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S02E17 – The Plotters – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:33:55 +0000

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Dave Walker miss out on fireworks to bring you another fun packed Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including getting ready for Lucid, talking to SpamAssassin, using DVB-S2 on Ubuntu, installing bannerfilter and DansGuardian, upgrading to and installing Karmic, and having a child
Car-Crash Karmic? – We discuss our own experiences of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and reflect on media reaction and feedback from our listeners
In the Lean News this week:-
We announce some upcoming events:-
- Ubuntu Developer Summit – 16th-20th November Dallas, Texas.
- Scottish Open Source Awards – 20th November
- FOSDEM – 6th – 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels
We have the last of our interviews from OSS Bar Camp with Ana Nelson about automating documentation
We announce the winners of our competitions to win Frontend Drupal by Emma Jane Hogbin and Beginning Ubuntu Linux by Keir Thomas, Andy Channelle and Jaime Sicam
We start a new competition to win a rather nice Ubuntu Ogio Laptop Bag
The ~~Ecosphere~~ Bit about Ubuntu has discussion of..
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

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S02E16 – The Ordeal – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:01:24 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville with our good friends Dan Lynch and Fabian A. Scherschel present a special joint Ubuntu and Linux Outlaws podcast, Live (yes, really) from OggCamp 2009

We’ll be back with a regular show next time.

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In a change to this episode schedule, we have:-

A brief introduction
A recording of the raffle prize draw from OggCamp where we gave away some prizes from our fantastic sponsors.
We lament the state of media creation tools in Linux
We ask the question ’should we put your advocacy weight behind one distro?’
Finally we ask whether we should do it all again next year. If you were at OggCamp this year, tell us what you did and didn’t like at the usual address. If you didn’t go, tell us what you’d like to see at a future event.

S02E15 – Beautiful Chaos – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:03:54 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville overdose on home-made flapjack and tea whilst bringing you all that is and ever will be, the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including the final preparations for OggCamp, going out on a ~~mandate~~ ~~man date~~ Man Date with Dan Lynch (from Linux Outlaws), upgraded a spare machine to Ubuntu Karmic, staying away from computers, buying ~~stationary~~ stationery, giving a talk about Ubuntu Karmic to the local LUG and got a bug fixed by the lovely Daniel T Chen
We review two books Frontend Drupal by Emma Jane Hogbin and Beginning Ubuntu Linux by Keir Thomas, Andy Channelle and Jaime Sicam
In the Svelte News this week:-
- London Stock Exchange dumps Microsoft .Net for Linux based trading platform
- MediaFire attempt to dictate browser plugin behaviour
We announce some upcoming events:-
- LUG Radio Live 2009 24th October, Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton.
- Karmic Release Parties – All around the world, starting on 29th October
- There is a comedy gig for the benefit of Bletchley Park at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London on Tuesday 3rd November, with Richard Herring, Robert Llewellyn, Robin Ince and maybe Stephen Fry.
- FOSDEM – 6th – 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels
We take our last opportunity to scare ourselves as we tell you all about OggCamp, the most open, friendly, welcoming and interesting event happening in Wolverhampton on the 25th October this year!.
We interview Dorothy Gale, Jeffrey Roe and Robert Fitzsimons about Dublin Hackerspace
No Just A Moments this week, but we’d love to hear your ‘Just A Moment’ on our voicemail! Details below.
Ciemon gets a susprise as we tell him Command Line Luurve is back! This time we invoke our lazy geek gene with the eject command.

$ eject /dev/sdb; sleep 1; eject -t /dev/sdb

The ~~Ecosphere~~ Ubuntusphere is apparently still here!
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

S02E14 – The Centre – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:32:56 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Ciemon Dunville are back again with cake-overload from ‘Studio B’, with plenty of content in store in the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including giving talks at ossbarcamp, freecycling, playing with Ubuntu Karmic and IPCop, and more packaging preparation for the upcoming Karmic release.
We interview Matthew Paul Thomas about Ubuntu ~~App Center~~ ~~Software Store~~ ~~Software Library~~ ~~Software Manager~~ Software ~~Centre~~ Center. Note: At the time of recording it was still called Software Store, but has now been renamed Software Center
In the News this week:-
We have the lean, mean upcoming-events machine:-
- Ubuntu Global Jam – 2nd to 4th October 2009.
- LUG Radio Live 2009 24th October, Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton.
- There is a comedy gig for the benefit of Bletchley Park at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London on Tuesday 3rd November, with Richard Herring, Robert Llewellyn, Robin Ince and maybe Stephen Fry.
- FOSDEM – 6th – 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels
We take another opportunity tell you all about OggCamp, a fantastic open culture event happening in Wolverhampton.
We talk to members of the Ubuntu-ie LoCo Team
We play a Just a Moment submission from Chris Jones – The Terminator (author) about LifeSaver. We’d love to hear your ‘Just A Moment’ on our voicemail! Details below. We used a buzzer effect in this segment from guitarguy1985 called buzzer.wav
Ciemon gets down with his bad command-line self and brings us yet more Command Line Luurve! This time, open connections and ports.

$ lsof -i
$ watch -d "netstat -ntauple"

The ~~Ecosphere~~ Ubuntusphere is apparently still here!
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

S02E13 – The Tribe of Gum – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:41:23 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville are back once more from ‘Studio B’ sadly without Dave Walker, but with a crowning episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including installing Easy Peasy 1.5, using ecryptfs to encrypt data, giving a talk about podcasting at Hampshire Linux User Group, making screencasts to fix a bug, setup a Multiboot PXE server, a little packaging, another talk for Hampshire Linux User Group, this time on InfoSlicer and keeping bees.
We interview Neil Wallace about OpenMolar, developing projects alone, and promoting niche FLOSS software
In a fitter, leaner, more svelte News segment:-
- Microsoft Confirm Their Best Buy FUD – Nobody susprised
- Amazon End Easy FLOSS Contributions – Developers disappointed
- Apple Release libdispatch – Mac Users Blissfully Unaware
- Motorola Announces Android Phone – Robot Bandwagon Creaking
We curtailed the listfest that was the upcoming events segment, reducing it down to “what’s coming up ‘Real Soon Now™”:-
- September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
- September 19th – Dublin, OSSBarCamp
- September 26th – 28th – The Workstation, Sheffield, UK – CMS Made Simple GeekMoot
- September 28th – London, Launchpad Community Meet Up
We interrupt the President to tell you all about OggCamp, what’s shaping up to be the best, and indeed only Post-Lugradio-Unconference-in-Wolverhampton!
We discuss the ways people can get involved in documentation for Ubuntu (and other projects)
We get our first Just a Moment submission from you, the listener! (specifically Patrick Archibald). We’d love to hear your ‘Just A Moment’ on our voicemail! Details below. We used a buzzer effect in this segment from guitarguy1985 called buzzer.wav
Ciemon gets a well deserved break from Command Linux Luurve, with a submission from Alan Bell

Pop the following text in a text file called showman.sh in your home directory

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z $DISPLAY ]
   then
   #not in X so starting man in the foreground
   man $1
else
   #X is running so we can pop up the man page in a pretty window
   gnome-help man:$1  2>/dev/null &
fi

make it executable with

chmod +x showman.sh

and edit your .bashrc file and at the end add

alias man="~/showman.sh"

The Ecosphere
Subtle domain move for U1
Scott requests help testing boot-crack (note, this is now in the main Karmic repo)
Ubuntu’s 2009 Report Card

And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

S02E12 – The Android Invasion – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:00:21 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and sadly no Ciemon Dunville are back again from ‘Studio B’ with an all new episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including more trying out and filing bugs on wxbanker and OpenMolar and avoiding Flash on YouTube with greasemonkey & YouTube Perfect script, feature freeze, MythTV 0.22 packaging, Asterisk 1.6 packaging, Gallery 3 and Sugar on a Stick .
We discuss software snobbery.
The News:-
We announce some upcoming events:-
- August 31st to September 4th – Ubuntu Developer Week
- September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
- September 19th – Dublin, OSSBarCamp
- September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
- September 21st – 23rd – Portland Oregon, LinuxCon
- September 25th – 27th – Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio, USA, Ohio Linux Fest
- September 26th – 28th – The Workstation, Sheffield, UK – CMS Made Simple GeekMoot
- September 28th – London, Launchpad Community Meet Up
- October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
- October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
- October 25th – Connaught Hotel, Wolverhampton – OggCamp – A joint venture between Linux Outlaws and Ubuntu UK Podcast
- November 3rd – Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Comedy gig in aid of Bletchley Park
- February 6th to 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM
We talk a bit about what to expect at OggCamp
In yet another ~~ripoff of~~ homage to a BBC show, we introduce a segment called ‘Just A Moment’ where we give eachother 60 seconds to talk about something cool we recently discovered. We’d love to hear your ‘Just A Moment’ on our voicemail! Details below. We used a buzzer effect in this segment from guitarguy1985 called buzzer.wav
The Ecosphere
OpenShotVideo request help
Tobias Wolf adds Thusnelda to his PPA
Ubuntu-Mx start a Podcast
Ubuntu Software Store needs your help
Jack to be in main?
Launchpad Devs request feedback
New features in the desktop Ubuntu installer

And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

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S02E11 – Slipback – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:04:45 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and the snoozing producer Laura Cowen are back once more with a monster episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

At over 1.5 hours this is our longest episodes ever. Sorry to those of you who prefer short shows. We’ll try and curb our babbling in future. In our defence we have a fantastic interview that we just couldn’t cut up. Enjoy. As ever, your feedback is always welcome, details at the end of this post.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including more Ubuntu server upgrades, using stills2DV in a secret project, falling over in the woods, building burial mounds, using the PAE kernel, and reinstalling 64-bit Ubuntu, using Gnome Disk Utility, getting Asterisk 1.6 into Karmic and looking for Server Tips .
We interview Richard Johnson who talks about his work on Kubuntu and Ubuntu, MOTU and the MOTU Council, the Regional Membership Boards and puts us straight on a couple of things.
The News:-
We announce some upcoming events:-
- September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
- September 19th – Dublin, OSSBarCamp
- September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
- September 21st – 23rd – Portland Oregon, LinuxCon
- September 24th – 25th – Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio, USA, Ohio Linux Fest
- September 28th – London, Launchpad Community Meet Up
- October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
- October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
- October 25th – Somewhere in Wolverhampton – OggCamp – A joint venture between Linux Outlaws and Ubuntu UK Podcast
- November 3rd – Bloomsbury Theatre, London, Comedy gig in aid of Bletchley Park
- February 6th to 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM

Command Line Fu ~~Love~~ Lurrrrrve!

Produce nicely formatted printable man pages:-

$ man -t byobu | ps2pdf - > man_byobu.pdf
$ man byobu | col -b > man_byobu.txt

In a segment called ‘Who Do You Think You Were?’ we discuss how we’ve changed over the years with respect to Free and Open Source Software.
We announce the winner to the competition to win a £20 Canonical store voucher.
We delve into the ~~Ubuntu Ecosphere~~ ~~Gerald~~ ~~Harold~~ ~~Phyllis~~ ~~Dustophere~~, ~~Margret~~ Nigella!
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

S02E10 – Day of Reckoning – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:02:04 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and the nodding producer Laura Cowen are back once more with an almost Ubuntu-free, interview-heavy episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including upgrading Ubuntu LTS servers, delivering prizes, playing with am Acer Aspire Revo, dvd::rip, jolicloud, Mythbuntu, and other ’stuff’.
We interview the very knowledgeable Karanbir Singh from the CentOS project, and learn a lot along the way.
The News:-
We announce some upcoming events:-
- August 9th – #ubuntu-uk IRC channel, Ubuntu UK LoCo Team meeting
- September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
- September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
- September 24th – 25th – Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio, USA, Ohio Linux Fest
- October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
- October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
- February 6th to 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM
Command Line Fu ~~Love~~ Lurrrrrve!
- Checking net connections and throttling other peoples computers:-
We have the second part of a our great interview with Dustin Kirkland. In this part we delve into Byobu and ecryptfs
We start a new competition to win a £20 Canonical store voucher. We’ve turned the competition on it’s head for this episode. This time around we’re giving you the answer, and asking you to come up with creative questions. Email them to competition@ubuntu-uk.org
We delve into the ~~Ubuntu Ecosphere~~ ~~Gerald~~ ~~Harold~~ ~~Phyllis~~ ~~Dustophere~~ Margret!
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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S02E09 – The Dimensions of Time – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:43:44 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and not enough Laura Cowen are back once more with a time-defying episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing including hacking on podcoder, patching and packaging, mirroring the new Crunchbang release, giving a talk at the Open Source Schools Unconference 09 and returning a lost laptop.
We report back on the stolen laptop we mentioned in the last episode and talk about encrypting and securing our laptops including using the open source laptop tracking software Prey Project.
The News:-

We announce some upcoming events:-

September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
February 6th to 7th February 2010 – University Libre Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM

Command Line Fu Love!

Combining the watch, date and figlet commands to make a terminal based, configurable clock

watch -t -n1 "date +%T|figlet"

We have the first part of a fantastic interview with Ubuntu Server Team hero, Dustin Kirkland. In this part we talk about KVM and powernap, Wake On Lan and wall! We’ll have more of this interview next time!
We announce the winner of the competition to win an Arduino Duemilanove 328 which was provided by the very nice people at Tinker.it and a Getting Started book from the lovely people at O’Reilly.
We delve into the ~~Ubuntu Ecosphere~~ ~~Gerald~~ ~~Harold~~ ~~Phyllis~~ Dustophere
- The proposed changes to the Ubuntu Code Of Conduct
- The Ubuntu Community Council is looking for new members, as is the Technical Board
- Felipe Alfaro blogged about using LVM to do non-destructive Linux upgrades
- The guys at Tuxradar have benchmarked Ubuntu, Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Ken Wimmer from the Ubuntu Artwork team puts a call out for more high quality backgrounds for Karmic
- Victor Churchill from Hampshire Linux User Group reports on how he managed to fill his Gmail account
- Jo Shields reports the outlook is hazy for Banshee in Karmic by default
- Plans are afoot for a Kubuntu Netbook Remix
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E08 – The Stolen Earth – OGG LOW

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:10:30 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and a little bit of Laura Cowen are back once more with an electrifying episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing including reinstalling Crunchbang on the Viglen MPC-L, and EasyPeasy on an Acer Aspire One, filing bugs in Karmic, appearing on a Running Podcast, fixing bugs that were already fixed, and getting sick of dependency hell
After hearing about a friend’s laptop going missing, we discuss computer theft, securing data and getting back your laptop. Dave suggests Prey as an option to help find the laptop.
The News:-

We announce some upcoming events:-

July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009

Command Linux Fu!

Tweeting and Denting from the command line.

curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
curl -u user:pass -d status="Denting from the shell" http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml

BONUS TIP!: Putting a space before a command in the bash shell prevents it from being kept in the history

Laura talks about the fun she has had with an Arduino Open Source hardware beginners kit
We start a fantastic competition to win an Arduino Duemilanove 328 and a Getting Started book, from the very nice people at Tinker.it. Email your answers to competition@ubuntu-uk.org
We delve into the ~~Ubuntu Ecosphere~~ ~~Gerald~~ ~~Harold~~ Phyllis
- Alan Bell told us about Xpra
- Jorge Castro blogs about apt-zeroconf
- Alan Lord blogs about running Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
- Dustin Kirkland requests testing for kvm84
- James Milligan pointed out a thread regarding the name ‘Karmic’
In our ‘Upcoming’ segment we discuss some features which may or may not hit in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Linux Kernel 2.6.31
New OSX-like Logon Screen
Server Tips
Drag and drop key adding in Software Properties
Not long left to enter the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E07 – The Crusaders – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:22:40 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are back once more with a fun-packed episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
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In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including messing about with VirtualBox disks, Byobu, shoe boxes and secret things.
In our ‘Upcoming’ segment we discuss some features which may or may not hit in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

We interview Jim Killock, Executive Director at The Open Rights Group
Ciemon introduces his new Command Line Fu segment. This week
```
lshw -html > hardware.html
```
The News

We announce some upcoming events:-

June 27th 12:00 – 18:00 – Laura Czajkowki’s, Dublin, Ubuntu IE Summer Jam
June 28th to July 4th – Conservatoire in Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
July 4th – ULU, Malet Street, London, UK – UK Unix User Group Open Tech 2009
July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009

We announce the winner of episode six’s competition to win another Viglen MPC-L
We delve into the ~~Ubuntu Ecosphere~~ Gerald
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E06 – The Twin Dilemma – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:10:09 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are unfathomably back again with a sun-kissed, cake-less, Alan-packed episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including getting a tan, fun with PPAs and less fun with broken ‘net connections
We interview Alan Lord and Alan Bell from The Open Learning Centre and Naked Computers about Expos, their Libertus packaged solutions, MiserWare and their opinions on Mono in Ubuntu.
The News
We announce some upcoming events:-
- June 12th to the 14th – Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
- June 13th – Nokia, Farnborough, UK, Surrey and Hampshire Linux User Groups are holding a joint meeting
- June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
- June 19th to 20th – Vanderbilt Hall, New York City, The first ever Open Video Conference will take place with speakers including DVD Jon and hackers from Firefox, VLC, Miro and more.
- June 28th to July 4th – Conservatoire in Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
- July 4th – ULU, Malet Street, London, UK – UK Unix User Group Open Tech 2009
- July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
- September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
- October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
We announce the winner of episode five’s competition to win entrance and accomodation at this year’s EuroPython
We set a new competition to win another Viglen MPC-L! Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 21st June 2009
We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E05 – The Long Game – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:18:31 +0000

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker (and a bit of Alan Pope) present the latest mammoth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including ADSL woes, Drupal upgrades and having your head in the clouds.
We discuss whether we should exclusively use Free (as in speech) web services and formats, and whether it’s more important to be inclusive than to use solely Free services.
The News
We announce some upcoming events:-
- June 12th to the 14th – Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
- June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
- June 19th & 20th – New York, New York, Open Video Conference
- June 28th to July 4th – Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
- July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
- September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
- October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
We have an interview with the lovely Daniel Holbach about his work with the Ubuntu community and get his advice on packaging applications
We announce the winners of episode four’s competition to get Ubuntu One invites
We start a fantastic new competition to win entry to three days of Europython 2009 including two nights of accommodation. Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 7th June 2009
We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere (or “Gerald”, as we called it this episode)
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E04 – Hidden Danger – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:15:01 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are back once more with a brand-new, tea-fuelled, fun-packed episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

What we’ve been doing this week including patching Debian and eating in the dark
We discuss some of our (most and least) favorite Firefox extensions and those of our listeners, including flashblock, Adblock Plus, FireGPG, Firebug, DownloadHelper, User Agent Switcher, StumbleUpon, TwitterFox, LiveClick, Foxmarks, It’s All Text, FireShot, Google Gears and Iterasi
The News

We announce some upcoming events:-

June 12th to the 14th – Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009

We have an interview with Matt Griffin – Ubuntu One Project Lead, and Stuart Langridge – ex-LUGRadian, now Canonical Developer about the beta of Ubuntu One.
We announce the winner of episode three’s competition to win an exclusive Ubuntu Developer Summit T-shirt
We start a new competition to win an invitation to Ubuntu One. Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your suggestion before Sunday 24th May 2009
We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E03 – Partners In Crime – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:42:38 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and long suffering Producer Laura Cowen are back with a brand new episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

We completely mess up the introductions. So good luck figuring out who did what since the last episode!
We briefly talk about Ubuntu derivatives and talk about some potential new ones
A discussion about what’s good and bad about the latest release of Ubuntu – Jaunty (9.04)
The News
In light of bug 332945 we discuss the interaction between Ubuntu developers and users
We announce some upcoming events:-

April 27th – May 1st – Ubuntu Open Week in the #ubuntu-classroom channel on the Freenode IRC network.
June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest

We announce the winner of episode one’s competition to win some Ubuntu goodies – but this time, we left it in during the edit unlike in episode 2. Oops
We have a new competition to win an exclusive Ubuntu T-shirt from the most recent Ubuntu Developer Summit. Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 10th May 2009
We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E02 – The Waking Ally – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:52:53 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Producer Laura Cowen present episode two of season two of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this episode we have:-

A short discussion about some obsessive-compulsive behaviours the team (and our listeners) seem to have
An interview with Robbie Ferguson from Category5 Technology TV about his show, and how he helps the Ubuntu community
A new segment – ‘Ubuntu Ecosphere’ where we highlight what’s going on in the Ubuntu world. This includes blog posts, mailing list entries, forum posts and so on. If there’s a discussion somewhere you think we should highlight, let us know, contact details below

The News
We remind you of some upcoming events and a new one:-
- April 23rd – Worldwide, Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope releases. Join #ubuntu-release-party on the day to celebrate online.
- April 23rd – London, Southern England Jaunty Release Party
- April 24th – Manchester, North-West England Jaunty Release Party
- 25th April 2009 – Welsh Ubuntu Jaunty Release Party – Starbucks, Cardiff CF10 2BJ until 7pm – after 7pm The Central Bar Cardiff CF10 3BW
- June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
An interview with the motivational Emma Jane Hogbin, Drupal and documentation expert
We announce the winner of last week’s competition to win some Ubuntu goodies.
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

S02E01 – The Return – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:13:15 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen in a new episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this the first episode of the second season we return with a slightly changed format. We’re trying to reduce our workload by recording more ‘live’ and doing less editing and post processing. We’re hoping this won’t reduce the quality that you’ve come to know and love in our little podcast.

In addition we’ve opened channels of communication by taking comments via twitter and identi.ca whilst we record the show. We think this will improve the immediacy of the show and help people to get involved. Of course we welcome your feedback on these changes. Apologies in advance for grouping together all twitter and identica feedback as “twitter”. The relavent parties have been fired.
In this weeks show:-

A catch up with what the presenters have been doing whilst the podcast has been taking a break

Ciemon has been phoning himself with Asterisk (with the help of a free book) and rejecting mice with Crunchbang Linux
Dave has been stretching his leadership muscle with the Ubuntu UK LoCo Team
Alan has booted himself over a network with PXE and the Net install image and has played with Blender as a video editor
Tony has been playing with Easy Peasy on his new Acer Aspire One, and recently helped judge the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

Tony and Laura interview Scott James-Remnant from Canonical about some of his projects
A discussion about what’s coming up in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
The News
We announce some upcoming events:-
- April 23rd – Worldwide, Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope releases. Join #ubuntu-release-party on the day to celebrate online.
- April 23rd – London, Southern England Jaunty Release Party
- April 24th – Manchester, North-West England Jaunty Release Party
- June 13th – Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
A new competition to win some Ubuntu goodies including an exclusive ‘Ubuntu Guru’ T-shirt, a copy of the great Ubuntu Kung-Fu book by Keir Thomas, stickers, an Ubuntu hat, bamboo lanyards, Google notebooks and anything else we can find! Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Monday 13th April.
And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show.

Unfortunately we didn’t get time to play a track Syed Ali sent us composed of samples sent to him by Richard Stallman.
Aidan Delaney wrote to tell us about some projects his students at Brighton Uni are working on.
- https://launchpad.net/cctray-gtk – GTK# interface for the CruiseControl.NET cctray tool.
- https://launchpad.net/gimp-hdr – A HDR image generation and manipulation plugin for the GIMP.
- https://launchpad.net/bzr-wdiff – A plug-in to provide Bazaar with a wdiff command, works in the same way as the bazaar diff command except prints an output similar to GNU wdiff

S01E20 – Happy Ending – OGG LOW

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:02:09 +0000

Dave Murphy, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Dave Walker present the twentieth and final episode in season one of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this exceptionally late episode recorded at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at the beginning of December, we have interviews with:-

Matt Zimmerman, CTO for Canonical
Matthew Paul Thomas, usability guru and Canonical Design Team member
Robert Collins, Bazaar developer and phenomenal multi-tasker
Graham Binns, Launchpad developer, guitarist and photographer
Stuart Langridge, Online Services Developer for Canonical, web genius and ex-LUGRadio podcaster

No news or competition this week, but we have the result of the competition to win a copy of the book Ubuntu Kung-Fu

We’ll be back soon with season two. If you have any ideas for content we might consider in season two, or suggestions on how we can improve the show, contact us to let us know. See you all soon!

S01E19 – Love Letters – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:58:21 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope and Tony Whitmore present the nineteenth Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this episode:-

Yet more upgrade woes from Tony
The news

Adobe release Flash for 64-bit platform
Handbrake now available with a Linux GUI
Pinax hold a competition to promote their platform
Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha available
SCO still suck
Crunchbang relaunches with a new website
Human powered protien folding app Fold It
Fedora 10 released
Mozilla announces end-of-life of Firefox 2.x
Jono Bacon announces the new Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

We talk about the upcoming events UDS and FOSDEM
We discuss the Ubuntu Developer Summit and some blueprints which will hopefully be discussed at the summit

Encryption by default: encrypted-home-directory, encrypted-swap-by-default
Power: power-capping
Boot Speed: jaunty-boot-performance, jaunty-boot-performance-kernel, boot-profiling, boot-io-efficiency

Finally we have lots of your feedback

Plenty about what people do post-install. Alan mentions his blog post where he outlines what he does
Friend of the show Andy Stanford-Clark sends us photos of his low power setup including a Viglen MPC-L and what it replaces.

Following the recording of this episode we were interviewed by Leo Laporte and Amber Macarthur for Net@Night

S01E18 – Slowly But Surely – OGG LOW

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:04:00 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the eighteenth Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In a rather belated episode we have:-

We discuss our experience of upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 – the Intrepid Ibex.
We review Ubuntu Kung Fu, a book by Keir Thomas, and we give away a copy in our competition – which due to the late arrival of this podcast will be extended until 3rd December.
The news.
We discuss what we do to our systems after installing Ubuntu, and briefly discuss Automatix and Ultimatix.
Finally we have your feedback.

S01E17 – Talk About The Good Times – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:17:12 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the seventeenth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In a break from our usual format, in this special episode from the “Creative Pro Expo featuring Mac Live Expo and Linux Live Expo” (yes, that honestly is the real name of the event!) we have:-

An enlightening discourse about content management with Ryan Ozimek from the Joomla! CMS project.
An expansive interview with Simon Riggs from the PostgreSQL database project.
An enabling discussion with Tarus Balog from the OpenNMS network monitoring project.
An entertaining conversation with Phil Hands from the Debian project – a little known Linux distribution some of you may have heard of.
We also announce the winner of the competition. There’s no competition in this episode, because with the upcoming release of Ubuntu 8.10 – we’re ALL winners!

As these segments were recorded during the Expo there is some inevitable background noise. We should be back to the quiet echo of Tony’s living room in the next episode!

S01E16 – I Can Help – OGG LOW

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:12:28 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the sixteenth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this episode we have:-

A discussion about the conflict between Ubuntu and Kubuntu
A catch up after our backup segment in episode fifteen.
We talk about remote support solutions
- No Machine
- Gitso
- YuuGuu
- italc
All New Chunky Sarcastic News
- Oliver Grawert announces new Ubuntu Mobile images.
- Soren Hansen releases a new version of his VM Builder tool.
- Major bug in the Linux Kernel shipped with 8.10 causes some Intel network cards to break.
- Intel shows off booting Linux in under 5 seconds.
- WikiPedia moves to Ubuntu on 400 servers.
- Sun releases VirtualBox version 2.
- Jono announces the winners of the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition.
- MSI announces disappointing return rate for Linux based netbooks.
We announce the winner of the competition.
A new competition to win a Canonical Store voucher.
We receive lots of great feedback, including plenty (both positive and negative) about our previous Backup and 5-a-day segments.

S01E15 – Five Sleepy Heads – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:04:42 +0000

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the fifteenth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this episode we have:-

A discussion on possible backup solutions after one of the team does something silly and loses a lot of data.
New Chunky Sarcastic News
- Jono announces the new sponsorhip process for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit coming up in December.
- Jaunty Jackalope is announced as the code name of the next release (9.04) after 8.10 – Intrepid Ibex.
- New dark theme in Ubuntu 8.10.
- Dirac reaches version 1.0, and VLC releases 0.9.2 which supports it.
- Greg Korah-Hartman hits out at Canonical for not submitting more patches to upstream Linux kernel, in his keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
- IBM releases Lotus Symphony Beta for Ubuntu.
- Crossover create a WINE based port of Chromium, the web browser Google Chrome is built upon.
Time to announce the winner of the Bitfolk VPS competition from last time.
A new competition to win a Canonical Store voucher.
We have a heated discussion about 5-a-day.
Feedback

S01E14 – I Want To Be Free – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:02:06 +0000

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope and Tony Whitmore present the fourteenth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this episode:-

We mull over the Happy Birthday GNU video from the FSF, presented by Stephen Fry.
We discuss the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
Bulkier Sarcastic News
- Mozilla releases Ubiquity
- Dell shipping Vostros running Ubuntu
- Debian offering a beta live version based on Lenny
- Mitac and Commodore show off new UMPCs
- Google releases a browser
- Launchpad integrates google maps.
Due to our previous episode coming out late we’re extending the Bitfolk VPS competition from last time.
Finally we discuss the merits of running the development version of Ubuntu.

S01E13 – Don’t Be Cruel – OGG LOW

admin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:17:52 +0000

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the thirteenth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

A interview with Billy Cina from Canonical about training and certification, and have details of how you can get a discount on Ubuntu training.
Sarcastic News
Trademark issues with Ubuntu
An interview with Andy Stanford-Clark, Master Inventor from IBM
We discuss Virtual Private servers and their purpose

We announce the winner of the Canonical store voucher from the last episode and start a new competition to give away a virtual private server.

S01E12 – No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:49:16 +0000

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the twelfth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

A great chat with Chris Jones about his project Terminator and his dreams of a robot future.
Sarcastic News
We discuss the new Ubuntu training courses and certification
A great chat with Jeremy Allison from the SAMBA project.
Some listener feedback.

Competition:
We announce the winner of the Viglen MPC-L and start a new competition to give away another Canonical Store voucher

S01E11 – Blowin’ In The Wind – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:16:58 +0000

In the eleventh Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo team, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present interviews recorded at LUGRadio Live 2008, hardware reviews, discussion and news alfresco style.

In this episode:-

Discussion:
Pete Stean reviews the Advent 4211 (MSI Wind)
A review of the Viglen MPC-L – which we’re also giving away. We also give details about how you can get the Viglen MPC-L for Â£80
Sarcastic News
A great interview with Andy Robinson and Etienne Cherdlu from OpenStreetMap
Some listener feedback.

Competition:
We announce the winner of the Efficient PC ‘Wraith’
We start a new competition where we give the Viglen MPC-L All you need to do is follow the instructions in the show to be in with a chance of winning this cracking tiny PC.

S01E10 – Easy Come, Easy Go – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:49:44 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore celebrate the release of the tenth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

Discussion:
- Watching video content on Ubuntu
- Podcast now available in transcribed form!
- Sarcastic News
- Selling Ubuntu without using ‘Freedom’ in the sales pitch
Competition:
- We announce the winner of the Canonical Store Voucher this month
- We start a new competition where we give the Wraith PC from Efficient PC!

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986
Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc

S01E09 – Playing For Keeps – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:55:26 +0000

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the ninth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

Discussion:

Efficient PC hardware review

We review the Wraith PC from Efficient PC. Listen in to our next episode (number 10) for a chance to win this great computer!

Ubuntu mobile edition confusion
Lugradio Live discussion
Drobo disk storage robot and Drobo Share

Competition:

The competition from Episode 8 is still open. It will end on the 12th July. (we have extended the competition due to the last episode being late).

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986
Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc

S01E08 – Doncha’ Think It’s Time – OGG LOW

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:49:24 +0000

Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville present the eighth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

The last of our interviews from the Ubuntu Developer Summit:
- Matt Oquist talks about Software Freedom Day
- KDE contributor Celeste Lyn Paul talks in depth about human-computer interaction (HCI) and enlightens us on the (KDE) human interface guidelines.
- Utahs best export, Mike Basinger talks about his passion for the Ubuntu Forums, and his calming influence on the Ubuntu Community Council.
- A very informative interview with Kurt von Finck about the Canonical Support operation, where to get the best deal on Ubuntu support and some stories from the trenches.
- An interview with the “King of Bling”, Mirco “MacSlow” MÃ¼ller talks about lowfat, GDM, face browser, cheese, memaker, clutter, avant window navigator, mpx in xorg.
Competition
- We set a new competition, which will end on the 12th July. (we have extended the competition due to this episode being late).

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986
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S01E07 – Do Not Disturb – OGG LOW

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:37:59 +0000

Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville present the seventh episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

Discussion:
- An interview with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon about FOSS Camp and UDS.
- An interview with the Wubi guy, Agostino Russo
- Learning to program in Python
- An interview with Cory Kontros from Ubuntu Studio
Competition results!
- The winner of the trivia competition is announced. We’ll send them a coupon for the Canonical Store to spend on whatever they want!

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986
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S01E06 – Flaming Star – OGG LOW

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:10:46 +0000

Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the sixth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this special episode:-

Discussion:

A chat about the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit.
A lengthy interview with Mark Shuttleworth where we discuss a range of topics including:-

The release and death of Gobuntu
Dealing with reactions to Mark Shuttleworth’s blog
Mozilla Thunderbird
Python
Deciding what applications are shipped with Ubuntu
SSH/SSL vulnerability resolution
Updated shipit CDs
HBD
The future of Linux
The Ubuntu Community
Killer features in 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
Ubuntu Mobile

No news segment this week.
Another Competition

The second trivia competition is announced. Listen in to hear the question and how to enter. The winner will be announced in the next episode, and they’ll receive a coupon for the Canonical Store.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986
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S01E05 – Everybody Come Aboard – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:14:17 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore with Laura Cowen present the fifth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. In this episode:-

Discussion:
- An interview with Pete Savage.
  - progbox.vid
- A chat with Phil Newborough.
  - Random Ubuntu Advocacy
  - Crunchbang Linux
- We rate our Hardy upgrade experiences.
- Following up with our CLI vs GUI discussion with Laura Cowen.
In the news:
- gNewSense release version 2.
- Adobe opening up the FLV specs.
- The UK’s Unix User Group has convinced the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the British Standard Institute’s decision to vote in favour of Microsoft’s controversial Office Open XML (OOXML) specification.
- 30th birthday of spam
- Sun in process of certifying Ubuntu.
Competition results!
- The winner of the trivia competition is announced. We’ll send them a coupon for the Canonical Store to spend on whatever they want! We’ll have another competition in Episode 6.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986
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S01E04 – Such an Easy Question – OGG LOW

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:42:33 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the fourth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. In this episode:-

Discussion:
- Unix/Linux Malware & Security precautions.
- Interview with Ian Ozsvald from Showmedo.
- A short phone call from Mark Shuttleworth.
In the news:
- Red Hat Skips Consumer Linux Desktop
- MySQL/Sun Add proprietary code to MySQL
New Feature!
- Trivia competition – we have coupons for the Canonical Store to give away!
  - Listen to the show, drop an email before the 3rd May 2008 to the competition@ubuntu-uk.org email address with your answer to the question we ask. We’ll ask Mark Shuttleworth to pick a winner at random from the correct entries and then email the coupon code over to the winner.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986

S01E03 – Help Me – OGG LOW

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:36:35 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the third episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. In this episode we talk about:-

Discussion:
- Command line versus GUI.
- Mythbuntu.
- Podcast production.
In the news:
- Microsoft OOXML ISO Clarification.
- Adobe releases Air for Linux.
- Launchpad su pports OpenID.
- UK Conservative & Labour Parties talk about Open Source.
- Ubuntu survives Tipping point “Pwn to Own” contest.
- Ubuntu Live.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986

S01E02 – Stuck on you – OGG LOW

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:01:46 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore with Dave Murphy present the second episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode we talk about:-

Interviews:
- Ubuntu Demo day organiser Dianne Reuby talks about what’s planned for the 26th April.
- Dave Murphy -talks about Cumbria LUG, schwuk, Canonical, authoring and hardware.
How low can you go – putting Ubuntu on small or low resource hardware.
Pronouncing names associated with Linux.
Would you go back? What would you do if there was no more Ubuntu.
Feedback from the first show.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986

S01E01 – A little less conversation – OGG LOW

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:38:30 +0000

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the first episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

This packed episode is full of:-

A brief into to the cast, some history of how the podcast was conceived.
Discussion on Ubuntu’s Brainstorm site.
- Introduction, discussion on why it’s there.
- Talk about some of the top ideas
FOSDEM 2008 – Interviews with:-
- Andrew Waffa, developer from the Bongo project
  - Bongo is the FOSS lightweight webmail and calendar client, Andrew tells Dave and Tony about how this exciting project has been progressing.
- Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group
  - Becky talks about ORG and their new project, Sound Copyright
- Jan Claeys from the Belgian Ubuntu LoCo Team
  - Jan tells us where the Belgian LoCo team started and what they do to promote Ubuntu.
Pimp the Ubuntu Demo day

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org