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Michael Terry: What I Do in OEM Services
I realize that I’ve never really blogged about my work at Canonical. Largely because I work in the OEM Services department, and we tend to be hush-hush. OEM means Original Equipment Manufacturer and...
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Brian Curtis: Response to Mark Shuttleworth
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/517"Reflections on Ubuntu, Canonical and the march to free software adoption"Since the comment feature was broken on marks blog, I figured it was enough of a...
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Mackenzie Morgan: Phishing warning: ubuntu-help.com
Just so we're all on the same page, ubuntu-help.com is a phishing site. It is not an alternative URL for the Ubuntu Forums, which are located at UbuntuForums.org Please do not give it your username...
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Jorge Castro: We do do that!
We probably need to do a better job communicating that we do offer updated drivers in the distro. Things like the linux-backport packages in Lucid for various drivers, etc. Perhaps the installer in...
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Nathan Haines: The importance of default backgrounds
It's a funny thing, really. We all love to customize our computers, and Linux lets us use our favorite wallpaper backgrounds, and even theme our window decorations, borders, icon sets, and so forth....
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Martin Meredith: Freedom in Creativity
One of the things that I love about our Local LUG is the people. At our LUG, we have our resident geek artist, Antonio Roberts (aka hellocatfood) who, on the odd occasion, gets harassed into doing a...
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David Rubin: Ubuntu Books, The Unboxing
So today I was happy enough to be greeted with a nice shiny brown box . Filled with new books Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop. These books were a present to our Loco from Heather Fox and Debra...
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Jorge Castro: Enjoying the new community wallpapers
One of the bummers about the wallpaper contest is that there’s so many good ones that I forget to try them all out. Besides, why should I do all that thinking work, the computer should do that. What...
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Ralph Janke: Ubuntu.stackexchange has passed the 3000 answer milestone
In less than 50 days, the Ubuntu stackexchange site has reached a new milstone - 3000 answers. Thanks for everybody who has participated so far. Please continue on to make sure that we reach more...
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Michael Terry: Tracking Software Versions Between Distros
A neat web site that I keep meaning to mention is Open Source Watershed. It’s useful for when you want to see what version of a package is in all the various FOSS distributions. For example, you can...
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Martin Owens: Alternative UDS Accommodation
After some research and discussion we’ve put together a plan to get much cheaper, closer and nicer accommodation for everyone who wants to come to UDS. the price is about ~$350 for the whole 6 days...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Open Week, request for instructors
Hi everyone, Here at Ubuntu we love to give training sessions over IRC. Since Developer and App Developer Week cover the more advanced end of the spectrum we have something for normal users — Ubuntu...
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Ralph Janke: SoOnCon 2010 - Hackerspace Conference for Southern Ontario
On 1-2 October 2010, SoOnCon will be held in Kitchener, Ontario. SoOnCon is the Southern Ontario Hackerspaces & Makers Mini-Conference. Tickets can be obtained already, and soon more information...
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Joe Barker: New Forum Staff (Again!)
It seems not that long ago that I was blogging about new additions to the Ubuntu Forums staff team. Well…that time has come round once more, and this time we have the following users who accepted the...
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Brian Murray: Shining a light on hidden bugs
There are a couple of situations where Launchpad hides some bug reports from searches that really shouldn’t be hidden in my opinion. I recently fixed one of these cases - where if you were to search a...
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Ken VanDine: I love what I do!
When people ask me what I do, I frequently answer with “The same thing I would do if I didn’t need to work for a living”. I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to work full time on free software,...
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Paul Hummer: I'm Excited...
So, I've been working on Tarmac for about 2 years now. In those two years, I've figured out that Launchpad still doesn't have a good model for replacing PQM just yet. We do our best to use the...
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Jono Bacon: Fixing Community Processes
Recently a few people have shared stories with me about how they have run up against processes that felt too complex or overly formal, processes that they feel have got in the way of the just do it...
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Raphael Pinson: Helping young children learn to read
Learning to read is a complex task. European children surely have it easier than many Asians who need to learn long series of ideograms, yet the association of signs and sounds is often difficult. In...
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