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Hosted by hairylarry on 2024-09-18

01 Plain Text Programs Hi. I'm here to talk about Plain Text Programs, what they are, what they do, why they're good, and why they're not for everything. Right up front I'm requesting feedback on what I have to say. I'm on Mastodon and I'll start a thread for each podcast or you can reach me by email. My Mastodon address is @hairylarry@gamerplus.org My profile is at https://gamerplus.org/@hairylar...

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HPR4207: Re: The Kindle/Kobo Open Reader (KOReader)

Hosted by dnt on 2024-09-17

A response to a 2016 show by Jon Kulp, about the KO Reader. https://koreader.rocks/...

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HPR4206: New to GNU/Linux resources.

Hosted by Some Guy On The Internet on 2024-09-16

New to GNU/Linux resources. Sgoti talks about resources for new Linux users. Tags: New to Linux, documentation The Linux Command Line The book spells Vim wrong (joke). nano ~/.bashrc should be vim ~/.bashrc. groff + sed = "Log off and go to bed." Bash man page. Shell grammar. This section describes the syntax of the various forms of shell commands. DEFINITIONS. The following definit...

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HPR4205: Trollercoasting almost getting a heart attack

Hosted by Trollercoaster on 2024-09-13

Trollercoaster reacts to the community news podcast of August - in a way fitting to his handle. With a little touch of drama and a little touch of humor. I hope I didn't offend anyone (oh well... I'm trolling a bit, so I guess I don't care that much... but I do a bit though... does it show that I have a chaotic brain?)...

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HPR4204: LibreOffice Importing External Data

Hosted by gemlog on 2024-09-12

Here is an example of a StatsCan (Statistics Canada) tabular page of nasty UX. NB: in this case, you may d/l the csv, but you'd still have to do the same work. The point is to show a horrible UX case and how you can fix it in LibreOffice Calc...

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HPR4203: Setup DuckDNS on a Raspberry Pi

Hosted by Kevie on 2024-09-11

Kevie, co-host of TuxJam, discusses what a Dynamic DNS is and also introduces the free service DuckDNS. To complete this project you are going to need: Raspberry Pi Pi Power Supply Micro-SD Card Ethernet Cable The first thing that we will need to do is to go to the DuckDNS website, sign in using your preferred method, once you complete the captcha then you will be given your unique token (copy o...

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HPR4202: Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood HF Radio Part 3

Hosted by MrX on 2024-09-10

Picture 1 shows the radio hanging over the edge with the front panel rotated down before rotating it back into place. It shows the cramped working condition I had to deal with. Link to the YouTube video I used that described the process of removing the two backup batteries in a Kenwood TS-940S. The video was very useful and informative however as usual it looked far easier than it actually was or...

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HPR4201: Today I learnt (2024-08-23)

Hosted by Dave Morriss on 2024-09-09

TIL 1: Incrementing times with the date command I have been working on an HPR project which is restoring external files to shows which lost them when we migrated to the current static site. As I make changes I want to be able to check that they are correct, but to make this check I need to wait for the next update of the static site. Ken was away recently, and set up a cron job to refresh the si...

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HPR4200: Intro to Doctor Who

Hosted by Ahuka on 2024-09-06

This introduction is an overview of Doctor Who from its beginnings in 1963 right up to the end of 2023. We look at the television series and movies, as well as appearances in other media. Many of these will be things we go into more detail about later, but this helps to put the pieces in place first. Links: https://bbvproductions.co.uk/ https://bbvproductions.co.uk/products/The-Airzone-Solution-D...

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HPR4199: HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 7

Hosted by Honkeymagoo on 2024-09-05

Docker - https://www.docker.com/ Podman - https://podman.io/ Kubernetes - https://kubernetes.io/ Jitsi - https://jitsi.org/ Mumble - https://www.mumble.info/ Cockpit - https://cockpit-project.org/ Azure -https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free Google Cloud - https://cloud.google.com/ AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/ K3S - https://k3s.io/ Docker Swarm - https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/ AppArmor -...

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