Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, February 9
Ubuntu Hour is a chance to meet up for an hour and chat with other Ubuntu users. The meeting is open to anyone interested whether they use Ubuntu or not, and everyone's welcome with no commitments or...
View ArticleManish Sinha: Privacy and Activity Manager (Zeitgeist) Release
We all love privacy and we take it seriously. Most of the people whom I have met are pretty much vigilant about their data and which makes complete sense to have a tool which can you can use to fine...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: fatrace: report system wide file access events
Part of our efforts to reduce power consumption is to identify processes which keep waking up the disk even when the computer is idle. This already resulted in a few bug reports (and some fixes, too),...
View ArticleChris Johnston: Linaro Connect Q1.12 – Day 1
Yesterday was day one of Linaro Connect Q1.12. This was a very productive day of meeting people that I will be working with on LAVA, as well as other people throughout Linaro. I attended a couple of...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – February 7, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120207 Meeting Agenda ARM Status UUID support: Found a way to support an initrd-less kernel using GPT, an hybrid mbr and the ROOTUUID...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-15.24 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 upstream stable v3.2.5 * Enable CONFIG_THERM_ADT746X=y * acer-wmi: support...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: KDE at FOSDEM 2012
At the end of a long day here are some photos from KDE at FOSDEM 2012. Pradeepto says "3.24 AM here, am in office, those pictures made my day/night/whatever itis now". KDE Love as Claudia sells...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Canonical Community Team Meeting – 7th Feb 2012
Minutes are available here.
View ArticleRick Spencer: Girrrr: PyGame + Gtk in a GOI World
Back in August, I wrote a bit about how to embed PyGame into a pygtk app (and why it might be interesting to do that). Well, the world has moved on a bit, so today I updated the code sample to work...
View ArticleTiago Hillebrandt: New Ubuntu Brazilian Community Council announced
Ubuntu Brazilian Community is proud to announce your new Community Council: Andre Noel: http://launchpad.net/~andrenoel Ayrton Araújo: http://launchpad.net/~ayrton Fábio Nogueira:...
View ArticleGerfried Fuchs: Squeeze RCs's Squashing 2012 #2
This is the second entry in my series about squeeze release critical bug squashing. In response to my last blog post it was asked whether this is proper release critical bug squashing. Indeed there...
View ArticleUbuntu Server blog: Automating Openstack Testing on Ubuntu
Reblogged from JavaCruft: During the Ubuntu precise development cycle the Canonical Platform Server Team have been working on automating testing of Openstack on Ubuntu. The scope of this work was:...
View ArticleMirco Müller: notify-osd 0.9.33 released
I just made the 0.9.33 release of NotifyOSD. The main changes are: Logging to ~/.cache/notify-osd.log is off by default. You have to start it with the environment-variable “LOG” being defined (see LP:...
View ArticleJonathan Carter: Turning 30
I’ve always heard people complaining about turning 30 before and wondered what it would be like for me. I’m thrilled to turn 30. I feel like I’m 20. I think I’m some kind of late bloomer, my 20′s were...
View ArticleThierry Carrez: FOSDEM 2012 feedback
I’m back from Brussels, where happened the coldest FOSDEM ever. It started on Friday night with the traditional beer event. Since the Delirium was a bit small to host those thousands of frozen geeks,...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Dealing With Hate Precisely
Those of us who blog about Ubuntu, or participate in Ubuntu forums, mailing lists, and other aspects of the "Ubuntu Online Community" all have something in common: We are subjected to hatred from...
View ArticleMatthew Helmke: Fixing a broken Ubuntu upgrade
ITWorld just posted an article I wrote outlining how I fixed a broken wireless card driver after an Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 upgrade.
View ArticleAnthony Hook: Old, lazy, and buggy latency test
On my Ubuntu laptop at work, I resurrected one of my old, lazy, and buggy method to check latency to some network device. Perhaps it may be useful to someone. #!/usr/bin/env bash limit_ms=150...
View ArticleCostales: Install SAP GUI on Ubuntu 11.10
1. Download SAPGUI for java here.2. Install Java JREOpen a Terminal:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/javasudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Blogging Tips
Today I had a call with another team at Canonical who were wanting to ask for guidance on (a) how to write good blog entries that people want to read and (b) how to regularly get into the habit of...
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