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Good day to all you HPR Listers. Sorry that its been a while since I recorded a show, but as they say life has got in the way over the last few months, and I've spent quite a bit of it away from the home front.
As it happens on one of those trips away my laptop running Mint Mate 18.3 LTS, based on Ubuntu 16.04LTS decided that it wouldn't boot as it didn't recognise my account, and as I had not created a Root account I could not sign in and fix the issue, which was a corrupted configuration file in the users folder.
As luck would have it I had just downloaded the latest Ubuntu Mate 18.04 .iso to try it as a live disc, so I had a boot disc that I could use to boot the laptop and access the data to rescue all my important information which was mainly all my emails and my browser settings and bookmarks, as this is one of my travelling laptops not much of importance is permanently stored on it, so it didn't take long and I was ready to reinstall the OS to the PC. Just in case I had missed some important data on the current SSD, as I had a spare SSD with me in the bag, yes I'm geeky enough to carry a spare SSD or 2 in the bag. So I dug it out and installed it into the PC, which by the way is a Dell Latitude E6540 with an i5 dual core mobile chip with hyper-threading. It's currently running 4Gig DDR3 RAM but can run up to 16Gig in the 2 slots it has.
So I booted the laptop with the USB boot disc I had created and as with all recent Ubuntu releases you get a screen asking if you want to try or install the OS, as I needed a working PC I went straight to the install option. For those not familiar with Linux or Ubuntu, the installer is a joy to use and very friendly to new users. As this was a first install to this SSD the only option I had was a full install which I chose, then was asked if I wanted to do the default install which partitions the drive and installs the bootloader automatically without any further need for intervention or did I want to do a custom partition arrangement. As the default is adequate for my needs I chose this and clicked continue. During this process you also get the option of a minimal or full installation, the minimal installation gets you a running PC with the basic utilities and leaves you to chose what to install later, but as I use the software that would be omitted I chose the full install. You get asked a final time if you are sure you want to install, with a warning that all current data on the disc will be wiped, as I was happy I clicked proceed. At this point the install starts and you are taken through setting up your PC configuration for language, keyboard, and user account. By the time I had completed this, the install was half completed and the whole process took less than 15 minutes.
After the install is complete you get the message to reboot the PC and eject the boot media to reboot into the new install, on first boot you will either be presented with the login screen or go straight to the desktop depending on the choices you made during the install. Once you are at the desktop for the first time you are presented with a wallpaper of the Ubuntu Mate logo and 2 panels one at the top and one at the bottom of the screen. The top one has for those more traditional Linux and Windows users all the information you would expect on the lower panel, such as the menu, notification area etc. As I'm more traditional in my use of a PC I quickly set up the lower panel with the Advanced Mate Menu and other notification apps such as network, clock and calendar and then deleted the other panel, but obviously this is a personal preference - go with what you find comfortable.
The next step after connecting to the local WiFi was to install any updates, which despite this release only being a few days old there were a few, but this didn't take long and in less than an hour, which included backing up and swapping out the SSD I had a fully working laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 Mate.
So there are a few bits of software not included by default in Ubuntu which I use regularly, one of which is synaptic so I opened the terminal and a sudo apt install synaptic later I had the package manager on the PC. You may ask why, but the software Boutique doesn't seem to have all the software available in the repositories and I don't always know the appropriate name of software I'm looking for to use the terminal all the time, so synaptic is a tool I use a lot. The next software that gets installed is Audacity as I use this for editing audio and sometimes extracting the audio stream from videos of the internet, most importantly for HPR listeners it is what I use to record and edit my HPR shows.
So back to Ubuntu 18.04 Mate, I've been running it for a month on the laptop and about 3 weeks on my main box and as you would expect from a LTS (long term support until 2023) it's very solid and stable, I had a glitch transferring my e mails into Thunderbird on my main box, it had worked flawlessly on the laptop, so I ended up having to reinstall from scratch and on the second install it went perfectly, I think it was down to the way I set up Thunderbird which screwed things up, not the OS, but it's all fine now and I didn't lose anything in the process. For me coming from Mint there are a couple of utilities the Mint developers have implemented that are not available in Ubuntu, but nothing I can't work around. Saying that, if there are any Ubuntu developers out there, the Mint USB drive formatter and USB boot disc creation utilities are nice and simple to use but not available in the Ubuntu repositories.
Obviously I've only had limited time to get to use the new OS but so far it doesn't seem too bad coming back to the mother ship so to speak from several years of using Mint Mate, virtually since its inception, but as I record this there has been nothing that has made me feel I need to rush and reinstall Mint, so I'll continue with Ubuntu Mate 18.04 at least until the new Mint19 based on this Ubuntu release comes out.
This was episode 102 of the LinuxLUGcast.
So the LinuxLUGcast is an open podcast/LUG that meets every first and third friday of the month using mumble. This method of running a podcast leaves it open to anyone showing up (which is what we want because it gets difficult for fiftyonefifty and I to come up with topics all the time). We have also gotten the reputation of being a safe for work podcast. This is why episode 102 is being posted here. Between the not safe for work language and the fact that after a few drinks during the podcast I get a little rambly we thought it best not to publish it on the regular LinuxLUGcast feed, but I thought there was some good conversation here that would be lost if it did not go somewhere. After some discussion we at the LinuxLUGcast decided that we would publish it here so that it could be heard by the HPR community.
We have also done some website remodeling which has screwed up the .ogg feed, and wanted to let people know that we are still podcasting and to please check out
http://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the new .ogg feed.
Enjoy
p.s. please forgive my rambling
Confused about leaving your homeland for <strike>greener</strike> pastures? Maybe this episode will shed some light on the subject.
Public domain music from archive.org. Can you find your national anthem? Do you know all the words to your national anthem? Either way, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Klaatu discusses the advantages and disadvantages of going [mostly] cash-only
A git rebase is like a git merge done through rose-coloured glasses.
You can see it for yourself by doing this little experiment. Assuming the alice directory is a valid git repository:
$ cd alice
$ echo "foo" >> rebase.episode
$ git add rebase.episode ; git commit -m 'begin rebase episode'
$ git checkout -b monsters
$ git branch
* monsters
master
$ echo "ghoul" >> ghoul.txt
$ git add ghoul.txt ; git commit -m 'ghoul'
$ git checkout master
$ echo "rogue" >> rogue.txt
$ git add rogue.txt ; git commit -m 'rogue'
$ git checkout monsters
$ echo "dragon" >> dragon.txt
$ git add dragon.txt ; git commit -m 'dragon'
$ git checkout master
$ echo "paladin" >> paladin.txt
$ git add paladin.txt ; git commit -m 'paladin'
You have now emulated a bunch of activity on two separate branches of a git repository. Create a copy of the repo so that you can perform two separate git actions.
$ cd ..
$ cp -r alice alice-merge
$ cp -r alice alice-base
Do an honest merge:
$ cd alice-merge
$ git checkout master
$ git merge monsters
The log shows you an accurate representation what got merged, and how all those changes came to be:
$ git log --oneline
123456 Merged monsters into master
789101 paladin
112131 dragon
415161 rogue
718191 ghoul
7ef217 begin rebase episode
Now perform a rebase.
$ cd ../alice-base
$ git checkout master
$ git rebase monsters
The log displays a different story than what really happened.
123456 Merged monsters into master
8e9122 paladin
21d163 rogue
912a3f dragon
51c098 ghoul
7ef217 begin rebase episode
Better? Worse? YOU DECIDE!
6' power strip/ surge protector
Excedrin bottle and migraine meds 1/2 dose for emergencies
If I expand the definition of tool kit to include the tool box on my pickup truck, I also have...
X-acto knife set
analog linemans handset/ butt set (harris TS30)
Details about Kill Doctor Lucky on Paizo.com.
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Penguicon 2018 is a combined technology and science fiction convention in Southfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, and presents over 500 hours of programming over the entire weekend. Of this, around 100 hours are open source, tech-related. In this episode I tell you about my own personal experience at Penguicon this year.
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