#615 – Tony Hedley

This week on The Bugcast: we remember the Manchester Arena bombing, Lee Rigby, a quiz involving Tony Hedley – uh – Hadley, and another political discussion about the lockdown, plus 8 pieces of great Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

Twenty-one years since Dave and Caroline became an item<br />
Three years since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing">Manchester Arena bombing</a><br />
Seven years since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby">Murder of Lee Rigby</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52733681">Tony Hadley, a radio quiz, one syllable – and a $10,000 riddle</a> <em>(Tony Hedley)</em><br />
Political lockdown discussion

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The Last Outpost

The Last Outpost
The Last Outpost

For the 38th episode, the guys are joined once again by Jeroen to review The Last Outpost, Star Trek The Next Generation 5th episode of the 1st season. After that, they talk about what Jeroen thought about Picard. And they also talk about everything and anything Star Trek !

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  • Yannick’s review of The Last Output ;
  • Jeroen tells the crew about Picard.

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#614 – R is the loneliest number

This week on The Bugcast: we have a collective rant about the UK Government’s handling of the Coronavirus crisis, and moan that England lacks its own Parliament, plus 8 pieces of great Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52677194">Coronavirus infection ‘R’ rate in UK creeps up</a><br />
Why R is the most important number… or not? <em>(R is the loneliest number)</em><br />
Conspiracy theories<br />
Federal states of the United Kingdom?

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Code of Honor

Code of Honor
Code of Honor

In this episode, our crew reviews Code of Honor, The Next Generation’s fourth episode of the first season. And then, Yannick submits Dave to the seven questions !

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  • Dave’s review of Code of Honor ;
  • Yannick answers the seven questions.

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The Binary Times – Series 7 Episode 10

Series 7 Episode 10 – In this episode Mark has been testing the various Ubuntu distros for newcomers, he’s also installed FreeBSD, Wayne speaks about his upgrade to Mate 20.04 and tweaks he’s used to tailor things to his liking, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Series 07 Episode 10 of the Binary Times. It’s warming up in Bristol. Mark tells us he and his family went for a darkness into light walk this morning. At the time it was foggy, then sunny, and now foggy again. Mark mentions knowing the feeling of Paul Dellegatto’s dog Brody interrupting the weather forecasting. Mark tells us he loves living in Kilkishen.

04:46 Mark tells us he’s been carrying on his quest to find the best new-comer distribution. He takes his hat off to the Ubuntu family of distributions. While he was seriously considering Kubuntu 20.04, especially considering Ubuntu Studio is moving to KDE, he’s settled on Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 with the Cupertino panel.

Mark goes on to tell us that he’s installed FreeBSD on his “studio PC”. He plans to install the Lumina Desktop on top of Xorg. He wanted to brush up on his vim by running through the vim-tutor again, to do that on Ubuntu you need to install both vim-runtime and vim-gui-common. The guys go on to discuss vim and the likes of vifm and ranger. The conversation moves on to managing files in One Drive and Mark’s credibility.

22:15 Wayne tells us about the fun he had upgrading to Ubuntu MATE 20.04. It didn’t go well because it messed up his audio installation. There are also a number of steps Wayne needs to make to get MATE to how he likes it. First off he installs dconf-editor and ensures that the show-date option is on and that hide window thumbnails is selected. Wayne also tells us that his Timeshift backup didn’t work, which led Wayne to just Nuke and Pave back to 18.04. Once this was done, he reduced the size of the icons on the desktop, and got rid of the ‘Menu’ word next to the MATE icon by going into gsettings and setting com.solus-project.brisk-menu label-visible to false. The guys discuss hi-DPI and then discuss Bill Hicks view on marketers and other matters. There’s one slight thing left that he hasn’t been able to fix and that is his guitarix plugins. This leads Wayne to talk about all his IT having niggling problems. Mark mentions Goran Meki&cacute;’s IT feels like a constant Failure blog post, which he came across while looking up FreeBSD as a DAW. Wayne talks about software development complexity, before contemplating life away from a screen. This leads Mark to mention that he is getting the Lego ISS set. Wayne’s conclusion to the whole thing is he loves IT apart from the niggles.

Wayne goes on to tell us about two Libreplanet talks that stood out for him. The first is the keynote by FSF executive director John Sullivan on our current crisis in communication freedom. The second was Rented future: The dangerous rise of life as a service by Lucy Ingham, in which she discusses how we are entering a post ownership age and the dangers and opportunities life as a service presents. Wayne also metions Dave’s contribution to the chat with regard to the FSF’s guide to free telecommunications. He goes on to tell us that he’s also started looking into Vagrant and Ansible. Mark mentions that the AdminAdmin podcast is now part of the Otherside Network.

50:44 Under the Hood – Wayne kicks off his Under the Hood by recommending the two Libreplanet talks he spoke about and also recommending the Definitive Guides to all things Programming by O’Reilly bundle from Humble Bundle, which leads to a discussion about SQL databases and dBase III Plus.

Wayne’s final under the hood is the Witty Pi 3, a HAT to provide a real time clock and power management for the Raspberry Pi.

For Mark’s Under the Hood he mentions that there are a number of articles on the Industrial Ethernet Book of interest this month, being How Industrial Linux enables distributed IIoT applications, 5G in Manufacturing Will Reach $10.8 Billion by 2030, International IEC 63171-6 standard for Single Pair Ethernet and Industrial 5G technology offers potential wireless standard.

57:47 Irish Saying of the show is “Lá breá inniu” or it’s a fine day today.

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it!

#613 – We’ll Meet Again

This week on The Bugcast: we celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day with a socially-distant street party, we discuss the upcoming lockdown review here in the UK, plus 8 pieces of great Creative Commons music! We’ll Meet Again!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52557524">VE Day: How is it being celebrated this year?</a><br><br />
Our own socially-distant street party <em>(We’ll Meet Again)</em><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52585373">Coronavirus lockdown: UK ‘should not expect big changes’</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52374513">Coronavirus lockdown: Are the five tests being met?</a><br />
<a href="https://adminadminpodcast.co.uk">The Admin Admin Podcast</a> is now a part of <a href="https://otherside.network/">The Other Side Podcast Network</a> family

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<a href="https://adminadminpodcast.co.uk/">Admin Admin Podcast</a>

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The Naked Now

For this week’s episode, Dave and Yannick are joined once again by Michael Tunnell, from Destination Linux Network. They review the third (or second, depends on how you count them) episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Naked Now. They then talk about TNG in general, and also the origins of this particular episode. Plus, feedback!

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  • Yannick’s review of The Naked Now;
  • We discuss of the first few episodes of TNG;
  • Plus, the origins of this episode dating back to 1967!
  • And we have feedback from Travis, via email

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#612 – She is doing art!

This week on The Bugcast: Jill Gascoigne dies, Dave’s course deadline shortens dramatically, and yes she is doing art, plus 8 pieces of great Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52471574">Jill Gascoine: Pioneering British actress dies at 83</a><br />
edX shorten Dave’s <a href="https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:SmithsonianX+POPX3.1+1T2020/course/">Star Trek course</a> by 9 months<br />
Caroline’s arty stuff – yes Dave, she is doing art!<br />
Shout out to <a href="https://www.dn12live.com">DN12Live</a> if they want presenters…?

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TuxJam 82 – Surviving Lockdown Special

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With the majority of the world affected by the Coronavirus/COVID19 and many of us in lock-down, the TuxJam crew decided to talk about the geeky things that they are doing to pass the time. So in a break from the traditional format, the usual suspects were joined by Wayne, Yannick and (briefly) Caroline from the OSPN’s other shows, and the reviews were left on the shelf for a month to make room for a more discursive episode.

But TuxJam wouldn’t be the same without the music (we need some form of consistency), the tracks included on this show:

Please note that this show was recorded after COVID19 guidelines were issued. It is a virtual round table, none of the hosts were even within a two mile radius of each other and therefore more than the recommended distance of two meters apart. The beer consumed was from different mug, tankards, glasses, cans or bottles. No communal cups were used in the making of this podcast.

The Binary Times – Series 7 Episode 9

Series 7 Episode 9 – In this episode Mark kicks off the show chatting about the recent Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release, we read out the release notes and discuss some of the topics covered, Wayne has been building a KVM host for offloading Win10 and Video rendering tasks to a server, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:25 Wayne welcomes us to Series 7 Episode 9 from a clear skied Bristol, with nice temperatures through the day but getting chilly through the night. Mark gives us his weather report by clicking on his message tray on his new and shiny Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome desktop, which prompts a conversation around Ubuntu’s most recent release. Mark recommends Wayne should upgrade to Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 having read its release notes and talks about his growing appreciation of the Gnome desktop. Wayne is slow to upgrade due to the extensive audio modifications he has made to his system. Mark isn’t sure about snaps on laptops due to their autorefresh feature and the performance hit that can introduce. Mark tells us he’s currently distro-hopping, trying to find the perfect distro for new users, and tells us a bit about Zorin OS. Wayne talks about the price of webcams.

16:39 The guys discuss the recent press release for Ubuntu 20.04 which they find interesting while bringing up many questions.

42:27 Wayne tells us about his follow up on the Russian hack attacks. Thanks to Robert for all his advice. He reads out Robert’s email:

“Hello Wayne and Mark,

I’m just getting in touch to say that you got at least one listener. I
always enjoy hearing about your trials and tribulations.

Re the school seeing lots of traffic from Russia, I suspect they are
simply trying to either compromise the WordPress install or already
have found their way in. I work for a hosting company and I see this
stuff a lot.

When a site is under I attack I usually run a few command to figure out
what is going on. This will product a sorted count of IP addresses that
hit the server in the last few minutes (assuming the current time is
10:30:

# grep "13/Apr/2020:10:2" /path/to/log | awk '{print $1}' | sort
| uniq -c | sort -hr

You can then get the top IP address and check what it’s doing:

# grep "13/Apr/2020:10:2" /path/to/log | grep 1.2.3.4 | less

It’s worth checking if the requests are mainly POST requests. They
could simply be hits on wp-login.php or xmlrpc.co.uk:

# grep "13/Apr/2020:10:2" /path/to/log | grep 1.2.3.4 | grep -c POST
# grep "13/Apr/2020:10:2" /path/to/log | grep 1.2.3.4 | grep -c GET

Of course, also look at the resources (URLs) that are requested. It may
be that they are creating user accounts or posting comments. Or if you
see SQL commands in the resources they will be scanning for SQL
vulnerabilities.

Also, investigate the server load. They might be mining crypto
currencies (quite popular nowadays).

At work we’re using this script quite a bit:

https://gitlab.com/beepmode/blockbot.

It may help find naughty IPs and figure out what they’re doing, but
blocking IPs unfortunately requires cPanel (or more specifically, CSF).
It shouldn’t actually be too difficult to use firewalld or iptables
instead (the blocking is done on lines 836-845).

As a thought of the day, it might be worth switching the site from AWS
to more traditional, managed hosting. I run a few of my own websites on
a Digital Ocean VPS, mainly because it’s cheap and because none of the
sites are very important. For anything critical I would never choose
unmanaged hosting. It’s just too painful to deal with issues like
spikes in traffic from Russian (and China).

Anyway, that’s enough from me. Best wishes from a partially cloudy and
slightly windy Norwich.

Robert”

Wayne goes on to tell us that he’s moved the site to another server, upgraded all the bits and so far things are looking good. He also discusses how the WordPress site was initially implemented over an existing static site.

Wayne tells us that he’s installed Windows 10 in a Virtual Machine and an Ubuntu MATE Virtual Machine on an Ubuntu Server so that his partner can use Windows applications on her laptop. He used the following links to help him achieve this:

https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-configure-kvm-ubuntu-18-04-server/

https://fabianlee.org/2019/04/01/kvm-creating-a-bridged-network-with-netplan-on-ubuntu-bionic/

https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Ubuntu_18.04&p=kvm&f=4

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/power/system-power-states?redirectedfrom=MSDN

https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/xrdp-connect-ubuntu-linux-remote-desktop-via-rdp-from-windows/

https://learnubuntumate.weebly.com/enter-password-to-unlock.html

https://catch22cats.blogspot.com/2018/05/xrdp-creates-strange-directory-called.html

Wayne is still trying to figure out Wake On LAN.

Mark points out the environmental benefits of Wake On LAN, and mentions the momentous events in the last few days, being Earth Day, Ubuntu 20.04 release and the Hubble Telescope launch 30 years ago.

01:00:51 Under the Hood – Mark’s under the hood is OMG Ubuntu’s 10 things to do after installing Ubuntu (as well as 4 things you shouldn’t do). He also mentions Building Ireland, Episode 2 The Transatlantic Telegraph Cable as well worth a watch. It was the inspiration that led to Mark redesigning his workspace! Mark is going to take a picture from the Other Side

Wayne’s under the hood is grep -rnw '/var/www/html/' -e 'upload_max_filesize',

where-r = recursive, -n = line number, -w = match whole word, -e = search pattern

01:05:46 Irish Saying of the show is “Tá gach rud agam”, or I have everything! We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it.