So what is the purpose - I had an old windows backup workstation at work that I did a lot backups with. It got to the point where it was just too slow and low spec to handle the windows 7 updates and with my company switching to the 365/sharepoint/one drive it was not needed anymore. So I wanted not to throw it away as I had sprung for 160GB hard drive a long time ago. “I know at work and purchasing a hard drive for work.” But it lasted more than 10 years doing my outlook backups and file shares.

So my first problem was I was pretty sure I only had 32 bit.

So no centos or suse in 32 bit. I could have went fedora but I wanted a really long time with support. So it came down to ubuntu 16.04, Debian or Net BSD with I386 repos I could use long term. I was more comfortable with Ubuntu and 16.04 has about 3 years support left on it.

Its a small form factor computer so I carried it home for a few days. And got the ISO down loaded again no usb drive boot only DVD.

So what is it. I did a uname -a and and looked at the proc cpu to see what the cpu was.

https://www.tecmint.com/find-out-linux-system-is-32-bit-or-64-bit/

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001121.htm

The second linked worked best.

I had a lot of trouble with lamp and own/next cloud with both snaps and straight install. I broke the install several times. In the end I said what do really know how do well with it right now. So I installed Open SSH server, tightVNC, A really thin xfce 4, ffmpeg and youtube-dl and uget. So I will play with snaps only in the future and keep this basic config.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-vnc-on-ubuntu-16-04

Note I did not auto start VNC because I found in my creations of this server that it used too much RAM vs just starting it and killing it.

It is the perfect video processing machine in the moment. If youtube-dl can’t get it I can use uget via vnc and that will then transcode if needed. Mostly for mp3.

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.

I will work on the nextcloud snap and other snaps as they are easy to install or remove without hurting the base system.

Possible other projects - Owncloud or Storj

https://storj.io/share.html

One you can make a little money with it :)

SUMMARY

In this episode, the HPR_AudioBookClub discusses Triplanetary: First in the Lensman Series by E. E. "Doc" Smith.

https://librivox.org/triplanetary-first-in-the-lensman-series-by-e-e-doc-smith/

Non-Spoiler Thoughts

Like the last AudioBook, we all felt that there were quite a few cliches in the story, however this book is probably the source of most of the cliches it uses.

If you want to see what Lensmen doesn't look like watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-td8Jp0hJVA

BEVERAGE REVIEWS

As usual, the HPR_AudioBookClub took some time to review the beverages that each of us were drinking during the episode

Thaj: Grapefuit Juice... Straight. Apparently NOT straight up

x1101: Goose Island Bourbon County Stout

pokey: Smuttynose Winter Ale https://smuttynose.com/beer/winter-ale/

Other Things We Talked About

Port knocking

http://www.portknocking.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking

John Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002354/

Danny Elfman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman

https://youtu.be/6SX8cWGcHJs

Stranger in a strange land

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land

Star Wars Extended Universe

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Legends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_expanded_universe

Internet outages

OUR NEXT AUDIOBOOK

City Of Masks by Mike Reeves-McMillan

https://scribl.com/books/PC439/city-of-masks

FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS

The rest of the Lensman Series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series

What the new Star Wars movies should have been about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy

FEEDBACK

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OUR AUDIO

This episode was processed using Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. We've been making small adjustments to our audio mix each month in order to get the best possible sound. It's been especially challenging getting all of our voices relatively

Gitolite provides an admin a centralised interface, in the form of a configuration file, to make managing users, user permissions, repos, and user and repo groups easy. It abstracts Git users from UNIX users by defining a user by public keys, and manages permissions down to the branch-level. And better yet, it is itself managed over Git.

Proper documentation is available on Gitolite.com

Summary:

Casper and Rutiger opt for a time of ease and relaxation by discussing happy light topics: the decline of American Empire and recent reversal of Net Neutrality protections [or the rollout of Net Neuterality -c] (December 2017).

Links and Notes:

Re: Empire - moral decline and massive wealth inequality, role in imperial decline [1] -r

Re: Empire - Noam Chomsky and Decline of American Empire [2] -r

Re: Empire - moral decline - death as sport (Onion spoof) [3] -r

Re: Net Neutrality - Rutiger apologies - to Casper, for completely derailing the conversation on Net Neutrality by believing that pay-for-bandwidth/capacity and limiting access to content are both legitimate elements of the Net Neutrality debate, but over-focusing on the infrastructure/de-emphasizing the content argument. See Prevent Over-Use of Bandwidth and Pricing Models vs. Data Discrimination [4] -r

Re: Empire - consumption of human suffering as entertainment - modern Roman colosseum [5] -r

Re: Empire - the thought leaders over at Reddit on elements of declining empire [6] -r

Re: Thoughts - Volume One Chapter Two of Diek Minusky’s The Nature of Systems will be coming with… episode 4! Sorry folks. Hold… hold! -r

Re: Getting Things Done - by David Allen [7]

[1] 2 overlooked characteristics of an empire in decline - Business Insider

[2]

Surprised to see in my podcast feed an episode about an insignificant program which I'd written two decades earlier, I thought I'd record a response with some thoughts on free software's long tail.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/block-more-ads-unlimited-cloud-storage-multi-threaded-robert-mccurdy

I am about to buy a new macbook pro and talk about the things I do to install and protect it.

The case

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01MPYI8SA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The Cables

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B06W53PXRB/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01COOQIKU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The Screen protector

https://www.appelhoes.nl/Moshi-iVisor-AG-screenprotector-MacBook-Pro-13-inch-2016-Touch-Bar?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImvLt9PCI2AIVyTLTCh2FuwXfEAQYAiABEgJY6_D_BwE

Homebrew and Cask

https://brew.sh/

https://caskroom.github.io/

New hosts

There were no new hosts this month.

Thanks to all HPR contributors in 2017!

@einebiene,

Ahuka,

Andrew Conway,

b-yeezi,

Beeza,

Bill "NFMZ1" Miller,

Bitbox,

bjb,

BobJonkman,

brian,

Brian in Ohio,

Christopher M. Hobbs,

clacke,

Claudio Miranda,

Clinton Roy,

cobra2,

Curtis Adkins (CPrompt^),

Dave Morriss,

Dave Yates,

David Whitman,

deepgeek,

dodddummy,

droops,

Epicanis,

Eric Duhamel,

FiftyOneFifty,

Frank Bell,

fth,

Geddes,

Hannah, of Terra, of Sol,

HPR Volunteers,

HPR_AudioBookClub,

Ironic Sodium,

Jezra,

Jon Kulp,

Jrullo,

JWP,

Ken Fallon,

klaatu,

Knox,

laindir,

lostnbronx,

m1rr0r5h4d35,

mattkingusa,

mirwi,

An extra-long episode of the grand finale of the Interface Zero RPG play-through.

Spoilers: Chaiwei dies in combat and Syd runs off with Tina.

At the end of the show are all the credits containing sound effects and source materials. Here they are in text form.

Sound effects were taken from freesound.org. Thanks to the following artists:

interfacezero/muzak/70891__spukkin__trumpetmetal.wav

interfacezero/muzak/212926__simongray__mojo-cafe-nr-wagamama.flac

interfacezero/muzak/243629__lebcraftlp__heavy-rain.flac

interfacezero/muzak/382735__schots__gun-shot.flac

interfacezero/muzak/186104__marcel-farres__elevator.flac

interfacezero/muzak/187866__theomegapixel__metal-grind.flac

interfacezero/muzak/66713__sunnysidesound__desk-pound.wav

interfacezero/muzak/367222__bluedelta__thunder-rain-low-frequencies-4-channel-48khz.wav

interfacezero/muzak/212678__fridobeck__firework-explosion-1.wav

interfacezero/muzak/213610__dpoggioli__laser-gun-explosion.wav

interfacezero/muzak/100772__cgeffex__huge-rocket-launcher.wav

interfacezero/muzak/336735__newagesoup__double-explosion-bright-dark.wav

interfacezero/ep2/329877__klavo1985__music-of-the-black-circus-the-very-best-by-kris-klavenes.flac

interfacezero/ep2/94914__pcaeldries__lakeside2.flac

interfacezero/ep2/153376__inchadney__the-bay.flac

interfacezero/ep3/152396__taavi55__big-smash.ogg

interfacezero/ep3/135465__joelaudio__quick-smash-001.wav

interfacezero/ep3/387177__pfranzen__smashing-a-glass.ogg

Music

Lyphrygerator and Wood/Water by William Kenlon, used with permission.

All other music by Klaatu.

Story

Want to play this game yourself?

Pathfinder and Starfinder are by Paizo

Interface Zero module available from driveThruRPG.com

Adventure path Job inSecurity is available from driveThruRPG.com.

The source of the story is available from driveThruRPG.com

Editor's note 2017-12-28: link added from comments.

Casper and Rutiger attempt to STAY ON TARGET by discussing hacking… which when you think about it is an utterly pretentious and vague goal for a podcast presented by Hacker Public Radio, especially when considering the end result. Shame on us!

Other topics include Friendsgiving and giving thanks; probably the greatest gaming console of the 1970’s; early “hackings” (sic) committed by the hosts; << >>

References:

The link to the first chapter of Dief Minusky’s seminal the Nature of Systems is freely available here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/or5vefjumde4qsk/TNOS%20E-I%20C1%2020030415.pdf?dl=0

Although we referred to the Chapter 8 material on system network security during the show, Rutiger decided it was better to release chapters, incrementally, in order let listeners gain a fuller appreciation for the work. Rutiger is also attempting to track down the original author, who never publicly released the work, to gain retroactive permission for this link, but for the moment Alien Brothers Podcast takes full responsibility for allowing access to this non-copyrighted work and we’ll just go ahead, you know, feel good about the possibility it will all turn out OK.

Uber Data Breach (2017; CNN.com)

How to Disable the Intel Management Engine Backdoor

https://beinglibertarian.com/disable-intel-management-engine-backdoor-courtesy-nsa/