Cyberpunk Librarian

Go dark and get deep as Dan walks you through the basics of setting up a burner laptop! In a special, two part episode, we’re going to look at the hardware, network, software, and physical security you’ll need to think about when you’re setting up a laptop you might eventually walk away from. Here in Part One, let’s talk about the hardware, the network, and operational security of the device. CORRECTION: During the episode I refer to GPS as a two way communication which, as Jason Griffey and John Fink pointed out on Twitter, is wrong. What I was talking about is the communication between GPS and apps that use GPS. The GPS on a smartphone is a receiver, and that’s all it does, receive information. I am so sorry for that error, and I’ll mention this correction in Part Two! YouTube Listen on YouTube. Links Acer Aspire One Netbook – My burner of choice Acer Aspire One models on eBay – See what’s on offer Xubuntu – Lightweight, beautiful Linux Install Linux on a Chromebook Five Dollar Wrench Cryptanaly

FIFTY EPISODES?! Can you believe it? The show is over three years old and, with fifty episodes on the books, Dan decided to do something special! Join the Cyberpunk Librarian for a look at one the best pieces of cyberpunk art ever created and one of the greatest cyberpunk stories ever crafted. Kore wa, Kōkaku Kidōtai: Gosuto in za Sheru. YouTube Listen on YouTube Links Can I Stream It – Find out where you can watch or buy Ghost in the Shell online. Matrix Revisited – xkcd on how it’s too bad they never made any sequels to The Matrix. Can I Stream It – Find out where you can watch or buy The Matrix online. Music Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz Ecstasy X by Jason Shaw Grenfeld by Global Goon Dimension by Creo Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Making of a Cyborg from the Ghost in the Shell OST by Kenji Kawai Lum no Love Song from Urusei Yatsura by Kobayashi Izumi. Performed by Matsutani Yuuko Jokyoku from Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron China by Kenji Kawai No G

Turn on, tune in, and chill out as Dan takes you on a trip through the sounds of ambient and space music! Put your mind at rest, lay back, and let the sound flow over and around you. Relax and get more done thanks to the soundscapes and cosmic wonder of ambient music. Dan delivers the info on where to find the best ambient tunes and offers a sampler of some of the best in the genre. YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube. Links Ambient Internet Radio Stations Drone Zone Space Station Soma Deep Space One Mission Control Doomed SF 10-33 The Silent Channel StillStream Radio Mystic The Ambient Music Subreddit The Space Music Subreddit The Dark Ambient Subreddit Podcasts The Hypnagogue Podcast Ambient Soundbath Playlists My Ambient Appetizer playlist – On Spotify 24 hours of beautiful ambient and space music – On Spotify 192 hours of beautiful ambient and space music – On Spotify Musicians Steve Roach – Music from The Magnificent Void – Spotify | YouTube Lucette Bourdin

Almost everybody who uses a computer winds up typing something sooner or later. Heck, Dan is typing this… right now… on a computer! So join him for a show about getting more out of typing with text expansion! YouTube Listen on YouTube Links Text Expander from Smile Software for macOS aText for macOS PhraseExpress – for Windows Breevy – for Windows AutoKey – for Linux TextSuggest – For Linux Music Dodo by beat.dowsing Albatross by beat.dowsing Tropics by beat.dowsing Knowns by beat.dowsing

Cyberpunk Librarian is back! Do you have to do repetitive tasks on your computer? Gotta do the same thing over and over again, week in and week out? Weren’t computers supposed to make this job easier? Join Dan as he dives into the problems he’s faced with repetitive jobs and how he automated his way out of them. Then, try it yourself! A couple hours of coding can save you days of work later on! YouTube Listen on YouTube Links MCLD SlideGen – Easily make web slides for Polaris PowerPAC. PUMMEL 2.0 – Handles unclaimed holds fees and processing in Polaris ILS. AutoHotkey – The duct tape programming language that just freakin’ works. Visual Studio – It’s free now. You should try it. ImageMagick – Arcane, strange, eldritch, but incredibly useful. PHP – Because sometimes, ya gotta. Slide Examples A generic slide with generic fonts and colours. Fonts and colours can be changed to suit your designs and desires! This is a slide as it actually appears on the library website! As you can see, it looks a

Join the Cyberpunk Librarian as he digs deeper into the topic of Minecraft and helps the uninitiated get themselves up to speed! After all, you might want to do some Minecraft things at your library, but what do you do when your co-workers don’t know a diamond pick from a Creeper’s behind? You can start by sharing this show with them! YouTube Catch the show on YouTube Music Fascinating Earthbound Objects at the Free Music Archive Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Digging Into Dirt from Freesound

When things stop working and computers break, you need a trouble ticketing system to get the problems in the hands of the professionals! Join Dan for a ride with eTicket, a FOSS help desk system for everyone! YouTube Listen on YouTube Links eTicket Help Desk Software – A FOSS trouble ticket system running on LAMP. Music Hedonic State by Mike B. Fort Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz OST 11 Where Am I? by sawsquarenoise Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Bristol Riots Shouting and Swearing from FreeSound

Dive into the awesome, portable Raspberry PirateBox, a version of the classic PirateBox running on a Raspberry Pi! Dan’s got the information and the ideas to get you started on your own PirateBox project! YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links PirateBox – Begin at the beginning. Raspberry PirateBox – Build a PirateBox from a Pi! Raspberry PirateBox modification ideas – Take it to another level. LibraryBox – The LibraryBox, an offshoot of the PirateBox. Recommended battery packs – Go mobile. Merkury Innovations Battery Pack – The model I use seems to be discontinued, but this is pretty close. PuTTY – Because Windows only recently acquired ssh capabilities. Episode 39 – About Raspberry Pis and digital signage. How to Flash an SD Card for Raspberry Pi – A great guide for all operating systems. How not to disguse your PirateBox Kareha – Like 4chan, but with Perl. PirateBox radio – IceCast FTW! r/piratebox – The PirateBox subreddit. Music Runtime Error by Peter Sharp Cylinder

It’s laid back, it’s musical, it’s story time! Dan takes a break and reads a couple of chapters from his new book, Digital Outback: Cyberpunk and Culture on the Edge of the Net. YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links Digital Outback – Available on Amazon and DRM free. Feel free to convert as needed. The Pulp Magazine Archive at the Internet Archive Music Astro (Give You All I Can) by Giyo Parisian Girl by Giyo World Order – Machine Civilization from the album 2012 Spotify | YouTube Homer & Jethro – Jam-bow-liar from America’s Song Butchers: The Weird World of Homer & Jethro Spotify | YouTube Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Printer from FreeSound Jet Engines from FreeSound

Scientists recently discovered gravitational waves and Dan gets atomic with the Atom text editor from GitHub! Let’s talk about writing simply, so you can simply write what you need to write. It’s simple, and with Atom, it’s beautiful. YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links ImageMagick – Go hardcore and make images from the command line! Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 41 – So Be It Resolved Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 35 – Marky Markdown and the Funky Bunch Cory Doctorow and Flashbake – Plain text novelist with version control by Git In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson Simple Text Editor for Firefox Writer for Chrome MacDown – MarkDown for Mac ByWord – MarkDown for Mac and iOS Atom – A hackable text editor from GitHub Music Analgesia by Vir Nocturna Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men The Dead of Night by Psychadelik Pedestrian Universal Warrior (Special Edition) by Gorowski Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sounds Manual Typewriter from FreeSound

The Cyberpunk Librarian returns with a show about new year’s goals and self improvement! Find out what he’s got on the agenda for 2016 and stay tuned throughout the year to see how he’s doing with his resolutions! YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links Hearing Voices: Librarian Produced Podcasts – A feature in American Libraries magazine by the amazing Steve Thomas, of Circulating Ideas. Circulating Ideas on Patreon – Check out the Patreon for Circulating Ideas and give ’em your love and support! ASP.Net MVC – So I need to learn more about this. Python – And I need to learn some more of this. The View from Amalthea – My album of ambient and space music. Listen to it and/or buy it on Bandcamp or download everything for free from my SoundCloud. Drone Zone – Pure ambient awesomeness from Soma FM. Mission Control – Ambient tunes with communications from space. It’s like space nerd paradise. Hyperlinked History – A popular history book I wrote a while back. (That’s “popular” as in Popular Sci

Join the Cyberpunk Librarian and dive into the weird world of the Integrated Library System. Sometimes, librarians are called on to help set up libraries for small organizations, non-profits, and schools. There’s rarely a lot of money to throw at an ILS so, if you’re looking for free, open source alternatives, Dan’s got your back. YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube Links Web Librarian Plugin on WordPress – Set up a free, easy to use ILS using WordPress! Web Librarian website – Get more information on the Web Librarian plugin. Web Librarian documentation – While the docs aren’t 100% complete, they’re still very helpful Example Web Librarian PAC – A simple example of a WebLibrarian PAC on the Cyberpunk Librarian website. OpenBiblio – A free, open source ILS with many of the features you’ll find in a proprietary ILS. OpenBiblio documentation -You’ll need this, but it’s not a gargantuan undertaking to get it up and running. OpenBiblio Add Ons – Get yourself some Z39.50. Classify by OCLC – Need

From the frozen north of Flagstaff, AZ — the Cyberpunk Librarian talks digital signage and setting it up at your library! Join Dan for a special episode of the show, recorded live during his talk at the 2015 Arizona Library Association Annual Conference! YouTube Listen to the show on YouTube. Music and Sound New Life by Teen Daze Catching Rays by Psychedelik Pedestrian Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Crowd chatter and talking from Freesound.org

Sometimes you need an eBook, article, musical track, movie, or something like that. Sometimes that thing isn’t available through the normal channels. You’ve tried, but you just can’t put your hands on it. The system is letting you down. Facing a time crunch, trying to help, you need to go outside and around the system. And for that, there’s the Cyberpunk Librarian. Links The Pirate Bay is the World’s Most Efficient Public Library by Zacqary Adam Xeper. The New Yankee Workshop with Norm Abram. Private Internet Access – My preferred VPN provider. ClamWin Portable – Portable virus scanner that lives on a USB drive. uBlock Origin for Firefox – Memory friendly ad blocking for Firefox. uBlock Origin for Chrome – Memory friendly ad blocking for Chrome. The Proxy Bay – Because sometimes The Pirate Bay moves around. Transmission – Transmission BitTorrent client. Cross platform and works everywhere. HexChat – Free, open source and cross platform IRC client that works on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Li

Awww yiss, chummers! Cyberpunk Librarian is back from an unexpected hiatus with a new show about notebooks! Wait, notebook computers? No, paper notebooks! But there is a tech twist to my notational madness as we get into how to keep a notebook where you can actually find the information you wrote down, even if it’s months or years ago. Welcome back to Cyberpunk Librarian! Links Pen Addict Moleskine notebooks Picadilly notebooks Black n’ Red notebooks Field Notes Mead notebooks A little known hack from Japan to get your notebook organized Music and Sounds Zon by Gorowski Sands of Time by Psychadelik Pedestrian Convalescence II: Love Again by Anima Pencil on Paper on Wood Writing from Freesound

After an unexpected hiatus, the Cyberpunk Librarian is back with a show on Getting Things Done! Discover the tools, tips, and tricks for getting the job done and not working so hard to do it! Links Getting Things Done by David Allen – The book that started it all. How to be Productive and Get Things Done Using GTD by Ramesh Natarajan – An excellent overview without slogging through the book. Inbox Zero – Merlin Mann’s methodology for mail management. The Pomodoro Technique – Work a little less, do a little more. Productivity 101: A Primer to the Pomodoro Technique by Alan Henry – Read a little less, learn a little more. How I Work – A great series of articles about how people get things done. Interviews on Letters to a Young Librarian A growing series of posts about how librarians get things done! Outlook.com – One of the best mobile apps I’ve ever used for email. Works for Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo, IMAP, and more! Get it on iOS and Android Wunderlist – My go to for to do. Also available on i

Join us for a new episode of Cyberpunk Librarian where we dig into the markup language that is Markdown. You too can write rich text in a plain text editor and easily share it online! It’s easy to learn and easy to use and will change the way you look at plain text! Correction: In the episode I credit Aaron Swartz as a co-creator of Markdown, working with John Gruber. In reality, Swartz was an important early tester, but not a co-creator of Markdown. Thanks to Steve Thomas of Circulating Ideas for the correction! Links Markdown Syntax by John Gruber – This is where it all begins. A bunch of great tutorials and information about Markdown from Design Shack Dillinger.io – An online Markdown editor. (Special thanks to Knight Wise of the Knightwise.com podcast for the tip!) MarkdownPad – For Windows MacDown – For OS X Haroopad – For Linux Byword – For iOS Draft – For Android My shownotes in raw Markdown Music Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Infinitive Sight by Fortadelis Lullaby by

Drink the Kool Aid, or take a bite of the Apple, or something like that! Dan gets into the nitty gritty of how he gets it done on his MacBook and what he uses on a regular basis! Links Online Firefox (open source) Reeder Microsoft Remote Desktop Transmission (open source) Multimedia Creation Pixelmator GarageBand Logic Pro X Final Cut Pro iMovie Compressor Writing and Coding TextWrangler Evernote MacDown (open source) LibreOffice (open source) Keynote Utility aText OneDrive VeraCrypt (open source) Entertainment Clementine (open source) Spotify VLC (open source) Music Watching Whales on the Moon by Lee Roesevere Illogical Boogie by Coconut Monkeyrocket Namaste by Jason Shaw Belly Dance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

Putting stuff in the cloud? That’s fine. Getting more out of your cloud storage than just a dumping ground for stuff? That’s even better! Dan offers up a couple of ideas on how to get something extra from your cloud storage solutions!

Join Dan for a special, highly technical episode of Cyberpunk Librarian where he presents a talk at the 2015 Innovative Users Group conference in Minneapolis, MN! Links My slidedeck Music Quantum Leaper, feat. Lady Parsec by Azureflex HyperSpaceAdventure by Skip Belly Dance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita