Daniel Stone: why you don't actually want dpi
Inspired by a discussion in #wayland today, here are snippets from three people explaining why X declares its DPI as 96, and why a single 'DPI' sledgehammer isn't actually what basically anyone* wants....
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Michael Hall: More Unity TV Mockups
As promised in my previous post about my Unity Phone Mockups, here’s a look at the TV mockups I’ve been playing with over the last week, along with the reasons behind some of the designs. Links to the...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Beta 1
Announced by Julien Lavergne today: Following the announce for Ubuntu, Lubuntu Beta 1 is also available for testing. You can find it on http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/oneiric/beta-1/ A...
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Accessibility Team: Embiggen your Unity
For those who want a bit more chunkiness in your user interfaces there is a little option tucked away to boost the size of the unity launcher icons. Using the CompizConfig Settings Manager (which is...
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Victor Tuson Palau: Introducing odm.ubuntu.com
Coinciding with the 2011 Ubuntu Hardware Summit, we are launching a new portal aimed to help engineers at device manufacturers shipping Ubuntu systems: odm.ubuntu.com The Ubuntu community is great. It...
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Canonical Design Team: Interview with Mr.doob
In the following months we are going to invite inspiring artists to talk about their amazing work and the role that Ubuntu and free software cover, or could cover, in their creative lives. Today I...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux-ti-omap4 kernel 3.2.0-1401.1 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux ti-omap4 kernel. The most notable changes are as follows: * update to a 3.2.0 mainline base The full changelog can be found at:...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux-ti-omap4 kernel 3.2.0-1402.2 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux ti-omap4 kernel. The most notable changes are as follows: * rebase to latest master release Ubuntu-3.2.0-3.9 * temporary work around for hangs on reboot The full...
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Richard Johnson: Looking For Small Inexpensive Linux Server
A few months back I lost my communications server to electronic death. That is part of the reason you don’t see me on IRC much and part of the reason I am desperately feening for Mutt now. I am looking...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: YUI and PhoneGap Sitting in a Tree
...K-I-S-S-I-N-G The Web and Mobile Ubuntu One team is in Buenos Aires, Argentina (along with most of the rest of the Ubuntu One teams) exploring the boundaries we may experience merging the Web and...
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Barry Warsaw: Lessons in porting to Python 3
Yesterday, I completed my port of dbus-python to Python 3, and submitted my patch upstream. While I've yet to hear any feedback from Simon about my patch, I'm fairly confident that it's going in the...
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Benjamin Kerensa: HP gives WebOS to FOSS community as token gesture
I’m kind of skeptical towards the announcement by HP today that they are going to contribute the WebOS platform to the Free Open Source Software community. As a former owner of a HP WebOS device I’m...
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Julian Andres Klode: Combining ikiwiki and Twitters bootstrap
Just because Julien did it, I moved my website to almost the same design now. Still using ikiwiki, of course. I’m still missing a few things, such as marking the currently active page in the menu, but...
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Launchpad News: Legacy, performance, testing: 6 months of new critical bugs...
The Launchpad maintenance teams have been working since the beginning of the year at reducing our Critical bugs count to 0. Without much success this far. The long term trend keeps the backlog at...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: End of an Era
As of today, I’ve left my current job at Boston College for a new spot at The Sunlight Foundation, a government transparency nonprofit. Needless to say, all opinions from here on out are my own, and in...
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Jorge Castro: The $43 Ikea Galant Standing Desk mod
I’m on holiday and my parents are in town, so I was chatting with my dad about how to modify one of my Ikea Galant corners into a standing desk. Since standing desks are all the rage I’ve been thinking...
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Ben Collins: Reviving the Ubuntu PowerPC community effort
Just is just a heads up to some people who may be interested. I am trying to breath some life back into the Ubuntu PowerPC community. My interest extends from my current job and focus on the server...
View ArticleMartin Owens: I Visited the UK LoCo
May I just say, I have a fantastic time with the UK LoCo this evening attending the interesting Dans LaNoir. This is a restaurant which is completely pitch black, where you’re served by blind waiters...
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Joel Leclerc: How to get the new Google bar
I know this has nothing to do with Ubuntu, but I thought it might be useful for those of you who didn’t get the new Google bar yet. NOTICE: Thanks to Marco in the comments, if you are a Google Chrome...
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Serge Hallyn: Tickler
A tickler file is a concept i learned about from the gtd methodology a few years ago. When done physically, you simply have 31+12 folders – one for each potential day of the month, and one for each...
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