Linux Outlaws 247 - Poke Him with Your Pipe, Old Boy

• "Macho Man" Randy Savage
• Batman Chooses His Voice
• If you can’t go to FOSDEM but can make it to Liverpool come and see Dan's band 20lb Sounds at The Zanzibar on Saturday Feb 4th at 8pm
• Katy agrees that a desktop widget to calculate molar weight is pretty cool
• Oxygen Font now ready for testing
• We took the network offline for the SOPA strike

The Macho Man during his prime in the '80s

0:10:51 Releases & News

• Astaro Security Gateway 8.3
• BSD: FreeBSD 9.0
• BSD: PC-BSD 9.0
• First systemd release with the journal is out
• Britain to extradite student to US over link site
• The NSA releases SEAndroid
• Google creates design guidelines site for Android
• Samsung aims to merge Bada with Tizen
• The EFF asks court to sanction Astrolabe
• Two professional multimedia applications are coming to Linux
• Nokia sells 450 mobile patents to patent troll

Hot patent troll chick from Sisvel

0:41:22 Microwatch

• Microsoft locks down ARM devices with secure boot

0:47:23 Feedback

Supporters: Alexander Van der Merwe, Kirk Richard Holz, Robert Krenitsky, Peter Clark — from Flattr: corenominal, Tony Jones, Chris Woollard, Dave Ostroske

• Jason Sipula gives us some more info on the Galaxy Tab 10.1N (which is the special version they built after the lawsuit from Apple in Germany)
• Stephen Mulcahy came across a media converter called "Arista"
• Aaron asked about upgrading and reinstalling tips a few weeks ago and now wrote to say thanks and that he upgraded to F16 over Christmas
• Xavier Sythe sent us a link to some leaked pictures of Tizen from a recent conference
• Branden Andersen sent us a link to a Boing Boing story about Lamar Smith (the Congressman who drafted SOPA), apparently he ran afoul of copyright laws himself
• Tazzo loves the podcast and asks about connecting his HTC Desire S to his Ubuntu laptop for Internet access passthrough

Shirley Crabtree (aka. "Big Daddy")

• Yaroslav Halchenko says Microsoft is quite friendly to Kinect hackers — we remind him that this wasn't always the case

We had other emails this week from Pedro, Remy Van Elst, Willem, Alexander van der Merwe and Tom.

Song: It’s Not Unusual by Joe Ressington (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)

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