The Dick Turpin Road Show

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
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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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
Licensed Under: CC Attribution

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

So it feels like there has not been a show for ages? Rumblings and threats of bacon based torture have been made "You stopped doing the show then?" Things have been a little bit out of sync due to Christmas and Matt not having any broadband and then we had FOSDEM 2013 but we're starting to get back to normal.

We should point out that the team was just about to start recording when Matt spotted Shane Marks was on-line (It pays to log into your Skype account if we have you in our list.) So Shane was hijacked from his peace and quiet and forced to come on the show. Shane's sound quality is not the best, he was basically just using his laptops internal microphone but we think it's not that bad actually. As you'd expect it's a bit of a longer show but then the team did have three days of alcohol sodden events to get through.

Once again we would like to thank Shane and apologise for dragging him away from the toe jam picking session he had planned for the evening "Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" (Look it up if you don't know)

Announcements
Linux Outlaws Live: Feb. 17th at The LEAF on Bold Street, Liverpool.

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 73.09MB
Freedom loving OGG 66.08MB

Show length: 01:47:28

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

And the gruesome twosome are back for another year of fun, sarcasm and downright lies. After spending Christmas on a tropical tax-haven holiday resort Matt collected Pete from the old peoples home to bring you yet more disrespectful opinions and more mind bleach situations.

Matt tells us all about his shiny new broadband and the fact he is living it large with bottles of Asti which Pete rightly deduces was once called Asti Spumante. Seeing as the show has been off the Internet for a while the lads cant resist covering the now ancient story about the Ubuntu phone as it's a good chance to take the pee out of Ubudubu.

Pete and Matt also discuss the sad story of Aaron Swartz's suicide and Pete makes some controversial statements that some people might not like.

Announcements
GLLUG Meetup: TBA but certainly before FOSDEM
Linux Outlaws Live: Feb. 17th at The LEAF on Bold Street, Liverpool.

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 43.07MB
Freedom loving OGG 35.08MB

Show length: 01:03:33

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