January 8, 2018News, OGG, Podcast

mintCast 279 – Looking back at 2017 predictions

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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

Isaac got some new books and is using GPG more.
Rob ran into some issues with a cron job, started using Joplin over Evernote, and is still having issues with his Onion Omega2.

News:

Linux Innards:

Rob and Isaac look back at the predictions they made for 2017 and then attempt to make some for 2018.

Vibrations from the Ether:

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Rob
- Listened to Sunday Morning Linux Review #261 (http://smlr.us/) and got excited about looking into Qubes OS (https://www.qubes-os.org/).
- Listened to Linux in the Ham Shack #201 (?) (http://lhspodcast.info/) and got excited about looking into BSD again.
- Still thinking about getting a Ham license
Isaac
- Found out that you can return back Audible books
- Turn off autofill on your browsers everyone!
- After reading all about Emacs v/s Vi (or Vim) I realized why RMS calls Vi the editor of the beast
- Snowden created a new phone app called Haven

Pre-Show Music:

“Yesterday’s Conversation” by Angus Wallace
“The Red Stone” by Ground & Leaves

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Next time we’ll be discussing last year’s and new year’s predictions.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone….we’ll be back in 3 weeks!

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