Alan Pope & Mark Johnson (with the spirit of Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen egging us on via IRC) move to Studio B for the tenth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
Apologies for the sub-standard audio quality on this episode. Alan was at the controls. That is all. Normal service will be resumed when Tony gets back from holiday 
In this week’s show:-
- We talk about writing Unity Lenses and ASP pages.
- We review the games available via the Humble Bundle and via the Ubuntu Software Centre.
- In the news this week:-
- We interview Michael Hall about the Ubuntu App Developer Showdown.
- And events-wise we have…
- …the one and only…OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool, thanks to our lovely sponsors Bytemark and hosts Liverpool John Moores University.
- Victoria Pritchard and Robin Catling dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
- We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
- And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
- Finally we remind everone about our competition to give away one of a brand new highly sought after Raspberry Pis. Listen to the show to find out how to win a Raspberry Pi of your very own. Make sure you send us your entry to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by 16th July 2012.
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Sound problem in studio b?
Just to reiterate, we are fully aware of and apologise for the poor audio quality of this show. In the absence of Tony’s expertise and equipment, the show was done very much by the seat of our pants. Hopefully the fact that its so obvious is testament to how good a job Tony does
Ouch ! Darned jingle ruptured my eardrums.
If you’re only just hearing about the Pi competition in this episode and want to enter, please note: Mark quoted an invalid email address in episode 5.10. Use the one Tony says earlier on in 5.09 (about 35mins earlier into 5.09 than Mark says it in 5.10, I double-checked it), the previous episode. The podcast subdomain version just bounces right back.
One failing of the Software Centre is that it doesn’t give the application version number. Further, if it did, then reviews should be tagged with that version number, with the option to change the version number, at the time of posting, by the person making the review.
I installed Dropbox via the Software Centre only to be greeted with a notice suggesting that I should install it ‘the proper way’ by going to the Dropbox web site. So I went to the web site, not to download an updated Dropbox, but to post a comment. I told them that going to lots of web sites to update software was the Windows way of doing things and using Windows as an example of good practice was a bad one – then I suggested they should have their own ppa for Dropbox. It looks like Ubuntu is being pro-active in this area now – it is long overdue.
I’d like to know, however, how applications, via the ppa system, are scrutinised to ensure that they don’t contain anything bad.
Probably the worst excuse ever for producing mixed audio. Did you even bother to test it or did you just lob it out because for the most part, UUPC is normally bad and few listeners that bother don’t give a rat’s arse?
Well, thanks for taking the time to post this Morgan. I’m sure you’ve noted that similar feedback has been left on this page already (albeit in a less trolltastic manner!) and that Mark has even made a comment to acknowledge the issues with this episode.
It’s a live show and it’s not always possible to fix production issues afterwards. If you’re a long term listener you’ll know that the episodes are generally better mixed than this one.
That’s fine Tony, but it’s not just this one episode. There are often many obvious contradictions and horribly tacky promotion of Canonical/Ubuntu which is more nauseating than inspiring. As for the god-awful mixing, surely you’ve written down some guidelines for your standard jingle to which even a monkey could at least adhere?
Thanks for your comments! You’re more than welcome, of course, to produce your own fortnightly show in your spare time in which you can ensure that the audio quality meets your high expectations, and contains a more acceptable level of Canonical/Ubuntu luurve. Otherwise, I’m afraid that you’ll just have to manage with us sub-monkey lifeforms and the show that we want to make.
I’d suggest that if you dont want to hear Ubuntu promotion, perhaps a show called “The Ubuntu UK Podcast” is not for you.
Thanks for listening!
I’d like to say they I usually find the tone of the show to be just right, it has a “feel” that’s friendly and eccentric. The Canonical promotion is presented with blatant comedic over-enthusiasm, which is all right.
One criticism though, and it’s been mentioned before on the show; the trumpet is too loud or too full a sound. Needs to match the voice levels more…