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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."
redundant
Oh my, why did it have to be on that fucking shithole?
.. 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.
The lack of knowledge makes people jump blindly on GNOME. GNOME is an architectual disaster, not to say that only half of the things really work as they should, stuff not quite polished or giving the user the feel of bad implementation. I don't know how people can say it's similar to Windows while it isn't and I wonder how people can say that it's customizable, while it isn't.
/. or OSNews.com People should really spent some time looking at the whole aspects of GNOME, each app, what it does, what it doesn't. And not just watch some pron or listen to ripped mp3 files that's not what business is supposed to do or want to do.
I hate people who speak about GNOME like they know all about it but in reality don't know shit. I am dealing with such people nearly every day and it makes me sick. People contradicting themselves when arguing, people saying things they have no real clue about. People that simply suck. People defending GNOME for the sake of it, not willing to listen, not willing to even check out the stuff that was shown to them that suck, not even willing to understand the facts so they can be fixed afterwards. After 6 years with GNOME all this hell matured into a big pile of frustration. GNOME is frustrating, while the idea is good, the people working on it are worth nothing much, because they have no knowledge what they are doing. Not all but the majority of the people do suck. They spent time into patching stuff rather than using the ball above their neck to reconclude whether the architecture they patch makes sense to stay as it is or not. They became usability experts over night and made GNOME become a huge mess for the normal users.
Has anyone ever tried getting serious work done with GNOME ? Ever tried to print 'this page' inside GPDF or EVINCE ? Or have you ever asked yourself why GGV doesn't offer a print dialog ? Have you ever tried copying a full recursive subdir from FTP to your desktop using Nautilus without losing files ? Have you ever tried writing a circular letter with Abiword and trying to use Evolutions addressbook ? Ever tried drawing a computer related graph or UML graph using GNOME programms ? DIA ? No shit.
I find lot of comments quite retarded and disgusting and don't understand why people without any clue give their shit crap comments on
I feel sad that I need to explain this picture. Look closer to it. Now look again a bit closer to it.. No.. that's close enough..
This screenshot explains a lot to us. We don't care for the Toolbar structure nor do we care for the Menu structure. We only look at the appearance. Note that this is just one minor example.
We see Toolbars with ICONS only, we see Toolbars with TEXT beneath the ICONS, we see Toolbars with mixed entries as ICONS and TEXT, we see Toolbars which have a drag handle, we see Menu with drag handle, we see Toolbars without drag handle we see Menu without drag handle. Now what does us tell this ? It tells us that there is something wrong if we ask the question "why is this the case ?". We need to ask ourselves what the aim of a Desktop Environment and Developer Plattform is? The aim is to provide a set of bottom libraries (called a framework) for the developers, so they are able to create applications that feel coherent, look the same, work the same, behave the same as in a real environment. Do you want to have your kitchen filled up with different furniture or your living room ? One seat from type Y the other from type Q the other from Z. They simply do look disharmonic. This all with the GNOME HIG in mind then why do we still deal with such a mess ?
Now we need to look a bit closer to it and we figure out that GNOME offers for historic reasons different ways to create Windows. Now imagine this, you are a user and you want for some reason ICONS only on your Toolbar or you want no images in the Menu. You go into the preferences section and select 'icons only' for Toolbars and 'no images' for Menus. Aft
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
how true how true.
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.
I'm sorry, but "podcasting" is quite possibly the gayest sounding word ever. The only other words even remotely close are "blog", "metrosexual", and "meh" (if you can call that a word).
Word Translation
"podcasting" to cast one's pod, i.e. to wave one's dick around
"blog" the sound an asshole makes when you pop your dick out of it really fast, or the sound a fag makes when he pukes up a pint of cum
"metrosexual" "I'm a total fag and everybody knows it but I pretend that nobody knows"
"meh" "I'm a fag who's too lazy to type 'so what?' I also enjoy casting my pod in hairy blog-holes while driving around with my metrosexual life-partner Rafael, so meh to you!"
Please try to refrain from using these words or you may catch "teh gay". Now if you'll excuse me, I have to eat some red meat, drink some hard liquor, do some cocaine, and fuck some bitches.
...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."
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a Eurofag. He was lying on his bony, as it were effeminate, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see that he was wearing designer silk Prada G-string underwear which was slippery due to the fact that he was covered in K-Y jelly and Baby Oil, and was so uncomfortable that he was about to slide off the bed completely.
What has happened to me? he thought. It was no dream. His early-20th-century Central European bedroom was authentically minimalist, perhaps too much so. Above the simple minimalist table on which a collection of cloth samples was unpacked and spread out -- Samsa was a commercial traveler -- hung the picture of a lady with a fur cap on.
"Fur is murder!" Gregor heard himself blurt out, but he did not even understand its meaning. And again: "Fur is beautiful on animals but ugly on humans!" and "Would you wear your dog?" and "Give fur the cold shoulder!" The voice was his, as were the thoughts -- only the meaning escaped him.
Gregor's eyes turned next to the window, and the overcast sky -- one could hear rain drops beating on the window gutter -- made him think only of getting back to southern Portugal, or to Greece, or to Majorca, all beach vacation destinations which Gregor had no immediate recollection of ever visiting, precisely because he had never been to any of them. And yet the urge to "return" to the beach, and to "catch up on his tan" so that his body would attain the color of burnt pork knuckle, was overpowering, and this cast him into a gloom. "I'm so pale," he heard himself moan.
What about sleeping a little longer and forgetting all this nonsense, he thought, but it could not be done, for he was accustomed to sleeping in his nightgown and in his present costume, wearing only a tight silk Prada G-string, sexually aroused and imagining, to his own horror, what a joy it would be if a gypsy man were to urinate into his mouth, Gregor simply could not relax. However violently he forced himself towards his right side he always felt the pinch of his G-string and the slipperiness from the lubricants, and he rolled onto his back again. He tried it at least a dozen times, shutting his eyes to keep from seeing his shaven white legs, and only desisted when he began to feel a faint sense of irritation and depression which he had never experienced before, along with twitching in his spine, and a sore sinus and a sore nose with dried blood. He was terribly thirsty, and at the same time he felt fatigue and a profound sense of angst.
Oh God, he thought, what an exhausting job I've picked! Traveling about day in, day out. Although it's better than being stuck in an office, which is so alienating and oppressive, with its bourgeois dictatorial rules and spatial techno-totalitarianism. At least as a traveling salesman he was able to constantly move, take the train, see the beautiful countryside, meet so many interesting people, including students, activists, artists, and minorities.
He felt a slight itching on his pubic area; slowly lifted his head so that he could see more easily; identified the itching place, which came as a result of shaving all of his pubic hair, including his scrotum and the tuft which usually lined his anus, and he made to touch it with a hand, but he drew the hand back immediately, for the contact made him want to visit Thailand, where there are many friendly young boys.
He slid down again into his former position. This getting up early, he thought, makes one quite queer. A man needs his sleep. Otherwise I will look awful when I meet my clients, and who knows what interesting, unique Europeans I will meet along the way. Besides, the union I belong to has won concessions reducing the workweek to only 35 hours, while our pay was increased, so what's the point of waking up early? In fact, I am tired of working. It's only because of my overbearing parents that I continue this job. If it wasn't for my respect for their authority and my i
That, sir, was a brilliant story!
raise or lower t4e SLING you can
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
blog and junk
I can't POSSIBLY set foot inside the Molineux unless as part of a mass invasion!
for those of you who have not a clue what I'm on about...
it's football (soccer)... Wolverhampton Wanderers (The Wolves) play at the Molineux Stadium,
but I'm a fan of their local arch-rivals, West Bromwich Albion (The Baggies)... it's quite a severe but relatively good-natured rivalry.. still...
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.
OpenBSD, as the volume of NetBSD TheFi8 parting that has lost
and abroad for are juBst way over FrreBSD's project faces a set beyond the scope of
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
LUG Radio is pathetic. A bunch of Ubuntu fanboys (I love Ubuntu, btw) badmouthing everything else.
They are ignorant and full of shit. Among their brilliant suggestions was to rewrite the WHOLE of kde in python or C#.
Not to mention that I hate loud self-absorbed, self-important wankers, especially, the guy that always goes (BUT, BUUUUUUUUUUUT, bear in mind).
Fuck them. This people give Linux a bad name, particularly when they take every chance to badmouth RMS, because he has really contributed very little. Well, what have these idiots contributed?
Nothing. Noise pollution.
Actually that other type of LUG show would probably be a lot more interesting!
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?