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Sebastian Kügler: Active Settings: Modular, embeddable configuration
Plasma Active‘s goal is develop an elegant, Free user experience for the device spectrum, for example touch-based tablets. Active Settings is a modular application hosting configuration user...
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Greg Grossmeier: Photography Work-Flow: Archival RAW Format?
While I haven’t fully figured out the answer to my previous photography related question (on the archiving, not simply backing up, of photos) I am getting closer. I have a question about the archiving...
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Ricardo Salveti: HW video decode and XBMC support on a Pandaboard with Ubuntu...
Part of the effort we spent during the Linaro 11.12 cycle was to try to enable at Pandaboard not only hardware graphics support (GLES with PVR SGX), but also hardware accelerated video decode, as TI...
View ArticleJim Kielman: Hello world!
Welcome to Musings from the Cariboo This is my attempt to publicize what the Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu +1 testing team is up to. It has been suggested, if we want the rest of Ubuntu community to know what...
View ArticleElizabeth Krumbach: Community Council Begins Ubuntu Mailing Lists Review
At the last Ubuntu Developer Summit it was brought to the attention of the Ubuntu Community Council that lists.ubuntu.com had become quite crowded. There was concern that it was overwhelming for new...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-8.14 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump. The most notable changes are as follows: * rebase to mainline v3.2 * update aufs * include the ext* modules for -virtual *...
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Robert Collins: Public service announcement: signals implies reentrant code...
This is a tiny PSA prompted by my digging into a deadlock condition in the Launchpad application servers. We were observing a small number of servers stopping cold when we did log rotation, with no...
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Timo Jyrinki: I have a new GPG key
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1,SHA512Hello,I'm transitioning from my 2003 GPG key to a new one.The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I eventually plan to revoke it, so...
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Brendan Donegan: New Years Resolutions
I’m only just back from my holidays and it’s the time of year to be making some resolutions. We all know that these things usually go nowhere, so I don’t usually bother – but this year I’m in a...
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Brandon Perry: Reading offline registry hives in pure ruby
If you have ever wanted to peruse a registry hive on Linux, you know that options are really lacking. Most people wonder why you would even want to read a registry hive on Linux, but it is fairly...
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Dustin Kirkland: Gazzang officially an AWS Solution Provider!
Gazzang is now an officially Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution Provider! I'm quite excited about this, as our information security and data encryption products are such a great match for the cloud,...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: I'm alive!
Having a wicked time in Cleveland, hitting up such local wonders as the melt, browns stadium, and the winking lizard. I miss Cleveland lots, and it’s been a crazy few days. Be back in Boston soon!
View ArticleRandall Ross: 2012: The Year of Ubuntu
Welcome to 2012! At this time of year I like to read forward-thinking and philosophical writings. It's one of the ways I try to "reboot" my thinking processes and clear the way for new ideas. In that...
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Canonical Design Team: System Settings for Precise
With Unity we have been trying to raise the bar innovating in the User Experience with new UI elements, such as Dash and Overlay Scrollbars. But this shouldn’t come at the cost of overlooking less...
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Canonical Design Team: Launcher Reveal Prototype
For the multi-monitor design project, we have been making use of prototypes to develop and test some of the finer interactions of the system. One such crucial element is the reveal of the Launcher,...
View ArticleKubuntu: Plasma and KDE Applications RC 2 for Testing
Testers can find Plasma and KDE Applications RC 2 (4.7.97) in the Beta PPA for 11.10 and compiling now in the main archive for our development release. Bugs in the packaging should be reported to...
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The Fridge: #lubuntu call for operators
The IRCC is now taking applications for a number of new operator positions in the #lubuntu channel. So if you’re active on our IRC channels and you are available, and if you’ve been aching to help, you...
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Serge Hallyn: Some first performance tests of various kvm backing stores
There are quite a few options for backing store for kvm virtual machines. I’ve started benchmarking just a few of the possible combinations. For starters, I installed a stock headless ubuntu precise...
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Rubén Romero: Update on Precise + Ubuntu Norge
Precise Report As promised, hereby is my report on Precise Pangoline, due in April 2012 as Ubuntu LTS 12.04. Working multi-screen setup (had problems with the right screen on 11.10) System is stable...
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Aaron Toponce: Encrypted Mutt IMAP/SMTP Passwords
Rather than storing your IMAP and SMTP passwords in plain text on disk, you can store them encrypted using GnuPG, OpenSSL, the GNOME Keyring, or any other method of password storage encryption. It...
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