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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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RatholeRadio 70 – 22nd Jan 2012

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

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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.

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

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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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)

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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 

Donations: Thank you to Gamerchick02 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 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.

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

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 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)

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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)

Copyright © 2011 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 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.

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 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)

Copyright © 2011 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 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)

Copyright © 2011 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 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)

Copyright © 2011 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 239 - The Intel Wig Format

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Thu, 12/01/2011 - 22:07

Released: December 1, 2011
Length: 0:51:39

This time on the show, we talk to Richard Hughes on colour management and the ColorHug.

We interview Richard Hughes about his work on colour management in Gnome and his new open hardware project, the ColorHug.

Richard Hughes

Richard explains how he came to work on colour management for Red Hat and how he got the idea to design hardware. He also explains where he expects the project to go from here.

The ColorHug

Song:  Requiem for a Fish by  The Freak Fandango Orchestra from their album Tales Of A Dead Fish (licensed Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0)

Copyright © 2011 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 66 – 27th Nov 2011

Rathole Radio - Wed, 11/30/2011 - 15:17

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Rathole Radio 66 is upon us, just like winter seems to be. So wrap up warm, get the chicken soup on the go and tap your feet to my eclectic selection of tunes. There’s a live acoustic blues performance.

Apologies for messing up the mp3 download of the last show. It was cutting off halfway through.

  • 00:00 – Brad Sucks – Bad Attraction – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – Another track from Canadian CC artist Brad Sucks. I’ve played him many times before but not this song.
  • 06:44 – Lee Maddeford – Le petit jardin (with Les Gauchers Orchestra) – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed- From FreeMusicArchive.org – Gorgeous, acoustic instrumental works by Lee Maddeford performed by Les Gauchers Orchestra and Les Gauchers Quintet. The pieces range from seemingly Hungarian gypsy dances that would warm the heart of Béla Bartók to pieces that would work for British society bands and on to lush works with string arrangements.
  • 09:27 – Big Bill Broonzy – Baby Please Don’t Go – Public Domain Licensed – A classic track by a legendary blues singer Big Bill Broonzy. If you don’t know about him check out the information on Wikipedia.
  • 18:27 – Stereo Electric Mistress – Famous On Facebook – Licence Unknown – I met Clare the band’s manager at Barcamp Liverpool via Graham Holland. She got me a copy of this track via Tom one of the members. To be honest I really wasn’t sure what to make of this at first. It quickly grew on me though and by the end of that first listen I already liked it. That’s a good sign
  • 22:12 – Juanitos – Super Exotic 60′s Beat – CC BY Licensed – Another one I heard on CCHits and liked. Loving the retro sound, suits the song title.
  • 27:42 – Hank Penny – Rabbits Don’t Ever Get Married – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – A cracking bit of country old style country music with humour I thought. This is from the Bloodshot Revival collection on FreeMusicArchive.org. I have to give a thanks to Heeed for sending it my way and he heard it via Dave and Caroline on The Bugcast. Are you confused yet?
  • 30:22 – Plushgoolash – Big Gay Waterfight – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – Can’t tell you much about this artist or track other than the title caught my eye. It’s currently near the top of the chart on FreeMusicArchive.org.
  • 36:09 – Mamma Reggae – Ragga – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – A nice bit of reggae I came across on Jamendo. Not much info on there but it looks like they’re Argentinian so I assume they’re singing in Spanish. Light up a fat one and enjoy!
  • 39:24 – Broke For Free – Night Owl – CC BY Licensed – Another track I found on the FreeMusicArchive.org chart. An art student from Santa Cruz Californina by the name of Tom Cascino. You can buy his music from Bandcamp.

45:24 - LIVE TRACK – An old blues classic, “Sweet Home Chicago”. Hope you enjoy it.

  • 50:14 – Pete Vyler – Backstreet Emperor – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A very cool punk track I came across on Jamendo which is actually by a French artist. There’s a full album so I look forward to hearing more.
Donations & Support: Lovely donations from Duncan Bell and Evgeny Kuznetsov. Plus all the people who clicked the Flattr buttons.

A big thanks to everyone who helps support the show financially. It’s a non-profit enterprise. 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 December 11th 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 238 - Balls & Noble

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Fri, 11/25/2011 - 14:08

The Kindle Fire gets rooted, US Internet censorship, German court upholds the GPL in important decision, Ice Cream Sadwich open sourced, Adobe kills Flash on mobile, Barnes & Noble shows some balls and Apple gets an evil chairman replacement.

0:01:38 Introduction


0:18:25 Releases and News

1:00:19 Microwatch

1:04:59 Crapplewatch


1:10:45 In-Depth Topic: Linux Security for End Users

We discuss security on Linux systems from the perspective of an end user.

1:45:28 Feedback

Supporters:  

Neil Viglieno, Andy Benz, Kirk Richard Holz, Stuart Edgar, Remy van Elst and from Flattr: corenominal, thelovebug, tante, jrutila, bobobex, TonyJ, cwoollard and johanv

  • Tim wrote in reference to Episode 236 and says that the Windows network location settings stuff isn’t Internet Explorer related but more to do with the firewall settings and network discovery
  • Todd wrote about automatic cars and backs up Fab about the fact that automatic cars are a lot more prevalent in the US than in Europe
  • Cyber Killer tells us about the Desura game distribution system
  • Johann gives Dan tips to ease his Unity woes
  • nibl aka. Marcus sents us a very German joke that Dan doesn't get
  • Ryan Ische says the Stack Exchange network is the solution for finding support for Linux

And we had other emails from Jonas Jonsson, Tzafrir Cohen, Rofaxen, Bill Hixon, Carl Miller, Klaatu, Kevin Granade, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Adam and Clippy (aka. Simon).

Song: Occupy Wall Street (the new studio version) by David Rovics (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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RatholeRadio 65 – 13th Nov 2011

Rathole Radio - Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:53

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Welcome to Rathole Radio number 65. It’s hard to believe we’ve reached 65 already but there it is. I played my usual mix of eclectic independent tunes and chatted away with everyone listening live. I skipped playing an acoustic tune as we had a packed show anyway. I hope you enjoy it

00:00 – Paul Liddell - Ghost Car – License Unknown – I heard this via the Liverpool Acoustic Spotlighthalloween show and friend Graham Holland. Buy the EP Help Yourself Float from Paul’s website.I played Graham Holland’s amazing Roland Ratbumper he made for me!! 08:48 – Triplexity - That Feeling – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – Heard this on Jamendo. A Spanish artist I’ve played before who mixes jazz with breaks and other interesting elements. The track contains mobile phone interference noises, it’s not me!!

13:56 – M.A.S.T – The Rise Of Eastern Star – License Unknown – This track was an email suggestion from Ratko Vujanovic. This group did the music for a Guild Wars podcast called Relics of Orr apparently.

I played a promo for The Bugcast which is hosted by fellow AMP members Dave and Caroline Lee.

24:12 – A Minor Theory – Dream In Blue – CC BY-NC Licensed – From CCHits – A slice of retro sounding electro pop that I really enjoyed. It has a very 80’s feel.

27:44 – Tabloid – The Junkie Violin Player – CC BY-SA Licensed – From CCHits – A UK band I heard via CCHits and wanted to share with you. Find them on Jamendo.

Check out Kevie’s TuxJam show. Inspired by RR apparently. I’m honoured.

36:06 – Slim – Ghost Island – License Unknown – Another track I heard via fellow Liverpool podcaster Graham Holland. A singer songwriter from Hackney, North London. Buy the album ‘Slim’ and download this track for free from his website.

42:36 – Freak Fandango Orchestra – Requiem For A Fish – CC BY-SA Licensed – I had an email from the band saying their new album Tales Of A Dead Fish was out on Jamendo. They are from Barcelona and I’ve played them before. I like their quirky sound.

Extra Barcamp Liverpool show details – Friday November 18th at 8pm UK time. See the website for venue details and come down. It’s free and everyone is welcome.

51:00 – Cathleen – Hold me – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed - From CCHits – Heard this on the CCHits weekly show and liked it a lot. Despite the Irish name and slightly folky sound Cathleen is actually German. Very nice song.

55:53 – Jiboul – Naz-Party – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A track I heard on Jamendo but I’ve actually played the artist before.

I had an email from Ted Strait, also a listener of Linux Outlaws to ask if he could rebroadcast the show on http://www.radioreclaimed.com/. Of course I said yes.

64:00 – David Rovics - Occupy Wall Street - CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – Friend of the show, former guest and roadshow participant David Rovics with a studio recording of his new song about the reasons to occupy wall street. Obviously a big movement going on right now.

Donations & Support: Lovely donations from Duncan Bell, Neil Viglieno and Armin Krauss. Thank you!! I also want to mention Joseph Austin who donated ages ago but I think I might have missed.Plus all the people who clicked the Flattr buttons.

A big thanks to everyone who helps support the show financially. It’s a non-profit enterprise. 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?

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Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca Next show: Sunday November 27th 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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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.

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  • 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 237 - You Need Classical Training for This

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 11/13/2011 - 22:59

Released: November 13, 2011
Length: 1:37:31

Vim turns twenty, we talk about the future of Linux Mint and Fedora, the Unity developers have issues with listening to community feedback, Ubuntu removes Mono from the default install and Microsoft contributes to Samba.



 0:02:20 Intoduction
  • Fab apologises for his audio quality during the last show, we have fixed this now
  • If you send us feedback email and one of us responds, please use reply all on that conversation
  • Also, if you want to send feedback on a topic, please go to the show notes and at least read the story we linked there
  • Believe it or not, we had no idea that GNU World Order is the new name of Klaatu’s The Bad Apples podcast
  • Booze: Ardbeg — one of the finest scotch whiskys in the world

Dr. Teeth

0:11:55 Releases and News

Clem's Linux Mint 12 Desktop

1:01:17 Microwatch

1:10:13 Applewatch


1:12:58 Feedback

Supporters: 

Remy van Elst,  Patrik Alzén, Duncan Michael Bell, Marcos Luz and from Flattr: corenominal, cwoollard and cyberkiller

We had other emails from Rick Bragg, Erez Schatz, Andreas, Bryan P., Yannis A., Jonni and Christopher Hertel.

Song: Day’s End by Shearer from the album Monument (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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Linux Outlaws 236 - The Right to Bear GNU

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 11/06/2011 - 21:50

Released: November 6, 2011
Length: 2:00:38

HP is staying in the PC business, Canonical opens retail stores, discussions on Secure Boot, Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share, Apple patents "swipe to unlock" and we discuss Mark Shuttleworth's recent comments on Ubuntu and power users.



   0:02:11 lntroduction  
0:27:08 Releases and News       1:09:01 Microwatch     1:14:40 Crapplewatch     1:17:37 Discussion  
  • Shuttleworth doesn’t understand power users — or he doesn’t want to
  • Apparently he also said this in his keynote at UDS: "Moreover, it appears that there's no place for applications that don't support indicator-applets and are available in the Ubuntu Software Center. These apps should be removed/banned until they get support for the new Unity notification area."
  1:36:24 Feedback   Supporters:  Remy van Elst, Jezra Lickter, Kirk Richard Holz, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Bernd Schlapsi and Armin Krauss  — on Flattr: e2jk,  corenominal, cyberkiller, tristan_2468, cwoollard, thelovebug and variaatio  

We had other emails from MunkyBone, Patrick Dailey, Toby Meehan, Heine Pedersen, Matt Read, Brad Alexander, Greg, Akiva Bloch, George Goodyear, Mat and Xavier Sythe.


Song: The Nano Song by Dan Lynch — if you really like the tune, you can buy a copy from Bandcamp   Copyright © 2011 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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