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South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station

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Linux User Space
Episode 5:08: Make It Snappy

Linux User Space

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 66:35


Coming up in this episode * Syncing the Notes * The History of Snaps * And How Much We Absolutely Adore Them 0:00 Cold Open 1:34 Seeking Syncthing 16:42 The History of Snaps 33:52 How'd 9 Years of Snaps Go? 1:01:54 Next Time 1:04:49 Stinger The Video Version https://youtu.be/izDzKkuEyRw It is all about the notes Leo goes back to basics and uses SyncThing (https://syncthing.net/) to move his markdown files around that he edits using a standard text editor (https://code.visualstudio.com/).

Bikers Church Cape Town
Our indescribable gift

Bikers Church Cape Town

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2024 22:45


Our indescribable gift Pastor George Lehman   25 December – the day or date is not important? What is important is that it did happen.   Psalm 118:22-24 - 22The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 23the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.   My scripture this morning is 2 Corinthians 9:15 (NIV).  It's a short verse – only 8 words long. Paul says: “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” [Maar God sy dank vir sy onuitspreeklike gawe]                                Most of us have survived the shopping experience. Choosing Christmas gifts for those special people in our lives. Let me ask you: “have you ever received an “indescribable gift?” I thought about this - what kind of gift would it have to be, to be called “indescribable”? If you opened it, what would you say?  Wow, it's beautiful, something you always wanted.  Whatever the gift, what would make it an indescribable gift? There are many life tales of great gifts given to people: Mark Shuttleworth gave each one of his employees R1 Million. When he sold his company Joan Linden, a radio show host, featured some gift ideas: $300 000 for a gold and silver toilet seat inlaid with precious stones (R5.7 Million).  “You could be King of your Castle on this seat”. $18 000 frisbee (R342000) $10 000 Yo-yo (R190000) $12 000 mouse trap (R228000) $27 000 pair of sunglasses (R513000) and then for grand parentsto buy for the new baby - $28 000 dummy (R532 000) boats and cars valued at billions of rand. I think these gifts stagger our imagination – don't they?  But all these human gifts are very describable by someone. Paul at first talking about gifts in the passage of scripture in 2 Cor 9 – he is discussing human gifts.  He commends them for their eagerness to help and for their generosity for giving so abundantly. If you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly. If you sow generously, you will reap generously. The attention then goes to God's gift of sending Jesus. Paul has no words to describe this.  All he says is: “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.”  A gift beyond description. So many people, poets, musicians, painters and sculptors have tried to bring tribute and express this indescribable gift the person Jesus, the gift of God's love.  Why does Paul call Jesus “INDESCRIBABLE”? I think there are at least 4 reasons     I'm not trying to describe it, because I can't.  But I want to stir your heart to focus afresh on “God's gift to you”.   #1  Because of His nature     How do you describe Jesus?  What words would you choose?  How do you describe God in flesh – reaching out to the hurting masses of humanity and being the 100% cure?   John 10:10 (AMP) – The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).    “God's love is not logical.  It is unimaginable that God descended in His Son to bring salvation to ungrateful people.  Jesus became what we are in order to make us what He is.”       Isaiah said:  He will be called Emmanuel (God with us); Paul said:  We can't describe the “indescribable” gift The sms making its rounds lately reads as follows: He had no servants – yet they called Him MASTER No degrees – yet they called Him TEACHER No medicine – yet they called Him HEALER No army – yet the King's FEARED Him He won no military battles – yet He CONQUERED the world He committed no crime – yet they CRUCIFIED Him He was buried – yet He ROSE AND LIVES TODAY! The birth of Jesus brought God to man, BUT it took the cross of Jesus Christ to bring man to God.       He is indescribable!   #2  Because of His purpose in coming to earth     What is the Christmas celebration [Kersfees vieringe] about after all? Not decorated trees, not presents, not holidays, not some overweight dude wearing red either. OUR GREATEST NEED: for HIS coming If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator; If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist; If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist; If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer;   The Answer is: Our greatest needwas forgiveness, so God sent us a Saviour – to bring hope to a lost, sinful world.   God's gift is indescribable!     #3  Because of the grace by which Jesus is given     We buy gifts for people we know – like our wife and kids because it's kind of the right thing to do.  Normally if people give us a gift, we feel obliged to give one back.  We feel we must help the needy, the poor, because we have an obligation to them.   This is what makes God so special – He doesn't owe us anything, in fact:     Romans 5:8 (NIV) - But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.                                            We deserved the WORST, but we got the BEST.  A gift is not a gift if you pay for it – it's free by GRACE.   Lastly, it's indescribable!   #4  Because of His overwhelming [oorweldigende] effect on us     The gifts you got for Christmas may be wonderful and you may be very thankful, BUT tomorrow you will still be the same – it will not change you. The Bible teaches that when we accept Jesus Christ, “The indescribable gift”, we can NEVER be the same again.     Our sins are forgiven and forgotten.     2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) - “We're a brand-new person.”     Let us thank God for this season as we celebrate “His indescribable gift”, JESUS, to a lost world. He became like us– that we might become like Him. He was rejected– that we might be accepted. He was condemned– that we might be forgiven. He was punished– that we might be pardoned. He suffered– that we might be strengthened. He was whipped– that we might be healed. He was hated– that we might be loved. He was crucified– that we might be justified. He was tortured– that we might be comforted. He died– that we might live. He went to hell– that we might go to Heaven. He endured what we deserved– that we might enjoy what only He deserves.                                                      

The American Warrior Show
Episode #392: !CRITICAL! Jonathan Deal - Gun Control Lies

The American Warrior Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 66:43


On today's Coffee with Rich, we will be joined by Jonathan Deal. MR. Deal operates full time as the founder and lead instructor of Zero Points Down Academy (ZPD) in South Africa. MR. Deal operates full time as the founder and lead instructor of Zero Points Down Academy (ZPD) in South Africa. ZPD is a bespoke training operation catering for Police mandated training of citizens on all small arms as well as advanced levels of sport shooting, including precision long-range shooting.   He is the IDPA State Coordinator for the Cape Province in South Africa and a keen Sport Shooter. In 2020 he founded the SAFE CITIZEN Campaign www.safecitizen.co.za – a civil rights group concerned with the safety of South Africans who daily face escalating and brutal crime. Writing on Travel and Tourism, his book, Timeless Karoo was published in 2007, and as a freelance journalist and photographer, he also writes for various publications, including the Rhodes Business School website and the Daily Maverick. He is a past chairman of the Southern African Freelancers Association and is sought after as a speaker and debater on environmental issues at international conferences. Deal presented at Al Gore's International Climate Leadership School in Johannesburg in March 2014 and was honored in the same year to be listed by City Press as 1 of 100 World Class South Africans, sharing the accolade with fellow citizens such as Nelson Mandela, Mark Shuttleworth and Charlize Theron. His background in journalism and public speaking has proved invaluable in moving Safe Citizen forward.   As a committed trainer, he holds a fierce passion for lawful and competent private gun ownership and regards himself as an influencer in this realm in South Africa. Reading widely on training and civil rights issues, Deal views SafeCitizenas a necessary vehicle to move lawful gun owners close to the police as trusted allies – proving that citizens who can defend themselves will be a powerful and positive influence on the communities in which they live. Deal intends to use every resource available to unite lawful South Africans who support private firearm ownership, to overturn the untrue perception that firearms are bad and that private firearm owners are to blame for the flood of illegal firearms in the country. He is determined that his fellow citizens should be able, via the lawful possession of a firearm to enjoy the Constitutional guarantee of freedom from public or private violence.   Do not miss this live stream! Zero Points Down Academy: www.zeropointsdownacademy.com

c’t uplink
20 Jahre Ubuntu: Ein Blick zurück und nach vorn | c't uplink

c’t uplink

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2024 52:47


Als Desktop-Linux für alle war Ubuntu im Oktober 2004 mit Ubuntu 4.10 mit dem Spitznamen Warty Warthog gestartet. Ubuntu trat als einsteigerfreundliche Linux-Distribution an, als die es sich schnell einen Namen machte. Dafür gab es mehrere Gründe, beispielsweise den Installationsassistenten, der nicht allzu viele Fragen stellt und ein alltagstaugliches Linux-System auf der Festplatte installiert. Ubuntu 4.10 passte zudem auf eine einzige CD und ließ sich so auch leichter verteilen. Von da an erschien zwanzig Jahre lang zweimal im Jahr eine neue Ausgabe und das bis auf eine einzige Ausnahme auch immer recht pünktlich. Und es gibt keinen Grund anzunehmen, dass sich das in nächster Zeit ändern könnte. Im Laufe seiner Entwicklung ging Canonicals Distribution so manches Mal eigene Wege, die sich nicht immer durchsetzen konnten. Die aktuellste Ubuntu-Version ist die im Oktober erschienene Jubiläumsausgabe 24.10 „Oracular Oriole“. In diesem c't uplink skizzieren wir die Entwicklung von Ubuntu mit wichtigen Meilensteinen und ergründen, wo Ubuntu heutzutage erfolgreich ist und wo nicht. Anlässlich des Jubiläums führte c't-Redakteure ein Interview mit Ubuntu-Gründer und -Geldgeber Mark Shuttleworth und befragten diesen zu vergangenen Entwicklungen und Plänen für die Zukunft. Ihre Eindrücke schildern sie ebenfalls in dieser Podcastausgabe. In unserem [WhatsApp-Kanal](https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCUFFEInlqYnQg2lb0h) sortieren Torsten und Jan aus der Chefredaktion das Geschehen in der IT-Welt, fassen das Wichtigste zusammen und werfen einen Blick auf das, was unsere Kollegen gerade so vorbereiten.

Africa Daily
Is Africa doing enough to get women involved in science?

Africa Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2024 20:17


“I think historically, science or STEM related subjects have not been encouraged for young girls to participate in. It's generally been viewed as a male dominated industry” – Lerato Kubushi, African Leadership Academy In today's Africa Daily's Mpho Lakaje speaks to four teenagers from Tunisia, Lesotho, Nigeria Zimbabwe and their teacher from Ghana about why African women are underrepresented in science and what's being done about it. According to a recent United Nations Commission for Africa report, women make up only 20% of the science and engineering field on the continent. This, however, isn't to say that Africa hasn't produced people who are excelling in this sector and doing exceptional things.Back in 2002, Mark Shuttleworth gained worldwide fame when he became the first South African in space. 20 years later Sara Sabry became the first Egyptian and African woman to go to space. But is enough being done to ensure that more women get to reach the same heights?

Podcast Libre à vous !
Chronique de Gee sur « Canonical a 20 ans »

Podcast Libre à vous !

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 6:51


Les références : Canonical fête ses 20 ans : comment Ubuntu a changé le monde de Linux sur ZDNet Mark Shuttleworth sur Wikipédia Canonical sur Wikipédia Ubuntu-frVous pouvez commenter les émissions, nous faire des retours pour nous améliorer, ou encore des suggestions. Et même mettre une note sur 5 étoiles si vous le souhaitez. Il est important pour nous d'avoir vos retours car, contrairement par exemple à une conférence, nous n'avons pas un public en face de nous qui peut réagir. Pour cela, rendez-vous sur la page dédiée.Pour connaître les nouvelles concernant l'émission (annonce des podcasts, des émissions à venir, ainsi que des bonus et des annonces en avant-première) inscrivez-vous à la lettre d'actus.

The American Warrior Show
Show # 366: Jonathan Deal of South Africa's Zero Points Down Academy

The American Warrior Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 81:49


  On today's Coffee with Rich, we will be joined by Jonathan Deal. MR. Deal operates full time as the founder and lead instructor of Zero Points Down Academy (ZPD) in South Africa. MR. Deal operates full time as the founder and lead instructor of Zero Points Down Academy (ZPD) in South Africa. ZPD is a bespoke training operation catering for Police mandated training of citizens on all small arms as well as advanced levels of sport shooting, including precision long-range shooting.   He is the IDPA State Coordinator for the Cape Province in South Africa and a keen Sport Shooter. In 2020 he founded the SAFE CITIZEN Campaign www.safecitizen.co.za – a civil rights group concerned with the safety of South Africans who daily face escalating and brutal crime. Writing on Travel and Tourism, his book, Timeless Karoo was published in 2007, and as a freelance journalist and photographer, he also writes for various publications, including the Rhodes Business School website and the Daily Maverick. He is a past chairman of the Southern African Freelancers Association and is sought after as a speaker and debater on environmental issues at international conferences. Deal presented at Al Gore's International Climate Leadership School in Johannesburg in March 2014 and was honored in the same year to be listed by City Press as 1 of 100 World Class South Africans, sharing the accolade with fellow citizens such as Nelson Mandela, Mark Shuttleworth and Charlize Theron.   His background in journalism and public speaking has proved invaluable in moving Safe Citizen forward.   As a committed trainer, he holds a fierce passion for lawful and competent private gun ownership and regards himself as an influencer in this realm in South Africa. Reading widely on training and civil rights issues, Deal views SafeCitizenas a necessary vehicle to move lawful gun owners close to the police as trusted allies – proving that citizens who can defend themselves will be a powerful and positive influence on the communities in which they live. Deal intends to use every resource available to unite lawful South Africans who support private firearm ownership, to overturn the untrue perception that firearms are bad and that private firearm owners are to blame for the flood of illegal firearms in the country. He is determined that his fellow citizens should be able, via the lawful possession of a firearm to enjoy the Constitutional guarantee of freedom from public or private violence. Do not miss this live stream! Zero Points Down Academy: www.zeropointsdownacademy.com Coffee with Rich Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rhodieusmc/videos American Warrior Show: https://americanwarriorshow.com/index.html SWAG: https://shop.americanwarriorsociety.com/ American Warrior Society please visit: https://americanwarriorsociety.com/

Destination Linux
353: Interview with Mark Shuttleworth at the Ubuntu Summit

Destination Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2024 52:44


show notes at https://tuxdigital.com/dl352

Destination Linux
353: Interview with Mark Shuttleworth at the Ubuntu Summit

Destination Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 52:44


https://youtu.be/zDzkAs0V81U On this episode of Destination Linux (353), Mark Shuttleworth joins us for an interview at the Ubuntu Summit to discuss Ubuntu, Ubuntu Summit, AI, the importance of open-source contributions and the positive impact it can have on industries. Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/32f28071-0b08-4ea1-afcc-37af75bd83d6/cba1bbb7-64b7-4eed-99fc-1accb3939e7b.mp3) Special Guests: Mark Shuttleworth Link: https://ubuntu.com Supported by: Namecheap = https://destinationlinux.net/namecheap LINBIT = https://destinationlinux.net/linbit Hosted by: Michael Tunnell = https://michaeltunnell.com Ryan (DasGeek) = https://dasgeekcommunity.com Jill Bryant = https://jilllinuxgirl.com Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Destination Linux 353 Intro 00:49 Community Feedback 07:47 NAMECHEAP - [ link (https://destinationlinux.net/namecheap) ] 08:46 Interview: Mark Shuttleworth 27:40 LINBIT - [ link (https://destinationlinux.net/linbit) ] 28:58 Interview: Mark Shuttleworth Cont. 43:52 Gaming: MrBid an AI Generated game 45:33 Software Spotlight: Exercise Timer 47:34 Tips and Tricks: Alternativeto 49:13 Events 50:17 Outro

Destination Linux
Interview with Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical & Founder of Ubuntu

Destination Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 58:16


https://youtu.be/3XLBo_OhUN0 Mark Shuttleworth joins us on the Destination Linux podcast for an in-depth interview. Mark Shuttleworth is the Founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system. Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/32f28071-0b08-4ea1-afcc-37af75bd83d6/ab3923ab-e8e7-4644-82ac-323f0f5d55b9.mp3) Hosted by: Michael Tunnell = https://michaeltunnell.com Ryan (DasGeek) = https://dasgeekcommunity.com Jill Bryant = https://jilllinuxgirl.com Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Interview with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical / Ubuntu 00:26 Mark's Origin Story of His Journey into Linux 03:08 The Founding of Canonical & Ubuntu 06:44 What Is Most Exciting To You About The Growth Of Open Source? 08:21 Do You Have Any Concerns About The Growth Of Open Source? 09:55 What Role Does Ubuntu Community Play With Shaping Canonical? 12:06 How Do You Deal With The Harsh Criticisms? 15:21 Speaking of Unity DL Crew Share Unity Nostalgia 16:15 Canonical's Key Focus Areas 16:29 Importance of Internet of Things (IOT) 17:52 Details on Canonical's Hardware Partnerships (maybe Framework?) 20:53 Snap Format & The Criticism Around Snaps 25:07 Why Is The Snap Store Closed Source? 28:50 Plans To Improve The Snaps Format 30:03 Mark Learns About Michael's Aversion to Updates 32:02 The Motivation Behind Creating Snaps & Snapd 33:35 Michael Shares The Value of Multi-Distro Packages 34:09 Michael Clarifies His Update Aversion 34:35 Adding BTRFS Support In Ubuntu? 39:06 Mark's Thoughts On AI & Will AI Be Leveraged At Canonical 43:13 The Ethics of AI & Some Experts Wanting AI Expansion Paused 47:06 What Are You Most Proud Of About Canonical? 51:40 What Is It Like To Be In Space?!! 54:34 Lightning Round 56:20 Interview Wrapup

Destination Linux
Interview with Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical & Founder of Ubuntu

Destination Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2023 58:16


FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/mark-shuttleworth-interview

How to Lend Money to Strangers
How to lend money to astronauts, with Russell Shaw (Equatorial Launch Australia)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2023 26:02


Today's episode stretches the lending niche, but fifty-four years ago, humanity landed on the moon, so I'm feeling flexible. And anyway, people lend to airport operators all the time, so it won't be too long until spaceports are seen as similarly stable fixed-cost operators.When I was younger, if a conversation involved a South African tech billionaire and space, you were talking about Mark Shuttleworth (lovely nominative determinism there, by the way). More recently, the same talking points would more of course be associated with Elon Musk. I'll never not enjoy seeing a SpaceX rocket land back on a barge after a successful launch. But Elon's been busy with other matters, and now there's a new name in the Industry: Russell Shaw. Is Russell a tech billionaire? No. But I'm not Joe Rogan, so I can't exactly point fingers

Hacker Public Radio
HPR3874: 2022-2023 New Years Show Episode 9

Hacker Public Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2023


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(/ˌmoʊtəˈroʊlə/) was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. volla: Volla Phone. ubports: We are building a secure & private operating system for your smartphone. sailfishos: The mobile OS with built-in privacy. calyxos: CalyxOS is an operating system for smartphones based on Android with mostly free and open-source software. wikipedia: WhatsApp. IRC IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. It is a popular chat service still in use today. zoom: Unified communication and collaboration platform. jitsi: Jitsi Free & Open Source Video Conferencing Projects. joinmastodon: Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. wikipedia: Karen Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, former executive director of the GNOME Foundation, an attorney, and former general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. fosdem: FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. southeastlinuxfest: The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Open Source Software. olfconference: OLF (formerly known as Ohio LinuxFest) is a grassroots conference for the GNU/Linux/Open Source Software/Free Software community that started in 2003 as a large inter-LUG (Linux User Group) meeting and has grown steadily since. linuxfests: A home for educational programs focused on free and open source software & culture. wikipedia: Notacon (pronounced "not-a-con") was an art and technology conference which took place annually in Cleveland, Ohio from 2003 to 2014. penpalworld: a place where you can meet over 3,000,000 pen pals from every country on the planet. redhat: Red Hat Enterprise Linux. openssl: The OpenSSL Project develops and maintains the OpenSSL software - a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured toolkit for general-purpose cryptography and secure communication. STEM wikipedia: Obsessive–compulsive disorder. cdc: Autism. wikipedia: Asperger syndrome. askubuntu: Manual partitioning during installation. wikipedia: Colon cancer staging. cdc: Get Vaccinated Before You Travel. sqlite: SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine. wikipedia: Facial recognition system. wikipedia: Tribalism is the state of being organized by, or advocating for, tribes or tribal lifestyles. wikipedia: Southern hospitality. wikipedia: The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retail company that operates (either directly or through its subsidiaries) supermarkets and multi-department stores throughout the United States. wikipedia: Prosopagnosia, more commonly known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face, is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing and intellectual functioning remain intact. wikipedia: T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic, Poland, the United States and by the former subsidiary in the Netherlands. stackexchange: Where did the phrase "batsh-t crazy" come from? wikipedia: A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable. brigs: At Brigs, we want everyone to get exactly what they're craving! papajohns: Papa Johns. dominos: Domino's Pizza, Inc., trading as Domino's, is a Michigan-based multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960 and led by CEO Russell Weiner. wikipedia: Loitering is the act of remaining in a particular public place for a prolonged amount of time without any apparent purpose. wikipedia: Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative identity disorder, major depressive disorder and many others. wikipedia: Therapist is a person who offers any kinds of therapy. Thanks To: Mumble Server: Delwin HPR Site/VPS: Joshua Knapp - AnHonestHost.com Streams: Honkeymagoo EtherPad: HonkeyMagoo Shownotes by: Sgoti and hplovecraft

Destination Linux
322: Interview with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical & Ubuntu

Destination Linux

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 71:01


FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-322/

Destination Linux
322: Interview with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical & Ubuntu

Destination Linux

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 71:02


FULL SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-322/

Linux Action News
Linux Action News 266

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 18:40


Microsoft's new goodies for Linux users, the Ubuntu Summit wraps up, and our takeaways from the recent fireside chat with Linus Torvalds.

Linux Action News
Linux Action News 266

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 18:40


Microsoft's new goodies for Linux users, the Ubuntu Summit wraps up, and our takeaways from the recent fireside chat with Linus Torvalds.

East Coast Breakfast with Darren Maule
What big newsworthy event do you remember - Mark Shuttleworth going to space

East Coast Breakfast with Darren Maule

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 1:03


East Coast Radio is turning 26 years old this month. To celebrate being by your side for 26 years, we will be taking you on a trip down memory lane every day for the next month. We roll back to a time where Mark Shuttleworth was the first ever South African to fly to space. #DarrenKeriSkyOnECR #ECR26 #ECR26: What big newsworthy event do you remember hearing about on East Coast Radio

Linux User Space
Episode 3:02: The Utopic Tale of Ubuntu

Linux User Space

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 111:30


Coming up in this episode 1. The origins of the shirts 2. Ubuntu's history 3. And some thoughts on 22.04 Video version https://youtu.be/PCM-h_0Rqbc Support us on Patreon (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace)! Audio Timestamps 0:00 Cold Open 1:30 The Origin of the Shirts 6:43 Lubuntu's in the Backporting Biz 9:45 Ubuntu's History 11:30 2004 17:01 2005 20:11 2006 24:01 2007 29:55 2008 36:39 2009 40:16 2010 47:52 2011 55:05 2012 1:02:35 2013 1:10:03 2014 1:15:00 2015 1:20:19 2016 1:25:26 2017 1:28:49 2018 1:31:17 2019 1:33:49 2020 1:35:55 2021 1:37:19 2022 1:39:43 A Couple Thoughts on Ubuntu 1:48:13 A New Distro, and a Thanks! 1:50:26 Stinger Banter Dan's Shirt (https://southeastlinuxfest.org) Leo's Shirt (https://ubuntu.com/blog/build-a-raspberry-pi-desktop-with-an-ubuntu-heart) Lubuntu Backports are coming! (https://lubuntu.me/jammy-backports-22-04-1-cft/) Announcements Give us a sub on YouTube (https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube) You can watch us live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode drops.(not this episode but normally.) Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show Ubuntu The Saga Some fast links: Main Web Page (https://ubuntu.com) Ubuntu Forums (https://ubuntuforums.org) AskUbuntu (https://askubuntu.com) Ubuntu Discourse (https://discourse.ubuntu.com) Launchpad (https://launchpad.net) Official Flavours (https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours) Wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com) There are way too many links to get them all! We gathered a great deal from the official Ubuntu Blog (https://ubuntu.com/blog/) The Inception (https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1186095&seqNum=3) Bug #1 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1) October 20, 2004 Warty Warthog 4.10 was the first release. Shipit came about the same time (https://web.archive.org/web/20041210114946/http://shipit.ubuntu.com/) Hoary Hedgehog, 5.04, is released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-5-04-released) adding KDE and the Kubuntu flavor. Ubuntu Foundation is Created (https://ubuntu.com/blog/new-ubuntu-foundation-announced) Warty's 18 months are up (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-4-10-end-of-support-cycle) Dapper Drake, 6.06, is released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-6-06-lts-released). To date the only release that was late. Also, Xubuntu joined the family with the Xfce desktop. Scott James Remnant dubbed it the Late To Ship release (https://netsplit.com/posts/happy-10th-birthday-ubuntu/) Edgy Eft, 6.10 is released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-launches-new-ubuntu-release-for-desktops-and-servers), now with more Upstart (https://upstart.ubuntu.com/) Launch Pad 1.0 Beta released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/launchpad-1-0-beta-released) Dell offers Ubuntu 7.04 (https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-to-offer-ubuntu) on select devices in the US (https://web.archive.org/web/20070503024310/http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx) first release of Ubuntu Studio (https://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio/+milestone/feisty-7.04-release) Gutsy Gibbon, 7.10 Desktop, is released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-7-10-desktop-edition-released). Mythubuntu and Gobuntu appear here. Launchpad is released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-announces-launch-of-launchpad-personal-package-archive-service-for-developers) System76 joined the fray (https://ubuntu.com/blog/system76-announces-servers-with-ubuntu-7-10-and-canonical-support-services) Landscape, system management and monitoring tools for Ubuntu, launches (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-announces-general-availability-of-systems-management-and-monitoring-tool-landscape-launches-with-free-trial) Hardy Heron, 8.04 LTS, released for Desktop (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-8-04-lts-desktop-edition-released). Wubi is also released. Gobuntu has been made redundant (https://web.archive.org/web/20110929075747/https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gobuntu-devel/2008-June/000795.html) Launchpad 2.0 released (https://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Presents-Launchpad-2-0-91019.shtml) Canonical open sources Launchpad (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-releases-source-code-for-launchpad) Karmic Koala, 9.10 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicKoala/HumanReleaseNotes), is relased and so is Ubuntu One (https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone/) Lucid Lynx, 10.04, released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/reasons-to-celebrate-29th-april-2010) and the first hints of Lubuntu, though not official yet. Unity announced (https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/383) Ubuntu and Canonical sites get a facelift (https://ubuntu.com/blog/new-ubuntu-and-canonical-sites). See it here (https://web.archive.org/web/20100601092326/http://www.ubuntu.com/) Canonical announces Ubuntu Advantage (https://ubuntu.com/blog/new-canonical-services-help-businesses-get-ahead-with-ubuntu-server-and-ubuntu-desktop) Unity shows lots of improvement (https://ubuntu.com/blog/introduction-to-unity-launcher), but it's NOT A DOCK! (See it in action) (https://vimeo.com/12818039) Quitter talk - Blog post (https://ubuntu.com/blog/quit) Shipit comes to an end (https://ubuntu.com/blog/shipit-comes-to-an-end) Oneiric Ocelot, 11.10, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes?action=show&redirect=OneiricOcelot%2FTechnicalOverview) and Lubuntu becomes official. The HUD is introduced. (https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939) Precise Pangolin, 12.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop/UbuntuDesktop-12.04) Includes the Heads Up Display (https://web.archive.org/web/20120125082058/https://people.canonical.com/~ories/HUD.m4v) Favorable reviews of Ubuntu as a whole, but also Unity (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ubuntu-unity-making-the-desktop-seriously-efficient-again/) The traditional installer/live CD is dead (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/its-official-the-ubuntu-livecd-is-dead). Ubuntu comes to the phone (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-comes-to-the-phone-with-a-beautifully-distilled-interface-and-a-unique-full-pc-capability-when-docked) Raring Ringtail, 13.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseNotes) focus on mobile (https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1195) ahead of the 14.04 release Wubi has unresolved bugs (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-April/036993.html) Ubuntu Kylin was born Ubuntu Edge Announced. (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-edge) Edge fails (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-edge-thank-you) to meet its goal (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge#/) Ubuntu Kylin hits 1.3m downloads (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-kylin-booms-in-china-with-over-1300000-downloads-in-less-than) Ubuntu One's file services are being shut down (https://ubuntu.com/blog/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services) Ubuntu Mate Remix is announced (https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-remix-inception/) Mark Shuttleworth announces "Snappy Ubuntu" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlcTDz9ogug) The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition is available (https://ubuntu.com/blog/bqs-new-aquaris-e4-5-ubuntu-edition-the-smartphone-that-puts-content-and-services-at-your-fingertips) "Snappy Ubuntu Core" on Raspberry Pi 2 (https://ubuntu.com/blog/snappy-ubuntu-core-on-raspberry-pi-2) Vivid Vervet 15.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes) Ubuntu MATE, nearly called Mubuntu (https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/why-not-mubuntu/7279/5), gets its first "official flavor" release Snapcraft is announced and Snappy Apps are being called Snaps now (https://ubuntu.com/blog/java-on-snappy) ZFS is coming to Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/blog/zfs-licensing-and-linux) Acknowledgement (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-app-developer-blog-announcing-new-snap-desktop-launchers) that Snaps don't quite look right a lot of times. Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu's Unity experiement has failed (https://ubuntu.com/blog/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence) and Gnome, not Unity8 will be the default session in Ubuntu 18.04. This also marks the end of Ubuntu Phone. The next day, however, Marius Gripsgard of UBPorts stepped up to take the reins. (https://fossbytes.com/unity-8-ubuntu-touch-ubports/) Zesty Zappus, 17.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes) and with it Ubuntu Budgie becomes an official flavor. Ubuntu 16.04 shows up in the Windows Store (https://ubuntu.com/blog/windows-10-loves-ubuntu-loveislove), for the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Canonical joins (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-joins-gnome-foundation-advisory-board) the Gnome Foundation Advisory Board ahead of the 18.04 release. Bionic Beaver, 18.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes) and Gnome is the default DE again. Bryan Quigley, looks to drop 32-bit hardware support (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2018-May/018004.html) Cosmic Cuttlefish, 18.10, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes) 32-bit support is now in consideration to be removed, so upgrades from 18.04 are forbidden on 32-bit installs. Lubuntu Switches to LXQt from LXDE (https://lubuntu.me/cosmic-released/) Mir 1.0 is released (https://ubuntu.com/blog/iot-graphics-mir-release-1-0) Disco Dingo, 19.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiscoDingo/ReleaseNotes) No more 32bit isos, long live 32bit. Ubuntu for WSL2 (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-announces-support-for-ubuntu-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2) i386 architecture, or rather 32-bit support, will be dropped (https://web.archive.org/web/20190625190907/https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2019-June/001261.html) i386 architecture will not be dropped (https://ubuntu.com/blog/statement-on-32-bit-i386-packages-for-ubuntu-19-10-and-20-04-lts) Eoan Ermine 19.10, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes) Experimental ZFS support on installation is available Chromium is snap-only (https://ubuntu.com/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-transition) Rocco Interviews Mark Shuttleworth on Linux Spotlight (https://youtu.be/UDHL3youjIY) Ubuntu in Pop Culture (https://ubuntu.com/blog/2004-to-20-04-lts-ubuntu-in-popular-culture) Focal Fossa, 20.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes) Hardware enablement is on by default on the desktop. The Snap Store tags in for Ubuntu Software Groovy Gorilla 20.10, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GroovyGorilla/ReleaseNotes) Active Directory support gets added to the installer (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-20.10-Active-Directory) Snaps get faster (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/how-to-switch-your-snap-to-use-lzo-compression/21714) Another lurch forward for snap theming. (https://ubuntu.com/blog/snaps-and-themes-on-the-path-to-seamless-desktop-integration) The Ubuntu installer is being rewritten (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/refreshing-the-ubuntu-desktop-installer/20659) in Flutter. Impish Indri, 21.10, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ImpishIndri/ReleaseNotes) Firefox follows Chromium and switches from a deb to a snap (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/feature-freeze-exception-seeding-the-official-firefox-snap-in-ubuntu-desktop/24210) - Only for main Ubuntu, not the flavors... yet. Ubuntu gets their shiny new logo (https://ubuntu.com/blog/a-new-look-for-the-circle-of-friends) Jammy Jellyfish, 22.04, is released. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JammyJellyfish/ReleaseNotes) Better Active Directory integration (https://ubuntu.com/blog/new-active-directory-integration-features-in-ubuntu-22-04-part-1) Flavors follow main Ubuntu and switch to the snap of Firefox. A big push to improve Firefox snap performance (https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-are-we-improving-firefox-snap-performance-part-1) The push to improve Firefox continues (https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-ubuntu-core-22-is-now-available-optimised-for-iot-and-embedded-devices) Housekeeping Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) Next Time Our next show will be a topic show. Our next distro is Endeavour OS (https://endeavouros.com) Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space Stay tuned and interact with us on Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support! Producer Bruno John Josh Co-Producer Johnny Contributor Advait CubicleNate Eduardo Jill and Steve LiNuXsys666 Nicholas Paul sleepyeyesvince

FOCUS ON: Linux
Newsupdate 05/22 – RHEL 9.0, Fedora 36, Pop!_OS 22.04, NVIDIA OSS-Kernelmodule, Framework-Laptop

FOCUS ON: Linux

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 90:29


Der Mai hält erfreulicherweise keine CVEs, dafür aber zahlreiche neue Distributionen bereit. Neben Fedora 36 sprechen wir über das lang ersehnte RHEL 9.0. Nicht vergessen werden darf jedoch auch RHEL 8.6 sowie die darauf basierenden Downstream-Updates von AlmaLinux und Rocky Linux. NVIDIA überrascht mit einer Kernelmodul-Offenlegung, während Uyuni mit neuen Releases um sich wirft. Zuletzt erfreuen wir uns an neuen Framework-Komponenten, die jetzt auch Intels zwölfte Generation mitbringen. #1 Asahi Linux Community Chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTfPSzrjXsGDM-Change setzt Wayland-Standard zurück: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/597672532/gdm3_42.0-1ubuntu7_source.changesUbuntu Desktop Q&A mit Mark Shuttleworth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owwtcx6QJVoPop!_OS 22.04-Blogpost: https://blog.system76.com/post/682519660741148672/popos-2204-lts-has-landedPop!_OS 22.04 Phoronix-Benchmark: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pop-os-2204&num=1elementaryOS April 2022-Updates: https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-april-2022/elemenraryOS 7 Kanban-Board: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/94/views/1Podman 4.0.0 Release Notes: https://podman.io/releases/2022/02/22/podman-release-v4.0.0.htmlsimpledrm-Treiber: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210430105840.30515-1-tzimmermann@suse.de/Announcing Fedora Linux 36: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-36RHEL 8.6 Release Notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.6_release_notes/indexha_cluster Ansible-Rolle SBD-Draft: https://github.com/stdevel/ha_cluster/tree/feat-sbdAlmaLinux 8.6 Release Notes: https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/8.6.htmlAlmaLinux für WSL in Arbeit: https://twitter.com/wslutilities/status/1520797409663942657Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes: https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/8_6Google geht Partnerschaft mit CIQ ein: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-partners-with-ciq-on-rocky-linuxRHEL 9.0 Release Notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/9.0_release_notes/indexRHEL Image Builder Service: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-full-support-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-image-builder-serviceUyuni 2022.03 netty-Bug: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/5278#issuecomment-1110868000Uyuni 2022.04 Release Notes: https://www.uyuni-project.org/doc/2022.04/release-notes-uyuni-server.html#_version_2022_04Uyuni 2022.05 Release Notes: https://www.uyuni-project.org/doc/2022.05/release-notes-uyuni-server.html#_version_2022_05NVIDIA GPU Kernelmodule: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modulesHector Martin zu NVIDIAs Firmware-Blobs: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1524615058688724992Meinung von Red Hat-Angelstellten Christian Schaller: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-source-driver-release-from-nvidia-so-important-for-linux/Linux Action News-Folge 240 (u.a. über NVIDIA-Module): https://linuxactionnews.com/240Golem-Artikel über NVIDIA und Open Source: https://www.golem.de/news/linux-nvidias-grosse-schoene-open-source-schummelei-2205-165301.htmlFramework Mainboard CAD-Daten: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/MainboardFramework TRS 80-Cyberdeck: https://github.com/brickbots/framedeckFramework kündigt 12te Intel Generation an: https://frame.work/de/de/blog/introducing-the-new-and-upgraded-framework-laptopFramework Linux-Überblick: https://frame.work/de/de/linux2.5 GBit LAN-Expansion Card: https://frame.work/de/de/products/ethernet-expansion-cardKühlungsprobleme beim Lenovo X1 Yoga G7: https://www.notebookcheck.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Yoga-G7-Laptop-High-End-Business-Convertible-im-Test.617218.0.htmlHP Dev One-Laptop: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/hp-teamed-up-with-system76-for-the-hp-dev-one-l

FOCUS ON: Linux
Newsupdate 05/22 – RHEL 9.0, Fedora 36, Pop!_OS 22.04, NVIDIA OSS-Kernelmodule, Framework-Laptop

FOCUS ON: Linux

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 89:32


Der Mai hält erfreulicherweise keine CVEs, dafür aber zahlreiche neue Distributionen bereit. Neben Fedora 36 sprechen wir über das lang ersehnte RHEL 9.0. Nicht vergessen werden darf jedoch auch RHEL 8.6 sowie die darauf basierenden Downstream-Updates von AlmaLinux und Rocky Linux. NVIDIA überrascht mit einer Kernelmodul-Offenlegung, während Uyuni mit neuen Releases um sich wirft. Zuletzt erfreuen wir uns an neuen Framework-Komponenten, die jetzt auch Intels zwölfte Generation mitbringen. #1 Asahi Linux Community Chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTfPSzrjXsGDM-Change setzt Wayland-Standard zurück: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/597672532/gdm3_42.0-1ubuntu7_source.changesUbuntu Desktop Q&A mit Mark Shuttleworth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owwtcx6QJVoPop!_OS 22.04-Blogpost: https://blog.system76.com/post/682519660741148672/popos-2204-lts-has-landedPop!_OS 22.04 Phoronix-Benchmark: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pop-os-2204&num=1elementaryOS April 2022-Updates: https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-april-2022/elemenraryOS 7 Kanban-Board: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/94/views/1Podman 4.0.0 Release Notes: https://podman.io/releases/2022/02/22/podman-release-v4.0.0.htmlsimpledrm-Treiber: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210430105840.30515-1-tzimmermann@suse.de/Announcing Fedora Linux 36: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-36RHEL 8.6 Release Notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/8.6_release_notes/indexha_cluster Ansible-Rolle SBD-Draft: https://github.com/stdevel/ha_cluster/tree/feat-sbdAlmaLinux 8.6 Release Notes: https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/8.6.htmlAlmaLinux für WSL in Arbeit: https://twitter.com/wslutilities/status/1520797409663942657Rocky Linux 8.6 Release Notes: https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/8_6Google geht Partnerschaft mit CIQ ein: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-partners-with-ciq-on-rocky-linuxRHEL 9.0 Release Notes: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/9.0_release_notes/indexRHEL Image Builder Service: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-full-support-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-image-builder-serviceUyuni 2022.03 netty-Bug: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/5278#issuecomment-1110868000Uyuni 2022.04 Release Notes: https://www.uyuni-project.org/doc/2022.04/release-notes-uyuni-server.html#_version_2022_04Uyuni 2022.05 Release Notes: https://www.uyuni-project.org/doc/2022.05/release-notes-uyuni-server.html#_version_2022_05NVIDIA GPU Kernelmodule: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modulesHector Martin zu NVIDIAs Firmware-Blobs: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1524615058688724992Meinung von Red Hat-Angelstellten Christian Schaller: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-source-driver-release-from-nvidia-so-important-for-linux/Linux Action News-Folge 240 (u.a. über NVIDIA-Module): https://linuxactionnews.com/240Golem-Artikel über NVIDIA und Open Source: https://www.golem.de/news/linux-nvidias-grosse-schoene-open-source-schummelei-2205-165301.htmlFramework Mainboard CAD-Daten: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/MainboardFramework TRS 80-Cyberdeck: https://github.com/brickbots/framedeckFramework kündigt 12te Intel Generation an: https://frame.work/de/de/blog/introducing-the-new-and-upgraded-framework-laptopFramework Linux-Überblick: https://frame.work/de/de/linux2.5 GBit LAN-Expansion Card: https://frame.work/de/de/products/ethernet-expansion-cardKühlungsprobleme beim Lenovo X1 Yoga G7: https://www.notebookcheck.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Yoga-G7-Laptop-High-End-Business-Convertible-im-Test.617218.0.htmlHP Dev One-Laptop: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/hp-teamed-up-with-system76-for-the-hp-dev-one-laptop-with-pop-os-linux/mdbook: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBookpipx: https://github.com/pypa/pipxzoxide: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

#neuvottelija
#neuvottelija 138 - Yritysten ja valtioiden kyberhyökkäykset (Mikko Hyppönen)

#neuvottelija

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2022 49:09


Mikko Hyppönen, WithSecuren CRO keskustelee tietoturvasta, kybersodasta sekä Hyppösen lain mukaan nimetystä tulevasta englanninkielisestä kirjastaan “If it is smart, it is vulnerable”, joka perustuu WSOY:n julkaisemaan Internet-kirjaan. Elon Musk-sukupolveen kuuluvat Mikko ja Sami pohtivat myös C64-ajan maanisen ohjelmointikulttuurin vaikutusta. 00:00-07:04 Internet (WSOY 2021) ja If it is smart, it is vulnerable (Wiley, 2022) -kirjan myynti maailmalle. Hyppösen laki. Luovatko älylaitteet ja IoT-yhteydet Black Mirror-dystopian? Palvelunestohyökkäykset (DOS). Kirjan nimen tausta ja TED-puheen merkitys 07:05-13:09 Elon Muskin VIC20-ohjelmointitaidot Blastar-peli. Commodore 64 -arkkitehtuuri. Mikko ja Ari Hyppösen 1987 suomalainen seikkailupeli Paha Juttu vs. Sami ja Topi Miettinen EPROM-koodaus. Maaninen pelaamisen ja koodauksen aikakausi 1980-luvulla. Elon Muskin tavoitteet Marsin ja tekoälyn suhteen sekä Iain M. Banksin vaikutus. Mark Shuttleworth, SSL ja Certficate of Authority-bisnes, Ubuntu. 13:10-17:59 F-Securen ja WithSecuren jakautuminen B2C ja B2B yrityksiksi pörssissä. nSense ja MWR-yrityskaupat. Norton, 2NS, Nixu. White Hat-hakkerointi ja turvallisuuskonsultointi. Tanskalaisen pankin “ryöstö” eli tietoturva-auditointi serverihuoneeseen saakka. 18:00-19:47 Virusten, matojen ja haittaohjelmien lyhyt historia: 1986 Brain, nettivirukset, sähköposti, rahan teko haittaohjelmilla vuodesta 2003. 98% haittaohjelmista nyt rahan vuoksi, 19:48-26:18 Haittaohjelmista 2% liittyy valtioiden vakoiluun ja kybersotaan. Venäjän kybersota Ukrainaan, NotPetya vs A.P. Møller. USA:n ja Israelin Stuxnet-hyökkäys Iranin ydinvoimalaan. 26:19-28:54 Kybersodan säännöt kuten kill switch. NATO:n osaamiskeskus Tallinnassa. Pohjois-Korean WannaCry ransomware. 28:55-28:48 Bitcoin, Dark Web ja Tor-verkko. Teknologian vastuu ja eettisyys. Tor-verkon sisäiset palvelimet. Case Torilauta ja Silk Road. 28:49-42:50 Martti J Kari ja näkemys Venäjän kyberarkkitehtuuriin Ukrainan sodassa. USA:n tiedustelu. Telegram-kanavat ja Anonymous. Drone-sota, geolokaation voima. Venäjän vähät teknologiayritykset kuten Kaspersky Lab ja Yandex. 42:51-44:20 Linux, GitHub, Android. “Suomen tärkein ihminen” Linus Torvalds. 44:21-49:31 Kiinan Internet-infrastruktuuri, ohjelmistojen hidastaminen vs. blokkaaminen. Venäjä ei lähde internetistä. Löytyykö #neuvottelijat -yhteisöstä vinkkejä Kiina-asiantuntijoista? #internet #kybersota #haittaohjelmat #virukset #elonmusk #ohjelmointi #neuvottelija #neuvottelut #neuvottelijat Facebook - liity #neuvottelijat-ryhmään https://www.facebook.com/groups/neuvottelijat Kaikki #neuvottelija -jaksot ja haku: https://www.dcmcapital.fi/neuvottelija

Oxide and Friends
Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

Oxide and Friends

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2022 65:47


Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 28th, 2022Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and SavingWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for March 28th, 2022.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on March 28th included Tom Lyon, jasonbking, Matt Campbell, Akshay Kumar, Aaron Goldman and Simeon Miteff. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: [@8:07](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=487) Y2K, leap years  The Staff of Ra “at” command [@15:28](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=928) Matt's stories elm email [@23:29](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=1409) Jason: daylight saving time in Indiana “Time in Indiana” wiki [@26:31](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=1591) Time zone database  John Bemelmans Marciano (2014) Whatever Happened to the Metric System? How America Kept Its Feet book Geopolitical aspects of time Eastman plan calendar [@32:23](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=1943) Aaron's stories, setting clocks back, Leap Day [@35:54](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=2154) Akshay: Ken Thompson's six day work week? Leap seconds Time of day hardware bug [@48:54](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=2934) 2038 - the end of time  Y2K problems GPS week number rollover wiki [@57:58](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=3478) Matt: Cory Doctorow's “Epoch” short story podcast commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth [@1:00:28](https://youtu.be/BHtfqleSHAs?t=3628) Ultimate, penultimate, antepenultimate Oxide and Friends podcast!!  transistor.fm launch point, has links to Spotify, Google, Amazon etc players Laura Abbott (23 March 2022) Another vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM write up If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

The American Warrior Show
Show # 287: Jonathan from Deal Zero Points Down Academy (ZPD) in South Africa

The American Warrior Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2022 71:01


Get your Challenge Coin! https://train.americanwarriorsociety.com/home Listen to the American Warrior Show: https://americanwarriorshow.com/index.html Coffee with Rich: Rich Brown is the Co-Host of America's leading Self-Defense podcast, the American Warrior Show. On today's Coffee with Rich, we will be joined by Jonathan Deal. MR. Deal operates full time as the founder and lead instructor of Zero Points Down Academy (ZPD) in South Africa. ZPD is a bespoke training operation catering for Police mandated training of citizens on all small arms as well as advanced levels of sport shooting, including precision long-range shooting. He is the IDPA State Coordinator for the Cape Province in South Africa and a keen Sport Shooter. In 2020 he founded the SAFE CITIZEN Campaign www.safecitizen.co.za – a civil rights group concerned with the safety of South Africans who daily face escalating and brutal crime. Writing on Travel and Tourism, his book, Timeless Karoo was published in 2007, and as a freelance journalist and photographer, he also writes for various publications, including the Rhodes Business School website and the Daily Maverick. He is a past chairman of the Southern African Freelancers Association and is sought after as a speaker and debater on environmental issues at international conferences. Deal presented at Al Gore's International Climate Leadership School in Johannesburg in March 2014 and was honored in the same year to be listed by City Press as 1 of 100 World Class South Africans, sharing the accolade with fellow citizens such as Nelson Mandela, Mark Shuttleworth and Charlize Theron. His background in journalism and public speaking has proved invaluable in moving Safe Citizen forward. As a committed trainer, he holds a fierce passion for lawful and competent private gun ownership and regards himself as an influencer in this realm in South Africa. Reading widely on training and civil rights issues, Deal views SafeCitizenas a necessary vehicle to move lawful gun owners close to the police as trusted allies – proving that citizens who can defend themselves will be a powerful and positive influence on the communities in which they live. Deal intends to use every resource available to unite lawful South Africans who support private firearm ownership, to overturn the untrue perception that firearms are bad and that private firearm owners are to blame for the flood of illegal firearms in the country. He is determined that his fellow citizens should be able, via the lawful possession of a firearm to enjoy the Constitutional guarantee of freedom from public or private violence. Do not miss this live stream! Zero Points Down Academy: www.zeropointsdownacademy.com American Warrior Show: https://americanwarriorshow.com/index.html SWAG: https://shop.americanwarriorsociety.com/ American Warrior Society please visit: https://americanwarriorsociety.com/

Hacker Public Radio
HPR3539: Linux Inlaws S01E50: The OpenSUSE Project

Hacker Public Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022


In this episode of the Inlaws our two ageing heroes host Doug DeMaio and Axel Braun, both intimately associated with and actively supporting the OpenSUSE project, the foundation of one of the popular Linux distros apart from RedHat and Debian for companies of all sizes (yes, and Ubuntu before I get any hate mails from Mark Shuttleworth or Cannonical in general :-). Apologies for not mentioning Alma, CentOS or Rocky Linux. Topics of discussion include the advantages of hipster concepts like rolling releases, the year of the Linux desktop, other people's computers (aka Clouds) and philosophical things like IT security, all things cloud-native (well, almost) and Apple laptop users drinking fancy coffee derivatives. Never mind containers, edge-computing operating systems and live kernel patching. Links: OpenSUSE: https://www.opensuse.org SUSE: https://www.suse.com openQA: https://open.qa Open Build Service: https://openbuildservice.org CentOS debacle: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta OpenSUSE conference: https://events.opensuse.org MicroOS: https://microos.opensuse.org Kubic: https://kubic.opensuse.org Rancher: https://www.suse.com/products/rancher-kubernetes-engine OpenSUSE mailing lists: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives OpenSUSE bar: https://meet.opensuse.org/bar OpenSUSE social media: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts OpenSUSE IRC: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:IRC_list

Ubuntu Touch Audiocast
Ubuntu Touch Q&A 116

Ubuntu Touch Audiocast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2022 46:27


A big improvement has just been announced, with the release of Clickable 7.0. This is the software which UT uses to build apps and this version has new features across the board. There is a Clickable tool which will handle the format and library changes for those on the older version. It has way more options than any developer is likely to need and overall has more features than Xcode. It makes the whole process of creating apps for UT easy and seamless. Work on Xenial has not stopped. Rotating lock screen now works. Thanks to Capsia for that change. Some ports now have background blur. A wallpaper behind the UI was a very simple arrangement and posed no risk to stability. Making things more fancy has the potential to introduce bugs and degrade performance but we have brought in a modification which works well. Porters have the final say but if they want, they can implement a translucency layer, so that when the app drawer is expanded from the left side, the wallpaper is visible in blurred form behind it. This feature will be in the next OTA release. Something similar was tried a long time ago and was tested on the Nexus 5. The performance was dreadful, so it is good to see that the problems have been solved. Dialer has had an improvement. There is now a predictive feature which will offer a suggestion based on your first few numbers punched in. WebGL in Morph is going to be in the next OTA release. Some of the very old devices such as BQ will unfortunately not be able to make use of it. An improvement which you might not have noticed is that when swiping away tabs in Morph, the action is now more fluid. Alfred has been continuing his refinement of the Pixel 3a. Landscape keyboard now works and there is an improvement in battery life. A really big one is the fact that you can at last fix in-call voice volume. That was a fundamental usability issue. “It will no longer blow Mark Shuttleworth's ears – only his mind” :) OTA-22 was delayed by a bit. There was a synchronisation fault which, unusually, affected the rc channel too. Apps started to break so we delayed and reverted. It will be sorted out soon and procedures changed around a bit to avoid future problems.

The New Stack Podcast
Kelsey Hightower, Mark Shuttleworth: Kubernetes Relies on Linux

The New Stack Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021 37:15


Canonical's wildly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution continues to quietly play a role in the continued widespread adoption of Kubernetes. And that quiet support is as it should be, concluded Kelsey Hightower, Google Cloud Platform principal developer advocate, and Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS hosted this episode.Taking a step back, Ubuntu, as well as Linux in general, has become much easier to use, expanding beyond what many once considered to be a server operating system and an esoteric alternative to Windows.“There was this kind of inflection point where Linux has gone from like this command line server-side thing to something that you could actually run on a desktop with a meaningful UI and it felt like we were closing the gap on all the other popular open operating systems,” said Hightower.Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations ReportCanonical's Kubernetes Managed Services

Conversations With Bacon
Mark Shuttleworth on Life, Business, and Ubuntu

Conversations With Bacon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 62:34


Mark Shuttleworth has weaved a fascinating story in his life so far. He founded and sold his company, Thawte, was the first South African in space, created one of the most popular open source projects, Ubuntu, and has built a successful company, Canonical. There is little doubt that his story still has many chapters ahead. […]

Conversations With Bacon
Mark Shuttleworth on Life, Business, and Ubuntu

Conversations With Bacon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 62:34


Mark Shuttleworth has weaved a fascinating story in his life so far. He founded and sold his company, Thawte, was the first South African in space, created one of the most popular open source projects, Ubuntu, and has built a successful company, Canonical. There is little doubt that his story still has many chapters ahead. […]

This Week in Linux
Episode 117: This Week in Linux 117: GNOME 3.38, Xfce 4.16, NVIDIA Buys ARM, Firefox Send Shutdown, PinePhone

This Week in Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2020 43:01


Get Some This Week in Linux Merch at the DLN Store - https://dlnstore.com On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a ton of news week . . . a crazy amount of news that I had to limit it for time. We've got some desktop environment news from GNOME with GNOME 3.38 released and Xfce's updates on New Features & Release Date for Xfce 4.16. PinePhone announced there's now a Multi-Distro Image in fact 13 distros in 1 and we'll check out an affordable Linux laptop in the Slimbook Essential. Mozilla announced the shutting down of Firefox Send & Firefox Notes while NVIDIA is poised to Acquire ARM for $40 Billion! LBRY Announces a new YouTube alternative platform called Odysee and Deepin Linux announced the release of Deepin 20. Finally we'll round out this monster episode with some comments made by Mark Shuttleworth on the future of Ubuntu's Community Council. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Sponsored by: Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln Bitwarden - https://bitwarden.com/dln Show Notes: - https://tuxdigital.com/twinl117 Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Other Links: - https://frontpagelinux.com - https://michaeltunnell.com Segment Index: Show Notes - https://tuxdigital.com/twinl117 00:00 = Coming up on TWinL 117 01:11 = Welcome to TWinL 01:32 = Housekeeping: Live Streams Are BACK!!! 02:50 = GNOME 3.38 Released 05:47 = PinePhone Multi-Distro Image = 13 in 1 09:29 = Slimbook Essential = Affordable Linux Laptop? 12:39 = Digital Ocean - VPS & Cloud Hosting ( https://do.co/dln ) 14:13 = NVIDIA to Acquire ARM for $40 Billion 17:23 = Mozilla Shuts Down Firefox Send & Notes 20:49 = Xfce 4.16 - New Features & Release Date 25:41 = Bitwarden - Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 27:07 = LBRY Announces Odysee Platform 31:25 = Mark Shuttleworth On Ubuntu's Community Council 38:24 = Deepin 20 Released 41:25 = Outro Linux #OpenSource #TechNews

Ask Noah Show
Episode 198: Age of AI

Ask Noah Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2020 56:22


The DLN crew joins Noah to discuss the $40B proposed deal NVIDIA and SoftBank announced a definitive agreement for NVIDIA to acquire Arm from SoftBank. Mark Shuttleworth responds to community concerns that he's not involved enough, plus the picks, your feedback, and more!. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/198) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

Ask Noah HD Video

The DLN crew joins Noah to discuss the $40B proposed deal NVIDIA and SoftBank announced a definitive agreement for NVIDIA to acquire Arm from SoftBank. Mark Shuttleworth responds to community concerns that he's not involved enough, plus the picks, your fe

LINUX Unplugged
371: Cabin Fever

LINUX Unplugged

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2020 62:35


Friends join us to discuss Cabin, a proposal that encourages more Linux apps and fewer distros. Plus, we debate the value that the Ubuntu community brings to Canonical, and share a pick for audiobook fans. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:48 Intro 0:54 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:25 Future of Ubuntu Community 6:51 Ubuntu Community: Popey Responds 9:31 Ubuntu Community: Stuart Langridge Responds 16:26 Ubuntu Community: Mark Shuttleworth Responds 17:30 BTRFS Workflow Developments 19:09 Linux Kernel 5.9 Performance Regression 24:48 SPONSOR: Linode 27:34 Cabin 29:48 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros 33:41 Cabin: Building Small Apps 36:40 Cabin: What is a Cabin App? 44:34 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 45:20 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon 47:53 Goin' Indy Update 49:40 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas 50:11 Feedback: Dev IDEs 54:15 Feedback: Nextcloud 58:20 Picks: Cozy 1:00:25 Outro 1:01:38 Post-Show Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Stuart Langridge.

Ubuntu Podcast
S13E23 – Horseshoe

Ubuntu Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2020 35:22


This week we’ve using new wireless headphones and test driving a Tesla. We discuss Mark Shuttleworth responding to feedback about Snapcraft, Jupiter Broadcasting regaining independence, Ayatana Indicators becoming cross-distro, Yaru Colors and we round up our picks from the tech… Read more ›

PC Networking
What is Ubuntu?

PC Networking

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 0:57


What is Ubuntu? Ubuntu is an open-source, free, and free operating system based on the Linux kernel. You can download Ubuntu and install it on your computer using a USB stick or DVD. The first stable desktop version of Ubuntu was released in 2004. It has variants developed for the internet of desktop, server, cloud, and objects. Today it is used in tens of millions of desktop-laptop computers and hundreds of millions of devices. Who is it being developed by? Ubuntu project, Canonical Ltd., founded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth for this purpose, to make Linux and free software a part of the daily life of computer users company was started in 2004. Ubuntu is currently developed by Canonical and the volunteer Ubuntu community, again under the direction of Mark Shuttleworth. Is it paid? No, Ubuntu is completely free to download and use for both home and business use. You can install and use Ubuntu on as many computers as you want without any license restrictions. You also do not pay any fees for published updates and upgrades. Canonical Limited promises to keep Ubuntu always free. Aside from the promise, codes developed within Ubuntu are licensed under a free software license called the GNU General Public License. This license is not an obstacle or an opposition to Ubuntu being paid, but under the license, the codes are owned by everyone, like a public domain. Canonical has only brand rights to Ubuntu. Let's face it unexpectedly that Ubuntu has become paid one day in the future, even in this case, since the source codes belong to everyone, any person, community or organization can copy and maintain it under a different name and distribute it for free, by copying the existing codes of Ubuntu. Canonical is not from the sale of the Ubuntu operating system; It generates income from the sales of various administrative software developed for cloud and server systems from organizations that want to get professional support in the use of derivatives such as cloud, server, and desktop. More Podcast Podcast, The WAN Networking in Anchor Podcast, The LAN Networking in Anchor Podcast, The Internet Networking in Anchor Podcast, Linux/Ubuntu in Pocket Casts Podcast, What is the Difference Between LAN, WAN, and MAN Networks in Anchor

WEMcast
Humanitarian Medics isolated on the island of São Tomé and Príncipe.

WEMcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 23:52


WEM speaks to course alumni Mariana Carmo about her experience being stranded on a small island community as a humanitarian nurse.   The medical department here on São Tomé and Príncipe off the west coast of Africa started in the middle of 2016 with Nurse João Fernandes to support international and national staff and guests.   I met João when I came to Príncipe in Jan 2017 on a mission with a Portuguese NGO and started to work with HBD that year. During this time we manage to keep the department between 3 nurses (João, Márcio and I). I was the one staying for longer periods of time.   Our relationship with the community and the Government developed during this time. We support the local hospital with training sessions for staff, medication and equipment. We became a link between NGO´s and the hospital.   João arrived in the middle of March 2019 to swap with me but with all that was happening and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to stay both on the island to help prepare for an expected surge in cases.   I went to the main island (São Tomé) for 7 days to liaise with the authorities there and help to close our hotel in São Tomé and João stayed in Príncipe.    We have worked as advisers to the Government as part of a crisis management team. During this process, we did protocols, developed contingency plans, a campaign hospital, trained staff, assisted to set up an operation centre, research equipment, etc.   HBD - Here Be Dragons tourism investment is a company founded by Mark Shuttleworth to develop tourism in Príncipe.   Watch > WEM Academy    

BizNews Radio
Cigarette ban 'spectacular failure'; extra cash for every EC job saved; grounded SAA guzzles R10bn; SA on UK rich list

BizNews Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 3:53


BizNews — In today's news headlines: * The cigarette ban a ‘spectacular failure’, with nine out of 10 smokers breaking the law during lockdown and the illicit trade flourishing, UCT research finds; * The Eastern Cape plans to offer employers R10,000 for every manufacturing job saved; * SAA continues to suck up billions of taxpayers' funds, even though it is grounded and being managed by business rescue specialists; * As the Covid-19 pandemic risks dragging Africa into the worst economic recession on record, governments from Ghana in the west to Rwanda in the east have started to ease restrictions, reports Bloomberg; and * Covid-19 has shaken up stock markets and wiped out asset values for many, but wealthy South Africans still feature on the UK’s rich list. These include Nicky Oppenheimer, whose family has donated generously to SA efforts to prop up the economy and help the poor, and short-term insurance entrepreneur Douw Steyn and first African in space Mark Shuttleworth.

BizNews Radio
Cigarette ban 'spectacular failure'; extra cash for every EC job saved; grounded SAA guzzles R10bn; SA on UK rich list

BizNews Radio

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 3:53


BizNews — In today's news headlines: * The cigarette ban a ‘spectacular failure’, with nine out of 10 smokers breaking the law during lockdown and the illicit trade flourishing, UCT research finds; * The Eastern Cape plans to offer employers R10,000 for every manufacturing job saved; * SAA continues to suck up billions of taxpayers' funds, even though it is grounded and being managed by business rescue specialists; * As the Covid-19 pandemic risks dragging Africa into the worst economic recession on record, governments from Ghana in the west to Rwanda in the east have started to ease restrictions, reports Bloomberg; and * Covid-19 has shaken up stock markets and wiped out asset values for many, but wealthy South Africans still feature on the UK’s rich list. These include Nicky Oppenheimer, whose family has donated generously to SA efforts to prop up the economy and help the poor, and short-term insurance entrepreneur Douw Steyn and first African in space Mark Shuttleworth.

Ubuntu Podcast
S13E07 – Jumping over children

Ubuntu Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 34:49


This week we’ve been making a New Show and playing Ring Fit Adventure. We discuss Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu popularity and Canonical profitability, Ubuntu Core security audit, Groovy Gorilla is coming, Ubuntu Studio switches to KDE, Folder Colors adds Yaru… Read more ›

Linux Spotlight
Linux Spotlight EP42 - Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical

Linux Spotlight

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 45:45


In this episode of Linux Spotlight, it is my pleasure to sit down and talk with Mark Shuttleworth about his journey into Linux. We talk about his thoughts on Ubuntu and Canonical and his excitement for the future. I hope you enjoy this because I sure did! Website (https://www.markshuttleworth.com/) Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth) Bio (https://www.markshuttleworth.com/biography) Canonical (https://canonical.com/) Canonical Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical) Future within our reach (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHU1z9Kr0ZY) first South African to travel to space (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-mark-shuttleworth-became-the-first-african-in-space-and-launched-a-software-revolution/) An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world.… (https://spaceadventures.com/blog/mark-shuttleworth/) Microsoft has a majority market share (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1) Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Ubuntu_4.10_(Warty_Warthog))

Jerm Warfare: The Battle Of Ideas
Elon Musk and Mark Shuttleworth are frauds

Jerm Warfare: The Battle Of Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 3:38


Jerm — Mark Sargent is a proponent of a flat Earth and that we exist inside a dome. He has written related books and has produced related films on Netflix. Full conversation

SPACE NEWS POD
SpaceX Getting into Space Tourism Business

SPACE NEWS POD

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2020 37:53


SpaceX has a new partner for commercial private astronaut flights aboard its Dragon spacecraft: Space Adventures, a private space tourism company that has already launched private astronauts including Anousheh Ansari, Guy Laliberté and Mark Shuttleworth to space. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/space-news/support

Elon Musk Pod
SpaceX getting into Space Tourism Biz

Elon Musk Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2020 37:53


SpaceX has a new partner for commercial private astronaut flights aboard its Dragon spacecraft: Space Adventures, a private space tourism company that has already launched private astronauts including Anousheh Ansari, Guy Laliberté and Mark Shuttleworth to space. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/elonmusknewspod/support

The World Nomads Travel Podcast
São Tomé and Príncipe: Castaway Islands

The World Nomads Travel Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2020 33:46


It's a destination few have heard of, São Tomé and Príncipe. Two tiny islands off Equatorial West Africa where the descendants of escaped slaves and shipwrecked Angolans think the pace of life in the four-street capital is too hectic.Explore your boundaries and discover your next adventure with The World Nomads Travel Podcast. Hosted by Podcast Producer Kim Napier and World Nomads Phil Sylvester, each episode will take you around the world with insights into destinations from travelers and experts. They'll share the latest in travel news, answer your travel questions and fill you in on what World Nomads is up to, including the latest scholarships and guides.World Nomads is a fast-growing online travel company that provides inspiration, advice, safety tips and specialized travel insurance for independent, volunteer and student travelers, traveling and studying most anywhere in the world. Our online global travel insurance covers travelers from more than 135 countries and allows you to buy and claim online, 24/7, even while already traveling.The World Nomads Podcast is not your usual travel Podcast. It's everything for the adventurous, independent traveler.

Kubernetes Podcast from Google
cert-manager, with James Munnelly

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2019 41:04


cert-manager is a certificate management toolkit for Kubernetes, commonly used to get TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt. Project founder James Munnelly of Jetstack joins hosts Craig and Adam to explain how how certificates are issued and managed, and how cert-manager automates it all. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Fast food-themed entertainment: Wendy’s Feast of Legends role-playing game KFC dating simulator Burger King Games M.C. Kids Taco Bell’s Tasty Temple Challenge The McDonalds board game KFC virtual escape room training Soda-themed entertainment: Cool Spot Pepsi Invaders Mad Mix: The Pepsi Challenge Stranger Things 3: The Game News of the week Rancher 2.3 released Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd Windows container support and Rancher 2.3 Amazon EKS now has Windows containers generally available Episode 70, with Patrick Lang New on DigitalOcean Kubernetes Service: cluster autoscaling Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes v1.0.0-beta1 released MuleSoft releases AnyPoint Service Mesh Container Journal interview Linkerd 2.6 A guide to distributed tracing with Linkerd Trackman, open source step-workflow tool from Cloud 66 Puppet announces public beta of Project Nebula KubeCon NA 2019 contributor summit schedule announced Kubernetes patterns for capacity planning by Mohamed Ahmed How Booz Allen Hamilton is helping modernize the Federal Government with Kubernetes Flant.com compares 11 ingress controllers for Kubernetes How Zalando manages over 140 Kubernetes clusters by Henning Jacobs Cluster API Simplifies Execution and Powers Projet Pacific at VMware Grant Shipley moves from Red Hat/IBM to VMware Kubernetes Wild West video game SUSE moves on from OpenStack and doubles down on Kubernetes SAP to make HANA database available on Kubernetes Links from the interview Jetstack The two Matts: founders Matt Bates and Matt Barker James’s Jetstack bio cert-manager Docs Co-evolved with kube-lego by Christian Simon How TLS encryption works: x509 for public key certificates Chains of trust Certificate authorities and root certificates Episode 60, with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte LetsEncrypt How it works ACME protocol HTTP-01 and DNS-01 validation cert-manager concepts: Issuers and Certificates Self-signing issuers Kubernetes and webhooks: Validating webhooks require TLS Kubebuilder supports cert-manager Chicken-and-egg problem for validating webhooks Conversion webhooks Mirror/static pods Kubernetes ingress quick-start tutorial Different solver types The ingress-shim controller Other issuer options: Vault, internal CA, CertificateRequests Lets Encrypt is blocking old cert-manager versions Edge cases where retry looping would start v0.11 release notes Upgrading to v0.11 Getting involved: cert-manager and cert-manager-dev Slack channel Bi-weekly community call cert-manager on GitHub James Munnelly on Twitter

Nerds Amalgamated
Experiments, Manga & Child Safety

Nerds Amalgamated

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2019 64:03


WOW!!! This week’s episode is out of this world and filled with Lunatics, parks and just outright fun in the powder or snow. NASA is planning on sending people back to the moon and are starting to plan missions in advance with an eye to researching developments for future exploration. That’s right folks, it may not be 1999 but Moonbase Alpha is finally looking at becoming a reality. Plus there are going to be new buggies and other equipment being sent to the moon so the Astronauts will have something to play with when they arrive next. Wonder if they will find that hidden base full of Nazis on the dark side of the moon or transformers?Next we look into why Manga sales are taking over the U.S comic sales. Could it be the fact that the subject matter is just so much cooler, fun and broad? Or is it part of some plot to take over the world and they are brain washing us all? Hmmm, if this was an anime episode we would now include a musical interlude. The scene, while our heroes wander the country looking for the answer our work on computers calculating and plotting what is happening. This is when the nutty and bumbling sidekick runs around in circles and makes a mess and eats lots of fried chicken. Jeepers, we are living in an anime, now I want my ramen and feel an overwhelming need to run down the street with my arms flung behind me screaming. Nope, not happening, oh well, such a shame.In response to a request from a listener we have had the Professor look into child safety measures in gaming such as the new Harry Potter Wizards Unite. We have a number of articles linked in the notes that have information that can help parents develop strategies aimed at helping protect their dirt magnets, children or teenage food disposal units. There are some really good points and suggestions in this, but as we aren’t parents we are unable to offer any expert advice. This is a really huge topic and it is something we took extremely seriously. If you have any suggestions please feel free to post them on the page and share with each other.Now, it is that time where we have the usual shout out, remembrances, birthdays, and special events. Be careful of those surprise mechanisms that try to loot you like a politician with eight arms. Take care of yourselves and look out for each other, stay hydrated and we will catch you next time. Cya!EPISODE NOTES:Experiments on the moon - https://www.space.com/science-technology-payloads-nasa-moon-artemis-program.htmlManga sales taking over U.S comic sales - https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/07/06/anime-executives-manga-taking-over-us-comic-sales-anime-expo/Child Safety in mobile games- https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi379 .- https://nianticlabs.com/privacy/en/- https://policies.warnerbros.com/privacy/children/en-us/html/children_privacy_en-us_1.0.0.html- https://www.childnet.com/blog/a-parents-guide-to-harry-potter-wizards-uniteGames currently playingDJ– Mortal Kombat 11 - https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/mortal-kombat-11-ps4/Buck– Mafia 3 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/360430/Mafia_III/Professor– Harry Potter Wizards Unite - https://www.harrypotterwizardsunite.com/Other topics discussedSnow falls on Queensland- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-04/snow-falling-in-stanthorpe-cold-weather-queensland/11174962List of Apollo Missions- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missionsLuna Park- Melbourne - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Park,_Melbourne- Sydney - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Park_SydneyIron Sky (2012 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_SkyMickey Mouse as a Warhammer 40k character- http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics2/img3e1fc14857e56.jpgSpace Shuttle retirement- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_retirementVirgin Galactic- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_GalacticChinese Anime- https://www.ranker.com/list/best-chinese-animation-anime/ranker-animeAsur illustrations- https://www.facebook.com/asur.illustrations/Tik Tok fails to remove predators- https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-47813350Mom blames Pokémon Go- https://gamerant.com/girl-hit-car-pokemon-go/Finsta (Instagram trend)- https://www.today.com/parents/parents-you-know-about-instagram-do-you-know-finsta-t117541Cuban American mob- https://crimereads.com/the-birth-of-the-cuban-american-mob/Igor (character)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_(character)Channing Tatum (American actor and singer)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channing_TatumThis Is The End (2013 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_EndThe Prestige (2006 movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)Shoutouts9 Jul 1958 - The 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 7.8. The strike-slip earthquake took place on the Fairweather Fault and triggered a rockslide of 40 million cubic yards (30 million cubic meters and about 90 million tons) into the narrow inlet of Lituya Bay, Alaska. The impact was heard 50 miles (80 km) away, and the sudden displacement of water resulted in a megatsunami that washed out trees to a maximum elevation of 1,720 feet (520 m) at the entrance of Gilbert Inlet. This is the largest and most significant megatsunami in modern times. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay,_Alaska_earthquake_and_megatsunami9 Jul 1981 – Donkey Kong, an early example of the platform game genre was released. In the game, Mario (originally named Mr. Video and then Jumpman) must rescue a damsel in distress named Pauline (originally named Lady), from a giant ape named Donkey Kong. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)11 Jul 1969 – David Bowie Space Oddity inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey was released during a period of great interest in space flight. The United States' Apollo 11 mission would launch five days later and would become the first manned moon landing another five days after that. - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-11/david-bowies-space-oddity-50-years-old-moon-landing-anniversary/112971344 Jul 2019 – Mad magazine ends publication of future issues will no longer feature new content, with the magazine instead relying on classic content from its nearly 67-year history. - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/04/the-end-of-satire-mad-magazine-to-cease-regular-publicationRemembrances6 Jul 2019 - Mandla Maseko, aimed to be the first black African in space. In 2013 he was one of 23 winners out of a million entrants to a competition by the Axe Apollo Space Academy to attend a US space academy, in order to be the first black African in space. He was nicknamed "Afronaut" and "Spaceboy". He went to the Kennedy Space Centre for a week to do tests, such as skydiving and a journey on a reduced-gravity aircraft, ahead of a planned one-hour suborbital flight on board a XCOR Lynx Mark II that was planned to take place in 2015. However, the flight did not happen as XCOR Aerospace went bankrupt in 2017. He would have been the second South African in space, after Mark Shuttleworth in 2012. He died at the age of 30 in a motorbike accident in Pretoria - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-09/man-destined-to-be-the-first-black-african-in-space-dies/112905489 Jul 1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, was an Italianscientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. In tribute to him, the number of elementary entities (atoms, molecules,ions or other particles) in 1 mole of a substance, 6.022140857(74)×1023, is known as the Avogadro constant, one of the seven SI base units and represented by NA . He died at the age of 79 in Turin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Avogadro9 Jul 1978 - Zoltán Aladár, Transylvanian composer, music critic and teacher (The Goat and the Three Goons). He died at the age of 49 in Târgu Mureș - https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/zoltan-aladar9 Jul 2014 - Eileen Ford, was an American model agency executive and co-founder of Ford Models with her husband, Gerard "Jerry" Ford, in 1946. Ford Models was one of the earliest and internationally recognized modelling agencies in the world. She died at the age of 92 from complications of meningioma and osteoporosis in Morristown, New Jersey. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_FordFamous Birthdays8 Jul 1894 - Pyotr Kapitsa, was a leading Sovietphysicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics. He discovered superfluidity in 1937 when he observed liquid helium flowing without friction – in other words with no loss of kinetic energy. He was born in Kronstadt - https://www.famousscientists.org/pyotr-kapitsa/9 Jul 1942 - Richard Roundtree, is an American actor and former model. Roundtree is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019. For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972. He was born in New Rochelle, New York - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Roundtree9 Jul 1971 - Marc Andreessen, is an American entrepreneur,investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others. Andreessen was one of six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994. He was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen10 Jul 1856 – Nikola Tesla, was a Serbian-American inventor,electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company would eventually market. Tesla became well known as an inventor and would demonstrate his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. He was born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia). - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_TeslaEvents of Interest9 Jul 1893 - Daniel Hale Williams III repairs the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish, without penicillin or blood transfusion. - https://www.onthisday.com/people/daniel-williams9 Jul 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Weissmuller9 Jul 1955 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare. It highlighted the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to seek peaceful resolutions to international conflict. The signatories included eleven pre-eminent intellectuals and scientists, including Albert Einstein, who signed it just days before his death on 18 April 1955. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%E2%80%93Einstein_Manifesto9 Jul 1971 - British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804. - https://www.onthisday.com/photos/hms-vanguard-disasterIntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Ubuntu, with Mark Shuttleworth

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2019 31:16


Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Ubuntu and CEO of its parent company Canonical. Ubuntu is the Linux distribution of the Cloud. You can use it inside your containers, or you can use it as your node OS. Canonical packages Kubernetes for both the edge (MicroK8s) and the server (Charmed Kubernetes). Oh, and aside from that, Mark was the first African in space, spending 8 days on the International Space Station in 2002. Craig and Adam ask Mark about how this all happened, and how it has changed his perspective on technology. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Wicked, the musical +LIVE+, the band Craig’s video clips: All Over You, Run To The Water, Lightning Crashes News of the week KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 Linus Torvalds sees hardware headaches ahead DiDi wins Top End User award CKA and courses now in Chinese Introducing Workload Identity for GKE Keyless Entry: Securely Access GCP Services From Kubernetes (Cloud Next ‘19) Knative 0.7.0 Introducing Deep Learning Containers: Consistent and portable environments Launching Talos Systems Kubernetes Managed Apps from Platform9 Istio CVE in JWT handling AKS now supports Standard Load Balancing Links from the interview Mark Shuttleworth Blog Wikipedia The Shuttleworth Foundation Thawte Soyuz TM-34 mission to the International Space Station Ubuntu Wikipedia no-name-yet.com: Mark announces his intention to launch a Linux distribution at EuroPython 2004 Getting Ubuntu down to 30mb Snaps MicroK8s Charmed Kubernetes for larger-scale deployments OpenEBS, and Episode 56 with Evan Powell Anthos Sunrise and sunset from the ISS Mark Shuttleworth on Twitter

Ubuntu Podcast
S12E05 – Superfrog

Ubuntu Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2019 31:36


This week we talk about our trip to LFNW. We discuss the new budget-friendly Dell Precision laptops shipping with Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Developer Desktop Survey, the most power efficient Ubuntu flavour and Mark Shuttleworth’s views on the Ubuntu Desktop. We… Read more ›

ubuntu mark shuttleworth superfrog dell precision lfnw
Linux Action News
Linux Action News 104

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2019 35:12


Fedora 30 is out, we share our thoughts. Purism's new Librem One service is launched, we're rather skeptical and the reason might surprise you. Plus the massive Firefox blunder, Canonical's new service, and a report from DockerCon.

Linux Action News
Linux Action News 104

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2019 35:12


Fedora 30 is out, we share our thoughts. Purism's new Librem One service is launched, we're rather skeptical and the reason might surprise you. Plus the massive Firefox blunder, Canonical's new service, and a report from DockerCon.

Linux Action News
Linux Action News 104

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2019 35:12


Fedora 30 is out, we share our thoughts. Purism's new Librem One service is launched, we're rather skeptical and the reason might surprise you. Plus the massive Firefox blunder, Canonical's new service, and a report from DockerCon.

All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
Linux Action News 80

All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2018 31:33


Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens.

Linux Action News
Linux Action News 80

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2018 31:33


Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens. Plus the new Red Hat Enterprise beta has modularity, why Canonical might be ready for investors, and the bad week for cryptocurrencies.

Linux Action News Video
Linux Action News 80

Linux Action News Video

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2018


Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens.

Linux Action News Video
Linux Action News 80

Linux Action News Video

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2018


Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens.

Linux Action News
Linux Action News 80

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2018 31:33


Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens. Plus the new Red Hat Enterprise beta has modularity, why Canonical might be ready for investors, and the bad week for cryptocurrencies.

Linux Action News
Linux Action News 80

Linux Action News

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2018 31:33


Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens. Plus the new Red Hat Enterprise beta has modularity, why Canonical might be ready for investors, and the bad week for cryptocurrencies.

LINUX Unplugged
Episode 275: Year of the Relevant Desktop

LINUX Unplugged

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2018 69:41


Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them. Plus a big batch of important community news, Wimpy’s Thunderbolt Dock experiments, and way to run pacman on any Linux distribution. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, and Martin Wimpress.

NerdZoom
NRDZM024 Virtual Pornhub Network

NerdZoom

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2018 107:57


Max war beim OpenSource Treffen, Marius arbeitet gerade in Berlin und wir reden über Tuxedo, erste DSGVO Auswirkungen, Mark Shuttleworth beim OpenStack Summit, Pornhub's VPN Service, Pineapple Fund, Gnome, Google's "Don't be evil", Bitcoin Miner im Snap Store, Efail und vieles mehr!

DIGIBIZ AFRICA
Leading Players in Africa's Mobile-first, Mobile-poly And Mobile-holy Digital Economy - KINGS

DIGIBIZ AFRICA

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2018 65:22


Africa is on the move…young people are harnessing technology,” - Barack Obama at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Nairobi, Kenya 2015. The digital economy in Africa started in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1995 when Mark Shuttleworth built Thawte, a leading certificate authority, and sold it to Verisign when Vodacom championed prepaid airtime. the wave then moved to Ghana in 2001, when, together with Mark Davies and others, BusyInternet was built. Nigeria currently enjoys some of the most interesting developments in product development. According to a report by GSMA Intelligence 2017, Nigerians boast up to 86 million unique mobile subscribers, making it a technology developer's playground. According to estimates released at the Google For Nigeria conference last week, by the year 2034 Africa is expected to have the world's largest working-age population of 1.1 billion -- yet only 3 to 4 million jobs are created annually. African web users are already taking the first step in making moves in the digital economy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/digibiz-africa/support

Africa Public Radio
Leading Players in Africa's Mobile-first, Mobile-poly And Mobile-holy Digital Economy - KINGS

Africa Public Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2018 64:46


Africa is on the move…young people are harnessing technology,” - Barack Obama at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Nairobi, Kenya 2015. The digital economy in Africa started in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1995 when Mark Shuttleworth built Thawte, a leading certificate authority, and sold it to Verisign when Vodacom championed prepaid airtime. the wave then moved to Ghana in 2001, when, together with Mark Davies and others, BusyInternet was built. Nigeria currently enjoys some of the most interesting developments in product development. According to a report by GSMA Intelligence 2017, Nigerians boast up to 86 million unique mobile subscribers, making it a technology developer's playground. According to estimates released at the Google For Nigeria conference last week, by the year 2034 Africa is expected to have the world's largest working-age population of 1.1 billion -- yet only 3 to 4 million jobs are created annually. African web users are already taking the first step in making mov Become a supporter of this podcast: https://anchor.fm/africa-podcast-network/support

Africa Podcast Network
Leading Players in Africa's Mobile-first, Mobile-poly And Mobile-holy Digital Economy - KINGS

Africa Podcast Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2018 65:22


Africa is on the move…young people are harnessing technology,” - Barack Obama at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Nairobi, Kenya 2015. The digital economy in Africa started in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1995 when Mark Shuttleworth built Thawte, a leading certificate authority, and sold it to Verisign when Vodacom championed prepaid airtime. the wave then moved to Ghana in 2001, when, together with Mark Davies and others, BusyInternet was built. Nigeria currently enjoys some of the most interesting developments in product development. According to a report by GSMA Intelligence 2017, Nigerians boast up to 86 million unique mobile subscribers, making it a technology developer's playground. According to estimates released at the Google For Nigeria conference last week, by the year 2034 Africa is expected to have the world's largest working-age population of 1.1 billion -- yet only 3 to 4 million jobs are created annually. African web users are already taking the first step in making mov --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

LINUX Unplugged
Episode 196: Orange is the new Red (Hat) | LUP 196

LINUX Unplugged

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2017 74:13


Canonical is going for the IPO & that means some big changes. In a recent interview Mark Shuttleworth gives us a hint at the new purpose of the Ubuntu desktop. Plus Thunderbird’s future is uncertain, we get our hands on System76’s Galago Pro & more!

Techview Podcast
Techview-Podcast-17-16(Folge390)

Techview Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2017


In dieser Folge geht es um Unity 8 Fork Yunit, Windows 10 Creators Update, Windows Vistas Ende, Mark Shuttleworth der neue CEO von Canonical, Ubuntu 17.10 bereits mit Gnome uvm. Themen: Unity 8 als Yunit geforkt Windows 10 Creators Update ist da Microsoft beerdigt Windows Vista Mark Shuttleworth wird wieder CEO von Canonical Ubuntu 17.10 wechselt bereits zu Gnome Spiel der Woche: Starcraft nun kostenlos Sailfish der Woche: LLs GagBook Wie immer wünsche ich viel Spaß beim reinhören ;)

Destination Linux
Destination Linux EP18 – Michael Tunnell of Tux Digital

Destination Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2017 115:22


Welcome to Destination Linux Episode 18 with Michael Tunnell for 4-17-17 News Ubuntu Snaps to Integrate Fully with GNOME and KDE “Snaps continue for Ubuntu and other distributions (now Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and others). They will also integrate fully with GNOME, KDE, and I hope Elementary, MATE, etc. too,” said Mark Shuttleworth. “They are an […]

Ask Noah Show
Episode 3: Be nice to Newbies

Ask Noah Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2017 60:09


This week we talk about the new release of Ubuntu 17.04, take a deep dive into the “right to repair” bill that is sweeping 11 states & the newest player in the social media space, Mastodon. -- The Cliff Notes -- Ubuntu 17.04: The bittersweet Linux release (http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-17-04-the-bittersweet-linux-release/) The company dropped its smartphone and tablet plans. This, in turn, ended to its plans to make Unity its universal default interface. Instead, Gnome will become Ubuntu's once and future desktop. Days later, long-time CEO Jane Silber resigned in favor of the company's founder Mark Shuttleworth. 11 States Considereing Right To Repair (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/there-are-now-11-states-considering-bills-to-protect-your-right-to-repair-electronics) The bills would require manufacturers to sell replacement parts to consumers and independent repair companies and would also require them to open source diagnostic manuals. It would also give independent repair professionals the ability to bypass software locks that prevent repairs, allowing them to return a gadget back to its factory settings. Right to repair advocates are looking at this movement as a perhaps decade-long process that will require a grassroots movement of consumers to push back against the long-entrenched repair monopolies of companies like Apple, John Deere, and video game console manufacturers. "Right to Repair" Is About a Whole Lot More Than iPhones (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a25246/right-to-repair-legislation-under-fire-in-nebraska/) Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/about) Use Pi a gateway into your network, with cert based auth (https://www.hackster.io/zeev-s-glozman/use-pi-a-gateway-into-your-network-with-cert-based-auth-f896d6) Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It? (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it) -- Noobs Corner -- Do you have a question you want answered but can’t call into the show - email us asknoah@jupiterbroadcasting.com or use the contact form at JupiterBroadcasting.com and click on the ask noah show from the drop down menu -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah asknoah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com -- Twitter -- + Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) + Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) + Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) + Jupiter Broadcasting (https://twitter.com/jbsignal)

Ask Noah Show
Episode 2: The Ultimate Question

Ask Noah Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 59:50


This week on the Ask Noah Show we dive straight into the Ubuntu dropping Unity news story, talk about the best open source messenger application & of course take your questions live on the air. -- The Cliff Notes -- Ubuntu Unity is Dead: Desktop will switch back to Gnome next year (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/ubuntu-unity-is-dead-desktop-will-switch-back-to-gnome-next-year/) Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment. Staff, Projects, Shed as Ubuntu Maker Tries to Lure Investors (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/canonical_cuts_jobs_with_unity_bullet/) On Wednesday, we reported that Ubuntu is killing off its never-delivered Unity 8 technology and switching back to GNOME for its desktop user interface. Today, The Reg has learned that Canonical has axed more than half the team who worked on Unity – which was an effort to build a single Ubuntu UI spanning phones, tablets, PCs and other devices. Those Unity staffers who couldn't be found suitable jobs elsewhere in the open-source shop are being let go. Jobs are also going in other parts of the organization. The cuts came after Canonical founder and millionaire Mark Shuttleworth's decision to seek potential outside investors. These investors determined that Canonical was overstaffed and some projects lacked focus. Mark Shuttleworth Reportedly Returning To Role As Canonical CEO (http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mark-Shuttleworth-CEO-Return) I'm now told directly by a confidant that Jane Silber is likely stepping down with Mark Shuttleworth taking over as CEO. Mark had been CEO of Canonical from 2004 to 2010 until Jane Silber took over as CEO. Mark had originally stepped down from being the CEO to focus on product design, partnerships, customers, and other areas. Silber had been with Canonical since 2004 where she was serving in other roles, including as COO. Open Sourcing Wire Server Code (https://medium.com/@wireapp/open-sourcing-wire-server-code-ef7866a731d5) “Open sourcing was always part of our initial plan and it took some time to reach this stage. We decided to take the open source path because transparency and community engagement is of utmost importance for any product that has security at its core.” The team is now taking the next step to also open source the Wire server code. Wire app client code, encryption protocol and end-to-end encrypted integrations API are already available on GitHub. -- Noobs Corner -- Do you have ideas on how to get people started on Linux? Do you want to see the Getting Started With Linux: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide come to market? Give us your feedback at asknoahshow.com -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah asknoah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com -- Twitter -- + Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) + Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) + Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) + Jupiter Broadcasting (https://twitter.com/jbsignal)

Salmorejo Geek
#114 Ubuntu abandona Unity y la Convergencia ¿Y ahora qué?

Salmorejo Geek

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 93:48


Ubuntu abandona la convergencia y su escritorio seña de identidad, Unity, para pasar a ofrecer Gnome como escritorio predeterminado en su siguiente LTS 18.04. En un movimiento que nadie, o pocos esperaban, así lo anunció Mark Shuttleworth, ex CEO de Canonical y próximo nuevo CEO.Con este paso, Canonical se deshace de proyectos que económicamente no le son rentables para centrarse en lo que deja dinero y demandan los nuevos inversores, servidores, servicios y el internet de las cosas. ¿Morirá Unity y MIR definitivamente? ¿Caerá Ubuntu tras este paso en la impopularidad respecto a los usuarios convencionales de escritorio y a otras distribuciones Linux?Todas estas, y más cuestiones, se tratan en este episodio en donde participan, por sus alias en Twitter: @elavdeveloper, @archerojedi, @pacoestrada77 @uGeekPodcast y @yoyo308Música del episodio disponible en jamendo: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/497481/lightningtraveler

The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life
EP 552: $300k last 12 months To Help Sales People Find Perfect Gifts with CEO Greg Segall

The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2017 18:47


Wayne Silbermann. He has founded a number of startups from South Africa including one of the first world’s music discovery services which was originally founded by Mark Shuttleworth. His most recent venture, Sortd, is a new email platform that’s on a path to fundamentally changing the way people communicate and manage work. Sortd has ranked as the number 1 app for Gmail on Product Hunt. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The Tipping Point What CEO do you follow? –  N/A Favorite online tool? — WorkFlowy Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Wayne would tell himself that there’s plenty of opportunities out there and you can pick and choose what you’re passionate about   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:35 – Nathan introduces Wayne to the show 02:20 – Sortd transforms the Gmail interface into a more organized system to manage lists—similar to Trello for Gmail 02:50 – Wayne discovered that many people use the Gmail Inbox as a to-do list 03:29 – Sortd allows you to drag-and-drop your emails to your to-do lists 03:50 – Sortd is currently free 04:00 – Wayne shares how they are going to monetize Sortd according to agencies that use it 05:00 – Wayne has a number of ventures which are his sources of income 05:30 – The number of free users 05:45 – The behavior of active users 06:40 – Total capital which is self-funded 06:50 – The money goes to development 07:29 – Sortd works under Gmail and there’s no need to add another app 08:05 – Why would people use Sortd? 09:00 – Sortd allows you to “communicate using email as a medium in the context of your priorities” 09:33 – It is like you’re running two applications under 1 tab 10:11 – Sortd was in the chrome store since 2014 10:45 – Sortd has 3 full-time developers 11:16 – The revenue of the other business 11:40 – The funding environment in South Africa 12:48 – Wayne is looking to raise around a million dollars for Sortd 14:20 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: Having a number of ventures can help you create a product that is dedicated to helping people. Email is one of the most used applications—that’s why startups are finding ways to make life easier for email users. There are tons of opportunities out there—pick and choose what you’re passionate about.   Resources Mentioned: Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Drip – Nathan uses Drip’s email automation platform and visual campaign builder to build his sales funnel Toptal – Nathan found his development team using Toptal for his new business Send Later. He was able to keep 100% equity and didn’t have to hire a co-founder due to the quality of Toptal Host Gator – The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible. Audible – Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books. The Top Inbox  – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences Jamf – Jamf helped Nathan keep his Macbook Air 11” secure even when he left it in the airplane’s back seat pocket Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

BSD Now
172: A tale of BSD from yore

BSD Now

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2016 90:09


This week on BSDNow, we have a very special guest joining us to tell us a tale of the early days in BSD history. That plus some new OpenSSH goodness, shell scripting utilities and much more. Stay tuned for your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Call For Testing: OpenSSH 7.4 (http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=148167688911316&w=2) Getting ready to head into the holidays for for the end of 2016 means some of us will have spare time on our hands. What a perfect time to get some call for testing work done! Damien Miller has issued a public CFT for the upcoming OpenSSH 7.4 release, which considering how much we all rely on SSH I would expect will get some eager volunteers for testing. What are some of the potential breakers? “* This release removes server support for the SSH v.1 protocol. ssh(1): Remove 3des-cbc from the client's default proposal. 64-bit block ciphers are not safe in 2016 and we don't want to wait until attacks like SWEET32 are extended to SSH. As 3des-cbc was the only mandatory cipher in the SSH RFCs, this may cause problems connecting to older devices using the default configuration, but it's highly likely that such devices already need explicit configuration for key exchange and hostkey algorithms already anyway. sshd(8): Remove support for pre-authentication compression. Doing compression early in the protocol probably seemed reasonable in the 1990s, but today it's clearly a bad idea in terms of both cryptography (cf. multiple compression oracle attacks in TLS) and attack surface. Pre-auth compression support has been disabled by default for >10 years. Support remains in the client. ssh-agent will refuse to load PKCS#11 modules outside a whitelist of trusted paths by default. The path whitelist may be specified at run-time. sshd(8): When a forced-command appears in both a certificate and an authorized keys/principals command= restriction, sshd will now refuse to accept the certificate unless they are identical. The previous (documented) behaviour of having the certificate forced-command override the other could be a bit confusing and error-prone. sshd(8): Remove the UseLogin configuration directive and support for having /bin/login manage login sessions.“ What about new features? 7.4 has some of those to wake you up also: “* ssh(1): Add a proxy multiplexing mode to ssh(1) inspired by the version in PuTTY by Simon Tatham. This allows a multiplexing client to communicate with the master process using a subset of the SSH packet and channels protocol over a Unix-domain socket, with the main process acting as a proxy that translates channel IDs, etc. This allows multiplexing mode to run on systems that lack file- descriptor passing (used by current multiplexing code) and potentially, in conjunction with Unix-domain socket forwarding, with the client and multiplexing master process on different machines. Multiplexing proxy mode may be invoked using "ssh -O proxy ..." sshd(8): Add a sshdconfig DisableForwaring option that disables X11, agent, TCP, tunnel and Unix domain socket forwarding, as well as anything else we might implement in the future. Like the 'restrict' authorizedkeys flag, this is intended to be a simple and future-proof way of restricting an account. sshd(8), ssh(1): Support the "curve25519-sha256" key exchange method. This is identical to the currently-support method named "curve25519-sha256@libssh.org". sshd(8): Improve handling of SIGHUP by checking to see if sshd is already daemonised at startup and skipping the call to daemon(3) if it is. This ensures that a SIGHUP restart of sshd(8) will retain the same process-ID as the initial execution. sshd(8) will also now unlink the PidFile prior to SIGHUP restart and re-create it after a successful restart, rather than leaving a stale file in the case of a configuration error. bz#2641 sshd(8): Allow ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax directives to appear in sshd_config Match blocks. sshd(8): Add %-escapes to AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand to match those supported by AuthorizedKeysCommand (key, key type, fingerprint, etc.) and a few more to provide access to the contents of the certificate being offered. Added regression tests for string matching, address matching and string sanitisation functions. Improved the key exchange fuzzer harness.“ Get those tests done and be sure to send feedback, both positive and negative. *** How My Printer Caused Excessive Syscalls & UDP Traffic (https://zinascii.com/2014/how-my-printer-caused-excessive-syscalls.html) “3,000 syscalls a second, on an idle machine? That doesn't seem right. I just booted this machine. The only processes running are those required to boot the SmartOS Global Zone, which is minimal.” This is a story from 2014, about debugging a machine that was being slowed down by excessive syscalls and UDP traffic. It is also an excellent walkthrough of the basics of DTrace “Well, at least I have DTrace. I can use this one-liner to figure out what syscalls are being made across the entire system.” dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry { @[probefunc,probename] = count(); }' “Wow! That is a lot of lwpsigmask calls. Now that I know what is being called, it's time to find out who is doing the calling? I'll use another one-liner to show me the most common user stacks invoking lwpsigmask.” dtrace -n 'syscall::lwp_sigmask:entry { @[ustack()] = count(); }' “Okay, so this mdnsd code is causing all the trouble. What is the distribution of syscalls for the mdnsd program?” dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry /execname == "mdnsd"/ { @[probefunc] = count(); } tick-1s { exit(0); }' “Lots of signal masking and polling. What the hell! Why is it doing this? What is mdnsd anyways? Is there a man page? Googling for mdns reveals that it is used for resolving host names in small networks, like my home network. It uses UDP, and requires zero configuration. Nothing obvious to explain why it's flipping out. I feel helpless. I turn to the only thing I can trust, the code.” “Woah boy, this is some messy looking code. This would not pass illumos cstyle checks. Turns out this is code from Darwin—the kernel of OSX.” “Hmmm…an idea pops into my computer animal brain. I wonder…I wonder if my MacBook is also experiencing abnormal syscall rates? Nooo, that can't be it. Why would both my SmartOS server and MacBook both have the same problem? There is no good technical reason to link these two. But, then again, I'm dealing with computers here, and I've seen a lot of strange things over the years—I switch to my laptop.” sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::: { @[execname] = count(); } tick-1s { exit(0); }' Same thing, except mdns is called discoverd on OS X “I ask my friend Steve Vinoski to run the same DTrace one-liner on his OSX machines. He has both Yosemite and the older Mountain Lion. But, to my dismay, neither of his machines are exhibiting high syscall rates. My search continues.” “Not sure what to do next, I open the OSX Activity Monitor. In desperation I click on the Network tab.” “ HOLE—E—SHIT! Two-Hundred-and-Seventy Million packets received by discoveryd. Obviously, I need to stop looking at code and start looking at my network. I hop back onto my SmartOS machine and check network interface statistics.” “Whatever is causing all this, it is sending about 200 packets a second. At this point, the only thing left to do is actually inspect some of these incoming packets. I run snoop(1M) to collect events on the e1000g0 interface, stopping at about 600 events. Then I view the first 15.” “ A constant stream of mDNS packets arriving from IP 10.0.1.8. I know that this IP is not any of my computers. The only devices left are my iPhone, AppleTV, and Canon printer. Wait a minute! The printer! Two days earlier I heard some beeping noises…” “I own a Canon PIXMA MG6120 printer. It has a touch interface with a small LCD at the top, used to set various options. Since it sits next to my desk I sometimes lay things on top of it like a book or maybe a plate after I'm done eating. If I lay things in the wrong place it will activate the touch interface and cause repeated pressing. Each press makes a beeping noise. If the object lays there long enough the printer locks up and I have to reboot it. Just such events occurred two days earlier.” “I fire up dladm again to monitor incoming packets in realtime. Then I turn to the printer. I move all the crap off of it: two books, an empty plate, and the title for my Suzuki SV650 that I've been meaning to sell for the last year. I try to use the touch screen on top of the printer. It's locked up, as expected. I cut power to the printer and whip my head back to my terminal.” No more packet storm “Giddy, I run DTrace again to count syscalls.” “I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. I laugh, because, LOL computers. There's some new dumb shit you deal with everyday, better to roll with the punches and laugh. You live longer that way. At least I got to flex my DTrace muscles a bit. In fact, I felt a bit like Brendan Gregg when he was debugging why OSX was dropping keystrokes.” “I didn't bother to root cause why my printer turned into a UDP machine gun. I don't intend to either. I have better things to do, and if rebooting solves the problem then I'm happy. Besides, I had to get back to what I was trying to do six hours before I started debugging this damn thing.” There you go. The Internet of Terror has already been on your LAN for years. Making Getaddrinfo Concurrent in Python on Mac OS and BSD (https://emptysqua.re/blog/getaddrinfo-cpython-mac-and-bsd/) We have a very fun blog post today to pass along originally authored by “A. Jesse Jiryu Davis”. Specifically the tale of one man's quest to unify the Getaddrinfo in Python with Mac OS and BSD. To give you a small taste of this tale, let us pass along just the introduction “Tell us about the time you made DNS resolution concurrent in Python on Mac and BSD. No, no, you do not want to hear that story, my friends. It is nothing but old lore and #ifdefs. But you made Python more scalable. The saga of Steve Jobs was sung to you by a mysterious wizard with a fanciful nickname! Tell us! Gather round, then. I will tell you how I unearthed a lost secret, unbound Python from old shackles, and banished an ancient and horrible Mutex Troll. Let us begin at the beginning.“ Is your interest piqued? It should be. I'm not sure we could do this blog post justice trying to read it aloud here, but definetly recommend if you want to see how he managed to get this bit of code working cross platform. (And it's highly entertaining as well) “A long time ago, in the 1980s, a coven of Berkeley sorcerers crafted an operating system. They named it after themselves: the Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD. For generations they nurtured it, growing it and adding features. One night, they conjured a powerful function that could resolve hostnames to IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. It was called getaddrinfo. The function was mighty, but in years to come it would grow dangerous, for the sorcerers had not made getaddrinfo thread-safe.” “As ages passed, BSD spawned many offspring. There were FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and in time, Mac OS X. Each made its copy of getaddrinfo thread safe, at different times and different ways. Some operating systems retained scribes who recorded these events in the annals. Some did not.” The story continues as our hero battles the Mutex Troll and quests for ancient knowledge “Apple engineers are not like you and me — they are a shy and secretive folk. They publish only what code they must from Darwin. Their comings and goings are recorded in no bug tracker, their works in no changelog. To learn their secrets, one must delve deep.” “There is a tiny coven of NYC BSD users who meet at the tavern called Stone Creek, near my dwelling. They are aged and fierce, but I made the Sign of the Trident and supplicated them humbly for advice, and they were kindly to me.” Spoiler: “Without a word, the mercenary troll shouldered its axe and trudged off in search of other patrons on other platforms. Never again would it hold hostage the worthy smiths forging Python code on BSD.” *** Using release(7) to create FreeBSD images for OpenStack (https://diegocasati.com/2016/12/13/using-release7-to-create-freebsd-images-for-openstack-yes-you-can-do-it/) Following a recent episode where we covered a walk through on how to create FreeBSD guest OpenStack images, we wondered if it would be possible to integrate this process into the FreeBSD release(7) process, so they images could be generated consistently and automatically Being the awesome audience that you are, one of you responded by doing exactly that “During a recent BSDNow podcast, Allan and Kris mentioned that it would be nice to have a tutorial on how to create a FreeBSD image for OpenStack using the official release(7) tools. With that, it came to me that: #1 I do have access to an OpenStack environment and #2 I am interested in having FreeBSD as a guest image in my environment. Looks like I was up for the challenge.” “Previously, I've had success running FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE on OpenStack but more could/should be done. For instance, as suggested by Allan, wouldn't be nice to deploy the latest code from FreeBSD ? Running -STABLE or even -CURRENT ? Yes, it would. Also, wouldn't it be nice to customize these images for a specific need? I'd say ‘Yes' for that as well.” “After some research I found that the current openstack.conf file, located at /usr/src/release/tools/ could use some extra tweaks to get where I wanted. I've created and attached that to a bugzilla on the same topic. You can read about that here (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213396).” Steps: Fetch the FreeBSD source code and extract it under /usr/src Once the code is in place, follow the regular process of build(7) and perform a make buildworld buildkernel Change into the release directory (/usr/src/release) and perform a make cloudware make cloudware-release WITH_CLOUDWARE=yes CLOUDWARE=OPENSTACK VMIMAGE=2G “That's it! This will generate a qcow2 image with 1.4G in size and a raw image of 2G. The entire process uses the release(7) toolchain to generate the image and should work with newer versions of FreeBSD.” + The patch has already been committed to FreeBSD (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=310047) Interview - Rod Grimes - rgrimes@freebsd.org (mailto:rgrimes@freebsd.org) Want to help fund the development of GPU Passthru? Visit bhyve.org (http://bhyve.org/) *** News Roundup Configuring the FreeBSD automounter (http://blog.khubla.com/freebsd/configuring-the-freebsd-automounter) Ever had to configure the FreeBSD auto-mounting daemon? Today we have a blog post that walks us through a few of the configuration knobs you have at your disposal. First up, Tom shows us his /etc/fstab file, and the various UFS partitions he has setup with the ‘noauto' flag so they are not mounted at system boot. His amd.conf file is pretty basic, with just options enabled to restart mounts, and unmount on exit. Where most users will most likely want to pay attention is in the crafting of an amd.map file Within this file, we have the various command-foo which performs mounts and unmounts of targeted disks / file-systems on demand. Pay special attention to all the special chars, since those all matter and a stray or missing ; could be a source of failure. Lastly a few knobs in rc.conf will enable the various services and a reboot should confirm the functionality. *** l2k16 hackathon report: LibreSSL manuals now in mdoc(7) (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20161114174451) Hackathon report by Ingo Schwarze “Back in the spring two years ago, Kristaps Dzonsons started the pod2mdoc(1) conversion utility, and less than a month later, the LibreSSL project began. During the general summer hackathon in the same year, g2k14, Anthony Bentley started using pod2mdoc(1) for converting LibreSSL manuals to mdoc(7).” “Back then, doing so still was a pain, because pod2mdoc(1) was still full of bugs and had gaping holes in functionality. For example, Anthony was forced to basically translate the SYNOPSIS sections by hand, and to fix up .Fn and .Xr in the body by hand as well. All the same, he speedily finished all of libssl, and in the autumn of the same year, he mustered the courage to commit his work.” “Near the end of the following winter, i improved the pod2mdoc(1) tool to actually become convenient in practice and started work on libcrypto, converting about 50 out of the about 190 manuals. Max Fillinger also helped a bit, converting a handful of pages, but i fear i tarried too much checking and committing his work, so he quickly gave up on the task. After that, almost nothing happened for a full year.” “Now i was finally fed up with the messy situation and decided to put an end to it. So i went to Toulouse and finished the conversion of the remaining 130 manual pages in libcrypto, such that you can now view the documentation of all functions” Interactive Terminal Utility: smenu (https://github.com/p-gen/smenu) Ok, I've made no secret of my love for shell scripting. Well today we have a new (somewhat new to us) tool to bring your way. Have you ever needed to deal with large lists of data, perhaps as the result of a long specially crafted pipe? What if you need to select a specific value from a range and then continue processing? Enter ‘smenu' which can help make your scripting life easier. “smenu is a selection filter just like sed is an editing filter. This simple tool reads words from the standard input, presents them in a cool interactive window after the current line on the terminal and writes the selected word, if any, on the standard output. After having unsuccessfully searched the NET for what I wanted, I decided to try to write my own. I have tried hard to made its usage as simple as possible. It should work, even when using an old vt100 terminal and is UTF-8 aware.“ What this means, is in your interactive scripts, you can much easier present the user with a cursor driven menu to select from a range of possible choices. (Without needing to craft a bunch of dialog flags) Take a look, and hopefully you'll be able to find creative uses for your shell scripts in the future. *** Ubuntu still isn't free software (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/45939.html) “Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may be required to pay. For further information, please contact us” “Mark Shuttleworth just blogged (http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/12/01/taking-a-stand-against-unstable-risky-unofficial-ubuntu-images/) about their stance against unofficial Ubuntu images. The assertion is that a cloud hoster is providing unofficial and modified Ubuntu images, and that these images are meaningfully different from upstream Ubuntu in terms of their functionality and security. Users are attempting to make use of these images, are finding that they don't work properly and are assuming that Ubuntu is a shoddy product. This is an entirely legitimate concern, and if Canonical are acting to reduce user confusion then they should be commended for that.” “The appropriate means to handle this kind of issue is trademark law. If someone claims that something is Ubuntu when it isn't, that's probably an infringement of the trademark and it's entirely reasonable for the trademark owner to take action to protect the value associated with their trademark. But Canonical's IP policy goes much further than that - it can be interpreted as meaning[1] that you can't distribute works based on Ubuntu without paying Canonical for the privilege, even if you call it something other than Ubuntu. [1]: And by "interpreted as meaning" I mean that's what it says and Canonical refuse to say otherwise” “If you ask a copyright holder if you can give a copy of their work to someone else (assuming it doesn't infringe trademark law), and they say no or insist you need an additional contract, it's not free software. If they insist that you recompile source code before you can give copies to someone else, it's not free software. Asking that you remove trademarks that would otherwise infringe trademark law is fine, but if you can't use their trademarks in non-infringing ways, that's still not free software.” “Canonical's IP policy continues to impose restrictions on all of these things, and therefore Ubuntu is not free software.” Beastie Bits OPNsense 16.7.10 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-16-7-10-released/) OpenBSD Foundation Welcomes First Iridium Donor: Smartisan (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20161123193708&mode=expanded&count=8) Jan Koum donates $500,000 to FreeBSD (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/foundation-announces-new-uranium-donor/) The Soviet Russia, BSD makes you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOS) Feedback/Questions Jason - Value (http://pastebin.com/gRN4Lzy8) Hamza - Shell Scripting (http://pastebin.com/GZYjRmSR) Blog link (http://aikchar.me/blog/unix-shell-programming-lessons-learned.html) Dave - Migrating to FreeBSD (http://pastebin.com/hEBu3Drp) Dan - Which BSD? (http://pastebin.com/1HpKqCSt) Zach - AMD Video (http://pastebin.com/4Aj5ebns) ***

The Cyberlaw Podcast
Interview with Mark Shuttleworth

The Cyberlaw Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2015 52:33


In our eighty-ninth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker and Michael Vatis discuss: Section 215 is still in the news: Program temporarily blocked by DC judge, NSA asks to continue program pending appeal, DC Circuit gives temporary reprieve to the program; Microsoft offers EU customers option to store data in Germany; Safe Harbor continues: EU wants US firms to help mitigate data-protection concerns; and NY outlines the upcoming cybersecurity requirements for banks and insurers. In our second half we have an interview with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and leader of product design at Canonical. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

Rational Perspective
Douw Steyn's UK business CEO - Disrupting insurance paves way for R6.5bn Mega City

Rational Perspective

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2015 33:58


Biznews Radio
Douw Steyn's UK business CEO - Disrupting insurance paves way for R6.5bn Mega City

Biznews Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2015 33:58


Elon Musk, Mark Shuttleworth some of the well known South African entrepreneurs who've made waves globally. And they've been recognised for it as well. On the back of this the Biznews team has spent September in London searching for other success stories, and Alec's had some scintillating discussions off the back of this, including one with Investec co-founder Bernard Kantor, as well as a retail masterclass with former Pick 'n Pay CEO Sean Summers. Below Alec chats to Matthew Donaldson, CEO of the BGL group, an insurance company based in Peterborough, founded by South African Douw Steyn. Steyn's more recently known for the creation of the R6.5 billion Steyn City, located in the northern outskirts of Johannesburg. In this interview we discover how Steyn, the founder of Auto & General, took a South African concept of insurance to the United Kingdom, and built a business that now generates £100m profit a year. Yet another fascinating example of South African success overseas.

African Tech Roundup
Game Over For Startup Seed Funds? + The Week's Biggest News

African Tech Roundup

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2015 23:38


Nigeria's "company that builds companies", Spark, announced last week its plans to drop some startups it invested in. This announcement comes just a week after 88mph's notice that it will be "taking a break" from investing in African startups. While it is not uncommon for investment funds to pause on-boarding when funds available for employment are temporarily exhausted, it seems odd that 88mph would go out of its way to alert the public to something that would occur in the normal course of business. Similarly, given how startup failure is not uncommon - with some investment funds said to be aiming to achieve a success rate of approximately one in ten, why would Spark ceremoniously trot these "dead businesses" out in this manner? In this week's discussion, iAfrikan Executive Editor, Tefo Mohapi and I ask whether the current approach to tech venture capitalism in Africa is flawed. Perhaps investors are beginning to realise that successfully investing in African startups is in fact a science that involves a lot more than throwing money at promising prospects. Here's to hoping the investment notices by 88mph and Spark are not precursory tremors to a major shaking in Africa's tech investment scene. Be sure to stay up to date with all the week's biggest news from across the continent: -- Find out what major global deadline both Uganda and South Africa have missed, -- Discover how a landmark court ruling has seen South African billionaire Mark Shuttleworth lose $20 million, -- Get details on how an ambitious cable car project in Kenya which promises to alleviate Nairobi's traffic congestion, and -- Learn more about a 3D-printed prosthetic hand which promises to put South Africa on the map in terms of medical innovation. Music Credits: All Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

LINUX Unplugged
Episode 68: Linux Powered Schools | LUP 68

LINUX Unplugged

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2014 84:31


We’re joined by a classroom full of special guests, we talk with the students from Penn Manor School District, where they’ve given every high school student a Linux laptop & integrated the students into the help desk. We get the inside scope on the challenges, roadblocks & successes of this large desktop Linux deployment. Plus a preview of our upcoming interview with Mark Shuttleworth & his take on the recent criticism and exodus from Debian & getting started in a Linux career.

Shlomo Swidler's OpenStack Israel Podcast
OpenStack Israel Podcast, Episode 14

Shlomo Swidler's OpenStack Israel Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2014


This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical. Some highlights of our discussion: The role Ubuntu and Canonical will play in OpenStack’s future. OpenStack is the next phase of Linux: Linux at large scale. The majority of […] The post OpenStack Israel Podcast, Episode 14 appeared first on Shlomo Swidler.

LINUX Unplugged
Episode 11: Bankrupt Linux News | LINUX Unplugged 11

LINUX Unplugged

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2013 67:46


The recent outburst from Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth have put the poor state of Linux news coverage into sharp focus. The media’s attention to the cult of personalities damages the Linux community. We’ll discuss what pressures push this trend forward, despite the need of a balanced dialog in an open community.

Teahour
#29 - 和 Ubuntu Tweak 作者图拉鼎聊聊独立开发者

Teahour

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2013 100:51


本期由Terry Tai和Daniel共同主持,邀请了 Ubuntu Tweak 的作者图拉鼎来和我们聊聊他的成长历程以及独立开发者的方方面面。 Ubuntu Tweak 是一个为了方便所有人配置 Ubuntu 的工具。 它提供了许多默认系统并未提供的桌面和系统选项。 在它的帮助下,你的Ubuntu之旅将会更加愉快! 关于图拉鼎: Twitter Weibo Blog Ubuntu Tweak Manico Cyrix Tualatin 微型计算机 Logo programming language BASIC programming language 文曲星 Ubuntu Canonical 注册表 DotA Django Mark Shuttleworth Mou Homebrew MPlayerX TotalFinder Textmate Google Analytics GAJavaScriptTracker 改变未来的九大算法 Blink 音箱 Special Guest: 图拉鼎.

Free as in Freedom
0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 39:23


Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:34) Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in Episode 0x04. Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17) Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58) Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13) There is indeed a Project named PyCorn. (09:38) Bradley mentioned the Planet Money story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio of the longer piece that ends with the phrase Stay Shady, Internet (21:30) Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad. (23:40) Bradley mentioned that a keynoter at LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011. (30:02) Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for Women (31:20) Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009 (32:02). Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Free as in Freedom
0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 39:23


Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:34) Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in Episode 0x04. Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17) Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58) Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13) There is indeed a Project named PyCorn. (09:38) Bradley mentioned the Planet Money story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio of the longer piece that ends with the phrase Stay Shady, Internet (21:30) Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad. (23:40) Bradley mentioned that a keynoter at LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011. (30:02) Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for Women (31:20) Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009 (32:02). Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
Innovation or stagnation - Oxford Union Debate

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2013 48:55


The Innovation Enigma - Is the current growth crisis a result of decades of technological stagnation in a risk-averse society? A dynamic Oxford Union debate about innovation and the coming technological deficit involving Garry Kasparov, 13th world chess champion, writer and political activist; Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist; Professor Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University; and Mark Shuttleworth, technology entrepreneur and founder of the Ubuntu project.

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
Innovation or stagnation - Oxford Union Debate

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2013 48:55


The Innovation Enigma - Is the current growth crisis a result of decades of technological stagnation in a risk-averse society? A dynamic Oxford Union debate about innovation and the coming technological deficit involving Garry Kasparov, 13th world chess champion, writer and political activist; Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist; Professor Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University; and Mark Shuttleworth, technology entrepreneur and founder of the Ubuntu project.

Free as in Freedom
Episode 0x36: RMS' Ubuntu Essay and Canonical, Ltd.'s Response

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2012 39:57


Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do, and Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50) Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280) how a search for “ter” in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields [slightly NSFW] gives results for Rachel Ter Horst DVDs. (09:44) Bradley mentioned his blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software communities. (14:50) Bradley and Karen discuss Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview (18:25). Bradley and Karen also briefly mentioned Jono Bacon's comments about RMS's essay and Jono's apology. (19:30) Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's comments during his LinuxCon 2011 keynote. (20:14) Bradley mentioned Douglas Rushkoff's article, Teach U.S. kids to write computer code (29:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Free as in Freedom
Episode 0x36: RMS' Ubuntu Essay and Canonical, Ltd.'s Response

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2012 39:57


Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do, and Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50) Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280) how a search for “ter” in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields [slightly NSFW] gives results for Rachel Ter Horst DVDs. (09:44) Bradley mentioned his blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software communities. (14:50) Bradley and Karen discuss Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview (18:25). Bradley and Karen also briefly mentioned Jono Bacon's comments about RMS's essay and Jono's apology. (19:30) Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's comments during his LinuxCon 2011 keynote. (20:14) Bradley mentioned Douglas Rushkoff's article, Teach U.S. kids to write computer code (29:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Castálio Podcast
Rodrigo Belém: Ubuntu Brasil

Castálio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2012


Olá pessoal e sejam mais uma vez muito bem-vindos a mais um novo episódio, este comemorando nosso primeiro ano no ar! Aproveitei a oportunidade então para dar o pontapé inicial em uma nova série, desta vez focada na criação do Ubuntu Brasil!!! Ame-a ou não, a distribuição Ubuntu teve uma história meteórica dentre os usuários de Linux brasileiros, e hoje em dia ainda continua liderando dentre as distribuições mais usadas no país. Mas como foi que tudo começou? Quem foram os responsáveis por "trazer" o Ubuntu ao Brasil e como que eles conseguiram atrair tantos usuários e apoiadores em tão pouco tempo? Apresento então a vocês o Rodrigo Belém, que junto ao Ian Lawrence, fundaram o Ubuntu Brasil no finalzinho de 2004! Durante nosso bate-papo, o Rodrigo conta como que tudo começou depois de escutar umas palestras no DebConf em Porto alegre, e uma viagem à Espanha! Sobre a visita do Mark Shuttleworth ao Amazonas e os desafios dos primeiros meses de vida da distribuição! Aprenda um pouco sobre os fatores que tornaram o Ubuntu tão popular e o nome de vários usuários que começaram sua vida no mundo de software livre na comunidade Ubuntu Brasil!

Lococast.net
Lococast.net Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants!

Lococast.net

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2011


Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants! Intro Events - [1DevDayDetroit Nov 4/5th](# "1DevDayDetroit") OhioLinuxfest Recap: Thanks for stopping by the booth everyone! [Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net) Interview - [Elizabeth Naramore](http://www.naramore.net/blog/), Community Developer Manager Links of the week - [A Gnome OS? Would you use it?](http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2011/09/gnome-os.html) - [Ubuntu with a rolling monthy release, what might work/what will fail](http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/ubuntu-technical-board-member-proposes-monthly-ubuntu-release-cycle.ars) - [Mark Shuttleworth on Cloud APIs are like HTTP, don't screw it up.](http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/765) - [Application design, Launchpad thinks smaller services](https://dev.launchpad.net/ArchitectureGuide/Services) Rick's Mini Rant: Your anti pattern is called a tool - [Original Article: ORM is an anti-patter](http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern) - [SqlAlchemy](http://sqlalchemy.org) Books - Rick: [Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4CNE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mitechie-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0036S4CNE) - Craig: [Mouse Guard](http://mouseguard.net) by David Petersen Music - [Горсти талого снега by Калевала from Кукушкины дети](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/94940) - [Human Core by HiHate from Against All](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/97774) - [Natural 20s by Dual Core from Next Level](http://dualcoremusic.com/nerdcore/) - [Eighties Dance Music by The West Exit from Unearthed](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/westexit-unearthed/) - [Imported by Irate Architect from Visitors](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/80765) - [The Four Seasons: Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269 - 'Spring': III. Allegro by Lara St. John from Vivaldi - The Four Seasons](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/lara-fourseasons/) - [Never Happy by Drop Alive from Drop Alive](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/6357)

Lococast.net
Lococast.net Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants!

Lococast.net

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2011


Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants! Intro Events - 1DevDayDetroit Nov 4/5th OhioLinuxfest Recap: Thanks for stopping by the booth everyone! Sourceforge Interview Elizabeth Naramore, Community Developer Manager Links of the week A Gnome OS? Would you use it? Ubuntu with a rolling monthy release, what might work/what will fail Mark Shuttleworth […]

Free as in Freedom
Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2011 63:49


Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under CC-By-SA-3.0 USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13) Segment 1 (03:34) Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk available on his website. Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON. Richard Fontana references Michael Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment (29:55) Segment 2 (45:17) Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33) Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30) Karen has done some pro bono work for PubPat, and also Question Copyright (01:01:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Free as in Freedom
Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2011 63:49


Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under CC-By-SA-3.0 USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13) Segment 1 (03:34) Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk available on his website. Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON. Richard Fontana references Michael Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment (29:55) Segment 2 (45:17) Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33) Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30) Karen has done some pro bono work for PubPat, and also Question Copyright (01:01:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Free as in Freedom
Episode 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2011 36:27


Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45) Karen received one of the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award ceremony is online.) (03:05) Karen now has a blog called GNOMG. (05:03) Karen's wrote a blog post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47) Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42) Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener Richard Fontana. (06:40) Segment 1 (10:22) Karen keynoted at OSCON, entitled Software Freedom: From my Heart to the Desktop. (10:22) Bradley had a live-denting thread of Karen's keynote at OSCON 2011. Karen's 2011 OSCON keynote is available YouTube. You can also hear the audio on the show itself, but if you prefer video, use the preceding link. If you watch instead of listen, just skip the audio in the oggcast up to Segment 2 below: Segment 2 (24:49) Bradley mentioned conferences can be ephemeral on his blog about GUADEC 2010. (28:25) Bradley and Karen are about to go to the Desktop Summit. (29:15) Bradley, Michael Meeks and Mark Shuttleworth will be on a panel on copyright assignment moderated by Karen. (29:25) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Free as in Freedom
Episode 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON

Free as in Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2011 36:27


Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45) Karen received one of the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award ceremony is online.) (03:05) Karen now has a blog called GNOMG. (05:03) Karen's wrote a blog post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47) Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42) Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener Richard Fontana. (06:40) Segment 1 (10:22) Karen keynoted at OSCON, entitled Software Freedom: From my Heart to the Desktop. (10:22) Bradley had a live-denting thread of Karen's keynote at OSCON 2011. Karen's 2011 OSCON keynote is available YouTube. You can also hear the audio on the show itself, but if you prefer video, use the preceding link. If you watch instead of listen, just skip the audio in the oggcast up to Segment 2 below: Segment 2 (24:49) Bradley mentioned conferences can be ephemeral on his blog about GUADEC 2010. (28:25) Bradley and Karen are about to go to the Desktop Summit. (29:15) Bradley, Michael Meeks and Mark Shuttleworth will be on a panel on copyright assignment moderated by Karen. (29:25) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

RadioTux - Interview
LT'10: Mark Shuttleworth - Whats new in ubuntu land?

RadioTux - Interview

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2010


Category5 Technology TV (HD Video)
Mark Shuttleworth Speaks on The Future of Ubuntu - Category5 Technology TV - Episode 64

Category5 Technology TV (HD Video)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2008 60:25


Starring:Host: Robbie FergusonCo-Host: Carrie Webb An interview with Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth. Robbie's favorite web site for desktop wallpaper. Announcing the winners of the Jawbone Bluetooth Giveaway. Read the complete show notes, comment or rate this episode, view pictures and obtain links from this episode at https://category5.tv/shows/technology/episode/64/ Running time: 1 Hour 25 Seconds

Tech Talk Radio Podcast
September 6, 2008 Tech Talk Radio Show

Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2008 57:36


Configuring modem-on-hold, easy to use GPS systems, Profiles in IT (Phillip Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy email encryption), Google releases browser named Chrome, T-Mobile to offer Android-based phone, Facebook for spies will help connect the dots, hacker breaks into FEMA phone system, Mark Shuttleworth hopes to make Ubuntu prettier than OS X, IT challenges in China (integrating IT and business practices, strategic planning, project management), Website of the Week (drop.io, file-sharing service), Google celebrates tenth birthday, and Food Science (history of cereals). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 6, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Tech Talk Radio Podcast
September 6, 2008 Tech Talk Radio Show

Tech Talk Radio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2008 57:36


Configuring modem-on-hold, easy to use GPS systems, Profiles in IT (Phillip Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy email encryption), Google releases browser named Chrome, T-Mobile to offer Android-based phone, Facebook for spies will help connect the dots, hacker breaks into FEMA phone system, Mark Shuttleworth hopes to make Ubuntu prettier than OS X, IT challenges in China (integrating IT and business practices, strategic planning, project management), Website of the Week (drop.io, file-sharing service), Google celebrates tenth birthday, and Food Science (history of cereals). This show originally aired on Saturday, September 6, 2008, at 9:00 AM EST on 3WT Radio (WWWT).

Metamuse

Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes 00:00:00 - Speaker 1: Because oftentimes when we launch startups, we are very keen to tell the world why we’re so different and so unique, but we often forget to tell them why we’re equally good as what what’s already there. 00:00:17 - Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Meta Muse. Muse is software for your iPad that helps you with ideation and problem solving. This podcast isn’t about Muse the product, it’s about Muse the company and the small team behind it. I’m here today with my colleague Mark McGranaghan. Hey Adam, and our investor Lisa Ankle. Hey, this is quite an impressive use of internet technology, I think, because Lisa, you’re in Singapore. I believe it’s 9 p.m. for you. Mark, you’re in Seattle. It’s 6. a.m. for you, and I’m here in Berlin at 3 p.m. So this is truly a globe spanning call, but it works. Seems to be. So Lisa, welcome to the to the podcast, and can you tell us a little bit about yourself? 00:00:55 - Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. So I’m Swedish person living here in uh in Singapore, have been here for a couple of years, have a background in working for startups, often as an early employee, and for the past 2.5 years I’ve been part of building out a VC firm. Called Antlers. So we actually run startup generator programs where we help individuals find their co-founders and then launch startups and then we invest in the best teams. On the side, privately, I also do a couple of angel investments, um, a few here and there, select ones, and then my background is in, in marketing and product primarily on the growth side. 00:01:29 - Speaker 2: One of the things that caught my attention about Antler, in addition to its, I guess from my point of view, uh, exotic location. Uh, is that it’s taking some of the, I guess, accelerator model pioneered by by combinator and others, and sort of bringing that to, uh, to this new place. But also I think it has just very nice branding marketing presentation. And I feel like that may even be more important for a for an accelerator who’s constantly recruiting companies, you’re a two sided marketplace in a way, right? You’re connecting companies with investors, right? And so being Uh, being something that presents itself in a way that’s interesting, attractive, appealing to both of those parties, uh, seems quite important. 00:02:09 - Speaker 1: It definitely is, and I think it’s, it’s hard because we want to convince entrepreneurs like yourselves that it’s better to to launch a company together with us than to do it, to do it alone and to to kind of convince entrepreneurs, it’s a very hard, I think, persona. To, to crack. So we try to work with kind of repeat entrepreneurs and very experienced founders. Yeah, and then also establish ourselves as a trustworthy investor. So it’s definitely those kind of two sides that you mentioned. 00:02:34 - Speaker 2: Great. Well, I think that the topic we want to do today is authentic marketing, and you sort of suggested this based on uh the couple episodes ago we talked with Max Schoening from GitHub. And I think we were talking more about product things, but that naturally drifted into this, uh, into this field. And um he talked a bit about the being close to product and even what it means to, you know, what is the marketing playbook in 2020. Uh, and in many ways, he felt like authentic marketing is one that that doesn’t have much of a playbook or you’re doing things that are new and special to you or speaking with your voice in a way that makes sense for The audience for your your product. But of course at the same time, while just saying there’s no playbook, obviously marketing is a skill. It is a whole career field. And in fact, I was reminded of a podcast I heard recently with Patrick McKenzie where he basically described his whole career as being built around taking concepts from the marketing world and bringing repackaging them for engineers who typically don’t appreciate the depth of that skill and then repackaging that in a way. That it’s comprehensible and makes sense to them. 00:03:40 - Speaker 1: I think the episode you had with Max was super interesting, especially around the product principles and kind of having them, having them in place, and it reminded me quite a bit of what you also talked about the company values and the importance of, of choosing what not to do because it’s so easy to say with this, this, this and that, and by choosing everything you don’t have any decision making in the company and I think that’s kind of ties into very much around the marketing and Positioning as well because you want to be for everyone and you want to be this wide, you know, very broad and wide thing and you don’t want to exclude anyone, but by doing so, you also don’t help, you know, the customers or the potential users to to navigate or or to understand you better. So I think that was a very good kind of similarity. 00:04:23 - Speaker 2: Yeah, if you’re everything for everyone, then you’re someone understand what you are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:04:29 - Speaker 2: Well, maybe that naturally leads to a conversation you and I have been having here as we are gearing up towards our product launch and thinking about how we want to explain news to a wider audience. We have our kind of our core group of people who’ve been following our story, maybe even back to the research lab days, and if they, I don’t know, read our 5000 word research article and listen to Mark and I talk on the podcast for 10 hours, they can understand the product, but we’re trying to find a way to package that a little bit more tightly so that more people can get access to that message. And and one of the things that has come up there in our conversations or as you’ve been, have been advising us is what category are we in? And this is honestly a real struggle because it’s important to put yourself in a category that’s an easy way for someone to understand what you are. Are you a car? Are you a kitchen knife? Are you a word processor? Are you a photo editing program? And of course, you can be new and different and better, but starting with, here’s what it is, you know, Google Docs maybe was quite different. In some ways than what came before, but ultimately, you could have described it as well. It’s Microsoft Word, but on the web. Um, but we’ve really struggled with this at Muse. What’s your take on the the sort of the category question and how it fits into the larger positioning topic? 00:05:41 - Speaker 1: Yeah, you’re not alone in feeling this way. It was the same when we started Antler. It’s been the same with multiple startups I worked with. It’s really hard to kind of choose because oftentimes you actually do something new. That’s why you’re a startup and you don’t want to be like someone else. It’s already out there, but I think the risk of not choosing is so high, so you kind of have to choose, even if you choose something that you’re not super happy with. I tried to compare it with like, if you walk around in a grocery store, you want to know what shelf you’re gonna go to, if you want to find the nuts or the dried fruits or going to the candy shelf or going to the fruit stand, and by positioning yourself next to the fresh fruits or next to the candy, it tells a lot about your brand and if you are kind of a healthy snack or if you are not a healthy snack, like the peanuts, the salted peanuts will be. Next to the chips and candy, right? But then if you have a whatever nature bar, they will be next to the fruits. So it does tell a story. I think it’s important to take, to have the discussion and to take it, and you may not land in something that feels completely right because it’s new, so you will feel a bit uncomfortable. But if you don’t choose, then others will choose for you. And that’s the big risk. Then you will have journalists, users and customers, and they will start calling you things and they will all start calling you different things, and that’s horrible for SEO and it’s really bad. Uh, because no one will remember you. So even if you choose something that’s not awesome, at least you have something and you can be consistent. 00:07:00 - Speaker 3: This reflects my experience talking with friends and family about Muse. Initially, I would try to describe the app from first principles in terms of all the novel things that we’re doing and the the unique interaction model and man, people had a really tough time understanding what it was. But once I started describing it in terms of things they were familiar with, note taking apps, personal. Information management, those are the two main ones. I really stuck better and then you could give them the deltas, you know, it’s that, but here are the deltas and the deaths. It’s Microsoft Word, but it’s on the web. People get excited about on the web and likewise, we have a series of deltas for use that was quite effective. Although I had never thought about the people start to pick names for you angle, which uh now that you mentioned it seems quite important. 00:07:36 - Speaker 2: And sometimes that’s good. You want to wait and see how people describe you and then maybe adopt that because in many cases, the target audience or The people who want what you’re offering are actually better able to find the right words. 00:07:50 - Speaker 1: The problem with doing that is that your very smart customers are not, they don’t have a big following, maybe some do, but some of them may not have a big following online and the people who do are the tech journalists, and they might not have time to think this through, and they take a concept they already know and they will just splash it onto the article and then there you are. 00:08:10 - Speaker 2: Yeah, when it comes to journalists and even reviewers that go relatively deep, you know, in the end, they need to crank through a lot of articles or reviews or whatever it is they’re doing in a relatively short period of time. They don’t have weeks and months to get deeply familiar with your product and your philosophies and your all the ideas you’re trying to to share. So of course, they’re going to look for the, the shorthand. So if you don’t, if you don’t give them that shorthand, then yeah, you risk a lot of just fragmented. Sort of description. Yeah, for me, this was the very point. Once we got into this discussion, I started working through this, uh, it, it really called back to me to my Hiroku experience. And so here when we were working on this platform for web deployment in the late, uh, sort of like 2008ish period, and we ran into the same problem because there was this clear, I guess you call it category which was hosting, but in many ways it had all these. Associations really led people in the wrong direction, particularly the historic kind of shared hosting FDP and PHP kind of stuff. Um, and cloud didn’t exist yet and cloud infrastructure didn’t exist. And eventually we did go along with an industry term which was platform as a service. In some ways I was never that great. I don’t think customers are like, I don’t know, industry analysts would use that, but customers didn’t really use it. They didn’t, they didn’t really think of it that way. Um, and, and we struggled with it for a long, long time, basically, as long as I was there, and many years later, I don’t know, 10 years after we started the company is when the industry settled on some terms. One was containerization, that’s for the Dockers and Cougarneti stuff, you know, at Hiroku we made up this weird word dino. Because there was, there was nothing that that behaved in this way. And so we needed a new word for it. And eventually the industry came up with a word which was container. And later on, there’s another cat there was a category or a name for this type of platform, which is serverless. Now that’s a well known space. And we even had like a no servers or forget about servers, that was part of our message, but it just, it wasn’t a category. We were just doing this weird thing that no one could understand and then yes, exactly that problem. Customers, journalists, colleagues, investors, whatever else they want to stick you into this, into a category that isn’t a good fit. And then yeah, I don’t know it was this, it was this constant struggle. In the end it worked out for us, I guess, because we’re doing something that I think was different and special and, and, and ultimately people. Enough people got it, uh, to make the business successful, but still, it was a constant source of pain for me personally, not only to just, I don’t know, write a good homepage or something, but also even what I usually call just the cocktail party experience, which is just what Mark, you just said, Mark, which is chatting with someone that you haven’t caught up with in a long time, whether or not they’re tech industry people are not around the dinner table at a family event, and they say, what are you doing? And you want to like sum it up in a couple of sentences and Just could never do it and just people were left scratching their head and they thought that I was being withholding or I didn’t want to tell them and that wasn’t it. It was like, well, no, you know, I need to sit you down and give you a 20 minute lecture on the history of web development so you can understand this product. And yeah, no, that was always pretty unsatisfying. 00:11:12 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we had the fear of ending up in the wrong. That really drove my initiatives when we, when we launched and started answer. I did not want it to be in the bucket of incubators because in Singapore alone there are 53 different incubators, most of them, I mean, of course, some of them are great, but many of them belong to corporates and I mean, I’m gonna sound like a bitch, but nothing good has ever come out of them. And we didn’t want to be in that bucket because we wanted to build great companies and then we also didn’t want to be an accelerator because that’s a bit different because then you take in an existing team with an existing product and you help them accelerate their growth. We brought founders together, you know, in the first place and helped them navigate what product to build in the first place and then invest. So therefore we, we kind of landed after a lot of pain in the term startup generator that we were generating startups and we’ve been sticking to it for 2.5 years and now. We talk about ourselves more as a VC firm because we’re also now doing a little bit later stage investments as well that we are expanding. So now we have VC firms, and now I’m just a VC kind of boring, but that’s life. And I think, I think that was necessary for us to kind of stand out when we were launching that to tell the story that we were different from from these incubators you would know or the accelerators you would know. 00:12:24 - Speaker 2: That’s a and and maybe a good illustration of someone’s gonna, you know, pick words for you. I think I described you as an accelerator there just 5 minutes ago or something, something like that. So. It’s the, it’s the easy thing to reach for. I I know that. I know that term. I, I have a space for it in my mind, and that’s that positioning concept kind of calling back to the 1980 seminal seminal book just titled Positioning is it’s all about that space in a person’s mind and we all have busy lives and we have a lot of information coming to us all the time and you just you you always reach for that quick shorthand. Yeah. 00:12:59 - Speaker 3: So, I’m curious if you’re going to position a product or service and you want to be in a space like to stand out in that space. Um, we go back to the Google Docs example of you’re in the word processor space, but it has this unique aspect. Are there particular techniques for doing that so that you stand out effectively? 00:13:14 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so there is actually a framework that I often use. It’s called the points of parity and points of difference because oftentimes when we launch startups, we are very keen to tell the world why we’re so different and so unique, but we often forget to tell them why we’re equally good as what what’s already there. So let’s say I’m starting a neobank. I might want to share that actually the transactions are safe or your money. safe with me, sending some basic comfort to the end user that I’m not this crazy startup, we have, you know, whatever it might be encryption or it’s super safe or stable or something like that. FDIC insurance. Yeah, all those things that comfort the end user to like, OK, this is something I can trust. This is, this is, it might be new, but at least I can actually trust it. So that would be the points of parity. How am I as good as the others in this. Category. And then once you have a couple of points of parity, you would add on your points of difference. So, OK, this is stable, it’s safe, it’s secure. However, we’re also pink and purple and glitter. So we’re all these like startup sparkly difference, but you can still rely on us just as you can with your old bank. So that is called the points of parody and the points of difference, and I think it’s very useful, especially for very early startups who are just Starting up who have no trust and people are a little bit skeptical in the beginning. 00:14:34 - Speaker 2: Yeah, that certainly makes sense. I think in a way, entrepreneurs are people who maybe thrive on or have the personality to be different, stand out, be the purple cow, carve their own path, the rebels, what have you. And so then naturally, when it comes to talking about what you’re doing, or pitching it or trying to explain it, you get really going to focus on here’s what’s different. But here’s what’s the same is actually something that, you know, even now as we’re talking about it, I think we could probably do a lot more of that with Muse. 00:15:03 - Speaker 1: Because that’s why you’re building something new. Like that’s like that because that’s why you’re here and and so it should be that way, but I think for the regular user or potential customer, they need to be, you know, feel comfortable in starting using. Aha, it’s the same thing as, but with these new additions. 00:15:19 - Speaker 2: It just gives you a mental reference point, maybe the bank example uh company that I really love their product is N26, which is this Berlin-based bank. I think they’re starting to spread global now, but you know, it’s just a sort of a bank account you put money in and they give you a Mastercard or whatever that you can spend money with. But the thing that makes them different is they have a really nice user experience and a great mobile app and it’s 100% virtual. I really love the product. I also think the marketing is really good, but they do start with that place of, it’s a bank account, you can put money into it, and here’s a Mastercard so you can spend money. 00:15:52 - Speaker 1: Yeah, another example is on telco here in Singapore called Circles.life. They are very clear. We use them and they are very clear like, yes, you will have kind of reception like all over the country. We have good, yeah, you have good data if fast, whatever, but then in addition, we have no stores, so you don’t need to stand in line and hand in your documents. We have someone ship the SIM card to your home. And then you just show the ID as you accept the SIM card and we do everything in an app, which is different from standing, taking this like, you know, standing in line and waiting to get a SIM card, which is how you do it otherwise in Singapore. 00:16:25 - Speaker 2: Yeah, when it comes to the invented category or give a new name to something, you mentioned the startup generator, there’s the platforms of service, serverless thing. And I was just looking back at my notes for the positioning book and they, because it’s an older book, they talk about examples like say Xerox. which invented effectively what we now call a copier, but for a while, Xerox and copier were synonymous, and that’s the, that’s the reward to inventing a new category is your, your brand name actually becomes the generic name Kleenex, I think is often listed in that. They also mention Polaroid, for example, sort of instant instant photography, that if you can invent a new category and give it a name and maybe your your company name becomes the name of that category and you own. That category in a very impressive way. Um, but it’s very hard to do that. I think it takes a lot of time. I think it takes a lot of just money, basically to get the to get the reach, um, and that’s probably something that’s more suited to a company with big venture backing or a big corporate parent. Uh, to be able to push it over the long term. And we explored that a little bit with Muse, our, our very first web page had the your thinking canvas was kind of the description of it, but also we were trying to, I guess not quite invented category. I don’t think I would have thought of it that way then, but that that’s how I wanted to describe it. And pretty naturally that fits to other kinds of thinking canvases, which include digital products like Millanote and Figma and Miro, but also include real world products, which is I think a whiteboard is thinking canvas, a sketchbook is a thinking canvas, a chalkboard is a thinking canvas, post it, stuck to your wall as a thinking canvas. Um, so that was kind of, kind of the idea we wanted to go with that. But yeah, I think the conclusion I came to is that just a small team like ours just can’t. we can’t define a whole new, new category in that way. Uh, now, what we’ll do instead is still sort of TBD we’re still working through, I guess. So another topic in the space of authentic marketing is personal aspirations versus solving problems, and I think Mark, you had some thoughts on this. 00:18:22 - Speaker 3: I feel like every few months you see one of these Twitter threads where someone is arguing one of three positions. The first is that you should describe your product in terms of problems to be solved. You tell your customer you have problems X, Y, and Z, this tool will help you solve them. Sometimes you see people advocating for uh the aspirational model, which is the type of person you want to be. I go, I go back to the classic iPod ads, where you’re just kind of this dancing, energetic, brilliant silhouette, you know, you want to be like that, so you get an iPod. Um, or perhaps the more utilitarian approach where you just say what the product does, and that’s it. Pro X, Y, and Z, you figure out what it’s for and if it’s, if it’s right for you. And I feel like there’s always a tension between those three approaches in marketing. 00:18:59 - Speaker 2: I feel like it’s especially relevant to the prosumer class of of product, which, which we are in because it’s something you buy for yourself, but it’s expensive enough that it’s, you want to buy it because it helps you be better in your work life. Most likely, it helps you be more successful at how you earn your living, and so yeah, the the iPod is consumer so that quite naturally fits with, I think the kind of aspirational, who do you want to be or what, what kind of lifestyle do you want to live, which certainly I don’t know, even things like bottled water and so on are sold in that way, like the advertisements show the product very little and instead they show smiling happy people uh living lovely lives. And you think if I buy this product, they’ll be like that, and then maybe the utilitarian one you described that probably works pretty well for certain kinds of B2BA or just enterprise software where there’s just a person working in a business that has a very specific problem to solve. They have budget to solve it and if you can articulate their problem clearly and convince them that your product is trustable and a solution to their problem, then OK, great, there’s the fit. But when maybe when you get to the prosumer stuff, particularly in this current time, um, I’m thinking of this article signaling as a service like that in the show notes here, but I think there they talk about, for example, things like superhuman, and so the idea that it has this kind of elite thing to it because it’s invitation only and because of the price point and then you get the little, you know, you put the little tagline in your signature or similarly, I think a similar thing has happened with uh hey, hey.com email, brilliantly marketed, of course, those uh the base camp guys. They are always great at that, but I think there’s an element of this where you can’t use a custom domain and actually getting your hey.com domain name, and the people that even just tweet their I guess their their hey.com email, they tweet that out and it’s a way of saying, hey, I’m cool, I’m, yeah, it’s a kind of, it’s a kind of signaling. um, and there’s nothing. Let’s say there’s anything wrong with that exactly, but in theory, they are for helping you be more productive, creative, better at your work, more informed citizen, that sort of thing, rather than a handbag that, you know, is going to impress others. Uh, so yeah, there’s, there’s an interesting tension there. 00:21:05 - Speaker 3: So maybe there’s, there’s two variants of the aspirational side. There’s this, uh, more outwards facing uh status signaling type aspiration, which OK, has its place, I guess. To me, the more interesting variant is when you’re aspiring to something for yourself. So let me tell you a little story, Adam, you recall that we went to the Trinity Library in Dublin. Yeah, it’s this incredible. Like if you Google like amazing libraries, the first image that shows up, right? I don’t know that’s literally true, but you know what I mean. 00:21:31 - Speaker 2: I’ve seen it as a slide in a lot of presentations. Um, there’s actually I think a photo of me, you and you, Lea, because that was sort of our first real team summit. Uh, right there in that library. But yeah, now I recognize it all over the place. It’s very distinctive, this long hallway with the kind of the dark wood and what have you. 00:21:48 - Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, anyways, I remember very vividly when I was in that hall, I felt like, man, I should be writing a book, you know, isn’t that isn’t that what one should be doing with one’s life? And I feel like you get a smaller but still um visual sense of that when you’re holding a really nice leather notebook, you’re like, man, I should be, I feel like I should be taking notes or like doing a creative project, right? And I think that’s something that prosumer digital tools can tap into. It’s a sense that A tool just by virtue of its quality can make you aspire to do more creative work. 00:22:13 - Speaker 1: And I think a place we often fall into, especially if you have like software products, is that instead of talking about how this thing will help you, a lot of website actually describes different features, feature A, feature B, feature C, so or it will describe what goes into the product. So I had another comparison that I learned many years ago where she’s like, OK, if you describe a car, you can even describe it like, OK. It is this kind of metal thing. It has an engine for wheels, or you can describe it as this, this thing will take you from place A to place B, and there’s a huge difference there, and I think a lot of startups often because you’re so focused on your features and what you’re building, a lot of times we talk about, you know, feature A, B, and C, instead of talking about what these features, what, what kind of magic they will create for you and how they can be helpful for you. So I think there is kind of a 3 steps there. I think we can land in the middle because I agree like signaling and that is at the end that that’s also something and, and I think it’s, it’s a difference like you said between signaling and just inspiring, inspiring you to create something. But yeah, there is definitely a trap in describing features in a rather uh non-sexy way that doesn’t really make you feel anything. Right. 00:23:25 - Speaker 3: And we keep coming back to this theme on this podcast of Creativity being uh an incredibly emotional act. It’s very human, right? If you deny that, if you don’t recognize that in your product, your marketing, um, I think you’re leaving a lot on the table. 00:23:37 - Speaker 2: That reminds me of another influential book I read many years ago called The Substance of Style by Virginia Pastorrell. I reread it recently and it’s a little dated just because she spends a lot of time referencing the original iMac and I think the PT Cruiser and other current products. Of the early 2000s, whenever it was, the core idea is still just as valid today, which is that there’s a tendency to want to separate out the substance of something that is the the meat, the function, what it does from the surface. We even say beauty is skin deep. She makes the argument that especially when it comes to products or tools that we use in our life, these things, it actually matters because The the surface, the aesthetic will make you feel a particular way. And these products and tools are designed to be used by humans and our feelings matter a lot for motivation, for creativity, for being successful and whatever the thing is that we’re trying to do. And argues, you know, I think at the time that was when Apple’s was kind of ascendant with this new kind of design forward approach, and she spent a lot of time on that and saying why she thought that was really meaningful in the world. was going to set a trend and was quite right about that because you can sit there and say, OK, well, sure, the Apple product and the comparable products do basically the same thing. You can send an email just as easily from a Mac as you can from a say a Windows machine, but it just feels so much nicer. It feels so much more inspiring. It feels so much more creative to do that kind of task from the Macintosh, at least for many people. Absolutely. And so tapping into that is, I think, really important, something we go for with Muse, which is we feel like, OK, sitting down to think deeply about a problem, look up all the prior art, reference the source materials, pour through it all, recombine it in a way that helps you find your own understanding and meaning. That is really hard work and people often don’t want to do it even when it seems like it would be valuable. They think, well, let me just take the shortcut, let me just make a snap decision. Uh, but if we make it really fun and enjoyable and feels really nice to go in and use over something, well, hopefully you’ll want to do it more. I’d love to hear if you have examples of tools or products you use that have this aspirational quality or this inspirational quality in terms of helping you be more productive, creative, make you want to do the thing that it is designed to help you with more. 00:25:58 - Speaker 1: I think there’s so many different categories of this. One is a great pair of running shoes, uh, will help me run more or like I order now during the kind of lockdown we had in Singapore. I ordered lots of workout clothes and I started working out as much as I’ve ever done. Like I, I that’s, I just did it a lot and I think a lot of it is because I felt great wearing my workout clothes and I often wore them every day all the time anyway, because that’s the most convenient and comfortable clothes. But I think that is a great example of how things can just random things can actually. Inspire you to do things and and and run further and and run more often, even if that is a bit of an obstacle as well. And another example is, so Andreas and I, my partner, we have been moving around a lot and when we left San Francisco in 2014, we, we sold everything and we hated stuff that you had at home. We were like, we’re never going to buy stuff to our home, right? Because we’re gonna live in two suitcases and that’s it. And we did that for a couple of years, but then now we’re slowly building up a home again and we were like, we’re not gonna buy something just because it looks good, like who would do that? We don’t want to have stuff that don’t have a meaning or don’t feel a purpose in our home. So we have a lot of functional things. But then we kind of started like, oh, but maybe we buy this whatever nice little, uh, I can make my cold brew and it’s actually this Japanese cold brew thing, and it’s actually really nice. And it doesn’t really have much purpose in my life, but I’m, I’m happy and I get good coffee and now we’re just slowly filling up our lives with lots and lots of nice stuff that makes us happy. So we kind of go. 180 on that one. 00:27:26 - Speaker 2: Very much with you on that. I’m uh I don’t like stuff. I don’t like clutter. I’ve moved a lot. I moved multiple times in one, you know, most recently across continents, but other times in my life, for example, going from Los Angeles to San Francisco where my Living quarters were going to be a tiny fraction of the size and I basically had to get rid of everything. And yeah, every time I’m thinking, why do I have all this stuff? Why do we need this? It takes up space. It’s um and that’s uh I think this is the moment we have to do the obligatory Marie Kondo reference here, right, things that spark joy, it kind of sounds like that’s the direction you’re going with the, with the coffee. Maker there and I feel that as well, even though I don’t, I don’t like stuff that I don’t use or doesn’t really serve a serve a great purpose for me, but the things that I rely on every day, whether it’s something like, yeah, the right tools in the kitchen that I use to make healthy food, obviously my software products, or, or even something like say my bike. I got into cycling as a primary means of transit once I moved to the city where it’s such a nice place to ride, and it took me a while to find a bike that I really liked. But once I did, it’s just, yeah, it’s this, it’s this um virtuous cycle of I want to write it because I like it. And then when I write it, that it helps me be sort of better at cycling and, and then the other, the two kind of reinforce each other. And um, yeah, that’s uh that’s always a great feeling for objects in your particularly physical objects, at least software can be kind of mostly out of the way. It’s just a square on your home screen or some bits on your hard drive, the physical. Objects, I feel very sensitive to that kind of clutter. 00:29:01 - Speaker 1: But we had, I mean, as Zoom did it just works, right? And I think that’s their tagline, it just works better and we had an interaction with the new school our kids are going to and of course, as a school, kind of, of course, but they were having Microsoft Teams and I was gonna download Microsoft Teams and I was like, I told Andreas before they called, no worries. I would download it. I, I mean, you know, I’m kind of ahead of time. I, I prepared myself, and then the call starts and they were like another 8 steps and, and Andreas, he was like freaking out, he’s like, oh, we need to change school. What are we doing here? And there was just such pain. It was just so painful and why, right? And, and that’s just a good, I guess software example. 00:29:38 - Speaker 2: Yeah, well, obviously being tech industry people were probably much more sensitive to good software and good tools, but I think it would be hilarious if you submitted a resignation or, you know, we’re moving our kids to a different school because I’m sorry, you use Microsoft Teams. I think all we’re a slash family. Yeah, exactly. So another place where you’ve been helping us out here, Lisa and I thought it’d be interesting to talk here, especially because it’s timely is launches. So I think when, when I first, uh, or when, when I first brought up this topic with you, I basically led with, well, here’s some things we’re thinking about doing for a launch, but I think I started with even should we do a launch, the launches even make sense in this time period? And uh yeah, I’d love to love to hear your take on all that. 00:30:21 - Speaker 1: I think there’s so many, it’s it’s a super interesting question, and there are so many opinions about this because when you build a product, of course, you want to kind of slowly make Tends to like slowly on board users and then iterate and and don’t have this kind of big boom launch and and when you do those kind of things that often go wrong. So I think there are lots of reasons to not have this big launch, but I think what you guys are doing, you’ve been having a beta for a while, you have now, you know, started adding more users and being more out there. So I think it makes perfect sense to actually use the launch as an opportunity to announce it to the world, especially if you look at The news media and journalists, they need of a why is this news? What’s the news and why is this relevant and why now? And if you have, if you say, well, now is, now is the time when we announce this, this is, you know, this is our launch and announcement that is making it timely and relevant for journalists to actually write about it because it is news and that you are revealing a new product to the world, even though it has been seen by a few handful of people. Well, you may think that you have already told everyone about this and you, you’re so tired of telling the story. It’s just so few people, right, that have heard it and the rest are still waiting and I have no idea what this is and we’ll read it for the first time when you actually do your launch. 00:31:34 - Speaker 2: That was a lesson I learned from a little bit, I got a little bit of exposure to this fellow Mark Benioff of Salesforce when I was part of that organization for a little while, of course. Absolutely brilliant marketer in some ways maybe has a lot of the qualities that I shy away from personally being a more product and engineering minded person that I care about, you know, this kind of authenticity and down to earth and sort of no, no bull approach to explaining things and, and talking about things at the same time, just incredible skills there. And one of the things that he really embraced was you launch things over and over again. Because a launch is just when someone new is learning about it, some new audience is learning about it. There’s a lot of the world is very big. The internet is very big, and it’s when you’re, you’re going beyond your existing audience to a new, to a new audience. And I think that’s, that’s how we’re thinking about this upcoming launch. 00:32:26 - Speaker 1: No, and people also forget. If you hear about it once, people might think, oh, that sounds interesting, and then it’s gone. But then if you repeat the message, and that’s why traditional advertising will hate. Because you tend to you repeat the message and that’s when it actually sticks there. So when you go to the grocery store, you pick that is, you know, washing detergents instead of the other. And so I think like repeating yourself, it feels really annoying, but it actually it works and it can be helpful for people because they heard about it somewhere or they read about it and then wait wait, what was that again? And then they can’t remember. And then when they get reminded, oh, yeah, that’s right, then they might start doing their own research about it. 00:33:02 - Speaker 2: I like the old Paul Graham quote, people don’t notice when you’re there, they notice when you’re still there. 00:33:08 - Speaker 3: It’s a good one. I also think that for an early stage company, there’s something to the successive levels of publicness that you’re releasing into. So first you tell some friends, you’re starting a company, and then you have an alpha product and you have a beta product, and then you release it, and different people want to kind of jump on the train at different points. And so you announce each stop. We’ve had people who said, you know, you sounds awesome, but I don’t have time for like weird beta stuff. Just let me know when it’s ready. And so when we launch, they’ll know, OK, it’s ready for that. 00:33:33 - Speaker 1: I learned this when I was, uh, my first job was as a theater producer, which is super fun. But I was 18 and like part of the producer’s job is to do PR and and get people to buy the tickets for the show. And I remember we had, I did lots of PR announcements. I don’t know, but I just had that every month we had some kind of news like, you know, these are the actors or this is what we’re gonna do. And now we’ve done, we’re done with the clothes, come look at them, whatever. We just made up a lot of news. And what happened was first the local press started writing about it, and then after a while, after my 5th or 6th announcement, whatever, the TV called me and they said, well, they’ve been writing about you so much. You must be on to something. Can we come out and do a like a interview with You guys, and I was like, sure, you’re welcome. So then by just getting that niche local media first, and they wrote about it again and again and again, the bigger sharks read, you know, they eat the small fish, right? They read the smaller sharks to try to stay up on what’s going on and what’s happening. So while I didn’t really target the TV channel, they kept seeing those that the news in the local media and that’s why and how we got the big attention eventually, which that was just me being like new and lucky and naive and just doing this shit because I was stressed. 00:34:36 - Speaker 2: I think it counts for a lot in any business, right? Yeah, I think, um, I keep hearing about this is one of the best phrases to it’s not just you’re there and you’re still there. It’s something about I keep hearing about this. What, what is this? I need to look into it. I want to give it some of my attention because of that, yeah, repetition. 00:34:53 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you were, if you or kind of the PR people are the only ones nagging a journalist about something, they would never find it interesting. But when they start reading or hearing about it from different sources, that’s when they, wait a minute, I need to look into it. So, so that’s why if you cannot target lots of different things, then eventually the big fish will find you interesting as well. 00:35:11 - Speaker 3: We’ve alluded to it here, but I think it’s important to note that we’re somewhat disconnecting the product changes from the messaging and marketing that’s going out. There needs to be some coupling, of course, and you want some of that, but also they, they don’t need to be super hard coupled together so that the same day you launch on TechCrunch, you’re letting your first user sign up, right? Right. There’s some apps where you need to do that like maybe consumer apps or something, but mostly you want to have more control over these axes independently. 00:35:33 - Speaker 1: No, I think you definitely need to separate. To, because it’s simply too risky to onboard lots of new users, um, and you don’t really know how things will behave. You also want to have the freedom of iterate and and keep releasing new features and new ways of working, so you can’t be too, you can’t have the message too kind of literal, if that makes sense. Like it can’t be too descriptive of what the product actually does or describing all these features because those features you want to keep changing or iterating and the overall message needs to be repeated and repeated and repeated. When we worked with consumer apps, we had like these video. And then we did them, but then two weeks later they were outdated. I think you have a lot of videos, but you show very specific features in those videos and they’re extremely helpful. But if you kind of have telling the entire story with a lot of screenshots, it doesn’t make any sense because in a couple of months, you have to redo it. 00:36:20 - Speaker 3: Maybe the most extreme version of this is just to schedule a release, you know, for the same day every year, um, which is what, of course, they did at Salesforce. And I just, when that day happens, like, whatever you have, that’s what you launch. It actually works really well. As an engineering manager, I like that a lot because I think it’s best to limit. and that scope and so a calendar based marketing release does that for you. 00:36:37 - Speaker 2: This is Dreamforce you’re talking about their big convention and they basically tries to figure out what what are you going to have for Dreamforce it’s sort of the internal function of the company. Exactly. 00:36:46 - Speaker 1: But Google is the same, right? They always have a couple of news around Google I and a lot of these tech companies have actually copied that part, and it’s probably because it works and and people can have and then the press starting to get excited and and they know it’s coming they can plan it in the editorial planning, so they have space for it. 00:37:02 - Speaker 2: There’s some. Energy inside the team. I’m a big fan of continuous delivery to the point that I spent quite a lot of my life, uh, building a product to make that easier and sort of iteratively letting stuff out and not doing the big bang release and what have you. But on the perspective of getting folks excited both externally, potential customers and so on, but also internally on the team, there’s something very powerful about rolling stuff up and do a big release. I’m reminded of a classic post from uh Mark Shuttleworth, uh, the Ubuntu Linux project. And they had a, uh, they very famously brought in a 6 or famous to me. Maybe that reflects my interest in, but Uh, they brought in a 6 month release cycle where they would do a new release every 6 months and just if your stuff’s ready to go into the release, it does, and otherwise it’ll wait for the next one. And this was in contrast, you know, they were building on the Debian Linux project and Debian was famous for we release it when we’re ready, but that meant that their stuff was always felt pretty behind and out of date and they would go years between sort of major revs to the, to the system. And that was a bit of a problem in the fast moving technology world and creating this rhythm. We try to get stuff in, but don’t worry if you don’t make it. Hey, there’s another one coming up in 6 months, was a really powerful thing for them internally as well as the external factor of explaining it to the world or sharing it with the world. 00:38:21 - Speaker 1: I got to know this behavior quite a lot when we were at RAP at a previous startup, we worked with the biggest, some of the biggest retailers in the US and in other places and I worked then closely to their market. social media teams and retail, they have their retail calendar and they have a holiday or there’s something going on always. It’s back to school. It’s Halloween, it’s Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, you know, starting of a new year, and I got crazy. I was like, oh my gosh, there’s so much going on. But then for them, that was how they planned everything. And that was a reason for the customers to get in back into the store. Oh, yeah, school is starting, so I need a pair of new pants and. Halloween is here, so I need whatever outfit and then there is always a reason to have a sale around a specific theme, but that retail calendar if you want to have like plan your marketing around calendar, that’s that’s somewhere to look because it’s fascinating. Maybe wouldn’t choose to do it myself, but just learning that and see how they were working with this calendar it was absolutely fascinating. 00:39:20 - Speaker 2: It taps into something that you hear in sales kind of skill development, which is you need to create urgency. There’s a reason not just buy generally. To buy right now and creating events for things like, yeah, you generally need new clothes in life, but do you need it now or do you need it in 3 months or do you need it next year? Creating an event is a reason whether it’s a sale, whether it’s a calendar holiday or something like that. Now, for me personally, a lot of what happens in the retail world around that kind of stuff is that’s where maybe I would almost say that’s the inauthentic parts of marketing and the parts that feel maybe manipulative is too strong, but this thing of there’s Always a sale. It’s always this made up reason why you need to buy right now, and it’s gonna expire in 2 days. And I’ve seen that creep a little bit into the software world as well, and it always kind of icks me out a little bit. And I understand that it works and people, you know, they have businesses and they need to sell their products so they can put food on their table at home. Fair enough. But that’s something that is a part of the sales and marketing world that I’m a little less fond of. 00:40:21 - Speaker 1: So we won’t see any Halloween specials coming up, bad news. 00:40:25 - Speaker 2: Yeah, but then maybe on the flip side, you know, I, I have ended up buying, I think I remember, um, 23andMe many years ago, they did like a DNA Day special where they sold sold the thing for much less, and it seemed like a good reason. Oh DNA Day and that that connects to my values, right? Like it’s a holiday celebrating an important breakthrough in science. Um, and so yeah, that totally worked on me. So, you know, I kind of understand where that, where that comes from. I don’t know, maybe there’s, yeah, if, if someday there’s a, there’s a holiday that somehow connects to thoughtfulness and deep work. 00:40:56 - Speaker 1: I think it’s a really hard balance and I agree with you, and I, I kind of hate it, but it kind of works, but I also don’t, I don’t really prefer doing marketing that way. But then sometimes there has to be a reason where the why now is actually pretty big. Why can’t I wait until tomorrow? And I think if it’s something that is very the messaging focusing on why this product makes you better or a better person, a better creator, then I think that is a really strong why now. Because I want to be a better creator today. I don’t want to wait until tomorrow, but I think the fundamentals are still similar, even if you don’t have Halloween, but you, you, you have something else that makes it relevant and a little bit urgent to actually download it or try it out now. 00:41:33 - Speaker 2: I like that coming back to your earlier example of the running shoes, you buy the running shoes because you want to run more. You want to be more fit, you want to do this thing that you know brings you both. Faction and health in your life. Maybe there’s an angle like that from M. Muse is sort of the running shoes equivalent for being thoughtful, for decision making, for being creative, for being productive. And so the urgency is more, I want, I want to start investing in myself, in my mind and my creative output today. 00:42:00 - Speaker 1: I definitely think so and I think you’ve been pondering that a little bit with a thinking tool and help you think and help you like this modern. better and I think also, yeah, just working, you know, working the creative sides of the mind is, I don’t have any tools for that. So like that sounds awesome. I, I know how to work, you know, I can, I can do some math. I can do some writing. I can read a book, but working that creative side is trickier. It’s harder. 00:42:24 - Speaker 2: Well, it sounds to me like we’ve got the muse marketing and positioning all figured out. It’s running shoes for your mind. Well, if any of our listeners out there have feedback, feel free to reach out to us at @museapphq on Twitter or hello at museapp.com via email. We’d love to hear your comments and ideas for future episodes. Lisa, thanks for coming on to talk with us here for being such a great advisor as we navigate this, how to explain what we’re doing here to the world and of course for otherwise supporting us on our journey. 00:42:55 - Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me.