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Linux Outlaws 264 - 007's Humping Dog

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 05/06/2012 - 20:28

Released: May 6, 2012
Length: 2:04:50

Fedora 18 will be "Spherical Cow", GIMP 2.8 and Xfce 4.10 are released, a PHP clusterfuck, Fab reviews Ubuntu 12.04, Red Hat open sources OpenShift, Django migrates to GitHub and much more

0:02:36 Introduction

0:11:39 Releases & News

1:18:54 Microwatch

1:24:23 In-Depth: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Review

Fab reviews Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin". For more details see his article on The H.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

1:43:45 Feedback

Supporters: Osama Alassiry, Armin Krauss,  Patrick Craenen and Daniel Lowe — from Flattr: cyberkiller, mansdell, variaatio, Chris Woollard, jrutila, Dave Ostroske, marmai, johanv, corenominal, Mattias Ohlsson and SmokeyMaverick

  • Kevin T. has been listening since before Dan and Fab met in person and tells the story how he introduced his office to Linux Outlaws and The Beards
  • Mark Katerberg was disappointed in our coverage of Snow Linux
  • Mark Sinclair sent us this image for Fab:

  • Nehemiah tells us that there is a tradition among physics students to model cows as spherical in their simulations
  • Ray Woods recommends SolusOS
  • Jim Daldry sent us this video and thinks that is how the Stuxnet virus was spread
  • Jezra sent us a new sound file
  • Jeff G. asks what we think about Apple’s plans for the new Developer ID & Gatekeeper programme for OS X

We had other emails from SmokeyMaverick, Frank Bell, Dan Devine, Jake Roberts, Basil Orechwa and Timothy.

Song: The Age of Aggression / The Age of Oppression by Malukah (all rights reserved)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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RatholeRadio 77 – 29th Apr 2012

Rathole Radio - Tue, 05/01/2012 - 16:11

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The last regular show before the Rathole Roadshow event ion May 11th. I played a wide selection of music as always, and I even managed to squeeze in a live acoustic track. Lots of chilled out tunes this time for some reason, so put your feet up and enjoy.

  • 00:00 – Juanitos – Soul Africa – CC BY-SA Licensed – Juanitos is an internationally-minded SoulJazz inspired group from Chambry, France. They’ve been making all kindsa exotic beats since 1991. Soul Africa is an irresistible Afrobeat & reggae-leaning funk album released in 2010 on Jamendo.
  • 06:58 – P’Chenga – What’s The Difference? – License Unknown – Friends of mine and fellow Rathole Roadshow artists. I wanted to share a track of theirs. This is an old live recording that I know the lads aren’t massively happy with but it’s the best thing we have at the moment. They have a new drummer and will have new better recorded material soon.
  • 11:17 – Secret Archives Of The Vatican – Blue Moons – CC BY-NC Licensed – A friend told me recently there wasn’t enough drum & bass in the show lately. This is a nod in their direction. Secret Archives Of The Vatican AKA Vince Millet is a giant in the CC music scene. Check out Broken Drum Records if you haven’t already.

Writing On The Wall Piracy event, I’m chairing the discussion. Thursday May 3rd at The Attic in Parr St, Liverpool. £4 entry. CC, ORG and Ian Prowse.

  • 22:38 – Dan Bull – Sharing Is Caring – CC Zero Licensed – UK protest rapper Dan Bull has released this latest single. You can hear a bit of Eminem influence in this Facebook track. Friend of the show Tim Dobson has been involved in promoting this and it’s an attempt to get a CC track into the UK charts. They’ve done 10 remixes and if you buy each one it counts towards the same chart entry. Madness. I suppose it does show how pointless the charts are these days ultimately.
  • 26:34 – 20lb Sounds – Jimmy Carter – CC BY-SA Licensed – Whoops, how did this get in there? Just thought I’d remind you of this track in the build up to the Rathole Roadshow in Liverpool on Friday May 11th. FREE EP AVAILABLE.
  • 34:54 – Electronic Ping Pong Orchestra – Eternal Hope – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – My good friend Bob and his project Electronic Ping Pong Orchestra. I like this bit of minimal electro and it’s off a CD he kindly gave me.
  • 38:08 – Damscray – Saria Bride – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – An interesting bit of trip hop influenced music. I’ve played this artist before but I still don’t know a terrific amount about them.

46:00 – LIVE TRACK – “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out”. I’ve played this before but it’s a blues standard and I love it, so I figured I’d do it again.

  • 51:10 – Ex-Friendly – Simply Bootieful – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – A nice piece of laid back soul from Free Music Archive. It’s a bit long but it’s a great relaxed tune. Has a classic soul sound and I’m reminded of Al Green in parts by the vocal.

Next show will be the roadshow live on Friday May 11th @ 8pm UK. 3 hours plus of great live music. Come and get involved.

63:37 – Tenpenny Joke – Never Enough – CC BY-SA Licensed – This is actually 2 tracks by Aussie rockers Tenpenny Joke, I’ve played them before. The acoustic picking bit that’s mixed in at the end is listed as a separate track called Shadow In The Glass. You can get this on Jamendo and it’s from the album Ambush On All Sides which I recommend.

Donations: A massive thanks to Paul Platt, Paul Hargrave & Armin Krauss for contributing.
Flattr: Eksortso, Lemniscate, Theru & Ovidproject who Flattred us in the last 2 weeks.

Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca. Like us on Facebook. Next Live Show: Friday May 11thth 2012 at 8:00pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, but if people want to hang around and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

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Linux Outlaws 263 - Protest Distros

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 04/29/2012 - 14:49

Released: April 29, 2012
Length: 1:16:38

Google drops Linux support for Picasa, Raspberry Pi deliveries begin, Twitter sponsors the Apache Foundation, Oracle vs. Google update, Mint, Fedora and Ubuntu release names, an update on systemd development and more

0:01:01 Introduction

0:05:10 Releases & News

Die Biene Maja

0:54:50 Feedback

Supporters: Kirk Richard Holz — from Flattr: Mattias Ohlsson, Dave Lee, johanv and corenominal

  • We mention the Hull LUG meeting on 1 May at The Mustard Cafe in Hull at 8 pm

Song: Don't Worry by The Corinthians (all rights reserved)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Linux Outlaws 262 - Leisure Suit Larry Goes to Court

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 04/22/2012 - 20:59

Released: April 22, 2012
Length: 1:31:46

Oracle accidentally releases DoS proof of concept, Zack gets voted DPL for another year, Oracle vs. Google suit kicks off, Canonical releases AWSOME, another ORG update, some awesome Skyrim music and more

0:01:01 Introduction

0:11:28 Releases & News

Leisure Suit Larry

0:52:45 Digital Rights Update

Special guest: Jim Killock from the Open Rights Group

1:10:39 Feedback

Supporters: Werner Drasch, Osama Alassiry, Kirk Richard Holz and Francis Smit — from Flattr: Dave Ostroske, Chris Woollard, variaatio, chalkahlom, corenominal, johanv and SmokeyMaverick

We had other emails this week from Bo from Denmark, Matt Weales, Rik Boland and Jim Daldry.

  • The official OggCamp hotel has been announced: Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, L3 5UL (which is 300 yards from the venue)
  • £35 per person per night for a twin or double or £60 per night for a single room (all prices include breakfast, minimum 2 night stay, rates available 17-19 August)
  • Book by phone or email with reservation manager Jackie Carter and quote the booking code OCAD1708
  • Phone: 0151 709 7200 / email: jackie.carter@britanniahotels.com

Song: The Dragonborn Comes by Malukah (all rights reserved)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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RatholeRadio 76 – 15th Apr 2012

Rathole Radio - Wed, 04/18/2012 - 20:44

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Back once again it’s the incredible, Rathole. This time we have guests too as I interviewed Sonny & Colin from The Corinthians in a local pub. It was chaotic but amazing. I hope you enjoy it. There’s also a selection of eclectic tunes to keep you entertained.

  • 00:00 - C. bass .t.n – Star Shift – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A track I heard via Jamendo dance radio and I liked the slightly industrial synth sound mixed with a more house beat. A German artist. This is taken from the 2009 album Transparent Moments.
  • 07:22 - The Dopamines – Paid In Full - License Unknown – A nice bit of melodic punk sent in by listener Mark Horsley.
  • 11:43 - The Corinthians – “The Quitter… in Dub” – License Unknown – A track from the Corinthians to lead into our interview.

13:30 – INTERVIEW – Sonny & Colin from The Corinthians. A chaotic chat at Ye Olde Cracke pub in Liverpool. Contains copious swearing so close your ears if you’re easily offended. A big thanks also to Rob The Anti-Fascist Manager and Cyril the dog.

  • 25:25 - The Corinthians – “The Hot One feat Nicky Talent” – License Unknown

27:58 – INTERVIEW continues…

  • 45:30 - Thom Morecroft – “Better Than I Thought” - License Unknown – Another artist appearing at the Rathole Roadshow on Friday May 11th at LEAF, Liverpool. Come down, you need to hear Thom’s voice live believe me. This track is available via Soundcloud.
  • 48:34 - Paul Platt – “Everything” – License Unknown – I chatted to Paul on email and he sent me some original tracks. I really like this one. Great bluesy guitar sound and an interesting beat. He says:

Quantum Jazz man Don_S emailed me about his new project Accidental Notes. It’s a blog where he’ll be posting new solo stuff he’s working on. It features some different styles and the tracks will build up as he goes. Check it out..

  • 60:45 - GRENOUER – “Last Stop” - License Unknown – A great bit of metal from this Russian band. I got the EP Computer Crime via email recently and with that name I expected electro. I obviously missed the part where it said “metal greetings from Russia” though. They hail from St Petersburg and this EP has been picked up by Copro Records in the UK. Find our more about them via wikipedia.

Flattr Peeps: Thanks to Don.S, CiaranG, JohanV, Mackrauss, eksortso and pkoppers for Flattering EP 75

Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca. Like us on Facebook. Next Live Show: Sunday April 29th 2012 at 9:00pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, but if people want to hang around and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

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Linux Outlaws 261 - Fab's Summer of Crap

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Mon, 04/16/2012 - 21:38

Released: April 16, 2012
Length: 1:38:36

Beard-a-Thon 2012, ownCloud releases first commercial version, Samba closes a bad security hole, Blue Systems take over the sponsorship of Kubuntu, udev and systemd are merging, Raspberry Pi problems, Microsoft founds open source subsidiary and much more

0:01:06 Introduction

The Shure Super 55 microphone

0:12:10 Releases & News

The new CyanogenMod logo

1:08:37 Microwatch


1:17:03 Feedback


Supporters: Stephen Ward and Paul Platt — from Flattr: Dave Ostroske, marmai, Chris Woollard, mansdell, corenominal and fwbd

We had other emails from Steve Ward, Paul Dutot, Martyn Lewis, Jason Sipula, Lance, Brigit Valencia, Dan Devine, Yaroslav Halchenko, Dorine Flies, Alan from Vancouver and Jeff G.

Song: Holly by Thom Morecroft (all rights reserved)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Linux Outlaws 260 - Spoiler Alert

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Mon, 04/09/2012 - 20:41

Released: April 9, 2012
Length: 1:47:20

Ulrich Drepper ousted from glibc, EU Parliament goes nuts on proposed punishment for hacking, Blackboard buys two Moodle support companies, Debian joins the OSI and Microsoft starts supporting Git with CodePlex

0:01:21 Introduction

MC Frontalot, delivering spoilers galore


0:09:08 Releases & News

1:12:11 Microwatch

1:17:06 Feedback

Supporters: John Schmitt, Joe Foy, Eric Geissinger, Barry Williams, Durand D'souza,  Stuart Edgar, John Myers, Eric Swanson, Kirk Richard Holz and Richard Brown — from Flattr: Chris Woolard, corenominal, Dave Lee, johanv, Craig_DT and Mattias Ohlsson

  • We had audio feedback from Peter Cannon & Gareth Witty
  • Søren Kejser Jensen tells us about achievements in Visual Studio 2010
  • Greg Poulter prompts us on Pinguy OS and Bodhi Linux
  • Bill Kossmann asks if we have considered a joint live show with TDTRS
  • Puppyite wrote us an email asking us to join the Puppy Linux forums to answer questions
  • Jon Peder sends us an update about Android running on x86 hardware, especially the Lenovo Ideapad S10
  • Mark Wright recommends a "rescuetux" boot disc to get a hosed GRUB boot loader back — note: we think he means ruscatux from supergrubdisk.org
  • Mike Charlton writes us about Sabayon
  • Devon Baumgarten wrote to us about Microsoft open sourcing ASP.NET tools — we covered this in the Microwatch segment
  • Jonathan Gregory sent us a Unity tip
  • The Right Reverend Septimus Goosinghim sends some feedback on personal gratification

We had other emails from Martyn Lewis, Beni Keller, Jezra, Felipe, Constantinos, dacresni, Jeffrey Daniel Rollin-Jones, PsykoNerd, Jonathan Nadeau, spanglesontoast, Harold and Kevin.

Song: Spoiler Alert by MC Frontalot from the album Zero Day (all rights reserved)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Weekly Rewind #106

Adventures In Open Source - Thu, 04/05/2012 - 16:15

Ahoy hoy! As Mr Burns and my good friend Mr Bradley Kuhn would say. By all accounts it was the preferred greeting of telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell but has now been supplanted by the simpler “hello”, or perhaps “wasssup?” if you remember those Budweiser ads from the 90′s. It’s been a little while since my last update but thankfully not the month long absence of last time. Life has continued apace and there’s much to tell. I’ll pick out the highlights from the last fortnight and share them with you now. I’ll also look ahead to exciting events due in the week or two. So let’s do this…

March has given way to April and spring should be on the way. You wouldn’t know it from the recent weather though. Last week it was over 20 degrees Celsius and now we’re back near zero. Snow in some parts of the UK and ice on the roads. I knew I shouldn’t have put my shorts on last week, it was only tempting fate. Anyway, I’m sure Al Gore has some thoughts on this. If he’s not too busy jetting around the world warning people about their carbon footprints. The little tinker. But I digress. I last reported back in mid-March and since then I’ve posted about my planned changes to this very site. Those are still ongoing but should be completed in the next week. I’m migrating a lot of stuff from Drupal to WordPress. Not because I have anything against Drupal of course, it just seems silly to use both on one site when I don’t need to. I’ve transferred most of the content and got the new site structure sorted. I just need to find (or knock together) a decent theme and then I’ll switch them over. I don’t want to break the RSS feeds or current URL structure if possible so it’s a delicate process. Stay tuned.

Monty Burns, fan of the "ahoy hoy"

What else have I been up to? Well, I finally got myself a new phone. An all singing, all dancing, Galaxy Nexus, running the shiny new Android 4.0. I’ve only had it a week but I’m settling in already. I unlocked the bootloader straight away and got it hooked up to the Android developer kit on Ubuntu with the help of Andy (Oscillik) from LivLUG. He’s had the phone a bit longer and he’s my go to expert on these matters. I let the phone restore all it’s setting from “the cloud” as the kids like to call it, and it seems this was a mixed blessing. It was cool that it knew all my wifi networks, installed all my apps and updated so easily. But I have been seeing some stability issues with the Android browser and suffering app crashes. The browser is embedded into so many other apps that I think this is the culprit. I have a plan to reflash the phone and not restore anything this time but set it up manually. I’ll let you know how that goes. Minor niggles aside I’m enjoying Ice Cream Sandwich very much. It’s slick and seems a big advance from the Android 2.3 I was running before. I’m still waiting to see what CyanogenMod 9 brings to the table when it’s finally released. This phone is so powerful it feels more and more like they’re starting to be our main computers. I’m reminded of Quantum Leap in a strange way but it feels like we’re heading there. Not time travel, but ever more sophisticated handheld computers at least. I eagerly await the day my phone will remark – “Ziggy says there’s a 90% probability you’ll enjoy this fart app Dan”. I can dream.

In other news we announced the long awaited details of the next OggCamp, and decided to keep the name after all the renaming drama. It will be called OggCamp 12, to the relief of many. It’s happening on the weekend of 18th & 19th of August in Liverpool again. Yeah, you can blame me for that. It may be a bit further for all you Southerners but it’s a lot nearer for those coming from Scotland and other places. So it cuts both ways. We have an amazing venue in LJMU Art & Design Academy and I have to thank my wonderful friends at Open Labs for all their help. They’re sponsoring all the venue costs for us and taking care of a massive chunk of the hassle. We have an official hotel which is in sight of the venue and 5mins walk if you’re slow. So no paying for taxis to and from the venue this year. I’ll let you all know the hotel details as soon as we release them. If you want to keep up to date you should follow OggCamp on Twitter, Identi.ca, Google+, Lanyard or Facebook. You can also keep an eye on oggcamp.org where more details will be posted soon.

I seem to be rambling a fair bit so I’ll summarise some of the other recent events more quickly. I presented FLOSS Weekly with Randal last night and our guest project was Chamilo. It made a fascinating show and I really recommend you have a listen. I didn’t realise the size of this project and if there’s one area where free and open tools matter most it’s in schools. Rather dramatically a sound proofing panel fell out of my studio window and hit me on the back of the head during the show. It was only light so didn’t really hurt, but left me pretty dazed. You’ll hear a loud noise in the background at the start of the interview, that was it. Luckily I wasn’t on camera at the time but it would have made a hilarious blooper. I also attended Liverpool LUG last night where we had a great talk from Bob Ham on IPv6. Not a subject I know a massive amount about but I felt more confident after it.

My band 20lb Sounds are on a short sabbatical right now while our drummer follows England’s cricket team out in Sri Lanka. Alright for some hey? He’s back after the weekend and then we’ll crack on with training for our upcoming gigs. We have 3 in a week which is a first for us. Starting with the Rathole Radio live event at LEAF on Friday May 11th, we’ll continue with a gig at The Cavern Club the following Tuesday as part of the International Pop Overthrow Festival we played last year. Finally there’s another gig at The Cavern Pub on the following Friday. It should be fun and I’m looking forward to it. In the meantime I’ve stalled on completing my long threatened solo album but it is getting somewhere I promise. I hope to have that ready in the next few weeks. That just about brings us up to date. So let’s talk about what’s coming up.

Upcoming:

First up is Easter weekend obviously. Linux Outlaws may be pushed back a bit from Monday night but will happen early in the week. I may well be co-hosting FLOSS again on Wednesday but I don’t know for certain yet. Then there’ll be another Rathole Radio on the following Sunday, April 16th. I’m also in the process of completing a slightly overdue article about digital development in Liverpool and Internet access for my Seven Streets technical column. I’ll let you know about that as soon as I can. In the meantime stay tuned for website changes, more music, more writing and a lot more podcasting. I hope you all have a great Easter Holiday and take care of yourselves.

Over and out,

Dan


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RatholeRadio 75 – 1st Apr 2012

Rathole Radio - Tue, 04/03/2012 - 17:36

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It’s Rathole Radio 75 already and it feels like only yesterday the show started. We’re not quite over he hill yet you young whipper snappers. Get off our lawn! I played my usual eclectic mix of music, conjured the image of Sir David Attenborough naked (pass the mind bleach) and performed a live tune. A pretty regular show then. Hope you enjoy it.

  • 00:00 – Black Bones – Rock N Roll- CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A cracker from Black Bones, the Italian pirate rockers I played recently. I liked the raw punk feel of this tune and it seems to be one of the few non-Pirate themed songs off their album Pirates Of The Coast.
  • 06:49 – Symphony Of Science – The Greatest Show On Earth – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I was reminded of this site by CCHits this week. I played “A Glorious Dawn” some time ago but there’s a whole collection of these tracks. They’ve taken recordings of popular scientists and auto-tuned them into songs. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea but this is nicely done. Listen out for David Attenborough and Richard Dawkins.
  • 10:08 – 108 Not – Katatonia – CC BY-ND Licensed – Suggestion from listener Daz Fuller. Russian alt-rock/metal band. Don’t know a lot more about them but it sounds good. From their self-titled album.

The Corinthians will be joining us for a chat very soon. You can catch them live at the Rathole Roadshow on Friday May 11th at LEAF On Bold St along with 20lb Sounds, P’Chenga and Thom Morecroft. Entry is free and all are welcome so tell your friends!

  • 18:48 – Loudog – Music – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A German reggae band who I’ve played on the show before, but not this song. I heard this tune on The Bugcast some time ago and then it cropped up on CCHits this week. I suspect that Dave Lee submitted it. He gets everywhere.
  • 22:13 – L’Fabrik – On Arrose – CC BY Licensed – Some French rap for you. It’s been a while since I played any. No idea what they’re saying for the most part, it could be rdiculously offensive but hopefully not. Nice beats. Suggested to me by listener Simon Vass. Released 2009, on Jamendo.
  • 29:37 – Paul and Storm – Live – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I saw Paul & Storm live in Manchester supporting Jonathan Coulton. Apparently they wrote this tune during a challenge to write a song like JoCo. JonTheNiceGuy, creator of CCHits was sat next to me at that gig BTW.
  • 33:15 – YACHT – Shangri-La (instrumental) – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – The opening track from the last CCHits weekly show and man it’s a cracker. Beautiful bit of instrumental music. It’s doing really well on CCHits and getting loads of votes.

My friend and cohort Andrew Bates is now doing a music show on Halton Community Radio. You can download his first show right here. It’s well worth a listen.

  • 44:00 – Leslie Hunt – Lonely Home – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – From her album “Your Hair Is On Fire”, possibly a tribute to the late Michael Jackson.
  • 50:12 – LIVE SONG – My rendition of “Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town” by Pearl Jam. One of my all time favourite bands. Hope the Eddie Vedder impression stands up.

Donations: Yaroslav Halchenko, Durand D’souza and YorkshireTyke

Flattr Peeps: Eksortso, Craig_DT, Conniptions, Mansdell, Sirmacik, acurrie, JonTheNiceGuy, thelovebug, geospart, slestak989, fwbd, CiaranG, ghettograb & kevingranade.

Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca. Like us on Facebook. Next Live Show: Sunday April 15th 2012 at 9:00pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, but if people want to hang around and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

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Linux Outlaws 259 - Turn to the Purple Side

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:04

Released: April 1, 2012
Length: 0:26:16

In another special episode with temporary guest presenter Popey, Fab talks about his new job and we have some minor disagreements about the future of the show

Fab will be joining the Canonical Design Team to work on the future desktop of Ubuntu. He will be starting work at the next UDS in May.

Fab's development desktop and his vision for the next version of Ubuntu

Dan will be taking over Fab's duties at The H. He has also decided to get Peter Cannon involved in the future of the show since Fab will obviously be a lot busier from now on.

Song: You Should Consider Having Sex With a Bearded Man by The Beards (all rights reserved)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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Linux Outlaws 258 - Assault Limo

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Thu, 03/29/2012 - 20:24

Released: March 29, 2012
Length: 0:33:06

OggCamp 12 is coming and we tell you everything about it; with special guest Alan "Popey" Pope from the Ubuntu UK Podcast

On this special episode, we are joined by Alan "Popey" Pope and announce OggCamp 12!

Visit the OggCamp 12 site. More details to follow soon.

Check out the Ubuntu UK Podcast where Popey is a regular host. Also: Tony Whitmore's home page.

Song: No Man Is An Island by Bill Borman from the album In Our Dreams We're Flying (licensed under 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.

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Change Is Gonna Come

Adventures In Open Source - Sun, 03/25/2012 - 23:53

Not That Kind Of Change

That’s right, Otis Redding famously sang the phrase and I’m gonna say it too. A change is gonna come. Ok, he was talking about segregation and civil rights in America and I’m talking about changing my website, but it’s still a change nonetheless.

I’ve been pondering how best to utilise DanLynch.org and get the most out of it for a while. I want to see a lot more activity here and I don’t want the blog to be so separate from everything else. The reason for this separation is technical. The blog runs on WordPress but the rest of my site is built with Drupal. They’re both lovely Open Source PHP systems but it struck me recently I should really just use WordPress for the whole thing. All I’m doing in Drupal now is making some static pages around this blog anyway. WordPress can do that. So as we speak I’ve copied this blog onto some development web space and I’m reworking that version. Kicking the tires, checking the oil, and other such motoring metaphors.

The content is already in there and it shouldn’t take long. Famous last words. It probably won’t mean much difference for anyone reading this but it’ll allow me to centralise. I’ve been trying to do too many things at once and spreading myself a bit thin, as is often my way. Music, podcasting, production, videos, technical writing and more general blogging can all be incorporated. This way I can feed all content into here and activity will go up. I can use a music page to embed tracks from Bandcamp, post YouTube videos of performances and much more. Hopefully building momentum.

I hope it won’t take long but expect to see some changes very soon. A new leaner, meaner and angrier (angrier? I’m running out of now) machine. I’m back to motoring metaphors, I don’t even care much about cars, never been an interest of mine. I must have absorbed too much Top Gear from the TV earlier tonight.

Stay tuned, thanks for your patience and in the meantime you can enjoy the genius of Otis with the video above

Dan

UPDATE: Apparently that song was written by Sam Cooke originally. Otis did a famous version.


Categories: Writings

Linux Outlaws 257 - A Fuckload of Wav Files

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 03/25/2012 - 18:57

Released: March 25, 2012
Length: 1:46:46

Audacity 2.0 released, Humble Android Bundle 2, Assange to run for Aussie Senate, "Anonymous" Linux, CyanogenMod 9 to ship without root, Open Street Map switching licenses and Mark Shuttleworth says Ubuntu beats RHEL on servers

0:01:26 Introduction

The original Wasteland box art

0:19:41 Releases & News

Cinnamon 1.4 running on Debian Sid

1:21:06 Feedback

Supporters (from Flattr): corenominal, SmokeyMaverick, endstation, variaatio, Tris Linnell, cyberkiller, theru, Dave Lee and Chris Woollard

  • Haris Bin Ali says that Kuala Lumpur has been chosen to host FUDCon APAC 2012
  • Gary sent us a story about the DoJ defending the government’s right not to acknowledge the existence of any joint research agreement between Google and the NSA
  • Remy Van Elst writes in with some feedback on the slowness of Windows machines joining domains
  • Christopher Bates responded to some of Dan's FreeNAS comments
  • Brandon Janzen found us via FLOSS Weekly and really likes the show
  • Robin Catling (of the Full Circle Podcast) wrote a great review of the new Springsteen album
  • Jason Jordan writes to us about Android code names and potential patents for the Sixgun portfolio
  • Armin Krauss writes about Episode 256 and says Seneca College is most likely named after the Seneca Nation

We had other emails this week from Stephen Michael Kellat, Bruno Bigras and Thomas Bourque.

Song: Probably Gay, the Homophobia Song by Katie Goodman’s Broad Comedy (all rights reserved)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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RatholeRadio 74 – 18th Mar 2012

Rathole Radio - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 16:24

Download Ogg – Download Mp3

Another Rathole Radio is upon and this one is a bumper edition. 71mins to be precise. I must have felt more chatty or something, hard to see how that’s possible. This was broadcast on Mother’s Day here in the UK but I didn’t have a special song for that. Instead I performed a folk song to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on Saturday. I hope you enjoy the show.

  • 00:00 - Freeky Cleen & Dickey F – GONE TRAIN BLUES - CC BY-SA Licensed – 2 artists I’ve played separately before but now they’ve joined forces to create this great slice of blues rock. You don’t wanna miss it. There’s a whole album available on Jamendo.
  • 22:32 - Phil Lee – 25 Mexicans - License Unknown – Another one I heard via Alan Carr when he submitted it for AMPed some time ago. I’ve been keeping it in my pocket. What an artist Phil Lee is and what a song.
  • 26:25 - Silent Strike – Infinit - CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – This one I heard via CCHits.
  • 55:16 - Bill Borman – No Man Is An Island - CC BY-NC Licensed - Another track from CCHits. At first I wasn’t sure what to make of it but it quickly grew on me. A powerful song and a great performance full of dynamics and feeling. Enjoy!
  • 68:15 - Model Society – Horizons - License Unknown – Another poached AMPed submission. This time fro Rowley at The DarkCompass Podcast. These guys were played by Steve Lamaq on 6 Music apparently too, I can see why.

Donations: No donations to mention this time but thank you to all the wonderful people who supported the show via Flattr! Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca. Like us on Facebook. Next Live Show: Sunday March 18th 2012 at 9:00pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, but if people want to hang around and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

  • 15:41 – Partition 36 – The Optic Nerve – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I played a track called “I Love Penguins” by this artist some time ago and this is a great follow up. Lovely slice of industrial sounding electro. Thanks to GamerChick02 for the tip.
  • 21:38 – Derelict Earth – The Darkest Serenity – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A French metal band (from Grenoble), you don’t see many of those. They’ve obviously been listening to some early Metallica I think, and that’s no bad thing.
  • 43:14 – LIVE TUNE – Medicine Man by Dan Lynch – A tune I wrote some years ago and I have a feeling I might have played it live on the show before. I only realised after I’d done it. Well never mind, people seemed to enjoy it anyway. I’m hoping to soon record an album of tunes like this that have gotten away over the years.
  • 48:49 – ‘Til Dusk – One By One – License Unknown – Emailed to me by Chris from the band. They’re based in Southampton in the UK. This track is taken from their debut album Cold Lust which is released May 16th and you can find out more at www.tildusk.co.uk

Guest next time! Wayne Mayers AKA Fit & The Conniptions.

  • 57:59 – Dual Core – Magnificent Seven (feat Nerdcore) – All Rights Reserved- A big thanks to Mark Horsley for emailing this track to me. I’ve heard Dual Core a few times but not this track. It’s from the 2009 album Next Level which you can get on Bandcamp and other places and it features almost everyone in Nerdcore it seems. Beefy, MC Frontalot and more.

Categories: Podcasts

Linux Outlaws 256 - The Beards are Coming!!!

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 03/18/2012 - 16:02

Released: March 18, 2012
Length: 1:52:36

Nvidia joins the Linux Foundation, Pwn2Own news, Raspberry Pi manufacturing issues, jQuery Foundation launched, Arch turns ten, Apple releases some new thing, the Windows 8 interface is screwed up and the LulzSec hackers get arrested in a high profile operation

0:03:00 Introduction

0:13:29 Releases & News

1:14:46 Microwatch

1:18:33 Applewatch

1:26:32 App Tip


curl vs. HTTPie

1:28:55 Feedback

  • Jameson writes to us about MythTV, Netflix and DRM
  • Eric Schatz tells us his thoughts on our discussion of native apps vs. web apps
  • Manu Chandrasekhar aka. Cheezespread tells us about Sikuli (a visual scripting API for Jython)
  • Stephen Bell has been enjoying listening to Black Bones since we played them
  • Jeff Gehlbach says he joined Toastmasters International and that paying money for using filler words like "uhm" made it easier to get rid of them
  • Kevin Granade gives us some more feedback on ksplice for desktop use
  • Kari Mattsson sends some more input on Ubuntu for Android

We had other emails this week from Paul Dutot, Andrew Mason, Tony J., Jack Hill, Ace and Jon Stockill.

  • LibrePlanet is on 24 & 25 March at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

Song: For The Would-be Woody Guthrie by Shambles Miller (licensed under Creative Commons BY)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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I Have A Bad Feeling About This…

Adventures In Open Source - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 14:36

… Well actually I don’t. I have quite a good feeling about it. Check out this project to make an independent comedy film here in Liverpool. It’s about 2 Star Wars fans on a quest to get hold of tickets to a special screening of the classic sci-fi trilogy. Things don’t quite go to plan. In real life the filmmakers are on a quest of their own. They need to raise $16,000 to make the film and they’re currently a 3rd of the way there with 2 weeks to go. They’re using IndieGoGo to crowd source support. If the trailer is anything to go by it should be really funny. Check it out below:

Head over to badfeelingfilm.com and support the fund raising effort if you want to see this film made. There are some perks available to supporters. I wanted to help spread the word.

Thanks for reading, may the force be with you

Dan


Categories: Writings

Weekly Rewind #105

Adventures In Open Source - Wed, 03/14/2012 - 00:19

Well, well, well, it’s been a while hasn’t it? A month or more has passed with little activity here. My apologies. Someone asked the other day if the RSS feed on my blog was broken. I wish that were the answer, but lately it seems to be more a case of the person writing the content being broken, or perhaps distracted is a better term. Events have overtaken me in the last month and finding the time and energy to write about them has been hard. I aim to put that right today though and update you properly. I’m not going to go through everything from the last month in chronological order, that would take ages. Instead we’ll have Match Of The Day style extended highlights package. Alan Hansen should be along to criticize the defending at the end.

Podcasting has continued at pace and I’ll deal with each show in turn. There’s been plenty of episodes of Linux Outlaws in the last month. We’re closing in on 1 million downloads now since our time on Libsyn. That’s a crazy figure when you think about it, but actually I reckon we probably broke that some time ago. We ran the show for a while before joining Libsyn and there’s always people mirroring episodes on their own servers. None of that counts towards the grand total. So if anyone asks I just say “oh yeah, we’re well over a million downloads” and cross my fingers behind my back. Well, they don’t know… oh, unless they read this. Did I mention we’re over a million downloads? *ahem*.

It’s been an eventful month for my Linux Outlaws co-host Fabian Scherschel as he left his job with an ISP in Cologne, and now he’s a professional Open Source writer for The H. He’ll even be moving to London in June to work full time at their office. I’m really happy for him and I guess now we can say we have a legitimate member of the tech press on the team. Since Feb 8th when I last posted here there have been 6 new episodes released. You can catch up on Linux Outlaws via the website at any time, you’re more than welcome aboard.

I’ve also appeared on some episodes of FLOSS Weekly in the last month. 3 to be precise. On Feb 8th I was drafted in to host the show with Simon Phipps. Randal injured his shoulder that day and couldn’t make it. The whole thing was very last minute but I think Simon and I pulled it together nicely. You can judge for yourself in episode 201. I then joined Aaron Newcomb the following week for episode 202 on Stunt Rally. Finally, last week I rejoined Randal to interview the guys behind oVirt. That was episode 203 and you can grab it now from the TWiT website. I’ve also continued with Rathole Radio of course and there’s been a couple of new episodes since my last update, episode 72 and episode 73. Both contain the usual eclectic mix of music you’ve come to expect, plus a fair amount of waffling which you probably expect by now too. As I write this it’s just under 2 months to this years Rathole Radio live event, a fact I’m becoming increasingly aware of. We’ve got a venue, LEAF On Bold St. We’ve got a date, Friday May 11th. However, I still need to complete the line up and sort out what I’ll do about tickets. Whether I’ll even use tickets or just make it free to attend this time and take donations. It’s hard to say right now. Lots to decide. I’m close to sorting out the line up and announcing it, that’s something. The rest of it I really need to get cracking with. I’ll let you know more about that ASAP.

A pic from our Zanzibar gig in Feb - Photo by Dave Forbes

One act I do have confirmed for the Rathole Radio gig is my own band 20lb Sounds. We’ve been busy of late. We had another gig at The Zanzibar on Saturday March 3rd and while I didn’t feel I played that well, others told me afterwards it was really good. So I guess it’s all a matter of perspective. Many friends came to support us which I really appreciated but our turn out was a bit low, I don’t know how many more gigs we’ll get there in future. We have one in June, I guess that’s make or break time. It’s difficult because I’ve tried hard to push our gigs and promote them around town. I’ve contacted all the local media outlets, got posters printed and put them up, and I’ve also been spreading the word in person wherever possible. Despite this we’re just not drawing a crowd and it can be disheartening. I think we’re a good band, I suppose I should I’m in the band. I’m biased, but we have many good songs and we can play a bit. When people do watch we often get a good reaction, yet getting them to come back is a battle. I suppose at some point I have to face the fact that most people just don’t like us as much as I hoped. I dunno, this all sounds rather like shoe-gazing self-pity doesn’t it? We have plenty of gigs coming up in the next 2-3 months so we’ll pick ourselves up again and try to win people over, one at a time if we have to.

While we’re talking about music I should let you know what’s happening with my long overdue album. Fresh with New Year energy and optimism I said I’d have this done and released in no time. In retrospect I don’t think that was ever very realistic. I underestimated my perfectionism and incessant need to tinker with things. I’m never totally happy with anything I do and it’s tempting to keep changing them. First I recorded 10 acoustic songs live. That went well but later I discovered the vocal mic was distorting at times during the performance. Back to the drawing board. Now I’ve been working on all the songs again and I have the basis of about 7 recorded. I will keep it simple as promised. 1 or maybe 2 guitars at most, vocal and harmonica. I also plan to record a couple of piano songs I wrote many years ago. The working title for the album right now is “Long Forgotten Tales”, that may change though. I’m going to make some little live videos to put on YouTube as promotion and I’ve been trying to clean up this very website in preparation. The bottom line is it’s progressing, just not as quickly as I’d hoped. I’ll post some videos and updates as I go along. Perhaps blogging through the process will help me work things out.

Something else that’s reared it’s head in the last month is the mythical beast known as OggCamp planning. Every year it pops up again. I love doing OggCamp though and I love that other people enjoy it most of all. I can’t reveal too much yet but things are taking shape. I’ve been pounding the pavement, having meetings and generally sorting things out. Our intrepid band of organisers are all working hard to bring you another OggCamp.

There’s so much more I could say, a month’s worth of stories but I think that’s enough for today. We’re pretty much up to date.

Upcoming:

I’m not appearing on FLOSS Weekly tomorrow but it’ll be the first one I’ve missed in four shows, so I can’t complain. There’s Jelly Liverpool at LEAF on Thursday and following that in the evening we’ll be doing Ignite Liverpool as well. It’s the 9th Ignite we’ve organised and they’re always fun. The basic format is 5 minute talks from a wide selection of speakers about a varying range of topics. Anything the speaker cares about really. It always throws up discussions and opens your mind. It’s 6pm on Thursday 15th March at LEAF On Bold St. Entry is free and the venue is lovely. Come along, it’s worth it. At the weekend I have more live Rathole Radio on Sunday and we’ll be back with live Linux Outlaws on Monday evening. There’ll be much more to talk about next week and I’ll be sure not to leave you hanging this time. I have said it many times before but I’m confident regular posts are just around the corner. If you’d like to leave me a comment or discuss anything I’ve mentioned please do. All thoughts are welcome.

I’ll report back soon, until then you take care of yourselves.

Dan


Categories: Writings

Linux Outlaws 255 - Brian Blessed’s BeardBerry

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sun, 03/11/2012 - 19:27

Released: March 11, 2012
Length: 1:50:16

The Raspberry Pi is released, Microsoft's cloud goes down because of a leap year bug, Linus calls OpenSuse developers “fundamentalistic taliban”, Foursquare switches to Open Street Map, Fab talks about Mari0 and Brian Blessed swears a lot




0:01:39 Introduction

brucespringsteen.net 404 error page

RIP Ralph McQuarrie

0:11:05 Releases & News

Brian Blessed

1:09:55 Microwatch

Who's laughing now, Microsoft?

1:18:08 Game Tip

Fab quickly talks about the open source game Mari0 — a mix between the classic Super Mario Bros. and Portal

Mari0 gameplay

1:21:42 Feedback

Supporters: Thanks to Sander Scheepens, James Jeffries, Remy van Elst, Nathan Reitcheck, Kirk Richard Holz, Chris Woollard, cyberkiller, varaatio, corenominal and Dave Lee (from the Bugcast)

  • Jack Hill wrote with a few things, but mostly about Flash and Firefox, he uses Conkeror himself
  • Alison Chaiken tells us about running Android and Ubuntu side by side, apparently it isn't exactly new technology
  • Matt sent us a video of the first 15 minutes of Pulp Fiction done in the style of Shakespeare
  • Greg P. really, really doesn't like Google
  • Keith Z-G says the whole phenomenon of kids liking BlackBerries must be a UK thing

We had other emails from Lee Crampton, Andy H., Sir Eagle, Jorgen, Brandon, Gary, Christopher from Poland, Remy Van Elst and Måns from Sweden.

  • Barcamp Canterbury 2012 is happening at the University of Kent on the weekend of the 28th and 29th of April
  • ORGCon is on in London on Saturday, March 24th
  • EuroPython 2012 will be in Florence, Italy from July 2nd - 8th


Song: The Rattling Bones Of Gill Mc Gee from the album Pirates of the Coast by Black Bones

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

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RatholeRadio 73 – 6th Mar 2012

Rathole Radio - Wed, 03/07/2012 - 01:25

Download Ogg – Download Mp3

A slightly overdue Rathole Radio this time. I missed the live show on Sunday unfortunately due to exhaustion, so I recorded this show offline instead. I skipped the live song but I did manage to cram in a bumper selection of eclectic music as always. Normal service will be resumed next time I promise.

  • 00:00 – The Gentlemen – Three Minute Marriage Proposal – License Unknown – A great band I heard via AMPed new music weekly and had to share. Love this song and it’s energy. Very well produced too.
  • 07:25 – Dumbo Get’s Mad – Marmalade Kids – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – Another track from CC netlabel Bad Panda Records, I’ve mentioned them a lot. This track is from the album Elephants At The Door released in Feb 2011.
  • 11:41 – Zoe Mulford – Just Before I Go – License Unknown – Another one I heard via Graham Holland. I actually saw Zoe performing with Lorelei Loveridge at the View Two gallery in Liverpool back in 2010. It was one of Graham’s Liverpool Acoustic nights and I was really impressed.
  • 19:20 – vvsmusic – Greensleeves – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – From Hamburg in Germany, VVS is a composer and arranger who makes music for films and much more besides. He’s also a software developer and designer. A multi-talented guy it seems. This arrangement of the well known classic Greensleeves is currently number 2 in the Jamendo top 100.
  • 22:15 – Bobo In White Wooden Houses – I Wanna Keep You On My Side – License Unknown – Thanks to Moggers87 for this one. Another German artist, lots of those lately. The website has lots of pictures and other things but no real biog or info on the band that I can see. However, they sound great and I hope to find out more.
  • 30:58 – Black Bones – Pirates Of The Coast – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I have to thank my Linux Outlaws co-host Fab for bringing this to my attention. He got it via a listener who I think heard it via Dave & Caroline at The Bugcast. All very convoluted. Black Bones are a pirate metal band from Piacenza, Italy. This is the opening track off their album of the title. It’s available from Jamendo.
  • 34:56 – Black Bones – We’ll Rise Again – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – The second track off the album Pirates Of The Coast but it leads in from the first one so I wanted to play it.

I was on TuxJam with @kevie, check it out!

  • 40:18 – felixjd – _make_believe_ – CC BY Licensed – A funky house track I picked up from Jamendo. It’s by an Italian artist who I can’t tell you a whole lot more about but it sounds good. They’re from Milan and there’s a stack of albums to dig through on Jamendo. I found a MySpace link but not much else. If you find out more let me know.
  • 44:56 – vitaminsforyou – Six O’Clock Whispers – CC BY-NC-ND Licensed – This one was submitted to AMPed by Idyllic Music. Nice bit of electro. You can get this on Archive.org
  • 56:06 – William Michael Dillon – Black Robes & Lawyers – License Unknown – Heard this one via fellow Liverpool podcaster Graham Holland. A great track and it’s good to play some blues again. Read Dillon’s story from his site, wrongly imprisoned for 27 years he was cleared by DNA evidence in 2008. Now he makes music and campaigns against injustice.

Donations: No donations to mention this time but thank you to all the wonderful people who supported the show via Flattr! Your donations are the reason I can do this. So click those Flattr buttons and use the Paypal link and I’ll keep the music coming. Deal?

Please spread the word about the show. Tell 1 friend, it could make a big difference if everyone does it.

Get In Touch: Please send me your thoughts and feedback on the music I play or any other aspect of the show. If you make music or you know people who make music and you think they should be on the show, send me suggestions and demos by all means. I’m always pleased to find new music and share it with people. Most of that is down to you, the wonderful listeners and your wisdom.

Email all feedback and suggestions to – show AT ratholeradio.org You can also find me on Twitter and Identi.ca. Like us on Facebook. Next Live Show: Sunday March 18th 2012 at 9:00pm UK time

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed the show. Thanks also to everyone who turned up in our IRC channel at irc.freenode.net the channel name is #ratholeradio. I don’t expect much to happen there in the weeks between shows, but if people want to hang around and chat you’re more than welcome. Don’t forget you can access the channel from a web browser by going to webchat.freenode.net and entering #ratholeradio in the channel text box. Take care till next time folks.

Subscribe to the show and get it delivered for free: Mp3 feed – Ogg Feed – iTunes

Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.

Rathole Radio is a proud member of the Association Of Music Podcasting.

  • 15:41 – Partition 36 – The Optic Nerve – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – I played a track called “I Love Penguins” by this artist some time ago and this is a great follow up. Lovely slice of industrial sounding electro. Thanks to GamerChick02 for the tip.
  • 21:38 – Derelict Earth – The Darkest Serenity – CC BY-NC-SA Licensed – A French metal band (from Grenoble), you don’t see many of those. They’ve obviously been listening to some early Metallica I think, and that’s no bad thing.
  • 43:14 – LIVE TUNE – Medicine Man by Dan Lynch – A tune I wrote some years ago and I have a feeling I might have played it live on the show before. I only realised after I’d done it. Well never mind, people seemed to enjoy it anyway. I’m hoping to soon record an album of tunes like this that have gotten away over the years.
  • 48:49 – ‘Til Dusk – One By One – License Unknown – Emailed to me by Chris from the band. They’re based in Southampton in the UK. This track is taken from their debut album Cold Lust which is released May 16th and you can find out more at www.tildusk.co.uk

Guest next time! Wayne Mayers AKA Fit & The Conniptions.

  • 57:59 – Dual Core – Magnificent Seven (feat Nerdcore) – All Rights Reserved- A big thanks to Mark Horsley for emailing this track to me. I’ve heard Dual Core a few times but not this track. It’s from the 2009 album Next Level which you can get on Bandcamp and other places and it features almost everyone in Nerdcore it seems. Beefy, MC Frontalot and more.

Categories: Podcasts

Linux Outlaws 254 - Croatian Jaffa Cakes

Linux Outlaws Podcast - Sat, 03/03/2012 - 22:11

Released: March 3, 2012
Length: 1:27:11

Passwords are protected by the Fifth Amendment, Oracle is offering KSplice for RHEL and DTrace for Linux in general, BusyBox controversy settled, RIM is going for salvation through open source and a study says open source code is better than proprietary code

00:01:09 Introduction

00:06:17 Releases & News

1:03:52 Feedback

Supporters (from Flattr): endstation and Chris Woollard

We had other emails from Carlos Lange, Sascha Schneider, and PsykoNerd.

  • Hull LUG is meeting on Tuesday, 6 March

Song: Pirates of the Coast  from the album of the same name by Black Bones (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Copyright © 2012 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

Categories: Podcasts