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Full Circle Podcast Episode 34, Raspberry Jamboree 2013 Special

Oliver Clark — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:41:56 +0000

Full Circle Podcast Episode 34, Raspberry Jamboree 2013 Special

Welcome to the first of a 2 part conference special, in this episode the presenters reflect on the first even Raspberry Jamboree held at the Manchester Central Conference Centre on 9^th March 2013

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Show Notes

01:28 | WELCOME and INTRO:

02:00 | Since Last Time

Tony - Has been getting to grips with his Nexus 4, so far he’s impressed with it and despite some criticism of the battery life has found this to be more than adequate for him. Tony has also been using a programme called MultiSystem to create Bootable Multi distro USB drives. It was a bit convoluted to install as it meant adding the repository to synaptic (here is the howto) to download and install the packages but it works well. He now have an 8Gb drive with several distros including a couple of utility distros for partitioning and data rescue. Finally he discovered Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs support Linux on the web, providing a Linux version of one of their PAYE software packages for download.
Freaky Clown – Had built a laptop based around a Raspberry Pi to show at the Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp but unfortunately couldn’t show it at the event as the postal service let him down and a part he needed failed to arrive in time. The completed project can be seen here: http://thegreyhats.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/so-i-have-two-raspberry-pis-i-love-them.html
Les - Has been very busy organising the Raspberry Jamboree with is new business partner Dan, attended the Manchester Girl Geeks Bracamp with Olly who became the AV Tech Crew for the day recording audio and video and taking photographs while grabbing interviews with the organisers. Les has also been hacking a bash script together to do network checks on various remote servers his company owns.
Olly - Also attended the Raspberry Jamboree and assisted Les and Dan crewing along with Jonathan Archer of RossLUG as Les mentioned also attended the Manchester Girl Geeks Bracamp with Les and recorded all of the audio in the Plunge and took a few photos aswell. Olly also recorded a couple of interviews at both events which will be played out later in the show and on Episode 35. He has also been been dabbling with Nvidia drivers once again with the goal of running Steam under Linux but with little success and has now given up on the idea.

10:30 | REFLECTIONS

Les and Olly reflect on the success of this Raspberry “Super” Jam

365 people attended the event

An average of 65 people watching the live stream
People travelled from as far away as Bahrain and Sweden
Closing presentation by Amy Mather @MiniGirlGeek

14:50 | INTERVIEW – Pete Lomas & Rob Bishop – Raspberry Pi How It Started and Where It’s Going

Following their workshop on How to Setup a Raspberry Pi Pete and Rob talk to Olly about the origins of the Raspberry Pi their personal involvement in the journey and the future of the Pi.
Keep up with all the development in the Raspberry Pi world by visiting the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s website and following Rob and Pete on Twitter

30:22 | INTRODUCING Amy Mather

Amy is an exceptionally bright young lady who has emerged from Ben Nuttall‘s Manchester Raspberry Jams who Tony interviewed for Episode 29 and at the time could only program using Scratch. Since then it’s been an incredible journey through learning Python and learning how to used Arduino‘s.

30:55 | PRESENTATION Amy Mather – Recreating Conway’s Game of Life

As Freaky Clown mentioned it is also well worth watching the video of her talk aswell as you can see the Game of Life running http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35XINnYFtA.

39:12 | INTERVIEW – Ben Nuttall – Raspberry Jams, The Jamboree & Public Speaking

Post Jamboree Olly and Les catchup with Ben Nuttall to get his reflections on the event.
We reflected on the success of the Manchester Raspberry Jam from it’s early beginnings which we captured on Episode 29 of the podcast.
We discuss the origins of Amy’s Game of Life project.
Looking to the future Ben talks about the next event he will be attending and his plans to present a talk on Open Source Software Culture at Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp

51:24 | INTERVIEW – Jack Wearden – Raspberry Jamboree Reflections, Starting Raspberry Jams and Ucubed

Reflecting on the success of the first Raspberry Jamboree and talking about the outcomes of the panel discussion Jack took part in.

Discussing the first Birmingham Raspberry Jam, how it went and the planning and organisation of the event. If you are interesting in attending future Birmingham Raspberry Jams you can go to the Evenbrite page: http://BhamRaspJam.eventbrite.com to keep up with all the news regarding the event follow it on twitter @BhamRaspJam
We also talk about another event that Jack is organising along with Chris Wilson, Ucubed which is the Ubuntu and Upstream Unconference, an event for users of the Ubuntu and Debian Operating Systems. If you would like to attend the event you can get tickets on Eventbrite here as Jack mentioned in the interview the ticketing is a pay what you want strategy. There is more information including last years event report on the official site http://ucubed.info/
If you want to keep up with Jack and his organisation of many events you can follow him on twitter @JackWeirdy

1.08:04 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Thirteen: That’s How it Feels To Be Wrong

Robin Catling — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:28:56 +0000

Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Thirteen: That’s How it Feels To Be Wrong

In this episode, Ubuntu Phone and TV.

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Show Notes

01:52 | WELCOME and INTRO

04:52 | SINCE LAST TIME

Dave has been blogging
Ed got a Galaxy Nexus 4
Alan has been on Kickstarter in place of the shopping channels, the latest delivery being the Digisparc.
Robin rashly took on the Full Circle Magazine Audio Edition (coming soon)

14:46 | Catch-up with UDS and 13.04 Mid-Cycle Sprint with Alan, and we discuss rolling releases.

22:43 | Ubuntu Phone – the gloves are off!
In a video released over the New Year, Mark Shuttleworth demos the new Ubuntu Phone operating system.

In a glossy, well produced (if slightly long 8mins 37secs), Canonical founder and CTO Mark Shuttleworth talks us through Ubuntu Phone, An Industry Proposition, a product he hopes will challenge iOS, Android and now Tizen in the mobile market.

Some of the key features:

Ubuntu distilled from TV and desktop
‘Welcome screen’ not lock screen
One-handed operation using all four screen edges
Full swipe gesture control
Bottom edge for show/hide buttons
Show Unity Dash any time using left swipe
Go to previous app using right swipe
Full customisation of home screen
Ubuntu Software Centre for mobile apps
UbuntuOne cloud storage built in.
Native Apps built in QT framework

Ed’s links:

Microsoft paying developers to port apps over to Windows Phone
The Rise and Fall of Palm
Gmail drop support for Exchange Active Sync
Blackberry Z10 Review
Windows Phone 8 Review
Ubuntu Phone to have issues
Latest Smartphone Market
What the hell happen to Ubuntu’s only chance of success
Blackberry 10 has apps people actually want! – No terminal app in sight!

1.07:10 | Ubuntu TV:

1.19:37 | FEEDBACK: How to get in touch with us

1.20:11 | WRAP and OUTRO

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Full Circle Podcast Episode 33, With Added Horsepower!!

Oliver Clark — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:15:28 +0000

Full Circle Podcast Episode 33, With Added Horsepower!!

In this episode we are joined by Freaky Clown, we talk about the Ubuntu Phone release, Linux peripherals and some events.

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Show Notes

03:17 | WELCOME and INTRO:

03:50 | Since Last Time

Jon - Hasn’t done much Geeking recently due to most of his gear floating across various oceans to their destination, Wellington – New Zealand. He’s been mainly packing lately.
Les - Has been Geeking around with the his new 512Mb Raspberry Pi and some Arduino goodness. He also purchased an Archos 80 Cobalt which he got from Tesco on a cracking deal, although it’s not a Nexus 7 he is still really pleased with it and it’s performance. He’s also been engaged in Hacking his Boss’s Linksys Router and installing ddwrt on it.
Tony - Hasn’t been up to much in the way of geeky stuff especially as he bought two tablets on the run up to Christmas, he visited the in-laws over Christmas. He did find the time to install Airdroid on his Nexus 7 after a recommendation from Les.
Freaky Clown – Has just completed an Open Learning introductory course in Computing and Programming course run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Olly – Went away to Newcastle for Christmas and New Year, taking just his Nexus 7 and his DSLR Camera as the ultimate test in can a tablet do all the tasks he would normally do with a laptop while travelling. Apart from a few niggles with Google Drive not being able to create hyper -links within a document, it performed admirably. He was going to talk about his adventures with Steam Beta but since installing the latest bleeding edge Nvidia Proprietary drivers which the Steam client requires, he’s hand no end of trouble with graphics to the point where his main box freezes before booting to the login screen. Olly has also been listening back to all the old episodes of Full Circle Podcast to get some inspiration for new features and upgraded his Samsung Galaxy S2 to Cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly build.

11:37 | NEWS

Canonical unveiled Ubuntu Phone ahead of the annual tech trade show CES which they attended once again this year. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phon e
Following on from the Ubuntu Phone announcement, we spoke about Boot to Gecko during our Google I/O roundup last year, well a developer preview was unveiled at CES, a handset with an early release of the Firefox OS was available to developers. http://news.cnet.com/8300-5_3-0.html?keyword=boot+to+gecko http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/22/mozilla-handsets
Steam for Linux has now gone to an open public Beta http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1747660173332716773
Fedora 18 codenamed Spherical Cow has finally landed after numerous delays, break out the champagne!! http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
One for Dave Wilkins, a new version of Cube 2: Sauerbraten has been released. http://sauerbraten.org/
The Ubuntu One Music Store plugin for Rhythmbox is being removed from the Distro in 13.04. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/01/ubuntu-one-music-store-plugin-dropped-from-ubuntu-13-0 4
AMD have released the Catalyst 13.1 which includes support for the latest X Server 1.13. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/AMD-s-Linux-drivers-offer-improved-gaming-performance-1788404.html
Developers of the SolusOS Linux Distribution have created a Gnome 2 alike desktop called Consort Desktop Environment. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Consort-Desktop-Environment-fork-of-GNOME-Classic-announced-1786171.html

24:23 | OPINION: We had an email from Todd Winters of American Falls, Idaho who said he was having problems convincing his fellow “Cowpokes” to move over to Ubuntu and Linux in general due to a lack support for their everyday business peripherals like Dyno Labelwriters and Epson Scanners.

29:42 | REVIEW of FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE #68

Les – Has been looking at the “How-To” on installing Ubuntu 12.10 onto an Asus EEE PC on page 15.
Tony – Has been reading the review of Super Scratch Programming on page 46 as this would make a great addition to a Raspberry Pi that a budding young programmer may have received for Christmas. Les talks about a robot controlled by a Raspberry Pi using Scratch, the video of which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d6UC6V1dD0
Jon – Has been looking at the new “How-To” series which has started in this issue on Blender as it’s something he has always wanted to try but felt over-faced by.
Freaky – Has also been looking at the Blender how to but from a slightly different perspective as he has already trained on another proprietary 3D modelling package called Maya.
Olly – Has been reading with some jealousy the article on the Steam Beta on page 60 which promoted him to try and install the Open Beta. He has also been reading the review of the LPIC-1 Study Guide in the Ubuntu Certified article on page 61.

38:28 | EVENTS

Ohio Linux Fest Survey – The organisers are looking for your help, they have put together a Google Survey to help them ascertain how they can make 2013’s event even bigger and better than last year. So if you attended last years event, contemplating being there this year, then visit the link in the show notes and given them your opinion of what you would like to see this year. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHRuLURTM280bTBRamxKQW5xSXNJWnc6MQ
Linux Outlaws Live, Episode 300 – To mark their landmark achievement Fab and Dan will be doing a live recording of their 300th show at LEAF cafe on Bold Street in Liverpool on Sunday 17th February 2013, recording will commence at 17:30. If you can make it and want to come along tickets can be purchased here http://outlawslive.eventbrite.co.uk/ All proceeds will go to the Software Freedom Conservancy
Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire – Scotland’s first Mini Maker Faire is to be held on Sunday 7 April 2013 at Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL as part of the 25th Science Festival, for more details visit: http://makerfaireedinburgh.com/
Manchester Girl Geeks BraCamp 2013 – Is a Geek Unconference organised by the Manchester Girl Geeks and is open to all and will be taking place on Saturday 16th March 2013 between 10am and 5pm at Madlab 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester. http://manchester.girlgeekdinners.com/barcamp/
Opentech 2013 – Is a great event, cramming a full programme of talks over a very full day. The event covers a broad range of technology and innovations, from QR codes, to self aware cities. There isn’t alot of information available yet as it’s still early days, but it will be held on 18th May 2013 http://blog.opentech.org.uk/
If you are aware of any Geek or Tech events happening in your area and you would like to publicise them please email them to use at podcast@fullcirclemagazine.org

50:00 | FEEDBACK

We have had lots of positive feedback regarding Episode 32, Thank You.
Robin left us a comment on the website “Much better sound quality! And Skype worked! Yay! Just need to polish the mix for the beginning of the show and give it a bit more oomph and it’s there. In the groove inside a handful of shows. It only took us a year with the old team.”

53:10 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Full Circle Podcast Episode 32, The Year That Was…….Well Nearly!!

Oliver Clark — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:07:28 +0000

Full Circle Podcast Episode 32, The Year That Was….Well Nearly!!

In this episode Les brings everyone up-to-date with where he’s been, there’s a “Special Announcement” and the lads take a look back at 2012, “A Year in Tech”

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Show Notes

01:50 | WELCOME and INTRO:

02:10 | Since Last Time

Les - Has started a new job and is really enjoying it, he’s also moved away from Ubuntu and is now using Crunchbang Linux (a very lightweight distribution) and spreading the good word to others. He has also been playing around with his Raspberry Pi coupled with Arduino boards to make some interesting projects.
Tony - Loved his 16Gb WiFi Nexus 7 that he just had to have the 32Gb HSPA + version when it was released just over a week after the last Podcast came out. There were a few teething problems including BBC Iplayer not supporting the Nexus 7 under 4.2 Jelly Bean and sorting out the APN Setting for Giff Gaff. He also attended the amalgamated Preston and Blackpool GeekUp Christmas Meal as did the other members of the Podcast.
Olly - Ran into his first performance problem with his new Gnomebuntu install, trying to do a multi channel audio project in Audacity cause hard psychical lock-ups. He too hold out any longer and also purchase a Nexus 7 32Gb HSPA + Version like Tony. He also attempted one of the upgrade paths for Linux Mint to take him to 14 “Nadia” however it didn’t go according to plan as there were issues with Virtual Box which baulked the installation and in the end Olly had to do a fresh install.

Jon was supposed to be recording but at the last minute was called away to a teleconference which was related to the sad news that he will no longer be a full time presenter on the show, he will be moving back to New Zealand in the New Year. He may make an appearance on the show from time to time doing features and so on but due to the time difference it isn’t likely to be a regular thing.

08:49 | NEWS

New from UDS 13.04, there will no longer be any Alpha Releases for the main distribution, the first Beta will be released on March 28th 2013. http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/10/uds-r-rise-of-the-quality-machines.html
Following on from the last episode where Olly suggested it would have been a better idea to have a dedicated shopping lense rather than integrating the shopping search into the dash, there is now a dedicated lens has been created by Mark Jtully.http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/11/how-to-install-a-dedicated-amazon-shopping-lens-in-ubuntu
Skype 4.1 for Linux is released, major new feature for this release is the support for Microsoft Accounts http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Skype-for-Linux-4-1-arrives-with-Microsoft-account-support-1750705.html
Debate raged on at UDS Copenhagen regarding replacing the ageing X.org with Wayland for desktop compositing, as with previous UDSs no firm conclusion was reached as to making it default for 13.04, it is unlikely to be for this release. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxOTc
Finally Google Music is launched in Google Play for UK Users http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/google-music-lands-in-the-uk-13-11-201/
VideoLAN VLC Media player the popular Open Source Media player which appears in most Linux distributions has now been successfully re licensed from GPL V2 to LGPL this follows the re licensing of LibVLC the core C and C++ library for the media player which is used widely within Linux Distros. http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/How-to-properly-relicense-a-large-open-source-project

22:02 | REVIEW of 2012 – The Year That Was….Well Nearly

OggCamp 12 – Bigger and more ambitious than before, hosted at probably the best venue so far, the inclusion of an Open Hardware Jam for the first time and who could forget the Photography Project. http://www.oggcamp.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefPAXvMSKk http://sustburbia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/oggcamp-12-open-movement-goes-from.html
The Raspberry Pi – Revolutionised the idea of affordable computing and computer learning. http://www.raspberrypi.org/http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/10-raspberry-pi-creations-that-show-how-amazing-the-tiny-pc-can-be/
The Google Asus Nexus 7 – The device that set the benchmark for small form factor Android Tablets and took the Nexus brand to the next level. http://www.google.com/nexus/7/http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/google-nexus-7-trounces-ipad-mini-in-cnet-uk-tablet-poll-50010050/
Canonical/Ubuntu 12 Series -Considerable change to the Linux Desktop with Precise and Quantal this year, some controversial and some improved the functionality of the Unity Desktop, will next year be the year of Ubuntu on Everything? http://www.ubuntu.com http://techiebond.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/fsf-rsm-reports-spying-ubuntu-offensive/http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/
ACTA, KimDotCom’s Arrest, Anonymous more active than ever, Apple vs Samsung, Oracle v Google, more unrest in Gaza, Curiosity Rover landed on Mars, Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 Mission Commander and the first man to walk on the moon passed away, Prominent star gazer Sir Patrick Moore passed away,

42:46 | REVIEW of FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE #67

Olly – Has been looking at the “How-To” series beginning in this months issue, Create A Theft-Proof Computer on page 12, he has also followed up with the next instalment of the KdenLive guide.
Les – Great minds think alike, he has also been looking at Part 4 of Ronnie’s KdenLive tutorials on page 26 of the Magazine. He discusses how OpenShot is good for beginners and for those who want to quickly put together video projects however if you need some more advanced tools for video editing, such as remastering physical film KdenLive is the tool for the job.
Tony – Has been looking at the Command & Conquer article on page 6 which looks at Dual Booting your system with Linux and Windows and gives you hints and tips on how to keep your system running well with both OSs. He has also been looking at the Community section particularly the My Story articles on page 44.

49:43 | EVENTS

linux.conf.au – Is propably the premier Linux and Open Source event in Australia, is being held from Monday 28th January to Saturday 2nd February 2013 at The Australian National University in Canberra, New South Wales. http://lanyrd.com/2013/linuxconfau/
SCALE 11X – The annual Southern California Linux Expo is being held from 22nd to 24th February 2013 at Hilton Los Angeles International Airport http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/
Raspberry Jamboree 2013 - Is a global Raspberry Pi User Group Meeting being held at the Manchester Central Conference Centre on Saturday 9th March 2013 between 10am and 4pm, “Early Bird” tickets have now gone but you can still purchase standard tickets at £10.90 http://raspberryjamboree-erec2.eventbrite.com/
If you are aware of any Geek or Tech events happening in your area and you would like to publicise them please email them to use at podcast@fullcirclemagazine.org

54:08 | FEEDBACK

Phil left us a comment on the website “You talked about he Nexus and the Kindle Fire and talked about the limit of no SD slot. I have been turned onto the NOOK primarily the Nook Color. I have the original OS untouched in my nook and I boot to a full install of cyanogen mod 7 (android 2.3) on the SD card. I have the CPU overclocked to 1.2 GHz and I still have great battery life. I plan to move to cyanogen mod 10 (android 4) this weekend time permitted”.
We also have had several comments on the website and Google + page commenting on the poor audio quality of episode 31.
The Ogg and MP3 Feeds are now updating normally.

57:33 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Full Circle Podcast Episode 31: The Difficult Third Episode!!

Oliver Clark — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:57:44 +0000

Full Circle Podcast Episode 31, The Difficult Third Episode!!

In this episode Olly & Tony bring everyone up-to-date with what´s been going on in the ¨Summer Break¨, Olly talks about his new gnomebuntu install, Codeacadamy and Tony talks about his new toy, the Nexus 7

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01:15 | WELCOME and INTRO:

01:55 | Since Last Time

Tony – Has attended Oggcamp, Barcamp Blackpool and has started at University which includes a work placement. He has also purchase a 16Gb Nexus 7
Olly – Also attended Barcamp Blackpool and the second Day of Oggcamp, he also attended Barcamp Liverpool aswell. He bought himself a Zoom H4n and recorded talks at both Barcamps. Also Bought a RAID card and 2 x 360Gb SSDs and installed Gnomebuntu 12.10.
Tony and Olly jointly review Oggcamp, discuss Stephen Fry´s Q&A/VideoCast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefPAXvMSKk and the documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsIDCA1__w&list=UUGs4MRVi1ROtfpTtCh4l4sg&index=9&feature=plcp which was sponsored by OpenLabs http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/aps/openlabs/ and produced by Chris Chadwick a local film maker http://www.thehatch.tv/. Also the ¨Rogue´s Gallery¨ refer to can be found here: http://plus.google.com/photos/108694704377125707359/albums/5799626659318285313

15:05 | NEWS

The Ubuntu 13.04 UDS (Ubuntu Development Summit) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from 29 October to 1 November. http://uds.ubuntu.com/
The code name for the next release of Ubuntu 13.04 will be Raring Ringtail http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-13-04-named-after-a-raccoon-1732346.html
GNOME-flavoured Ubuntu Spin Coming, gnomebuntu has been released as part of Ubuntu 12.10 it is as much of a stock GNOME desktop environment as possible based on Shell with some of the desktop effects from 3.4 but uses Nautilus as a file manager rather than the new controversial Files. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/gnome-flavoured-ubuntu-spin-coming-october-18th
One of the new feature that arrive in 12.10 is the addition of the Amazon shopping search integrated into the dash search, which has caused a considerable amount of controversy. http://www.zdnet.com/shuttleworth-defends-ubuntu-linux-integrating-amazon-7000004674/
Also new for this release is the introduction of a donation system on the download page, this takes the form of a series of sliders which you can move to dictate how your donation will be used within the development of Ubuntu including “Making the Desktop More Amazing” and “Community Participation in Ubuntu Development” http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/ubuntu-adds-new-donations-page
Fedora 18 is delayed again, the Beta which was due to be released this week is now anticipated to be released on 6th November pending any further delays. https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/946#comment:14
The UK Department for Work and Pensions has come under fire for holding on to what is claimed to be 16.8 Million unused IPv4 addresses. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38744
The 2013 KDE Akademy the annual developers conference will be held in Bilbao, Spain next year on 13th and 14th July next year. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Bilbao-to-host-KDE-Akademy-2013-conference-1733959.html

26:12 | Jon Joins The Recording

26:35 | REVIEW of ASUS Google NEXUS 7

Tony recently purchase a Asus Google Nexus 7 and shares his first thoughts of living with the device with us.
Cons:

No option for removable storage

WiFi only, No 3G or HSPA+

PC Tethering/Data Transfer doesn’t work out of the box and requires a little tweaking.
Pros:

Apps for Google Drive and Dropbox available through Google Play make syncing files through WiFi easy

BBC Iplayer works out of the box using the App in the Play Store.

Makes a really good E book reader using the Kindle App.
A better alternative to the Amazon Kindle Fire as it´s not locked into the Amazon Eco System.

33:50 | REVIEW of CODEACADAMY

Code Year was a New Year’s Resolution to learn to code in a year, set up by Codeacademy (a New York City-based startup launched a year ago by two young tech gurus, Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski)
Olly joined 281,000 (and counting)others signed up to the pledge to learn to code in year using the Code Academy site
Takes you through the very basics of Object Oriented Programming using Java Script as a learning tool.
Site uses a module based learning system for different programming languages
Library of languages is being added to all the time, Ruby added last week.

40:00 | REVIEW of FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE #65

Jon – Has been reading the Humble Indie Bundle V review in the Ubuntu Games section on page 54 of the magazine. He also discusses the news of Steam coming to Linux
Olly – Is considering getting back into producing videos for Youtube and looked with interest at the second part of the Kdenlive Series written by Ronnie on page 16. Considering his woes with ecrypfs back in August he decided to check out the Encyption How-To on page 13 to see if he could pick up any pointers.
Tony – Unfortunately this month Tony has been rather busy with University and placement work he´s not had as much time to read the magazine as he’d like.

50:50 | EVENTS

HACK Manchester – One of the largest coding competitions in the country is taking place this weekend Saturday 27th to Sunday 28th October at the MOSI, Liverpool Road, Castlefield Manchester. https://hackmanchester.com/
FLOSS UK Unconference – 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London on Saturday 27th October. http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Unconference2012
Internet of Things Howduino – an Arduino hack day being held at DoES Liverpool, Gostins Building, Hanover Street, Liverpool on the 3rd and 4th November. http://www.howduino.com/
Mozilla Festival 2012 – An open web festival which is annually organised by the Morzilla Foundation takes place from 9th to 11th November 2012 at Ravensbourne, 6 Penrose Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London. http://mozillafestival.org/
If you are aware of any Geek or Tech events happening in your area and you would like to publicise them please email them to use at podcast@fullcirclemagazine.org

53:00 | FEEDBACK

We had some feedback from Grant Paton-Simpson via the website he suggested Tony should check out his statistics application called SOFA which is Python based and is licensed under the Affero GPL. Grant is one of the developers of SOFA, it´s always nice to here about new software projects, if you are a developer and you would like to publicise your project please get in touch.
We also had some feedback from Mike Stewart, again via the website who was suggesting that we seemed abit sleepy in Episode 30, Olly explained that due to a number of technical difficulties the record time had been quite lengthy and we were feeling the effects. We will endeavour to make the show a lot pacey-er in future!!

56:03 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Twelve: We're Like the Sugarbabes

Robin Catling — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:55:12 +0000

Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Twelve: We’re Like the Sugarbabes

In this episode, the old crew re-unite: Wilkins, Catling and Hewitt! With our most packed set of show notes ever!

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Show Notes

01:38 | WELCOME and INTRO

02:32: | We’re like the Sugarbabes

Catch up with missing Sugarbabe Alan Pope (Popey) on Google+ currently eating Danish at UDS.

05:32: Out with the old, in with the new (podcast crew)
We’re like the Sugarbabes, according to Ed.

07:43 | SINCE LAST TIME
Since last… year.

Dave is back to reality from Oxford
Ed is back to Uni from Porsche
- Defected to Windows 7
- Open Office/Libre Office vs. MS-Office
- Everybody’s using Google Drive

Dave’s Compiz rant
Good news for Linux gaming - Valve Linux Blog
Catling’s broken Linux rant followed by Dave’s answers:
- My Unity may or may not be continuing development
- Unity Revamped (ppa:ikarosdev/unity-revamped)
Incidentally, Windows 8 is Not-Metro
Dave actually reads Full Circle issue 65
- A recommended font Open Baskerville font
- Google Music Player for Android and Nuvola desktop client
But remember its all better than Windows Vista!

23.22: Gadget Roundup

Ed is still on the original Samsung Google Chromebook
And has a Nexus 7 tablet
Dave and Robin recommend the Clay Tablet. The Ancient Babylonians weren’t wrong.
Let’s play the eco-sphere drinking game!

28.15: And breathe…

Robin got a Lenovo G580 Core i5, 6GB, 750HD
and Samsung Galaxy S2
Dave has a Galaxy Nexus S
As we all know (but Dave doesn’t) the Nexus 4 is out soon
So Dave and Ed have an argument (Python fans sing along)
Dave is still on the Aspire 1620 – cue Daves rant about the sound not working

42.13: Google Current, anyone?

Dave asks what is Google currents for?

43.55: Still on ‘Since Last Time’

Robin has been messing about in the dressing up. Cue Mr Benn.
The Full Circle Special Edition 11.10 and Unity is still available.
Ubuntu Quality Assurance Team always needs volunteers
Ubuntu 12.10 so far

57.23 | FEEDBACK: How to get in touch with us

57.59 | WRAP and OUTRO

Fullcircle Podcast Episode 30 Better Late Than Never.

biglesp — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:05:47 +0000

Full Circle Podcast Episode 30 Better Late Than Never

Your new hosts take over the helm, and hope to provide the same level of quality that you expect.

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Welcome to the new format podcast hosted by members of Blackpool LUG

Your Hosts:

Les Pounder (blog at http://about.me/lespounder/ twitter @biglesp)
Tony Hughes (Google + http://plus.google.com/101988366830118285114/)
Olly Clark (Google + http://plus.google.com/103073417601965434371/ twitter @ollyclarkdotorg)
Jon Chamberlain (Google + http://plus.google.com/102119503691228033435/ twitter @jonachamberlain)

Show Notes
00:00 Title Music
00:26 Intro
01:20 What we’ve been doing
Tony Statistical package GNUPSPP – SPSS FLOSS alternative Tutorials needed!! Any takers?
Olly Skype Installation woes, followed by encryption woes with ecryptfs -> now using TrueCrypt instead
Playing with new RaspberryPi
Attended Preston Raspberry Jam
Jon MythTV care-and-maintenance
Fedora server rebuild (HDD RIP)
Laptop battery replacement – Amazon customer service FTW -YMMV!
Les Attended Preston and Cambridge RJs
Interviewed Ebon Upton (cheekily)
Interviewed Freaky Clown (rudely)
Busy Planning for OggCamp 2012
12:00 News
Google IO – Nexus 7 tablet launch info
- Android Jellybean
- Google Glass developer kit available
- Nexus Q media streamer
Updated Ubuntu Getting Started Guide released Oracle MySql bug release disk consumption
PHP 5.4/5.3 bug fixes released LibreOffice point release 3.5.5 – stability fixes (if you need them) and Calc and Impress minor enhancement Firefox new tab privacy fixes RaspberryPI Raspbian distro update – Floating point and Chromuim optimisations FirefoxOS – Mobile platform announcement

32:10 Interview with Freaky Clown – Surrey Hackspace
57:45 RaspberryJam Preston – UCLAN/@teknoteacher
Dr Simon Monk – “Mr Arduino” – using with RaspPi (GPIO ports)
Ben Croston – Developer of GPIO modules for Debian and Fedora – Member of RaspberryFilling project course material for use in schools
Kefin Hoyle – laptop shrimping – repurposing old hardware – GBP4 arduino kit – Open Hardware track at OggCamp
James Meers – getting started with Rpi, interesting projects – promo kits – demo of Quake 3 on the Rpi – RPi as a thin client
Ian Dixon – host of Digital Lifestyle podcast

1:05:30 Cambridge RaspberryJam – recorded mini podcast in car Website: Raspberryjam.org.uk
streamed live over Google Hangout
Very well attended – lots of interesting speakers
London Zoo using mesh network using webcam module to monitor animal health
BigTrak/Rpi/PS2 game pad mashup
Keith Upton – head of RISC OS project for RPi
x10i project – provides 14 inputs and outputs, connects to RPi and can chain up to 8 together
RPi Prototypes on displayed
Webcam connection to RPi
Cambridge photos online 1:15:15 Interview Ebon Upton
1:29:50 FC Magazine content discussion
Sky maps – Stellarium, Aladin
Space Simulators – Google Earth, and others
Amateur astro photograhpy
Sky map apps on Android
Linux lab – linking devices to Twitter
Closing windows – application alternatives under Linux
Gnome3 – KDE
1:45:00 Upcoming Events
1:50:00 Outro

Fullcircle Podcast Episode 29 – The Great Train Poddery

biglesp — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:21:37 +0000

Full Circle Podcast Episode 29 The Great Train Poddery

Your new hosts take over the helm, and hope to provide the same level of quality that you expect.

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Show Notes
00:30 | WELCOME and INTRO:

01:40 | Since Last Time
Well since this is the first podcast by the new presenters we’ll just recap the last couple of weeks prior to the recording:
Tony- has installed the latest release of Linux Mint, version 13 (codenamed Maya) and been experimenting with it since it’s release. He also attended the Raspberry Jam event held at MadLab in Manchester on 9th June along with other members of Blackpool LUG.
Olly- has been studying the Red Hat Certified Engineer using self study material using a mixture of VirtualBox and a home server running CentOS to do this. He has also decided to move away from the Unity Desktop to Gnome 3 and discusses moving his laptop to LXDE desktop.
Jon- has been trying to setup network printing on a home server running CentOS and sharing it to various Windows PCs, however he struggled to achieve this in the end switching to Fedora which rectified the problem.
Les- has been playing with his latest acquisition a Raspberry Pi among other things successfully playing media via a large format TV!! He has also been learning Python and PHP for various projects at work and migrating a web database site at work, with a few technical glitches!!

08:08 | Raspberry Jam Manchester Review
Raspberry Jams are user group meetings, this one being the first of it’s kind being held in the country, all of the hosts attended the event which was held at the Manchester Digital Laboratories (MadLab) http://madlab.org.uk/.

09:08 | CHUG – An Impromptu Recording
A round table discussion of Raspberry Jams, their purpose and what will be going on at the event and general Linux/Open Source topics including LPI’s new Linux Essentials training scheme, held on the train between Jon, Les and Tony on their way to the event. Apologies for the quality of the audio on this segment.

18:48 | INTERVIEW – Tony’s Interviews From the Event
Tony interviews various attendee’s from the event including: Dan Hett a Games Developer who’s heavily involved with Manchester Games Jam who wants to promote and get involved with games development on the Pi. Also Dan is hoping to promote the Global Game Jam which is an annual event which takes place at the end of January every year, which hopefully will be held in Salford more information available here. Dan also hopes to be able to put on a presentation/demonstration at the upcoming Manchester Mini Maker Faire details later.
Tony also interviews Amy a 13 year old who has recently received a Raspberry Pi and she is a keen Scratch Programmer.
Tony interviews Ben Nuttall the organiser of Manchester Raspberry Jam and discusses his interest in the Pi and motivation for setting up and running the event. A more in-depth round table interview with Ben and all the Hosts appears later in the show.
Finally Tony interviews Martin Ranyard who presented a talk on 3D Printing at the event, mainly focussed around producing a case for the Pi and his experiences purchasing, building and setting up his first 3D printer.

27:48 | ROUNDTABLE INTERVIEW – The Hosts and Ben Nuttall
The Hosts and Ben sit down during the closing stages of the day to reflect on what has been a very successful event. Reviewing the talks/presentations and also the activities that took place during the day.
The discussion moves to the future of events similar to this and to the future of the Raspberry Pi itself.
There will be another Manchester Raspberry Jam, as yet the date is still to be confirmed, we will keep you posted in future episodes.
Following on from the pre-recorded interview there follows a short studio discussion on the facilities at MadLab and the Omniversity programme that they run, more information can be found here.

46:18 | NEWS
Linux Mint 13 “Maya” Distribution release is now out sporting MATE 1.2 and Cinnamon 1.4.
Fedora 17 Codenamed “The Beefy Miracle” has now hit final release featuring Gnome 3.4 and GIMP 2.8.
Linus Torvalds creator of the Linux Kernel was jointly awarded the Millennium Technology Prize by Technology Academy Finland he shares the prize with Stem Cell Researcher Shinya Yamanaka. Later after the presentation of the award Linus attended a Q&A session at Aalto University shows his frustration towards NVidia over their lack of cooperation and not contributing enough towards linux development (the whole session can be viewed here, very good session if you ignore the obvious!!).
A rival to the Show’s favourite micro computer, the MK802 micro-PC is now on the market (page 4 of Issue 61 of Full Circle Magazine).
Mark Shuttleworth announces the codename for Ubuntu 12.10 as Quantal Quetzal (page 4 of Issue 61 of Full Circle Magazine).
Matt Garrett announced on his blog that Fedora are the first Linux distribution to aquire a digital signature to be used in the boot loader which will be implemented in Fedora 18. This goes against the original stance by the open source community to oppose Microsoft’s new UEFI secure boot policy for Windows 8, the hosts discuss the impact on the community.
The announcement of the long awaited Google Tablet broke. The hosts discuss how it stacks up against the completion and also the announcement by Microsoft of their Surface tablets.

1.02:28 | REVIEW of FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE #61
Les – Discusses the “How to Use” “Top” command article on Page 10, giving examples of how useful he finds it in his SysAdmin job!!
Tony – Has been following the series of GIMP how to articles and once again he enjoyed the second half of the Beanstalk tutorial on page 21, following on from no linear image manipulation to vector graphics Tony also enjoyed the first part of the Inkscape How-To on Page 24.
Jon – As a Python Guru to Blackpool LUG it’s no surprise that he’s been looking at the latest Python tutorial on Page 7 which is now on Part 33, an excellent long running series.
Olly – As he touched on briefly at the start of the show uses VirtualBox for quite a few tasks so took a keen interest in Robin’s VirtualBox Networking 101 on Page 15. He has also been following the Closing Windows series which looks at accomplishing common tasks in different desktop environments and compares them to the Windows functions, this month it’s Add/Remove Software on Page 32.
Les also mentions an Ncurses App which makes changing to different desktop environments a lot easier “Tasksel” https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel it can be installed using “sudo apt-get install tasksel” in a terminal.

1.22:00 | FEEDBACK
Well as this is the first Blackpool LUG produced show it means we haven’t had any feedback so lets move swiftly on!!

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1.22:35 | PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
In this section we discuss our plans for the show in the future including:
An interview with the Infamous FreakyClown.
Editorial content of our own on subjects such as MythTV, Gaming on Linux (Both native Linux Games and running Windows games under Linux). Also a investigation into applications in the repository.
Please send us your suggestions as to what you would like us to cover in the show, maybe send us some suggestions of apps you couldn’t do without. Games that you’ve had problems getting working under Linux or send us a review of your favourite Linux games.

1.24:15 | EVENTS AND OUTRO
OggCamp Art & Design Acadmey, Liverpool John Moore’s University, 18-19th August 2012.
Mystery Guest Speaker, Open Hardware Event including Raspberry Pi, Fignition, Arduino and 3D Printing, Minecraft Servers
Free Software Movement “A Free Digital Society” Seminar Hosted by Dr. Richard Stallman
Tuesday 26th June 2012, Theatre A, Roscoe Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.
Raspberry Jam Preston Monday 2nd July 2012 19:00 – 21:00, Room CM101, C&T Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE currently fully subscribed, but you can join the waiting list.
Raspberry Jams Nationwide Wide there are Jams happening in Manchester, Sheffield, Durham, Cambridge and London which is now fully subscribed.
Barcamp Berkshire is happening at O2′s HQ in Slough on the 7th and 8th July 2012, this is normally Barcamp London but due to the Olympics finding a venue in London is a tad difficult at the moment, more information including scheduled speakers can be found here.
Mini Maker Faire Manchester this is based around the O’Reilly publication Make magazine and covers a wide range of tech and craft activities, our local event is being held at the Museum of Science and Industry (MoSi) on 28th and 29th July 2012 more information about the event can be found here.

There is also a Maker Faire in Brighton which is happening on Saturday 8th September 2012 at the Corn Exchange more information can be found here. To find a Maker Faire more local to you have a look at http://makerfaireuk.com/

1.34:56 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Eleven: The Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion

Robin Catling — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:12:18 +0000

Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Eleven: The Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion

In this episode, six months to catch up and Ubuntu 12.04.

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Your Hosts:

Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
Culture-vultures can also go to Everything Express at http://everythingexpress.wordpress.com/
Dave Wilkins… put three people to sleep with his speech at the hustings (twitter @DavidAWilkins)
Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @biglesp)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:55 | WELCOME and INTRO

06:31 | SINCE LAST TIME

Dave: Became Vice President of the College Common room and writing a thesis on Latin poetry has taken up much time. The rest of it has gone into exploring various Google products, upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, and getting a Galaxy Nexus S phone upgrade.

Les: Left the DWP for the harsh reality of the private sector, now sysadmin (‘dog’s body’) and IT mgr.
Assisted in lots of events including Hack to the future, Preston UK (300 kids learning to program) covered by the BBC and the Guardian, UCubed in Manchester, Blackpool LUG and various Hack Spaces.

Robin: Painting the house bit by bit. Appeared on local TV – BBC South Today, in a piece about Hillier Gardens and British Fencing at the Chelsea Flower Show. Doing a bit of sports coaching. Working with Ron Howard and Ralph Fiennes on movies Rush and The Invisible Woman
Upgraded to a ‘new’ phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 – contract ended on the Wildfire and thanks to the S3 for a price drop on the S2.

19:48 | REVIEW: Ubuntu 12.04
A mixed bag of in-place upgrades not working right, firmware issues, sound issues, power management issues and a decidedly rum do with reliability on the desktop.

35.47 | ANNOUNCEMENT: Changes to the Podcast
It’s all change! From next episode, Les and Blackpool LUG will be taking over the Full Circle Podcast as a regular, scheduled show!

Expect more roving reports, events, guests and some lively debate from the Northern quarter.

41:09 | FEEDBACK: How to get in touch with us

43:10 | WRAP and OUTRO

Full Circle Podcast Episode 28 A Year in Comedy

Robin Catling — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:36:44 +0000

The Full Circle Podcast Episode 28: A Year in Comedy.

This episode contains fewer facts than usual.

It’s a New Year. It’s January. We’re on something of a break, so that can only mean a cheap, and frankly brain-numbingly lazy, listen back to the year 2011. This could be the best, or worst idea we’ve ever had.

Our thanks to all our co-hosts, guests, correspondents and contributors.

Select brain to ‘neutral’, put your laughing trousers on stand-by and enjoy.

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Your Hosts:

Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
Culture-vultures can also go to Everything Express at http://everythingexpress.wordpress.com/
Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter)
Dave Wilkins… has a ‘portfolio’ of accents. Really. (twitter @DavidAWilkins)
Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @biglesp)
Alan Pope (blog at http://popey.com/blog/, twitter @popey)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard and Philippa Hammond

Show Notes

00:51 | WELCOME and INTRO:

26:21 | FEEDBACK

Please send us some using the channels below!

34:02 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Incidental: ‘Dance Zone’ by Unknown
Incidental: ‘On the Run’ by Unknown
Incidental: ‘Iron Man’ by Unknown
Trailer: ‘Dangerous’ by Kevin Macleod
Trailer: ‘News Theme’ by Kevin Macleod from the Album ‘Utility’
Trailer: ‘Truth of the Legend’ by Kevin Macleod
Incidental: ‘Guitar Opus’ by Peter John Ross

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