Matthew Helmke: I’m migrating the blog
http://matthewhelmke.net –
I have enjoyed using dotclear as my blog software. It is stable and an overall good product. Unfortunately, nearly all of the documentation and files use French. I have been translating into English for everything; plugins, captcha, site templates, and so on. Read more »
11 weeks 18 hours ago – Made popular 10 weeks 6 days ago
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Matthew Helmke: I have (hopefully) enabled OpenID for comments
http://matthewhelmke.net –
Please test it out if you have a chance and let me know if it works for you. I had trouble with this using my former software, but I am told this is quite stable in WordPress, and I would really like to allow people to do this.
Here’s hoping… Read more »
11 weeks 18 hours ago – Made popular 10 weeks 6 days ago
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Colin Watson: Desktop automounting pain
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk –
Ubuntu's live CD installer, Ubiquity, needs to suppress desktop
automounting while it's doing partitioning and generally messing about with
mount points, otherwise its temporary mount points end up busy on unmount
due to some smart-arse desktop component that decides to open a window for
it.
To date, it employs the following methods, each of which was sufficient
at the time: Read more »
Alan Pope: Vista and OS X Broken but Ubuntu Secure
http://popey.com –
This has been all over the blogs and news.
Some samples..
MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes, Vista finally falls when Adobe Flash is installed, Ubuntu Beats OSX and Vista in Pwn 2 Own Hackathon
On the third day of the PWN to OWN Contest where three laptops (one Vista, one OSX, one Ubuntu) were exposed to allow experts attempt to 'break' or '0wn' them.
"So at the end of the last day of the contest, only the Sony VAIO laptop running Ubuntu was left standing. "
Nice to see :) Read more »
Mackenzie Morgan: Ubuntu Beats OSX and Vista in Pwn 2 Own Hackathon
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com –
Pwn 2 Own is a competition where if you can hack it, you win it along with a nice pile of cash. All vulnerabilities must be original, and they cannot be publicized until after the creator of the software has had a chance to fix it. The competition was between a MacBook Air, a Vista SP1 laptop, and an Ubuntu laptop. Each day, different things are allowed. Read more »
Aaron Toponce: My ZSH Prompt Improved
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I’ve been meaning to get to this for some time, but haven’t gotten around to it until today. In a previous post, I shared with the world my zsh PS1 variable. Well, I extended it a bit this morning making it more informative. First, I need to setup a scenario: Read more »
Jono Bacon: Stunning
http://www.jonobacon.org –
If you meet these people from Google:
Leslie Hawthorn
Cat Allman
Kynen
Go up to them and hug them. Seriously. They rock, big time. They are helping make LugRadio Live USA 2008 happen in San Francisco on the 12th and 13th April. They have been a huge help, and are doing a stunning, stunning job. They are on the Christmas card list. Yes indeed.
Thats all. It just needed to be said. Read more »
Greg Grossmeier: Who’s number 1?
http://konsilience.wordpress.com –
I’m just taking a break from writing papers to show you something interesting that proves the fact that Michigan is probably one of the best LoCos out there:
5-a-day Stats
Go past all of the individuals and look at the bottom where the teams are listed. See which team is #1? GO MICHIGAN!
I couldn’t help but notice that Ohio isn’t on the list…..
edit: yes yes, we aren’t number 1 for today, but, we are more of a long term focused group anyways. Read more »
14 weeks 5 days ago – Made popular 14 weeks 3 days ago
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Alberto Milone: Just a quick update for EnvyNG
http://albertomilone.com –
If you are affected by bug 204044 with the ATI driver, please try envyng_1.0.4ubuntu11.
Let me know if there are still problems.
EDIT: The problem with fglrx and DKMS is solved in envyng_1.0.4ubuntu12 Read more »
15 weeks 3 hours ago – Made popular 14 weeks 5 days ago
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Jono Bacon: You got more rabbit than sainsburys…
http://www.jonobacon.org –
(bonus points for those of you who know where the title of this post comes from)
I am really pleased to see that the Peach team (who are producing an animated movie using entirely Open Source tools, specifically Blender, and licensing all the content under a free license) have released their first official trailer of their new flick:
Big Buck Bunny - Official Trailer from Andy Goralczyk on Vimeo. Read more »
