LHS Episode #018
While Richard is back home in Texas, I came out to San Jose, California for a week of "geeking out." I'm attending the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, learning all I can about Ubuntu, Open Source licensing and patents, cloud computing, system tuning and monitoring and a whole lot more. I hope to put out a couple of short supplemental podcasts for Linux in the HAM Shack giving a little insite into my experiences here and tell a little bit about what I've learned. As far as Episode #018 is concerned, Richard and I tackled a few questions from listeners. We spent a few minutes trying to keep our thoughts to ourselves about spam e-mail, managing to fail miserably. After that, we talk about some useful ham radio and other miscellaneous add-ons for Firefox that we hope our listeners will find useful. And when no other topics present themselves, our well-oiled machine moves onto an in-depth look at the virtual keyboard and mouse controller called Synergy. We hope everyone enjoys this edition of the podcast and feels compelled to send in their comments, questions and suggestions for future episodes. Also, don't forget to follow us individually and as a podcast on Twitter, and make sure to leave your audio comments at +1-888-455-0305 so we can include them in upcoming shows.
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:
- The LHS podcast is now available on social.Zune.net.
Links and Notes:
Richard talks about his experience with the Linux Cranks (Stay clear of the monorail!)Â (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:Â 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: kb5jbv@blacksparrowmedia.com
Twitter: twitter.com/kb5jbv
Web: lhsinfo.org
Forums at blacksparrowmedia.com
Contact Russ via:
Email: k5tux@blacksparrowmedia.com
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”.