Ubuntu UK Podcast: S02E13 – The Tribe of Gum – MP3 HIGH

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville are back once more from ‘Studio B’ sadly without Dave Walker, but with a crowning episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

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In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including installing Easy Peasy 1.5, using ecryptfs to encrypt data, giving a talk about podcasting at Hampshire Linux User Group, making screencasts to fix a bug, setup a Multiboot PXE server, a little packaging, another talk for Hampshire Linux User Group, this time on InfoSlicer and keeping bees.
• We interview Neil Wallace about OpenMolar, developing projects alone, and promoting niche FLOSS software
• In a fitter, leaner, more svelte News segment:-
  • Microsoft Confirm Their Best Buy FUD – Nobody susprised
  • Amazon End Easy FLOSS Contributions – Developers disappointed
  • Apple Release libdispatch – Mac Users Blissfully Unaware
  • Motorola Announces Android Phone – Robot Bandwagon Creaking

• We curtailed the listfest that was the upcoming events segment, reducing it down to “what’s coming up ‘Real Soon Now™”:-
  • September 19th – All around the world, Software Freedom Day
  • September 19th – Dublin, OSSBarCamp
  • September 26th – 28th – The Workstation, Sheffield, UK – CMS Made Simple GeekMoot
  • September 28th – London, Launchpad Community Meet Up

• We interrupt the President to tell you all about OggCamp, what’s shaping up to be the best, and indeed only Post-Lugradio-Unconference-in-Wolverhampton!
• We discuss the ways people can get involved in documentation for Ubuntu (and other projects)
• We get our first Just a Moment submission from you, the listener! (specifically Patrick Archibald). We’d love to hear your ‘Just A Moment’ on our voicemail! Details below. We used a buzzer effect in this segment from guitarguy1985 called buzzer.wav
• Ciemon gets a well deserved break from Command Linux Luurve, with a submission from Alan Bell

Pop the following text in a text file called showman.sh in your home directory

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z $DISPLAY ]
   then
   #not in X so starting man in the foreground
   man $1
else
   #X is running so we can pop up the man page in a pretty window
   gnome-help man:$1  2>/dev/null &
fi

make it executable with

chmod +x showman.sh

and edit your .bashrc file and at the end add

alias man="~/showman.sh"

• The Ecosphere
  • Subtle domain move for U1
  • Scott requests help testing boot-crack (note, this is now in the main Karmic repo)
  • Ubuntu’s 2009 Report Card

• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

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