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Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2015

I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year on behalf of the entire LQ team. 2015 has been another great year for LQ and we have quite a few exciting developments in store for 2016, including a major code update that is now way overdue. As has become

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Episode 56 Has Been Released: Moon Pigeons

Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you Bad Voltage, in which there is an accidental oversupply of buzzwords, there is no podfading, and: * 00:04:35 Mozilla have declared that they’ll stop selling FirefoxOS phones through carriers and will “pivot” to an IoT; Jolla have run

Bad Voltage

Wi-fi Security Camera Review: Netgear Arlo vs D-Link Guardian DCS-2630L

In the next episode of Bad Voltage, I’ll be reviewing the Netgear Arlo and D-Link Guardian DCS-2630L wi-fi security cameras. Tune in tomorrow to listen to the ensuing discussion and the rest of the show. In the interim, here’s the review: Netgear Arlo vs D-

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Episode 54 Has Been Released

Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you Bad Voltage, in which we are curmudgeonly, we are ethical philosophers, and: * 00:02:00 Are developers learning libraries and not learning the actual programming languages they've chosen? And is this a problem? Are JavaScript hackers just using

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Episode 53 Has Been Released

Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you Bad Voltage, in which Jeremy is unwell and yet battles on heroically, everyone is cynical about politicians and yet battle on heroically, and: * 00:02:14 The rise of inexpensive open source computers: the PocketChip and DragonBox Pyra are examples

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Episode 50 Has Been Released

Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you the wonderful world of Bad Voltage, in which you get a mat underfoot because your feet hurt, there is a small Lunduke on the scene, and: * 00:04:48 Mycroft, the open source "AI for everyone" home automation

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Episode 49 Has Been Released

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you the wonderful world of Bad Voltage, in which it’s all about the money, it’s never about the privacy, and we disagree about: * 00:05:03 The Endless Computer bills itself as “a computer for emerging markets”; a unit with a

Bad Voltage

Nest Protect Generation 2 Review

In the next episode of Bad Voltage, I'll be reviewing the Nest Protect Generation 2, a network capable Smoke + Carbon Monoxide detector. Tune in tomorrow to listen to the ensuing discussion and the rest of the show. In the interim, here's the review: Nest Protect Generation

LinuxQuestions.org

LinuxQuestions.org Turns Fifteen

WOW. Fifteen years ago today I made the first post ever at LQ, introducing it to the world. 15 Years. I know I've said it before, but 5,354,618 posts later the site and community have exceeded my wildest expectations in every way. The community that has

Android

HTC One M9 Review

Here's my review from the latest episode of Bad Voltage. Note that a slightly longer version, with some pictures and a quote is available at LQ. It's no secret that I'm a fan of Android. As a result, I use and test a lot

Firefox

My Frustration with Mozilla

I recently decided to stop using Firefox as my main Browser. I'm not alone there. While browser statistics are notoriously difficult to track and hotly debated, all sources seem to point toward a downward trend for Firefox. At LQ, they actually aren't doing too badly. In

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 44 Has Been Released

Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke (he returns!), Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which all books are signed from now on, we reveal that we are coming to Europe in September and you can come to the live show, and: * 00:01:39 In the last show, Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 43: Got The Om On

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which Bryan is sadly unavoidably absent, we discuss relationships between the Ubuntu and Kubuntu community councils, we ask you to tell us which bits you like, there are once again accusations that eating yoghurt is a bad personality trait, and:

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 41: Second Lunch is my Favourite Lunch

Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which hell may be slightly chillier than previously. Featuring the uses for abundant graphical power, the nature of what “cross-platform” really means, and: * 00:02:15 Google announce Google Fi, a new MVNO-style mobile network joining

Personal

The Ride for Roswell; Together, We Can Help Find Cancer Cures and Save Lives

I almost never post to this blog about personal issues (my similar post about the Ride last year may have been my first). Posts are usually related to LQ, Linux or Open Source. The truth is, I'm a pretty private person. That means I'm stepping a

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 39: Ambitious but Rubbish

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage (without Bryan Lunduke who is currently struggling with an attack of Ebola), in which everything needs to be an order of magnitude better. Featuring flying bags of flammable liquid, 120 frames per second, and: * What needs to happen so that I

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 38: Easy Being Green

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which we decide to talk about Linux almost completely for the whole show. Featuring following the dare in the last show a great deal of OpenSuSE (or openSUSE or opensuse or possibly Open SUSE), green-coloured things, and:

FSF

The New Yorker: The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty

I think it's indicative of how pervasive Open Source has become when a traditional non-technical mainstream publication such as The New Yorker writes an in-depth article about the GNU manifesto turning thirty. A well done, fair, factually accurate, and balanced article at that. You should read

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 37: Spooning with Everybody

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which we drone about drones, complain about governments, argue about old modem companies, and: * Why is OpenSUSE relevant, and why should we use it? Including a challenge to the three non-Bryan members of the team to try

Bad Voltage

Anova Precision Cooker Review

In the latest episode of Bad Voltage, I review the Anova Precision Cooker Sous Vide. While you should listen to the show (which includes discussion of the review), here's the review text. Anova Precision Cooker As I mentioned in my Soylent review, viewing gastronomy as merely about sustenance

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 35: One Plug Per Segment

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself unleash all the Bad Voltage you can handle, this week featuring: * Live Voltage! The first Bad Voltage live show, on 20th February at SCALE. Come to it! Be part of the majesty! (2.13) * Jeremy reviews the Anova Sous Vide, and discusses

Android

Android Version Stats for LQ Mobile (2014)

With the recent news that Google will not patch the WebView vulnerability in versions of Android <= 4.3, I thought it would be a good time to look at the Android version stats for LQ Mobile. You can see stats from seven months ago here. Also, a reminder that

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 34: Hidden Cities

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you all the Bad Voltage that’s fit to print, including a special feature where three of us record with good microphones and one moron doesn’t: * We give the second half of our predictions for where technology will go in

Bad Voltage

Soylent 1.3 Review

In the next episode of Bad Voltage, I review Soylent 1.3. I typically post the review text after an episode comes out, but as I did with the Kindle Voyage Review I’m going to post it ahead of time. Why? Well, during the show myself and the rest

LinuxQuestions.org

Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2014

I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year on behalf of the entire LQ team. 2014 has been another great year for LQ and we have quite a few exciting developments in store for 2015, including a major code update that we originally had planned for 2013. A