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Aug 14 2008 - Klaatu throws together a few tutorials and some listener feedback and calls it an episode. HOWTO get transparency going in Fluxbox, HOWTO edit video with Blender 2.46, email from listeners, and the new LinguistChat podcast is mentioned and eagerly anticipated! Also, celebrity gossip and obligatory vulgar language! (Well, OK, not really.)

Important Links:
Klaatu's Pictoral Blender NLE Tutorial
LinguistChat Podcast
FluxBox Transparency Wiki Page

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Aug 4 2008 - Klaatu speaks with RowingGolfer about programming, Linux, the phenomenon of the recent Chess Griffen sightings (are they cases of mass delusion? or are they real?), a sport called Rowing, golf club etiquette, and dentistry a sport called Rowing, golf club etiquette, and Open Dentistry.

Important Links:
Gstreamer Tutorial by Mr. Bacon
pystreamer official launchpad site
Klaatu's Emergency Backup of All the Linux Reality Episodes
RowingGolfer's Chess Sitings Script

libxml gripes about Apple too

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July 21 2008 - I know a few people out there get upset when I complain about Apple's brand of Unix, but just so those people know it's not just Linux fanboy-ism (although admittedly there's a healthy dose of that in my motivation, too) here's what the folks maintaining the Python bindings for libxml have to say:.

Apple regularly ships new system releases with horribly outdated system libraries. This is specifically the case for libxml2 and libxslt, where the system provided versions are too old to build lxml.
While the Unix environment in Mac-OS X makes it relatively easy to install Unix/Linux style package management tools and new software, it actually seems to be hard to get libraries set up for exclusive usage that Mac-OS X ships in an older version. Alternative distributions (like macports) install their libraries in addition to the system libraries, but the compiler and the runtime loader on Mac-OS still sees the system libraries before the new libraries. This can lead to undebuggable crashes where the newer library seems to be loaded but the older system library is used.

Yes this is esoteric to most people, but lately it's been a big problem for me and I think in general it is indicative of how Apple views the Free Software that it so proudly advertises as one of its biggest strengths.
Important Links:
CodeSpeak libXML Python Bindings

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July 21 2008 - In this week's episode, Klaatu talks quite a bit about KDE and Plasma, including a very exciting project by Ivan Cukic, who embedded Plasma onto a motherboard. Klaatu answers a listener email about the X Window System and whether it can or should be like OS X and other GUI environments. Klaatu also does a HOWTO change the language on your Debian system (thanks jLindsay, for that), including how to change the keyboard settings so that you have access to various other alphabets.

Important Links:
Ivan's Plasma Hack
Project Looking Glass
Looking Glass Download
Looking Glass Demo Video

FSF Speaks Out Against iPhone

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July 18 2008 - The Free Software Foundation has issued a statement regarding the iPhone. If you haven't read it yet, you should check it out. It's very insightful and 100% true. We wanted to pull a small quote from it, and this one seemed to sum up quite a bit of what was being said:

"Apple, through its marketing and visual design techniques, is manufacturing an illusion that merely buying an Apple makes you part of an alternative community. But the technology they use is explicitly chosen to divide people into separate digital cells, and to position Apple as sole warden. When your business depends on people paying for the privilege of being locked up, the prison better look and feel luxurious, and the bars better not be too visible."

Read the Full Article

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July 14 2008 - Klaatu talks about the EFI Shell, Hackermedia.org and the Chromed Pork podcast, Apple and their me.com debacle and also wonders whether proprietary software vendors have much justification for claiming their product is worth more than Free Software, reads listener email, ponders GUI, X11, and JRE, and much more.

Important Links:
Intel EFI
Free EFI-Shell
Bad Code Exposed!
Hackermedia

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June 30 2008 - The second episode of the exciting third season of the Bad Apples Linux Cast! This week's show finds Klaatu recommending a few cool podcasts over techpodcasts.com, praises a company for displaying Tux on a USB flash drive box, and interviews Jonathan, a Linux and Orca user opening a Linux-only computer business.

Important Links:
SourceTrunk
The Linux Link Tech Show
Lotta Linux Links
Linux Basement
Mandriva Linux

Tux University

gave us zero of zero stars!

Tux University - The site linux.learninghub.com decided to review a number of podcasts based on their educational value. The Bad Apples Linux Cast did NOT get reviewed, so we are proud to say that we were not given a low score. But the page serves one useful purpose; it gives worthy podcasts like Going Linux, Linux Basement, Lotta Linux Links, the Linux Link Tech Show, Linux Outlaws, Productive Linux, BSD Talk, and others some much deserved publicity.

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June 23 2008 - Klaatu stumbles through the first episode of the exciting Third Season of The Bad Apples Linux Cast! Topics include Firefox 3, the Asus eeePC, eeeDebian, eeeDora, and Mandreeeva (no, those are not all official names). He also discusses what responsibilities we as Linux users and evangelists have to the people we introduce to Linux.

Important Links: FrostWire
The Linux Link Tech Show
Mandriva Linux
Mandriva on eeePC HOWTO