Daniel Holbach: Interviewing Jani, Michael and Oliver
As part of the Ubuntu Development videocast, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Jani Monoses, Michael Vogt and Oliver Grawert yesterday. We are all together here in Dallas and I successfully...
View ArticleJordi Mallach: New project to discuss
Reading Scott's recent announcement on his move to Google was both surprising and a pleasure. Surprising, because it'll take time to stop associating his name to Ubuntu, Canonical, and the nice...
View ArticleKubuntu: KDevelop 4.1.2 Packaged
Packages for the release of KDevelop 4.1.2 are now available for Kubuntu 10.10. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.10 can install...
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David Planella: Double Translations Video Feature This Week
Lots of translations news on the air this week! Yesterday I had the pleasure to chat with the legendary Danilo Šegan, of Launchpad Translations and GNOME internationalization fame. Danilo told us all...
View ArticleKubuntu: Amarok 2.4 Packaged
Packages for the release of Amarok 2.4 are available for Kubuntu 10.10 and Natty. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.10 can...
View ArticleAron Xu: Linux input method framework brief summary
I am trying to keep this article concise for you to make you have an outline of current condition of Linux (and maybe other platforms like BSDs) input methods. It’s coverage is mostly CJK languages,...
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Costales: Why choose Ubuntu?
Ubuntu-ast updated an important information: Why Ubuntu? The code is here for Drupal: Use Full HTML & Disable rich text. The language is Spanish. Here the official reasons for choosing Ubuntu.
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Jordi Mallach: Hiking through the Pyrenean GR 11
Tomorrow, at this time, I'll probably be unsuccessfully trying to find a comfortable position on a seat of the Bilmanbus to Irun. Very early on Saturday, as soon as we get off the bus, Maria and I will...
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Jordi Mallach: De mar a mar, hiking across the Pyrenees
Two weeks ago, Maria and I completed one of our dreams when we arrived in Cap de Creus, where the Pyrenean range sinks in the Mediterranean. To get there, we walked hundreds of kilometres during a...
View ArticleJordi Mallach: Smoke
Last night was the last time I came back from a pub with my clothes stinking due to tobacco smoke. The Spanish congress has finally approved a real anti-smoking law which will ban smoking on public...
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Jordi Mallach: GNOME 2.30
Congratulations to everyone involved in what looks like a very good GNOME release! Interesting times are now ahead for the GNOME project, as on the plate is now a big release like 3.0. That will mean...
View ArticleJordi Mallach: New project to discuss
Reading Scott's recent announcement on his move to Google was both surprising and a pleasure. Surprising, because it'll take time to stop associating his name to Ubuntu, Canonical, and the nice...
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Jordi Mallach: Recipe Manager meets arròs a banda
Two weeks ago, nekohayo posted a blog entry on Recipe Manager, a (you guessed it) cooking recipe manager for GNOME. Looking good, I fetched the bzr tree from Launchpad and played a bit with it, and...
View ArticleJordi Mallach: The unforeseen consequences of our GR 11 Summer walk
I knew walking all over the Pyrenees during a whole month would come with some side effects. I could imagine having a few muscular issues in my legs and some back pain for a while after getting back;...
View ArticleJordi Mallach: 32
On Saturday I turned 32. I haven't been able to sit down for ten minutes and scribble the “mandatory” blog entry, a sign that I'm extremely busy (luckily not only due to academic and professional...
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Jordi Mallach: Tinyproxy 1.8
A while ago, I was asked to recompile Tinyproxy to enable transparent proxying support, which was not being compiled in etch's Debian package. As it tends to happen, once I got the source and looked...
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Jordi Mallach: GNOME 2.32
Once again, the GNOME project has released a major release on time, to the day. Congrats! While it doesn't feel like a major release, due to the pushing back of GNOME 3.0 another 6 months in the...
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Jordi Mallach: Cinema d'Estiu in Benimaclet 2010
Like other years, Benimaclet's Neighbour Association has organized a new cycle of film projections for the neighbours, by the neighbours, with the intention to get people out of their homes and share a...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Learn Regular Expressions. Seriously.
I can't tell you the number of IT Professionals (whether developers, sys admins, etc.) who have told me that it's not worth their time to learn regular expressions. I thought that way at one point, but...
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Thorsten Wilms: Backtestground 0.2
I’m happy to announce that I finally wrestled my way through actually making a release with a tarball and a PPA of my extended and improved Backtestground collection of templates and command line tools...
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