 18 and the Humble Book Bundle Make:Essentials.
35:38 Under the Hood:
Mark talks about the following:
apropos [insert keyword to search for], a command to search man pages for the provided keyword and to display the results on screen.
example being:
apropos audio | grep pulse
He mentions the following:
find
type
which
locate
slocate
ls
man apropos
pavucontrol
41:52 Wayne has a midnight commander (mc) tips section:
Ctrl + Space – on any directory shows the directory size opposite
Ctrl + – Opens up the bookmarks window, good for speedy access to directories
Alt + , – switch mc’s layout from left-right to top-bottom. Useful for operating on files with long names.
Here’s the link where Wayne is getting (some of) his tips from.
Dog’s eager for a walk help wind up this episode, but not before Wayne presents the Irish Saying of the fortnight: “Nil aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin” – There’s no fireplace like your own fireplace (ie. there’s no place like home).
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