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Valorie Zimmerman: New Thing: Kubuntu Documentation
For about a year I've been intending to contribute to Kubuntu Documentation, beyond the occasional update or correction of the wiki -- not that that isn't important too! But the docs which are...
View ArticleBenjamin Mako Hill: Software Freedom Day Boston 2011
This year, Software Freedom Day in Boston is being organized by Asheesh and Deb and OpenHatch which means a focus on increasing involvement in free software communities. If you are all interested in...
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Ronnie Tucker: Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Ten: Dancing in Bare Feet
Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Ten: Dancing in Bare feet In this episode, interviewing Paul Levy and Becky Hogg. Just me, Robin Catling hosting things today, but I’m not alone, as we have not one but two...
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Marc Deslauriers: Introducing the Pasaffe password manager
For the past few years, I had been storing my passwords in an application called GPass. What I liked about it when I started using it at that time was its simplicity, and the fact that each entry in...
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Aaron Toponce: PGP/MIME Versus S/MIME
I’m going to try to keep this post short (many of my regular readers will know how long winded I can be). However, with my recent post of setting up Mutt to support both PGP/MIME and S/MIME, based on...
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Tony Whitmore: I’m a wedding photographer
A year or so ago I was asked to photograph a wedding. The couple, Michelle and Simon, had approached me after seeing a photo calendar I’d produced for 2010. I was flattered to be asked and really...
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Jonathan Raphael Joachim Kolberg: Kubuntu and KDE love story continued
I am proud to report that Kubuntu 11.10 has KDE SC 4.7.1 since about one week.Over the last couple of weeks the better part of the Kubuntu team has been working on bringing KDE SC 4.7.1 to...
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Joel Leclerc: Flash Doctor – An easy way of fixing Flash problems
I have been having flash problems lately, and after a lot of searching, I found the answers to the problems. I decided to make a script that would fix the problems automatically, install flash fully...
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Rohan Garg: Woshibon weekend
Phew, what a week, I’m so glad it’s over. To begin with, I had exams this entire week, which essentially meant I could not contribute to either KDE or Kubuntu , and seeing how I absolutely hate...
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Aaron Toponce: Alphabet Book
Our family has been tasked with drawing a picture for each letter of the alphabet in an alphabet book for my soon-to-be-born niece. The letter ‘d’ was available, so it was obvious to me what should be...
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Jonathan Thomas: Muon Suite 1.2.1 released
I am glad to announce the first bugfix release for Muon Suite 1.2. The Muon Suite is a set of package management utilities for Debian-based Linux distributions built on KDE technologies. The 1.2.1...
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Eric Hammond: Upper Limits on Number of Amazon EC2 Instances by Region
Each standard Amazon EC2 instance has a public IP address. This is true for normal instances when they are first brought up and for instances which have had elastic IP addresses assigned to them. Your...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Building clouds for fun and profit
So you’d like to spin up an internal cloud for hadoop or general development, shifting workloads from AWS to your own infrastructure or prototyping some new cloud services? Call Canonical’s cloud...
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Launchpad News: Translation imports: making approval conflicts visible
If you use Launchpad’s Translations feature, then as of today, you may notice a new kind of error for uploads in your translations import queue. Look for the “” icon next to your upload’s status, and...
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Andre Noel: Working on TV
Friend: Where do you work? Programmer: On TV Friend: And what do you do there? Programmer: Programs… I’m a programmer Friend: Cool! What time your program is broadcasted? Original: Trabalho na TV
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Ubuntu Classroom: Announcing Ubuntu User Days: September 24th
This upcoming Saturday, September 24th the Ubuntu Classroom team will be hosting Ubuntu User Days! User Days was created to be a set of courses offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or...
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Richard Johnson: Windows 8 Does Not Pose A Threat To Linux
I just finished reading an interesting article on Linux Insider that asked the question, "Does Windows 8 Pose a Threat to Linux?" The TLTR version is Windows 8 does not pose a threat to Linux because...
View ArticleMichael Terry: Backups and Distro Upgrading
tl;dr; I don’t recommend using Déjà Dup to hold your data when you upgrade distros (e.g. from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10) without understanding the risks. I’m the maintainer of the Déjà Dup backup tool that...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Got a package full of wishes
The following was written as part of a class assignment, but I felt that it was appropriate for sharing here as well. Enjoy! I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I believe in magic. Sure, back...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 233
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #233 for the week September 12 – 18, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Community Council: Nominations...
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