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Dustin Kirkland: pbput and pbget moved to the pastebinit package!
I'm quite proud to say that the pbput and pbget utilities have graduated from their incubating home in the bikeshed package and have made it into the more ubiquitous pastebinit package. A huge thanks...
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Canonical Design Team: Testing, testing, testing. It prints!
Back in 2008 Nick Ellery noticed that the default printer test page used more ink that it really needed to: Bug #298935 (“test print uses far too much ink”). Millions and millions of these pages get...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: A great way to start the Ubuntu weekend
This is going to be a real Ubuntu weekend. Not only is Ubuntu Global Jam kicking off today, but there is also Fix-It Friday going on and the Linaro/ARM teams are having an ARM Porting Jam. If you...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: SD cards die
So called ‘low cost’ developer boards (like BeagleBoard xM, PandaBoard, Snowball, MX53 Quick Start) do not have NAND flash on them so people are using SD/MMC cards as boot media and storage. So we,...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: About Usability Testing – Recruiting
Every three months, I conduct benchmark usability testing. I’m calling these tests ‘benchmark testing’ because the aim of these sessions is to measure our progress towards achieving a great user...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-18.28 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 v3.2.9 upstream stable * AUFS re-enabled * AppArmor updates * Support for...
View ArticleColin Watson: libpipeline 1.2.1 released
I've released libpipeline 1.2.1, and uploaded it to Debian unstable. This is a bug-fix release: Retry reads and writes on EINTR. Fix opening of output files requested by pipeline_want_outfile; these...
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Matt Rudge: Ubuntu Membership
I’m happy to mention here that, today, I was graciously granted Ubuntu Membership as a result of forums participation I’m really happy about this, because I want to help out more in the Ubuntu...
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Charles Profitt: Jamming Artists and the Ubuntu Community
This cycle I wanted to get some artists involved with the Ubuntu Global Jam. This stems from a conversation I listened to at UDS about Canonical employees not taking part in community activities. There...
View ArticleJim Kielman: Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu +1 update for March 2/2012
It’s that time again to update the rest of the world as to what’s happening in the Ubuntu Forums U+1 sub-forum. As most of you know, Beta 1 was released on March 1st, things seem to have gone well for...
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Aaron Toponce: Hello ZNC
After nearly 6 years of running Irssi behind GNU Screen and Tmux, I’ve ditched it in favor of ZNC. Don’t panic, I’m still running Irssi locally, but this does allow be to try out different IRC clients,...
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Randall Ross: Jamming? Got Photos? Win Prize!
The Ubuntu Global Jam is underway. Dozens of teams around the world are officially jamming. Are you? Please bring your camera, take some photos, and post them to Flickr, Picasa, or Pix.ie with the...
View ArticleDarcy Casselman: A Video Lens for Canada: My new goal for the Global Jam
The new video lens in Ubuntu 12.04 features searchable content from across the Internet. It also shows region-specific content, like the BBC iPlayer if you’re in the UK. Wouldn’t it be cool if the...
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Colin King: Dell 1525 battery not charging
My wife's Dell 1525 Ubuntu laptop starting having battery problems last year and eventually we ended up with a totally dead Li-ion battery. Fortunately I was able to acquire a clone replacement for...
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Ubuntu Women: Career Days: Community Manager Wrap-up
On Saturday, February 25 at 17:00 UTC we welcomed Amber Graner (akgraner) to give us a review of her career leading up to her current position as a Community Manager and to offer details about being a...
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Julian Andres Klode: hardlink 0.2 RC1 released
I have just released version 0.2 RC1 of my hardlink program. Compared to the 0.1.X series, the program has been rewritten in C, as Python was to memory-hungry for people with millions of files. The new...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: My new phone, 2012 edition
For some time now I've been growing increasingly dissatisfied with my Nexus S. Those of you who follow me on Google+ may have seen a number of discussions on this point. So I was thinking about a new...
View ArticleDarcy Casselman: Unity’s Sticky Monitor Edges in Ubuntu 12.04 beta1
A couple months ago, the Canonical Design Team asked for feedback on a new multi-monitor Launcher set-up on their blog. People had complained that if you had a whole bunch of monitors, mousing all the...
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Andrea Grandi: Ubuntu Global Jam Italy (Pistoia): a quick review
Yesterday in Pistoia (Italy) we had the Ubuntu Global Jam and about 15 people attended the event. We began with an introductive talk by Paolo Sammicheli about the Italian Ubuntu Community and how it...
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Jonathan Thomas: Muon Suite 1.3.0 Released
After seven months of development, (sorry it slipped, I was a bit busy with school) I’m proud to announce the release of version 1.3.0 of the Muon Suite. The Muon Package Management Suite is a...
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