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Tony Whitmore: Big Finish Day 4
I had a great time at the weekend, taking photographs at Big Finish Day 4. The event is for fans of the audio production company, who make audio plays of Doctor Who, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, Blake’s...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 351
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #351 for the week January 13 – 19, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Growing an Active Ubuntu Advocacy...
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Eric Hammond: Installing AWS Command Line Tools from Amazon Downloads
When you need an AWS command line toolset not provided by Ubuntu packages, you can download the tools directly from Amazon and install them locally.In a previous article I provided instructions on how...
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Sam Hewitt: Basic Pizza Dough Recipe
I make pizza fairly often and as such I feel that I have perfected my dough recipe –having said that I never know the exact measurements as I eyeball it nearly all the time.As such, the pizza dough I...
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David Planella: Announcing the first Ubuntu App Dev Schools
Following the call for volunteers to organize App Dev Schools across the globe, we’re excited to say that there are already events planned in 3 different countries. Every single App Dev School will...
View ArticleMattia Migliorini: Melany 1.1: looking for new features
During the last months, Melany raised a great interest in WordPress users that look for a simple theme based on Twitter Bootstrap for their blog. Some of them contributed with translations, suggestions...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – January 21, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140121 Meeting AgendaARM Status Nothing new to report this week.Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can...
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Victor Tuson Palau: [Ubuntu Touch] Update to Logviewer
I am pleased to announced that Logviewer is now published in the Ubuntu Touch store. The app no longer runs unconfined but uses “read_path” pointing to “/var/log/” and “/home/phablet/.cache/”. If you...
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Benjamin Kerensa: Now we do know know…
Some months back Mark Shuttleworth blogged“At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party ;)” and it inspired Lennart a developer to print some shirts and I decided I needed one too and...
View ArticleMathieu Trudel: Call for testing: urfkill / Getting flight mode to rock on...
Last month, I blogged about urfkill, and what it's meant to be used for.The truth is, flight mode and proper killswitch (read: disabling radios on devices) handling is something that needs to happen on...
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Sean Davis: MenuLibre 2.0 Released, Trusty PPA Available
It’s been quite a while since I’ve had an update on the progress of MenuLibre. Today, the advanced menu editor celebrates it’s 2.0 release. Normally there’d be a change log after the break, but this...
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Aurélien Gâteau: What to do after the last image?
If you have used Gwenview before KDE SC 4.11 you might be familiar with the following situation: you are running Gwenview in fullscreen mode, pressing Space to go through a folder full of images. At...
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Stuart Langridge: Notes on footnotes
I use footnotes quite a bit in my posts. Normally for snarky asides, I grant you, but I picked that habit up from Terry Pratchett.They’re easy to add to WordPress; I use Andrew Nacin’s Simple Footnotes...
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Ubuntu Women: Evaluating harvest.ubuntu.com: Call Number Two!
So far, only two people left feedback and more would help us to evaluate if it is needed or not. This why Call Number Two is being posted.Several years ago the Harvest project was launched.Harvest...
View ArticleJono Bacon: On Accountability
Every so often I see a scenario play out that I find rather disappointing.It works like this: someone posts a topic to their blog that is critical or controversial. This person can either be a...
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Sean Davis: LightDM GTK+ Greeter 1.7.1 Released
Progress continues on the development of the LightDM GTK+ Greeter. The second release of the 1.7 development series adds even more customization options and stability to an already great...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: Xulrunner/AArch64 on a way to upstream
I finally sent Xulrunner support for AArch64 upstream. From 76KB patch I went to 14 patches with 132KB in total due to other diff options like more context lines.Will not bother with whole history of a...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Using U1DB in ListViews in Ubuntu SDK apps
After explaining how to use U1DB to store simple bits of information in Ubuntu SDK apps, and saying that that caters for 80% of my need for data storage, I should explain the other thing I do, which is...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Saving the current state of your Ubuntu SDK app, with no...
Earlier today I gave an example of how to use U1DB to save the state of your Ubuntu app. Now, U1DB is useful for actually storing actual data, right enough. But if you want to save state— which tab was...
View ArticleXubuntu: Xubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2
The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 14.04 Alpha 2!As often expected with very early cycle releases, this release has some issues which we will be working to resolve...
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