OMG! Ubuntu! Podcast ‘Ubuntuesday’: Episode 1

By Benjamin Humphrey, Published May 4, 2010

“The podcast for people who don’t like podcasts, brought to you by people who know nothing about podcasts.”

Hello, hello, good evening. Yes, you read the title correctly! After two weeks delay since we announced the podcast, numerous technical difficulties and general all round disorganization, we bring you the first episode of the OMG! Ubuntu! podcast, Ubuntuesday.

We hope you enjoy our first episode. It was quite a lot of fun to record and we look forward to bringing you even more exciting new stuff over the next few episodes as we fine tune our segments and listen to feedback from you guys.  

Think of this first episode as a alpha release – with an awesome beta sure to follow ;)

Enough rambling you say!

[Excuse the slightly 'tinny' quality. I didn't realise Audacity was mixing down to mono (no, not -that- mono) but, third time willing, a stereo version will be up in t-minus 1 hour 26 minutes... ]

Show notes

  • Introduction
  • Who are we?
  • The Lucid Lynx pounces – feedback from the release and what we did
  • Browser power – we speculate on browser selection for Maverick 
  • The Ubuntu Manual Project’s (exciting) plans for 10.10
  • Mussels in Brussels – the Ubuntu Developer Summit
  • What Makes My Kernel Krash – Benjamin rants about Linux application naming conventions
Next week’s episode

In the next episode we’ll be coming “live” from Belgium! Benjamin will of course be at the Dolce La Hulpe Hotel in Brussels where the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Maverick is being held. We’ll talk about the first day and what the session schedule is for the week. We’ll also discuss the results of the OpenShot survey and have another rant from Benjamin and a new song of the week as well as plenty of other cool stuff!

Podcast music:
Theme: “Outer Orbit” by Revolution Void from their album, The Politics of Desire
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiixed ;)

      • Bill

        thanks.

  • DoR

    The download button doesn’t work.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      fixed ;)

  • http://thestrayworld.com/ Rewarp

    Nice post. Currently lacks the main ingredient.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      fixed ;)

    • http://thestrayworld.com/ Rewarp

      Downloading now. Yes!

  • http://pctonic.net/ Ashutosh Mishra

    Link please!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      fixed ;)

  • Bill

    way to not hyperlink the image! =P

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      fixed ;)

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        fixed ;)

        • Yi Sun-sin

          Not working here.

          • Yi Sun-sin

            Working now.

      • ernesto

        hyperlink not working for me :(
        fresh install of lucid as well T.T

  • http://www.pcmuze.tumblr.com/ PC_Muze

    lol… What are you guy’s gunna be talking about? Just OMG! UBUNTU! posts?

    • Anonymous

      How’d you guess?

  • Anonymous

    Ogg Vorbis! What is this! Haven’t even listened to it yet and it’s already shit, no download link, crazy formats…. I bet you those idiots running the show have no idea what they’re talking about either!

    • Bill

      gfy. google it.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Imagine had the very first link not been an .ogg….

  • DoR

    You’re using archive.org for hosting the podcast?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Umm for now yes. I’ll sort everything our properly this week (RSS feeds, Miro links, iTunes, etc)

      • Anonymous

        iTunes…..

  • Anonymous

    That sketch is priceless. Apart from my crappy american accent. Hahahaha.

    • Anonymous

      Wow, that was an American accent? Sounds like you’re from the deep south, circa 1880. Fun, though! And better than my Dick Van Dyke-esque attempts at an English accent. :-)

  • Anonymous

    Sounds good dudes. I want the browser change personally ive said it since the chrome beta :)
    Chrome and midori use the same engine except a little thing added on for dns resolution. So it should be very very close.
    We all daydream about the future releases, I have a dream for a better email client for a few releases now but its not going to happen any time soon :/
    Quesion: is it going to be weekly or monthly (or yearly)?

    • Anonymous

      Weekly, every Tuesday. That’s the plan anyway :)

      • Anonymous

        Oh and BTW that persona for the manual better be really hot :)

        • Anonymous

          Who do you think I am?! She’ll be bangin’, Fagan. :P

          • Anonymous

            Very good to hear :) Oh and did I say, great first episode!

          • Anonymous

            Oh yeah I forgot to say very colonial voices on the show. You guys really need an American or something to balance out the nz and uk accents. And im raging about not being able to go to this UDS after going to the last one because of college tests. I would have loved to go to the design track and the desktop track (again). Id like to say though to anyone who cant make it in person there is remote participation.

          • Anonymous

            Well I’m the american writer, I’m just not in on the podcasts. :D difficult enough to wrangle 2 timezones and 2 people talking at the same time without adding me.

          • Anonymous

            Haha very true but still every podcast needs a good ill informed american for some comedy gold :)

          • Anonymous

            gasp! ill informed?!

          • Anonymous

            :) its a fact (that I just made up) that 90% of Americans are ill informed

          • Anonymous

            well I guess I was ignorant of that. :D

  • http://www.photricity.com Josh Meyer

    Add this to the head of your template to get the icon to show:

  • Anonymous

    Make sure you suggest a song from jamendo.com for next week’s CC song of the week!

    • Anonymous

      Please god no, don’t play anymore of that shit I’ve just heard [the song btw lol]. Also, I’ve tried adding the podcast to Gpodder but it wasn’t having any.

    • http://twitter.com/strycore Mathieu Comandon

      Severed Fifth !

  • Anonymous

    Ha! Loving the shoddy editing during the UNE global menu section. Especially the bit where I just lose my tongue and then yell CRAP!!!

    Or did you leave that in purposely, Joey?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Ahhh… i knew something wasn’t ‘recovered’ when the app crashed last night – skimmed through and didn’t notice.. sorry dude!

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    I didn’t listen to the start because there was so much noise, after that its awesome. Good Job guys.

    • Anonymous

      Wait, what? That’s like not driving a car because it moves. Podcasts have noise, they’d be a bit useless if they didn’t.

      Anyway, in Maverick, you’ll have up to THREE ways to turn down your volume! Hurrah!

  • Jimbo

    Ogg only?? Way to be a freedom nazi. Now a huge portion of people can’t put the podcast on their portable players.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      An .mp3 is going up in a bit, relax!

      Part of the reason i put the .ogg up first is because, well, i dared not to!

    • Anonymous

      Basically, it goes something like this:

      Put an .mp3 up, get labeled a hypocritical proprietary bastard.

      Put a .ogg up, get labeled a freedom nazi and told to go back to your freedom hole.

      Put both up at the same time? Get labeled KDE for giving the user too much choice!

  • Harish

    How about embedding the pod cast using tag in the post . Will save link hopping.

  • Anonymous

    Well that was a good podcast of sorts. I like to manage podcasts with gpodder but as I mentioned in my previous comment that the subscription couldn’t be added. Also is there any need for that dirge that was played, there was no point unless you’re planning to be the next DJ’s Smashy & Nicey. It’s nice that you kept it to thirty minutes or there about. I’ll look forward to the next one.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Haha!! Smashy and nicey! Sadly that reference will be lost on Benjamin (probably) but we felt it was a good way to showcase some great creative commons music that’s out there. If people would really rather it wasn’t in the podcast then, well, you’re the listeners and we want to make something you want to listen to!

      • Jimbo

        A 30 second sample of the song would be more than enough. We don’t need several minutes of music in a podcast that has nothing to do with music. That said the song was pretty good… far worse was the vile ‘theme music’ that played in the background at the start. Sorry to who ever composed that but it was like having your ears vomited onto. Also the sound mix was a bit iffy, I couldnt really hear what you were saying when you had music in the background. Better sounding Mics would help in that respect as well.

        All those negatives aside, it was good once you got into the nuts and bolts of talking about Ubuntu. If you can sort out the production issues you have the content to go somewhere.

        • Anonymous

          Aww. I chose the intro music and the CC song of the week (but we want readers to choose the CC song of the week for the future.)

          It’s pretty hard finding something that’s funky, instrumental and licensed so that we can use it. And, like all things, we can’t cater for everyones taste. A few comments above someone says that they love the intro music, so hey. Maybe it’ll grow on you?

  • Anonymous

    I’m trying to listen to the podcast but OMG!Sniggering~fool! If your going to snigger get away from the mic! It’s really not that funny.

    • Anonymous

      Sorry, that’s half my fault. We recorded at around 3am my time to get the best call quality, when my throttled internet is the fastest. Unfortunately, the floors in my flat are very thin and my flatmate below me can hear every squeak I make – hence I couldn’t laugh “properly” out loud.

      But never fear! Next weeks’ episode(s) will be recorded with me in Belgium in my hotel room, so I’ll be able to bellow as much as I like.

  • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

    hey, you know how much I LOVE your blog so please forgive me for sounding like another complainer, but wanting to be honest so that you can always improve your site, the podcast just didn’t do it for me…

    This just how I felt….

    -It didn’t sound organized.
    -Please talk slower and clearer.
    -Needs some editing

    • Anonymous

      We’ve re-edited it and fixed some stuff, so it should sound better now!

      • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

        Thanks. You guys are great, and I know you work very hard to maintain what I consider one of the best sites on the web. We do appreciate your hard word.

        • Anonymous

          =D Thanks dude, means a lot. We don’t get a whole heap of love around here – most of the time it’s just people harassing us for our choice in pretentious pop star memes or complaining about the gargantuan amount of grammatical errors in Joey’s posts :P

          • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

            Oi! =P

            The majority of supposed grammatical errors are not errors here in bloody Blighty it’s all you international-izers with your weird take on English! xP

          • Anonymous

            We use the Queen’s English down here in New Zealand. We’re still part of the commonwealth you cock!

          • JacobK

            Since when does the Queen speak Kiwi? =D

          • jacobk

            btw, browser-extintions: is that something like an extension which doesn’t exist anymore? :P

  • http://twitter.com/strycore Mathieu Comandon

    That’s awesome guys. And it’s good to hear that I wasn’t the only one getting banned from the Ubuntu Party IRC channel for giving links to iso before the release ;)
    As some may know there are no upgrades the day before the release so basically the current daily build is the final release. But with that grub bug that was discovered at the last minute that might not be true for Lucid.

  • Anonymous

    Since it’s not mentioned in the post yet..

    Those who want to subscribe via Rhythmbox (or something similar) can use the following URL to subscribe:
    http://omgubuntu.podbean.com/feed/

    • Anonymous

      The link encounters an error

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        All our allotted bandwidth was used up in less than an hour! Wow..

        • Anonymous

          In response to the questions about Midori from the podcast..

          Ubuntu 10.04 Browser Comparisons
          http://kyleabaker.com/2010/05/04/ubuntu-10-04-browser-comparisons/

          • Anonymous

            Interesting. I think we established later on that Chrome is indeed faster, but Midori *appears* faster because it displays bits of the page as it goes, whereas Chrome usually loads most of the page before displaying anything.

  • Anonymous

    Both the Miro and Rythymbox feeds keep failing to download for me.

  • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

    I know that you said the link was fixed, but the link I’m getting [http://media8.podbean.com/pb/c5691987ed28a2b0b833b30e473416c3/4be07e35/blogs8/256626/uploads/ubuntuesdayepisode1.mp3] is not working.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Bandwidth was sucked up in less than a hour – .ogg link still works however.

      • Anonymous

        Hey, d0od! Nice podcast. :-)

        I had trouble when simply clicking the listen link in vanilla Firefox/Lucid… it opens the .ogg file in a tab and plays it, but the player is crammed into the top-left of the window, and things like the volume slider disappear off the top of the window.

        Probably a function of the Firefox Totem plugin, and therefore not in your control, but wanted to point it out in case it’s helpful.

  • wipeout140

    Download link not working again……

    404 – File not found (21.06) GMT

  • http://twitter.com/orawas orawas

    btw… the link and the download feed still aren’t working…

  • Anonymous

    Might be a good idea to get a pop-shield to stop the pops and breath noises a little. Also, some panning and EQ might make your voices a bit clearer. Maybe even a tiny amount of reverb on the voices to give them some space.

    If you want someone to do a bit of processing/mixing on the next one feel free to drop me an email – themusicalduck@gmail.com :)

    • Anonymous

      As the podcast catch phrase suggests: “Brought to you by people who know nothing about podcasts.” We’ve never done a podcast before, we don’t get paid for this, hence we have limited money to spend on any equipment.

      It will improve over time but for now, please be a bit forgiving!

      Thanks for the offer to edit too.

  • Vigo

    Chrome does NOT have advert blocking extensions. It has advert hiding extensions. The adverts still load and are simply hidden.

    That riles me.

    • Xorlathor

      This is something that really bugs me as well – Chrome is an amazing browser on both Windows and Ubuntu, and Google updates it a ton – but no real adblocking is annoying, Chrome is still wasting speed loading ads and the extensions only hide them – is there any reason no one comes up with a real actual adblocker that prevents ads from loading in the first place like adblock pro in Firefox?

      • Anonymous

        Wow, I didn’t know that. I knew something was weird.

      • https://launchpad.net/~rugby471 Andrew

        Sorry but this seems obvious to me.

        Why on earth would a company who makes 99% of their money from advertising, create functionality that allows a user to disable advertising?

        • Xorlathor

          Because:

          1. Only a small minority cares about removing ads.

          2. One of their major selling points against Apple us being open and not locking down their prodects, but allowing the user to decide what their user experience.

          3. It will attract FF users and get advanced computer users like us to buy netbooks with Chrome OS on it, which will give them a nice share of the cost of it – those that buy these netbooks would have been using adblock on FF anyway, so it’s not like there’s going to be a massive increase in adblock-users.

          These reasons are a bit oversimplified, but ya get the point.

    • SmilingJack

      Indeed. To quote NoScript developer Giorgio Maone: “Chrome is still lacking the required infrastructure for selective script disablement and object blocking.” This means that extensions like Adblock Plus or NoScript are impossible to implement in Chrome at the moment. And those are certainly popular and useful extensions.

  • Anonymous

    One thing I liked right away… you pronounce “Ubuntu” the same way I do. I’m so used to people calling it “oo-BOON-too” (which I believe is the official pronunciation), and it was nice to hear it pronounced the way I always hear it in my head, wrong though it may be.

    Nice podcast, too. :-)

    “oo-BUN-too” ftw!

    • Sebas310

      Just for this, I may have a hard time baring it.

  • Anonymous

    horrible horrible buggy alpha ;o
    voice is very low, music overthrows any speaking. the beginning was veeeery cheese. Iunno dude o.o;
    A for effort? >.>

    • Anonymous

      As the podcast catch phrase suggests: “Brought to you by people who know nothing about podcasts.” We’ve never done a podcast before, we don’t get paid for this, hence we have limited money to spend on any equipment. We’re doing it for you guys and there’s no obligation to listen – it’s just something we enjoy doing.

      It will improve over time but for now, please be a bit forgiving!

  • Anonymous

    Buarrrgh Crap, crap!!!! That’s the highlight of the show!!! LOL! Nice work, keep it up!

    Can you include an open discussion segment? Like Tux radar does with open ballot?

  • Anonymous

    I freaking love the intro music, the groove is so tight!

    • Anonymous

      FINALLY someone who actually likes the intro music! THANKYOU. <3

      • Anonymous

        I’m a drummer and I get crazy about funky grooves! I think that song kick’s major ass!

  • Karl

    Is it just me or is the download button not working?

    • http://ubunturoot.com JasonCook599

      As it says in the post “The podcast has currently been taken offline and a re-edit addressing some of the duff audio in the first release will be up very shortly. You can subscribe to the OMG! Podcast using Banshee or any-other podcasting application using the very feed to this site”

  • daas88

    This will help me train my ear for english^^ I could understand what Joey said most of the times, but about Benjamin… no offense (really, I’m just not used to that accent) but you sounded like charlie brown’s teacher to me =/

    • Anonymous

      Haha, I wish I could help you but I don’t think I can do much about my accent =P

      I might try to put on an English accent for the next one, if you want!

      • daas88

        Well I just listened the first few minutes because I was a busy, so maybe the background music had something to do with it. I’ll appreciate it if you just try to speak a bit clearer and put the music volume a bit lower next time ^^

  • Anonymous

    Justin Bieber for song of the week next time?

    • Adnane Belmadiaf

      are you kiding ? no Justin Bieber :s

      Well one artist that i should advise is : Sean Fournier – Goodbye (Piano version),
      well all the tracks are good :)

      http://www.jamendo.com/fr/album/36026

  • http://techjacker.myopenid.com/ techjacker

    where’s the rss link so we can subscribe with our podcatchers?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      The RSS link is the same as the blog – push your mouse over the RSS icon in the header and right click > copy link > ta da!

      • lumpy

        Any chance we can get a dedicated RSS feed for the podcast? I use my phone for podcasts and it doesn’t always get to update itself every day (or even every week for that matter). I’ve missed the first episode with it since the feed only goes back 5 days and fear the same will happen with others. I can still download it manually into my media player, but not into my podcatcher which is kind of annoying.

  • Anonymous

    No shit! It is really one hour twenty minutes twenty two seconds? I’m bit shocked.

    • Anonymous

      right, nevermind

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      No it’s actually about 25 minutes – no idea why the embed player says it is more…

  • http://luukdeleest.nl/ Luuk

    Is there an iTunes feed I can subscribe to?

    (yea, I have an iPod and I use iTunes to sync. please don’t kill me)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I intend to make it available on iTunes very shrotly – much to the chagrin of others, I am aware that many dual-booters use it for syncing.

  • Waldir Leôncio

    Midori? Really? How likely is it that Maverick’s default browser will even change?

    • Anonymous

      actually now its looking like chromium might have a fighting chance, since mark shuttleworths opening talk at UDS featured chromium in the screenshots.

      • Waldir Leôncio

        Yeah, I saw that too. I do like Chrome (or Chromium, whatever the difference really is), but I dug in too deep on Firefox and now am a lot dependent on some extensions and features. :-s

        But anyway, you’re talking about Chromium being shown at a Ubuntu Light install, right? Or did Mark use it on a regular Ubuntu?

        • Anonymous

          thats the one, on the Unity Light install.

          • Waldir Leôncio

            In that case I’ll keep my money on Firefox for Maverick. Lubuntu also ships with Chromium, so having it on Unity is kind of a no-brainer. :-)

  • Waldir Leôncio

    Midori? Really? How likely is it that Maverick’s default browser will even change?

  • lumpy211

    Trying to clear out my podcatcher because it’s catching lots of regular OMG! Ubuntu! posts – has this become more of a one-off than a weekly release?

  • http://twitter.com/Mkaysi Mika Suomalainen

    Where are the other episodes? Or is this the last episode.