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Harald Sitter: Phonon VLC 0.5.0 and GStreamer 4.6.0
It is release day in Phonon land and the Phonominals are singing in joy of the new releases of Phonon VLC and Phonon GStreamer. Phonon VLC 0.5.0 may be obtained from KDE’s servers as usual. For more...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 10.04.4 (Lucid Lynx) LTS released!
“Dear Lucid, Our Time Is Right Now” – Evans Blue The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, the fourth maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 10.04 LTS release. This release...
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Dustin Kirkland: ecryptfs-utils-96 released
-utils-96ecryptfs-utils-96 has been released, with upstream tarballs (and signatures) available on Launchpad at:https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs/trunk/96And now in the Ubuntu precise development...
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Colin King: Introducing the Firmware Test Suite Live (fwts-live)
Firmware Test Suite Live (fwts-live) is a USB live image that will automatically boot and run the Firmware Test Suite (fwts) - it will run on legacy BIOS and also UEFI firmware (x86_64) bit systems....
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Aaron Toponce: ECB vs CBC Encryption
This is something you can do on your computer fairly easily, provided you have OpenSSL installed, which I would be willing to bet you do. Take a bitmap image (any image will work fine, I’m just going...
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Charles Profitt: Jam Jam… Ubuntu Global Jam… Art Jam
The Ubuntu Global Jam is coming soon. To be exact the Jam will run March 2nd through the 4th all across the globe and that is roughly two weeks away. When I first think about Global Jam events I think...
View ArticleKubuntu: LTS Update 10.04.4 Released
Our two year old LTS release has had an update, 10.04.4. It adds all the current bugfixes and security updates to keep your systems fresh. Download now.
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Elizabeth Krumbach: Linaro Dinner, Ubuntu and Debian Evening and Saving...
On February 5th several people from the Ubuntu California team headed over to Redwood City for dinner with Ubuntu-loving attendees from the Linaro Connect conference. It was Super Bowl Sunday so we...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Help end the US Corn Subsidy
The White House website has been down for the first 8 days of my petition being on it. It only has 4 days left to get 25,000 people to sign. If the petition page doesn’t load, please comment on my...
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Thorsten Wilms: Strange new Windows Logo
Microsoft Windows gets a new Logo for Version 8. It no longer tries to be a window or group of windows and a flag at once. My first impression was that the perspective looks off. I found out it is...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-17.26 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. Please note the ABI bump. The most notable changes are as follows: * Disable RC6p (deep RC6) for Sandy Bridge * Enable plain RC6 by default on Sandy Bridge...
View ArticleJim Kielman: Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu +1 update for February 17/2012
It’s time for another update of what is happening in the sub-forum. Some of the members are having problems with font rendering: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1919448 We have had several...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: Advice for Prospective Doctoral Students
There is tons of advice on the Internet (e.g., on the academic blogs I read) for prospective doctoral students. I am very happy with my own graduate school choices but I feel that I basically got...
View ArticleAndrea Veri: Nagios XMPP Notifications for GTalk
While improving GNOME’s servers Nagios Notifications, I ended up working on a nice way to notify the relevant folks through GTalk in case something could go wrong on any of the hosted services....
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Charles Profitt: Jam Jam… Ubuntu Global Jam… Waterloo
No! Not the Battle of Waterloo. Not the Abba song. We are talking Jammin’ at Waterloo, Canada. Home of the University of Waterloo. Today I interviewed dscassel of the Canadian Loco Team about holding...
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Tony Whitmore: It’s not what it looks like…
At first I thought it was just a cute Christmas gift. Among a whole heap from my Mum and Dad, nestled next to a coconut (yes, that’s right, an actual coconut). What looked like a Canon lens was...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: There is a lesson here
A while back, my dad got an inkjet all-in-one scanner/printer. An Apollo, which are apparently rebranded HP things. And it was fine for a year or so, and then it developed a rather weird fault. Every...
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Andrea Grandi: Ubuntu Global Jam – March 3rd 2012: Pistoia (Tuscany), Italy.
Even this time Pistoia Linux User Group decided to join the international event "Ubuntu Global Jam" organizing it in collaboration with Ubuntu-it Community. The international event will be on March...
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Colin King: RC6 Call for testing in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin LTS
The Ubuntu Kernel Team has released a call for testing for a set of RC6 power saving patches for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin LTS. Quoting Leann Ogasawara's email to the ubuntu kernel team and...
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