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Svetlana Belkin: Ubuntu Themed Birthday 2014
Today was my birthday and my mom decided to make me cake with the Circle of Friends on it. Photos are below and also as always click to enlarge.
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Rohan Garg: New Driver Manager for Kubuntu
Hola Kubuntu usersUbuntu ‘recently’ deprecated jockey and moved to ubuntu-drivers-common. ubuntu-drivers-common is a python backend which will try to figure out which drivers are best suited to your...
View ArticleJoe Barker: New Host
Yesterday, I came across Digital Ocean as a VPS provider, and started looking at the various features they offer in comparison with my current provider, Linode.Straight off the mark, it was clear that...
View ArticleJuan Negron: Let's shard something
It's been a while so, let's get right to it...Today I'll be talking about sharded clusters in MongoDB using Ubuntu Precise and Juju.According the the mongodb documentation found on their website, one...
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Michael Hall: Working hard in Orlando: Last day
We wrapped up the last day of our sprint with a new team photo. I can honestly say I couldn’t think of a better group of people to be working with. Even the funny looking guy in the middle.I...
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Canonical Design Team: A bit of summer in the middle of winter
In January when the winter weather was at its worst in London we packed our laptops, designs and prototypes and headed to Cape Town, South Africa for Client Platform Sprint. This design sprint was a...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Talk and Interview at FOSDEM
KDE Project: DCOPHacker Public Radio FOSDEM edition is up now for those wanting a podcast packaged full of geek interviews. My interview is 27 minutes in and talks of KDE, Kubuntu and how Baloo will...
View ArticleTony Whitmore: Malawi Mountain Madness – update
Later this year I am going to do something stupid. I’m going to climb Mount Mulanje, the highest mountain in southern Africa. It will take 5 days to get up and I’ll be carrying a heavy pack all the...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 354
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #354 for the week February 3 – 9, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS releasedWelcome New...
View ArticleJono Bacon: The Next Ubuntu Developer Summit: 11-13 March 2014
The Ubuntu Developer Summit is the primary place where we discuss, debate, and plan the future of Ubuntu. The entire event takes place online, is open and accessible to all, and every session is...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: The Day We Fight Back!
Tomorrow is The Day We Fight Back and its good to know Mozilla is lending its name to support this day of action which focuses on restoring privacy and ending spying by intelligence agencies. You can...
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Svetlana Belkin: Planning to Run Global Wiki Jam 2014
All,I was thinking about doing a Global Wiki Jam during Global Jam Days[1] this year. This will allow the Doc Team to clean up the (rather) messy, outdated Community Help Wiki [2]. I believe that using...
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Eric Hammond: EC2 create-image Does Not Fully "Stop" The Instance
The EC2 create-image API/command/console action is a convenient trigger to create an AMI from a running (or stopped) EBS boot instance. It takes a snapshot of the instance’s EBS volume(s) and registers...
View ArticleJoe Barker: Configuring msmtp on Ubuntu Server 12.04
As mentioned in my previous post, I use msmtp on my server for sending email from my blog to notify of comments etc. Here I’m going to write how I configured it for use with Gmail for sending emails....
View ArticleMichael Hall: Getting into Debian
Quick overview post today, because it’s late and I don’t have anything particular to talk about today.First of all, the next vUDS was announced today, we’re a bit late in starting it off but we wanted...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Building a (PhoneGap) iOS app from Ubuntu entirely without...
The Major: But, Fawlty, how did the starling get in the bar? Basil: No, no, no. You were in the bar. The Major: I was in the bar? Yes! Yes, I was! Basil: And the starling was in the garden, and the...
View ArticleUbuntu GNOME: What Ubuntu GNOME Has Learned from Linus Torvalds
Lessons: 1- Do not dream big. 2- Give it away. 3- Do not have a plan. 4- “Do not aim for success just do what you love and believe in and success will follow.” 5- “All of us are smarter than any one of...
View ArticleAurélien Gâteau: Doxyqml 0.2.0
I finally got around to release version 0.2.0 of Doxyqml, the Doxygen input filter to document QML code. This new version comes with the following changes:Support for readonly properties (Thanks to...
View ArticleStéphane Graber: Your own Ubuntu Touch image server
Ubuntu Touch imagesFor those not yet familiar with this, Ubuntu Touch systems are setup using a read-only root filesystem on top of which writable paths are mounted using bind-mounts from persistent or...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140211 Meeting AgendaARM Status Nothing new to report.Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be...
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