Podcast Season 2 Episode 13

@Swosho

Hudzilla - July 23, 2010 @ 3:37am

We used HTC devices (a Desire and a Legend) and a bit of Ubuntu.

Follow your own radar

Evan (not verified) - July 23, 2010 @ 10:47am

fig. a) NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN-OOO-PPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Say there is a continuum of mind's tendency to the positive or negative, drifting from the objective (if one can posit such a thing). Then a future or reflective strategy could be to use one's awareness as one goes along to feel the texture of the topic as it comes up. Then one can simply go with positiveness when one feels that way. If the opposite is felt, then one can steer (with discipline) to the objective, refraining from emotional judgements, and focus on stating what 'facts' are known. This insures a lack of negativity as well.

Having said this, 3 things:

1) Obviously the podcast relies on constructive criticism which must be relished through each unique personality, and subjective point of view. It's what gives great flavour to the show.

2) I wish for the global audience of TuxRadar to come to savour the tremendously hopeful, exuberant optimism that is clearly hidden within the symbolic language that is British humour, saving the lads from ever having to second guess their sweetness thresholds while communicating.

It's a cultural thing. I mean, just scroll down to the table of contents here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/23pgpml

3) Be yourselves. Which indeed, you are.

You dare us

Hilda (not verified) - July 23, 2010 @ 11:26am

I agree with johnvile... it is a dump.

For your next challenge I dare you to tidy up your workstations!

Thank you

Angie (not verified) - July 23, 2010 @ 11:56am

In keeping with the general spirit of positivity, thanks lads for yet another blistering podcast. The "Tuxradar" podcast and the "KDE and The Masters Of The Universe" podcast are my two favourites.

You don't know whose desk that is?

Tom Walker (not verified) - July 23, 2010 @ 4:30pm

And yet yours is the next one along.

How can you possibly work in an office for any length of time and not know who sits next to you?

ubuntu contributing back

The Wabash Cannonball (not verified) - July 23, 2010 @ 9:54pm

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Red Hat work on gnome shell, nouveau graphics drivers, plymouth, theora, vorbis and other codecs.

Novell work on Banshee, Mono, Evolution and are the biggest contributors to KDE.

What prominent software have Canonical produced?
I ask this out of curiosity - not to have a dig at Canonical.
I can see Canonical using Red Hat and Novell developed technologies (not to mention Debian), but am unaware of stuff that Canonical has developed which has featured in Suse or Fedora.

Could anyone enlighten me?

bananaoomarang

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 24, 2010 @ 4:41am

wow, you were even positive about ms.

Podcast Awesome-ness

cwoollard - July 25, 2010 @ 9:19am

That was a brilliant podcast. I cannot believe how awesome it was. In fact I do wonder if that podcast contained the largest occurrence of the word "Awesome" ever.

It sure felt like it.

I would like to challenge you to not use the "Awesome" at all in the next podcast! :P

Have fun
Chris

Follow-up on the videos

Mihaly (not verified) - July 25, 2010 @ 8:24pm

Paul's video was absolutely AWESOME!!! I had forgotten how to do it, but years ago I held my local school record for solving Rubik's Cube within a few minutes. Rubik of course was a Hungarian, and also developed quite a few excellent puzzles, possibly the next most famous one now is a GL screensaver - "The Snake".

I of course no longer have any of the puzzles, and probably would have to work a bit before getting back to even basic level moves, but the description and explanation and demonstration Paul has done is certainly very good. It put's Andrew's to shame ... come on, andrew, the challenge was to "do something with the video", you didn't even edit it!

Not sure, but I was under the impression that the effect you see arises from something called a "moire", which is a result from the film "rate" of the camera crossover with the rotation speed of the fan blades. At least I am sure this is the case for the screen "folding" you see when filming CRT screens - there is even a switch on one of my "el cheapo" cameras that will switch between a 50Hz and 60Hz camera rate - presumably to do with which country you are in and hence what AC current frequency is local.

I could be entirely wrong, take this with a lot of salt.

Anyway, only Paul's video was encoded as OGG video!!! Unfortunately, 80Mb took over 4hours at dialup speed.... meh. It still was worth it!!!

Re: Theora

Hudzilla - July 26, 2010 @ 2:49pm

Yes, Graham's was the only one to use Theora, but to be fair he did have a much better phone than us!

@graham

Mihaly (not verified) - July 28, 2010 @ 5:47am

Quite right, I realised just after I'd posted - as is always the way - that I had incorrectly singled out the wrong video in terms of which was using what codec .... Sorry...

Actually, you're correct, strobing is probably the better description, and as I said, I wasn't certain I was right, so my bad I guess. Indeed it's quite an interesting effect and given my fear of flying, I doubt I'll ever see such a sight myself - just give me the drambuie and wine and let me pass out like that bird from the "West Wing" - leo mcgarry's assistant played by Gwen Chenoweth - never mind.

I don't wish to only be seen as pedantic either. It's hard enough to be close to correct without being considered some sort of smart-alec. That really isn't why I respond. I just kind of feel like maybe I have something to contribute.

I'm more like "Rimmer" than "The Cat" from the sci-fi parody "Red Dwarf". But I'm still dipping my toes in goldfish-o's.

I obtained "Mandelbulber" and have been having lots of fun with that particularly interesting piece of software, though it really needs a full-quad core and many more MB than I have of memeory (HaH!).

I've been a fan of Fractint - I still use it to this day! And also love Xaos for sheer brilliance, loved Arthur C Clarke's exposition on fractals, and - believe this?

I have Mandelbrot's autograph from a Chaos Convention he attended in 1988 in Sydney, along with several other attendees signatures in my papers - I asked each guest to sign their paper in the colloquium. Don't think it's particularly valuable, but anyway.

What I was going to say was that I was interested in what you had done, and are you going to explain the various editing tricks you used in your video? The titling, and the background/overlay stuff was interesting.
Michael.

You did speak in the podcast about the various issues with H.264, say against Vorbis, or whatever, perhaps this is something that should be expounded upon, pro's and con's, how it relates to say us mere mortals using video cameras, what's available in terms of what you can get from certain products/manufacturers - is it valid to justify a purchase of camera Y vs X based on what each provides?

I know my cheapo camera does both video and also something called moving Jpeg .... these are areas I would like to understand better.

Mucho gracias and look forward to next podcast.
BTW, you're off the hook, as far as I'm concerned, whether a joke or not, I appreciate the positive way you took up the challenge, but if any of you feel the need to be critical of stuff, you can be from now on. To be honest I was just upset with the continual bagging, and felt strongly enough to write in the first place, but I realise it's going to be an ongoing joke from now on.

That's fine, fine, fine. (in the voice of Eccles).

Bring it on.

Macpodcast - Arghhh

Arghh penguin (not verified) - July 31, 2010 @ 11:10am

I decided to download the mac podcast, wish I had never
wasted my time.

It sucks - sounds like an advert.
Oh that's right ... it IS an advert.

They sound like the kind of people that make microUSB
sound like a great idea. Yeah a great idea that sucks.

Give us a break. I'm sure the same marketing "geniuses" came up with the name for our local festival demonstrating the wonderful variety of cuisine on offer here: they call it
"Bankstown Bites".

No sense of irony, apparantly.

Actually there was fun for all, and excellent food on offer so I can't be too critical. But seriously - "bites"??!

Why not "Bankstown Food Festival" - huh? What's wrong with
that? But no, it had to be alliterative and marketable, so
we get: "Bankstown Bites". Well, you had to be there.

It certainly does.

Hooray for Powells

3d Beef (not verified) - August 6, 2010 @ 4:56pm

Thanks for plugging Powell's City of Books in Portland (perhaps the greatest bookstore ever). That's 2 years running, as you mentioned it last year after attending OSCon. Hope you had a great time in the Rose City.