Dougie Richardson: I killed my PS3
I’ve been playing the brilliant “Assassin’s Creed – Brotherhood”. So much so that I’ve killed my PS3 – it now overheats and turns itself off after about three minutes (if its booted from cold), beeps...
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Jonathan Thomas: Kamera no longer depends on kde3support (Qt3support help...
Happy new year! Two days ago I committed patches to Kamera in KDE trunk (4.7) that remove all usage of the kde3support libraries. (It seems that tsegdos had the same idea with KWalletManager.) All the...
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Steve Stalcup: Hey all! If you live in Southeast Idaho,…
Hey all! If you live in Southeast Idaho, consider joining up #ubuntu-us-seid is our IRC channel on freenode https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu.idaho is where you sign up There will be packaging classes and...
View ArticleJelmer Vernooij: On the way to Samba 4: Part 2
It's been more than a month since the last status update on my Samba 4 work - much more than the two weeks I promised. During the holidays I finally managed to release the new alpha of Samba 4, as well...
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Steven Harms: Google CR-48 Laptop
A few weeks ago, much to my surprise, the doorbell rang and outside was a mysterious box: I have to say the box art itself is pretty nice, with the rat and the rocket. I opened it up, and it was a...
View ArticleJelmer Vernooij: libapache2-mod-bzr
During the last two days I hacked together a Bazaar module for Apache. This module makes it possible to easily enable the Bazaar smart server for Bazaar branches. It also can display a simple...
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Steve Stalcup: If you live in Idaho, or love Idaho – consider this
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu.idaho – Join the Ubuntu- Southeast Idaho Team and learn tons of stuff! Packaging Bug Triage Squashing Bugs and other skills to help you with Launchpad like ppa’s and bzr....
View ArticleJono Bacon: Severed Fifth 2010 Recapped
2010 has been a great year for Severed Fifth and I am delighted with the growth in the project. Over the holiday I put together a 2010 Recapped video which summarizes this progress, the growth of the...
View ArticleSteve Stalcup: Just a shout out to the LoCo council! Th…
Just a shout out to the LoCo council! They work very hard and do a great job dealing with failures like me! My hats off to you!!!!!
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Jono Bacon: Call For Hackers: Severed Fifth Desktop App
We have an absolutely rocking development platform in the Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE and Linux and world. Today I was chatting to some of the Severed Fifth Street Team folks and we were talking about how...
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Jono Bacon: Thinking About Ubuntu And 2011
So here I am, and it is the night before I go back to work for my first day back in 2011. I have had some wonderful and frankly much needed time off work. Towards the end of 2010 I was pretty bushed...
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Raphaël Hertzog: 16 Debian contributors that you can thank
I put 5 EUR in Flattr each month and I like to spend those among other Debian contributors. That’s why I keep a list of Debian people that I have seen on Flattr (for most of them I noticed through an...
View ArticleSebastian Heinlein: GPG Key Transition
For a number of reasons, I've recently set up a new OpenPGP key, andwill be transitioning away from my old one.The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but I prefer allfuture correspondence...
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Dustin Kirkland: New RSA 4096 GPG Key
Welcome to 2011!I'm ringing in the new year by transitioning to a new, stronger GPG key (F1529469). I followed the excellent instructions from the Ubuntu Security Team (thanks guys!) and the process...
View ArticleAlexander Sack: howto build a bare metal linaro gcc (4.6) for android
Continuing my experiments to build the latest linaro gcc 4.6 series for android on ubuntu maverick, I managed to get a first bare metal build going. Here the instructions that made me succeed: First...
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Martin Owens: Tenticles Everywhere
I was at Boston’s First Night at the Hynes ‘impossible to find the loading bay’ Convention center. It was really fun and I encourage you all the check out some of the photos. And yes I am wearing an...
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Fabien Tassin: Chromium translations dashboard
Two weeks ago, I noticed that the Chromium translations page on Launchpad showed way more green than usual. For me, “green” meant that translations come from the upstream tree. I was quite surprised to...
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Ahmed Kamal: Advanced cloud-init custom handlers
I love cloud-init, the Ubuntu cloud technology that enables a cloud instance to bootstrap itself and customize itself into whatever you want it to be (coming from a generic image). I had previously...
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João Pinto: Why I am still supporting Free Software?
Today I was debating with a friend the relevance of Free Software, he pointed that at the current development rate is very unlikely that Linux (most common Free Software subject) will have a...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Duck Duck Go in Firefox?
If you haven’t tried Duck Duck Go, give it a try at duckduckgo.com Learn more about how it protects your privacy and doesn’t track you.. donttrack.us If you like the above, support it being added to...
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