Johnathon Mlady: Using DBUS_SESSION across multiple terminals / gnu screens...
It’s been a while, therefor my apologies are in order. So I just started tinkering with DBUS programming and was trying to debug a client and a server that I wrote up. I had GNU Screen opened and in...
View ArticleRaphaël Hertzog: My Debian Activities in November 2011
This is my monthly summary of my Debian related activities. If you’re among the people who made a donation to support my work (310.73 €, thanks everybody!), then you can learn how I spent your money....
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
Development Update Huzzah! Seven weeks into the release cycle and Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 has just been announced. Bear in mind it is of alpha quality, but please go and test it if you are curious and...
View ArticleJani Monoses: Lightspark 0.5.3 released
There's a fresh release for the Lightspark Flash player, the third one on an approximately monthly schedule.Most new changes in 0.5.3 are robustness and portability fixes and a working Windows port,...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Learn more about Juju – Join Mark Shuttleworth Thursday...
Juju is Devops Distilled Cloud deployment is different. It involves tighter devops handovers, the ability to scale services both up and down, and hybrid cloud computing: moving services between your...
View ArticleFabián Rodríguez: Holidays spending – JUST DO IT!
I’d like to share a few projects and organizations that I’d love to see reaching their goals this time of the year. I want to stress how important it is to understand that donating even U$25 or U$5 or...
View ArticleSeif Lotfy: Web Prototype day 2
This post is by no means meant to be criticism, but rather an opinion on raising questions we couldn’t get answers to. So on day 2 I got Federico Mena and Garrett LeSage to try out my prototype. While...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-3.7 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump. The most notable changes are as follows: * x86/paravirt: PTE updates in k(un)map_atomic need to be synchronous * rebase to...
View ArticleCostales: Ubuntu: Una forma distinta de mirar tu computadora
Ubuntu, una forma distinta de mirar tu computadoraEs una animación. Para verla a pantalla completa, pulsa aquí. Vía: @michelenlared.Fuente: SpreadUbuntu.
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-3.8 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. The most notable changes are as follows: * armhf — add d-i configuration * armhf — disable ABI checks for armhf * armhf — add arch to getabis config The...
View ArticleSerge Hallyn: Vimprobable web browser
vimprobable has been mentioned in the comments of this blog before. It’s a fast webkit-based browser navigated mainly with vi bindings based originally on vimperator. I’ve had it packaged for a while...
View ArticleSerge Hallyn: ‘ii’ (Irc It) irc client
‘ii’ (Irc It) irc client For years I used irssi under multiple screen sessions to connect to irc. For the past few months, I’ve been using znc and connecting to it with various clients (xchat,...
View ArticleRaphael Pinson: Announcing Augeas 0.10.0
Augeas 0.10.0 has just been released, and it brings a good lot of changes with it.Among them, the aug_to_xml method has been added. This is essentially an integration of the XML export function...
View ArticleRaphael Pinson: Unit testing your configuration files
At work, we have a lot of different services running and we end up with hundreds of thousands of configuration files in our configuration repository (especially since we don't use templates - more on...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu and QML
Last week I delivered a keynote at the Qt Developer Days 2011 event in San Francisco. I have not seen a video of the keynote online yet, but I am assured it should be online soon. Rick Spencer gave a...
View ArticleJason Gerard DeRose: Winning
I'm obsessed with winning, and here's why you should be too:My hope is that Novacut can help put artists in the drivers seat and keep them there, and it's the keeping them there part that has led me to...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Stupid Hacks: GIF -> ANSI
In honor of the recent nyan-cat ANSI fad, I hacked up some goodies that is able to do this with a small subset of all gifs - namely those which are well-formed. The code is thrown up as a gist — it...
View ArticleCostales: How can you create a Transmission blocklist rules?
In Transmission: Edit / Preferences / Privacy / Enable blocklist. Add the URL from below and click Update.http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gzFYI: Why...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Here’s To The Multiarch
Participants at the Joint Debian/Ubuntu Event Yesterday a group of Debian/Ubuntu Developers and Users got together at PuppetLabs for the first ever combined Ubuntu Local Jam & Debian Bug Squashing...
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