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Aaron Toponce: Ramadan – Week Three
My second week of experiencing Ramadan is already documented, this is week three.When studying Anthropology in higher education, you learn in your first class the necessity of “participant...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Packaging Training: The sponsoring tools in ubuntu-dev-tools
Sponsoring packages can be a very time-consuming task. On 2nd September, 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net, Stefano Rivera will be leading a Packaging Training session about how you...
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Steve Stalcup: Social Spider Web
I am deluged each day with people (irl) re-living their lives in the social spider web. You see, I call it a spiderweb because once you get trapped – facebook kills you. Then you turn into one of my...
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The Fridge: New Ubuntu Lucid Proposed Kernel
The Ubuntu kernel team has prepared a new proposed kernel for Lucid (2.6.32-25.43), containing a large number of fixes. This is a larger number of updates than we would usually push at one time, but...
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Ryan Kavanagh: Turnin-NG 1.1 released!
Turnin-NG version 1.1 has just been released. Turnin-NG is an assignment submission suite written in Python and composed of turnin and turnincfg. Students can use the turnin command to submit an...
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Benjamin Humphrey: OMG! Ubuntu! gets a facelift
If you pop on over to OMG! Ubuntu! no doubt you’ll notice something different. That’s right, after two months of design and development, we have unleashed the new face of OMG! Ubuntu! It might take a...
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Jordan Mantha: Fool me thrice ...
I’ve now tried to do upgrades from 10.04 to Maverick Meerkat three times and each time I’ve reverted to 10.04 within a day. There was a fair amount of general instability, and for instance, in the...
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The Fridge: Meet Jon Sackett
Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jon: I’m part of the Registry team; we...
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Duncan McGreggor: HCI at Canonical
uTouchBack in March, I blogged about future possibilities (in a blue-sky sense) of multi-touch, mentioning the project management I was doing for MT hardware kernel driver support in Lucid (and then...
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Christophe Sauthier: Handicap accessibility meeting for open communities...
This blog blog is taken from Kinouchou's blog. And since she wanted to reach as many people as possible, she asked me to relay it here. So please if you have any comments, post them on the original...
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Canonical Design Team: Happy Beta day everyone!
Happy Beta Release day one and all. If you’ve not yet upgraded surely now’s the time
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Paolo Sammicheli: LoCo Testing Team HowTo
I finally completed the wiki page about the Italian experience in ISO Testing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/LoCoTeam I would really love if other LoCos would like to start ISO TESTING contributing...
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Dougie Richardson: Install web applications locally on Ubuntu
I was talking with someone yesterday who is hacking a WordPress theme together. If you work with web sites, being able to run a site locally allows testing, experimentation, developing new themes and...
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Canonical Design Team: Why do you use Ubuntu?
We’ve been looking at making developments to the Ubuntu website that explore and highlight the reasons for using Ubuntu above and beyond the features of the products. One idea we had was to invite...
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Belinda Lopez: Ubuntu in Education
Wow – I’ve already been amazed at learning about some of the great things happening with Ubuntu in Education. At every level, Ubuntu in schools and learning just makes sense. Yesterday I was pointed...
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Daniel Holbach: Holidays
Visa, finally got it Tuesday next week is my last working day and I’ll be gone for three weeks, without laptop. If you have anything really urgent, talk to any members of my team, Michael or Ara, they...
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Stephan Hermann: Just in case you are a HP BL4* G6/7 user
and you have an HP NC 511i Emulex Dual Port 10GB Ethernet/ISCSI/FoE Adapter on board,it works with Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick (Daily from Yesterday).The only bug, which is now known as LP bug #628776,...
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Laura Czajkowski: The motivational drivers and barriers of volunteers in open...
I blogged a while back about Barry doing his Masters Thesis on The motivational drivers and barriers of volunteers in open source communities which looked at the Ubuntu Community, he handed it in...
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Matthew Helmke: The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
It has been a while since I have reviewed a manga book. This is one of several atypical educational books that use graphic art to help teach difficult concepts or illustrate the action. This is...
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Mackenzie Morgan: Sharing a shell and monitoring the other party
Recently, I had a reason to allow someone else to use a shell on a machine for which I'm the admin, but I wanted a way to track what they're doing. You might think the history command is just fine for...
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