The Dick Turpin Road Show

Seven thousand elephants.

Submitted by dick_turpin on Sun, 2013-05-19 10:18

In typical English style the team kick off this episode by discussing the cold and grey weather outside. Yet again the boys are smug that there are no corrections from the last episode.

We kick off by discussing Microsoft Open Technologies Inc and their first year of contributing to free software. The guys struggle to find anything tangible that Microsoft has actually done but Pete lays his cards on the table and begs Microsoft to actually do something. We also hear how an anonymous MS developer has written a pretty revealing insight into why development of their kernel is so slow and Matt tries to discuss the "Microsoft's most profitable OS that's not even theirs." Android patents deal but Pete says he's heard it all before and can't be bothered with it.

"Pirating is theft you swine" Matt tells us about an interesting survey that maintains that for 10% of pirated material there is a 300% increase in legitimate purchases. The guys discuss the very fact that the Internet provides the ability to view what you want when you want and that pirating, in a lot of cases, can lead to people purchasing the DVD, books or merchandise for that downloaded show.

Pete proves that he is a moron and can't even read by introducing this item as co-funding, Matt tries to tell the old fart "you need to put your glasses on Pete, there's an r in there!" this item is in fact about a crowd funding project on indiegogo for purchasing a whole bunch of wikireaders to supply to, hopefully, new world students.

Archie Woof, woof
Pete couldn't find anything much to put into this section therefore Matt comes to the rescue by talking about his Manjaro install.

It began in South Africa
As you can imagine Pete is in his element when Matt starts to discuss the proposal for Ubuntu to create their own package management environment "one more step to my prediction" screams Pete. Matt desperately tries to point out that yet again this is just a proposal but Pete suggests that maybe he should take out yet another Ladbrokes bet. The boys fall about with laughter at the revelation that Ubuntu's servers are running a version of Apache that is 12 months out of date! Your data is safe with us.

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Show length: 01:34:56

Interlude Music 1: Ma poupée by: David TMX
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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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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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The bra of wrong.

Submitted by dick_turpin on Mon, 2013-05-06 09:50

You'll be pleased to know it's a shorter show this episode. The team can clearly pat themselves on the back as yet again there are no corrections from episode 50 so to celebrate the guys try to master some tongue twisting Irish place names sent in by one of our listeners.

Having failed miserably to master the language of the little people Matt proceeds to make sure he ruins any chance of a knighthood by slagging off our current Prime Minister and his attempt to block porn from public Wi-Fi. Finally for this section of the show Pete tells Matt about Sabayon moving to Git.

Archie Woof, woof
Yet again the Arch Linux community demonstrates that it has the tact of a sledgehammer as Pete tells us about an issue that was shut down by the forum moderator simply because one of our listeners happened to mention that the hardware they was using was a Rasberry Pi.

It began in South Africa
Hold onto your seats folks Matt actually has something good to say about Ubuntu! Yes that's right, finally they have actually produced something physical in the shape of the XPS Dell laptop.

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Freedom hating MP3 62.06MB
Freedom loving OGG 55.07MB

Show length: 01:31:04