Linux Outlaws

Linux Outlaws 249 - Inflatable Tanks

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:10:42 +0000

Released: February 2, 2012
Length: 1:42:24

Kimble and his inflatable tank, ACTA, a lot of security news, Ubuntu introduces The HUD, Google Sky Map now open source, Epiphany is being integrated into Gnome Shell and much more...

0:01:03 Introduction

Happy birthday Aq!
Fab is shutting down LXnews and the Sixgun Blog, but has started a new project called Dehype
Oil Rush has been released
Fab has been running CyanogenMod with Ice Cream Sandwich on his Xoom for a while now and gives a quick status update

Video: Great talk from Linux.conf.au
Our next live show will be on Friday, 10 February

0:14:26 Releases & News

Inflatable Tanks

1:10:26 Microwatch

Microsoft is hiring a Linux engineer

1:13:51 Feedback

Supporters: Rubens Durans Kinjo, Kirk Richard Holz and Eric Geissinger

We had voicemail from the Wing Commander
Robin Catling of the Full Circle Podcast writes about extraditing UK citizens to the US
Remy Van Elst wants to recommend a couple of good podcasts he’s heard: Sourcetrunk and GNU World Order
Matthew Grecar sends us email on BrewDog's beers
Ben says logstash has the best logo ever — and he is right!

Kelly Hays tells us about Open Source Ecology (which we actually have talked about on the show before)
James Lewis corrects us that Arista Transcoder uses Gstreamer and not FFMpeg in the backend
Drasticheadcase writes to Dan about Ubuntu touchscreen keyboards
JCCar tells us about their plight with Flattr and their bank

We had other emails from Matt, Michael Spannbauer, Paul Williams, Gerard Braad, Jason Harrison, Rubens Durans Kinjo, Mark Sinclair, Robert Pfeiffer, Tom Bourque, Keith Z-G, John Hill and Matěj.

Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 (May 2-5 in Vienna, Austria): please donate to make it happen!
The Ohio Linux Fest's call for talks is now open

Song: Something by Airtone (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC)

Linux Outlaws 248 - Rantastic

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:11:39 +0000

Released: January 29, 2012
Length: 1:46:37

A wagonload of SOPA fallout, Megaupload takedown, Apple iBooks Author and a metric ton of rants...

0:01:19 Introduction

A new Bruce Springsteen album has been announced
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Cory Doctorow published his Chaos Communication Congress talk as an article on BoingBoing
Relics of Annorath — another Unigine game coming to Linux
Hyrulecraft

Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball

0:13:00 Releases & News

No notable releases
SOPA & PIPA shelved indefinitely — but the war isn’t over, see ACTA
A day after SOPA is shelved: Raid on Megaupload, Kimble arrested (more information)
Side effects of the shutdow, Anonymous strikes back
The Register: Furious freetards blitz the wrong SOPA
Video: the Amazing Atheist on SOPA/PIPA
US Congress can now take works out of the public domain
It looks like Valve hasn’t given up on Steam for Linux quite yet
Desura going open source

0:55:36 Microwatch

Matthew Garret: More problems with Secure Boot

1:01:07 Crapplewatch

Engage!

1:12:49 Feedback

Supporters: Sijmen Cozijnsen, Tom Sparrow, Remy van Elst — from Flattr: corenominal, Chris Woollard and Dave Ostroske

David Yang sent us a pro-SOPA story he found
Greg corrects Dan on a few points
Dailey Chandler is a member of the American Chestnut Foundation and tells us more about it
Beesa says the ACF having their own magazine isn't that much of a stretch if you think about it
Michael Pacey sent us a really nice email saying how much he enjoys the show
Branden Andersen sent us information on the iBooks Author story we talked about earlier
Michael Pettet sent us a link to an episode pf This American Life about the inner workings of Apple factories in China: audio, transcript
Thomas Ritter emails us about Scribus and desktop publishing
Yannis A. sent us an email about some rather disturbing Linux distros he has discovered

We had other emails from Sven and dacresni.

Song: La Batalla by La Olla Express (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Linux Outlaws 247 - Poke Him with Your Pipe, Old Boy

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:51:12 +0000

Released: January 21, 2012
Length: 1:18:37

NSA releases SEAndroid, two professional media apps are coming to Linux, Nokia sells patents to patent troll, Microsoft locks down ARM devices, Samsung wants to merge Bada with Tizen and the Macho Man makes an appearance on the show.

0:01:30 Introduction

"Macho Man" Randy Savage
Batman Chooses His Voice
If you can’t go to FOSDEM but can make it to Liverpool come and see Dan's band 20lb Sounds at The Zanzibar on Saturday Feb 4th at 8pm
Katy agrees that a desktop widget to calculate molar weight is pretty cool
Oxygen Font now ready for testing
We took the network offline for the SOPA strike

The Macho Man during his prime in the '80s

0:10:51 Releases & News

Hot patent troll chick from Sisvel

0:41:22 Microwatch

Microsoft locks down ARM devices with secure boot

0:47:23 Feedback

Supporters: Alexander Van der Merwe, Kirk Richard Holz, Robert Krenitsky, Peter Clark — from Flattr: corenominal, Tony Jones, Chris Woollard, Dave Ostroske

Jason Sipula gives us some more info on the Galaxy Tab 10.1N (which is the special version they built after the lawsuit from Apple in Germany)
Stephen Mulcahy came across a media converter called "Arista"
Aaron asked about upgrading and reinstalling tips a few weeks ago and now wrote to say thanks and that he upgraded to F16 over Christmas
Xavier Sythe sent us a link to some leaked pictures of Tizen from a recent conference
Branden Andersen sent us a link to a Boing Boing story about Lamar Smith (the Congressman who drafted SOPA), apparently he ran afoul of copyright laws himself
Tazzo loves the podcast and asks about connecting his HTC Desire S to his Ubuntu laptop for Internet access passthrough

Shirley Crabtree (aka. "Big Daddy")

Yaroslav Halchenko says Microsoft is quite friendly to Kinect hackers — we remind him that this wasn't always the case

We had other emails this week from Pedro, Remy Van Elst, Willem, Alexander van der Merwe and Tom.

Song: It’s Not Unusual by Joe Ressington (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)

Linux Outlaws 246 - The Shape of Chestnuts to Come

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:11:49 +0000

Released: January 17, 2012
Length: 1:06:01

We talk to Jonathan Nadeau about accessibility in free software, the Accessible Computing Foundation, Northeast GNU/Linux Fest, the accessibility work Jonathan helped with for Trisquel and much more.

We interview Jonathan Nadeau once again and talk about what he has been up to:

Stuff Jonathan is not involved in:

The American Chestnut Foundation

Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation, this month's issue: "The Shape of Chestnuts to Come"

Linux Outlaws 245 - Dirty I/O

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:26:27 +0000

Released: January 14, 2012
Length: 1:24:45

Ubuntu TV announced, MPL 2.0 released, LiMux reports success, CouchDB gets forked, Mandriva seems to be really dying and much more including a lot of soundboard fun.

0:01:20 Introduction

Soundboards!
We would really appreciate access to Hangouts On Air
Browser market share: Chrome is catching up to Firefiox fast
Watch Shipwrecked from the Shaft guys, it’s great!
We can now hide things from time? — what is this I don’t even...

0:10:41 Releases & News

0:58:16 Microwatch

Remember how the Android update experience is so horrible and Windows Phone was supposed to be better? Yeah...

1:01:00 Feedback

Supporters: James Daws — from Flattr: chalkahlom, cyberkiller an Tony Jones

djhyland liked our music pick for Episode 242
Remy Van Elst sent us a story from OSNews about Software Freedom and the predictions RMS made 30 years ago
Svend White sent us a page about Pogonology which apparently is the study of beards

Friedrich Engels and his awesome beard

Johann Strauss II, who is really Jezra from the past

Kevan V. tells us about Microsoft's new mobile strategy
James Cornwall explains to us why KDE4 is great for chemists and tells us how he converted a friend from Windows 7 to Mint
Paul Williams sent us a story about UK retailer Comet being sued by Microsoft
Simon writes regarding the GoDaddy and mentions gandi.net

We had other emails this week from Ben, Alistair Munro, Chris Collinson, David Lutton, Martyn Lewis and Paul W. B.

Linux Outlaws 244 - Let Me Get on the Human Megaphone

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:34:34 +0000

Released: January 8, 2012
Length: 1:54:31

In the first episode of 2012: Amazon sells a ton of Kindles, news from 28C3, GoDaddy supports SOPA, Honeycomb and the effect on AOSP, Mint forks Gnome, Microsoft enables Linux on their cloud and Samsung changes the bevel colour of their tablets to thwart Apple in Germany.

0:02:58 Introduction

Welcome to 2012!
Fab's voxcaster script
Fixed intro music has been deployed
Get better soon, Jezra!
Fab will be at FOSDEM
Video: Firefly fans (and Neil Gaiman) stand up for free speech at a US university — story here
Bitcoin seems to be on somewhat of a comeback
The CyanogenMod Compiler project

0:16:10 Releases & News

siduction 11.1
Gentoo 12.0
Endian 2.5
Tiny Core 4.2
CentOS 6.2
Oracle Linux 6.2
BSD: pfSense 2.0.1
Firefox 9 — Mozilla also renewed their search deal with Google
Extremadura is dropping Linex
Anonymous hacks Stratfor
Amazon moves 4 million Kindles in December — all of these are running on Linux
28C3: New attacks on GSM, Cory Doctorow talks about "the coming war on general-purpose computing"
GoDaddy pulls their support of SOPA amid huge protests
Twitter releases TextSecure under GPLv3
Solaris 11 source code gets leaked
Queru on not releasing the Honeycomb source and AOSP
HTC releases bootloader unlock tool
Is Compiz in trouble?
KDE’s new Oxygen Font
Linux Mint forks Gnome Shell with Cinnamon — more on the Linux Mint blog

1:03:28 Microwatch

Microsoft is enabling Linux deployments on their Azure cloud system

1:06:12 Crapplewatch

The normal Galaxy Tab 10.1 (above) compared with the German version

1:13:12 Feedback

Supporters: NYBill, Russ (K5TUX from the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast), Mark Rice, Philip Behnke, Hanna Pietikäinen, Jon Kulp, Kirk Richard Holz, Anthony Roberts, Adam DiFrischia and Arne Neuman — from Flattr: corenominal, cyberkiller, eksortso and TonyJ

Jeremy educates us that grep originally came from vi
Heine Pedersen tells us about an open source conversion story from Denmark
Simon Phipps emailed Dan about the removal of Sun Java packages from Ubuntu since he wrote about it on his Computer World blog and some people seemed confused over the story
Francis (Grizzly) Smit has been listening to the show for a year and sends us a nice thank you note
Imran Chaudhry also wrote to say he enjoys the show
Leslie used to know a guy in South Africa who’s first name was Doctor
Gary says Burt Reynolds is mental, case in point: video of Burt slapping a reporter
Aaron asks for distro hopping tips
the_axis heard us on short wave radio in the US on New Years Eve talking about SOPA, we were broadcast thanks to Stephen Michael Kellat of LISNews
Yannis A. sends us this story of a woman in Germany ordered to pay a film company compensation for illegally sharing a film when she doesn’t even have a computer or a wireless router in her house
Łukasz "Cyber Killer" Korpalski says the Qt library can do a lot more than just UI widgets, he mentions the game Warzone 2100 that uses Qt for everything
Ben Arnold posted this to a mailing list that Dan is on: Suicide Linux

We had other emails from Charles Kerr, Tom Sparrow, Aitor Pazos, Florian and Billy Toulas.

The UUPC Wing Commander has his own website

Hanni-B.A. says: "I pity the fool when a plan comes together!"

Song: Living in the Dark (Urban Flow Remix by The Dark Clan) originally by Patricia Wake (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Linux Outlaws 243 - Beards Igniting (The Year 2011 in Review)

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:06:16 +0000

Released: December 29, 2011
Length: 1:50:28

We summarise 2011, talk about the biggest stories from our perspective and what we were up to throughout the year.

0:01:38 Introduction

Some people might have gotten our donation page in German recently because PayPal did something weird that Fab couldn’t replicate — we are sorry for that, it is fixed now
Including this episode, we recorded a whopping 60 shows this year!

0:06:00 January

We reviewed Linux Mint 10 and CyanogenMod 6.1
Fab launches LXnews
Apple introduces an app store on Mac OS X
Sony sues Geohot
Steve Jobs goes on medical leave
OSI and FSF join to fight CPTN Holdings
Fab reviews LMDE
We did a special show on the situation in Egypt

0:18:51 February

Dan gets hold of some MeeGo netbooks and reviews them
We went to FOSDEM
Honeycomb is unveiled
The Elopcalypse engulfs Nokia
Canonical messes with Banshee donations

0:33:18 March

Fab starts ramping up video production on sixgun.tv
FreedomBox Foundation funding succeeds — FreedomBox Update Talk From Bdale Garbee
We get in trouble over the randomness of our MeeGo competition
Fab becomes addicted to The Yogscast
Fukushima happened
Shuttleworth starts sniping at Gnome
HP announces it will ship all PCs with WebOS installed
Apple claims they own the word “app store”
RSA is hacked
AT&T initiates merger with T-Mobile

0:44:45 April

April Fools: GNU/Linux Outlaws
Google gets into trouble for not open sourcing Honeycomb
Amazon launches their own Android app store
Microsoft sues Balls & Noble
Firefox 4 comes out
Episode 200: Our podcasting howto special
Symbian gets un-open-sourced
We get interviewed by Les Pounder and release that as a podcast
Fab reviews Gnome 3
We interview Allison Randal about Project Harmony — twice

0:53:40 May

Osama Bin Laden is killed
Fab was a guest on TLLTS 400
The Kindle launches in Germany
We interview Carl Manneh from Mojang
Fab goes to Samba XP
Miguel de Icaza creates a company around Mono
Microsoft buys Skype
CentOS comes under fire for their development model
Dan reviews Unity

0:58:34 June

We launch Pony Express on the Android Market
Linux goes 3.0
Microsoft earns more money from Android than Windows Phone
Dan goes to the Red Hat Partner Summit and gets several interviews, including Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
“The Big Man” Clarence Clemons dies
Adobe drops AIR for Linux
AVM court case kicks off in Germany
We discuss the Gnome Shell developers being hostile towards extensions
We release our well-received Bitcoin episode

1:02:55 July

Karen becomes Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation
Firefox 5 is released, the whole update insanity starts
Fab reviews Arch
Google+ launches, we get on it
HP releases the TouchPad
Fab reviews the Motorola Xoom
Shuttleworth demands copyright assignment

1:10:22 August

We interview Christian Heilmann from Mozilla
Emacs violates the GPL
We interview Becky Hogge for the second time
OggCamp 11: live show, recap
Loriot dies
We launch Leave Your Hat On
Linus wants to fork Gnome
Motoroogle

1:13:48 September

We interview Randal Schwartz again
Fab gets addicted by Warhammer 40K again
Linux turns 20
We interview John Graham-Cumming
Oracle stops shipping Java for Linux
We review our favourite podcatchers
Fab looses his hair
Four years of LO!
kernel.org hacked and Linux Foundation servers are compromised

1:18:24 October

Google+ opens to all
The Secure Boot controversy starts
Amazon releases a slew of new Kindles
MeeGo officially dies
German federal trojan discovered by CCC
Steve Jobs dies
Timezone database threatened and saved
Dennis Ritchie dies
Beefy Miracle
The Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich are announced
Apple threatens Apfelkind

1:21:26 November

HP can’t make up their mind about what to do
Microsoft contributes code under the GPLv3 to Samba
The whole SOPA thing kicks off
AVM looses their case in Germany
Ice Cream Sandwich source code is released
Balls & Noble fights back against Microsoft

1:25:30 December

Fab wins NaNoWriMo
We interview Richard Hughes on the ColorHug
Minecraft goes official
CarrierIQ
The journal proposal
Official Gnome Shell extensions website launched
We launch Planetfall
Pony Express 1.1 released
Fab gets his Galaxy Nexus and reviews it
Megaupload controversy
Linux Mint takes Banshee donations too
HP decides to open source WebOS
Kim Jong Il dies
BT sues Google over Android

1:34:01 Year 2011 Summary

We summarise 2011 and talk about what we thought were important trends throughout year.

Have a happy new year, everyone!

Song: Super Exotic 60′s Beat by Juanitos from their album Best of Juanitos (licensed under Creative Commons BY 2.0 France)

Linux Outlaws 242 - Nuclear Moles

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:18:36 +0000

Released: December 23, 2011
Length: 1:30:14

On the last regular episode for 2011: UMG can pull videos willy-nilly from YouTube, BT sues Google, RIM is pretty much dead, Ubuntu removes Oracle's Java, Apple supports patent trolls and Ubuntu gets a porn lense.

0:02:45 Introduction

Kim Jong Il is dead
One year of LXnews
Judge kills lawsuit against Sony over removal of the "Other OS" function
Arch is getting package signing
Humble Indie Bundle 4
Beer: Badger Hopping Hare

0:17:28 Releases & News

1:00:37 Crapplewatch

Apple uses patent trolls to do their dirty work

1:04:57 Feedback

Supporters: Donald W. Grier, John Myers and Richard Smith — from Flattr: corenominal, cwoollard, Happibun and TonyJ

Rick Bragg made some patches to the theme tune he did for us, you can get this track off Bandcamp if you like it
Chris Woolard forwarded us this security notice from Canonical about pulling Oracle's Java from Ubuntu
nibl sent us this Star Trek animation video they made about SOPA

Burt Reynolds in all his glory

Luke (from Birmingham) wrote to say thanks to Fab for pimping Mintcast recently
Heine Pedersen says he stumbled upon the IBM DeveloperWorks Linux Zone which has a lot of great articles
Paul Williams sent us a great Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody video featuring Dr. Teeth
Jameson recommends CrashPlan for automatic backups similar to Carbonite

We had other emails from TSJ, Peter Sloth, Adam aka. alienkid, Roberto Arroyo, Rob and Gary.

Hack to the Future, February 11 in Preston, Lancashire

Merry Christmas (or whatever you might or might not celebrate) to all of our listeners!

Song: (Man With A) Clockwork Heart by The Dark Clan from their album Free Stuff (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-ND)

Linux Outlaws 241 - Then We Took an Arrow to the Knee

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:16:29 +0000

Released: December 18, 2011
Length: 1:34:03

On this show: The Megaupload Song, Creative Commons 4.0 has entered the drafting stage, Linux Mint takes Banshee's revenues too, HP open sources WebOS, Microsoft allows OSI licenses in the Windows 8 app store and Apple looses two lawsuits and a trademark.

0:01:37 Introduction

Star Trek TNG ambient warp engine sound on YouTube — you can also do it from the command line in Linux
Fab now has a Galaxy Nexus: preliminary video review
Check out Fab's new Minecraft let's play: Planetfall

0:15:29 Releases & News

0:56:56 Microwatch

Microsoft to allow OSI licenses in the Windows 8 App Store

1:00:54 Crapplewatch

Apple is hurting open standards on the web
At least they are loosing lawsuits against Samsung in the US and against Motorola in Germany
Apple lost the iPad trademark in China

1:14:22 Feedback

Supporters: Craig Squire and Raymond Newbery — from Flattr: corenominal and cwoollard

Marshall Graham enjoyed our interview with Richard Hughes and hopes Richard will come back on in future
Jonathan Gregory theorises about the name of the Unity desktop environment
Michael Spannbauer sends us information about the 28C3 which will be in Berlin from December 27 - 30 — if you can't attend in person, check out their satellite events
Tom Reynolds from Megaglest says we should check out their game

We had other emails this week from Alistair Munro, Mark Rice and Owen Oakeley.

Song: Rabbits Don’t Ever Get Married by Hank Penny (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Linux Outlaws 240 – You Wouldn't Steal a Baby!

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:16:50 +0000

Released: December 11, 2011
Length: 1:46:38

This week on Linux Outlaws: We catch up with tons of stuff that happened while we were busy not doing a podcast like the Carrier IQ debacle, the journal announcement, Doom 3 being opensourced, lots of stuff about the Galaxy Nexus and much more.

Fab won NaNoWriMo!

Fab did it!

The Bonn University Shakespeare Company on Google+
Dennis Appelon Nielsen points out that we should have at least mentioned SELinux in our security topic in Episode 238
Bruce Springsteen is going on tour, new album forthcoming
Brainstorming for device sync in gPodder 3x
Minecraft 1.0 released, jeb now lead designer
Google Music now has a store
Balls & Noble continues the fight

Balls & Noble

Moggers87 asked us to mention his Speex version of the show
Piracy is not theft

0:24:14 Releases & News

Linux Mint 12
OpenSuse 12.1
Tiny Core 4.1
CrunchBang Linux R 20111125 — support CrunchBang
Gpodder 3.0 (and now 3.0.1 because of a bugfix)
Arduino 1.0
QEMU 1.0
Security: Flaw in Apache could allow attackers into internal networks
Even the BSA is now anti-SOPA
The Carrier IQ debacle — Schneier weighs in
SFLC asks for DMCA exception
Doom 3 open sourced
Google releases official factory image for the Galaxy Nexus, makes re-flashing the device easy
Galaxy Nexus volume bug
Native user interface for Firefox on Android
The journal, a next gen syslog
We discuss the recent controversy about Ubuntu's and Mint's popularity
Citrus UI proposal for Libre Office
Gnome Shell Extensions website launched
FLOSS Weekly episode on git

1:13:15 Android App Tip

World of Goo for Android — especially awesome on a tablet

1:15:40 Feedback

Supporters: Durand D'souza, Matthew Clarke, Nicholas Ruest, Duncan Michael Bell, Alison Chaiken, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Daniel Lowe, Kirk Richard Holz, Ian Mavero and Clive van Hilten — from Flattr: fwbd, cyberkiller, corenominal, thelovebug, TonyJ, and cwoollard

Emilien who we met at FOSDEM this year sent us a very nice email
Tom Marble sent us some info about FOSDEM 2012 — check out the calls for papers
Dan Devine wrote to tell us about Linux.conf.au which is coming up in Ballarat from the 16th - 20th of Jan 2012
James Lewis sent Dan some tips on how to install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu
Jonathan Gregory writes to say he loves Unity but feels ashamed because nobody else seems to
Galen White, Linuxnetzer and Frank Bell all write with feedback about our recent Linux Security discussion
Axel Pahl tells us the Apfelkind trademark thing became the topic of a whole sketch on German TV show Extra3
Jon asks which distros we currently use
Jason Harrison is moving to Linux from Mac and says he’s looking for a cloud backup solution to compare to things like Carbonite

We had other emails this week from Robin Catling, Tom Wilson, Clive Van Hilten, Tom Wisniewski, Peter Hultqvist, Brad Alexander, Remy van Elst, Lowe Schmidt, Luke Huxley, FiftyOneFifty, Tom Ames, Erez, Alan Farough and Jan.

Pony Express 1.1

Song: Baby Please Don't Go by Big Bill Broonzy (Public Domain)