Well we certainly are trying to keep up with our new years resolution to get more podcasts out. The latest episode can be found here. Darlene and I chat about video editors in linux and the various projects we are busy with at the moment. See show notes for more detail and url links. 

Well here is the video I created on my experience loading Debian Linux on the NAS SS4000e. During the process of creating this video I moved from Kino to Open Shot as my video editor. Editing in Open Shot was a lot easier but it seems to be unable to co-ordinate the sound and video correctly, resulting in sections with empty frames and, of course,  making the vidoe look dubbed.

Well a belated Happy New Year to everyone and I hope 2010 is better than 2009. I don't suppose that will be hard though given it was such a bad year. In keeping with tradition I made a whole bunch of new year resolutions and one of them is to put more time into the OTE web site and the podcast. The only prerequisite for this is to first make some more money so as to have more free time!

In this interview Darlene and I chat to Luis Lopez from the Ubuntu Columia Team, and former sales engineer at Canonical, about Ubuntu and FLOSS in Colombia. More information about Luis, and how to contact him, can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/luis_lopez

Get the podcast interview with Luis Lopez here.

In this episode of Open Tech Exchaneg, Darlene and I chat to Marc Lepage from the non-profit organisation IICD (International Institute for Communication and Development).  Marc shares his insights and knowledge gained from years of experience in providing policy advice and developing or formulating projects in the area of ICT for development. 

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For any Ubuntu user the need to sudo all the time can be irritating especially when the last command you typed needs to be retyped to pass it to sudo.

Well I found a cool short cut just run "sudo !!" and this will rerun the last command typed with sudo! A real time saver!

Just a quick blog post to announce the release of episode 6 of OTE. Show notes can be found here

In this episode of open tech exchange Darlene and I talk to Teddy from the Open Source Zambia Initiative. Teddy is pushing the adoption of open source by organising the open source community in Zambia and by encouraging the adoption of open source in government.

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The South African government has adopted a policy to foster the use of Free and Open Source software within government and in South Africa in general. As part of this effort we worked with Floss.pro founder Karl Fischer to deliver a presentation on the Drupal Content Management System to IT support and web developers at the Department of Science and Technology.

Episode 4 of OTE is out

First, the latest episode, number 4, of OTE is out. In this episode Darlene and I ramble on about browsers and cell phones.

The Future of Web Applications

From about 2004 we entered a new phase in the evolution of  web application development.  After a number of, relatively uneventful years, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer being the dominant player,  we began to see a lot  of frenetic activity, and innovation in the web application space.