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Benjamin Drung: Nautilus with libkibi
In this Ubuntu cycle, I work on getting the units policy implemented. For this I wrote a library called libkibi. Here are some screen shots how nautilus looks like with libkibi. Some changes are...
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Aaron Toponce: The Verizon iPhone
I want to get a head start on this, before the blogoshpere goes bananas with “OMG!” and “I told you so”. In case you’ve been living under a rock, there have been rumors floating all around the Internet...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Try the new Firefox Beta!
Firefox’s new version 4.0 has some very impressive new features. Features like HTML5 Video (video without Adobe Flash), WebGL for cool new graphics, and Firefox Sync (which allows you to sync open...
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Stéphane Graber: Sandbox changes name to become Arkose
Sandbox started as a quick hack I wrote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL back in October. Since then it evolved quite a bit, getting a decent user interface and even a nautilus plugin....
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Stephan Adig: Back on track
Happy New Year 2011 Everyone,so I'm back in the office and also starting to work on Ubuntu, DC² and FAI after my vacation.For our Zend Lovers, zend-framework 1.11.2 is uploaded right now to Natty and...
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Jose Ernesto Davila Pantoja: Now I'm Mr. Dávila
On December the 18th I got married to Marling Elizabeth Ríos. It was a very private ceremony with our families and some friends.After almost a month, it's still fresh in my memory the happiness I felt...
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Jonathan Carter: Edubuntu Live Welcome
Simple Greeter for Live Systems During the last development cycle we launched Edubuntu WebLive, which uses a Drupal module to create remote users on an application server and connect the user via NX....
View ArticleKubuntu: KDE Releases 4.5.5
Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.5 are available for Kubuntu 10.10. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of...
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Alan Pope: Ubuntu UK Planet Cleanup
This is a short announcement for anyone who has/had their blog syndicated on Planet Ubuntu-UK (not to be confused with Planet Ubuntu!). I’ve just cleared out some non-functioning blogs from the planet...
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Rick Spencer: Quickly Tutorial for Natty: DIY Media Player
I started working on a chapter for the Ubuntu Developers' Manual. The chapter will be on how to use media in your apps. That chapter will cover:Playing a system soundShowing an picturePlaying a sound...
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Sridhar Dhanapalan: XO-1.75: cutting through the nonsense
There’s lots of talk going on about the OLPC XO-1.75 now. A lot of it is inaccurate. I’ll quote John Watlington, VP of Hardware Engineering at OLPC: Disclaimer: I’m VP of Hardware Engineering at OLPC...
View ArticleChuck Frain: CALUG January 12th
If you find yourself in the Columbia, MD area looking for something to do from 6:30-9pm join the Columbia Area Linux Users Group for a great talk from James P. Howard II and Peter M. Van Buren. They...
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Scott James Remnant: Leaving Canonical
This will be my last week working for Canonical Ltd. I joined the company almost seven years ago, right at its inception. I was contracting at the time and a member of the Debian project maintaining...
View ArticleGreg Grossmeier: Copyright for Wikipedians
Tonight I gave a presentation to the wonderful University of Michigan Wikipedians student group on copyright.Copyright for WikipediansOther versions: ODP and PDF.I pretty much threw this presentation...
View ArticleBrian Burger: A Gap in the Creative Commons Licences
The “Non-Commercial (NC)” aspect of the Creative Commons Licences has been discussed a great deal, and there’s always been a lot of confusion over how to apply it (is simply having Google Adwords on a...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Ubuntu Developer Interviews coming your way...
A bunch of us are in Dallas, Texas for the Ubunt Platform Rally (aka. sprint). We’ve got a camera and are taking the time to get some video interviews done. You’ll find them on the Ubuntu Developer...
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Stephan Adig: 5 Years to retirement
Oh well, we all know IT Business is not for old people.As it happened, I turned 40 today, and I'm already thinking about my future with >= 45. What to do?Doing the Google Recruitment Cycle?I don't...
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Scott Moser: Failsafe and manual management of kernels on EC2
On 10.10 and later, Ubuntu images use the Amazon provided pv-grub to load kernels that live inside the image. The selected kernel is controlled by /boot/grub/menu.lst. This makes it possible to install...
View ArticleAndrea Colangelo: Five good reasons to take an holiday in Italy right this...
There are lots of nice places to visit… …and food is fantastic (yeah, you are right: the usual, boring stereotypes). No, I won’t talk about the dolce vita here too, sorry. A lot of Ubuntu {Members,...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Tracking PPA download statistics
An long-requested feature in Launchpad is to let people see who’s using a PPA. Finally, we’ve implemented this! Initially, the stats are only available on Launchpad’s webservice API. but we aim to show...
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