The Dick Turpin Road Show

It's Chriiiiiiiiiiistmas! And here we are with our last show for 2012 and because we're lazy scrotes we asked some well known community people to send you Christmas messages. It's a bit of a free-fall show this episode as we don't really cover much FOSS as such, we thought we'd break with tradition and just have a good old chinwag.

Messages from:
Philip Newborough & Rebbeca Newborough From Crunchbang and Lincoln Lug
nybill Moderator for our forum, fellow podcaster and good friend.
Thomas Heine creator of The Continental Breakfast Club.
David Marsden co-prestenter of TINAP
Jon Spriggs AKA Jon the nice guy and producer of CC Hits
Andy Cowling co-prestenter of TINAP
Gregory Wellington creator of The Continental Breakfast Club.
x1101 AKA Lyle McKarns forum moderator and insperation of Room x1101
Dan Lynch presenter of Rathole Radio and Linux Outlaws
Rebbeca O'Neill & Finn presenters of the awesome The Skeprechauns

TDTRS Forum
The forum is now live! If you feel you must vent your spleen with other unwashed knuckle draggers about the show this is the place for you. Most people will like the "Things Pete and Matt are wrong about." section. :-D

Freedom hating MP3 41.01MB
Freedom loving OGG 45.03MB

Show length: 00:59:49

Song: "Please don't wish me a Merry Christmas" by: Kara Square
Licensed Under: CC-BY-NC

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

The answer is 42 isn't it? And Pete plans to ship Matt off with the telephone sanitation workers but only after fixing the roof on his shed. Matt gets the ball rolling with a story about the German city of Freiburg considering ditching Open Office to go back to using MS Office 2007. Matt cant find it in himself to blame them and Pete moans that it will give Linux a bad name.

Linus is worried about udev and Pete totally gets hold of the wrong end of the stick about Gentoo forking it, Pete moans about Google Play Music and the time it took to upload his music folder over his low upload speed. And we hear how the FBI stitched up Mr Dotcom of megaupload fame.

Archie (Woof woof)
For Archie woof woof the guys talk about the different flavours based on Arch and Pete is chuffed that the Arch Linux wiki has a derivatives page.

Announcements
Gllug Meeting
Saturday 8th December 2012
12:30pm
Mozilla Space London
101 St Martins Lane,
WC2N 4AZ

The Continental Breakfast Club Competition
Make a picture that captures somehow the mood of this special time of the year and include something that matches colours of the following fairytale quote: "Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame." Include The Dick Turpin Road Show logo and something to eat ;)
The challenge will last from the 1st to the 21st of December and the contributors can win prizes. Post as many pictures as you like to The Continental Breakfast Club page on G+ (This competition is run by Thomas Heine of #TCBC all entries or questions should be sent to Thomas.)

TDTRS Forum
The forum is now live! If you feel you must vent your spleen with other unwashed knuckle draggers about the show this is the place for you. Most people will like the "Things Pete and Matt are wrong about." section. :-D

Freedom hating MP3 55.05MB
Freedom loving OGG 47.06MB

Show length: 01:20:44

Feedback music: Typewriter Song by: Leroy Anderson
Licensed Under: CC Attribution

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

Happy anniversary Pete, yes it's that time again when you'd best not forget a card, box of choccys and a slap up meal at Kentucky fried chicken as we hear how it's baldies wedding anniversary which leaves Matt thinking "What's this got to do with FOSS?

Given the team are always right these days we move swiftly into a story about a guy who wanted his old cardiology X-rays and instead of paying the £10 standard fee ended up paying £2000 or did he? The Apache Foundation announces the intention to run Cloud Open Office but the lads are not overly impressed with the idea. iMessage, do we care? not really but Matt loves IM so you're gonna hear about it anyway. And we round off this section with a nice family four door 1.8 in red call Martin Werge Nissan who moans about G+ not honoring cut-n-paste.

Archie (Woof woof)
While it's not Arch Linux Pete cant resist kicking some spuds with yet another FOSS statement that just "Says it all really"
You don't have to be a C++ guru (or even know what that means!) to get involved. Pete then reveals how the Arch install wiki tells you to use cfdisk but then tells you it's broken and will cause problems with Grub2, wtf?

Room x1101
Yep you guessed it, it's sytemd

Freedom hating MP3 60.00MB
Freedom loving OGG 50.00MB

Show length: 01:27:13

Room x1101 intro: The Sting by: Scott Joplin
Licensed Under: Public Domain

Feedback music: Typewriter Song by: Leroy Anderson
Licensed Under: CC Attribution

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

Pete opens by telling Matt all about goblins or MediaGoblin to be precise which leaves Matt wondering why he put it in in the first place as he ends up trying to convince Pete it's a good thing. (What is Pete's gobin teasmaid a joke?) Diaspora is two months old. Well two months in to being a community project to be correct but as per usual Pete is more interested in going off at a tangent and bitches about the amount of social network services yet enthuses about TentStatus because it supports 256 characters. We also hear the dreaded word Federation and Matt teaches Pete all about integration.

In the words of Freddie Mercury "I wanted all." Matt moans about that wicked Amazon only letting him download one song at a time with their Linux client but it soon turns out that maybe that is the way downloaded music is going anyway?

Oh God, is there nothing people won't slap Ubuntu on? Matt tells us all about the offer to stick Ubuntu on your Kindle fire at you DS.

We all know Pete is a born-again FSFE fan boy and Matt talks about the FSF's response to Windows 8 release by going to the event and handing out stickers and leaflets, while Pete berates the audience "There it is folks! Advocacy in action! You gotta get out and evangelise."

So it's goodbye to used car sales and the local lending library? We hear about the Supreme Court (USA) and a grey book sales copyright case with the possible implications for second-hand goods if the case is proven.

Matt tells us about the latest offerings of the nexus4 & 10, while Pete is all excited about the specs and price on the nexus4 Matt seems to think they are a bit late to the game with the Nexus10 as everyone already has one?

It's clear that the EFF listens to the show as they agree with what Matt said on EP39 that the Amazon search on Ubuntu should be opt in.

Archie (Woof woof) it's not been a good week for Pete as systemd has bitten him in the face and firstly killed Gnome then ruined everything by producing a wiki page from the planet Zanuvian that only a higher being could begin to know where to start looking for help! Is this the end of Archie Woof woof?

TINAP is back! Matt and Pete enthuse at the return of the show that beat them off the starting blocks, even after a 15 month sabbatical "It's like they've never been away?" Welcome back guys.

Freedom hating MP3 65.01MB
Freedom loving OGG 55.05MB

Show length: 01:34:41

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

"Has the fun gone out of Linux?" is the question keeping Pete awake at night, but Matt has a cunning plan to spice things up through the wee small hours. Federation! the guys talk about Modern Web Documentation and the union of Google, W3C and OMG! Microsoft!

Matt tells us all about the KDE Manifesto and Pete just cant help using it to berate a certain community with all the subtlety of a 6lb lump hammer. While still in a spud kicking mood the team discuss Ubuntu's new "GIVE ME SOME MONEY!" page which gets the usually mild mannered Matt's hackles up. Not content with kicking Canonical all round the garden the boys go for the jugular over the whole Amazon Lense and EU License requirements "Ermm? Excuse me, did you know this is possibly illegal?" As a closing afterthought Matt brings up Microsoft's surface and the fact it would be cheaper to buy a laptop.

Archie (Woof woof) Not that it's breaking news but we hear how systemd is now default on all new installs, but it's still an opportunity to have a dig at the now famous 13 step install, or is it 13?

Freedom hating MP3 64.00MB
Freedom loving OGG 56.06MB