Episode 73 - Listener Feedback

[Chess]

In this episode: a brief talk about some desktop software, including Openbox, Conky, and the ttm Tint Task Manager; audio Listener Tip; lots and lots of listener feedback.

http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-73-listener-feedback/

[mjjzf]

Very nice with a user feedback-focused episode.
What I was surprised to hear was the Ubuntu user who said he had yet to reboot. Do you people have the machines turned on 24/7?
About kernel recompilation: It is fairly tricky to explain. it is good if one can make a screen recording while explaining, but through sound only it is difficult to benefit from.
Regarding the comment from my fellow countryman Anders: In Fluxbox, Mod1 is the Alt key. Mod4 is usually the Windows key.

[davijordan]

Wow, I can not wait to use the tip about figlet!!!

This is what i use for command line login from terminal
Becuase the need for extra characters and non-display ones, they may look kind of weird. They do look right on the terminal....

/etc/issue
            __-----_.                        ______
          /  \\      \\           o  O  O   _(      )__
         /    |  |   \\_---_   o._.      _(           )_
        |     |            \\   | |""""(_   Let's see... )
        |     |             |@ | |    (_               _)
         \\___/   ___       /   | |      (__          _)
           \\____(____\\___/     | |         (________)
            |__|               | |          |
           /   \\-_             | |         |'
         /      \\_ "__ _       !_!--v---v--"
        /         "|  |>)      |""""""""|
       |          _|  | ._--""||        |
       _\\_____________|_|_____||________|_
      /                                   \\
     /_____________________________________\\
     /                                      \\
    /_______________________________________\\
        |                               >
        {_______________________________|               ________
        <                               }              / SNOOPY \\
\\|/     |_\\\\/____________\\||//__________|             /__________\\   \\|/ |/



/etc/motd
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.

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                                            `-`             `

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   than as specifically authorized will be prosecuted
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Last login: Sat Aug  4 12:12:03 2007 from oemd02

update:
nslu2@oesrvr3:~$ sudo apt-cache search figlet
caca-utils - text mode graphics utilities
toilet - display large colourful characters in text mode
toilet-fonts - collection of TOIlet fonts

[Claudio]

Hey Chess.  Great listener feedback episode.

I thought it was rather interesting that one of the listeners was using this podcast to get around the Darwin environment in Mac OS X.  Very cool!  For the mostpart, a lot of the commands are pretty transparent among the Unix-like environments.  There are only a few that differ like those that call for system information.  I know that in Darwin or BSD you need to do hostinfo to find out information about the kernel version, while in Linux it's uname.  Things like that.

One good site to compare the commands among different UNIX environments is the Rosetta Stone for Unix.  It uses Javascript to create a table of common commands used on the UNIX environments that you've selected for different things.

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

Had it not been for this page, I would not have been able to figure some things out in FreeBSD as quickly.

[thelastknowngod]

Hey Chess.  Great listener feedback episode.

I thought it was rather interesting that one of the listeners was using this podcast to get around the Darwin environment in Mac OS X.  Very cool!  For the mostpart, a lot of the commands are pretty transparent among the Unix-like environments.  There are only a few that differ like those that call for system information.  I know that in Darwin or BSD you need to do hostinfo to find out information about the kernel version, while in Linux it's uname.  Things like that.

One good site to compare the commands among different UNIX environments is the Rosetta Stone for Unix.  It uses Javascript to create a table of common commands used on the UNIX environments that you've selected for different things.

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

Had it not been for this page, I would not have been able to figure some things out in FreeBSD as quickly.

thats an awesome site. ive been wanting to try out solaris lately (i dont know why either). this will be very helpful if i ever get around to it.

[Claudio]

thats an awesome site. ive been wanting to try out solaris lately (i dont know why either). this will be very helpful if i ever get around to it.

Yes it is.  It's one of the most critical bookmarks in Firefox for me (along with LR ).