Podcast Season 2 Episode 6
Straight after the podcast, we headed into Bath and The Salamander pub for a fantastic evening with Jake, the awesome 1,337 meal contributor from our Indiegogo campaign. Thanks Jake!
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In this episode: More Microsoft news than you’ll find in a Microsoft podcast. Mozilla gets a new CEO. Gnome 3.12 has been released and we may finally be able to legally rip CDs in the United Kingdom. And Ben’s book is doing well on Amazon. We’ve got some lovely Finds of the Fortnight, a single neuron to share and an epic Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Microsoft Office has been released for Linux. Well, Android. Microsoft has also released the source code to MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows. There’s been some backlash against the appointment of Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, after he made a 2008 donation in support of California’s gay marriage ban. Gnome 3.12 has been released. It’s almost legally possible to rip CDs in the UK. Crowdfunded VR headset maker, Oculus Rift, has been acquired by Facebook. Version 3.14 of the Linux kernel has been released, dubbed the Pi kernel. Raspberry Pi hacker, Simon Hall, has won the Raspberry Pi Quake III bounty by getting Quake III running on using the recently opened VideoCore IV graphics stack. And finally, there’s an awesome new book called Programming Python on the Raspberry Pi that’s doing rather well on Amazon.
Update 03/04/2013: After recording the podcast, Brendan Eich resigned as CEO of Mozilla Corp.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Andrew:
- An Arduino-powered business card that plays Tetris(thanks Phil the Sheep!)
- LG’s Smart televisions run Linux.
- Mike:
- Vim is amazing. It’s like a language.
- Ben:
- (Ben tells a couple of jokes).
- Graham:
- Bitwig Studio for Linux has been released. And it’s awesome.
- Frank Oz was the voice of Miss Piggy and Yoda.
- Cultural test to qualify for UK Games industry tax relief.
- Andrew:
- People’s Voice:
- Voice of the Masses: X/Mir/Wayland – do you care?
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Thanks Rob! If you’d like your brains to be part of our next episode email mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:07:23
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
Brilliant discovery about the cultural test for games. You can really imagine how that came along: some young and clever person thought of helping “modern” industries, and then it went through a committee of 70 year olds who are quite sceptic about this whole computer thing and don’t like anything foreign. And afterwards the legal department realized potential problems with EU Law and added “or the EEA” to every mention of “Britain” in the text.
Hi guys,
One of you mentioned not being able to watch Silverlight content. I suggest you check out Pipelight[1], it uses an NPAPI browser plugin to talk to Windows browser plugins running in WINE. This lets you watch Silverlight videos like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video in a Linux web browser!
[1] http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silverlight-in-linux-browsers.html
Cheers Mark, I’ll give that a go, probably about 5 minutes before the kick-off of the next game I want to watch. Might get it working in time for the second half.
Really Linux Voice should leave politics well alone. I know that the “free software” culture here in the UK is dominated by Lefties (oh the irony free software supporters but would vote big state which always means the absence of free anything) but come on think around things for once. Go look see where all this “cultural test” crap originated. I will save you the trouble the film industry. When did it come in? 2007. Who was in government? Not the ConLib coalition but Labour. And from where did the nucleus of the legislation come? The EU. The Linux Voice editorial may not be Tory voters don’t care. But lets have a bit more reasoned thought can we? I fear that if Labour were in power there wouldn’t be quite as much mocking. The contrary mindest displayed by many free software pundits is irritating. Promote free software one day, vote Labour the next is politically and philosophically disingenuous.
If you’ve been listening to our podcasts for a while, you’ll know that we’re deeply cynical about all political parties, left or right…
Bringing the cultural test up had nothing to do with the political party that sponsored it. From my perspective, it was about the effectiveness of the wording and what the medium-term outcome might be for the UK games industry, which is something I care about.
Listening to podcast and am staring at the paper magazine in supermarket. It’s real. Really real.
I’m guessing the tax break is aimed at getting more games developed in the ‘EEA’ which is basically good for European jobs and the wider economy.
This is good news, the EU / UK Governments are signalling the importance and size of the gaming market (not least being an important employer of our young programming talent now and in the future), the fact that the logic appears to be weird is missing the point a bit.
I don’t know, but I’d be tempted to imagine that its just mirroring similar legislation in other countries (or ‘states’ ;]) to counterbalance unfair advantage derived from that. The side effect of having more games developed in the EEA which are based in Europe with e.g. European voice actors, script writers and composers is good for Europeans too 😉
I understand the cynisism, it sounds ridiculous but that’s tax law for you..and I’m a lefty 😉
Clearly the red motif of the site is symbolism for the deep Marxist roots of the Linux Voice team who would rather see people on the bread-line waiting for their MikeOS disc, than another bourgeoisie conservative government.
I thought all this red was part of our covert sponsorship deal with the Walkers snack empire.
The red and black also clearly show our support for the Welsh nation rugby team, especially during the autumn internationals when you can only watch England on Sky, which is evil and bourgeois.
Upstart came first. But why did systemd come along? Also –
Mir, the Canonical CLA and skewing the playing field – http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html
CLA does not prevent anyone forking Mir so the point is moot. It is merely Canonical trying to protect themselves by asserting ownership, to prevent a contributor later controlling the licensing of a stack that they have obvious commercial interest in.
That’s not the point and you probably know better. You want to play by Canonical rules. Fine. But I wont, just as I wont clap them along.
I quote Sun Tzu. “Never try to understand the enemy’s ideals, because when you do they stop being one”. It is certainly important to stick to one’s principles, and I applaud you for it. Personally I like to take a non-partisan, apolitical approach, and the only way you see both sides of a fence is when you sit on it.
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain. And I won’t mention Jesus again, promise.
Methinks the ‘Anon’ comments are clearly from other magazines who, acting as agent provocateurs, are attempting to incite unrest in the comments! Passive resistance!! 🙂 🙂
Can someone help a non english speaking person get what the first programmer said on that joke? Or was that just mumbling? I’ve repeated it a dozen of times and I still don’t understand what was said.
Not that it had any effect on the fact of me not understanding the joke, I’m just trying to improve my listening skills, actually.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, I have a tendency to slip into a Hugh Grant mumble sometimes.
The “joke” is: A programmer’s having a baby, and her fried asks her “Boy or girl”. The programmer says “True!”
My bad! I was reffering to the second joke:
“[…] the barman says: You’d all want a beer? The first guy says:”. Then, you mumble something.
But thank you for the reply. =P
Cheers!
The joke is:
Three programmers walk into a bar.
The barman asks “Do you all want a beer”
The first programmer says “I don’t know”
The second programmer says “I don’t know”
The third programmer says “Yes”
It is more of a logic problem than a joke. It featured on a BBC4 documentary about the use of logic a few months ago.
I see!
“Everyone wants a beer” can’t be evaluated until you know what the last programmer will say. I think I got it now.
Thanks!
Today, while commuting to work I was thinking about getting a new text editor, either buying one or going to something else open source.
Arriving at job, I decided to procrastinate a little and have a look at some of the options we have today.
I visited Sublime Text main page, watched a few videos. I’ve viseted Brackets page. I’ve looked back to Geany. Had another look at GEdit and Kate.
Then, I asked a friend what he was using and if Sublime was worth the money. He told me the cool kids from his workplace were Sublime users, but now they are switching Atom.
I asked what was his pick. He said he was Sublime user too, but got fed up with this “Sublime is so last week” and went back to Vim.
I starred a little at his answer, looked to all my opened tabs with all these text editors and it came to my mind: screw this! I will go back to Vim!
Why? Even though I have to remember all these shortcuts and read a cheatsheet almost once a week to remember something I used once do that thing, I know Vim will be there, with his 80s like icon – just waiting for me to say what mode I want.
For all vim users (and learners) I highly recommend Vimcasts.org. The author is really talented in explaining vim’s basics and unusual applications of vim, as well.
And BTW, you should keep eyes open on new project – Neovim. It could be to Vim as Vim was to vi.
Are you all alcoholic? Some meetings in pubs before and after podcasts. Beer being delivered, this would never happen in Linux Towers lol. No wonder you lot are always laughing. Keep up all the good work and cheers for a great mag.