Lonely Among Us

Lonely Among Us
Lonely Among Us

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For this review of Lonely Among Us, the seventh episode of the first season of Star Trek : The Next Generation, Dave and Yannick are joined by the show’s resident astronomer, Andrew “Mc Nalu” Conway ! Together, they go over the episode, and then have a chat about everything but nothing in particular.

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#616 – Cummings and goings

This week on The Bugcast: riots in the US, Dominic Cummings and goings in the UK, plus 8 pieces of great Creative Commons and independent 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/world-us-canada-52854025">George Floyd death: Ex-officer charged with murder in Minneapolis</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52846679">Twitter hides Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52815552">Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52811168">Dominic Cummings: What is the scandal about?</a> <em>(Cummings and goings)</em><br />
Trump predominantly using his personal Twitter account<br />
metro.co.uk: <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/24/uk-civil-service-account-tweets-about-arrogant-offensive-pm-12751992/">UK Civil Service account tweets about ‘arrogant and offensive’ PM</a>

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Where No One Has Gone Before

Where No One Has Gone Before
Where No One Has Gone Before

In this episode, Dave and Yannick are alone once more. They review Where No One Has Gone Before, the sixth episode of the first season of Star Trek The Next Generation. After that, it’s the return of the news segment, with the announcement of Star Trek : Strange New Worlds !

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The Binary Times – Series 7 Episode 11

Series 7 Episode 11 – In this episode Mark has been installing the new version of Pi-Hole, he has also been looking at installing OpenSuse as a file server, Wayne speaks about FreeNAS and ZFS, introductory and advanced guides for rsync, a Rainbow Sense HAT for the Raspberry Pi, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:27 After a few technical glitches, Wayne finally welcomes us to yet another episode of the Binary Times, this particular episode being the 11th of Season 7. The weather outside isn’t great, windy, sunny, rainy, cloudy, all rolled into one. Mark questions whether wittr.in is really reflective of the weather.

02:40 Mark tells us he’s spun up a Pi-Hole Version 5 on a Raspberry Pi 2. He also tells us about Alan Pope’s Raspberry Pi Imager application, which makes spinning up a Raspberry Pi OS even easier. Wayne tells us about how cool LibreElec and Kodi are. Mark agrees and goes on to tell us about his server misadventures. The takeaway is be careful the keystrokes you choose when waking a monitor from sleep! Mark then talks about installing Windows 10 to do a course and says the experience is much better than he remembers it (well done Microsoft), before telling us that he reckons he’s going to install OpenSuse Leap with btrfs on his server. The guys discuss FreeNAS as an alternative and Lawrence Systems youtube videos for FreeNAS advice.

Mark goes on to question the value of certification, which kicks off a bit of a conversation around certification, training, education and life in general.

27:21 In the spirit of collaboration, Wayne thanks Robert for his recent help and tells us his own server tale.

28:55 Wayne brings up a recent conversation the guys had with Glady, a long term supporter of the show. She was looking for backup alternatives and Wayne recommended rsync as a good choice, also recommending the documents “How to Use rsync Command to Copy Files on Ubuntu”, “How to Use rsync with Examples” and the “Non-Beginner’s Guide to Syncing Data with Rsync”, as well as the man pages of course. Mark also recommends explainshell.com.

31:41 Wayne discusses an email we received from Willi in Germany and his fork of a little bit of software for timeshift that takes a snapshot every time you run any APT operation on debian systems, as well as a very detailed guide with videos about how to install luks encrypted btrfs on Ubuntu, PopOS and Manjaro. The chat moves onto file systems and backups and Wayne mention a particular video on FreeNAS from Lawrence Systems as useful.

38:34 Wayne brings the conversation around to running an IT business during COVID and the guys discuss how to do it.

43:14 Wayne talks about Nextcloud Talk and specifically the benefits of Talk 9.

46:06 Mark thanks Paul Clyne for his generosity in providing another laptop

47:22 Under the Hood – Wayne kicks this one off with a mention of the Learn you some Python Humble Bundle from No Starch Press. Wayne goes on to tell us about an article on the Magpi Magazine which shows how to make a Sense HAT rainbow window display. Wayne’s major under is hold down the CTRL and F5 keys together in Firefox to refresh the page and clear the cache. The guys mention Glady’s tip of the OneTab extension, an extension that converts tabs to a list to reduce memory use.

Mark’s Under the Hood is this: in nautilus, click on other locations, then in the connect to server field, type “admin:///” and voila! after you’ve put in your password, you’re in superuser mode! In caja, just right click and open as administrator. In dolphin, just right click, open with, and file manager as super user.

55:41 Irish Saying of the show is “An labhraíonn tú Gaeilge.?” or do you speak Irish.

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did making it!

#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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