A highlight from S14E30 Final Episode Recorded

From episode: S14E30 Final Episode Recorded

Hello, it's season 14 episode 30 of the Ubuntu podcast and this is the last one. It's Tuesday, the 21st of September as we record this, and in this week's episode, we're going to predict the future. And we'll have double bubble command line love a little bit of listener feedback and we'll talk a little bit more about what's going to happen after this show ends, which is nothing. However, the next day on the 1st of October at 8 o'clock UK time, if you jump on our YouTube channel, link in the notes, you'll find us staring at you down through your computer screen and you can chat to us and we will have a little session of socializing and thinking about times of your before we did this podcast. I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed over the years to this podcast, including the presenters, Tony, Laura, Simon and Davey, and all of our guest presenters and also Joe resin for being the producer and general fixer of problems. And a big thank you to Andy Smith and bit folk who provided us with free hosting since the very beginning of the show. And didn't really ask for any very much in return to be honest. And everyone who's financially supported us on Patreon and PayPal has been very kind and very humbling to have you send us your hard earned cash so that we can sound a little bit better thanks to Joe. If you want to continue chatting to us, then jump on our telegram channel. It's a winter podcast at all slash telegram or follow us on Twitter where it will be silent after the 1st of October. But telegrams will be the best place to contact us. And as well as all those previous presenters, there's these two hello Mark. How are you? Hello. I'm still here. Yay. And Martin, how are you? I'm fine. I noticed Mark and I didn't get a mention in thank you to the presenters. A bit like last week where your favorite episode didn't feature either of us, but it's fine. You should have written your name in the notes, and then I would have read it out. But you didn't. So there you go. I thought common courtesy would dictate that you did that anyway, but apparently not it's fine. I was leaving the best till last. Artistic differences. This is why

it's ending everyone Allen is an all now I can't. All right, then Mark, what have you been up to recently? Well, I've been up to I watched the matrix for the first time in probably longer than I've been doing this show. Does it hold up? Or is it just as rubbish as it was when it first came out? You know what? It does hold up. I mean, when I was, he came out when I was at school. And I watched it. Probably about a dozen times maybe more like we had it on VHS and it came in a cardboard sleeve with shiny bits on. It would be like the film that you'd watch around your mate's house. It was the cool film of the time. And I haven't watched it. I think I watched the sequels once each and then I haven't watched it for years and years and years. But there's a new one coming out so I t

hought, all right, it's on Netflix. I'll give you a watch. I'll see what it's like. And you know what? I thought it was really good. Excellent. I remember getting the DVD and I'm pretty sure the DVD came out in the states about the same time as the film came out in the cinema over here and I got the U.S. version of the DVD and I remember watching it on a 14 inch Sony trinitron TV in my bedroom letterbox. It was very little viewing area. How close to the TV were you? Yeah, pretty close. It was in my bedroom. And I was playing the DVD on a creative labs, DVD drive in my pentium P 200. PC with an accelerator cut a DXR two accelerated card. I had one of those. Weren't they? They really were. I had a giant speakers, like ridiculous for those speaker aficionados. I had TDL RTL two speakers, which are floor standing speakers in the bedroom. They saw you at 14 inch Sony telly. The matrix brings back memories of that time. It's very good film. Yeah, it does bring back some memories. I seem to remember that from the mid to late 80s, the ratio of buying speakers were, if they were big enough to be buried in, that was the right size. And the matrix

itself, it was a format shifter, wasn't it? Because it was the film that actually got a lot of people moved over to DVD. It was like the big conversion title. I still have a DVD. I have a feeling on one side it's four by three on the other side at 60 by 9. I have a feeling the addition I have. And I think it's the only DVD that's made every use of every facet of the DVD protocol, which was why so many players couldn't play it because it wasn't just start the film, watch the film. It got all of those interactive menus and snippets built in and all the rest of it. Yeah. I remember there was because there's the three films which people remember, but there was also the animatrix, which was a series of like shorts, but there was also a game called enter the matrix. Which filled in a lot of the gaps in between the films or in between scenes in the films, but it had the sort of hacking mode you could use to unlock extra things where you got like a command line prompt and you had to dig around the file system to try and hack into the system and unlock things.