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Ralph Janke: Software Freedom Day in Kitchener - Waterloo Region, Ontario -...
Just a reminder, that tomorrow is Software Freedom Day and the local event for Kitchener, Waterloo Region in Ontario will be in the Kwartzlab. I hope many will find the time in their busy lives to...
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Raphaël Hertzog: How to create Debian packages with alternative compression...
While gzip is the standard Unix tool when it comes to compression, there are other tools available and some of them are performing better than gzip in terms of compression ratio. This article will...
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Launchpad News: Everything in Launchpad
Over the summer, Jono and I have been compiling a list of all the features in Launchpad. While the help wiki and the heads of various members of the Launchpad team are a pretty good guide to...
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Martin Pitt: Simple udisks based automount daemon
For an embedded/thin client project without GNOME, KDE, or even full XFCE I needed a small daemon to automount USB sticks. Using the full gvfs/gdu/nautilus or Thunar stack is too heavyweight for my...
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Canonical Design Team: This week in design – 17 September 2010
Photo by Ralph courtesy of Flickr Normally we spend a lot of time thinking about how to work on things in a an open way. This week the big news was all about closure as the final freeze on the desktop...
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You In Ubuntu: GNOME Outreach Program for Women - Internship Opportunities...
GNOME is sponsoring internships for women!
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Alan Pope: Ubuntu Software Center on Cranky Geeks
As many of you know I enjoy listening to podcasts during my commute to and from work. One that I regularly listen to is Cranky Geeks featuring John C. Dvorak and guests. It’s also no secret that I’m a...
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David Planella: Ubuntu 11.04 Translations plans
In the Community team at Canonical we are already turning the engines to start laying out the plans for the 11.04 roadmap for translations. For this, we really value your input and would very much...
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Maia Kozheva: Steadyflow 0.1 Released!
Three weeks from idea to implementation, and the first release of the Steadyflow download manager is now available on Launchpad! PPA packages for Lucid and Maverick will be available in the newly...
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Stephan Hermann: Thoughts about a loadbalanced DNS setup
During the last days, we had a discussion about how we provide a simple, but always available DNS Server setup.Right now, most of the domains are served by public and internal DNS servers of our...
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Jo Shields: Mono mythbusting, September 2010 edition
There are corners of the Internest where foolish people congregate, and invent stories. These foolish stories are then read as gospel by trusting people, and reposted, until the original made-up...
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Jono Bacon: Rally For Sanity
This is awesome: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cRally to Restore Sanitywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party Can’t see the vid, click here More...
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Jorge Castro: Unity webapp help!
If anyone knows how to put webapps on my Unity launcher they would make my weekend!
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Raphael Pinson: Getting block position in Javascript with Chrome
Dear Lazyweb,Yesterday, I had fun implementing a little ducky that hides on the pages of this website. To my distress, I ended up having to hardcode a few things, since I couldn't get Chrome to...
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Charles Profitt: UDS Bound
I made my travel arrangements for UDS today. I am honored and extremely grateful to have received a sponsorship. I am excited to have a rare opportunity to see, first hand, how the Ubuntu community...
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Robert Collins: Maintainable pyunit test suites – fixtures
So a while back I blogged about maintainable test suites. One of the things I’ve been doing since is fiddling with the heart of the fixtures concept. To refresh your memory, I’m defining fixture as...
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Lucas Nussbaum: Helping improve Ruby on Debian and Ubuntu
After my last blog post on Ruby in Debian and Ubuntu, I got a few offers for help, which is excellent. So I’ve decided to update this wiki page with pointers to the various team resources, and some...
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Dougie Richardson: Bash
Two things that improve my bash productivity – stopping the cursor keys inserting characters in vim and history search in bash. Edit ~/.vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc (for system wide) and add turn off vi...
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Lucas Nussbaum: UDD bugs search news
Many changes to the UDD-backed Debian Bugs Search: moved to http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi new filters: Bugs affecting stable Packages with outdated binaries in squeeze or sid Packages with different...
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