S05E19 – Random Rhymes and Rambles




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Summary: Alan ‘popey’ Pope is back in Studio A with Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Laura Cowen, and podcats for the nineteenth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We interview Dirk Gorissen about Random Hacks of Kindness. We discuss the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit. We also talk about getting a new laptop, fixing stuff with Sugru, and going to Monkeyworld in Dorset. In the news this week:- Microsoft launches Windows 8… There’s a new file sharing site… AMD will sell 64-bit ARM… Wayland V1.0 released… Windows Live Messenger to be replaced by Skype… Closed Steam for Linux beta available… And we have no events to tell you about this time! Victoria Pritchard and Robin Catling dust off another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive. We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:- Ubuntu on Nexus 7… Browser performance stats of Ubuntu on Nexus 7… EFF criticises the shopping lens… New design blog design for the design team… And in Not-about-Ubuntu: Linus reviews KDE… And we have your feedback, including this from Stuart Ward: ~$ date | qrencode -o - | xloadimage -delay 1 stdin Join us on Tuesday 20th November 2012 for our next live episode. 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