Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are all together again to bring you episode 4 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-- We talk about what we’ve been doing, including using Windows 7 and Windows XP (yeah, we weren’t sure if we were on the right show either), testing Natty some more, getting wound up by screencasting tools, installing a Minecraft server, attending a mobile app developer conference, and getting surprise pressies from Tony.
- In the news:-
- Mark makes us play UUPC Fortunes. Guess who wins. Guess who doesn’t.
- We mention upcoming events:-
- This week! (Like, now!) – Ubuntu App Developer Week
- 10th – 12th June 2011 – South East Linux Fest in Spartanburg, South Carolina, US
- And we announce OggCamp11 which will be on 13th – 14th August 2011 in Farnham, Surrey, UK. If you’re coming, sign up here to let us know!
- We interview Chris Gutteridge from the University of Southampton’s OpenData project.
- We mention some Ubuntu-related news in the Ecosphere:-
- ..and in the ‘Not About Ubuntu’ section:-Linus isn’t impressed…
- Finally we have your feedback.
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Note that the bug from ‘Not About Ubuntu’ also impacted Ubuntu Natty (although is now fixed).
Who the hell pick these articles for discussion these topics are boring, most ubuntu user wants to here the latest news actives for music player , games, graphics , Office – Libre , and general tweaking to there desktop .
we don’t want to here boring subject like – “The spies can hack open source software” | “Google bids 900 meeeeeeellion dollars for patents” | Linus isn’t impressed | middleware bore..
You basically stereotyped yourself as a boring University lecture..
i’ll give oggcamp a miss this year.
RIP : Shipit
im going to reinstall Win7…
Hi guys, thank you all for the effort. Loving the podcast. I’d like to comment on two things.
The first was Laura C’s timely reminder (on episode 2 or 3 of this season) that personal computer really took off when people were able to have more than one window open – which implied that Unity, by almost “hiding” the multiple windows, could perhaps be seen as a regression. There is an imporant point there; however, as a PhD researcher, I am finding that actually, by hiding most of the clutter, Unity helps me focus on my work – although that might tell you more about me than about the strengths of the different desktop interfaces.
The second is about the use of free software in Academia. Frankly, besides R for statistical analysis, I’m yet to find anyone openly advocating free software, and I get puzzled looks from other end-users whenever they happen to take a peek at my screen. I have also struggled to get IT support – and they are all nice guys, it’s not personal – to install the stuff I wanted in my workstation: OpenOffice, Zotero, FreeMind, nothing fancy. I took the opportunity to sort of interview the guy who finally did it, and he was very clear: they can’t/won’t help me if something goes wrong; they have Microsoft certification and are more or less prepared to deal with anything Microsoft software throws at them, so won’t risk advocating free software because most people will think it’s just the cheap alternative to Microsoft and will engage in massive bitching as soon as there is any glitch. In other words, the degree of system lock-in goes well below economic considerations of cost.
Interview Chris Gutteridge – cant you read time tables, pointless project and waste of resource.
Just like to say that I really enjoy listening to your podcasts, they are usually very interesting and entertaining, and help me to keep up with the latest news in the Ubuntu and Linux world. Also, what software do you use to broadcast and record your podcasts? I often do audio editing and would find it useful to know what audio software you as a team would recommend.
Just listening to your podcast – am enjoying it so far! But I did wonder if you guys were talking a bit fast – is that normal for you, or are you using some sort of compression software?!
Hi Joshua! Thanks for the nice comments. You can read more about how we edit and stream the podcast on my website: http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2011/03/26/podcast-streaming-software-and-jingles/
Cool thanks, i’ll have to try IDJC sometime