The release of the next Ubuntu LTS (8.04 “Hardy Heron”) is just around the corner and as a community of Ubuntu members its our responsibility–nay, our obligation— to celebrate! What are you planning to do for the greatest release to date? If you’re part of a LoCo Team (you know who you are!) you need… Read More »
I’m trying to come up with a more creative name for my folding @ home management tool. I put up a quick poll on the Ubuntu Forums. If you care to offer a vote or suggestions please take a minute and drop by. folding.sh renaming poll
I’m generally not one to advertise bugs but this has been my pet bug since upgrading to hardy and using Firefox 3b. I have been putting up with the issue, but I’d *really* like to figure out a fix for it. I’d be very interested in any feedback the rest of the community can suggest. … Read More »
Many of us in the Free Software community have a certain level of “activist” within us, pushing those around us towards the ideals that we cherish. Ideals such as freedom. Freedom of communication, freedom of data, freedom of choice. This March 26th is Document Freedom Day, another occasion where we can band together and help… Read More »
I wanted to quickly toss something out there for all of you on the interweb. I spent some time last evening cleaning up a few of my code projects. If you have been using either of them you may want to update. apturl for Gnome Do I spent some time in the #gnome-do channel last… Read More »
update: I have also found that prefetching is active in the Epiphany browser as well. The instructions to de-activate it are the same, see below. I recently found out that Firefox has a feature called “prefetching” that tries to pre-download items that it suspects you might click on soon. This could help in pre-downloading content… Read More »
I’m really happy to announce that SELinux is now available in Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”. This is the result of the amazing work of the ubuntu-security and ubuntu-hardened teams, as well as the huge contributions from the folks at Tresys. (note: SELinux will not be the default, but is available as a security option.) If… Read More »
As some of you may have read yesterday, Jorge Castro and I put together a twitter-powered Ubuntu Planet of sorts. Our thinking is that we wanted a way to aggregate the army of Ubuntu users within the ‘twitterverse’, and give users a way to see what is going on within the Ubuntu community on a… Read More »
This morning Ubuntu Tutorials made the front-page of LifeHacker in regards to installing Gnome-Do Plugins. Based on some of the feedback on the past few Gnome-Do posts I’ve updated my plugin. If you have been using the old-version you’ll likely want to replace your current apturl.dll with this new version. The new code is much… Read More »
Hopefully you caught yesterday’s post on How To Install Gnome Do. If not, head back and check it out. It’s a really sweet app. As promised yesterday I wanted to outline how to install plugins for Gnome-Do, which really add to the functionality. Installing Plugins for Gnome-Do Installing plugins for Gnome-Do is really a simple… Read More »