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Charles Profitt: Tuesdays Surgery Went Well
Tuesday I had elbow surgery to remove a bursa that was causing issues and had not healed in two years since a gout attack. Here is a picture of me. Sorry for missing time on IRC with my Ubuntu friends...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications Updates for 11.10
The previously announced KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.7.3 updates have completed QA testing and have been released to all users in the oneiric-updates repository. Packages for the...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Two for one: Two smallish hacks this week!
I’ve whipped up two libs this week, and both have some pretty radical uses. The fist is python-charlie, which can be found on github, which is named in honor of Charlie on the MTA. This lib will fetch...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Chuck Does The Holidays
Chuck checking out a Christmas Tree Farm: Chuck shops at a Holiday Store: Want to make yours? Grab the Chuckout in GIMP format.
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Rubén Romero: A Christmas Gift For Yourself: Update to Precise Now!
As the UWN team, sabfl, other members of our community and even Chuck, I am now shutting down operations here until after Christmas and thus will be mostly away from the computer from tomorrow until...
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Jason Gerard DeRose: All I want for Christmas: USB3
All I want for Christmas is for USB3 to work in Precise, which currently it doesn't (upstream Linux issue as far as I can tell). So if you have USB3 hardware, please see if you likewise experience this...
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Dustin Kirkland: Using eCryptfs and Ubuntu Encrypted Home in EC2
Admittedly, using eCryptfs and Ubuntu's Encrypted Home feature in EC2 is a bit circumlocutious. At Gazzang, we're working on making that a bit more seamless, and a lot more secure. But in the...
View ArticleKubuntu: Plasma and KDE Applications Beta for Testing
Early testers can find Plasma and KDE Applications beta 2 (4.7.90) in the Beta PPA for 11.10 and in the main archive for our development release. Bugs in the packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa...
View ArticleKubuntu: Amarok 2.5 In Backports PPA
Amarok 2.5 is available in the Kubuntu Backports PPA for 11.10 users. Bugs in the packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. To update, use the Software...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
Development Update This will be the last development update of 2011, so let’s see where we stand in terms of 12.04. We are 10 weeks into the release cycle and have still 18 weeks to go. There is...
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Aaron Toponce: Expand URLs in Irssi
If you’re an IRC junkie, and spend hours a day in Irssi, then this post might be useful to you. It’s all the rage these days to shorten URLs with fancy URL shortening services. Heck, even I have one....
View ArticleJorge Castro: GNOME Boxes looking for Debian/Ubuntu help...
Zeeshan sends along that he’s looking for help bring GNOME Boxes to Ubuntu and Debian. If you read any of my previous blog entries, you must be now familiar with this ‘express installation’ concept we...
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Kees Cook: abusing the FILE structure
When attacking a process, one interesting target on the heap is the FILE structure used with “stream functions” (fopen(), fread(), fclose(), etc) in glibc. Most of the FILE structure (struct _IO_FILE...
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Clint Byrum (SpamapS): But will it scale? – Taking Limesurvey horizontal with...
One of the really cool things about using the cloud, and especially juju, is that it instantly enables things that often times take a lot of thought to even try out in traditional environments. While...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: phpMyAdmin Charm ready!
As a follow up to my previous post about the Minecraft Charm, here is my next completed charm: phpMyAdmin! Unlike my last charm’s post, I’m going to keep this one sweet and to the point. For a review...
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Michael Hall: Writing Unity Lenses
Unity certainly has been getting a lot of attention in the past year. Love it or hate it, everybody seems to have something to say, whether it’s about the Launcher, application indicators, or the...
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Nick Ali: SOPA Sucks
From getyourcensoron.com.I understand why the entertainment industry thinks SOPA a good idea. They are retarded.From the Washington Post, this might be my favorite quote about the discussions in...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Status.net database fails on Ubuntu 11.10
I've been running Status.net on my webserver for a while. With the move to new infrastructure, I created a db dump on my old server (Ubuntu 10.04, 64-bit) and tried to import it on the new one...
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Aaron Toponce: Boycott GoDaddy
I generally don’t jump on boycotting bandwagons, because usually because they are severely misguided and misinformed, and they’re usually interested in spreading FUD more than just reporting the issue...
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Daniel Holbach: Morocco
Aït Ben Haddou (Photo by Oscar Gomez - CC-BY-NC-ND)See you back on 9th January 2012.
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