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The Fridge: Interview with Quackers
1. Tell as much as you’re willing about your “real life” like name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, education, hobbies, etc. Ok, I’m Mike Donald, I’m 51 yearsw old and I live in...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: NFSv4 UID mapping?
It seems that Ubuntu 11.10 server defaults to NFSv4, which probably makes sense. But I'm having problems with ownership on the clients. Both my server and clients run 11.10 and authentication is done...
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Joel Pickett: Hello, World!
Hi, I’m Joel Pickett and I’ve just been approved as an Ubuntu Member, hope to see you around this place Cheers
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Managing security upgrades?
The number of (Ubuntu) servers I have is growing steadily, and with it approaching 10 (including VM's), I'm starting to look for a solution to manage security upgrades beyond the apt-get update...
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Jonathan Carter: My Unity 5.0 Experience
Giving Unity Another Go Yesterday I installed Unity 5.0 and I was pleasantly surprised by some of its new features: I can set the panel background colour. By default, the Unity panel adapts itself to...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Another Successful User Days!
From Saturday, the 14th to Sunday, the 15th, the Classroom team hosted User Days for the Oneiric cycle. Our gratitude to all the instructors who took time out of their weekend to present a session....
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Scott Kitterman: LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 Support in Debian/Ubuntu
A LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 recently arrived at our house. Of course it only comes with proprietary support for Windows/Mac, so I set out to see what FOSS support for the hardware I could find. I found...
View ArticleGreg Grossmeier: Foursquare for new parents
I’ve recently started using Foursquare (me), ironically, because a friend who works for the EFF has a favorable opinion of it. During my usage in the last month or so, I’ve come to realize that there...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Ubuntu TV a Case Study
Hello Community, I’ve put together a video to show my existing Ubuntu TV; the one I’ve been using with XBMC for the past year or more. See Video Here If you’re using a similar setup, I’d love to know...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: Mystery Hunt
I've mentioned before that I compete every year in the MIT Mystery Hunt -- an enormous, multi-day, round-the-clock puzzle competition held in January at MIT each year. Last year, my team Codex won the...
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Ricardo Salveti: Ubuntu TV fully accelerated on a Pandaboard with Ubuntu LEB
As described on my previous post about Ubuntu TV support on a Pandaboard, we were still missing proper support for texture streaming on a Pandaboard, to have the video playback also working and fully...
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Benjamin Kerensa: I Dream of Hackergotchi’s
Benjamin Kerensa | Benjamin Kerensa dot ComUsing GIMP to turn a photo into a HackergotchiI decided it would be nice to make myself a Hackergotchi to start using around the interwebs so today I launched...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Syncing from Debian
A few days ago I read the mail from Iain Lane on ubuntu-devel-announce, which announced that ‘syncpackage’ is now able to directly perform syncs for you (if you have sufficient upload rights), without...
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Canonical Design Team: Meeting Prezi
While we were sprinting in Budapest, we had the opportunity to meet the team responsible for such an interesting and inspiring product. We have in fact been lucky enough, thanks to some interesting...
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Dustin Kirkland: Automatically Swapping Launchpad and Bazaar Identities
I've been a Launchpad.net member since 2006-10-11, when I first created an account to add some debugging information and submit a patch to a bug affecting the xserver on iMac G3s and the Ubuntu 6.06...
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Daniel Holbach: Meeting friends in Morocco
One thing I love about Ubuntu is that Ubuntu fans and contributors are spread around the whole globe. So when I started planning holidays in Morocco it was almost certain that we’d meet somebody from...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: ActiveState Stackato Now Supports Private PaaS on HP...
With the multitude of PaaS vendors that now exist, most providing an all-things-to-all-people polyglot solution that is (in my view at least) largely undifferentiated from their competitors, there is...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Position Paper: Five Attributes Of Enterprise Cloud...
Abstract: In this position paper, we define the five core attributes of a modern enterprise cloud application which includes Simplicity, Cloud Scale Architecture, Open APIs, Mobile Platform Support and...
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Raphaël Hertzog: Review of my Debian related goals for 2011
Last year I shared my “Debian related goals for 2011”. I tend to put more goals than what I can reasonably complete alone and this year was no exception. Let’s have a look. Translate my Debian book...
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Omer Akram: Ubuntu 11.10 got 11
i happened to be reading #ubuntu linuxguy101> ok i give ubuntu an 11 for eye candy om26er> linuxguy101, out of? <linuxguy101> om26er: 11 out of 10 <linuxguy101> good job
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