Monthly Archives: April 2008

LUG Radio Live USA (Part 3)

April 28, 2008

We were at the venue for 8 o’clock the following morning. In the UK, this is the busiest time of the event. The whole crew descend on the venue on the Saturday morning and put out chairs, tables, stuff nutsacks, set up video cameras, rig PAs and so on. For the USA event, it was [...]

LUG Radio Live USA (Part 2)

April 27, 2008

Friday was the prep day. The entire troupe of Britons walked to the venue from the hotel, which was a reasonable walk. Not so far as to be impossible, but far enough not to be much fun with a load of equipment. Fortunately Google were providing breakfast for their staff, the AV contractors and us [...]

LUG Radio Live USA (Part 1)

April 25, 2008

LUG Radio Live USA 2008 was two weekends ago now and I’ve only just got around to posting about it, being kicked into action by Emma’s memories of the same event. It is I suppose appropriate to start at the beginning, which for me was at Heathrow Terminal 3 on the morning of Wednesday 9th. [...]

If only answers were as easy

April 23, 2008

The anticipated fourth episode (yes, really, apparently) of the Ubuntu UK Podcast is out now. In this episode: Unix/Linux Malware & Security precautions, Interview with Ian Ozsvald from Showmedo, A short phone call from Mark Shuttleworth, Plus the sarcastic news, And a competition to get money off Ubuntu schwag. Download it from: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/04/23/s01e04-such-an-easy-question/ This episode [...]

Won’t you please, please, please

April 7, 2008

The third episode of the Ubuntu UK podcast, “Help me”, is now out and available from: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/04/07/s01e03-help-me/ In this episode we talk about the command line versus GUI, Mythbuntu, podcast production (by popular request) and give our take on recent FLOSS-related news. Pin It Pin It Pin It What was different about this episode? Well, [...]