In this episode I take my 5 y/o laptop and give it a makeover. While doing this, I muze on using Compact Flash media, compressing the /usr directory, ARM & RISC CPU's, and losing a corporate logo.
Administrata: Joined Identica and created a group for this podcast.
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Talk Geek To Me #19, Cheap Truth #11 & #12DeepGeek Continues the "audiobook" version of the 'zine "Cheap Truth" with numbers eleven and twelve.
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Talk Geek To Me #18, "How I Learned To Love The Cloud"In this episode, I rant and rave about the mythical "year of the linux desktop," and tell how I learned to love the cloud; not just for it's convenience, but because it sneakily puts Microsoft types on Linux software.
Shorty episode, no closing music this time.
Featured Project is "The Linux Multimedia Sprint."
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Talk Geek To Me #17 "Three Web-servers"In this episode, I discuss my experience setting up three web-servers at the home lab. The three web-servers are Nginx, Thttpd, and Pygopherd.
Also, a short email section.
Closing music is "Sonic Forger - Fall To Pieces."
Featured Project is "The Geek Survival Guide."
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Talk Geek To Me #16 "Christmas Special"In this episode, I tell the tale of two young geeks asking for computers for Christmas, and wrap up with a version of "The Night Before Christmas" especially for those geeks who believe "why should you use one syllable when you can use ten."
Closing music is "Cat-5 - Burst Limit"
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Talk Geek To Me #15 "Cheap Truth #9 & #10Bonus Episode. DeepGeek continues the "audiobook" of the 'zine "Cheap Truth" with numbers nine and ten.
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Talk Geek To Me #14 "The Gopher Protocol"The Gopher Protocol was a menu and text system that pre-dated the World Wide Web. Here I describe the network back then and speculate on the future of Gopher.
Closing Music is Elena Rose - Answer Me
Featured Project:Cyberpunk Radio
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Talk Geek To Me #13 "Cheap Truth #7 & #8Bonus Episode. DeepGeek continues the "audiobook" of the 'zine "Cheap Truth" with numbers seven and eight.
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Talk Geek To Me #12 "Teenagers From Outer Space (1959)In this episode, I give a review of the movie "Teenagers From Outer Space (1959)." One of those old science fiction movies that are just so bad, it's funny!
Download the movie for free at Archive.org
Also, Listener Email.
Featured Project:The Knightcast
Closing Music:Radioactive Project's Magic Girls
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Talk Geek To Me #11 "Cheap Truth #5 & #6"Bonus Episode. DeepGeek continues the "audiobook" of the 'zine "Cheap Truth" with numbers five and six.
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Talk Geek To Me #10 "Extracting Music From A DVD"In this episode I discuss how to extract music from a DVD.
Also, Latin American Free Software News and Listener Feedback.
Featured Project:Hacker Public Radio.
Closing Music:George Hrab and Beatnik Turtle - When I Was Your Age
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Talk Geek To Me #0e "Olympus WS500 Review"Deepgeek Reviews the Olympus WS500 Digital Voice Recorder.
Also, user feedback
Closing Music:Noizmakerz-Shut Up And Drive
Featured Project Reality Break Sci-Fi Podcast
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Talk Geek To Me #0d "Cheap Truth #1 & #2"Bonus Episode. DeepGeek starts the project of serializing the Zine "Cheap Truth," which was an important literary criticism of eighties Science Fiction edited by Bruce Sterling under a pseudonym.
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Premier episode 00 publishedEpisode 00 of Talk Geek To Me, topic is "webhosting."
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Talk Geek To Me #01 ReleasedDeepgeek reviews the webiste mirroring software "Httrack" then puts it to good use by combining it with Cpanels "Entropy Search" to create a custom web search.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talk Geek To Me #02 ReleasedDeepgeek discusses upgrading from old style HTML to Modern HTML. He uses, as a feature example, device independence between Cell Phone Micro Browsers and Desktop Browsers like Firefox.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talk Geek To Me #03 ReleasedThe main feature of this episode is a software review of "Lyx," the document processor. A "not a word processor" front end to the powerful Latex typesetting environment, and multiplatform too.
Deepgeek also offers updates on his "Beowulf cluster" and "Running Linux on Compact Flash" episodes of HPR.
Closing music is "Sevish - Consciousness."Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Talk Geek To Me #04 ReleasedThe main feature of this episode is a review of the Japanese Anime "Grave of the Fireflies."
Also:a review of the book "Born Digital."
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"Talk Geek To Me # 05 releasedDeepGeek gives a software review of the Aria2 download manager.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
"Talk Geek To Me # 06 released"Deepgeek reviews the OS "Debian-GNU-KFreeBSD," which is Debian-GNU running with a FreeBSD kernel.
Also covered a latin Free Software news item
Closing Music:Mike Burgess-Audio Love SongListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |