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Amazingly we've managed to crank out our 10th episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. We give away a great PC in this episode, so get listening and enter the competition!

In this episode:-

• Discussion:
  • Watching video content on Ubuntu
  • Podcast now available in transcribed form!
  • Sarcastic News
  • Selling Ubuntu without using 'Freedom' in the sales pitch
• Competition:
  • We announce the winner of the Canonical Store Voucher this month
  • We start a new competition where we give the Wraith PC from Efficient PC!

  Just answer the question set out in this weeks show, and you could be the proud owner of this PC!

  

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Whilst standing in the back room at the ballet school that my daughter Sophie goes to, I had an interesting conversation. I was wearing my Ubuntu Hardy Heron T-shirt which I got from the Canonical Online Store.

One of the other parents (a mum) said to me "That's a nice T-shirt, where did you get it? Is it a Paul Smith?". This made me chuckle a little. I had to reply "No, it's not, it's 'just a promotional T-shirt to do with a product I use'". She was surprised. So was I.

There's something to be said for geek-wear that doesn't scream "I AM A GEEK T-SHIRT".

Don't forget that every month on the Ubuntu UK Podcast we are giving away discount codes for the Canonical store as competition prizes!

Update My family all just descended on my house for a Barbeque. My brother just said "Hey, nice t-shirt" :)

Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville present the eighth episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.

In this episode:-

• The last of our interviews from the Ubuntu Developer Summit:
  • Matt Oquist talks about Software Freedom Day
  • KDE contributor Celeste Lyn Paul talks in depth about human-computer interaction (HCI) and enlightens us on the (KDE) human interface guidelines.
  • Utahs best export, Mike Basinger talks about his passion for the Ubuntu Forums, and his calming influence on the Ubuntu Community Council.
  • A very informative interview with Kurt von Finck about the Canonical Support operation, where to get the best deal on Ubuntu support and some stories from the trenches.
  • An interview with the "King of Bling", Mirco "MacSlow" Müller talks about lowfat, GDM, face browser, cheese, memaker, clutter, avant window navigator, mpx in xorg.
• Competition
  • We set a new competition, which will end on the 12th July. (we have extended the competition due to this episode being late).

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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.

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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.