Matthew Revell

DJ, one of the LugRadio faithful, mentions today’s advert for Firefox, in the New York Times.

LugRadio season 2 episode 5 is now available. I couldn’t make that show, as I was revising for my CIM diploma exams.

The guys talk about:

• Fedora Core 3: what that’s all about, with FedoraNews.org‘s Gavin Henry
• The new GPL: the FSF‘s work on their new licence, and the Affero GPL
• MS FUD: where does it really come from?
• The Cell chip: the new chip from Sony/IBM/Toshiba
• IBM: sale of their PC business
• Open source catch-up: will OSS always be playing catch-up to MS and Apple?

Usual warning about bad language applies.

When I ran Debian, the shutdown process would never power off my machine. The processor fan would stop and the screen would read “Power down”, leaving me to press the button. A minor irritant.

I had the same problem with Ubuntu, until yesterday evening. After reading a few forum posts which all seemed very involved and a bit disjointed, I added:

apm power_off=1

to /etc/modules

Now, Ubuntu powers down automatically. Hooray.