February, 2008

Hello from a suburb of Pittsburgh PA.  I am located about 15~17 miles from the point along the Allegheny River.  I have been tinkering with Linux for several years now mostly with Red Hat and SuSe.  I have become a recent convert to Ubuntu, more specifically Kubuntu, and it is now the main operating system I use when at home.

Thanx for the info episodes on security, I am sure you have already talked about this but one good thing for your network is to know all the mac (media access control) addresses of all the nics (network interface cards of all printers, computers, and etc.) and the location of that equipment. Then if you have an issue it is real easy to find that equipment and solve the problem. For example it use to be that network cards could fail. when they did they would spout umpteen packets (known as screaming)  on the network,  That distrupts the normal traffic.

During my lunch break at work today, I came across a pretty good 90's Alternative music channel in Streamtuner.  It is called Big R Radio - 90s Alternative, and you can find it under the SHOUTcast tab.  It really brought back some memories from my teen youth.  In my opion the Alternative Rock music from the 90's is much better than the Alternative Rock from today.  Todays Alternative Rock is just to damn noisy. 
If you liked the Alternative Rock from the 90's, give it a listen. 
 
 
 

Big Dave Yates song.

Linux Basement News:

Appologies to the Dundee/Tayside Lug and the University of Abertay! I done got the name wrong because I'm crazy like that.

Hey, go listen to Fresh Ubuntu, I'm on it!

I also list off a bunch of other podcasts you MUST listen to this week.

I'm going to SANS training next week! What is in store for the listeners?

Name format change.

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Pete's Picks of the Week:

Linux Basement News:

Appologies to the Dundee/Tayside Lug and the University of Abertay! I done got the name wrong because I'm crazy like that.

Hey, go listen to Fresh Ubuntu, I'm on it!

I also list off a bunch of other podcasts you MUST listen to this week.

I'm going to SANS training next week! What is in store for the listeners?

Name format change.

In the News:

Pete's Picks of the Week:

I used to work for a community college that used a national testing company to do their testing for college entrance examinations.  Does anyone else have experience in this area. The one question I have is: are they just text based or graphical and text based?  I was contemplating getting together with some of the instructors where I used to work to create open source testing programs to save school districts money.. Of course the data in the used by the programs would not be open source for security reasons.
 

Linux Basement News:

Appologies to the Dundee/Tayside Lug and the University of Abertay! I done got the name wrong because I'm crazy like that.

Hey, go listen to Fresh Ubuntu, I'm on it!

I also list off a bunch of other podcasts you MUST listen to this week.

I'm going to SANS training next week! What is in store for the listeners?

Name format change.

In the News:

Pete's Picks of the Week:

For some reason the Drupal part 5 tutorial doesn't have an add comment field enabled for it. Just thought I would point out a few things I stumbled over in this one.
 
(BTW - as a user am I using the FCKeditor or something from your site to enter this text, or is it using something from my own install? The editor screen doesn't display the return character accurately. A single return puts an extra half line between text, although it displays after submission as a regular single return. Isn't FCK supposed to be WYSIWYG?)
 

Greetings and Salivations from the home of the Crimson Tide,
My name is Michael and I am a new-to-novice linux user. I currently have a MacBook Pro, a home built desktop system and a ThinkPad T43 (for work). The desktop is down with motherboard and power supply issues (see http://tinyurl.com/2eld7e and http://tinyurl.com/2686sl).
 

In elegance comes restraint,
 
Define:Community
 
a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community".
 
Well for most parts I would agree with the above statement, but I suppose the bigger question is; What does community mean to you?
 

So I don't go Crazy

testing

Linux Basement News:

Finux gave us a fine article about the Open Source Revolution.

As always, thanks to Verbal!

As always, you can email chad@linuxbasement.com or pete@linuxbasement.com and join us at irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement.

In the News:

Pete's Picks of the week:

Linux Basement News:

Finux gave us a fine article about the Open Source Revolution.

As always, thanks to Verbal!

As always, you can email chad@linuxbasement.com or pete@linuxbasement.com and join us at irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement.

In the News:

Pete's Picks of the week:

NmapFE - Introduction

Nmap, a very handy utility for Linux systems, can be run on a network to identify and map out network devices and locations. This utility is particilarly helpful for those who are in network management, or security, because you can not only map devices, but see what ports they have open, and what type of devices they are. You can also see if there are rogue devices on your network, or, you know, find out way too much about the wireless network you randomly connected to. Hah!

If you are running an Ubuntu or Debian system, you can do a

Hi Guys,

I just got my new issue (Feb. '08) of Nuts and Volts magazine and I found this news segment that, to me at least, shows why Linux will always be the better alternative.  This was the paragraph that just got me fumeing:
 

Yo!
Learned about Linux Basement from a Promo on Going Linux and decided to check it out. Downloaded an episode listened to and loved it. Joined in on the IRC action, Loved the attitude and overall fun of it so I joined the community! Been a listener since EP. 10 and I've got one thing to say
 
Keep up the good work!!!
    -Jeremythegeek  (IRC Nick>> Germ)
 

 00:00:10  Chad podcasts from his Honda Civic!
 00:01:29  Join the IRC channel irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement
 00:02:11  Haliburton Follow-up Screen Tutorial -- Tristan on gmail
 00:02:47  Jack Johnson on SCALE
 00:04:38  Open Source turns 10 years old!
 00:05:35  Pete's Picks-of-the-Week
 00:10:34  Virtualization
 00:11:18  Drupal 6 is out!
 00:12:33  Visit the DrupalDojo and lullabot websites

   Episode # 10

 00:01:05  The IRC channel irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement
 00:02:10  eclug.homelinux.org
 00:02:55  User submitted articles
 00:04:03  Time-stamped show notes
 00:05:01  Message by Peter Haliburton
 00:06:10  Converting people to Linux
 00:09:52  Open Source in Education
 00:10:18  News -- Drupal 6 will be released soon!
 00:11:58  New Drupal Theming API

Howdie Guys,
 
Had a good time on the IRC so i thought it was about time that i joined the forums and say howdie.
 
I'm president of our local Linux Society, and i'd be more than happy to post some of the articles that i have written for them.
 
I have especially enjoyed the podcasts on drupal, thought they where fantastic
 
Anyways thats my howdie done for now
 
Finux

Linux Basement News:

Because Dave Yates sang on his podcast last week, I will be doing my entire podcast in my Honda Civic.

Several great new articles, including a follow up on Screen by Peter Haliburton, Gmail setup by Tristan, and a quick editorial on Scale, by our friend Jack Johnson. Thank you for the user articles.