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Sourcetrunk (Episode 022)

Submitted by dimitri on Tue, 2007-06-05 11:29

This episode will let you abandon iTunes Music Sharing with the wonderful Firefly Media Server. If you really have to use a Windows Machine and really want to have your files deleted : use Eraser. Luckily you can try to make the switch to Linux easier with Wubi and see for yourself how wonderful open source software really can be, uninstall is optional.

I. Multimedia Software : Firefly Media Server
The purpose of this project is built the best server software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes; to be able to serve the widest variety of digital music content over the widest range of devices. Current stable releases have been reported to run on Linux, all the BSDs, Solaris, AIX, and a variety of embedded devices such as the Linksys NSLU2, the Maxtor MSS, and the Buffalo Linkstation, to name but a few.

www.fireflymediaserver.org
www.linuxreality.com
www.rokulabs.com

II. System Tools : Eraser
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.
Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.

www.heidi.ie/eraser

III. The little extra : Wubi

Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a few clicks. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you.

www.cutlersoftware.com



music from Josh Woodward on music.podshow.com
theme from Brand New Sin on music.podshow.com

beer on this episode : Ramée triple blond

Comments

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Submitted by a shy user (not verified) on Fri, 2007-06-08 08:30

demoacracy player is awesome,

it plays like every single file you think of and oh goddess i'd have to do a full podcast on everything that makes ir soo like totally awesome!!! its at http://www.getdemocracy.com/ but they just got two huge grants from network2 ans the mozilla foundation plus who know how much, they're here for good & like totally multi-platform *w00t*. their new name is gonna be miro (at http://www.getmiro.com/). this really is the only one needs. its def. the best... linux, windoze, oe macosx... it just rules! i hope you review it ;)... take care. i love your podcast &your voice(ssoooo sexy).

Submitted by dimitri on Thu, 2007-08-23 20:47

Hi,

Democracy is indeed not bad, I'll try to review this one as soon as possible. The fact that it is multiplatform is a great plus.

>i love your podcast
thanks a lot, love the chaotic feedback,

y0r l33t ;)
Dimi.

Submitted by a shy user (not verified) on Tue, 2007-06-12 15:43

You're right there are no decent podcatchers for Linux. I use Bashpodder, which is excellent, but it's too complicated for regular users trying to get into Linux. It does work beautifully though, now I have it setup.

Submitted by dimitri on Thu, 2007-08-23 20:48

Hi,

I dropped reviewing other podcast clients from the moment I used Bashpodder, there is truly nothing that compares to the simplicity of a bash script to fetch your podcasts.

Dimi.

Submitted by a shy user (not verified) on Wed, 2007-06-13 04:43

Hi,

just finished listening Sourcetrunk (Episode 022) and you mentioned about opensource tools for un-deleting files.

may I suggest that you do an episode on some of these tools that can recover all sorts of file (not just images).

Cheers
Mic

Submitted by dimitri on Thu, 2007-08-23 20:49

Hi Mic,

>may I suggest that you do an episode on some of these tools that can recover all sorts of file (not just images).

very good suggestion, I'll try to find a few for episode 026.

thanks for the feedback,
Dimi

Submitted by a shy user (not verified) on Tue, 2007-07-17 08:24

Thanks for the item on Eraser.

I found your podcast from the Eraser website review section.
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/reviews.php

Eraser also has a Sourceforge page.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/

I prefer projects on sourceforge or similar forge pages. I'm not into compiling my own binaries but I like to know a project is truly opensource, when a project is hosted by sourceforge it reassures me.

One last link, the link which lead me to Eraser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method

An article on the principles used by Eraser to delete data.

Keep on podcasting.

Richard

Submitted by dimitri on Thu, 2007-08-23 20:54

Hi Richard,

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method
thanks for the link, I'm currently in the process of finding something comparable for the Unix environment.

I'll keep you all posted on this one.

thanks for the feedback,
regards,
Dimi.

Submitted by a shy user (not verified) on Tue, 2007-08-14 18:34

Hi,

In your segment about Eraser, you mentioned you had some preferred recovery tools for undeleting data from drives. A friend did an unintended format of a memory card. Can you recommend any tools for recovering data at this point, or is it a lost cause?

Cheers,
AJ

Submitted by dimitri on Thu, 2007-08-23 20:56

Hi AJ,

(I'm a bit late with this response, I'll tell you all about it in episode 26)

what operating system does your friend work in ?

Dimi.