S04E20 – Run to the Hills

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.

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