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 up to date, your email subscription is current, or the wiki bookmarked for a very special anniversary issue of the UWN.
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14JulUbuntu Comments Off
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08JulUbuntu Comments Off
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 is a direct offshoot of work that has been happening inside Canonical, especially in the bzr and Launchpad teams.
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03JulUbuntu Comments Off
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 that I have developed a good sense of faith in my colleague’s intuition and when expressed, consider it intensly during decision making.
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29JunUbuntu Comments Off
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 a Tomboy note called TODO with my TODO list items. I need something better though. Enter Tasque. Tasque is a simple task management app (i.e. TODO list) for the Linux Desktop. It integrates with RTM and exchange too. You can find the Ubuntu packages here. Give it a try!
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24JunUbuntu Comments Off
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08Jun
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 stan4dnet pg478973 391 2008-05-07 12:14 authorized_keys
This file is readable by more than just you. Newer versions of ssh see this, recongize it as a security hole, and prevent you from doing something stupid. Lesson Learned: Make sure that the files in .ssh are writable only by you, on both machines, and non-executable by anyone.
Some people recommend a simple “chmod 644 *” in your .ssh directories. I don’t. I recommend:
chmod 400 *
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05JunUbuntu Comments Off
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.
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30May
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!
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30MayUbuntu Comments Off
<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 some of their users as we have a few forums users from Bhutan that run Ubuntu. If you’re a Dzongkha Ubuntu user, make yourself known!
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30MayUbuntu Comments Off
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 Analytics.
So far, it’s been very informative. For me though it doesn’t count the time I spend talking on the phone when not actually taking notes on the computer. I’m currently only using the Gnome information applet and the firefox plugin and it works surprisingly well. You might give it a try if keeping track of time is interesting to you.
