Episode 68: The Cast and Mr. Larry Bushey
News & Personal Updates
- Oracle gives OpenOffice to Apache
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-gives-openoffice-to-apache/9035
http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2011/06/oracle-gives-openoffice-to-the.html - Oracle proposals may open Java Community process
http://www.itworld.com/storage/169105/oracle-proposals-may-open-java-community-process - The Linux Kernel hits 3.0
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/new-name-same-linux/9016 - The Skype protocol has been reverse engineered, WOW! some one has way to much time on there hands
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUxOA
http://skype-open-source.blogspot.com/
Main Topic
- Interview with (the great) Larry Bushy from the Going Linux podcast!
Feedback
- Doughbury wrote in about Microsoft’s Skype aquisition
- Sparra Mc commented on our installer discussion from episode 67
- And our friend Boston Peng chimed in as well
- And finally, a shout-out to DruKe.
Website of the Week
Tip of the Week
- Install Linux Mint 11 on a SDHC card (related to discussion during ep_67 about Rob booting into Mint to get around Windows-based firewalls on his work laptop)
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/06/01/install-linux-mint-11-on-an-8-gb-sdhc-card/
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Good episode. Can’t go wrong with Larry on a podcast.
I do have a bit of constructive criticism. The file size was 117 mb. That’s really big. The mp3 was encoded at 160 kbps. I think you could reduce the size of the file greatly by encoding at smaller rate (64 or 96 kbps). The file was grinding my sansa clip to a halt, not to mention the bandwidth you guys need to use to distribute the file.
Hey rad_sci_guy, I just want to say that first we have unlimited bandwidth on our end, so that’s not a problem. Second, we know very well the size of the files, James was listening through the final copy of the MP3 and he says that at about 96 kbits/s it sounded really bad, and the ogg (which has been bigger from the start) sounded good. the file size for the “Bad” MP3 was 70-80 MB where as the size for the OGG was 90-100 MB. I know that’s big but there is a difference in sound Quality. Maybe we need something like the UbuntuUK podcast as they have a hi quality and a low quality option. But yes file size is important, it’s just balancing it with Quality. We record the podcast into Flac files which end up being about 100-160 MB per person (with around 4-5 people on at a time that’s 400-600 MB!) so a 100 MB MP3 is quite compressed from the original.