Podcast Season 5 Episode 4
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Title: Always make a backup
In this episode: More free devices, SHA1 is broken, new Pis and lots of finds. Plus Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
- Three new pieces of hardware certified as Respecting your Freedom by FSF (made by Viking GMBH). Oh SHA-1 T!. Nvidia opens Qt 3D Studio source code. Happy days! OggCamp 2017 will take place Saturday 19th August in Canterbury, UK. There’s a new Raspberry Pi, the Zero W, now with a bluetooth and wifi option for $10.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- TwistedLucidity; QMapShack, a great tool for creating GPX tracks (https://bitbucket.org/maproom/qmapshack/wiki/Home).
- TwistedLucidity; OsmAnd, orders of magnitude better than Google Maps (http://osmand.net/).
- JonTheNiceGuy; matrix.org and riot.im are awesome (http://matrix.org/).
- JonTheNiceGuy; check out the admin admin podcast (http://www.adminadminpodcast.co.uk/).
- arubislander; Instead of Google, use howdoi on the command line (https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi).
- Graham:
- SteamVR has finally been released for Linux (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux).
- Ben:
- Fix a corrupt sudoers file using pkexec (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/0.105/pkexec.1.html).
- Mike:
- Firefox is getting a feature called containers (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers).
- Andrew:
- Planet Terror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Terror).
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise your Neurons:
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Thanks to Hans for reminding us that Fairphone is onto something. If you would like Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 0:48:34
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.
Ben
Like you I faced being locked out of sudo but this was all my own fault.
Being fed up of having to reboot remote machines via ssh and entering a password each time I decided to alter the sudoers file to allow my user to reboot without a password. After testing it on my own machine I rolled it out to three other machines with no problem. However, the forth machine kept throwing an error although I was pasting the same command in. I tried typing the command in manually but still no luck. So like a moron I saved the sudoers file with the error thinking “I know it is correct”. Bad move and until, like you, I found the pkexec I thought I was in a whole lot of trouble. Anyway back to the plot after fixing the file I decided to investigate further and it appears that the only issue was the omission of a carriage return at the end of the line. As I said what a moron but I thought owning up to my error may save somebody some pain in the future.
PS can I apply for moron of the week by pasting the output of the robot checker in the comment box when I didn’t enable no script to read all of the page correctly?
You may.
I remember being locked out of my system becuse I could not remember any of the passwords, but then I am dyslexic!