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Charles Profitt: Western Digital MyBook Live
As many of my G+ followers know I have been struggling to decide between an HP Micro Server (N40L) or a NAS (either QNAP or Synology). I recently decided to wait on that decision and get an interim...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu User Days — This Weekend!
This weekend from Saturday 13:30 UTC through Sunday 03:00 UTC the Classroom team will be hosting Ubuntu User Days! User Days was created to be a set of chat-based classes offered during a one day...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu User Days — This Weekend!
This weekend from Saturday 13:30 UTC through Sunday 03:00 UTC the Classroom team will be hosting Ubuntu User Days! User Days was created to be a set of chat-based classes offered during a one day...
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Dustin Kirkland: Introducing New Branding and Logos for eCryptfs
The time I have spent around Ubuntu has given me a deep appreciation for the finer points of design, branding, themes, and artwork around software development and user interfaces. From Ubuntu's...
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Dustin Kirkland: Introducing the Ken Burns Effect in Pictor's Slideshow
I'm a big fan of documentaries. Especially Ken Burns documentaries. The National Parks, Jazz, Baseball, Huey Long -- I love them all!Ken Burns is particularly famous for a special effect (known as...
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Didier Roche: Releasing a precise Unity 5.0 to Ubuntu 12.04
The Canonical ubuntu platform and product strategy teams are gathering in Budapest this week to tackle as much work as possible on precise pangolin. Despite the promise of snow and cheap beers, we are...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-8.15 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. The most notable changes are as follows: * Multiple config changes * ipv6: make the net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr sysctl propagate to interface settings *...
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Brandon Perry: Communicating with your NeXpose server via Mono/.NET
I have a public repo on github that houses my nexpose-sharp library. It is written in C# and consumes the NeXpose XML API (both 1.1 and 1.2). Here is an example of how easy it is to get all the vuln...
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Serge Hallyn: KVM performance measurements: my plan
I intend to do kvm performance comparisons of various tuning knobs in 3 sets. One to test virtual disk performance. One to test network performance. And one to test general cpu performance. For disk...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Social Ubuntu TV
Be sure to follow Ubuntu TV on Facebook and on Google+. That is all.
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Welcoming DreamWorks to the HP Cloud Services Private Beta
I had the pleasure of meeting HP Cloud Services’ private beta customer and long time HP customer Derek Chan, Head of Global Technology Operations for DreamWorks Animation, at CloudBeat. Derek joined HP...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: libxklavier is now introspectable
On my 8 hour train ride to Budapest last Sunday I finally worked on making libxklavier introspectable. Thanks to Sergey’s fast review the code now landed in trunk. I sent a couple of refinements to the...
View ArticleKubuntu: Calligra Beta 6 for Testing
Calligra (formerly KOffice) Beta 6 is available for testing 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 on...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: json / vim love
Use vim? Check out some sweet vim exrc stuff for editing one-line JSON files: autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.json set filetype=json command Js silent %!jp command Jc silent %!jcompress autocmd FileType...
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Charles Profitt: The Importance of Accessibility
Recently I had surgery on my left elbow (non-dominant) and was unable to use my arm to type for roughly a week. The experience drove home the importance of developers focusing on Accessibility. It also...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Developers will flock to public cloud in 2012
The public cloud is looking pretty good as a development platform this year and gaining cloud development skills is a top priority for many developers, according to new research. Of the 3,335...
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Rick Spencer: Bit of fun with JQuery and CSS
I stole some time to play a bit more with veritas and JQuery today. Instead of the ugly list that I had before, I wanted some interactivity. So I got started by adding a little css to make a "card" for...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Testing Required: Unity PPA
The always awesome didrocks posted yesterday to encourage the testing of the Unity PPA. In this cycle we have changed how Unity is deployed into Ubuntu by required a set of acceptance criteria tests...
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