Episode 25: The Return of Chris McDonough, bootstrapping pip, projects and playgrounds, and the death of Open Source consulting
Watch us record the podcast, warts and all
The problem with having an awesome guest like Chris McDonough on the podcast is you have a really hard time topping that. So what better way to kick off the cobwebs of the podcast than to invite Chris back. Well, add to that three provocative topics (one of which was penned my Chris himself) and you have as good an excuse as any to bring back Lococast from the podcast brink. We also took the opportunity to record it as a Google Hangout so if you want to see our unvarnished smiling faces you can. If you'd rather let your imagination run wild (and your psyche unharmed) you also have the option of listening to our regularly generated audio file.
Shownotes:
- https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128723.html
- http://alexgaynor.net/2013/sep/08/your-project-doesnt-mean-your-playground/
- http://www.plope.com/is_open_source_consulting_dead
Music:
- (00:00) Remain in trance (Evening Ritual) by Aylwin from Split album (BY-NC-SA)
- (14:52) All Alone With Me (instrumental) by Cancer Killing Gemini from It Only Hurts When We Breathe (Instrumental) (BY-NC-SA)
- (22:55) Damage is Done by Neurotech from The Decipher Volumes (BY-SA)
- (41:21) Lord of the Algorithms by Dr. Zilog from Vulgar Fractions (BY-NC-SA)
Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Interview: Michael Fischer
Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Michael Fischer
photo credit: Terry McCombs
We have one last interview in the can from Ohio Linuxfest, and it's appropriate that we release this canned interview, since it's with Michael "Call me Fish" Fischer (get it? Canned? Fish? OK, I'll stop now). Fish presented a talk at Ohio Linuxfest entitled: "Managing a Computer Lab in a High School Environment". After the talk, Rick and Fish sat down to talk a bit about computers and education, and why Fish brought some of his students to Ohio Linuxfest.
Special thanks to Michael "Call me Fish" Fischer for taking the time to talk with us at Lococast.net.
Music:
Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Interview: Aaron Toponce
Lococast Ohio Linuxfest 2011 Inteview: Aaron Toponce
Password speaking server, guarded by lasers and spiders (photo credit: Nadya Peek)
"Sherman, set the way-back machine for two months ago, when the fall colors weren't sitting upon our lawn. September should be good, right around the time when Ohio Linuxfest was occurring. Yep, that should be good. Now, be a good boy and open the doors and watch the way-back machine while I listen to these interviews."
So, insert the standard disclaimer about not getting these up in time because [life got busy | things came up | cat ate my hard drive] and accept our humble apologies for not getting these interviews up sooner.
The next interview from our adventures at Ohio Linuxfest features Aaron Toponce. Aaron sat down to talk with Rick about Aaron's presentation at Ohio Linuxfest about Password Theory and Breaking Encrypted Filesystems. Suffice to say, you might not want to leave your machine unattended near any maids anytime soon.
Special thanks to Aaron Toponce for sitting down and talking with us at Ohio Linuxfest.
Music
Lococast.net Episode 17 – Extreme Blabbermouth Edition
Lococast.net Episode 17 - Extreme Blabbermouth Edition
- Intro
- Skype bought by Microsoft?
- Events
- Penguicon Recap
- PyOhio (call for talks now on! Sponsorship available!)
- Loco Takes over MUG - looking for short talk ideas
- Feedback, send it people feedback@lococast.net
- Natty is out and people are responding, loads of stories:
- Craig and his newfound unity love
- Ubuntu studio moving to XFCE vs Unity: [link]
- Is quality an issue? How can we help? Alpha vs Beta testing [link]
- Ubuntu power users project:
- Rick kicks Ubuntu to the curb/server (How's Arch?)
- UDS happened
- Documentation cleanup , too much old bad info, delete 5 wiki pages [link]
- Amazon Lending, Kindle books outselling paper books on amazon? thoughts?
- Bookie! (http://bmark.us)
- Miscellany
- Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 [link]
- Books
Lococast.net Episode 13 – WARNING: News overload…generating core dump
Bus Error: Core Dumped (image by Joe Crawford)
Lococast.net Episode 13 - WARNING: News overload...generating core dump
- Intro
- Events
- Ubuntu Happenings
- Ubuntu 11.04 Drops Release Candidate / News / Online / Home - Ubuntu User
- No GPLv3 Software on Windows Phone 7 / XBox app store?
- Banshee by default brings headaches for Canonical
- Nokia/MS Partnership
- http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/nokia-confirms-microsoft-partnership-new-leadership-team
- http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/02/11/elopocalypse-nokia-chooses-microsoft/
- http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-previous-strategic-mobile-partners/
- Meego - "desktop QT is not our R&D priority right now http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/18/buckets-of-cold-water/ (KDE in danger?)
- Freedombox
- UberTwitter
- Books
- Music:
Lococast Interview: Jim Barber
Lococast Interview with Jim Barber
Sailing the Seas of Free
Recently we received a note from a listener, Jim Barber. He sent us one of the most interesting stories of his usage of Ubuntu. Rather than read the note on the air, we decided to do an interview with Jim. Unfortunately, Rick was "on assignment", so Craig and Jim sat and talked. Hear about Jim's computer experiences from the past, and how he uses Ubuntu in one of the most unique settings we've come across. (Let's just say I won't be bitching about bandwidth anymore at the coffee shop).
If you've got an interesting story about Ubuntu that you'd like to share, or have any questions or comments about the show, send them our way at lococast.net.
Show Music:
Episode 8: Sleepytime Show
Lococast.net Episode 8 - Sleepytime Show
- Intro - We're Back!
- Amber: http://akgraner.com/?p=763
- Events:
- Codemash Jan 12-14th Sandusky OH
- You've got some events to pub let us know feedback@lococast.net
- UDS
- Unity
- Current state, what is it? We all probably know by now
- Default...parts that are missing
- Overall goals, touch, etc
- Conflict with Gnome, still a 'gnome-toolkit' desktop?
- Other UDS highlights
- New ad they had? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYTJPaM82nQ
- Tons of youtube video
- Banshee - amazon mp3 vs U1 music store?
- http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DevWorkstation
- Developer push with things like software center, paid apps, donation for apps, trying to get more apps into center
- Unity
- Jim Barber
- Got some feedback in from a guy sailing his boat Esmeralda and uses the podcast to help pass the time from port to port. Running Ubuntu and learning python after doing some pascal stuff back in the day.
- Want to see about an interview, back from his last voyage this Dec. Try to get a skype interview going
- Books
- Nook Color - the non (E-) e-reader
Music:
- Kudai - Kudai 2.0
- Binarpilot - KDR Assault
- Reno Project - Hot Street
- Countdown - El Diablo
- REVENGE - eat me one more time
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