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LUGRadio Live This Summer
[vmlinuz] writes "Also picked up on The Register, The Inquirer and Linux Today - with the LUGRadio show getting more and more listeners and attracting guests such as Miguel de Icaza, Mark Shuttleworth, Alan Cox, Seth Nickell and more, the growing fanbase will be able to congregate at LUGRadio Live this summer. The day long event includes speakers such as Ian Bell (co-creator of Elite), Simon Willison, Bill Thompson, Christan Schaller and more. In addition to the speakers, an all day bar, multi-player gaming, mini expo and paintball are in the cards. LUGradio Live takes place on Sat 25th June 2005 in Wolverhampton, UK."
.. are a great and effective way to spread Linux etc. by combatting the short attention span of the youth of today.
News for Nerds.
It seems to me that more often than news, slashdot's thing is adverts for nerds.
Not saying it's a bad thing, there's a big grey area between news and adverts in this sort of thing, and hey, I'm here every day reading the stuff.
I'm saying this mainly because I'd never heard of LUG radio before. Now I'm interested.
Damn it "News for Nerds, Ads that bloody well work".
PS Sorry if this comes off as a bit trollish. Its just there's a fine line between news and well targetted advertising.
Profanities all day long and live! :-D
Sounds like a great event.
I have had the chance to listen to LUGRadio but apart from the interview portion, I do not listen to the rest because I fing that they use a lot of distasteful language and also laugh a lot. It it why some people take Linux evengelists to be at the very bottom or near the bottom of the social ladder?
Please stop trolling /., just because some gnome devs weren't nice to you and GoneMe was such a raving success.
http://www.akcaagac.com/index_goneme.html
http://lugradio.bishopburton.ac.uk/lugradio-s2e15- 090505-high.ogg.torrent
What this Bill Thompson?
The one that told Linux users to "get real" ?
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
Although it's not yet listed, I'll be talking about Kubuntu and KDE.
Wow, obviously the mods never listened to LUG Radio.
The Southern California Linux Expo has a podcast as well. It has great talks from their shows including Larry McVoy, John "maddog" Hall, Kevin Foreman, etc. Subscribe here.
...Slashcode really fucked that formatting up. Then again, what do you expect from a bunch of podcasting metrosexual bloggers who say "meh"?
and paintball are in the cards Ah, the possibilities. Linux fanatics versus Linux fanatics - who will win? My money is definately not on Team Gentoo. They will strip down thier guns and fire minature paint balls "to optimize efficiency". /flamebait
"Sure there's porn and piracy on the Web but there's probably a downside too."
That, sir, was a brilliant story!
I might fall out of bed and roll into the city centre to say hi ;-)
/. again.
It's pretty impressive that this thing has come together at all considering it has no corporate sponsorship and is being done for the fun of the event.
Imagine that no corporate interest just a bunch of hackers having fun. It's pre-takeover blues
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Oh, bad luck Herbster, see you next year ;-)
If your post confused people this one (from a Wolves fan) certainly will.
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Hey... it ain't over quite yet son ;)
Bwahahahaha! Some moron modded him down even though he was already posting at -1...
So if I like it, does that make me a LUG nut?
But if I find it jarring then the sensation would be a LUG Wrench.
Sorry but I'm an uncureable punnster, I just had to LUG those two out.
funny?
There is a much better Linux show out there. The Linux Link Tech Show http://www.thelinuxlink.net/tllts/
rms was on it the other day, and its always live streaming on binrev radio http://www.binrev.com/
the linux link is 3 or 4 guys from some lug somewhere that enjoy doing what they do. (no paid)
the Lug radio guys are paid for what they say, and even canceled their show because they didnt get enough money.
Maybe its just me, but the whole podcast thing is juts so 'blowfish alike'
:S
Isn't it just 'downloading music to your usb/mp3-stick'?
Never knew that it could be made so complicated
Why don't they just hand over the mp3 over at the site??? (besides the rss thingy)
Hivemind harvest in progress..
At first I thought the article was about:
http://www.citybeat.com/1999-08-26/cover3.shtml
It's pronounced "Lug rah-dee-o". Brilliant show. Oh, and it's not profanity, it's "language".
i've been using Linux for about 10 years now. when i first started using it it was still an underground underdog scrapping to get a little attention. well 10 years later it has all the attention it needs but much of it the likes of cnet.com.com.com.com.com. so the majority of attention it gets these days is geared towared the business sect. so it's quite nice to hear people chatting up linux on multiple levels AND hear a bit of the old attitude creeping back into it. i'm sorry but watered-down, business-suit linux is nothing more than microsoft without the unpredictable software. i say more of this. i say Linux TV. i say let's bring back the days when linux.com was a real strong dream and a place where linux users could go and get help. don't get me wrong - i love the fact that big businesses are supporting linux. but that big money doesn't mean linux has to shed it's underdog attitude where you couldn't see a linux ad without the words "world domination" somewhere in the ad. i think the linux community should approach G4 TV and tell them they need to start a Linux TV show. hell, i'm an actor, maybe i'll pitch them the idea.
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I downloaded the LUGRadio show where they interviewed Miguel de Icaza. I was less than impressed by the insight of the LUG guys. They seemed to think that any project which might rely on Mono or .NET could just as easily be done in Python!
I love how Slashdot blurbs automatically assume everyone knows everything. WTF is "Elite" and why should I be impressed that the creater of it, whatever it is, is going to be in the UK for a day at some point in the future?
Elite = what Slashdot editors think of themselves
eh what? They never suggested that the whole of KDE should be written in Python or C#.
I'll also think you'll find that all 4 presenters have contributed a significant amount into the Linux community before LUGRadio ever existed.
mrBen
Looks like you spoke too soon ;)
Actually that other type of LUG show would probably be a lot more interesting!
> They never suggested that the whole of KDE
> should be written in Python or C#.
They did!
> I'll also think you'll find that all 4
> presenters have contributed a significant
> amount into the Linux community before LUGRadio
> ever existed.
I don't know any of these wankers until I liked the above link. Who the fuck are these idiots and what did they contribute ?
ahh, you buggers. Now I have to change my ringtone from the Great Escape!
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OK - for the record there was:
1. A suggestion that KDE had become overbloated and that maybe a lighter version was needed. The suggestion of a rewrite was shot down in flames on the show, and no mention was made of the language in which to do said rewrite.
2. The suggestion about using Python in the core of a DE was a sarcastic remark in a conversation about GNOME looking to support development in high-level languages.
Jono Bacon has been around in Linux-related media for ages; most Linux magazines have had work by him, and he has most recently released Linux Desktop Hacks which he co-edited with Nicholas Petreley - but you've probably never heard of him either.
Stuart Langridge (aka Aq) has been around the web development scene for a while; he wrote DHTML Utopia
Need I go on? I think not - all out of troll food.
mrBen
Yeah Cap, good read.
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I gave this a listen and found it to be quite good, although I think they think some of their humor (actually humour) is funnier than it really is. Anyhow, anyone know of any other good technology related podcasts?