Benjamin Mako Hill: Quasi-Private Resources
Public Resource republishes many court documents. Although these documents are all part of the public record and PR will not take them down because someone finds their publication uncomfortable, PR...
View ArticleJorge Castro: How are you deploying Ubuntu on AWS?
It can be difficult to find the right AMIs on AWS sometimes. Scott Moser has some tips on how you can always find the right AMI’s for Ubuntu, but that might not be obvious to some people. We’ve started...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: Tech Tasks for a High School Intern
I'm planning on "hiring" my younger brother to do some work for me during his Spring Break in a few months. He's 16, and has some tech skills, but his school is not very technical and so he could use...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 252
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #252 for the week February 6 – 12, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Global Jam: Call For Events!...
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Launchpad News: Reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad (part 1)
We are reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad. The goal of the disclosure feature is to introduce true private projects, and we are reconciling the contradictory implementations of privacy in...
View ArticleJorge Castro: No I didn't search before I posted because your search sucks.
As part of a personal goal I’ve been spending alot more time doing user support than I have in the past, and I’ve noticed that people are pretty much now conditioned to defend themselves when asking...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-16.25 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 v3.2.6 * ath9k_hw: fix a RTS/CTS timeout regression *...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Canonical Community Team Weekly Meetings
Just a reminder…every Tuesday at 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 4pm UTC on #ubuntu-community-team on freenode IRC. Everyone runs through a a list of the work they have been doing over the last week and...
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Jono Bacon: Music Of Ubuntu
OK, fun little meme time. Simple question: Which songs remind you of Ubuntu? Think about the music…the vibe…the rhythm…what it makes you feel when you listen to the song. Which ones make you think of...
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Canonical: Ubuntu Server Survey 2012
The Ubuntu Server Survey is finally ready to be published it makes for a fascinating read. It is the third survey of its kind and again it has been an overwhelming response with over 6,000 completed...
View ArticleCaspar Clemens Mierau: Detecting and Removing Unused Indexes in MySQL
Preface: The following post is a backup from a post first published on the Moviepilot Techblog, which is going to be replaced by the Moviepilot Labs Blog. The content is a bit outdated, as the way to...
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Martin-Éric Racine: Adopted: ispell-et, myspell-lv, rus-ispell.
Over recent months, I have been pondering the relevance of my Free Software involvement a lot: More than anything, it constantly feels more and more like several important distributions and projects...
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Aaron Toponce: Why I Cryptographically Sign My Email
Yesterday, I received a disturbing phone call. Someone very close to me, call him John, might lose his job, because a slanderous, offensive email was sent with forged headers, claiming to be John. John...
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Myriam Schweingruber: Great students, great work done!
During 2 months a couple of students aged between 13 and 17 have been helping to solve KDE tasks during the Google Code-In contest. As last year I did mentor a few of them, 19 to be precise. To give...
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Randall Ross: Music of Ubuntu: Asimbonanga
Recently on Planet Ubuntu, Jono "challenged" us to share the music we associate with Ubuntu. I love a challenge, and Jono's my bud. (I know he'll write an Ubuntu anthem one day!) So until then Jono, I...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Vacant Developer Membership Board seat filled
The vote closed yesterday[0]. The results were: Barry Warsaw (~barry) Andrew Mitchell (~ajmitch) Charlie Smotherman (~cjsmo) None Of The Above The new member of the Developer Membership Board is Barry...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – February 14, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120214 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: nothing new to report this week Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and...
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Richard Johnson: Cleaning Out My Laptop – What a PITA
So I spent the better part of an hour physically cleaning out my laptop, what a PITA. Why so long you ask? It seems these days that laptop manufacturers like to toss in 30-plus screws just to open it...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Contacting teams is easier and more reliable
Two changes to the contact team email feature were recently released that make communication more reliable. Non-team members now see the “Contact this team’s admins” link. Previously, non-members saw a...
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