S02E08 – The Stolen Earth

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and a little bit of Laura Cowen are back once more with an electrifying episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing including reinstalling Crunchbang on the Viglen MPC-L, and EasyPeasy on an Acer Aspire One, filing bugs in Karmic, appearing on a Running Podcast, fixing bugs that were already fixed, and getting sick of dependency hell
• After hearing about a friend’s laptop going missing, we discuss computer theft, securing data and getting back your laptop. Dave suggests Prey as an option to help find the laptop.
• The News:-
  • Linux Unified Kernel Project
  • VirtualBox 3.0 is out
  • Identi.ca is one year old
  • Launchpad Open Sourcing pushed back
  • Ksplice Uptrack upgrading kernels with no reboots
  • Elonex Launches an ebook reader in the UK
  • Ubuntu is still popular shocker!
• We announce some upcoming events:-
  • July 20th – Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
  • September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
  • September 19th – IBM Facility on Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA, USA, Atlanta Linux Fest
  • October 2nd to 4th – All around the world, Ubuntu Global Jam
  • October 24th – Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009
• Command Linux Fu!
  • Tweeting and Denting from the command line.

curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
curl -u user:pass -d status="Denting from the shell" http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml

• BONUS TIP!: Putting a space before a command in the bash shell prevents it from being kept in the history
• Laura talks about the fun she has had with an Arduino Open Source hardware beginners kit
• We start a fantastic competition to win an Arduino Duemilanove 328 and a Getting Started book, from the very nice people at Tinker.it. Email your answers to competition@ubuntu-uk.org
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere Gerald Harold Phyllis
  • Alan Bell told us about Xpra
  • Jorge Castro blogs about apt-zeroconf
  • Alan Lord blogs about running Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
  • Dustin Kirkland requests testing for kvm84
  • James Milligan pointed out a thread regarding the name ‘Karmic’
• In our ‘Upcoming’ segment we discuss some features which may or may not hit in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
• • Linux Kernel 2.6.31
  • New OSX-like Logon Screen
  • Server Tips
  • Drag and drop key adding in Software Properties
  • Not long left to enter the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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