Show Notes
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Ron Minnich. Ron has had a fascinating career working on the interface between software and hardware. Join us to hear a mesmerizing conversation about Unix, Plan9, LinuxBIOS, Chromebooks, RISC-V, of course some Gentoo jokes, flip flop programming toys, and more!
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Bryan and Steve are joined by Adam to revisit some highlights from almost two years of the Oxide and Friends live show and podcast. Bryan’s blog entry on Twitter Spaces: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2021/05/02/twitter-spaces-a-few-weeks-in/
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Ken Shirriff, long-time computer programmer, retro computer aficionado, analog computer programmer, and miner of bitcoin by hand. Join us as we talk about breaking down silicon wafers, restoring old computers, what computers Ken grew up with, and even mining bitcoin on an array of different computers.
You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots. Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers Metrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior RadioShack (RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack "Marilyn Monroe's World War II Drone Program": https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/upshot/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.html Radioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company Piasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97 TacoCopter: https://tacocopter.com/ TacoCopter on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742676 TacoCopter's cameo on Stephen Colbert: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/53yh09/the-colbert-report-thought-for-food---tacocopter Wired on TacoCopter: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/ FAA Section 333 (now Section 44807): https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/certification/section_44807/ FAA Part 107: https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdf Canidu: http://www.canidu.com/ Boeing 737 MAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX Road train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train Checklists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checklist United Airlines Channel 9: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/726789-consolidated-interesting-things-heard-channel-9-thread-merged.html United Airlines ad from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbA TRACON-II PC game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II National Transportation Safety Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board ValuJet 592: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592 Amelia Earhart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart Skunk Works by Ben Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works Lockheed Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works Clarence "Kelly" Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(Unix_shell) Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On by Stuart Banner: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402086-who-owns-the-sky Turbulent Skies by T. A. Heppenheimer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492469.Turbulent_Skies Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinget: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438607.Hard_Landing SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010881-skygod Deregulation Knockouts: Round One by Tom Norwood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockouts Convertiplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertiplane The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8008152-the-dream-machine
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview John Graham-Cumming. Some folks might know John as the CTO of Cloudflare, but he is also a great source of knowledge about computer history including Turing, Babbage, and Lovelace. Join us as we step back in time and learn about how John got started in computers, hacking his school's network to make his own network faster, and all sorts of details of computing history.
Welp, that's a wrap for the first season of the On the Metal podcast. Join us as we reminisce about some of our favorite parts (although it was very hard to choose). We also uncover some aspects of the podcast you never heard about! While this is the end of the first season, we absolutely cannot wait for the second season. Thank you so much for listening, we will be back soon!