The Linux Show

[Stephen]

Tonight Live: From LinuxWorld Expo featuring IBM >> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, August 5th, 2003from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.


At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight on The Linux Show that comes to you live from LinuxWorld Expo!


Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week and the expo. Tonight on the news: There is so much news from LinuxWorld Expo we do not know what to list.
Segment Two- IBM revs up for a Linux Future- with Dan Frye



Tonight we will have a conversation with our old friend Dan Frye, Director of IBM's Technology Center. Dan has been on the show before and is well known by our regular listeners. We will discuss the expanding presence of IBM as a power house Linux vendor and freind to the Open Source community. SCO may become a part of the conversation, but we will be stressing IBM's role as a driving force for the enterprise adoption of Linux.


The Linux Technology Center ( http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/) was founded to track the various technical contributions IBM as a whole is making to Linux and related development communities. This site is hosted by the IBM Linux Technology Center whose mission is to work directly with the Linux development community with a shared vision of making Linux succeed.


Since 1999, we have been talking about the remarkable sudden redirection of IBM to take hold of Linux and Open Source and make it a core corporate business tool. This story has to be one of the most remarkable stories of a wholesale cange in corporate culture in the IT industry history. Many people (and countless inhouse geeks) were responsible for this change in course, but as co-author of the original strategy papers used by IBM on both Linux and open source, Dan Frye has to be one of the chief navigators of the changes at IBM.


Like all changes in direction, this course change has not been without storms and controversy; SCO just being the most visable to the public to date. But month by month more and more of the IBM corporate culture has been won over to the light side of the force. Now that the new course SEEMS set for IBM corp bosses, Frye has changed his own course from in-house advocate to coordinating open source developments with IBM and assuring smooth relations with the community at large. As Director of the Linux Technology Center, Dan works directly with a number of differing Linux development projects transforming linux into a practical business reality for IBM clients, and the entire linux community. IBM is very active in community development hosting a number of project out on Sourceforge and is a sponsor member of the Open Source Development Lab (see last weeks show with Larry.).


What has impressed us most here at TLS is that IBM has not just talked a good game, but they have peformed and lived up to every commitment with the Open SOurce community. A great deal of the good work is due to the good start down the path delivered at the hands of Dan Frye.

Bump! Looks like a great show for anyone reading the show starts in just over 4 and a half hours from this post and as always the archive goes up ASAP after completion of the show.

[Stephen]

Listen in Tuesday nights at 08:00PM CDT (01:00AM GMT)

SCO! SCO! SCO!

19 Aug. 2003
Tonight Live! Jeff reports live from SCO land! Other SCO news and discussion! Maybe a couple non-SCO news items, just to shake things up a little bit...

Seems to be a not many details on the show for tonight but I know from listening to past shows that Jeff was supposed to get a look at the code SCO claims is in the kernel without signing the NDA so I guess we get to find out tonight. For any one outside North America the shows starts in just under 3 hours from this post and as always the show goes into the archives ASAP after the show.

[aay]

Decent SCO show, but they have been having a buzzing problem for weeks now. Sure hope it can be fixed somehow. It's anoying.

[Duffin444]

I second that motion. The buzzing is very ear piercing, but can be overlooked on the premise of being an informative show.

[Stephen]

Decent SCO show, but they have been having a buzzing problem for weeks now. Sure hope it can be fixed somehow. It's anoying.

It wasn't there on the ogg stream I listened to the first half of the show on but I lost the stream and then was listening to the mp3 stream and there it was. They need to buy a professional audio mixer Jeff has mentioned it a couple of times on the show trying to get some kind soul to donate the ~$850US that it will cost.

[Stephen]

Tonight Live: Mars & >> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.


At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight on The Linux Show that comes to you live from LinuxWorld Expo!


Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week and the expo. Tonight on the news: SCO, Microsoft, ESR as "war cheif", .


Segment Two- Linux World Award winner PureMessage- and ActiveState product



Tonight we will have a conversation with Jesse Dougherty, Director of Development, ActiveState and Gurusamy Sarathy, Senior Developer, ActiveState to talk about the compnay and their recent award at Linux World Expo for PureMessage. PureMessage provides email filtering for spam protection, virus protection, and corporate policy enforcement.


They claim PureMessage decreases spam by up to 98% and prevents damage from malicious email at the gateway, through accurate, easily administered filters. PureMessage is managed through an intuitive, web-based console. Other features include: industry-leading spam identification methodologies, anti-virus engine, communication policy filters, sieve policy builder interface, automated server quarantine, optional end user quarantine management, and reporting capabilities. Built on powerful open source technologies, PureMessage utilizes sendmail, Razor, Webmin, and is extensible in Perl. PureMessage supports AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris. More details are available at: www.ActiveState.com/PureMessage


Jesse comes to ActiveState from Mindquake Software, a full-service outsource development shop. As their vice president, Jesse was responsible for business development, project management, and software development, and helped grow the company from inception to over 60 fulltime developers. Jesse has also worked as a software developer at the precursor company to ActiveState, hip communications in the mid-1990s. Jesse's role at ActiveState is to lead the company's anti-spam initiatives. He also manages and schedules development resources to improve product quality and timeline accuracy. Jesse sits on the board of SNB Capital.


Sarathy, as he is known, has been heavily involved in maintaining the mainstream releases of Perl for the past seven years. He served as the Release Manager for the 5.005 and 5.6 releases of Perl. At ActiveState, Sarathy is responsible for managing the adoption, growth and development of core language technologies. He is the technical lead for PureMessage, ActiveState's email management software. A fundamental contributor in shaping ActiveState's overall technology vision, Sarathy is also a mentor on the evolution of world-class programming language skills in the company. Sarathy holds Undergraduate and Graduate degrees in Architecture and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Bump! Another week another show it gets under way in just under 4 hours from this post and as always the show goes into the archives ASAP after completion of the show.

[Stephen]

Tonight Live: The "Dark Side" & Oh Please Mr. Sontag (SCO)>> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003 from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.


At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight with an interesting twist.


Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week and the expo. Tonight on the news: SCO cluelessness, lots on Microsoft, Consumer Electornics news, and several views from outside the community.


Segment Two- "Freedom's Dark Side- The iron fist, the invisible hand, and the battle for the soul of open source.- A view from outside the community.



Tonight we will have a conversation with Bruce Sterling , noted author and journalist to discuss his recent article at Wired Freedom's Dark Side; and will discuss the view of the oepn source community from the outside looking in.


Bruce Sterling is an author, journalist, editor, and critic; was born in 1954. He has written eight science fiction novels and three short story collections. He edited the anthology MIRRORSHADES, the definitive document of the cyberpunk movement. He also wrote the nonfiction books THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992) and TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2003). He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine.


He also writes a weblog and runs a website and Internet mailing list on the topic of environmental activism and postindustrial design. He has appeared in ABC's Nightline, BBC's The Late Show, CBC's Morningside, on MTV, and in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Nature, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel.


He lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters.

The show starts in just about 3 an a half hours from this post and as always the archive goes up ASAP after the finish of the show.

[Stephen]

Tonight Live: Happy Birthday Linux Today and Microsoft Throws a "Hissy Fit" >> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, September 30th, 2003 from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.


At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight.


Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Microsoft Gets pissed off at Lindows again (refunds made easy), Former Caldera CEO Ransom Love pans SCO CEOs tactics, Sharps goal for the Zaurus to concur the world, and way more.

Segment Two- Happy Birthday Linux Today



Tonight we will have a conversation with Dave Whitinger one of the original founders of Linux Today in a discussion about the roots of the Linux Communities oldest Newslink resource. If you do not know what Linux Today is, you certainly do not know enough about Linux to know about The Linux Show. So its sort of silly to talk about it here.


If we go way way back Dave did a stint at Red Hat. Dave worked as the manager of the technical support department of Red Hat Software back in 1997. After leaving Red Hat, he co-founded Linux Today with Dwight Johnson. In his days at Linux Today, Dave handled just about everything imaginable at Linux Today. In addition to posting stories, he handled all the web development, perl and PHP programming, system and network administration, and any technical challenges that came along. In late 99 LT was sold to the present owners, internet.com (presently known as Jupiter Media) and Dave went his merry way.


After Linux Today, Dave participated in the development of several well known ventures including Linsight, Atipa and Linux Weekly News. Dave is a very cool guy who has survived the ups and downs of the IT universe, and has both the scars and laurels to prove it. Dave is presently the founder of StandardOut, Inc a web site development and hosting service company. These days he does private consulting of Linux and PHP development.


Dave lives in South/Central Texas (Kerrville). At 27 years old (a mere child to have done all he has) he has been married for 7 years with 3 children, the latest one born 2 weeks ago at home! When not doing Linux stuff, he is usually digging around in his garden.


We have also invited a representative from the current staff of Linux Today to talk about the future of the portal. As of the time of this press release we still have no confirmation of who that representative might be.

The show starts in just under 3 and a half hours from this post.

[Stephen]

Tonight Live: SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM (bloody Vikings) >> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2003 from Chicago IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.


At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have a lively show lined up for tonight.


Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Microsoft lies, The Sun goes Down, Linux Games, Virus, spam, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Segment Two- SPAM SUCKS- and what to do about it



Tonight we had a guest cancel on us. So in light of that we are going to address a topic that was high on the agenda of TLS this past week, and that is dealing with the explosion of spam.


A couple days before our show last week, a SPAM program being distributed on the Internet had our domain (thelinuxshow.com) in its database of suggested outgoing domains to use with a bulk email list. This file could also be used with a Trojan that can co-opt other computers and convert them into SMTP relay boxes all with spoofed outgoing domains. Within short order there were dozens of (primarily newbies) of people out there on the Internet, that were using our domain, and dozens more that were being used as a relay.


During the course of last week we spent 16 man hours contacting ISPs round the world using standard abuse methods and in some cases a threat of retribution. In 10 cases we also contacted the FBI for fraud. I want to thank all those ISPs around the world that helped to plug up the holes in the dam.


So, tonight we thought we would relate the story to you, the techniques we used to solve the issue, and an open discussion on our favorite Spam tools.

Another week another show it starts in just over 2 and a half hours from this post.

[Stephen]

Tonight Live: Become a Certified Linux Geek >> on The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 from Chicago IL the Home of The White Sox How soon we jump ship!
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.


At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back live tonight. We have an interesting (albeit short) show lined up for tonight.


Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Cubs loose and all is normal in the world, Microsoft's DOJ blues, The Truth is out there, Something Fishy at SCO, IBM says Linux can not be stopped, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.

Segment Two- Getting Linux Certified- An Update with Linux Professional Institute



Tonight we will be joined by Evan Leibovitch President and Chairman of the Board of LPI. For those of you living in a closet, LPI or the Linux Professional Institute is a community organization advocating the professional use of Linux. It is best known around the world as the organization that developed the metrix and testing protocols for a professional Linux skills certification certification exam. LPI's industry standard certifications are delivered in thousands of locations worldwide, in multiple languages and with the support of employers, vendors, and trainers. LPI is a vendor neutral organization, but is used as the basic metric for several different curricula; including Comptia's Linux Plus.


Tonight we will be discussing several topics with Evan, including the current state of certification development, and we are sure we will discuss Evans recent trip to Europe.


Evan was one of the co-founders of LPI. Before taking the role as LPI President, he was a Vice President at Starnix Inc., a Linux-centric VAR located near Toronto. He registered his first Internet domain in 1986, has been involved with Unix even longer, and first started using Linux in 1996. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Linux Users' Exchange and has written on Linux issues for a number of publications. Evan has a degree in Philosophy from York University and a graduate degree in Journalism from Ryerson Polytechnic University. Evan presently lives in Ontario, Canada.

Looks like a good show it starts in just over 2 and a half hours from this post.