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Og Maciel: Pylyglot
Been working on a pet project to help out with the GNOME translations (as well as have a chance to learn more about Django) and the end product is now available at www.pylyglot.org. Basically, it is a...
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Scott Moser: Using Policies in AWS Identity and Access Management
For a project I'm working on here at work, I wanted to create a AWS user that could only launch instances, but could not write to S3, query SDB{ "Statement":[ { "Effect":"Allow",...
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Brandon Perry: Maverick (nmap 5.21) supported
If you get latest on the od-autoassess script, you will have support for nmap 5.21 on maverick, so you can use the script.If you are running an older version (< 5.21), it will let you know you are...
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Martin Owens: ProLink USB HSDPA Modem Updates
If you have trouble with a USB HSDPA modem being stolen away by the usb mass storage device (you get the windows drivers in a disk on the desktop, but not the device in network manager) then try...
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Duane Hinnen: Interesting uses for Ubuntu One
Ubuntu One is a great program/service with many uses, some obvious some not so obvious. Here are a few creative uses for Ubuntu One that some people have come up with. Create Your Own Browser Start...
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Jorge Castro: Open Week, Call for Instructors
One of the coolest things we do is Ubuntu Open Week. This is a week long set of IRC tutorial sessions that we do for users. In the past they were heavily development related, but now as we have a...
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Danny Piccirillo: Beyond Diaspora: Another Facebook alternative has a head start
I just wrote a piece for Google Blogoscoped about Facebook and the problems with it, Diaspora and the obstacles it's created itself, and another effort that probably deserves some more attention....
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David Sugar
"Privacy is ultimately about liberty while surveillance is always about control"Híŋhaŋni wašte (good morning) my relations. Today is not such a great day. In the United States the Obama administration...
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Dustin Kirkland: LinuxMag: Byobu #2 of 10 Essential Linux Admin Tools
Ken Hess of Linux Magazine names Byobu #2 of 10 essential Linux admin tools:http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7870/The article is a good, quick read, and I'm quite proud of Byobu considering its company on...
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Harald Sitter: Qt Creator CMake Wizards
Qt Creator allows for easily adding new project wizards to its project selection dialog (the thing one uses to create for example a new Qt GUI application project). Now since I am not very fond of the...
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Raphaël Hertzog: How to generate different dependencies on Debian and Ubuntu...
There are situations in which a given package needs to have different dependencies in Debian and in Ubuntu. Despite this difference it’s possible to keep a single source package that will build both...
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Bilal Akhtar: Introducing Irssi-autoghost : Automatically ghost your previous...
People seeing me on IRC will often find me re-connecting very often, since I have a somewhat unstable connection. Whenever I reconnect, I am told by FreeNode that my previous nickname is already...
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Stephan Hermann: FTBFS Fixing / More news on the Sun Java 6 PPA
Let's start with the Java things:First of all, thanks to all of you who were commenting on the last article about the Sun Java6 Community PPA. I took the input and this is the outcome:Packages for...
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Jonathan Carter: Edubuntu Maverick News
Close to the end of the Lucid release cycle, I posted an update of what’s been happening in the Edubuntu project. Now seems like a good time to do it again! This release wasn’t as big shake-up as the...
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Ralph Janke: Famous Waterloo Region Release Party for Maverick Meerkat
On October 16, 2010, another occurrence of the already famous Ubuntu release parties will be happening in Kitchener, Ontario in the Kwartzlab. This time, we will be celebrating the release of Maverick...
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Ralph Janke: Only a few tickets left for the Southern Ontario Hackerspace...
Hackers from Windsor, London, GTA, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Waterloo Region and other approximate areas in Southern Ontario need to hurry to buy tickets for this year's Southern Ontario Hackerspace...
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Randall Ross: Ubuntu = Real Parties
Dear Ubuntu World, It's soon 10.10.10 and that can only mean one thing... PARTIES! Now before we all go out and plan events that are called "parties" but really are something else in disguise...
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Kees Cook: new RSA4096 key
As part of the Ubuntu Security Team’s overall OpenPGP key transition plans, I’ve generated a new GPG key (DC6DC026). If you’ve signed my old key (17063E6D), I’d appreciate it if you could review my...
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Nizar Kerkeni: Yes it’s an IBM :)
A strange machine with a familiar logo More photos here : http://ubuntu.nizarus.org/v/IBM/ Yes it’s an IBM :) is a post from: Pourquoi pas !!
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #212
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #212 for the week September 19 - September 25, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end of life Announcing the...
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