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Daniel Holbach: Ways to make Daniel happy…
Patch Pilot Disco! I’m very happy with how the “Patch Pilot” programme is coming together: it’s just been a week where in addition to people who do reviews of branches and patches every day, we have...
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Daniel T Chen: Fix the $@%* bug already (aka "the long-overdue mentoring posts")
I meant to post yesterday, but volunteering and cooking for Thanksgiving were higher priorities. Without further ado...Recently I dove into the Ask Ubuntu pond, and as always it's wonderful seeing so...
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Costales: Gufw Firewalls have never been easier!
Do you find firewalls difficult???? Not anymore! With Ubuntu, you can enhance your network security in a very easy way, using possibly the easiest firewall you might find out there. How? Install Gufw:...
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Seif Lotfy: GNOME Activity Journal rocking with Cando
So as of the last few weeks a mystery hacker “Cando” started working on the Activity Journal again. Besides bug fixes he added new features such as Drag and Drop, pinning and audio preview. You can...
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David Sugar: Secure key exchange and voice commerce on the public Internet
Mitakuye Oyasin,this seems a fine day to write about how I propose to make use of Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange within SIP to enable secure media exchange over the public Internet, and how this can...
View ArticleVincent Untz: Quick reminder: openSUSE Bug Day tomorrow!
I'm slowly getting back to speed (had to catch up for some time after various travels, more on this later), and I expect exciting action tomorrow during the next openSUSE Bug Day! There was a thread on...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Last set of UDS Videos uploaded
The last set of videos from UDS have been posted! This includes my favorite part of UDS, the Lightning Talks. Remember we kick people off after five minutes so they’re kind of high stress. Apparently...
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Alex Launi: Tell me what you think of these Banshee UI changes
This is a proofread blog post version of a banshee mailing list post I just made. The UI changes aren’t drastic, or dramatic, but I think they’re a nice improvement, and I’m really just in this hacker...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Participate in research
Are you a developer or systems administrator that uses Ubuntu at work and/or at home? We’re looking for people who might be available to help us on a current research project in London on the 3rd and...
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Seif Lotfy: A nice Zeitgeist extensions explanation
A Zeitgeist extension allows you to manipulate events before they are pulled/pushed from/into Zeitgeist. According to Mr. Sinha: I don’t think writing zeitgeist extension is a rocket science from any...
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Daniel T Chen: Fixing a Linux regression defect
This bug is an excellent example of the continual (aka "seemingly endless") process of verifying that hardware works correctly with Ubuntu (and more broadly, current versions of Linux). Briefly, in...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Up, up, and away with issue 43!
We’ve got issue 43 out with more of the great FCM goodness that you’ve come to enjoy. This month, we’ve got stuff like: Command and Conquer. How-To : Program in Python – Part 17, Virtualize Part 6 –...
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Costales: Spreading Ubuntu (Official stickers)
I received (in only 4 days) the official Ubuntu stickers. I’m very happy with these stickers, they have a great quality! Now, I’m spreading Ubuntu anywhere
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Aurélien Gâteau: November 2010 wrap-up
About one month ago I announced I would be reducing my working days to four in order to spend more time on the projects which interested me. I explained I would be asking for donations in order to...
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Harald Sitter: Kubuntu Web Shortcuts
In this post I would like to put the spotlight on a very nice Kubuntu feature that will help you a great deal if you regularly work with Ubuntu project services (such as the wiki) or Launchpad. Kubuntu...
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Valorie Zimmerman: GRUB2 and chroots, dammit!
Worst outcome from an install so far. Upon automatic reboot, when all is reported success:error: the symbol `grub_xputs` not foundgrub rescue:>Terror struck my heart, and hopelessness, and googling....
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Jordan Mantha: Evolution of my netbook UI
I’ve used an Acer Aspire One D250 (Intel N270, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive) for my every-day machine, in fact basically my only machine, for over a year now. Needless to say, a productive netbook UI is...
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Martin Meredith: New VPS & Shameless Plug
Due to the fact that my previous VPS was well out of date (Ubuntu Intrepid!!!) – I’m currently in the process of moving everything to a new server. I’ve had lots of fun re-setting up my email – and...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Fluxbox in Mints Menu FUBAR Fix
Hello, World! If you’re having issues with Mint + Fluxbox menu stuff, check out this blog post here. Rock on!
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Stéphane Graber: Sandbox gets a GUI
Last Friday at work enjoying the fact that most of the US weren’t working, I spent a few hours working on my current pet project, sandbox. Most of the code has now been moved from the C code to a shell...
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