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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 24: Bunch of Sockpuppets

From the Bad Voltage site: Myself, Bryan "the Cheater" Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss operating systems, magnanimity in defeat, cheating, mendacious donations to charity, fingerprints being rubbish, how to kiss a Red Hat engineer, and: * The "reverso" debate:

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 22: Oval Ted Bag

From the Bad Voltage site: We return to our normal places around the globe and continue to bring you tasty things for your ears. Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, myself and an inexcusable absence of Bryan Lunduke think up a new competition involving things in our houses, and also discuss: * Where’

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Android Version and Device Stats for LQ Native App II

Now that the native LQ android app is in the 5-10,000 download range, I thought I'd post an update to this previous post on the topic of Android version and device stats. See this post if you're interested in browser and OS stats for the

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 19: Fedora Murder Trial

From the Bad Voltage site: The whole team return (remarkably) to speak, weirdly, only about things beginning with the letter F. Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, with the following “F-ing” things: * Fire Phone: Amazon release a phone, and we decide whether it’s exciting

LinuxQuestions.org

LinuxQuestions.org Turns Fourteen

I’m extremely proud to announce that exactly fourteen years ago today I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org. As has become tradition, here’s a quick post looking back on the past year and ahead to the next. 5,169,549 posts and 532,989 members (899,

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 16: Forgotten to be Right

From the Bad Voltage site: Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, the greatest podcast in the history of this or any other universe. In this episode: * Is the GPL still relevant in the 2010s? * We talk to Ilan Rabinovitch, co-founder of the Linux Fund credit

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 15: Why Dear Watson

Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, : * Bryan gave his yearly “Linux Sucks” talk at LinuxFest Northwest, and the rest of us take issue with his approach, his arguments, his data sources, and his general sense of being * The XBox 360: reviewed as a TV set-top

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 14: Cloudy Donkey Mascots

Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which the cloud shows up a lot this week, in the following ways: * Personal cloud storage: what do we use, what do we like, and what do we think? Companies, personal clouds, servers, tarsnap and Dropbox * Christian Schaller,

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Pebble Smartwatch Review

This review was originally done for Bad Voltage, but I figured it may also be of interest to my general readers. In Season 1 Episode 13 of Bad Voltage, we covered the topic of wearables. One device that came up in that episode was the Pebble watch. For those who

Personal

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

I never post to this blog about personal issues. 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 bit outside of my comfort zone with this post, but it's for

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Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyzer Review

This review was originally done for Bad Voltage, but I figured it may also be of interest to my general readers. As I mentioned in the season one, episode four "Open Source Health" segment, I'm someone who makes a concerted effort to stay relatively healthy. Part

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 11: Internet of Thugs

Myself, Stuart Langridge, The Invisible and Inaudible Ghost of Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present a new Bad Voltage, in which we discuss: * Our new series, Breaking Down The Bullshit where we delve into the current buzzwords and trends and determine if they are all hype or have substance. In this

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 10: Midnight Throne Travels

Good Listening, Bad voltage Myself, Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present a new Bad Voltage, in which we discuss: * Tech conferences — which ones are good, which ones are not, and why? * Desktop machines versus laptops, and a review of Stuart’s new gorgeous desktop computer from PC Specialist

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 9: The Starting Pitstop

Myself, Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon wend their troublesome ways down the road of: * We weigh in on the upstart/systemd brouhaha in Debian and discuss what happened, why it happened, and whether it was a good thing or not. * Bryan reviews the Lenovo Miix 2 tablet and

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Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2013

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

Android

Google Nexus 5 Review

This review was originally done for Bad Voltage, but I figured it may also be of interest to my general readers. In this episode I'm going to review the recently released Nexus 5 phone, manufactured by LG. While the 5 in the product name is a reference to

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 4: Fat Drone Backups

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon and myself (Bryan Lunduke is unable to make it again, although we do of course hope that he recovers from whatever horrific disease he’s contracted) bring you: * Open Source Health: are the open source community more unhealthy than most? Perhaps the trend for health-related gadgets

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 3: Hear My Lung

In our third episode, your hosts Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and myself (our compadre Bryan Lunduke is away cavorting around Europe) bring you discussion, argument, and amusement on: * We delve into the new Playstation 4 and XBox One consoles and discuss whether this is the next generation of gaming, or

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Good Listening, Bad Voltage

What do you get when you combine an ardent but realistic Open Source evangelist, a bearded heavy metal community manager, an author/Linux game creator and a raconteur web developer who all have a modicum of podcasting experience? You get Bad Voltage; a new project I'm proud to

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LinuxQuestions.org Turns Thirteen

Another year, another woeful lack of blog posts. I’m extremely proud to announce that exactly thirteen years ago yesterday I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org. As has become tradition, here’s a quick post looking back on the past year and ahead to the next. 4,

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Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2012

I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year on behalf of the entire LQ team. 2012 has been another great year for LQ and we have quite a few exciting developments in store for 2013, including a major code update that we originally had planned for late 2012.

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LinuxQuestions.org Turns Twelve

I'm extremely proud to announce that exactly twelve years ago yesterday I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org. As has become tradition, here's a quick post looking back on the past year and ahead to the next. 4,693,050 posts and 469,470

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Android Version and Device Stats for LQ Native App - Is Fragmentation an Issue?

Now that the native LQ android app has a few thousand installs (and since members really seem to enjoy LQ-related statistics posts), I've decided to post the platform version and device statistics for the app. Platform Version Android 2.3.3+ 48.1% Android 2.2 24.4%

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2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners - Thoughts

The polls are closed and the official results are in. You can view the detailed results here, but I’ll include a list of winners at the end of this post for convenience. We also have a nice visual overview of all categories on a single page, new last year,

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SCALE 10x Musings

I'm currently on a flight home after attending SCALE 10x, which seemed like an opportune time to reflect on the event. SCALE was once again an amazing event. Kudos go out to Ilan, Gareth, Phil and the entire SCALE team; the tracks were excellent, the event well managed