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0:00:57 INTRODUCTION
- This episode is late due to Fab coming down with some kind of weird illness
- Lucky Seven Caps
- ORGCon in London on 8 June
- Fab is going to OpenTech
- Jack Daniel’s White Rabbit Saloon 120th Anniversary
- The Pens make the second round of the Stanley Cup
- Chris Hadfield has left the ISS; he was the coolest ISS commander ever
- Our first Red Book prediction came true with Star Trek: Into Darkness
- Your next language or how open source changed programming
0:15:22 SECURITY THEATRE
- Linux kernel exploit
- NGINX patches major security flaw
- ownCloud fixes critical security vulnerabilities
- Adobe Patch Tuesday; Microsoft Patch Tuesday
- Hackers gain access to all .edu domains
- Child pornography trojan becomes more aggressive
- Fedora had debated to drop password masking from the installer, but has luckily changed its mind
- Peculiar surveillance of Skype’s IM system; more details from heise Security
- zPanel hacked after support team member insults forum user
0:44:29 RELEASES & NEWS
- CrunchBang 11
- Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” RC
- Firefox 21; Firefox 21 for Android
- Blender 2.67
- AIDE 2.0 (not open source)
- Go 1.1
- phpMyAdmin 4.0
- OpenNebula 4.0
- LibreOffice 4.0.3
- PostgreSQL 9.3 beta
News from Google I/O
- The Google+ redesign
- Google switches away from XMPP/Jabber for IM
- Google to sell unlocked Galaxy S 4 with stock Android 4.2
- Android Studio
- Android games API and Developer Console
- Updates to Google Now, Google Wallet and Google Maps
Other news
- AP news agency spied on by US government
- The New Yorker’s Strongbox
- Feature set of Linux 3.10 defined
- International Space Station to use Linux on more laptops
- Steam games update: Half-Life 2, Portal, X3: Reunion, X3: Terran Conflict, X3: Albion Prelude
- OpenStreetMap launches new map editor
- Ubuntu 11.10, 10.04 Desktop and 8.04 Server reach end of life
- Canonical to maintain Linux 3.8 until August 2014
- Martin Gräßlin on the Mir problem
- Ubuntu to close Brainstorm site
- It looks like Canonical is not contributing engineers to Linaro anymore
- Canonical plans dogfood-capable phones by the end of May
- Nokia launches another mobile OS — apparently with a Linux kernel
- Fedora’s FUDCon reborn as Flock
- W3C presses ahead with DRM interface in HTML5
- VP9 nears completion at WebM; Google’s VP8/9 licensing not software freedom compatible
- Cinnarch successor Antergos arrives
- Opera quietly settles lawsuit
1:51:43 FEEDBACK
Supporters: Thanks to Jeff Gehlbach, Daniel Lowe, Keith Z-G, Ivan Pejić and everyone who flattr’d us!
- Shay Walters plugs the South East Linux Fest in Charlotte, North Carolina from 7 to 9 June
- Tzafrir Cohen writes to us about Monty, databases, names and Finns
- Alison Chaiken also writes to us about Monty
- Imran Chaudhry says we are the pirate radio to the Radio 4 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast
- Yaroslav Halchenko writes to us on Fail2Ban of which he is a developer
- Paul Cooper has been listening for three years and says we are his favourite Linux-related podcast; he also plugs EdLUG
- Jonathan Archer writes about RossLUG
We had other emails from Armin Krauss, Jeff G, Olivier, Vladyslav Burakov, Jim Daldry, Frodo Bobbins, Keith Z-G and Christopher Vella.
Song: Space Echo by I’m Bad Like Jesse James from the album With Slippers (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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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
- Debian 7 “Wheezy”
- Sabayon 13.04
- Korora 18
- GParted Live 0.16.1-1
- OpenWRT 12.09
- DragonFly BSD 3.4
- OpenBSD 5.3
- Cinnamon 1.8
- Rails 4.0 RC
- Mageia 3 delay
- Font boost for Linux from Adobe and Google
- Adobe goes subscription only
- Conservancy NPO accounting software fundraiser
- Opera sues ex-employee for passing secrets to Mozilla
- Mozilla sends cease and desist to spyware maker
- Red Hat’s Gluster gets a community project forge
- Lightworks for Linux now in open beta
- Internet of Things moves forward with plan to standardise MQTT
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)
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0:01:23 INTRODUCTION
0:09:14 SECURITY THEATRE
- New Java security hole affects desktops and servers
- Remote PHP execution via WordPress cache plugins
0:19:52 RELEASES & NEWS
- Linux 3.9
- GDB 7.6
- KDevelop 4.5.0
- NGINX 1.4.0; PageSpeed for NGINX
- Joomla 3.1
- GParted 0.16
- Nightingale 1.12
- Fedora 19 alpha
- Ubuntu 13.04
- Fab got quoted by OMG Ubuntu
- Jef Spaleta on Canonical’s release approach
- Ubuntu 13.10 will be “Saucy Salamander”
- Java 8 delay confirmed
- Samsung knocks KNOX back to July
- Google locks down updating on Play store
- Google Glass kernel source released
- JBoss is now WildFly
- Fuduntu now FuSE
- Geeksphone Firefox OS phones available
- SkySQL merges with Monty Program
- Wikipedia switches from MySQL to MariaDB
Lex Luthor
1:25:35 MICROWATCH
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.
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
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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
- jQuery 2.0
- ack 2.0
- 13.04 based Ubuntu Touch arrives with few changes
- MariaDB Foundation on course for community governance
- Debian 7 to be released on the first weekend in May
- Java 8 is likely to be delayed into 2014
- Open source desktop developers meet at freedesktop Summit
- Google and the FreeBSD Foundation fund Capsicum development
- Complete C++11 support in Clang
- MySQL storage engine TokuDB goes open source
- NVIDIA’s kernel development is a bad show
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)
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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
- April Patch Tuesday, Microsoft pulls security update for Windows and Windows Server
- Ex-hacker Mudge is “getting the band back together” at Google
- Android app hacks virtual aeroplanes
- Security hole can damage heating systems
- Dangerous copy & paste
0:37:02 RELEASES & NEWS
- Pardus Community Edition 1.0
- Manjaro 0.8.5
- SUSE Studio 1.3
- Qt 5.0.2
- Wayland and Weston 1.1
- Mozilla Persona Beta 2
- VLC 2.0.6
- Funf 0.4, makers of Funf framework get acquired by Google
- LibreOffice 3.6.6
- Development begins on a lightweight KDE version
- Lucas Nussbaum becomes Debian Project Leader
- Mozilla Corporation CEO steps down
- Google Glass launched
- Xen joins the Linux Foundation
- First steps towards FOSS 3D driver for NVIDIA’s Tegra
- Optimus support comes to the NVIDIA Linux driver
- OpenDaylight announced
- Fuduntu Linux pivoting to rebase project
- Cinnarch drops Cinnamon for GNOME
- Linux kernel: licence problems for old ARM FPU code
- OpenMandriva community gets new logo
- Ivanka Majic: Designing in the open
1:17:28 MICROWATCH
- FairSearch files EU antitrust complaint over Android
- Foxconn and Microsoft sign Android licence deal
- Microsoft Excel: The ruiner of global economies?
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)
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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
- PostgreSQL critical security fix now available
- Security updates break ownCloud installations
- Absolute Software and Samsung partner on KNOX
- XP support to die in a year
0:30:03 RELEASES & NEWS
- Firefox 20
- KDE 4.10.2
- Qt 5.1 alpha
- MATE 1.6
- Brackets Sprint 22
- Darktable 1.2
- Linux Video Disk Recorder 2.0.0
- OpenStack Grizzly
- R 3.0
- Python 3.3.1, 3.2.4, 2.7.4
- Ubuntu 13.04 beta
- Adobe open sources Blank font
- Raven Software open sources Jedi Knight games
Jedi Outcast multiplayer
- 15 years of Mozilla
- Google forks WebKit, WebKit developers planning Chromium extraction
- Mozilla and Samsung to collaborate on Servo browser engine
- Tom Servo
Tom Servo
- Apache Bloodhound gains top level status at Apache
- Analysis of assembly code in Linux packages published
- Debian gets served by Bytemark
- OpenShot crowd funds Windows and Mac versions
- SailfishOS SDK arrives
- CyanogenMod disables statistics opt-out, reverses decision
- Alienware in the US sells gaming PCs with Ubuntu
1:32:33 CRAPPLE
1:35:03 MICROWATCH
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!
Song: Maggots 1 Maggie 0 by Attila the Stockbroker (all rights reserved)
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0:01:02 INTRODUCTION
- This episode was recorded on April Fools Day, but we are still doing a normal show
- The live show time is now 19:00 GMT as we are on BST now
- Check out our Linus Torvalds interview
- JonTheNiceGuy emailed us about this campaign by Edward Finkler to talk about mental health on the tech conference circuit — this came out of the Development Hell podcast which Finkler co-hosts
- UCubed 2013 is happening on 21 April at MadLab Manchester
- Fab’s feature on how to best replace Google Reader
- Also, Fab compiled a list of podcasts he is listening too, including an OPML file
- Shoutout to the Brit Pens Fanclub Podcast
0:21:08 SECURITY THEATRE
- Critical vulnerability in BIND 9 regular expression handling
- Security fix leads to PostgreSQL lock down
- Large-scale DNS DDoS attack on Spamhaus
- API omission renders Android password managers insecure
0:35:35 RELEASES & NEWS
The new default GNOME wallpaper
- ZFS on Linux is “ready for wide scale deployment”
- Yorba is crowdfunding development on Geary
- Free Software Awards for IPython and OpenMRS
- Red Hat increases turnover and profits
- Google pledges non-assertion on MapReduce patents for open source
- Unreal gaming from within the browser
- End of life for three Ubuntu editions on 9 May
1:09:42 MICROWATCH
1:15:03 FEEDBACK
Supporters: Thanks to Kent Haase, Adam Goddard, Remy van Elst, Craig Squire, Karol Babioch, Patrick Hogan, Andrew Hunter, Rafael Beraldo, Daniel Asante, bgryderclock, Gary Sellani and everyone who flattr’d us!
- Carlos Lange sent us news of a new release from Mandriva
- Remy van Elst asks if we know of any Dutch LUGs and sent a link to an article titled What If PHP Were British?
- Joe Ressington made a jingle for the Digital Rights Update
- The Brian Blessed Alarm Clock
- Phil Thompson contacts us to tell us about Chinese leaders and Bitcoin
- Paul Quirk found a very disturbing picture
WTF!?
Song: Brace Brace by I Am Not Lefthanded from the album The Fire & The Sigh (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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0:00:43 INTRODUCTION
- Drone Strike Visualisation
- B1ackcr0w’s wtflinux
- Larry Cafiero: Hanging with the outlaws
- Ubuntu Politburo
- Fab Space Program
0:10:40 SECURITY THEATRE
- MongoDB exploit
- Weakened password hashing found in Cisco devices
- Weak keys in NetBSD
- Camouflaged links
Damn you, Sharktopus!
0:22:30 RELEASES & NEWS
- GParted 0.15.0 & GParted Live 0.15.0-1
- OpenELEC 3.0
- FreeNAS 8.3.1
- GCC 4.8
- Qt Creator 2.7.0
- Plasma Media Center 1.0
- First beta of PHP 5.5
- Debian Wheezy for Easter?
- OdinMonkey and Asm.js arrive in Firefox Nightly
- CyanogenMod founder leaves Samsung
- KDE narrowly avoids disaster
- Slackware Linux switches to MariaDB
- DRM dispute around HTML5
- Nokia lines up patents against VP8 video codec
- Ubuntu Kylin to become reference OS in China — Dan was fucking right on China’s leader!
1:09:02 DIGITAL RIGHTS UPDATE
With guests Jim Killock and Ruth Coustick of the Open Rights Group.
- The latest Leveson developments
- ORGcon North
- Communications Data Bill
- The Data Protection Lobby
1:59:20 FEEDBACK
Supporters: Thanks to Justin Smith and everyone who flattr’d us!
- We explain why there is currently no audio stream of the live show recordings
- No emails this week
Song: Prelude to War (for accordion orchestra) by Bear McCreary (all rights reserved) — please buy this song!
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0:00:42 INTRODUCTION
- Barcamp Canterbury, 27-28 April (free tickets)
- The “Podcasting Patent”
- Congratulations to Dave and Caroline Lee from The Bugcast for beating us to a European Podcast Award for UK Personality; we came second
- Shoutout to Joe Ressington who is now doing The Mind Tech Podcast
- Turns out the Hercules clip wasn’t a mistake but apparently an homage to A Fish Named Wanda
- Dell Sputnik review
0:19:34 SECURITY UPDATE
- Another crypto-attack on SSL/TLS encryption
- Devious Raspberry-Pi-powered spy dock
- Backdoors to networked cameras
- ChromeOS was exploited at Pwnium after all
- Security blogger Brian Krebs suffers simultaneous cyber attack, police raid
- US regulator: Bitcoin exchanges must comply with money-laundering laws
0:33:49 RELEASES & NEWS
- LXLE
- Rails 3.2.13
- ownCloud 5.0
- Etherpad 1.2.9
- VirtualBox 4.2.10
- Vagrant 1.1
- MongoDB 2.4
- Pharo 2.0
- Shotwell 0.14 and Geary 0.3
- Google Reader to close down
- Settlement reached in Python trademark dispute
- German court case confirms validity of the LGPL
- Ubuntu to halve support length for non-LTS releases
- KDE sets its sights on Wayland
- Clement Lefebvre: Mir has nothing to do with Linux Mint
- Wikimedia adopts Lua for page generation
- GOV.UK manual suggests a preference for open source
- Open source audio frameworks for iOS
1:06:13 FEEDBACK
Supporters: Thanks to William Miller, Thomas Jaatinen and the Flattr peeps for supporting us!
- FiftyOneFifty is pimping ThousandBeardMarch.org
- Kevin O’Brien says the call for papers for the Ohio Linux Fest in September is now open
- Jason Lewis asked why we didn’t mention Debian as an alternative during our discussion of Ubuntu last week
- Bill_in_the_box is listening to the show while driving through the US in his truck
- RossLUG is meeting every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month
The Haslingden Halo
- Eddy enjoyed the last show and writes comparing the new Ubuntu direction to how Google develops Android
We had other emails this week from Brad Alexander and Barry Williams (aka BazzaWill).
- Use #lolive to tweet us during live shows
Song: Insane In The Membrane (live cover) by The Brett Domino Trio (all rights reserved)
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0:02:24 INTRODUCTION
- Hercules: Disappointed!
- The Hand of God: We have a new pope
- Fab’s been playing the new Tomb Raider
0:16:12 IN-DEPTH: UBUNTU COMMUNITY “SHITSTORM”
We talk about the recent disturbances in the Ubuntu ecosystem. It all started with Canonical unveiling their plans for Mir and Rick Spencer from Canonical saying Ubuntu might very well switch to rolling releases.
I have to be honest, there isn’t an Ubuntu community any more. There’s a Canonical community, an ubuntu-users gaggle and maybe an enthusiasts posse. But no community that makes decisions, builds a consensus, advocates or educates. It’s dead now, it’s been that way for a while.
- Elizabeth Krumbach is concerned about the rolling release plans
- Then Jonathan Riddell (head Kubuntu developer) joins in; Riddell further clarifies in another blog post
Canonical has done some moves recently which show a lack of concern for the Ubuntu community. Numerous other blogs on Planet Ubuntu say the same thing today.
— Jonathan Riddell
- Mark Shuttleworth takes to his blog to personally attack Riddell back
- This causes Harald “Apachelogger” Sitter to back Riddell up
- Shuttleworth, again, takes to his blog
- Randall Ross, self-styled “Buzz Generator” and Community Manager for Ubuntu Vancouver actually compares the Ubuntu contributors to rocket fuel which is burned up and discarded to deliver Canonical and its products into orbit
Canonical has started asking for donations when downloading Ubuntu and one option is to give “Better support for flavours like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu Slider thumb”. Kubuntu has never received any of these funds or seen any better support, so this is a disappointing case of fraud.
The gravity with which Canonical pulls Ubuntu further from its original FOSS orbit is nothing short of tragic
0:51:09 RELEASES & NEWS
- OpenSUSE 12.3
- CentOS 6.4
- Kali Linux 1.0
- Trisquel 6.0
- Lots of puppies
- KDE 4.10.1
- Plasmate 1.0
- X.org 1.14
- Systemd 198
- Ardour 3.0
- UEFI support coming to FreeBSD
- GNOME and Kylin become official Ubuntu flavours
- Security: Everyone wins at Pwn2Own & nobody wins at Pwnium
- Security: D-Link fixes router vulnerabilities very quietly
- Google to pay $7 million fine for Wi-Fi sniffing
- Steam box craziness
- VP8 could become MPEG standard
- GNOME plans to promote Wayland port
- OpenOffice gets 40 million downloads on its last version
- Miguel de Icaza leaves for Mac
- Andy Rubin steps down as head of Android
- Canonical and Dell collaborate on PowerEdge server support
- Red Hat’s OpenShift Origin to become more transparent
1:30:00 MICROWATCH
1:32:53 FEEDBACK
Supporters: Thanks to Sebastian Audet, Nir Yaniv, Jon Peder Opsahl, Keith Zubot-Gephart, Mike Mathieson, Kai Siers and everyone who flattr’d us! — our Flattr page (click on “donate” to set up a subscription)
- Jason Bowles (aka Malkor The Techie) sends us a picture of his local bank in a small town in Eastern Iowa that has had some Windows update related temperature fail:
- Calum Craig mentions that Brian Blessed voices the character of Grampy Rabbit on Peppa Pig
- Jon Kulp thanked us for crediting his colleague Garth Alper on the previous show and sent a link to Garth’s new CD Deflection which has just come out
- Jason Lewis has recently discovered the show and asks us to mention Emacsconf, happening in London on 30 March 2013
- Meta-eX
We had other emails from Mikey, Keith Z-G, Jeffery Rollin-Jones, Félim Whiteley and Jeff Hatfield.
Song: The Sorry Song by Gidgets Ga Ga (licensed Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0)
