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Jonathan Carter: Happy birthday, ZX-Spectrum
Happy Birthday, Spectrum! Today marks 30 years since the release of the very first ZX-Spectrum. This was the first computer I ever used, I learned in part how to read on this device while typing out...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name
This quirky scheme of adjectives and animals presents a pretty puzzle every six months. What mix of characteristics do we want to celebrate in the next release? Here we are, busily finalizing the...
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Tony Whitmore: Helen and Jeff
Helen and Jeff had chosen an 1920s/1930s theme for their wedding and all the guests dived headlong into the spirit of the event, sporting some splendid spats and fabulous feather boas. Helen was...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Quantal Quetzal
Quantal Quetzal. Mark dixit. Nothing more to say. I like short posts. PS. Quantal? Seriously?
View ArticleTed Gould: Reimagining dbus-test-runner
For a while we've been using dbus-test-runner in various DBus related projects to create a clean DBus session bus for our test suites. This also makes it so that we can test on headless systems that...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 262
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #262 for the week April 16 – 22, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Code of Conduct Update Developer Advisory...
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Benjamin Drung: Unreliable SSDs
Today my system froze and failed to reboot. I plugged in an Ubuntu live USB stick and booted from it. Then I discovered the problem that my Intel SSD 320 broke. The output of hdparm is attached to the...
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Rick Spencer: Making GtkWebKit Inspector and enable-developer-extras actually...
I have become quite fascinated by using HTML5 for rendering my GUIs on my Ubuntu applications. I love doing this, because I can continue to use Python as my library and desktop integration point, while...
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Scott James Remnant: Book Review: The Years of Rice and Salt
Enough people have recommended that I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt that it’s surprising that it’s taken me as long as it has to finally get around to it. This was my first of...
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Robert Collins: Less SPOFs: pyjunitxml, testscenarios
I’ve made the Testtools committers team own both the project and the trunk branch for both pyjunitxml and testscenarios. This removes me as a SPOF if anything needs doing in those projects – any...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Non-stop testing
Ubuntu release date is set for Thursday so it's non-stop testing until then. All helpers needed - Kubuntu team will test everything in all permutations but it's never a good thing to be the only tester...
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Randall Ross: Hey Journalists! Know Your Ubuntu Names
Mark's Quantal Quetzal announcement. is all over the web, sort of. And already, "linux" journalists everywhere are boldly and incorrectly reporting the name. (Ignore for a minute that Ubuntu is not...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: juju client now available for Mac OSX
Brandon Holtsclaw has published a Mac port of juju. This will enable Mac users to deploy to their Ubuntu Servers from the comfort of their home operating system. Brandon adds along: Pull Requests or...
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Seif Lotfy: On first interactions with open source communities…
I think it is safe to assume that as an open source project, striving to grow our community, we should make first interactions of new contributors with us a pleasant one. So when commenting on a new...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – April 24, 2012
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20120424 Meeting Agenda ARM Status nothing new to report this week Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug...
View ArticleMarco Ceppi: Keeping information in blogs, up-to-date
One of the biggest fears of mine is using outdated information from blogs to fix an issue. Thanks to the work by Nathan “George Edison” Osman we now have an updated version of StackTack which will...
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Barry Warsaw: Python 3 on the desktop for Quantal Quetzal
So, now all the world now knows that my suggested code name for Ubuntu 12.10, Qwazy Quahog, was not chosen by Mark. Oh well, maybe I'll have more luck with Racy Roadrunner.In any case, Ubuntu 12.04...
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Ronnie Tucker: WORLD DOMINATION! BWAAAHAHAHAAAAA!
Please help spread the word about Full Circle by: clicking the Google +1 button at the top right of the FCM site (http://fullcirclemagazine.org/) tell your friends about our Facebook...
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Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments: The Road To 0.1
Back in January I started working on the Ubuntu Accomplishments system, and since then the project has been making some solid progress. Thanks to everyone who has joined to help, and a particular...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu: Making Birds Talk
Our sabdfl Mark Shuttleworth recently announced 12.10 will be code named “Quantal Quetzal” and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS releases this week but I’m wondering what are the biggest changes you are hoping or...
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