An Ubuntu Survey?

Well we recorded the podcast the other day, and I told Brian I would post the stories on the site.  The first story we discuss is this very interesting survey over at omgubuntu.  You definitely need to listen to the podcast for our discussion on this, as Brian was very surprised at the discussion Corey and I had in regards to this.

Update on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 4:17PM by Brian "Wags" Wagner

And the results are in...If you are interested check them out on the Offical Blog.  The are in two parts.  Part one is here.  Part 2 is here.  Enjoy...And look forward to some more ranting on the next podcast.

What can you do with some computers and a shipping container...

Ship it to Zambia and help a villiage get connected to the net of course.  Over at TechRadar.com they have a great article talking about how this idea and Linux is changing lives.  This is a great use of Tech and an inspiring example of how we as Tech's can change the world.

What's your favorite use of Technology for the Public/Greater Good?

Building a low power home server for less than $80....

So my friend Walt was looking for a way to store his media on his network.  He had been running a freeNAS box for years but really wanted to turn off the loud power hunger 10 year old machine in the corner.  So he started researching and first converted a $30 PogoPlug to ArchLinux.  This worked but while surfing he found out that a GoFlex could also be converted to run ArchLinux.  As he discusses this gives him two advantages.  The first is internal 1GB SATA disk is going to be faster than any USB drive.  The second is by having an internal disk he can assign a real swap space.  It also will let things comiple faster in Arch.  Check out his articles and let us know what you would do with the server.

Episode 65 - We want some Pi and Cotton Candy..

Running Time:
1) Introduction

Box.net giving away accounts not at the normal 5GB size but at 50GB of storage for life, theirs not yours, for new android app users until March 23, 2012.  Someone figured out how to use that space as a mount point/drive on your machine.  It's a pretty cool way to get some cloud storage.

2) News
SLES 11 SP2 is out and what are they doing now?  Why is Linus so made at them?
The Consumerization of IT
What really happened with OpenStack and Microsoft?
Canonical's Ticking Time Clock
Wags really wants a Raspberry PI or 10

3) Conclusion

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We now have Cotton Candy and Pi ready....

That's right Rasphberry Pi has become a reality.  Well the model B version did at least.  That is the one that is $35 and has 2 USB ports, 256MB of memory and an ethernet jack.  If you were one of the folks lucky enough to live in the UK and get one we are seriously jealous.(OK Brian is, Joe and Corey say they have enough projects.)  You had to order  literally in the first minute they were on sale because they sold out that quickly.  There are more being made and not one but two different vendors will be taking orders for the next round.  If you check out the Rasphberry Pi Project website you can find the links to get on the waiting list. (WARNING: they are doing a server migration on 3/7/2012 so there may be issues getting to the site that day.)

There is another small form factor but more expensive machine called Cotton Candy that is the size of a USB Thumb Drive.  It comes with more memory, a quad core Samsung ARM processor, and wifi.  The cost of these features however pushes the price up to $199.  Still a good deal if you need to keep a computer in your pocket.  Check out the details on both machines here.