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We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Six of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating Shredded Wheat Easter Nests in Studio L. In this week’s show: We interview Michael Meeks and Bjorn Michaelson from The Document Foundation. We also discuss We share some Command Line Lurve from @climagic: convert +level-colors Firebrick, me.jpg oldme.jpg It gives your photo a vintage feel – a command line Instagram. And we read your feedback, including: Scripts from Remy to remove old kernels on Ubuntu and to remove old kernels on CentOS Greg’s alternative suggestion to Dropbox: Seafile Una’s link to “Valley View tablets” 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 Five of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Google+…The End? The Linux Foundation announces the Core Infrastucture initiative, with industry support… US Magistrate judge ruled that companies issued with warrants for customer data must produce it even if it’s stored on servers outside the USA. Google aren’t so evil… Awesome project lets you copy text from images…and more… Gaming with Tony: Unity 3D stuff We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: Some security bugs in Ubuntu 14.04, like this one… …and this one… …and this one… …and this one… System D replaces Upstart in Ubuntu… A new Reddit support channel for Ubuntu… via Ubuntu Reddit We’ll be back next week, when we’ll interview Michael Meeks and Bjorn Michaelson from The Document Foundation 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 Four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating Simnel cake in Studio L. In this week’s show: We discuss the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release. We also discuss installing DD-WRT on a router, playing with a new Chromecast, breaking a new quadcopter, doing a first ‘commit’ and first ‘pull request’ on Github, and raising money for a charity trip to Malawi. We share some Command Line Lurve: dpkg -S '/boot/*' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq from @climagic. 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 our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Windows XP support has officially ended! A major security flaw in OpenSSL, dubbed “heartbleed” has been discovered and patched. There’s an interesting timeline of who knew what and when and an interesting article about it all… Open Rights Group has launched an IndieGoGo campaign to raise money for a campaign video against Internet censorship in the UK. Independent audit of TrueCrypt disk encryption system found some bugs, but no evidence of intentional flaws in the technology or backdoors. Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner can be fooled… The Guardian and Washington Post news papers have been awarded the Pulitzer prize for public service for their reporting of the NSA revelations. We also take a look at what’s been happening in the community: GNOME foundation is facing a budget shortfall… Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is released! Migrating a Spanish school’s computers from Windows XP to Ubuntu 14.04. Updated Ubuntu Cloud images have been released on various cloud providers in response to the OpenSSL heartbleed bug. The pain of porting GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler) to new architectures Convergence plans for 14.10 and beyond… We’ll be back next week, when we’ll review the Ubuntu 14.04 release 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 our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus

We’re back with the second episode of Season Seven of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating early Easter cakes in Studio L. In this week’s show: We interview Mark Shuttleworth about Ubuntu, convergence, the Community, and more… We also discuss building a Steam box, trying out 14.04, using XMind, and taking photos of Tom Baker and other Doctor Who stars, oh and being interviewed by Michaela Strachan on TV in 1990: We share some Command Line Lurve: reptyr

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for the first episode of Season Seven of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We also take a look at what’s been happening in the news: DRM-free Gaming outfit GOG.com are bringing “at least 100” games to Linux this year… Microsoft are going to release the source code for MS-DOS and Microsoft Word… Blender 2.7 is out… You can now *legally* rip your own CDs in the UK… Amazon has announced Fire TV… And there have been endless NSA and/or GCHQ revelations; they’re even spying on Angry Birds…or something… We catch up with what’s been happening in the Ubuntu community: Brendan Eich has been appointed CEO of Mozilla, amid controversy… Brendan has since resigned 14.04 LTS is almost upon us… The Amazon search scope will no longer being enabled by default on Unity 8… Canonical have announced that Ubuntu One will be closing down… We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be getting insights from Mark Shuttleworth and going through your Winter 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 our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad

Just a quick note to say we’re coming back with a brand new season of the Ubuntu Podcast, Live on Wednesday 2nd April 2014. Listen to this episode to hear all about it! 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 our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio A with a lot of mulled wine and some mince pies with homemade brandy butter for the forty-third, and final, episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We look back at our predications for 2013 and make up some new ones for 2014. We have A Quiz! We also discuss what we’ve been up to lately, including funding yet more crowd-sourcing campaigns, trying out SteamOS, playing games on the Ouya, and photographing the last wedding of the year. We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Nokia plan a low-end Android handset… Big companies gang up to campaign for government surveillance changes… British Library release Creative Commons images to crowd-source solutions to labelling and retrieval… Report accuses BT of supplying backdoors to GCHQ and NSA… We catch up with what’s been happening in the Ubuntu community: Upgrade paths discussed between 12.10 and later releases… Canonical is forking the Gnome Control Center… Unofficial, cross-platform Ubuntu One app released… Ubuntu Touch will use Trusted Helpers to handle permissions for apps… And Tony entertains us with some games news: Piixl have thrown their hat into the ‘Steam Machine’ ring… We have some Command Line Lurve for grml-rescueboot: Download grml-rescueboot from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot Enter the following commands: sudo apt-get install grml-rescueboot sudo mv ~/Downloads/ /boot/grml/ sudo update-grub Reboot and select in the grub boot menu. And we read your feedback. Here are the links we promise: zsh: http://grml.org/zsh/ shared history: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/preserve-bash-history-in-multiple-terminal-windows other very useful settings: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/better-bash-history/ ‘file create time’ on Linux – post from Thomas T’so: https://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2006-October/msg00015.html ‘file create time’ on Linux – how to find it: Say you wanted to find info on the /etc/hosts file… first determine which device the filesystem is on:- jlewis@DP-16JXJY1:~$ df -h /etc Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 224G 92G 121G 44% / Now, find the inode of the file:- jlewis@DP-16JXJY1:~$ ls -i /etc/hosts 11534495 /etc/hosts Now use debugfs to read the data out of the inode (note, you may need to use sudo depending on your group membership)! jlewis@DP-16JXJY1:~$ debugfs -R "stat " /dev/sda1 debugfs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) Inode: 11534495 Type: regular Mode: 0644 Flags: 0x80000 Generation: 1263086604 Version: 0x00000000:00000001 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 303 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 8 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x52714720:6b10521c -- Wed Oct 30 17:51:28 2013 atime: 0x52b15332:88eb37f8 -- Wed Dec 18 07:48:02 2013 mtime: 0x52714720:6b10521c -- Wed Oct 30 17:51:28 2013 crtime: 0x526acc8a:3d4a1614 -- Fri Oct 25 20:54:50 2013 Size of extra inode fields: 28 EXTENTS: (0):26249669 Notice that crtime is the extra parameter that “stat” doesn’t normally give you! That’s all for this episode, this season, and indeed this year. We will probably be back in 2014, when we will continue bringing you up to date with all the latest news about Ubuntu and free software. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad

We’re back with the forty-second episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating chocolate cake in Studio A. In this week’s show: We discuss Alan’s new toy, a 3Doodler: We also discuss poisoning someone, going to ThingMonk, Doom 3 BFG edition is being ported to Linux, and fixing a laptop under warranty. We share some Command Line Lurve: explainshell.com. And we read your feedback. We’ll be back next week for the last episode of Season 6, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back in Studio A for the forty-first episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We also take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Since our announcement that Cyanogenmod was in the Google Play store, it’s been removed… Google offer money for personal data… Windows RT (for ARM) is due to die… Neither SQL nor NoSQL but a bit of both… A new type of USB connector that is never the wrong way up… Valve joins the Linux Foundation… We catch up with what’s been happening in the Ubuntu community: UserMetrics, a Welcome Screen widget for Ubuntu Touch… Say something quotable about the community for community.ubuntu.com Canonical announces affordable Asus laptops for US education… Switch off the global menu for apps… And not in the Ubuntu community: Linux Mint version 16 released… And we mention an event: Education Freedom Day – 18th January We’ll be back next week, when we’ll discuss Alan’s new toy, a 3Doodler. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad

We’re back with the fortieth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating millionaire’s shortbread (om nom nom) in Studio A. In this week’s show: We interview Andrew Gregory about the new Linux Voice magazine. We share some Command Line Lurve, which we pinched from CommandLineFu.com: some_very_long_and_complex_command # label And we read your feedback, including Ivan’s suggestion of an online beginners’ Java course. We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back in Studio A for the thirty-ninth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We also take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Commenters on YouTube have a whinge… CyanogenMod release a “one-click” installer for Android phones… Run a Linux home server on the Raspberry Pi… Google and Microsoft agree to block child abuse images from search results… Symantic report ‘backdoor’ in ‘large Internet hosting provider’…” LG send personal data home from TVs… Study shows playing games has no negative effect on children’s behaviour… We catch up with what’s been happening in the Ubuntu community: New Community Council elected… Unity 8 working in Android Emulator… Building Mono for the MIPS architecture… Ubuntu Discourse now live… Mark apologises… New Dell Sputnik laptop specs! And not in the Ubuntu community: Some fuss about Linux Mint comments… And we mention an event: An evening with Richard Stallman – 28th-29th November – School of Computer Science, Lincoln University, UK Code Pub Reading – 28th November – Reading, UK Code Pub Birmingham – 5th December – Birmingham, UK Code Club North West Meetup #4 – 10th December – Manchester, UK Code Pub Kent – 12th December – Maidstone, UK FLOSS UK – Spring 2014 – 18th – 20th March 2014 – Brighton, UK We’ll be back next week, when we’ll interview Andrew Gregory about the new Linux Voice magazine. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad

We’re back with the thirty-eighth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating coffee cake in Studio A. In this week’s show: We interview Alan Bell about an Indigogo campaign launched by his company to fund a Raspberry Pi cluster so that they can build Ubuntu for the Pi. We share some Command Line Lurve on port scanning with netcat, which we pinched from Colin King on G+: nc -v -w 1 localhost -z 1-10000 2>&1 | grep succeeded (replace localhost with something else) And we read your feedback, including a blog post by Gordon Sinclair and the winners of Remi van Elst’s Raspberry Pi giveaway, and we learn about Hyperland. We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back in Studio A for the thirty-seventh episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We also take a look at what’s been happening in the news: Bill Lowe, the IBM manager who was behind the first ever PC has died aged 72. Owncloud has announced version 6 including Owncloud Documents, with real time google docs-style collaboration. Cisco is releasing a BSD-licensed implementation of the h.264 video codec and a reaction from Monty. Debian has changed the default desktop for Jessie (the next release) to XFCE. AOL has threatened legal action against Pro Populi, a company who produce an app called People+ which uses data from AOL-owned CrunchBase. NSA & GCHQ sniffing *inside* Google network (SSL no good to you now!) The Verve and The Washington Post have published hands-on reviews of Valve’s linux-based Steam console We catch up with what’s been happening in the Ubuntu community: Terence Simpson has posted an open letter to the Ubuntu-IRC mailing list regarding conduct on the community’s IRC channels The Ubuntu GNOME project is seeking additional maintainers, without which it won’t be able to provide long-term support for its 14.04 release (already found them!) Bacon and Langridge of LugRadio fame have started a new podast, Bad Voltage, with Brian Lunduke (ex-Linux Action Show) and Jeremy Garcia (founder of LinuxQuestions.org). Ubuntu’s cloud offering is going to include the CloudFoundry platform-as-a-service running on top of OpenStack There’s an indiegogo project to build a Raspberry Pi compile cluster, allowing Ubuntu to be built for the ‘Pi. Fedora is 10! And we mention an event: FLOSS UK – Spring 2014 – 18th – 20th March 2014 – Brighton, UK We’ll be back next week, when we’ll interview Alan Bell about his Raspberry Pi cluster Indigogo campaign. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad

We’re back with the thirty-sixth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen shelter from the Liverpudlian rain in Studio C (a car in a carpark). It’s the day after OggCamp 13 ended and they’re a little hoarse and lacking tea and cake. In this week’s show, we discuss how amazing OggCamp 13 was before playing half-a-dozen interviews that Laura recorded at OggCamp: Patrick Fenner about his real-life Minecraft crane Building a tower with Minecraft blocks The crane controls The crane motors Decorating the blocks Photos by Laura Cowen. Cefn Hoile about Shrimping It (making Arduino-compatible prototyping materials) Stacey Driver about Ragworm UK (printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing service for prototyping) Paul Harter and Ross Dalziel about art and 3D printing with Minecraft Aine McGuire about Scraperwiki James Hugman about Firefox OS We’ll be back next week with our usual show format. Send us your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus