Full Circle Podcast 15: I’m in the Mood for Dancing

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Full Circle Podcast #15: I’m in the Mood for Dancing

In this episode, Brainstorms, FUD and Media Players

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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 …is in the mood for dancing!

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:25 | WELCOME and INTRO

2:05 | SINCE LAST TIME…

• Dave – Comparing Exaile, Banshee and Rhythmbox (see media players reveiw); playing around with WordPress and KompoZer. Working up the Amnesia review for FCM. Playing some FreeCiv and Mass Effect.
• Ed – enjoying the Amazon Kindle (£111, don’t get the 3G, get the wifi model) and the Steam Xmas sale of games.
• Robin – Got Natty Alpha-1 working on Unity (much jackassing around with updates and upgrades) in VirtualBox (itself upgraded to 4.0).

10:41 | Review Issue #44 of Full Circle Magazine

• Robin – p.10 Backup with Wubi, using loop disks, not something I’d have thought of…
• Ed – p.20 Unetbootin review. p. Q&A top tips from Gord Campbell.
• Dave – p.15 Linux Lab. featuring  Slitaz Linux and TaNDIS.

18:17 | News

CES, the Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing with the usual flood of announcements. We’re not going to try to cover that here. However…
~ Canonical is there with a stand, including Mr Shuttleworth.
~ 2GHz Cortex-A9 Ubuntu laptop at CES

News stories this episode…

• 10 Brainstorm ideas hitting Natty
  ~ Power management.
  ~ Networking IP address conflicts
  ~ Default username login
  ~ Icons for dead packages
  ~ Time clock over internet
  ~ System Monitor detail added
  ~ Closure messages in Unity
  ~ Software Center – removal of config files with packages
  ~ Ubuntu One progress indicator.
  ~ Performance improvements for media types
• Ubuntu Software Centre ratings and reviews preview
• Fuduntu distro released – Fedora remix in an Ubuntu-stylee
  (doesn’t FUD stand for ‘Fear Uncertainty and Doubt’?)
• Ubuntu and the Price of Unity. Commentary and analysis of Unity vs Gnome desktops.
• Shuttleworth aims to overtake Apple in the user experience stakes
  Apple Is Now Worth More Than $300 BillionSecond only to Exxon Oil…
• Why Is Canonical Selling An Ubuntu Branded Keyboard With A Windows Key?
  Ubuntu-branded silicon-rubber roll-up keyboard – with a windows key??!! Doh!!!
• WordPress Challenges Bloggers to Post Daily in 2011 – Ed?
• France To Impose Levy on Tablets, But Not if They Run WindowsCopyright protection levy on devices that might be used for content piracy, but not Windows, clearly.
• NVIDIA Announces ARM CPU for Desktop, Server,
  NVidia is going into the CPU market. Intel’s monopoly (sorry AMD) could be under threat. A whole new range of devices all the way from high-performance desktops to parallel processing and super-computing.
• Net neutrality bill in US Congress, satisfies no one.
• Google Unveils Tablet UI running Android 3.0
  Honeycomb is here. It looks like Tron. Video and images via Engadget”
• Details Emerge on Ubuntu-Powered Tablet
  10-inch tablet from Taiwanese firm Tenq, P07 featuring multitouch capabilities and running Ubuntu Linux Netbook 10.10, Atom 1.66 GHz CPU with 2 GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD.
• ‘Angry birds’ may be coming to Ubuntu

34:10 | Contribute

34:41 | Opinion Why are government’s so inept when it comes to technology?

40:12 | Android News

• Android: New Marketplace. Experience the new Maps app. YouTube Remote finally comes to the tiny backwater republic of  The Rest of the World (i.e. Not the USA).
  ~ See the  new marketplace on Android 2.21 in action
  ~ If you get a Sony-Ericsson phone – expect no Android 2.2 upgrades

49:21 | Gaming

• Humble Indie Bundle 2 – games
  ~ Stats – 230k $1.8m Linux purchases avg double Mac and more than Windows disproving the commentators.
  ~ Best game – Ed thinks Revenge of the Titans
  ~ Cortex Command review is WIP
  ~ Braid review coming soon
• Meanwhile, Dave on Mass Effect, and  FreeCiv
• A few new imaginative uses for Dropbox

56:27 | Review Media Players – Rhythmbox, Exaile and Banshee

1.15:41 Feedback: Your comments and emails

• More Android feedback from Jon (the Nice Guy) Spriggs and Ken.
  ~ Send to Cmputer, PC bookmarking and linking via Appbrain
  ~ Mustard
  ~ A Simple Lastfm Scrobbler
  ~ Orbot (a TOR client for Android) and
  ~ APG (a GPG/PGP application)
  ~ Astrid Time manager
  ~ Air Control Lite and Coast Defence games
  ~ Barnacle Wifi tether
  ~ ConnectBot to SSH home
  ~ AndroidVNC remote desktop.

1.21:01 | Send us feedback: since Victoria continues to ask so nicely

1.21:34 | 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: ‘Iron Man’ by Unknown

Supplementary Music:

• The Nolans ‘I’m in the mood for dancing’ (copyright Epic Records 1979)

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Runtime: 1 hr 24min 34seconds