Post Apocalyptic

After a super long break, We return with a smaller than usual crew, but with special guest Geoff "Mandrake" Harrison. We talk about KDE/Debian issues, price changing, GPG vs. PGP and more. We don't know when our next episode will be, so savor this one, and find it at TheSync.

Comments

True or False

[Delirium Tremens]

Let's see if you correctly listened to the broadcast.
Answer by true or false.

1. Geoff is the main maintainer and innovator behind Linux-Mandrake.
2. A new distribution is soon to be released: Linux-Slashdot.
3. KDE 2.0 to be included in Debian Potato.
4. Python to be removed from Debian Potato.
5. RMS to be called a Potato.
6. Geeks in Space strives to make Napster legal.
7. A 3-bedrooms/2-baths apartment in the San Francisco Bay area costs around $2400.
8. A 1-room/no-bath apartment in the San Francisco Bay area also costs around $2400, but then it is because you have a T3 connection hooked to it.
9. An Anonymous Speaker presented the amazing theory that PGP contains 66% of the letters of GPG.
10. Malda got $7500 in referral fee from Paypal this week.
11. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is soon going to get an extra $75 donation.
12. The Michigan country has seceded from the United States.
13. "Sleeping with CoboyNeal" should be in the constitution.

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Re:Text version??

[Fist Prost]

What's wrong with the downloadable mp3 format? Well, actually I was going to reply in a different thread about this very thing so here goes;

OGG VORBIS.

Please for the love of God push this down the throat of whoever you have to at the sync to offer this free alternative to the .mp3. Remember we are supposed to be supporting open formats. By offering GIS in only a closed, proprietary and evil format, and one that involves patent and license issues we are not putting our money where are mouth is.

Just a suggestion. Anyway, for the AC above, get X11-amp or some equivalent, and the ogg vorbis plugin, and continue to reccomend it to the gang here :-)

Re:Am I the Only Person Who Doesn't Like GIS?

[btlzu2]

I actually finally listened to it for the first time today and thought it was pretty cool. It's fun for me to listen to Geek (TM) conversation about topics I find interesting, because there are NO technical people where I work and, alas, I married a non-geek girl who just rolls her eyes when I get excited about getting ipmasqing to work on an old 486. This is really weird, but none of my friends are geeks either! Anyways, I suppose it's a way to live vicariously through those guys! Sad, but true! :) It's fun and interesting.

Am I the Only Person Who Doesn't Like GIS?

[Redking]

Hey guys, I think you guys do a great job at Slashdot and pick great topics to post on the front page. I learn alot by reading each posts and learning from people's comments. However, I have never listened to GIS for any considerable amount of time. I don't think the radio format compliments any of the Slashdot crew. I wish you would do more of the "Ask X 10 Questions" and let the Slashdot community have a chance to ask some questions of Geoff. I've always thought that some of the most interesting ideas have been brought out by questions from the Slashdot community.

Probably would help drive up traffic and banner impressions. That would keep Andover off yer backs.