Linux Outlaws

Linux Outlaws 310 – Glusterfuck

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:06:47 +0000

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0:00:52 INTRODUCTION

It’s a warm bank holiday evening in the UK and Dan and Fab bring you another show
Stanley Cup Playoffs!

0:08:16 SECURITY THEATRE

0:13:34 RELEASES & NEWS

1:11:58 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Ron Atkins, Armin Krauss and everyone who flattr’d us!

Paul Elms recommends the trucker movie Convoy and its soundtrack
Rafael Beraldo likes HabitRPG and tells us about its subreddit
Eliad had a discussion with Fab regarding LibreOffice
Armin Krauss tells us how much he enjoys the show and wants us to know that he’s very happy with Bytemark after choosing them as a hosting provider when he heard they were sponsoring our show

The Crest of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Song: Sweet Addiction by Fhernando (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Linux Outlaws 309 – I’m with Lex Luthor

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:43:43 +0000

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0:01:23 INTRODUCTION

0:09:14 SECURITY THEATRE

0:19:52 RELEASES & NEWS

Lex Luthor

1:25:35 MICROWATCH

ZTE licenses Android patents from Microsoft

1:27:20 GAMING CORNER

Fab reviews Euro Truck Simulator 2 and tries to get across why it’s a lot of fun. Thanks to WelshPixie & Warpgate 9 for the Steam key.

More screenshots from Fab

1:41:11 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Neal Quincey, Niclas Andersson, Evgeny Kuznetsov and everyone who flattr’d us!

Brad Alexander plugs his friend’s chocolate-related Kickstarter campaign
Ivan Pejic wants a rant from Fab on a particular kernel bug
Ghengis Prawn (aka. Norman) made us a voice over for Security Theatre

Song: Oh Rocko (Live at LEAF in Liverpool, 2012) by Thom Morecroft

Linux Outlaws 308 – Airtight

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:52:12 +0000

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0:00:58 INTRODUCTION

We are now sponsored by Bytemark
In other news, our blog is back
The Pens made it to the Playoffs!
Errata: WelshPixie says the right denomination for Warpgate9 is “he steals her blankets”
The 100th episode of Rathole Radio (Dan’s music show) is coming up on Sunday, 28 April 28th — almost 4 years of playing eclectic music from all over the web!
The US just redefined what a WMD is

Not the Royal Air Force…

0:20:48 SECURITY THEATRE

Does he have a burned hand too?

0:24:45 RELEASES & NEWS

0:50:01 APP TIP

HabitRPG — turns your tasks and daily habits into an RPG. It’s open source and was successfully kickstarted in February. Android and iOS apps are in development (using PhoneGap).

0:55:18 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Ivan Pejić, Michael Gulick and everyone who flattr’d us!

Joe Ressington says he got bored so added guitar to his Digital Rights Update theme
Jezra sent us a selection of foul mouthed bumpers for the show
Stuart Ward dent us some cover art for our Game of Thongs parody
Dean Thompson gives us some background info on Cinnarch and GNOME packages in Arch
More thongs

Song: The Next Step by Trifonic (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0)

Linux Outlaws 307 – They See Me Patchin

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:02:12 +0000

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0:00:45 INTRODUCTION

Congratulations to The Dick Turpin Road Show to their 50th episode!
Fab’s podcast list as a repo
Starlogs
Systemd is not ”the new PulseAudio” and people who say so have no idea what they are talking about

0:14:55 SECURITY THEATRE

Server Cat iz Patchin Yer Serverz

0:37:02 RELEASES & NEWS

1:17:28 MICROWATCH

1:25:09 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Rene Castberg, Michael Swierczek, Richard Bragg, Jeff Gehlbach, Jay Towart, Rick Bragg and everyone who flattr’d us!

Charles in Arkansas enjoys the show and has a pretty crazy idea to mess with people spying on his email
Ian Kirk sent us two pretty cheezy jokes
Gary sent us a link on how to install an ARM version of openSUSE on a Samsung Galaxy SII
Mike Swierczek (aka. Dave 71) agrees with us on the Google Reader death and really liked Frozen People by Eric Fullerton from The Art of Dreaming
Alison Chaiken points out that Ubuntu isn’t the only distro using Upstart: ChromeOS also uses it
J.T. is a new listener who enjoys the show and especially enjoyed our take on the always on Xbox

Kerry O’Brien tells us the story how our podcast has helped him get into Linux and set up a Minecraft server for himself and his friends

We had other emails this week from Rick Bragg, Emilien Klein and Moritz.

Song: Minecraft Universe by Eric Fullerton from the album The Art of Dreaming (released under an unspecified Creative Commons licence)

Linux Outlaws 306 – Game of Thongs

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:17:54 +0000

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0:02:25 INTRODUCTION

We are moving the next show recording to Wednesday
The Linus video was, of course, an April Fools joke
Margaret Thatcher has died
History of MySQL forks
Just Tactics is out
gitdown

0:20:32 SECURITY THEATRE

0:30:03 RELEASES & NEWS

Jedi Outcast multiplayer

Tom Servo

1:32:33 CRAPPLE

German Federal Patent Court invalidates slide-to-unlock patent

1:35:03 MICROWATCH

Microsoft creative director does not understand how people can have unreliable internet

1:40:08 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Hans-Petter Fjeld, Andy Benz, Seth Yates, Malf72, John Hughes, Kenneth Dixon, Michael Hanke, Manuel Silvoso, Dean Margerison, Michael Albertson, Luke Walsh, Anthony Roberts, timttmy, Stefan Peter, Kai Siers, Edwin van Leeuwen and the great people who flattr’d us!

Nehmiah Dacres sent us another story about the Linux rifle
Michael O’Fee sends us disturbing footage of Patrick Stewart with hair and a clean shaven Brian Blessed from the BBC’s I, Claudius

We had other emails this week from Andrew Benz, Tzafrir Cohen and Kuero Lant.

Listen to Hollywood Babble-On!

Linux Outlaws 305 – Hummus and Blow

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:40:33 +0000

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0:01:02 INTRODUCTION

This episode was recorded on April Fools Day, but we are still doing a normal show
The live show time is now 19:00 GMT as we are on BST now
Check out our Linus Torvalds interview
JonTheNiceGuy emailed us about this campaign by Edward Finkler to talk about mental health on the tech conference circuit — this came out of the Development Hell podcast which Finkler co-hosts
UCubed 2013 is happening on 21 April at MadLab Manchester
Fab’s feature on how to best replace Google Reader
Also, Fab compiled a list of podcasts he is listening too, including an OPML file
Shoutout to the Brit Pens Fanclub Podcast

0:21:08 SECURITY THEATRE

0:35:35 RELEASES & NEWS

The new default GNOME wallpaper

1:09:42 MICROWATCH

Secure Boot complaint filed against Microsoft

1:15:03 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Kent Haase, Adam Goddard, Remy van Elst, Craig Squire, Karol Babioch, Patrick Hogan, Andrew Hunter, Rafael Beraldo, Daniel Asante, bgryderclock, Gary Sellani and everyone who flattr’d us!

Carlos Lange sent us news of a new release from Mandriva
Remy van Elst asks if we know of any Dutch LUGs and sent a link to an article titled What If PHP Were British?
Joe Ressington made a jingle for the Digital Rights Update
The Brian Blessed Alarm Clock
Phil Thompson contacts us to tell us about Chinese leaders and Bitcoin
Paul Quirk found a very disturbing picture

WTF!?

Song: Brace Brace by I Am Not Lefthanded from the album The Fire & The Sigh (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Linux Outlaws 304 – Hummusgate

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:00:33 +0000

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0:00:43 INTRODUCTION

0:10:40 SECURITY THEATRE

Damn you, Sharktopus!

Problems with Samsung’s Android customisations

0:22:30 RELEASES & NEWS

1:09:02 DIGITAL RIGHTS UPDATE

With guests Jim Killock and Ruth Coustick of the Open Rights Group.

1:59:20 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Justin Smith and everyone who flattr’d us!

We explain why there is currently no audio stream of the live show recordings
No emails this week

Linux Outlaws 303 – Disappointed!

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:19:55 +0000

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0:00:42 INTRODUCTION

Barcamp Canterbury, 27-28 April (free tickets)
The “Podcasting Patent”
Congratulations to Dave and Caroline Lee from The Bugcast for beating us to a European Podcast Award for UK Personality; we came second
Shoutout to Joe Ressington who is now doing The Mind Tech Podcast
Turns out the Hercules clip wasn’t a mistake but apparently an homage to A Fish Named Wanda
Dell Sputnik review

0:19:34 SECURITY UPDATE

0:33:49 RELEASES & NEWS

1:06:13 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to William Miller, Thomas Jaatinen and the Flattr peeps for supporting us!

FiftyOneFifty is pimping ThousandBeardMarch.org
Kevin O’Brien says the call for papers for the Ohio Linux Fest in September is now open
Jason Lewis asked why we didn’t mention Debian as an alternative during our discussion of Ubuntu last week
Bill_in_the_box is listening to the show while driving through the US in his truck
RossLUG is meeting every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month

The Haslingden Halo

Eddy enjoyed the last show and writes comparing the new Ubuntu direction to how Google develops Android

We had other emails this week from Brad Alexander and Barry Williams (aka BazzaWill).

Use #lolive to tweet us during live shows

Linux Outlaws 302 – Black Market Enterprise Linux

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:23:10 +0000

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0:02:24 INTRODUCTION

Hercules: Disappointed!
The Hand of God: We have a new pope
Fab’s been playing the new Tomb Raider

0:16:12 IN-DEPTH: UBUNTU COMMUNITY “SHITSTORM”

We talk about the recent disturbances in the Ubuntu ecosystem. It all started with Canonical unveiling their plans for Mir and Rick Spencer from Canonical saying Ubuntu might very well switch to rolling releases.

I have to be honest, there isn’t an Ubuntu community any more. There’s a Canonical community, an ubuntu-users gaggle and maybe an enthusiasts posse. But no community that makes decisions, builds a consensus, advocates or educates. It’s dead now, it’s been that way for a while.

— Martin Owens quits as an Ubuntu member

Canonical has done some moves recently which show a lack of concern for the Ubuntu community. Numerous other blogs on Planet Ubuntu say the same thing today.

— Jonathan Riddell

Mark Shuttleworth takes to his blog to personally attack Riddell back
This causes Harald “Apachelogger” Sitter to back Riddell up
Shuttleworth, again, takes to his blog
Randall Ross, self-styled “Buzz Generator” and Community Manager for Ubuntu Vancouver actually compares the Ubuntu contributors to rocket fuel which is burned up and discarded to deliver Canonical and its products into orbit

Canonical has started asking for donations when downloading Ubuntu and one option is to give “Better support for flavours like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu Slider thumb”. Kubuntu has never received any of these funds or seen any better support, so this is a disappointing case of fraud.

— Jonathan Riddell

The gravity with which Canonical pulls Ubuntu further from its original FOSS orbit is nothing short of tragic

— Larry Cafiero

0:51:09 RELEASES & NEWS

1:30:00 MICROWATCH

EU fines Microsoft €561 million for browser choice failure

1:32:53 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Sebastian Audet, Nir Yaniv, Jon Peder Opsahl, Keith Zubot-Gephart, Mike Mathieson, Kai Siers and everyone who flattr’d us! — our Flattr page (click on “donate” to set up a subscription)

Jason Bowles (aka Malkor The Techie) sends us a picture of his local bank in a small town in Eastern Iowa that has had some Windows update related temperature fail:

Calum Craig mentions that Brian Blessed voices the character of Grampy Rabbit on Peppa Pig
Jon Kulp thanked us for crediting his colleague Garth Alper on the previous show and sent a link to Garth’s new CD Deflection which has just come out
Jason Lewis has recently discovered the show and asks us to mention Emacsconf, happening in London on 30 March 2013
Meta-eX

We had other emails from Mikey, Keith Z-G, Jeffery Rollin-Jones, Félim Whiteley and Jeff Hatfield.

Song: The Sorry Song by Gidgets Ga Ga (licensed Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0)

Linux Outlaws 301 – Junction 9 is a Winner

linuxoutlaws@sixgun.org (Sixgun Productions) — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:57:37 +0000

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0:00:45 INTRODUCTION

Dr. Garth Alper performed the Jazz piano version of our theme we used for this episode
Episode 301 is brought to you by Bum White — Putting the Glitter on Your Shitter
Sam Varghese disembowels his career

0:12:07 RELEASES & NEWS

Franco Nero in Django

Firefox OS at MWC 2013

Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest. If you want to parse PE binaries, go right ahead.
If Red Hat wants to deep-throat Microsoft, that’s *your* issue. That has nothing what-so-ever to do with the kernel I maintain.

— Linus Torvalds

1:44:06 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Ali Buchan, Ian Mavero, Tom Sparrow, Stuart Edgar, Jeff Gehlbach, Felim Whiteley,Tomáš Slapnička, Koen Tavernier, Andy Benz, Michael Newman, Niclas Andersson, Jeffrey Kaplan, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Bryan Lafferty and everyone who flattr’d us!

Paul Williams is starting a new LUG: Wirral & Ellesmere Port LUG, meeting in the Old Hall Farm at 7pm on Monday, 18 March
M53 junctions
B1ackCr0w sent us the advertising video for Bum White
Jonathan Nadeau reminds us of Northeast GNU/Linux Fest on 16 & 17 March at Harvard University
Leonard Witte recommends an Android podcatcher called Volksempfänger

Maybe not the best name for a podcatcher…

We had other emails from Keith Z-G, Tzafrir Cohen, Rick Bragg and Alison Chaiken.

The Shaft podcast

Song: Frozen People by Eric Fullerton from the album Art of Dreaming (released under an unspecified Creative Commons licence)