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Canonical Design Team: Screens everywhere
This is a fabulous little invention especially as I’m a keen cyclist in the city. Nicked from Steve Clayton’s fabulous blog.
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Ubuntu QA blog: Announcing the Next Ubuntu Bug Day! - September 14th 2010
Fellow Ubuntu Triagers! This week's Bug Day target is *drum roll please* upgrade bugs! * 166 package installation bugs need a hug * 49 new bugs in update-manager need a hug too Bookmark it, add it to...
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Stephan Hermann: SysAdmin tasks made easy.
Sometimes you write simple scripts or shell functions without sharing them, because you forget how important they are in your daily work.During the last weeks, while I followed the FAI mailinglist, I...
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Mackenzie Morgan: Takoma Park Folk Festival
Yesterday the DC LoCo Team was at Takoma Park Folk Festival yet again. This is the fifth year the team has been here. One man came over the table going "ok, that's a word from my part of the world....
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Michael Lustfield: Useful F1 in Firefox
Do you ever use F1 to bring up help pages in Firefox? Do you find this feature useful? Do you like rhetorical questions? Personally, I've never found this F1 function useful or helpful. The times I...
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Jorge Castro: Expanding the Ubuntu Server Community
I’ve put out a call for help for server interested folks to start working with upstreams. On top of that we’ve got a new contributor on Community Team at Canonical, Ahmed Kamal, who’s grabbed the bull...
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Martin Albisetti: Why (I think) Ubuntu One exists
One of the questions that took a little while for me to fully understand was a very simple one: why does Ubuntu One exist? Depending on who you ask, you may get a different answer, but here’s my take...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #210
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #210 ffor the week September 5th - September 11th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: How Ubuntu is Made Daily Dose of Scribus...
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The Fridge: Announcing this week's Bug Day target - Upgrade Bugs! - TUESDAY,...
This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* upgrade bugs! The task is to assign to the right package and triage those as well: 166 package installation bugs need a hug 49 new bugs in...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Reflections on Ubuntu, Canonical and the march to free...
Prompted in part by the critique of Canonical’s code contributions to the kernel and core GNOME infrastructure, I’ve been pondering whether or not I feel good about what I do every day, and how I do...
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Martin Pitt: What I do
It’s been a decade ago when I did my first steps with contributing to Free Software, about seven years when I joined Debian, and about 6 with Canonical and Ubuntu. Time for some reflection what I have...
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Alan Bell: vtiger on demand – Open Source as a Service
Today we are adding a new offering to our regular line up of consultancy services and comprehensive on-site bundles and this time it is out in the cloud. There is a clear general trend towards...
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Melissa Draper: The so-called science of poll-taking
Pollka now has a logo (and has for a few weeks now actually), thanks to the always awesome Martin Owens. The pollka project is still very new. Having good branding like this is, I feel, important to...
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Jonathan Thomas: QApt/Muon 1.0.2 release
It’s around that time again! Time to do one last bugfix release of the Muon package manager and the library it is built upon, LibQApt. Muon is a powerful package manager for Debian-based systems, with...
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Chuck Frain: Free State, Free Software Celebration
Just a friendly reminder that this Saturday, September 18th from 10am-2pm the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community Team and the Howard County Library will bring you a day of Free software education and...
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Chromium trunk build doesn’t automatically update the latest version like Minefiled (Firefox trunk), some Ubuntu users have chosen chromium-daily PPA for doing so, but I think updating a bleeding edge...
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Raphaël Hertzog: How to customize dpkg-source’s behaviour in your Debian...
dpkg-source is the program that generates the Debian source package when a new package version is built. It offers many interesting command-line options but they are often not used because people...
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Jorge Castro: Upgrades to some community-related resources
Tomorrow, 15 September at 0900 UTC the following services will interrupted: hall-of-fame.ubuntu.com loco.ubuntu.com mago.ubuntu.com manpages.ubuntu.com qa.ubuntu.com *.qa.ubuntu.com...
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Canonical Design Team: Getting physical
Introduction With the ingress in the market of products like Nintendo Wii, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Kinect, developers finally started realizing that there are several ways a person can control a...
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Launchpad News: What’s your favourite project in Launchpad?
You’ve probably seen the featured projects list on Launchpad’s home page: As you can see, there’s a wide variety of projects in that list, and each of them is an excellent example of how Launchpad can...
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