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Linux Outlaws 310 – Glusterfuck

fabsh — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:06:47 +0000

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0:00:52 INTRODUCTION

It’s a warm bank holiday evening in the UK and Dan and Fab bring you another show
Stanley Cup Playoffs!

0:08:16 SECURITY THEATRE

0:13:34 RELEASES & NEWS

1:11:58 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Ron Atkins, Armin Krauss and everyone who flattr’d us!

Paul Elms recommends the trucker movie Convoy and its soundtrack
Rafael Beraldo likes HabitRPG and tells us about its subreddit
Eliad had a discussion with Fab regarding LibreOffice
Armin Krauss tells us how much he enjoys the show and wants us to know that he’s very happy with Bytemark after choosing them as a hosting provider when he heard they were sponsoring our show

The Crest of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Song: Sweet Addiction by Fhernando (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Angels of Death 16 – Legion Rapier Lawnmower

fabsh — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:23:20 +0000

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HOBBY UPDATES

We talk about the hobby things we have done
Fab has read and listened to a few books: Fallen Angels, The Sigillite, Garro: Oath of Moment, Garro: Legion of One

IN DEPTH

Fab reviews Crusade of Fire

GAMES WORKSHOP

Games Workshop has stopped stocking “specialist games”
No new 40K releases as GW is busy doing High Elves at the moment

FORGE WORLD

Imperial Armour 12

Forge World Titan Tech Priest

Legion Rapier Quad Heavy Bolter

Legion Rapier Lawnmower

Crashed Thunderhawk Realm of Battle tile

BLACK LIBRARY

Crotch shot!

Tales from the Archive: Relics, Plague Ship

Lord Castellan Creed

Audio drama: Burden of Duty/Grey Angel
Audio drama: Honour to the Dead
Mark of Calth

Next episode: Fab will most likely review the Tau Codex.

Linux Outlaws 309 – I’m with Lex Luthor

fabsh — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:43:43 +0000

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0:01:23 INTRODUCTION

0:09:14 SECURITY THEATRE

0:19:52 RELEASES & NEWS

Lex Luthor

1:25:35 MICROWATCH

ZTE licenses Android patents from Microsoft

1:27:20 GAMING CORNER

Fab reviews Euro Truck Simulator 2 and tries to get across why it’s a lot of fun. Thanks to WelshPixie & Warpgate 9 for the Steam key.

More screenshots from Fab

1:41:11 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Neal Quincey, Niclas Andersson, Evgeny Kuznetsov and everyone who flattr’d us!

Brad Alexander plugs his friend’s chocolate-related Kickstarter campaign
Ivan Pejic wants a rant from Fab on a particular kernel bug
Ghengis Prawn (aka. Norman) made us a voice over for Security Theatre

Song: Oh Rocko (Live at LEAF in Liverpool, 2012) by Thom Morecroft

Linux Outlaws 308 – Airtight

fabsh — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:52:12 +0000

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0:00:58 INTRODUCTION

We are now sponsored by Bytemark
In other news, our blog is back
The Pens made it to the Playoffs!
Errata: WelshPixie says the right denomination for Warpgate9 is “he steals her blankets”
The 100th episode of Rathole Radio (Dan’s music show) is coming up on Sunday, 28 April 28th — almost 4 years of playing eclectic music from all over the web!
The US just redefined what a WMD is

Not the Royal Air Force…

0:20:48 SECURITY THEATRE

Does he have a burned hand too?

0:24:45 RELEASES & NEWS

0:50:01 APP TIP

HabitRPG — turns your tasks and daily habits into an RPG. It’s open source and was successfully kickstarted in February. Android and iOS apps are in development (using PhoneGap).

0:55:18 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Ivan Pejić, Michael Gulick and everyone who flattr’d us!

Joe Ressington says he got bored so added guitar to his Digital Rights Update theme
Jezra sent us a selection of foul mouthed bumpers for the show
Stuart Ward dent us some cover art for our Game of Thongs parody
Dean Thompson gives us some background info on Cinnarch and GNOME packages in Arch
More thongs

Song: The Next Step by Trifonic (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0)

The Linux Outlaws Back Catalogue Project

fabsh — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:30:42 +0000

As part of the transition to the new Bytemark server, I am working to migrate the rest of the Linux Outlaws episodes in our back catalogue. Currently, we have all of the show back to episode 170 online again. Migrating the last 169 episodes will take a while as I don’t have the time at the moment to do it when I also have to edit the show. It’s not a very straightforward process and to get it done, Dan has to edit the show so I can spend that time on the migration. Since Dan is currently also very busy, things are progressing slowly.

I just wanted to reassure you that we are working on it and that it will get done eventually. It’s not something anybody can help us with — unless you want to give us enough money so we can quit our day jobs. Just hang in there and be patient. I will let everyone know on the show as soon as we have all of the episodes back on the site.

~ Fab

Now Powered by Bytemark

fabsh — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:58:30 +0000

I am very happy to announce that Linux Outlaws and the whole Sixgun Productions network are now proudly sponsored by Bytemark. Dan and I have been of the opinion that Bytemark are a great company for a long time, not least since they have supported OggCamp and LugRadio Live in the past. Recently, they have donated a server to Debian and have also helped spread the word about the Yorba Foundation’s fundraiser for Geary.

When our previous hosting service Linode was hacked, losing control my credit card info in the process, we talked to Bytemark about moving over to them and they graciously offered to host us for free in return for promoting their BigV cloud hosting product. I think that is a pretty good deal, especially since the move to the new server was very quick and their whole setup for BigV seems to work flawlessly from what I can tell so far. They are also a local business from the UK and the people I have met personally from the company are all extremely nice and reasonable. For all of these reasons, Dan and I saw no problems whatsoever accepting sponsorship, especially since it might mean we can stop asking for monetary support from listeners at some point in the future.

As far as the shows are concerned, you should notice no difference at all aside from a small audio bumper we will start including at the top of each episode. Together with the banner on the main page and the mention in the site footer, that is all that will change. And you hopefully will be able to enjoy a speedy and secure service from our server, of course.

~ Fab

Linux Outlaws 307 – They See Me Patchin

fabsh — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:02:12 +0000

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0:00:45 INTRODUCTION

Congratulations to The Dick Turpin Road Show to their 50th episode!
Fab’s podcast list as a repo
Starlogs
Systemd is not ”the new PulseAudio” and people who say so have no idea what they are talking about

0:14:55 SECURITY THEATRE

Server Cat iz Patchin Yer Serverz

0:37:02 RELEASES & NEWS

1:17:28 MICROWATCH

1:25:09 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Rene Castberg, Michael Swierczek, Richard Bragg, Jeff Gehlbach, Jay Towart, Rick Bragg and everyone who flattr’d us!

Charles in Arkansas enjoys the show and has a pretty crazy idea to mess with people spying on his email
Ian Kirk sent us two pretty cheezy jokes
Gary sent us a link on how to install an ARM version of openSUSE on a Samsung Galaxy SII
Mike Swierczek (aka. Dave 71) agrees with us on the Google Reader death and really liked Frozen People by Eric Fullerton from The Art of Dreaming
Alison Chaiken points out that Ubuntu isn’t the only distro using Upstart: ChromeOS also uses it
J.T. is a new listener who enjoys the show and especially enjoyed our take on the always on Xbox

Kerry O’Brien tells us the story how our podcast has helped him get into Linux and set up a Minecraft server for himself and his friends

We had other emails this week from Rick Bragg, Emilien Klein and Moritz.

Song: Minecraft Universe by Eric Fullerton from the album The Art of Dreaming (released under an unspecified Creative Commons licence)

The Return of the Blog

fabsh — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:31:08 +0000

Hello everyone! It has been a while since Sixgun Productions has had a blog. For a long time, we have kept you up to date with the latest from the studio via social media. First exclusively on our, now defunct, identi.ca account and now through Google+ and via @sixgunwire on Twitter. While we still plan on updating you about new episodes and other important events through those channels, two things have become clear to me that need to be fixed in my opinion.

First off, two accounts confuse people as to where the most up-to-date information will be available. To remedy this, I have come up with a plan that involves the social media accounts and the blog complementing each other. Secondly, not everyone is on every social network. Some people prefer Twitter, some Google+, some are only on Facebook and some only use free software alternatives. Because of this, it is impossible to guarantee important information reaches everyone without posting on all of these services — which is something we do not have the resources for. The way to fix this, of course, is to use an old fashioned, self-hosted blog. I had shut our original blog down some years ago because I felt pressure to put content on it and did not have enough time available to do so. With this relaunch, I want to go back to the roots, albeit without an expectation to provide content on a regular basis.

In hindsight, all of this seems obvious but for me it was a trial and error experience. You have to remember that we run this network in our (increasingly rare) free time and often experiment with new technologies and throw things at the wall to see if they stick. We do this, rather than planning everything out beforehand, because it is more fun that way (if you do something in your spare time it should be fun, after all) and also because we frankly do not have the time and resources to plan everything out meticulously. In any case, in the following, I will detail the new plan I have come up with.

All important, official announcements from Sixgun Productions will get a post on this very blog from now on. These are things that most likely also benefit from a more wordy post than a 140 character Twitter message. Links to these posts will, of course, be shared on the above mentioned Twitter and Google+ accounts. Aside from important messages like that, there probably will not be a lot of other content on the blog at this time. Dan and myself are both pretty busy at the moment and the fact that I am writing all day in my day job usually means that when I am coming home at night the last thing I want to do is sit down at a keyboard to type more than 140 character blurbs. That being said, I’ll try to give you behind the scenes impressions and some other (hopefully) interesting tidbits where I can.

Quick announcements, such as when we release new episodes or announce live streams, will still happen on Google+ and Twitter. If you absolutely do not want to miss anything, following on Twitter is probably the best idea as that is where I post the most things — simply for the reason that it is by far the easiest and usually gets good traction, too. I also post on Twitter when things break or if we have any last minute announcements. If you do not have a Twitter account, you can still go to twitter.com/sixgunwire and read everything without being subscribed. But be assured that, if something big happens, I will tell you about it on the blog — even if it is only after the fact, though.

Anyway, enough babbling on. I hope the fact that we have a blog again helps with spreading information about the network more effectively and gives you something to link to permanently for announcements as well as a way to easily find them. Feel free to leave comments with suggestions and tell us what you think. Have a nice Sunday!

~ Fab

Linux Outlaws 306 – Game of Thongs

fabsh — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:17:54 +0000

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0:02:25 INTRODUCTION

We are moving the next show recording to Wednesday
The Linus video was, of course, an April Fools joke
Margaret Thatcher has died
History of MySQL forks
Just Tactics is out
gitdown

0:20:32 SECURITY THEATRE

0:30:03 RELEASES & NEWS

Jedi Outcast multiplayer

Tom Servo

1:32:33 CRAPPLE

German Federal Patent Court invalidates slide-to-unlock patent

1:35:03 MICROWATCH

Microsoft creative director does not understand how people can have unreliable internet

1:40:08 FEEDBACK

Supporters: Thanks to Hans-Petter Fjeld, Andy Benz, Seth Yates, Malf72, John Hughes, Kenneth Dixon, Michael Hanke, Manuel Silvoso, Dean Margerison, Michael Albertson, Luke Walsh, Anthony Roberts, timttmy, Stefan Peter, Kai Siers, Edwin van Leeuwen and the great people who flattr’d us!

Nehmiah Dacres sent us another story about the Linux rifle
Michael O’Fee sends us disturbing footage of Patrick Stewart with hair and a clean shaven Brian Blessed from the BBC’s I, Claudius

We had other emails this week from Andrew Benz, Tzafrir Cohen and Kuero Lant.

Listen to Hollywood Babble-On!

Angels of Death 15 – Space Commies

fabsh — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:19:00 +0000

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HOBBY UPDATES

Dave read Wulfen and Down Amongst the Dead Men
Dave also rages on how Doctor Who rip off 40K
Fab is making slow progress on his two Dark Angels squads and read the Chaos Daemon codex
Fab also started reading Crusade of Fire

The Tomb of Karl Marx

GENERAL GAMING

GAMES WORKSHOP

Two editions of codex: Limited and Standard.
One-Click Launch Collection
Battlesuit Collection
Farsight Enclave
Kroot Merc Force
Tau Recon Team
Shadowsun Firestrike Hunter Cadre
XV104 Riptide Battlesuit
XV8 Crisis Battlesuit Team
Sun Shark Bomber
XV88 Broadside Battlesuit
Hammerhead Gunship
Pathfinder Team
Cadre Fireblade
Commander Farsight
XV8 Battlesuit Commander
Darkstrider
Longstrike

“Shoot over there, you dumb asses!”

FORGE WORLD

BLACK LIBRARY

IN DEPTH

Fab reviews the Codex Chaos Daemons