Benjamin Mako Hill: Voice Message of Peace
The Community Wellness team at MIT has a program on stress reduction, mindfulness, and relaxation. Among their services is a guided three-minute relaxation exercise recording (available at extension...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad translations disruption 10.00 UTC 2011-11-29
Launchpad translations will be unavailable for around one hour, starting 10.00 UTC, on Tuesday 2011-11-29, to allow us to open the translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be...
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Sridhar Dhanapalan: OLPC Australia talk at OSDC 2011
Here’s the video of the talk I said I’d be giving at OSDC 2011, titled Australia’s Toughest Linux Deployment: In it, I outline our educational programme and how the technology fits into it. Some key...
View ArticleSebastian Kügler: Linux on Sony Vaio VPCZ12
For some time, I’ve been the more or less proud owner of a Sony Vaio VPC Z12 laptop. It’s quite a nice machine with a Core i5 CPU, a fast SSD and a superb FullHD panel at 13″. Hardware support on Linux...
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Alberto Milone: Updates on Nvidia (285.05.09) and Fglrx (11.11)
As you might already know, this release cycle we’re providing updated proprietary graphics drivers using the -updates flavours of our driver packages (e.g. nvidia-current-updates, fglrx-updates). These...
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Randall Ross: The "Ubuntu Pig Thesis", Revised
This blog post is a follow-up to The "Ubuntu Pig Thesis", an article I wrote in August 2010. The "Ubuntu Pig Thesis" hypothesized that the popularity of Ubuntu was waning based on declining Google...
View ArticleNathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, December 1st
As the weather starts to turn cold, we get to come together this week and talk about Ubuntu. Ubuntu "precise pangolin" alpha 1 arrives on Thursday and there is a lot of talk about Ubuntu on TV and...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 243
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #243 for the week November 21 – 27, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this Issue we cover: Career Days: From Developer to CEO...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – November 29, 2011
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20111129 Meeting Agenda ARM Status No new update. Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs precise nominated bugs 32 linux kernel bugs (up 12)...
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Benjamin Mako Hill: Bootstrapping
AndroidZoom, along with just about every other third-party interface to the Android Market out there, provides 2D barcodes which aim to make it easy to install Android applications that you find online...
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Michael Hall: My Unity TV Mockups
Inspired my Mark Shuttleworth’s recent post about Alan Bell’s Unity TV mockups, I’ve decided to try my hand at some. Alan did his using Pencil, which is an awesome tool for UI mockups that I wrote...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Month of mo, 1 day to go, unless…
This mo might gro! Even the sheep are running scared. It’s the last day of Movember. Inspired by your comments, and frankly, more inspired by your donations to Movember in the name of this metrosexual...
View ArticleDaniel Stone: some meaningless numbers
My current running Xorg server, built with -O0 -g3 -ggdb, having been through a few suspend cycles, hosting a full GNOME Shell session with several billion tabs in a long-running Chromium instance, a...
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Stephan Adig: Life changes
So, the end of the year is near and with New Years Eve my life will change in some areas.First of all, I'll be leaving Netviewer (now: Citrix Online) after (round about) 4 years of giving my energy to...
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Daniel Holbach: Stories and saying thanks
Don’t you love it when you get contributions to your project when you didn’t expect them at all? By reaching out to contributors, thanking them and welcoming them to the Ubuntu community you do a lot...
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David Planella: Building the Ubuntu App Development community (I):...
One of the main objectives for the Ubuntu 12.04 cycle is to build upon the foundations set by the Ubuntu App Developer site, My Apps and the Ubuntu Software Centre and start building an Ubuntu App...
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Thierry Carrez: Improving Nova privilege escalation model, part 3
In the previous two posts of this series, we explored the deficiencies of the current model and the features of an alternative implementation. In this last post, we’ll discuss the advantages of a...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: juju at SCaLE 10x
We’re happy to announce that our presentation on juju has been accepted for SCaLE 10x. Along with sponsoring the Speaker track and the Press and Speaker Green Room, we will be holding a juju charm...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: THE Ubuntu Success Story
Last night, I came home from a meeting, kissed my wife, and was walking back upstairs when my coat started vibrating. I pulled my phone out to see that I was too late, and wasn't able to answer a phone...
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