Mark Shuttleworth: Easter eggs
One of our ducks has started dropping eggs in random locations in the garden. I don’t know which duck, but I assume it’s one of the new females we took in from the SPCA, who hasn’t figured out...
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Michael Hall: Contributing to Unity for Artists: SVG Icons
Everybody knows that programmers can contribute to Unity, and I’ve shown in my previous posts that non-developers can still contribute features and fixes that make applications integrate better. But...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: PyGObject 3.1.92 released
I just released a new pygobject version 3.1.92, for this week’s GNOME 3.3.92. This was my first-ever GNOME release (yay!), so please bear with me. One highlight of this release is the new pygtkcompat...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: A Manhattan Project for Cliché Collection
This weekend, I launched an extremely ambitious effort to collect evidence of extremely ambitious efforts. The result was a short program that searched the web and revealed the: Manhattan Project for...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 257
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #257 for the week March 12 – 18, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: UDS registration opened on March 12th...
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Tony Whitmore: I’m not a poser, honest!
Pin It There are photographers who give their wedding photography clients very precise instructions about how to stand, where to look and how to hold themselves. I’m not one of them. My clients are...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Step away from the localStorage
There has been much discussion (example, example, example, example) recently about how the in-browser localStorage API is terrible and must be killed with fire. My first reaction here is step away from...
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Benjamin Kerensa: GoGrid Tries to Charge Me $84.36 for 1 Hour 30 Minute Cloud...
Update: GoGrid’s Director of Customer Support reached me today and apologized for the handling of my request for substantiating the bill and we discussed how the problem occurred. GoGrid is refunding...
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Fumihito YOSHISA: "Ubumaga" Vol.06 PDF(CC BY-NC) released !
Today, Ubuntu Magazine Japan Vol.06 PDF are released under CC BY-NC license. You can download (and fair-use) from http://ubuntu.asciimw.jp/elem/000/000/010/10411/ .Ubuntu Magazine Japan("Ubumaga") is...
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José Antonio Rey: Ubuntu and Youth Survey
Today, I have just opened a survey, to collect data for a session that will possibly take place on the UDS-Q (Only blueprint acceptance left). This survey is for people whose ages are between 13 and 20...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Reminder: juju Charm Contest entries due by this Friday!
Just a quick reminder that if you’re planning on competing in the juju Charm Contest that all entries are due by this Friday! So far we’ve had some great in-progress entries, including: Subway IRC,...
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Randall Ross: Who Will be "Best of Jam"? You Decide!
Before the Ubuntu Global Jam began, I announced the first ever "Best of Jam" photo contest. Quoting my original post: Here's the fun part. If your photo is selected as the "Best of Jam" you'll receive...
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Charlene Tessier: Is Ubuntu Global Jam an Event for Me?
If you had asked me this just a few weeks ago, I would have answered you with a strong resounding NO! What preconceptions and assumptions brought about such a response. Coming from a non-technical...
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Ubuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – March 20, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120320 Meeting Agenda ARM Status P/omap4: a new kernel (3.2.0-1409.12) is out – 3.2.11 topped with latest TI BSP. Release Metrics and...
View ArticleMilo Casagrande: Mobile Web & Internationalization
For my work, we are building the trending-trend for the mobile world: mobile web applications. Web applications, or whatever you prefer to call them, thought and optimized for being used through a...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Philosophy: Ubuntu and Trisquel
I wrote this in response to a concern. The Free Software debate is a long one. There is a principle amongst both developers who want to serve users honestly and users who have been treated badly in the...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Integrating Your App Into Unity
A little while back I created the following video that outlines many of the technologies available in Unity that your apps can neatly integrate with: Can’t see the video? See it here! Thanks to the...
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Tony Whitmore: Once upon a time in Cardiff
At the weekend I went to the official Doctor Who convention. It wasn’t like other conventions I’ve been to. It was expensive, activities were more prescribed and there was less time for socialising....
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Kees Cook: keeping your process unprivileged
One of the prerequisites for seccomp filter is the new PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS prctl from Andy Lutomirski. If you’re not interested in digging into creating a seccomp filter for your program, but you know...
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Brian Murray: See the heat
I find bug heat a useful way to determine the impact of a bug as it takes into account the number of duplicates, number of subscribers and quantity of people affected by the bug. Additionally, as a...
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