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Can you spare £5 for a meter of broadband ?

ken_fallon — Sun, 27 May 2012 10:50:01 +0000

#da12bb #HPR

Back in episode #hpr 0980, I spoke with Chris Conder of Broadband for Rural North.

Located in the very pretty but the rural Forest of Bowland in Lancashire in the UK, and tired of putting up with slow ‘broadband’ they decided to put together their own network. They tried shared wifi, 3 and 4G mobile networks, MMDS and Satellite yet all proved to be unreliable.

So over tea and cake they came up with a plan.

A 240 Kilometer (150 mile) plan.
A 1 gigabit (1000mb/sec) fiber optic connection plan.
A let’s give a connection to every one of the 1700 homes, farms, schools, churches and businesses, in the area plan

And while they were at it they designed it to be:

redundant with a dual homed backbone direct to the UK’s Internet exchange
upgradeable with ducts large enough to take multiple fibers
laid through some of the most rugged, mountainous area of Lancashire to get to the people that need it most. (And let’s be clear here, nothing to do with the fact that they will need to use dynamite to blast their way through the rocks.)

Life up there is a struggle and it’s a tough job to come up with the money to pay for the project. During the show I suggested that they put up a donate button on their site so that people could help them out with their project. Well with their typical “can do” attitude they have gone ahead and done it.

Sponsor them!

Over the next week or so, the names of each of my children will be added to the cable and sunk into under ground. If you have a few spare “quid” then please consider throwing them some cash. They are laying a big core next week so you can get your name on a big cable. For £5 you get to sponsor a meter or for £20 you get to add five names.

http://b4rn.org.uk/sponsor-a-metre

Linux Outlaws 267 – Creepy Fishpeople

Sixgun Productions — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:25:25 +0000

Released: May 25, 2012
Length: 1:11:38

ZTE admits to a backdoor in one of their Android phones, Facebook's stock goes pop, the MK802 micro-PC, Mandriva will become a community distro, Chrome passes IE in browser share and Harald Welte releases a GSM base station

Sadly, the Hangout video of this episode did not record for some reason. But Fab did a Minecraft test stream that you can check out instead.

0:01:48 Introduction

There probably won’t be a show next week; Fab is visiting the Heise HQ

0:05:56 Releases & News

Perl 5.16.0
Fedora 17 won’t be released until 29 May
Security: sudo vulnerability
Security: DoS vulnerability in Bitcoin
ZTE admits to backdoor in one of their Android phones
Facebook IPO: And pop goes the bubble — NASDAQ runs Linux and still broke down

Mark Zuckerberg, Head of the Fishpeople

0:57:48 Feedback

Supporters: Philip Behnke (sent some money for the Diablo III fund) — from Flattr: joe-1, Chris Woollard, johanv, cyberkiller, Dave Lee, Mattias Ohlsson, corenominal and Rasmus Svensson

Entransic recommends Barnes & Noble to be renamed to "Bound & Neutered"
Remy Van Elst tells us that there is a new version of Beyondpod out
Claudiu explains that in Romania, most computers are not shipped with Windows as people largely can not afford it

HPR0995: Do the four freedoms extend beyond software ?

Ken Fallon — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

On Linux For The Rest Of Us #74 - The Legistrative Session, one of our correspondents Mr. Gadgets, called in the following question. The segment begins at at 01:00:30 and in it he describes a conversation about the four freedoms where someone who's opinion he respected stated "the four freedoms only cover programming. It is only the code that is covered in the four freedoms". For those of you who don't know The Free Software Definition boils down to the following rules: Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose. Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. If you read the The Free Software Definition, then yes all the references are to "software" only.... ...that is of course until you get to the section Beyond Software, in the same document, which states: Software manuals must be free, for the same reasons that software must be free, and because the manuals are in effect part of the software. The same arguments also make sense for other kinds of works of practical use - that is to say, works that embody useful knowledge, such as educational works and reference works. Wikipedia is the best-known example. Any kind of work can be free, and the definition of free software has been extended to a definition of free cultural works applicable to any kind of works. So in summary, as HPR is now released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported lisence, any shows that provide useful knowledge, such as educational works and reference works are covered by the four freedoms.

S05E07 – Summit – MP3

Ubuntu Podcast » mp3 — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:13:18 +0000

Alan Pope is back with Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen for the seventh episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and insanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

We talk about getting a Raspberry Pi, taking photos of parents, reading on a Kindle, and playing Tiberium Alliances from the Ubuntu Software Centre.
We discuss the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit (aka UDS) and we interview Jason Warner, Engineering Manager at Canonical.
In the news this week:-
And events-wise we have…
- Surrey & Hampshire Hackspace (who met in a pub in Farnham while we were broadcasting live)
- NHS Hackday – 26th-27th May – London
- Bitcoin 2012 – 15th-16th September – London
- And of course…OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool
Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
- Fedora schedule delayed…
Finally we have your feedback.

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The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 456

Dann Washko, Linc Fessenden, Pat Davila, Allan Metzler — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Just Us - compiline with g++ and baked paths, state of the bitcoin, aix, joel reviews a linux distro, other great stuff

The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 456

Dann Washko, Linc Fessenden, Pat Davila, Allan Metzler — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Just Us - compiline with g++ and baked paths, state of the bitcoin, aix, joel reviews a linux distro, other great stuff

HPR0994: NELF: John Maddog Hall Talking About Talking About Free Software

saras fox — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In todays syndicated Thursday, we bring you another of the talks recorded at the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest 2012-03-17. The speaker is John Maddog Hall and the talk is "Talking About Talking About Free Software" You might remember that Klaatu recorded a fantastic interview back in episode 767 :: Maddog and "super dumb terminals" on 2011-07-11 http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0767

HPR0993: Setting up a WordPress blog – tweaking appearance

Frank Bell — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This is the third of Frank's series on setting up a WordPress blog, now projected to be four episodes. This episode discusses tweaking appearance, particularly the theme. The next episode will be about maintenance. Links: About.com's webdesign reference and tutorial. http://webdesign.about.com/ W3Schools http://www.w3schools.org/info/how-to-create-websites.html WordPress themes and plugins http://wordpress.org/extend/ Connections Reloaded WordPress theme. http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/connections-reloaded GGSimpleWhite WordPress theme. http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ggsimplewhite Report of malware in WordPress themes from Geek News Central. http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2011/01/14/free-wordpress-themes-loaded-with-malware/

HPR0992: Linux In The Shell 007 – Chmod and Unix Permissions.

dann — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This is LITS 007 Pay attention everyone, this is serious stuff. This is CHMOD a powerful and dangerous operator that has infiltrated to the heart of every unix and linux system. We have been receiving reports that it has also behind many strange incidents leading to computer compromise and in some cases complete lock down. Our American colleague, Special Agent Washko, will show us how to, in his own words "turn this bad boy around" so we can get it working for us.

Burning Circle Episode 71

skellat — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:47:12 +0000

This week we mention discussion of a new tablet by ZaReason and also have an example of calling into a podcast feedback line as exemplified by calling the Ubuntu UK Podcast from Ashtabula. This program's feedback line is powered for now by Google Voice and is 702-714-0397.

Download here (MP3) (ogg), or subscribe to the podcast (MP3) to have episodes delivered to your media player. Although we suggest subscribing by way of a service like my.gpodder.org, you can also subscribe to the Burning Circle via FeedBurner's email tool to receive show posts in your inbox with links to episode audio.

Burning Circle Episode 71 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.