The Dick Turpin Road Show

Yes that's right, we are 50. Can you believe it? It's a big show this week so let's get on with it.

We start off by talking about episode 49 and that bloody dog and what Pete would like to do to it. Matt says go home Google you're drunk and tells us about Blink or is that Bling? Having totally blotted out copybook with Google we then move onto a story about Microsoft crying foul over Google's dominance of the market.

Archie Woof, woof
We start off by talking about netctl or if you prefer net control now being the default in Arch Linux. Matt then tells us about his new install of Manjaro and how while it is currently slightly unstable he's getting to grips with it. Pete also tells us about his install of Cinnarch as you can imagine this turns in to a full-blown discussion about the merits of this fantastic distribution.

It began in South Africa
Welcome to our new Canonical/Ubuntu section of the show. Pete tries to start this section off with some praise for Canonical with the announcement of their uTablet, however Matt soon puts pay to that! Apparently canonical can no longer afford blank DVDs and will no longer be shipping them apart from LTS releases for locos however the boys come up with a novel way to generate revenue.

From the official Ubuntu one blog we hear that the music store is to be removed from rhythmbox, listen out for Pete repeatedly saying "the website" I wonder if he is trying to tell us something? Finally the boys get the chance to take the piss and talk about the controversy of the swirls in the Ubuntu logo.

TDTRS Forum
The forum is down! Matt has no idea when he will fix it, in fact he's not sure he wants to. :-(

Freedom hating MP3 90.04MB
Freedom loving OGG 80.05MB

Show length: 02:11:32

Interlude Music 1: Second chanceby: DJ Epsilon
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It began in South Africa: It began in South Africa by: Andre Hugo
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Feedback Music: Typewriter song by: Leroy Anderson
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Start & Ending Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
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Our CO-host this episode is Alister Munro AKA b1ackc0w and founder of the satirical Blog wtflinux that's WTF Linux to anyone who hasn't worked it out yet. Not content with being given the chance to repeatedly "Say my name, say my name" on tdtrs Alister decided to bring his annoying little friend along to the show! Only through painstaking editing was the annoying little runt removed from practically the entire shows recording.

It's a big show and we start of with an interesting movie, Edward penis hands. Recommended by The Skeprechauns which leads Pete to ask the question "What was your first porn film?" As most of you will know the Python name stealing dispute has been resolved but we thought we would give some closure on our previous discussion on EP48.

The Peoples Republic of China has got into bed with Canonical and announced that Ubuntu will be the official operating system for their special brand of communism.
"We can assure you that any information gathered is only held locally and is not sent to either Canonical or The Party."
     --Chairman Shuttleworth.

A group of disgruntled Spaniards have started proceedings against Microsoft over the secure boot issue and are hoping the European court will take up their case. But the big news for Matt is that identi.ca is no longer accepting registrations, the team discus "Why doesn't Evan just shut it down and put it out of its misery?"

Our CO-Host asks if anyone has tried LibreOffice 4.0 yet? Neither Matt or Pete has but we talk about it anyway, well why break a habit of a lifetime and speak about things we actually do know something about? Finally after a couple of attempts Pete gets the chance to talk about the day the Internet slowed down and why he is not on the side of the Anti Spam organisation.

Archie Woof, woof
Matt's put this one in and he doesn't even use Arch Linux!
MariaDB to be used in the repo's instead of MySQL

I hate your Blog
The team are glad this section has made a return and we discuss Alister's wtflinux blog and the interesting choice of theme.

Announcements

TDTRS Forum
The forum is down! Matt has no idea when he will fix it, in fact he's not sure he wants to. :-(

Freedom hating MP3 82.06MB
Freedom loving OGG 70.06MB

Show length: 02:00:09

Interlude Music 1: Ma poupée by: David TMX
Licensed Under: CC-BY-ND

Interlude Music 2: Almost given up by: Love Shadow
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Interlude Music 3: Overjoy Dub by: PistONE
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Interlude Music 4: Un monde parfait by: Bézèd'h
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Interlude Music 5: La tempestad by: Emilio Pineda
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Interlude Music 6: Second chanceby: DJ Epsilon
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I hate your Blog: I hate your blogby: MC Frontalot
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Feedback Music: Typewriter song by: Leroy Anderson
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Start & Ending Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
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Be warned! Pete's recording is horrible, in fact it's so horrible you'll want to find the nearest baby otter and give it a damned good kicking! This is because we are in studio KY27 for this episode and Pete did not take Keith Milner's advice on his Samson CO1U microphone.

Following on from the Meh (Mir) topic on the last episode we talk about the display wars that are nicely brewing and Gnomes announcement to forge ahead with Wayland. Have you heard? Google is axing Google Reader! Terrible news, however the team discuss the merits of Feedly which every man and his dog is flocking to.

The boys discuss the brilliant post to The Continental Breakfast Club #TCBC on G+ by Patrick Middleton and the fact that #tdtrs is now listened to by royalty community. Matt finally gets to talk about Andy Rubin, who?, apparently he's some dude who used to work for Android? Finally in this section the team discuss a something that for once the UK government appears to be doing right with their "Preference for Open Source" pledge on the governments website.

Finally tdtrs falls about with laughter at one of the most funniest posts on the Internet at the moment "No need for UN intervention" claims Jono Bacon. If you don't fall about with laughter at this post you are clearly dead and your partner should collect any insurance policies against you immediately.

Archie Woof, woof
Nothing is happening in the Arch Linux community so there's nowt here.

Main Section
Yep you guessed it we talk far too long in the warming up section.

Announcements
Matt really needs to get off his bum and sort out a GLLUG meeting.

TDTRS Forum
The forum is down! Matt has no idea when he will fix it, in fact he's not sure he wants to. :-(

Freedom hating MP3 66.08MB
Freedom loving OGG 59.02MB

Show length: 01:37:12

Interlude Music 1: Ma poupée by: David TMX
Licensed Under: CC-BY-ND

Interlude Music 2: Overjoy Dub by: PistONE
Licensed Under: Art Libre

Start & Ending Music: Almost Given Up by: Loveshadow
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Feedback Music: Typewriter song by: Leroy Anderson
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Start & Ending Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
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If you're a huge Ubuntu fanboy this episode is not for you as we devote a whole section of the show to kicking The Borg of Open Source all round the room. Matt starts us off with a pretty good topic of a company pinching the name Python for it's cloud service. A man who's swearing makes Pete look like a Sunday schoolteacher is next up as we discuss good old Linus Torvalds sticking it to Red Hat. Determined to steal all the glory Matt's tells us about the new Google Pixel the insanely expensive latest offering from, well Google of course. You've got to feel sorry for those poor hard up rock stars especially with all them naughty sites torrenting their music? But wait, what's this? They're actually making money now you say? Finally Pete manages to get a story in and talks about Miguel de Icaza flouncing off to the OS X community.

Archie Woof, woof
Pete tells us how he has installed Arch on his Lenovo T61 with the Intel graphics but cant get above 1024x768

Main Section
We're beginning to wonder if we should rename this section to "Ubuntu Watch" as we seem to always have something to say about the distribution? We start off with the terrible news that the gravy train of free trips abroad with lashings of free booze and sandwiches and all at Canonical's expense is to end now that physical UDS has been terminated. Pete is desperate to say something positive about Ubuntu and firmly believes he has documentary evidence that the next release will herald the implementation of a rolling release. And finally yet another piece of the jigsaw falls into place for Pete's prediction for Ubuntu as the guys discuss Mir and it's underlying evilness. Question is, has Pete placed that bet yet?

If you're one of those horrid people who never listen to the shows beginning and ending music then you'll miss our message to Linux Outlaws on their 300th episode, it's the one we really wanted them to play not that chopped up nicey, nicey one you all heard

Announcements
Paul Williams has started The Wirral & Ellesmere Port Linux Group (WEPLUG)
Check out their G+ page or add @WEP_LUG to your Twiiter account.

Humble Bunble is at it again and offering lots of games check out what's on offer.

Nodecopter will be holding a Hack day in London on 16th March

TDTRS Forum
The forum is down! Matt has no idea when he will fix it, in fact he's not sure he wants to. :-(

Freedom hating MP3 74.01MB
Freedom loving OGG 25.05MB

Show length: 01:47:45

Interlude Music 1: Ma poupée by: David TMX
Licensed Under: CC-BY-ND

Interlude Music 2: Overjoy Dub by: PistONE
Licensed Under: Art Libre

Start & Ending Music: Almost Given Up by: Loveshadow
Licensed Under: CC-BY-NC

Feedback Music: Typewriter song by: Leroy Anderson
Licensed Under: CC Attribution

Start & Ending Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
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Here it is folks, yet another live recording from the #tdtrs team. This episode we are in Liverpool to attend the 300th episode of the Linux Outlaws, well we had to go or there would have been nobody in the audience. :-)

Joining us is Oliver Clark from the full circle podcast and Pete really has it in for him. The show was recorded on Matt's bed and has only had part of Matt's recording tacked on and our theme tune added. Other than that it's presented as is.

No animals or bathroom utensils was injured in this episode although some ego's may have been bruised. We should point out that at the beginning of the show Pete is discussing the long queue at the Travelodge check-in.

Announcements

TDTRS Forum
The forum is down! Matt has no idea when he will fix it, in fact he's not sure he wants to. :-(

Freedom hating MP3 39.09MB
Freedom loving OGG 29.03MB

Show length: 00:57:56

Start & Ending Music: Thai Dance Music by: Thai
Licensed Under: CC Attribution