Slightly Unstable

So recently Dreamhost gave me unlimited bandwidth and storage so I decided I would use bashpodder and cron to set up a podcast mirror. I am using chess's version of bashpodder so it organizes by show name. If you would like your podcast added to the mirror email me at alex@slightlyunstable.org. Check out the mirror here: http://slightlyunstable.org/podcasts/

So a lot of people really hate pulseaudio including me. I finally decided to remove pulseaudio from my system and here's a simple tutorial of what I did. I hope it works for you but no guarantees.

First we have to remove pulseaudio from the system
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

Now to remove it from xsession, we will move the xsession entry to the home folder in case we want to revert back to pulse audio
sudo mv /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio ~

Now we need to use Alsa and esound
sudo apt-get install alsa esound

Reboot. I hope this works for you, like I said no promises.

I was thinking about the current Software Freedom Law Center lawsuit against Cisco for their GPL violations. I believe that until Cisco complies to the GPL we should boycott all of there products. This includes Linksys. This will actually effect me because until I heard this story I was planning to buy a Linksys router but I feel that I can wait until they decide to comply. Thoughts?

I have been wanting to play with bashpodder for a long time and because of an annoying issue with gpodder I finally decided to play for it. The only issue I had with bashpodder was that it organizes it by date. This was fixed when I was told Chess Griffin made a version that organizes by podcast name. If you have been wanting to play with bashpodder but haven't yet I highly recommend you try both the default bashpodder and Chess's version and see witch one you like most. Get Bashpodder here and get Chess's version here.

I have noticed this on IRC and other Linux community sites. One person will say that they a particular distro and another user will call that person retarded for using it. It doesn't matter what distro the user is using you can always find someone who just wants to pick a fight.

I believe that this is incredibly bad for the Linux community as a whole. The truth is that one of the parts of the freedom that we enjoy so much is that people get to choose what distro they want to use. My distro of choice has the right to exist as yours does.

Two days ago I decided to take the plunge and switch from Linux Mint 5.0 (Elyssa) to something more current. In my search I found out about Arch. Arch is based on its own package manager (Pacman) and offers up new unmodified applications as they were meant to be used. After downloading the rather small ISO (150 MB!) and burning it to a CD-R I was ready to roll. Rather that using a simple installer it drops you down into a text based installer with multiple options. Partitioning, Setting default repositories, Selecting base packages and other customizations are done from the installer.

So today I learned about Cron. Cron is a way to schedule tasks to be completed automatically in Unix like operating systems. By editing one file you can schedule tasks to be completed by a specific user on a minute - weekly basis. I wanted to bug my sister so I added the following lines to /etc/crontab (Click for more)

I saw Germ's earlier post about using /dev/urandom to make a big text file and I was wondering if I could use the same command for something useful like generate passwords. I asked in the #lugradio channel on the Freenode IRC server and I was told that if I use the fallowing command to make passwords.

Mez created a bash script using urandom to make passwords.

To install it use the following commands

cd /usr/bin