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#600 – Listeners’ Choice

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This week on The Bugcast: we bring you the ultimate selection of 14 pieces of Creative Commons music played on the show in the last year, but this time our listeners’ choice!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 601 Dave’s Faves, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 14 February 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
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Special thanks go to

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Listeners’ Choice this year!<br />
Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network

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Remembrance

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Remembrance
Remembrance

In this episode, Dave and Yannick have a guest : Caroline, co-host of the Bugcast, with none other than Dave himself. They review Remembrance, the first episode of the first season of Star Trek Picard. After that, they unfortunately don’t have time for a chat with Caroline, but they managed to submit her to the seven questions before she had to leave.

Call to action

What did you think of Remembrance ? Let us know, via one of the many means of contact detailed below.

In this episode

Thanks

Thanks to all our listeners, we are very grateful you chose to spend a little bit of your precious time to listen to our show !

Legal

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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The Binary Times – Series 7 Episode 3

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Series 7 Episode 3 – In this episode The Binary Times guys are upgrading OS’s for family and testing, Mark has been working with Linux Mint, Wayne has been knee deep in Mikrotik’s RouterOS , more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:27 Wayne welcomes us to Season 7 Episode 3 from a wet and windy Bristol. It’s wet and windy in Kilkishen too, as Mark relates that the wttr app is reporting much the same weather as he can see outside. It’s a momentous day on the day they’re recording, with many new beginnings happening, like it being the first day of spring and the first day of FOSDEM 2020. The guys plan a short show so they can watch the live streams.

03:11 Mark tells us what he’s been up to. He tells us that his parents’ PC was displaying a “system problem detected” error message that turned out to be nothing more than a prompt to upgrade from Linux Mint 19.2 to Linux Mint 19.3. Mark did the upgrade and it went very well, everything was plain sailing, but he voices his concerns regarding the fact that error messages like this are unnecessarily worrying for new or inexperienced users.

Mark goes on to talk about the upgrade of his parents’ laptop from Linux Mint 18.3 to Linux Mint 19.3. This was a more involved process which first involved changing the display manager from mdm to lightdm, as Linux Mint changed display managers . He did this with these commands:

sudo apt install lightdm lightdm-settings slick-greeter

sudo apt remove --purge mdm mint-mdm-themes*

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

Reboot your machine, and once back at a terminal, input:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Once fully updated, install Linux Mint’s upgrade tool to upgrade from the older LTS to the newer LTS. You can do this as follows:

sudo apt install mintupgrade – to install the tool

mintupgrade check – to simulate an upgrade and check for any possible breakages.

mintupgrade download – to download the upgrade

mintupgrade upgrade – to do the upgrade

The guys discuss the number of steps involved in upgrading between LTSs.

Mark goes on to discuss how he put Zorin OS on a SSD for a colleague’s parents’ PC.

Wayne goes on to tell us how he’s been upgrading all of his work’s PCs to Windows 10 while also installing Ubuntu MATE on a few laptops.

14:40 Wayne goes on to tell us that Mike Saunders has upgraded MikeOS and provided a link to MikeOS playing “Stand By Me”!

15:53 Wayne goes on to thank Paul for a Vostro 3550 Laptop. In the spirit of paying it forward, which is Paul want, Wayne decided to try out some new distributions on the laptop to report back to everyone how it went. The first distro he tried was Pop!_OS (which he didn’t really get on with) at which point Mark suggests Wayne should try Kubuntu 2020 next, which is Mark’s re branding of Kubuntu 20.04.

Wayne goes on to tell us he also tried Regolith, a Free and Open Source Distribution based on Ubuntu 18.04 with the i3 Window Manager. He really likes it. He’ll play around with it some more and recommends it if you want to give i3 a go.

23:59 The guys go on talk about the concept of “Pay it forward”.

26:27 Wayne tells us about his MikroTik adventures. The guys talk about Network Security, and quickly lose their “pay it forward” feelings towards their fellows, not wanting to be the slowest in the hurd.

Wayne provides some of the links to the topics he’s been covering with MikroTik, and these are as follows:

iptables: Packet Processing

iptables: Tables and Chains

MikroTik VLAN and Bridge Configuration

MikroTik VLAN Routing Configuration with Manageable Switch

Mark mentions the Ubuntu Security Podcast as a good one to listen to as of late they cover other topics besides patches for security vulnerabilities like how to get into InfoSec

38:30 Wayne talks about Shotcut, a free and open source, cross-platform video editor.

40:37 Under the Hood – Mark tells us about Gardiner Bryan’s attempt to create a Free and Open Source Game based on his frustration of Rocket League being discontinued for Linux. Mark plans to become a first rate games developer over the next couple of days and help create the best Open Source game EVA!!! There’s no lack of ambition on this show!

44:21 Wayne’s more understated Under the Hoods are as follows:

Use reader mode in Firefox!

Wayne’s second under the hood is CTRL-L to clear the screen in a terminal

Wayne’s gem of an under the hood is ip -c a which colourizes the command’s output. He’s even aliased ip to ip -c

49:48 Irish Saying of the Show is “Is maith liom ag caint le mo chairde” or I like to talk with my friends!

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it!

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#599 – Bugxit

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This week on The Bugcast: we say farewell to UK broadcasting legend Nicholas Parsons, lament Brexit, and play you eight pieces of amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023">Nicholas Parsons: ‘Broadcasting legend’ dies at 96 after short illness</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/uk_leaves_the_eu">Brexit – the UK leaves the European Union</a><br />
WorkingAtTate: <a href="https://workingat.tate.org.uk/pages/job_search_view.aspx?jobId=7013">Head of Coffee by Tate</a>

<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a> – Caroline joined Dave and Yannick to review the first episode of Picard.

<strong><a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice">Submit</a></strong> your favourite tracks we’ve played since episode 553 for the Listener’s Choice episode 600 at the beginning of February 2020.<br />
<strong>Deadline for submissions: Wednesday 5 February at 20:00 UTC</strong>

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 600 Listener’s Choice, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 31 January 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a>

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network

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These Are the Voyages…

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These Are the Voyages...
These Are the Voyages…

In this episode, Dave and Yannick review These Are the Voyages…, the 22nd and last episode of the 4th season of Star Trek : Enterprise. After that, they do a brief retrospective of the entire season, and then go over some news items.

Call to action

Star Trek: Picard has been released worldwide. Have you seen it?
Send us your initial thoughts of the first episode, “Remembrance”!

In this episode

Thanks

Once again, a huge thank you to Andrew for joining us on last week’s episode. Also, thanks to all our listeners, we are very grateful you chose to spend a little bit of your precious time to listen to our show !

Legal

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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#598 – Going home to Brian

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This week on The Bugcast: we say farewell to Monty Python comedy legend, Terry Jones, and play you eight pieces of amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197">Terry Jones: Monty Python stars pay tribute to comedy great</a>

<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a> – Caroline will be joining Dave and Yannick to review the first episode of Picard.<br />
The review of “Remembrance” will be published on the weekend of Saturday 1 February</a>

<strong><a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice">Submit</a></strong> your favourite tracks we’ve played since episode 553 for the Listener’s Choice episode 600 at the beginning of February 2020.<br />
<strong>Deadline for submissions: Wednesday 5 February at 20:00 UTC</strong>

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Upcoming events

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 599, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 31 January 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • The next live show after that will be episode 600 Listener’s Choice, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 7 February 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a>

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network

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The Binary Times – Series 7 Episode 2

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Series 7 Episode 2 – In this episode The Binary Times guys are joined by Alex and Michael from the OSC community on Steam, we chat about what we’ve been up to and updates from the OSC community on steam, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:35 Wayne welcomes us to the second episode of Season 7 from a cool crisp Bristol. Mark regails us from a cool and crisp Kilkishen, perfect weather for some Hillwalking. We are joined today by Alex and William from Steam’s very own Open Source Community.

01:53 Alex tells us what he’s been at since he’s last been on the show. While struggling through 2019, he got a new microphone and a new job. The Open Source Community has been on a bit of a hiatus, but now that Alex is settling into his new job he’s hoping to start doing some events and the like. William tells us that something is on the cards but due to time constraints doesn’t want to tell us just yet, expect to see an exciting announcement on the Open Source Community’s announcement page soon! Alex promises it’ll be something that the Steam Community will really like.

Alex goes on to tell us about what he’s been doing with the <a href="Open Source Community of late.He’s been republishing the Binary Times on Youtube, and announcing other news of interest, giving an example of the latest Vulkan 1.2 release. William is hoping that he will be able to be a lot more active in the Open Source Community in 2020. He also tells us that he’s currently running a couple of Linux Desktops and servers and hopes to become more involved in the future too. The guys discuss the pros and cons of moving to Linux from Windows. Distros mentioned are Ubuntu, Sabayon, Zorin and Manjaro. Mark mentions Zorin Grid a new application from Zorin helping to bring advanced technology into companies, schools and organizations.

13:35 The conversation changes to what has Mark been at for the last while. Mark’s been trying a brand new distro invented in his brain, Kubuntu 2020! He’s actually been testing Kubuntu 20.04, which he thinks is turning out really nice so far. He’s found a major problem with his Sony Vaio laptop and that is that it wound fit into the pouch of his laptop back!

Mark goes on to tell us that he thinks E support is really good.This brings the conversation around to Mobile computing, and the guys discuss their views on it. The Pinephone is something the guys are looking forward to. Various open stores like f-droid and yalp are mentioned also. Mark also mentions the E App store having a really nice way to rate the privacy and so forth of applications.

Alex goes on to tell us a bit about what Mike’s up to. Unfortunately Mike was meant to be on the show, but he wasn’t able to make it.

Alex also tells us about the Open Source Community’s curator, a place where the Open Source Community promotes Open Source Games like Warfork and the like. Mark mentions Smokin Guns as a fun game based on the Quake 3 engine that’s entirely open source.

28:51 Alex tells us all about ReactOS, a 32 bit binary compatible OS to Windows. There is work going on to bring about a 64 bit ReactOS also.

43:40 Under the Hood! Mark kicks off Under the Hood with a nod to Wireframe Magazine since this is the gaming special of the season. He mentions the fantastic article they did reviewing the decade. He also mentions they have a new book out, called Code the Classics Volume 1. He finally mentions that a number of Ukie hub crawls are taking place throughout the UK during January to March.

Alex has a tip on ReactOS and faking it to look like Windows – the first is a registry tweak – just change the registry entry to Windows 10. There’s also a compatibility setting where you choose the properties of the OS you wish to choose.

Wayne has a few Under the Hoods. He’s been doing a lot of networking lately, and he has this little hack to clean up the output from ip address show and that is ip a | grep inet. Noice!

Wayne’s next one is that he’s gone back to IRC and he has a link to a beginner’s guide to IRC from fedora magazine. He also mentions Category 5 TV.

Wayne’s final Under the Hood is related to his solo keys and an article on how to update them.

William’s Under the Hood is to use Windows Virtual Machines on top of Linux.

Wayne goes on to recommend phonograph as a really good open source music player.

54:00 Irish Saying of the Show is “Ca bhfuil do bosca lon” or where is your lunch box!

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Terra Prime

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Terra Prime
Terra Prime

In this episode, Dave and Yannick have a guest : Andrew, a.k.a McNalu, from Tux Jam and the Duffercast. They review Terra Prime, the 21st episode of the 4th season of Star Trek : Enterprise. After that, they have a chat with Andrew about how he came in contact with Star Trek. And finally they go over the seven questions to the guest.

Call to action

Don’t forget that Star Trek : Picard is coming to Amazon Prime the 23rd of January in the U.S, and the 24th everywhere else !

In this episode

Thanks

Thanks to all our listeners, we are very grateful you chose to spend a little bit of your precious time to listen to our show !

Legal

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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#597 – Big Ben shame

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This week on The Bugcast: a news-heavy episode – including: UK politics, poverty shame, technology, sadness, and Trek! – plus 8 tracks of amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51152834">Wiggles singer Greg Page has cardiac arrest at bushfire relief show</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51149531">Brexit: Big Ben fundraiser given £50,000</a><br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/25/fighting-shame-poverty-depicted-by-eight-everyday-objects">Fighting Shame: Poverty</a> (24 mins long, but worth it)<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51137069">Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable</a><br />
Sky News: <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/derek-fowlds-heartbeat-and-yes-minister-actor-dies-aged-82-11910634">Derek Fowlds: Yes Minister and Heartbeat actor dies aged 82</a>

Star Trek:Picard starts on 23 January in North America on CBS All Access, and on 24 January in the rest of the world on Prime Video<br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a> – Caroline will be joining Dave and Yannick to review the first episode of Picard</a>

<strong><a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice">Submit</a></strong> your favourite tracks we’ve played since episode 553 for the Listener’s Choice episode 600 at the beginning of February 2020.

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Upcoming events

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 598, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 24 January 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a>

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Otherside Podcast Network

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Demons

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Demons
Demons

In this episode, Dave and Yannick review Demons, the 20th episode of the 4th season of Star Trek : Enterprise. After that, they go over some news items.

In this episode

Thanks

Once again, huge thanks to Ro for joining us on last week’s episode. And thanks to all our listeners, we are very grateful you chose to spend a little bit of your precious time to listen to our show !

Legal

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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