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S05E07 – Summit – MP3

admin — 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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S05E06 – What I Saw in California – MP3

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:47:17 +0000

Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are Alan-less for the sixth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about going to the dentist, upgrading to 12.04 and running Unity, and getting a Kindle.
Alan, our man in Oakland CA, interviews Thomas Bushell from Google, and Michael Hall and David Planella from the Canonical Community Team.
We review the EcoPC N.1A from Eco Technologies.
In the news this week:-
And in OggCamp related news, the official website is now live!
And Bitcoin 2012 is on 15th-16th September in Russell Square, London.

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:-

Apache Open Office Project 3.4 released…

~~Finally we have your feedback~~.

S05E05 – A Charming Fellow – MP3

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:03:52 +0000

Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are joined by Stunt Alan (aka Alan Bell) for the fifth episode of Season five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about installing Ubuntu with eyes closed, seeing both halves of 90s duo Lee & Herring in different times and spaces, living out of B&Bs and listening to LUGRadio.
We interview Jorge Castro of Canonical about juju and we talk about the new Ubuntu LTS release, Precise Pangolin (or 12.04 to give it its boring name).
In the news this week:-
And in OggCamp related news, the official website will be going live soon (in about a week from now…yes now…no, now…yes, that’s right…now!).

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:-

Debian have re-elected their project leader…

~~Finally we have your feedback~~.

S05E04 – Cube Root of Conquest – MP3

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:04:27 +0000

Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen return again with the fourth episode of season five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing including buying nothing at an auction, turning 40, upsetting small children, going to a wedding and watching Blake’s 7.
We interview Jonathan Riddell about the news that Kubuntu has a new sponsor, Blue Systems.
In a slow news week:-
However, in BILLION News:-
And we have some OggCamp related news!
- The Official hotel for OggCamp 2012 is the Britannia Adelphi City Centre hotel (in Liverpool)
- Call +44 (0) 151 709 7200 and ask for the delightful Jackie Carter and mention OggCamp!
- Yes! That’s right! Pick up the phone and speak to a real human when booking for this awesome event!
- Rooms are £35 per person per night based on 2 people sharing a twin or double, single rooms also available at £60 per person, per night

We interview Les Pounder & Tony Hughes about the upcoming U³ which will be at MadLab in Manchester on 28th April!

Les is also looking for sponsors for BarCamp Blackpool! If you know someone who’d like to help out the premier North-West UK BarCamp event, please contact Les!

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:-

Mainstream press ‘dont get it’ non-shocker

~~Finally we have your feedback~~.

S05E03 – True to His Colours – MP3

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:44:35 +0000

Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen are back for the third episode of the new season 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 sanity 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 about what we’ve been doing: Testing Unity, attending the official Doctor Who Convention in Cardiff, feeling guilty about wanting a closed, proprietary, Kindle…then getting over it, installing CyanogenMod on an HTC phone, and restoring from a backup (unlike this time last year).
We interview Richard Hughes about many things, including GNOME power management and colour management, and his personal project ColorHug.
In the news:-
And some events:-
- Ohio Linux Fest – Columbus, Ohio – 28th-30th September
- Barcamp Canterbury – University of Kent, Canterbury – 28th-29th April
- Ubuntu UK Release Party – Bar Soho, London – 26th April
- OggCamp 12!
  - Art & Design Academy, Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool
  - 18th-19th August
  - Details of speakers, accommodation, extreme ironing 2.0 to follow
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:-
- H.264 video decoding in Mozilla browsers…
Finally we have your feedback.

S05E02 – Raspberry Jam – MP3

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:04:02 +0000

Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen are back for the second episode of the new season of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing: Upgrading Mumbuntu and the kids’ netbooks to 12.04, retuning MythTV, trying Pinterest, fixing a broken server, going to London Green Hackathon, improving a personal cloud.
We get podcat interference with Alan’s headphone cable:

We have our second debate in which we discuss the motion that “Raspberry Pi is not the saviour of computer science, it’s just the flavour of the month.”.
In the news:-
And some events:-
- ORGCon 2012 – London, UK – 24th March
- FLOSSIE – Queen Mary, University of London – 25th-26th May (submissions deadline 19th March)
Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard have dug up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
We interview Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, about the Ubuntu Accomplishments
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
- New Apple iPhoto app appears to use OpenStreetMap data…
Finally we have your feedback.

S05E01 – An Exhortation to Peace and Unity – MP3

admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:08:01 +0000

Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore & Alan Pope are joined by guest presenter Andy Piper for the first episode of the new season of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing resigning, attending lots, of, events, remembering how to setup the podcast kit and filling up disks.
We have the first of our new debates in this season where we discuss the motion that “Unity is the best choice for the future of Ubuntu”.
In the news:-
We provide a glimpse into the ~~past~~future via some recently released audio recordings from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive. Many thanks to Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard for digging out this episode of ‘Tomorrows Technology Today’
We interview Mahendra Mahey, Project manager of Developer Community Supporting Innovation DevCSI
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
- I can’t believe it’s not ZFS!
- Linus Torvalds issues “rmmod diplomacy”
Finally we have your feedback.

S05E00 – Season 5 is coming! – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:07:58 +0000

Just a quick note to say we’re coming back with a brand new season of the Ubuntu UK Podcast Live on 28th February 2012, with the download available the following day!

Check the calendar for all this season’s episode dates.

Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode

S04E22 – The Unbeliever – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:52:24 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope drink hot mulled cordial and tea, eat mince pies and chocolate yule log with brandy butter, and bring you the final episode of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing including failing to give a talk because the laptop wouldn’t talk to the projector, failing to get some work done because the desktop wouldn’t boot, learning to write a Perl script in quite a short space of time, and releasing lots of code because it’s just that time of year.
We look back at the predictions we made this time last year, congratulate ourselves on the few we got right, and then make some predictions about what will (probably not) have happened by this time next year.
And we present this year’s UUPC Christmas play: A UUPC Christmas Carol! (Complete with lots of very dodgy accents.)
In the news:-
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
- Collaborations proposed between document format organisations…
Finally we have your feedback.
Sound effects used in the show:-
Sound effects used in A UUPC Christmas Carol:-

S04E21 – Dance of Death – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:41:34 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope drink tea, eat cake and bring you episode 21 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing including playing with live-build, taking Wedding Photos, watching Tony take wedding photos, and getting angry at LoveFilm.
We have our final quiz of the year.
In the news:-
Command line love.

Michael Spannbauer tells us about
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We discuss Distrowatch, the media and the beginning of the end of Ubuntu.
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
Finally we have your feedback.
Sound effects used in the show:-
- S: carnival fanfare in pub and leave.wav by klankbeeld — http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/116431/
- S: Approx 850 – Enthusiast Audience.wav by lonemonk — http://www.freesound.org/people/lonemonk/sounds/31169/
- S: fireworks.wav by dobroide — http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/5560/
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S04E20 – Run to the Hills – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:51:38 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 20 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about using Ubuntu One instead of Dropbox, upgrading a desktop PC from Maverick to Natty, writing the UUPC Christmas panto (oh no we don’t…), and working out how to create a PDF from PHP (guess who that was).
We interview Trystan Lea and Glyn Hudson from the OpenEnergyMonitor project who we met at Homecamp 4. We also have the second installment of Podbusters, the quiz with slightly harder questions than it had the first time round.
In the news:-
Events:-
- Ubuntu UK LoCo Christmas dinner at Dans Le Noir restaurant in London on 9th December at 6.30pm.
- Meet Mark at dev8d conference in London on 14th-16th February.
- Yes, you guessed it (again), FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve pointed out to us by Graham Bleach. Spark is a command line graphing tool which you can use to do things such as provide an illustration of the response from the ping command (spark-ping) or you can put it to more exciting uses… Download it and get creative!
We have your feedback, including a contribution from someone who is very definitely not the Wing Commander.
For more information about the petition to the Dutch government about open standards in schools, see petition, FSFE article (in English), open letter (in English), and follow @janstedehouder on Twitter.

S04E19 – Burning Ambition – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:41:24 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 19 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about someone’s new job at Canonical, going to a murder mystery party in costume, upgrading RAM in laptops and getting a new Android phone, and playing with Ruby and xvfb. Can you guess who’s who?
We also interview James Smith from AMEE who we met at Homecamp 4 and we have the second installment of the second wave of The UUPC Quiz – this time brought to you by Mark.
In the news:-
Events:-
- BitCoin conference, Prague, 25-27 Nov
- Indiana LinuxFest April 13-15, 2012 2012. Indiana
- Yes, you guessed it (again), FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu, in which we discuss Alan’s week at UDS. You can listen to recordings of sessions and even watch videos of some sessions.
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from Russel Dickenson who found it on StackOverflow in his hour of need:

ffmpeg -i input_video -vf “transpose=1″ -r 30 -sameq output_video

It’s useful if you have recorded some video in portrait mode and you want to play it in landscape mode.
We have your feedback, including a frankly bizarre contribution from the Wing Commander.

S04E18 – Age of Innocence – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:32:28 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 18 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about installing Oneiric and about getting out and about to the London release party for the Oneiric release, the Ubuntu Happy Hour in Farnborough, and the Science Museum in London.
We discuss teaching ICT in schools. And the quiz is back! This episode it’s Who Wants To Be A Massive Ubuntu Geek? and it’s hosted by Tony.
In the news:-
Events:-
- Yes, you guessed it, FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
Not about Ubuntu
- Linux Mint will support GNOME 3…
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from commandlinefu.com:

export PS1=”[\u@`hostname -I` \W]$ “

Something to do with finding out the IP address of a computer…(maybe look into it a bit before you use it)
We have your feedback, including a contemplation of the future from the Wing Commander.
And finally, next episode’s Pointless-style quiz will be hosted by Mark. Please fill in this survey…

S04E17 – Chains of Misery – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:48:59 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are back together in Studio A for episode 17 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Warning: This podcast contains use of the words ‘neckbeard’ and ‘dangler’. If you are offended by these terms, please find alternative sources of ‘entertainment‘.

In this week’s show:-

We chat about etherwake, vi, wedding photography in New York, netbooks, pop-up books, and backups.
We discuss what’s new in soon-to-be-released Oneiric Ocelot (aka Ubuntu 11.10).
We confabulate about how to keep the Ubuntu community, and its leaders, engaged. We mention Amber Graner’s new Ubuntu Leadership Team – take a look.
In the news:-
- Mango! Will it Blend(er)?
- Fork it! (the Free Software Foundation, that is)
- Time gentlemen please!
- New BBC Micro project – input wanted
- Censorship or child protection?
Events:-
- Ubuntu Release Party, London, UK – The Cask – Thursday 13th October from 6.30pm
- London InstallFest – The Shooting Star, 125-129 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JF – Sunday 16th October from 12 noon.
- FOSDEM – Brussels – 4th & 5th February 2012
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
Not about Ubuntu
- Chameleons need ARMs too!
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from Andrew McCarthy via twitter:
“eatmydata” runs a program disabling all fsync-like syscalls. Dangerous if power fails etc. but makes some disk-heavy tasks v. quick, “liferea” RSS reader uses sqlite as backend, but badly. Every tiny change is a fully sync’ed transaction. Much better under eatmydata.
Finally, we have your feedback, including a corker of a missive from the Wing Commander.

S04E16 – Fates Warning – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:28:02 +0000

Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore are joined by new guest presenter Anton Piatek in Studio A for episode 16 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about testing Ubuntu 11.10 on a Mac, launching a Hampshire Wedding Photographer website plug plug, setting up networked scanning and printing in Ubuntu and reading Modern Perl.
We chat to Anton about Southackton, a hackspace for Southampton, and his work supporting ~7000 Ubuntu users at IBM.
In the news:-
We discuss backups!
Events:-
- FLOSS UK Unconference – Saturday 8th October, Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK.
- Ubuntu Happy Hour – 20th October – Prince of Wales Pub, Farnborough, Hampshire.
- FOSDEM – Brussels – 4th & 5th February 2012
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
- Comunity Council Selection Time!
- Ubuntu One Windows Beta Out
- What exactly is on that Ubuntu DVD!?
- Win Friends and influence people with Ubuntu!
- Ubuntu App(*) Developer site goes live!* Dear Apple, please don’t sue us, love UUPC
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve that will allegedly put the contents of a file into your clipboard, but none of us believe Mark when he told us this. So go ahead and knock yourself out with this one, but if it breaks and you lose your documents / photos / cat in an horrific clipboard accident, don’t blame us!

xclip -in -selection c < filename
Finally we have your feedback.

S04E15 – Remember Tomorrow – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:54:38 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 15 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about having been on holiday, getting Ubuntu membership, women in IT, and listening to sci-fi audio books.
We talk to Sarah Chard and Tony Sales about their Open Source Schools project, and to Jonathan Nadeau about accessibility and free software.
In the news:-
Events:-
- 15th October, Blackpool, UK – Barcamp Blackpool
- Ubuntu Happy Hour (PDF)
- 17th September Software Freedom Day in Hereford at the All Saints Cafe from 10am-4pm
- 13th-15th October LibreOffice Conference in Paris
- 4th & 5th February 2012FOSDEM announced
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
We have a command line lurve that will find random packages for you in the repository (try replacing ‘apt-cache show’ with ‘apt-get install’ if you’re feeling lucky):

apt-cache show $(grep -h ‘Package: ‘ /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages | cut -d’ ‘ -f2 | grep -v ^lib | shuf -n 1)
Finally we have your feedback.

S04E14 – Revelations – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:55:46 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Tony Whitmore are joined by guest presenter Andy Piper in Studio A for episode 14 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about life after OggCamp, building a Nanode, the OggCamp11 Lanyrd page, applying for Ubuntu membership and having an Ubuntu wiki page, creating a PDF form on Linux (or not), upgrading to Natty (finally), learning to use Inkscape, making screencasts (on Windows), and buying a game from the Ubuntu Software Centre.
We interview Matt Revell about his new job as Launchpad Product Manager and Jonathan Lange about developer.ubuntu.com and pkgme.
We announce the winner of our pre-OggCamp11 competition to win a MeeNee laptop.
In the news:-
Events:-
- 15th October, Blackpool, UK – Barcamp Blackpool
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
Finally we have your feedback including a mail from James Fox offering $15 for a fix to Ubuntu’s WakeOnLan function. Listen to the show for more details. You can contact James on jhowardfox [at] yahoo.com.

S04E13 – When Two Worlds Collide – MP3 LOW

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:17:05 +0000

It’s the live show from OggCamp 11!

The UUPC team, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore, join Linux Outlaws Dan Lynch and Fab Scherschel on stage at the Farnham Maltings for episode 13 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

This is the ‘family friendly’ version of the show. The Linux Outlaws will be releasing the uncensored edit on their site at the weekend.

In the show:-

We thank all our wonderful sponsors who enabled us to make OggCamp 11 happen:
- Bytemark
- Google
- Canonical
- Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk
- Bitfolk
- O’Reilly
- Apress
- Linux Format, our media partner
- And big thanks to Christel from the Freenode network for stepping in with funding for free drinks at the Saturday night party.
We discuss the technological and freedom aspects of the recent riots in England.
We debate the Anonymous plan to bring down Facebook.
We each mention our favourite open source (or nearly open source) piece of software from the past year.
And we thank the lovely people who aren’t in the podcast teams but who helped organise and run OggCamp 11.
Sadly, for rafflecast fans, we ran the OggCamp Raffle on the Sunday evening to wrap up the weekend so it’s not part of the show.

We’ll be back on Tuesday 30th August with a normal episode live at 8.30pm BST.