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The Fridge: Edubuntu Council Updates
As voted by the Edubuntu Members, Marc Gariépy joins the Edubuntu Council to serve for the next term of 2 years.Jordan Ericksson and Richard Johnson has stepped down from the Council due to other...
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Aurélien Gâteau: December 2010 wrap-up
Happy new year! A new year means a new month, which means it is time for a wrap-up of what I did in December and what I plan for January. Done in December Gwenview Made Ctrl+wheel and Ctrl+left/right...
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Fabien Tassin: PPA stats, initial impressions
Our rocking Launchpad team gave us a nice Christmas present last week in bug 139855. After a loooong wait, we finally have some raw stats for PPA downloads. The Launchpad API was ready for a while, but...
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Harald Sitter: Phonon Loves Codecs
As the Phonon team is hard at work to prepare for the release of Phonon 4.4.4, the GStreamer backend has seen some awesome improvements these past few days. Not only will it be the second backend to...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Why we need Free Software ‘holes’
Rachel Botsman made a really impressive TedTalk where she talks about consumption, more importantly about how as a society we should use our ’stuff’ more effectively by sharing it or bartering it more....
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Paul Hummer: Book Report: Gray Hat Python
Note: For every book I read this year, I'm going to write a good old-fashioned book report about it. Since I don't have to worry about grades, it won't necessarily be anything long or detailed, but...
View ArticleRandall Ross: This Just In: "Ubuntu Myopia Continues..."
Ever on the watch for mainstream media articles that don't quite *get* Ubuntu, yet another questionable article catches my eye. Short summary: "Ubuntu is ruining the kernel. It's buggy and a copycat of...
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Dustin Kirkland: SCALE9x - Byobu: GNU Screen for Human Beings
I'm quite pleased that my presentation proposal has been accepted to the SCALE9x conference, to be held February 25 - 27, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA. I hope you'll join me for...Byobu: GNU Screen for...
View ArticleAmber Graner: On a Quest for Time Management Tools
What time management tools do you use? What made you choose those particular tools? Me: I’m on a hunt for a better solution for me and here’s why: I think my life is divided into two distinct periods...
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Martin Owens: Updated Ubuntu deviantArt Group
Good news, the new branding for the Ubuntu Artists deviantArt group is complete and in time for the New Year I’ve organised the favourites and the text of the page to better point people into the right...
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Jeff Waugh: How to mount a VirtualBox VDI image
Don’t believe the hype! It is entirely possible to mount a VirtualBox VDI image, just like a loopback filesystem… all you need are the right tools and know-how. Allow me to illustrate. My apologies,...
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Brandon Perry: Analyzing the Windows NT registry without advapi32.dll using...
I have been doing some challenges for a contest and one requires analyzing a set of Windows NT registry hives. Regedit really sucks (though it does run in wine). I decided it would be more fun to write...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 12th January 2011
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 12th January 2011. Starts: 23.00 UTC 12th January 2011 Expected to be back to normal...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Make a video, help Inkscape, then comes the fame...
The Inkscape folks are looking for someone to help finish off some editing for their website introduction video. Hop on over if you want to lend a hand! (via Ted Gould)
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Mathieu Trudel: Natty nm-applet improvements
As those running Natty have undoubtedly noticed (and it has been noted on the Ayatana mailing list), we currently have a stop-gap measure (until we get connman and indicator-network magic!) for an...
View ArticleSteve Stalcup: Trade?
Anyone interested in trading a new macbook pro for a (newer) thinkpad? Let me know! I’ll send pictures etc to the interested parties. Correction, it’s my macbook pro, and I’m wanting to trade
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Andres Rodriguez: No laptop No phone
My plans to work over the holidays were affected because I ended up not having my laptop available. Fortunately for me I got it back few days ago, which means I can now get back to do the Ubuntu...
View ArticleAndres Rodriguez: UPDATE 2 (Semi-fix): HDMI Issues with Maverick
So, today I tried to connect my laptop to the TV using HDMI. Surprisingly, it does not work correctly. The image in the TV comes for a couple of seconds and then goes again for a few more seconds, and...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: FOSDEM Ubuntu Meet up
Now in it’s 11th year, FOSDEM is a month away and like last year we’re hoping to meet more Ubuntu folks coming from all necks of the woods who perhaps want to grab a beer, bite to eat, chat and get to...
View ArticleUpstart Development Blog: Events are like Hooks
In the previous posts we’ve looked at how Upstart’s events can be used as signals and as methods, in this post we’ll look at the third way in which they can be used: as hooks. It’s worth a recap to...
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