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Brandon Perry: Windows Registry with Mono, pt2 - Node Keys
I have had a bit more time on my hands to work on being able to read the registry without using advapi32.dll. Today I was able to hack up a small (incomplete) class for node keys that builds the...
View ArticleRalph Janke: AskUbuntu reaches 7000 questions - 15000 answers - 9800 users -...
Less than 4 months after the successful launch as permanent Q&A site in our new Ubuntu design, we have reached the 7000 question threshold. Those 7000 questions have been asked and answered to 90%...
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Timo Jyrinki: Openmoko is dead, long live the Openmoko ...with ”GTA04” project
The 2008 product release, Openmoko Inc's – now in other business areas than mobile phones – Neo FreeRunner is finally starting to get a ”spiritual” successor, in form of the GTA04 project (not to...
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Joe Barker: An Interview With Silver Fox
First off – I apologise for not getting one of these up sooner – I realised last week that I haven’t done an interview since February! I’ll try and get them a bit more often from now on So, it is...
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Stéphane Graber: First ARB-approved application available for Ubuntu...
After months of reviewing the process and going through applications, the ARB approved its first application, Stefano Rivera’s suspended-sentence. It’s now available in the Software Center for all...
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Jono Bacon: Improving Diversity At UDS
The Ubuntu Developer Summit is our twice-yearly event in which the Ubuntu community gets together to discuss, design, and plan the work for the next release of Ubuntu. It is an important staple in the...
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The Fridge: Improving Diversity at UDS
The Ubuntu Developer Summit is our twice-yearly event in which the Ubuntu community gets together to discuss, design, and plan the work for the next release of Ubuntu. It is an important staple in the...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: iPad Ranting and Raving
Well, I got an iPad. I know, I know. I can hear ya’ll talking about how much it sucks. It’s really not that bad. However, what sucks major metaphorical ass is that Apple, in their infinite and...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu User Days, a success!
From Saturday, 23rd, to Sunday, the 24th of January, we hosted the Maverick User Days with great success! Many thanks to all the instructors who took time out of their weekend to present a session....
View ArticleUbuntu Release blog: Main frozen for Natty Alpha-2
We’re due to release the second milestone of Natty on Thursday, and as usual have placed main in a “soft freeze”. Please be considerate with your uploads, try to improve the uninstallability situation,...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 9th February 2011
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 9th of February 2011. Starts: 23.00 UTC 9th of February 2011 Expected to be back to...
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Scott Lavender: Temporal Anomoly or Death Rays of Life
Greeting and Salutations Friends,I am tempted to start this blog with a joke about this being my quarterly blog post, but I shan't. Indeed, if the date of my last blog post were any indication it...
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Paul Tagliamonte: I thought this was clever as hell. Seriously, data caps suck.
I thought this was clever as hell. Seriously, data caps suck.
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Jorge Castro: Unity Bitesize Bug Report for 1 Feb
A new week, a new contributor! This week the team would like to welcome Marco Trevisan (Treviño) to the team. Marco has two feature improvements to the Unity desktop this week. The first is the...
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The Fridge: New IRC Council Members
First off, on behalf of the Community Council, thanks to everyone who participated in voting in the first poll for the two open positions on the IRC Council. And to the sitting Council, your patience...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Petition against Metered Internet in Canada has Reached almost...
Open Media has started an online petition against the CRTC's decision to allow Bell Canada to meter Internet services sold through resellers with additional fees. The CRTC approval of this form of...
View ArticleUpstart Development Blog: Process-less jobs
It’s well known and documented that the usual way to define a daemon or long-running process with Upstart is to use the exec stanza, so that Upstart knows the pid of the daemon, can supervise it when...
View ArticleAndrew Pollock: [tech] Getting my IPv6 on
Somewhat motivated by Geoff Huston's keynote at linux.conf.au 2011, I've decided to pull my finger out and make a foray into IPv6. My colo provider, where daedalus.andrew.net.au lives is IPv6-enabled,...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Unity Shortcuts, let's document them...
I’ve started this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/KeyboardShortcuts If you’re running 11.04, please start adding shortcuts to this page as you find them. Or if you have the time to go through CCSM...
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Chase Douglas: Ride For World Health
I’m taking a brief sidestep from the development world to highlight an issue important to me: global healthcare. It is a basic human need and right. Not only is it a travesty that some people cannot...
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