Guy Van Sanden: Mailman bug after server migration?
Dear blogosphere All my domains moved from Dreamhost's shared hosting plan to a dedicated server (running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). Migrating most stuff was pretty straight forward (though time intensive)....
View ArticleJames Westby: Couchapp Walkthrough: Part 4: How data gets to the user
This was the confusing part when I first ran couchapp to create a new app, I couldn't really see where the "entry point" of the app was. In the hope that it might help someone else I'm going to...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.6 RC 1 Available
Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.6 RC 1 are available for Kubuntu 10.10 and Natty. These are beta packages for beta software, expect bugs. Bugs in packaging should be reported...
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Brian Burger: Twas The Night Before Christmas…
Traditionally read on Christmas Eve, naturally, at least in our family. I can still recite large stretches of this from memory, purely from childhood repetition! This is the complete text of Clement...
View ArticleAlexander Sack: Merry Christmas ...
to everyone I know. 2010 was a fantastic, exciting and fast-paced year. Looking back there are so many things that come to my mind especially due the arrival of Linaro and all this still feels like...
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Fabián Rodríguez: LibreOffice est ici: êtes-vous prêts ? Getting ready for...
(English version follows) LibreOffice 3.3 (release candidate 2) est disponible, grâce aux contributeurs de la Document Foundation. Comme vous l’avez probablement déjà constaté, LibreOffice sera la...
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Martin Meredith: 20 Easy steps to cook your Christmas Turkey
Go and buy a turkey. Take a drink of whisky (scotch or bourbon). Put turkey in the oven. Take another two drinks of whisky. Set the degree at 180 ovens. Take three more whiskies of drink. Turn oven...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Backupninja!
I don't know how I missed it before, but I found a great backup tool today. It's BackupNinja. It's stupidly simple to set up to back up a small number of machines. It's no centralized backup system...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: Developer in an Ops World : mod_wsgi stdin/stdout gotchas
It was almost midnight, and my fellow hackers were starting to vacate my living room. My little project was getting to a point where I could have people play with it (but not enough to say "fini"). I...
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Harald Sitter: The Phonon Family is Moving and Splitting
Picture by freeasinfreedom@flickr Today the Phonon family (Phonon, Phonon-VLC, Phonon-MPlayer) moved from Git to Git Long ago Phonon was living together with KDE supporting technologies in KDE SVN’s....
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Lucas Nussbaum: Merry christmas!
Seen on The Ruby Reflector (a blog aggregator for the Ruby community): Under no circumstance should you install Ruby, Rubygems or any Ruby-related packages from apt-get. This system is out-dated and...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Merry Christmas, and Thank You!
A big Merry Christmas to all my readers, and a big Christmas thank you to my favorite groups & organizations: The Ubuntu Community The ACLU The Electronic Frontier Foundation The Free Software...
View ArticleDougie Richardson: Don’t fix it, censor it
The Security Research Computer Lab at Cambridge University posted an article about industry response to a fundamental flaw in the “chip and pin” system in February. The paper, by Omar Choudary (a PhD...
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Jonathan Carter: How do you find new music?
Losing Touch In a few months I’ll be turning 29. That’s old. I don’t care though, I like growing older. I don’t want to be back in school without money to buy new computers, etc. If you’re doing things...
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Aurélien Gâteau: Common user interface mistakes in KDE applications, part 2:...
Too much borders It is not uncommon to find dialogs which contains tabs, which themselves contain groups, which contain other groups. That’s quite a lot of borders… Not only does it look crowded, it...
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Rick Spencer: New Personal Goal: Photobomb for Natty
I'm on holiday for the next week, yeah! I've started filling some of my free time by resurrecting Photobomb (again). There have been some technical improvements to the APIs I've been using, and also,...
View ArticleMonty Taylor: Hating Americans and Cats
Most of the time I think of myself as living in a fairly progressive and enlightened world. I'm fotunate that I work with a set of wonderful people, I can travel all over the world and I'm a member of...
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Ahmed Kamal: Ubuntu Cloud Tech Content
I had sent out calls to the Ubuntu cloud community asking what kind of technical content or training materials (tutorials, screencasts ..etc) they were interested in seeing. I got quite some feedback...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Intel Demonstration Fail >:-(
The 10.04 release of Ubuntu was supposed to be a stable and useful release which we could depend upon for 3 years, or at least 2 years until we get the next LTS release. This Christmas I’m visiting a...
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