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Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 20 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We chat about using Ubuntu One instead of Dropbox, upgrading a desktop PC from Maverick to Natty, writing the UUPC Christmas panto (oh no we don’t…), and working out how to create a PDF from PHP (guess who that was). We interview Trystan Lea and Glyn Hudson from the OpenEnergyMonitor project who we met at Homecamp 4. We also have the second installment of Podbusters, the quiz with slightly harder questions than it had the first time round. In the news:- Open source colour calibration device… Sadly, Ilya Zhitoirskiy, co-founder of the Diaspora, has died… Intel’s 40th microprocessor birthday… LibreOffice has an MS Visio importer… Ice Cream Sandwich will run on your Galaxy Nexus… Google puts up $100,000 to save Alan Turing’s papers… Events:- Ubuntu UK LoCo Christmas dinner at Dans Le Noir restaurant in London on 9th December at 6.30pm. Meet Mark at dev8d conference in London on 14th-16th February. Yes, you guessed it (again), FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012. We have a Bit About Ubuntu: You can thank Matt Garrett for fixing poor power management (kinda)… You can “Ask Mark” a question… You can join the discussion on Ubuntu on phones/tablets/TVs… You can get Ubuntu on Asus EEE PCs in Portugal… You’ll no longer get CouchDB in Ubuntu One… We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve pointed out to us by Graham Bleach. Spark is a command line graphing tool which you can use to do things such as provide an illustration of the response from the ping command (spark-ping) or you can put it to more exciting uses… Download it and get creative! We have your feedback, including a contribution from someone who is very definitely not the Wing Commander. For more information about the petition to the Dutch government about open standards in schools, see petition, FSFE article (in English), open letter (in English), and follow @janstedehouder on Twitter. Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Follow us on Identi.ca http://identi.ca/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Discuss this episode in the Forums                           

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 19 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We chat about someone’s new job at Canonical, going to a murder mystery party in costume, upgrading RAM in laptops and getting a new Android phone, and playing with Ruby and xvfb. Can you guess who’s who? We also interview James Smith from AMEE who we met at Homecamp 4 and we have the second installment of the second wave of The UUPC Quiz – this time brought to you by Mark. In the news:- Apple release ALAC under Apache… HP announce ARM servers… Canonical and RedHat partner up again… Cabinet Office talks a lot of sense about Open Source… Microsoft contributes to Samba project…?!? Events:- BitCoin conference, Prague, 25-27 Nov Indiana LinuxFest April 13-15, 2012 2012. Indiana Yes, you guessed it (again), FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012. We have a Bit About Ubuntu, in which we discuss Alan’s week at UDS. You can listen to recordings of sessions and even watch videos of some sessions. We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from Russel Dickenson who found it on StackOverflow in his hour of need: ffmpeg -i input_video -vf “transpose=1″ -r 30 -sameq output_video It’s useful if you have recorded some video in portrait mode and you want to play it in landscape mode. We have your feedback, including a frankly bizarre contribution from the Wing Commander. Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Follow us on Identi.ca http://identi.ca/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Discuss this episode in the Forums                           

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 18 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We chat about installing Oneiric and about getting out and about to the London release party for the Oneiric release, the Ubuntu Happy Hour in Farnborough, and the Science Museum in London. We discuss teaching ICT in schools. And the quiz is back! This episode it’s Who Wants To Be A Massive Ubuntu Geek? and it’s hosted by Tony. In the news:- Astrolabe aren’t being evil…honest… Get an Ice Cream Sandwich on a phone… Holodesks ARE cool! Secure boots under Linux… Google Code-In for pre-uni students starts November… Events:- Yes, you guessed it, FOSDEM will happen in Brussels on 4th – 5th February 2012. We have a Bit About Ubuntu:- The Ubuntu Community Council election results are in… Vodafone launch their webbook in South Africa running Ubuntu… Mark Shuttleworth blogs… Happy 7th birthday, Ubuntu!!! LTS support increased to 5 years from next April… Jono’s done some graphs… Not about Ubuntu Linux Mint will support GNOME 3… We have a command line lurrrrrrrrve from commandlinefu.com: export PS1=”[u@`hostname -I` W]$ “ Something to do with finding out the IP address of a computer…(maybe look into it a bit before you use it) We have your feedback, including a contemplation of the future from the Wing Commander. And finally, next episode’s Pointless-style quiz will be hosted by Mark. Please fill in this survey… Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Follow us on Identi.ca http://identi.ca/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Discuss this episode in the Forums