Amber Graner: Perfecting the “Art of Worry”: How I got a “CLU” from “TRON”
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen This past weekend I went with my family to see the movie...
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Jorge Castro: Tag `em and bag `em
Filing and fixing your own bitesize bugs = recommended and encouraged!
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David Planella: Project Unity L10N
We all know about Unity, the project that is changing the way we interact with our computer by bringing a consistent user experience and a solid, elegant design for desktop and netbook users. We want...
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Jonathan Thomas: Muon Suite 1.1 Beta 2
The second beta of the Muon Package Management Suite (as well as its supporting library LibQApt) version 1.1 is now available. The focus of this release is to fix bugs found during the testing of the...
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Michael Rooney: Diving into EC2 and Auto Scaling
I'm rather new to EC2 (and as a result its CloudWatch / Auto Scaling features), so I figured I'd post about my current thoughts and see if anyone can tell me if I'm on the right track! I'm writing...
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Matthew Helmke: OmniGraffle 5: Diagramming Essentials
I like to write. I write for a living. However, working with words to craft sentences is not all I do. My job title is “Senior Technical Documentation Specialist.” Documentation includes more than...
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Jonathan Carter: Fonts in Edubuntu
Every now and again, educators ask me where they can get more fonts for Edubuntu. We include great desktop publishing software (scribus-ng, inkscape, gimp, etc) in Edubuntu, but our default font...
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Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu-California.org Launched!
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with James Tatum to launch a website for Ubuntu California at ubuntu-california.org. This is a project which has been discussed several times over the years:...
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Nizar Kerkeni: Tunisian LoCo meeting with Mark Shuttleworth
During the the 6th edition of the National Conference on Open Source Software in Tunisia our LoCo team scheduled a meeting with Mark. This meeting was an occasion for Tunisian LoCo members and Tunisian...
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Martin Meredith: Why Google Apps might not be right for your Enterprise
A few months ago, my company made the decision to switch from our previous mail provider, to use Google Apps. It was a no-brainer really, most of the company were using it already, for the calendars,...
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Seif Lotfy: Wingpanel
What is nice about Wingpanel is that it saves real-estate without compromising the functionality of the indicators. I took some time today to fight with libindicators and fix some issues the current...
View ArticleMichael Lustfield: Mister Jones
It's always great to have the latest and greatest gadget. That new netbook is so small and everyone else has it. The Droid does so many cool things, even SSH. I deserve to have all of this cool stuff....
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Eric Hammond: Logging user-data Script Output on EC2 Instances
Real time access to user-data script output The early implementations of user-data scripts on EC2 automatically sent all output of the script (stdout and stderr) to /var/log/syslog as well as to the...
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Jono Bacon: Working Together To Get Unity Ready For Natty
As many of you will know, we have been working hard in the Ubuntu world to ensure that the transition to Unity is not only smooth and painless, but also provides the best possible user experience. To...
View ArticleUbuntu Screencasts: How To Sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct
How To Sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct This screencast goes through the steps of signing the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. This is often some ones first time to use a key, so this screencast will take you...
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Joe Barker: Snow Time Like The Present
I apologise for my appalling play on words, I couldn’t resist The area I live in very rarely gets snow, where the rest of the UK grinds to a halt, we seem to be able to carry on. Though this morning, I...
View ArticleAmber Graner: What not to do when improving your vocabulary!
In 1989, I joined the Army and after completing my basic and advance individual training I ended up stationed at Fort Bragg as an Intelligence Analyst working at the Corps Tactical Operations Center...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Helping out Compiz
In case you’ve missed out, smspillaz has started working fulltime at Canonical on working on Compiz. Sam’s been shuffling getting things fixed in the code and needs a bit of help, so I asked him to...
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Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S03E23 – Departure of a Grand Old Man
Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope and Tony Whitmore get together for the last episode of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Subscribe:- Hi-Fi Lo-Fi Ogg Mp3 In...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Getting the Ubuntu font working on your own website
Now that the Ubuntu font is available via the Google Font thing I took a few minutes to add it to my blog. Here are the instructions, it’s just a few lines of HTML. You can find more information about...
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