In today's ogg cast, dave talks with Todd Lewis, Conference Chair of the Palmetto Open Source Software Conference -- POSSCON. POSSCON is March 23rd -25th, 2011 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. You can find out more about POSSCON by visiting posscon.org
In today's ogg cast, dave issues his largest apology yet, while also managing to talk about the Google CR-48 cloud book, the SouthEast LinuxFest, Darren Aronofsky movies, ps3 games, Fossil-SCM, and Debian Squeeze.
5 years
Today marks the end of my 5th full year of podoggcasting. 133 episodes over 260 weeks ain't too bad I reckon. I do wish I could have been a little more frequent these last couple of years; my dealings with the SouthEast LinuxFest have slowed me down somewhat to say the least.
Doing an oggcast is an excellent way to get involved in the community--and it's fun too. Heck, I didn't even know I was part of the community until after I started my oggcast. Oggcasting is easier than you think. If I can do a oggcast, anyone can. Here's an idea, why don't you do one? All you need is a microphone and some storage space. I bet you already have a microphone, and the internet archive already has the storage space, and you have just run out of excuses. "But I don't have enough to talk about" you whine say. Well that's one of the reasons why hacker public radio exists. You don't have to start your very own oggcast; you can just contribute to hacker public radio until you run out of stuff to say, or decide that you want to start you own.
I guess what I am saying is this: start a oggcast, it will change your life, make all your wildest dreams come true, and it will give me something else new to listen to; AND if you don't start a oggcast, I will be forced to continue doing mine. Thanks in advance for you oggcast contributions.
The inaugural Northeast Linux Fest will be Saturday April 2nd, 2011 from 10am -3pm, at the Student Center Building at Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts. There will be an after party following the event at Jillian's starting at 4pm.
ask.debian.net
This just came out in the Debian Project News:
Members of the Debian project have started a new user oriented service at ask.debian.net. It lets users ask specific questions and find answers, while also providing rating systems and badges for users. It allows Debian Developers and other contributors to easily stay in touch with the community.
In today's ogg cast, dave talks about espeak versus festival, Super Street Fighter IV, some note taking apps, Rockbox and his recent sansa e280 problems, netflix, star wars, quake 3 and some movies he has been watching.
Sansa e280 update
After recording the soon to be released LLL129 oggcast, I sat down and tired to unbrick my recently replaced sasna e280 media player. Long story short, it was a success. Simply booting into recovery mode and replacing the original firmware did the trick. So, now I have two fine sansa e280 media players, both running rockbox. The new one (a v2 original firmware device) is every bit as nice as the old v1 original firmware device-- in every way save one: battery life. The old device gets 25 hours of battery life, the new one only 16. I am sure this will improve over time (rockbox battery life on my old 4th gen ipod has increased from 4 hours to nearly 15 since version 3.4) as the rockbox developers continue the fine work they do on this fine project. Speaking of which--rockbox verion 3.7 should be out any day now.
Now that's what I call good timing
My new refurbished sansa e280 arrived today, 3 hours after my current one quit working again. I am charging the new e280 as I type this, and will be installing rockbox on it when it's fully charged. After that, I am going to try to get the old one working again, by following the unbricking procedures (removing and replacing the battery did not revive the player this time).
My new sansa e280 is a v2 original firmware device, my old one is a v1; both are fully supported by rockbox. I will try to make the time to document the unbricking procedure as well as what is involved in installing rockbox.
I am thinking of getting a clip+ as a new back-up device if I cannot revive the old e280.
blog feed | 
ogg feed | 
speex feed
