Linux For The Rest Of Us #108 – Linux Survival Guide

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A Linux podcast for anyone even remotely interested in Linux!

With Steve McLaughlin, the Door to Door Geek and Cody Cooper

Episode 108 Show Notes

 

Basic Basic

Preparation is important

 

The Linux survival guide – With Windows 8 on the horizon many of you are completely confused with the new operating system and will be looking to alternatives. Most of you will be upgrading from Windows XP to a new operating system and OSX won’t be in your price range. Many of you will stick to Windows 7, but some of you will be moving to something else or looking for a new cheap alternative.

(http://gearburn.com/2012/10/the-linux-survival-guide/)

 

Santoku a new Linux distro focused on Security – There’s a new GNU/Linux distro designed to help you in every aspect of your mobile forensics, mobile malware analysis, reverse engineering and security testing.

(http://linuxaria.com/article/santoku-a-new-linux-distro-focused-on-security)

(http://infolookup.securegossip.com/)

(https://viaforensics.com/)

 

Enter a world of 3D Fractals with Mandelbulber! – There are many pieces of software one can use to generate fractals based on mathematical equations, but Mandelbulber is one of the best, being completely free and open source and offering the ability to generate and explore fractals in three dimensions. With Mandelbulber, you can really create more than you can imagine!

(http://worldofgnome.org/enter-a-world-of-3d-fractals-with-mandelbulber/)

 

Model B now ships with 512MB of RAM – Those of you lucky enough to receive a 512MB Pi this morning can download updated firmware here. For example, download arm384_start.elf and rename it to start.elf on /boot partition. You will then have a 384M/128M memory split.

(http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2180)

(http://myworld.ebay.com/cooktechinc?_trksid=p2047675.l2559)

 

Add watermark to videos in openshot.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKIc_daXHhc)

 

Supporting women in open technology and culture.

(http://geekspeak.org/episodes/2012/09/08/)

(http://adainitiative.org/)

 

new_script Version 3 – The most popular script on the old version of LinuxCommand.org was new_script, a bash shell script that created bash shell scripts. That is, a script template generator.

(http://lcorg.blogspot.com/2012/10/newscript-version-3.html)

 

How To: Create Your Own Craigslist Analytics Server

(http://www.marktastic.com/2011/08/how-to-create-your-own-craigslist-analytics-server/)

 

Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness, or to commemorate popular culture and historical topics.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology)

 

New Asus Windows 8 laptops… also available with Linux! – With Windows 8 now mere weeks away from launch, hardware manufacturers have been clamouring over each other to announce their latest devices geared towards running it.

(http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/2-new-asus-new-windows-8-laptops-available-with-ubuntu)

 

Email

Re: enable wireless on startup

(http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10429501&postcount=2)

 

HOWTO: Enable Wireless Networking on Boot in Ubuntu Linux without NetworkManager -(http://www.zachburlingame.com/2011/07/howto-enable-wireless-networking-on-boot-in-ubuntu-linux-without-networkmanager/)

 

Avidemux Pronunciation

(http://www.avidemux.org/smf/index.php?topic=4181.0)

 

 

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