Interview – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Wed, 24 May 2023 13:00:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png Interview – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 mintCast false CC-BY-SA 4.0 CC-BY-SA 4.0 podcast Interview – mintCast https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/big-logo-1600.png https://mintcast.org TV-G 164426984 406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener https://mintcast.org/406-its-elementary-dear-listener/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:41:20 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5971 First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

Download]]> First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

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In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time syncs

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

]]> 406 406 It's Elementary, Dear Listener full 2:55:19 5971 392.5 – Interview with Tom Murosky from Switched To Linux https://mintcast.org/392-5-interview-with-tom-murosky-switched-to-linux/ Sat, 06 Aug 2022 18:15:05 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5580 Download
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56:24 Vibrations from the Ether
1:00:08  Check This Out
1:04:00 Housekeeping and Announcements

In our Innards section Tom Murosky joins us for an interview

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Check This Out

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
  • Leo for timestamps and publishing
  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
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55:23 Vibrations from the Ether
58:20 Housekeeping and Announcements

In our Innards section, we interview Steve Seguin, creator of VDO.Ninja

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The Linux Innards

https://vdo.ninja/

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Norbert and Tony H for our audio production
  • Leo for timestamps and publishing
  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
]]> full 1:06:45 5531 mintCast 355.5 – McKnight in Shining Armor (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-355-5-mcknight-in-shining-armor-mp3/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:39:05 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4945 And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions
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1:49 Linux Innards
27:06 Vibrations from the Ether
51:29 Check This Out
58:45 Announcements & Outro

In our Innards section, we talk to community member Mike!

And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

LINUX INNARDS:

Interview Section: Mike

  • What was your first Linux experience?
  • What was the very first Linux distro you ran?
  • What other distros do/have you run?
  • What’s a typical workflow for you entail?
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remmina
  • Does Linux do everything you need in a system?

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

  • Henrik Hemrin

https://www.hemrin.com/business-blog/184-how-ram-memory-hungry-are-linux-distros

  • hilander
  • John Wallis
wpa_supplicant.service:                        [ UNSAFE ]
user@1000.service:                             [ UNSAFE ]
thermald.service:                              [ UNSAFE ]
getty@tty7.service:                            [ UNSAFE ]
udisks2.service:                               [ UNSAFE ]

CHECK THIS OUT!

Daemon (novel series) Daniel Suarez

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 7, 2021.

Get the show time converted to your time zone!

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> full 4945 mintCast 355.5 – McKnight in Shining Armor https://mintcast.org/mintcast-355-5-mcknight-in-shining-armor/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:29:22 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4941 And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions
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1:49 Linux Innards
27:06 Vibrations from the Ether
51:29 Check This Out
58:45 Announcements & Outro

In our Innards section, we talk to community member Mike!

And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

LINUX INNARDS:

Interview Section: Mike

  • What was your first Linux experience?
  • What was the very first Linux distro you ran?
  • What other distros do/have you run?
  • What’s a typical workflow for you entail?
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remmina
  • Does Linux do everything you need in a system?

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

  • Henrik Hemrin

https://www.hemrin.com/business-blog/184-how-ram-memory-hungry-are-linux-distros

  • hilander
  • John Wallis
wpa_supplicant.service:                        [ UNSAFE ]
user@1000.service:                             [ UNSAFE ]
thermald.service:                              [ UNSAFE ]
getty@tty7.service:                            [ UNSAFE ]
udisks2.service:                               [ UNSAFE ]

CHECK THIS OUT!

Daemon (novel series) Daniel Suarez

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on March 7, 2021.

Get the show time converted to your time zone!

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> full 4941 mintCast 343 – Tinfoil Not Included (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-343-tinfoil-not-included-mp3/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:27:36 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4615 Then, in the news, we have news from Mint, Debian, and  MX Linux. We also say goodbye to a team member.
In security, we take a break from the doom and gloom and just talk tinfoil.
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1:47 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
42:01 Vibrations from the Ether
1:05:00 Check This Out
1:26:51 Outro

First up, in our Wanderings, I recorded some how-to’s, Moss has computers raining on him, Joe reads and repairs, Tony Watts jams and tinkers, and Bo and Tony Hughes will be back next episode.

Then, in the news, we have news from Mint, Debian, and  MX Linux. We also say goodbye to a team member.

In security, we take a break from the doom and gloom and just talk tinfoil.

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • I’ve finally gotten some time to record a couple more how-to’s. Bashtop and Bpytop.
    • Also, I’m fairly current on Full Circle Weekly News again! I plan on doing a two-week episode this week to get current and it feels good.
  • Moss
    • About 2 hours after completing the last episode, I went to plug my speakers back into my desktop, slipped, and somehow shorted out my computer. A new power supply, thanks to Tony Hughes, arrived on Tuesday, and surprise, it was the wrong size. I’m supposed to have a mini ITX machine, and ordered accordingly, but the power supply in the box (and, yes, I should have looked first) was a full sized ATX. 
    • After complaining about that to the Telegram group, Fuzzy shipped me a new tower computer which will blow the socks off what I had. That should get here next Saturday.
    • I went ahead and returned the power supply to Amazon and have ordered the correct power supply from NewEgg, and when I get the old desktop repaired and running, I will find a deserving schoolkid to give it to.
    • On top of that, I went out to visit a friend last night, and came home with a pretty high-end older HP tower computer (Win 7 Home Premium license, early i7 processor). It’s quite dirty right now, so I’ll clean it up, check the specs and whether it runs, and see if I can find someone to give (or sell cheap) it to.
    • I tried using the Pi 4 as my TV machine but could not get my VPN to start, even though it was installed. Mullvad customer support was disappointing, considering how long I have been a customer.
    • So I signed up for a new VPN called Surfshark. If I can get it to work, it will cost about the same for 2 years as I would have paid for 8 months to Mullvad. It’s good when it works, but apparently that’s only on Ubuntu-based systems (a fact they neglected to mention). The Linux app is non-existent, although it has a nice app for Android and anything else. Their tech support was friendly initially, but now they’re falling into patterns of “Well, Linux users don’t want an easy way to run our VPN…”
    • What I haven’t done yet is try Surfshark on the Pi 4. Coming soon.
    • I moved the 1 Tb SSD from my desktop to my laptop last Tuesday night. I started running updates, as it had been about 11 days since these 7 distros had been updated. My Manjaro installation would not load, so I reinstalled it, then installed OpenMandriva on the remaining unused partition. I had both Feren OS and KDE neon which were basically Ubuntu-running-KDE and yearned for more diversity, so I flipped a coin and replaced Feren OS with Ubuntu Unity. I’m way behind on getting all these distros as near equivalent as possible or even evaluating their current status, things have been so much in flux.  I have also installed Surfshark on the four Ubuntu-based distros.
    • I have a new digital watch and fitness tracker. It only cost $7.95 and a two-month wait for it to get here from Szenchen, China. It connects to a phone app and can attach to social media and email but I don’t want that. I have no idea what other data it collects, but I’ve gained 20 pounds since my accident and want some incentive and help to start going the other way again. Besides the time function, it also detects my pulse, blood pressure, and even blood oxygen, as well as my steps. You ease the friction-fit watchband off on one end to expose the USB terminal — yes, you plug the entire watch into a USB port to charge it. A charge seems to last 3-4 days. There are virtually no controls on the watch, everything is run through the app.
    • My unemployment ran out. Not weeks, but dollars. My final check was under $100, so no covid money for Moss this week. On the other hand, I have 3 job possibilities, and it looks as if one of them will go through, although it will be a temporary job. Feast or famine. I’m not completely out of money yet, but it could be a race between that and my first paycheck. I have been encouraged to talk to a lawyer about the fact that I have been getting paid out of Unemployment dollars instead of Worker’s Comp funds, but the covid-19 money received puts a major question mark in that process as that comes only with unemployment money. While the potential fraud was not on my part, I was the beneficiary of it.
    • My mother went back to the hospital after she fell and broke the pin in her hip. They repaired the pin successfully. She has been moved from the hospital to the rehab facility, where she will spend at least a few weeks. She’s 91 now, in case you lost count.
    • We finished reading Blood Rites, the 6th Dresden book, and have started in on Dead Beat.
  • Joe
    • Soulwood series by Faith Hunter,  4 books of 5
      • Same universe as the Jane Yellowrock series.
      • Good series
    • Locke and Key audio drama
      • Based on the comics
      • Well done, easy to follow and interesting
    • Junkyard Pirate by Jamie McFarlane
      • Second book as well
    • Also from Jamie Mcfarlane
      • Wizard in a Witchy World series
    • Ministry of Curiosity (10 books)
      • Good series. Feels a bit generic, nothing really stands out for me
      • Sometimes the books in the series felt like nothing really happened.  Like there was no overriding antagonistic event
    • Suggest some good cyberpunk novels
    • 3D-printed a whole setup for the macro keyboards.  
      • 12 key and it works very well
      • I am very happy with the quality and I may do a few more
      • Using it to control my mic mute button and also have it setup for vlc and docker using auto hotkey functions
      • Still looking for the most comfortable position to mount it
    • Also got some very thin wire .1mm to see if I can bridge the bad spots on that other board so I can have another one.
      • Once I get it working correctly I will 3D print a case for it
      • It is also the wire that I used to run the grounds for all the other keys on the one i printed
    • My water heater started leaking.  Went through a good chunk of my garage and most of my kitchen.  Caught it quickly though and got the water shut off so not much damage.
      • Going through the warranty company to get it fixed. 
      • Warranty company has been somewhat hit or miss over the years so…
      • Cost me a bit over 500 so that is not too bad.
      • Need to build a moisture sensor for it and not sure if I should use an arduino or a Pi.  What do you think?
    • This also meant that I had to shuffle my garage around a couple of times.  Once to get everything off the far wall and once to get everything out of the way so that they could get the new one in.
      • This allowed me to restructure my storage and work area
      • My son helped me figure out where to put some things in order to maximize my space and make it look neater
      • Still have a lot more work to do 
    • I have  an iPod docking station that is going to be my next item to work on.  Looks more like a sound bar.  It turns on and the clock works but no sound comes out no matter what you set the input to.  Gonna be fun taking it apart and seeing where the break is.
    • Revamping my workout
  • Tony Watts
    • Basement finishing continues
      • Added some insulation to the ceiling.  This helps contain music noise a bit but also has the benefit of keeping unwanted noise out of the Studio/Office
      • First jam session in my basement rehearsal space was a success!
        • Despite is playing pretty loud, no ringing ears on our part and the sound didn’t carry outside too much
    • “Adventure” with bathroom flood
    • Some more chromebook crouton tinkering
      • One of my kids accidentally reset the Chromebook due to developer mode screen on startup (my fault, forgot to prep him) 
      • Installed both KDE and Gnome variants of Crouton.
        • KDE was buggy on this particular Chromebook
        • Gnome was just too slow
        • Went back to XFCE which is Crouton’s default and works very well
    • Really debating a new phone purchase, Pixel 4a
      • After 3.5 years of heavy use my OnePlus 3T still holding up well but the charge port is worn out and that is getting annoying
      • Most new phones will support dual sim which is kind of a requirement for me
    • On vacation this week, working on 
      • More basement refinishing
      • Music recording
      • Prep for another Ironshield Brewing gig next weekend

THE NEWS: 

SECURITY UPDATE:

  • There wasn’t much Linux centric today, and to keep this discussion episode going with discussion: 
    • How much of a tinfoil hatter are you?
    • What do you do in your life to secure yourself up?
  • Londoner: Proton Drive

Announcements:

Our next episode will be Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 2 pm Central US time, 7 pm UTC and 8 pm British Summer Time. Time conversions are available at https://www.timeanddate.com. You can use Austin, Texas as a Central Time reference.

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

  • Owen Peery for audio editing
  • Josh for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our Mumble backup
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> full 4615 mintCast 343 – Tinfoil Not Included https://mintcast.org/mintcast-343-tinfoil-not-included/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:08:25 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4610 Then, in the news, we have news from Mint, Debian, and  MX Linux. We also say goodbye to a team member.
In security, we take a break from the doom and gloom and just talk tinfoil.
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1:47 Bi-Weekly Wanderings
42:01 The News
1:05:00 Security
1:26:51 Outro

First up, in our Wanderings, I recorded some how-to’s, Moss has computers raining on him, Joe reads and repairs, Tony Watts jams and tinkers, and Bo and Tony Hughes will be back next episode.

Then, in the news, we have news from Mint, Debian, and  MX Linux. We also say goodbye to a team member.

In security, we take a break from the doom and gloom and just talk tinfoil.

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

  • Leo
    • I’ve finally gotten some time to record a couple more how-to’s. Bashtop and Bpytop.
    • Also, I’m fairly current on Full Circle Weekly News again! I plan on doing a two-week episode this week to get current and it feels good.
  • Moss
    • About 2 hours after completing the last episode, I went to plug my speakers back into my desktop, slipped, and somehow shorted out my computer. A new power supply, thanks to Tony Hughes, arrived on Tuesday, and surprise, it was the wrong size. I’m supposed to have a mini ITX machine, and ordered accordingly, but the power supply in the box (and, yes, I should have looked first) was a full sized ATX. 
    • After complaining about that to the Telegram group, Fuzzy shipped me a new tower computer which will blow the socks off what I had. That should get here next Saturday.
    • I went ahead and returned the power supply to Amazon and have ordered the correct power supply from NewEgg, and when I get the old desktop repaired and running, I will find a deserving schoolkid to give it to.
    • On top of that, I went out to visit a friend last night, and came home with a pretty high-end older HP tower computer (Win 7 Home Premium license, early i7 processor). It’s quite dirty right now, so I’ll clean it up, check the specs and whether it runs, and see if I can find someone to give (or sell cheap) it to.
    • I tried using the Pi 4 as my TV machine but could not get my VPN to start, even though it was installed. Mullvad customer support was disappointing, considering how long I have been a customer.
    • So I signed up for a new VPN called Surfshark. If I can get it to work, it will cost about the same for 2 years as I would have paid for 8 months to Mullvad. It’s good when it works, but apparently that’s only on Ubuntu-based systems (a fact they neglected to mention). The Linux app is non-existent, although it has a nice app for Android and anything else. Their tech support was friendly initially, but now they’re falling into patterns of “Well, Linux users don’t want an easy way to run our VPN…”
    • What I haven’t done yet is try Surfshark on the Pi 4. Coming soon.
    • I moved the 1 Tb SSD from my desktop to my laptop last Tuesday night. I started running updates, as it had been about 11 days since these 7 distros had been updated. My Manjaro installation would not load, so I reinstalled it, then installed OpenMandriva on the remaining unused partition. I had both Feren OS and KDE neon which were basically Ubuntu-running-KDE and yearned for more diversity, so I flipped a coin and replaced Feren OS with Ubuntu Unity. I’m way behind on getting all these distros as near equivalent as possible or even evaluating their current status, things have been so much in flux.  I have also installed Surfshark on the four Ubuntu-based distros.
    • I have a new digital watch and fitness tracker. It only cost $7.95 and a two-month wait for it to get here from Szenchen, China. It connects to a phone app and can attach to social media and email but I don’t want that. I have no idea what other data it collects, but I’ve gained 20 pounds since my accident and want some incentive and help to start going the other way again. Besides the time function, it also detects my pulse, blood pressure, and even blood oxygen, as well as my steps. You ease the friction-fit watchband off on one end to expose the USB terminal — yes, you plug the entire watch into a USB port to charge it. A charge seems to last 3-4 days. There are virtually no controls on the watch, everything is run through the app.
    • My unemployment ran out. Not weeks, but dollars. My final check was under $100, so no covid money for Moss this week. On the other hand, I have 3 job possibilities, and it looks as if one of them will go through, although it will be a temporary job. Feast or famine. I’m not completely out of money yet, but it could be a race between that and my first paycheck. I have been encouraged to talk to a lawyer about the fact that I have been getting paid out of Unemployment dollars instead of Worker’s Comp funds, but the covid-19 money received puts a major question mark in that process as that comes only with unemployment money. While the potential fraud was not on my part, I was the beneficiary of it.
    • My mother went back to the hospital after she fell and broke the pin in her hip. They repaired the pin successfully. She has been moved from the hospital to the rehab facility, where she will spend at least a few weeks. She’s 91 now, in case you lost count.
    • We finished reading Blood Rites, the 6th Dresden book, and have started in on Dead Beat.
  • Joe
    • Soulwood series by Faith Hunter,  4 books of 5
      • Same universe as the Jane Yellowrock series.
      • Good series
    • Locke and Key audio drama
      • Based on the comics
      • Well done, easy to follow and interesting
    • Junkyard Pirate by Jamie McFarlane
      • Second book as well
    • Also from Jamie Mcfarlane
      • Wizard in a Witchy World series
    • Ministry of Curiosity (10 books)
      • Good series. Feels a bit generic, nothing really stands out for me
      • Sometimes the books in the series felt like nothing really happened.  Like there was no overriding antagonistic event
    • Suggest some good cyberpunk novels
    • 3D-printed a whole setup for the macro keyboards.  
      • 12 key and it works very well
      • I am very happy with the quality and I may do a few more
      • Using it to control my mic mute button and also have it setup for vlc and docker using auto hotkey functions
      • Still looking for the most comfortable position to mount it
    • Also got some very thin wire .1mm to see if I can bridge the bad spots on that other board so I can have another one.
      • Once I get it working correctly I will 3D print a case for it
      • It is also the wire that I used to run the grounds for all the other keys on the one i printed
    • My water heater started leaking.  Went through a good chunk of my garage and most of my kitchen.  Caught it quickly though and got the water shut off so not much damage.
      • Going through the warranty company to get it fixed. 
      • Warranty company has been somewhat hit or miss over the years so…
      • Cost me a bit over 500 so that is not too bad.
      • Need to build a moisture sensor for it and not sure if I should use an arduino or a Pi.  What do you think?
    • This also meant that I had to shuffle my garage around a couple of times.  Once to get everything off the far wall and once to get everything out of the way so that they could get the new one in.
      • This allowed me to restructure my storage and work area
      • My son helped me figure out where to put some things in order to maximize my space and make it look neater
      • Still have a lot more work to do 
    • I have  an iPod docking station that is going to be my next item to work on.  Looks more like a sound bar.  It turns on and the clock works but no sound comes out no matter what you set the input to.  Gonna be fun taking it apart and seeing where the break is.
    • Revamping my workout
  • Tony Watts
    • Basement finishing continues
      • Added some insulation to the ceiling.  This helps contain music noise a bit but also has the benefit of keeping unwanted noise out of the Studio/Office
      • First jam session in my basement rehearsal space was a success!
        • Despite is playing pretty loud, no ringing ears on our part and the sound didn’t carry outside too much
    • “Adventure” with bathroom flood
    • Some more chromebook crouton tinkering
      • One of my kids accidentally reset the Chromebook due to developer mode screen on startup (my fault, forgot to prep him) 
      • Installed both KDE and Gnome variants of Crouton.
        • KDE was buggy on this particular Chromebook
        • Gnome was just too slow
        • Went back to XFCE which is Crouton’s default and works very well
    • Really debating a new phone purchase, Pixel 4a
      • After 3.5 years of heavy use my OnePlus 3T still holding up well but the charge port is worn out and that is getting annoying
      • Most new phones will support dual sim which is kind of a requirement for me
    • On vacation this week, working on 
      • More basement refinishing
      • Music recording
      • Prep for another Ironshield Brewing gig next weekend

THE NEWS: 

SECURITY UPDATE:

  • There wasn’t much Linux centric today, and to keep this discussion episode going with discussion: 
    • How much of a tinfoil hatter are you?
    • What do you do in your life to secure yourself up?
  • Londoner: Proton Drive

Announcements:

Our next episode will be Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 2 pm Central US time, 7 pm UTC and 8 pm British Summer Time. Time conversions are available at https://www.timeanddate.com. You can use Austin, Texas as a Central Time reference.

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

  • Owen Peery for audio editing
  • Josh for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our Mumble backup
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> full 4610 mintCast 338.5 – The Ripple Effect (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-338-5-the-ripple-effect-mp3/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:21:07 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4516 And finally, some feedback and a few suggestions
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In our Innards section, we ask Owen how Linux is improving the lives around him.

And finally, some feedback and a few suggestions

LINUX INNARDS: 

Owen Peery Interview

What was your first Linux experience?

  • Berkeley Linux User group in the mid 90’s by accident, I had gotten my first computer, a little Mac, I was looking for the Berkeley Macintosh User Group, and I got them confused, BLUG vs BMUG, and when I went, I didn’t understand anything, and thought, what have I gotten myself into with this Mac. I eventually found the BMUG and I only barely understood a little more.
  • I used to go skateboarding in a warehouse in San Francisco in the 90’s called Shred of Dignity. There were a group of tech obsessed folks who lived and skated there. A man named Tom set up the warehouse after he wrote some computer program and sold it to the US Army and made a lot of money doing it. There were computers there as well and I knew they were running Linux and we thought those kids were gods because they sat at those computers typing away and we had no idea what they were doing, which is why I decided to get a computer myself, but I have no idea why I got a Mac, I think because I found one used that was in my budget.

What was the very first Linux distro you ran?

  • KDE in maybe 2003 or so. I bought a used computer when I started a functional art gallery in Philadelphia. I already had a working knowledge of computers and I bought this one because it had great specs, but when I got it home I turned it on and I had no idea what I was looking at. The guy I bought it from showed me a few things and that it worked at his home, so I bought it. I had used Windows a little by then but wasn’t that familiar with it, so it worked for him, so I thought, cool, it works. I called a friend who was studying Computer Science at Drexel University and he used Linux so I knew he could help. He used KDE as well so he helped me get started, but I only kept it for about a month. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. I installed Windows and was on my way.
  • I lived in Toulouse, France from 2007-2011 and when I was there I gave Linux a chance again. I went to the local LUG, mostly because I needed to practice my French technical vocabulary, and because I assumed some folks there would know English in case I couldn’t ask my questions in French. I used Ubuntu for about 6 months then, but I always had it dual boot with Windows because I was also in a Master’s program in Designing Information Systems and some of the software we used was Windows only, think VIsual Basic, BI, and PLSQL. When I started doing a lot more screencasts, I moved back to Macs to use Camtasia and Screenflow and gave Linux a rest for a bit.

What’s a typical workflow for you entail?

  • Depends on what I’m working on for the day
  • VIdeo editing
  • Browser based work with personal and work email
  • Working on making different workspaces reflect my needs

Why/Why not Linux Mint?

  • Great for beginners, interface looks similar enough to Windows that the transition is not too hard, I moved from Macs and it’s been easy for me to figure out a lot of things.

Does Linux do everything you need in a system?

  • Yes but . . .
  • Screenflow is an amazing app that is an all in one solution for screencasting. You can capture the video, multiple monitors possible, iPad screens even, you can edit the audio and edit the video, you can add callouts, you can add transitions, it’s really comprehensive, and at the same time not too overwhelming. It has the video and audio editing features needed to make great screencasts, but fewer than full featured audio and video editors, so you have what you need, but not too much.

Do you do any Linux Gaming?

  • Trying to but I’m not a gamer. I’ve got 2 STEAM games on my machine, Super Bernie Bros bc it was free and I wanted to see STEAM integration. Since it worked well, I bought a game called Streets of Rogue bc a student recommended it to me. It was on sale for $19.99 and I bought it, but I only play it infrequently, and never enough to make much progress or feel like, This is fun. I’m torn between how much to look up tips on the internet and how much should I struggle and figure it out myself. I sometimes gamify my classroom and I understand good games, digital or table top, have built in control structures to teach you how to play, so I’m wondering where those are in Streets of Rogue.
  • I’d love to find a fun game that helps teach you how to use the Terminal and learn more commands.

Do you contribute to the community?

  • Mint forums
  • Telegram groups
  • Bug reporting when Kdenlive went from 19-20 by accident
  • Running Mint 20.04 beta but not really reporting any issues I come across, it took so much to get it all setup correctly, not bc of Mint, but getting drive partitioned correctly and the right data on the right partitions.
  • I hope to eventually use my video creation skills to help out the community once I get settled on a good workflow and dial in the software I’ll use, really trying to stick to Kdenlive but DaVinci Resolve is tempting too

What was your main motivation for refurbishing computers?

  • Had a large closet full of older computers just sitting there at school, old mostly Windows 7 machines
  • Many families did not have a computer or not enough computers, if they had 3 children for example.
  • I had already been using Mint for about a year on an old laptop so I knew it worked well on older hardware
  • It saved the school money so we didn’t have to eWaste another load of computers
  • It gave families computers who needed them 
  • I teach computer science, not tech use, at school and it gave students much better computers to use than the Chromebooks the district was lending
  • District lent Chromebooks, but the backlog, wait, and locations weren’t that convenient, so we came up with our own system
  • We say in my district that in computer science we don’t just use tech we make it, so giving out Linux computers where there are no restrictions also furthers this idea, if you want your computer to do X well you can, you just have to learn how, there is nothing preventing you from making it work exactly how you want

Is there any piece of Linux and open source software, other than a browser, you could not live without?

  • Not really but I love using Peek. I have made over 10,000 video tutorials and screencasts, but recently I have fallen in love with making short animated gifs for simple how to things instead of a full video. Peek is so simple and the file size is small, so I use it a lot to visually model how to do things. It’s easier to email or put in a Google Slide deck or even put on a website for how to help.

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER

  • jack

https://vscodium.com/

  • Leo’s response
  • More Jack!
  • Benjamin Moser
  • Travelinrob on ep337

http://liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/install

  • DaveW 
  • John Wallis Saga Episode x+1

I managed to get one test resolved, installing and configuring a PAM.  I

would appreciate your help with resolving the following, please:

* Consider running ARP monitoring software (arpwatch,arpon) [NETW-3032]

       https://cisofy.com/lynis/controls/NETW-3032/

I have installed Arpwatch and invoked arpwatch -i for both Ethernet and

wireless port, but re-running the scan makes no difference.  I look

forward to hearing from you.

  • Leo’s Response

Glad to hear from you again. I installed arpwatch and tinkered around with it a bit and it seems like there was a lot of digging for answers that aren’t fully addressed in the man page!

I’m not sure how familiar you are with layer 2 networking (MAC addresses, etc) so I’ll leave that alone for now. I can go into it more if you’d like.

Here’s the deal. Since you’ve got it installed, we’ll start from there. Check the status of the arpwatch service with systemctl status arpwatch . For me, the status was active (exited) but had these errors in the journal below:

Jun 09 16:06:39 maya arpwatch[2546]: chdir(/var/lib/arpwatch): Permission denied

Jun 09 16:06:39 maya arpwatch[2546]: (using current working directory)

Jun 09 16:06:39 maya arpwatch[2546]: pcap open wlp3s0: wlp3s0: You don’t have permission to capture

It seems there are two issues here. The first, I assume, is the fact that I didn’t create an arp.dat file. In the man page, it says you must do this first. The line is below.

Note that an empty arp.dat file must be created before the first time you run arpwatch.

However, it doesn’t exactly tell you where… Further down, though, it does say the default arpwatch directory was /var/lib/arpwatch, so I just shrugged my shoulders and created it there. It seems to have stopped complaining. As a note, I changed ownership and group ownership of the arp.dat file to the arpwatch user and group, and removed the read permissions from the other’s group.

The other issue is the pcap line above. pcap requires root permissions to run, so a sudo, or running arpwatch as root, is required.

After that, watching journalctl will allow you to monitor arpwatch in real-time. Below is an example of arpwatch “discovering” a new device banging around on layer 2.

Jun 09 16:41:21 maya arpwatch[3917]: new station 10.x.x.x xx:xx:xx:75:81:d7 wlp3s0

I’ve subbed in some x’s for paranoia’s sake.

You can also grep or search the journal at a later date:

journalctl | grep “new station”

I hope this helps!

  1. Without knowing much about your network, I’m going to assume it’s for the home. You probably only want one device running arpwatch per subnet, or more precisely, broadcast domain. Since pcap is working in promiscuous mode, it should see any layer 2 frame that touches the interface regardless of destination. However, there are certainly arguments for running multiple instances

CHECK THIS OUT! 

Announcements:

The next show will be Sunday, the 12th of July at 7PM UTC, 2PM US Central Time, 8PM British Summer Time

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

  • Hobstar for his work on the new logo
  • Josh for all his work on the website
  • Hacker Public Radio for the Mumble server we are using to record
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.
]]> full 4516 mintCast 338.5 – The Ripple Effect https://mintcast.org/mintcast-338-5-the-ripple-effect/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:20:46 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4511 And finally, some feedback and a few suggestions
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In our Innards section, we ask Owen how Linux is improving the lives around him.

And finally, some feedback and a few suggestions

LINUX INNARDS: 

Owen Peery Interview

What was your first Linux experience?

  • Berkeley Linux User group in the mid 90’s by accident, I had gotten my first computer, a little Mac, I was looking for the Berkeley Macintosh User Group, and I got them confused, BLUG vs BMUG, and when I went, I didn’t understand anything, and thought, what have I gotten myself into with this Mac. I eventually found the BMUG and I only barely understood a little more.
  • I used to go skateboarding in a warehouse in San Francisco in the 90’s called Shred of Dignity. There were a group of tech obsessed folks who lived and skated there. A man named Tom set up the warehouse after he wrote some computer program and sold it to the US Army and made a lot of money doing it. There were computers there as well and I knew they were running Linux and we thought those kids were gods because they sat at those computers typing away and we had no idea what they were doing, which is why I decided to get a computer myself, but I have no idea why I got a Mac, I think because I found one used that was in my budget.

What was the very first Linux distro you ran?

  • KDE in maybe 2003 or so. I bought a used computer when I started a functional art gallery in Philadelphia. I already had a working knowledge of computers and I bought this one because it had great specs, but when I got it home I turned it on and I had no idea what I was looking at. The guy I bought it from showed me a few things and that it worked at his home, so I bought it. I had used Windows a little by then but wasn’t that familiar with it, so it worked for him, so I thought, cool, it works. I called a friend who was studying Computer Science at Drexel University and he used Linux so I knew he could help. He used KDE as well so he helped me get started, but I only kept it for about a month. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. I installed Windows and was on my way.
  • I lived in Toulouse, France from 2007-2011 and when I was there I gave Linux a chance again. I went to the local LUG, mostly because I needed to practice my French technical vocabulary, and because I assumed some folks there would know English in case I couldn’t ask my questions in French. I used Ubuntu for about 6 months then, but I always had it dual boot with Windows because I was also in a Master’s program in Designing Information Systems and some of the software we used was Windows only, think VIsual Basic, BI, and PLSQL. When I started doing a lot more screencasts, I moved back to Macs to use Camtasia and Screenflow and gave Linux a rest for a bit.

What’s a typical workflow for you entail?

  • Depends on what I’m working on for the day
  • VIdeo editing
  • Browser based work with personal and work email
  • Working on making different workspaces reflect my needs

Why/Why not Linux Mint?

  • Great for beginners, interface looks similar enough to Windows that the transition is not too hard, I moved from Macs and it’s been easy for me to figure out a lot of things.

Does Linux do everything you need in a system?

  • Yes but . . .
  • Screenflow is an amazing app that is an all in one solution for screencasting. You can capture the video, multiple monitors possible, iPad screens even, you can edit the audio and edit the video, you can add callouts, you can add transitions, it’s really comprehensive, and at the same time not too overwhelming. It has the video and audio editing features needed to make great screencasts, but fewer than full featured audio and video editors, so you have what you need, but not too much.

Do you do any Linux Gaming?

  • Trying to but I’m not a gamer. I’ve got 2 STEAM games on my machine, Super Bernie Bros bc it was free and I wanted to see STEAM integration. Since it worked well, I bought a game called Streets of Rogue bc a student recommended it to me. It was on sale for $19.99 and I bought it, but I only play it infrequently, and never enough to make much progress or feel like, This is fun. I’m torn between how much to look up tips on the internet and how much should I struggle and figure it out myself. I sometimes gamify my classroom and I understand good games, digital or table top, have built in control structures to teach you how to play, so I’m wondering where those are in Streets of Rogue.
  • I’d love to find a fun game that helps teach you how to use the Terminal and learn more commands.

Do you contribute to the community?

  • Mint forums
  • Telegram groups
  • Bug reporting when Kdenlive went from 19-20 by accident
  • Running Mint 20.04 beta but not really reporting any issues I come across, it took so much to get it all setup correctly, not bc of Mint, but getting drive partitioned correctly and the right data on the right partitions.
  • I hope to eventually use my video creation skills to help out the community once I get settled on a good workflow and dial in the software I’ll use, really trying to stick to Kdenlive but DaVinci Resolve is tempting too

What was your main motivation for refurbishing computers?

  • Had a large closet full of older computers just sitting there at school, old mostly Windows 7 machines
  • Many families did not have a computer or not enough computers, if they had 3 children for example.
  • I had already been using Mint for about a year on an old laptop so I knew it worked well on older hardware
  • It saved the school money so we didn’t have to eWaste another load of computers
  • It gave families computers who needed them 
  • I teach computer science, not tech use, at school and it gave students much better computers to use than the Chromebooks the district was lending
  • District lent Chromebooks, but the backlog, wait, and locations weren’t that convenient, so we came up with our own system
  • We say in my district that in computer science we don’t just use tech we make it, so giving out Linux computers where there are no restrictions also furthers this idea, if you want your computer to do X well you can, you just have to learn how, there is nothing preventing you from making it work exactly how you want

Is there any piece of Linux and open source software, other than a browser, you could not live without?

  • Not really but I love using Peek. I have made over 10,000 video tutorials and screencasts, but recently I have fallen in love with making short animated gifs for simple how to things instead of a full video. Peek is so simple and the file size is small, so I use it a lot to visually model how to do things. It’s easier to email or put in a Google Slide deck or even put on a website for how to help.

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER

  • jack

https://vscodium.com/

  • Leo’s response
  • More Jack!
  • Benjamin Moser
  • Travelinrob on ep337

http://liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/install

  • DaveW 
  • John Wallis Saga Episode x+1

I managed to get one test resolved, installing and configuring a PAM.  I

would appreciate your help with resolving the following, please:

* Consider running ARP monitoring software (arpwatch,arpon) [NETW-3032]

       https://cisofy.com/lynis/controls/NETW-3032/

I have installed Arpwatch and invoked arpwatch -i for both Ethernet and

wireless port, but re-running the scan makes no difference.  I look

forward to hearing from you.

  • Leo’s Response

Glad to hear from you again. I installed arpwatch and tinkered around with it a bit and it seems like there was a lot of digging for answers that aren’t fully addressed in the man page!

I’m not sure how familiar you are with layer 2 networking (MAC addresses, etc) so I’ll leave that alone for now. I can go into it more if you’d like.

Here’s the deal. Since you’ve got it installed, we’ll start from there. Check the status of the arpwatch service with systemctl status arpwatch . For me, the status was active (exited) but had these errors in the journal below:

Jun 09 16:06:39 maya arpwatch[2546]: chdir(/var/lib/arpwatch): Permission denied

Jun 09 16:06:39 maya arpwatch[2546]: (using current working directory)

Jun 09 16:06:39 maya arpwatch[2546]: pcap open wlp3s0: wlp3s0: You don’t have permission to capture

It seems there are two issues here. The first, I assume, is the fact that I didn’t create an arp.dat file. In the man page, it says you must do this first. The line is below.

Note that an empty arp.dat file must be created before the first time you run arpwatch.

However, it doesn’t exactly tell you where… Further down, though, it does say the default arpwatch directory was /var/lib/arpwatch, so I just shrugged my shoulders and created it there. It seems to have stopped complaining. As a note, I changed ownership and group ownership of the arp.dat file to the arpwatch user and group, and removed the read permissions from the other’s group.

The other issue is the pcap line above. pcap requires root permissions to run, so a sudo, or running arpwatch as root, is required.

After that, watching journalctl will allow you to monitor arpwatch in real-time. Below is an example of arpwatch “discovering” a new device banging around on layer 2.

Jun 09 16:41:21 maya arpwatch[3917]: new station 10.x.x.x xx:xx:xx:75:81:d7 wlp3s0

I’ve subbed in some x’s for paranoia’s sake.

You can also grep or search the journal at a later date:

journalctl | grep “new station”

I hope this helps!

  1. Without knowing much about your network, I’m going to assume it’s for the home. You probably only want one device running arpwatch per subnet, or more precisely, broadcast domain. Since pcap is working in promiscuous mode, it should see any layer 2 frame that touches the interface regardless of destination. However, there are certainly arguments for running multiple instances

CHECK THIS OUT! 

Announcements:

The next show will be Sunday, the 12th of July at 7PM UTC, 2PM US Central Time, 8PM British Summer Time

Wrap-up:

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible … 

  • Hobstar for his work on the new logo
  • Josh for all his work on the website
  • Hacker Public Radio for the Mumble server we are using to record
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.
]]> full 4511 mintCast 300.6 interview 6 Isaac https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-6-interview-6-isaac/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:31:39 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3531 full 3531 mintCast 300.6 interview 6 Isaac (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-6-interview-6-isaac-mp3/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:29:41 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3529 full 3529 mintCast 300.5 interview 5 Joe Ressington https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-5-interview-5-joe-ressington/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:02:17 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3527 full 3527 mintCast 300.5 interview 5 Joe Ressington (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-5-interview-5-joe-ressington-mp3/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 01:59:42 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3525 full 3525 mintCast 300.4 interview 4 Rob https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-4-interview-4-rob/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:30:35 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3509 full 3509 mintCast 300.4 interview 4 Rob (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-4-interview-4-rob-mp3/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:22:23 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3507 full 3507 mintCast 300.3 interview 3 SiKing https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-3-interview-3-iking-2/ Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:16:58 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3504 full 3504 mintCast 300.3 interview 3 SiKing (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-300-3-interview-3-iking/ Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:13:01 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3500 full 3500 mintCast 280 – Ran Levi of Malicious Life https://mintcast.org/mintcast-280-ran-levi-of-malicious-life/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:08:46 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3336 280]

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Interview: Ran Levi of Malicious Life

  • Isaac and Rob got a chance to speak with Ran Levi, the host of the Malicious Life podcast, about malware, viruses, Linux, and life!
  • Ran Levi on Twitter @ranlevi
  • Malicious Life: https://malicious.life

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

  • Send us your bumper or intro or outro music.
  • Next time we’ll be talking about cron, anacron, and all that.
  • See you in a couple of weeks!

More Information:

Hosts: Rob and Isaac
Live Stream every other Monday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.

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]]> full 3337 mintCast 233 – Give it Away https://mintcast.org/mintcast-233-give-it-away/ Fri, 09 Oct 2015 01:46:26 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3022 233]

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News:

  • Monthly News – September 2015 (blog.linuxmint.com)
  • Google Chromebooks: The most popular classroom computing device (zdnet.com)
  • The Linux Foundation Says You Should Install Linux on Your Chromebook (softpedia.com)
  • Debian dropping the Linux Standard Base (lwn.net)
  • The Linux Kernel to Celebrate Its 24th Birthday (softpedia.com)
  • Celebrating 5 years of LibreOffice (opensource.com)

Main Topic: Isaac Carter on Giving Computers Away

Websites:

Tip:

  • Cinnamon’s Hot Corners (zdnet.com)
    • Isaac wanted to remind everybody about “Hot Corners”. He’s been using them more and more lately.  Just something that’s always been there that he knew about and never used, but since using them more he can’t live without them.

Pre-Show Music:

  • Playlist – “Traffic Jam” by Jamhippo  (jamendo.com)

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, and Joe
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.

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News:

Main Topic: LibreOffice with Robinson Tryon

Website:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, and Joe
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.

]]> full 2974 mintCast 224 – Net Neutrality with Steve Titch https://mintcast.org/mintcast-224-net-neutrality-with-steve-titch/ Fri, 22 May 2015 02:17:58 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2970 224]

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News:

Main Topic: Net Neutrality, Title II, and the FCC with Steve Titch

  • Internet providers are opening a new front in the net neutrality fight (washingtonpost.com)
  • Why net neutrality rules have angered some small Internet providers (arstechnica.com)
  • New Internet regulations are already hurting the economy (thehill.com)
  • Network Neutrality’s Watershed Moment (stevetitch.com)

Website:

Tip:

  • A server health monitoring script from Tecmint.com
    Here we have written a shell Script that do not aims to automate the task of a typical system admin, but it may be helpful at places and specially for those newbies who can get most of the information they require about their System, Network, Users, Load, Ram, host, Internal IP, External IP, Uptime, etc.
    http://www.tecmint.com/linux-server-health-monitoring-script/
  • Linux Mint 17.1 for Acer C720
    Linux Mint 17.1 with Linux Kernel 3.18 and the latest fixes for the Acer C720.
    Tested on 2 GB Acer C720 & 4 GB Acer C720’s with Intel Celeron 2955U.
    http://www.distroshare.com/distros/get/57/

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, and Joe
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.

]]> full 2970 mintCast 220 – Martin Wimpress and Ubuntu MATE https://mintcast.org/mintcast-220-martin-wimpress-and-ubuntu-mate/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:43:37 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2946 220] Download

News:

Main Topic: Ubuntu MATE with Martin Wimpress

Website:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, and Joe
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar. 

]]> full 2946 mintCast 208 – High Performance Computing https://mintcast.org/mintcast-208-high-performance-computing/ Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:36:25 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2872 208] Download

News:

  • 10 Answers To The Most Frequently Asked Linux Questions On Google — Posted by Gary Newell (everydaylinuxuser.com)

Main Topic: High Performance Computing

Website:

Tip:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, Joe
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.

]]> full 2872 mintCast 207 – Shh… It’s Private! https://mintcast.org/mintcast-207-shh-its-private/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:09:33 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2865 207] Download

News:

  • Linux Founder Linus Torvalds ‘Still Wants the Desktop’ (eweek.com)

Main Topic: FOSS Tools for Privacy

Website:

Tip:

  • HowTo: Linux Hard Disk Encryption With LUKS [ cryptsetup Command ] (cyberciti.biz)
  • Installing Tails Live Linux Operating System For Preserving Privacy and Anonymity On The Net (cyberciti.biz)

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, Joe
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.

]]> full 2865 mintCast 203 – TexasLinuxFest https://mintcast.org/mintcast-203-texaslinuxfest/ Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:51:02 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2830 203] Download

News:

  • Mint 17 KDE, Xfce RC images released, OEM images also now available for Mint 17 Cinnamon and Mate (KDE) (Xfce) (OEM)
  • Is Canonical Considering a MATE Remix of Ubuntu Linux? (thevarguy.com)
  • Tesla goes ‘open source’ with patents (theday.com)
  • Krita is running a kickstarter campaign (kickstarter.com)
  • Raspberry PI sales hit 3mil mark (theinquirer.net)

Main Topic: TexasLinuxFest – Austin, TX

Website:

  • A listing of Linux related events from all over the world.  (wikipedia.org)

Tip:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, Joe
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com).
The podcast bumpers were provided by Oscar.
Thanks to KWisher for the use of his PiCaster.
Thanks to the Linuxbasix gang for the use of their Mumble server.

]]> full 2830 mintCast 162: Linux Mint 15 & Texas Linux Fest https://mintcast.org/mintcast-162-linux-mint-15-texas-linux-fest/ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:00:30 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2522 Listen: [MP3] or [OGG]

News:

  • Mint 15: Today’s best Linux desktop (Review) SJVN gives it the full thumbs-up. (zdnet.com)
  • How Mighty Mint became one of the most popular Linux distros (techradar.com)
  • Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian Improves Its Performance (phoronix.com)
  • How I Created My Own Personal Cloud Using BitTorrent Sync, Owncloud, and Raspberry Pi (blog.bittorrent.com)

The Main Topic: Mint 15 First Look, and the Texas Linux Fest

Featured Website:

Tip:

  • For those who want to setup their own VPN without going through all the hassle of OpenVPN, I suggest you to try NeoRouter. I don’t think it is open source, but it support a lots of distros, including Raspbian, and it is free for home users. It even has an Android client! (http://www.neorouter.com)

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, James
Live Stream (Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern): mintcast.org
Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast’s bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> full 2522 mintCast 159: Catching up with James https://mintcast.org/mintcast-159-catching-up-with-james/ Fri, 10 May 2013 00:21:33 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=2443 Listen: mintcast159.mp3 or mintcast159.ogg

News:

  • The Mint development team launches a new blog. (Segfault.Linuxmint.com )
  • Debian 7.0 Wheezy is released. (Debian.org )
  • SolydXK gets added to the DistroWatch database. (Ostatic.com )
  • Lightworks Linux public beta is finally available for download. (Webupd8.com )
  • Iron Penguin: First open-source “Iron Man” suit within reach? (ZDNet.com )

The Main Topic:

  • Catching up with James.

Featured Website: (Thanks to Merely Jim)

Tip: (Thanks to Beardy Jesse)

  • The tree command. It’s a really simple command that allows you to see a tree type view of a folder hierarchy. I use it if I’m unsure of where a file/folder is, as it saves constantly having to use the ‘ls’ command in every folder to find a sub-sub-sub directory. I’d suggest limiting the depth with the -L flag because if you use it in your root directory, as it can return far too many results to be useful!

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, James

Live Stream (Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern): mintcast.org

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits: Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast’s bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> full 2443 mintCast 156: Ken Starks https://mintcast.org/mintcast-156-ken-starks/ Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:01:01 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=2422 Listen: mintcast156.mp3 or mintcast156.ogg

News:

The Main Topic:

  • An interview with Ken Starks.

Featured Websites:

Featured Tip:

Announcements:

  • The new LinuxBasix podcast has released three episodes, avaiable here: (LinuxBasix.com )
  • Feedback welcome here: (LinuxBasix Forums )
  • Thanks to Brad Alexander for this link to a map of the Linux Distribution Timeline: (Wikimedia.org )

More Information:

Hosts:: Rob, Scott, James

Live Stream (Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern): mintcast.org

Contact Us:

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits: Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast’s bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> 2422 Episode 104: A Visit With Shane https://mintcast.org/episode-104-a-visit-with-shane/ Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:32:08 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=1934

News:

  • Adobe announces plans to abandon flash on Linux. (phoronix.com)
  • LinuxUser & Developer provides a few excerpts from an interview with Clem. (linuxuser.co.uk)

The Main Topic: A Visit With Shane

Featured Website:

Tip:

  • Turn on https:// everywhere!

Your browser does not support the audio element.

MP3:
OGG:

More Information:

Hosts:: James, Rob, Scott, Harrison

Live Stream (Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern): mintcast.org

Subscribe: [iTunes] [Zune] [RSS MP3] [RSS OGG]

Contact Us:

Forum: forums.linuxmint.com

Email: mintcast@mintcast.org

Phone:1-832-514-2278

Twitter: @mintCast @Linux_Mint @3dbeef @jamescoyner @txhawkins

IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast

Google+: mintCast

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits: Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast’s bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> full 2016 mintCast Episode 10: User Interview, pt. 1 https://mintcast.org/mintcast-episode-10-user-interview-pt-1/ Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/2009/03/mintcast-episode-10-user-interview-pt-1/ In this episode

Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna reaches end-of-life
Red Hat CEO questions relevance of desktop Linux
Spam scams on Twitter
Windows users OK with DRM
Helios: Windows DRM? We’re ok with that
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

Rothgar:

User interview

Web site of the week

Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

More info

Linux Mint web site: http://www.linuxmint.com
Linux Mint blog: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog
Linux Mint forums: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum
Rothgar’s site: http://1n73r.net/
Follow mintCast on Twitter: mintcast
Follow Linux Mint on Twitter: Linux_Mint

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