The Techie Geek Podcast

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Ubuntu Bug #1
WhatWillWeUse.com
File monitoring with the tail -f command
OpenOffice.org free office suite
The Linux Link Tech Show
Hacker Public Radio
The Linux Trivia podcast
Linux in the Ham Shack podcast
The GNU World Order oggcast
The Linux Basix podcast
Project Caua hopes to one day bring computing to everyone
More talks by Jon “Maddog” Hall
Gnome Foundation
Tomboy Online
Identi.ca
Firefox Sync
F-Spot photo editor
Shotwell photo manager
Doodle online calendar
Banshee media player
MythTV open source DVR
gedit text editor
Gobby online collaboration tool
EtherPad online collaboration tool
SparkleShare syncing and collaboration tool
PC-BSD
ZFS files system
OpenNMS network management system
Paul Frield’s web site
PyGTK is a GUI for Python
Glade is a user interface designer
Devhelp is an API documentation browser
PulseCaster is a simple PulseAudio-based tool for making podcast interviews
Catherine Devlin’s web site
Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces
Asterisk open source PBX project
Digium is the company behind Asterisk
fail2ban bans IP that makes too many password failures
“Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook”
Nagios open source systems monitoring
Zenoss network monitor
Zareason computers pre-installed with Linux
BD’s Mongolian BBQ
Barley’s
Frog, Bear, and Wild Boar (Thank you to Nagios for the Pre-Party!)

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My Pictures from the 2009 Ohio Linux Fest
This episode was entirely recorded on my Olympus LS-10
Klaatu from The Bad Apples and Linux Cranks podcast got my old server
FREE GEEK Columbus got most of the stuff I brought to the OLF swap meet
We stopped at the Cabela’s in Wheeling West Virginia on the way to OLF
We stayed at the Hyatt in Columbus Ohio
Last we we stayed at the Drury Hotel in Columbus Ohio
I borrowed a friend’s Verizon UM175 Cellular modem so I had Internet while at the Hyatt
Portable Ubuntu Remix for Windows
Talks from 2009 OLF
Open Street Map
Blender is a cross platform, free open source 3D content creation suite
Friday night we ate dinner at the BD Mongolian Grill in Columbus
Barley’s Micro Brewery is where the Friday night pre-party was held
The opening keynote was by Shawn Powers of Linux Journal Magazine, he also one of the Asus EeePC’s
40 years of UNIX
Doug McIlroy gave away the bride at the Podcasters and Listeners Unite session
Sine Nomine are not your average technology consultants, they are definitely able to get Old School when they need to
Peter Salus gave my favorite talk “The Importance of 1969“. He is also the author of “The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin”
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie worked under Doug McIlroy at Bell Labs
Linus Torvalds was born in 1969
Woodstock happened in 1969
Apollo 11 landed the first men on the moon in 1969
Bdale Garbee is the Open Source and Linux Chief Technologist at HP and has been a contributor to Debian since 1995
What is Steampunk?
Dual Core nerdcore rap music
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kuala is now in Beta
Compiz or landscape-client is giving me some trouble on my work Ubuntu 9.10 Beta desktop

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Russ tells Dave from “The Linux Crazy” podcast all about The Ohio Linux Fest

Tons of Pictures from OLF 2008

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The Ohio Linux Fest

My Pictures from OLF 2008

A bunch of us went to “BD’s Mongolian Grill” for dinner, I think maybe as many at 20 were there. It was the TLLTS guys, Chad Wallenberg from “The Linux Basement”, Dave Yates from “LottaLinuxLinks”, Klaatu from “The Bad Apples” podcast and “Fedora Reloaded” podcast, I sat with my Dad, Nick, and Jim. Over dinner Nick taught me about the ‘watch‘ command which I will be trying out as soon as I can. I never ate at place like this before; you went through three salad-bar-like stations where you selected your own ingredients in a stir-fry you design. You then gave the bowl and seasoning mix you prepared to a cook and they cooked it on a huge hot iron grill, awesome! After dinner we all headed over to “Barley’s” for the Pre-Party in the downstairs “Underground”. Barley’s is a micro brewery and you could see the tanks in which the beer is brewed. I ask the bartender for “the darkest beer they made“, not knowing my beers I can only relate it to Guinness Stout, but this was better I thought, very robust, and I had two. We had a great time. I spotted John “Maddog’ Hall and Jono Bacon, I hope to meet these guys in person tomorrow, but didn’t have a chance to tonight. I met a bunch of listeners including “ChrisFromDallas”, “Timrit” and “ECLUG” all of whom I’ve talk to on IRC so it was a real pleasure to finally meet them in person. Tomorrow is the big day! The Ohio Linux Fest baby!

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We had a great breakfast at the Drury Lounge where we enjoyed sausage with biscuits and gravy and I even made my own Belgium waffles. Dad and I then did some venturing around learning the layout of the Columbus Convention Center. At one point I wandered over to an Information Booth were an older gentleman was ready to field questions from curious visitors. He said to me “Are you here for the big day tomorrow?” I said “I sure am! I’m here for the Ohio Linux Fest!” he looked at me oddly and said “No, I meant the big game, Ohio State plays Purdue tomorrow” LOL, I bet the area is going to be mayhem! Along the way we found where the OLFU was being held and we had a chance to meet Beth Lynn Eicher from The Ohio Linux Fest staff, hear Beth Lynn’s interview on The Linux Link Tech Show here. We were so impressed at the size and facilities at The Convention Center. One thing we noticed was that there were alot of people walking around looking like “Fencers”, you know, the sport of “Fencing”, so we followed them and found that The United States Fencing Association is holding a large tournament which started today and runs through Monday. But the highlight of the morning was running into Pat, Alan, and Linc from The Linux Link Tech Show, they had just checked in and were heading out to lunch; can’t wait to party with those guys tonight!

It’s Friday morning October 10 and I’m sipping coffee while I write this post. Yesterday my Dad and I made the 500 mile trek from PA to The Ohio Linux Fest. I was warmly greeted by listener Nick who joined us for dinner and beer at Barley’s (Thanks for the beer Nick . Nick arrived early to take the “Linux Professional Institute” exam on Friday, he mentioned he used elpicx 2 (free Live DVD .iso here) which includes learning aids for preparing for the LPI exam. I hope to make regular posts to my blogs, both here and over at GeekLinux.com. I am also making some recordings on my Nokia N800 that I hope to piece together a podcast with when I get home. See ya soon!