Hi, all.

I will not be available to record LHS tonight. So we’ll do it tomorrow night, as long as Richard is OK with that. Plan on it unless you hear something different. Podcast, tomorrow night, 7/1, 8:00pm CDT. Be there.

73 de Russ

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…I set up a voice mail box for Linux in the HAM Shack. At that point, I promptly forgot about it. However, I am going to revive it now. If you’d like to leave a recorded message, comment or question for us, the hosts of Linux in the HAM Shack, you are more than welcome to do it. Assuming it comes out family friendly and remotely relevant, we’ll play your audio and respond to your observations on an upcoming edition of the podcast. Simply call +1-888-455-0305 and leave a message. That’s all there is to it.

Similarly, if you have a microphone and Audacity or some other way to record your voice, feel free to e-mail us an audio question, comment, segment, promotion or suggestion and we’ll be happy to put those on the air in a future episode as well. Every little bit helps and with a little bit of audio input from our listeners we can jazz up the podcast even more. Hope to hear from  you soon.

73 de Russ (K5TUX) and Richard (KB5JBV)

Because Episode #015 was a bit late, this one is going to seem a bit early but actually it’s right on time. All it takes is a little perserverance and perspiration on my part and I can actually get these podcasts edited and released when they’re supposed to be. Imagine that.

As usual, we start out Episode #016 talking about feedback from listeners. We always love to hear what people are saying about us, and we especially like feeling useful when we can answer the questions that come from you. A comment from a listener leads us to our rather unusual topic for this episode: Windows. Now, before you tune out–we don’t actually talk about Windows directly. What we do instead is present all the ways in which we believe Linux is Windows’s equal, from ease of installing applications to productivity out of the box to support and development.

So as always we hope you enjoy this latest episode of Linux in the HAM Shack. Thanks for listening and 73 to all.

Russ (K5TUX)

 

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 Episode #016 (OGG): Download

Contributors:

• Pat on Twitter said “Yes VK’s can have 2×4 call signs” and Russ explains
• Joe NE3R likes Xastir for APRS. Joe is a Windows free Microsoft consultant
• Some Windows bashing ensued
• Bill KA9WKA Just found the program and is really enjoying it. Got Xastir running on his EEE PC. and tells us about www.pendrivelinux.com
• Reminder that we record the show live. Go to www.lhsinfo.org for more information on dates and time
• Hal W4OE is having problems with his Signal Link USB and KAM packet controllers
• W9ZEB Just found the podcast and said Thanks for doing it. He even left a nice write up on his blog about us at
• Joe NE3R Left us some nice words on his blog too at cryptojoe.blogspot.com Russ jumped in and squeezed all the goodness out of the post
• Kent VE4KEH Made the very first donation ever to Linux in the HAM Shack and wants a show on Pulse Audio

Announcements:

• Monsterb at Linux Cranks said he likes the show the other night on IRC. Go visit Linux Cranks. WARNING! They’re show is not family friendly and it is OGG only. you can find them at www.linuxcranks.info
• I found some other useful programs. the first one is The MintCast.  MintCast is a beginner level Linux podcast. You can find them over at www.mintcast.org
• The second is Productive Linux. This one is more about getting stuff done on the desktop.

Links and Notes:

• This install was done on an AMD 1.0 Ghz. Processor with 512 Megs of memory
• A Jackalope is a critter native to west Texas.
• Normal upgrade ordeal. clicking the upgrade button never works for me.
• Downloaded the Ubuntu Live CD and it worked fine except Nautilus did not work for me.
• Kubuntu live cd loaded and ran just fine with no issues
• Time to install
• Installer worked just like it was supposed to.
• Ran fine after install
• After install from machine off to desktop ready took 63 seconds to boot.
• Plenty of good tools Firefox, Gimp, Compiz, Open Office, etc.
• Default media player is Rhythmbox
• No animal on the desktop (Thank God)
• Wireless networking worked with no issues
• Did not try the EXT4 file system

• First Richard gave us a description of SSH
• With towel in hand Russ began to speak about SSH
• you can use SSH for remote to your machines over the internet or your network
• SSH uses Port 22
• You need your port 22 open on your firewall if logging in from out side the local net work
• you need to install the SSH client and SSH server as needed
• Russ is so smart
• Type SSH -y username and remote machines address and you are off to the races
• you will be ask for a password. then you are in.
• Now you have a terminal connection to the remote machine matching the user you sign as
• Forwarding X-Windows is possible but beyond the scope of this episode
• Russ says that running Firefox over SSH may end in tears
• Try YFKlog via SSH
• SCP uses SSH to copy files from a local to remote machine
• Russ suggest PUTTY for SSH in Windows, Richard suggest CygWin for SSH in Windows
• In the wrap up Russ suggest Checking the MAN pages and playing with SSH and you will find it to be a great tool

• We will talk about Debian in a few weeks
• We are looking to have another round table episode. Let us know if you are interested in being involved
• Russ finds life between the peaks very lovely

Music:

• Gamma Leonis – Bacon, Linux and Tomato (Part I & II)
• John Brown’s Body – Give Yourself Over
• Bryan Litchfield – Early Morning