Correspondent

Ken Fallon

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ken.nospam@nospam.fallon.ie

No longer completely Irish, not yet completely Dutch, trying to be completely FLOSS.



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hpr4447 :: Interview with Margreet Pakkert at the Flevoland 2025 Field Work Archaeology Open Day.

Tuesday, 2025-08-19. 00:13:19. Clean. general.
Waterschip, Zuiderzee, Flevoland, Archaeology, 3D Scans.

The shipwrek is a Dutch Waterschip with two chambers to keep fish alive until reaching port.

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hpr4439 :: Rejecting a show ?

Thursday, 2025-08-07. 00:23:21. Explicit. general.
HPR, policy, Proselytism.

The reason given is "using HPR as a means to push a particular product or view"

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hpr4425 :: Introducing Linux Matters

Friday, 2025-07-18. 00:38:14. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
Linux Matters.

Long overdue, we share a teaser of another excellent Creative Commons Podcast.

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hpr4415 :: Sony WH-CH700N A2DP stops working in Fedora

Friday, 2025-07-04. 00:10:46. Clean. general.
WH-CH700N, A2DP, NoiseCancelling, Fedora.

How months of troubleshooting came down to a comment in a forum

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hpr4404 :: Kevie nerd snipes Ken by grepping xml

Thursday, 2025-06-19. 00:26:19. Explicit. general.
xml, xmlstarlet, rss, podcast.

Grepping XML kills kittens, so Ken uses xmlstarlet to download a podcast

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hpr4323 :: Good Samaritan laws, Duty to rescue in the Netherlands

Wednesday, 2025-02-26. 00:09:08. Explicit. general.
FirstAid, EABO.

Ken talks with safety officer trainer, Johan about the laws covering providing first aid in Holland.

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hpr4295 :: Three Holiday Hacks from 2023

Friday, 2025-01-17. 00:07:50. Clean. general.
IkeaHacks, diy, hardware.

Replacing the battery, swapping a fan, and getting a new desktop

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hpr4284 :: HPR Developer Information

Thursday, 2025-01-02. 00:16:03. Clean. general.
HPR Project Principles.

A set of Project Principles for those wishing to contribute code to the HPR Project

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hpr4263 :: An interview with Adam Matthews about the Disco Pigeon

Wednesday, 2024-12-04. 00:23:52. Clean. general.
DiscoPigeon, OggCamp24.

Ken interviews Adam who stole the show at OggCamp with his Disco Pigeon

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hpr4248 :: Millie Perkins

Wednesday, 2024-11-13. 00:14:07. Clean. Interviews.
OggCamp2024, HomeAssistant, HomeAutomation.

Ken talks with Millie Perkins about her home automation talk at OggCamp

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hpr4242 :: Interview with Lorenzo 'kelset' Sciandra

Tuesday, 2024-11-05. 00:10:58. Clean. Interviews.
OggCamp2024, STF, Mental Health.

Ken tracks down a Lorenzo to talk about his presentations at OggCamp2024

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hpr4234 :: OggCamp 2024 Day 2

Thursday, 2024-10-24. 00:40:37. Clean. general.
OggCamp2024, methoddan, edent, webmink, danielittlewood, perloid, ken_fallon, garythewilliams.

Interviews from Day two of OggCamp 2024 from Manchester

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hpr4233 :: OggCamp 2024 Day 1

Wednesday, 2024-10-23. 00:30:22. Clean. general.
OggCamp2024, OpenRightsGroup, utaw, tuxjam, geospart.

Interviews from Day one of OggCamp 2024 from Manchester

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hpr4225 :: Chewing the rag with Kristoff and Ken

Friday, 2024-10-11. 00:52:55. Clean. HAM radio.
FOSDEM, HAM.

Kristoff Bonne ON1ARF and Ken Fallon PA7KEN chat about HAM and Hackers

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hpr4214 :: Making Waves Day 2

Thursday, 2024-09-26. 00:36:39. Clean. general.
M17, OpenRTX, RF-Swift, VLF, trx-control.

The Hallway track from Spectrum24 day 2

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hpr4213 :: Making Waves Day 1

Wednesday, 2024-09-25. 00:38:51. Clean. Interviews.
IARU, F4KLO, F4GOH, Meshcom, Satdump.

The Hallway track from Spectrum24 day 1

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hpr4197 :: After 5 years away, OggCamp is back in 2024!

Tuesday, 2024-09-03. 00:18:03. Clean. general.
OggCamp, Manchester, BarCamp..

Ken interviews Gary Williams about rebooting the OggCamp meetup

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hpr4195 :: Hacking HPR Hosts

Friday, 2024-08-30. 00:36:25. Clean. general.
HPR, Queue, Scheduling, Buffering.

Social Engineering more contributions to HPR by picking when to publish your show

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hpr4185 :: Archiving VCR or any other RCA media

Friday, 2024-08-16. 00:17:15. Clean. general.
VCR, Archive, RSA, HDMI, USB, ffmpeg, video4linux, alsa, timeout, losslesscut.

VCR players are starting to get expensive so now is the time to archive.

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hpr4174 :: Of the Mic and the Mop

Thursday, 2024-08-01. 00:44:56. Clean. general.
HPR, Future, Statistics, peppercarrot.

The response to the future of hpr

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hpr4165 :: A circle of Moss

Friday, 2024-07-19. 00:27:40. Clean. Interviews.
Moss Bliss, Filk Music, Podcast, CreativeCommons.

Ken interviews Moss Bliss. The Bard, and the Podcaster.

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hpr4154 :: About HPR

Thursday, 2024-07-04. 00:54:41. Clean. general.
history, values, About, HPR.

Ken reads the about page, which answers many of the questions received

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hpr4134 :: Goodbye Craig Maloney.

Thursday, 2024-06-06. 01:12:04. Explicit. general.
cmaloney, pepperandcarrot, OpenMetalCast.

Remembering a friend

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hpr4125 :: Installing Home Assistant Operating System (HAOS), on a x86-64 machine

Friday, 2024-05-24. 00:11:31. Clean. Home Automation.
HA, HAOS, Home Assistant.

Method 1: Installing HAOS via Ubuntu booting from a USB flash drive to a generic x86-64 PC

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hpr4122 :: The Conference for Creative Use of the Radio Spectrum in Open Systems

Tuesday, 2024-05-21. 00:18:47. Clean. HAM radio.
spectrum24, FOSDEM, HAM, SmartCity, SDR.

A Call for Presentations for spectrum24 is open.

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hpr4099 :: Introducing Home Automation and Home Assistant

Thursday, 2024-04-18. 00:15:15. Clean. Home Automation.
Home Automation, Internet of Things, IOT, Home Assistant, HA.

A new series about all things Home Automation, this time a introduction to Home Assistant

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hpr4079 :: The Corresponding Source

Thursday, 2024-03-21. 00:17:50. Clean. general.
Free, Libre, Open Source Software, FLOSS, Podcast, Free as in Freedom.

Free as in Freedom is dead. Long live The Corresponding Source

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hpr4033 :: Using playerctl to control media players

Wednesday, 2024-01-17. 00:05:51. Clean. Today I Learnt.
playerctl, mpris, lxqt.

Ken maps some playerctl commands to keyboard shortcuts in lxqt

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hpr4019 :: Fairy lights and Powerful Pixies

Thursday, 2023-12-28. 01:18:23. Clean. general.
Volts, Amps, Ohms, Resistance, Current, Potential Energy, Ohms Law, AngryPixies.

Ken is visited by the ghost of procrastination, desperation and rambling

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hpr4004 :: Wayland to X11 bridge

Thursday, 2023-12-07. 00:04:45. Clean. Today I Learnt.
TodayILearned, xprop, XwaylandVideoBridge.

Ken found out about x prop and x wayland video bridge

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hpr3983 :: ChatGPT Output is not compatible with CC-BY-SA

Wednesday, 2023-11-08. 00:08:56. Clean. general.
CreativeCommons, CC-BY-SA, ChatGPT, HPR, CC.

Ken is not a lawyer but is fairly sure that ChatGPT is not compatible with Creative Commons

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hpr3962 :: It's your data

Tuesday, 2023-10-10. 00:07:22. Clean. Bash Scripting.
response, bash, rss, xml, xmlstarlet.

Ken shows a safer way to get episodes from HPR

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hpr3889 :: comm - compare two sorted files line by line

Thursday, 2023-06-29. 00:03:15. Clean. general.
comm, compare, coreutils.

A great tool to quickly find the differences between two files

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hpr3885 :: L'apéro des Papas Manchots podcast, Rencontre avec le vétérinaire du Libre

Friday, 2023-06-23. 02:01:55. Explicit. Podcast recommendations.
FreeCulturePodcast, Creative Commons, L'apéro des Papas Manchots.

A sample episode from the latest entry to the Free Culture Podcast

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hpr3875 :: Parlons Linux Season 1 Episode 7, le sticky bit

Friday, 2023-06-09. 00:05:40. Explicit. Podcast recommendations.
freeculturepodcasts, creative commons, Parlons Linux.

A sample episode from a new entry to the Free Culture Podcast list

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hpr3851 :: Firefox extensions

Monday, 2023-05-08. 00:06:31. Clean. general.
Extensions, Firefox, Security, Copy, Paste, Block, Privacy.

Ken walks through a list of Extensions he has installed in Firefox and why he uses them

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hpr3833 :: Software Freedom Podcast

Wednesday, 2023-04-12. 00:40:12. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
FOSDEM, Podcast Recommendations, FSFE, FLOSS.

Another excellent podcast for your consideration this time it's news from the FSFE

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hpr3813 :: The postmarketOS Podcast

Wednesday, 2023-03-15. 00:31:33. Explicit. Podcast recommendations.
postmarketOS, Free Culture Podcast, FOSDEM.

Ken welcomes a new podcast to the Free Culture Podcast family

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hpr3808 :: Funkwhale A social platform to enjoy and share music

Wednesday, 2023-03-08. 01:00:50. Clean. general.
funkwhale, Grooveshark, iTunes, vue, musicbrainz, picard, subsonic, castopod.

Ken interviews Ciarán Ainsworth about Funkwhale that lets you listen and share music and audio

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hpr3797 :: How to submit changes to HPR

Tuesday, 2023-02-21. 00:31:35. Clean. general.
git, hpr, code, pull request.

rho_n shows Ken how to submit changes to the new HPR static site.

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hpr3755 :: Synergy over ssh

Friday, 2022-12-23. 00:24:55. Clean. general.
synergy, ssh, port forward, tunnel.

Control your other PC securely using synergy over ssh

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hpr3742 :: Battery

Tuesday, 2022-12-06. 00:10:26. Clean. HAM radio.
battery, cell, ham, wikipedia.

The wikipedia article on the Battery

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hpr3725 :: How to use OSMAnd with Public Transport

Friday, 2022-11-11. 00:02:04. Clean. general.
OSMAnd, OSM, Maps, Public Transport.

Ken shows you how to use this mapping tool to display transit routes in your area.

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hpr3683 :: Add a favourite to OSMAnd

Wednesday, 2022-09-14. 00:01:37. Clean. general.
OSMAnd, OSM, Open Street Maps, Android.

Ken keeps forgetting how to add a favourite to OSMAnd

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hpr3648 :: A response to tomorrows show

Wednesday, 2022-07-27. 00:28:02. Explicit. general.
statistics, syndication, reality.

Ken brings the DeLorean up to 141.6Kph to address monochromec's comment on stats

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hpr3638 :: Ken drops a bear on his android phone

Wednesday, 2022-07-13. 00:05:16. Clean. general.
SimpleSSHD, SSH2, dropbear, android, lineageos, primitive ftpd.

How to enable sftp using a sshd server on android/lineageos

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hpr3615 :: I am a troll and I'm trolling HPR, trolling HPR, trolling HPR.

Friday, 2022-06-10. 00:26:48. Explicit. general.
troll, policy change.

We got trolled and what we're going to do about it.

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hpr3606 :: Infinity is just a big number and other proofs

Monday, 2022-05-30. 00:09:21. Clean. general.
math, programming, infinity.

Ken proves Mathematically that programming is not easier with maths.

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hpr3534 :: Vernier caliper

Thursday, 2022-02-17. 00:08:39. Clean. general.
Vernier Caliper, measurement.

Ken recommends a very useful tool for measuring stuff

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hpr3515 :: ADB and scrcpy

Friday, 2022-01-21. 00:09:25. Clean. general.
adb, scrcpy, android Debug Bridge.

Some useful tools for working with Android Devices

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hpr3503 :: Configuring Mumble

Wednesday, 2022-01-05. 00:15:06. Clean. general.
mumble, hpr mumble, new year show.

In this episode we will show you how to connect to the HPR Community Room on Mumble.

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hpr3485 :: 50 years since the 1st Edition of Unix was published

Friday, 2021-12-10. 00:12:27. Explicit. general.
unix, unix commands.

Ken (Fallon not Thompson) checks his unix like computer to see how many commands still exist.

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hpr3454 :: Engineering Notation

Thursday, 2021-10-28. 00:12:16. Clean. HAM radio.
giga, mega, kilo, milli, micro, nano, pico, SI, International System of Units.

Ken runs through the most common Engineering Notation used in HAM radio.

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hpr3407 :: Software Freedom Podcast

Tuesday, 2021-08-24. 00:56:47. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
FSFE, Podcast, freeculturepodcasts.

A sample episode of the Free Software Foundation Europe Podcast

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hpr3348 :: Feedback on the Article by hedorah about HPR

Wednesday, 2021-06-02. 01:13:40. Explicit. general.
HPR, policy decisions.

Join the policy discussions on the mail list

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hpr3335 :: For your consideration, the Anarcho Book Club

Friday, 2021-05-14. 00:22:28. Explicit. Podcast recommendations.
Anarcho Book Club, anarchism, gnuWorldOrder, gwo.

This is an example of the podcast that was featured on GNU World Order

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hpr3315 :: tesseract optical character recognition

Friday, 2021-04-16. 00:02:08. Clean. general.
Tesseract, OCR, optical character recognition.

How to use this amazing tool

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hpr3295 :: Renewing a Let's Encrypt cert for Home Network use

Friday, 2021-03-19. 00:03:15. Clean. general.
SSL, Let's Encrypt, Intranet.

How to update a cert when the automatic processes don't work

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hpr3289 :: NextCloud the hard way

Thursday, 2021-03-11. 00:32:13. Explicit. general.
NextCloud, Raspbian, Apache, mariadb, PHP, myphpadmin, wireguard, DNS Rebind, magicmirror2.

A private NextCloud instance on a Pi 4x8, with lets encrypt and wireguard vpn access

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hpr3275 :: D1 Mini Close Lid to Scan

Friday, 2021-02-19. 00:07:10. Clean. Hardware upgrades.
Wemos, D1 Mini, network scan.

Use a Wemos to monitor if the lid is open or closed on a network scanner.

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hpr3244 :: Interview with Anco Scholte ter Horst CEO of Freedom Internet

Thursday, 2021-01-07. 01:10:23. Clean. Interviews.
Freedom.nl, xs4all, ISP, crowdfunding.

Could there be an ISP that wants free and open internet, for privacy, security and quality ?

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hpr3207 :: Fireside chat with E Nigma

Tuesday, 2020-11-17. 01:03:19. Explicit. general.
HPR, TWAT, DDP, Infonomicon, Binrev, RFA.

Ken talks to the original HPR and Today with a Techie Admin.

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hpr3189 :: How the Dutch dig Graves

Thursday, 2020-10-22. 00:02:43. Explicit. general.
graves, sand, How Holland Works, Dutch, Netherlands.

Ken explains how they dig graves when the ground is essentially sand

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hpr3173 :: Manage your Raspberry Pi fleet with Ansible

Wednesday, 2020-09-30. 00:20:09. Clean. general.
raspberrypi, Raspbian, ansible, opensource.com.

A solution to the problem of updating difficult-to-reach Raspberry Pis in the enterprise.

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hpr3153 :: Fixing eBooks with Calibre and pdfcrop

Wednesday, 2020-09-02. 00:05:08. Clean. general.
calibre, pdfcrop, epub, pdf.

Ken uses Calibre to convert a epub to PDF then uses pdfcrop to trim the margins

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hpr3110 :: Finding an Android phone to run LineageOS

Friday, 2020-07-03. 00:37:57. Explicit. general.
TWRP, Tweakers, LineageOS, scrcpy, tektab.com, bootloader, fastboot, Sony Xperia XA2, pinephone.

Join Ken on this 6 year long journey of success but also failure

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hpr3103 :: A warning about browser extensions and add-ons.

Wednesday, 2020-06-24. 00:01:33. Clean. general.
extensions, add-ons, firefox, chromium, chrome, thunderbird.

A unmaintained extension lead to a popup storm

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hpr3100 :: For your consideration - Makers Corner

Friday, 2020-06-19. 01:15:34. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
pimoroni, gadgetoid, Monster Mouth Headphone Holder, Free Culture Podcasts.

Makers Corner is a tech oriented DIY podcast, from the Other Side Podcast Network

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hpr3080 :: Ansible ping

Friday, 2020-05-22. 00:07:20. Clean. general.
ansible, ping, ssh.

Troubleshooting a basic install of Ansible

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hpr3074 :: For your consideration - Escape Pod

Thursday, 2020-05-14. 00:29:33. Explicit. Podcast recommendations.
EA Podcasts, Escape Pod, Fandom for Robots, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Trendane Sparks.

A sample episode from Escape Pod The Original Science Fiction Podcast

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hpr3060 :: Running a local imap server

Friday, 2020-04-24. 00:06:00. Clean. general.
courier, imap, MailDir, raspberrypi.

Ken installs courier-imap locally to have a local backup of his mail.

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hpr3052 :: Locating computers on a network

Tuesday, 2020-04-14. 00:22:02. Clean. Networking.
arp, ethernet, ip address, dhcp, wireshark, nmap, ping, route, router, arp-scan, wikiversity.

Ken explains some different ways to locate computers on the network

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hpr3022 :: FOSDEM 2020 Stand Interviews

Tuesday, 2020-03-03. 01:32:58. Clean. Interviews.
FOSDEM 2020.

Interviews with some of the stands at FOSDEM 2020

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hpr3012 :: Sample episode from Wikipediapodden

Tuesday, 2020-02-18. 00:08:38. Explicit. Podcast recommendations.
fosdem, wikipediapodden, swedish, sweden.

An English microsode of their Swedish language podcast about Wikipedia.

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hpr2980 :: FLOSS Weekly 553 - Hacker Public Radio

Friday, 2020-01-03. 01:07:17. Clean. Interviews.
Randal Schwartz, Aaron Newcomb, FLOSS Weekly.

Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb featured HPR on FLOSS Weekly

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hpr2975 :: SimpleScreenRecorder and Vidcutter

Friday, 2019-12-27. 00:05:11. Explicit. general.
SimpleScreenRecorder, Vidcutter, ffmpeg, ffprobe, mediainfo.

Two useful applications to record a screen, and to chop and trim a video

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hpr2959 :: Interview with Josh Clements about gpodder.net

Thursday, 2019-12-05. 00:38:34. Clean. Interviews.
gpodder.net, Josh Clements.

What starts as an Interview and ends in a brain storm.

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hpr2946 :: Sunday at OggCamp Manchester 2019

Monday, 2019-11-18. 00:56:18. Clean. Interviews.
OGGCamp, FSFE, Matrix, BlackEdge, mystorm, blackice, fswebcam, android, sshpass.

Interviews and chat from the UK's largest FLOSS event.

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hpr2945 :: Saturday at OggCamp Manchester 2019

Friday, 2019-11-15. 00:37:05. Clean. Interviews.
OGGCamp, FSFE, Matrix, BlackEdge, mystorm, blackice, fswebcam, android, sshpass.

Interviews and chat from the UK's largest FLOSS event.

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hpr2881 :: Automatically split album into tracks in Audacity

Monday, 2019-08-19. 00:04:10. Explicit. general.
Audacity, hpr1771, Detect Silence, Split Track, Label.

Inspired by a Jon Kulp show, Ken splits a large recording based on silence between tracks

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hpr2839 :: Sample episode of the Distrohoppers Digest podcast

Thursday, 2019-06-20. 00:37:11. Clean. general.
Distrohoppers Digest, mintCast, linux, bsd.

We bring you the first episode of the new Creative Commons show the Distrohoppers Digest

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hpr2825 :: More text to speech trials

Friday, 2019-05-31. 00:04:46. Clean. general.
gTTS, Mimic, tts.

A supplementary show to Jeroens episode 2792

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hpr2810 :: Wi-Fi on Android

Friday, 2019-05-10. 00:07:42. Explicit. general.
Android, fdroid, lineageos, AFWall+, Wi-Fi, wpa_supplicant.conf, termux.

Ken fixes an Android Firewalled Wi-Fi connection that reports no Internet and won’t connect

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hpr2750 :: Windmill is on the Fritz

Friday, 2019-02-15. 00:04:30. Clean. Hobby Electronics.
Fritzing, Reverse Engineering, LED.

Using Fritzing to help reverse engineer a circuit in a winter model village windmill

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hpr2730 :: Resizing images for vcard on Android

Friday, 2019-01-18. 00:11:28. Explicit. general.
GraphicsMagick, ImageMagick, VCard, Android, LineageOS.

Automating the steps needed to get images formatted for VCard import into Android phones

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hpr2720 :: Download youtube channels using the rss feeds

Friday, 2019-01-04. 00:24:07. Explicit. general.
youtube, youtube-dl, channels, playlists, xmlstarlet.

Ken shares a script that will allow you to quickly keep up to date on your youtube subscriptions

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hpr2710 :: Youtube downloader for channels

Friday, 2018-12-21. 00:14:04. Explicit. general.
youtube, youtube-dl.

A followup to hpr2675 how you can download an entire youtube channel for local playout

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hpr2700 :: Episode 3000

Friday, 2018-12-07. 07:27:10. Clean. general.
TWaT, HPR, 3000.

We commemorate the 300 Today with a Techie and 2700 Hacker Public Radio shows

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hpr2690 :: A chat about the HiveMQ Broker

Friday, 2018-11-23. 00:07:05. Clean. Interviews.
MQTT, HiveMQ, dc-square GmbH.

Ken talks with Florian Raschbichler and Anja Helmbrecht-Schaar about HiveMQ

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hpr2684 :: Making a remote control visible

Thursday, 2018-11-15. 00:01:17. Explicit. general.
Life hacks.

Yet another amazing life hack !!!

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hpr2660 :: Installing a bootloader on an Arduino

Friday, 2018-10-12. 00:06:39. Explicit. general.
Arduino, Boot Loader, ISP, ICSP.

Ken uses a Arduino Uno to load a bootloader on an Arduino Nano

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hpr2645 :: Blinking LED

Friday, 2018-09-21. 00:23:10. Explicit. Hobby Electronics.
555, NYBill, pico, nano.

In this live show, Ken sees if he can follow simple instructions

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hpr2600 :: Special episode on 2600, Blue Boxes, Phreaking

Friday, 2018-07-20. 00:52:53. Explicit. general.
2600, Blue Box, Phreaking, Radio FreeK America.

We celebrate the history of hackers, with a nod to the old skool phreak community.

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hpr2599 :: Fitting a 3.5mm adapter to a bluetooth receiver.

Thursday, 2018-07-19. 00:08:09. Explicit. general.
life hack, earphone, bluetooth.

Ken cobbles together a bluetooth adapter for any 3.5mm headphone

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hpr2585 :: Check to see if a Remote Control is working

Friday, 2018-06-29. 00:01:39. Explicit. general.
remote control, life hack.

Yet another amazing life hack from Ken

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hpr2560 :: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Friday, 2018-05-25. 00:18:37. Clean. Privacy and Security.
GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation.

The GDPR becomes enforceable today and Ken gives an overview on what it is and how it effects you.

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hpr2433 :: You were right, I was wrong

Wednesday, 2017-11-29. 00:08:39. Clean. general.
Correction.

Ken eats humble pie

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hpr2430 :: Scanning books

Friday, 2017-11-24. 00:12:20. Explicit. general.
book scanning.

Ken explains how and why he is scanning school books

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hpr2356 :: Safely enabling ssh in the default Raspbian Image

Monday, 2017-08-14. 00:32:53. Explicit. general.
Raspberry Pi, ssh.

Ken walks us through a script to secure the base Raspbian Pixel image

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hpr2345 :: Fixing a toilet roll holder

Friday, 2017-07-28. 00:08:51. Explicit. general.
Life Hack, re-purpose hack.

A small fix improves someone's life

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hpr2343 :: Healthcare in the Netherlands

Wednesday, 2017-07-26. 00:18:29. Explicit. Health and Healthcare.
Health Insurance.

Ken reads the Wikipedia article on Healthcare in the Netherlands

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hpr2290 :: How to change the height of your Ironing board

Friday, 2017-05-12. 00:02:48. Explicit. general.
Amazing Life Hack.

Amazing Life Hack that will change your life forever.

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hpr2227 :: FOSDEM 2017 H Building and the Hallway track

Tuesday, 2017-02-14. 01:24:59. Explicit. Interviews.
Godot Engine, SFC, BBC Open Source, WolfSSL, GrimoireLab, MySQL, Kallithea, WPIA, XMPP, Pulp, SHA2017, ManageIQ.

Ken interviews the projects in the H building and anyone else that wants to talk.

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hpr2226 :: FOSDEM 2017 AW Building

Monday, 2017-02-13. 01:09:24. Explicit. Interviews.
FOSDEM 2017, coreboot, GNU GRUB, Olimex, Automotive Grade Linux, Ham radio, CorteXlab, OpenEmbedded.

Ken interviews the projects in the AW building

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hpr2225 :: FOSDEM 2017 K (level 2 Stands 10 to 19)

Friday, 2017-02-10. 00:59:21. Explicit. Interviews.
FOSDEM 2017, Open Smart Grid Platform, Perl Programming Language, Coala, Linux From Scratch, Google Code-in, GSoC, Ultimaker, SOFA, MuseScore, Matrix.org.

Ken interviews the projects in the K building level 2 at stands 10 to 19

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hpr2224 :: FOSDEM 2017 K (level 2 Stands 1 to 9)

Thursday, 2017-02-09. 01:17:19. Explicit. Interviews.
FOSDEM 2017, Mozilla, diaspora*, Apache Software Foundation, OW2, Jenkins, Tiki, XWiki, WikiSuite, OpenNMS, Kolab, Turris Omnia.

Ken interviews the projects in the K building level 2 at stands 1 to 9

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hpr2223 :: FOSDEM 2017 K (level 1, group B and C)

Wednesday, 2017-02-08. 01:54:33. Explicit. general.
FOSDEM 2017, ReactOS, Haiku, Gentoo, CoreOS, Debian, PostgreSQL, Nextcloud, Bazel, Open Build Service/OpenQA, FSFE, Vikings, Tor, Xen, OpenStack, oVirt, Foreman, Gluster, ownCloud, CAcert, secure-u.

Ken interviews the projects in Group B and C of the the K building level 1

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hpr2222 :: FOSDEM 2017 K (level 1, group A)

Tuesday, 2017-02-07. 01:29:52. Explicit. general.
FOSDEM 2017, KDE, GNOME, LibreOffice, Kopano, CiviCRM, GNU Taler, pEp foundation, FreeBSD Project, illumos, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Fedora Project.

Ken interviews the projects in Group A of the the K building level 1

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hpr2197 :: Why you should not say Free Software

Tuesday, 2017-01-03. 00:07:09. Clean. general.
free software, free, freedom.

Ken suggests that the term Free Software is a bug.

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hpr2195 :: All you need to know when uploading a show

Friday, 2016-12-30. 00:28:16. Clean. general.
HPR.

We read aloud various information pages on the HPR website

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hpr2185 :: Soldering a Soldering Fan

Friday, 2016-12-16. 00:05:09. Clean. general.
soldering.

Practising soldering skills by hacking together a soldering extraction fan.

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hpr2170 :: soundtrap.io

Friday, 2016-11-25. 00:33:18. Clean. Interviews.
open source, open hardware, acoustic logger.

A low-cost open-source acoustic logger for biodiversity and environmental monitoring.

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hpr2150 :: Apollo Guidance Computer

Friday, 2016-10-28. 01:13:01. Clean. Interviews.
Apollo, Space, Rope memory.

Francois Rautenbach tell us how he is hacking 50 year old computers

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hpr2103 :: DIY Book Binding

Wednesday, 2016-08-24. 00:10:36. Explicit. general.
book binding, comb binding, jig saw, wood clamp.

With no shows in the queue, Ken rushes in a show on his latest hacks

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hpr2100 :: Re-Enable Copy and Paste in Browsers

Friday, 2016-08-19. 00:04:40. Explicit. general.
web browser, cut, paste, plugin, javascript.

How to bypass the roadblocks implemented by JavaScript

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hpr2008 :: HPR needs shows to survive.

Wednesday, 2016-04-13. 00:19:40. Clean. general.
HPR, community, shows, call to action, contribute.

Do not listen to this show. Record one instead.

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hpr2000 :: How to Point a Satellite Dish

Friday, 2016-04-01. 01:05:58. Explicit. April Fools Shows.
procrastination, orbit, satellite, satellite dish.

After 10 years, 3 months, 19 days of Procrastination, Ken finally delivers droops a show

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hpr1985 :: Fixing Bug 1092571

Friday, 2016-03-11. 00:03:32. Clean. general.
samba, smb1, smb2, /etc/fstab.

Cant mount drive with cifs but can with kioslave smb

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hpr1973 :: Free/Libre/Vrije Software: The Goal and the Path

Wednesday, 2016-02-24. 01:55:29. Clean. general.
RMS, GNU, Four freedoms.

A presentation given by Richard Stallman as part of FOSDEM fringe.

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hpr1965 :: Adding SQLite as a datasource to SQLeo

Friday, 2016-02-12. 00:10:01. Clean. general.
SQLite, JDBC, SQLeo.

Using the graphical query builders from SQLeo with SQLite

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hpr1960 :: FOSDEM 2016 AW Building and more

Friday, 2016-02-05. 01:55:52. Clean. Interviews.
FOSDEM, FreeBSD, Matrix, Brainduino, Butterknife, pyhurdy, Coreboot, OpenEmbedded, PicoTCP, PTXdist, JavaCardPro, Knitting.

FreeBSD,Matrix,Brainduino,Butterknife,pyhurdy,Coreboot,OpenEmbedded, PicoTCP,PTXdist,JavaCardPro

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hpr1959 :: FOSDEM 2016 K building level 2

Thursday, 2016-02-04. 01:44:01. Clean. Interviews.
FOSDEM, Mozilla, Apache, Jenkins, xwiki, dokuwiki, tikiwiki, MediaWiki, Linux from scratch, Perl, Barghest, Coala, Google Summer of Code, Ultimaker.

Mozilla,Apache,Jenkins,x doku tiki and MediaWiki,LFS,Perl,Barghest,Coala,Google SOC,Ultimaker

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hpr1958 :: FOSDEM 2016 K building level 1 Group A

Wednesday, 2016-02-03. 01:51:05. Clean. Interviews.
FOSDEM, Fedora, OpenSuse, illumos, ownCloud, Enlightenment, Tizen, Kolab, KDE, LibreOffice.

Fedora, OpenSuse, illumos, ownCloud, Enlightenment, Tizen, Kolab, KDE, LibreOffice

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hpr1957 :: FOSDEM 2016 K building level 1 Group B and C

Tuesday, 2016-02-02. 02:08:55. Clean. Interviews.
FOSDEM, CAcert, DRLM, Gluster, oVirt, OpenVZ, FSFE, ReactOS, BAREOS, Debian, PostgreSQL, OpenMandriva, Mageia, Gentoo.

CAcert DRLM Gluster oVirt OpenVZ FSFE ReactOS BAREOS Debian PostgreSQL OpenMandriva Mageia Gentoo

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hpr1952 :: Time now Ladies and Gents

Tuesday, 2016-01-26. 00:31:00. Clean. Bash Scripting.
fix_tags, ffprobe, ffmpeg, bc, sed, awk, grep, time, iso8601, date, mediainfo, xmlstarlet.

How to get the total duration of a lot of media files.

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hpr1911 :: Thoughts on GUI v CLI and the best distro

Monday, 2015-11-30. 00:15:09. Clean. general.
GUI, Graphical User Interface, CLI, Command Line Interface.

Thoughts on which desktop to use, and which GUI to use

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hpr1894 :: Interview with Davide Zilli and Dr Marianne Sinka of the HumBug Project

Thursday, 2015-11-05. 01:00:48. Clean. Interviews.
mosquito, humbug, Google Impact Challenge, Hardware.

Mosquito Detection and Habitat Mapping for Improved Malaria Modelling

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hpr1874 :: Interview with Droops

Thursday, 2015-10-08. 00:53:59. Explicit. Interviews.
TWaTech, RFA, Radio FreeK America, BinRev, Binary Revolution Radio, Infonomicon.

To mark the 10 year anniversary of HPR we talk to droops one of the founders of Today with a Techie.

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hpr1840 :: Running external commands in Kate

Friday, 2015-08-21. 00:04:02. Clean. general.
kate, plugins, Text Filter.

Using the text filter option in the kate text editor.

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hpr1830 :: How Holland Works: GreenWheels

Friday, 2015-08-07. 00:10:43. Explicit. general.
How Holland Works, GreenWheels, Environment, integrated transport, car sharing.

A quick look at the Dutch short term car sharing service

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hpr1801 :: How to tell your left earbud from your right

Monday, 2015-06-29. 00:02:32. Clean. general.
lifehack, earphones, knots, tips, hints, tricks.

Lowering the quality of shows, Ken provides a lifehack tip.

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hpr1766 :: Sox of Silence

Monday, 2015-05-11. 00:10:16. Explicit. general.
sox, truncate silence.

Using SOX to speed up and remove silence in a podcast

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hpr1710 :: Windows Remote Desktop on GNU/Linux

Friday, 2015-02-20. 00:11:19. Clean. Bash Scripting.
bash, xfreerdp, rdesktop, remmina.

A wrapper script for xfreerdp to make connecting to windows servers painless

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hpr1702 :: FOSDEM 2015 Part 5 of 5

Tuesday, 2015-02-10. 01:02:13. Explicit. Interviews.
ReactOS, CoreOS, WolfSSL, PicoTCP, Ultimaker, CoreBoot and Flashrom, SatNOGS.

ReactOS, CoreOS, WolfSSL, PicoTCP, Ultimaker, CoreBoot and Flashrom, SatNOGS

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hpr1701 :: FOSDEM 2015 Part 4 of 5

Monday, 2015-02-09. 00:42:56. Explicit. Interviews.
Agora Voting, DIYBookScanner, OpenEmbedded, Amateur Radio, kodi formerly XBMC.

Agora Voting, DIYBookScanner, OpenEmbedded, Amateur Radio, kodi formerly XBMC

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hpr1700 :: Today with a Techie episode two thousand

Friday, 2015-02-06. 00:10:19. Clean. general.
today with a techie, hacker public radio, hosts.

TWaT started 9 years, 3 months, 27 days ago and today we celebrate the first 2000 episodes

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hpr1699 :: FOSDEM 2015 Part 3 of 5

Thursday, 2015-02-05. 00:47:56. Explicit. Interviews.
Wikimedia, Hack the Knit, Jitsi, XMMP, Kolab, DoudouLinux.

Wikimedia, Hack the Knit, Jitsi, XMMP, Kolab, DoudouLinux

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hpr1698 :: FOSDEM 2015 Part 2 of 5

Wednesday, 2015-02-04. 00:45:58. Explicit. Interviews.
OpenMandriva, Mageia, KDE, Debian, Puppet, OwnCloud, Diaspora.

OpenMandriva, Mageia, KDE, Debian, Puppet, OwnCloud, Diaspora

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hpr1697 :: FOSDEM 2015 Friday Night and Saturday Morning 1 of 5

Tuesday, 2015-02-03. 00:51:08. Explicit. Interviews.
Software Freedom Conservancy, Free as in Freedom, GNOME, Fedora, OpenStack, CentOS, Fenster.

Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler, Sriram Ramkrishna, Matthew Miller, Rich Bowen, Karanbir Singh

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hpr1663 :: Interview with Greg Greenlee Founder of Blacks In Technology

Wednesday, 2014-12-17. 01:02:29. Explicit. Interviews.
Blacks in Technology, diversity, technology.

Blacks In Technology is a tech focused community focused on increasing diversity in technology.

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hpr1654 :: Using AS numbers to identify where you are on the Internet

Thursday, 2014-12-04. 00:20:04. Clean. general.
Autonomous System Number, ASN, geoiplookup.

ASN uniquely identifies each network on the Internet

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hpr1599 :: Interview with Ingmar Steiner from the MaryTTS project

Thursday, 2014-09-18. 01:25:48. Clean. Interviews.
text to speech, MaryTTS, ORCA.

Ken interviews Ingmar Steiner from the MaryTTS text to speech project.

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hpr1584 :: An interview with Josh Knapp from AnHonestHost.com

Thursday, 2014-08-28. 00:52:45. Explicit. Interviews.
AnHonestHost.com, shared hosting.

We talk to Josh Knapp about his new business AnHonestHost.com

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hpr1543 :: What's in my bag

Wednesday, 2014-07-02. 00:19:14. Explicit. What's in My Toolkit.
laptop backpack, OHM 2013.

The contents of Ken's bag as he prepares for OHM 2013

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hpr1486 :: Linux Luddites Episode 11 - Interview with Rob Landley

Monday, 2014-04-14. 02:00:22. Explicit. Interviews.
linux, busybox, podcast.

Ken Fallon promotes the "Linux Luddites" podcast

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hpr1480 :: Continuous Ink Supply System

Friday, 2014-04-04. 00:20:00. Explicit. general.
printer, inkjet, continuous ink supply system, ciss.

How goibhniu got Ken to use a Brother MFC-J5910DW with a Continuous Ink Supply System

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hpr1470 :: Learn to read time with ccClock

Friday, 2014-03-21. 00:24:02. Explicit. general.
analogue clock, telling time.

A teaching tool for children learning to read an analogue clock

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hpr1454 :: HPR Coverage at FOSDEM 2014 Part 5

Thursday, 2014-02-27. 01:40:30. Explicit. Interviews.
FOSDEM, 2014, interviews.

FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 5

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hpr1453 :: HPR Coverage at FOSDEM 2014 Part 4

Wednesday, 2014-02-26. 01:06:19. Explicit. Interviews.
FOSDEM, 2014, interviews.

FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 4

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hpr1452 :: HPR Coverage at FOSDEM 2014 Part 3

Tuesday, 2014-02-25. 02:16:29. Explicit. Interviews.
FOSDEM, 2014, interviews.

FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 3

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hpr1451 :: Jeremy Allison ~ the SAMBA project

Monday, 2014-02-24. 01:14:22. Explicit. general.
FOSDEM, 2014, interview, Jeremy Allison, SAMBA.

FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 2

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hpr1447 :: HPR Coverage at FOSDEM 2014 Part 1/5

Tuesday, 2014-02-18. 01:38:45. Explicit. Interviews.
FOSDEM, 2014, interviews.

FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 1

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hpr1446 :: Interview with Fernando H. F. Botelho from the F123 group

Monday, 2014-02-17. 00:46:57. Explicit. Interviews.
interview, accessibility, Sonar Linux, Vinux, eSpeak, Festival, MARY TTS.

In today's show Ken talks to Fernando H. F. Botelho from the F123 group.

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hpr1430 :: thebestofyoutube.com download script

Friday, 2014-01-24. 00:38:32. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
Bash, YouTube, download.

A hacked script to download youtube videos

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hpr1409 :: Xircom PE pocket ethernet adapter

Thursday, 2013-12-26. 00:07:59. Explicit. general.
twit.tv, TheGizWiz, Raspberry Pi, ethernet.

Ken's contribution to TheGizWiz on the Twit.tv network, in the GadgetWarehouse segment

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hpr1404 :: Editing pre-recorded audio in Audacity

Thursday, 2013-12-19. 00:24:25. Clean. general.
audacity, audio, edit.

Ken demonstrates how to edit an audio file with Audacity

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hpr1344 :: Filming a Dinosaur egg hatching

Thursday, 2013-09-26. 00:04:58. Explicit. general.
Dinosaur egg, Raspberry Pi, fswebcam.

In this episode Ken and his Son hatch a plan to film a Dinosaur egg hatching using fswebcam.

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hpr1340 :: Out and about at OHM 2013

Friday, 2013-09-20. 01:20:53. Explicit. general.
OHM 2013.

Observe, Hack, Make. A five day outdoor international camping festival for hackers and makers

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hpr1334 :: Open Sourcing Mental Illness - Ed Finkler

Thursday, 2013-09-12. 02:18:46. Explicit. Mental Health.
mental health, OSMI.

An interview with Ed Finkler about Mental Health

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hpr1322 :: Kevin O'Brien - Ohio LinuxFest 2013

Tuesday, 2013-08-27. 00:48:38. Explicit. general.
Ohio LinuxFest 2013.

A discussion with Kevin O'Brien about Ohio LinuxFest

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hpr1309 :: Assisted Human Reproduction

Thursday, 2013-08-08. 01:25:38. Explicit. general.
Assisted Human Reproduction, in vitro fertilisation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

IVF, ICSI

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hpr1288 :: Nido Media gets Ken to go camping at OHM2013

Wednesday, 2013-07-10. 00:30:54. Explicit. general.
OHM2013.

Nido Media and Ken Fallon at OHM2013

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hpr1283 :: Ken gets to talk with Ambjorn about politics

Wednesday, 2013-07-03. 00:20:41. Explicit. OggCamp.
interview.

Ken interviews Ambjorn at OggCamp11

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hpr1278 :: OggCamp11: Interview with Marie Assen from Flatter

Wednesday, 2013-06-26. 00:27:17. Explicit. OggCamp.
OggCamp11.

Ken releases an interview from OggCamp11

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hpr1274 :: Nathan Dumont on Open Source Hardware

Thursday, 2013-06-20. 00:39:25. Explicit. OggCamp.
Open Source hardware, Arduino, ChipKIT.

Ken interviews Nathan Dumont at OggCamp11

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hpr1264 :: Open Accessibility: Interview with Steve Lee

Thursday, 2013-06-06. 00:54:13. Explicit. Accessibility.
oggcamp.

Ken Catches up with Steve Lee just before he gave his talk on Open Accessability.

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hpr1216 :: Digital Data Transfer

Monday, 2013-04-01. 00:22:24. Explicit. April Fools Shows.
OSI, ISO/IEC 7498-1, 7-layer model.

Digital Data Transfer

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hpr1193 :: Chris Conder Catchup on Broadband for Rural North

Wednesday, 2013-02-27. 00:52:02. Explicit. general.
networking, broadband, fibre optic, Lancashire, B4RN.

Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) revisited

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hpr1120 :: Jerome Leclanche from the razor-qt project

Friday, 2012-11-16. 00:37:26. Explicit. general.
Qt, desktop environment, Razor-qt.

Ken interviews Jerome Leclanche from the Razor-qt project

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hpr1076 :: Ohio LinuxFest 2012

Monday, 2012-09-17. 00:38:40. Explicit. general.
interview, OLF 2012, Ohio LinuxFest.

Describing the upcoming Ohio LinuxFest conference and expo

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hpr1060 :: OggCamp12 Farewell

Friday, 2012-08-24. 00:51:48. Explicit. OggCamp.
oggcamp, oggcamp12.

The final batch of interviews from OggCamp 2012

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hpr1059 :: OggCamp12 Day2 The morning after the night before

Thursday, 2012-08-23. 00:56:18. Explicit. OggCamp.
oggcamp, oggcamp12.

Yet more interviews from OggCamp 12 on day 2

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hpr1058 :: OggCamp12 Hardware Hackers

Wednesday, 2012-08-22. 00:55:56. Explicit. OggCamp.
oggcamp, oggcamp12.

More interviews from OggCamp 12 on day 1

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hpr1056 :: OggCamp 12 Day 1 Part 1

Monday, 2012-08-20. 00:37:31. Explicit. OggCamp.
oggcamp, oggcamp12.

Interviews from OggCamp 12 on day 1

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hpr1034 :: PXE Boot

Thursday, 2012-07-19. 00:16:58. Explicit. general.
PXE boot, thin client, DHCP, TFTP.

Setting up an information display with a thin client and spare monitor

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hpr1027 :: Migrating away from Google Reader

Tuesday, 2012-07-10. 00:24:15. Explicit. general.
Google, Google Reader, OPML, IMAP, Feed2Imap, opml2feed.

An alternative to Google Reader for managing feeds

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hpr1018 :: Interview with Christel Dahlskjaer of the FreeNode project.

Tuesday, 2012-06-26. 00:14:02. Explicit. Interviews.
Interview, Oggcamp, Freenode.

Ken interviews Christel Dahlskjaer of the FreeNode project

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hpr995 :: Do the four freedoms extend beyond software ?

Thursday, 2012-05-24. 00:14:53. Explicit. general.
free software definition.

The Free Software Definition has a wider scope than just software

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hpr980 :: Broadband for Rural North

Thursday, 2012-05-03. 01:05:48. Explicit. general.
broadband, fibre optic, fiber optic, B4RN.

The story of a Lancashire community and their high-speed network

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hpr967 :: Raspberry Pi spec review

Monday, 2012-04-16. 00:15:56. Explicit. general.
Broadcom BCM2835, HDMI, GPIO, UART, i2c, SPI.

A discussion of the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi

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hpr935 :: Indiana LinuxFest

Friday, 2012-03-02. 00:31:50. Explicit. general.
Indiana Linuxfest, ILF, ILF 2012.

Ken talks to Lord Drachenblut about the upcoming Indiana LinuxFest 2012

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hpr919 :: Elfstedentocht - To be or not to be

Wednesday, 2012-02-08. 00:15:01. Explicit. general.
Interview, Netherlands, Friesland, skating.

A 200 kilometre skating tour in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands

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hpr906 :: FOSDEM 2012

Friday, 2012-01-20. 00:35:49. Explicit. Interviews.
Interview, FOSDEM, FOSDEM 2012.

Ken interviews Pascal Bleser, FOSDEM organisation team member

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hpr886 :: Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Monday, 2011-12-26. 00:07:41. Explicit. OggCamp.
product lifecycle management, PLM.

An discussion with Alister Munroe from OggCamp 2011

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hpr883 :: Dan Lynch interview

Tuesday, 2011-12-20. 00:26:46. Explicit. OggCamp.
OggCamp, interview.

An interview from OggCamp 2011

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hpr873 :: Philip and Rebecca Newborough of CrunchBang

Tuesday, 2011-12-06. 00:12:07. Explicit. OggCamp.
CrunchBang Linux, Debian, Openbox.

CrunchBang Linux

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hpr863 :: Tony Hughes Free Cycle

Tuesday, 2011-11-22. 00:07:30. Explicit. general.
Free Cycle, Xubuntu, Ucubed, Software Freedom Day, BLACKPOOL LUG.

In today's show Ken talks to Tony Hughes about how he got into Linux

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hpr859 :: Sourcetrunk: OwnCloud

Wednesday, 2011-11-16. 00:33:15. Explicit. Syndicated Thursdays.
OwnCloud.

Syndicated Thursday welcomes Sourcetrunk

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hpr857 :: Sam Tuke - Free Software Foundation Europe

Monday, 2011-11-14. 00:08:27. Explicit. OggCamp.
OggCamp, Free Software Foundation Europe, FSFE, FSF.

An interview wth Sam Tuke the British Team Coordinator and Editorial Team co-ordinator for the FSFE

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hpr848 :: Alan Cocks, the info point project

Tuesday, 2011-11-01. 00:09:44. Explicit. Interviews.
Info Point Project, Bracknell Computer Fair.

An interview with Alan Cocks at Oggcamp 11

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hpr842 :: DJ from h-online.com

Monday, 2011-10-24. 00:10:42. Explicit. OggCamp.
The H, opensource, security.

An interview from OggCamp

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hpr837 :: Juergen Schinker open wireless network

Tuesday, 2011-10-18. 00:07:38. Explicit. OggCamp.
oggcamp, oggcamp11.

Ken talks to Juergen Schinker about the OWN Open wireless network

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hpr832 :: OggCamp11 Roundup

Monday, 2011-10-10. 00:31:39. Explicit. OggCamp.
oggcamp, oggcamp11.

A round-up of OggCamp 11

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hpr822 :: Vivean Parkhouse about the GiffGaff Community Phone project

Monday, 2011-09-26. 00:04:07. Explicit. general.
giffgaff, community phone project.

The GiffGaff Community Phone project

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hpr815 :: Software Freedom Day Dundee 2011

Thursday, 2011-09-15. 00:11:23. Explicit. general.
Tayside Linux User Group, Dundee.

An event to celebrate and promote the use of free and open source software

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hpr813 :: Gemma Cameron aka @ruby_gem about Barcamp Blackpool

Tuesday, 2011-09-13. 00:18:18. Explicit. general.
Barcamp Blackpool, unconference.

Ken talks to Gemma Cameron aka @ruby_gem about Barcamp Blackpool

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hpr804 :: Wayne Myers from Fit and the Conniptions at OggCamp

Wednesday, 2011-08-31. 01:03:41. Explicit. Syndicated Thursdays.
oggcamp, oggcamp11.

Ken Fallon interviews Wayne Myers at OggCamp 11

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hpr802 :: Ana Nelson on Dexy software documentation

Monday, 2011-08-29. 00:07:28. Explicit. OggCamp.
Dexy, language-specific documentation.

An interview at OggCamp 11 with Ana Nelson about Dexy, a software documentation tool

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hpr796 :: Shane Marks Hacker Space Week Ireland

Sunday, 2011-08-21. 00:20:15. Explicit. general.
hackerspace, Ireland.

An interview with Shane Marks from the Nexus maker space in Cork, Ireland

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hpr795 :: John Uren on FLOSS in the UK Civil Service

Thursday, 2011-08-18. 00:05:48. Explicit. OggCamp.
Civil Service, open-source software, EtherPad.

An interview with John Uren at OggCamp 2011

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hpr791 :: Interview with Moose about Ohio LinuxFest

Sunday, 2011-08-14. 00:55:34. Explicit. Interviews.
Ohio LinuxFest, OLF 2011.

Ken talks to Moose, one of the organizers of Ohio LinuxFest

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hpr787 :: Grep for tab

Monday, 2011-08-08. 00:02:38. Explicit. general.
summer shorts.

Ken submits a summer short explaining how to grep for a tab character in a file

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hpr773 :: Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo

Tuesday, 2011-07-19. 00:28:28. Explicit. Interviews.
search engine, privacy.

Interview with Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo

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hpr768 :: Sort

Tuesday, 2011-07-12. 00:14:30. Explicit. general.
GNU sort.

Ken describes the use of the GNU 'sort' command

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hpr758 :: Interview with Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs

Tuesday, 2011-06-28. 01:11:37. Explicit. Interviews.
CCHits.net, music, Creative Commons, PHP.

Ken interviews Jon Spriggs of CCHits.net

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hpr746 :: Interview with Tony Whitmore about OggCamp11

Monday, 2011-06-13. 00:19:49. Explicit. OggCamp.
oggcamp, oggcamp11.

Ken Fallon interviews Tony Whitmore of the Ubuntu-UK Podcast about OggCamp11

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hpr735 :: Interview with Dave Yates about SELF 2011

Thursday, 2011-05-26. 00:41:23. Explicit. Interviews.
SELF 2011, interview.

Ken Fallon explores the schedule of the 2011 Southeast Linux Fest with Dave Yates

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hpr715 :: Interview with StankDawg

Thursday, 2011-04-28. 01:06:14. Explicit. Interviews.
interview, hpr, history, hosting.

StankDawg interviewed by Ken Fallon

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hpr702 :: 50th anniversary of human space flight

Tuesday, 2011-04-12. 00:57:13. Explicit. general.
space, history.

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of manned human space flight

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hpr684 :: Eben Moglen Freedom In the Cloud

Thursday, 2011-03-17. 01:58:36. Explicit. Syndicated Thursdays.
syndicated thursday, floss, free software, freedom, surveillance, hosting.

Eben Moglen explains the motivations & ideas behind the Freedom Box project

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hpr648 :: Wput: a command-line ftp-client

Wednesday, 2011-01-26. 00:04:04. Explicit. general.
ftp, shell, utilities.

A brief overview of wput, a command-line FTP utility

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hpr629 :: RSS 2.0 Specification with iTunes namespace

Thursday, 2010-12-30. 00:32:26. Explicit. general.
hpr, rss.

An explanation of the RSS 2.0 specification, the iTunes namespace, and HPR's RSS feed

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hpr598 :: Bash Scripting: Episode 2 Command Line Basics

Wednesday, 2010-11-17. 00:38:33. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
bash, cli, command line.

Introduction to the man, info, and appropos commands, among other basics

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hpr570 :: New google privacy policy

Saturday, 2010-09-11. 00:12:11. Explicit. general.
policy, privacy, Google.

The upcoming Google Privacy Policy is read by espeak

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hpr562 :: Introduction to bash scripting

Wednesday, 2010-08-11. 00:20:32. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
bash, bash basics, bash scripting.

Introduction to bash scripting, with quick explanations of many adjacent concepts

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hpr558 :: xscreensaver

Wednesday, 2010-07-21. 00:06:19. Explicit. general.
KDE, KDE 4, screen saver, xscreensaver, how to.

Ken Fallon describes how to install xscreensaver on a KDE 4 desktop

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hpr546 :: Shot of Hack - Changing the time offset of a series of photos

Thursday, 2010-06-03. 00:06:39. Explicit. general.
exiv2, gwenview, Exif, IPTC, XMP.

Ken discusses how to modify image metadata from the command line using exiv2

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hpr544 :: HPR: A private data cloud

Friday, 2010-05-28. 00:30:23. Explicit. general.
private cloud, backup, raid, offsite backup, rsync, ssh, cron.

Backing up your cherished photo and video privately and securely

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hpr531 :: bash loops

Wednesday, 2010-03-24. 00:08:32. Explicit. Bash Scripting.
bash, loops, while loops, for loops, scripting, bash scripting.

While aboard an Airbus 320, Ken Fallon describes loops that are available in BASH

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hpr481 :: Mashpodder

Thursday, 2009-11-12. 00:08:37. Explicit. general.
podcast, bashpodder, mashpodder, Linux Reality, Spudshow.

Ken Fallon talks about Mashpodder.

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hpr465 :: Failsafe security

Wednesday, 2009-10-14. 00:16:11. Explicit. general.
security, netstat, hosts file, iptables, Firefox, noscript.

Tips on securing your Linux systems, see Episode 431

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hpr457 :: automatic car

Friday, 2009-10-02. 00:13:49. Explicit. general.
automatic transmission, cars, linux.

Ken Fallon talks about an automatic car, with a twist

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hpr431 :: Logwatch

Wednesday, 2009-08-26. 00:07:39. Explicit. general.
Logwatch.

Ken talks about Logwatch, a customizable log analysis system

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hpr401 :: web2speech

Tuesday, 2009-07-14. 00:12:34. Explicit. general.
text to speech.

Converting wikipedia text to audio.

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hpr386 :: SSH config file

Tuesday, 2009-06-23. 00:13:56. Explicit. general.
ssh config, ssh keys, ssh agent.

Ken talks about user friendly identities to connect to ssh

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hpr340 :: RTFM

Monday, 2009-04-20. 00:09:43. Explicit. general.
RTFM, documentation, history.

Ken talks about the history behind RTFM

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hpr298 :: AutoNessus

Thursday, 2009-02-19. 00:28:55. Explicit. general.
interviews, autonessus, security.

Ken Fallon interviews Frank Breedijk of AutoNessus

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hpr279 :: cfengine

Friday, 2009-01-23. 00:17:06. Explicit. general.
Interview, cfengine.

Ken Fallon interviews Ian Southam about using cfengine

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hpr250 :: What Ogg Player

Monday, 2008-12-15. 00:12:31. Explicit. general.
ogg player, solid state, DRM, firmware, USB mass storage device.

Ken updates the firmware on his Samsung YP-U3

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hpr227 :: Local Squid

Wednesday, 2008-11-12. 00:19:54. Explicit. general.
Squid, proxy server.

Ken explains how to install and run a local squid proxy

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hpr206 :: This Runs Linux

Tuesday, 2008-10-14. 00:09:35. Explicit. general.
promotion.

Ken's failed attempt to set up a site that promotes devices that run linux

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hpr185 :: 3 tips

Monday, 2008-09-15. 00:07:43. Explicit. general.
sox, sleep, tar.

Ken gives us quick bash tips

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hpr160 :: DVgrab

Monday, 2008-08-11. 00:13:36. Explicit. general.
dvgrab, archiving.

Ken walks us through moving off DV tapes to disk

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hpr145 :: Stop smoking

Monday, 2008-07-21. 00:08:36. Explicit. Health and Healthcare.
self-help, stop smoking, health.

A show to encourage you to give up smoking

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hpr140 :: LPI Certification Part 6 Device Configuration

Tuesday, 2008-07-15. 00:12:09. Explicit. LPI Certifications.
LPI, modems, ISDN, DSL.

LPIC topic 1.101.6 — Configure Communication Devices

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hpr135 :: LPI Ceritification Part 5 PCI Cards

Tuesday, 2008-07-08. 00:16:25. Explicit. LPI Certifications.
LPI, lspci.

Setup different PC expansion cards

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hpr115 :: Promoting Linux

Monday, 2008-06-09. 00:10:51. Explicit. general.
Linux Promotion.

Ken Fallon discusses ways to promote linux

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hpr102 :: Linux Professional Institute Certifications Part 4

Wednesday, 2008-05-21. 00:14:14. Explicit. LPI Certifications.
LPI, SCSI.

Ken covers SCSI skipping over modem and sound

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hpr78 :: Interview Tips

Thursday, 2008-04-17. 00:43:28. Explicit. general.
job application, job interview, CV.

Advice for job seekers

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hpr57 :: LPI Certifications Part 3

Wednesday, 2008-03-19. 00:18:39. Explicit. LPI Certifications.
LPI, hard disks.

Ken covers how disks are dealt with in Linux

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hpr56 :: Open Street Map

Tuesday, 2008-03-18. 00:10:08. Explicit. general.
Open Street Map, GPS, POI.

Ken encourages people to add to Open Street Map

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hpr36 :: LPI Certifications Part 2

Tuesday, 2008-02-19. 00:31:54. Explicit. LPI Certifications.
LPI, bus, System Bus, PCI Bus.

Ken covers computer buses and system resources

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hpr13 :: LPI Certifications Part 1

Thursday, 2008-01-17. 00:16:00. Explicit. general.
Linux Professional Institute Certification, LPIC.

Ken Fallon is preparing for his 'Linux Professional Institute Certification' (LPIC)

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Today with a Techie Ep.90 :: Free-win32

Thursday, 2006-03-30. 00:10:11. Clean. general.
.

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