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Paul Tagliamonte: Although it looks like a step back, I’ve got color and...
Although it looks like a step back, I’ve got color and most ANSI sequences parsing right. I’ve broken it out, and I’m starting to implement for real! Game on :)
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Jordan Mantha: Non-Free Tools in a Free Software Community
I was reading Bradley Kuhn’s post over at Planet Gnome about feeling a lot of social pressure from within open-source communities to use proprietary communication tools such as Facebook, Google +, and...
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Thierry Carrez: Improving Nova privilege escalation model, part 2
In the previous post in this series we explored the current privilege escalation model used in OpenStack Compute (Nova), and discussed its limitations. Now that we are able to plug an alternative model...
View ArticleLuis de Bethencourt: happy snappy user
I received a very cool thankful email from a snappy user today: "After testing I quickly found out that Snappy is what I've been looking for ever since I started using Linux, 5-6 years ago. In my work...
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Randall Ross: Today's Math Lesson: Perception = Reality
Almost everyone reading this post is aware that Ubuntu is the most popular free OS in the world. Almost everyone not reading this post is aware that Ubuntu is dramatically sliding in popularity. Pop...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu IRCC Nominations
As the terms of 3 out of 5 IRC Council members ending and one member is stepping down, the Ubuntu Community Council feel it’s best to re-elect the whole IRC Council. To that end, nominations for places...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: A song about Ubuntu, Gnome & Unity….FOSS Yeaaaah!
I was awful bored in the early A.M. so I decided to record a quick song about Ubuntu, Gnome & Unity which I dubbed “Foss Yeaaaah!” in any case I think it sounds alright but I only spent about five...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Deploying ThinkUp to the cloud with juju
There’s a bit of buzz around ThinkUp, a new project that aims to help users collect the data they’ve submitted to social networks by making software that not only keeps a copy that the user can keep...
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Jorge Castro: IRC Workshops for 12.04.
Thanks to the Ubuntu Classroom team session at UDS we’ve got all the IRC Workshops planned already, along with spiffy ads to spread around. After much discussion we have decided to “focus” the IRC...
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Ronnie Tucker: Full Circle Magazine #55
Issue #55 is OUT! This month: * Command and Conquer. * How-To : Program in Python – Part 29, LibreOffice – Part 9, Backup Strategy – Part 3, Audacity Basics, and Quick Home Server. * Linux Lab – VOIP...
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Oli Warner: The Death of Ubuntu
It's happening again. Ubuntu is on its deathbed. Pundits and community members are exchanging blasts of statistics and in the crossfire people are getting dubious. Well I've one thing to say to Ubuntu...
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Brandon Perry: Easily splitting and storing traceroute data
Traceroute is very useful, but the data it spits out can be a bit tough to chew on. I came up with this one-liner to make it more CSV compatible so you can Split() on commas and have the correct data...
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Ian Weisser: Ubuntu Brainstorm - inside the sausage factory
Brainstorm gets about 2,000 submissions each year.What do we do with all those ideas?How can they help you, without bogging you down?Well, we close about 85% of them immediately. That's good - it keeps...
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Randall Ross: We Ignore At Our Peril
Lots of lively (and civil) discussion on the meme I blogged about yesterday. But... Anyways, here's what happened while we were "sleeping": The PC World article cited above is by John E Dunn in London...
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Sridhar Dhanapalan: Speaking at OSDC 2011 on OLPC Australia
I am speaking next Thursday at the Open Source Developers’ Conference 2011 in Canberra. The title is Australia’s Toughest Linux Deployment. Yes it’s a play on the ruggedness and flexibility of the XO’s...
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Sridhar Dhanapalan: The OLPC Australia programme in action
In honour of OLPC Australia’s second anniversary, we have produced a video revealing some of the success we have achieved. Feel free to spread it far and wide
View ArticleSridhar Dhanapalan: Video of linux.conf.au talk
The video of my talk at linux.conf.au is online. You can watch/download it online. Overall, I think it went quite well. A personal criticism is that I need to seriously cut back on my use of ‘um’ and...
View ArticleMark Shuttleworth: Ubuntu TV discussions hot up
Good to see the level of interest in a TV experience for Unity. From a weekly update Friday: Earlier this week the guys in #ubuntu-tv (on Freenode) generated an Etherpad with their thoughts and then...
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Charlene Tessier: The Sky is Falling…
Last week, I was chatting with some friends and the conversation turned towards the debate that we may be coming into a new astrological age – the Age of Aquarius or New Age. Astrological Age? Age of...
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