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We are back with another feedback-only show. There will be another regular episode shortly, but we desperately needed to clear out the inbox a bit, so sit back and enjoy nearly an hour’s worth of emails and messages from listeners like yourself.

• Reine Dedeurwaerder sends us loads of stuff, including some pictures of her and her dog, a link to an article about the global popularity of Linux (which we briefly discuss), a link to pictures of some really crazy cabling, a link to a video about Freebase Parallax and an audio file about the proliferation of programming languages and the problems of software development today

• Henrik Claesson proposes a fix for the slow scrolling Firefox problem Fab had some time ago — he proposes to switch from XAA to EXA for the rendering in your xorg.conf file and adding “Option “AccelMethod” “EXA”” in the Device section of that file

• Martin Reindl donated money to the show (we say thank you) and asks what we thought of the “Heimweh Paderborn” booth ads he donated; he also wants to know what ISP Fab works for

• Tony (Hendo) Henderson send us the Noel Watson song we used in the last show and tells us that he resurfaced on the web after some time in hospital; he also wants to point out that you have to be at least 55 to even consider beating him to “oldest listener of the show”

• Ukytreats tells us about a cool Ubuntu experience he had in Lone Pine, California (near Death Valley)

• Iwan van der Kleijn proposes to get the guys from MoinMoin and DokuWiki together on one show

Special Tip from Fab: Check out You Look Nice Today, a very funny comedy podcast by Merlin Mann and friends

• James Stephenson says Second Life is only partly open source — the second life client (Viewer) is Open Source, but the server software (The Grid) is not (but there is reverse engineered server called OpenSim)

• Eric “Black” Mesa tells us he loved the interview with Evan

• Robert Potter tells us how hard it is to get Dells with Ubuntu in some cases — we don’t understand that either and give Dell some flak for that (you can, however, download the Dell Ubuntu image on their wiki)

• Kevan sent us a story about more weaknesses in Internet protocols and how an attacker can intercept data sent through BGP

• Jeff Smith says the last few shows were too quiet

• Mark Faulkner sends us a link to a story about a cross-platform browser exploit and asks us what we think about it — he also mentions OWASP

• Stephen Parsons likes the show but corrects Fab’s pronunciation of “Raleigh”

• Marc Ferguson likes the look of the “new” site, but asks why we don’t abbreviate the posts on the /podcast page — Fab explains

• Peter Brown tells us about his experiences with Linux and MythTV and wonders why Nautilus doesn’t have tabs

• Sweyn tells us about his open source podcast, the Unix Tips Podcast and asks us how to promote it

• Glyn sends us the link to the consultation Becky mentioned in her interview with us

• Matt Hearn tells us that the new Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is not currently available in the UK

• Sleepynate sends us a link to the story about the mad sysadmin in San Francisco that went down recently

• Nido Media thinks the “Ubuntu Bongo Drums” should be Dan’s self-promotion sound effect he also sends us a picture of the KDE package version number in Ubuntu being 5.47 — huh!?

• Ramsey Cain tells us of some more problems with our mp3s — we think it’s the album art in the tagging, some players don’t seem to support that

• Ben Webb send email #36 or didn’t he?

• Richard Querin writes us again with a very funny email — go check out his awesome Inkscape screencasts

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The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.