Podcast Season 3 Episode 8
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: California Highway Patrol
In this episode: A cheaper Pi, an even cheaper alternative, and Firefox now includes added DRM. We’ve got some ace Finds, an even more awesome Neurons section and the most divisive Voice of the Masses ever (not really).
What’s in the show:
- News:
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The Raspberry Pi B+ model has had its price dropped to just $25. C.H.i.P., the world’s first $9 general purpose computer (which runs Linux), has already raised $1,272,063 from its Kickstarter campaign with 22 days to go (it’s worth mentioning the hardware won’t be available until next year). Mozilla’s Firefox browser is now shipping DRM, in the form of Adobe’s Content Decryption Module. And Linux Voice announces the results of its first year’s profit donating scheme.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Andrew:
- The UNIX visual filesystem tool featured in 1993’s Jurassic Park was real.
- Graham:
- XBMC/Kodi can use text ‘edit decision lists‘ to skip commercials.
- See a process’ network usage from the command-line with NetHogs.
- Mike:
- The city of Eisenach
- Put a space before your command in Bash and it’s not added to your history
- Ben:
- The winner of last episode’s puzzle challenge.
- Neil McGovern is a really nice bloke.
- Bash shortcuts: Alt Del – deletes the word before the cursor. Alt d – deletes the entire word after the cursor. Alt t – swaps the last two words around and Ctrl t – swaps the last two letters around.
- Andrew:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Can we finally trust Microsoft?
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Great section this episode! Thanks to everyone who got in touch. If you’d like yours read out next time, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 51:30
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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About The Author
Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
Whenever you get to the Vocalise your Neurons part of your podcast, I always think it should be Enunciate Your Neurons
If I remember, I’ll use that name next time. Let’s see if it results in even mor Neurons…
Mike,
“Put a space before your command in Bash and it’s not added to your history” This was mentioned in the other podcast series you did, that we can’t mention 😉
Ram.
Really? My memory is terrible! Next I’ll accidentally “discover” Pink Ponies again…
Yes, in one of those ‘one more thing’ show ending topics.
For an explanation:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-bash-history-more-efficiently-histcontrol
.. HISTCONTROL controls how bash stores command history. Currently there are two possible flags: ignorespace and ignoredups. The ignorespace flag tells bash to ignore commands that start with spaces. The other flag, ignoredups, tells bash to ignore duplicates. You can concatenate and separate the values with a colon, ignorespace:ignoredups, if you wish to specify both values, or you can just specify ignoreboth. …
Bit of geek pedantry, but hopefully containing a useful insight: the Bash keystrokes aren’t Bash, or rather they aren’t Bash-specific. They’re provided by the “readline” library used by Bash. Many other command-line tools use it, for example other shells and also the REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) provided by dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby, etc. The default readline key bindings mentioned, plus several others like Control-a and Control-e for start/end-of-line respectively, are all Emacs standards. I believe it’s possible to tell readline to use more vi-like bindings instead, but of course that is highly to be discouraged. Right, Mike? 🙂