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Linux Outlaws 71 - Evil@Home

Posted January 11, 2009

MP3 - 1 hour 36 minutes 42 seconds, 44.4 MB — you can also download all our episodes in both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format from the Outlaw Archives.

In the first episode for 2009, Dan & Fab discuss the new Linux kernel, more Debian troubles, the MD5 vulnerability that got unearthed by 200 Playstations and the hilarious Zune 2k FAIL.

If you have any feedback on the show, please leave it in the forums — thread for this episode.

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Introduction

[0 hrs 17 mins 11 secs]

Open Source Releases

Also check out Dan’s in-depth blog post on the iPlayer.

News Stories

[0 hrs 58 mins 16 secs]

Microwatch

[1 hrs 4 mins 34 secs]

Book Review

Synopsis:

*”Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world’s record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company’s driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But Kirkland and EarthCore are not the first to find this treasure. The mountain’s history reveals two centuries of disappearances, murder, and insanity. The discovery of ancient platinum knives, razor-sharp despite lying untouched for 1,000 years, reveals evidence of an ancient culture. If the artifacts are genuine, they show a pre-historic empire that once spanned from the Southern tip of South America all the way up through the American Southwest. Wealth and fame lie under that Utah mountain, but at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting … and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.”*

Forum Threads

Feedback Emails

  • Steve Canz and Stuart Burns tell us about Novell’s eDirectory
  • Bart Carneels wanted to thank us for introducing him to my.gpodder.organd says he’ll work to support the service in Amarok and extend it to include episode status (listened/unlistened)
  • Baggers and Bill Matthews wrote to us about the Amazon mp3 store
  • xvedejas says he didn’t need a custom kernel to get the EeePC 901’s hardware working with CrunchBang
  • Erik Andrén wants to tell us about Spotify
  • Patrick Archibald recommends the MythMote iPhone app
  • Stephen Parsons tells us that the German government is now requiring documents to be in ODF format
  • Dylan Thiedeke writes us a very funny email about Aussie ISPs
  • Smegzor asks about manually installing a newer kernel in Intrepid
  • We also had emails from Phillip Heron, Gregor Bocic, Matt Hampton, Manfred Mosier, Kristian Naugle, Marcus Stenbakk, Frank Bell, Joe Foy, Reine, Les Pounder, Sweyn, the glza, Michel Van Der List, Michael Spannbauer, acidphlux and Kevin J. Vaughn

Song: The Struggle by Hobo Twang from their self-titled debut album

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.