Justin Dugger: Limesurvey notes
The local LUG group is small and shrinking, due to weak recruiting efforts and a failure to strike a balance between student oriented and staff oriented events. In fact, the website appears to be down...
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Elizabeth Krumbach: Review: ZaReason Strata Pro 15 Laptop
With the exception of my netbook, I have never owned a new laptop. In the recent past I’ve tinkered with the beloved old Pentium 2 Inspiron 7000 series laptops, of which I ended up with 3 of in varying...
View ArticleScott James Remnant: Events are like Methods
In last week’s post I talked about how Events can be treated like Signals, this week we’ll be looking at how Events can be treated like Methods. That might seem a little surprising, since normally one...
View ArticleUpstart Development Blog: The Importance of Being Tested
In addition to the regular posts documenting features of 0.6 and giving hints and tips about it’s usage, release announcements and so-forth; I’ll also be posting insights and anecdotes about Upstart’s...
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Raphaël Hertzog: 5 reasons why Debian Unstable does not deserve its name
Debian Unstable (also known as sid) is one of the 3 distributions that Debian provides (along with Stable and Testing). It’s not conceived as a product for end-users, instead it’s the place where...
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Gerfried Fuchs: 5 Reasons why Debian Unstable is Not for End-Users
Debian unstable is not conceived as a product for end-users, and for very good reasons. There seems to be some misunderstanding and people trying to push end-users to use unstable. This blog post tries...
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Alan Pope: My Ubuntu Webcam Setup
For a few years I’ve owned a variety of webcams which I’ve used under Debian and Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop computers. As many others do, I’ve used them with the likes of Skype & Ekiga for...
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Upstart Development Blog: What’s in a name? Chocolate apparently.
WARNING: This is a non-technical post. Having joined the Upstart team at Canonical recently, I had the privilege of naming the Upstart 0.6.7 release (“Return of the Mole”). This, my first post, is...
View ArticleRalph Janke: FCC's Regulations for Net Neutrality - Good or Bad?
As described in this Wall Street Journal article and many others on the Internet, the FCC is planning to stronger regulate the Internet in the future. There will be an important vote this week, and a...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDevelop 4.2 Beta Packaged
Packages for the release of KDevelop 4.2 Beta 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...
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Canonical Design Team: Design museum exhibition London
Something exciting Next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a collaboration between ourselves and DM, the...
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Dmitrijs Ledkovs: How did you get your first job in open-source?
I have graduated with a 2:1 Masters of Engineering in the UK. I am now looking for recent-graduate entry level jobs. I have been involved in Ubuntu development during my spare time over the past years....
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Aaron Toponce: Reading Addiction
To be honest, I don’t know why I’m sharing this with you. I was just poking through my email, and noticed that I read a lot of mail. In fact, my email growth has been exponential over the past 6 years....
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Jorge Castro: Unity Bitesize Progress Report for 20 December
It’s time for another Unity bitesize bug report. First off let’s welcome another new contributor: Stefano Candori, aka Cando. He’s worked on other projects, like the GNOME Activity Journal, Emesene and...
View ArticleKurt von Finck: MariaDB Draft Trademark Policy Available
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned in a post that Monty Program was working on a trademark policy for MariaDB, and we hoped to have something available for community review in early 2011. Well, that...
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Brian Murray: A Holiday Tale
When the Launchpad API first came out one of the first things I noticed was that it was possible to set your latitude and longitude via the API. After seeing this I remembered some book called...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Crazy few days
I’ve a sneaking suspicion my life is like an episode of Fawlty Towers lately, what can go wrong does go wrong and while it can appear to be funny when looking back at it, it definitely is not while the...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: George Boole's "Laws of Thought" Chapter II
I’ve been doing a re-read of George Boole’s work “Laws of Thought”. It’s one of the foundational works that define Boolean Algebra. This, of course, leads directly to the modern field of Computer...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: WikkaWiki: My new PIM
For a while now, I've found myself finding tidbits of information that I think would be useful again in the future, or more commonly, having to look up things where I know I've looked it up before. In...
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Brian Burger: Yes. This.
Once again, xkcd simply nails it. Sickness. “… I’m going to live to experience more of it thanks to people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality.” 0.05 confidence" />0.05...
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