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Linux Outlaws 249 - Inflatable Tanks

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 19:10

Released: February 2, 2012
Length: 1:42:24

Kimble and his inflatable tank, ACTA, a lot of security news, Ubuntu introduces The HUD, Google Sky Map now open source, Epiphany is being integrated into Gnome Shell and much more...

0:01:03 Introduction

  • Happy birthday Aq!
  • Fab is shutting down LXnews and the Sixgun Blog, but has started a new project called Dehype
  • Oil Rush has been released
  • Fab has been running CyanogenMod with Ice Cream Sandwich on his Xoom for a while now and gives a quick status update

0:14:26 Releases & News

Inflatable Tanks

1:10:26 Microwatch

1:13:51 Feedback

Supporters: Rubens Durans Kinjo, Kirk Richard Holz and Eric Geissinger

  • Kelly Hays tells us about Open Source Ecology (which we actually have talked about on the show before)
  • James Lewis corrects us that Arista Transcoder uses Gstreamer and not FFMpeg in the backend
  • Drasticheadcase writes to Dan about Ubuntu touchscreen keyboards
  • JCCar tells us about their plight with Flattr and their bank

We had other emails from Matt, Michael Spannbauer, Paul Williams, Gerard Braad, Jason Harrison, Rubens Durans Kinjo, Mark Sinclair, Robert Pfeiffer, Tom Bourque, Keith Z-G, John Hill and Matěj.
 

Song: Something by Airtone (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Linux Outlaws 248 - Rantastic

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 01/29/2012 - 13:11

Released: January 29, 2012
Length: 1:46:37

A wagonload of SOPA fallout, Megaupload takedown, Apple iBooks Author and a metric ton of rants...

0:01:19 Introduction

Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball

0:13:00 Releases & News

0:55:36 Microwatch

1:01:07 Crapplewatch

Engage!

1:12:49 Feedback

Supporters: Sijmen Cozijnsen, Tom Sparrow, Remy van Elst — from Flattr: corenominal, Chris Woollard and Dave Ostroske

  • David Yang sent us a pro-SOPA story he found
  • Greg corrects Dan on a few points
  • Dailey Chandler is a member of the American Chestnut Foundation and tells us more about it
  • Beesa says the ACF having their own magazine isn't that much of a stretch if you think about it
  • Michael Pacey sent us a really nice email saying how much he enjoys the show
  • Branden Andersen sent us information on the iBooks Author story we talked about earlier
  • Michael Pettet sent us a link to an episode pf This American Life about the inner workings of Apple factories in China: audio, transcript
  • Thomas Ritter emails us about Scribus and desktop publishing
  • Yannis A. sent us an email about some rather disturbing Linux distros he has discovered

We had other emails from Sven and dacresni.

Song: La Batalla by La Olla Express (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Weekly Rewind #103

Adventures In Open Source - Fri, 01/27/2012 - 16:38

Welcome to another Weekly Rewind. This edition could either be considered overdue from last week or early for next, depending on whether you’re a glass half empty or full kind of person. I’ll let you decide. I was trying to think of witty things to link with the number 103 but I’m drawing a blank. The only two examples I can come up with are the Peugeot 103 and the Manchester radio station Key 103, neither of which seem particularly relevant. If you think of something I’ve missed stick it in a comment at the bottom. There’s no prizes, it’s just for fun. Maybe I’ll invent some arbitrary points system like have on Q.I and award you a million points. Anyway, let’s stop this nonsense and begin ploughing our way through the last 10 days or so…

I believe I last left things late on the afternoon of Monday January 16th, so let’s pick up there. I went on to broadcast Linux Outlaws with Fab in the evening. You’re probably tired of hearing me say this but it really does seem odd that we can be 247 episodes into this podcast now. As we close in on 250 episodes and 5 years in the business of pod, I don’t think either of us ever imagined this popularity or longevity could happen. The show was fun as always and I edited it later that week. You can grab it now as Episode 247 – “Poke Him With Your Pipe Old Boy”.

On Tuesday I got a nice visit from my mum and we found some time to catch up. We also did some cooking and she taught me a new chicken dish. I’m not bad at cooking but I think I need to expand my repertoire a bit. I’ve considered a cookery class, maybe I’ll look more seriously at that as the year goes on. I went to band practice in the evening as we prepare for an upcoming 20lb Sounds gig. I won’t go on too much about it now as there’s many more band practices to mention. I did some work on my websites and began the long process of migrating all my music to Bandcamp.com. If you check out danlynch.bandcamp.com you’ll see that all the stuff from my main site is uploaded now. I just created an album and put it all in chronological order. You may wonder why I would choose to do such a thing but as I recently discussed I want to get more serious about music professionally. The migration isn’t all about making money and the album is actually free to download. It just seems sensible to keep things in one place and I’ll be doing the new acoustic album on there soon. I’ll redirect danlynch.org/music and look at incorporating the design. Bandcamp do mp3, ogg, FLAC and almost any other format you could want, plus I really like their simple management tools.

On Wednesday it was the big SOPA blackout protest and in accordance Fab took down Sixgun.org. The most noticeable take down was probably Wikipedia. It seems as though the legislation has been postponed (not killed or abandoned as some believe) and it’s a victory for all involved. We still have a lot of work to do though and the war isn’t over. If anything it’s just beginning. I have to confess I didn’t take this site down or RatholeRadio.org, not because I didn’t believe in the cause, more out of a lack of time and planning on my part. I feel a bit guilty about that but I’m pleased to see the protest had some effect. On the day I was also set to appear on FLOSS Weekly and the TWIT Network took and interesting stance. I joined Simon Phipps to interview James T. Nixon III about file storage solution FreeNAS. The show was in black and white to highlight the protest and we spent a long time discussing SOPA. You can download it as FLOSS Weekly 198 – FreeNAS.

On Thursday I got on with some Drupal stuff on various sites and also attended Jelly Liverpool down at LEAF. In the evening I stopped by the Merseyside Skeptics meeting at The Head Of Steam pub on my way to band practice. They’ve been having some PA problems and getting bad feedback. My friend Siobhan asked me to have a look. I wasn’t there too long and I don’t think I really offered much by way of a solution but hopefully it helped a bit. I then went to rock out with the 20lb boys. On Friday I edited the Linux Outlaws recording from Monday and prepared Rathole Radio for the weekend. Saturday involved more RR prep and then a Liverpool LUG afternoon meet at Studio 2, Parr St. The turnout was low unfortunately and most of the meet involved paying pool with Bob and Steve. Not a bad way to spend your Saturday though by any means. I was scheduled to appear on the Alt3rd Egos podcast in the evening to talk about comics. So I nipped over to Forbidden Planet to do some research. I am a comic book fan and I own plenty of graphic novels but I’m not up on current happenings in the medium at all. I know there’s been a big fuss over the changes to the DC Universe but that’s about it. I headed home and waited for the show but as time went by I began to wonder if I’d messed up the timezone conversions. Eventually I got a message off one of the hosts saying they’d had a family emergency and couldn’t make it, which is understandable. I wished them the best and we planned to reschedule. After this I went to catch up with friends at a whiskey party. I’ve never been to a whiskey party before but my friend Rachel is off to Australia and was emptying the drinks cabinet before packing up the house. I was ashamed to admit that I don’t really drink whiskey, or spirits of any kind for that matter, but it was actually really fun.

On Sunday I headed down to Dale St for another 20lb practice and we got in gear for our gig on Saturday Feb 4th at The Zanzibar.  I’m really looking forward to it as it’s a Saturday night and I hope we can get plenty of people along. It’s only £4 and the doors open at 8pm. If you’re in the Liverpool area come and join us. It’ll be fun. In the evening I broadcast Radio Radio 70 and had fun chatting with the listeners. That was released on Wednesday this week. Check out my slightly ropey version of “RE: Your Brains” by Jonathan Coulton. I had fun learning that. On Monday it was back to Linux Outlaws and the recording of episode 248. That isn’t out yet at the time of writing but should be soon. On Tuesday I headed up to Edge Lane for a day’s video production course with Chris Chadwick of The Hatch. He’s a top bloke and we had a really good day. Spending time with real video experts makes me realise how little I actually know about this though, I’m trying to get up to speed. I headed to LEAF in the evening with Neil on PodFactory business. We streamed the BigSWIG event live and it all went very well. SWIG is a Liverpool WordPress users group and this was their first big live event. The audio wasn’t quite as good quality as I would have liked due to a last minute workaround. It seems our video conversion box is on the fritz. It did the video as normal but the audio wasn’t playing ball. I had to put that into the internal sound card on the laptop. As some of you will know they never sound good and often pick up mains noise. Despite this the SWIG people seemed happy and I was pleased we could help them out. I’ll be working on that audio problem for next time and packing my USB sound card in case we need it. Finally on Wednesday (25th) I sat down and wrote my first article for Seven Streets, a popular Liverpool news site. I’ve been asked to do a monthly tech column and my article was about indie gaming culture. I don’t know if they’ll think it up to standard but hopefully it’ll be published soon. I’ll let you know.

There’s bound to be a couple of things I’ve missed but for now that just about brings us up to date.

Upcoming:

Tomorrow night I’m be on the rescheduled Alt3red Egos podcast talking about comics and so on. There’s no live stream but I’ll let you know when it’s published as a podcast. On Sunday I plan to finally get down to recording this acoustic album and in preparation I’ve been playing the keyboard a bit of late. I’d like to do some of the songs on piano, so we’ll see how that goes. On Monday night we’ll have more live Linux Outlaws. You can join us at sixgun.org/live from 8pm UK time. There’s chat via the IRC channel and a live audio stream. It’s an hour later than normal as we’ll be recording another Leave Your Hat On with LO community legend Jezra. On Wednesday I have another FLOSS Weekly booked in. You can tune into that live at twit.tv/live from 4:30pm UK time, an hour earlier than usual. At the weekend it’s TEDx Merseyside and I also have the 20lb gig in the evening.  Then on Sunday (Feb 5th) there’ll be another live Rathole Radio from 9pm. Other exciting things are happening right now and I’ll tell you more about all of those as they develop.

Until next we meet, take care of yourselves.

Dan


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RatholeRadio 70 – 22nd Jan 2012

Rathole Radio - Wed, 01/25/2012 - 15:24

Download Ogg – Download Mp3

Rathole Radio 70 is here already, where does the time go? I played my usual eclectic mix of independent music, performed a live song on the guitar, and generally talked too much. I’m sure I also said “erm” far too many times. I hope you enjoy the show. Don’t forget to hook up with up on social networks, leave comments and send emails. I’m interested to know what you think.

  • 00:00 – Jonathan Coulton – Skullcrusher Mountain – CC BY-NC Licensed – Do I need to say anything about Jonathan Coulton at this point? A CC music legend. I realised this week that I’ve only ever played 2 songs of his on the show. Have to get some more in.
  • 07:38 – DubTrak – Sandblaster Dub - CC BY-NC Licensed – A group I discovered through CCHits and then investigated more. I got their EP off the Audiocast Productions netlabel.
  • 14:03 – The Corinthians – The Hot One (Feat Nicky Talent) - License Unknown – A local Liverpool group I saw supporting the Jungle Brothers last year and loved it. I had a chat to Nicky Talent at the gig and they’re really nice lads. Fingers crossed I can get them on the line up for the Rathole Roadshow at LEAF on Friday April 27th.

There’s also a 20lb Sounds gig at The Zanzibar in Liverpool, Saturday Feb 4th at about 8pm. Stage time not known yet. Entry is only 4 quid, bargain.

  • 21:25 – laslow1988 – Violin High – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – Interesting mix of classical and rock from this German outfit. This is from the album Panic Attack. They’re based in Berlin but there’s not a lot of other information on Jamendo. I tracked them down on Last.fm and some other places.
  • 24:49 – airtone – something – CC BY-NC Licensed – Heard this on CCHits and absolutely loved it. Can’t find any information about the artist or the track after searching. The artist website just doesn’t load for me. Will try to find out more. There’s lots of stuff on ccMixter by airtone.
  • 33:30 - Monkeys In Love – Traffic Or Not - License Unknown – I met Laura and her partner at an arts event in Liverpool last year. They’re based in Manchester and this is a pre-release track from their upcoming album Death Jeans. It’s due out on Feb 20th on Valentine Records. There’ll be a lunch party/gig on Feb 17th but I don’t have more details of that yet.
  • 41:05 – Berlinist – My Darling Grace – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A Barcelona based trio who released this debut single on Bad Panda records last year. Not must is known about them. As it says on their Bad Panda release, “they prefer to let their piano, glockenspiel, accordion and ukulele speak”.

47:53 - LIVE TRACK: “Re: Your Brains” by Jonathan Coulton – My first attempt at performing a JoCo song and it went ok I think. It’s a zombie classic and hopefully I did it justice. Here’s the site I used to learn it.

  • 54:15 – New Nobility – Paradise – License Unknown – Artist Submission – Sent to me via Soundcloud by the artist. I’ve played them before. Really like this track. Nice upbeat electro sounds I thought. These guys describe themselves as an International band, after forming in Sarajevo in 2005 they’re now based in Sydney, Australia.

Brian Fitzhugh wrote to me this week with a suggestion for a shared Google spreadsheet of all the tracks played on the show previously. He kindly offered to collate all the data and set something up which is amazing. He’s not a confident coder though. If anyone is interested in helping out contact me and I’ll put you in touch with Brian.

Thank you also to Martyn Lewis for his email and John Eckman for telling me about his WP plugin I might find useful. It’s called WPbook and it integrates FB more closely.

  • 63:18 – La Olla Express – La Batalla – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A Spanish ska/punk/fusion outfit. Their album Panic came up in my search and I’m glad it did. It’s great! This is the opening track. Do yourself a favour and check them out. Their website is in Spanish and my Spanish is non-existent so you’ll have to investigate more yourself.

Donations: Thank you to Paul Watson and all the wonderful people who supported the show via Flattr! Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca. Like us on Facebook. Next Live Show: Sunday Feb 5th 2012 at 9pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, but if people want to hang around and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

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Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

  • 15:41 – Partition 36 – The Optic Nerve – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I played a track called “I Love Penguins” by this artist some time ago and this is a great follow up. Lovely slice of industrial sounding electro. Thanks to GamerChick02 for the tip.
  • 21:38 – Derelict Earth – The Darkest Serenity – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A French metal band (from Grenoble), you don’t see many of those. They’ve obviously been listening to some early Metallica I think, and that’s no bad thing.
  • 43:14 – LIVE TUNE – Medicine Man by Dan Lynch – A tune I wrote some years ago and I have a feeling I might have played it live on the show before. I only realised after I’d done it. Well never mind, people seemed to enjoy it anyway. I’m hoping to soon record an album of tunes like this that have gotten away over the years.
  • 48:49 – ‘Til Dusk – One By One – License Unknown – Emailed to me by Chris from the band. They’re based in Southampton in the UK. This track is taken from their debut album Cold Lust which is released May 16th and you can find out more at www.tildusk.co.uk

Guest next time! Wayne Mayers AKA Fit & The Conniptions.

  • 57:59 – Dual Core – Magnificent Seven (feat Nerdcore) – All Rights Reserved- A big thanks to Mark Horsley for emailing this track to me. I’ve heard Dual Core a few times but not this track. It’s from the 2009 album Next Level which you can get on Bandcamp and other places and it features almost everyone in Nerdcore it seems. Beefy, MC Frontalot and more.

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Linux Outlaws 247 - Poke Him with Your Pipe, Old Boy

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sat, 01/21/2012 - 20:51

Released: January 21, 2012
Length: 1:18:37

NSA releases SEAndroid, two professional media apps are coming to Linux, Nokia sells patents to patent troll, Microsoft locks down ARM devices, Samsung wants to merge Bada with Tizen and the Macho Man makes an appearance on the show.

0:01:30 Introduction

The Macho Man during his prime in the '80s

0:10:51 Releases & News

Hot patent troll chick from Sisvel

0:41:22 Microwatch

0:47:23 Feedback

Supporters: Alexander Van der Merwe, Kirk Richard Holz, Robert Krenitsky, Peter Clark — from Flattr: corenominal, Tony Jones, Chris Woollard, Dave Ostroske

  • Jason Sipula gives us some more info on the Galaxy Tab 10.1N (which is the special version they built after the lawsuit from Apple in Germany)
  • Stephen Mulcahy came across a media converter called "Arista"
  • Aaron asked about upgrading and reinstalling tips a few weeks ago and now wrote to say thanks and that he upgraded to F16 over Christmas
  • Xavier Sythe sent us a link to some leaked pictures of Tizen from a recent conference
  • Branden Andersen sent us a link to a Boing Boing story about Lamar Smith (the Congressman who drafted SOPA), apparently he ran afoul of copyright laws himself
  • Tazzo loves the podcast and asks about connecting his HTC Desire S to his Ubuntu laptop for Internet access passthrough

Shirley Crabtree (aka. "Big Daddy")

  • Yaroslav Halchenko says Microsoft is quite friendly to Kinect hackers — we remind him that this wasn't always the case

We had other emails this week from Pedro, Remy Van Elst, Willem, Alexander van der Merwe and Tom.

Song: It’s Not Unusual by Joe Ressington (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Linux Outlaws 246 - The Shape of Chestnuts to Come

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Tue, 01/17/2012 - 20:11

Released: January 17, 2012
Length: 1:06:01

We talk to Jonathan Nadeau about accessibility in free software, the Accessible Computing Foundation, Northeast GNU/Linux Fest, the accessibility work Jonathan helped with for Trisquel and much more.

We interview Jonathan Nadeau once again and talk about what he has been up to:

Stuff Jonathan is not involved in:

Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation, this month's issue: "The Shape of Chestnuts to Come"

Song: Skull Splitter by Blind Creation (all rights reserved, played by permission)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Weekly Rewind #102

Adventures In Open Source - Mon, 01/16/2012 - 17:58

Hello again and welcome to another Weekly Rewind. Updates and tales from the interesting (or not so interesting) happenings in my life. We’re just over a week from the last article so that’s not bad going. Only 1 day late. Let’s begin with Sunday night, January 8th…

I broadcast episode 69 of Rathole Radio and it went pretty well. There was some lively chat going on in the IRC and it seems the new website is holding up well. I need to fix a few things on there still but you know how these things are. You’re never 100% done, at least not if you’re a hopeless perfectionist like me.

I'm a total night owl

On Monday Jan 9th I got up quite a bit earlier than usual in an attempt to start a new regime. I decided I need to add a little more structure to my life and begin separating work and leisure time more clearly. I don’t have a 9-5 job or any strong routine, outside of podcast schedules I suppose. This makes most people think “lucky bastard, doing nothing all day”. In fact what happens though is I work on 10 different things pretty much all the time. There may not be a clearly defined clocking on time, but there’s also no clocking off time so it’s difficult to unwind. I always work late nights and weekends. I rarely watch films, television, play video games or do anything like that really. Now I’m not trying to make you feel sorry for me, put the violins away. Compared to a lot people my life is very easy. I just think I should make some attempt to get more in sync with the rest of the world. I also hope it will help me be more productive and enjoy some time off. Maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t. Time will tell.

One of the first things I did on Monday in my newly defined office time was arrange to have our band PA collected by courier and taken to Newcastle for repairs. It died on us just before Christmas but luckily it’s still under warranty and they should repair it for free. I also got quite a few things ticked off my list of jobs which I was pleased with. Monday is of course Linux Outlaws night and I got ready to record the show live with Fab. At this point the Internet gods decided to mess with me and we spent the next hour trying to get our VoIP communication working. It seems like it’s either something going wrong with my broadband connection or the new studio PC. I’ve tried to trace the problem but typically it hasn’t happened since. The show went well once we did get started and you can download it as episode 245 – “Dirty I/O”. On Tuesday I continued hammering my way through a back list of jobs. I also released the episode of Rathole Radio from Sunday, fixed some CSS problems on the 20lb Sounds website and edited a video for LEAF. Hopefully you’ll be able to see that soon. I then contacted some venues about booking gigs with the band and there’ll be more on that in a moment.

On Wednesday I joined Randal Schwartz to host FLOSS Weekly 197. My Internet gremlins seemed to have disappeared which was good. Our guest was Sam Aaron of the Overtone project. An Open Source music making framework written in Java. Well worth having a listen to that for anyone interested in synthesizers and new ways of making music. Following FLOSS I headed down to Dale St for a practice with 20lb Sounds and delivered some interesting news to the lads. I almost remember the conversation word for word. I said to them “You know I was gonna look for more gigs? …. I’ve got 3!”. Tony, the manager at The Zanzibar very kindly offered us 3 gigs, all on prime nights and we owe him a big thank you. Combined with the Rathole Roadshow at LEAF in April it means we have the first half of 2012 pretty much fixed up gig-wise. Here’s the line up:

  • Saturday February 4th – The Zanzibar, Seel Street, Liverpool.
  • Saturday March 3rd – The Zanzibar, Seel Street, Liverpool.
  • Friday April 27th – LEAF, Bold St, Liverpool.
  • Friday May 25th – The Zanzibar, Seel Street, Liverpool.

Ok so it’s hardly a world tour but it’s a good start I think. If any of you can come along please do, we’ll have a good time and it would be great to see you there. On Thursday we had another 20lb practice but my voice was shot. I’d been developing a cold all week and as I write this I still can’t shake it off. I can just about talk, but only like some weird cross between Ringo Starr and Barry White. Yeah I know, what’s different about that right? On Friday morning I met Neil and we discussed Open Source City business. Still a massive amount to do there but we’re starting to make progress. In the afternoon I got online and recorded a Linux Outlaws special with Fab and our guest Jonathan Nadeau. Jonathan has been on the show before but we dubbed him our official Accessibility Corespondent some time ago. He’s a blind computer user and offers us a great perspective on problems we don’t even think about as sighted people. Plus he’s a great guy and very funny. I don’t want to give the impression that his lack of sight is the only reason we have him on our show. Following that I recorded some lines for a radio play I was recently asked to appear in. It’s for one of our listeners and I’ll get you more details when I can. My character is a wise old warrior and I used my croaky cold voice to full effect. I hope I didn’t go over the top in a Christian Bale Dark Knight style though… “HE MUST HAVE FRIENDS!!!”. Not content with my day’s work I then wrote a Bash script to automate downloading and uploading the raw audio Bradley sends me for Free As In Freedom. It’s just a wrapper for a couple of rsync commands really but I was quite pleased with myself. I posted the code on Pastbin at the request of some people on Google+. It’s not gonna win any awards but it was nice to get it done.

Eddie Vedder, on stage

On Friday night I decided not to do any work and try to stick to my new routine. Instead I watched Pearl Jam Twenty, a documentary about Pearl Jam, one of my all time favourite bands. Back when I was 14 I would have given anything to be Eddie Vedder. Watching the film I realised something. I still want to be Eddie Vedder, some part of me always will. On Saturday I nursed my worsening cold and tried not to do too much. Then late in the afternoon I headed to LEAF for my friend Rachel’s leaving do. She’s moving to Australia with her husband which is all very exciting. It’s a big change but I’m sure it’ll work out for them. I got a chance to catch up with some other friends down there and had a nice evening. I didn’t stay too late and was home in time to watch Match Of The Day, rock and roll or what?

Yesterday I had did a lot of audio editing. First I assembled the next Free As In Freedom for Bradley and Karen. Then I moved on to editing the Linux Outlaws special we’d recorded on Friday. It took up most of the day but it felt good to get it done. I canceled band practice as I still had no voice but hopefully that’ll be back in a day or two. It better be back in time for our gig or we’re screwed. I’m trying to be good and rest it though. No attempts to sing at all while I recover. I’m even trying to talk less but not really succeeding. Come on, this is me after all.

That pretty much brings us up to date.

Upcoming:

In the next week there’s much podcasting to be done. Tonight we’ll record another Linux Outlaws, Internet gods willing. On Wednesday I will host another FLOSS Weekly, this time with Simon Phipps. Our guest project is FreeNAS and I can’t wait to hear more about that. At the weekend we’ll have more live Rathole Radio on Sunday night. Plus, on Thursday 19th it’s back to LEAF as Jelly Liverpool kicks off for 2012. I also hope to get back to singing again once my throat recovers. This cold has totally scuppered my plans of recording an acoustic album quickly. I’ll get that done as soon as I can but unless I decide to make it a Tom Waits tribute it’ll have to wait a little longer. Sorry Folks. I’ll report back on events next weekend I hope. Until then take care of yourselves and I’ll see you soon.

Dan


Categories: Writings

Linux Outlaws 245 - Dirty I/O

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sat, 01/14/2012 - 21:26

Released: January 14, 2012
Length: 1:24:45

Ubuntu TV announced, MPL 2.0 released, LiMux reports success, CouchDB gets forked, Mandriva seems to be really dying and much more including a lot of soundboard fun.

0:01:20 Introduction

0:10:41 Releases & News

0:58:16 Microwatch

  • Remember how the Android update experience is so horrible and Windows Phone was supposed to be better? Yeah...

1:01:00 Feedback

Supporters: James Daws — from Flattr: chalkahlom, cyberkiller an Tony Jones

Friedrich Engels and his awesome beard

Johann Strauss II, who is really Jezra from the past

We had other emails this week from Ben, Alistair Munro, Chris Collinson, David Lutton, Martyn Lewis and Paul W. B.

Song: Like The Blues Man Do by the Monkey Gland Blues Band (all rights reserved, played by permission)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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RatholeRadio 69 – 8th Jan 2012

Rathole Radio - Tue, 01/10/2012 - 13:05

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The first Rathole Radio of 2012. Supposedly it’s the end of the world this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make time to check out some of the best independent musicians you’ve never heard. I skipped the live song this time but only because I had a bumper show already. Hope you enjoy it.

  • 00:00 – The Happy Problem – Matador – License Unknown – Another track from New York rockers The Happy Problem. This was sent to me via Soundcloud so a big thanks to singer Sam Shaber for getting touch.
  • 06:08 – Lucid Music – They’re Not Ready – License Unknown – I’m getting a great Jurassic 5 vibe from this track and anyone who knows me knows I love J5. These guys hail from Pittsburgh, PA. I picked this one up from AMPed it was submitted by The Hip-Hop Zone.
  • 09:26 – Thom Morecroft – Holly – License Unknown – Thom Morecroft is a young singer-songwriter from Shrewsbury, currently living and studying in Liverpool. Thom is also a prolific youtuber, and will attempt to sing and record any song that’s requested. Go on, try him! – From Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! – Rathole Roadshow 3 – Friday April 27th – LEAF, Liverpool

  • 18:51 – Quantum Jazz – If I Can’t Dance It’s Not My Revolution – CC BY-SA Licensed – I got a nice email from Danish friend of the show Don_S with more recordings from his fabulous jazz band. Sadly the band are no longer together, one of the members has moved to another country. They still posted a great album on Jamendo though which I highly recommend to all jazz fans.
  • 29:44 – Monkey Gland Blues Band – Like The Blues Man Do – License Unknown – CD arrived in the post from listener Tom Sparrow who says “I wanted to do a bit of promotion for my Nephew’s band “The Monkey Gland Blue’s band” and wondered if you would play a track on Linux Outlaws one week.” I had a listen and liked the sounds.
  • 33:17 – Chinese Man – Racing With The Sun – License Unknown – From Pete Cogle “Chinese Man’s “Racing With The Sun” is my album of 2011. This turntablist/Hip-Hop collective have kept my iPod warm for many months now, so here’s the title track.” – From PC Podcast with Pete Cogle
  • 41:45 – Zosh Cardo – Level My Scales – License Unknown – I got an email from Kriss Flow about this. Apparently they heard about the show via Is This Thing On? Nick Tann’s podcast. They say “ Think Portishead,Massive Attack,Thom Yorke, Unkle,Tricky, Burial…. We are playing @ Dublin Castle, Camden, London on 4th of Jan and Monto Water Rats on 1st of Feb.” - Artist Submission
  • 45:08 – Phoenix Imago – Someone I Can Be Alone With – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – Another artist submission via Soundcloud. This was a private track on there but it is listed as Creative Commons. I’ve emailed Rob to find out where you can go to get a copy. Great summery soulful sound. - Artist Submission
  • 52:24 – Boxcar Bandits – Cell Phone – License Unknown – From Rich “Cell Phone is from the Boxcar Bandits latest release “Life from Dan’s Silverleaf”. The song is a great example of the energy exhibited by the band during their live performances. This Denton, Texas based group can found playing the stage almost every Monday at Dan’s Silverleaf.” Rich describes their style as “Skunkgrass”, not a term I’ve heard, in this context at least. – From Audio Gumshoe
  • 60:09 – Nadine Carina – Some Chocolate And Cigarettes – License Unknown – (Facebook page) From Graham “Nadine Carina is a Swiss singer/songwriter who sings dreamy folk songs with her guitar and piano. Currently studying at the Leeds College of Music, last September saw Nadine release her first album ‘Magic Box’ on the Stattmusik label.” – From Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight 

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Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca Next show: Sunday January 22nd 2012 at 9pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, but if people want to hang around and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

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Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song. Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

  • 15:41 – Partition 36 – The Optic Nerve – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I played a track called “I Love Penguins” by this artist some time ago and this is a great follow up. Lovely slice of industrial sounding electro. Thanks to GamerChick02 for the tip.
  • 21:38 – Derelict Earth – The Darkest Serenity – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A French metal band (from Grenoble), you don’t see many of those. They’ve obviously been listening to some early Metallica I think, and that’s no bad thing.
  • 43:14 – LIVE TUNE – Medicine Man by Dan Lynch – A tune I wrote some years ago and I have a feeling I might have played it live on the show before. I only realised after I’d done it. Well never mind, people seemed to enjoy it anyway. I’m hoping to soon record an album of tunes like this that have gotten away over the years.
  • 48:49 – ‘Til Dusk – One By One – License Unknown – Emailed to me by Chris from the band. They’re based in Southampton in the UK. This track is taken from their debut album Cold Lust which is released May 16th and you can find out more at www.tildusk.co.uk

Guest next time! Wayne Mayers AKA Fit & The Conniptions.

  • 57:59 – Dual Core – Magnificent Seven (feat Nerdcore) – All Rights Reserved- A big thanks to Mark Horsley for emailing this track to me. I’ve heard Dual Core a few times but not this track. It’s from the 2009 album Next Level which you can get on Bandcamp and other places and it features almost everyone in Nerdcore it seems. Beefy, MC Frontalot and more.

Categories: Podcasts

Linux Outlaws 244 - Let Me Get on the Human Megaphone

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 01/08/2012 - 20:34

Released: January 8, 2012
Length: 1:54:31

In the first episode of 2012: Amazon sells a ton of Kindles, news from 28C3, GoDaddy supports SOPA, Honeycomb and the effect on AOSP, Mint forks Gnome, Microsoft enables Linux on their cloud and Samsung changes the bevel colour of their tablets to thwart Apple in Germany.

0:02:58 Introduction

0:16:10 Releases & News

1:03:28 Microwatch

1:06:12 Crapplewatch

The normal Galaxy Tab 10.1 (above) compared with the German version

1:13:12 Feedback

Supporters: NYBill, Russ (K5TUX from the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast), Mark Rice, Philip Behnke, Hanna Pietikäinen, Jon Kulp, Kirk Richard Holz, Anthony Roberts, Adam DiFrischia and Arne Neuman — from Flattr: corenominal, cyberkiller, eksortso and TonyJ

  • Jeremy educates us that grep originally came from vi
  • Heine Pedersen tells us about an open source conversion story from Denmark
  • Simon Phipps emailed Dan about the removal of Sun Java packages from Ubuntu since he wrote about it on his Computer World blog and some people seemed confused over the story
  • Francis (Grizzly) Smit has been listening to the show for a year and sends us a nice thank you note
  • Imran Chaudhry also wrote to say he enjoys the show
  • Leslie used to know a guy in South Africa who’s first name was Doctor
  • Gary says Burt Reynolds is mental, case in point: video of Burt slapping a reporter
  • Aaron asks for distro hopping tips
  • the_axis heard us on short wave radio in the US on New Years Eve talking about SOPA, we were broadcast thanks to Stephen Michael Kellat of LISNews
  • Yannis A. sends us this story of a woman in Germany ordered to pay a film company compensation for illegally sharing a film when she doesn’t even have a computer or a wireless router in her house
  • Łukasz "Cyber Killer" Korpalski says the Qt library can do a lot more than just UI widgets, he mentions the game Warzone 2100 that uses Qt for everything
  • Ben Arnold posted this to a mailing list that Dan is on: Suicide Linux

We had other emails from Charles Kerr, Tom Sparrow, Aitor Pazos, Florian and Billy Toulas.

Hanni-B.A. says: "I pity the fool when a plan comes together!"

Song: Living in the Dark (Urban Flow Remix by The Dark Clan) originally by Patricia Wake (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

Categories: Podcasts

Weekly Rewind #101

Adventures In Open Source - Sun, 01/08/2012 - 19:09

Hello and welcome to the first new Weekly Rewind since October 30th. It’s seems as if I got to number 100 and decided that was enough. It’s a nice round number certainly but I’m not done yet, I just got busy. It’s 2012 (I’m sure you noticed) and with the passing of the New Year I decided there were lots of things I should really get in order. One of those is keeping this blog up to date more regularly. Hopefully you’ll see these articles a lot more frequently in the weeks and months to come. Let’s talk about the first week of 2012 and what I’ve been up to…

Last Sunday it was New Years Day so I didn’t do a whole hell of a lot to be honest. Stayed at home, watched the telly, ate a nice dinner. The basics. On Monday I prepared for the first Linux Outlaws of 2012 which we broadcast that evening. It felt good to get back into the swing of another Outlaws year and it dawned on me, we’re heading for our fifth birthday this year. It’s not till September but still it’s strange to think we’ve been making the show all these years.

Things went well and everyone seemed to enjoy the broadcast on Monday. We used a new Bash script Fab wrote for the first time. It’s inspired by the one Tony Whitmore made for UUPC and showed off at OggCamp11. It times the segments and plays the musical stings automatically. It seemed to work really well and it’s an interesting addition to the show. The code is available on Gitorious if you want to give it a whirl yourself. Right now it’s very LO specific so you’ll get all our music as well. If you want to make your own version of Linux Outlaws it could be perfect. I edited the audio later that night before bed and got it in sync, then shipped it back to Germany for final editing. It’s not out at the time of writing but hopefully will be very soon.

Album song list, all 22 of them.

On Tuesday I began a list of things to get done this year. Part of that includes recording a solo acoustic album and releasing it properly. I want to use Bandcamp as the main hub but also get the album onto Amazon, iTunes and all those sorts of places. You can read more about the grand plan in my separate post. Comments and suggestions are all welcome. Wednesday saw the first Liverpool LUG meeting of 2012 and it went very well. A good turn out of people and some new faces. Unfortunately Studio 2 was closed so we went to the newly reopened Beer instead. They don’t mess around with names these days do they? “We’ve got a new pub, what shall we call it?…. BEER!”. I’m all for cutting to the chase, but I can’t help thinking a little more imagination could have been employed on this one. With the closure of many pubs and venues around Liverpool before Christmas I also hope this isn’t a bad omen for Studio 2. A place I like a lot.

On Thursday I rehearsed some of the songs for this acoustic album, did some of the Rathole Radio preparation and also went down to LEAF to catch up with the folks there. I also booked the venue for the 3rd annual Rathole Roadshow and I’m pleased to reveal the details. Well, the ones I have so far anyway. Mark your diaries people…

Rathole Roadshow 3 – Friday April 27th, 8pm @ LEAF On Bold St, Liverpool. 

I have no idea about tickets, pricing or artists yet but I sincerely hope some of you will set aside this Friday night in April to join me. It’ll be fun, I promise! I also met up with my band 20lb Sounds on Thursday evening and we had a great rehearsal session. We’re working on a video for one of our unreleased songs which you should be able to see soon. I also need to rearrange the band website and generally get my arse in gear on that front. On Friday morning I had an early meeting at Static to discuss Open Source City and our grand plans for 2012 in Liverpool. We want to build a permanent festival (I recently learned this term) that helps promote Open Source technology but also creative arts and collaboration. It’s all a bit fuzzy at this stage but weekly meetings should help us flesh that out. Again, I’ll tell you more when I can.

Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski

I got some overdue video editing done on Friday afternoon and caught up on other jobs before friends came over for a film night. Andy (from LivLUG) and I came up with the film club idea back when we were travelling home from OggCamp last year. It’s taken until now to sort it out. I think it should perhaps be a monthly thing, if we can’t get together more often. We decided to kick off our screenings with The Big Lebowski. After that we ended up watching Tourette De France, a Keith Allen documentary I have on DVD. Next film on the list is either Clerks or Team America World Police I think. We haven’t decided yet.

Yesterday I finished the preparation work for Rathole Radio, which always takes a lot longer than I expect. Today I’ve caught up on email and generally pottered around. That brings us up to date for now. Let’s look at next week…

Upcoming:

Tonight I will broadcast Rathole Radio 69 from 9pm UK. You’re all welcome to join me if you read this in time. Tomorrow we’ll have more live Linux Outlaws. You can join us at sixgun.org/live from 7pm UK time. On Wednesday I have another FLOSS Weekly booked in. This time we’re talking to Sam Aaron about Overtone, an Open Source audio environment. Sounds right up my street. You can tune into that live at twit.tv/live from 5:30pm UK time. I’m sure there’ll be plenty else to report back on as well. So until next time I hope 2012 is kicking off well for you.

Take care of yourselves.

Dan


Categories: Writings

A Plan Comes Together

Adventures In Open Source - Thu, 01/05/2012 - 14:54

Singing at OggCamp11 - Photo by Hannah Greer

Hello again everyone, I hope your 2012 has kicked off well. It seems to have brought with it ridiculously strong winds in the UK, and many other parts of the world. So watch out for flying debris if you’re out and about. I’m writing today to share a plan that’s recently formed in my brain and also ask for your feedback.

In my recap of 2011 I talked about my desire to do more music this year, and also find a way of generating income from it. I don’t want or expect to get rich from music but I am considering ways to make a modest sustainable income. I’ve thought about this a lot in relation to my band 20lb Sounds over the last 18 months. I came up with very rough plans for subscription fan clubs, crowd-sourced tours, merchandise and much more. None of them have yet come to fruition but hopefully they still will. Leaving the band to one side for now though the new plan is fairly simple.

I’ve long threatened to complete a full length album but as yet I’ve failed to do so. Since I was about 16 I’ve made vague promises (to myself and others) to record and release more songs. There’s one problem with this though, I am a TOTAL perfectionist. Ridiculously so. Getting material together that I am both confident in and happy with hasn’t been easy. No longer though. The new idea is to record an acoustic album using just my Zoom H4 portable recorder and a couple of microphones. No overdubs, no extensive mixing, no effects, just live performances. If you’ve heard my acoustic tunes on Rathole Radio then you’ll get the idea. I might bring in a piano and my harmonicas but crucially it has to be stuff I can perform on my own, in one take. That’s the golden rule.

The song list, all 22 of them.

I have a list of 22 songs, only one of which is a cover. It’s a good base of material so if I can’t get 10 or 12 decent songs together there’s no hope for me. I plan to get this recording done in the next week or so and I’m actually rehearsing for it now. The burning question is what to do with it once it’s completed.

In the past I’ve released everything free (in both senses) and I still intend to do that wherever possible. I will use Creative Commons licensing but I might invoke the non-commercial clause, which has long been a dilemma for me. I can’t help feeling that if I really want to make some money out these tunes I will have to keep at least some of them paid only. All this pre-amble leads me to some discussion points I’d like to get your thoughts on:

1. Firstly, would you be interested in this live acoustic album?

2. How would you feel about me using a non-commercial license? I’m thinking CC BY-NC-SA which is common for music. I know some people have idealogical objections to this but it seems the most viable approach.

3. A redesigning of danlynch.org because it’s never really grown the way I envisaged. The blog is about the only thing I use so maybe it should be the heart of the site. I could then out-source the music stuff to Bandcamp. A lot of my favourite independent artists have already done this.

4. I’d like to make physical versions of this album. CD’s are easy but I’d also like to investigate vinyl pressing. Would anyone be interested in those things? If so, what do you think is a reasonable price? I’m guessing some kind of pledge bank scheme will be needed for the vinyl to get it up and running.

5. I’m looking at using CD Baby to get my music onto iTunes, Amazon and other places. Does anyone have experience with this or perhaps a better solution? I’ll also look at Google Music if I can sell stuff outside the US.

Anything else you want to comment on or suggest please go for it. Use the comments on this post to keep it all central. Thanks!

That’s enough for now I think. I have a lot of rehearsing and arrangement to do on these songs. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.

Speak to you soon,

Dan

 


Categories: Writings

2011: The Year That Was

Adventures In Open Source - Sun, 01/01/2012 - 19:28

My awesome 8-bit OggCamp shirt, designed by @fabsh

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all well. I thought it was high time I finally got back into the swing of writing. It’s New Year’s Day 2012 as I write this to you and I hope you enjoyed a great festive period. Whatever your denomination, or even if you don’t have one. It’s a perfect time to reflect on the previous year and that’s what I’ll focus on today. 2011 was a good year for me and I’d like to quickly recount some highlights.

Living In The City

I’d been planning to move to the centre of Liverpool for years but it was the start of 2011 when I finally found an available and affordable flat. I signed all the paperwork and got hold of the keys at the end of January, before promptly heading off to Brussels for FOSDEM. I didn’t even have time to move much stuff in before leaving. One of the first things I did upon moving to the flat though was get my stereo connected and listen to “Living For The City” by Stevie Wonder at a good volume. It seemed appropriate. It’s not long till my 1 year anniversary of being a city slicker now. I still love it here and fate (and landlord) willing, I’ll be here a while yet.

FOSDEM

At the very beginning of February I set off for Brussels. FOSDEM is the largest meeting of Free Software developers in Europe and it was my first time attending. Many people had told me about the event but I’d never had the chance to go before. Over 5000 geeks took over a University on the outskirts of Brussels and it was an amazing weekend. I made some great new friends and had a little more fun than I probably should have in the bars and pubs of Brussels at early hours of the morning. If you want to read more about that experience check out Weekly Rewind #79.

Rathole Roadshow 2011

The Rathole Roadshow 2011 Team Photo

Back in Blightly I performed a gig at LEAF on Bold St with my band 20lb Sounds. It was great fun and LEAF would increasingly become a part of my life as the year went on. Keeping on the musical front I organised the 2nd annual Rathole Roadshow at The Zanzibar in April. It went really well thanks to the help of good friend Adrian McEwen and others. I played with the band and we also had great performances from I Am Not Left-Handed plus Rob Warren & friends. Rob’s band later took on the name You Me Tree and they’re going from strength to strength. Keep an eye out for them in 2012. The whole event was streamed live in video and audio, with many people around the world joining in. That’s a real buzz I must say. If you want to hear the gig you can do in Rathole Radio 51.

Red Hat Summit – Dublin

In early June I went over to Dublin for the Red Hat Partner Summit thanks to a kind invite from Jan Wildeboer of Red Hat. He was a gracious host, as was everyone else at the company and I had an amazing time. I played live music on my acoustic guitar, took part in some sessions, and even got to interview Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who it turns out is a lovely chap. You can hear the interview here, and read more about my Dublin adventure here.

Interviewing Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle and I

I did quite a lot of interviews in 2011 but none springs to mind more readily than meeting  a hero of mine. Actor, Comedian and Writer Alexei Sayle. We sat in the office at News From Nowhere on Bold St and chatted for about half an hour. It was all a bit surreal but he was very nice and once we got over a slightly shaky start he opened up to me I felt. It was a good candid interview. We talked about politics, the entertainment business, writing, being from Liverpool and much more. You can listen to the audio on Rathole Radio.

OggCamp

OggCamp11 was a highlight of the year for me. It was the biggest and best yet. In case by some chance you don’t know, OggCamp is an event organised by the combined powers of the Linux Outlaws and the Ubuntu UK Podcast. This year we held it in Farnham, Surrey and it attracted around 450 visitors. That’s quite amazing and meeting some of those people, discovering their stories and why they came to OggCamp in the first place was a thrill. No plans for this year yet but I’m sure the inevitable rumblings will start soon. I wrote a massive 5000 word account of my OggCamp weekend under the title “Fear & Loathing In Farnham”. It makes a good read if you have the time.

Music

Singing at OggCamp11 - Photo by Hannah Greer

2011 was a year filled with music, which always makes me happy. I played a lot of music, both with the band and on my own. Wrote quite a few songs, recorded some of them and did some gigs. I also saw a lot of great gigs and none better than Jimmy Cliff at the Liverpool Philharmonic in September. If you’ve never seen this man sing than you’ve missed out. He is a true reggae legend and possesses one of the greatest voices I’ve ever heard. As we progress into 2012 I hope to get more serious about music professionally. You might think that now I’m into my 30′s it’s a bit late for all that, but I hope not. I constantly see and hear people who aren’t as good as me with a guitar or microphone. That sounds really arogant but it’s the truth. It’s taken me a long time to feel comfortable saying that in public and now I suppose it’s time to see if I can really do this or not. In light of that I’m working on some new 20lb recordings and also planning an acoustic solo album. With any luck the acoustic album will be done in a couple of weeks. I’m going to keep it stripped down to live performances. One man, one guitar, one take, no gimmicks. I’ll let you know about that in due course.

Podcasting

Podcasting continued at full steam in 2011. I’m not even going to attempt to recall how many shows I actually recorded. Linux Outlaws broke the 200 mark and now we’re nearing 250 which is just crazy. We were voted best podcast by Linux Format magazine and that was a proud moment for us. Rathole Radio has also continued strong. I’ve just launched a new website for it and I still hope to improve that. RR is very much a cult show I would say. It doesn’t get anywhere close to the LO listenership and I’ll be trying to think of some more creative ways to expand the audience in 2012. Perhaps video will come in more. I shouldn’t forget of course to also mention my frequent appearences on FLOSS Weekly with Randal, Arron, Simon and others. That’s always fun and I’m very grateful for the opportunity they’ve given me. I arranged a few shows and hosted on my own as well in 2011. Last but of course not least I continue to produce Free As In Freedom for Bradley and Karen. I’m proud to do so and I think the work they both do is vital to the cause of software freedom.

Other Random Stuff

Now we reach the point where I can’t remember fine details so I’m just gonna share some other quick random memories via bullet points:

  • Helping to run many Ignite, Jelly and Social Media Cafe events in Liverpool.
  • Getting into video production with my good friend Neil Morrin and kicking off our PodFactory project.
  • Playing lots of darts and getting quite good at times. I hit three 180′s this year, not in a row, over the course of the whole year. So I doubt Phil Taylor is panicking just yet but perhaps I’ll try to join a team in 2012.
  • Fixing the network infrastructure at LEAF and generally geeking out
  • Walking around Aldershot at 2 in the morning wearing a large Stetson hat is a vivid memory.
  • I wrote a song about the unrest in Egypt.
  • The LEAF birthday party in November was great fun.
  • Spending time with my wonderful friends and family. A corny one I know but there really are so many people who make my life more worthwhile in ways they don’t even realise.

Looking Forward:

So where does it all go from here? Well, I wish I could tell you for certain. My life has changed a lot in 12 months but there’s still so much to do. I’d like to pursue music more seriously as I said earlier, do more writing, get some program code written and release some of the myriad projects that congregate in the back of my mind, produce many more podcasts and learn more about video production. Some of these things are already coming together. I’ve been asked to write a technology column for the popular Seven Streets website and that’s a great honour. I hope I can do it justice. I’ve also become a lot more involved with the wonderful folks at LEAF as I mentioned. I’ve been taking some video for them and I hope we can produce some really great content for their website this year. That will hopefully link in nicely with the PodFactory stuff I do with Neil. I’d like to get that off the ground and maybe even make a viable business out of it in 2012. Fingers crossed.

There’s all kinds of things I want to do. As usual I have 400 ideas a minute and I can’t keep up with them. I suppose most of all for 2012 I wish for health and companionship. If I can fix those things I’ll be a very happy man.

Thank You!

I wish the best for all of you and I thank you for reading my rambling blog posts in 2011, if you did. I’ll try to get the Weekly Rewind back into swing starting this weekend and I’m determined to keep the momentum up in 2012. Thank you for reading this and have a marvellous 2012… no matter who claims the world will end. Let’s deal with that when we get to it, race you!

Take care,

Dan


Categories: Writings

Linux Outlaws 243 - Beards Igniting (The Year 2011 in Review)

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Thu, 12/29/2011 - 22:06

Released: December 29, 2011
Length: 1:50:28

We summarise 2011, talk about the biggest stories from our perspective and what we were up to throughout the year.

0:01:38 Introduction

  • Some people might have gotten our donation page in German recently because PayPal did something weird that Fab couldn’t replicate — we are sorry for that, it is fixed now
  • Including this episode, we recorded a whopping 60 shows this year!

0:06:00 January

  • We reviewed Linux Mint 10 and CyanogenMod 6.1
  • Fab launches LXnews
  • Apple introduces an app store on Mac OS X
  • Sony sues Geohot
  • Steve Jobs goes on medical leave
  • OSI and FSF join to fight CPTN Holdings
  • Fab reviews LMDE
  • We did a special show on the situation in Egypt

0:18:51 February

  • Dan gets hold of some MeeGo netbooks and reviews them
  • We went to FOSDEM
  • Honeycomb is unveiled
  • The Elopcalypse engulfs Nokia
  • Canonical messes with Banshee donations

0:33:18 March

  • Fab starts ramping up video production on sixgun.tv
  • FreedomBox Foundation funding succeeds — FreedomBox Update Talk From Bdale Garbee
  • We get in trouble over the randomness of our MeeGo competition
  • Fab becomes addicted to The Yogscast
  • Fukushima happened
  • Shuttleworth starts sniping at Gnome
  • HP announces it will ship all PCs with WebOS installed
  • Apple claims they own the word “app store”
  • RSA is hacked
  • AT&T initiates merger with T-Mobile

0:44:45 April

  • April Fools: GNU/Linux Outlaws
  • Google gets into trouble for not open sourcing Honeycomb
  • Amazon launches their own Android app store
  • Microsoft sues Balls & Noble
  • Firefox 4 comes out
  • Episode 200: Our podcasting howto special
  • Symbian gets un-open-sourced
  • We get interviewed by Les Pounder and release that as a podcast
  • Fab reviews Gnome 3
  • We interview Allison Randal about Project Harmony — twice

0:53:40 May

  • Osama Bin Laden is killed
  • Fab was a guest on TLLTS 400
  • The Kindle launches in Germany
  • We interview Carl Manneh from Mojang
  • Fab goes to Samba XP
  • Miguel de Icaza creates a company around Mono
  • Microsoft buys Skype
  • CentOS comes under fire for their development model
  • Dan reviews Unity

0:58:34 June

  • We launch Pony Express on the Android Market
  • Linux goes 3.0
  • Microsoft earns more money from Android than Windows Phone
  • Dan goes to the Red Hat Partner Summit and gets several interviews, including Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
  • “The Big Man” Clarence Clemons dies
  • Adobe drops AIR for Linux
  • AVM court case kicks off in Germany
  • We discuss the Gnome Shell developers being hostile towards extensions
  • We release our well-received Bitcoin episode

1:02:55 July

  • Karen becomes Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation
  • Firefox 5 is released, the whole update insanity starts
  • Fab reviews Arch
  • Google+ launches, we get on it
  • HP releases the TouchPad
  • Fab reviews the Motorola Xoom
  • Shuttleworth demands copyright assignment

1:10:22 August

  • We interview Christian Heilmann from Mozilla
  • Emacs violates the GPL
  • We interview Becky Hogge for the second time
  • OggCamp 11: live show, recap
  • Loriot dies
  • We launch Leave Your Hat On
  • Linus wants to fork Gnome
  • Motoroogle

1:13:48 September

  • We interview Randal Schwartz again
  • Fab gets addicted by Warhammer 40K again
  • Linux turns 20
  • We interview John Graham-Cumming
  • Oracle stops shipping Java for Linux
  • We review our favourite podcatchers
  • Fab looses his hair
  • Four years of LO!
  • kernel.org hacked and Linux Foundation servers are compromised

1:18:24 October

  • Google+ opens to all
  • The Secure Boot controversy starts
  • Amazon releases a slew of new Kindles
  • MeeGo officially dies
  • German federal trojan discovered by CCC
  • Steve Jobs dies
  • Timezone database threatened and saved
  • Dennis Ritchie dies
  • Beefy Miracle
  • The Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich are announced
  • Apple threatens Apfelkind

1:21:26 November

  • HP can’t make up their mind about what to do
  • Microsoft contributes code under the GPLv3 to Samba
  • The whole SOPA thing kicks off
  • AVM looses their case in Germany
  • Ice Cream Sandwich source code is released
  • Balls & Noble fights back against Microsoft

1:25:30 December

  • Fab wins NaNoWriMo
  • We interview Richard Hughes on the ColorHug
  • Minecraft goes official
  • CarrierIQ
  • The journal proposal
  • Official Gnome Shell extensions website launched
  • We launch Planetfall
  • Pony Express 1.1 released
  • Fab gets his Galaxy Nexus and reviews it
  • Megaupload controversy
  • Linux Mint takes Banshee donations too
  • HP decides to open source WebOS
  • Kim Jong Il dies
  • BT sues Google over Android

1:34:01 Year 2011 Summary

We summarise 2011 and talk about what we thought were important trends throughout year.

Have a happy new year, everyone!

Song: Super Exotic 60′s Beat by Juanitos from their album Best of Juanitos (licensed under Creative Commons BY 2.0 France)

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RatholeRadio 68 – 26th Dec 2011

Rathole Radio - Tue, 12/27/2011 - 22:38

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Welcome to this Christmas edition of Rathole Radio. I say Christmas edition but I didn’t do anything different really. I still played an assortment of the best Independent music on the web and also performed a specially requested live track. I hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  • 00:00 – STEEP – Let Me Go – CC BY-SA Licensed – A German rock band from Munich. I’ve played them before but was reminded of them by a recent CCHIts.net.
  • 05:49 – Robin Grey – The Hackney Gentrification Song – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I played Robin Grey right back when the show started in 2009. I was reminded of him again by CCHits.net and I’m pleased to say he’s been busy since recording lots of great new material. This song is great, I love the wry humour. It could also be the anthem for Liverpool it seems. “Knock it down, build flats, knock it down”.
  • 08:38 – Patricia Wake – Living In The Dark – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – Another track from The Dark Clan who I played last time. I don’t know a massive amount about the band but I like this track.
  • 19:19 – Cider Beard Joe – It’s Not Unusual – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A friend of the show, Joe sent me this great Tom Jones cover and I had to play it. He tells me all his stuff is under a CC license but this track might be tricky as it’s a copyrighted song already.
  • 21:26 – The Freak Fandango Orchestra – Balkans Beats – CC BY-SA Licensed – I’ve played The Freak Fandango Orchestra plenty of times on this show and I love this crazy Barcelona-based group.
  • 28:14 – Azoora featuring graciellita – Motionless – CC BY-SA Licensed – A great collaboration between London based John Percell of Azoora and Canadian artist Graciellita. It was released by netlabel 23 Seconds. More information.
  • 32:11 – Dazie Mae – Sofa – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A beautiful slice of French jazz/blues with a hint of Latin influence from Paris-based artist Dazie Mae. You can find more tracks and information on Jamendo.

47:30 – LIVE TRACK – “Hallalujah” by Jeff Buckley as a special request for Katy in Germany. I had to learn this for the show and practice it a few times, so I hope you like how it came out.

  • 63:32 – Birds of Tokyo – Wild Eyed Boy – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – A nice bit of upbeat indie rock from this Australian outfit. They’re doing really well and this track is from their 3rd album which is self-titled. That album was certified gold in the first month of release.

Donations:

Thank you to all the wonderful people who supported the show via Flattr! Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca Next show: Sunday January 8th 2011 at 9pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, I probably won’t be around much, but if people want to hang around in there and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

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Support the show: If you’d like to leave a tip and help pay for the cost of making the show please use the Paypal button in the sidebar of the site. Or click the Flattr buttons.

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

  • 15:41 – Partition 36 – The Optic Nerve – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I played a track called “I Love Penguins” by this artist some time ago and this is a great follow up. Lovely slice of industrial sounding electro. Thanks to GamerChick02 for the tip.
  • 21:38 – Derelict Earth – The Darkest Serenity – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A French metal band (from Grenoble), you don’t see many of those. They’ve obviously been listening to some early Metallica I think, and that’s no bad thing.
  • 43:14 – LIVE TUNE – Medicine Man by Dan Lynch – A tune I wrote some years ago and I have a feeling I might have played it live on the show before. I only realised after I’d done it. Well never mind, people seemed to enjoy it anyway. I’m hoping to soon record an album of tunes like this that have gotten away over the years.
  • 48:49 – ‘Til Dusk – One By One – License Unknown – Emailed to me by Chris from the band. They’re based in Southampton in the UK. This track is taken from their debut album Cold Lust which is released May 16th and you can find out more at www.tildusk.co.uk

Guest next time! Wayne Mayers AKA Fit & The Conniptions.

  • 57:59 – Dual Core – Magnificent Seven (feat Nerdcore) – All Rights Reserved- A big thanks to Mark Horsley for emailing this track to me. I’ve heard Dual Core a few times but not this track. It’s from the 2009 album Next Level which you can get on Bandcamp and other places and it features almost everyone in Nerdcore it seems. Beefy, MC Frontalot and more.

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I’m Still Alive

Adventures In Open Source - Sat, 12/24/2011 - 14:43

Wow… well this is embarrassing isn’t it? You skip writing one post and all of a sudden it’s 2 months later. I’ve been fairly busy since the end of October, that goes without saying. But I’ll endeavour to write up a proper review of my year over the next week. This is just a quick post to let you all know that I’m still very much alive and to thank the kind people who told me they miss the Weekly Rewind. Yeah there were a few, honest. I’ll get back into regular blogging swing in the New Year.

I do have a small treat for you though. One of things I’ve been doing lately is video editing and animation. So here’s a quick stop motion clip I did a few weeks ago. This was only a test to see if the method worked to be honest but it came out looking ok.  I can’t really draw but that’s supposed to be an L appearing and fading away. I’m going to use a technique like this to make titles for some videos I’m doing. I also used my dartboard as it was the only thing I could use chalk on in my flat. I know, I’m just so manly, ha ha. The lighting isn’t great so you might need to squint a bit.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and as always thanks for your support throughout 2011. Take care of yourselves and I’ll race you to 2012

Dan


Categories: Writings

Linux Outlaws 242 - Nuclear Moles

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Fri, 12/23/2011 - 17:18

Released: December 23, 2011
Length: 1:30:14

On the last regular episode for 2011: UMG can pull videos willy-nilly from YouTube, BT sues Google, RIM is pretty much dead, Ubuntu removes Oracle's Java, Apple supports patent trolls and Ubuntu gets a porn lense. 

0:02:45 Introduction

0:17:28 Releases & News

1:00:37 Crapplewatch

1:04:57 Feedback

Supporters: Donald W. Grier, John Myers and Richard Smith — from Flattr: corenominal, cwoollard, Happibun and TonyJ

Burt Reynolds in all his glory

We had other emails from TSJ, Peter Sloth, Adam aka. alienkid, Roberto Arroyo, Rob and Gary.

Merry Christmas (or whatever you might or might not celebrate) to all of our listeners!

Song: (Man With A) Clockwork Heart by The Dark Clan from their album Free Stuff (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-ND)

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Linux Outlaws 241 - Then We Took an Arrow to the Knee

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 12/18/2011 - 18:16

Released: December 18, 2011
Length: 1:34:03

On this show: The Megaupload Song, Creative Commons 4.0 has entered the drafting stage, Linux Mint takes Banshee's revenues too, HP open sources WebOS, Microsoft allows OSI licenses in the Windows 8 app store and Apple looses two lawsuits and a trademark.

0:01:37 Introduction

0:15:29 Releases & News

0:56:56 Microwatch

1:00:54 Crapplewatch

1:14:22 Feedback

Supporters: Craig Squire and Raymond Newbery — from Flattr: corenominal and cwoollard

  • Marshall Graham enjoyed our interview with Richard Hughes and hopes Richard will come back on in future
  • Jonathan Gregory theorises about the name of the Unity desktop environment
  • Michael Spannbauer sends us information about the 28C3 which will be in Berlin from December 27 - 30 — if you can't attend in person, check out their satellite events
  • Tom Reynolds from Megaglest says we should check out their game

We had other emails this week from Alistair Munro, Mark Rice and Owen Oakeley.

Song: Rabbits Don’t Ever Get Married by Hank Penny (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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RatholeRadio 67 – 11th Dec 2011

Rathole Radio - Wed, 12/14/2011 - 14:17

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Welcome to Rathole Radio 67. Another collection of eclectic music I present for your listening pleasure. I also did an acoustic performance of a 20lb Sounds track.

  • 00:00 – The Happy Problem – Curvature - License Unknown – I heard about this band via The DarkCompass Podcast and fellow AMPer Rowley Cutler. The Happy Problem have dive-bombed NYC’s sleepy indie music scene. Their album Head Case can be found on iTunes and CDBaby.
  • 06:44 – The Ink Project – Araldite Tears – License Unknown – This track was submitted to AMPed from the Made in the UK Show and I enjoyed it so much I wanted to share. I can’t tell you a massive amount about it or the artist but follow the link to read more.
  • 11:00 – Laura K – Saboteur – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – I found this one via Jonny Dobson and the Edinburgh Man Podcast. I’m a sucker for a girl with a ukelele what can I say. This is a great song though and Laura K has a beautiful voice too. This is available for free download from the Eardums Pop netlabel. Check out their good work.
  • 19:01 – Kellee Maize - Healing Tones - CC BY-SA Licensed – An interesting US rapper from Jamendo. Kellee hails from Pittsburgh. This track is the intro to the album and I wanted to play it for you first. I will play another song later once this sets you up. From the album Integration.
  • 20:45 – Kellee Maize - Shadows - CC BY-SA Licensed – One of my favourite tracks of her album Integration. You can find it on Jamendo. Nice guest rap too.

What month would you like the Rathole Roadshow 2012 to be? You can vote – http://poll.fm/3f932

  • 29:44 – The Dark Clan – (Man With A) Clockwork Heart – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed - Good friend @JonTheNiceGuy tipped me off to this group. They lived up to their name on the track he sent, it was incredibly dark and slightly disturbing. So I opted for this quirky tune from their free tracks collection on Bandcamp.
  • 33:37 – 8in8 – Twelve Line Song - CC BY-NC Licensed – Another track from CC supergroup 8in8 which features Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, Damien Kulash and Neil Gaiman. I’ve played tracks off their EP Nighty Night before but not this one.
  • 40:30 – Libra – Morning Traffic – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – An interesting bit of Polish drum & bass. Not every day I get to say that sentence. I found this via Pete Cogle and the PC Podcast. You can find the band on Jamendo and there’s loads of stuff to be downloaded. This is the opening track from the album Drum Your Life.

45:50 - LIVE TRACK: 20lb Sounds – Teardrop – CC BY-SA Licensed. An acoustic rendition of one of the songs we’ve been doing with the band. It’s a track I originally wrote when I was 16 but the words have improved a lot since. (Sorry for the poor sound quality at times during the live song)

  • 49:21 – Rachel Brown – Diamond In The Rough – License Unknown – I’ve played New York singer songwriter Rachel Brown before but I thought I’d treat you to another track. I can highly recommend her single Bumblebee to you all, you can get it on Itunes, Amazon or CDBaby.
  • 61:33 – Alex Hulme – There Was A Boy – License Unknown – I heard Alex via Graham Holland and Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight. Then I went down to their Christmas do and got to see Alex live, it was amazing. His use of live loops and his voice are excellent, plus he’s a really nice lad. Check him out and buy some of his music.

Donations:
I have to thank Durand D’Souza and Raymond Newbery for their kind donations since the last show. Plus of course all the wonderful people who supported the show via Flattr. Thank you!

Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca Next show: Monday December 26th 2011 at 9pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, I probably won’t be around much, but if people want to hang around in there and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Support the show: If you’d like to leave a tip and help pay for the cost of making the show please use the Paypal button in the sidebar of the site. Or click the Flattr buttons.

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

  • 15:41 – Partition 36 – The Optic Nerve – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I played a track called “I Love Penguins” by this artist some time ago and this is a great follow up. Lovely slice of industrial sounding electro. Thanks to GamerChick02 for the tip.
  • 21:38 – Derelict Earth – The Darkest Serenity – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A French metal band (from Grenoble), you don’t see many of those. They’ve obviously been listening to some early Metallica I think, and that’s no bad thing.
  • 43:14 – LIVE TUNE – Medicine Man by Dan Lynch – A tune I wrote some years ago and I have a feeling I might have played it live on the show before. I only realised after I’d done it. Well never mind, people seemed to enjoy it anyway. I’m hoping to soon record an album of tunes like this that have gotten away over the years.
  • 48:49 – ‘Til Dusk – One By One – License Unknown – Emailed to me by Chris from the band. They’re based in Southampton in the UK. This track is taken from their debut album Cold Lust which is released May 16th and you can find out more at www.tildusk.co.uk

Guest next time! Wayne Mayers AKA Fit & The Conniptions.

  • 57:59 – Dual Core – Magnificent Seven (feat Nerdcore) – All Rights Reserved- A big thanks to Mark Horsley for emailing this track to me. I’ve heard Dual Core a few times but not this track. It’s from the 2009 album Next Level which you can get on Bandcamp and other places and it features almost everyone in Nerdcore it seems. Beefy, MC Frontalot and more.

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Linux Outlaws 240 – You Wouldn't Steal a Baby!

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 12/11/2011 - 21:16

Released: December 11, 2011
Length: 1:46:38

This week on Linux Outlaws: We catch up with tons of stuff that happened while we were busy not doing a podcast like the Carrier IQ debacle, the journal announcement, Doom 3 being opensourced, lots of stuff about the Galaxy Nexus and much more.

Fab did it!

Balls & Noble

0:24:14 Releases & News

1:13:15 Android App Tip

1:15:40 Feedback

Supporters: Durand D'souza, Matthew Clarke, Nicholas Ruest, Duncan Michael Bell, Alison Chaiken, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Daniel Lowe, Kirk Richard Holz, Ian Mavero and Clive van Hilten — from Flattr: fwbd, cyberkiller, corenominal, thelovebug, TonyJ, and cwoollard

  • Emilien who we met at FOSDEM this year sent us a very nice email
  • Tom Marble sent us some info about FOSDEM 2012 — check out the calls for papers
  • Dan Devine wrote to tell us about Linux.conf.au which is coming up in Ballarat from the 16th - 20th of Jan 2012
  • James Lewis sent Dan some tips on how to install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu
  • Jonathan Gregory writes to say he loves Unity but feels ashamed because nobody else seems to
  • Galen White, Linuxnetzer and Frank Bell all write with feedback about our recent Linux Security discussion
  • Axel Pahl tells us the Apfelkind trademark thing became the topic of a whole sketch on German TV show Extra3
  • Jon asks which distros we currently use
  • Jason Harrison is moving to Linux from Mac and says he’s looking for a cloud backup solution to compare to things like Carbonite

We had other emails this week from Robin Catling, Tom Wilson, Clive Van Hilten, Tom Wisniewski, Peter Hultqvist, Brad Alexander, Remy van Elst, Lowe Schmidt, Luke Huxley, FiftyOneFifty, Tom Ames, Erez, Alan Farough and Jan.

Song: Baby Please Don't Go by Big Bill Broonzy (Public Domain)

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