Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore are joined by new guest presenter Anton Piatek in Studio A for episode 16 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We chat about testing Ubuntu 11.10 on a Mac, launching a Hampshire Wedding Photographer website plug plug, setting up networked scanning and printing in Ubuntu and reading Modern Perl.
- We chat to Anton about Southackton, a hackspace for Southampton, and his work supporting ~7000 Ubuntu users at IBM.
- In the news:-
- We discuss backups!
- Events:-
- FLOSS UK Unconference – Saturday 8th October, Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK.
- Ubuntu Happy Hour – 20th October – Prince of Wales Pub, Farnborough, Hampshire.
- FOSDEM – Brussels – 4th & 5th February 2012
- We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
- Comunity Council Selection Time!
- Ubuntu One Windows Beta Out
- What exactly is on that Ubuntu DVD!?
- Win Friends and influence people with Ubuntu!
- Ubuntu App(*) Developer site goes live!* Dear Apple, please don’t sue us, love UUPC
- We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve that will allegedly put the contents of a file into your clipboard, but none of us believe Mark when he told us this. So go ahead and knock yourself out with this one, but if it breaks and you lose your documents / photos / cat in an horrific clipboard accident, don’t blame us!
xclip -in -selection c < filename
- Finally we have your feedback.
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The reason I used xclip was because I had a massive file on my local machine, and I wanted to copy it to the clipboard without having to open it in a text editor, select it all and then copy.
@ Mark, I’m new to Ubuntu and thanks for xclip. Now I don’t have to open all my PLR content in gedit anymore
been using Ubuntu for 8 months and can say I love it
Recently, the graphics card in my desktop machine got heat damaged, burning out some RAM locations and leaving odd glyphs displayed on screen. I’m a keen gamer and a member of the die-hard linux community that insists on running EVE Online though Wine. (see our dedicated forum http://goo.gl/uoIYn). My questions to you are: (1) what graphics card do you recommend for Ubuntu users to upgrade to? and (2) what Windows games have you got running in Ubuntu and was it an epic struggle to achieve?I’ve ordered £40 Zotec graphics card to continue my conquest of the EVE universe because it has OpenGL 4.1 support. I want you guys to tell me that that was a wise decision because I’m starting to second guess myself now.
Regarding backups…
Yet another rsync-based script (like rsnapshot but different) is Brandysnap. I know because I wrote it (in fact I’m still writing it, but it’s already usable). See it on GitHub at https://github.com/StarsoftAnalysis/brandysnap ‘Modern Perl’ was mentioned in the show — Brandysnap is written in Perl, and uses some of the modern features.
I have been using Ubuntu for about 8 months now, Windoze 7 when belly up and Acer wanted £60 for the restore disks!!! I said no way, installed Ubuntu 11.04 and even tried others but Ubuntu works and I will not use Windows again, even if buy a new latop.