Stephen Michael Kellat: Looking Lovely In Pictures
As leader for Ubuntu Ohio, I wind up facing unusual issues. One of them is Citizenfour. What makes it worse is where the film is being screened. In general, if you want to hit the population centers...
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Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 6: Ulterior Motives
“But which was destroyed, the master or the apprentice?” (Source)“Always two there are […] A master and an apprentice.” –YodaOur phones are here to serve us (not the other way around). There shouldn’t...
View ArticleJono Bacon: The Impact of One Person
I am 35 years old and people never cease to surprise me. My trip home from Los Angeles today was a good example of this.It was a tortuous affair that should have been a quick hop from LA to Oakland,...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: The Matasano crypto challenges
The Matasano crypto challenges are a set of increasingly difficult coding challenges in cryptography; not puzzles, but designed to show you how crypto fits together and why all the parts are important....
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Ubuntu GNOME: T for Testing, V for Vivid
Hi,Here we are, yet again, with a new chapter of our endless story. Can you guess what this is all about?Well, can you believe it is time for Alpha 1 of Vivid Vervet?According to Ubuntu Release...
View ArticleMichael Hall: On Democratic Republics and Meritocratic Oligarchies
There’s a saying in American political debate that is as popular as it is wrong, which happens when one side appeals to our country’s democratic ideal, and the other side will immediately counter with...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: U.S. Marine Corps Wants to Change OS for Radar System from...
When it comes to stability and performance, nothing can really beat Linux. This is why the U.S. Marine Corps leaders have decided to ask Northrop Grumman Corp. Electronic Systems to change the...
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Dustin Kirkland: Hollywood Technodrama -- There's an App for that!
Wargames. Hackers. Swordfish. Superman 3. Jurassic Park. GoldenEye. The Matrix.You've all seen the high stakes hacking scene, packed with techno-babble and dripping in drama. And the command and...
View ArticleCharles Butler: Container Networking with Flannel
When leveraging juju with LXC in cloud environments - networking has been a constant thorn in my side as I attempt to scale out farms of services in their full container glory. Thanks to the work by...
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Randall Ross: The Future is Open, and It's POWERful
Are you content with the status quo in technology? I'm not.Years ago, I became aware of this little known (at the time) project called "Ubuntu". Remember it? I don't know about you, but once I...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Major NVIDIA Stable Driver Released
A fresh NVIDIA driver for the Linux platform has been released and it looks like the devs have a made number of changes and important improvements that really stand out.NVIDIA seems to be the only...
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Svetlana Belkin: Rethinking the Ubuntu Community in Terms of LaunchPad
LaunchPad (LP) is the Ubuntu Community’s project management system and I think it could be better. It’s awkward to use because there are many features that are missing. Many basic features that many...
View ArticleKubuntu: Kubuntu Vivid Alpha 1
"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" - Guybrush Threepwood, Monkey IslandThe first Alpha of Vivid (to become 15.04) has now been released! The Alpha-1 images can be...
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Colin King
It is approaching the Christmas Holiday season, so it's that time again to write some slightly obfuscated C in a seasonal way. This year I thought I would try some coloured ASCII art for the output...
View ArticleUbuntu GNOME: Vivid Vervet Alpha 1 has arrived
Hi,Ubuntu GNOME Team is glad to announce the availability of the first milestone (Alpha 1) for Ubuntu GNOME Vivid Vervet (15.04).Kindly do take the time and read the release notes:...
View ArticleThomas Ward: NGINX: Mitigating the BREACH vulnerability
This post serves as a notice regarding the BREACH vulnerability and NGINX.For Ubuntu, Debian, and the PPA users: If you are on 1.6.2-5 (or 1.7.8 from the PPAs), the default configuration has GZIP...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Vivid Vervet Alpha 1 Released
"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"– Guybrush Threepwood, Monkey IslandThe first alpha of the Vivid Vervet (to become 15.04) has now been released!This alpha...
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Dustin Kirkland: AWSnap! Snappy Ubuntu Now Available on AWS!
Awww snap!That's right! Snappy Ubuntu images are now on AWS, for your EC2 computing pleasure.Enjoy this screencast as we start a Snappy Ubuntu instance in AWS, and install the xkcd-webserver...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Opera 26 released. Install it on Linux Mint 17.1 and Ubuntu 14.10
I don’t quite remember the last time I used Opera browser, but it’s been a very long time ago. I didn’t even think that the company is still developing a Linux version.So, surprised I was when I read...
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Oli Warner: Streaming your Kodi library over the Internet
Even if you're leaving your media centre behind while you travel this Christmas, you don't have to be without all your media. I'm going to show you that in just a few steps you can access all your TV...
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