http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog Blogging about random Ubuntu and Launchpad things Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:27:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Don't miss the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter next week as they celebrate thier 100th issue with the Ubuntu community. There will be interviews with community members, a retrospect, and insights from past and present UWN staffers. You definitely won't want to miss this issue, so make sure your RSS feed is ... http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/07/14/special-100th-issue-of-the-uwn-coming-next-week/ Ian Clatworthy has announced a new project that aims to extend Agile software development with successful practices used in the Open Source community. The goal is to create and support a process framework that teams and communities, both open source and commercial, can download and customize to meet their needs. This ... http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/07/08/announcing-the-community-agile-project/ A news article released on July the 1st carries an interesting title: Intuition can be explained. It was an interesting read to me especially because of the people I work with.  Time and again I see people's intuition about things (potential problems, potential solutions, etc) come to pass.  So much so ... http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/07/03/intuition-can-be-explained/ Cool tool alert: My friends are up to something fun, so I thought I'd share it with you. I use Tomboy religiously. Except for when I travel it's all but replaced my moleskine notebook.  One feature I've been waiting for in Tomboy has been task tracking. In lieu, I've been updating ... http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/06/29/taking-it-to-tasque/ Lead the Revolution! Francis and I are looking for someone to do interface design and development focusing on usability and accessibility. Read more about this position in the job post. http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/06/24/wanted-lp-interface-design-and-usability-engineer/ I use ssh key authentication to rsync data from my weather station to it's website.  Mysteriously it started failing a few days ago.  After a bit of hair pulling and unhelpful ssh -vvv output, I found the cause.  The permissions of the authorized_keys file on the server were incorrect. -rw-rw-r--   1 ... http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/06/08/ssh-authorized_keys-permissions-or-why-ssh-is-smarter-than-you/ My Ubuntu Live presentation with the amazing Kikomonster has been moved to OSCON.  Make sure you drop by to see our presentation and say hello. http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/06/05/oscon-presentation/ Ever get confused as to the differences between Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu? In need of some humour?  If so, check out this video by Shawn Powers.  Don't miss the bloopers at the end! http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/05/30/buntu-family-theater/ <loco team hat> Noticeably missing from our LoCo Team list is Bhutan. Bhutan currently runs Debian translated into Dzongkha.  I hope that with Ubuntu's increased ease of use, principles, unique community, and that it's a Debian-based distribution, Ubuntu would find an equally favourable position at the DIT.  Apparently it has with ... http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/05/30/where-is-ubuntu-bhutan/ Published on: 25 April 2008 at 15:53 except it was published as a page, not a post. So, here it is for everyone: A few of us on Launchpad have been playing with Angus' RescueTime Linux Uploader which feeds data up to http://www.rescuetime.com/. RescueTime is billed as Ridiculously Easy Time Management and ... http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2008/05/30/rescuetime-on-ubuntu/