Series 1 Episode 6 – A variey of topics discussed this fortnight, including Ubuntu latest news, mini greenhouse, Raspberry Pi, Command Line Linux tools, have a listen.
00:25 Intro, and yet again the guys would prefer to be outside enjoying the good weather.
01:17 Mark’s been busy and struggling to come to terms with Mark Shuttleworth’s announcement that Canonical are canning convergence and concentrating on the cloud and IOT, while Wayne’s upgraded to Nexcloud 11 to avail of the theming features and planted some herbs which are moistened using a Raspberry Pi water irrigation system that he found a tutorial for in The MagPi magazine.
09:24 Mark and Wayne talk about Canonical’s announcement and the repurcussions (unity 8 has already been forked). The conversation digresses to Vim when we discover that Mark bought a new Vim! Mug from Gamestop.
15:20 Wayne uses the opportunity to speak about Tom’s tip on Vim colour schemes called solarized.
16:33 Mark apologizes to listeners for the lack of show notes and ponders different methods of communications with them, all ideas to info@thebinarytimes.net welcome!
17:41 Mark goes back to speaking about the bombshell announcement that he just can’t get out of his head. This time he’s questioning the use of Gnome 3 as the default desktop for Ubuntu 18.04 and not the likes of KDE.
He also tells us that Martin Wimpress did an interview on the Ubuntu Podcast explaining Mate and Ubuntu Mate.
21:49 Wayne tells us about Pixel, the “Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight”.
25:58 Wayne talks about his inability to give up on Windows because of Music creation. He points us to Ge Wang’s Ted Talk on computer music for ways to use failed golf-improving hardware as a creator.
28:56 Under the Hood: Wayne starts the Under the Hood section while Mark scrambles to find something suitable. Alt-space, t to keep the current window on top. Mark can’t seem to get it to work in Unity, though he figures it out after the podcast. YMMV!
Mark suggests running gui programs from the terminal for troubleshooting purposes.
Wayne and Mark talk about ls type commands. lsblk, lspci -tv, lsusb -tv, lshw, lshw -c disk, lshw -short, lshw -sanitized all get mentioned, while Mark asks what is the dmesg option to show the time in a more readable format (dmesg -H).
Wayne tells us that inserting a space before a command prevents that command from being recorded in your history. This news wows and concerns Mark, so much so that he’s interested in finding out more.
42:30 Irish Saying for this Podcast: Conas atá tú (Howrya?)

43:47 Outro, Marks think this was fairly good episode…

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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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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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Series 1 Episode 3 – A variey of topics discussed this fortnight, including KDE Neon, Raspberry Pi, Command Line Linux tools, have a listen.
01:25 Wayne tells us about his adventures with the Raspberry Pi and the projects he’s been getting into, the first being motionEyeOS , a security camera system for the Raspberry Pi. Wayne did a bit of research and found some USB cable extenders on line.
03:30 Wayne tells us about his garden pond and recording some busy frogs
06:47 Mark tells us about his work on the binary times logo(made with inkscape) and how he’s put KDE Neon on his “new” Lenovo Thinkpad T410. He goes on to tell us he’s thinking of purchasing the KDE slimbook and this starts a discussion around pricing and even the Ubuntu Edge
11:00 Wayne talks about our new website
12:01 Wayne talks about another Raspberry Pi project he’s been working on, The Rod Of Doom
14:57 Mark mentions the latest Humble Book Bundle is out and it’s for Raspberry Pi and Arduino
16:41 Wayne makes a correction on the last podcast information around vim.

17:10 Wayne and Mark discuss vimtutor
20:14 Wayne tells us that he’s purchased a sensehat
21:15 Wayne tells us some third hand news: Ubuntu Kylin has produced a windows 7 style desktop
22:27 Mark reminisces about an old video he remembers about KDE4
23:08 Mark tells us about a new security and privacy focused web browser, cliqz
24:47 Mark talks about number two and number three of Ericsson’s 10 Hot consumer trends in 2017
31:49 Supertuxkart is trying to get green lighted on Steam
34:21 Under the Hood: Wayne talks about Midnight Commander, Midnight Commander pdf manual and Use midnight commander like a pro
38:23 Mark’s under the Hood is how to use a carrot! No, it’s how to use the carat!
40:44 Wayne mentions that Munich’s county council is considering returning to Windows
42:33 The Irish saying for the podcast is Sláinte

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Series 1 Episode 2 – A variey of topics discussed this fortnight, including SSH, Nano, VIM text editors, Raspberry Pi, Command Line Linux tools, have a listen.
01:20:00 Mark got a haircut, and Wayne did too!

01:46 Mark tells us that he’s been listening to badvoltage.org, Homeland and Jerusalem
03:31 Finally, some Linux chat! Wayne talks about SSH
06:33 Wayne starts to talk about his adventures in Raspberry Pi

<p>08:20 Mark mentions <a href="http://www.openhab.org/">Openhab</a> in conjunction with Raspeberry Pi projects
09:31 Mark tells us he's heard <a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/02/09/openhab-arrives-as-a-snap/">Openhab arrives as a snap</a> 
<p>10:16 Wayne discusses Martin Wimpress' excellent <a href="https://flexion.org/posts/2016-12-raspberry-pi-3-powered-nextcloud-box-on-ubuntu-core/">guide</a> on setting up Nextcloud 11 on Ubuntu Core on a Raspberry Pi 3
11:29 Wayne returns the discussion to Raspberry Pi and the <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/">sense-hat</a>
14:21 Wayne's head melts while learning <a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a>
<p>15:13 In Breaking News For Us, <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/">the Raspberry Pi 3 is on sale!</a>
16:35 Mark installs <a href="https://neon.kde.org/">KDENeon</a> on a raspberry pi? No! On a Dell Latitude D830 and a spare hdd
20:30 Wayne has a tip for <a href="https://ubuntu-mate.org/">Ubuntu Mate</a> users, ctrl-space to invoke search
21:52 In More Breaking News For Us, Ubuntu Unity has a <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/get-easier-enable-low-graphics-mode-ubuntu">low graphics mode!</a>
22:51 Mark sneakily moves the conversation onto the Under the Hood tips section with <a href="http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/">dcfldd</a>, an enhanced version of dd
25:15 Waynes under the hood tip is "sudo!!" for when you've forgotten sudo at the start of a command you want to run
28:24 Mark talks about <a href="https://www.nano-editor.org/">Nano</a> as a wordstar clone when in fact it's a clone of <a href="http://www.guckes.net/pico/">pico!</a>
29:25 Wayne talks about <a href="http://www.vim.org/">vim</a>, a modal text editor
<p>31:58 Mark mentions <a href="https://xkcd.com/378/">xkcd's take on linux text editors.</a>
32:39 Wayne helpfully mentions vim-tutor . If not installed you can install it using "sudo apt install vim-runtime"
34:48 Mark mentions Mike Saunder's (from Linux Voice) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfl9KQb_HVk">vim youtube video</a>
35:08 Wayne challenges Mark to go through the first two lessons of vim-tutor and Mark agrees

Wayne explains that the j,k,l and ; keys are used for navigation in vim, when in fact h, j, k and l are used for navigation (as can be seen in this <a href="http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif">click here</a>)
37:18 Wayne reveals that <a href="http://www.vim.org/download.php/#pc">Vim is available for Windows</a>
37:42 Mark talks about <a href="https://www.eff.org/privacybadger">privacy badger</a> and <a href="https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere">HTTPS Everywhere</a>, privacy add on for web browsers from the <a href="https://www.eff.org/">EFF. </a>This provoked a wide ranging discussion around privacy and shopping
46:30 Irish Saying for the show is.... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k13gInoyfzI">Ceart go leor,</a> fair enough!

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Thirteen is a lucky number. We are back, more duffer than ever.

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Episode 3 is here!!! In celebration of Independence Day (and my birthday)… I play some ‘American’ themed song by some of my favourite artists. Tracks Played: Christian Kane – ‘American Made’ Callaghan – ‘Best Year’ Martina McBride – ‘Independence Day’ Nathan Osmond – ‘The Tailgate Song’ Topic: CMA Fest 2016, Nashville, TN. Source: Nash Country … Continue reading Episode #3: ‘Independence Day’ →

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Well after a great response to the first episode, I thought I’d give it another shot and maybe do it better! Enjoy the show and let me know what you think! Tracks played on ep#2: Jack Michael Band – ‘What You Drinkin About’ Website: www.JackMichaelMusic.com Facebook: JackMichaelMusic Twitter: @JackMichael_Fl Kristen Barkuloo – ‘Til The Phone … Continue reading Episode 2 is out now!! →

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The wait for something good can never be too long. The duffers are finally back with an episode that was not only recorded, but also published.

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