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Old HPR Episodes

I’ve uploaded my mirror of the episodes I made for hackerpublicradio in the past. I wanted to get this all up, because I want to write a post for each new episode, and am not sure if I want to write a post for each old episode yet.

For each post, you will find that I have multiple formats available. At HPR, they only post the MP3 version on their servers. I feel that ogg and flac should be available too. Ogg has, IMHO, a better sound and a free license behind the technology. Flac is the “free lossless audio codec” and has no loss of sound guarenteed, and the technology is under free license also.

If you choose to download and listen to these episodes, please know that learning how to edit audio, so that it actually sounds good, is a learned thing, so the earlier the episode, the more likely it sounds bad. Heck, at HPR, we are a self-taught lot, but I hear that many HPR hosts consider our self-taught unprofessionalism the mark of our authenticity.

Enjoy,
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Deepgeek

Deepgeek introduces the squashfs, which compresses directories to be mounted later onto the filesystem taking up less space.

squashfs homepage

squashfs HOWTO

using apt-get to install squashfs:

apt-cache search squash
apt-get install squashfs-modules-2.6-amd64 squashfs-tools

[and add "squashfs" to the bottom of the files /etc/modules]

A squash example, using the username tim and a directory called docs:

mkdir /home/tim/smalldocs
mksquashfs /home/tim/docs /home/tim/docs.sqfs
sudo mount /home/tim/docs.sqfs /home/tim/smalldocs -t squashfs -o loop

My brief impressions on compiling a kernel.  Not a "HOWTO."