Computer Science professor Bob Fulkerson joins the show to discuss his BBS days including his stewardship of the Endless Forest BBS in Omaha. Bob also discusses facets of teaching Computer Science and his love for the Perl programming language.
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Thomas Cherryhomes joins to the show to discuss FujiNet ... a series of add-on direct-connect devices for 80's era home computers that provides a number of extended Internet capabilities to those machines.
Thom's links:
https://fujinet.online
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Christine Seeman joins the show to discuss a variety of programming languages including Java, Ruby, and Go. We also discuss her live international speaking events.
Website
https://christine-seeman.com/
Socials
Mastodon: @christine@ruby.social
NDC London 2020 - 2FA Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTtZQVSnz2M
.Net Rocks Podcast (taped at NDC London)
https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1676
One Does Not Simply Add MFA - YOW! 2022
https://youtu.be/adQZ6r3Y858?si=0IA5XIBzU0U8HOgj
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The Ruby logo is Copyright © 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto.
It is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License agreement.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
The Ruby Logo Kit ( https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/misc/logo/ruby-logo-kit.zip ) contains the Ruby logo in several formats (PNG, JPG, PDF, AI, SWF, XAR).
Rob Swindell, author and sysop of the MS-DOS and telnet versions of the Synchronet BBS joins us to discuss the genesis of the BBS, running his own BBS company, and the journey to an open source Internet version of Synchronet.
Rob's main site with links to source code repo's and his YouTube channel:
http://synchro.net
The Synchronet wiki:
http://wiki.synchro.net
The home page for SyncTerm, the preferred client for telnet BBS's:
http://syncterm.net
The Synchronet IRC server:
irc.synchro.net
Rob's uncut interview with Jason Scott for the BBS Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMFKU04YTk
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Jeff Dunteman joins the show to discuss his experiences with various technical and non-technical endeavors. Jeff was the first editor of Borland's In-House Magazine "Turbo Technix" which was supplied to purchasers of early editions of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and similar Borland products.
He was the Structured Programming columnist for Dr. Dobbs Journal for a number of years.
Jeff had established his own publishing firm, The Coriolis Group where he wrote and published a number of books and two technical magazines.
Jeff's Free FreePascal and Lazarus e-book
http://www.copperwood.com/pub/FreePascalFromSquareOne.pdf
Jeff's Blog
https://www.contrapositivediary.com/
The Latest Edition of X64 Assembly Language Step by Step
https://www.amazon.com/x64-Assembly-Language-Step-Step/dp/1394155247
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Software engineer and engineering manager Ben Hoyt joins the show to discuss his experience with various programming languages. Topics discussed include assembly language, Forth, C, CGI Programming, Python, Go / Golang, and awk.
https://benhoyt.com/
https://github.com/benhoyt/
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Writer / editor / screenwriter / filmmaker Harrison Demchick joins the show to discuss his background in writing. We discuss the process that led to his feature film "Ape Canyon".
More information about Harrison and his works can be found on his web site :
https://www.harrisondemchick.com/
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Rick joins the show for a look at the final episode of Doctor Who for 2023 ... "The Church on Ruby Road." This podcast contains spoilers for the episode.
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Rick Lundeen joins the podcast for a review of the final of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials .. "The Giggle"
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Rick Lundeen joins us again to discuss "Wild Blue Yonder", the second Doctor Who 2023 special. Please note that there are spoilers in this discussion.
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Dan Kenny joins the show to discuss the Endless Forest, an Omaha area electronic bulletin board system (BBS) that began life on the Apple II in the 1980's. Dan, was responsible for creating the next incarnation of Endless Forest using the C programming language. This version ran initially on a DEC VAX 11/750 hosted at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, but it moved to other Unix/Linux machines during its existence.
The Endless Forest was one of the first BBS's that could be accessed via telnet.
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Rick Lundeen returns to the podcast to continue the 60th year celebration of Doctor Who. In this edition of the podcast, we discuss "The Star Beast" ... the first of three weekly 2023 special episodes of Doctor Who. Please note that there are SPOILERS for The Star Beast episode in this podcast.
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Former 1970's Beatles Trivia radio show co-host David Helling joins us to discuss his Beatles knowledge and his long career in political news journalism.
Audio from the final episode of Beatles Trivia:
https://youtu.be/l8IoruHKtys
Dave's retirement video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDXNNmHfsGY
My friends and fellow Whovians Rick Lundeen and Neil Welch joined me for a roundtable discussion of the series. Neil presents a unique perspective as he saw the very first episode air on UK television on November 23rd, 1963.
Elizabeth K. Joseph leads the Open Source Program office for IBM Z series mainframe systems. She's published books on Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack. She was the 2012 winner of the O'Reilly Open Source aware. Lyz discusses the history of her involvement with the Linux community and her current position at IBM.
Lyz's Website:
https://princessleia.com/
Lyz's Blog:
https://princessleia.com/journal/
Lyz's Wallace and Gromit Fan Site:
https://wallaceandgromit.net/
The Official Ubuntu Book ( Matthew Helmke, Elizabeth K. Joseph, José Antonio Rey )
https://www.amazon.com/Official-Ubuntu-Book-9th/dp/0134513428
Common OpenStack Deployments: Real-World Examples for Systems Administrators and Engineers
( Elizabeth K. Joseph with Matt Fischer )
https://www.amazon.com/Common-OpenStack-Deployments-Real-World-Administrators/dp/0134086236
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The Tux image used is licensed via the Creative Commons License.
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Attribution: lewing@isc.tamu.edu Larry Ewing and The GIMP
Keith Howell joins us for a discussion on his long background in art, comics, modern and classic pulp texts, and his ongoing art publications. Keith also discusses his work and friendship with writer Philip José Farmer.
Keith's Portfolio
https://www.behance.net/keithhowell
Keith's Website
https://www.profchallenger.com/
The Meteor House Press Website
https://meteorhousepress.com/
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Software engineer Ben Kimball discusses learning BASIC programming at age seven, writing and running his first BBS using Turbo Pascal, telnet BBSing, and the creation of Nebraska's first production wireless Internet services provider.
Ben's web-based telnet client for the ISCA BBS
http://iscaclient.llabmik.net/
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Horror novelist Angela Sylvaine discusses various elements of the writing process and the journey that led her to write her new book "Frost Bite."
Angela's Linktree Site
https://linktr.ee/angelasylvaine
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In this episode, illustrator Daryn Richardson describes how art permitted him to deal with PTSD and how a coupling of art and his interest in supernatural stories might help others.
Daryn's art can be seen on his Facebook art page here:
https://www.facebook.com/sylvershutter
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Bob McCoy joins us for a discussion about his lengthy career in various kinds of electronics disciplines and his path to programming in Perl and PowerShell. Bob also discusses his work in voice audio and audiobooks.
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