Linux Outlaws 56 - Have You Had Your Eyes Tested Lately?

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Linux Outlaws 56 - Have You Had Your Eyes Tested Lately?

Submitted by Fab on September 22, 2008 - 23:47.

MP3 - 1 hour 20 minutes 19 seconds, 36.9 MB

This time, the Outlaws talk about Canonical paying developers to pimp the Linux desktop, Microsoft killing the Seinfeld ads, a virus on the ISS, DRM in clothing and a lot more.

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00:01:34 Introduction

The world hasn’t ended
Fab is back online for good!
LugRadio’s LRL 2008 show is out
Apparently Steven Fry’s MacBook does run gNewSense
Dan is now supporting the Open Rights Group
Beer of the Week: Iki Beer

00:07:33 Releases

00:13:47 News

00:34:20 Microwatch

00:47:51 Tip of the Week

Marvel’s The Dark Tower: Treachery comic books

00:50:00 Listener Feedback

Benny sends us a link to a very weird story about a guy buying a G4 PowerMac on eBay
Steven sends us a story about Sun open sourcing their xVM server
Ger Appledorn warns us about security issues with Webmin
Darrin tells us that the OpenID login on linuxoutlaws.net seems to be broken
David Stevens helped us narrowing down our mp3 tagging problem
We get an anonymous tip about Nokia’s open source plans
Stuart Burns gives us an admittedly rather nice booting about Thinkpads

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Song: Nothing On from the album Worm Food by Ruth Theodore

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Fab Fabian Scherschel is a university student from Bonn, Germany who works part-time as tech support for a large ISP and otherwise spends his time hacking stuff, listening to rock music or watching Firefly. He is currently running his own Xubuntu remix.

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Dan Dan Lynch is a programmer, musician and full-time layabout from Merseyside, UK. He used to work for the NHS as a .NET developer before turning his back on the Dark Side to become an open source enthusiast. He has been commited to the open source ethos ever since. Dan is currently distro hopping for the good of the podcast.

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