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S04E22 – The Unbeliever

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:52:39 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope drink hot mulled cordial and tea, eat mince pies and chocolate yule log with brandy butter, and bring you the final episode of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing including failing to give a talk because the laptop wouldn’t talk to the projector, failing to get some work done because the desktop wouldn’t boot, learning to write a Perl script in quite a short space of time, and releasing lots of code because it’s just that time of year.
We look back at the predictions we made this time last year, congratulate ourselves on the few we got right, and then make some predictions about what will (probably not) have happened by this time next year.
And we present this year’s UUPC Christmas play: A UUPC Christmas Carol! (Complete with lots of very dodgy accents.)
In the news:-
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
- Collaborations proposed between document format organisations…
Finally we have your feedback.
Sound effects used in the show:-
Sound effects used in A UUPC Christmas Carol:-

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S04E21 – Dance of Death

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:41:25 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope drink tea, eat cake and bring you episode 21 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about about what we’ve been doing including playing with live-build, taking Wedding Photos, watching Tony take wedding photos, and getting angry at LoveFilm.
We have our final quiz of the year.
In the news:-
Command line love.

Michael Spannbauer tells us about
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aoss
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We discuss Distrowatch, the media and the beginning of the end of Ubuntu.
We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
Finally we have your feedback.
Sound effects used in the show:-
- S: carnival fanfare in pub and leave.wav by klankbeeld — http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/116431/
- S: Approx 850 – Enthusiast Audience.wav by lonemonk — http://www.freesound.org/people/lonemonk/sounds/31169/
- S: fireworks.wav by dobroide — http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/5560/
Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
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S04E20 – Run to the Hills

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:51:29 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 20 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about using Ubuntu One instead of Dropbox, upgrading a desktop PC from Maverick to Natty, writing the UUPC Christmas panto (oh no we don’t…), and working out how to create a PDF from PHP (guess who that was).
We interview Trystan Lea and Glyn Hudson from the OpenEnergyMonitor project who we met at Homecamp 4. We also have the second installment of Podbusters, the quiz with slightly harder questions than it had the first time round.
In the news:-
Events:-
- Ubuntu UK LoCo Christmas dinner at Dans Le Noir restaurant in London on 9th December at 6.30pm.
- Meet Mark at dev8d conference in London on 14th-16th February.
- Yes, you guessed it (again), FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve pointed out to us by Graham Bleach. Spark is a command line graphing tool which you can use to do things such as provide an illustration of the response from the ping command (spark-ping) or you can put it to more exciting uses… Download it and get creative!
We have your feedback, including a contribution from someone who is very definitely not the Wing Commander.
For more information about the petition to the Dutch government about open standards in schools, see petition, FSFE article (in English), open letter (in English), and follow @janstedehouder on Twitter.

S04E19 – Burning Ambition

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:41:11 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 19 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about someone’s new job at Canonical, going to a murder mystery party in costume, upgrading RAM in laptops and getting a new Android phone, and playing with Ruby and xvfb. Can you guess who’s who?
We also interview James Smith from AMEE who we met at Homecamp 4 and we have the second installment of the second wave of The UUPC Quiz – this time brought to you by Mark.
In the news:-
Events:-
- BitCoin conference, Prague, 25-27 Nov
- Indiana LinuxFest April 13-15, 2012 2012. Indiana
- Yes, you guessed it (again), FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu, in which we discuss Alan’s week at UDS. You can listen to recordings of sessions and even watch videos of some sessions.
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from Russel Dickenson who found it on StackOverflow in his hour of need:

ffmpeg -i input_video -vf “transpose=1″ -r 30 -sameq output_video

It’s useful if you have recorded some video in portrait mode and you want to play it in landscape mode.
We have your feedback, including a frankly bizarre contribution from the Wing Commander.

S04E18 – Age of Innocence

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:32:23 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 18 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about installing Oneiric and about getting out and about to the London release party for the Oneiric release, the Ubuntu Happy Hour in Farnborough, and the Science Museum in London.
We discuss teaching ICT in schools. And the quiz is back! This episode it’s Who Wants To Be A Massive Ubuntu Geek? and it’s hosted by Tony.
In the news:-
Events:-
- Yes, you guessed it, FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
Not about Ubuntu
- Linux Mint will support GNOME 3…
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from commandlinefu.com:

export PS1=”[\u@`hostname -I` \W]$ “

Something to do with finding out the IP address of a computer…(maybe look into it a bit before you use it)
We have your feedback, including a contemplation of the future from the Wing Commander.
And finally, next episode’s Pointless-style quiz will be hosted by Mark. Please fill in this survey…

S04E17 – Chains of Misery

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:48:41 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are back together in Studio A for episode 17 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Warning: This podcast contains use of the words ‘neckbeard’ and ‘dangler’. If you are offended by these terms, please find alternative sources of ‘entertainment‘.

In this week’s show:-

We chat about etherwake, vi, wedding photography in New York, netbooks, pop-up books, and backups.
We discuss what’s new in soon-to-be-released Oneiric Ocelot (aka Ubuntu 11.10).
We confabulate about how to keep the Ubuntu community, and its leaders, engaged. We mention Amber Graner’s new Ubuntu Leadership Team – take a look.
In the news:-
- Mango! Will it Blend(er)?
- Fork it! (the Free Software Foundation, that is)
- Time gentlemen please!
- New BBC Micro project – input wanted
- Censorship or child protection?
Events:-
- Ubuntu Release Party, London, UK – The Cask – Thursday 13th October from 6.30pm
- London InstallFest – The Shooting Star, 125-129 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JF – Sunday 16th October from 12 noon.
- FOSDEM – Brussels – 4th & 5th February 2012
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
Not about Ubuntu
- Chameleons need ARMs too!
We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from Andrew McCarthy via twitter:
“eatmydata” runs a program disabling all fsync-like syscalls. Dangerous if power fails etc. but makes some disk-heavy tasks v. quick, “liferea” RSS reader uses sqlite as backend, but badly. Every tiny change is a fully sync’ed transaction. Much better under eatmydata.
Finally, we have your feedback, including a corker of a missive from the Wing Commander.

S04E16 – Fates Warning

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:27:57 +0000

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.

S04E15 – Remember Tomorrow

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:54:41 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 15 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We chat about having been on holiday, getting Ubuntu membership, women in IT, and listening to sci-fi audio books.
We talk to Sarah Chard and Tony Sales about their Open Source Schools project, and to Jonathan Nadeau about accessibility and free software.
In the news:-
Events:-
- 15th October, Blackpool, UK – Barcamp Blackpool
- Ubuntu Happy Hour (PDF)
- 17th September Software Freedom Day in Hereford at the All Saints Cafe from 10am-4pm
- 13th-15th October LibreOffice Conference in Paris
- 4th & 5th February 2012FOSDEM announced
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
We have a command line lurve that will find random packages for you in the repository (try replacing ‘apt-cache show’ with ‘apt-get install’ if you’re feeling lucky):

apt-cache show $(grep -h ‘Package: ‘ /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages | cut -d’ ‘ -f2 | grep -v ^lib | shuf -n 1)
Finally we have your feedback.

S04E14 – Revelations

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:55:55 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Tony Whitmore are joined by guest presenter Andy Piper in Studio A for episode 14 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about life after OggCamp, building a Nanode, the OggCamp11 Lanyrd page, applying for Ubuntu membership and having an Ubuntu wiki page, creating a PDF form on Linux (or not), upgrading to Natty (finally), learning to use Inkscape, making screencasts (on Windows), and buying a game from the Ubuntu Software Centre.
We interview Matt Revell about his new job as Launchpad Product Manager and Jonathan Lange about developer.ubuntu.com and pkgme.
We announce the winner of our pre-OggCamp11 competition to win a MeeNee laptop.
In the news:-
Events:-
- 15th October, Blackpool, UK – Barcamp Blackpool
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
Finally we have your feedback including a mail from James Fox offering $15 for a fix to Ubuntu’s WakeOnLan function. Listen to the show for more details. You can contact James on jhowardfox [at] yahoo.com.

S04E13 – When Two Worlds Collide

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:17:00 +0000

It’s the live show from OggCamp 11!

The UUPC team, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore, join Linux Outlaws Dan Lynch and Fab Scherschel on stage at the Farnham Maltings for episode 13 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

This is the ‘family friendly’ version of the show. The Linux Outlaws will be releasing the uncensored edit on their site at the weekend.

In the show:-

We thank all our wonderful sponsors who enabled us to make OggCamp 11 happen:
- Bytemark
- Google
- Canonical
- Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk
- Bitfolk
- O’Reilly
- Apress
- Linux Format, our media partner
- And big thanks to Christel from the Freenode network for stepping in with funding for free drinks at the Saturday night party.
We discuss the technological and freedom aspects of the recent riots in England.
We debate the Anonymous plan to bring down Facebook.
We each mention our favourite open source (or nearly open source) piece of software from the past year.
And we thank the lovely people who aren’t in the podcast teams but who helped organise and run OggCamp 11.
Sadly, for rafflecast fans, we ran the OggCamp Raffle on the Sunday evening to wrap up the weekend so it’s not part of the show.

We’ll be back on Tuesday 30th August with a normal episode live at 8.30pm BST.

S04E12 – More Tea Vicar

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:58:56 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are live again in Studio A for episode 12 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 working how not to run out of printer ink with TuxPaint, wedding photography, pledging money to PledgeMusic, and pimping a Joggler.
We chat about real-time video editor in-the-making, Novacut, and the controversy (here and here).
We announce the winner of our HP Microserver competition.
We review the MeeNee laptop, a low-cost laptop that comes with Ubuntu installed..
…and we introduce a new competition to win said MeeNee laptop. Entries to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by Sunday 28th August.
In the news:-
Events:-
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK. There’s lots more information on website now, including a schedule for the weekend and our list of scheduled speakers to which we announce the addition of Simon Phipps.
- And none of this could happen without all our lovely sponsors:
  - Bytemark (our top dogs!)
  - Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk
  - Google
  - Bitfolk (sponsoring our Saturday night party)
  - Linux Format, our media partner (including discounted subscriptions for attendees).
- And we announce some other new stuff:
  - Parking fees apply at the venue on Saturday and they’ve gone up slightly since last episode. It’s now £4.40 for the whole day. It’s still free on Sunday.
  - Wifi! We think we have wifi sorted out now as the venue are installing it as I write. If you’re feeling a bit dubious about how well a new wifi installation will stand up to a multitude of geeks and their laptops/phones/tablets, please bring your own 3G dongle. Speakers, please bring a copy of your slides on a USB stick just in case. And there’ll be wifi at the geeknic in the park.
  - There’ll be an exhibition:
    - Hacker Public Radio
    - Free Software Foundation Europe
    - O’Reilly (Saturday only; they’ll be offering 40% off all day)
    - RepRap 3D printer demonstrated by Malcolm Napier
  - And the OggCamp raffle is back! With…
    - Books from Apress
    - Some hardware
    - Some merchandise from Canonical
    - And maybe some goodies from Google
  - And finally, we thought we’d let you know that on Friday nights the William Cobbett pub has a BBQ from 8pm to 11.45pm.
- 22nd – 26th August, London, UK: DrupalCon (tickets now sold out)
- 7th – 9th October, Manchester, UK: PHPNW
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
And a Bit Not About Ubuntu:-
- A bit about Mozilla’s recent and future changes

Finally we have your feedback including a mail from Ralph Green who also provided a link to a lengthy article he wrote for his local North Texas LUG. Thanks Ralph, and “Howdy” to our Texan listeners!

S04E11 – The Trooper

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:17:31 +0000

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are live again in Studio A for episode 11 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 going to noisy heavy metal concerts and going to noisy motorsports events, as well as attending more peaceful conferences, and installing Moodle and Natty.
We talk about Google+.
In the news:-
Events:-
- It’s Ubuntu Community Week! Now! With sessions from Alan Bell, Jono Bacon, Laura Czajkowski, and some dodgy bloke called Popey.
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK. More information will be going up on the website this week, including a schedule for the weekend:
  - Friday evening: informal get-together in William Cobbett pub over the road from the venue.
  - Saturday 10am: doors open (OggCamp11 starts!)
  - Saturday lunchtime: geeknic (more details to follow), with soft drinks sponsored by O’Reilly
  - Saturday afternoon: live joint recording by UUPC and Linux Outlaws
  - Saturday 7pm: drinks and entertainment in the Cellar Bar at the venue, sponsored by Bitfolk
  - Sunday 10.30am: doors re-open (bit more bleary-eyed this time)
  - Sunday 4pm: we all pack up and get out
  - Sunday evening: those left over adjourn to Premier Inn Aldershot for informal goodbye drinks
- And other stuff like:
  - Parking fees apply at the venue on Saturday, £3.50 for whole day; free on Sunday
  - New speaker, Wayne Myers, will speaking about professional music production on Linux
  - Instructions on how to submit talks on the day using our funky new txt and Web system written by Jon “the nice guy” Spriggs
  - How to volunteer to be on the CREW (get involved and get a free t-shirt)
  - Wifi! We’re looking into it and should be okay for speakers during talks but for general wifi use, please bring your own 3G dongle
  - And all our lovely sponsors: Bytemark (our top dogs!), Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk, Bitfolk (sponsoring our Saturday night party), and Linux Format, our media partner (including discounted subscriptions for attendees).
- We have an interview with Jorge Castro
- We announce the winner of our TextBookStuff competition.
- We introduce a new competition to win one of those HP Microservers that we talked about last episode. Entries to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by Sunday 31st July
Finally we have your feedback.

S04E10 – Sun and Steel

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:25:28 +0000

Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and guest presenter Andy Piper are back once more, pre-recorded in Studio A for episode 10 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 playing Proun (the pay what you like game [which runs under WINE on Ubuntu]), Freecycling old kit, reflecting on OggCamp, upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04, making apps stick to the Unity launcher for Laura’s Mum, helping out with curating a list of Android Honeycomb apps on the Xoom Forums and attending an a11y hackday run by DevCSI.
We review the HP MicroServer (Mark’s also written some blog posts about it)
In the news:-
Events:-
- 24th July 2011 – Books and Butties – at the British Library, London, UK.
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK
- Our lovely sponsors are:
  - The brilliant Bytemark, who are helping us pay for the venue
  - Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk
  - and BitFolk are sponsoring our Saturday night party – more details to follow!
  - If you’re interested in camping at OggCamp (geddit?) then drop a mail to oggcamping at gmail dot com!
- We have an interview with Gemma Cameron by Les Pounder about BarCamp Blackpool and Nottingham. Thanks to Les for providing this content for us!
- We remind you about the competition to win an audio book from TextBookStuff. Entries to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by Sunday 17th July
- We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
- And we have some Command Line Love:
  - expiry -c
- Finally we have your feedback.

S04E09 – Brave New World

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:31:45 +0000

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and guest presenter Alan Bell are back oop North in Studio B (with noisy podcats but no dishwasher) for episode 9 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about monkeying around with a MicroServer (we really must do a segment about them at some point), going to the Doctor Who Experience in London (we don’t reveal any spoilers), and going through 108 locks in one weekend on a canal boat.
In the news:-
We give updates on OggCamp11:-
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK
- Our lovely sponsors are:
  - The brilliant Bytemark, who are helping us pay for the venue
  - Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk
  - and BitFolk are sponsoring our Saturday night party – more details to follow!
- We’ve confirmed another speaker in the scheduled track: Chris Gutteridge will talk about the Southampton Open Data project.
- The two other confirmed speakers confirmed so far in the schedule track are: Lorna “lornajane” Mitchell who will talk about careers in Open Source and Steve Lee who will talk about Accessibility in Open Source.
We interview actor, director, DRM-free audio books advocate Barnaby Edwards about his new venture, TextBookStuff (which you can get via the Ubuntu One Music Store).
We have a competition to win an audio book from TextBookStuff. Entries to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by Sunday 17th July:
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu:-
- Fedora consider switching to BTRFS (pronounced butter-f-s, apparently)
And we had some Command Line Love:
- history | tail -n+1 | head -n | sed ‘s/^[0-9 ]\{7\}//’ >> ~/script.sh
Finally we have your feedback.

S04E08 – Caught Somewhere in Time

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:57:57 +0000

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:-
- It’s not just about the money in Swiss schools…
And we had some Command Line Love:

apt-clone

Finally we have your feedback.

S04E07 – Powerslave

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:05:57 +0000

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are back in Studio A (sorry, no streaming video from this broadband connection) for episode 7 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

We talk about installing Ubuntu for a friend’s Dad, doing a project management course, being old(!) at 23, and presenting about usability to computing students.
Laura also pimped an online survey she’s created for her PhD research. If you live in the UK and would like to take part in the survey (and/or can pass the link on to colleagues, family, and friends to get the widest sample of respondents possible), she would be very grateful for your help. The survey is at: http://is.gd/UKenergysurvey.
In the news:-
We mention upcoming events:-
- Summer – Ubuntu UK plan to visit the Sci-fi exhibition at the British Library, probably followed by a Geeknic. Check out the Ubuntu UK mailing list for more information.
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK – We have a sponsor (Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk) and everything!
We interview Philipp Heckel about his new project Syncany. He needs developers; see the project website for his contact details.
We chat with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon.
We listen to the competition entries (people and computers pronouncing the name of the next Ubuntu release) and decide who wins the Natty Narwhal goodies (including a Narwhal signed by Ubuntu Release Manager Kate Stewart) swiped by Popey at the release party.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu:-
- GNOME as a full, Linux-based OS?
Finally we have your feedback, including an answer for Tony’s Dad: try Joiku for tethering a Nokia phone to an Ubuntu laptop.

S04E06 – Look for the Truth

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:12:45 +0000

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson temporarily migrate to Studio B and its delights of strange, but refreshing, tea and high-speed internet, together enabling live streaming video as well as the usual audio for episode 6 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! (Sadly the video didn’t record so only 22-31 people in the world saw it.)

In this week’s show:-

We talk about creating a multi-boot USB stick for those times when your friend is running 64-bit and you’re not, how to tether someone’s dad, setting up an OwnCloud server (which may be like Eucalyptus but we couldn’t possibly say), and spending far longer than strictly necessary (or intended) making a 3D scoreboard for this episode’s quiz.
In the news:-
We mention upcoming event:-
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK – We have a sponsor (Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk) and everything!
We discuss the recent Natty release.
We set a competition (yes, really!) to win some Natty Narwhal natty goodies (including a Narwhal signed by Ubuntu Release Manager Kate Stewart) swiped by Popey at the release party. Deadline: Sunday 22nd May – listen to the show to find out what to do to win!
Laura makes us play 80s throwback rip-off, Podbusters (“Well, there we are!”). Guess who wins. Guess who doesn’t.
We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
..and a bit that’s Not About Ubuntu:-
- First revision of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard since 2004
Finally we have your feedback, including a challenge from Mike Hingley to the community.

S04E05 – The Nomad

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:18:13 +0000

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are back in Studio A to bring you episode 5 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

Whilst Alan hovers outside Studio A, we talk about what the rest of us have been doing including getting excellent support for SPSS on Ubuntu from a University, learning about automated unit testing and taking some headshots for actor friends!
In the news:-
We mention upcoming events:-
- 28th April – Ubuntu UK LoCo Natty Launch Party – The Porterhouse in Covent Garden, London.
- 15th October – Barcamp Blackpool – Blackpool Pleasure Beach, UK
- 10th – 12th June 2011 – South East Linux Fest in Spartanburg, South Carolina, US
We interview Victor Palau, Platform Services Manager at Canonical about Ubuntu Hardware Certification, the blueprint to communitise hardware certification and we pose your questions to him.
Command Line Love – “Copy *everything* in the current directory and subdirectories (including hidden files, symlinks and so on) with permissions intact.”

$ find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null --sparse -pvd /new/dir/

Tony makes us play “Who wants to be a copyright infringer”. Guess who wins. Guess who doesn’t.
We mention some Ubuntu-related news in the Ecosphere:-
..and in the ‘Not About Ubuntu’ section:-
- Dear Dr StallMan
Finally we have your feedback.