Contributors:

Adrian, M0GLJ/VK2BAC reinstalled Ubuntu on his Asus Eee PC 701SD, and wondered if there was a logging program that worked well on the small screen.

Paul, no callsign given, asks for a link to Shackbox Linux.

Bill, KA9WKA, offered a review of Linux Mint 7.

Paul Shirey writes to ask about the upcoming Windows 7.

Ray, KO4RB, submits his comments praising Linux Mint and the podcast.

Announcements:

Resonant Frequency now has a page at Facebook. Look for Resonant Frequency Podcast

More about spam.

Discussion:

Linux Mint 7 with guest Bill, KA9WKA.   We talk about Linux Mint 7, CentOS, various other distributions, why we like, or dislike, Linux Mint, and a few of the problems encountered.

Russ talks about trying Linux Mint on his 10" Eee PC.  He installed it via Pendrivelinux.  He had a problem with the wireless driver, but a kernel upgrade and a minor configuration change fixed that. The wired Ethernet interface did not work.  Compiz works, but you probably wouldn’t want to run it all the time on a netbook.  Some of the power-saving features don’t work.

Richard describes his experience with a wireless network intrusion.  Once recovered, he tried to install Mint on one of his machines, but although the live CD ran fine, and the install went well, the machine would hang while loading the desktop.  He suspects it’s a problem with the hardware.  Otherwise, he likes Linux Mint.  Our recommendation for first-time Linux users: try Linux Mint.

Overall, Russ likes it too, but has issues with his web camera, primarily due to changes to the kernel and Video for Linux, v.2.  To fix it, he had to install Linux Mint 5, instead of 7.    For some cameras, you can pipe a V4L2 camera through V4L virtual video device.  Your camera has to provide pixel format YUV420P.  If that’s the case, the Flashcam project might help. YMMV

Mojito

Music:

“Chalkboard” by Convey on “Convey (EP)”

“How Fast” by Promise of Redemption on “When the Flowers Bloom…”

Hey, everyone. I’m spending the week in San Jose, California at the O’Reilly OSCON conference. Since OSCON is an Open Source convention and has a lot of information about Linux …

Contributors:

George, N0JRJ, really likes the podcasts and would like to participate in the live show.  (Just show up! -Ed.)  He also agrees with Richard that it can take a long time to amass the equipment for a radio station, and that we need to foster new Elmers.

Walter, KV6M, made a donation to the podcast.  Thank-you!

Rodzilla, no call yet, is looking forward to getting his license and a Yaesu FT-8800.  He would like remote control software for the FT-8800, and wants to know if the programming software runs under Wine in Linux.

K6*** provided instructions for compiling fldigi under Ubuntu Linux 9.10 X64.

The Princeton Ham Radio Club mentioned the LHS podcast on their website.  That’s Princeton, KY.

Announcements:

Links and Notes:

Richard talks about his experience with the Linux Cranks (Stay clear of the monorail!)  (ogg format, explicit)

Hacker Public Radio has asked Richard and Russ to do a couple segments.

Richard rants about receiving spam via Twitter.

We discuss “Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu” .

Firefox addons useful for ham radio operators.

AE7Q has tools to add callsign and grid square lookups to your Firefox search engine tool bar (Scroll down to the pink boxes on the lower right corner of the page. -Ed.)

Mozilla has a QRZ.com addon.

There is also a plugin to search the ARRL Callsign database.

N0HR has Propfire, a Firefox plugin for propagation information.

N0HR also offers PropStats, which provides propagation statistics for your website. https://www.n0hr.com/propstats.htm

haminfobar from John, G0DPC.

hamlinks toolbar from N0HR.

Take a look at VA3STL’s weblog (October 5, 2008 entry).

Not actually ham radio related, but a couple of cool 3D plugins:  FoxTab lets you browse your Firefox tabs in a 3D fashion, and Cooliris allows you to browse your image files in a similar way.

Synergy allows you to share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, with just software and your existing network.    There are several configuration tools, such as QuickSynergy for Linux or OS-X, another Mac OS X Synergy GUI, and SynergyKM.

Xirc is a good IRC client program.  There are versions for Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Conclusion:

Contact Richard via:

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: twitter.com/kb5jbv

Web: lhsinfo.org

Forums at blacksparrowmedia.com

Contact Russ via:

Email: [email protected]

Twitter.com/jrwoodman

Music:

“San Jose” by Suns of March from their album “Bulletproof Heart”.

“Another Me” by P. J. Pacifico from their album “Well I’ll Be”.

Contributors:

Don WS4E sent us a pointed email. He uses SuperOS and was even able to get his programming software for his talkies. Likes SatScape for satellites in Linux.

Bob K4BB says that you can use MONO for running HRD on Linux. behind on the podcast. And Likes Unetbootin Really likes the quality of the show. Feels the websites need help. Bob had four or five pieces of feedback this time. Thinks the music is a waste.

BTW Colin and Martin at ICQ Podcast are our friends 🙂

Captain Spauldings Blog, He uses Ubuntu and likes the podcast. (Hooray for Captain Spaulding the African explorer)

Donation Mark K. Thanks Mark

Richard says “Join the fun and be a guest co-host”

The Techie Geek gave us a mention. Thanks for the tip on the Sansa Clip Russ

We have appeared again in a comment over at Solder Smoke. Keep spreading the word.

Thanks to the guys at TiTradio podcast for the mention

Hello to Azimuth, Wayne KB7CFD, Don’t fear the badger.

Kent VE4KEH sent us a message about forwarding X11 over SSH using xming

Announcements:

Links and Notes:

xming for windows

putty for windows

Russ talks about Java for a while:

Its cross platform

A little clunkie

Side track to Adobe Air

Cool stuff available

BTW there is a version of Adobe Air for Linux

Now that we have our Java, We need a doughnut 😛

Drats extravaganza:

Terminal for D-Star low speed data on Talkies and Mobile Rigs

Dan KK7DS

Drats.com

It is cross Platform

Written in Python and GTK

Not only the terminal but a repeater too

Windows installer

on Linux you also need a few libraries

Easy to use if you have ever used terminal software

If you haven’t used terminal software before, Still easy to set up to run

Auto QST’s, Preformatted forms, Weather info, APRS, even internet email.

Heard List, APRS data

Session activity log

Ratflector access for testing

The Drats Repeater Proxy:

Very simple

Setup you own repeater at your house

Can be setup for over the air or network operation

Don’t have to setup the ports for your local network while testing

Auto id of repeater

Monitor screen shows connected computers and radios

Sometimes Simplicity is best

Web page has How-to’s, Wiki, Info and mailing list for information about Drats

Ratflector on ports 9000 and 9001 for testing over at the Drats website

Russ says it works on MAC

Check out the website at

Richard Hopes that Drats becomes the standard for D-Star low speed digital

Music:

Gamma Leonis – Bacon, Linux and Tomato (Part I & II)

Jonathan Coulton - Always the Moon

Dropout Year - This Notebook

Contributors:

KI6FEN – Likes keeping older equipment alive with Linux

Rob VE3FRJ – Rob had a little trouble finding his apps after an install

Jeff KB5WCK – Left a comment thanking us for mentioning his website and Russ mantioned 73’s.org. Then Richard turned it into a real commercial for everybody’s websites

Gene K8EE – Thinks Linux is in practical, He listens to the podcast but can’t figure out why we use Linux and everybody knows we are just Microsoft haters. Russ and Richard respond in kind with extreme prejudice and packet for flavor.

Announcements:

Links and Notes:

This time we talk about stuff that just works after a Linux install since one of the emails intimates that everything works in Windows and nothing works in Linux.

Web Browsers: Firefox, Iceweasel, Epiphany, Opera, etc. (NO IE)

Mail Clients: Evolution, Thunderbird, Icedove, Claws, etc.

Word Processing: OpenOffice.org, gedit, abiword, etc.

Media Players: Rhythmbox, Banshee, Amarok, Totem, mplayer, xine, etc.

CD Burners: Brasero, Gnomebaker, K3B, etc.

After trying to sort out chickens and eggs and carts we agreed that talking about stuff that works and from now on we will go back to fixin’ problems.

We wrapped up by answering some questions for the live audience in the chat room. Check the show schedule at https://lhsinfo.org for the next live recording

Music:

Gamma Leonis – Bacon, Linux and Tomato (Part I & II)

John Ellison - Melt Away

Shauna Burns - I’m Dirty