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Eric Hammond: When Are Your SSL Certificates Expiring on AWS?
If you uploaded SSL certificates to Amazon Web Services for ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) or CloudFront (CDN), then you will want to keep an eye on the expiration dates and renew the certificates well...
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Stephen Michael Kellat: Why You Might Not See Me At UOS 1411
Even though Ubuntu Online Summit November 2014 is next week, there is a chance I may not be actively participating. For somebody who serves on a governance body in the community that can be...
View ArticleDaniel Hahler: Ubuntu Stack Exchange opened for public beta
http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/Ubuntu Stack Exchange has been opened for public beta.It's similar to (and driven by the same software as) Stackoverflow or Superuser: a user driven site focused on...
View ArticleDaniel Hahler: Properly disable terminal capabilities for alternate screen in...
A lot of places recommend to use the following tmux config to disable the (outer) terminal emulator's alternate screen:set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'But this will override the default...
View ArticleMartin Albisetti: Click packages and how they’ll empower upstreams
As the pieces start to come together and we get closer to converging mobile and desktop in Ubuntu, Click packages running on the desktop start to feel like they will be a reality soon (Unity 8 brings...
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Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 4: Nostalgia
Just like the good old days (Source)There’s nothing good about the old days. They are just the old days. They have long gone, yet we long for fleeing feelings that cannot be recreated. Time should not...
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Kubuntu Wire: Plasma 5 Default in Kubuntu 15.04 News Coverage
News has been spreading around the world that Kubuntu 15.04 will ship with Plasma 5 as the default desktop.The release team’s nemesis OMG Ubuntu was first saying Kubuntu 15.04 Will Use Plasma 5 Desktop...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: "Sexy" rhymes with "LXC"
Say it with me, out loud. Lex. See. Lex-see. LXC.Now, change the "see" to a "dee". Lex. Dee. Lex-dee. LXD.Easy!Earlier this week, here in Paris, at the OpenStack Design Summit, Mark...
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Dustin Kirkland: Where We're Going With LXD
Earlier this week, here in Paris, at the OpenStack Design Summit, Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical introduced our vision and proof of concept for LXD.You can find the official blog post on Canonical...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E32 – The One with the Two Parties
We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty-two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Mark Johnson bring you this episode. Download OGG Download MP3Play in PopupIn this...
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Michael Hall: Joining the Ubuntu Online Summit
Next week we will be kicking off the November 2014 Ubuntu Online Summit where people from the Ubuntu community and Canonical will be hosting live video sessions talking about what is being worked on,...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Holidays are coming - give big!
Most of us don't need more 'stuff'. In fact, we often have too much!The same can't be said for most charities and non-profits. The world-wide economic downturn has hurt them, along with many public...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Google Code-In Application Deadline soon - Get your tasks...
Hi folks, if you have been thinking about participating in Google Code-In, which is held from December through mid-January for teens not yet in college or university, now is the time to describe your...
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Bryan Quigley: 32 bit usage – survey results
Running 32 bit Ubuntu when the hardware technically can do 64 bithardware issues varied from EUFI 32 bit only, to printer and driver issuesapplication included wine (try building wine on 64 bit…) and...
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Svetlana Belkin: Using Zim Wiki in my Workflow
As I said in this post, I ditched Evernote as my note-taking program because I don’t like the UX on the Andriod. A few days ago, I thought about my workflow again, mainly how to deal with the various...
View ArticleCharles Butler: Reconnecting Juju Connectivity
When disaster strikes, the first instinct is to panic right? You don't need to panic just yet when your IT staff has come to you, the devopsy admin sent from the future with cool tools, and tells you...
View ArticleMarco Ceppi: Compiling juju-core from source
This isn’t going to be a long winded blog post on how to compile Juju with context behind it. I just need a place to keep up to date with how it’s done. Here are my notes.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9...
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Randall Ross: Ubuntu. It's in the Cloud. It's Juju!
I haven't seen a story of this week's best demo posted on Planet yet, so let me be the first to do so.This week, Mark Shuttleworth and a bunch of fine Ubuntu and Canonical folks were in Paris for the...
View ArticleMark Shuttleworth: OpenStack on a diet, redux
Subhu writes that OpenStack’s blossoming project list comes at a cost to quality. I’d like to follow up with an even leaner approach based on an outline drafted during the OpenStack Core discussions...
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Colin King: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
Before I started some analysis on benchmarking various popular file systems on Linux I was recommended to read "Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud" by Brendan Gregg.In today's modern server...
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