David Mandala: Male DB9 Serial to RJ45 socket cable built and tested
I want to bring the serial port of the TI Panda boards out to be attached to a Avocent Cyclades ACS5032 SCS serial console concentrator, and I want to make it easy for the IS folks to hook it up. So...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Dear my tumblr followers:
Dear Followers, My RSS feed is down, so this won’t go to planet.ubuntu ( the source of most of my traffic ). As a result, I’d like to take this moment to thank ya’ll. I’ve got an incredible response so...
View ArticleAlexander Sack: ubuntu community translations for chromium browser
ubuntu community translations for chromium browser: I saw this quite late, so sorry for this old news, but since this is so super awesome I wanted to share it here as well … First: fta really rocked...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Platform 4.6 Beta 2 Available
Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.6 Beta 2 are available for Kubuntu 10.10 and Natty. These are beta packages for beta software, expect bugs. Bugs in packaging should be...
View ArticleStephan Adig: [DC² - DataCenter Deployment Control] New Logo
I'm really blessed with people around me who know their job.Yesterday I talked to our graphics designer and asked him if he would be so kind to create a professional logo for our DC² project. This...
View ArticleDavid Planella: Chromium opens to community translations in Launchpad
I’m very much thrilled to announce that Chromium, the Open Source project behind Google Chrome, the browser that is transforming the way we experience the web, is now open for community translation in...
View ArticleBrandon Perry: Dark theme extension for Wikipedia
I spend a lot of time on wikipedia. A lot of times, to wind down the day, I will just get lost on wikipedia for an hour or two before bed. This is problematic though, because staring into a light bulb...
View ArticleSeif Lotfy: Back in Egypt for a month
I am back in Egypt for a month. I would like to meet the LoCo team if possible. Any ideas where I can get a hold of them to arrange a meeting?
View ArticleScott James Remnant: Not a WordPress Certified Engineer
Sorry for the spam folks, I’ve no idea what happened there, for some reason WordPress decided it was going to keep making duplicates of the most recent blog post. I have no idea why, but it does seem...
View ArticleJorge Castro: New gtkmm team on Launchpad
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Krzysztof Klimonda we now have a team in Launchpad for gtkmm folks. https://launchpad.net/~gnomemm If you’re interested in helping maintain the gtkmm stack in Ubuntu...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Unity Coding Style Guide
Just in case people aren’t aware here’s the coding style guide, freshly updated with C++ bits.
View ArticleMartin Owens: Promote Free Culture
This poster has been in the works for a while, but I’m happy enough to finally publish it today: It’s available in source form from Spread Ubuntu here and on the deviantArt page you can order a print...
View ArticleKurt von Finck: MariaDB 5.1.53 And 5.2.4 Released
This past Monday updates in both the 5.1 and 5.2 series of MariaDB were released. It’s a pretty big deal, as some issues have been solved that affect a large number of users. You should read the...
View ArticleMario Limonciello: Outbound Google Voice dialing "proper" fix
As I mentioned in http://supermario-world.blogspot.com/2010/12/nov-30th-break-of-asterisk-18-w-gv.html, proper Google Voice outbound dialing got busted at the start of the month because of a protocol...
View ArticleJacob Peddicord: I have one!
A few days ago, I ordered a book for my classes next quarter on Amazon. Came back home today thinking that it might have arrived, and found a package on my doorstep. I quickly opened it up to make sure...
View ArticleRick Spencer: Alpha 1 Unity Checkpoint
While attending a sprint this week, I've gone ahead and updated my Dell mini 10v to Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1, and also took some updates on Tuesday.I have to say, I am finding Unity to be running really...
View ArticleJacob Peddicord: I have one!
A few days ago, I ordered a book for my classes next quarter on Amazon. Came back home today thinking that it might have arrived, and found a package on my doorstep. I quickly opened it up to make sure...
View ArticleRick Spencer: Hot New Quickly Template Features
The Quickly Ubuntu Application template for Natty has cool new features already. Here's a couple of videos to highlight these changes.Here are some changes contributed by Mike Terry. What he's done...
View ArticleAhmed Kamal: Help Fix Ubuntu Server Packages FTBFS
With every transition to a new Ubuntu release, certain packages break due to different reasons such as newer versions of components, an updated tool-chain and so on. Since we all love and care about...
View ArticleJorge Castro: A nice autohide fix for the Unity launcher
Jason Smith sends this along: So there was a seemingly simple bug, the launcher would autohide when the quicklist was open.This was due to the fact that the launcher was entirely unaware of when a...
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