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We Preview Bioshock 2, then discuss the shutdown of the original Xbox LIVE service and discuss what that could mean when one day all games are shipped via download.

We wrap the whole episode up with a review of the recently released MMO, Star Trek Online, and somehow end up selling the cast on Champions Online!

Legend of the Stoned Owl is a new show all about video games, the hosts take pride in there in-depth discussion about games, we take a holistic approach to our look at each game.

This show is designed for the audio listener, but we've included a video version that captures our screens and matches the flow of conversation that provides the viewer with a visual guide to the topics we discuss. The focus is always on the content, and not the hosts.

Over the past two weeks, I've been working to organize a CrisisCamp in Calgary.  It was the 1 of 4 happening in Canada this weekend.  Based on Barcamp, the focus was on solutions to aid the NGO"s and responders on the ground in Haiti. The code base is all open source and can be modified for other disasters that may occur globally.

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Joint Failures EP10: We cover the recent fail news, like Microsoft VP calling for Internet Drivers license, a man gets married to a dog (seriously), Bikini Barista prostitution bust, and more!

In this podcast comprookie talks about learning Python as a group, and his Gentoo unslacking.

Slacker
The term slacker is commonly used to refer to a person who avoids work (especially British English), or (primarily in North American English) an educated person who is viewed as an underachiever. Slackers, understood mostly as males in their twenties and thirties, or older may be regarded as belonging to an antimaterialistic counterculture, though in many cases their behavior may merely be due to apathy or laziness.

LINKS:
Slacker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacker

Fedora Bugzilla
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugzilla

PythonGroup Wiki
http://asterisklinks.com/wiki/doku.php?id=core:start

PythonGroup Forum
http://asterisklinks.com/python/index.php?board=4.0

Gentoo (dabbott)
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

irc network freenode channel #linuxcrazy

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Hey, stop slacking!

Episode 12 - 31 Jan 2010

In this, somewhat rambling episode, we discuss:

• mdadm woes with the SS4000e Nas,
• drupal module development and "mandatory" optional modules
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      • CCK,
      • Views,
      • Drush,
      • Devel
• chromium - the google browser, now in Ubuntu repositories,
• crisis commons - Crisis Commons and the  planning of Crisis Camp Calgary, and
• apple ipad and the sun oracle deal.

MP3 - 1 hour 38 minutes 15 seconds, 45.0 MB, Ogg Vorbis version here — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

This week’s show is brought to you by Bang Bros and Adobe, we also talk about the iTampon, Defective by Design, Ubuntu switching to Yahoo for search, Sourceforge blocking whole countries and much more…

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — preferably in the thread for this episode.

Linux Outlaws is brought to you by Sixgun Productions.

0:02:08 | Introduction

• Fab thanks Jon Tomaszewski from Red Hat for sending him one of the iconic red fedoras
• Errata: MJJZF was thinking of Adam Williamson of Mandriva when talking about another community manager who has quit his job last week, we are glad to hear Max Spevak is still rocking it at Fedora because he’s a great guy — actually Williamson is at Red Hat now too, we hear
• We had 52,886 downloads in January on Libsyn alone, a new record — the new weekly record is 13,866 for last week
• The Fender Android phone is out now
• GCC to merge Go support
• Wikileaks needs donations
• Check out Dan’s monster N900 review

0:11:56 | Releases, MicroCrapplewatch & News

• SystemRescueCd 1.3.5
• PC/OS 10
• Ubuntu 8.04.4
• Banshee 1.5.3
• Firefox for Maemo 1.0
• Weave 1.0
• Tomboy 1.1.1
• SpamAssassin 3.3.0
• KDE Software Compilation 4.3.5

• Apple releases big ass iPod touch — Fab would prefer a Mini 5, Dan falls asleep
• Steve Jobs: “Ehh… Nobody reads more than 10 hours!!!”
• In response to this, Adobe gets into a pissing match about missing Flash and their main Flash evangelist posts a screenshot from Bang Bros on his blog, then pulls it
• Zonker says Defective by Design is a bad campaign
• Microsoft sues BitTorrent tracker — as far as we are aware, this is a first

• Ubuntu sells their default search option, switches to Yahoo — BING!!!
• Sourceforge now discriminates against users from certain countries that the US doesn’t like — Jon “Maddog” Hall’s take on this topic
• The FSFE receives the Theodor Heuss Medal

1:04:06 | Software Picks

• Desktop: Ground Control, a GUI interface to Bazaar and Launchpad integrated right into Nautilus — Jono’s blog post on Ground Control and other handy tools
• Android: Aldiko, an ebook reader for Android — free, $1.99 if you want to support them

1:09:41 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Tom Link, Mark Wright and Ryan Kohler
• Forums: Coordinate OggCamp travel

• We had a couple of emails on the SourceForge blockade from Pete Smith and Badry Darkoush from Syria — Chad Vader sketch
• Tom Link from Canada reports that he took his car for an oil change to Mr. Lube and was surprised to see that all their workstations run Ubuntu
• Dave Purse sent us information about his new distro Simplicity Linux which comes with Linux Outlaws pre-loaded in the podcatcher — good on ya, Dave!
• MJJZF says the Danish parliament, Folketinget, decided that ODF should be used as the only document format in state documents
• JonathanD pimps Freenode’s “7for7” campaign, go and donate because Freenode is ace!
• We also had emails from Ravel Lopez, Peter Cannon, Bo Kullmar, Joshua K., Jack, Mark Law, Reine, Sven Lankes, Kelly, Paul W.B., Quarter Pounder, Parth Lawate, Morgan, Russ Axford, Rich Brown, Mark, Rick and Vytenis

• Event: Fedora Activity Day (FAD), March 27/28 in Mönchengladbach

Song: Oppositional Defiance Disorder (live) by David Rovics from the album The Commons

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.

Future of Solaris, The Ubuntu - Yahoo deal, PC/OS 10, Converting ext3 to ext4, and more.

Going Linux #092 - Listener Feedback

A new Linux computer vendor, help for our listeners, and a new segment for the podcast. Gone Linux!

Episode 92 Time Stamps
00:00 Going Linux #092 - Listener Feedback
00:15 Introduction
01:15 SCaLE 8x Southern California Linux Expo
02:19 Jonathan: Frostbite systems - computers with Linux installed, specializing in computers for blind users
05:02 Yiorgi: Suggestions for making Going Linux an even better podcast
10:34 Lester: Cell phone connects quickly in Linux, difficult in Windows
12:51 Rafael: Switched to Ubuntu after Windows virus infestation
14:19 Scott: Wiped out Windows and went 100% to Linux
16:54 Luke: Needs older version of Skype because of pulse audio problems
18:34 Rex: Has a podcast and a revolutionary Open Source business idea
20:44 James: Adding missing application icons to the Linux menu
22:36 Definition: The command line pipe
24:24 James: Linux is just a command-line operating system with a GUI pasted on top
30:18 Scott: Seems to be installing Ubuntu on every computer in sight!
34:03 Pete: De-Microsofting his life
35:51 Jim: What does it mean to "install" software?
40:29 Amarok issues
41:41 Max: Mint Cast provides info on re-installing settings after a fresh install.
42:34 Tony: Failed install of Firefox 3.6 disables plugins
45:53 John: Software pick is the fusion-icon package
50:07 Phil: Google IS evil. Acer Aspire One problems with Ubuntu installed
53:14 Linux could be (but isn't) like Mac, and support only specific hardware; or like Windows, and require hardware upgrades
57:15 John: Lost his NTFS "C:" drive on his dual-boot system
59:43 Tim: Trying to install Linux on a G4 Sawtooth Mac
62:28 John: FOSSCasts screencasts are available
63:30 Software pick: UCK Ubuntu Customisation Kit
65:31 iTunes, goinglinux.com, goinglinux@gmail.com, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe
67:20 End

Special Guest Tara Spalding from GroundSpeak monitoring services; nagios, open source companies, boxee, android, SELF, ScALE

Dan AKA Gozer joins us from Cryptic Studios, then in our new MATH segment we discuss combat tactics and turning radius, show you a great new skill calculator, and kick off our STO MEDIA segment with some footage from the end-of-beta event!

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!