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It’s Season Nine Episode Forty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four once more and Laura is back!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Giving the gift of games and watching Robot Wars recording in Glasgow.

* We discuss the news:

* The Mirai worm, which recruits devices for botnets, has been infecting TalkTalk routers in the UK

* Windows 10 is coming to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile chips

* French computer science student Florent Revest has released an open source smartwatch OS

* The creators of defunct anonymous sharing app Secret have launched bold.io, an anonymous blogging platform

* Google has revealed 8 requests for user data from the FBI

* Amazon has begun trials of autonomous drone delivery in the UK

* Yahoo has been hacked – again!

* Virtuix’s adult babywalker cancels pre-orders outside the US

* Presenters news picks we didn’t have time to discuss:

* Google expects to run solely on renewable energy in 2017

* Samsung victorious at Supreme Court fight with 8-0 opinion against Apple

* Russian Parliament members claim FIFA 17 is gay propaganda

* The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons

* Fitbit acquisition will kill Pebble Time 2 and Core

* Fitbit will keep Pebble’s services running through 2017

* Amazon’s Music Unlimited family plan comes to the UK

* RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Retro Games Console

* AMD may license its Radeon graphics IP to Intel for use in desktops, high performance computing

* Biggest names in VR band together to create industry standards

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It’s Season Nine Episode Forty-Two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.

The same line up as last week are here again for another episode.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Going to PHP Oxford and saw Lorna Mitchell talk about Webhooks.

* Going to BaDhack and learned about 3D printing.

* We interview Ralf Hamm from Labdoo.org.

* Labdoo is a global humanitarian social network who want to make our planet a better place by providing those in underdeveloped regions a chance at a better education by sending unused computing devices to needy schools around the world.

* We share a Command Line Lurve:

* atool – atool is a script for managing file archives of various types

sudo apt install atool pz7ip-full

atool -re --format=zip *.7z

* -r – repack archives to a different format

* -e – execute command above for each file specified

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And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

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This weeks cover image is taken from joeress.com.

Don’t F#@% It Up!

In the show we reference a (“not safe for work”) video. It is linked below if you’re interested.

* DEF CON 22 – Zoz – Don’t F#@% It Up!

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

It’s Season Nine Episode Forty-One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four once more, thanks to some help from our mate Joe!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Playing with Amazon Echo dot and driving “up north” and back and using lots of mobile data.

* We discuss the news:

* The UK’s contentious surveillance bill has become law

* PINE64 has launched the Pinebook, a low-cost Linux laptop

* Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is launching a case against a cloud provider using Ubuntu branding on unoffical images

* San Francisco transit stations have fallen victim to a hack, but the hacker got hacked… twice

* An Indiegogo has launched for the “First True Linux x86 and x64 Tablet” for “TECHNO-GEEKS!”

* Telegram is Launching Telegraph, a blogging platform for the impatient

* Want a Death Star? That’ll be $7.7 octillion per day

* Presenters news picks we didn’t have time to discuss:

* New battery tech lasts for days, charges in seconds

* Everybody is 4K streaming.

* Netflix 4K streaming comes to the PC—but it needs Kaby Lake CPU

* 4K Netflix is finally coming to PCs, but you probably still can’t watch it

* Hulu is now offering its originals and Bond in 4K

* YouTube adds 4K support for livestreams

* Foxconn exec faces 10 years for stealing 5,700 iPhones

* Trump’s new tech adviser wants to gut the FCC

* Trump’s FCC advisor wants to eliminate most of the FCC

* Trump hires two net neutrality opponents to oversee FCC transition

It’s Season Nine Episode Forty of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Dan Kermac are connected and speaking to your brain.

The same line up as last week are here again for another episode.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Telling people to use Opera and joining ORG, playing Tyranny.

* We review the nexdock and how it works with the Raspberry Pi 3, Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Phone, bq M10 FHD Ubuntu Tablet, Android, Dragonboard 410c, Roku, Chomecast, Amazon FireTV and laptops from Dell and Entroware.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* netdiscover – A network address discovering tool

sudo apt install netdiscover

sudo netdiscover

The output looks something like this:

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IP At MAC Address Count Len MAC Vendor / Hostname

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192.168.2.2 fe:ed:de:ad:be:ef 1 42 Unknown vendor

192.168.2.1 da:d5:ba:be:fe:ed 1 60 TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.

192.168.2.11 ba:da:55:c0:ff:ee 1 60 BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.

192.168.2.30 02:02:de:ad:be:ef 1 60 Elitegroup Computer Systems Co., Ltd.

192.168.2.31 de:fa:ce:dc:af:e5 1 60 GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD.

192.168.2.107 da:be:ef:15:de:af 1 42 16)

192.168.2.109 b1:gb:00:bd:ba:be 1 60 Denon, Ltd.

192.168.2.127 da:be:ef:15:de:ad 1 60 ASUSTek COMPUTER INC.

192.168.2.128 ba:df:ee:d5:4f:cc 1 60 ASUSTek COMPUTER INC.

192.168.2.101 ba:be:4d:ec:ad:e5 1 42 Roku, Inc

192.168.2.106 ba:da:55:0f:f1:ce 1 42 LG Electronics

192.168.2.247 f3:3d:de:ad:be:ef 1 60 Roku, Inc

192.168.3.2 ba:da:55:c0:ff:33 1 60 Raspberry Pi Foundation

192.168.3.1 da:d5:ba:be:f3:3d 1 60 TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.

192.168.2.103 da:be:ef:15:d3:ad 1 60 Unknown vendor

192.168.2.104 b1:gb:00:bd:ba:b3 1 42 Unknown vendor

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

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This weeks cover image is taken from Flickr.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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It’s Le CrossOver #2! Marius Quabeck, Rudy, Martin Wimpress and Max Kristen are connected and speaking to your brain.

Four complete strangers make a podcast during UbuCon Europe 2016 at the Unperfekthaus in Essen, Germany.

* We discuss some news:

* Nintendo’s new NES Classics Edition console can run a custom build of Ubuntu

* Low Graphics Mode in Unity 7

* Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

* We discuss whats been happening at UbuCon Europe 2016

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We nearly have an awesome interview with Nathan Haines

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* magic-device-tool – A simple tool to handle installing/replacing mobile operating systems

* There is a full video playlist for UbuCon Europe 2016

That’s all for Le CrossOver #2! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

It’s Season Nine Episode Thirty-Nine of Ubuntu AU! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Dan Kermac are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four once more, thank you Australia!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Alan and Martin went to UbuCon Europe

* We discuss the news:

* The UK parliament enacts extreme surveillance laws, and no-one seems to notice

* openSUSE community Linux moves ahead of Fedora

* Thanks to a report from BackBlaze Seagate’s 8TB disks seem to be solid

* A long-standing major flaw in Linux security has been found

* Google has “Strongly recommended” OEM against using proprietary fast charging methods in phones

* Spotify’s desktop app writes tons of data to storage drives

* Samsung has launched a Tizen app incentive program

* Apple reinvent the book

* Presenters news picks we didn’t have time to discuss:

* Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate Change

* SpaceX has filed for a massive constellation of satellites

* Windows 10’s virtual trackpad turns tablets into mice

* You don’t need to sign in to use Skype anymore

* It’s 1989 again! WHSmith will sell video games again with GAME’s help

* VW says Audi software can distort emissions during tests

* Facebook halts WhatsApp data sharing across Europe

* Domino’s starts delivering pizza by drone, but only in New Zealand

* Bogus claims by homeopathic drug makers will now face wrath of FTC

* Amazon Prime Now delivers Morrisons products in an hour

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It’s Episode Thirty-Eight of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Jon Spriggs are connected and speaking to your brain.

The same line up as last week are here for another episode.

In this week’s show:

* We announce the winner of our Thing Explainer competition.

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* mircapture – Wrapper for mirscreencast and ffmpeg to record Unity 8 desktop videos

* We also discussed re-working our home network and Steam box upgrades.

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And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

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This weeks feedback included some interesting Raspberry Pi games from Albert Hickey

* ZeroBall

* ButtonFlash

* Flappy Brain

* This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

Thing Explainer Competition

The competition was to describe your job, using only the 1000 most common English words using the upgoer5 text editor to help.

To all the software engineers, oncologists, system administrators, electrical engineers, doctors, technical support staff, project managers, games developers, petro-chemical engineers, information security analysts, surgeons, user experience researchers, network engineers, prison wardens, sales personnel, digital forensic analysts, medical technicians, speech therapists, digital artists, DJs, teachers, machinists, translators of ancient texts and would-be astronauts who entered this competition…

Thank you for taking the time to enter and making us laugh!

The winner is Magnus Lindström!

Our congratulations Magnus, who won signed copies of “What If?” and “Thing Explainer” by Randall Munroe (creator of XKCD) with this entry:

The police and others send people who have done bad things to me. I give them a room in my ‘house’ and they are not allowed to leave until I say so. I tell these people not to do bad things again and I also help them with how not to do bad things. I write papers when they do bad things while they are living in my ‘house’ and give them warning. I have some rooms that have little in them where they get to stay if they have been doing really bad things to others or to themselves. Some like to live there because they get food, clean clothes, something to do and help. Some hate it and try to leave even though they are not allowed. If these people have done many bad things in my ‘house’ or tried to leave without checking with me, I can tell them that they have to stay for a longer time.

The runners up

Listen to this episode to hear us read out the runner up entries from:<...

It’s Episode Thirty-Seven of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Jon Spriggs are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four once more, but who is Jon?

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news:

* Internet Archive turns 20

* It’s Finally Legal To Hack Your Own Devices (Even Your Car)

* Zotac announce new small form-factor barebones, gaming PC

* An industrial tribunal has ruled that Uber drivers are employees under UK law

* Intel’s Vulkan Linux Driver Gets ~30% Performance Boost, Now Faster Than OpenGL

* Harvard Business school researchers have found Wikipedia articles are as neutral as Encyclopedia Britannica

* Nintendo’s $60 NES Classic appears to run Linux

* Preparations for surviving the total anihilation of Earth, well California, are underway

* We discuss the community news:

* The Canonical Design Team has released the Yakkety Yak release artwork

* Dirty COW was livepatched in Ubuntu within hours of publication

* Mythbuntu Linux Distribution Discontinued

* Ubuntu Core 16 is released

* The iconic text editor Vim celebrates 25 years

* Debian 9 “Stretch” will drops PowerPC as a release architecture

* Meet Meow, a Purfect GNOME Menu Editor

* We mention some events:

* Ubuntu Online Summit – 15-16 November 2016

* Paris Open Source Summit 2016 – 16 – 17 November 2016 – Paris, France

* UbuCon Europe – 18 – 20 November 2016 – Essen, Germany

* FOSDEM 2017 – 4 – 5 February 2017 – Brussels, Belgium

* We also discuss making games with Scratch and home-assistant.io.

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This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week!

It’s Episode Thirty-Six of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Paul Tansom are connected and speaking to your brain.

The same line up as last week are here for another episode.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss why some distros fade in popularity and what potentially kills them off?

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We share a Command Line Lurve:

* nmtui – A curses interface for Network Manager

* nmcli – A powerful utility to configure Network Manager

* We also discuss playing Sunless Sea and the brilliant entries we’ve have to our Thing Explainer competition, which has a closing date of November 5th 2016.

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And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

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This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

* Join us in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter group on Telegram

It’s Episode Thirty-Five of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Paul Tansom are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four, made whole by a new guest presenter.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news:

* Security firm Bishop Fox have claimed that they successfully hijacked an implantable medical device

* Mercedez-Benz has said that its driverless cars will prioritise safety of the occupants in an accident

* The first commercial shipment has been made by a self-driving lorry

* Microsoft has announced that it will raise business prices by up to 22% in the UK

* Sweden has banned general use of cameras on drones

* The iPod is 15 years old

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu 16.10 has been released, along with all the flavours

* Ubuntu Budgie Remix 16.10 has been Released

* Ubuntu 17.04 is named “Zesty Zapus”

* A security vulnerability involving an unkempt bovine

* Canonical has announced live kernel patching for Ubuntu

* Happy 12th birthday to Ubuntu!

* Happy 20th birthday to KDE!

* Artist Mohamed A. Latheef has made an Ubuntu Timeline Wallpaper, showing the progression of Ubuntu’s default wallpaper throughout the years

* The Prime Indicator Plus app indicator makes it easier to switch between Intel and Nvidia graphics and so will GNOME 3.24

* We mention some events:

* Ubuntu Online Summit – November 15th – 16th 2016

* Paris Open Source Summit 2016 – 16-17 November 2016 – Paris, France

* UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November 2016 – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany

* FOSDEM 2017 – 4-5 February 2017 – Brussels, Belgium

* We also discussed getting an