FredPod Episode 38-140309

 This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.

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This is your host, Mark Walker—now let’s get to the content.

This episode, number 38, was produced on March 9th, 2014—and today’s topics will include:

Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories

and the Latest from FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group.

Today’s feature is The Technical Details of Bitcoin Software, from someone who writes Bitcoin code.

And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Nectar, entitled Money.

Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:


Worthy of
mention is the update to gnutls,
which fixed CVE-2014-0092. That's the so called Linux version of the
"goto fail" vulnerability.


Other yum
packages recently updated include:


Name
       : iproute
Summary
    : Provides Advanced IP routing and network 				
: device  configuration tools
Description
: The iproute package contains networking 				   
 : utilities (such
as ip and rtmon)
			:which are designed to use the 							:
advanced networking capabilities of recent 				
: versions of the Linux kernel.


Name
       : iptraf-ng
Summary
    : A console-based network monitoring utility
Description
: IPTraf gathers data like connection 

			: packet and byte counts, interface
            : statistics and activity indicators,  and 
			
: TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns. 


 

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent or

yum list-updateinfo new from the security yum plugin—both are done from the command line.

At the FredLUG meeting on February 22nd, we were treated to a fascinating talk about the inner workings of Bitcoin software, byAlex Akselrod, who writes Bitcoin code. The feature for this FredPod episode is over an hour of highlights from that talk.

We’re also planning for Hardware Freedom Day on March 15th. Several of us will demo our Raspberry Pi and Arduio devices, and chat about the role of patent-free hardware with visitors who stop by.

You can find the email list for the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.

Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

FredLUG, meets on the second Saturday of the month, and also on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County—meeting time is 9 AM 0900 US Eastern time.

A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

https://plus.google.com/113969762126266027466/about?gl=US&hl=en-US

Interactive postings about FredLUG meetings are also at

http://www.meetup.com/fredlug

Visit the Fredlug website at http://fredlug.info for more details and resources.

Today’s feature is The Technical Details of Bitcoin Software.
It was a fascinating talk by Alex Akselrod, who writes Bitcoin code. The following is over an hour of highlights from this talk, which covers how Bitcoin works­ under the hood.
It’s not for the technically faint of heart—Enjoy!

Today’s episode will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by Nectar, entitled Money. Enjoy.

Thanks for joining us for today’s FredPod podcast.

FredPod is available in MP3 format via iTunes and at marwalk.podomatic.com.

You also can get this podcast in the open source Ogg Vorbis format; look for the Ogg Vorbis RSS link on the home page at marwalk.net.

Show notes for this podcast are available at marwalk.wordpress.com, under the category Podcast.

This is Mark Walker. Enjoy life, and we’ll talk with you next time.

FredPod Episode 37-131215

This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.

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This is your host, Mark Walker—now let’s get to the content.

This episode, number 37, was produced on December 15th, 2013—and today’s topics will include:

Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories

and the Latest from FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group.

Today’s feature is How to build an RPM package.

And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Fading Autumn, entitled California Sky.

Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:

Name        : gnome-boxes
Summary     : A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems
Description : gnome-boxes lets you easily create, setup, access, and use:
   * remote machines
   * remote virtual machines
   * local virtual machines
   * When technology permits, set up access for applications on local virtual machines

Name        : libreoffice-ogltrans
Summary     : 3D OpenGL slide transitions for LibreOffice
Description : OpenGL Transitions enable 3D slide transitions to be used in LibreOffice. Requires good quality 3D support for your graphics card for best experience.

Name        : libreoffice-pdfimport
Summary     : PDF Importer for LibreOffice Draw
Description : The PDF Importer imports PDF into drawing documents to preserve layout and enable basic editing of PDF documents.

Name        : libreoffice-presentation-minimizer
Summary     : Shrink LibreOffice presentations
Description : The Presentation Minimizer is used to reduce the file size of the current presentation. Images will be compressed, and data that is no longer needed will be removed.

Name        : libreoffice-wiki-publisher
Summary     : Create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers with LibreOffice
Description : The Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently with writer to a wiki page.

Name        : lynis
Summary     : Security and system auditing tool
Description : Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even call it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardening state of the machine, detects security issues and provides suggestions to improve the security defense of the system.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent or

yum list-updateinfo new from the security yum plugin—both are done from the command line.

There’s been a lot of discussion on the FredLUG email list and meetings about how to introduce more people to Linux. An additional meeting schedule has now been added on the second Saturday of each month. The third Monday meetings are being discontinued starting in 2014. Hopes are that this new meeting schedule will make it easier for more people overall to participate in the FredLUG meetings, and the general open source community.

You can find the email list for the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.

Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

FredLUG, meets on the second Saturday of the month, and also on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County—meeting time is 9 AM 0900 US Eastern time.

A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

https://plus.google.com/113969762126266027466/about?gl=US&hl=en-US

Interactive postings about FredLUG meetings are also at http://www.meetup.com/fredlug/.

Visit the Fredlug website at http://fredlug.info for more details and resources.

Today’s feature is How to build an RPM package—and we had a good time with it too.

Today’s episode will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Fading Autumn, entitled California Sky. Enjoy.

Fading_Autumn_-_California_Sky.mp3

Thanks for joining us for today’s FredPod podcast.

FredPod is available in MP3 format via iTunes and at marwalk.podomatic.com.

You also can get this podcast in the open source Ogg Vorbis format; look for the Ogg Vorbis RSS link on the home page at marwalk.net.

Show notes for this podcast are available at marwalk.wordpress.com, under the category Podcast.

This is Mark Walker. Enjoy life, and we’ll talk with you next time.

This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.

FredPod is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Archived episodes are in open source Ogg Vorbis format via the podcatcher RSS feed at marwalk.net.

Creative Commons License

FredPod by Mark Caldwell Walker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License

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This is episode number 36, produced on August 18th, 2013—and today’s topics will include:

Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories

and the Latest from FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group. We’re getting ready for

Software Freedom Day on September 21st.

And we’ll also be at the Festival of Community Makers the week before on September 14th.

Today’s feature is audio from FredLUG’s table at Hardware Freedom Day on April 20th, 2013followed by a geeky discussion about library dependencies in the Linux kernel, and their relationship to a real world application and programming.

And, in celebration of Fedora 19, we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Atomic cat, a Dance track entitled entitled Forever to last.

Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:

Name        : chrony
Description : A client/server for the Network Time Protocol, this program keeps your computer's clock accurate. It was specially designed to support systems with intermittent internet connections, but it also works well in permanently connected environments. It can use also hardware reference clocks, system real-time clock or manual input as time references.

Name        : dnf
Summary     : Package manager forked from Yum, using libsolv as a dependency resolver

Name        : evolution-ews
Summary     : Evolution extension for Exchange Web Services
Description : This package allows Evolution to interact with Microsoft Exchange servers, versions 2007 and later, through its Exchange Web Services (EWS) interface.

Name        : gdisk
Description : An fdisk-like partitioning tool for GPT disks. GPT fdisk features a command-line interface, fairly direct manipulation of partition table structures, recovery tools to help you deal with corrupt partition tables, and the ability to convert MBR disks to GPT format.

Name        : hdparm
Summary     : A utility for displaying and/or setting hard 			disk parameters
Description : Hdparm is a useful system utility for setting SATA and (E)IDE hard drive parameters.  For example, hdparm can be used to tweak hard drive performance and to spin down hard drives for power conservation.

Name        : hylafax+
Description : HylaFAX(tm) is a enterprise-strength fax server supporting Class 1 and 2 fax modems on UNIX systems. It provides spooling services and numerous supporting fax management tools. The fax clients may reside on machines different from the server and client implementations exist for a number of platforms including windows.

Name        : josm
Description : JOSM is an editor for OpenStreetMap (OSM) written in Java Currently it supports loading stand alone GPX track data from the OSM database, loading and editing existing nodes, ways, metadata tags and relations. 
            : OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.

Name        : libpst
Summary     : Utilities to convert Outlook .pst files to other formats
Description : The Libpst utilities include readpst which can convert email messages to both mbox and MH mailbox formats, pst2ldif which can convert the contacts to .ldif format for import into ldap databases, and pst2dii which can convert email messages to the DII load file format used by Summation.

Name        : monitorix
Description : Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size may also be used on embedded devices as well.

Name        : mtr
Description : Mtr is a network diagnostic tool that combines ping and traceroute into one program. Mtr provides two interfaces: an ncurses interface, useful for using Mtr from a telnet session; and a GTK+ interface for X (provided in the mtr-gtk package).

Name        : stunnel
Description : Stunnel is a socket wrapper which can provide SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support to ordinary applications. For example, it can be used in conjunction with imapd to create an SSL secure IMAP server.

Name        : yum-utils
Summary     : Utilities based around the yum package manager
Description : yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and more powerful to use. These tools include: debuginfo-install, find-repos-of-install, needs-restarting, package-cleanup, repoclosure, repodiff, repo-graph, repomanage, repoquery, repo-rss, reposync, repotrack, show-installed, show-changed-rco, verifytree, yumdownloader, yum-builddep, yum-complete-transaction, yum-config-manager, yum-debug-dump, yum-debug-restore and yum-groups-manager.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent or

yum list-updateinfo new from the security yum plugin—both are done from the command line.

At FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, we’re getting ready for Software Freedom Day on September 21st.

And we’ll also be at the Festival of Community Makers the week before, on September 14th. The Makers event will be at the England Run Library, the same location as the regular FredLUG Saturday meetings. Software Freedom Day will be at the Salem Church Library, the same location where we were for Hardware Freedom Day in April.

You can find the email list for the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.

Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

FredLUG, meets on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County—meeting time is 9 AM 0900 US Eastern time.

A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

https://plus.google.com/113969762126266027466/about?gl=US&hl=en-US

FredLUG, also meets on the third Monday of each month in downtown Fredericksburg—meeting time is 7 PM 1900 US Eastern time. Check the email list on Monday meeting nights for the location of the meeting that night.

Interactive postings about FredLUG meetings are also at http://www.meetup.com/fredlug/.

Visit the Fredlug website at http://fredlug.info for more details and resources.

Today’s feature is audio from FredLUG’s table at Hardware Freedom Day on April 20th, 2013—followed by a geeky discussion about library dependencies in the Linux kernel, and their relationship to a real world application and programming. If you missed Hardware Freedom Day, here’s a taste of it now.

This next discussion is from the FredLUG Monday night meeting on July 15th, 2013—it gets very technical in places, so tighten your seat-belt for a fun ride.

In celebration of Fedora 19, today’s podcast will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Atomic cat, a Dance track entitled Forever to last. Enjoy.

Thanks for joining us for today’s FredPod podcast.

FredPod is available in MP3 format via iTunes and at marwalk.podomatic.com.

You also can get this podcast in the open source Ogg Vorbis format; look for the Ogg Vorbis RSS link on the home page at marwalk.net.

Show notes for this podcast are available at marwalk.wordpress.com, under the category Podcast.

This is Mark Walker. Enjoy life, and we’ll talk with you next time.

FredPod Episode 35-130303

This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.

FredPod is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Archived episodes are in open source Ogg Vorbis format via the podcatcher RSS feed at marwalk.net.

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This is your host, Mark Walker—now let’s get to the content.

This episode, number 35, was produced on March 3rd, 2013—and today’s topics will include:

Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories

and the Latest from FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group.

Today’s feature is “How to contribute to open source without writing a line of code.” Chris O’Donnell led a lively group discussion on how to involve more people in Open Source.

And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Phantasma, entitled Ionized.

Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:

1→Name : heimdall

Description : Heimdall is a cross-platform open-source utility to flash firmware onto Samsung Galaxy S devices

2→Name : perf

Description : This package contains the perf tool, which enables performance monitoring of the Linux kernel.

3Name : diffutils

Description : Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff.

: Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line.

: The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files.

: The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent

changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that

contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The

: sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively.

: Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.

4Name : octave-odepkg

Description : A package for solving ordinary differential equations and more

5Name : sugar-fototoon

Description : Fototoon is a sugar activity used in sugar to create cartoons using photos or drawings. After selecting the images, the user can select globes and write text to tell a story.

6Name : sshuttle

Description : Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man’s VPN. Forwards over ssh.

: Does not require admin.

Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

7Name : gcab

Description : gcab is a tool to manipulate Cabinet archive.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent or

yum list-updateinfo new from the security yum plugin—both are done from the command line.

At the FredLUG meeting on February 23rd, 2013, Chris O’Donnell led an lively group session on how to contribute to Open Source without being a programmer. This was anexcellent on-point discussion about open source, in an especially relevant and practical way—you’ll hear a portion of that in a moment in the feature section of this podcast episode.

You can find the email list for the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.

Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

FredLUG, meets on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County—meeting time is 9 AM 0900 US Eastern time.

A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

https://plus.google.com/113969762126266027466/about?gl=US&hl=en-US

FredLUG, also meets on the third Monday of each month in downtown Fredericksburg—meeting time is 7 PM 1900 US Eastern time. Check the email list on Monday meeting nights for the location of the meeting that night.

Interactive postings about FredLUG meetings are also at http://www.meetup.com/fredlug/.

Visit the Fredlug website at http://fredlug.info for more details and resources.

Today’s feature is “How to contribute to open source without writing a line of code.” Chris O’Donnell led a lively group discussion on practical ways to involve more people in Open Source. Now, enjoy your virtual attendance at this most recent FredLUG gathering.

Today’s podcast will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Phantasma, entitled Ionized. Enjoy.

Thanks for joining us for today’s FredPod podcast.

FredPod is available in MP3 format via iTunes and at marwalk.podomatic.com.

You also can get this podcast in the open source Ogg Vorbis format; look for the Ogg Vorbis RSS link on the home page at marwalk.net.

Show notes for this podcast are available at marwalk.wordpress.com, under the category Podcast.

This is Mark Walker. Enjoy life, and we’ll talk with you next time.

FredPod
Episode
34-121230

This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.

FredPod is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Archived episodes are in open source Ogg Vorbis
format via the podcatcher RSS feed at
marwalk.net.

Creative Commons License

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Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License

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This is your host, Mark Walker—now let’s get to the content.

This episode, number 34, was produced on December 30th, 2012—and today’s topics will include:

Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories and the Latest from FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group.

Today’s feature is “Basics of File Permissions,” from the The ABCs of Linux series of FredLUG presentations.

And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
JT Bruce, entitled Temporal Distortion.

Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:

1→Name: Zim

Summary: Desktop wiki & notekeeper

Description: Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor written in PyGTK which aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Every page is saved as atext file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a non-existing page. Pages are ordered in a hierarchical structure that gives it the look and feel of anoutliner. This tool is intended to keep track of TODO lists or to serve as a personal scratch book.

2→Name: fail2ban

Summary: Ban IPs that make too many password failures

Description: Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or
/var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many passwordfailures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address.

 3→Name: opendyslexic-fonts

Summary: Font designed for dyslexics and high readability

Description: OpenDyslexic is a new open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia, also known as Developmental reading disorder. The typefaces includes regular, bold, italic and bold-italic styles. It is being updated continually and improved based on input from dyslexic users.

4→Name: rssh

Summary: Restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp

Description: rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp. For example, if you have a server which you only want to allow users to copy files off of via scp, without providing shell access, you can use rssh to do that. It is a alternative to scponly.

5→Name: tw

Summary: Translate words into different languages

Description: Translates words into different languages. It uses internal dictionaries, and contacts online to the Google Translation and the FreeTranslation engines. It can also be integrated via the clipboard with a desktop environment.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent at the command line.

At the FredLUG meeting on October 27th, 2012, (just before Superstorm Sandy hit the US east coast), Ted Brunell gave a presentation on the basics of file system permissions—you’ll hear a portion of that in a moment in the feature section of this podcast episode.

We also are planning our presentation schedule for 2013. Follow the FredLUG website or email list for updates.

The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, meets on the third Monday of each month at the main Library on Caroline Street downtown—meeting time is 7 PM 1900 US Eastern time.

FredLUG also meets on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County. A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

https://plus.google.com/113969762126266027466/about?gl=US&hl=en-US

You can find the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group email list at calypso dot tux dot org
(
http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug).
Feel free to join the list.

Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

Visit the Fredlug website at fredlug dot info for more details and resources.

Today’s feature is File Permissions Basics, from the The ABCs of Linux series of FredLUG presentations.
Ted Brunell
is the presenter—I like to call it our own personal “Ted talk.” (Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun.) In this talk, Ted covers Linux file system settings and SE Linux tweaks, to ensure users get to their content, and only the content they’re supposed to view and change.

Today’s podcast will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by JT Bruce, entitled Temporal Distortion. Enjoy.

 

Thanks for joining us for today’s FredPod podcast.

FredPod is available in MP3 format via iTunes and at marwalk.podomatic.com.

You also can get this podcast in the open source Ogg Vorbis format; look for the Ogg Vorbis RSS link on the home page at marwalk.net.

 

This is Mark Walker. Enjoy life, and we’ll talk with you next time.

This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.

FredPod is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.


Archived episodes are in open source Ogg Vorbis format via the podcatcher RSS feed at marwalk.net.

Creative Commons License

FredPod by Mark Caldwell Walker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License

FredPod-33-120930.ogg

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This is your host, Mark Walker—now let’s get to the content.

This episode, number 33, was produced on September 30th, 2012—and today’s topics will include:

Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories

and the Latest from FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group.

Today’s feature is “Basics of Networks,” from the The ABCs of Linux series of FredLUG presentations.

And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
It-Alien, entitled Kiss me on 7.

Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:

→Name : btparser
Summary     : Parser and analyzer for backtraces produced 
by GDB
Description : Btparser is a backtrace parser and analyzer, 
which works with backtraces produced by the 
GNU Project Debugger. It can parse a
text file with a backtrace to a tree of C structures, 
allowing to analyze the threads and frames of the 
backtrace and work with them.
            : 
Btparser also contains some backtrace manipulation and extraction
routines:
- it can find a frame in the crash-time backtrace where the
 program most likely crashed (a chance is that the function
described in that frame is buggy)
- it can produce a duplication hash of the backtrace, which helps
to discover that two crash-time backtraces are duplicates,
triggered by the same flaw of the code
- it can "rate" the backtrace quality, which depends on the number
of frames with and without the function name known (missing
function name is caused by missing debugging symbols)

→Name : clamav
Summary     : End-user tools for the Clam Antivirus scanner
Description : Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose
of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment
scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable
multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for
automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a
shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which
you can use with your own software. The virus database is based on
the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional
signatures (including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses,
too) and is KEPT UP TO DATE.with your own software. The virus 					database is based on
the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional
signatures (including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses,
too) and is KEPT UP TO DATE.

→Name : konsole-part
Description : Konsole kpart plugin.
KParts is the component framework for the
 KDEdesktop environment. An individual component is called 
a KPart. KParts are analogous to Bonobo components 
in GNOME and ActiveX controls in Microsoft's 
Component Object Model. Konsole is available as a 
KPart and is used in applications like Konqueror and Kate.

→Name : llvm
Summary     : The Low Level Virtual Machine
Description : LLVM is a compiler infrastructure designed for compile-time,
link-time, runtime, and idle-time optimization of programs from
arbitrary programming languages.  The compiler infrastructure
includes mirror sets of programming tools as well as libraries
with equivalent functionality.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent at the command line.

FredLUG participated in Software Freedom day again this year, on September 15th, 2012. Again this year we were in front of the main library in downtown Fredericksburg. We gave away several copies of Fedora 17 live disks with install option—and also an updated version of the OpenDisc, which is a collection of open-source programs for Windows. Like other groups on the SFD email list reporting low turnout this year, that was our experience also. We’ll possibly try multiple locations in the area next year.

At the FredLUG meeting on September 29th, 2012, Peter Larsen gave a presentation on the basics of networking—you’ll hear a portion of that in a moment in the feature section of this podcast episode. (Peter’s whole talk, and a practical how-to in subnetting by Ted Brunell, is available from the home page at issuesdigest.com (direct link is in the show notes http://www.issuesdigest.com/fredlug).

The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, meets on the third Monday of each month at the main Library on Caroline Street downtown—meeting time is 7 PM 1900 US Eastern time.

FredLUG also meets on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County. A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=CRRL+england+run&hl=en&cid=722899560…

You can find the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group email list at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.

Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

Visit the Fredlug website at fredlug dot info for more details and resources.

Today’s feature is Network Basics, from the The ABCs of Linux series of FredLUG presentations. Peter Larsen is the presenter, with further explanations by Ted Brunnell.

Today’s podcast will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
It-Alien, entitled Kiss me on 7. Enjoy.

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Paul has posted the presentation slides (available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license) here:
http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/presentations/FredLUG-2012-06-30/disks-and-filesystems.odp

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This episode, number 32, was produced on June 30th, 2012—and today’s topics will include:

Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories

and the latest from FredLUG, the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group.

Today’s feature is “File systems,” from the The ABCs of Linux series of FredLUG presentations.

And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Secret Babies, entitled Sugar Pane.

Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:

Name : aeolus-all

Summary : A meta-package to pull in all components for Aeolus

URL : http://aeolusproject.org

If you have not yet heard about the Aeolus project, here is an overview about it from their website:

Aeolus is a single, consistent set of tools to build and manage organized groups of virtual machines across clouds.

So, what does Aeolus need to provide a user to accomplish its mission?

  • Aeolus Conductor: A way to provide cloud resources to users, manage users’ access to and use of those resources, and control users’ instances in clouds. This lets users make intelligent choices about which cloud to use.
  • Aeolus Composer: A way to build cloud-specific images from generic templates, so that users can choose clouds freely using compatible images.
  • Aeolus Orchestrator: A way to manage clumps of instances in an organized way. Users should be able to automatically bring up a set of different instances on a single cloud or spanning multiple clouds, configure them, and tell them about each other.
  • Aeolus HA Manager: A way to make instances or clumps of instances in the cloud highly available.

All these things are possible because of the Deltacloud cross-cloud abstraction library. Deltacloud itself is a separate project.

Description : This YUM update is the aeolus meta-package. If you want to install aeolus

: and all of its dependencies on a single machine, you should

: install this package and then run aeolus-configure to configure

: everything.

and speaking of Deltacloud, next on our YUM recent list is

Name : deltacloud-core

Summary : Deltacloud REST API

URL : http://deltacloud.org

Apache Deltacloud is a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation

Deltacloud provides the API server and drivers necessary for connecting to cloud providers.

Deltacloud maintainslong-term stabilityfor scripts, tools and applications andbackward compatibilityacross different versions.

Using single API Deltacloud enables management of resources in different clouds.

Start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another on Amazon’s EC2 or RHEV-M, as in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

Description : The Deltacloud API is built as a service-based REST API.

: You do not directly link a Deltacloud library into your program to

: use it. Instead, a client speaks the Deltacloud API over HTTP to a

: server which implements the REST interface.

Name : deltacloud-core-all

Description : Deltacloud core with all available drivers

there also are YUM deltacloud-core packages for

Name : deltacloud-core-ec2

Name : deltacloud-core-eucalyptus

Name : deltacloud-core-fgcp

Name : deltacloud-core-gogrid

Name : deltacloud-core-google

Name : deltacloud-core-opennebula

Name : deltacloud-core-openstack

Name : deltacloud-core-rackspace

Name : deltacloud-core-rhevm

Name : deltacloud-core-rimuhosting

Name : deltacloud-core-sbc

and finally on the Deltacloud list is …

Name : deltacloud-core-vsphere

Name : evolution-ews

Summary : Evolution email extension for Exchange Web Services

Description : This package allows Evolution to interact with Microsoft Exchange

: servers, versions 2007 and later, through its Exchange Web

: Services (EWS) interface.

and allowing further integration with Microsoft email applications …

Name : evolution-pst

Summary : PST importer plugin for Evolution

Description : This package contains the plugin to import Microsoft Personal

: Storage Table (PST) files used by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft

: Exchange.

Name : mozilla-https-everywhere

Summary : HTTPS/HSTS enforcement extension for Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey. That’s HSTS as in HTTPStrict Transport Security

Description : The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension is produced as a

: collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier

: Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major

: websites.

:

: Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption

: over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may

: default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links

: that go back to the unencrypted site.

:

: The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting

: all requests to these sites to HTTPS.

Name : opencl-utils

Summary : Useful OpenCL tools and utilities, as in Open Computing Language

: OpenCL Utils is a project that aims to create various tools and

: utilities to make the use of OpenCL more useful and efficient,

: such as: useful functions, optimization hints and common kernel

: templates. This package currently only contains CLRun, which

: allows for dynamic loading of OpenCL.

Name : skipfish

Summary : Web application security scanner

Description : High-performance, easy, and sophisticated Web application security

: testing tool. It features a single-threaded multiplexing HTTP

: stack, heuristic detection of obscure Web frameworks, and

: advanced, differential security checks capable of detecting blind

: injection vulnerabilities, stored XSS (as in Cross-site Scripting)

and similar things.

Name : upower

Summary : Power Management Service

Description : UPower (formerly DeviceKit-power) provides a daemon, API and

: command line tools for managing power devices attached to the

: system.

and there is currently an update to YUM … in case you didn’t know,

Name : yum

Summary : RPM package installer/updater/manager

Description : Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and

: install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and

: downloaded automatically, prompting the user for permission as

: necessary.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent at the command line.

At the FredLUG meeting on June 30th, 2012, we welcomed some new members to the group. And then Paul Frields gave a presentation on file systems, which you’ll hear in a moment in the feature section of this podcast episode.

The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, meets on the third Monday of each month at the main Library on Caroline Street downtown—meeting time is 7 PM 1900 US Eastern time.

FredLUG also meets on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County. A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=CRRL+england+run&hl=en&cid=722899560…

You can find the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group email list at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.

Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

Visit the Fredlug website at fredlug dot info for more details and resources.

Today’s feature is File systems, from the The ABCs of Linux series of FredLUG presentations. Paul Frields is the presenter.

Today’s podcast will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Secret Babies, entitled Sugar Pane. Enjoy.

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This is Mark Walker. Enjoy life, and we’ll talk with you next time.

This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area

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FredPod is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

This is your host, Mark Walker.

Show notes for this podcast are available at marwalk.wordpress.com, under the category Podcast.

This episode, number 31, was produced on February 20th, 2012—and today’s topics will include:

  • Selections from “yum info recent” from several yum repositories.

  • And the Latest from FredLUG, including a note on Document Freedom Day and open standards for documents and software.

  • Today’s feature is “Gnome 3 (oh my!).”

  • And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
    Jenny Mayhem, entitled Morning Sun.

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Here are some recently updated items in the yum repositories:

Name : kdebase-workspace
Description : The KDE Workspace consists of what is the desktop of the
            : KDE Desktop Environment.
            : 
            : This package contains:
            : * khotkeys (a hotkey daemon)
            : * klipper (a cut & paste history utility)
            : * kmenuedit (the menu editor)
            : * krandrtray (resize and rotate X screens)
            : * krunner (a command run interface)
            : * kwin (the window manager of KDE)
            : * plasma (the KDE desktop, panels and widgets workspace
            : application)
            : * systemsettings (the configuration editor)

Name : kdm
Summary : The KDE login manager
Description : KDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly after boot up, log out, and when user switching.

Name : ksysguard
Description : KDE System Monitor

Name : libvorbis
Summary : The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec.
Description : Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent- and
            : royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates.
            : The libvorbis package contains runtime libraries for use in
            : programs that support Ogg Vorbis.

Name : pysendfile
Summary : Python interface to the sendfile(2) system call
Description : sendfile(2) is a system call which provides a "zero-copy" way of copying data from one file descriptor to another (a socket). The phrase "zero-copy" refers to the fact that all of the copying of
            : data between the two descriptors is done entirely by the kernel,
            : with no copying of data into user-space buffers. This is
            : particularly useful when sending a file over a socket (e.g. FTP).

Name : python-kitchen
Summary : Small, useful pieces of code to make python coding easier
Description : kitchen includes functions to make gettext easier to use, handling unicode text easier (conversion with bytes, outputting xml, and calculating how many columns a string takes), and compatibility modules for writing code that uses python-2.7 modules but needs to run on python-2.3

Name : shadow-utils
Summary : Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files
Description : The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command unconverts shadow passwords and generates a passwd file (a standard UNIX password file). The pwck command checks the integrity of password and shadow files. The lastlog command prints out the last login times for all users. The useradd, userdel, and usermod commands are used for managing user accounts. The groupadd, groupdel, and groupmod commands are used for managing group accounts.

Name : virt-manager-tui
Summary : Virtual Machine Manager text user interface
Description : An interactive text user interface for Virtual Machine Manager.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent at the command line.

The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, meets on the third Monday of each month at the main Library on Caroline Street downtown—meeting time is 7 PM 1900 US Eastern time. FredLUG also meets on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County. A Google-maps link is in the show notes below.

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=CRRL+england+run&hl=en&cid=7228995606117168324

We recently discussed at FredLUG the topic of Document Freedom Day, which is March 28, 2012. Document Freedom Day was mentioned on the Software Freedom Day email list, including the DFD website at http://documentfreedom.org/. Document Freedom Day is promoted by the Free Software Foundation Europe, and the DFD website states they are “Celebrating information accessibility and raising awareness of Open Standards.” At FredLUG we had lively and earnest discussion, on how to encourage wider adoption of open standards for documents and software.

  • You can find the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group email list at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.

  • Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.

  • Visit the new Fredlug website at fredlug dot info for more details and resources.

 

Today’s feature is a short tour of the Gnome 3 desktop. If you haven’t tried it, or it looked strange at first, this might be helpful in deciding if Gnome 3 is for you.

When you first log on, a clean desktop with only a small black strip at the top of the screen is displayed. The rest is pure wallpaper background. Your stuff is all there—it’s just tucked away just under the surface.

Here’s how to find it. Two things to remember are the upper left corner of the screen, and to a lesser extent the lower right corner of the screen. In a broad analogy, the upper left is like the traditional Start button, and the lower right is like the system tray.

The black strip at the top has the word “Activities” on the left side. In the middle of the black strip is the day of the week and the time—clicking this opens a calendar you can customize. On the right side of the black strip are icons for accessibility options, sound volume and configuration, Network Manager, and the logged in user’s name at the right edge—clicking any of these opens up common configuration options. Clicking on your name opens up the expected logout options, but also there’s a menu item for system settings—it’s good not to have to hunt or set a shortcut for system settings. Clicking on any of these items can be done with either a right or left mouse button—and mousing over any of them makes that item appear brighter.

Clicking the Activities item in the upper left dims the screen and reveals some application selection choices. Just under the word Activities, are two other items labeled Windows and Applications. Clicking Activities puts the display in Windows mode—no, not Microsoft Windows, but the different desktops visible down the right side of the screen. You can open new desktops at will one of at least two ways. One way is by right clicking a program icon from the set down the left side of the screen. The other is to right click the title bar of an application, and select move to workspace down—this adds another blank desktop at the bottom of the set along the right side of the screen.

After initial installation, Gnome 3 has only a handful of applications along the left side of the screen. To add more from those that are installed on your system, click the word Applications to the right of the word Windows. By right clicking an application, two choices appear. One is add to favorites, which adds the application to the list along the left side. The other choice is to open in a new window, which launches the application from the Applications list. As you add more applications to your favorites, the icon sizes reduce to accommodate the larger number of items in the list. The applications list along the left side is just like the applications icons along the bottom or top of a traditional GUI desktop.

Now over to the right side of the screen, while in Windows mode under Activities. The right side shows what were called Desktops in other GUI versions—usually two or four as the default number. In Gnome 3 they’re called workspaces. It’s easy to add as many workspaces as you need at the moment. When you close an application that is the last thing running in a particular workspace, that workspace disappears—you won’t care, because you’re done with it anyway. You also can see simultaneously what’s going on in all the workspaces, and scroll among them without having to enter them individually.

Another way to open Activities is to mouse deliberately straight to the far upper left corner of the screen—the cursor has to go right to the edge for this to happen. Hold that thought, because that’s exactly how to open the system tray at the bottom.

As there is no system tray word showing on the screen, the way to open the system tray is to mouse to the far lower right corner. This will open up a partly translucent bar along the bottom of the screen. This bar fills from the right as applications are opened, and displays the icons of some of the running applications and user daemons.

If you’re not comfortable leaving control to all this GUI goodness, one of the applications available is the trusty command line terminal.

This should be enough to get you started in trying out Gnome 3, and seeing if it really is a paradigm you like. It does grow on you, and it’s now my desktop of choice—once I learned how to find and organize my stuff in it.

Today’s podcast will close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Jenny Mayhem, entitled Morning Sun. Enjoy.

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I’ve been working on this most of December. Everything related to the original Earth Alien Trilogy and all of the subsequent content is now in one place.  That place is the new earthalien.com now in what I’d call Version 0.2.

There’s a lot more work to do, as I’m planning a podcast consisting mainly of readings from these works, which I hope will be enjoyable in several settings. I also am developing a story arc for the continuing stories in the Earth Alien Series.

The address is earthalien.com and the look is brand new. It’s built with Drupal, and uses a custom sub-theme based on the Marinelli theme.

Writing is an excellent way to keep one’s sanity. Very enjoyable indeed.

mcw

This is FredPod, a podcast about creativity and technology from the Fredericksburg, Virginia area

This podcast is available in MP3 format via iTunes and at marwalk.podomatic.com.  You also can get this podcast in the open source Ogg Vorbis format; look for the Ogg Vorbis RSS link on the home page at marwalk.net.

FredPod is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

This is your host, Mark Walker.
Show notes for this podcast are available at marwalk.wordpress.com, under the category Podcast.

Intro
This episode was produced on September 24th, 2011—and today’s topics will include:
Selections from “yum info recent” on the Fedora Linux project.

The Latest from FredLUG.

Today’s feature is “a short collection of thoughts after doing Software Freedom Day 2011.”

And we’ll close with a Creative Commons licensed work by
Canopy, entitled Freedom.


FredPod by Mark Caldwell Walker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Here are some recently updated items in yum at the Fedora project:

Name        : flash-plugin
License     : Commercial, and it’s from the adobe-linux-i386 repository
Description : Adobe Flash Plugin 10.3.183.10
: Fully Supported: Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0+, Firefox 1.5+, Mozilla
: 1.7.13+

Name        : google-chrome-beta: google-chrome-stable  : google-chrome-unstable
Description :  Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Name        : tor as in The Onion Router
Description : Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but not others. Traffic flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each relay, which reveals the downstream relay.
:
: Warnings: Tor does no protocol cleaning.  That means there is a
danger that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. This is alpha code, and is even more likely than released code to have anonymity-spoiling bugs. The present network is very small — this further reduces the strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently suitable for high-stakes anonymity.

You can find additional information on these, and many other recently updated packages, by typing yum info recent at the command line.

The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, FredLUG, meets on the third Monday of each month at the main Library on Caroline Street downtown—meeting time is 7 PM 1900 US Eastern time.  FredLUG also meets on the “last-Saturday-of-the-month” at the England Run library branch, which is west of Falmouth in Stafford County.  A Google-maps link is in the show notes.

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=CRRL+england+run&hl=en&cid=7228995606117168324

Our most recent activity was doing Software Freedom Day on Saturday, September 24th—that was a week later than the International date of September 17th.  We decided to avoid a conflicting schedule date with the local Oktoberfest.

You can find the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group email list at calypso dot tux dot org (http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug). Feel free to join the list.
Besides the FredLUG email list, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel pound FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.
Visit the new Fredlug website at fredlug dot info for more details and resources.

Feature

Today’s feature is “a short collection of preliminary thoughts after doing Software Freedom Day 2011.”  The banner sent out by Software Freedom International made a difference in the percentage of passers by who stopped to talk with us.  In addition to the other SWAG (as in Stuff We All Get) from SFI, we had some T-shirts and DVDs from the Fedora project to give away as well.

Of the people who stopped to talk, here are some immediate observations:

The vast majority had never heard of, or knew very little about, free and open source software.  We found ourselves explaining very basic concepts. That there is any alternative at all to Windows or Mac OS was a surprise to quite a few people.  But going into the differences between GNU GPL, BSD, Apache, and proprietary licensing was far beyond the scope possible with the time available.

The Live DVDs were popular items, especially as they let people test drive Linux with minimal risk.  And if they liked what they saw, they could install it to their hard drive—after saving their data to a safe place.

The Open Disc DVDs were also welcomed, and most people who took disks took both a distro and an Open Disc copy.

Many people only wanted to do the common things that are done with a computer. They mentioned web browsing, email, documents and accounting tasks—all of these are well supported by FOSS.  The only exceptions discussed were computer games, most of which are Windows-only—and advanced audio and video editing capabilities beyond that provided by FOSS workhorse apps such as Audacity.

A basic point of confusion we encountered was the difference between a browser and an operating system.  Some people answered the question of what OS they were using by saying Firefox or that “E” program to get onto the Internet.

Those not in the Open Source community are naturally puzzled as to why all this matters.  One gentleman kept referring to us as “true believers,” and seemed unmoved by concerns about vendor lock-in, price gouging, and patent trolling.

One reason why it matters is that some visitors appeared to be not at the top of the economic food chain.  For people in this situation, free and open source has a logically increased appeal.  But it also matters as a wise investment for any size company—for example, Google.

One thing was clear at the end of the day—and that was we have much more work to do in articulating and publicizing the personal and business cases for free and open source software.

Today’s podcast will close with a Creative Commons licensed work  by
Canopy, entitled Freedom, from music.mevio.com.  Enjoy.