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Michael Hall: Singlet, part 0.2
I’ve finally had a little extra time to get back to working on Singlet. There’s been a lot of progress since the first iteration. To start with, Singlet had to be upgraded to work with the new Lens...
View ArticleColin Watson: APT resolver bugs
I've managed to go for eleven years working on Debian and nearly eight on Ubuntu without ever needing to teach myself how APT's resolver works. I get the impression that there's a certain mystique...
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Matthew Helmke: Style Guides
As many of you reading this already know, I am a writer. I write for a living. I write technical documentation, books, occasional articles for magazines and websites, and more. The books in this post...
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Dustin Kirkland: "Harvey" the Honey Badger
The feedback on eCryptfs' new mascot and logo has been just awesome :-) At the bottom of the last post, we opened a call for name suggestions.As it turns out, my mom reads my blog from time to time,...
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Launchpad News: Fighting fire with fire – Changes to bug heat
We’re making changes to the way that bug heat is calculated and displayed in Launchpad. From 6th February, bug heat will no longer age/degrade, and the active flame counter symbol will be replaced...
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Costales: Libre Projects - Free web services
Libre Projects is a great directory where you can find free web projects. Of course, free as freedom ;)Enjoy it!
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Jeremy Bicha: POSSCON: Open Source in the South East
It seems the majority of tech conferences are located in California and there aren’t near as many to choose from on the East Coast of the United States. There are even fewer in the South East. I only...
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Pasi Lallinaho: Xubuntu website soon ready to be published!
Lately, we’ve made some good progress on the new Xubuntu website. At last, all the theme- and plugin-related issues should be sorted out. We’re only missing some redirects now on the technical aspect....
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: python-sunlight (or: get at some awesome US Political data...
I’ve spent a few days during work, after work and on the weekend working on python-sunlight, a unified API implementation of a few Sunlight services. This is very unstable, and not released yet (so...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Looking for Quickly template help
I’ve you’ve written or know how to write a Quickly template, I’d like to get some help making one for Singlet Lenses and Scopes.
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Jono Bacon: Severed Fifth Release Party this Friday in San Francisco
Can’t see the video? Watch it here. Just a quick note to let you know that this Friday, 3rd February in San Francisco we will be having the Severed Fifth CD Release Party. The new album ‘Liberate’ was...
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Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Developer Week: The Problem Lifecycle in Ubuntu
I will be giving a session on The Problem Lifecycle in Ubuntu during Ubuntu Developer Week. Thursday February 2nd at 21:30 UTC (16:30 GMT-5 – my time). The session will cover some of the important...
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Sridhar Dhanapalan: Creating an Education Programme
OLPC Australia had a strong presence at linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, two weeks ago. I gave a talk in the main keynote room about our educational programme, in which I explained our mission and how...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: Flashing U-Boot on Efika MX Smartbook
From time to time I read posts where people wrote that their Efika MX Smartbook does not boot any more. The only thing which it does is white power led blinking about twice per second. Standard reply...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Developer Week: Summary Day 1, Outlook Day 2
Day 1 of Ubuntu Developer Week is over and what a fantastic day it was. Logs up are up at the UDW page, so go and check them out if you couldn’t make it yesterday. Let’s take a look at what happened...
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The Fridge: Unity 5.2: What’s new, and a call for testing
It’s been a few weeks since the last drop of unity, and now the unity team has readied the new version of unity 5.2. Let’s walk through how to preview the new features unity 5.2 is bringing, and help...
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Colin King: 3G using a Huawei E1552/E1800 (HSPA modem) on Ubuntu
So my internet service provider is rolling out a programme of speed upgrades and over the past few weeks I've suffered from various connectivity issues most probably because of infrastructure upgrades....
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Raphaël Hertzog: My Debian Activities in January 2012
This is my monthly summary of my Debian related activities. If you’re among the people who made a donation to support my work (213.68 €, thanks everybody!), then you can learn how I spent your money....
View ArticleTed Gould: Procmail vs. Launchpad
Launchpad users know that it can send quite a bit of e-mail. Okay, a LOT of e-mail. There has been effort on the Launchpad side of things to add controls to set the amount of Launchpad e-mail you get....
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James Page: Jenkins 1.424.2 in Debian unstable!
Just a short post to say that Jenkins 1.424.2 has landed in Debian; 1.409.3 was accepted a few weeks ago and I just uploaded 1.424.2 to unstable. I expect to upload another version in the next few...
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