Paul Tagliamonte: Sorry! ( but it gets better )
Howdy, folks, Sorry for being the quintessential lame-dash-oh with updating my blog lately. I was in the middle of nowhere ( without internet anywhere ), then got addicted to Minecraft. I’m sure most...
View ArticleIain Lane: Wordpress no more
Finally, after yet another security update, I didn’t manage to get to one in time. An attacked wiped out the database of my old blog using a Wordpress vulnerability. Fortunately they didn’t get any...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Team polls restored, but future is unclear
We restored team polls because several Ubuntu teams require their use in their charter. They cannot easily switch to another service because it is not possible to organise the members to vote. We...
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Bilal Akhtar: New blog location
Just some quick news, I just moved my blog from my old website to this blog on wordpress.com, as I am going to soon close expatsinksa.com . Subscribers to my old blog (if there are any ) are requested...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Daniel Nylander (Swedish...
Ubuntu is brought to users in their own language by a large community of dedicated volunteer translators, who tirelessly work on localizing every part of the Operating System release after release. In...
View ArticleNathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, January 13th
There's an exciting new year ahead for Ubuntu and it's a pleasure to rejoin everyone in 2011 for Ubuntu Hour. We'll begin our meetings the same location this year, but I'd love feedback to know if a...
View ArticleRalph Janke: AskUbuntu reaches 6000 questions - 13000 answers - 8000 users -...
3 months after the successful launch as permanent Q&A site in our new Ubuntu design, we have reached the 6000 question threshold. Those 6000 questions have been asked and answered to 91% almost...
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Ahmed Kamal: Jono'ed at Dallas sprint
I'm attending Ubuntu's sprint at Dallas, and I've just been Jono'ed. Check out this video where Jono asks me about everything cloud communitish. If you wanna know how to get involved with the ubuntu...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Ubuntu Malnews, the Easy Way
I have been on a mission of late to monitor the online media for spin, half-truths, inaccuracies, and fallacies about our beloved Ubuntu. Why you ask? Because we're at that stage where code alone will...
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Jorge Castro: Unity Bitesize Bug Report for 11 January
Welcome to the Unity report! Greetings from Dallas, Texas, where the the Ubuntu Platform team is gathered to get work finished for Natty. The Unity team would like to say hello! This week the team...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Apology to the LoCo
To the Ubuntu Georgia Local Community: Around September of last year, I began to take over from Nick Ali and others in coordinating the activities of the Georgia LoCo. Unfortunately, I haven't done...
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Fabien Tassin: H.264 codec to be dropped from Chrome/Chromium HTML5 video tag
oh, my! If we are to believe the recent announcement from the Google Chrome Product Manager, and why shouldn’t we, support for the H.264 codec will be dropped from Chromium’s HTML5 <video> tag...
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Jorge Castro: Blur in Unity
Mirco Müller and Jay Taoko have just landed a Gaussian blur for quicklists in Unity trunk. It uses the OpenGL GLSL shading language on Nvidia. Intel and AMD/ATI will be implemented over the next coming...
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Jorge Castro: Ask Ubuntu now on Twitter
However it’s not just a fancy RSS feed. @StackUbuntu publishes questions based on interestingness so you’re not flooded with too much.
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David Planella: New Ubuntu Translations Videocast tomorrow
Ladies and gents, I’m pleased to announce the next Ubuntu Translations videocast tomorrow from Dallas, Texas, where this week we are holding the Canonical Platform Rally for the next version of Ubuntu,...
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Mathieu Trudel: How to contribute to NetworkManager (or nm-applet)
Since NetworkManager (and all of the attached parts; VPN plugins, clients, backend...) is such a complex system, we're always looking for people to help out in whichever way they can.One of the things...
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Costales: Meeting Ubuntu people around the world :)
I arrived from a long travel to Uruguay and Argentina. It was a backpacking trip. One of my goals was meet people of Ubuntu/LUGs and discover new ideas for Ubuntu-ast. Ubuntu-uy invited me to a dinner...
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Steven Harms: Automatically Backup Blogs / Websites to Amazon S3
I maintain several personal websites, and felt they should be backed up in case my Xen host has issues. Step 1 Create an Amazon S3 account at http://aws.amazon.com/s3/. Once your account is created,...
View ArticleSense Hofstede: The Economy of Free changes our roles in the free market
Despite its many flaws, of all the simplifying models we have available, the free market has gained the most support and apparently seems to be working the best, if used with caution. Most economies in...
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Daniel Holbach: Dallas Video cast special
It’s been a while since the last Ubuntu Development video cast. This week I’m in Dallas with a lot of other Ubuntu developers, so it’s a great opportunity to talk to them, find out what they’re working...
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