Once again proving his editing prowess, Tony has managed to squeeze around 4 hours of wibble into a 40 minute podcast. Nice one.

In this episode:-

• Discussion:
  • An interview with Pete Savage.
    • progbox.vid
  • A chat with Phil Newborough.
    • Random Ubuntu Advocacy
    • Crunchbang Linux
  • We rate our Hardy upgrade experiences.
  • Following up with our CLI vs GUI discussion with Laura Cowen.
• In the news:
  • gNewSense release version 2.
  • Adobe opening up the FLV specs.
  • The UK's Unix User Group has convinced the High Court to carry out a judicial review of the British Standard Institute's decision to vote in favour of Microsoft's controversial Office Open XML (OOXML) specification.
  • 30th birthday of spam
  • Sun in process of certifying Ubuntu.
• Competition results!
  • The winner of the trivia competition is announced. We'll send them a coupon for the Canonical Store to spend on whatever they want! We'll have another competition in Episode 6.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
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I recently got hold of an Asus Eee PC 900 - the newer version of the Eee 701. It's a lovely piece of kit, which I'll probably review more fully on the podcast.

After playing with Zattoo on my Ubuntu laptop, I thought I'd give it a go on the Eee 900 which is running the default Xandros Linux distribution (which I actually quite like).

Here's what it looks like once installed:-

Unfortunately the Asus software repositories don't contain the Zattoo package, or the dependency that allows Zattoo to install cleanly. However as Xandros is based on Debian Etch, so it's possible to fix this issue quite easily.

Here's what I did:-

• Download the zatto deb package.
• Download libgtkglext1 from the Debian Etch repository.
• Open a terminal with [CTRL]+[ALT]+t
• Install the two deb packages downloaded using the following command
• dpkg -i *.deb

Then you can run zattoo from the command line.

You can of course zoom in.

Full screen works very nicely.

One thing I have yet to figure out is how to add an icon to the big "telly tubby" menu.

Update Found out that editing /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/simpleui.rc enables me to maintain the graphical the icon for the zattoo_player executable.

In a last minute change to the schedule, Mark Shuttleworth will now be giving a Q&A session in #ubuntu-classroom on the freenode irc network. Ask questions in #ubuntu-classroom-chat and they will get pasted into #ubuntu-classroom by an operator.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek for details.

How come I didn't know about Zattoo?!

It's a program (Linux version available here), which lets you watch TV programmes online. Nice. Dead handy for people (like me) who have a good internet connection but no TV aerial at their computer.

They carry the basic channels I need.

BBC1 for example

Now I can watch Carrie and Davids Pop Shop anywhere!

What!?

Why Episode 4 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast of course! What else would you be thinking of?

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the fourth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. In this episode:-

• Discussion:
• Unix/Linux Malware & Security precautions.
• Interview with Ian Ozsvald from Showmedo.
• A short phone call from Mark Shuttleworth.
• In the news:
• Red Hat Skips Consumer Linux Desktop
• MySQL/Sun Add proprietary code to MySQL
• New Feature!
• Trivia competition - we have coupons for the Canonical Store to give away!
Listen to the show, drop an email before the 3rd May 2008 to the competition@ubuntu-uk.org email address with your answer to the question we ask. We'll ask Mark Shuttleworth to pick a winner at random from the correct entries and then email the coupon code over to the winner.

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986