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Launchpad News: Showing the right bug comments
Some bugs attract many, many comments. For a while now, Launchpad has displayed only the first 80 comments on any bug report, with the option of viewing the full comment history. That’s been good for...
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Launchpad News: Dupes of dupes now become dupes of the master bug
Some bugs get reported more than once. That’s why we’ve got the dupe finder. Some duplicate bugs slip through the dupe finder. Really common issues get quite a few dupes and someone from the relevant...
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Canonical Design Team: This week in design – 13 August 2010
It’s Friday the 13th! Thankfully it’s past midday so safe to write this post. We’ve had a busy week although it’s been a bit quiet as people have been away on holidays or working remotely. First up...
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Vincent Untz: My late GUADEC post
I came back from the Hague after GUADEC nearly two weeks ago, and I still haven't posted anything about it. Bad me. The short summary: it was a really great event! I don't know exactly why, but I'm...
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Julian Andres Klode: APT2 is now UPS
APT2 is now called UPS (Universal Package System). The name is inspired by the company that delivers packages in those brown trucks and from the Image Packaging System (IPS) of OpenSolaris; and mvo...
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Alan Bell: Going Headless
I have one monitor on my desk, quite a nice one, but only one. Right now I want to install Ubuntu Lucid on another desktop I have in the office, but I still want to use my monitor for other stuff...
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Martin Owens: Ubuntu Made Art in August 2010
It’s time once again to show off some of the great art being made using Ubuntu and the wonderful tools we have available to us: Also check out the Cartoon TV show made using ubuntu and blender:...
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Benjamin Humphrey: Everyone in the open source community watch this, NOW!
If you have limited time, start at 3:25. Direct link to video for planets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGJpISVERg
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Martin Owens: Are You Offended?
Benjamin Humbphry’s posted a funny video of a stand up that complains about the state making laws about not offending people. Leading to no one able to say anything without the risk of offending...
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Seif Lotfy: On jokes…
Can someone tell me a joke where no one is offended. This means: 1) No sexist jokes 2) No religious jokes 3) No racial jokes 4) No jokes about vegetarian and non-vegetarian 5) No jokes about geeks 6)...
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Vincent Untz: More GUADEC tidbits
GUADEC Open Space by Sense Hofstede (Creative Commons by-sa) See my previous post for the first GUADEC tidbits. Of course, Fernando and Xan's talk was a great moment! Apparently, I was not for sale (I...
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Amber Graner: Irreverent and Southern with a pinch of Ubuntu on the Side
For a while now I’ve had a couple people as me if Pete and I would do a podcast. The answer to that is “NO”. (One day I’ll share the 30 second clip of a call with Pete and I that locked in the “NO”...
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Alex Launi: OMG that’s so 2009
Yesterday it finally landed. Gabriel Burt, one of Banshee’s maintainers, merged in the GIO/udev hardware backend that Alan McGovern and I have been working on. This is awesome for everyone. Here’s why...
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Charles Profitt: Oracle sues Google: What most are not considering
I have seen the doom and gloom pack write about Oracle’s lawsuit against Google; they all seem to think Oracle is trying to prevent Google from using Java. Oracle filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in...
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Steven Harms: Stylish desktop, new search engines
My Desktop Read Seif’s post on his desktop, so I copied most of that style (original post) : I actually enabled compiz for the first time in a long time, and AMD’s linux drivers have come a long way...
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Matthew Helmke: Nginx HTTP Server
I started using Nginx as my primary web server a little over 18 months ago. At the time, I was using an underpowered server with low memory, and I wanted to replace Apache with something lighter. Even...
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Laura Czajkowski: LoCo Directory needs your input now rather than later
The lovely LoCo Directory(LD) developers have done an amazing job on the LD. What started off as an idea has really come to fruit and now is a useful source of information for everyone. For your own...
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Dean Sas: Crackful thinking: multiple monitors and auto focus
I don’t very often use multiple monitors, but when I do it always takes a while for my head to come to terms with how focus works. I’ll do something in a window on one monitor and then look at the...
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Jonathan Riddell: Planet KDE Update
Planet KDE is your insight into the lives and activities of KDE, a community making lovely free software. Occasionally I get asked to add feeds to Planet KDE which aren't KDE contributor blogs. News...
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Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Spreadtweet By Elliot Kember
Need a Twitter client ?Dont want your boss know that you are tweeting while you are in office ?Introducing Spreadtweet, a twitter client that looks like Microsoft Excel.p/s: suitable for secretaries,...
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