FCM#57

Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our fifty-seventh issue.

This month:
* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Try Enlightenment, LibreOffice – Part 11, Backup Strategy – Part 5, Encrypted USB Stick, and Varnish Web Cache.
* Linux Lab – Mana World Server.
* Review – OpenArtist: 5th Incarnation
* I Think – SpiderOak Questionnaire.
* Closing Windows – Wireless Networking
plus: more Ubuntu Games, My Desktop (and another extra!), My Opinion, My Story, and much much more!

Google Currents edition: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowvZtX/full_circle_magazine_57_lite

EPUB/MOBI coming soon.

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This month:

* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Program in Python – Part 29, LibreOffice – Part 9, Backup Strategy – Part 3, Audacity Basics, and Quick Home Server.
* Linux Lab – VOIP at Home.
* Review – BackTrack vs BackBox.
* I Think – Did you update your current install or do a fresh install?
* Closing Windows – Control Panel and Device Manager
plus: Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games, My Desktop, My Story, and much much more!

Coooooome and get it!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-55/

* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Program in Python – Part 27, LibreOffice – Part 8, Backup Strategy – Part 1, GRAMPS – Part 2, and Ubuntu For Business & Education – Part 2.
* Linux Lab – ZoneMinder CCTV – Part 2.
* Review – Linux Mint 11.
* I Think – With the rise of internet email, do we still need an email client installed by default?
plus: Ubuntu Games, My Story, and much much more!

PLEASE NOTE: Apologies for the blank columns in this issue. Richard is MIA, and I have the flu 

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This month:
* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Program in Python – Part 26, LibreOffice – Part 7, Ubuntu Development – Part 4, GRAMPS – Part 1, and Ubuntu For Business & Education.
* Linux Lab – ZoneMinder CCTV – Part 1.
* Review – Chrombook.
* I Think – Would you like to see an audio editing series with Audacity?
plus: Ubuntu Games, My Story, and much much more!

Get it while it's hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-52/

In this episode, two talks, two guests and a raffle…
(with a warning about the audio quality!)

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Your Host:

• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:32 | WELCOME and INTRO: About OGG Camp 11
In case you missed OGG Camp PartOne, OGG Camp is a joint venture organised by the Ubuntu UK podcast and Linux outlaws teams. In this, it’s third year, OGG Camp came South to the Farnham Maltings venue. These are some of the highlights of what happened on Sunday, Day Two.

Summary of the proceedings on Lanyrd: OggCamp 11 Celebrating Open Technology

01:51 | Arrival at OGG Camp 11, Day Two, Sunday morning

02:23 | Andy Piper’s presentation on MQTT.
Andy Piper on Lanyrd: social bridgebuilder, photographer, techie, speaker, podcaster, WebSphere Messaging Community Lead @ IBM, Committee @ Digital Surrey.

The presentation Messaging for the Internet of Awesome Things (slideshare.net)

Andy’s blog for MQTT is also on-line.

30:07 | Presentation from Laura Cjachowski.
Laura czajkowski on Lanyrd: Argumentative, Stubborn, Geek, Ubuntu Fan, MUNSTER FAN
Slides (pdf): Life Outside of IRC in a FLOSS Community (cypher.skynet.ie)

44:19 | Quick chat with Les Pounder
Les Pounder working the crew like galley slaves (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @lespounder)

48:46 | Day Two Interval

50:07 | Raffle-cast:
Don’t worry, this isn’t the whole thing. Although it was funny to watch Alan ‘Road-runner’ Pope skip up and down the auditorium distributing prizes.

1.00:55 | End of Day Two. A summary of proceedings.

1.04:28 | Catch-up with Alan Pope
Hear the special edition podcast: Ubuntu UK Podcast OGG Camp Live edition S04E13 – When Two Worlds Collide
And for good measure the Outlaws version: Linux Outlaws 224 – OggCamp 11 Live

1.17:40 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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• 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

In this episode, all things Chrome

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• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
• Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter)
• Dave Wilkins (…had to go cook the dinner. @davidawilkins on Twitter)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:42 | WELCOME and INTRO

02:32 | SINCE LAST TIME

• Ed: moved house, started work as IT Administrations New Hope and bought a Chromebook
• Dave: graduated university and went on military exercises
• Robin:
  - Produced Sidepod 9 with Les Pounder – many thanks to Les for the field reports
  - Wrote 2 articles on digital watermarking for the magazine
  - Events and exhibits
  - National Portrait Gallery, Hollywood photos “Glamour of the Gods”, reviewed at Everything Express
  - BP Portrait awards, winners and finalists,  reviewed at Everything Express
  - Charity book launch, “Cheshire the Cheese-loving Bear” by John Henty and illustrated by Alex Noel Watson in aid of the Royal Marsden Hospital, coverage at Everything Express
  - Installed Mint 11

06:58 | REVIEW: Full Circle Magazine Issue #49

• Dave: Ed’s game review of Trine, p.37
• Ed: Ronnie’s KDE 4.6 article, p.20 and Robin’s Gnome Shell vs Unity, p.24
• Robin: Daniel Holbach’s continuing series on Ubuntu development, p.17

012:33 | NEWS

• Chrome to replace Firefox as default? (as hinted by Mark Shuttleworth)
• Synaptic Finally Gone! (cue Albinoni Adagio in G Minor)
• Adobe Air gone from Linux! (why did I need it in the first place?)
• Ubuntu One File Android App finally available!
• Modal Dialogs appear in Ubuntu 11.10 (Alpha)
• Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 released
• Ubuntu 11.10 uses Thunderbird 5 as Default Mail Client
• Linux 3.0 kernel released
• Radical change to Gwibber in 11.10. New theme, dropped Webkit for GTK3.0; better RAM usage, still needs push notification
• UDS 11.10 goes back to Florida
• Me Menu dropped in 11.10
• Dark Toolbars coming to Ubuntu 11.10 theme

36:19 | CONTRIBUTE

36:51 | OPINION: All things Chrome: Ed’s Samsung Chrome notebook.  ChromeOS marches on, but for how long?

58:04 | Send us feedback: since Victoria continues to ask so nicely

58:38 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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• 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

File Sizes:

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• MP3 21.5Mb

Runtime: 101 mins 33 seconds

This month:
* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Program in Python – Part 25, LibreOffice – Part 6, Ubuntu Development – Part 3, and Using KDE (4.6) Part 2.
* Linux Lab – Creating Your Own Repository.
* Review – GRAMPS.
* Top 5 – VOIP Clients.
* I Think – What Distro(s) Do You Use?
plus: Ubuntu Games, My Story, and much much more!

Get it while it’s hot!
http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-51/

In this episode, Social innovation, Open Data and FOSSbox

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This is an extra, irregular, short-form podcast, which is intended to be a side-branch of the main Full Circle Podcast. Somewhere to put all the general technology, non-Ubuntu news and opinions, hobby-horses and kruft that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Be prepared for a healthy dose of British sarcasm.

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Your Hosts:
* Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, twitter @robincatling)

* Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @lespounder)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

00:59 | WELCOME and INTRO

01:55 | Feedback on the OpenTech Conference 2011, Saturday 21st May 2011.

OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.

08:09 | Interview: Glen Mehne of Social Innovation Camp:

Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems – all in just 48 hours

17:44 | Interview: Paula Graham of Fossbox

Fossbox is a non-profit organisation supporting digital inclusion and helping other non-profits move towards lower-cost ICT systems with more flexibility and lower environmental impact.

30:51 | Interview: Lucy Chambers of the Open Knowledge Foundation

Founded in 2004, we’re a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: any kind of data and content – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. We promote open knowledge because of its potential to deliver far-reaching societal benefits.

48:13 | FEEDBACK: How to get in touch with us

48:54 | NEWS: Competition for Ubuntu and Unity according to Distrowatch

56:17 | WRAP and OUTRO

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* Opening: ‘Knights of the darkness’ by Zero Project
* Main theme: ‘CCMixter’ by Code
* Incidental: ‘Funkorama‘ by Kevin MacLeod
* Incidental: ‘Techno-dog’ by Unknown, original recording royalty free under Creative Commons v2
* Opening dramatic dialog by Dave Wilkins and Robin Catling, from 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Running Time: 57 minutes 18 seconds

In this episode, why do we need Ubuntu? The desktop versus the cloud

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Your Hosts:

• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
• Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter)
• Dave Wilkins (…has a Fischer-Price toy. @DavidAWilkins on Twitter)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:25 | WELCOME and INTRO

02:16 | SINCE LAST TIME

• Dave: academic and military
• Ed: finishing the academic year, work, travel, weighing up Chromebooks. Watching proceedings of the WWDC conference.
• Robin: blogging about CyanogenMod7 and trying Chromium-OS using both Hexxeh (failed) and Dell build (success).

06:53 | REVIEW: Full Circle Magazine Issue #49

• Dave:
  - Ronnie’s Thunderbird article p.20
  - Smithie’s opinion on Netbooks, p.26
  - Ed’s Revenge of the Titans review p.40
• Ed: The open question ‘I Think’ article on Unity. p.27
• Robin: Daniel Holbach’s article on Ubuntu development, p.17

015:26 | NEWS

• Major issue with lack of Android updates
• 30 Days with Ubuntu, an article series by Tony Bradley at PC World
• Software Centre changes planned for 11.10
• Pitivi removed from Ubuntu default apps
• Further default apps discussion, computer janitor now gone
• Ubuntu 11.10 release schedule published
• Linux 3.0 on the way. Linus Torvalds ups the version number for no other reason than it’s the third decade of the Linux kernel
• Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha-1 released to an expectant world
• Asus EEE-PC to ship with Ubuntu pre-installed
• Canonical Launches Ubuntu-Ready Hardware Certification (Big news! Does anyone outside the village care?)
• The Five Pillars Of Ubuntu Server 11.10 laid out as a roadmap for the server community

35:20 | CONTRIBUTE

35:51 | OPINION: Why do we need Ubuntu? The desktop versus the Cloud.

56:27 | GAMING: Trine. Although it killed Dave’s laptop. Or maybe Dave killed Dave’s laptop…

• Trine

59:39 | FEEDBACK: Call to action – anyone an expert in protecting yourself and your Open Source project against copyright and patent issues.

1.02:51 | Send us feedback: since Victoria continues to ask so nicely

1.03:28 | 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

File Sizes:

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Runtime: 68 mins 23 seconds

In this episode, Google IO news, UDS and your feedback

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Show notes after the jump.

Your Hosts:

• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
• Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter)
• Dave Wilkins… has a Hessian sack.

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:21 | WELCOME and INTRO

03:45 | News

Google IO Conference

Getting over our jealousy of the attendees receiving lots of free gadgets, the Google I/O Conference 2011 produced the usual flood of announcements.

• Android 3.1 for tablets
• Android Ice-cream Sandwich which will unify the tablet and phone versions of Android in Q4 in 2011 and will therefore bring several Honeycomb features to smart-phones.
• Music Beta by Google: an internet-based music service.
• Google Video: a movie rental service.
• Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK): an Arduino-based accessory development kit.
• Android@Home. This is Google’s vision of every device in your house being an Android accessory.
• An alliance of device makers and carriers to bring timely Android updates to devices for a minimum of 18 months.
• Google Chromebooks Two Chrome OS notebooks from Samsung and Acer, now called ‘Chromebooks’ Google will be offering a combined software and hardware subscription service for businesses, schools, and government customers.

13:38 | Ubuntu Developers Summit happened in Budapest, Hungary NOT Turkey.

• Mark Shuttleworth’s Keynote speech was big on values, less on technology this time.
• Aiming for 200million Ubuntu users in 4 years!
• Firefox remains the default browser in 11.10
• Deja Dup default in 11.10
• User interfaces changes: Dialog Sheets coming to 11.10
• Lubuntu joins the family as an official Ubuntu distro
• Updates coming to Ubuntu One to improve functionality and user experience
• Plans to improve application integration into Unity in 11.10
• Default Mail Client in 11.10; who knows???
• LightDM will replace GDM as the login manager in 11.10

32:47 | CONTRIBUTE

33:18 | FEEDBACK

Collected wisdom from the listenership.

James: You can get the Zindus extension to sync your Thuderbird contacts with Google Mail
(http://www.zindus.com/blog/category/thunderbird-extension/)

Roland: alternative cloud storage solutions include -

• Spideroak – https://spideroak.com/
• Amazon S3 – http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
• Strong Space – https://www.strongspace.com/ (who apparently permit
• the use of rsync)
• Live Drive – http://www.livedrive.com

51:44 | Send us feedback: since Victoria continues to ask so nicely

52:24 | GAMING

• Trine and Revenge of the Titans, plus a look forward at the next 8 issues of Full Circle’s gaming column.
  *  Trine  http://www.desura.com/games/trine
  *  Revenge of the Titans http://www.puppygames.net/revenge-of-the-titans/

1.27:19 | 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

File Sizes:

OGG 29.4Mb

MP3 19.9Mb

Runtime: 57 mins 08 seconds