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This week, the Outlaws bring you a lot of Google/China hacking stories, a review of the Mustard microblogging client for Android, Microsoft DDoSing Perl hackers, Google hiring Ted Ts’o and the Hawkman is in the house too…

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0:01:42 | Introduction

• Check out this nice review of the show by Andrew Currie
• Better than Bono: REM speaks out for net neutrality
• Very nice looking new Motorola Android phone
• M$ did pull Word from their distribution channels after all
• mintMenu ported to Fedora
• Very funny: Linus rants on embroidery machines
• Booze of the Week: Ramrod’s amazing moonshine Tsipouro

0:15:52 | Releases & News

• BackTrack 4
• SimplyMEPIS 8.0.15 — check out Warren Woodford’s great hair!
• PelicanHPC 2.0
• Frenzy 1.2
• Pardus Linux 2009.1
• Bangarang 1.0

• Mozilla changes release and development process
• Facebook becomes Apache Software Foundation sponsor
• Google is upgrading to Ext4 and hires Ted Ts’o
• Linux Foundation: Linux job market has grown by 80%
• BerliOS hacked
• Dan’s report of his N900 troubles
• Google to pull out of China in aftermath of hacking attacks?

0:44:33 | Microwatch

• German BSI advises citizens not to use Internet Explorer
• IE flaw exploited in Chinese attacks on Google
• Microsoft bots perform denial of service on Perl Testers

0:51:43 | Android App Pick

• Mustard — @macno’s amazing identi.ca client

0:57:11 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Henning Beyer, Craig Horrocks and Matt!
• Forums: How did you discover Linux?

• Regular correspondent Les “Quarter” Pounder writes to tell us of a school in Lancashire, UK who used Moodle to set up a virtual classroom during the recent snow disruption — Pot Noodle
• We had nice emails from Scarffo & Aethelberga to say how much they enjoy the show
• Sidney Skinner tells us more about the FreeNAS kernel situation
• Stuart sends us a link from Groklaw about an email from Bill Gates regarding Linux and ACPI extensions from back in 1999
• Raphael Ong sent us a poem about Linux he wrote for his literature homework
• Crispin tells us that you can buy the Debian wine from last episode and support the distro in the process
• Jonathan Nadeau introduces us to his company Frostbite Systems that makes Linux-based computers including some very cool (pun intended) fully pre-configured machines for blind users
• Folding@Home: Join Team TLLTS and help us take over!
• Peter Noack likes the show and says he’s a medicine student interning in the OR and asked some CPB technicians about Windows XP on the machines, as referenced in Episode 130, and luckily XP isn’t used in critical applications
• We had other emails this week from JonTheNiceGuy, Erik Lee, Kevin Lucas, Bill Boulton, Alistair Munro, Big Jim, spartan7 and David Ellis
  
  
• Event: Klaatu’s Linux Multimedia Sprint, January 26 from 14:00 - 06:00 EST in #media on irc.binrev.net

Song: Rock Out With Your Hawk Out by MC Hawking

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