Full Circle Podcast 14: NFC – Nantucket Fried Chicken

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Full Circle Podcast #14: NFC: Nantucket Fried Chicken

In this episode, Narwhals, Wayland and… I almost forgot, Amnesia

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Your Hosts:

• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/)
• Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/)
• Dave Wilkins …his legs have gone numb.

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:55 | WELCOME and INTRO

2:58 | SINCE LAST TIME…

• Dave – Failing to test Banshee, playing with Shotwell, Simple Scan is his new scanner app, with better printer compatibility. Playing Amnesia, Penumbra
• Robin – working, travelling, relying on the HTC Wildfire for SMS, email, maps and my alarm clock! Playing with Kubuntu on the Compaq – and it’s fast!! Intalling 11.04 Natty Narwhall. Aarrrgghhh!!!!
• Ed got UbuntuOne working. Switched to Google Chrome

12:26 | Review Issue #43 of Full Circle Magazine

• Dave – Games review of And Yet it Moves, My Desktops
• Ed – the Conky review
• RC – Top 5 Backup ideas (list look familiar?). P4: fridge runs Linux!

17:42 | News

• Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1 is out  (and Unity isn’t working on nVidia cards!)
• Ubuntu to use Wayland compositing display manager and not Xorg (but not til 2012)
• Remmina adopted as Ubuntu’s new remote desktop app
• Outlining Changes in Ubuntu 11.04, from Ubuntu Developers Summit (UDS)
• Paper Cuts Project for Ubuntu 11.04 has started
• Fee-paying Games in Ubuntu Software Centre!!!!!
• Adobe Flash 10.2 Beta is out! (yawn)
• Ubuntu Light iso available! as a recovery ISO from Dell (but only loads if it passes compatibility check)
• Ubuntu One integration into Shotwell and Photos Mobile App
• Linux Kernel loads faster at multi-tasking thanks to 200 lines of kernel patch
• System 76 shipping to the UK!  (buy a notebook, do it yourself!)
• Android 2.3 Gingerbread announced alongside Nexus S smartphone
  The Nexus S trailer video – clever, quirky iPhone style ad – features French rock-n-roll. It’ll never catch on.
  It’s a Samsung device – not a Google phone – featuring NFC – Near Field Communication

52:35 | Contribute

53:02 | Gaming

• Humble Indie Bundle #2 takes $500k on release
• Amnesia scares Dave witless (with a nod to other horror genre games such as Penumbra et al.)

1.07:12 | Feedback: Your comments and emails

1.16:31 | Send us feedback: since Victoria continues to ask so nicely

1.17:10 | Outro and Wrap

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Creative Commons Music Tracks

• Opening: ‘Achilles’ by Kevin Macleod
• Main Theme: ‘Revolve’ by His Boy Elroy
• Incidental: ‘Dance Zone’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘On the Run’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘Guitar Opus’ by Peter John Ross

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Runtime: 1 hr 18min 58seconds