TechBytes Episode 76: Amazon in Ubuntu and Other Interesting Items

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2012-11-06 01:30:46 UTC
Modified: 2012-11-06 01:30:46 UTC

Techbytes 2013
Direct download as Ogg (01:08:59, 15.0 MB)

Summary: The 76th episode, the first of this season, kicks off with Tim and Roy

Today's show deals with Amazon in Ubuntu, Vista 8, Apple vs. Samsung, search engines, games including Valve, and a variety of other topics. At the end we added the track "Misery Loves Company" by The Lovemakers.

We hope you will join us for future shows and consider subscribing to the show via the RSS feed. You can also visit our archives for past shows. If you have an Identi.ca account, consider subscribing to TechBytes in order to keep up to date. ⬆

As embedded (HTML5):

Keywords: Amazon Ubuntu Apple Samsung Windows8 Bing Valve

Download:

EPO Education: Workers Resort to Legal Actions (Many Cases) Against the Administration: At the moment the casualties of EPO corruption include the EPO's own staff
Microsofters Try to Defund the Free Software Foundation (by Attacking Its Founder This Week) and They Tell People to Instead Give Money to Microsoft Front Groups: Microsoft people try to outspend their critics and harass them
[Meme] EPO for the Kids' Future (or Lack of It): Patents can last two decades and grow with (or catch up with) the kids
Topics We Lacked Time to Cover: Due to a Microsoft event (an annual malware fest for lobbying and marketing purposes) there was also a lot of Microsoft propaganda
Gemini Links 22/11/2024: ChromeOS, Search Engines, Regular Expressions: Links for the day
This Month is the 11th Month of This Year With Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (So Far It's Happening Every Month This Year, More Announced Hours Ago): Now they even admit it
Links 22/11/2024: Software Patents Squashed, Russia Starts Using ICBMs: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, November 21, 2024: IRC logs for Thursday, November 21, 2024
Gemini Links 21/11/2024: Alphabetising 400 Books and Giving the Internet up: Links for the day
Links 21/11/2024: TikTok Fighting Bans, Bluesky Failing Users: Links for the day
Links 21/11/2024: SpaceX Repeatedly Failing (Taxpayers Fund Failure), Russian Disinformation Spreading: Links for the day
Richard Stallman Earned Two More Honorary Doctorates Last Month: Two more doctorate degrees
KillerStartups.com is an LLM Spam Site That Sometimes Covers 'Linux' (Spams the Term): It only serves to distract from real articles
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 20, 2024: IRC logs for Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Gemini Links 20/11/2024: Game Recommendations, Schizo Language: Links for the day
Growing Older and Signs of the Site's Maturity: The EPO material remains our top priority
Did Microsoft 'Buy' Red Hat Without Paying for It? Does It Tell Canonical What to Do Now?: This is what Linus Torvalds once dubbed a "dick-sucking" competition or contest (alluding to Red Hat's promotion of UEFI 'secure boot')
Links 20/11/2024: Politics, Toolkits, and Gemini Journals: Links for the day
Links 20/11/2024: 'The Open Source Definition' and Further Escalations in Ukraine/Russia Battles: Links for the day
[Meme] Many Old Gemini Capsules Go Offline, But So Do Entire Web Sites: Problems cannot be addressed and resolved if merely talking about these problems isn't allowed
Links 20/11/2024: Standing Desks, Broken Cables, and Journalists Attacked Some More: Links for the day
Links 20/11/2024: Debt Issues and Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban: Links for the day
Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar), Magna Carta and Debian Freedoms: RIP: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) & Debian: from Frans Pop to Euthanasia: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
This Article About "AI-Powered" is Itself LLM-Generated Junk: Trying to meet quotas by making fake 'articles' that are - in effect - based on plagiarism?
Recognizing invalid legal judgments: rogue Debianists sought to deceive one of Europe's most neglected regions, Midlands-North-West: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Google-funded group distributed invalid Swiss judgment to deceive Midlands-North-West: Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Gemini Links 20/11/2024: BeagleBone Black and Suicide Rates in Switzerland: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, November 19, 2024: IRC logs for Tuesday, November 19, 2024

TechBytes Episode 76: Amazon in Ubuntu and Other Interesting Items

Recent Techrights' Posts