Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are in Studio A again (with podcats) for episode 8 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We talk about photographing weddings, quietening PCs, buying a Proliant Microserver, and pimping Laura’s online survey just a little bit more:Thanks hugely to everyone who has taken part. Before the survey closes on Friday, I’d love for anyone in the UK who isn’t especially techie or into energy-saving to take part if at all possible. Please pass the link on to anyone you know like this.
- In the news:-
- We mention upcoming event, OggCamp11:-
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK – Sponsored by Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk.
- First two speakers in the schedule track confirmed: Lorna “lornajane” Mitchell on careers in Open Source and Steve Lee on Accessibility in Open Source.
- At listener Jason Simmons’ suggestion, we discuss making Linux servers easier to use.
- We interview Frank Karlitschek about his ownCloud project (literally, a cloud of your very own). Try it out or get involved.
- We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
- ..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu:-
- And we had some Command Line Love:
- Finally we have your feedback.
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Thank you very much for addressing the everyone sound like on the phone issue. I envoyed even more listening to the interview today.
Alan Popes comment about the strangeness of buying the AUSU EEE at Toys-R-Us caught my ear. I bought my first and all of my Commodore 64 at Toys-R-Us. It was the only place they were readily available as I recall.
Jerry Clement
Los Angeles California
I am not a native English speaker, so this podcast is hard to understand sometimes, specially when I am on the bus and you interview someone. Then it is necessary to raise the volume of my player. The problem is that when the music comes it is too loud, really loud. Could you please lower the volume of the music a bit?
Hi Aldo, yes we’ve had some difficulties in that regard in recent episodes. Because we do it live (and don’t have anyone to produce the show for us!) we don’t always get the mix right. We’ll try harder in future.
Tony,
Maybe you guys should ask Robin Catling from Full Circle Podcast to help you guys out – his podcast has excellent sound production. and yes, it’s OK to love more than one podcast
I love your podcast. You are really fun.
Furethermore, I really appreciated the server topic in the last two episodes (SyncAny, Owncloud, Mark buying a Proliant). I recently built a home server myself and I’m starting to use it (now that the software raid and the encryption finally work). Perhaps you could report on the experiences you made, what you use your home server for and which software you use. I’d like to discover cool new things I can do with my server.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED that you guys discussed Ubuntu Server edition. It doesn’t get enough love. Also, my 2 cents on Webmin and Landscape. Webmin is great but it does take experience with Ubuntu Server to know what and how to do things in Webmin. It helps newbies with simple tasks, like adding users, but the more complicated tasks like configuring Apache are not self-explanatory. You have to know what is what in Apache config files even when in Webmin. The web interface just presents the text config files in a nice way, but does not always shed light on what to do with them.
Landscape is also great. I was using its free trial for a couple of months and it was great for managing multiple systems, no matter what their physicall location was, including amazon Cloud. I no longer have access to Landscape and miss it. Rolling out updates to multiple machines was especially easy. I have been searching for a (free) replacement for Landscape specifically for the updates function. Webmin can handle some of that, but Landscape had better fine-grain controls.
To sum up, I think these days it is expected to have some sort of a Web interface for a server that is meant to be run head-less, like the Windows Home Server or the FreeBSD-based FreeNAS. It does not take away the power-users’ ability to get dirty with the command line interface – it enhances it for the less experienced. As long as there is a choice, power users should not feel alienated. And isn’t it the whole point of Ubuntu? CHOICE.
Love the podcast. Please fix volume levels, esp in interviews and loud music transitions. Keep up the great content.
Bart B. (a.k.a Flatlinebb)
California.
Enough with the comments about the levels already, we get the message!