Welcome @Justcarakas and @th0rgall!
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Hey Iām Med, and Iām a (technically but not actually) mature student of computer science at the University of Nottingham. Iām switching careers from my previous one as a martial artist. I discovered Bad Voltage when looking for linux podcasts, coincidentally right as episode one came out. I run a bunch of linux VMs of different flavours (used for learning and coding etc) as well as a dual booting windows desktop and a windows 8 laptop, heavily augmented with cygwin of course. Iām really enjoying learning with linux and about open source. I canāt wait to get involved as I progress through my degree and move into industry. I do stuff, largely I bitch/shout about it here. Love the show
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Hello!
Iām John. Music scholar, Multimedia programmer, and Assembly language enthusiast. Iāve been listening since episode one. I actually discovered your series when I saw a post about Jono Bacon and his notorious Linux song. I had already been a fan of Lunduke from the Linux Action Show.
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Of course you do! Youāre a smart man!
Whereās the high five buttonā¦
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Hi,
Ken G (thus cagey). Long time ālinuxā user starting with some sort of micro-kernel `nix on a Apple Lisa while living in Zimbabwe in 1993, the days of uunet. Always have used Linux in one distro or another in my professional life which started out doing actual science but degenerated into building large (very large) telescopes (CASA, PAO, VERITAS). It pays the bills!
Now working for UBC (Vancouver) building yet another telescope (radio this time) and recently started a biz with my wife doing international development gigs. Converted her over to Kubuntu with very little tearing of hair and/or gnashing of teeth. (We do have to use Kingsoft rather than Libre as the latterās docx support sucks totally.)
Otherwise mostly retired.
- kg
PS Great show, good chemistry!
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Wow, that sounds quite interesting to me. Degenerated, hmph!! Do you enjoy building telescopes? That must be very challenging. I would love to be able to hang around for one of your projects.
The biggest challenge is dealing with the people. A whole lot of very smart people who know they know all the answers (but obviously donāt). As for the technical end, I havenāt contributed a lot to the electronics development on most of these projects, principally on the hardware and software and ā¦ well, common-sense, side.
FWIW, in this field (astro and high-energy) most code development is in C/C++ (what else?) and more and more scripting in python. Generally sys-admin work is done by non-professionals, read grad-students or post-docs, which has its draw backs. (This doesnāt apply if you work at a national lab like Goddard or JPL or Fermilab where they have real IT support.)
I would imagine that is a great challenge, dealing with egos and, I would guess, condescending attitudes. When you say hardware, are you referring to computer hardware or of the telescopes themselves?
Iām sure the science field is gutting kind of pushy, with all of the recent graduates running for tenured positions.
Hi, I donāt use Linux, but do take an interest in it. Iām a C# developer and always take an interest in what is going on outside my area. Linux is cool and great to have around as it seems to keep Microsoft honest.
Iām dotwaffle, or waffle to my friends. I am neither made of potato nor waffley versatile. I do, however, talk incessantly.
My interests include network architecture, the demoscene, simulators of all shapes and sizes, and ensuring my latent OCD doesnāt make me do anything silly like fly halfway across the world to see some Englishmen make sub-par nob gags in San Francisco.
I first met Jono at LinuxExpo in London when I was helping a mate on the KDE stand. I saw he started a podcast and began getting more into the Linux world. Through the people I met at LUG Radio Lives, I found myself in a job that was half network engineering, half systems administration, and many of the arguments that the LUGRadio crew got into taught me a lot, including about the technical competence of the National Lottery web designers.
Bad Voltage took a little bit if getting used to (well, Bryan took a lot of getting used to! 
) and has blossomed into a must-listen show for me. With or without frippery.
I should stop typingā¦
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Careful. The Lunduke loyalists are a strong faction in the BV community.
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Bryanās fun to listen to, I can imagine Jeremy cracking eventually if Bryan talks over him too many times 
Seriously though, what makes me listen to BV is mainly that not only do the presenters have very different backgrounds and mannerisms, they all frequently disagree and enjoy the argument. All too rare in mainstream media. It stays civil and friendly, but the occasional jab is entertaining =]
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Hey everyone! Iām Nathan Dyer. I have been a Linux user and all around free software fan since my early teens. Iām currently a third year university student at East Tennessee State University studying computer science. I was an Ubuntu user for a while, but I had a torrid affair with elementary OS a few years ago and I havenāt looked back. I sometimes contribute to elementary, but right now most of my attention is focused on making Vocal, a podcast app that Iām developing.
I have been obsessed with podcasts most of my life. I was a huge fan of LugRadio back in the day, then Shot of Jaq, and now of course Bad Voltage. I can honestly say that itās the highlight of my every-other-week (but donāt let it go to your heads)!
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I am glad you think this: this is exactly why we structured the team as it is. We wanted a diverse set of views, opinions, senses of humor, and methods of discussing. Always nice to see the plan seemed to work. 
Also, we really do enjoy jabbing each other.
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Howdy doody! Iām Jon from the UK, been listening to BV for a while now so thought only right I pop by and say hi. Donāt know how but I totally missed LUG radio as Iāve been an avid Linux user and community member since the mid 90ās, making up for it now though. Really enjoying the show chaps, keep it up!
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That makes me sound like a dictator. And I like that.
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Hey look, an intro thread.
Iām Dave. Iām a structural engineer and I have to figure out how things work. Itās been 7 days, 4 hours, and 2 minutes since I didnāt have to fix something.
I design Power Substations and itās really interesting work. Usually.
Listening to this show gives me something to think about while Iām driving around the Baaken so thanks for that.
Thanks @oldgeek for the welcome and pointing me to this thread.
My name is Justyn, Iām a self-employed electronic engineer and embedded software developer. Iāve been using Linux as my desktop OS for a decade or so.
To be honest, I was pretty sure Bad Voltage wasnāt the kind of thing Iād be into when I downloaded an episode about a year back. And every episode sinceā¦
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Greetings all.
I recently stumbled upon Bad Voltage and I have been enjoying the show especially as I love podcasts. I work in a museum world in the collections side and I try promote open source options within the field, e.g. Evergreen, CollectiveAccess, CollectionSpace, Koha, etc.