Re Audio Ogg: Theora is a video codec...

Thx, typo fixed. Obviously we know that Theora is a video codec. It's an issue with our WordPress download label system, and the Theora video was not ready at post time so the labels got all screwed up for the OGG versions.

But now there is a legit Theora Video and a Vorbis audio version!
-Chris

Hi guys :) I liked the show but i'd like to point 2 things out that i remeber You got wrong .

First of all Chris you can make kde4 "desktop" look like old desktp with icons and stuff. You can turn that on by: RMB on desktop click "Activity button" on left and select folder view from combo box.

The other thing is about cashew and zooming out. If you zoom out You can create different types of "activities". Unlock your widgets then zoom out and click "add activity". Now You have a second desktop - activity without widgets and stuff. You can zoom in into it put there a new set of widgets. You can switch beetwin activities with cahew, shortcuts or with a widget.

Sorry for that but some times You miss some things ;] Btw try drunk skyping Aaron Seigo one more time. I really loved that shows.

Rantings of mad men this Computer Action Show Episode ;-).
Would be nice to here from listeners again?
On a technical note of windows running slow over a period of time - Im no big fan of windows, but like you guys have to support it, I found that the windows filesystem fragments overtime - a cool product called Ashampoo - http://www2.ashampoo.com/webcache/html/1/produc... Solved that problem.

Less rants next time, please guys! - I liked the tutorials of the old shows.
Dave

Loved the episode, guys. My brother's been running Windows 7 since beta, and he keeps telling me how nice it is. If I can get it ridiculously cheap through my college, I'll probably give it a spin, especially since you guys genuinely don't hate it. If not, I think I'll manage to get along. Especially since I'm running that OTHER operating system you reviewed.

With regards to that, just a couple things:
1) openSUSE uses RPM just the same as Ubuntu uses dpkg. It uses the RPM package format, but doesn't use 'rpm -* $PACKAGE' to do stuff. For that, it has zypper (which is to rpm what apt-get/aptitude is to dpkg).
2) once it goes final in a couple weeks, official updates will be pushed out using delta RPM's. Right now, it's all "complete" packages being used for updates. Those deltas are amazing to have, except they bring the Atom 230 in my netbook to its knees at times (like applying a delta to the kernel. eesh!).

Anyway, as far as the review goes, I like it. I'm glad you guys are giving KDE4 a fair shake, although it did point out one thing that needs to be taken care of. KDE4 has some great new features, and some great new ways of doing things, but people don't know about them. That, or it's not immediately obvious how to use them. Like how Chris didn't know about the zoomable desktop, and how Bryan didn't seem to fully understand how it's supposed to be used. Either the KDE project itself or the flagship distros (like openSUSE and Mandriva) need to come up with a nice introduction to features like that. I'm familiar with the zoomable desktop because I follow Planet KDE, but they can't expect Joe Everybody to do that.

(damn, this is getting long, I'm sorry) KOffice 2 is in a similar situation as what KDE 4 was in. 2.0 came out, it was rough, but the important, behind-the-scenes stuff was there. 2.1 is out, there's polish going on, but the dev's know it's still kinda rough. The difference is, THIS time, the downstream projects are listening, and not shoving an only-mostly-working piece of software on to the users. OpenOffice was definitely a good choice this time around.

Interesting. I just listened to this the other day and yesterday they were installing ReachCall at our hospital (http://reachcall.com). It's exactly what you guys were talking about with the med-conferencing for stroke patients.

I also got to see our "IT" guy reboot into Ubuntu. This is the same IT guy who is a die-hard windows fan and told me that he wasn't comfortable with open source on the network about a year or two ago when I developed a triage app that I was giving to them free; then he took the idea and went with a high priced commercial setup and made himself look good. Bastard.

Uh, sorry for the rant. Anyway, thought that was an interesting co-incident with the stroke setup.

The one thing I like about G-Wave is that the name is an homage to Firefly :)