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Amber Graner: REMINDER: Ubuntu App Developer Week Begins September 27th, 2010

Ubuntu App Developer Week begins Monday, September 27, 2010 at 1500 UTC and continues through Friday, October 1st, 2010. The line-up of sessions is in place and it’s going to be an awesome week for...

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Seif Lotfy: Poll Results for Zeitgeist integration

It would be interesting for you to know that we already have data providers for most of them.  You can find them all here. What we need now is a 2 way integration with Zeitgeist. Currently we can push...

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Ubuntu Classroom: Beginners Team Dev Academy: Doubleheader! C++ and Python on...

The Beginners Team Dev Academy has really jumped in to hosting Classroom sessions with both feet! Tomorrow, Saturday 25th, we will be hosting TWO sessions on programming from this team, one on C++ and...

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The Fridge: Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end-of-life on October 23, 2010

Ubuntu announced its 9.04 release almost 18 months ago, on April 23, 2009. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support...

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Brian Murray: Who did that and when?

Occasionally, I think it would be useful to know who added a tag to a bug report and when it happened. It’s possible to determine this information at a bug reports +activity page. However, this can be...

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You In Ubuntu: You're Invited to Ubuntu App Developer Week - Monday,...

Do you want to learn more about developing applications in Ubuntu? Join in on Ubuntu App Developer Week starting Monday, September 27, 2010.

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Martin Owens: Stemming Spellchecker

I’m dyslexic, which means that my brain doesn’t function in a literary kind of way and instead functions in a very systematic way. The erratic nature of language doesn’t fit the total mental model and...

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Siegfried Gevatter: The Red Hat Way

I’ve just used one of the GUADEC USB sticks for the first time and found that, in addition to several PDF brochures and a bunch of wallpapers, it includes a Red Hat commercial. Excellent as always....

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Andrew SB: GPG key transition

I’ve recently set up a stronger (4096R) OpenPGP key, and will be transitioning away from my old (1024D) one. The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but i prefer all future correspondence...

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Eric Hammond: New Release of Ubuntu AMIs Solves t1.micro Rebooting Issue

Canonical has released an updated series of Ubuntu AMIs for EC2. When starting new EC2 instances, you should use the latest AMI ids to pick up kernel security fixes. If you have Ubuntu 10.04 running...

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Brandon Perry: nmap -sP output changes from 5.00 to 5.21

Currently the od-autoassess script will not run on maverick because the nmap outputs it's findings differently on 5.21 (on lucid, nmap is at 5.00).I will work on this so that I can release another...

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Stephan Hermann: Sun Java6 Packages

Today I needed sun-java6 packages for Maverick.But since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS the sun-java6 packages are not anymore in the standard archives of Ubuntu. Instead the packages are distributed via the...

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Nizar Kerkeni: Do you dent or tweet ?

Just a simple question to my blog readers and the Ubuntu community to test the wordpress WP-Poll plugin. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this...

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Siegfried Gevatter: Language Identification and it’s state in Free Software

Working on a new feature for eSpeak GUI I started looking into language identification. Forcing users to manually choose the text’s language is a botheration, so trying to guess it by checking which...

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Martin Owens: Five Years Ago in Ubuntu

I just found this relic hiding in the closet, it’s a boxset of Kubuntu 5.04 from 5 years ago. These dvd-box designs were one of my very first contributions to the Ubuntu community. I was playing with...

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Efrain Valles: New Turpial available in devel ppa

Well I have been a bit busy with work, but I managed to get the latest Turpial 1.4.8-a1 in the development ppa. It brings about many refreshing features: twitter list support identica support manual...

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Ronnie Tucker: Hot off the presses: issue 41!

Issue #41 is out, and as usual, we’ve got lots of great stuff for you.  We’ve got an overview of running Windows apps on Ubuntu, a feature on running a business with Ubuntu, more interviews, how-tos,...

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Omer Akram: Its not Dock, its unity launcher

I see on many different bug reports of Unity where people say. the Dock doesn’t do X, the Dock should autohide, bringing the cursor near dock crashes unity. People its called Unity Launcher not some...

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Dougie Richardson: Twitter vulnerabilities, using Windows, studying and new...

Graham Cluley, a Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos, has a nice blog piece on the Twitter worm from earlier this week. To cut a long story short, he reminds us of the importance of sanitizing...

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Rick Spencer: $quickly create ubuntu-pygame targets

I hit a kind of hard part in photobomb, basically, creating copies of objects and applying clippings turns out to be a bit challenging. Sometimes when I'm feeling stymied, I switch to something new...

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