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NEW PASTURES
I tweeted back at the start of April that I’m moving on from Canonical/Ubuntu. Well, I left on April 30th, have had two weeks of ‘funemployment’, and today I start my new gig. I’m now Developer Advocate for Telegraf at InfluxData, and I couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 Telegraf is an Open Source “agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.”. I’ll be UPGRADING UBUNTU SERVER I have a few old and crusty HP MicroServers in the loft at home. I started out with one when HP did a cashback offer, making them very affordable. Over time I’ve acquired a couple more. One, named colossus is running rsnapshot to provide backups of my other machines. Another, called shirka is a Plex Media Server and the last, robby is a general purpose box running various jobs and reports.THE BEST TOASTER
If you know me well in person, or online, you’ll almost certainly have heard me evangelise about the best toaster you can buy. If so, you are excused from reading any further. However, I may test you on this text at some point. So skip reading it at your peril! There are no affiliate links in this post. I do not seek to financially benefit from your enjoyment of deliciously toasted bread. DIGITAL HOARDING: UBUNTU MIRROR Digital Hoarding: Ubuntu Mirror. I have a bunch of Ubuntu machines on my local network at home. They all periodically need to check for updates then download & install them. Rather than have them all reach out to the official mirrors externally to my network, I decided to run my own mirror internally. This post is just a set of notes for anyoneSEASON FOURTEEN
Nearly thirteen years ago, on 11th March 2008, a few members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team released S01E01 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and I had recorded it on the previous Saturday in my cramped, messy home office. In the following seven years we recorded 187 episodes as “Ubuntu UK Podcast” - affectionately known as JAMMING WITH SONOBUS SonoBus supports ALSA and Jack for managing audio devices, which was a bit of a challenge for snapping, but with some help from my friends Yannick and Martin, we got a working confined snap published. While surfing the rooms I stumbled on some UK musicians just chatting. One - “Stu” was a keen user of SonoBus and other, similar applications. RASPBERRY PI: BOOT TO BASIC 10 REM TL;DR My Raspberry Pi 400 boots from this: To this. BBC BASIC! This blog post is what parts I smashed together to make this work and why. 20 PRINT “HELLO” 40 years ago this Christmas, I got my first “personal computer”. It was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KiB of RAM and a tape deck for storage. Every time I powered it on, like all ‘81 owners, I was greeted with this.BLOGGING WITH HUGO
GNOME OS 40 WITHOUT GNOME BOXES alan@robot:~/quickemu$ ./quickemu --vm gnome40.conf Starting gnome40.conf - QEMU: /snap/bin/qemu-virgil v4.2.0 - BOOT: EFI - Guest: Linux optimised - Disk: ./gnome-40 ABOUT - ALAN POPE'S BLOG - POPEY.COM About. 1972 vintage human meatbag. By day I work as a Developer Advocate for Canonical, working on Snapcraft and Ubuntu. By night I’m a married dad to two amazing kids. INEW PASTURES
I tweeted back at the start of April that I’m moving on from Canonical/Ubuntu. Well, I left on April 30th, have had two weeks of ‘funemployment’, and today I start my new gig. I’m now Developer Advocate for Telegraf at InfluxData, and I couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 Telegraf is an Open Source “agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.”. I’ll be UPGRADING UBUNTU SERVER I have a few old and crusty HP MicroServers in the loft at home. I started out with one when HP did a cashback offer, making them very affordable. Over time I’ve acquired a couple more. One, named colossus is running rsnapshot to provide backups of my other machines. Another, called shirka is a Plex Media Server and the last, robby is a general purpose box running various jobs and reports.THE BEST TOASTER
If you know me well in person, or online, you’ll almost certainly have heard me evangelise about the best toaster you can buy. If so, you are excused from reading any further. However, I may test you on this text at some point. So skip reading it at your peril! There are no affiliate links in this post. I do not seek to financially benefit from your enjoyment of deliciously toasted bread. DIGITAL HOARDING: UBUNTU MIRROR Digital Hoarding: Ubuntu Mirror. I have a bunch of Ubuntu machines on my local network at home. They all periodically need to check for updates then download & install them. Rather than have them all reach out to the official mirrors externally to my network, I decided to run my own mirror internally. This post is just a set of notes for anyoneSEASON FOURTEEN
Nearly thirteen years ago, on 11th March 2008, a few members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team released S01E01 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and I had recorded it on the previous Saturday in my cramped, messy home office. In the following seven years we recorded 187 episodes as “Ubuntu UK Podcast” - affectionately known as JAMMING WITH SONOBUS SonoBus supports ALSA and Jack for managing audio devices, which was a bit of a challenge for snapping, but with some help from my friends Yannick and Martin, we got a working confined snap published. While surfing the rooms I stumbled on some UK musicians just chatting. One - “Stu” was a keen user of SonoBus and other, similar applications. RASPBERRY PI: BOOT TO BASIC 10 REM TL;DR My Raspberry Pi 400 boots from this: To this. BBC BASIC! This blog post is what parts I smashed together to make this work and why. 20 PRINT “HELLO” 40 years ago this Christmas, I got my first “personal computer”. It was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KiB of RAM and a tape deck for storage. Every time I powered it on, like all ‘81 owners, I was greeted with this.BLOGGING WITH HUGO
GNOME OS 40 WITHOUT GNOME BOXES alan@robot:~/quickemu$ ./quickemu --vm gnome40.conf Starting gnome40.conf - QEMU: /snap/bin/qemu-virgil v4.2.0 - BOOT: EFI - Guest: Linux optimised - Disk: ./gnome-40BACK IN THE STUDIO
Last month I mentioned that myself, Mark and Martin have decided to come back for Season 14 of the Ubuntu Podcast. Well, we’re back today with S14E01, titled “Navy Chefs Remit”. Over the thirteen years, the episode titles have had a theme in each season. We don’t reveal the theme, but let our listeners figure that out, for fun. Sometimes it has a bearing on the content of the episodeTHE BEST TOASTER
If you know me well in person, or online, you’ll almost certainly have heard me evangelise about the best toaster you can buy. If so, you are excused from reading any further. However, I may test you on this text at some point. So skip reading it at your peril! There are no affiliate links in this post. I do not seek to financially benefit from your enjoyment of deliciously toasted bread.DIAMOND RIO PMP300
Diamond Rio PMP300. My loft is a treasure trove of old crap. For some reason I keep a bunch of aged useless junk up there. That includes the very first MP3 player I owned. Behold, the Diamond Rio PMP 300. Well, the box, in all its ’90s artwork glory. Here’s the player. It’s powered by a single AA battery for somewhere around 8 hours of DISABLING SNAP AUTOREFRESH Preamble Until recently, I worked for Canonical on the Snap Advocacy Team. Some of the things in this blog post may have changed or been fixed since I left. It’s quite a long post, but I feel it’s neccessary to explain fully the status-quo. This isn’t intended to be a “hit piece” on my previous employer, but merely information sharing for those looking to control their own systems.SEASON FOURTEEN
Nearly thirteen years ago, on 11th March 2008, a few members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team released S01E01 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and I had recorded it on the previous Saturday in my cramped, messy home office. In the following seven years we recorded 187 episodes as “Ubuntu UK Podcast” - affectionately known asDESKTOP WEBAPPS
Here’s how it works. Open the website in question to be webappified, for example Tweetdeck. In Google Chrome (for this is the web browser I use primarily), hit the three dots (kebab menu) -> More tools -> Create shortcut. In the popup, give the application/website a name,OUYA WAS A SUCCESS
Ouya was a Success. On 11th July 2012, the Ouya burst onto the scene via popular crowdfunding site - Kickstarter. It was billed as “A New Kind of Video Game Console” which sold for $99/£99 at launch. It was essentially an Nvidia Tegra 3 based ARM System on Chip crammed into a tiny box which sat under / near your TV and was operated withDON'T USE PROPOSED
Don't Use Proposed. This is a short and sweet post to remind future me (and anyone else reading) not to use the “proposed” pocket of the Ubuntu Archive, if you want a bug-free and safe experience. For those not “in the know”, each Ubuntu release has a bunch of pockets. MASTODON INSTANCES, EVERYWHERE Mastodon is interesting. It’s “free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services.”. To any normal personal that’s “Open Source Twitter”, largely. Anyone can grab the code and spin up their own Mastodon instance. I put one up a year or so ago, but unfortunately I didn’t have the time or resources to maintain it, so I shut it down. HUSH KEYBOARDS WITH HUSHBOARD Hush Keyboards with Hushboard. Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participantswhen on
ABOUT - ALAN POPE'S BLOG - POPEY.COM About. 1972 vintage human meatbag. By day I work as a Developer Advocate for Canonical, working on Snapcraft and Ubuntu. By night I’m a married dad to two amazing kids. I UPGRADING UBUNTU SERVER I have a few old and crusty HP MicroServers in the loft at home. I started out with one when HP did a cashback offer, making them very affordable. Over time I’ve acquired a couple more. One, named colossus is running rsnapshot to provide backups of my other machines. Another, called shirka is a Plex Media Server and the last, robby is a general purpose box running various jobs and reports. DIGITAL HOARDING: UBUNTU MIRROR Digital Hoarding: Ubuntu Mirror. I have a bunch of Ubuntu machines on my local network at home. They all periodically need to check for updates then download & install them. Rather than have them all reach out to the official mirrors externally to my network, I decided to run my own mirror internally. This post is just a set of notes for anyone RASPBERRY PI: BOOT TO BASIC 10 REM TL;DR My Raspberry Pi 400 boots from this: To this. BBC BASIC! This blog post is what parts I smashed together to make this work and why. 20 PRINT “HELLO” 40 years ago this Christmas, I got my first “personal computer”. It was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KiB of RAM and a tape deck for storage. Every time I powered it on, like all ‘81 owners, I was greeted with this.SEASON FOURTEEN
Nearly thirteen years ago, on 11th March 2008, a few members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team released S01E01 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and I had recorded it on the previous Saturday in my cramped, messy home office. In the following seven years we recorded 187 episodes as “Ubuntu UK Podcast” - affectionately known as JAMMING WITH SONOBUS SonoBus supports ALSA and Jack for managing audio devices, which was a bit of a challenge for snapping, but with some help from my friends Yannick and Martin, we got a working confined snap published. While surfing the rooms I stumbled on some UK musicians just chatting. One - “Stu” was a keen user of SonoBus and other, similar applications. DISABLING SNAP AUTOREFRESH Preamble Until recently, I worked for Canonical on the Snap Advocacy Team. Some of the things in this blog post may have changed or been fixed since I left. It’s quite a long post, but I feel it’s neccessary to explain fully the status-quo. This isn’t intended to be a “hit piece” on my previous employer, but merely information sharing for those looking to control their own systems. HUSH KEYBOARDS WITH HUSHBOARD Hush Keyboards with Hushboard. Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participantswhen on
BLOGGING WITH HUGO
OUYA WAS A SUCCESS
Ouya was a Success. On 11th July 2012, the Ouya burst onto the scene via popular crowdfunding site - Kickstarter. It was billed as “A New Kind of Video Game Console” which sold for $99/£99 at launch. It was essentially an Nvidia Tegra 3 based ARM System on Chip crammed into a tiny box which sat under / near your TV and was operated with ABOUT - ALAN POPE'S BLOG - POPEY.COM About. 1972 vintage human meatbag. By day I work as a Developer Advocate for Canonical, working on Snapcraft and Ubuntu. By night I’m a married dad to two amazing kids. I UPGRADING UBUNTU SERVER I have a few old and crusty HP MicroServers in the loft at home. I started out with one when HP did a cashback offer, making them very affordable. Over time I’ve acquired a couple more. One, named colossus is running rsnapshot to provide backups of my other machines. Another, called shirka is a Plex Media Server and the last, robby is a general purpose box running various jobs and reports. DIGITAL HOARDING: UBUNTU MIRROR Digital Hoarding: Ubuntu Mirror. I have a bunch of Ubuntu machines on my local network at home. They all periodically need to check for updates then download & install them. Rather than have them all reach out to the official mirrors externally to my network, I decided to run my own mirror internally. This post is just a set of notes for anyone RASPBERRY PI: BOOT TO BASIC 10 REM TL;DR My Raspberry Pi 400 boots from this: To this. BBC BASIC! This blog post is what parts I smashed together to make this work and why. 20 PRINT “HELLO” 40 years ago this Christmas, I got my first “personal computer”. It was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KiB of RAM and a tape deck for storage. Every time I powered it on, like all ‘81 owners, I was greeted with this.SEASON FOURTEEN
Nearly thirteen years ago, on 11th March 2008, a few members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team released S01E01 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and I had recorded it on the previous Saturday in my cramped, messy home office. In the following seven years we recorded 187 episodes as “Ubuntu UK Podcast” - affectionately known as JAMMING WITH SONOBUS SonoBus supports ALSA and Jack for managing audio devices, which was a bit of a challenge for snapping, but with some help from my friends Yannick and Martin, we got a working confined snap published. While surfing the rooms I stumbled on some UK musicians just chatting. One - “Stu” was a keen user of SonoBus and other, similar applications. DISABLING SNAP AUTOREFRESH Preamble Until recently, I worked for Canonical on the Snap Advocacy Team. Some of the things in this blog post may have changed or been fixed since I left. It’s quite a long post, but I feel it’s neccessary to explain fully the status-quo. This isn’t intended to be a “hit piece” on my previous employer, but merely information sharing for those looking to control their own systems. HUSH KEYBOARDS WITH HUSHBOARD Hush Keyboards with Hushboard. Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participantswhen on
BLOGGING WITH HUGO
OUYA WAS A SUCCESS
Ouya was a Success. On 11th July 2012, the Ouya burst onto the scene via popular crowdfunding site - Kickstarter. It was billed as “A New Kind of Video Game Console” which sold for $99/£99 at launch. It was essentially an Nvidia Tegra 3 based ARM System on Chip crammed into a tiny box which sat under / near your TV and was operated withNEW PASTURES
I tweeted back at the start of April that I’m moving on from Canonical/Ubuntu. Well, I left on April 30th, have had two weeks of ‘funemployment’, and today I start my new gig. I’m now Developer Advocate for Telegraf at InfluxData, and I couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 Telegraf is an Open Source “agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.”. I’ll be PERFECT POACHED EGGS It’s late in the day and I didn’t have an idea for a blog post. To the rescue comes my good friend Stuart Langridge with this request for advice Reading about poached eggs for breakfast, and there appear to be many holy wars over whether the water should be spinning in a whirlpool, whether there should be vinegar, whether to put the eggs inramekins first.
UBUNTU 21.04 TESTING WEEK Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week. “ Hirsute Hippo ” is the project code-name for what will become Ubuntu 21.04 when it releases on April 22nd 2021. On April 1st, the Beta of Ubuntu Hirsute will be released, but we’re no fools! This is a great time to do some testing! So, starting on April 1st, we’re doing another Ubuntu Testing Week. KEYBOARDS, OLD AND NEW Over on r/mk you’ll find a community of mechanical keyboard enthusiasts. People who enjoy collecting, building and showing off their primary computer input device. Like any collector community, it’s a fascinating glimpse into the world of people passionate about something we all likely have used, but don’t feel especially invested in. I’m certainly no MK afficianado, but I use LEARNING DART & FLUTTER I’ve said many times, I don’t consider myself a software developer. Much like I don’t consider myself a professional chef. I can write code, just as I can cook. What I make isn’t ground breaking, but it won’t poison anyone either, and I enjoy doing it. Coding for me started on the ZX81 in BASIC then on to the Spectrum and other 8-bit microcomputers. HUSH KEYBOARDS WITH HUSHBOARD Hush Keyboards with Hushboard. Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participantswhen on
DRY JANUARY 2021
January 2021 was my first intentional Dry January - a month-long annual alcoholic abstinence. After the typical excess of Christmas, Dry January can make for a good mind & body rest and recuperation. Personally I sleep better, get up more refreshed in the morning and feel a bit more “with it” when I’m not drinking. I wouldn’t say I drink heavily, most of the time, but I imagine many UNBREAKING UNBOOTABLE UBUNTU I run Ubuntu Hirsute - the development release which will become 21.04 - on a bunch of systems. It’s a trade-off though, getting the latest crack each and every day. Being at the bleeding edge of new packages landing means I can experience brand new shiny bugs on my systems. Bugs like 1915579 which rendered my system unbootable. Nobody wants to see this on boot: I had updated yesterdayOUYA WAS A SUCCESS
Ouya was a Success. On 11th July 2012, the Ouya burst onto the scene via popular crowdfunding site - Kickstarter. It was billed as “A New Kind of Video Game Console” which sold for $99/£99 at launch. It was essentially an Nvidia Tegra 3 based ARM System on Chip crammed into a tiny box which sat under / near your TV and was operated with MASTODON INSTANCES, EVERYWHERE Mastodon is interesting. It’s “free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services.”. To any normal personal that’s “Open Source Twitter”, largely. Anyone can grab the code and spin up their own Mastodon instance. I put one up a year or so ago, but unfortunately I didn’t have the time or resources to maintain it, so I shut it down. POPEY.COM - A GEEK THROUGH AND THROUGH pope /pəʊp/ n 1 : a prelate who as bishop of Rome is the head of the Roman Catholic Church 2 : one that resembles a pope (as in authority). popey /pəʊpi/n 1 : a blogger 2 : a prolific micro-blogger on Twitter and Mastodon 3 : a social animal 4 : a Community Manager 5 : a strong advocate for Ubuntu 6 : a podcaster 7 : a geek through and through. popeye /pɒpaɪ/ n 1 : A tattooed, corncob ABOUT - ALAN POPE'S BLOG - POPEY.COM About. 1972 vintage human meatbag. By day I work as a Developer Advocate for Canonical, working on Snapcraft and Ubuntu. By night I’m a married dad to two amazing kids. I DIGITAL HOARDING: UBUNTU MIRROR Digital Hoarding: Ubuntu Mirror. I have a bunch of Ubuntu machines on my local network at home. They all periodically need to check for updates then download & install them. Rather than have them all reach out to the official mirrors externally to my network, I decided to run my own mirror internally. This post is just a set of notes for anyone UPGRADING UBUNTU SERVER I have a few old and crusty HP MicroServers in the loft at home. I started out with one when HP did a cashback offer, making them very affordable. Over time I’ve acquired a couple more. One, named colossus is running rsnapshot to provide backups of my other machines. Another, called shirka is a Plex Media Server and the last, robby is a general purpose box running various jobs and reports.NEW PASTURES
I tweeted back at the start of April that I’m moving on from Canonical/Ubuntu. Well, I left on April 30th, have had two weeks of ‘funemployment’, and today I start my new gig. I’m now Developer Advocate for Telegraf at InfluxData, and I couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 Telegraf is an Open Source “agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.”. I’ll be RASPBERRY PI: BOOT TO BASIC 10 REM TL;DR My Raspberry Pi 400 boots from this: To this. BBC BASIC! This blog post is what parts I smashed together to make this work and why. 20 PRINT “HELLO” 40 years ago this Christmas, I got my first “personal computer”. It was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KiB of RAM and a tape deck for storage. Every time I powered it on, like all ‘81 owners, I was greeted with this.SEASON FOURTEEN
Nearly thirteen years ago, on 11th March 2008, a few members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team released S01E01 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and I had recorded it on the previous Saturday in my cramped, messy home office. In the following seven years we recorded 187 episodes as “Ubuntu UK Podcast” - affectionately known as GNOME OS 40 WITHOUT GNOME BOXES alan@robot:~/quickemu$ ./quickemu --vm gnome40.conf Starting gnome40.conf - QEMU: /snap/bin/qemu-virgil v4.2.0 - BOOT: EFI - Guest: Linux optimised - Disk: ./gnome-40MY GNOME TWEAKS
HUSH KEYBOARDS WITH HUSHBOARD Hush Keyboards with Hushboard. Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participantswhen on
POPEY.COM - A GEEK THROUGH AND THROUGH pope /pəʊp/ n 1 : a prelate who as bishop of Rome is the head of the Roman Catholic Church 2 : one that resembles a pope (as in authority). popey /pəʊpi/n 1 : a blogger 2 : a prolific micro-blogger on Twitter and Mastodon 3 : a social animal 4 : a Community Manager 5 : a strong advocate for Ubuntu 6 : a podcaster 7 : a geek through and through. popeye /pɒpaɪ/ n 1 : A tattooed, corncob ABOUT - ALAN POPE'S BLOG - POPEY.COM About. 1972 vintage human meatbag. By day I work as a Developer Advocate for Canonical, working on Snapcraft and Ubuntu. By night I’m a married dad to two amazing kids. I DIGITAL HOARDING: UBUNTU MIRROR Digital Hoarding: Ubuntu Mirror. I have a bunch of Ubuntu machines on my local network at home. They all periodically need to check for updates then download & install them. Rather than have them all reach out to the official mirrors externally to my network, I decided to run my own mirror internally. This post is just a set of notes for anyone UPGRADING UBUNTU SERVER I have a few old and crusty HP MicroServers in the loft at home. I started out with one when HP did a cashback offer, making them very affordable. Over time I’ve acquired a couple more. One, named colossus is running rsnapshot to provide backups of my other machines. Another, called shirka is a Plex Media Server and the last, robby is a general purpose box running various jobs and reports.NEW PASTURES
I tweeted back at the start of April that I’m moving on from Canonical/Ubuntu. Well, I left on April 30th, have had two weeks of ‘funemployment’, and today I start my new gig. I’m now Developer Advocate for Telegraf at InfluxData, and I couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 Telegraf is an Open Source “agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.”. I’ll be RASPBERRY PI: BOOT TO BASIC 10 REM TL;DR My Raspberry Pi 400 boots from this: To this. BBC BASIC! This blog post is what parts I smashed together to make this work and why. 20 PRINT “HELLO” 40 years ago this Christmas, I got my first “personal computer”. It was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KiB of RAM and a tape deck for storage. Every time I powered it on, like all ‘81 owners, I was greeted with this.SEASON FOURTEEN
Nearly thirteen years ago, on 11th March 2008, a few members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team released S01E01 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast. Ciemon Dunville, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and I had recorded it on the previous Saturday in my cramped, messy home office. In the following seven years we recorded 187 episodes as “Ubuntu UK Podcast” - affectionately known as GNOME OS 40 WITHOUT GNOME BOXES alan@robot:~/quickemu$ ./quickemu --vm gnome40.conf Starting gnome40.conf - QEMU: /snap/bin/qemu-virgil v4.2.0 - BOOT: EFI - Guest: Linux optimised - Disk: ./gnome-40MY GNOME TWEAKS
HUSH KEYBOARDS WITH HUSHBOARD Hush Keyboards with Hushboard. Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participantswhen on
POPEY.COM - A GEEK THROUGH AND THROUGH pope /pəʊp/ n 1 : a prelate who as bishop of Rome is the head of the Roman Catholic Church 2 : one that resembles a pope (as in authority). popey /pəʊpi/n 1 : a blogger 2 : a prolific micro-blogger on Twitter and Mastodon 3 : a social animal 4 : a Community Manager 5 : a strong advocate for Ubuntu 6 : a podcaster 7 : a geek through and through. popeye /pɒpaɪ/ n 1 : A tattooed, corncobBACK IN THE STUDIO
Last month I mentioned that myself, Mark and Martin have decided to come back for Season 14 of the Ubuntu Podcast. Well, we’re back today with S14E01, titled “Navy Chefs Remit”. Over the thirteen years, the episode titles have had a theme in each season. We don’t reveal the theme, but let our listeners figure that out, for fun. Sometimes it has a bearing on the content of the episode UBUNTU 21.04 TESTING WEEK Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week. “ Hirsute Hippo ” is the project code-name for what will become Ubuntu 21.04 when it releases on April 22nd 2021. On April 1st, the Beta of Ubuntu Hirsute will be released, but we’re no fools! This is a great time to do some testing! So, starting on April 1st, we’re doing another Ubuntu Testing Week.THE BEST TOASTER
If you know me well in person, or online, you’ll almost certainly have heard me evangelise about the best toaster you can buy. If so, you are excused from reading any further. However, I may test you on this text at some point. So skip reading it at your peril! There are no affiliate links in this post. I do not seek to financially benefit from your enjoyment of deliciously toasted bread. DISABLING SNAP AUTOREFRESH Preamble Until recently, I worked for Canonical on the Snap Advocacy Team. Some of the things in this blog post may have changed or been fixed since I left. It’s quite a long post, but I feel it’s neccessary to explain fully the status-quo. This isn’t intended to be a “hit piece” on my previous employer, but merely information sharing for those looking to control their own systems. HUSH KEYBOARDS WITH HUSHBOARD Hush Keyboards with Hushboard. Yesterday while surfing the ASCII highways of IRC (yes, IRC) a URL linking to a MacOS application scrolled by my screen. Unclack is a small MacOS utility which silences the microphone of the user when they’re typing. The purpose is to prevent the noise of typing being passed through to other participantswhen on
DIAMOND RIO PMP300
Diamond Rio PMP300. My loft is a treasure trove of old crap. For some reason I keep a bunch of aged useless junk up there. That includes the very first MP3 player I owned. Behold, the Diamond Rio PMP 300. Well, the box, in all its ’90s artwork glory. Here’s the player. It’s powered by a single AA battery for somewhere around 8 hours ofUBUNTU VOLTAGE
Ubuntu Voltage. For a few years we’ve been performing a live version of an Ubuntu Podcast at FOSS Talk Live. This is a lively, nerdy, in-person Linux Podcast event at the Harrison Pub in London. A few shows are performed in front of a live slightly drunk studio pub audience. We are but one troup of performers though, over the courseof the
THE BEST PORTABLE SPECTRUM The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was the second computer I ever owned, a natural upgrade from the Sinclair ZX81. I still own a small collection of Spectrums which work perfectly after a bit of light refurbishment thanks to Mutant Caterpillar. They’re not often setup to play with, due to the space needed. Some Many of the Spectrum games are absolute classics, and still remain fun to play now though. A PROBLEM WITH NOTEBOOKS A Problem with Notebooks. I cleared a shelf out this week, and rediscovered eight different books, all different shapes and sizes. Some date back seven or eight years, others are more modern. None of them are full, none are recent. Each one contains approximately a dozen pages of notes. I think I have a problem that needs solving,maybe.
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POPEY /pəʊpi/_n_ 1 : a blogger 2 : a prolific micro-blogger on Twitter and Mastodon 3 : a social animal 4 : a Community Manager 5 : a strong advocate for Ubuntu 6 : a podcaster 7 : a geek through and through POPEYE /pɒpaɪ/ _n_ 1 : A tattooed, corncob pipe–smoking comic strip character who eats spinach 2 : he is what he is and that's all what he is 3 : not popeyDetails
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