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.
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!
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 EcosphereGeraldHaroldPhyllis - In our ‘Upcoming’ segment we discuss some features which may or may not hit in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
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- 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
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“The Stolen Earth”? Has someone been watching Doctor Who?
Hi Guys,
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, however could you start using the HTML5 audio tag on your site?
I’m sure you know about the much hyped video tag support for Firefox 3.5, however there also exists the audio tag, which could be used for your OGG files.
Here is a quick example:
Thanks
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Andrew
Damn it, wordpress didn’t allow some of my previous post, here is a page with the code I wanted to show:
http://pastebin.com/f3c899787
Wait, *and* “Partners in Crime” was an episode on here a few weeks ago. That’s the episode of Doctor Who where Donna and Doctor meet back up in Adipose Industries.
Would it be possible to cut out the ‘how the hell’ references?
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