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Mike Rushton: YoFrankie! Unsupported!
First some specs on this brand spanking new laptop: Intel® Core™ i7-840QM (1.86GHz, 8 threads, turbo boost up to 3.2GHz, 8M cache 6GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 445M 3GB Ubuntu...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Myth Busted #5: Ubuntu is linux, linux is all white text on...
The Myth It’s usually in one of two forms. Either “Linux is that programming thing, I’ll use windows, I don’t want to learn how to program”, or “Linux is that command-line stuff, I want to be able to...
View ArticleRyan Kavanagh: Numbering paragraphs in LaTeX
Recently, I was asked to write an essay and to number its paragraphs. I couldn't find anything premade, so I worked something up using the ledmac package. It isn't perfect (you need to restart it after...
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Jonathan Thomas: QApt/Muon Suite 1.1 Beta released
As promised, this weekend I am proud to present QApt and Muon 1.1 Beta. Most of the major changes can be found in the 1.1 alpha release announcement. But, of course, the major feature for version 1.1...
View ArticleColin Watson: NTP synchronisation problems
The Ubuntu Technical Board is currently conducting a review of the top ten Brainstorm issues users have raised about Ubuntu, and Matt asked me to investigate and respond to Idea #25301: Keeping the...
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Stephan Adig: 2010-12-06: A New Name
When everything works now on planet.ubuntu.com, you will see, that I changed my last name.So, from now on, I'm named "Stephan Adig" and not "Stephan Hermann" anymore.This was the second surprise :)
View ArticleKubuntu: KDevelop 4.1.1 Packaged
Packages for the release of KDevelop 4.1.1 are now available for Kubuntu 10.10. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.10 can install...
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Raphaël Hertzog: State of the Debian-Ubuntu relationship
The relationship between Debian and Ubuntu has been the subject of many vigorous debates over the years, ever since Ubuntu’s launch in 2004. Six years later, the situation has improved and both...
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Jono Bacon: Why It Matters
A few days ago Phill Whiteside dropped me a note to let me know about a great example of the Ubuntu ethos alive and working. I just wanted to share it here Manuèla Popping is based in Ureterp, the...
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Nigel Babu: Cleansweep Stats for the week
Total bugs with patches: 2375 (-14) Reviewed patches: 422 (-1) — Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 98 (-1) Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 184 (-3) Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 63 (0) Bugs with...
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Robert Ancell: Brainstorm Idea #25877: GNOME System Monitor lacks in-depth...
One of the popular Ubuntu Brainstorm ideas is to improve GNOME System Monitor. This has been reported to the upstream project, and the project developers agree with the concept.There is a proposed...
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Steven Harms: Running Ubuntu on the Dell Latitude E4310
Today I installed Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10) Amd64 on a Dell Latitude E4310. The laptop itself is very nice, brushed metal type exterior. Functionality: Graphics: Integrated intel card was...
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Jono Bacon: Get Started Hacking On Unity Bitesize Bugs
In this cycle we are taking the stability and maturity of Unity in Ubuntu very seriously. We know the move to Unity is a big one, and we want to deliver the best possible Unity experience in Natty....
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Eric Hammond: Boot EC2 Instance With ssh on Port 80
In a thread on the EC2 forum, Marko describes a situation where an outbound firewall prevents the ability to ssh to port 22, which is the default port on all EC2 instances. In that thread, Shlomo...
View ArticleVincent Untz: Join us on Saturday for the next openSUSE "Zombie" Bug Day
A bit less than ten days ago, we held an openSUSE Bug Day on what we call the zombie bugs: those are the bugs opened against non-maintained versions of openSUSE. We didn't want to mass-close them,...
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Mahyuddin Susanto: Loco with huge members and myself
Before you read, Sorry for my bad EnglishAs we know Indonesia is large country, maybe 250 million people at here. If 0.1 percent Indonesian people use Ubuntu, what you did? lets take 10 percent from...
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Ryan Kavanagh: Holiday MOTD
Since it's the holiday season, I thought I'd greet my server's users with a colourful MOTD. Feel free to use it by appending it to your current MOTD. You can do so with the command sudo sh -c "curl...
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Stéphane Graber: Announcing LDM 2.2 and LTSP 5.2.5
Today, I’m pleased to announce the release of both LTSP 5.2.5 and LDM 2.2. Quite a lot of changes went in over the past few months, 25 commits since the last ltsp release and 82 for ldm. Here’s a quick...
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Scott Moser: lvm resizing is easy
I have a local mirror of the ubuntu archive, using some scripts based on the Ubuntu Wiki. When I set up "/archive" on my local mirror, I used lvm. The reason for that was primarily so that I could use...
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Slovenian translation team: Improving translation consistency with dictionary...
MULTIPLE DICTIONARIESA few weeks ago I read an article about 10 problems that should be solved in Ubuntu. One of the problems was that are two strings: Recycle bin and Trash can. This really made me...
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