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Chuck Short: Varnish Cache: Daily builds are now available.
With the RC candidate for Ubuntu 10.10 around the corner we in the process of adding and updating the Ubuntu Server Daily builds. This time we have added varnish cache. Varnish is an HTTP accelerator...
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James Westby: Directly logging in a user in Django tests
The examples for Django testing point you towards hardcoding a username and password for a user to impersonate in tests, and the API of the test client encourages this too. However, Django has a nice...
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Mathias Gug: Deploying a Hadoop cluster on EC2/UEC with Puppet and Ubuntu...
A Hadoop Cluster running on EC2/UEC deployed by puppet on Ubuntu Maverick. How it works The Cloud Conductor is located outside the AWS infrastructure as it needs AWS credentials to start new...
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Greg Grossmeier: Primates, Humans, and Ubuntu
(Note: This is the first of a series of blog posts which will be written in conjunction with the Peer2Peer University (P2PU) course on Open Governance I am participating in this fall.) Primates First...
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Amber Graner: Taking on Too Much – From Burnout out to Balance one moment at...
So the 1st year in in this crazy adventure into Ubuntu and FOSS I think I did really well with blogging what was going on and how me – average mom and non-technical end users was finding things....
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Dirk Deimeke: Programm für die Ubucon ...
So, das Programm für die diesjährige Ubucon steht und ist jetzt auch öffentlich. Ein grosses "Danke schön!" geht an Hampa und Ramon, die den Kampf gegen Drupal aufgenommen und gewonnen haben. Einige...
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Dustin Kirkland: Seven Reasons to Deploy Your Enterprise Cloud on Ubuntu OS...
I'm giving a live webcast tomorrow on Intel.com, through Intel's CloudBuilder program, where Canonical and Intel partnered to produce a whitepaper about the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud.The title and...
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Daily builds As of a month ago there are Ubuntu archives with fresh packages of Samba 4 and Openchange, built on a daily basis day from the latest upstream revision. This means that it is now possible...
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The Fridge: Asia-Oceania RMB Positions Available.
The Asia-Oceania RMB is undergoing restaffing. We are expanding to run two meetings to better accomodate our wide range of timezones. We require nominations for one position available for meetings at...
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Guy Van Sanden: OpenOffice has been forked, welcome Libreoffice
It shouldn't surprise anyone after Oracle assimilated Sun and decided to start lawsuits over Open Source code (Java), OpenOffice has been forked. The fork is called Libreoffice. And as Mr. Meeks...
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Harald Sitter: An Inconvenient Truth
Are you tired of having to install Ubuntu Tweak every time you install Ubuntu to get the window button alignment you want? Are you tired of having random stuff appended to your emails? Are you tired...
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Jonathan Thomas: QApt 1.0.3 hotfix release
Hello all, This is a quick announcement for the 1.0.3 release of the QApt package management framework. Recently it was brought to my attention that when Synaptic was open, applications using the QApt...
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Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Font Family preview now available to all!
To my great delight, it looks like the Ubuntu Font Family has been released as an open beta in the Ubuntu "maverick" development release today. I've been using this font since July and I've found it a...
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Jono Bacon: Hiding In Plain Sight: On Being More Transparent
One of the most elemental components of Open Source and thriving community is transparency. We depend on and define transparency as a high priority so that the community feels engaged and informed as...
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Randall Ross: Ubuntu and Community Marketing in Vancouver (Part 1)
One thing that has always amazed me is the energy, ideas, and new opportunities that new members inject into our Ubuntu community. Not too long ago, we (Ubuntu Vancouver LoCo) were very fortunate that...
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John Baer: Community Artwork – Building Bridges
With nearly all of the design work complete for Maverick Meerkat some folks are reflecting on Community and the path which lead to here. The Ubuntu Artwork Team and perhaps others are trapped by the...
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Siegfried Gevatter: My dot files (Tips and Tricks for Bash & co.)
.bashrc # If not running interactively, don't do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return # don't put duplicate lines in the history and ignore same sucessive entries. export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth #...
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Seif Lotfy: Software Center with a dose of Zeitgeist and maybe Teamgeist
Today the Zeitgeist team showed Michael Vogt a possible integration of Zeitgeist with Software Center. And guess what he likes it and he will look into making it become a soft dependency. He will look...
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Kubuntu: Kubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate
The Release Candidate of Kubuntu 10.10 is available now for one last round of testing. 10.10 RC features a joint image for Desktop and Netbook, a new Mobile variant, a new application focused package...
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Michael Terry: Déjà Dup Was Worth It
In the few years since I started writing Déjà Dup, I’ve never actually had to use it to recover data from a backup. But now I’m not only the maintainer, I’m also a client! The other day I accidentally...
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