Full Circle Podcast Episode 30 Better Late Than Never
Your new hosts take over the helm, and hope to provide the same level of quality that you expect.
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Runtime: 1hr 50mins
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Show notes after the jump.
Welcome to the new format podcast hosted by members of Blackpool LUG
Your Hosts:
Les Pounder (blog at http://about.me/lespounder/ twitter @biglesp)
Tony Hughes (Google + http://plus.google.com/101988366830118285114/)
Olly Clark (Google + http://plus.google.com/103073417601965434371/ twitter @ollyclarkdotorg)
Jon Chamberlain (Google + http://plus.google.com/102119503691228033435/ twitter @jonachamberlain)
Show Notes
00:00 Title Music
00:26 Intro
01:20 What we’ve been doing
Tony Statistical package GNUPSPP – SPSS FLOSS alternative Tutorials needed!! Any takers?
Olly Skype Installation woes, followed by encryption woes with ecryptfs -> now using TrueCrypt instead
Playing with new RaspberryPi
Attended Preston Raspberry Jam
Jon MythTV care-and-maintenance
Fedora server rebuild (HDD RIP)
Laptop battery replacement – Amazon customer service FTW -YMMV!
Les Attended Preston and Cambridge RJs
Interviewed Ebon Upton (cheekily)
Interviewed Freaky Clown (rudely)
Busy Planning for OggCamp 2012
12:00 News
Google IO – Nexus 7 tablet launch info
- Android Jellybean
- Google Glass developer kit available
- Nexus Q media streamer
Updated Ubuntu Getting Started Guide released Oracle MySql bug release disk consumption
PHP 5.4/5.3 bug fixes released LibreOffice point release 3.5.5 – stability fixes (if you need them) and Calc and Impress minor enhancement Firefox new tab privacy fixes RaspberryPI Raspbian distro update – Floating point and Chromuim optimisations FirefoxOS – Mobile platform announcement
32:10 Interview with Freaky Clown – Surrey Hackspace
57:45 RaspberryJam Preston – UCLAN/@teknoteacher
Dr Simon Monk – “Mr Arduino” – using with RaspPi (GPIO ports)
Ben Croston – Developer of GPIO modules for Debian and Fedora – Member of RaspberryFilling project course material for use in schools
Kefin Hoyle – laptop shrimping – repurposing old hardware – GBP4 arduino kit – Open Hardware track at OggCamp
James Meers – getting started with Rpi, interesting projects – promo kits – demo of Quake 3 on the Rpi – RPi as a thin client
Ian Dixon – host of Digital Lifestyle podcast
1:05:30 Cambridge RaspberryJam – recorded mini podcast in car Website: Raspberryjam.org.uk
streamed live over Google Hangout
Very well attended – lots of interesting speakers
London Zoo using mesh network using webcam module to monitor animal health
BigTrak/Rpi/PS2 game pad mashup
Keith Upton – head of RISC OS project for RPi
x10i project – provides 14 inputs and outputs, connects to RPi and can chain up to 8 together
RPi Prototypes on displayed
Webcam connection to RPi
Cambridge photos online 1:15:15 Interview Ebon Upton
1:29:50 FC Magazine content discussion
Sky maps – Stellarium, Aladin
Space Simulators – Google Earth, and others
Amateur astro photograhpy
Sky map apps on Android
Linux lab – linking devices to Twitter
Closing windows – application alternatives under Linux
Gnome3 – KDE
1:45:00 Upcoming Events
1:50:00 Outro