Episode 146 – Where’d that hour go?
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Total Running Time: 1:32:50
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Summary
Kernel News: Mat
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Distro Talk: Tony
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Tech News:
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Toolbox:
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Listener Feedback
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Outtro Music
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Intro:
Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich
Sound bites by Mike Tanner
Kernel News: Mat
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https://www.kernel.org/
mainline: 4.0-rc2 2015-03-03 stable: 3.19.1 2015-03-06 stable: 3.18.9 2015-03-06 longterm: 3.14.35 2015-03-06 longterm: 3.12.38 2015-02-19 longterm: 3.10.71 2015-03-06 longterm: 3.4.106 2015-02-02 longterm: 3.2.68 2015-03-06 longterm: 2.6.32.65 2014-12-13 linux-next: next-20150306 2015-03-06
Distro Talk: Tony
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- 2-24 – Tails 1.3
- 2-25 – KaOS 2015.02
- 2-26 – Vine Linux 6.3
- 2-26 – Quirky 7.0
- 2-27 – IPFire 2.17 Core 87
- 3-2 – Porteus Kiosk 3.3.0
- 3-6 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
- 3-6 – Linux From Scratch 7.7
- 3-8 – Tiny Core Linux 6.1
Distro of the Week: Tony
- openSUSE – 1430
- Manjaro – 1524
- Debian – 1534
- Ubuntu – 1643
- Mint – 3187
Tech News:
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VMWare sued for GPL violations
http://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-sued-for-failure-to-comply-with-linuxs-license/
Grab your pitchforks: Ubuntu to switch to systemd on Monday
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/07/ubuntu_to_switch_to_systemd/
Kool Tool
phpVirtualBox installation on Debian Linux and Apache2 web server
http://linuxconfig.org/phpvirtualbox-installation-on-debian-linux-and-apache2-web-server
Turn your browser into notepad!
KDE Korner
Calligra 2.9 has been released.
https://dot.kde.org/2015/02/26/calligra-29-brings-biggest-krita-release-and-new-kexi-partnership
Kubuntu 15.4 beta 1 was released
The default desktop in this release is plasma 5!
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/VividVervet/Beta1/Kubuntu
Kdenlive to be released with KDE Applications 15.04
https://kdenlive.org/node/9430
Converseen – releases verion 9.1
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Converseen?content=111558
KDE accepted to Google Summer of Code 2015
https://dot.kde.org/2015/03/06/kde-accepted-google-summer-code-2015
Toolbox:
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Putting Special Characters In Your Document With VIM
In Vim when creating a document for human consumption rather than some config file or a script, you may sometimes need to enter a special character. These are characters which can not be entered with a single key press but require a key combination like:
Letters with a diacritical mark such as ä, é, and ô. Vim calls these digraphs
Characters with special meanings like ®, ©, and §
Along with literal control character like
For the purpose of this short tut we are not going to discuss Vim’s alternative multibyte input methods. I am also assuming that you use a US or UK keyboard layout, mostly do your typing in English. Sorry to the rest of the world but that is what I have and use. You should also be using Vim in a UTF-8 capable terminal, and have your encoding set to “set encoding=utf-8” in your .vimrc config file.
Vim has an easy shorthand to input digraphs. You use this in insert mode or command mode, not in normal mode. You use “Ctrl+k” followed two printable characters in succession. Like this:
Ctr+k a: -> ä
Ctr+k e’ -> é
Ctr+k o^ -> ô
Ctr+k ss -> ß
This sample is very small compared to what Vim can do with digraphs. To see a complete list type “:digraphs” in normal mode.
Vim also has a way to enter any unicode, it’s just easier to remember a two character mnemonic than a four digit arbitrary code. However for the unicode characters with no digraph equivalent you need to use unicode.
Ctrl+v u+00ae -> ®
Ctrl+v u+00a9 -> ©
Ctrl+v u+00a7 -> §
Ctrl+v u+00a1 -> ¡
You can also print other characters with special meanings. You would use the “Ctrl+v” combination the the key you need the symbol for
Ctrl+v
Ctrl+v
Ctrl+v
You can get unicodes to use here:
Security corner
Reconnaissance Tool Linked to French Intelligence Malware Babar
http://www.securityweek.com/reconnaissance-tool-linked-french-intelligence-malware-babar
Linux Convention Scene for March 2015
12 – 15 March, 2015
AsiaBSDCon 2015,
Tokyo University of Science,
Tokyo, Japan
AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X.
21 – 22 March 2015
Linux Tag Chmnitzer 2015
Chemnitz Technical University
Six tracks on Saturday: Kernel, databases, publishing, programming, desktop,
Six tracks on Sunday: Society, Systemd, Linux, storage, identity management, cluster/virtualization.
https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2015/de
21 – 22 March 2015
Kansas Linux Fest
Lawrence Public Library
Lawrence, KS
The first in a yearly conference series to promote the sharing of knowledge and code in Kansas. a Yearly Open Source (Free/Libre Open Source Software) and Open Knowledge Festival for Kansas
http://www.kansaslinuxfest.us/
http://www.openkansas.us/
24 – 26 March 2015
FLOSS UK Spring Conference 2015
Hilton York
York, England
This is the UK’s only conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. It attracts a large number of professionals from sites of all shapes and sizes. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects. Sample presentations:
Intrusion Detection using the Linux Audit System
An introduction to Btrfs
Enhancing ssh for Security & Utility
http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Spring2015
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Claudio – I, too, was glad to hear that #! was back, but it seems that these are more like splinters of the original than the original actually coming back. Larry Cafiero wrote about this a bit ago on FOSS Force and it seems to have caused some controversy in the comments especially since he himself is part of another project looking to do the same.
http://fossforce.com/2015/02/crunchbang-the-rest-of-the-story/
Outtro Music
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Clock by Gianluca Bove
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/401918/clock
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