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Ken Fallon

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2023-03-15. 00:31:33. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
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Ken welcomes a new podcast to the Free Culture Podcast family
2023-03-08. 01:00:50. Clean. general.
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Ken interviews Ciarán Ainsworth about Funkwhale that lets you listen and share music and audio
2023-02-21. 00:31:35. Clean. general.
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rho_n shows Ken how to submit changes to the new HPR static site.
2022-12-23. 00:24:55. Clean. general.
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Control your other PC securely using synergy over ssh
2022-12-06. 00:10:26. Clean. HAM radio.
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The wikipedia article on the Battery
2022-11-11. 00:02:04. Clean. general.
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Ken shows you how to use this mapping tool to display transit routes in your area.
2022-09-14. 00:01:37. Clean. general.
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Ken keeps forgetting how to add a favourite to OSMAnd
2022-07-27. 00:28:02. Clean. general.
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Ken brings the DeLorean up to 141.6Kph to address monochromec's comment on stats
2022-07-13. 00:05:16. Clean. general.
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How to enable sftp using a sshd server on android/lineageos
2022-06-10. 00:26:48. Clean. general.
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We got trolled and what we're going to do about it.
2022-05-30. 00:09:21. Clean. general.
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Ken proves Mathematically that programming is not easier with maths.
2022-02-17. 00:08:39. Clean. general.
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Ken recommends a very useful tool for measuring stuff
2022-01-21. 00:09:25. Clean. general.
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Some useful tools for working with Android Devices
2022-01-05. 00:15:06. Clean. general.
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In this episode we will show you how to connect to the HPR Community Room on Mumble.
2021-12-10. 00:12:27. Clean. general.
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Ken (Fallon not Thompson) checks his unix like computer to see how many commands still exist.
2021-10-28. 00:12:16. Clean. HAM radio.
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Ken runs through the most common Engineering Notation used in HAM radio.
2021-08-24. 00:56:47. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
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A sample episode of the Free Software Foundation Europe Podcast
2021-06-02. 01:13:40. Clean. general.
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Join the policy discussions on the mail list
2021-05-14. 00:22:28. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
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This is an example of the podcast that was featured on GNU World Order
2021-04-16. 00:02:08. Clean. general.
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How to use this amazing tool
2021-03-19. 00:03:15. Clean. general.
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How to update a cert when the automatic processes don't work
2021-03-11. 00:32:13. Clean. general.
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A private NextCloud instance on a Pi 4x8, with lets encrypt and wireguard vpn access
2021-02-19. 00:07:10. Clean. Hardware upgrades.
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Use a Wemos to monitor if the lid is open or closed on a network scanner.
2021-01-07. 01:10:23. Clean. Interviews.
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Could there be an ISP that wants free and open internet, for privacy, security and quality ?
2020-11-17. 01:03:19. Clean. general.
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Ken talks to the original HPR and Today with a Techie Admin.
2020-10-22. 00:02:43. Clean. general.
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Ken explains how they dig graves when the ground is essentially sand
2020-09-30. 00:20:09. Clean. general.
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A solution to the problem of updating difficult-to-reach Raspberry Pis in the enterprise.
2020-09-02. 00:05:08. Clean. general.
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Ken uses Calibre to convert a epub to PDF then uses pdfcrop to trim the margins
2020-07-03. 00:37:57. Clean. general.
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Join Ken on this 6 year long journey of success but also failure
2020-06-24. 00:01:33. Clean. general.
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A unmaintained extension lead to a popup storm
2020-06-19. 01:15:34. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
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Makers Corner is a tech oriented DIY podcast, from the Other Side Podcast Network
2020-05-22. 00:07:20. Clean. general.
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Troubleshooting a basic install of Ansible
2020-05-14. 00:29:33. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
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A sample episode from Escape Pod The Original Science Fiction Podcast
2020-04-24. 00:06:00. Clean. general.
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Ken installs courier-imap locally to have a local backup of his mail.
2020-04-14. 00:22:02. Clean. Networking.
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Ken explains some different ways to locate computers on the network
2020-03-03. 01:32:58. Clean. Interviews.
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Interviews with some of the stands at FOSDEM 2020
2020-02-18. 00:08:38. Clean. Podcast recommendations.
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An English microsode of their Swedish language podcast about Wikipedia.
2020-01-03. 01:07:17. Clean. Interviews.
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Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb featured HPR on FLOSS Weekly
2019-12-27. 00:05:11. Clean. general.
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Two useful applications to record a screen, and to chop and trim a video
2019-12-05. 00:38:34. Clean. Interviews.
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What starts as an Interview and ends in a brain storm.
2019-11-18. 00:56:18. Clean. Interviews.
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Interviews and chat from the UK's largest FLOSS event.
2019-11-15. 00:37:05. Clean. Interviews.
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Interviews and chat from the UK's largest FLOSS event.
2019-08-19. 00:04:10. Clean. general.
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Inspired by a Jon Kulp show, Ken splits a large recording based on silence between tracks
2019-06-20. 00:37:11. Clean. general.
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We bring you the first episode of the new Creative Commons show the Distrohoppers Digest
2019-05-31. 00:04:46. Clean. general.
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A supplementary show to Jeroens episode 2792
2019-05-10. 00:07:42. Clean. general.
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Ken fixes an Android Firewalled Wi-Fi connection that reports no Internet and won’t connect
2019-02-15. 00:04:30. Clean. Hobby Electronics.
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Using Fritzing to help reverse engineer a circuit in a winter model village windmill
2019-01-18. 00:11:28. Clean. general.
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Automating the steps needed to get images formatted for VCard import into Android phones
2019-01-04. 00:24:07. Clean. general.
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Ken shares a script that will allow you to quickly keep up to date on your youtube subscriptions
2018-12-21. 00:14:04. Clean. general.
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A followup to hpr2675 how you can download an entire youtube channel for local playout
2018-12-07. 07:27:10. Clean. general.
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We commemorate the 300 Today with a Techie and 2700 Hacker Public Radio shows
2018-11-23. 00:07:05. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken talks with Florian Raschbichler and Anja Helmbrecht-Schaar about HiveMQ
2018-11-15. 00:01:17. Clean. general.
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Yet another amazing life hack !!!
2018-10-12. 00:06:39. Clean. general.
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Ken uses a Arduino Uno to load a bootloader on an Arduino Nano
2018-09-21. 00:23:10. Clean. Hobby Electronics.
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In this live show, Ken sees if he can follow simple instructions
2018-07-20. 00:52:53. Clean. general.
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We celebrate the history of hackers, with a nod to the old skool phreak community.
2018-07-19. 00:08:09. Clean. general.
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Ken cobbles together a bluetooth adapter for any 3.5mm headphone
2018-06-29. 00:01:39. Clean. general.
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Yet another amazing life hack from Ken
2018-05-25. 00:18:37. Clean. Privacy and Security.
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The GDPR becomes enforceable today and Ken gives an overview on what it is and how it effects you.
2017-11-29. 00:08:39. Clean. general.
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Ken eats humble pie
2017-11-24. 00:12:20. Clean. general.
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Ken explains how and why he is scanning school books
2017-08-14. 00:32:53. Clean. general.
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Ken walks us through a script to secure the base Raspbian Pixel image
2017-07-28. 00:08:51. Clean. general.
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A small fix improves someone's life
2017-07-26. 00:18:29. Clean. Health and Healthcare.
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Ken reads the Wikipedia article on Healthcare in the Netherlands
2017-05-12. 00:02:48. Clean. general.
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Amazing Life Hack that will change your life forever.
2017-02-14. 01:24:59. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews the projects in the H building and anyone else that wants to talk.
2017-02-13. 01:09:24. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews the projects in the AW building
2017-02-10. 00:59:21. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews the projects in the K building level 2 at stands 10 to 19
2017-02-09. 01:17:19. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews the projects in the K building level 2 at stands 1 to 9
2017-02-08. 01:54:33. Clean. general.
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Ken interviews the projects in Group B and C of the the K building level 1
2017-02-07. 01:29:52. Clean. general.
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Ken interviews the projects in Group A of the the K building level 1
2017-01-03. 00:07:09. Clean. general.
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Ken suggests that the term Free Software is a bug.
2016-12-30. 00:28:16. Clean. general.
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We read aloud various information pages on the HPR website
2016-12-16. 00:05:09. Clean. general.
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Practising soldering skills by hacking together a soldering extraction fan.
2016-11-25. 00:33:18. Clean. Interviews.
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A low-cost open-source acoustic logger for biodiversity and environmental monitoring.
2016-10-28. 01:13:01. Clean. Interviews.
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Francois Rautenbach tell us how he is hacking 50 year old computers
2016-08-24. 00:10:36. Clean. general.
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With no shows in the queue, Ken rushes in a show on his latest hacks
2016-08-19. 00:04:40. Clean. general.
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How to bypass the roadblocks implemented by JavaScript
2016-04-13. 00:19:40. Clean. general.
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Do not listen to this show. Record one instead.
2016-04-01. 01:05:58. Clean. April Fools Shows.
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After 10 years, 3 months, 19 days of Procrastination, Ken finally delivers droops a show
2016-03-11. 00:03:32. Clean. general.
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Cant mount drive with cifs but can with kioslave smb
2016-02-24. 01:55:29. Clean. general.
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A presentation given by Richard Stallman as part of FOSDEM fringe.
2016-02-12. 00:10:01. Clean. general.
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Using the graphical query builders from SQLeo with SQLite
2016-02-05. 01:55:52. Clean. Interviews.
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FreeBSD,Matrix,Brainduino,Butterknife,pyhurdy,Coreboot,OpenEmbedded, PicoTCP,PTXdist,JavaCardPro
2016-02-04. 01:44:01. Clean. Interviews.
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Mozilla,Apache,Jenkins,x doku tiki and MediaWiki,LFS,Perl,Barghest,Coala,Google SOC,Ultimaker
2016-02-03. 01:51:05. Clean. Interviews.
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Fedora, OpenSuse, illumos, ownCloud, Enlightenment, Tizen, Kolab, KDE, LibreOffice
2016-02-02. 02:08:55. Clean. Interviews.
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CAcert DRLM Gluster oVirt OpenVZ FSFE ReactOS BAREOS Debian PostgreSQL OpenMandriva Mageia Gentoo
2016-01-26. 00:31:00. Clean. Bash Scripting.
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How to get the total duration of a lot of media files.
2015-11-30. 00:15:09. Clean. general.
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Thoughts on which desktop to use, and which GUI to use
2015-11-05. 01:00:48. Clean. Interviews.
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Mosquito Detection and Habitat Mapping for Improved Malaria Modelling
2015-10-08. 00:53:59. Clean. Interviews.
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To mark the 10 year anniversary of HPR we talk to droops one of the founders of Today with a Techie.
2015-08-21. 00:04:02. Clean. general.
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Using the text filter option in the kate text editor.
2015-08-07. 00:10:43. Clean. general.
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A quick look at the Dutch short term car sharing service
2015-06-29. 00:02:32. Clean. general.
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Lowering the quality of shows, Ken provides a lifehack tip.
2015-05-11. 00:10:16. Clean. general.
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Using SOX to speed up and remove silence in a podcast
2015-02-20. 00:11:19. Clean. Bash Scripting.
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A wrapper script for xfreerdp to make connecting to windows servers painless
2015-02-10. 01:02:13. Clean. Interviews.
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ReactOS, CoreOS, WolfSSL, PicoTCP, Ultimaker, CoreBoot and Flashrom, SatNOGS
2015-02-09. 00:42:56. Clean. Interviews.
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Agora Voting, DIYBookScanner, OpenEmbedded, Amateur Radio, kodi formerly XBMC
2015-02-06. 00:10:19. Clean. general.
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TWaT started 9 years, 3 months, 27 days ago and today we celebrate the first 2000 episodes
2015-02-05. 00:47:56. Clean. Interviews.
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Wikimedia, Hack the Knit, Jitsi, XMMP, Kolab, DoudouLinux
2015-02-04. 00:45:58. Clean. Interviews.
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OpenMandriva, Mageia, KDE, Debian, Puppet, OwnCloud, Diaspora
2015-02-03. 00:51:08. Clean. Interviews.
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Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler, Sriram Ramkrishna, Matthew Miller, Rich Bowen, Karanbir Singh
2014-12-17. 01:02:29. Clean. Interviews.
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Blacks In Technology is a tech focused community focused on increasing diversity in technology.
2014-12-04. 00:20:04. Clean. general.
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ASN uniquely identifies each network on the Internet
2014-09-18. 01:25:48. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews Ingmar Steiner from the MaryTTS text to speech project.
2014-08-28. 00:52:45. Clean. Interviews.
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We talk to Josh Knapp about his new business AnHonestHost.com
2014-07-02. 00:19:14. Clean. What's in My Toolkit.
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The contents of Ken's bag as he prepares for OHM 2013
2014-04-14. 02:00:22. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken Fallon promotes the "Linux Luddites" podcast
2014-04-04. 00:20:00. Clean. general.
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How goibhniu got Ken to use a Brother MFC-J5910DW with a Continuous Ink Supply System
2014-03-21. 00:24:02. Clean. general.
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A teaching tool for children learning to read an analogue clock
2014-02-27. 01:40:30. Clean. Interviews.
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FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 5
2014-02-26. 01:06:19. Clean. Interviews.
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FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 4
2014-02-25. 02:16:29. Clean. Interviews.
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FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 3
2014-02-24. 01:14:22. Clean. general.
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FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 2
2014-02-18. 01:38:45. Clean. Interviews.
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FOSDEM 2014 Report, part 1
2014-02-17. 00:46:57. Clean. Interviews.
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In today's show Ken talks to Fernando H. F. Botelho from the F123 group.
2014-01-24. 00:38:32. Clean. Bash Scripting.
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A hacked script to download youtube videos
2013-12-26. 00:07:59. Clean. general.
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Ken's contribution to TheGizWiz on the Twit.tv network, in the GadgetWarehouse segment
2013-12-19. 00:24:25. Clean. general.
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Ken demonstrates how to edit an audio file with Audacity
2013-09-26. 00:04:58. Clean. general.
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In this episode Ken and his Son hatch a plan to film a Dinosaur egg hatching using fswebcam.
2013-09-20. 01:20:53. Clean. general.
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Observe, Hack, Make. A five day outdoor international camping festival for hackers and makers
2013-09-12. 02:18:46. Clean. Mental Health.
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An interview with Ed Finkler about Mental Health
2013-08-27. 00:48:38. Clean. general.
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A discussion with Kevin O'Brien about Ohio LinuxFest
2013-08-08. 01:25:38. Clean. general.
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IVF, ICSI
2013-07-10. 00:30:54. Clean. general.
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Nido Media and Ken Fallon at OHM2013
2013-07-03. 00:20:41. Clean. OggCamp.
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Ken interviews Ambjorn at OggCamp11
2013-06-26. 00:27:17. Clean. OggCamp.
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Ken releases an interview from OggCamp11
2013-06-20. 00:39:25. Clean. OggCamp.
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Ken interviews Nathan Dumont at OggCamp11
2013-06-06. 00:54:13. Clean. Accessibility.
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Ken Catches up with Steve Lee just before he gave his talk on Open Accessability.
2013-04-01. 00:22:24. Clean. April Fools Shows.
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Digital Data Transfer
2013-02-27. 00:52:02. Clean. general.
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Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) revisited
2012-11-16. 00:37:26. Clean. general.
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Ken interviews Jerome Leclanche from the Razor-qt project
2012-09-17. 00:38:40. Clean. general.
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Describing the upcoming Ohio LinuxFest conference and expo
2012-08-24. 00:51:48. Clean. OggCamp.
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The final batch of interviews from OggCamp 2012
2012-08-23. 00:56:18. Clean. OggCamp.
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Yet more interviews from OggCamp 12 on day 2
2012-08-22. 00:55:56. Clean. OggCamp.
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More interviews from OggCamp 12 on day 1
2012-08-20. 00:37:31. Clean. OggCamp.
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Interviews from OggCamp 12 on day 1
2012-07-19. 00:16:58. Clean. general.
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Setting up an information display with a thin client and spare monitor
2012-07-10. 00:24:15. Clean. general.
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An alternative to Google Reader for managing feeds
2012-06-26. 00:14:02. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews Christel Dahlskjaer of the FreeNode project
2012-05-24. 00:14:53. Clean. general.
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The Free Software Definition has a wider scope than just software
2012-05-03. 01:05:48. Clean. general.
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The story of a Lancashire community and their high-speed network
2012-04-16. 00:15:56. Clean. general.
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A discussion of the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi
2012-03-02. 00:31:50. Clean. general.
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Ken talks to Lord Drachenblut about the upcoming Indiana LinuxFest 2012
2012-02-08. 00:15:01. Clean. general.
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A 200 kilometre skating tour in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands
2012-01-20. 00:35:49. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews Pascal Bleser, FOSDEM organisation team member
2011-12-26. 00:07:41. Clean. OggCamp.
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An discussion with Alister Munroe from OggCamp 2011
2011-12-20. 00:26:46. Clean. OggCamp.
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An interview from OggCamp 2011
2011-12-06. 00:12:07. Clean. OggCamp.
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CrunchBang Linux
2011-11-22. 00:07:30. Clean. general.
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In today's show Ken talks to Tony Hughes about how he got into Linux
2011-11-16. 00:33:15. Clean. Syndicated Thursdays.
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Syndicated Thursday welcomes Sourcetrunk
2011-11-14. 00:08:27. Clean. OggCamp.
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An interview wth Sam Tuke the British Team Coordinator and Editorial Team co-ordinator for the FSFE
2011-11-01. 00:09:44. Clean. Interviews.
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An interview with Alan Cocks at Oggcamp 11
2011-10-24. 00:10:42. Clean. OggCamp.
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An interview from OggCamp
2011-10-18. 00:07:38. Clean. OggCamp.
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Ken talks to Juergen Schinker about the OWN Open wireless network
2011-10-10. 00:31:39. Clean. OggCamp.
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A round-up of OggCamp 11
2011-09-26. 00:04:07. Clean. general.
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The GiffGaff Community Phone project
2011-09-15. 00:11:23. Clean. general.
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An event to celebrate and promote the use of free and open source software
2011-09-13. 00:18:18. Clean. general.
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Ken talks to Gemma Cameron aka @ruby_gem about Barcamp Blackpool
2011-08-31. 01:03:41. Clean. Syndicated Thursdays.
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Ken Fallon interviews Wayne Myers at OggCamp 11
2011-08-29. 00:07:28. Clean. OggCamp.
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An interview at OggCamp 11 with Ana Nelson about Dexy, a software documentation tool
2011-08-21. 00:20:15. Clean. general.
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An interview with Shane Marks from the Nexus maker space in Cork, Ireland
2011-08-18. 00:05:48. Clean. OggCamp.
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An interview with John Uren at OggCamp 2011
2011-08-14. 00:55:34. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken talks to Moose, one of the organizers of Ohio LinuxFest
2011-08-08. 00:02:38. Clean. general.
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Ken submits a summer short explaining how to grep for a tab character in a file
2011-07-19. 00:28:28. Clean. Interviews.
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Interview with Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo
2011-07-12. 00:14:30. Clean. general.
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Ken describes the use of the GNU 'sort' command
2011-06-28. 01:11:37. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken interviews Jon Spriggs of CCHits.net
2011-06-13. 00:19:49. Clean. OggCamp.
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Ken Fallon interviews Tony Whitmore of the Ubuntu-UK Podcast about OggCamp11
2011-05-26. 00:41:23. Clean. Interviews.
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Ken Fallon explores the schedule of the 2011 Southeast Linux Fest with Dave Yates
2011-04-28. 01:06:14. Clean. Interviews.
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StankDawg interviewed by Ken Fallon
2011-04-12. 00:57:13. Clean. general.
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A celebration of the 50th anniversary of manned human space flight
2011-03-17. 01:58:36. Clean. Syndicated Thursdays.
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Eben Moglen explains the motivations & ideas behind the Freedom Box project
2011-01-26. 00:04:04. Clean. general.
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A brief overview of wput, a command-line FTP utility
2010-12-30. 00:32:26. Clean. general.
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An explanation of the RSS 2.0 specification, the iTunes namespace, and HPR's RSS feed
2010-11-17. 00:38:33. Clean. Bash Scripting.
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Introduction to the man, info, and appropos commands, among other basics
2010-09-11. 00:12:11. Clean. general.
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The upcoming Google Privacy Policy is read by espeak
2010-08-11. 00:20:32. Clean. Bash Scripting.
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Introduction to bash scripting, with quick explanations of many adjacent concepts
2010-07-21. 00:06:19. Clean. general.
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Ken Fallon describes how to install xscreensaver on a KDE 4 desktop
2010-06-03. 00:06:39. Clean. general.
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Ken discusses how to modify image metadata from the command line using exiv2
2010-05-28. 00:30:23. Clean. general.
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Backing up your cherished photo and video privately and securely
2010-03-24. 00:08:32. Clean. Bash Scripting.
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While aboard an Airbus 320, Ken Fallon describes loops that are available in BASH
2009-11-12. 00:08:37. Clean. general.
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Ken Fallon talks about Mashpodder.
2009-10-14. 00:16:11. Clean. general.
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Tips on securing your Linux systems, see Episode 431
2009-10-02. 00:13:49. Clean. general.
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Ken Fallon talks about an automatic car, with a twist
2009-08-26. 00:07:39. Clean. general.
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Ken talks about Logwatch, a customizable log analysis system
2009-07-14. 00:12:34. Clean. general.
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Converting wikipedia text to audio.
2009-06-23. 00:13:56. Clean. general.
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Ken talks about user friendly identities to connect to ssh
2009-04-20. 00:09:43. Clean. general.
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Ken talks about the history behind RTFM
2009-02-19. 00:28:55. Clean. general.
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Ken Fallon interviews Frank Breedijk of AutoNessus
2009-01-23. 00:17:06. Clean. general.
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Ken Fallon interviews Ian Southam about using cfengine
2008-12-15. 00:12:31. Clean. general.
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Ken updates the firmware on his Samsung YP-U3
2008-11-12. 00:19:54. Clean. general.
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Ken explains how to install and run a local squid proxy
2008-10-14. 00:09:35. Clean. general.
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Ken's failed attempt to set up a site that promotes devices that run linux
2008-09-15. 00:07:43. Clean. general.
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Ken gives us quick bash tips
2008-08-11. 00:13:36. Clean. general.
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Ken walks us through moving off DV tapes to disk
2008-07-21. 00:08:36. Clean. Health and Healthcare.
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A show to encourage you to give up smoking
2008-07-15. 00:12:09. Clean. LPI Certifications.
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LPIC topic 1.101.6 — Configure Communication Devices
2008-07-08. 00:16:25. Clean. LPI Certifications.
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Setup different PC expansion cards
2008-06-09. 00:10:51. Clean. general.
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Ken Fallon discusses ways to promote linux
2008-05-21. 00:14:14. Clean. LPI Certifications.
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Ken covers SCSI skipping over modem and sound
2008-04-17. 00:43:28. Clean. general.
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Advice for job seekers
2008-03-19. 00:18:39. Clean. LPI Certifications.
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Ken covers how disks are dealt with in Linux
2008-03-18. 00:10:08. Clean. general.
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Ken encourages people to add to Open Street Map
2008-02-19. 00:31:54. Clean. LPI Certifications.
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Ken covers computer buses and system resources
2008-01-17. 00:16:00. Clean. general.
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Ken Fallon is preparing for his 'Linux Professional Institute Certification' (LPIC)
2006-03-30. 00:10:11. Clean. general.
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