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Episode: 306
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Title: HPR0306: News Cast Ep 1
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0306/hpr0306.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 15:56:54
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Music
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Hacker Public Radio newscast. Hi Hacker Public Radio listeners and welcome to another
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short episode on News About or Surrounding the new Slash Linux world, the free and open
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source software world, and frankly anything I find interesting. I'm your host, Phoenix.
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Google Outages hit Internet Land on Tuesday, 24th of February. Users in the UK and US were
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unable to connect to Google's email service for around 4 hours. Google News also suffered
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an outage as well. This is the second time that Google has suffered a major outage affecting
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both its free and paid customers in the past 4 months. In the UK, Virgin Media announces
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that it will be upgrading its lower tier customers from their 2-mech line to its 10-mech service
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from May. However, Virgin still used traffic shaping techniques such as throttling. This
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will be applied to upgraded customers as well. As a Virgin customer affected by this upgrade,
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I called up to ask for more information such as, would I be charged for this upgrade? No
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needed the woman at the end of the phone not know anything about it, but her advice was to wait
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until the changes and see them. Well done Virgin, just as the name suggests when it comes to decent
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customer service. Also in the UK, Justice Minister Jack Straw had his hotmail account hacked into.
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It was used to try and launch an audacious forward attack. Hundreds of the minister's contacts
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received an email saying that he was stranded in Nigeria and needed $3,000 to settle an outstanding
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expense before he could return home. The email also went on to say that he was in Nigeria promoting
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a charity named, empowering youth to fight racism. It claimed that he hit the sticky patch due to
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his losing his wallet. The hotmail account was suspended today and his believed that no
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monies were sent to the scammer. Love and more hate him, Simon Calmer,
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apparently dropped this revelation that he plans to be frozen when he dies in hope that medicine
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can bring him back to life in the future. The creator and judge of the ex-factor and the
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American Idol series was dining with the British Prime Minister when he dropped this into the
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conversation. The Prime Minister Brown, it's not so sure that the British public would be behind
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him. He said, I'm not sure me coming back from the dead would be quite as popular as Simon,
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in fact, there may be a public campaign to stop me from being frozen. Brown jokingly shared
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during the same dinner party. I'm not meaning to be rude, but do you really call that nice
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break, Simon? Events. Well, if you have an event or a user group meeting that you would like
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me to mention on this newscast, then please drop me a line. The email address is phinics
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at thelinicsociety.org.uk. That's phinics at thelinicsociety.org.uk. Same goes if you have a
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story or an article that you want me to mention. As I've not received anything yet due to the
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early days of this newscast, you're in events that I have for you on Scotland. Close to my heart,
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the University of Aberdea, Aberdea Dundee Linux Society, have Gavin Henry doing his open
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LDAP replication strategies talk on the 12th of March at 7pm. More information on the talk can
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be found at www.thelinicsociety.org.uk.4 slash events. Also at thelinicsociety, Nick Walker,
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the newly elected vice-president, will be given a talk on the 26th of March at 7pm. The talk is
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entitled web penetration, privilege escalation and maintenance. And information on this talk
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can also be found at www.thelinicsociety.org.uk.4 slash events. I'd also like to take this
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opportunity for a shameless plug. Thelinicsociety's birthday is on the 15th of March,
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which will herald another year. Happy birthday to thelinicsociety and all of its members.
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Scottish Developers also have a busy month ahead. On the 19th of March at 6.30 in Glasgow,
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there will be a talk entitled the version of control and testability. Registration is optional,
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but the cost is free. On the 8th of April at 7 o'clock in Edinburgh, JQuery and Introduction,
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Registration is required, but the cost is free. On the 14th of April 2009 at 6.30 in Glasgow,
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Scottish Developers and the SQL Server user group will be having a talk entitled two DBAs,
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walk into a room full of developers. Registration is required, but the cost is free.
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For more information, you can visit the Scottish Developers website, which is www.scottishdevelopers.com.
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As usual, show notes and links contained within this episode can be found as either a comment
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and touch towards this HBR episode on the HBR website or at www.thelinicsociety.org.uk.
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You can follow me on Twitter and under the username of Finix, which is spelled F1NUX.
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That's F1NUX. Thank you for listening. Finix signing off.
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Thank you for listening to HACRA Public Radio. HBR is sponsored by Carol.net.
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She'll head on over to C-A-R-O dot N-E-T for all of her students.
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