Linux Void 21 - Super Nova

[dpkgregor]

http://linuxvoid.com/2009/02/18/episode-21-super-nova/

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[mjjzf]

Pulling and pushing.

[dpkgregor]

Weird, my feed reader can't see the new episode in the Ogg feed

[NYbill]

yea, i've run bashpodder 3 times in the last 2 days and haven't gotten ep.20 yet. sorry if we are making you work, morten.

[mjjzf]

Have had connection problems, so didn't get to do the extra bits.
The file is at http://linuxvoid.technographer.net/files/lvoid21.ogg.

[dpkgregor]

Have had connection problems, so didn't get to do the extra bits.
The file is at http://linuxvoid.technographer.net/files/lvoid21.ogg.

Hehe, looks like even Denmark isn't immune to internet problems

[mjjzf]

One might be inclined to point to certain individual low-competence ISPs...
Anyway, now it seems there is a site error of some kind - but the feed is updated, and the file is there.

[dpkgregor]

That's nothing it took my ISP 6 months to get us connected and I'm 300 metres away from the town hall.

[NYbill]

"i'm sick"

"my ISP's sucks"

"the dog ate the OGG"

its all excuses lately, morten!


LOL!, i hope you know i'm joking, man! thanks for the link, i've got the show downloaded and on the player for my work week.

[NYbill]

i just heard you guys mention Avast for linux? i used it for years on XP. but, i never thought to look for a virus scanner for linux. i wonder what it searches for? maybe it just scans linux systems to find if there is anything on the system that might infect a windows box?

i'm going to have to check this out.

EDIT: well, now that i think of it, there is clamAV as well. i guess what i was saying is i've never felt the need to run a virus scan on linux. i've never paid much attention to linux virus scanners. i do wonder what it looks for?

well, i suppose it could be handy as a repair tool. like, boot up a liveCD on an infected windows machine (aren't they all infected? ) then you could scan the windows drive from within linux.

[dpkgregor]

I don't use any AV software on Linux I just find it useless. But I had good experiences with Avast on Windows so it should be a good choice for Linux workstations too

[NYbill]

out of curiosity, i ran clamAV on my linux laptop. all i got where 5 false positives. it takes quite a while to run! but, its pretty amazing watching all that text fly by so fast in the terminal.

you know, i have a computer in the basement that i acquired. (ok, i garbage picked it. ) i believe the owner threw it out because it is infected. there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it hardware wise. but, i tried booting it once and windows is a mess. for kicks, maybe i'll dig it out someday and try and scan the drive from a linux live cd.