Martin Meredith: Geek Art
I do love a bit of Geek Art – and I loved what one of our LUGgers (whose name escapes me!) bought with them tonight’s LUG Meeting A great addition to any condiment cupboard!
View ArticleJacob Peddicord: REGISTER for Ohio LinuxFest
Seriously, if you're on the east coast, you need to see that you make your way to Columbus for this awesome conference. Registration is absolutely free, and if you're willing to support the conference...
View ArticleElizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu US website, upcoming Linux Picnic
On Monday evening we had an Ubuntu US Teams over in #ubuntu-us on freenode (logs, minutes) where we did final discussion on the relaunch of our website. We were running Drupal5 on a Linode (thanks...
View ArticleAmber Graner: UbuCon at Ohio LinuxFest
It’s official there will be an UbuCon (mini Ubuntu Conference) at the Ohio LinuxFest on Friday, September 10, 2010 from 10am until 5pm. and You’re Invited!!! Speaker’s include: * Beth Lynn Eicher –...
View ArticleAaron Toponce: Identica’s Unwritten Rules
I guess now that I’ve published this post, the rules are written down, even if they are still unofficial. However, with that said, I’d like to address a few things with the popular microblogging...
View ArticleAaron Toponce: Ramadan – Week One
I mentioned that I wanted to participate in Ramadan, even though I’m Mormon. This is my first week of doing so.So, the first week of Ramadan has been a good one for me. There have been times when I...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Google Voice and Video Chat
Wow, I’d like to thank Google for enabling Voice and Video chat in Linux. Thank you for taking the time and effort to support our platform! In Ubuntu we’ve been shipping Empathy, a chat client based...
View ArticleJono Bacon: On Visibility And Change
OK, before I begin, this is going to be a terribly presented ramble. I have written it, proof read it, and proof read it again, and it still sounds like a child with a crayon wrote it. This is because...
View ArticleStephan Hermann: OpenLDAP, passwd and CRYPT passwords
Well,working with LDAP again for user authentication and authorisation, which gave me back some good memories. But now, I'm a bit surprised.I configured ldap and pam like that every user can change...
View ArticleMark Shuttleworth: 10.10.10.10.10…..
Saw this URL fly by today… wow and thank you to the Ubuntu Ads guys So, who’s up for making Maverick Movies? It would be great to have a “10 best features in 10.10″ video collection for release....
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: A true italic
In this latest post from Dalton Maag Lukas Paltram updates us on the development thinking that went into the italics in the new Ubuntu font family. The design of the regular weight of the Ubuntu font,...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Meet Shinya Kimura
I was reminded of this video by a piece of music that came on shuffle as I was working. Splendid short film, beautiful colour, and that noise! More about the man himself on his website.
View ArticleGerfried Fuchs: Screenshots on packages.debian.org
People often want to know what an application looks like before they install it. This is one of the reason why Christoph Haas started with the screenshots.debian.net service. People can upload...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: Bad day in the IT department
Have you ever had one of those days? I have to admit they are rare for me, but yesterday was one of those days. The first problem was that three of my blade servers refused to power up. After some...
View ArticleBrandon Perry: Updated OpenDiagnostics Live CD and other news
Added pufAdded dsniff suiteAdded od-autoassess script to /optUpdated ClamAV and MetasploitRemoved some un-needed fluff, brought ISO down to 367mb.You can get the CD here.Also, added the network...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: This week in design – 20 August 2010
In honour of a comment made about design this week, we are rocking out as the heading to this weeks update on work in the design team. One area we’re rocking out HARD is the papercuts. Vish now...
View ArticleDavid Planella: Ramping up for the Ubuntu Global Jam
Wow, our ever amazing community has done it again. Since last time I looked at the LoCo directory, the number of teams participating in the Ubuntu Global Jam has nearly doubled. There is still time to...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: NYSCATE: Full day hands-on open source lab
I just got notice that my presentation and hands-on lab submissions for NYSCATE have been approved. I plan on exposing the attending educators to a series of open source applications that can be run...
View ArticleNizar Kerkeni: Le Festival de la médina de Sayada propulsé par le libre
Pour ça troisième session, le Festival de la médina de Sayada s’offre une compagne publicitaire 100% libre. En effet, les affiches, le dépliant, les invitations et les banderoles publicitaires qu’on...
View ArticleStephan Hermann: [SOLVED] OpenLDAP, passwd and CRYPT passwords
Ok, the problem is solved.You have to do three simple steps to get what I wanted:openldap server:add under global dn cn=config group:olcPasswordCryptSaltFormat: "$6$%.86s"add under DN:...
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