Comments on: S04E08 – Caught Somewhere in Time

By: Tony Whitmore

Tony Whitmore — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:41:00 +0000

Enough with the comments about the levels already, we get the message!

By: Flatlinebb

Flatlinebb — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:29:00 +0000

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.

By: Flatlinebb

Flatlinebb — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:49:00 +0000

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

By: gftuc

gftuc — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:48:00 +0000

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.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:34:00 +0000

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.

By: Aldo Nogueira

Aldo Nogueira — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:34:00 +0000

I love your podcast. You are really fun.

By: Aldo Nogueira

Aldo Nogueira — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:32:00 +0000

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?

By: Jerry Clement

Jerry Clement — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:47:00 +0000

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

By: Gftuc

Gftuc — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:46:00 +0000

Thank you very much for addressing the everyone sound like on the phone issue. I envoyed even more listening to the interview today.