Linux Outlaws 249 – Inflatable Tanks
Released: February 2, 2012
Length: 1:42:24
Kimble and his inflatable tank, ACTA, a lot of security news, Ubuntu introduces The HUD, Google Sky Map now open source, Epiphany is being integrated into Gnome Shell and much more...
0:01:03 Introduction
- Happy birthday Aq!
- Fab is shutting down LXnews and the Sixgun Blog, but has started a new project called Dehype
- Oil Rush has been released
- Fab has been running CyanogenMod with Ice Cream Sandwich on his Xoom for a while now and gives a quick status update
- Video: Great talk from Linux.conf.au
- Our next live show will be on Friday, 10 February
0:14:26 Releases & News
- GhostBSD 2.5
- KDE 4.8
- Rust 0.1
- ffmpeg 0.10
- OwnCloud 3.0
- Git 1.7.9
- Xorg vulnerability allows anyone to unlock a computer
- Kernel root exploit
- Recent WPS vulnerability
- ACTA is being signed without any proper democratic review at all
- O2 privacy debacle
- EU wants a “right to be forgotten” on the Internet
- Kimble ordered an inflatable tank
Inflatable Tanks
- Mandriva postpones decision about their financial future, and again
- Canonical retracts decision to disable java on Ubuntu systems
- Fedora Packages site launched
- Poettering explains the /usr merge
- Epiphany is being integrated into Gnome Shell
- Google Sky Map now open source
- Extremadura plans rollout of 40,000 Linux desktops
- Ubuntu announces “The HUD”
1:10:26 Microwatch
1:13:51 Feedback
Supporters: Rubens Durans Kinjo, Kirk Richard Holz and Eric Geissinger
- We had voicemail from the Wing Commander
- Robin Catling of the Full Circle Podcast writes about extraditing UK citizens to the US
- Remy Van Elst wants to recommend a couple of good podcasts he’s heard: Sourcetrunk and GNU World Order
- Matthew Grecar sends us email on BrewDog's beers
- Ben says logstash has the best logo ever — and he is right!
- Kelly Hays tells us about Open Source Ecology (which we actually have talked about on the show before)
- James Lewis corrects us that Arista Transcoder uses Gstreamer and not FFMpeg in the backend
- Drasticheadcase writes to Dan about Ubuntu touchscreen keyboards
- JCCar tells us about their plight with Flattr and their bank
We had other emails from Matt, Michael Spannbauer, Paul Williams, Gerard Braad, Jason Harrison, Rubens Durans Kinjo, Mark Sinclair, Robert Pfeiffer, Tom Bourque, Keith Z-G, John Hill and Matěj.
- Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 (May 2-5 in Vienna, Austria): please donate to make it happen!
- The Ohio Linux Fest's call for talks is now open
Song: Something by Airtone (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC)
Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.
HPR0915: TGTM Newscast for 2012/01/17
Shownotes are available at Show Notes for TGTM news 58
TGTM Newscast for 2012/01/17 by DeepGeek
Here is a news review:
Presiding Officer Recommends Court-Martial for Manning
Glitnir Winding-Up Committee Sues Executives
New Hampshire Primary Results — No Not That One
The More the Better (spike in sex workers.)
Left, Right or the truth?
The Internet Goes to Washington on January 18
Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy
The Pirate Bay Shows Futility of Domain and DNS Blocks
Why Apple Will Not Be Part Of The Real Tablet Revolution
The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
Other Headlines:
Calif. Carwashes Agree to $1 Million Back Pay Settlement
New pilot project allows collecting society SACEM members to use Creative Commons licenses
Assange Extradition Fact Sheet: 15 Overlooked Facts
Argentina to Brazil: Please Don't Get the Bomb
100 Years After Lawrence Strike, the Cry for ‘Bread & Roses’ Still Resonates
News from "icelandreview.com, " "dissentingdemocrat.wordpress.com," "maggiemcneill.wordpress.com," "spankthespooki.blogspot.com," and "techdirt.com" used
under arranged permission. News from "eff.org" and "torrentfreak.com" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "democracynow.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license.
Audio Interlude, MOC #106, used under permission of Lee Camp.
News Sources retain their respective copyrights.
Links
http://www.talkgeektome.us/tgtmnews-58.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/13/headlines#1
http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=29314&ew_0_a_id=386295
http://dissentingdemocrat.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/new-hampshire-primary-results-no-not-that-one/
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-more-the-better/
http://spankthespooki.blogspot.com/2012/01/left-right-or-truth.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/internet-goes-washington-january-18
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/biometrics-argentina-mass-surveillance-state-policy
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-shows-futility-of-domain-and-dns-blocks-120109/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120102/04270317251/why-apple-will-not-be-part-real-tablet-revolution.shtml
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-will-stop-serving-torrents-120112/
http://blog.aflcio.org/2012/01/11/calif-car-washes-agree-to-1-million-back-pay-settlement-2/
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31205
http://wlcentral.org/node/2429
http://wlcentral.org/node/2426
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12504/one_hundred_years_after_lawrence_strike_the_cry_for_bread_roses_still_reson/
Feedback & Space Lego’s | SciByte 31
We take a look at lego’s in space, dinosaur feathers, spacecraft updates, breaking science, viewer feedback and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.
HPR0914: Sunday Morning Linux Review: Episode 014
Syndicated Thursdays
A chance to showcase other Creative Commons works. We try to expose podcasts, speeches, presentations, music, etc that you may not have heard. If you have suggestions for items then send your recommendation to admin at hpr and we'll add it to the queue.
Sunday Morning Linux Review: Episode 014
January 15th, 2012
http://smlr.us
Intro:
Mat Enders, Tony Bemus, and Mary Tomich
Kernel News: Mat
Release Canidates
None
Main Line
3.2 no change
Stable Releases
Greg KH announced the release of the 2.6.32.54 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:13:20 UTC
There were 18 files changed, 167 files inserted, and 66 files deleted
Greg KH announced the release of the 3.0.17 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:21:36 UTC
There were 52 files changed, 364 files inserted, and 179 files deleted
Greg KH announced the release of the 3.1.9 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:22:18 UTC
There were 53 files changed, 367 files inserted, and 179 files deleted
Greg KH announced the release of the 3.2.1 Kernel Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:25:05 UTC
There were 63 files changed, 465 files inserted, and 200 files deleted
Kernel Quote
"Here’s the different active kernel versions that I am maintaining at the moment:
3.2.y – this will be maintained until 3.3 comes out
3.1.y – there will be only one, maybe two, more releases of this tree
3.0.y – this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be
maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me.
2.6.32.y – this is the previous "longterm" kernel release. It is
approaching it’s end-of-life, and I think I only have
another month or so doing releases of this. After I am
finished with it, it might be picked up by someone else, but
I’m not going to promise anything.
All other longterm kernels are being maintained in various forms
(usually quite sporadically, if at all), by other people, and I can not
speak for their lifetime at all, that is up to those individuals."
– Greg Kroah-Hartman
There was also a bit of a dust up between Tim Gardner of Canonical and Greg Kroah-Hartman over maintenance of the 2.6.32 kernel once greg gives it up. It appears to have been started by a misunderstanding and a conclusion jump by Tim.
Distro News: Tony
Distrowatch.com
1-13 – PC-BSD 9.0 – desktop-oriented distribution based on the latest stable FreeBSD
1-12 – FreeBSD 9.0 – a major new version of the BSD operating featuring a brand-new system installer
1-12 – Webconverger 11.0 – a web browser-only specialist distribution for Internet kiosks
1-11 – Astaro Security Gateway 8.3 – specialist distribution for firewall and gateways
1-10 - Asturix 4 – Ubuntu-based desktop distribution with a custom desktop environment and many usability improvements
1-10 – Fuduntu 2012.1 – a new quarterly update of the distribution that was forked from Fedora last year
1-8 – Porteus 1.1 – Slackware-based live CD with a choice of Trinity (a KDE 3 fork), KDE 4 and LXDE desktops
Mat did you know about the KDE 3 fork, Trinity?
Distro of the Week: Tony
Fuduntu – 1433
openSUSE – 1440
Fedora – 1495
Ubuntu – 1873
Mint – 4248
Tech News:
Microsoft Now Collects Extortion On Approximatley 70% Of All US Sales Of Androids
LG is the latest victim to pay Microsoft’s extortion demands. They are the eleventh victim in this extortion scheme. A list of the other victims includes Samsung, HTC, and Acer. This leaves Motorola Mobility as the only major manufacturer to not sign an extortion agreement with Microsoft. I would wager that Microsoft has not even approached Motorola as Google now owns Motorola and those pockets are deep enough to scare off the Microsoft patent trolls. Microsoft now claims that they are collecting "royalties" on over 70% of all Android smart phones sold in the US. The terms of this latest agreement are unknown as Microsoft makes part of the agreement that the parties can not make public the patents covered by Microsoft’s claims. In other words a typical extortion agreement.
The MPAA Instigates A Dustup with Ars Technica
On 1/10 the MPAA (Motion Picture Associtation of America) said on it’s blog, "… Ars Technica, a tech blog with a long history of challenging efforts to curb content theft,". This entire claim by the MPAA appears to be Ars Technica opposing things in the past like the broadcast flag which would have allowed remote control of peoples home entertainment recording devices, along with their stand against DRM that prevents owners from ripping legal backup copies of their DVDs. Ars also has publicly opposed the horrendous SOPA legislation currently in front of Congress. It is obvious that the MPAA’s position is the wacky correlation of fighting for consumers’ rights is the equivalent of having no enforcement at all.
Not that any representative of the MPAA would ever engage in outlandish statements to further their cause. Like this quote from Jack Valenti when he appeared before congress in 1982, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
United States Migrates Spy Drone Control Panels From Windows To Linux
Last September the ground control systems for the Reaper drones, which reside at the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, became infected with a virus. When it happed the Air Force dismissed this intrusion as a nuisance that posed no real threat, it was however taken very seriously.
Still the discovery of this virus on the Air Force’s systems was a huge embarrassment. This is what they had to say at the time:
"The malware in question is a credential stealer, not a key logger, found routinely on computer networks and is considered more of a nuisance than an operational threat. It is not designed to transmit data or video, nor is it designed to corrupt data, files or programs on the infected computer. Our tools and processes detect this type of malware as soon as it appears on the system, preventing further reach.", they also went on to say, "The ground system is separate from the flight control system Air Force pilots use to fly the aircraft remotely; the ability of the pilots to safely fly these aircraft remained secure throughout the incident,"
Screen shots of drone control computers posted by security researcher Mikko Hypponen show that some of the systems have been migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux. In a statement Mikko Hypponen said,
"If I would need to select between Windows XP and a Linux based system while building a military system, I wouldn’t doubt a second which one I would take."
Open Source Surgery, a Robot called Raven takes Flight
The Raven 2 is a surgical robot with 7 degrees of freedom, compact electronics and two wing-like arms which end in tiny gripper claws designed to perform surgery on simulated patients. The robot’s software is compatible with Robot Operating System, an open source robotics coding platform.
January 20, 2012 is Penguin Awareness Day
ep0898 :: Hacker Public Radio New Year’s Eve Part 8/8 (The After Show)
fiftyonefifty mentions us as one of the new podcasts that he likes!! Thanks!
Raspberry Pi Linux micro machine enters mass production
The Commodore 64 is 30
Outtro Music:
Across my way by Matthew Morris
The Techie Geek – Episode 95 – Show Notes
Email Russ at russ AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Email Tracy at tracy AT thetechiegeek DOT com
Leave us a voice mail at 1-206-339-1575
FreeLinuxBox.org helps your un-needed Linux box find a needy home
System76 Lemur Laptop Ultra
$100 extra income for Amazon for each Kindle Fire sold
Woz admits Android does things better than iPhone
PC-BSD (desktop version of Free BSD) Book
Cuff links – USB & Wifi Hotspot
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns after 16 years as “Chief Yahoo”
92 Open Source Apps That Replace Everyday Software
A Beginner’s Guide to Editing Text Files With Vi
Beer Update: Blackberry Wit & Vanilla Caramel Cream Ale
BrewTarget – Open source cross platform
Check out these great podcast sites: Techpodcasts.com and BluBrry.com
The Techie Geek – Episode 95 – 1/31/11
In this week's episode Tracy talks about his new System76 Lemur laptop, USB/WiFi Cuff Links, Home Brewing Beer, and so much more! Head on over to The Techie Geek home page for all the Show Notes http://thetechiegeek.com/
Not Our War | STOked Special
The Foundry Files team is back with a great new mission they think you’ll love. Join us for this STOked special edition, with our focus on new mission content!
Plus up coming plans for the show, and more!
HPR0913: Exchanging Data Podcast 1
This podcast is the first in a series about accessing the data you have on your web site in any number of other locations. These can be other web sites or apps running on your mobile phone. Over the next few episodes, I will describe the different formats used for sharing your data, what goes into building the web application that serves up your data, how to access your data from other locations such as other web sites or mobile apps, and, finally, I will talk briefly on how to make something like this scale to support higher load demands.
This episode is an introduction to the data formats available when talking to web services.
Thanks for listening!
Burning Circle Episode 58
We actually talk about Ubuntu Developer Week...which is later this week...during this episode...
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Burning Circle Episode 58 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
HPR0912: How I cut The Cable Cord Part1
In his very first episode our latest community memeber to step up to the plate takes on the topic of cutting the cord.
