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Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Google researchers have published a paper on their “Knowledge Vault” project… A Kickstarter campaign has been launched for “Operating System U”… Twitter has made its analytics tools available to everyone, not just those paying for adverts… Snapdeal.com is selling the Intex Cloud Fx phone featuring FirefoxOS for 2000 Rupees… Mozilla has rolled out its “Sponsored Tiles” feature in the Firefox Nightly channel… Munich councillors have refuted claims that they are to switch back to Microsoft products… A group of celebrities have reportedly had nude photos of themselves leaked online after they were stolen, probably, from The Cloud… BBC has unveiled a series of resources for teaching computing and programming to children… Although Tony is still being away, gaming news has returned! Hardware manufacturer MSI has released its X99S Gaming 7 motherboard, stating it to be “SteamOS ready out of the box”… We take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Didier Roche has blogged about the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center… Daniel Holbach has announced a new ubuntu community team mailing list… Apt repository is now available for trying out bleeding-edge Mono packages… Haiku OS developer has ported its BeOS-inspired API layer to run on Linux kernel… And there’s an event called OggCamp: OggCamp 2014 – 4th-5th October – Oxford, UK Go take a look at the website for links to all the lovely OggCamp sponsors. If you’d like to sponsor Oggcamp 2014, contact details are on the website. As is the list of the speakers so far confirmed for the scheduled track. There are a few discounted hotel rooms still available. See OggCamp.org for details. If you want to help out in any way, contact @oggcamp We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be discussing whether communities suck, and we’ll go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating homemade tiffin in Studio L. In this week’s show: We interview Daniel Holbach from the Ubuntu Community Team… We also discuss: Playing with old console games… Raising a bug on Ubuntu… Attending JISC SOC Innovation… We share some Command Line Lurve that sets up a Socks proxy on localhost port xxx which you can use to (say) browse the web from some_host (from @MartijnVdS): ssh -D xxx some_host And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in! We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-One of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: HP release a laptop running Windows 8.1… OpenStreetMap celebrate their 10th anniversary… Google removes 12 BBC news links in ‘right to be forgotten’ requests… Munich are allegedly considering switching back to Windows… Firefox: Use it or lose it! Venting Gnome Shell frustrations… Something about the quality of the Windows phone store contents… Steve Ballmer steps down from Microsoft’s board… As Tony is away, there’s no gaming news this week. We take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Ubuntu Global Jam – Friday, 12 September 2014 17:00 to Sunday, 14 September 2014 22:00 UTC Prentice Hall are giving away copies of the Official Ubuntu Book… Ubuntu Online Summit – 12th to 14th November And there’s an event called OggCamp: OggCamp 2014 – 4th-5th October – Oxford, UK Go take a look at the website for links to all the lovely OggCamp sponsors. If you’d like to sponsor Oggcamp 2014, contact details are on the website. There are a few discounted hotel rooms still available. See OggCamp.org for details. If you want to help out in any way, contact @oggcamp We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be interviewing Daniel Holbach, and we’ll go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Twenty of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating the Co-op’s Red Velvet cake in Studio L. In this week’s show: We discuss whether Google are eating our lunch? Not literally. At least, I hope not… We also discuss: Programming a Logitech Harmony universal remote on Ubuntu (Spoiler: it’s easy)… Going on holiday and buying a secondhand laptop… Buying a solar panel… We share some Command Line Lurve that tells you the day of the week (modified from @climagic): $ date -d "Nov 15" | cut -d' ' -f1 Sat $ date -d "Nov 15 2015" | cut -d' ' -f1 Sun $ date -d "Nov 15 2016" | cut -d' ' -f1 Tue And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in! We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

Tony Whitmore, Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are all together in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Nineteen of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: More companies join the Linux Foundation… Groupon launches “Gnome Software” (you can see where this one is going…) Mozilla joins That List… EtherCalc, a collaborative open source spreadsheet has been launched… Password manager Mitro is being open sourced by Twitter… XBMC will be renamed to Kodi… This week, we just about have time for some gaming news from Tony: GOG.com have added Linux support for 50+ games in their DRM-free catalog… We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Ubuntu is to get faster positioning services through Nokia HERE maps… Alpha 2 of Utopic Unicorn has been released… Support for GTK apps running on Mir has landed in utopic-proposed… The ICO and the legality of the Ubuntu shopping lens… And there are a couple of events: Wikimania 2014 – 8th-10th August – London, UK OggCamp 2014 – 4th-5th October – Oxford, UK Go take a look at the website for links to all the lovely OggCamp sponsors. If you’d like to sponsor Oggcamp 2014, contact details are on the website. There are a few discounted hotel rooms still available. See OggCamp.org for details. If you want to help out in any way, contact @oggcamp We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be discussing whether it is the Year of the Linux Desktop (via the Chromebook), and we’ll go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Eighteen of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope is sill MIA, Mark Johnson is still in quarantine but talking to us using Skype, and Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen are drinking cold squash (it’s really quite hot out there!) and eating Jamaican Ginger cake in Studio L. In this week’s show: We interview Graham Binns about the MAAS project at Canonical… We also discuss: Upgrading last year’s version of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop to 14.04 at last… Rescuing unloved SNES games… Attending Mum and Dad’s Ruby Wedding Anniversary celebrations. We share some Command Line Lurve: rlwrap And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in! We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen are in Studio L, Alan Pope is AWOL, and Mark Johnson Skypes in from his sick bed for Season Seven, Episode Seventeen of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: UK Government standardises on Open Document Format for government documents… Black Hat presentation on Tor cancelled suddenly… Microsoft do some ‘right-sizing’ in their Nokia wing… Ofcom find that most new broadband customers opt out of blocking naughty things… Cross-party partnership taking the Government to court over the ‘emergency’ DRIP law… This week, we have time for some gaming news from Tony: Nvidia announce the Shield gaming tablet… We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: 13.10 is no longer supported… Ubuntu is now fully translated into British English… Microsoft announce their convergence strategy so they’ll be more like Canonical… And there’s an event: OggCamp 2014 – 4th-5th October – Oxford, UK Go take a look at the website for links to all the lovely OggCamp sponsors. If you’d like to sponsor Oggcamp 2014, contact details are on the website. There are a few discounted hotel rooms still available. See OggCamp.org for details. If you want to help out in any way, contact @oggcamp We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be interviewing Graham Binns about the MAAS project project, and we’ll go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Sixteen of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating Battenberg cake in Studio L. In this week’s show: We interview David Hermann about his MiracleCast project… We also discuss: Getting a dashcam… Going to Bruges… Reading a Stephen King book (Pet Sematary) for the first time… And something that we’ll never know now… We share some Command Line Lurve: YouTube-Upload to upload videos to YouTube from the command line: $ youtube-upload --email=myemail@gmail.com --password=mypassword --title="A.S. Mutter" --description="$(

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Fifteen of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Microsoft seized 22 domain names from no-ip.com… Soofas: benches with solar-powered charging stations… KDE gives up on the low-cost, totally non-proprietary tablet for now… ATVOD regulator requires online video blog to submit to broadcasting regulation… ISPs take GCHQ to court over privacy breaches… Shotwell and Geary free software projects are denied tax-exempt status in the US… Former Merrill-Lynch CEO requests the right to be forgotten by Google… CentOS 7 is released… Open Rights Group launches blocked.org… We don’t have time for some gaming news from Tony. Sadly. We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Ubuntu Community funding report is released… Alpha 1 available for the Ubuntu MATE Remix… Ubuntu Phone needs en_GB translators to contribute… And there’s an event: OggCamp 2014 – 4th-5th October – Oxford, UK Go take a look at the website for links to all the lovely OggCamp sponsors. If you’d like to sponsor Oggcamp 2014, contact details are on the website. There are a few discounted hotel rooms still available. See OggCamp.org for details. If you want to help out in any way, contact @oggcamp We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be interviewing David Hermann about his MiracleCast project, and we’ll go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Fourteen of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating Foxes Ginger Crunch Creams biscuits in Studio L. In this week’s show: We discuss Miracast, Chromecast, the MiracleCast project for Linux, and more… The UUPC Big Clock (by @sil) We also discuss: The Awesome New Phone Working on Ubuntu MATE Remix… Attending TYPO3 Developer Days… We share some Command Line Lurve from commandlinefu.com: reset and mount | column -t df | column -t And we read your feedback, including: From Remy Also from Remy From Alex From Leigh Thanks for sending it in! We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Eleven of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Version 1.0 of Docker, the portable virtualisation container platform, has been released… Another serious security flaw has been found in OpenSSL… Alan Solomon, the man behind 90s anti-virus software Dr Solomon’s, has said that anti-virus software no longer works… Phone manufacturer Meizu have spoken out about their development of Ubuntu for their phone, the MX3… With more than double the crowdfunding target requested, “Superhot” is coming to Linux Steam hits 500 games for Linux… Civ 5 now on Linux (SteamOS)… We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: It’s Ubuntu Open Summit week… The community donations funding report for the 2013-14 financial year has been published. Lots of money left over! Juju is now on github… A possibility of an Ubuntu MATE Remix in the works… And there’s an event: OggCamp 2014 – 4th-5th October – Oxford, UK We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be discussing alternatives to Ubuntu One, which recently shut down, and we’ll go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Ten of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating very rich chocolate cake (like this one, only more chocolatey) in Studio L. In this week’s show: We interview Martin Wimpress from the MATE desktop team. If you want to know the memory requirements of the many different desktop environments, see his blog. Also, he is a maintainer of the MATE LiveCD. We also discuss: Beards. Again. Secret projects that can’t be talked about. Getting even closer to sending Tony up a mountain in Malawi. Going on an Ubuntu Sprint to Malta. Moving web and email hosting to Clook, a Northern hosting service. We share some Gooey Lurve from Mark: “Undo Closed Tab” in Firefox And we read your feedback – thanks for sending it in! We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for Season Nine, Episode Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Ebay announced that a security breach has led to customer data being stolen… Windows XP machines employed as POS terminals (cash registers) continue receiving updates for until 2019… The Linux Foundation has started offering an Introduction to Linux course through edX… Mozilla published an article discussing the reasons for supporting DRM for HTML5 video in Firefox… Gaming with Tony: Leadwerks game engine and development environment has released its Linux port. We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Jono Bacon is leaving Canonical to work at The XPRIZE Foundation… Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron is stepping down… A new way of handling tabs and history in browsers on Ubuntu for phones… Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal has now reached the end of support… geek.com have published a video showing Ubuntu running on the new Microsoft Surface Pro 3… Stable packages will no longer be maintained for Cinnamon desktop Observations of open source developers at the OpenStack Summit and why they prefer of Mac OSX over Linux… And there’s an event: OpenStack meetup – London, UK – 4th June – Register with discount code OS14EB We’ll be back next week, when we’ll interview Martin Wimpress from the MATE desktop team and go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating birthday cake (like this one) from Laura’s Mum in Studio L. In this week’s show: We interview Graham Morrison from Linux Voice. We also discuss: Beards and shaving Getting close to sending Tony up a mountain in Malawi Reading Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Getting a year older Playing with Github Pages Upgrading the podcast VPS to the bleeding edge of 12.04 (no, it’s not a typo) We share some Command Line Lurve: betty A command line Siri. Kinda. And we read your feedback We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Seven of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Measures to combat piracy initially set out in the Digital Economy Act of 2010 have been announced… The Novena open source laptop has raised $314,000 in a successful crowdfunding campaign, with 4 days left as we record… People have a right to be forgotten on the Internet… MIT have released the source code for their Flash based development tool – Scratch 2.0… Local root exploit security news… Gaming with Tony: Unreal Engine developers Epic Games announced the next Unreal Tournament to be developed as open collaboration with community… We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Tranquil PC, have teamed up with Canonical to make a “cloud in a box” Ubuntu community team have announced a new initiative called “Ubuntu Pioneers”. Mark Shuttleworth has delivered his keynote address at the Open Stack Summit Musings on crash reports from Ubuntu… Proposal for a Unity 8 flavour of Ubuntu… Canonical will be demonstrating Ubuntu Touch at Mobile Asia Expo… We’ll be back next week, when we’ll interview Graham Morrison from Linux Voice and go through your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow us on Twitter Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google+