Fresh Ubuntu ogg

New feed address

2008-12-05T11:40:00.001-08:00

Hi all, for those of you wondering where we are, the podcast is back and we jsut put a new episode out. If you are subscribed through feedburner then you might want to check to see if the feed has been redirected. If it has been redirected then all is well, I think. the new feed address is now http://feedproxy.google.com/FreshUbuntuOgg

Please update your feeds ASAP if you still want to get the fresh ubuntu podcast. See you there

Got Some Splainin 2 Do

2008-10-17T08:44:00.000-07:00

Splainin

freshubuntu.org

Friday-itis

2008-07-11T12:57:00.000-07:00

Episode 77

Shownotes located at http://freshubuntu.org/podcast/149/

News and User Feedback

2008-07-04T12:14:00.000-07:00

Episode 76 Ogg File

Shownotes located at http://freshubuntu.org/podcast/148/

WINE Maintainer

2008-06-27T18:06:00.000-07:00

Episode 75

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

LoCo Talk

2008-06-20T10:21:00.000-07:00

Episode 74

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Bugmaster

2008-06-13T10:03:00.001-07:00

Episode 73

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Technoviking

2008-06-06T09:06:00.000-07:00

Episode 72

Shownotes located at Freshubuntu.org

Lots of news

2008-05-30T09:15:00.001-07:00

Episode 71

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Hardy +1 Month - Roundtable

2008-05-23T15:10:00.000-07:00

Episode 70

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

UDS, Not really.

2008-05-15T22:23:00.000-07:00

Episode 69

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Funpidgin

2008-05-08T17:37:00.000-07:00

Episode 68

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

User Feedback on Hardy Heron

2008-05-02T09:47:00.000-07:00

Episode 67

Shownotes Located at freshubuntu.org

Hardy heron Release

2008-04-24T21:40:00.000-07:00

Episode 66

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Popey from Ubuntu UK

2008-04-17T21:48:00.000-07:00

Episode 65 Ogg Vorbis file
Shownotes at freshUbuntu.org

Fresh Ubuntu Wallpaper From the Screencasters!

2008-04-14T16:37:00.000-07:00

Well, I feel validated today. I have a listener who sent in a very nice present for listeners of the show and it's not even Christmas yet! Richard, one of the fellas who bring us great tutorials about Inkscape, sent me some very beautiful cutomized wallpaper. They are rendered at 1280X1024, go ahead and download them at you leisure and let me know how you like them by sending me a comment or leaving a message on my Grand Central button on the right or leaving a message on my Skype Voice Mail under freshubuntu. Here is a look at the artwork below:)

Blah Blah Blah

2008-04-10T21:00:00.000-07:00

Episode 64

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Episode 60-something

2008-04-03T21:35:00.000-07:00

Episode 60-something

shownotes at Freshubuntu.org

Michael from Blackbelt Productivity

2008-03-28T10:35:00.000-07:00

GTD with Michael Ramm

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Peter's Big Break

2008-03-21T11:01:00.000-07:00

Peter's Big Break

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Nikoluuhhh

2008-03-14T15:37:00.000-07:00

Nikoluuhhh OGG File

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Nine Inch Nails

2008-03-11T15:34:00.000-07:00

Nine Inch Nails Ogg File

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Nathan from Productive Linux

2008-03-04T16:08:00.000-08:00

Interview with Nathan Hale

Shownotes Located at freshubuntu.org

Chad From Linux Basement

2008-02-26T09:44:00.000-08:00

Interview with Chad from the Linux Basement

shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Cafe Ninja

2008-02-19T13:38:00.000-08:00

Cafe Ninja Episode

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Snow Day

2008-02-11T10:34:00.000-08:00

Snow Day

Show notes located at freshubuntu.org

ASUS EEE PC Review and Tech Tips

2008-02-04T19:05:00.000-08:00

ASUS EEE PC Review and Tech Tips Ogg File

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Kyle in the House

2008-01-28T16:29:00.000-08:00

Kyle in the House

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Raw and Unedited

2008-01-21T13:51:00.000-08:00

Raw and Uneditted Ogg File

For shownotes head over to freshubuntu.org

Shopping Guide

2007-12-17T21:22:00.000-08:00

Episode 51 - Shopping guide

Shownotes located at Freshubuntu.org

NX Free

2007-12-07T20:58:00.000-08:00

Episode 50 - NX Free

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Tape Hiss

2007-12-04T15:22:00.001-08:00

Episode 49 - Tape hiss

show notes located at freshubuntu.org

If UR A Mac

2007-11-26T22:50:00.000-08:00

Episode 48

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Thanks

2007-11-22T08:34:00.000-08:00

I want to take up a little online space just to say thanks to all who make this podcast a reality. It isn't easy trying to balance work, family, podcasting, and other activities in this day and age. So, I first want to thanks my wife and kids who have been very patient and loving through all the hectic-ness of my podcast schedule. I want to publicly thank my new host for agreeing to co-host the show, Peter, who has been a welcome addition to the podcast. We are growing at a much faster clip since Peter has come on board, but, also the podcast has never sounded more interesting since his addition. I also want to thank Tim B. who helped me get into the Ubuntu Live Convention for free and also was directly involved in getting the podcast an interview with Mark Shuttleworth, Jono Bacon, and Gerry Carr. We've also done some remotes at the Free Geek Center for a segment to the podcast also thanks to Tim. Thanks you to the guest who have been kind enough to participate. In order of appearance, Mark Shuttleworth, Jono Bacon, Gerry Carry, Chess Griffin, Dave Yates, Jason Watkins, Scott Willtsey. You have sprinkled the podcast with flavor and have givien the podcast much needed boost in confidence. Lastly, I want to thank my listeners for helping make this podcast what it is. Thanks you for listening, and being an active part of the Fresh Ubuntu Community. I am looking forward to what the coming year has in store for the podcast and I am enjoying every bit of it while it lasts. God Bless you, and have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Nice Coincidence

2007-11-20T09:15:00.000-08:00

Episode 47

Show notes located at freshubuntu.org

Gutsy Round Table

2007-11-09T19:46:00.000-08:00

Episode 46

Shownotes Located at freshubuntu.org

Listener Emails

2007-11-05T17:45:00.000-08:00

Episode 45

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Post Gutsy Hangover

2007-10-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

Episode 44

Shownotes are located at freshubuntu.org

Gutsy Released

2007-10-22T11:14:00.000-07:00

Episode 43

Shownotes

UNetBootin

2007-10-13T18:47:00.000-07:00

Episode 42

Shownotes located at freshubuntu.org

Just News

2007-10-08T20:45:00.000-07:00

Episode 41

Show notes located at freshubuntu.org

One Laptop Per Child

2007-10-02T14:09:00.000-07:00

Episode 40

Show notes locates at Freshubuntu.org

The Wubi Installer

2007-09-25T11:23:00.000-07:00

Episode 39 - the Wubi Installer

Show notes permanently located at freshubuntu.org

Miro

2007-09-18T22:38:00.000-07:00

Episode 38 - Miro

To find out more click here to go to the show notes

Here is a screenshot of the package I highlighted this week.

Free Geek

2007-09-12T15:06:00.000-07:00

Episode 37- Free Geek

The links will be along shortly, I've been very busy. Sorry

Ubuntu Live Conference

2007-07-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

I attended the Ubuntu Live Conference and had the good fortune of interviewing Mark Shuttleworth, Jono Bacon, and Gerry Carr. Here is the download of the podcast.

Packages

2007-06-19T09:17:00.000-07:00

So, I've finally gotten out of summer mode long enough to get the next podcast put together. You can listen or download this episode here. Inside the podcast I talk about a new package that I have been using lately and some interesting news worthy of inclusion and then I talk about some of the packages that they should include in a plain vanilla installation of ubuntu. Now I realize that it is easy enough to download these yourself, but if you are a new to linux user you may not know what to do outside of turning on your browser. I found out the hard way that these programs do indeed give a level of comfort and convenience in my day-to-day routine. Also, even though a plain vanilla installation of Ubuntu gives you almost everything you need to get started, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll get started in the right direction. I have left out Automatix on purpose because I am not the biggest fan of Automatix, yet, I must confess I use it! Why the dichotomy? I use it because it is so easy. Just point and click on the packages that allows you to do what you want and press install. On the other hand, if you have been using Ubuntu for awhile then you also know that all of the packages that Automatix offers is easily downloadable through the repos which makes me just plain lazy. So, I praise Automatix for its ease of use but lament it because it shows my human weaknesses. Plus, Automatix gets plenty of press so I chose to leave it out, sorry guys.

Package

Opera.com

News:

Gutsy Gibbon tribe 1 is out http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe1

Wubuntu - the ubuntu interface, not the actual ubuntu OS, on the internet http://wubuntu.weejewel.net/

Beryl/Composite merge is beginning with the advent of the new forum for the merge http://www.opencompositing.org/index.php

Packages they left out but wish they didn't

Yakuake
Pidgin
Audacity
VLC
XMMS
Amarok
Konqueror
XAMPP
Aptana
Filezilla

CLCotW
cdparanoia - an audio CD reading utility which includes extra data verification features
DESCRIPTION
cdparanoia retrieves audio tracks from CDDA-capable CDROM drives. The
data can be saved to a file or directed to standard output in WAV,
AIFF, AIFF-C or raw format. Most ATAPI and SCSI and several propri‐
etary CDROM drive makes are supported; cdparanoia can determine if the
target drive is CDDA capable.

In addition to simple reading, cdparanoia adds extra-robust data veri‐
fication, synchronization, error handling and scratch reconstruction
capability.

Thanks for joining me and we'll see you again soon. Here is a list of the music that was played on the podcast kindly provided by Ioda Promonet.

Download "Mumtaz" (mp3)
from "Traveler '06"
by Bombay Dub Orchestra
Six Degrees Travel Series

Buy at iTunes Music Store
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Download "Becky" (mp3)
from "Best Reason To Buy The Sun"
by The Benevento/Russo Duo
Ropeadope Records

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Download "Plain Speaking" (mp3)
from "Walkin' Target"
by Ashtech
Interchill Records

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Download "Hope The Light" (mp3)
from "Subterranean Kicks"
by The Furze
Three Sixty Records

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Ubuntu Studio Impression

2007-05-24T12:58:00.001-07:00

Finally, it is good to be back! As I explain in the podcast I was...well, I'll just let you listen to it. You can download Episode 34 here.

Here is the link to the Ubuntu Mobile Edition news article. Click here.

Here is the link to the New Torrent Team. Press Here.

And, here is the link to the story submission list. Just mail your story submissions to ubuntu-marketing-submissions@lists.ubuntu.com and who knows you might see one of your submissions in the new mag!

In this episode I talk about Ardour for the package magic segment. Here is the link to ardour.

Also, I talk about Ubuntu Studio! yes I downloaded the iso and installed it on my aging desktop you can listen to my first impressions.

Here is the music I played.

Download "All My Friends Are Crazy" (mp3)
from "Sunshine In A Shot Glass"
by 500 Miles To Memphis
Deep Elm

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Download "Hands Up" (mp3)
from "The Hands Up EP"
by Red Collar
307 Knox Records

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More On This Album

Download "All Or Nothing At All" (mp3)
from "All Or Nothing At All"
by Joey DeFrancesco
Silverwolf

More On This Album

Download "Afraid to Dance" (mp3)
from "Afraid to Dance"
by Eric Colville
Copacetic Records

More On This Album

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

2007-04-30T20:20:00.000-07:00

Yes! I finally installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn a little over a week ago. Having had the chance to open it up and see what is under the hood, well, you'll have to listen to the podcast. You can download it here - Episode 33 .

News Item 1 - Trademark Redux

Pakages - Web authoring packages

NVU
Quanta Plus
BlueFish

Download "Ariba Caribe Remix" (mp3)
from "Salsa Caribe!"
by Michel Freidenson
Azul Music

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Download "Everyone Choose Sides" (mp3)
from "The Meadowlands"
by The Wrens
Absolutely Kosher

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Download "River Shule" (mp3)
from "Romantic Energy"
by Twelve Girls Band
Domo Records

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Download "1000 Slide Shows" (mp3)
from "An Inconvenient Truth - Soundtrack"
by Michael Brook
bigHelium/Canadian Rational

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Ubuntu 7.04 Release on the 19th

2007-04-18T15:07:00.001-07:00

Only a couple of days until the release of the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 7.04 and I think there are probably many like me who are itching to get in the queue. On the other hand if you are willing to wait you can do so and listen to the next podcast while you are at it. Here is the link for the next podcast, Episode 32.

Links to the news

The announcement of gutsy gibbon ubuntu 7.10

Call for final testing help

Full Circle Magazine issue#0

Package

GRAMPS, a genealogy package. Click on the link for more information.

Main - what is new in feisty
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntudesktop704

clcotw

Gut a file from the inside out

cat /dev/null > foobar.log

This is a nifty trick to clear out the contents of a file but not remove the file itself. Suppose foobar.log has gotten ridiculously huge and you want to remove all the stuff inside it but you don't want to delete the file, simply cat /dev/null and direct the output to your file. In other words, take /dev/null (a black hole of nothingness) and stuff it inside foobar.log.

See you again soon!!!

NTFS

2007-04-14T11:55:00.000-07:00

My humble apologies for taking so long to get this podcast out. As I transition to a new line of work things should get back to a more normal schedule. In any event, this one is finally out and ready for consumption. This week I talk about how to read and write to an NTFS drive and much more. I also have some interesting new packages that were brought to my attention by one listener. He has an excellent alternative for MS Visio, must hear podcast. Below are the links, enjoy!

News
From the better late than never department. Dell will pre-install Linux

From the Extreme Makeover Department: Lauchpad facelift

From the We are the Borg; resistance is futile department: VMware in kernal

Package magic - http://www.koffice.org/kivio/

Main - http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_edgy_eft_ntfs_ntfs_3g

clcotw - Create a file (the fast way) with "touch"

shell>touch foobar.log

Bam! You've successfully created foobar.log. It's much faster than running vi, saving, and exiting. Touching an existing file updates the time it was last modified.

Music by IODA Promonet

Download "TGIM" (mp3)
from "Kiss The Crystal Flake"
by The Mother Hips
Camera Records

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Download "Incompatibilidade De Genios" (mp3)
from "Cleopatra Cafe"
by Trio Mafua
Time Zone Records

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Download "It Might as Well Be Spring" (mp3)
from "Cookin' at the Corner Vol. 1"
by Les DeMerle
Origin Records

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Download "Manic Depression" (mp3)
from "The Jimi Project"
by Phil Brown
Apaches From Paris

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TipShack

2007-03-28T17:16:00.000-07:00

You can download the podcast here.

I will post the shownotes with links soon.

About TipShack

Pimp Your Panel

2007-03-12T20:30:00.000-07:00

This week I go through how to pimp up your panel with some system bling that will really knock your socks off! Yes, I know what you are thinking, "he actually said pimp, bling, and 'knock your socks off' in the same sentence!". So, as the shock wears off and as I try and hold my composure together, have a listen to episode 29 to get the downlow. Here is a picture of my panel, foshizzle! Somebody stop me.

Here is a link to the a blog post by Peter Nikolaidis about his beta test of Feisty Fawn Herd 5. Things look like they are progressing rather nicely on the development side of things with lots of updates. So I must reiterate here that I am looking forward to the release come April.

Perusing Digg earlier last week I saw this most amazing post on a portable media player that is a linux users dream. It is called the Vibez and it looks beautiful. If you haven't already seen it I've posted a picture that I ripped straight from their website. You can get one through Amazon.com, I wish I knew my affiliate number but I seem to have misplaced it, bummer.

And lastly, The command line command of the week was - SED, aka, stream editor. Here are a couple of links that goes over it a little better than the podcast, hey nobody's perfect. The command looks to be a useful tool if you write or code a lot and also make a lot of mistakes that need to be edited. Sounds like someone I know, hmmm...Can't think of his name right now but, oh well, it'll come to me later.

Enjoy the podcast, maybe have a few drinks before listening to the show to help ease the pain. Talk to you later.

Ubuntu Tips Often Overlooked

2007-03-05T23:00:00.000-08:00

I received an email recently that brought me back to reality and was the entire reason why I started the podcast. So, before I get entirely off track I thought I would devote the main segment of the podcast to going back to basics. I do this because the podcast can potentially get new listeners every six or so months, mostly due to the Ubuntu release cycles. And, I think that is good for the podcast, but, not so good for new listeners who just come on board. Now, I realize that it is just as easy to go back and get prior episodes but who has the time? So, with that in mind you can download episode 28 at this link.

Here are the links to the news items mentioned in the podcast.

Ubuntu Chooses Not to Enable 3D Desktop By Default

Feisty Fawn Herd 5 Released

Ubuntu Live In My Backyard!!

For the package of the week, I chose gPodder. Yet another podcatcher, but this is really simple and elegant. It is also in current development, and licensed under GPL. Like I said in the podcast, "Liferea makes for a great feed reader and also handles podcasts nicely. But, gPodder is a great alternative for downloading all those podcasts that you listen to. the link is here.

Oh, and before I forget, here is a good tutorial for installing packages from source and a few nice ubuntu tips.

If you are looking for a good review of Feisty Fawn Herd 3 you can find it on Peter Nikolaidis' blog.

Well, that about does it for links. I hope I didn't miss any. Just let me know otherwise and I will provide them for you. Just one more link to add and that is form ZIM whose song I played at the end of the podcast call 'Misnomer'. A deeply melodic and engaging tune that I hope you'll all like. Here is the link to his page.

http://www.soundclick.com/zim

Music for the podcast was provided by the IODA PROMONET.

Download "Not Today" (mp3)
from "Not Today"
by Josh Ryan
The Velvet Farm

Buy at iTunes Music Store
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Download "Collie Weed" (mp3)
from "Original Ragga Muffin Part One"
by Barrington Levy
Azra Music Publishing

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Download "Lover (Flux Remix Instr)" (mp3)
from "Lover"
by Sr. Mandrill
Three Sixty Records

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Speedlinktastikuliciouserati

2007-02-10T21:21:00.000-08:00

If you are looking for links that I mentioned on the podcast then you have come to the right place. If you are looking for the podcast you can download it here, episode 27. If, however you are looking for the your keys they are probably at the last place you left them. Yes, well, as promised I have the links for you that I mentioned on the show. They are below and in the order that I mentioned them. Oh, BTW, there is a slight Freudian slip in the podcast. Let me know if you found it. I left it in there to have a little fun. Cheers!!!

News

Linspire and Canonical Announces A Key Partnership

Run Windows Programs Seamlessly In Ubuntu With QEmu

David Lee Roth to Rejoin Van Halen. Honey!! Where is my Spandex?

Russian Region Perm To Ditch Proprietary Software For Linux

Linux Alternative Package

VLC, here is the link http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Main Segment

For a site that rates packages for Gnome and also a place you can download the packages in various formats try gnomefiles.org

The KDE site that does essentially the same thing is KDE-apps.org

Check out this site for various Gnome-centric eye candy, gnome-look.org

And lastly, the Ubuntu Geek blog is a cornucopia of tips, tutorials, and advice from a very knowledgable ubuntu user. It is at Ubuntugeek.com.

Have fun with the links and tell them I sent you!!

CLCoTW

time cat

This is a perfect command to time how ling it take a browser to load a web page, or how long it might take to download a file. Better yet, you can time yourself taking a bathroom break then getting a sandwich and eventually back to your computer. Can you think of anything better to do with your time?

LINKS FROM MY EMAILS AND COMMENTS

Davids linux blog penguinway.com

VMWare
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/284
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/374
VMWare howto

Mark G's blog Humble Ubuntu

MUSIC

Download "Shake It" (mp3)
from "The Adventures Of Johnny Loco"
by Latin Soul Syndicate
Lovecat Music

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody

More On This Album

Download "A Change Is Gonna Come" (mp3)
from "Can You Feel It?"
by Campbell Brothers
Ropeadope Records

Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
Buy at Napster

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Download "Robert Jax vs Techno Squirrels" (mp3)
from "Om Mani"
by Techno Squirrels
Rave Police Records

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody

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Download "Patricia" (mp3)
from "World Latin Championships"
by Tony Evans &amp;amp;amp; His Orchestra
Tema International

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody

More On This Album

Add and Remove, uh, Sometimes

2007-02-01T18:38:00.000-08:00

Welcome back, You can download the podcast here, Episode 26. Before I get started, i just want to say due to the Holiday Weekend (aka, the SuperBowl) I will not be putting out a podcast for the week of February 4th 2007. I hope you understand and may the best team win!

This week I talk a little about "The GIMP". I consider it a viable alternative to Photoshop for my needs. I must stress that it is for "my needs". In other words, for the casual (and I mean rare) user. Yes, I understand that GIMP does not support CMYK colors (or Pantone, I think) but, it can probably handle most anything just short a retouching photos for Architectural Digest and it might be able to do that as well only the final post printing colors will probably not look right so I've read. Here is an interesting article I came upon talking just about this very topic and if you are curious about the GIMP you can reach it here.

The Command line of the command of the week was: netstat -tup

This specific command lists all the internet connections both incoming and outgoing. So if you are wondering about what programs are using internet access this would be a good command to use to find exactly that!

In the main segment, I talk about another package manager that I generically call the add/remove packet manager. I really like the user interface of the packet manager. First of all there are only packages in there! Unlike Synaptic which lists packages, dependencies, libraries and whatever else that packages need. As an end user, I am only interested in a couple of things. What applications are available to me and what applications are the hottest/latest/best. The add/remove package manager addresses both very easily as it does rate (at least) the most popular application from 1 star (the least) to 4 stars (you guessed it, the most). All of the packages are categorized in the left frame and the packages are contained in the upper right frame with the lower right frame reserved for a description. One esoteric addition albeit (IMO) an important one is the addition of the packages' Logo icon to the left of the package name. I know, I am a bit shallow, but really folks, in all honesty, it adds the sizzle to the steak! The only downfall is that it is heavily dependent on Synpatic Package Manager to handle removal of closely related packages and utilities of the user interface, but, it handles adding packages with the same ease and grace that Synpatic does. Overall, I give it a 7 out 10, but what would be nice is if Synaptic Package manager used elements of the add/remove manager and we would have an even better package management system.

Music from the Podshow, Podsafe Music Network (PMN)

One Tribe - Saskia Nation theme

HatHead

Download it-Dance edit

Clea

Music From IODA PROMONET

Download "Take The "A" Train" (mp3)
from "Artistry In Swing"
by Tony Evans & His Orchestra
Tema International

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Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody

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Feisty Fawn Herd 2

2007-01-23T17:24:00.000-08:00

Yes, you herd it here first (haha)! Well, maybe 53rd, Download the podcast episode 25 and find out what I had to say about it. Herd 2 is released and ready for testing by the general public. Get your hands on it and see what it is all about. There are a lot of interesting things on FFH2 that are intrigueing like a new Gnome and GTK+ and updated kernal and lots of new Debian packages. I might try it myself! below are the links to the ISO's.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Ubuntu)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Kubuntu)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Edubuntu)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-2/ (Xubuntu)

Command Line Command of the week - free

This command gives you anything you want for free!! Wow, Linux is soo....what's that you say? Oh, I see....This just gives you the amount of free memory in your physical memory and swap drive? Oh, buffers too? The -b switch displays the amount of memory in bytes; the -k switch (set by default) displays it in kilobytes; the -m switch displays it in megabytes; the -g switch displays it in gigabytes. How nice:[

And, finally thanks to Art for providing a possible solution for getting FreeNAS and Ubuntu to work together. Art was unable to listen to mp3's or watch DVD's from content stored on a FreeNAS server. So he wrote a post on a Sourceforge forum and there might be an answer to his post by now. I haven't checked yet but it is worth a try if you are experiencing problems with the same setup. Here is the link.

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1650139&forum_id=507590

Well, that does it for me! Thanks for visiting, have a good one!

Music was provided courtesy of the Ioda Promonet and the Podshow Music Network

Download "Natty Dread Time" (mp3)
from "Hidden Treasures 2"
by Various Artists
Easy Star Records

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FLY FLY FLY

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Jan. 19 2007

Ticking Timebomb

Demerit 7

Jan. 19 2007

Oh and by the way if you are on another VoIP network that supports SIP you can reach me by this SIP Number. This will only work with networks that are SIP compliant. I am not sure if this will work with Skype, but give it a try. Visit this link first- then try this number 17470454941. Also, check out Gizmo and see if it fits your needs. I don't make any money on this, the service just appeals to me. Bye.

The Gizmo Project and Wildcards

2007-01-16T21:38:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!!

Sorry for the short podcast, just too many things going on this past week. This week I introduce you to the Gizmo Project which is another Voip product similar to Skype. The reason why I like it is the free voicemail feature that they offer you. Also, it gives you and option to record your conversations easily for free!!! For a podcaster that is valuable. This was supposed to be the first installment of the linux equivalent segment, but I was just too excited to tell you about this to offer a real "equivalent". Yes I know Skype is available for linux but I think gizmo is a good alternative to Skype. I am astounded by its feature set that they offer for free. I'll try harder next time to get out a better windows equivalent package.

I also explore wildcards. You may be already familiar with the asterisk (*) which can represent any number of characters. Below is a list of wildcards and proper syntax. Enjoy!!

The asterisk (*) - used for any number of characters. It can be used like this:

ls *.txt

This will list all the text files in the current directory.

The question mark (?) - used to denote a single character. It can be used like this:

ls p12000??.png

This will list all png files (it's a graphics file good for websites) that start with p12000 as shown before the question marks, but the question marks are a place holder for any character at the position where the wildcard is placed.

If you wanted to find a file which contains a letter or number form a specific subset you could use the square brackets, []. For example:

rm fresh[k,x]ubuntu.txt

This will, of course, remove any text file freshkubuntu or freshxubuntu. But why would you want to do that??

You can also use the brackets for contigiuous sets of letters or numeral, such as, a-b, or 1-9. This is shown below:

copy vacation[a-c]200[0-6].* /home/harlem

As you can see, wildcards can be mixed to give even greater flexability to your commands. Now don't fall asleep on me, I just have a couple more to go!

You can also use the brackets to limit your search by eliminating letters that a file does not contain by introducing an exclamation point after the first bracket and before the first letter, like:

ls [!fresh].pdf

This command will only show files that do not contain the LETTERS f, r, e, s, h, and inadvertently the word fresh. You can do the same to a range of letters, such as, a-w.

What if you wanted to search for a file that has a specific word in it? Well, you would use curly brackets, {}. Its not apparently intuitive, what with all the square ones dominantly in use. For example:

mv {fresh,ubuntu,is,the,best,podcast,ever} /home/toptenondigg

This finds files with the words in the given subset and moves it to the appropraite directory.

Note - These wildcards can be used with a number of commands, not just the ones listed here. Remember, use caution when moving things around with wildcards. Just be safe and if you are at all unsure about what you are doing stop and think about it. That's it for now, see you next week.

Four letter Words

2007-01-08T20:24:00.000-08:00

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Hi, I am back!! This week I talk a little bit about root and sudo and how that is used in Ubuntu. Just a couple of things about it, firstly, that the root account and hence the ability to use a root terminal is turned off by default. You can however turn this feature on at your leisure, though not recommended. In any case, root as you may have heard on the podcast is like an administrator account in Windows. This account can do just about everything to your computer that you would want it to do and some things that you might not want it to do. Again, it is powerful, but, alas not idiot-proof. This is where sudo comes in. Sudo is a command line command that begs for a little more attention than the usual command line command of the week. What sudo does is allows the user with your regular run of the mill permissions to do administrative tasks. Things like edit configuration files, setup file permissions, and download..um...packages, yes, to install on your system. The way I see it as explained in the podcast root is to sudo as Superman is to Clark Kent. Either way, both have the same weaknesses and that is kryptonite, or incorrect command line input. See, Superman isn't so BAD after all. For the regular user, you might never have to access a root account. I'll be honest with you I haven't even tried. But, one never knows when I have to rip off my button down shirt to reveal my Superman footie pajamas (don't be jealous, I got them for Christmas!) Well, there you go, just a couple things about root and sudo and pajamas, hmmm. Here is a link to more informatioin about root and sudo:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

This weeks CLCOTW: wc - Counts word (among other things, check the man pages) in various files.

Pretty handy to have around if you are the obsessive/compulsive type that has to know how many word you type...97..98..99...excuse me. You can also find out how many characters and bytes if you want. From the screenshot, I wrote 1721 words in my preparation for this episode, wow, not bad!! I hope this helps someone!!!

Here is a great tip from Steve B., he recommends a package called Yakuake for all you command line geeks. I downloaded it and it does run on gnome as well as kde. Knock yourself out. See screenshot below.

See you all next week!!

My Christmas Wishlist

2006-12-18T19:43:00.000-08:00

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The kids can hardly wait get any sleep in anticipation of Christmas. I don't blame them. I couldn't sleep either when I was their age. I submitted my 'list' to my parents and hoped that they would get the biggest, most expensive gift on the list. I would often be surprised, and sometimes disappointed (on the naughty list those years). I am rarely disappointed nowadays with Ubuntu. It makes a perfect gift for anyone you might know, still though there are a few things I would like to ask for and in this episode I 'submit' my list to St Mark, patron Saint of Canonical (whoa, sounds way too Catholic...memories flooding back. No! not the ruler!!! Not again...). I realize that this list is most likely incomplete at best. So feel free to leave a comment by pressing on the word comments at the end of the post and adding to the list. Please, leave a name (real or otherwise) so I can showcase it on the next podcast. It beats being called 'anonymous'. I hope you enjoyed the podcast!

News

Item 1. === Introduction to Ubuntu Security ===

Item 2. === Ubuntu: The Linux poster child ===

Item 3. === Ubuntu in South Australian Parliament ===

Item 4. === MAKE Zine adds Ubuntu to its Christmas shopping list ===

CLCOTW

df - The df utility displays the disk space usage on all mounted filesystems. Below is a pic of the usage on my terminal.

du - You can use the du command to determine which files or directories need to be deleted -- or at least trimmed. A simple du will print usage for the present working directory and its subdirectories, along with the size of each directory. Here is the pic for the usage:

Here is the list for the bumper music I used.

Hathead - from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network

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from "Atlantis"
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The Disk Usage Analyzer

2006-12-11T20:55:00.000-08:00

Download the podcast here - Episode 21

News

Item #1 - Linux Backer Lets Go Of Third Of Staff

Item #2 - Feisty Fawn (7.04) Herd1 Released!

Item #3 - The Open Source Car Project

Main - -The Disk Usage Analyzer for Ubuntu and Kubuntu

This was a neat little find!! This handy utility will tell you how big your directories are and how much space is allocated to it on the physical drive. The utility will give you both a text version of the space and a graphical representation of the data that is on your hard drive. Above are the pictures of both the Ubuntu version and the Kubuntu version. The Fresh Ubuntu choice for disk analyzers is....Kubuntu!!! Yes, it is actually far and away a better implementation of this utility. Kubuntu gives both the graphical and textual information in a split window, whereas in Ubuntu you have to call up the graphic by pressing a different button on the menu. I also give a thumbs up to the way that Kubuntu walks you through the whole process by selecting the directory from a popup window upon initial startup of the utility. On the other hand, Ubuntu leaves you standing there wondering what to do. Now, I realize that once you learn the application this become less clumsy, but, when opening up the program for the first time it can literally stop you in your tracks. This is a novel utility which might come in handy someday when you are getting close to filling up your hard drive with documents, music, and, (ahem) graphics.

CLCOTW - aliases

This is not really a specific command, but a way of accessing a set of commands through "aliases". An alias is a shortcut to a proper command that can be entered in the terminal. Aliases can be very handy with long and verbose commands. I am a poor typist, so anything that can alleviate that end of my work is appreciated. Before we can use any aliases we must declare them in our user's ~/.bashrc file, which resides hidden in our home directory.

You can use sudo gedit ~/.bashrc to open the file. (I am not a big fan of Vim or Nano).

I would save a copy of the file before making any changes. For example, File -> Save As -> .bashrc.orig It is also a good idea to actually read the file before adding the aliases. Bash, the default shell, already provides some example aliases that have been commented out. It is here that I suggest adding the apt-get aliases.

alias agu='sudo apt-get update'
alias agi='sudo apt-get install'
alias ags='apt-cache search'
alias agsh='apt-cache show'
alias agr='sudo apt-get remove'

These aliases could also be put in a file called .bash_aliases, and set aside from the .bashrc file. there is a provision in .bashrc to map all aliases to a file called .bash_aliases. That option is quite helpful for cross-pollenating your settings from machine to machine. This example was taken as an excerpt from the O'Reilly press book "Ubuntu Hacks", chapter six, page 209.

Enjoy!!!

Links to the music - Because of the graciousness of the artists, they have allowed podcasters to play their music on our podcasts in exhange for a little promo. So here it is, thanks for listening.

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HatHead - Rumba Lullaby

Synaptic Package Manager

2006-12-05T17:37:00.000-08:00

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I would like to thanks these artists that are featured as the bumper music on the podcast.

'Kiss' by Anna Lee - Visit site

'Download It" by Clea - Visit Site

'What U Got To Say' - by Ax - Visit Site

Demographic information

Type of podcast aggregator - updated Stats
iTunes for Windows - 59%
iTunes for Mac - 24 %
Juice - 5%
Unidentifiable - 7%
iPodder Linux - 1%

As a side note, there are up to 3 people using the command line wget to download the media file!!! Also, of the roughly 20 episode of Fresh Ubuntu 25122 downloads have happened. True, not as big as some but not bad for an amatuer.

Top 5 episodes downloaded in order of highest to lowest

Windows Equivalent Apps for Ubuntu, Episode 6
Ubuntu Powered Security, Episode 7
Ubuntu Strength Security Pt II, Episode 8
Beginning Ubuntu Linux Book Review, Episode 9
Remedial Command Line, Episode 5

Top Five Visitors by Country in order from highest to lowest

USA
UK
Canada
Sweden
Australia

Bottom Five Visitors by Country in Alphabetical Order

Brunei Darasalaam
Kyrgystan
Kenya
Uzbekistan
Taiwan

Top Languages Spoken by Visitors

English
German
Spanish
French
Finnish

Top Five Referring Source
Google Search
Direct
beta.blogger.com
podcastalley.com
podcast.net

CLCOTW - lspci, Here is the output from the terminal window

harlem@freshubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)
00:09.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade i1 (rev 6a)
02:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 100 22Mbps Wireless Interface

Main Segment

Well, I promised pictures and I will post them the old fashioned way by uploading the files. But I want to get a lightbox script on here to make it more accessible as well as appealing.

Here is the background of the terminal window.

And below are the pix of the Synaptic Package Manager.

Edgy Inside

2006-11-26T20:40:00.000-08:00

Download Episode 19

News

Item 1 - Children in Need

Children in Need, a UK charity, are destined to benefit from the generosity of members of our wonderful community. An Ubuntu t-shirt signed by luminaries such as Mark Shuttleworth, Jon 'Maddog' Hall, Jono Bacon and many others including Canonical staff and community members will be auctioned by the Ubuntu UK Team, with the money raised to go to the Children in Need charity. Jono Bacon has also contributed a signed copy of "Official Ubuntu Book" to raise the stakes and get more people interested. AUCTION MAY BE OVER BUT THERE IS A LINK TO THE CHARITY FOR YOU TO MAKE YOUR DONATIONS.

Item 2 - Ubuntu Takes the Prize
16 November 2006, London - Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced it has scooped another two awards for Ubuntu, its leading-edge Linux distribution. At the Linux New Media Awards, on Wednesday 15th November, Ubuntu was awarded 'Most User-Friendly Linux Distribution', and Canonical the 'Best combination of Community and Commerce'. Ubuntu also picked up the 'Best Linux/Open Source Distribution', for the second year running, at the 2006 UK Linux and Open Source Awards in October.

Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu, commented. We are all extremely proud of the impact Ubuntu has made, and proud that Ubuntu is seen as one of the finest examples of user-friendly Linux. With the commitment and dedication of our excellent community, and with the huge leaps in functionality and usability upstream, we are confident that Ubuntu and the open source world can continue to provide our users with a high quality, modern experience.

One of the core principles behind the continuing success of Ubuntu is community, and I am intensely proud of what our diverse, enthusiastic community has achieved and how Canonical has worked to maintain a transparent and open process. The 'Best combination of Community and Commerce' award highlights the commitment and drive of our community to collaborate effectively, and everyone who has contributed to Ubuntu deserves it. I am positive this accolade will continue to inspire and encourage an already inspired community of contributors said Jono Bacon, Community Leader for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is freely available, including security updates for five years on servers, with no restrictions on usage and no requirement to purchase subscriptions per deployment. Full telephone and online support on commercial terms is available globally from Canonical Ltd and other companies.

Item 3 - Customize your own LiveCD

Ever wanted to customise an Ubuntu LiveCD to your own tastes? With the
UCK you can. Version 1.3 was released on the 10th of November, and
includes support for the latest stable Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 6.10
"Edgy Eft". For more information on the UCK, click the title of this story.

Linux restricted modules - Here is the link to the restricted modules
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/62452

Music Provided Courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network

Long time - Camelia Ashbach - Link to the PMN Page
In the News - Motion soundtrack - Link to the PMN Page
Gods Window - Fresh music Indie Label - Link to the PMN page

Giving Thanks

2006-11-20T20:50:00.000-08:00

Download - Episode 18

Hi everyone. I hope you enjoy the podcast. Please feel free to leave a comment and remember to have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

News Links:

Music for the podcast was provided by the Podsafe Music Network.

"Thanks You" by The Almighty Whispers
"Cry Baby" by Aaron
"I Got My Gmail" by Hathead

Thanks for listening to this special Thanksgiving issue and I'll see you next week! Cheers!!!

Flash 9 installation

2006-11-13T19:59:00.000-08:00

Download - Episode 17

Welcome

I know, I know, it was a lame joke and I promise it will never happen again. Well, at least I hope so;) Anyhoo, this week I installed Flash 9 Beta on my laptop and it works very great and exceeds my expectations. If you have already tried the tutorial please be aware that using untrusted repositories are to be used AT YOUR OWN RISK!! I myself did not have any problem with it nor do I anticipate any. I would being doing a great disservice to my listeners if I did not include the following;

My advice is when using untrusted repositories (ie, not certified safe by Ubuntu developers) you do so at your own risk. If you feel that the repository that you just used to install the Flash 9 Beta is suspect please delete it from your sources.list using the same edit technique described in the podcast.

I must reiterate that Trevino's repository is BELIEVED to be safe, but in any case, no offense to Trevino, adjust your repositories list according to your own level of trust. I will tell you at this point that the reason Ubuntu is secure is that they only recommend and use trusted repos meaning that they have been checked (for lack of a better word) for possible threats. So, please be wise with any new repositories that you might come into contact with and judicious in your use of them.

News

Item 1 - Legal Victory for Open source
Item 2 - Alternatives to Windows Programs
Item 3 - Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Release Dates

CLCOTW

Well this weeks CLCOTW is not exactly a command but it is a good tip!

Just remember if you forget the spelling of the command just press the TAB key and it will either finish the command for you or give you a list of commands that start with the letters that you typed.

If you would like to have an Ubuntu Dapper Disk please contact Michael Castellon, here is his email and his website address:

Michael Castellon

michaelcastellon@gmail.com
www.michaelcastellon.com

He has about 50 of the factory disks complete with sleeve and is willing to part with them. Thank you Michael for providing this service for my listeners.

Well, See you all next week, Ciao!!

Dual booting Dapper

2006-11-05T16:19:00.000-08:00

Download - Episode 16

If you are running Edgy EFt and everything is fine please leave a comment. If you installed Edgy and you had problems installing, yet managed to fix it please tell us all how you did it. You can leave a comment by clicking on the comment link at the end of this entry or you can send me an email by clicking 'Email Me' link on the sidebar.

1. Ubuntu 5.04 has now reached its End of Life.

2. Still running 5.04? No fear, Upgrade link here.

3. Common upgrade problems and solutions

4. Informal poll of windows users who move to Linux instead of Vista

Command Line Command of the Week: cal

This command displays, yep you guessed it, a calendar.

SYNTAX

cal [-mjy] [[month] year]

options:

-m Display monday as the first day of the week.

-j Display julian dates (days one-based, numbered from January 1).

-y Display a calendar for the current year.

A single parameter specifies the 4 digit year (1 - 9999) to be displayed.

Two parameters denote the Month (1 - 12) and Year (1 - 9999).

If arguments are not specified, the current month is displayed.

A year starts on 01 Jan.

Other Links

Link to Knightwise tuturial on ugrading to Edgy:

http://www.knightwise.com/content/view/215/9/

Link to his web page where you will find his podcast

Knightwise, The Knightcast podcast : www.knightwise.com

Edgy Eft Release

2006-10-31T05:07:00.000-08:00

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Well, the release of Edgy Eft has come and gone and frankly I am not happy with the results. I have not personally installed it on my computer just yet. And, I don't anticipate installing it until I hear some better news. So far I have read one report from a blog that had some troubles installing it via a dist-upgrade (the link is below), and on of my listeners has had a, how shouldI say this, "not so fun time installing on a laptop. FOR THE TIME BEING STICK WITH DAPPER UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!!!

News

Item 1 Canonical Launches New Ubuntu Release for Desktops and Servers

Item 2 Edgy Release Notes

Item 3 More about ORCA

Item 4 Upgrade Woes

Some good new! Matt Taylor of Distrowatch.com reviewed my podcast and will plug it on his podcast either this week or next. I have a link to this podcast below.

Matt Taylor of distro watch weekly podcast

A new friend has started a blog for Ubuntu SysAdmins, check it out and show him some love!!
Ubuntu Server Admin blog - by Ted Streit

Also, Check out Peter N. Blog that might shed some light on his installation of EdgyEft.
at - http://blog.nikolaidis.com/

10 Things To Do Before Installing Ubuntu

2006-10-23T19:49:00.000-07:00

So you want to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP but you aren't sure whereto start. I have made up a preliminary list of some things that you ought to do before you install. In the coming week, I will be doing the same thing and preparing my own hard drive (gulp!?) to eventually dual boot Windows and Ubuntu. Get the podcast below by pressing on the link below. Keep your fingers crossed! Oh yeah, and don't forget, Edgy Eft Ubuntu 6.10 is due out October 26!!!

Download Fresh Ubuntu Episode 14.

News Item #1: See screencasts of Ubuntu tips and howtos

News Item #2: RC for edgy eft is out as of 10/19

Main segment

1 Run a scandisk on your hdd
2 Run defrag
3 Back up MS Office documents
4 Back up media (videos, music, photos)
5 Back up emails
6 Back up contacts
7 Back up downloaded software and plugins
8 Make sure you have copies of programs that you installed from CDs handy
9 Write downs settings for various programs or export your configurations
10 Make sure you have a copy of XP in case the install is botched

-email or leave a comment with more at freshubuntu@gmail.com or leave a comment at freshubuntu.blogspot.com

Command line command of the week - locate

syntax - locate [options] pattern

Search database(s) of filenames and print matches. Matches include all files that contain pattern unless pattern includes metacharacters, in which case locate requires an exact match. *, ?, [, and ] are treated specially; / and . are not. Searches are conducted against a database of system contents that is updated periodically. To update the database, use the updatedb command.

Options

-d path, --database=path

Search databases in path. path must be a colon-separated list.

-h, --help

Print a help message and then exit.

--version

Print version information and then exit.

ADDENDUM

I have given out some erroneous information in the last podcast. Shred will not work in ubuntu since it uses Ext3 filesystem and the shred man page clearly says it wont work on this type of file system. But, I think you can still use this command by popping in a live cd of another distro or even ubuntu live cd and mount the partition that you want to shred then issue the command using the live cd terminal. Warning: This command is useful in only a few instances where extreme privacy is concerned and should not be usued as your daily delete function.

PDF Printing in Ubuntu

2006-10-16T16:59:00.000-07:00

This week I took took printing to another level! Well...ok, maybe not another level, more like a side level. Oh alright, its not a whole level, its more like a side step. Whatever it is I thought it was useful. I setup a PDF printer on my Ubuntu laptop without using Adobe Acrobat and I let you in on the whole thing on my podcast. You can download the episode below:

Freshubuntu Episode 13

But first the news items:

1. Possible Artwork reversal On Edgy

2. Portland project

Installing Cups-pdf printer method #1

a. Install cups-pdf by running sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
b. Edit the configuration file by running sudo gedit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
c. Change "RunAsUser Yes" to "RunAsUser No"
d. restart cups by running sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
e. Goto the menu System>>Administration>>Printing and add a printer
f. Select the detected printer "PDF Printer"
g. Select the Generic, Postscript Color Printer (Rev 3b)
h. Give it a name, like PDF Printer
i. Right click on the newly created printer, and select Properties
j. Click "Print a Test Page"
k. The file should be in your Home folder, under the PDF folder

Note - in some cases this method will not work because as soon as you try to add aprinter it has not detected a pdf printer. Also, when I tried to edit the configuration file there was not a line that referenced RunAsUser so I eventually added that line but it still did not work. In come the Ubuntu forums to the rescue! I got further instructions and they are outlined below:

a. Install the cups-pdf package (I used version 2.2.0-1)
b. Go to System -> Administration -> Printing
c. Doubleclick "New Pinter"
d. Notice that there is no mention of a CUPS PDF printer
e. Open a terminal and tpe "sudo nautilus" and then your password
f. Go to Filesystem -> usr -> lib -> cups -> backend
g. Rightclick "cups-pdf" and select Properties
h. Go to the Permissions tab and click the "Set user ID" special flag
i. Again try to add a new printer
j. There is now a "PDF Printer" detected, select it
k. Select the Generic, Postscript Color Printer (Rev 3b)
l. Give it a name, like PDF Printer
m. Right click on the newly created printer, and select Properties
n. Click "Print a Test Page"
o. The file should be in your Home folder, under the PDF folder

This got the printer to show up and working;) Yes!

CLCOTW - Command line command of the week: shred
shred - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents

SYNOPSIS
shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]

DESCRIPTION
Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-f, --force
change permissions to allow writing if necessary

-n, --iterations=N
Overwrite N times instead of the default (25)

-s, --size=N
shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)

-u, --remove
truncate and remove file after overwriting

-v, --verbose
show progress

-x, --exact
do not round file sizes up to the next full block

-z, --zero
add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding

Here is the out put of my experiment with shred when I executed the command

shred -fvu freshubuntu.txt

harlem@freshubuntu:~/Desktop$ shred -fvu freshubuntu.txt
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 1/25 (random)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 2/25 (999999)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 3/25 (924924)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 4/25 (ffffff)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 5/25 (dddddd)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 6/25 (555555)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 7/25 (bbbbbb)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 8/25 (888888)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 9/25 (444444)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 10/25 (492492)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 11/25 (aaaaaa)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 12/25 (db6db6)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 13/25 (random)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 14/25 (6db6db)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 15/25 (000000)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 16/25 (222222)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 17/25 (333333)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 18/25 (b6db6d)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 19/25 (cccccc)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 20/25 (111111)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 21/25 (eeeeee)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 22/25 (666666)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 23/25 (777777)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 24/25 (249249)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: pass 25/25 (random)...
shred: freshubuntu.txt: removing
shred: freshubuntu.txt: renamed to 000000000000000
shred: 000000000000000: renamed to 00000000000000
shred: 00000000000000: renamed to 0000000000000
shred: 0000000000000: renamed to 000000000000
shred: 000000000000: renamed to 00000000000
shred: 00000000000: renamed to 0000000000
shred: 0000000000: renamed to 000000000
shred: 000000000: renamed to 00000000
shred: 00000000: renamed to 0000000
shred: 0000000: renamed to 000000
shred: 000000: renamed to 00000
shred: 00000: renamed to 0000
shred: 0000: renamed to 000
shred: 000: renamed to 00
shred: 00: renamed to 0
shred: freshubuntu.txt: removed

See you next week.

Ubuntu and WINE

2006-10-09T18:35:00.000-07:00

Welcome - Welcome back, thanks for joining me this week. If you are new to Fresh Ubuntu, this podcast is for people who are moving to the Ubuntu OS from Windows for the first time. More aimed towards new users of linux based operating systems but not necessarily so.

Download the new episode: Fresh Ubuntu #12

Here are the links to the news items:

1. 7 Distro's fight for one old laptop by Rick Lehrbaum

2. Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu By Stephen Shankland

3. Firefox Set Free in IceWeasel By Sean Michael Kerner

4. HOWTO: Install IceWeasel 1.5.0.4 in Ubuntu

Main Segment: Install and configure WINE; Install Quicken 2003

a. Sudo apt-get install wine, note, it may be helpful to install winetools as well from source

b. Then run winecfg by pressing alt+f2 and typing in winecfg. Here is a screenshot. Just click on the picture to enlarge it.

Visit the WINE HQ website for lots of helpfull information!

Command Line command of the week

Whereis and which

Results of whereis search using 'ssh'

harlem@freshubuntu:~$whereis ssh

ssh: /usr/bin/ssh - this is where the binary file is
/etc/ssh /usr/bin/X11/ssh - this is where the man page is
/usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1.gz - this is where the source file is

Results of which search using 'ssh'

harlem@freshubuntu:~$which ssh

/usr/bin/ssh - this is just the binary file

Remember, you might need to know this information the next time you need to customize a launcher or menu item.

Ubuntu Tips and Wget

2006-10-02T20:09:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, welcome back and thanks for joining me this week. For those of you who are new to freshubuntu, this is a podcast that aims to help new users migrate specifically from the windows environment to Ubuntu OS. I have a lot of things planned for us today. I have a few newsworthy items that happened in the past week and then I have a whole bunch of tips to help make life a little easier. Then I will tell you about a great little program called wget. So lets get on with this weeks news items. I got a voice message to ask if I was going to do a podcast about uprading to Edgy Eft and I will undoubtably be doing one. Not only that but I will most likely go through a fresh cd installation of Edgy on my desktop. This future episode will air most likely a week after releas of the stable version of Edgy. But, for now I posted instructions from the ubuntu forums on how to upgrade to the beta version.

Download mp3 here: 011freshubuntu01Oct06.ogg

NEWS

Item #1: Leo at the Podcast Expo -

Item #2: Screenshots of Ubuntu Edgy Eft Beta

Item #3: Bill Clinton wants you to have more Ubuntu!

TIPS GALORE

Ubuntu Tips at the unofficial ubuntu wiki

1. How to restart GNOME without rebooting computer
Press 'Ctrl + Alt + Backspace'
or
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

2. How to run programs on startup when login into GNOME
* System -> Preferences -> Sessions
* Sessions
Startup Programs Tab -> Add/Edit/Delete

3. Run a terminal command without first opening the terminal
Press 'Alt+F2" and the run application dialog box will pop up; just type in the command you want to run and check mark the box that says wun in terminal. this will open the terminal command and execute the command you issued. This is also helpful for opening other files without starting the application first.

4. Update to Edgy eft Beta
Caution - edgy is not completely stable yet so dont use this as you primary computer or install on a computer that contains high value information.

gksudo "update-manager -c -d"

The "-d" switch instructs Update Manager to consider pre-release versions, including this Beta release. Without this switch, only official, final releases will be considered. The "-c" switch tells it to look for upgrades at all. By default the 6.06 LTS release will not offer that automatically because of its long support cycle and high stability.

If you have a working network connection, it should then inform you about a new release and offer to upgrade your system.

COMMAND LINE COMMAND OF THE WEEK - WGET

Description
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP , HTTPS , and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while the user is not logged on. This allows you to start a retrieval and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work. By contrast, most of the Web browsers require constant user’s presence, which can be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.

Wget can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original site. This is sometimes referred to as ‘‘recursive downloading.’’ While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard (/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the download from where it left off.

Simple Usage

Say you want to download a URL . Just type:

wget http://fly.srk.fer.hr/

But what will happen if the connection is slow, and the file is lengthy? The connection will probably fail before the whole file is retrieved, more than once. In this case, Wget will try getting the file until it either gets the whole of it, or exceeds the default number of retries (this being 20). It is easy to change the number of tries to 45, to insure that the whole file will arrive safely:

wget --tries=45 http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg

Now let’s leave Wget to work in the background, and write its progress to log file log. It is tiring to type --tries, so we shall use -t.

wget -t 45 -o log http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg &

The ampersand at the end of the line makes sure that Wget works in the background. To unlimit the number of retries, use -t inf.

The usage of FTP is as simple. Wget will take care of login and password.

wget ftp://gnjilux.srk.fer.hr/welcome.msg

If you specify a directory, Wget will retrieve the directory listing, parse it and convert it to HTML . Try:

wget ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/links index.html

Reformatted the shownotes and added a couple of features

1. Odeo send me a voicemail message.
2. flash player from odeo that plays old episodes of freshubuntu
3. Remember to visit the website freshubuntu.blogspot.com and leave me a comment.
4. Or you can send an email to freshubuntu@gmail.com
5. Remember to vote for me on podcastalley for the month of october I appreciate those who already have.

Bye.

Setup HP Printer on Ubuntu

2006-09-26T20:39:00.000-07:00

Welcome back! Hope you enjoy some of the changes I've made to my blog. Hopefully soon I will be able to host this on my own domain but until then this will have to do, which isn't so bad at all.

Also, I recently had some technical difficulty with my feed. If it were not for the good folks at Feedburner most notably Eric Lunt of Technical Support who got me up and running earlier today (Sept 26, 06). This podcast may still be out. Thank you Feed Burner and Eric for your speedy response and top notch technical expertise.

This week I decided to hook up my old HP Photosmart 7350 to my laptop running Ubuntu and it was a huge success! Not that I was worried. So far, I have my PCMCIA wireless card running well and now my printer is working. You might be wondering, "what took me so long?". Well, primarily because I rarely print anything nowadays so I really have no need for a printer. Which leads you to the next question, "So why did you attach your printer given that fact that I don't print often?". Basically, to make sure that it could be done as easily as if it were done in Windows. And, IMHO, it was just as easy.

You can download the podcast here - Episode 10

Before you buy any new printer go to this website:

http://www.linuxprinting.org./printer_list.cgi

I hope you enjoyed this podcast.

NEWS ITEMS

Beginning Ubuntu Linux Book Review

2006-09-18T20:27:00.000-07:00

Intro - This is episode 9 for the week of Sept 17 to Sept 23 2006.

Welcome - Hello and welcome back, thank you for joining me this week. I have a book review that you may find informative. on this weeks podcast. The book is called Beginning Ubuntu Linux by Keir Thomas and published by Apress. Enjoy!

Yes, I know. I inadvertently called WINE a Windows emulator. Which it is not. It is an application compatibility layer! W.I.N.E. = WINE Is Not an Emulator. A thousand apologies to the maintainers of WINE.

For those of you who are new, this podcast is dedicated to helping new users get comfortable with Ubuntu and Linux in general as well as give information to potential users in order to help them get over their fears of switching to a new operating system.

News
1. Killing the 5 Myths against Linux - http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/myths.html

Myth #1 - Linux is hard to install Especially if I am not sure I want to keep it, but just try it out. Of course not true, Ubuntu is very easy to install take some of us less than 20 minutes. Also, many of the Linux distro's have a live cd where you can try before you write anything to your hard drive.

Myth #2 - Linux is free and therefore unsupported. If you have been on the forums you understand that there is a huge amount of information. From "how to's", support from Linux veterans, and general information. All provided for the end user free of charge. Canonical also offers professional service plans mainly for the business to business market. As a side note, when I installed ubuntu on my laptop, my main source for technical support were ubuntu forums and Google.

Myth # 3 - Linux is for techies and does not have an interface like windows. I could see where this is true. My only brush with linux was at a college and back then it was the old DOS style text interface that ran batch files to run programs. But Linux users have had excellent GUI's for years and they rival both Windows and OSX interfaces. Here is just a few examples of the many options that are available to linux users: Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Enlightment, Fluxbox. There are I'm told many more.

Myth #4 - There is not much software developed for Linux available. Possible. In terms of sheer magnitude maybe, but in terms of quality, is up for argument. I agree that the gold standards are MSOffice and Adobe Photoshop. And there may be other pieces of software that you just can't live without. For instance, I use Quicken for my personal finances, musicians might use Audition for tracking, and web designers might use Dreamweaver. But all is not lost...see the next Myth!

Myth #5 - I have to give up all my windows software. No yet! WINE, which is a "compatibilty layer" for Linux will allow certain Windows programs to run in a Linux environment. I hear that Cedega and Crossover are also options that allow Windows programs to run under Linux although for a fee. I haven't given this a try yet but I think I may do this for a future podcast. Hmmm...

2. Ubuntu live cd with Flash 9 that works!!! Here is the Link.
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/09/customizing_ubuntu_live_cd_606_1.html

3. Free Linux and UNIX books - http://freecomputerbooks.com/unixBooksIndex.html

4. Edgy eft is coming soon here is some looks at the GUI and a link to the site on ubuntu.com devoted to edgy - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/knot3?highlight=%28edgy%29%7C%28eft%29

Ubuntu Strength Security Pt II

2006-09-11T16:33:00.000-07:00

Welcome Back,

The comic is from Randall Munroe from his website xkcd.com, funny! I would like to thank Peter who was vacationing in Greece for letting me know that one of my links was not working. the link should happily redcirect you to the Ubuntu Counter Project. Also, here is that link from Linux.com titled "top tips for new ubuntu users". Let me know what you think. Check out the new service from Google called Google Related Content the box should be in the left margin. I think it is still in beta but I have seen it and has given some relevant suggestions if not for ubuntu specific items at least Linux related stuff. I dont make any money of of this, I just thought it was a good way to give the end user more information. Here are the news items that I covered with the links to them

News #1 - http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6147197554.html
News #2 - http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=100

This week, I installed a package that helps to configure the built in firewall (iptables) in Ubuntu. A useful application for those of us who wish to add another layer of security to our already industrial strength security found in every linux machine:)

Thanks for all the comments and participation, I'll be speaking to you all very soon.

If you are looking for the ogg feed you can subscribe to it by putting the URL feeds.feedburner.com/FreshUbuntuOgg into your podcatcher.

Next week, I plan to do a short book review among other things see you soon, Ciao!

Ubuntu Powered Security

2006-09-04T21:02:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Here is a screenshot of the Kubuntu desktop. Yes, that is purple you all see. Looks appealing for the most part, although I am partial to blue. I hope the Ubuntu team heard that, haha.

I hope everyone had a great holiday weeekend. I am getting more and more comfortable with Ubuntu and getting to know my way around much better. Even though I still have a computer running windows xp here at home, which my family usually uses, while I use the computer with Ubuntu running on it exclusively. And as a regular user it is functional for 100% of the activities that I normally would do on an XP system.

This past week they announced the "Knot 2" release of "Edgy Eft". Note this is only for developers and those of you who are a little more adventurous. Edgy is at this point still beta testing in order to get the operating system ready for its final release date of October 2006.

Lastly, another billboard? Yes, this one spotted in the Silicon Valley on highway 101. Here is the link.

This episode I talked about common sense security. Here is a synopsis of the podcast:

1. Password protection for system administration tasks (root user vs. regular user)
2. Installing software packages from known and approved repositories.
3. Making sure that updates are current to plug up invulnerabilities.
4. Limiting who has access to your computer.

All this is fully explained in the podcast.

Windows Equivalent Apps for Ubuntu

2006-08-28T19:19:00.000-07:00

I covered some Windows equivalent software for ubuntu and came up with the usual suspects for those of you who are more experienced users. You know OpenOffice, gimp, gaim...but there are also some others that are "new" finds especially for us new2ubuntu types like rezound, ardour, and gnuCash. Here is a link to the list. If there are any users who can suggest others your comments are appreciated.

I also mentioned that I got my ship-it discs a few days ago and they look good. Each disc came in a sleeve with 5 people in a huddle....not bad. Did I mention I got some cool stickers with them? Lucky....

Ouch! I got hit by the x server bug. I tried to reconfigure the xorg.config but it didnt work, so I went ahead and reinstalled Ubuntu. I haven't been without any problems with ubuntu os but I will say this. the reinstall only took 30 minutes and was painless. Had I waited a day i could have salvaged the installation but it neither here nor there at this point.

Check out Ubuntu Counter here. You get a number that and a button that you can put on your website or emails, pretty nifty if you are into that kind of thing. Well, that's it see you again soon.

If you are looking for the mp3 feed It is right here.

Remedial command line

2006-08-22T16:55:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome back!!! I now have this podcast in Ogg Vorbis format the feed for that is located HERE
This week I did some remedial command line commands - this includes:

ls - list command that returns a list of the contents in the directory
mkdir - This command will allow you to make a directory
cd - This command will allow the user to move to another directory
cp - Copy command, this will copy a file from one directory to another
rm - deletes a file
mv - renames or moves a file
locate - helps find a file

Also I have a list of further resources for you to either find help or more information:

http://gnomefiles.org/ this is a good site to find packages for manual download among other things, it also has links to other good things

http://sourceforge.net/ Much like gnomefiles.org, has lots of packages for download

http://www.linux.com/ This is a great place to find out about news regarding linux in general and to find great tutorials

I also get a lot of news about Ubuntu from digg.com

Note: I will generally do a google search specifically for help on certain things rekated to ubuntu by specifically entering "ubuntu" as one of the search criteria. This usually gets me very close!!

Lastly, I like to listen to linuxreality.com podcast with Chess Griffin

Best of luck to you and I'll be speaking with you later.

DOWNLOAD -- 005Freshubuntu19Aug06.ogg

Now in ogg vorbis format

2006-08-21T14:45:00.000-07:00

Hi, I think it would be wise to have the feed also in ogg vorbis format;p