Columnist and MVP Charlie Russel discusses the new Network Diagnostics tool for Windows XP, which should help reduce frustrations caused by networking problems.

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Matt Revell, and Ade Bradshaw talk about Linux and open source and a variety of other stuff in the live show from LugRadio Live 2006. This year featuring actual Linux content! Included in this show:

• Open Source Pass the Parcel: whether geeks can catch (they can’t) or think of questions for the LR team (some can) (3.30)
• Justin “juski” Hornsby talks live on stage about MythTV and the Myth users community, as well as the Myth developers and how you too can bring your TV into the 21st century (14.35)
• The famous prizegiving ceremony: the LugRadio team hand out prizes to people who’ve done great stuff over the last year and at LRL itself, including the much-coveted LugRadio Community Hero award (22.08)
• Communities: how can we build communities around free software? The audience speaks (35.40)
• Jono and Aq get their beards shaved for charity, implicitly electing Ade as the man with the longest beard in LugRadio, and we all say goodbye for another year (53.03)

This is the last show of season 3 of LugRadio. We’ll be back in September for season 4 — see you then!

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Matt Revell, and Ade Bradshaw talk about Linux and open source and a variety of other stuff, including:

• The LugRadio team were invited to Microsoft to talk about open source and what makes a community; here’s how it went (1.10)
• Graham Taylor from Open Forum Europe talks about Microsoft and OpenOffice.org’s Open Document Format, and what MS’s promise of support means (25.44)
• Open Source Pass the Parcel: listen and learn ready to play at LRL! (36.31)
• LugRadio Live 2006 is on in less than a week; Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd of July. the final round-up of what’s going on at the best open source and Linux community conference in the history of the universe! (47.31)
• Your emails: a huge mountain of them this time because we didn’t read any at Guadec. Thanks for sending them in: tell us if you think that the voicemail should be switched back on! (61.19)