Noah and Steve have recommended Z-Wave devices for home automation. What do you do when your home automation fails? What do you do when you suffer latency from streaming? Noah and Steve talk troubleshooting for your home network, and home autom

Ask Noah Show | Episode 301

Aug 30th, 2022

Open Source Has Won!

Aug 23rd, 2022

As we celebrate Episode 300 Noah and Steve dig into the difference in industry between 2017 when ANS launched and today. The landscape has changed considerably. Today people ask about Open Source, today people value interoperability.

Providing Open Source Support

Aug 16th, 2022

How do you provide open source support to business who use FOSS in production? If you're using FOSS in production you need support. Noah and Steve dig into what it takes and how companies use supported FOSS software.

Playing with Kubernetes

Aug 10th, 2022

This hour we focus on your feedback, Kubernetes, audio interfaces, and of course your weekly Linux headlines!

Introduction to Home Automation

Jul 26th, 2022

Do you feel lost getting into home automation? This week Steve and Noah start from the beginning and give you a taste of what it takes to get a solid Home Automation system up and running!

Introduction to Home Lab Security

Jul 19th, 2022

This week we talk about things you want to be aware of before putting self hosted services on the wide open internet!

Crowd Sourced Security with Philippe Humeau

Jul 12th, 2022

Philippe Humeau joins us this hour to talk about CrowdSec - an IDS/IPS that uses crowd sourced information to evaluate threats on your network!

Getting Started with Container

Jul 5th, 2022

This week we dig into containers and what it takes to get started working with them.

Fixing Crashing Containers

Jun 28th, 2022

What do you do when your container crashes your host? Steve is back and we walk through this and other questions!

The Art of Troubleshooting

Jun 21st, 2022

Troubleshooting is much more than solving problems. True troubleshooting is digging into the issue until you identify the root cause of the issue. This week we dig deep into the art of troubleshooting and give you some practical tips and ticks

Rocket Chat Speaks Matrix!

May 31st, 2022

Rocket Chat is the newest member of the Matrix family! Yet another open source communication platform adopts Matrix as their standard for federation.

Redundant Virtual Hosts

May 24th, 2022

What do you need to get a redundant virtual host system setup using Proxmox? We help Tony through this situation, as well as answer your questions!

Travel Laptop Security

May 17th, 2022

What precautions (if any) do you take when traveling with your electronics to another country or to a hacking conference? Noah and Steve dig into the idea of travel security. Your questions, our picks, it's a packed episode you don't want to mi

Choosing Servers...

May 10th, 2022

This episode is focused on your feedback and your questions. Prebuilt NAS or custom built? Digital open source signage, and security camera recordings. We answer it all!

Ubuntu's Rolling Distro

May 3rd, 2022

Rolling Rhino Remix is an un-official Ubuntu flavour which converts the Ubuntu operating system into a rolling release Linux distribution. This solves an age old problem of getting up to date software on Ubuntu.

There are rumors...in the Twittersphere

Apr 26th, 2022

We spend most of the hour on your questions and your feedback. Elon Musk purchases and promises to make the platform more open!

Follow-up Round-Up

Apr 19th, 2022

This week it's ALL feedback! We tackle your questions and your calls!

Medical Data Privacy

Apr 12th, 2022

Fitbit announced their FDA approval to detect atrial fibrillation in their wearable. What privacy and security concerns does this pose and what can you do about it? We tackle your questions, plus the news! It's a packed week!

The Weaponization of Open Source

Apr 5th, 2022

The Weaponization of Open Source is happening but does it enact real change or are we hurting the reputation of FOSS? We tackle your questions, your feedback and this question this week!

Civil Engineering on LINUX!

Mar 29th, 2022

Erik Lietz, PE from Oakridge Engineering joins the Ask Noah Show this hour to discuss running an an engineering firm on Linux! Does it work perfectly? Does Linux leave something to be desired? We dig deep and discuss merits of running a busines

Intro to Storage Part 2

Mar 22nd, 2022

In episode 274 we introduced you to block storage, in this episode we build on that to talk about storage types, and using those storage types with NAS and SAN storage.

Happy Birthday Arch, btw

Mar 15th, 2022

This week we take your questions then dig into the releases that are hot this week. KDE, Gnome, Pine64, and System76 all have something for you this week!