Hacker Public Radio

Peter and Harlem, have waded chest-high into the social networking sea. Before rescue is needed, they share how to unify profiles, feeds, and authentication, for many popular sites. The OpenID project is well explained, here. Links discussed in this episode: OpenID.Net ClaimID MyID.net (OpenID provider) IDProxy...

Deepgeek, gets the low-down on the amazing Cell BE processor that runs on the PlayStation 3. Author, instructor, and developer, Jonathan Bartlett, explains how the chip's unique architecture (how many cores?!), makes it a multimedia master. Jonathan Bartlett's ibm.com developer works articles. Shownotes by: diggsit

Wouldn't be nice to have a secure and flexible way to manage all of your usernames and passwords? StankDawg, suggests you turn to K e e P a s s. Strong encryption, dual-factor authentication, and portability, are just some of the reasons he likes this Open Source package. link removed to prevent spammers Shownotes by: diggsit

Getting a machine to parse natural human language, can't be easy. Plexi, describes 'Chunk Parsing', and the work being done to develop it. References and further readings: https://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tsuruoka/papers/IWPT05-tsuruoka.pdf https://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/ProNTo/Brooks.pdf Steven Bird Chunking.pdf Shownotes by: diggsit

Dave Yates, and his co-host Lynn, demonstrate the voice synthesis package, Festival. Dave, discusses how he employs Festival, along with other packages to extend its capabilities. Lynn, clears-up a few of the finer points, for Dave. Howto use alsa output; HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS) - Release Archive or where to get CMU_US_SLT_ARTIC_HTS voice for festival ver 1.4...

Looking for a nimble and secure web server? Chess Griffin, suggests you look into the LIGHTTPD (Light-tee). He uses it, and in this episode he illuminates the reasons you may want to, too. https://www.lighttpd.net/ Shownotes by: diggsit

An interview with Ed Piskor, writer and artist of the graphic novel "WIZZYWIG" which is about a young hacker growing up in the 1980s. He also talks about some of the influences and stories that helped shape the book.

Alk3, deciphers the “Secure Internet Live Conferencing” (SILC), protocol and project. You, can synchronously communicate in secrecy, with Open Source, SILC. https://silcnet.org/ SLIC Wikipedia article Shownotes by: diggsit

Virtual Machines Part 1. Deepgeek, defines 'Virtual Machine', and gives examples of when it's advantageous to use one. The docdropper companion article can be found at the following address: https://www.docdroppers.org/wiki/index.php?title=Benefits_of_Virtual_Machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth Shownotes by: diggsit

Enigma, shares how TorrentFlux helps him manage bit torrent traffic on his LAMP server. There's lots of features in this web-based, Open Source system. https://www.torrentflux.com/ Shownotes by: diggsit