The latest, greatest version of Ubuntu, 8.04 “Hardy Heron”, will be released later today. I just published our special episode on this topic. I hope we are not overwhealming you with all these shows… Starting next week, episodes will be released on our semi-regular schedule again, I hope. Of course, if you want to complain, there’s always the forums. Speaking of the forums, they seem to be coming along quite well which is great!

Dan and I both have been running the Hardy release candidate and betas respectively and do recommend to upgrade — if you want the details, listen to the above mentioned episode. Pat from the Linux Link Tech Show also seems to love it. With all the hard work that’s gone into making Hardy as great as it is, I want to congratulate the Ubuntu dev team on another great release. You guys rock!

And now, everyone head over to the Ubuntu site and download it once it’s officially released. Let’s turn their servers into burning rubble!

Yes, yes, yes… I realise the site was down for most of today. I am really sorry for any inconvenience that this might have caused. We had to roll back from last night’s backup and sadly have lost some forum posts and some registrations along the way. This also meant that the Ogg feed was unavailable for quite some time.

It all started with the fact that our site exceeded our self-imposed bandwith limit for Dan’s server yesterday evening. This caused a first downtime. We increased the limit and decided to move our Ogg files (which were being hosted here on this server) to Libsyn as we already did with the mp3 files quite some time ago. Because of that, I decided to upgrade this site to Drupal 6 to take advantage of the new views code in that version which would’ve come in handy to generate the new Ogg feed. I also customised a new theme to go along with this and went ahead to implement all that this morning. Sadly my upgrade didn’t go so well: My personal shipment of Drupal fail arrived and wiped out the whole public directory for the site. Luckily Dan had his cpanel handy and was able to rescue me in the nick of time.

After the backup was restored, I created the new views the old way and backported the theme I had created. I also tweaked the forum theme a bit to complement this. I then moved the first Ogg files over to Libsyn and redirected the feed accordingly. The Ogg feed should be fully funtional once again. This new setup doubles our bandwith costs but I saw that coming anyway. I am really glad that you all are listening to the show and the minimal Libsyn fees are a small price to pay to continue this amazing journey full of fun! If you enjoy the show as much as we do, you might want to consider pitching in and donating a small amount to our tip jar (in the right sidebar) — I don’t want to pressure anybody to do anything though and this is of course entirely up to you. As I said, the fun of doing this is well worth it in any case. If you still have problems with anything on the site, please leave a message in the forums and I’ll fix it as fast as I can. Hope y’all enjoy the new look!

As you can see, I just finished the redesign of this site and the forums. The old themes were only meant as a placeholder anyway since I wanted something in a brown-related colour scheme. I think it matches the outlaw/western theme perfectly. As some brawling drunk famously said on Firefly:

“Your coat is kind of a brownish color…”

I hope you like the new look! If you have comments or suggestions, please leave them here.

We have decided to scrap the Pligg site in favour of some forums. There was not much going on over there lately and I also recently discovered some slightly disturbing security problems with the system that I didn’t really wanted to live with in the long run. Since a few people requested forums anyway and they can basically fulfill the same purpose as the other site but are much more versatile, we decided to switch. I sincerely hope this doesn’t cause too much of an inconvenience to people.

Registration is optional of course, but we hope that many of you will join us at the forums and provide us with feedback and valuable ideas for future episodes. If you prefer to just hang out and talk about other stuff, that is fine as well. I am looking forward to many fruitful and entertaining discussions over there!

Please note that the theme for the forums isn’t finalised yet — in the moment we’re running the default prosilver template. I am looking at customising the looks of the place soon, but I’ll probably won’t get to it until the new year. In the meantime, the functionality is all there, however, so head over and enjoy yourselves!