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Posted at 2026-03-31 17:20:34 relating to the show hpr4606 which was released on 2026-03-30 by Trollercoaster entitled My Nerdy Childhood: From Floppy Disks to Dial-Up Dreams

Great episode, Trollercoaster! Really enjoyed this one. Had me all nostalgic for those early days of computing. I recorded hpr1541 back in 2014 (*ding* for shameless plug lol) where I covered my early days of computing and how it all led up to me coming to Linux, and I think I made mention of BSD as well, and this reminded me of that. Thanks for sharing!

Posted at 2026-03-31 14:19:12 relating to the show hpr4607 which was released on 2026-03-31 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #3 - basename and dirname

Love the UNIX Curio series. Thanks so much for offering it. It's always good to review BASH things as well as commands that are useful.

Posted at 2026-03-31 08:26:06 relating to the show hpr4606 which was released on 2026-03-30 by Trollercoaster entitled My Nerdy Childhood: From Floppy Disks to Dial-Up Dreams

Hey Janitors,

just realized that you'll have to read my previous comment out loud. May I suggest to NOT add sound effects to that comment?

Posted at 2026-03-31 08:24:58 relating to the show hpr4606 which was released on 2026-03-30 by Trollercoaster entitled My Nerdy Childhood: From Floppy Disks to Dial-Up Dreams

Hey Trey... why don't you flip out your PDP11 and show off your skilzz!

If you're into the old school definition of hackers and you're frustrated that those youngsters are spoiled... make sure to pick up next week's episode on Age Verification! It will be the best thing ever.

xmanmonk glad you liked the sound effects. I had to edit out the occasional fart - at a certain age bowel movements are a thing. But then again... luckily podcasts don't also spread the smell...

Posted at 2026-03-31 00:54:19 relating to the show hpr4424 which was released on 2025-07-17 by Archer72 entitled How I use Newsboat for Podcasts and Reddit

Hello Ken,

Sorry for late reply, I just listened to Jan & Dec news a few days ago. No, the problem did not get fixed. I don't think that it would be fixed from thr HPR website, since if I used wget to download an episode, it does get properly renamed to hpr.mp3

Posted at 2026-03-30 16:23:43 relating to the show hpr4606 which was released on 2026-03-30 by Trollercoaster entitled My Nerdy Childhood: From Floppy Disks to Dial-Up Dreams

Ah, the memories! I'm a bit older, but I wanted to say that the sound effects in this episode brought back all kinds of memories! Thanks for a great show!

Posted at 2026-03-30 14:24:54 relating to the show hpr4606 which was released on 2026-03-30 by Trollercoaster entitled My Nerdy Childhood: From Floppy Disks to Dial-Up Dreams

Thank you for the trip down memory lane. It very much reminded me of my own experiences during that time.

I believe that we developed a certain set of skills, for troubleshooting, for experimenting, and for learning because we did not have an internet to lookup everything.

This is what made us hackers! Not in the criminal sense, but like MIT and HackerOne have defined it.

Hacker: "One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming limitations" HackerOne. What's in a Name. Retrieved from HackerOne: https://www.hackerone.com/blog/whats-in-a-name

Posted at 2026-03-30 13:22:43 relating to the show hpr4605 which was released on 2026-03-27 by Elsbeth entitled Lee locks down his wifey poo

Wow, congratulations to both of you! Wishing you all the best in your new journey together. :-)

Posted at 2026-03-29 22:39:06 relating to the show hpr4605 which was released on 2026-03-27 by Elsbeth entitled Lee locks down his wifey poo

Ho, what a show! So, just coming by to give congratulations, dear Couple Lee and Elsbeth!

Posted at 2026-03-27 12:58:38 relating to the show hpr4605 which was released on 2026-03-27 by Elsbeth entitled Lee locks down his wifey poo

First off... congratulations!

Now we're expecting a follow-up episode with all the nerdy jokes or puns that your friends made about your nerdy wedding!

Posted at 2026-03-27 11:10:10 relating to the show hpr4605 which was released on 2026-03-27 by Elsbeth entitled Lee locks down his wifey poo

We appreciate the felicitations!

Posted at 2026-03-25 15:18:15 relating to the show hpr4333 which was released on 2025-03-12 by Marc W. Abel entitled A Radically Transparent Computer Without Complex VLSI

Many links to Dauug|36 broke due to its relocation to The Dauug House, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization. Dauug|36 is alive and well and lives now at https://dauug.org

The Dauug House has also broken ground on Dauug|18, an 18-bit, transparently functioning, postcard-sized processor for applications where a "full CPU" would be overkill. As with Dauug|36, Dauug|18 does not employ any "complex VLSI" (no microprocessor, FPGA, PLD, ASIC, or DRAM) within the architecture.

Posted at 2026-03-24 01:50:51 relating to the show hpr4598 which was released on 2026-03-18 by Shane - StrandedOutput entitled Recording good audio using open source tools

Hi,

I wrote GNOME Music Studio Recording Software: GarageJam.

It records from USB Audio Class devices and built-in microphones instantly and you can annotate Meta Data about the recording.

See https://discourse.gnome.org/t/garagejam-1-0-0-music-studio-recording-software-for-gnome-45/16744 as well as the project home page with source code on https://www.garagejam.org/

Source Code:
https://www.garagejam.org/src/garagejam-6.0.1.tar.xz

Binary x86_64 Fedora Core 43:
sudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-6.0.1-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

Command:
garagejam

Look in $HOME/Music and $HOME/GNOME.xspf for recordings.

Happy Hacking,
Ole Aamot

Posted at 2026-03-21 22:35:05 relating to the show hpr4600 which was released on 2026-03-20 by Ahuka entitled The First Doctor, Part 5

Hi Ahuka and Kevie,

I 2nd the request to keep the series going to the end. Although I have not seen many episodes, this is an interesting series.

Cheers,
Archer72

Posted at 2026-03-21 21:23:38 relating to the show hpr4600 which was released on 2026-03-20 by Ahuka entitled The First Doctor, Part 5

I am now thinking I might just cover all of Classic Doctor Who, and then stop. I don´t think there is any need to cover the revived series that began in 2005. But when did that become 21 years ago? Can anyone stop this train?

Posted at 2026-03-21 15:22:59 relating to the show hpr4600 which was released on 2026-03-20 by Ahuka entitled The First Doctor, Part 5

Hi Ahuka, that was fantastic look at the first Doctor, looking forward to hearing the rest in this series. I also went back and watched every episode, there are some good reconstructions out there so that the story can be followed for the missing episodes (archive.org was my friend there).

I hope that you change your mind and continue the series right up to the present Doctors

Posted at 2026-03-21 02:30:29 relating to the show hpr4553 which was released on 2026-01-14 by Whiskeyjack entitled Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 4 Less Common Reactor Types

Thanks, Whiskeyjack, for the answer-information.
I'll do my best to be here and catch the Q&A (or Q&A-alike) show about NRT.

Posted at 2026-03-21 02:27:17 relating to the show hpr4592 which was released on 2026-03-10 by Antoine entitled Happy by shower # 2

Happy that this was in some measure good to you. Sharing is difficult, especially what is relevant to us (which may be irrelevant to others and make us shameful for having different priorities needs and tastes); or simply because we are afraid of not only being mocked, but, worse, being not understood, ignored. My vision only, my fears, barriers that block me to others and others to me.
But it's good to remember, or to learn, the blessing that we are different.
Sharing drawings feels interesting.

Posted at 2026-03-20 18:16:09 relating to the show hpr4597 which was released on 2026-03-17 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #2 - fgrep

Thanks for the encouragement, everyone!

It is indeed weird that there are two types of regular expressions (or I guess three, if you count Perl-compatible regexes). On top of that, the shell's pattern-matching (glob) notation does the same type of job in another different way.

I guess that is a result of tools being developed by different people at different times.

Posted at 2026-03-19 10:39:24 relating to the show hpr4598 which was released on 2026-03-18 by Shane - StrandedOutput entitled Recording good audio using open source tools

Hi Shane,

Great tips on recording and how environment plays into recording quality. I never knew to the Blue Yeti was not worth it, because it has been touted by 'professional' podcasters.

Ken, I think this episode should be listed on the Recording page. :)

Cheers!
Archer72

Posted at 2026-03-19 03:31:50 relating to the show hpr4553 which was released on 2026-01-14 by Whiskeyjack entitled Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 4 Less Common Reactor Types

Yes, there were numerous patents on commercial nuclear technology.

However, most of the basic principles were discovered early on and any early patents had expired by the time that nuclear power was being exploited commercially on a widespread scale.

I am currently in the process of recording a follow up episode to this series and I will add your question to the script as I think it offers an opportunity to address an interesting topic.

So, listen to that episode for more details.

Posted at 2026-03-18 12:41:35 relating to the show hpr4553 which was released on 2026-01-14 by Whiskeyjack entitled Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 4 Less Common Reactor Types

Hi, Whiskeyjack.
Nice ep.
You said AGR, based on Magnox, was a nuclear reactor type that did not sell well outside the UK. I then started thinking if it were (is) possible to another countries to develop by themselves based on that project, or if it had (has) a commercial restriction for exploration of the technology.
I have yet to listen to the following episodes (doing little by little) and may learn better on the choices, but I felt free to present the question by now...
Thanks!

Posted at 2026-03-18 11:09:45 relating to the show hpr4605 which was released on 2026-03-27 by Elsbeth entitled Lee locks down his wifey poo

Congratulations to you both

Posted at 2026-03-18 03:52:52 relating to the show hpr4597 which was released on 2026-03-17 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #2 - fgrep

I always brushed off egrep and fgrep as niche tools, but this episode inspired me to use it more often! Thanks for providing another tool for my toolbelt. As a general grep tip, you can use . to avoid escaping certain patterns in the shell (ie if your pattern has a space)

Posted at 2026-03-18 03:34:11 relating to the show hpr4597 which was released on 2026-03-17 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #2 - fgrep

You've done a great job of explaining when to use each type of grep. I taught an in-house class on regular expressions, and you're explanations would have helped the crew know why there are these different versions.

Thanks for helping to keep *nix alive!

Posted at 2026-03-17 13:46:31 relating to the show hpr4593 which was released on 2026-03-11 by Whiskeyjack entitled Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 8 Generation Four Reactors

Thank you for your encouragement. It always helps to know that people are actually listening to these episodes.

A number of listeners have posted questions about topics covered in this series and I promised to answer them in a follow up episode.

I have the script written for the follow up and will record it in early April and it currently has about 20 minutes of content. I currently have a couple of episodes uploaded for slots in April for an unrelated series and will post the follow up episode after the second one in the new series. This means It should be out in late April.

If anyone has any more questions they would like me to address, please post them in the comments to any episode in this series.

Posted at 2026-03-17 01:19:46 relating to the show hpr4587 which was released on 2026-03-03 by Vance entitled UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives

Great episode. I especially enjoyed shar and remembering all the issues I once had with attachments. I still have them at times, but that is generally due to security forbidding executable file types...

Posted at 2026-03-17 01:13:51 relating to the show hpr4593 which was released on 2026-03-11 by Whiskeyjack entitled Nuclear Reactor Technology - Ep 8 Generation Four Reactors

As an engineer with an insatiable curiosity about way too many topics, I loved this series. A nice overview that I doubt I could find anywhere else.

Posted at 2026-03-16 13:38:03 relating to the show hpr4596 which was released on 2026-03-16 by Ken Fallon entitled Adding voice-over audio track created using text to speech on the movie subtitles

I wouldn't personally use this, but I find it extremely crafty and a cool way to modify movies for your own enjoyment! I also often forget that mpv supports multiple audio tracks :P. As an additional tip to improve watching experience, on mpv you can define a global subtitles folder with --sub-file-path and name the srt file the same as the audio file (or use --sub-auto=fuzzy to make the subtitle matching more lenient), and it should be loaded by default along with the original file.

Posted at 2026-03-13 16:44:12 relating to the show hpr3711 which was released on 2022-10-24 by Zen_Floater2 entitled Cars

I enjoyed your episode and appreciate you discussing cars on an HPR episode. I want to point out that your facts on electrics are inaccurate as well as some of the details about charging infrastructure.

I have never encountered evidence of laws forcing you to replace an electric battery before selling a car.

The battery chemistry you sited was Nickel Cadmium but that is not what they are using. They are using various lithium chemistries. Also, most people are not depleting their battery capacity on a daily basis and a 240v charging plug is more than adequate for most uses.

Thanks again for making a show!