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Episode: 1104
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Title: HPR1104: TuxJam: Episode 15
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1104/hpr1104.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 19:01:33
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Hello, hello and welcome to Toxjam episode 15, now I do realise that it has been a awfully
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big gap in between 14 and 15 and for this I do apologise, but I have a big, what
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person to blame is that big yellow thing in the sky. Yes, sun visited the island of Lewis way
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back then in June and hasn't really left until just late last week, so that has been two and
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a half months, almost three months of wall to wall sunshine, so in all honesty that has
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kept me out of my virtual life and I've probably done a lot more than my real life, I've been enjoying
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the sun, but winter's approaching again, so you know we don't tend to do the middle ones, we don't
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have a spring here, we don't have an autumn here, we get summer, winter, so we're back to winter
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here, so as I speak now it's blowing a gale outside and it is pulling rain, so Toxjam is back,
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I don't want to call that new season, I'm not going to go down that route, but the holidays over
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the rains back on, so that means I'm back in front of the PC, and hopefully we'll have a show that
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you will enjoy today, now so in the coming up we have got a look, we take a look at Lubant too
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and we have a also right type which is our processor, we look at a wee simple app that's great
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called Radio 3 and on the mobile we take a look at the Orweb browser, then let's take a
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look at what is out this week and what is our interest of course to the Toxjam listeners,
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right then, so looking at what's out, we have got Tiny Core Linux, now this is 4.6 has been released
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and for those who don't know Tiny Core is an absolutely literally tiny distribution, yes,
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you're going to list this right 12 megabytes, right, there are just throws that are bigger than
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that in gigabytes, but we'll not go there, this is not going to give you obviously the full unity
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desktop with all your favorite normal apps, but you will actually be surprised if you ever load
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up Tiny Core, just how much it can do for such a small amount of space, so 12 meg you can of course
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opt for the Core Plus which is a staggering 65 megabytes, but that's been released,
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we also have got Waterways and this is R6 and this is a new Buntu-based distribution
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and it's got, it has LXDE as a desktop environment and it's designed for low power and older
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computers, so if you want to go and check that out, we have got Zorn OS 6.1 and this is called
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a light and again this is a new Buntu-based distribution on the LXDE desktop, seems to be getting
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a theme here, I didn't do this deliberately honestly, we have got saline, we reviewed saline a
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while back and if anyone is hasn't used it, it's a Debian based distro and it comes by default
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XFCE, but it's one of those things that just works, everything's there, all of your drivers are
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there, if you want to do a wee bit like mappers, MP3s etc, play straight out of the box,
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flashes included, javas included all those things, so if you haven't tried it, I would recommend
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giving it to anybody who's a newbie, maybe obviously don't just go hand in the disk, you might
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have to install it for them, but I would have no problem installing it and then maybe leaving it
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with minimal input, it's very easy to use and like I said, nice distro, it does build on Debian
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stable, I think it is, so I tend to find that stuff, so wee bit too stable for my liking, but
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that's easy enough to change, and the final one that caught my this week is Manuaro Linux 0.8,
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now Manuaro and this for a change is not there, it's not either Ubuntu or Debian based, but this
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is an arch Linux based distro, and this features the XFCE desktop, so if you fancy maybe trying
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it arch but don't really want to build it, then I recommend taking a wee look, and oh one that
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I've just noticed, and I almost missed this one, PC Linux OS, 2012 0.08 has been released, now that
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I think it's been quite a while since I've seen that distro release from the PC Linux OS crew,
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not a distribution I've ever used much, but I've heard a lot of people talk about it,
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it's, I think what puts me off it is, it doesn't come in 64 bit, I think as far as I remember,
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it's only 32 bits, it comes KDE desktop by default, or at least it did, and it's built on
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Mandriva, so yeah if you want to go out and we check that out, like I said links to all these
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out in the show notes, now before we go and take a slightly more in-depth look at Ubuntu,
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let's give a wee bit of music because it's been quite a while, so this is the sound statues with
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give it up.
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Still in my new phone, yeah, what I said I do to you,
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If you try to turn away, well there was never going back from what you did then, from what you and I were
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Cause your love's in pieces, it will never be this way again
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Cause I want you, but I need to hear you now, there's no forgiveness
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What do you do, when I love you and I can't see why, there's no forgiveness
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Come and do your mind, please don't forget what I turn to you
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When I do it your way, cause I know how you want it cruel
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But still you believe it's nothing you and I were
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Cause your love's in pieces, it will never be this way again
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So give it up, give up, give it up to me
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Maybe then you'll see I want you getting with me
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Since you've gone from my life, well since you've gone I'm alright
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So I think I'll be time with not my way of view
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So give it up, give up, give it up to me
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Maybe then you'll see I want you getting with me
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Since you've gone from my life, well since you've gone I'm alright
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So I think I'll be time with not my way of view
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So I want you, but I need to hear you now, there's no forgiveness
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What do you do, when I love you and I can't see why, there's no forgiveness
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Oh, could you feel this way again
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So give it up, give up, give it up to me
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Give it up, give up, give it up to me
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Give it up, give up, give it up to me
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Give it up, give it up to me
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And that was sound statues there
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And if you like them, go check them out, they're on Jemento
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I think all of the tracks tonight are one, which are pre-war new, but they're from Jemento
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So if you like any of them, head over there, links for specific tracks, as always, will be in the show notes
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Now then, for our distro, this is probably one that initially I probably wouldn't have said
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would have been an ideal tux jam thing, but recently on the holidays
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I was away at somebody's house and they had a very, very old computer
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However, both of this couple, they were in their 70s, they didn't want to actually have anything, buy anything else
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So really, I was kind of left with this thing that had not too much power on the tool
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In fact, it was very, very slow
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It was, I think it was 800 megahertz, it had 250, 256MB of RAM
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So we're talking, these things are really, really slow, and certainly that 800 megahertz is single processor
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It was not dual core, and then like that
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So, this left me with that challenge
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Now, they had been using Windows XP, and they were sick of it
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They had constant problems with it, it was updating, and it was actually just way too much for what the machine could really handle
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Because you were switching it on, and I kid you not, 45 minutes, it took to stop looting up everything
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And he said, can you do anything with it? And I was saying yes, but it means repeating a whole new system on tuxes
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I don't care, just try anything
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And the problem was I had one day, they're not one day to install, one day to install the system
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And then show them both how this system worked, and give me sure they were comfortable with it
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Realistically, I had to have this done quickly, so initially I know a lot, you might be thinking well, for something that I told,
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You know, build up an arch system, build up a gen 2 system, build up a devian system, yeah, I could have done all that
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But that would have taken quite a lot of time, and I had to spend the majority of my time showing them how to use this
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Because they struggled with Windows XP, so I was thinking I don't know how they're going to take to Linux in general at all
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So it was purely a gamble, so I tried, first of all, Zuban, do you want to check the stats and note that wasn't going to happen
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So I thought, well, I'd like to keep them on a new bundle derivative, just purely for easy mistakes
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Then there's plenty of support, and the community if I ever need to ask a question
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Also, pretty much everything's done for you, everything's there for you with most of the Ubuntu distros
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So I thought, wait, I've never even tried LXDE, Fireless Lubuntu, but I'll give Lubuntu a try
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And to be honest, I was actually quite impressed with it, I did not realise quite how lightweight it was
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It seemed to run quite well, okay, it's not blissfully fast, you're not all of a sudden turned this ancient PC into a quad-core 3GHz machine
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Don't give me wrong, it still was slow to me, but the difference between that and Windows XP was phenomenal
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It started up quickly, there was a bit of, I didn't know it was a bit of a delay, there was a delay with just when you started things, took a few seconds to load
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Maybe that's just because I'm used to my system, I don't know
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But first impressions was, it was very nice, a very clean desktop, I really did like it
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It almost kind of reminds me of a slight, kind of watered-down version of the GNOME 2 desktop
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I can't complain at all, it was very nice, as I said, very light to it, I didn't actually realise quite how little came with Lubuntu
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And maybe that's an LXDE thing, but as far as native apps go, there was Silpheed, which is an email client
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And it's actually very simple to use, we set that up and now, like I said, bit in mind, this is non-computer users in their 70s
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So this really was a challenge for me that I was really going into the unknown here
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Silpheed was incredibly easy to use, very easy to set up, they were happy with that
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Chromium was the default web browser, not a problem for most systems, however, I found it was a bit sluggish on an older system
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And so I tried oddly enough, I tried Meduri, which I thought great, this is going to be really, really quick, because it's a nice wee light browser
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Meduri had several problems, mainly short display and web pages, there was big chunks missing
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And I'm not talking about pictures, I'm talking about text, it would just disappear, if you refresh the page
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Sometimes that would bring it on, but I thought, oh, this isn't really very acceptable
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So in the end, I did Chromium and I tried Firefox and I tried C-Monkey
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And thankfully, they went for C-Monkey in the end because it was probably proved the fastest
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Actually, surprisingly enough, Firefox on the old system was much faster than Chromium, Chromium really was slow
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But there was not enough of a lot else with this though
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You didn't have an instant messenger, you didn't have a micro-blog in client, okay, fair enough, they're not going to use that
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But just thinking for you, for the average Linux user, I would say these things might well be, I would have said standard
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As far as graphics went, we had a graphic empty paint graphic editor and a simple scan, that's it
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Office, well, you had Abyward, a numeric was supplied for your needs there
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You had Osmo, which is a personal organizer and document viewers for just viewing things like PDFs
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Now, audacious came with it installed, along with no main player, which I was kind of surprised both of them were there
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And now let me think, was it other things?
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I should really shoot up my notes in front of me, this is terrible, I have no excuse for this
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But there really wasn't an awful lot, that was one thing, I really did find quite surprising
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It was just how bearless system is, so in all honesty, although I wanted the likes of R-Shoodov
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I installed a Debian system from scratch, this practically did it for me, but it actually did a lot of the work for me
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So I was really quite pleased with that
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It had LX Terminal, Leafpad was the default text editor, the file manager was PC Man FM
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No, I was one thing I was quite pleased at was that in PC Man FM, the last time I reviewed this on text jam
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One problem I said was that it didn't show up partitions, well did not have an issue at this time, partitions were showing up without me going to look for them
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So that really has improved it
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Obviously with the likes of PC Man FM, it does have a limited amount of features
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I'd like to see maybe add a few more, but at the end of the day it is supposed to be, it's just what it is, it's a lightweight file manager
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If you want something with a bit more features, then there is Nautilus, or if you want to try Dolphin, you can
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Or as my personal favourite Thunar, but there's plenty to try
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No, then what else do we have? Well, not an awful lot, as I said
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The one thing I was quite surprised at was we only went to Derivative
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It had an update manager, that didn't surprise me at all, and this came with synaptic as well installed
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But it had an update manager, but there seemed to be no easy way of setting it up sort of checked for updates all the time
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Nautilus likes to be bumped into what it says, you've got so many updates, would you like to install them?
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So in the end what I had to do was I just put a shortcut on the desktop for them, and just said right, double click on this, maybe once a week
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Update it, and your computer should be running a bit better, rather than just never updating the thing at all
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So that was okay, that was a workaround
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I was glad to see Synaptic on there, they had their own version of the Lubuntu software centre
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So I was quite pleased that I saw that so brilliant, we can install stuff, no bother
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Now, I did actually have problems with this, on their version, the 32-bit version
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I had problems in that, the only thing that would show up on the Lubuntu software centre was the installed applications
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Couldn't seem to, I could uninstall from there, but I couldn't seem to search for anything at all
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Just kept on giving me a zero result
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If I went into the directories and categories, all I would get was the stuff that was already on the computer
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So I found that odd, but this was only on the 32-bit version
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When I tried the 64-bit version, I had no such problems, I had plenty of stuff there
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And well, it was behaving as I would expect
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Now, as far as proprietary drivers go, being typical with the Ubuntu, you can go to additional drivers
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And install the Nvidia X8 Rack cards themselves, a drivers themselves for your cards
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And I must admit, it runs smoothly
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I know people do have issues with them
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Personally, I don't have a problem, I do install them purely because I am a gamer
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And I like a full 3D, not a watered-down version, which is so far, I seem to get
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If there was a brilliant alternative, I would happily use it
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But right now, for me, newvo driver, it just simply does not work that well
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As far as stuff installed at the box goes, well, not an awful lot came by default
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But when you install the Lubuntu restricted extras, you get your MP3 playback capabilities, your Java and Flash etc
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And things seem to work fairly well
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So if anybody is thinking about a system for an older machine and you don't have time to load up and build us a debut system or a gen2 system or anything like that
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Then I would probably recommend you try at Lubuntu
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Because like I said, I can't fault it too much
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If you're wanting a system where everything's installed and it just works and everything's there for you in the box
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I'd say probably stay away because you do have to install a fear, but it comes with very limited SATA tools
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But at the same time, I said, might you just do what you want, so give it a check out
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Now, I think it's a time for a wee bit more music
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And this one is another one from Jemendo, a large club say, and this is promise
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And this one is another one from Jemendo, a large club say, might you just do what you want, so give it a check out
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And this one is another one from Jemendo, a large club say, might you just do what you want, so give it a check out
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my dear friend
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my dear friend
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my dear friend
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my dear friend
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my dear friend
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my dear friend
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my dear friend
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Play my head onto the sand, next to you my de-your friends
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rance island crack your hands, you take it to the promised land
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Can you see your picture, us, my구요, your skin?
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Can you see my picture, us, my completelivion?
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You will gain
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Hold me in your arms tonight
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I'll be staying by your side
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I'll be staying by your side
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Now then, one thing just occurred to me while I was listening to that tune there
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I didn't actually say how the actual couple got on
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Well, to be honest, this was a real one in the eye for the Fud campaign
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Or you say Linux is difficult to use or Linux is only for geeks
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Because the couple actually were really impressed
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The only thing that does slightly worry me is they kept on seeing that
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They were so impressed they were going to tell their friends who had computers
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So I'm worried the next macovers that I'm going to have to end up taking a
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blue bun to disc with me and end up probably writing a small manual or tutorial or something
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So yeah, so it definitely was not something that was difficult for them
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This was not even a computer-related couple
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I mean, really, one of them could not even browse at the start of the day
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The other one could browse and check emails but couldn't type
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Should them all that, those kind of things
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And like I said, brilliant
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It was so hard-worming just to actually see that
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Because you hear so much from the anti Linux campaigners that it's difficult to use
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It's not difficult to use
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At the end of the day, Windows is only used because it comes installed
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And I bet you if you gave the average Joe on the street a disc will windows and a blank computer
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Most of them probably wouldn't have that much of a clue how to do it
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Or would they be in be that confident?
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No, I seriously doubt it
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So if people are given a working system and it's put in front of them
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It just shows you that you do not need to be a geek
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So like I said, one in the eye for the Microsoft Brigade and the crap of fanboys
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But I don't know, back onto this now
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The next thing I found, I found this, it's right type
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And it's a word processor
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A very basic word processor, I must admit
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I can't remember how I came across this but I gave it wasn't difficult to install
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When I did find it, in fact, it was in the Ubuntu Repos
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And I've installed it through the Ubuntu software center
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And it's a very, very simplistic word document
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Sorry, word processing document writer
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So we've got really not enough of a lot
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It opens up nice, light, nice blue border
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And the emblems are pretty basic
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I'll give you, this is now, this is with me having all the tools on
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You've got open, save, save as, print, bold, italic
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Underline, left align, center align, highlight
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Highlight mode, font size, font
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And speak text and stop
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Now, I have to admit, I did try the speak text and it never once worked for me
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So I tried a few different things but I didn't go into it in any depth
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Now, when you actually start typing anything
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It actually comes up with a whole, it looks like there's the windows too small
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There's a big area at the side on your right hand side that's just been left
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Words start appearing there, a wee bit like predictive text
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So you can start typing and it tries to kind of predict what you've got
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And it gives you a whole list of options
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It's quite nice in that respect
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And then, if you actually misspell something
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You don't have to right click on it
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It tells you it's got a thing the same way as most other word processing do
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It gives you a red line underneath it
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And it tells you straight away, it's lists of options
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It also has got...
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Oh my, my tongue's in a twist here
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What do you call it?
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A punctuation checker
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Yeah, yeah, had a senior moment there
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It also has a punctuation checker
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And what I quite liked about this is that when you actually right click on it
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It tells you, they actually think, no, not in some fancy jargon
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It's in proper English, so if you type in the first word of a sentence
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And it's not going to capital later
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You right click and it will actually say the words
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The first letter of a sentence should be a capital
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This makes me think that this was actually probably written either by a primary teacher
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Or somebody who had spent a lot of time
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With a lot of young children
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Because this is what is the ideal
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Do I think this could easily become my default word process?
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Lutely not, it is so, so basic
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It really is for somebody who's just learning out in the English language
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Maybe learning to write for the first time
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Or maybe who's just spelling is very poor
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And they want to actually see the different spellings of different words
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Quickly, rather than right click in and giving an option
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Or clicking the spell checker
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It can only type, you cannot input stuff into it
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There's no options to insert, clipart or pictures
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They tried copying and pasting of a picture that I had
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It wouldn't do anything
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In fact, it just kind of looked at me confusedly more than in the US
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And then just kind of froze for five seconds
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And then stopped, but then it came back on
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So really, this is purely an electric type writer here you've got
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Right, this is not a replacement
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For open office writer or leave office writer
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This is most definitely a lot more basic
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I'd say it's somewhere in between
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Basic as notepad
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Or any just basic text editor
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But it's nowhere near in the realms of a full word processor
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Where do I think it's good?
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If you have children, brilliant
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If you have somebody maybe learning English for the first time
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Again, this would be a great tool
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But it is basic, you won't get very much out of fancy stuff out of it
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The
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In fact, even in my case the fonts
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For some reason you clicked
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And
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Half the time, that was one bug I noticed about it
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Half the time it would come up with that you only had one font
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Other times it would give you a whole thing of fonts
|
||||
So I'm not quite sure whether that's a bug they know about
|
||||
Maybe I should actually submit a bug report
|
||||
But it just seems
|
||||
Such actually a simple thing that I would have thought that fonts would have changed quickly
|
||||
But you know what they usually do
|
||||
If you click on the font to change
|
||||
If it doesn't change your first time, click on it again
|
||||
You get a second time
|
||||
So check that out, especially recommended for anybody involved
|
||||
With education of young children
|
||||
Or if you have a young child yourself
|
||||
That is right type
|
||||
I think you can pretty much tell the fact that it's a doodled W
|
||||
And a doodled T
|
||||
With that having incorporated smiley faces into it
|
||||
That is the logo for this
|
||||
That's a wee icon
|
||||
You can probably tell it's not really for serious novelists
|
||||
Or professional writers
|
||||
More like a bit of fun
|
||||
But it's good to see these kind of programs
|
||||
Not everybody needs a full office suite
|
||||
It's good to see that they're still a place in the system for these
|
||||
And like I said, check it out
|
||||
If you have children
|
||||
Or you can maybe recommend a teacher
|
||||
Specifically a primary school teacher
|
||||
But apart from that
|
||||
If you want something
|
||||
To enter into this year's nano-rime competitions
|
||||
I'd probably say
|
||||
Look elsewhere, this one isn't for you
|
||||
Now then I've probably waffled for long enough
|
||||
So we've had two fairly chilled out tracks
|
||||
So this one's going to rock it up a wee bit
|
||||
This is crimson sun with don't care
|
||||
The sun needs to make new things
|
||||
Have some fun
|
||||
Gave them more I feel so full
|
||||
Look from the sun makes me feel comfortable
|
||||
I cry my heart
|
||||
With the wind
|
||||
With the wind bring on the way
|
||||
Yeah
|
||||
When the evening falls
|
||||
This poor world can write us
|
||||
And just by it I would
|
||||
I feel the fire even
|
||||
Even more I feel lonely
|
||||
Because when the sun makes me feel comfortable
|
||||
I cry my heart
|
||||
It's with the wind
|
||||
With the wind bring on the way
|
||||
Yeah
|
||||
This only wind strong fit my face
|
||||
I smile and feel so good again
|
||||
When the sun shines
|
||||
To the sun every sun feels easy
|
||||
When the night has come
|
||||
The moon lights up
|
||||
The scenery will return
|
||||
Oh no
|
||||
Oh
|
||||
Listen to the gals I feel still cry
|
||||
The sun's sun makes me feel comfortable
|
||||
I cry my heart
|
||||
With the wind bring on the way
|
||||
Yeah
|
||||
This only wind strong fit my face
|
||||
I smile and feel so good again
|
||||
When the sun shines
|
||||
To the sun every sun feels easy
|
||||
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo
|
||||
And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt The solo instrument in my face, I found you so excited When the song turns into cleanser Everything feels fucking easy
|
||||
And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt And in this moment, no doubt and in a moment I'm dead
|
||||
And now I want to turn that attention to a nice, wee simple app That I have to thank Gordon Sinclair Who mostly will probably know Beethoven as Thisode Wave on Identica
|
||||
who's also my co-host of Criven's. He recommended a brilliant wee app called Radio Tree.
|
||||
Well, he knows that I quite like listening to music and especially radio streams and also live podcast streams.
|
||||
Now this is just one of these things. It's not a fancy tool. It does something particularly well.
|
||||
First of all, it's not actually a mean big program in itself. It drops a symbol into your system tree
|
||||
and it's just looks, it actually looks like the Wi-Fi connection Wi-Fi button on a laptop.
|
||||
That's all looks like small silver and blue icon and by default it gives you jazz, Latin, classic,
|
||||
classic rock, pop rock, oldies, chill country, techno electric,
|
||||
and each of these come with about six different radio streams in. No, okay, that's not a heck of a
|
||||
lot especially given the amount of radio, internet radio stations are right there but it does
|
||||
give you a nice wee variety and personally I would like to maybe see a bit more towards my tastes,
|
||||
but then again I like a heck of a lot but there's no metal in there which each did can annoy me
|
||||
but I did quite like the classic rocks. So it's very, very easy to add as well individual
|
||||
radio stations. So if you could favorite streams like one of the things first things that I listened to
|
||||
was the live feed of the bug cast and of course that's not going to be on all the time but on a
|
||||
Friday night it's great. Click and all you need to do is turn on radio 3 and then what else
|
||||
just go to well I've saved under podcasts and then the bug cast that is it. You get it streamed
|
||||
straight away. No big programs on the background this is not going to be an overload lighter than the
|
||||
likes of running Clementine or Rhythmbox or Banshee or anything like that in the background it
|
||||
is so so simple. How do you add things? Well all you do is nice and easy preference, configure
|
||||
radios then it asks you do you want to create a new group which you can or you can just put it
|
||||
straight into the sub menu or just straight into the top menu so I did one for local radio stations
|
||||
so I just added that and then I added a variety of different Scottish ones and like I said it
|
||||
works it's nothing fancy it certainly is not going to be winning any awards anytime soon it's
|
||||
probably not even going to catch the eye of most people in fact some people would probably look
|
||||
at it and go this is kind of pointless but I can tell you if you listen to internet radio it's
|
||||
not it's a nice wee system a nice wee application sorry fits well in the system and it just works
|
||||
you know it's one of those things but it'll probably never ever be updated and if it does good
|
||||
if not I'm not going to be too bothered because it really doesn't actually need updated so
|
||||
that may be kind of stating the obvious but if you listen to internet radio then ice would strongly
|
||||
recommend this app and it's the one good thing is you can really create your own custom ice
|
||||
playlist so you can quickly call them at any time it doesn't have to be 24-7 radio like I said
|
||||
the bugcasters are actually only live for maybe two hours a week that's it but it still works not
|
||||
a problem it does have a streaming problem sometimes with PLS playlist files so I have had problems
|
||||
however with some radio stations when I have at the PLS and it didn't work all I did was choose
|
||||
one the other stream so the real player or sadly to say Windows media player they both worked quite
|
||||
well so just be wary of that if one doesn't work try a different one and I can say it for
|
||||
me it worked fine I did a problem initially one the bugcasters ones and it kept on telling me
|
||||
that the bugcasters wasn't on and I'm saying I know fine well it's on because I'm actually
|
||||
listening to it in a different application but then try to try the other stream because bugcasters
|
||||
two streams and that won't work so it's good obviously it's not perfect hopefully they'll get
|
||||
these weekend of things ironed out but at the same time don't expect too much it is just one of
|
||||
these nice three programs and I think pretty much anybody listening to this show will be able to
|
||||
use it because it does not and I mean not use up much memory at all so go check that out now then
|
||||
speaking of music let's have a wee bit more and this one is Tommy Tusser I don't want to cry
|
||||
oh
|
||||
Jenny knows the way downtown when I was 16 I followed around
|
||||
so pretty in the neon light I worked in the streets all through the night oh well you should
|
||||
see your laughing I wish I was her man she tells me how she feels alone and often dreams
|
||||
romance and she said
|
||||
that's what she said
|
||||
I don't want to cry
|
||||
I looked into her big sad eyes let's forget about it just for the night
|
||||
she granted me a little bit then took me upstairs into her bed and she started with me slowly
|
||||
so my love for her was wrong I told her it would be all right and that's when she lost control
|
||||
and she said
|
||||
that's what she said
|
||||
but she is in her eyes
|
||||
don't want to leave your sound she loved me that night
|
||||
don't want to cry
|
||||
oh
|
||||
don't want to cry
|
||||
oh
|
||||
don't want to cry
|
||||
oh
|
||||
don't want to cry
|
||||
oh
|
||||
don't want to cry
|
||||
oh
|
||||
no
|
||||
that's what she said
|
||||
wait
|
||||
when she is in her eyes
|
||||
don't want to leave your sound she loved me that night
|
||||
let's go get out of this town
|
||||
my old life behind
|
||||
that's what she said to me
|
||||
but she is in her eyes
|
||||
don't want to leave your sound she loved me that night
|
||||
don't want to cry
|
||||
oh
|
||||
oh
|
||||
and that one tonight Tommy Tucson was the only one that was not taken from
|
||||
Germain Doe so that one was actually taken from Bad Panda Records so if you want to
|
||||
hear more of him go check it out there links as always in the show notes
|
||||
now we are going to move from the desktop over to the android phone and this is a browser that
|
||||
I hadn't actually tried much of before and it's OR web and why is this one particularly standing out
|
||||
because it's specifically I think the only browser that comes configured by default to use
|
||||
Tor and in this the internet day of spying and trolls etc who doesn't need more privacy
|
||||
now how does it behave because I found a lot of the browsers before really slowed down to
|
||||
snails pace with Tor and almost kind of make it unusable well I can't see that for this
|
||||
the speed of it was quite good I really was quite surprised it did not affect the overall
|
||||
connection speed very much at all it did affect it a wee bit but not very much
|
||||
now as far as the browser itself goes my word it is really basic so I mean obviously this is
|
||||
kind of fairly still early stages of development but it really is basic there's no tabs you can only
|
||||
have one one web page open at a time you just click on you can type in go you can click and go
|
||||
and that will take you to whatever you want whatever the web address you've typed in you can go
|
||||
forward you can go back you can reload the page or you can go to settings and I'm not kidding
|
||||
that's it as far as behaving with the other plugins etc it seemed to behave with I did try it
|
||||
with flash although I don't have flash on my phone anymore I did try it I briefly installed flash
|
||||
gave it a try it worked so if you really wanted to you can do that you can in as far as setting goes
|
||||
you can it's mainly to do with privacy settings the only thing you can really do is you can choose
|
||||
to not load the images by default you can choose to enable a disabled JavaScript that's actually
|
||||
disabled by default set the home page now you can in fact put in your own proxy settings and
|
||||
choose your own proxy ports you can choose what user agent it is now this one was quite odd because
|
||||
the range of options are not as maybe straightforward as I'd normally expect usually what I would expect
|
||||
is Android or desktop well this one actually has Android default one you can choose to be an
|
||||
iPhone an Nokia a Blackberry Firefox 5 or i.e. 8 I don't know why the heck anybody had wanted to
|
||||
claim they were using i.e. anything but anyway that's the options to have so you can and the other
|
||||
things are clear you cookies etc and you can choose to block all cookies things like that so this
|
||||
is a but so it's been set up with a lot of privacy in mind as you would expect from anything
|
||||
that is designed to run tour now please be warned that when you are actually using this
|
||||
you will need to install the tour agent as well with it now I didn't I wasn't actually made
|
||||
aware of that when I installed it on eftroid so instead if you have the play store go to the play
|
||||
store and it'll tell you exactly it says this will not work without this because if you install
|
||||
it will install but just nothing will connect ever and you'll be constantly left with unable to
|
||||
connect to the internet unable to connect so take I said worthwhile definitely worthwhile if you
|
||||
want to use tour on the mobile phone I will give you one piece of advice though disable your email
|
||||
your email client because I had canine on this I still have canine on this and the problem was
|
||||
every single email that canine was syncing to which were basically all my emails
|
||||
it they all blocked me and they all pushed me to change passwords so this was a bit of a
|
||||
problem because they all claimed oh it's someone from a undefined destination has tried access
|
||||
it we've blocked this and we've disabled your password so I had to do this with every single one
|
||||
of my emails so that is one thing I would recommend do not use this if you're going to be using your
|
||||
email client again performance wise very happy as far as features go apart from outside of the
|
||||
privacy settings I really think this still needs new features before I would even consider
|
||||
using it as my default browser but because I deal mainly through the phone with all my email
|
||||
client emails etc I would probably not use this in fact I've already actually taken it off to be
|
||||
honest just so that I should get back to using my phone for my emails so if you do that if you don't
|
||||
use your email through your phone by all means check out if privacy is a big thing then I would
|
||||
highly recommend it performance is good they really have tweaked that I think we need a bit more
|
||||
feature so guys yes you will it will run flash if you really wanted to I hate flash on the phone
|
||||
it's a memory hug and also a battery hug oh it's terrible but insane that it runs nicely I would
|
||||
just like to see a wee bit more sparkle to help this not even stand out from the crowd but even
|
||||
maybe get to the level as the crowd because the majority of phone browsers now are certainly on
|
||||
the ones I've tested do still use tabbed browsing so you can have two or three open at the same time
|
||||
but like I said that's really down the personal preference I like that but it might not be tabbed
|
||||
these tastes now then a wee bit more music and for this we are going back to gemendo and this is
|
||||
reduced romantics and this is brain science
|
||||
it's getting rainy and I'm stuck here lying flat on the floor
|
||||
mattress with my head jammed against the wall
|
||||
I got the job interview stuck and stuff and two skulls
|
||||
it sounded okay but now I think I might just not go
|
||||
if it's all the same I might just stay and I hope you don't come home too late
|
||||
maybe I should study and sign up for some kind of course
|
||||
get it certificate stick it up there on the wall
|
||||
I can do brain science pay a big shot on tv
|
||||
we could take holidays go somewhere nice overseas
|
||||
but if it's all the same I might just stay and I hope you don't come home too late
|
||||
so
|
||||
I'm feeling guilty, you're at this slave in a way
|
||||
Getting up early and running to the bus every day
|
||||
I'll cook a treat, maybe something without kidney sauce
|
||||
And we can sit around and laugh at this silly old world
|
||||
And if it's all the same
|
||||
I might just wait
|
||||
I hope you don't come home
|
||||
I hope you don't come home
|
||||
To your late
|
||||
And this brings us to the feedback section of the show
|
||||
And sadly as the regular listeners know this is now the last segment of the show
|
||||
But not a problem
|
||||
No worries, we will be back soon
|
||||
In fact, I can pretty much guarantee September, October and November time will not be anywhere near us
|
||||
Hot as it was or even dry as it was over the summer months
|
||||
So Tux-chan will be back on a more regular basis
|
||||
I am sorry for the long layoff by the way
|
||||
Now, while recently while I was on this break
|
||||
I did actually talk with the guys from the Music Manumid podcast
|
||||
And that one there is, I'll leave it in the notes in the link in the show notes
|
||||
Should I say
|
||||
And I was on 1,2,0,8,1,9, which is actually just the date
|
||||
Nothing too exciting, they haven't actually done over 120,000 podcast shows
|
||||
But that was actually a great yarn we had that day
|
||||
And it's a good show if you take a listen to it
|
||||
And if you actually enjoy the show
|
||||
I would actually recommend you listen to the episode before mine
|
||||
Where they actually had winmires from fitting the conniptions on there
|
||||
So I recommend checking that out
|
||||
Now, on my long hiatus there
|
||||
I do get an awful lot of feedback from people
|
||||
And just saying, is Tux-chan dead? What's the story with it?
|
||||
And glad to see, no it's not dead
|
||||
But I am truly, truly grateful for all the feedback I received
|
||||
Because I honestly didn't realise that many people listened to Tux-chan
|
||||
So it was nice to know I was missed
|
||||
And hopefully it will be too long before the next show is out
|
||||
And like I said, we can make this more regular
|
||||
Remember, I don't want to get to the point where I'm saying I'm doing this
|
||||
fortnightly or months because it is just as and when I get the chance to
|
||||
I'm already doing a weekly show with Kriven's
|
||||
And what I don't want to do is burn myself out
|
||||
And then eventually just take a break from everything
|
||||
That's what I don't want to happen
|
||||
So hopefully you'll put, you my loyal and patient listeners will put up with me
|
||||
And we'll get a show out another show out very soon
|
||||
So hopefully you enjoyed that
|
||||
One thing that I would say and I would really, really like
|
||||
Please do this
|
||||
Would you please start recommending not so much music
|
||||
Because I listen to Kriven's music pretty much all day
|
||||
Even when I'm at work I listen to it
|
||||
But I'm not getting much of a chance to actually try out a lot of new
|
||||
pieces of software, especially about the unknown stuff
|
||||
So what I'd like you to do is recommend any piece of software
|
||||
As long as I'm a creative comment
|
||||
And nonsense creative comments for music
|
||||
As long as it's open source
|
||||
Then I don't mind
|
||||
So anything, it could be a small, as Liquid Gordon mentioned
|
||||
There, Radio 3, that's the tiny wee program
|
||||
Or it could be a full office suite I've not heard of
|
||||
Especially in Overwatch 1 and the making
|
||||
Okay, I personally do use Libra Office as much as I can
|
||||
But at the same time, I'm up for trying pretty much anything
|
||||
I mean, I tried that one earlier
|
||||
Typerite and okay, it's not for me
|
||||
But it does have a purpose in this life that is a use for it
|
||||
So please, no matter how small or large
|
||||
I think it is, as long as it's open source
|
||||
I would really appreciate you emailing me these
|
||||
Or even just dent it and put the tag hashtag
|
||||
tuxjam, or there's a group actually join the group
|
||||
on Identica and post it in there
|
||||
So you can also catch me on
|
||||
daasbra, I'm kevy at joindaasbra.com
|
||||
And as well as the Libertree project
|
||||
I'm kevy there as well
|
||||
We have an Unseen Studio account
|
||||
which will post to join daasbra, or socially daasbra
|
||||
Identica and Twitter
|
||||
However, that is purely for announcements
|
||||
So don't start having a wee yarn with us there
|
||||
Because if you want a yarn with me, just do it at kevy
|
||||
But I am not at kevy on Twitter
|
||||
Somebody was saying that to me the other day
|
||||
I messaged you on Twitter and you didn't respond
|
||||
Well, the reason is that's not me
|
||||
And I have never been on Twitter
|
||||
And I don't have any future plans to go on Twitter
|
||||
Thank you very much
|
||||
But one last thing I'd like to say before I sign it
|
||||
And other way, apart from emailing me
|
||||
Which is you can just do that at kevyatunseenstudio.co.uk
|
||||
Another way is I set up a pirate pad
|
||||
So the pirate pad is piratepad.nate
|
||||
forward slash tuxjam
|
||||
So if you've got any songs, any software and like that
|
||||
Pop on there and leave the name of it
|
||||
And also please don't forget to leave the link
|
||||
That's one other thing I'd like to point out
|
||||
So I don't think I've got anything else left
|
||||
So like I said, hopefully you've enjoyed this return
|
||||
I'm not going to go down the route of calling it season 2
|
||||
I really want to avoid that
|
||||
So this has been tuxjam episode 15
|
||||
We're bringing it to our close with
|
||||
Plastic 3
|
||||
And this is commercial high-tech music
|
||||
So a nice bit of an electro-instrumental stuff here
|
||||
Just to send you off
|
||||
So if this is late on at night, you can have a wee dose of this
|
||||
Anyway, I shall be catching you in the next episode of
|
||||
Crivens, which will be the big 3O
|
||||
Wow, Crivens 30
|
||||
And tuxjam 16
|
||||
Okay, if you haven't checked out the new website
|
||||
Please do, it's still a welcome progress
|
||||
I haven't got the graphics on there yet
|
||||
But it's cast.unseenstudio.co.uk
|
||||
So until next time, adios
|
||||
See you next time
|
||||
Thanks for watching
|
||||
Thanks for watching
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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