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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Shameless Plug : United States of Ubuntu

31-Jul-07

In a recent effort to recruit more teams to the US Teams Project we have resorted to using Digg .  If you would like to help us spread the word about US Teams and localized Ubuntu support across the US please take a second and Digg the following link.
Ubuntu In The United States
Thank [...]

Utah Open Source Conference : I’m Presenting!

30-Jul-07

I wanted to throw this out there for anyone in the area or able to possibly make it to the Utah area in early September.
Utah has a thriving tech and Open Source community and we’ve all put our heads together to plan the first annual Utah Open Source Conference, Sept 6-8. I will [...]

The Move To Gutsy : Day 2

28-Jul-07

I’ve got a quick update tonite concerning coming into day 2 of using Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy”.  A few things that I’ve found so far…

 I recently checked out the AllPeers extension for Firefox.  It’s apparently broken in Gutsy.  I’m sure it might be made to work, but the best I could do was launch Firefox in [...]

The Move To Gutsy : Day 1

26-Jul-07

Attending Ubuntu Live this last week really inspired me to take a look at my community contributions and see what I can improve on.  One of the areas that I would like to improve on is bug testing and development contributions.  The first way I want to do this is testing and reporting for Ubuntu [...]

Turning Off The System (hardware) Beep : Linux Tutorial

26-Jul-07

I was reminded this week of something that I often show people but I have never actually written down in a post. This may be old news to some of you, but when has that stopped me in the past!?
Now I should preface this with a warning that my boss pointed out to me. [...]

How To Set Default Workspace, Size and Window Effects in Gnome

25-Jul-07

Among the many cool things that I’ve learned this week at Ubuntu Live there is one that I’m definitely going to keep using!  Quickly, before I get started, I need to link back to the Ubuntu Forums post that started this whole thing. There is also a lot more examples and extensions on the [...]

Ubuntu Live 2007 : Tutorials

24-Jul-07

Well it’s the last day here at Ubuntu Live and things have gotten much more quiet.  Today is limited to the tutorials, which it seems many people opted out of.  I wanted as much geek as I could get, so I’m here for all I can.  Things that I’ve picked up this morning after the [...]

Ubuntu Live : Monday Recap

23-Jul-07

Well I’m finally home now after the second day of Ubuntu Live.  I’m actually more more tired than I expected I would be.  Geeking it out for two days straight (morning to night!) can be more tiring than you’d think.  I’m so very glad I’ve attended though.  I’ve met some really cool people and learned [...]

Matt Zimmerman Keynote : “This project is about people”

23-Jul-07

“This project is about people.”  I think this sums up the Ubuntu project really well and was part of the introduction from Matt’s keynote presentation.  The real importance–the real measure of our success–is the people within the project.
Matt showed a slide during his presentation that outlines how the Ubuntu release plan, development milestones and releases [...]

Quick Blog Feature Update

23-Jul-07

Based on the general feedback last week on spam filtering for Wordpress I have removed the Math Comment Protection plugin (caused problems, errors for some users) and implemented the Bad Behaviour plugin.  From what I hear of Bad Behaviour it sounds like it should be able to replace some of the existing plugins, but we’ll [...]