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1 - Safari 3 06:55
I think I've tried just about every web browser available for the Mac. The included Safari 2 didn't feel quite right, Firefox was too slow and a memory hog, Flock, Shiira and some others just didn't really fit what I was looking for. Camino was nice and light, and better integrated with the Mac than Firefox, but I was missing a good search box and it felt a little too limited in features. Now I'm using the Safari 3 beta and couldn't be happier. There are lots of little things that just feel "right" and it fits with the Mac OS nicely. After downloading an application you are warned that it contains an app, and if you approve the DMG file is mounted so you can run or install the app. But, the one thing that seems simple, but I've felt missing in browsers for a while is the tab management. On Linux I used Epiphany which has supported rearranging tabs for a while, and Firefox now supports it, but Safari gets one more thing right: dragging tabs between windows. So far I haven't seen another browser do this, but in Safari you can drag a tab up or down to detach it from the current window and either drag it to a different window, or out into a new window. It's not a feature I use constantly, but I do really like being able to keep my tabs organized in a logical manner instead of having a random assortment of tabs all open in the same window. Thanks Apple for getting this right.
2 - Scripts: svndiff 09:24
To make the output of the "svn diff" command more readable here's a small script to pipe the output to the Pygments_ library to colorize the command line output: .. _Pygments: http://pygments.org :: #!/bin/bash svn diff "$@" | pygmentize -ldiff
3 - Industrial Design 05:14
For April 1st ThinkGeek presented us with `this wonderful device`_: .. _this wonderful device: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/lebedev.shtml .. image:: http://matt-good.net/files/post-related/_images_products_front_vilcus_plug-8C8Nby.jpg :height: 360 :width: 250 :alt: Vilcus Plug Dactyloadapter However, this product was created by another industrial design company that has a lot of extremely creative products, such as this `phone with rotation aware clock display`_: .. _phone with rotation aware clock display: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/mabbila/interface/ .. image:: http://matt-good.net/files/post-related/_everything_mabbila_interface_001-1-4JHt9Q.jpg :height: 262 :width: 585 :alt: Mabbila Phone Unfortunately many of their products are only produced in small runs, so availability is limited. However, it's worth browsing their `industrial design catalog`_ to see some of the cool ideas. .. _industrial design catalog: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/id/
4 - Mac Migration (part 1) 06:42
A week ago I started my new job at YouTube_. Most people here use Macs so I got a nice shiny new MacBook Pro to work on. I've been using Linux (Debian_ and Ubuntu_) almost exclusively for about 4 years now and Windows before that, so I've been quickly getting up to speed on using my new Mac. .. _YouTube: http://youtube.com .. _Debian: http://debian.org .. _Ubuntu: http://ubuntu.com One of my first major annoyances was that some form controls weren't keyboard navigable. Filling out web forms was frustrating since hitting Tab would skip past drop-down fields, and when dialogs popped up and I didn't want to respond with the default button I had to switch over to the mouse instead of just tabbing to the right one. Fortunately I found these `instructions on changing this behavior`_. Now I can use the keyboard to quickly navigate these inputs. .. _instructions on changing this behavior: http://www.tonyspencer.com/2006/05/02/tab-skips-select-form-fields-in-mac-browsers/ More on my Mac switch to come.
5 - PyCon Trac Presentation 11:08
Here are the materials from my PyCon Trac presentation: * `HTML slides `_ * `reStructuredText source `_ * `rst2s5 modified for code coloring `_ The modified rst2s5 script requires Pygments_ for coloring the example code. .. _Pygments: http://pygments.pocoo.org
6 - PythongPaste 00:51
Ian Bicking has just added a new package to the Paste suite for WSGI utilities

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7 - Ubuntu package for Germanium 16:17
I've built an Ubuntu Edgy package for Germanium. It may work on Dapper, or Debian versions, but I haven't tested it on any of those yet. I think the dependencies should be covered, but if you find any problems you can `open a ticket`_. .. _open a ticket: http://projects.matt-good.net/trac/emusic-gnome/newticket **Download:** `germanium_0.2.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb `_
8 - Germanium 0.2.0 Released 19:07
Germanium 0.2.0 features better GNOME integration including mime handling for .emp files and a GConf schema, keyboard shortcuts, as well as album art display, and optionally saving album art with the tracks. **Download:** `emusic-gnome-0.2.0.tar.gz `_ **Darcs:** ``darcs get --tag=0.2.0 http://projects.matt-good.net/darcs/emusic-gnome/``
9 - Trac Nominated for Linux User Awards 12:56
Trac_ has been nominated in the `Linux User Awards`_ for "Best Linux/OSS Developer Tool". Launchpad_ and Mono_ are the other nominations in this category, so we're among some pretty big competition. The Trac community has grown tremendously in the past year, so it's nice to see that it's so highly regarded. .. _Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org .. _Linux User Awards: http://linuxawards.co.uk .. _Launchpad: http://launchpad.net .. _Mono: http://mono-project.com
10 - The Daily Show: Not "Fake News" 16:02
Indiana University conducted a study of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" comparing the amount of actual content in their coverage of the 2004 elections in comparison to "real" news shows. Regular watchers of The Daily Show will not be surprised to find that there was no significant difference in the amount of political content offered by the humor show. The Daily Show has quite often ridiculed the rediculous topics covered by "real" new programs such as those on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. These shows are no less padded with "entertainment" than The Daily Show, though they lack the witty satire offered by Jon Stewart and his team of writers. So, don't feel guilty about relying on The Daily Show to stay informed. You not only get a good source of news, but some good laughs as well. `Read the press release from Indiana University `_


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34 BerliOS News
1 - BerliOS WebCalendar: Aschermittwoch 23:16
Christlicher Feiertag. Nicht arbeitsfrei.
2 - BerliOS WebCalendar: Rosenmontag 23:16
Karneval
3 - BerliOS WebCalendar: 4. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg 23:16
4. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg
13. Februar 2010, 11.00 - 18.00 Uhr
Zweckverband KDO
Elsässer Straße 66
26121 Oldenburg, Germany
http://www.lit-ol.de/
4 - BerliOS WebCalendar: CeBit 2010 23:16
CeBit 2010
Open Source Forum
2.-6. March 2010
Messegelände
30521 Hannover, Germany
http://www.cebit.de/opensource_d
5 - BerliOS WebCalendar: Tutorium "Sicherheit von Webapplikationen" 23:16
Tutorium "Sicherheit von Webapplikationen - Angriff und Verteidigung"
01. März 2010
Evangelisches Johannesstift
Schönwalder Allee 26
13587 Berlin (Spandau), Germany
http://www.dfn-cert.de/veranstaltungen/tutorien/2010-tut-bt1.html
6 - BerliOS WebCalendar: SEMSEO 2010 23:16
SEMSEO 2010
February 26th, 2010
Atrium, Altes Rathaus
Karmarschstraße 42
30159 Hannover, Germany
http://semseo.abakus-internet-marketing.de/
7 - BerliOS WebCalendar: Tutorium "EinfĂĽhrung in die Digitale Forensik" 23:16
Tutorium "Einführung in die Digitale Forensik - Ein Überblick für Administratoren"
10.02 20210
Grand Hotel Elysee
Rothenbaumchaussee 10
20148 Hamburg, Germany
http://www.dfn-cert.de/veranstaltungen/tutorien/2010-02-tutws.html
8 - BerliOS WebCalendar: Entwickler Tage 2010 23:16
Entwickler Tage 2010
22.-26. Februar 2010
Am Kavalleriesand 6
64295 Darmstadt, Germany
http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/entwicklertage2010/
9 - BerliOS WebCalendar: O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) Conference for Publishing 2010 23:16
O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) Conference for Publishing 2010
February 22-24, 2010
Marriott Marquis Times Square
1535 Broadway
New York, New York 10036, USA
http://en.oreilly.com/toc2010/public/content/home
10 - LXer - Linux News: The Alexandria Project, Chap. 4: Beware of Greeks bearing Trapdoors 23:13
Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes under suspicion when the Library of Congress is hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown and a taste for the bizarre. To protect himself, Frank had better get to the bottom of things - fast.
11 - Enterprise Open Source Magazine: How to Choose a Cloud Computing Consultant 23:00
I published a link to my post "Choosing a SOA Consultant" in Ulitzer. Ulitzer is a "new media" site. The site provides a portal like page for every author. You can look at my page as an example. Each article's page includes related articles. For example "Choosing a SOA Consultant" page includes the article Anatomy of a Cloud Consultant - What Defines A "Cloud Expert?, written by Reuven Cohen, a leading Cloud Computing expert. The interesting article demonstrates deep understanding of Cloud Computing and I do agree with most of the ideas expressed in it. However, I have different opinion on some issues as described in the following paragraph. "You are only as good as your last job"

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12 - Freshmeat: WAJAF 1.00.21 22:57
WAJAF is a JavaScript framework that works on the client side (i.e. the Web browser), and lets you build complete applications without programming a single line of HTML or JavaScript.

Changes: The standard parameters to call containers and elements have been changed to simplify the way to call the libraries in standalone mode. All the containers and elements are now into the structure, and hooked into WA.Containers and WA.Elements. All the libraries in PHP have been integrated into a single file that is easier to call. simpleContainer.js has been released and working. Some minor bugs have been removed.

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Release Tags: major enhancements, Minor bugfixes

Tags: javascript framework

Licenses: GPLv3



13 - Freshmeat: Roxen WebServer 5.0.449 22:56
Roxen WebServer is a complete Web server. It is platform-independent, modular, and features a version with strong 128/168-bit encryption. Add-on products for information retrieval, visitor behavior analysis, and powerful tools for application development offering connectivity to databases are available. Altogether the Roxen Platform is a secure Web-based workgroup solution for time and cost-efficient content and Web site management.

Changes: The administration interface was cleaned up. Automatically generated images may now have a timeout. <gxml> and its documentation was improved. There is improved support for MySQL. Pike was updated to 7.8.408. There are many minor bugfixes.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes

Tags: Internet, FTP, Web, HTTP Servers, Database, Front-Ends

Licenses: GPL



14 - Freshmeat: Babel Router 0.98 22:56
Babel is a distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4. It is designed to be robust and work efficiently on both wired networks and wireless mesh networks.

Changes: This version adds some fairly obscure options for unusual network configurations.

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Tags: Internet, Networking

Licenses: MIT/X



15 - Freshmeat: RRDcollect 0.2.7 22:55
RRDcollect is a daemon that polls certain files in the /proc/ directory, gathering data and storing it inside RRDtool database files. It supports both scanf-style pattern matches and Perl-compatible regular expressions.

Changes: This is mostly a milestone release. It contains an insignificant number of fixes in logging debug messages and a call for new features.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor

Tags: Desktop Environment, tools, Monitoring

Licenses: GPL



16 - The Register - Software: SourceForge reverses ban on US foes 22:42

U-turn on 'blanket blocking'

Open Source code repository SourceForge.net has pulled a U-turn on a widely unpopular decision to ban users from accessing its website from countries under US trade restrictions.…


17 - The Register - Security: Oracle issues emergency security patch for WebLogic 22:38

'Full disclosure' yields results

Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work


18 - LXer - Linux News: Increase your internet speed with Namebench 22:36
Increase your internet speed with Namebench. NameBench is a program that searches for the fastest DNS in your area. After the program is finished searching and comparing between DNS it will give you the results including the fastest and nearest DNS in your area. After that all you have to do is edit your connection settings to use the fastest DNS available. NameBench is available for Windows and Mac systems, but most importantly it is Linux compatible.
19 - LinuxWeeklyNews: Linux Storage and Filesystems Summit cfp 22:32
James Bottomley has announced this year's Linux Storage and Filesystems Summit, which will be held just prior to LinuxCon in Boston on August 8 and 9. It will be held in conjunction with the Virtual Memory (VM) summit, so there will be three tracks (storage, filesystems, VM) as well as joint meetings for all participants. Proposals for discussion topics and requests for invitations are being solicited; click below for the full announcement. "Presentations are allowed to guide discussion, but are strongly discouraged. There will be no recording or audio bridge, however written minutes will be published as in previous years."
20 - Planet Mozilla: Chelsea Novak: Contributing to the Mozilla Foundation via AMO 22:28

A few add-on authors have asked about directing contributions for add-ons to the Mozilla Foundation. You definitely can! If you’re an add-on author and interested in directing your contributions to the Mozilla Foundation, it’s simple and easy to do. Just set the PayPal e-mail to accountingATmozilla.org and contributions to your add-on will be directed to the Mozilla Foundation PayPal account.

You can add the following text to your add-on description so that contributors know where their money is going:

“All contributions for this add-on go to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet. Learn more at www.mozilla.org/foundation.”

If you have any questions about the Foundation or our activities, please contact us at donationsATmozilla.org or ping us in the #foundation IRC channel. Thanks to Nick and Shawn for this idea!


21 - Planet Mozilla: hacks.mozilla.org: About:hacks newsletter – issue 2 22:02

Last week we sent out the second issue of about:hacks, Mozilla’s newsletter for web developers.

Here are highlights from the topics covered in this new issue:

If you do not subscribe to about:hacks, you will find the second issue in the archives. If you enjoy the content, consider subscribing to make sure you receive the third issue, coming in March.

Finally, we’d love to get your feedback on the newsletter: what do you like, what would you change, what topics would you like us to cover. Please take a minute to fill out the feedback form.


22 - The Register - Software: Microsoft tests show no Win 7 battery flaw 22:00

Replace battery warnings correct, says Redmond

Microsoft says that extensive testing and conversations with OEMs indicate that Windows 7 is handling notebook batteries exactly as intended - despite user claims that upgrades to the new OS have caused significant degradation to battery life.…


23 - Planet GNOME: neercs availability 21:54

Following Libcaca 0.99beta17 release (including plenty of new stuff like dirty rectangle framework, troff output, php and java bindings, triangle texture mapping), I uploaded today the first package of neercs into Mandriva Cooker.

Using the power of my new laptop I also captured a video demonstrating process grabbing (ogv, Youtube), and one showing the cube effect (ogv, Youtube).

Process grabbing still only works under Linux x86/x86_64 so help to port it to *BSD, OSX, Windows, Hurd and other Linux architectures is welcome.

neercs is still experimental so actually all tests and bug reports are welcome (patches too of course)


24 - KDE Dot News: KDE.org Relaunched for Software Compilation 4.4 21:47
General

The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the KDE.org frontpage and buzz.kde.org, just in time for the pending release of our updated Workspace, Application and Development Platform compilation. The redesign is the result of many hours of work by artists, coders, writers and testers. Keep reading to gain some insight into the people and processes behind the retooling.

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25 - Planet Mozilla: Robert Kaiser: Weekly Status Report, W05/2010 21:40
Here's a summary of SeaMonkey/Mozilla-related work I've done in week 05/2010 (February 1 - 7, 2010):
  • Releases:
    I prepared SeaMonkey 2.0.3 builds, which are now available on FTP as well as the beta update channel for testing by our community, offering well over 100 bug fixes. If things go well, we should be able to release this update in sync with Firefox 3.5.8 on February 16th.
    The 2.0.x nightlies now carry a 2.0.4pre version number, but we have no firm schedule for the following updates yet (will coordinate with Firefox, possibly also Thunderbird drivers on that).
    Work on 2.0.3 also included putting up a first version of the release notes.
    I also tried to let the release process generate 64bit builds for Linux this time, those are fully experimental and will only appear as "contributed" builds though, they have no official status at all.
  • Build Infrastructure:
    The move of our core buildbot master code to a shared location could be completed, Thunderbird will look into using the same code in the future and we closely mirror the Firefox setup now, making it easier for people patching their side to fix ours as well (and the other way round).
    Revision reporting on packaged tests is now both generic and respecting applications that are built from different repositories as the platform (like SeaMonkey or Thunderbird).
    Additionally, I continued working with Mozilla teams to get SeaMonkey data up on the graph server, which needed a firewall rule and a correction on the staging server's database, but testing looks good now and we should be able to go live on the real server soon.
  • Download Progress Windows:
    I created screen shots of some additional proposals for improving the progress windows, requested ui-review on them to see which one wins out with our "UI tsar", and finally implemented the winning proposal in a patch, which should be very close to positive review by now.
  • Build System, Packaging:
    After a few runs on the Mozilla Messaging try server, I could finalize the patch for merging our package manifests and also make Mac use a manifest, get reviews and check it in.
    Another patch I worked on is about making branding usage fit Mozilla standards more closely, which should also ease the life of people wanting to ship suite versions with a different branding than the official "SeaMonkey" trademark designs.
    Some discussions about build system variables reminded me that I should re-test and attach the papering-over patch for mailnews Qt port bustage which I've had locally for quite some time now.
  • SeaMonkey L10n:
    Starting with SeaMonkey 2.0.3, the language packs are marked compatible with all 2.0.* versions.
    Also with this release, Japanese is joining the collection of officially available localizations.
    This was also the first time I played with and used the new L10n sign-off dashboard for a release - further opt-ins / sign-offs for SeaMonkey 2.0.x will all run through this tool now. See the m.d.l10n thread for more details on using this tool.
  • Various Discussions:
    2.1 planning discussions, Alpha 1 and further steps for 1.9.3, Gecko 1.8.1.24 and SeaMonkey 1.x EOL, KompoZer integration work, new machines, FOSDEM, places history changes, module ownership, mozilla.org planning and "Mozilla" vs. "Firefox" websites, EOL for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" on 1.9.3, langpacks and switching, etc.

I may not have posted a lot of Mozilla-related blog posts this week, but I got around to do quite some actual work. I wondered for a bit if I should post separately about the progress window work, but the ignorance of hard work I have been and am putting into those tiny windows as well as the vitriol from people who can't stand designs being modernized made me decide not to mention this work much. I know that it needed my work to even have progress windows at all in SeaMonkey 2.0 and I'm convinced that my current proposals and work can fix some of the shortcomings I had already know when doing the initial work and that were criticized by users, but a number of those users seem convinced that our team (especially myself) is not caring about what they say at all, so I don't feel like taking their dreams away. And the attempt of humor in the title of my post about the initial work was not well-received as well. In any case, I feel an obligation to improve work I started, but discussions with those users have taken any fun out of working on this part of the code. Maybe my rare tries of actually doing some coding should stay that rare or even stop completely. It's not like I wouldnj't have enough other work on my TODO list.
26 - LXer - Linux News: ClearHealth 3.0 Training at SCALE 8x on Feb. 20th 21:39
There will be a ClearHealth 3.0 Community Edition intensive training event on Saturday, February 20th at SCALE 8x in Los Angeles. Learn about the features, operations, technical info, and installation details of the 3.0 edition at this seven-hour event.
27 - Pro-Linux.de: OpenSuse startet Umfrage 21:35
Das OpenSuse-Projekt ruft alle Anwender der Distribution auf, sich an einer neuen Umfrage zu beteiligen und dadurch die Marschrichtung des Projekts zu beeinflussen.
28 - Planet Mozilla: Mozilla Labs: Bespin at the Mountain View JavaScript Meetup 21:31

Patrick, Joe and I will be talking about/demoing Bespin at the Mountain View JavaScript meetup, this week on Wednesday at 7pm. If you’re in the Bay Area, we hope to get a chance to meet you there!


29 - LinuxDevices.com: Sony devices will talk to themselves wirelessly 21:16
Sony announced a high-speed wireless technology designed for data transfer within electronic products. To be shown off this week at a conference in San Francisco, millimeter-wave transmission will increase reliability and decrease circuit board size, the company claims....
30 - LinuxDevices.com: Samsung phone offers AMOLED screen, Android 2.1 21:16
Samsung has announced its first Android phone for the Korean market, the Android 2.1-ready SHW-M100S phone, says SamsungHub,. In other Android news, several sites have tipped an HTC-made & Incredible& phone, and Acer reports hot sales of its & Liquid& smartphone....
31 - Mandriva Security Advisories: MDVA-2010:053: mmc-wizard 21:16
Remove 64bit templates as mmc packages are noarch now. The updated
packages have been patched to correct this issue.
32 - LinuxWeeklyNews: Security updates for Monday 21:16

Fedora has updated chrony (F11, F12: denial of service) and ocsinventory (F11, F12: multiple vulnerabilities).

Mandriva has updated squid (denial of service) and kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

SUSE has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).


33 - Planet GNOME: Spam from companies who should know better 21:08

Had to approve a email message to foundation-list. Noticed a spam message in the queue from WebEx. Already knew that company, but apparently it is (now?) owned by Cisco. Anyway, there is no excuse for sending this to foundation-list.

The email ends with a sad:

This email may be an advertisement or solicitation. If you do not wish to receive marketing messages from WebEx, please select this link for removal.

Wonder what other solutions like WebEx exists. This as the company I work for unfortunately is a customer of WebEx. :(


34 - LXer - Linux News: Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps on Linux and Unix 20:41
Moonlight 3.0, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in software on Linux and Unix platforms, is now being offered in an alpha release, according to Web pages from the Mono project, which has jurisdiction over Moonlight. The release features infrastructural capabilities designed to move Moonlight closer to the capabilities of Silverlight 3, said Novell, which sponsors Mono.
35 - CodePlex: CodePlex Daily Summary for Monday, February 08, 2010 20:40

CodePlex Daily Summary for Monday, February 08, 2010

New Projects

  • Agile Poker Cards for Windows Mobile: During a scrum or other agile processes, you have to estimate the size of a user story during a planning session. With the Agile Poker Cards progr...
  • Allegro.net Computational Libraries: Allegro.net libraries provide computational support on the .NET platform. Allegro Mathlib contains classes that implement mathematical operations. ...
  • Assembly Signer: This tool is designed to sign unsigned assemblies(in compiled libraries) with specified key .snk file for .net 1.1 and 2.0. This is a required t...
  • AxLINQ: AxLINQ provides a LINQ like query syntax for the X++ language found in Dynamics Ax. enumerator = xFrom(myInt).in(myIntArray) ...
  • Begin C#: kano's personal project
  • BITSCopy: Transfer content by BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service). Command line utility. Add item to Explorer Context Menu.
  • CC.Votd: A screensaver that displays a verse of the day or a random verse. Verses are provided from the RSS feed hosted by Good News & Crossway at www.gnpc...
  • CKEditor SliverlightUploadImage plugin: An image manager plugin for CKEditor that uses Micheal Posts Silverlight uploader Control (http://slfileupload.codeplex.com/). The source included...
  • Claymore MVP: Claymore is a simple MVP (Model View Presenter) framework targetting .NET developers.
  • CMT Lite: CMT Lite is a content management project I started some time ago and have used to develop a number of websites.
  • Dynamic Unity: DynamicUnity
  • ferrum.contract: Design by Contract library implemented using PostSharp
  • GTAScript.Net: GTAScript.Net is a collection on CLI wrapper classes & services to provide an object oriented scripting structure in .Net CLR languages for GTA IV.
  • KleinWereldje: At first this is a pet project meant to be a ducth social community building site. Meanly meant to learn MVC architecture
  • Netology SuperHero: Hero is data access layer generator for Microsoft Application Block. I wanna try mini O/R Map tool. Enjoy !
  • NukeCS: this is a complete c# version of DotNetNuke, based on the latest version(5.2.2).
  • RaidTracker: RaidTracker is lightweight Raid and DKP tracking system.
  • RetryActivity Sample: This project contains examples of the use of WorkflowQueue in Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF). Language: C#
  • Team Legacy: Here is our Legacy project because we are a Legacy
  • Team WTF - Software Project: This software project is for Team WTFs course project at Concordia University. The aim is to build a game from the ground up using C#, using the un...
  • TwitterPad: TwitterPad is a software to work with twitter.com web site without any proxy or anti-filter
  • Urdu Controls: This is a library of .Net controls for easily developing Urdu applications. The edit controls support phonetic Urdu keyboard. The included sample a...
  • VFPnfe: Projeto Open Source sob licença pública GNU,GPL para emissão de nota fiscal eletronica em Visual FoxPro. Visite o blog -> http://supervfp.blogsp...
  • VSV: VSV A Visual Basic Syntax Highlighter written in Visual Basic .net.
  • WCF Metal: By utilizing LINQ to SQL classes (made by either the designer or SqlMetal), WCFMetal generates configurable, extensible WCF based data access web s...
  • WebLoadGen: I created this application for the analysis one of my ideas. This application would simulate n web users by initiating a thread for each user, rand...
  • Whale watch: Whale watch is a volunteer developer whale watch site, uses C#, MVC, Fluent NHiberate, NUnit and Castle. The project is at a vey early stage, bu...
  • WpfTelemetry: WpfTelemetry is a library for WPF projects to allow tracking of feature usage and client computer capabilities.
  • Xplora Web Browser: Xplora Web Browser is an advanced Visual Basic 2008 Web Browser. Xplora is now gradually moving to C# WPF.
  • xProject: system for online marketing

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36 - Planet Mozilla: Jeff Walden: Brief talk on ES5 and Mozilla support for it 20:32

I gave a three-minute not-actually-lightning-talk-but-let’s-call-it-that-anyway on ECMA-262 5th edition, what’s in it, and the state of Mozilla’s support for it at the Mozilla weekly meeting this week. It’s probably old hat if you’ve been following the standard closely, but if you haven’t it gives a short and sweet overview of what’s new; there’s a three-minute video of the actual talk on the meeting page (start at around 7:00 into the complete video). If you’re strapped for time, view the slides and turn off stylesheets (View > Page Style > No Style in Firefox) to see notes on what roughly accompanied each slide.


37 - Enterprise Open Source Magazine: What Does 2010 Hold for Desktop Virtualization? 20:30
At the end of last year I made some predictions for how I think desktop virtualization will develop in 2010. People who have listened to Brian Madden TV's prediction show will have heard references to some of them and I think the time is right to share the whole list with our broader readership. I am interested in your thoughts too, feel free to comment whether you agree or disagree.

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38 - The Register - Software: Microsoft kills FAST's Linux and Unix search biz 20:22

Values your business on Windows

Customers of FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) on Linux or Unix better develop a taste for Windows or look elsewhere for their enterprise search.…


39 - Planet GNOME: Stormy's Update: Weeks of January 25th and February 1st 20:08

This is my update for work done for the GNOME Foundation. For a higher level overview for what I do as the Executive Director, see What do I do as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation? or my earlier updates.

Edited a GNOME Journal article. Check out the latest issue with its multimedia focus!

Published the GNOME Q4 2009 Quarterly Report! Thanks to all the teams that wrote things up - we have some great write-ups about some awesome work.

Submitted the GNOME Google Adwords account for approval. I was bummed when the automated response says it could take up to three months to get approval. However, it was approved within a few days! We've been running ads for Friends of GNOME and Women's Outreach for the past week or so. I've played with the keywords and ads some and gotten some feedback from the marketing list as well. Anyone with experience with Google Adwords would be appreciated!

Conversations with several board members about how things are going for the Board and how things are running with the GNOME Foundation.

Many one on one conversations with GNOME Advisory Board members. These were mostly brief chats 20-30 minutes about how things were going for them and how we could best work together. Discussed things like hackfests and GUADEC as well.

Friends of GNOME update for December 2009 and January 2010. We had a stellar 2009! In 2009, Friends of GNOME raised $29,578 for GNOME! That is the same amount raised by 3 large companies. From community contributions. It's enough for several hackfests and close to the amount needed annually for a part time system administrator. In December we raised $2,663, more than any other December. Spread the word!

Sent thank you's to people who donated money to GNOME. Sent a few postcards out for the Adopt a Hacker program. Sent on addresses to others who also owe thank you postcards.

GNOME Jobs. Heard about several GNOME jobs and asked people to post them on the GNOME Jobs board.

Had 1:1 meeting with Rosanna. Still working with her to try to get her workload balanced.

GNOME Board of Directors meeting.

Pinged a lot of people about a lot of things. Including GUADEC sponsorships.

Checked on getting a Euro account for the GNOME Foundation. Found one option that is good for large amounts but has excessive wire fees for small amounts.

Attended the Women in Free Software IRC meeting.

Attended a "Benchmarking Women Leadership" event put on by the White House Project. I was expecting more data about the new report but instead I met a lot of interesting people that may be able to help with contacts for the GNOME Outreach Program for Women.

Started planning a "Meet the Funders" event with other free software projects. We'll invite people from Foundations and other funders to learn more about free software projects.

This week:



40 - LXer - Linux News: Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun? 20:07
New figures from webmasterpro.de show surprisingly high market share for OpenOffice.org around the world - peaking at 22% in Poland and Germany. Has the rise of OpenOffice.org to become a true rival to Microsoft Office begun?
41 - Linux Community: Matt Asay wird Operatings-Chef bei Canonical 20:07
Nachdem Canonical-Gründer Mark Shuttleworth sich aus dem Tagesgeschäft zurückzieht und Jane Silber seinen Posten als CEO übernimmt, ist mit Matt Asay nun auch ein Nachfolger für Jane Silbers frei werdenden COO-Posten gefunden.
42 - Linux Community: Neue Features von KDE 4.4: Teil 4 19:51
Neben zahlreichen neuen Features bringt Version 4.4 der KDE Software Compilation auch ein paar neue Programme mit. Dieser Artikel stellt sie vor.
43 - t3n Social News - Open Source & Web News: Die Web-Stars 2010 19:48
5 vote(s) | Insgesamt wurde so eine Liste mit 25 so genannten „Web-Stars" erstellt, wobei nur als Web-Star gilt, wer vorher noch nicht aus anderen Gründen schon bekannt war, wie z.B. Ashton Kutcher. Als Kriterien um zu einem Ranking zu kommen wurden z.B. die Followerzahl auf Twitter, Google Referenzen, Traffic Statistiken (Alexa basiert) und die Anzahl der Presse Features nach Factiva gezählt.

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45 - Planet GNOME: Banshee + GNOME 3.0 19:39

The GNOME logo I spent a little time this weekend doing one of the things I've wanted to do for years - eradicate one of the oldest files in Banshee: banshee-dialogs.glade.

The vast majority of Banshee's UI is custom widgetry that is laid out dynamically at runtime. The main window and the preferences dialog hasn't been restricted by Glade for a couple of years, but all the other dialogs were defined in part in Glade:

  • Open Location
  • Seek To
  • Import Media
  • Smart Playlist Editor
  • Error list dialog (very unlikely anyone has ever seen this)
  • Last.FM Station Editor

These were all fairly simple dialogs in Glade -- mostly consisting of a table, some static labels, and placeholders to pack in custom widgets at runtime (e.g. the import source combo box in the Import Media dialog, or the actual query builder UI packed in the Smart Playlist Editor dialog).

Old Banshee Glade Dialogs
Old Banshee Glade Dialogs

These are now fully defined in code, allowing the dialogs to derive directly from BansheeDialog, which provides extra common functionality for dialogs on top of Gtk.Dialog.

The big take-away here is no longer depending on the deprecated libglade/glade-sharp libraries (well, almost -- later this week Gabriel will port Muinshee -- an alternative Banshee client in the image of Muine, but not a core component). Additionally, I removed our dependency on libgnome/gnome-sharp, which is also deprecated.

This means that Banshee 1.5.4 will be GNOME 3.0 ready. The last thing to do is implement a udev hardware backend. We already have partial DeviceKit support, and GIO support. However, we don't take a hard dependency on HAL. The removal of the last Glade file represents the eradication of any hard obsolete GNOME 2.0 dependencies. Exciting!

As a quick aside: what was really nice about the porting from Glade to C# was the use of C# 3.0 features - specifically type inference and object initializers. This permits interface construction using a more terse syntax than available in C# 2.0, yielding improved readability and organization. For instance:

    var table = new Table (2, 2, false) {
        RowSpacing = 12,
        ColumnSpacing = 6
    };

    table.Attach (new Label () {
            Text = Catalog.GetString ("Station _Type:"),
            UseUnderline = true,
            Xalign = 0.0f
        }, 0, 1, 0, 1, AttachOptions.Fill, AttachOptions.Shrink, 0, 0);

Bring it on, GNOME 3.0. We are ready!


46 - Planet Mozilla: Carsten Book: Back from FOSDEM 2010 ! 19:37

Hi,

during the Weekend i was in Brussels, Belgium and visited the FOSDEM 2010 !

I was a great experience and a very great conference and great to meet a lot of coworkers and  friends from all across Europe and the rest of the world :)   !

Also of course Mozilla had a booth at FOSDEM !

Mozilla @ FOSDEM 2010

Mozilla @ FOSDEM 2010

We got a lot of visitors and was awesome to talk with the Community and have to say the Mozilla Community just rocks !

Also my talk about the Open Source Meetups in Germany, togehter with Florian, worked great and you can find the slides here !

A big thanks to everyone who made this Weekend possible, especially to William Quiviger!

William alwas at work

William always at work

He worked basically around the clock on the weekend to make our Booth, Hotels, the Saturday Event etc possible – William just rocks !

- Tomcat


47 - Planet Mozilla: John O'Duinn: Welcome to Rail Aliiev 19:31

A quick introduction.

Rail has joined Release Engineering, and will be based in Moscow.

Some of you may already know him from his automation work in the Turkish and Russian locales for various Mozilla projects including Firefox. Or maybe you know him from his work in openoffice.org, or debian, or pootle. Anyway, he’s been using his skills in automation to make each of those better, so we’re delighted to have another like-minded automation person joining RelEng.

On irc you’ll find him as “Rail”, which is pronounced “ray-eel”.

(Oh, for the curious - he’ll be based in Moscow, as Toronto is “not cold enough” for him right now!)


48 - Planet Mozilla: Laura Mesa: A/B Testing: First Run Page 19:18
One of my new responsibilities as I work with John Slater and the Creative Marketing team on Mozilla.com is to test, improve and optimize our web pages. This joint project with Blake Cutler and the Metrics team is one of many in the A/B testing pipeline.

One of the first pages we're working on is the First Run page.



The First Run page is a huge page for us for two reasons:

1) It's our first impression.
The First Run page is the first page that loads immediately after Firefox is launched for the first time. Everyone who downloads Firefox sees this page, and it's our first opportunity to visually (and verbally) introduce ourselves to a new user.

2) It's one of our only touch points.
We have very few ways to get in touch with our users. The First Run page is the first time we can make contact with a Firefox user to share information, answer questions and differentiate ourselves from other browsers outside from the normal product interactions.

We are currently testing three different designs inspired by some of the most popular sites on the Web:

Design A:


This is the "Task" oriented design, with expandable tabs that open to show more content. This page was inspired by Southwest Airlines.


Design B:



This is the "Tab" oriented design, allowing users to click on tabs to see relevant information. This page was inspired by Mint.com.

Design C:




This is the "Process" oriented page, where users can go through steps to "get started". This page was inspired by the Skype and Digg sign-up processes.

These are just three of the different rough layout concepts that The Royal Order came up with during the brainstorm process to try and improve engagement*. It will take another month or so to finish the initial testing, but there will still be plenty to do! The winning design will need to jump through many more hoops as we test variations of the design to find the best or most "optimized" page before it will be implemented on Mozilla.com.

Big Thanks Blake Cutler and the Metrics team, Steven Garrity, Stephen Donner and the WebQA team, The Royal Order for all their help on this project.

Thoughts? What do you think should go on the First Run page?


[*Improved engagement for this particular page means more clicks on our CTAs (Personas and Add-ons), longer times spent on the page, and lower bounce rates. ]

49 - DistroWatch.com: 02/08 Privatix 10.02.07 19:17

50 - Heise Newsticker: Blu-ray legt rapide zu – Marktanteil hierzulande aber noch gering 19:17

51 - Heise Newsticker: CDU-Medienpolitiker lobt Zugangserschwerungsgesetz 19:17

52 - LinuxDevices.com: Core i7 module handles temperature extremes 19:17
Adlink announced a Core i7-equipped COM Express module featuring Intel's embedded-specific Core i7 processor along with the QM57 Express chipset. The & Ampro by Adlink Express-CBR& features up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, CRT and LVDS display support, an optional SSD (solid state disk), and PCI Express Graphics (PEG) or PCI Express expansion, the company says....
53 - Mandriva Security Advisories: MDVA-2010:052: microcode_ctl 19:16
microcode_ctl is now providing a script to allow updates to retreive
the latest versions of microcodes.
54 - Mandriva Security Advisories: MDVA-2010:051: mmc-web-base 19:16
This update removes the disclaimer which incorrectly appears on
initial MMC web page.
55 - LXer - Linux News: Securing PostfixAdmin 19:10
Many administrators who use Postfixadmin, a web based tool to manage virtual domains on Postfix, would like to secure the transactions between the PostfixAdmin program and the administrator. At the same time often you do not want to add the extra burden of SSL on the whole domain but just want to secure one directory. The solution is to create a certificate for that one directory only and also locking that directory with a password so only administrators can gain access. The example is on an Ubuntu 9.10 server, which will be very similar to most server procedures.
56 - The Register - Software: Linus Torvalds doesn't hate the Googlephone 18:57

I like your fork!

Linus Torvalds hates cell phones. But that doesn't include the Googlephone.…


57 - Planet Mozilla: Mozilla Labs: Mozilla Jetpack Design Challenge invites 10 teams to Design Camp 18:54

conceptseries

For the past two months participants in Mozilla’s Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge have worked on Jetpack prototypes to turn the open web into a rich social learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online. Today 10 teams were selected to participate in a hands-on Design Camp. The Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge is sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The selected Jetpacks support a wide range of learning activities. They help users learn foreign languages, support the development of sophisticated web-skills or turn the web into a quiz engine. A list of finalists (and all Jetpack prototypes) can be found on the Mozilla Wiki:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/JetpackForLearning

The Design Camp in March will give the selected teams an opportunity to complete their prototypes with support from some of the world’s foremost Jetpack experts. The event is co-organized by Aspiration. An overall winner of the Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge will be selected during the camp and announced at the Mozilla SXSW event.(*)

The Jetpack 4 Learning Design Challenge uses an innovative combination of competition, training, and workshop to build skills in web development and drive innovation for learning on the open web. Online seminars provided participants with the necessary background on extension development and Jetpack technology. An active mailing list was used by participants to discuss and solve challenge they faced. All seminars and discussion are openly available for anyone to review and help them build their own Jetpacks.

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that sponsors the Mozilla project and devotes its resources to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet. We do this by supporting the community of Mozilla contributors and by assisting others who are building technologies that benefit users around the world. Through the Mozilla Education initiative we work with computer science, design and business schools around the world to create learning opportunities for a new generation of Mozilla community members and help to drive a new wave of participatory, student-led learning. By doing this we hope to move closer to Mozilla’s broader goal of making openness, participation and distributed decision-making more common experiences in Internet life. More information is available at education.mozilla.org.

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. In 2006 MacArthur launched its digital media and learning initiative to explore how young people are changing as a result of digital media use and what the implications are for libraries, museums and schools. More information is available at www.macfound.org/education.

(*) The Design Challenge is not connected to or affiliated with SXSW in any way.


58 - The Register - Security: Sweden to prosecute alleged Cisco, NASA hacker 18:50

Stakkato's abrupt transfer

The prosecution of a Swedish man charged with breaching the computer networks of NASA and Cisco Systems and making off with sensitive source code will be transferred to Swedish authorities, US federal prosecutors said Monday.…


59 - Heise Newsticker: Internet-Beschwerdestelle registriert mehr Meldungen 18:17

60 - Heise Newsticker: Konkurrenz: Canon EOS 550D 18:17

61 - Heise Newsticker: Street View: Hauseigentümerverband fordert Änderung des Datenschutzgesetzes 18:17

62 - Heise Newsticker: Bitkom-Forum: Auf dem Weg in die "Gigabit-Gesellschaft" 18:17

63 - Mandriva Security Advisories: MDVA-2010:050: mmc-agent 18:16
MMC web interface allows to create isos for user's homes and
shares. With this update, mkisofs has been added as a requirement of
the package.
64 - LXer - Linux News: SourceForge turns off "blanket blocking" 18:13
SourceForge, the open source project hosting site, has announced that it has turned off the "blanket block" on access from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.
65 - Planet GNOME: Mon 2010/Feb/08 18:09
  • Luciana was munching on sausage slices. She grabbed the curved end of one sausage, looked carefully at it, and exclaimed, "look, a little vault!".

    I guess that's what she learns in this house.


66 - LXer - Linux News: Archos posts 'full' Linux distro for Android tablet 17:45
Media player maker Archos has posted a full Linux distro that will run on its Archos 5 machine. The 5 ships with Android as standard, but open sourcerers can download a special, emebedded build of Angstrom Linux and use it to replace the Google OS.
67 - Heise Newsticker: Legacy-Module fĂĽr HD+-Empfang mit Kathrein-Receivern 17:17

68 - Mandriva Security Advisories: MDVSA-2010:034: kernel 17:16
Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux
2.6 kernel:

Array index error in the gdth_read_event function in
drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc8 allows
local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges
via a negative event index in an IOCTL request. (CVE-2009-3080)

The collect_rx_frame function in drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_usb.c in the
Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc7 allows attackers to have an unspecified
impact via a crafted HDLC packet that arrives over ISDN and triggers
a buffer under-read. (CVE-2009-4005)

Additionally, the Linux kernel was updated to the stable release
2.6.27.45.

To update your kernel, please follow the directions located at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/kernelupdate
69 - Google News: Wissen/Technik: Volvo lässt Betrunkene nicht mehr fahren - Welt Online 17:01

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70 - Security Advisories der Linux-Community: [Sun] Schwachstellen in OpenSolaris kclient(1M) und smbadm(1M) - 275790 17:00
[Sun] Schwachstellen in OpenSolaris kclient(1M) und smbadm(1M) - 275790
71 - Security Advisories der Linux-Community: [Mandriva] Schwachstelle in Squid - MDVSA-2010:033 17:00
[Mandriva] Schwachstelle in Squid - MDVSA-2010:033
72 - Security Advisories der Linux-Community: [Fedora] Schwachstellen im OCS Inventory - FEDORA-2010-1535 17:00
[Fedora] Schwachstellen im OCS Inventory - FEDORA-2010-1535
73 - LXer - Linux News: MySQL handler Jacobs walks out on Oracle 16:56
Oracle's open source strategy was looking a little fenced in this morning, after the database giant lost one of its most prominent voices and OpenOffice was snubbed by Ubuntu developers. Ken Jacobs resigned from Oracle late last week, according to reports. Jacobs was vice president of product strategy in Oracle's server technologies division, and was seen as the vendor's friendly face when it came to dealing with the Open Source community.
74 - Freshmeat: Piggydb 4.5 16:37
Piggydb is a Web notebook application that provides you with a platform to build your knowledge personally or collaboratively. With Piggydb, you can create highly structural knowledge by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified with hierarchical tags. Piggydb does not aim to be an input-and-search database application. It aims to be a platform that encourages you to organize your knowledge continuously to discover new ideas or concepts, and moreover enrich your creativity.

Changes: This release adds a new menu, "System/System Info", where you can view the system settings and the database statistics. With that menu, you can also change the database title, which is used for the title of the HTML pages. A minor edit checkbox was added to the fragment edit form. If you check the box, the fragment's updated-timestamp will be unchanged. The #home and #bookmark tags were changed to be owner-privileged (so only an owner can handle those tags).

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Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements, Minor bugfixes

Tags: Documentation, Information Management, Document Repositories, Metadata/Semantic Models, Wiki, Dynamic Content, Web, Internet, education

Licenses: Apache 2.0



75 - Freshmeat: SVEditor 0.1.1 16:36
SVEditor is an Eclipse-based editor for SystemVerilog files. Coloring of SystemVerilog keywords and extraction and display of structural elements is supported.

Changes: This version of SVEditor adds support for source indenting and better support for auto-indent. Auto-indent is now enabled by default, and can be disabled via the SVEditor preferences page.

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Licenses: Eclipse



76 - Freshmeat: rspamd 0.2.8 16:34
Rspamd is an anti-spam system designed to work faster than SpamAssassin by using event model and regular expression optimization. Currently released features: regexp rules for filtering different parts of messages; a number of built-in functions for analyzing messages; fuzzy hashes support; SURBL filters; email and character tables support; a control interface for remote managing and stats gathering; a Perl and Lua plugin system; statistics support (OSB/Winnow); compatibility with SpamAssassin; and a client program for email scanning. With similar rules, rspamd is about ten times faster than SpamAssassin.

Changes: Statistic synchronization (master-slave) was implemented. Many major fixes were made to the statistics system. A new logging system with the capability of partial logging was added. An SPF parser, new plugins, filters, and other features were added.

Tags: Email, SPAM, Filter

Licenses: BSD Original



77 - Freshmeat: BOUML 4.18.1 16:32
BOUML is a UML 2 tool box that allows you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, IDL, and PHP. BOUML is very fast and doesn't require much memory to manage several thousands of classes. BOUML is extensible, and the external tools (named plug-outs) can be written in C++ or Java, using BOUML for their definition as any other program. UML models can be exported to HTML pages, including PNG or SVG graphics.

Changes: A crash could occur when you did some changes on relations used by "modeled" class instances (non-pure graphical class instances) or when you reload a project defining "modeled" class instances. This was fixed. In a class diagram when the drawing setting "draw all relations" was false, the only way to show not yet drawn nesting relations was to set "draw all relations" to true, then to remove undesired shown relations. Now the menu of a nested class proposes to show the nesting relation when it is not yet drawn and the container class is present. XMI2 Import 1.7.2, C++ Reverse 2.12.3, and C++ Roundtrip 1.0.2 are used.

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Tags: Documentation, Information Management, Metadata/Semantic Models, Scientific/Engineering, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Software Development, Code Generators

Licenses: GPLv2



78 - Planet Mozilla: QMO: Results of the AMO Testday 16:28

This past Friday, February 5th, WebDevQA held a testday for the new AMO.  Overall, the test day was very successful.    We had 27 people in the #testday channel at the testday's peak.  Participants ranged from eager to learn first time community members to veteran community members.  Everyones testing efforts resulted in 7 bugs and enhancement suggestions being filed against AMO.  I'd like to thank everyone who came out to the test day and stephend and krupa for helping guide testers and answering questions.  If you want more details about the testday, see the folowing links:
 
Testday Details
Testday Detailed Results


79 - LinuxWeeklyNews: GNOME accessibility developers concerned about Oracle's commitment 16:26
There are concerns in the GNOME accessibility development community about what the Oracle takeover of Sun means for the efforts led by Sun's Accessibility Project Office (APO). Orca project lead Willie Walker has been laid off and is looking for work, possibly in areas that will not allow him to continue contributing to Orca. In addition, assistive technology specialist Joanmarie Diggs has published an open letter to Oracle concerning the future of the APO and its work. "Last week, Oracle laid off two more members of Sun's already-decimated APO. One of those let go happened to be both the Orca project lead and the GNOME Accessibility project lead, Willie Walker. I truly hope this was an oversight on Oracle's part, and one that will be rectified very soon. Because if it is not, and if no other company steps forward to continue this work, the accessibility of the GNOME desktop will become the open source equivalent of an unfunded mandate, doomed ultimately to fail."
80 - Freshmeat: iWeb Valet 2.3.7 16:20
iWeb Valet adds many features to sites made with iWeb. It is both easy to use and powerful. You don't have to know anything about programming or Web authoring languages such as HTML or JavaScript. iWeb Valet widgets give you the power to add new interactive widgets to your Web pages. For example, you can add dropdown menus, clocks, scrolling news, internal search engines, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, falling snow, and much more. Finally, you can have your Web site uploaded to an FTP or iDisk server.

Changes: Basic support for international fonts was added. FTP real-time logging was removed to increase listing speed (by about 20%). An iDisk transfer bug was corrected. The text menu was enhanced. A rare division by 0 bug was fixed. A rare email masking bug was fixed.

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Release Tags: Major additions

Tags: iweb, Web, JavaScript, HTML, HTML Editors

Licenses: Shareware



81 - Freshmeat: FetchYahoo 2.13.8 16:20
FetchYahoo is a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo! account to a local mail spool. It is meant to replace fetchmail for people using Yahoo! mail since Yahoo!'s POP service is no longer free. It downloads messages to a local mail spool, including all parts and attachments. It then deletes messages unless requested not to. It can also optionally forward messages to a specified email address and repeat with a given interval.

Changes: This release fixes the downloading of sent messages and allows a user to move messages to a specified Yahoo! folder.

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Tags: Communications, Email, Mail Transport Agents

Licenses: GPL



82 - Heise Newsticker: Google arbeitet an mobilem Babelfisch 16:17

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84 - Heise Newsticker: Streit um Infineon-Aufsichtsrat spitzt sich zu 16:17

85 - entwickler.de: Project Kenai - doch alles ganz anders? 16:15
Hieß es letzte Woche noch, Suns Hosting-Service Project Kenai müsse nach der Oracle-Übernahme die Türen schließen, wirft eine aktualisierte …
86 - Google News: Wissen/Technik: Google Nexus One im ersten Monat nur 80 000 Mal verkauft - teltarif.de 16:05

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87 - The Register - Security: Cheeky French hackers hijack Tata website 16:03

Now you see it, maintenant... non

Top flight outsourcing firm Tata Consulting Services appeared to have lost control of its website to hackers today, with the domain apparently being touted for sale.…


88 - Planet Mozilla: Mozilla Web Development: GetFirebug.com redesign launched! 16:03

If you’ve happened across the GetFirebug.com web site recently, you’ll notice everything has a rather pleasant freshly painted smell. After a much-too-long delay, we’ve finally updated the design and layout for the official Firebug web site, and introduced a lovely new icon by our resident Iconmaster General Sean Martell.

Even with intense competition from tools integrated into other web browsers, Firebug is arguably still the leading web development tool in use, with nearly two million active daily users. Its web site needed to reflect Firebug’s capabilities more clearly. With that in mind, the primary goals with this redesign were to make the official Firebug web site easier to use, more pleasant to look at, and give Firebug more of a traditional software-style layout to highlight its many positive qualities.

GetFirebug.com: Before

firebug-original.png

GetFirebug.com: After

Firebug-new.png

It’s a fairly straightforward design, so there’s not a lot of interesting production notes to highlight, but here’s some specifics on what went into this redesign:

  • The layout is roughly based on the 960 grid system. The original hope was to do the site in a fully fluid layout, but time constrains intervened.
  • Headers and pull text are in the gorgeous (and open source!) Tittillium, thanks to @font-face. The body text was originally set in Droid, but due to a legibility issue on Windows machines with text-smoothing disabled, it was switched to the more common Trebuchet MS.
  • The pages are build using the HTML5 doctype, with JQuery and the Fancybox plugin powering the modal pop-ups.
  • The screencast on the homepage uses the Video for Everybody system to embed the OGG video, with MP4 and Flash fallback for other user agents.
  • The homepage blog feed pulls in from the Firebug weblog RSS feed using SimplePie.
  • For this iteration, we wanted to switch the site over to a simple content management system, and ended up settling on Perch. It has its shortcomings, but it was straightforward enough and easy enough for me (mostly a designer/UX guy) to implement.
  • Sean passed along a few images that inspired the sparkly new icon. Originally, we tossed around the idea of doing something cartoony and heroic, like this lil’ dude, but ultimately decided to go with a more, well, buggier bug.
  • Photographic inspiration: Bug 1 • Bug 2 • Bug 3 • Bugs!

It’s been a long time coming, and we hope you like GetFirebug.com’s new set of clothes. The content is currently being updated and will roll out as it is completed, but in the meantime, please kick the tires and let us know what you think.


89 - Freshmeat: j-Interop 2.08 15:54
j-Interop is a Java Open Source library (under LGPL) that implements the DCOM wire protocol (MSRPC) to enable development of Pure, Bi- Directional, Non-Native Java applications which can interoperate with any COM component. The implementation is itself purely in Java and does not use Java Native Interface (JNI) to provide COM access. This allows the library to be used from any Non-Windows platform. It comes with pre- implemented packages for automation. This includes support for IDispatch, ITypeInfo, and ITypeLib. For more flexibility (in the cases where automation is not supported), it provides an API set to directly invoke operations on a COM server.

Changes: Major bugs were fixed regarding memory and session management. The JIVariant(Object) and JIVariant(Object, boolean) ctors have been removed. The JISession.createSession() method was introduced. This does not require any user credentials and uses the credentials of the "logged-in" user. It is native and works only on Windows with NTLMv1 only. The Java library path using -D"java.library.path" must be set to point to "NTLMAuth.dll", which is available with the jTDS project (http://jtds.sourceforge.net/).

Tags: Software Development, Object Brokering

Licenses: LGPL



90 - Phoronix - GNU/Linux & Solaris Hardware Reviews: DirectX 10/11 Coming Atop Gallium3D 15:54
With state trackers emerging for the Gallium3D driver architecture to provide acceleration for a range of APIs from OpenGL ES and OpenVG to OpenGL and OpenCL, we knew it was likely that at some point there would be support for Microsoft's DirectX API. There was even a rumor of Tungsten Graphics already having a working DirectX state tracker...



91 - LinuxWeeklyNews: Linux Conf raises $33,000 for charity (ComputerWorld) 15:53
ComputerWorld reports on the outcome of the charity auction at linux.conf.au. "A $12,750 donation from Linux Australia on the night brought the total funds raised for the air rescue service to more than $33,000. [...] 'Free open source software is founded on generosity and these supporters have certainly taken that value to heart,' Life Flight Trust CEO David Irving said in a statement. 'The funds raised will enable 13 people to receive emergency flights, which is a great outcome for the community.'"
92 - Freshmeat: Tellu 3.0.0 15:49
Tellu is inventory management software that collects hardware and software information automatically from networked servers and workstations, and stores collected data in MySQL database where data is easily readable using a comprehensive user interface usable by any modern Web browser. Devices (like routers and switches), peripherals (like video projectors and displays), and service providers (like hosting and maintenance) can also be stored in the database using a Web interface called Tellu Skin. Inventory management is only one part of Tellu's capability, Tellu offers the possibility to group together workstations, servers, devices, passwords, file attachments, and others to form a faction. For example, a faction can contain all the stuff that a development team needs in their development environment.

Changes: This version was completely rewritten and modernized. Stability and sanity were improved. New features added were added. Some obsolete stuff was removed.

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Tags: Monitoring, Hardware, Diagnostics

Licenses: BSD Original



93 - Freshmeat: OpenMeetings 1.1 RC1 15:41
OpenMeetings is a multi-language customizable video-conferencing and collaboration system. It supports audio/video and allows you to see the desktop of any participant. It includes a whiteboard, the ability to import a variety of image formats, invitations, a moderation system, backup and language modules, private and public conference rooms, and the ability to record meetings.

Changes: Recording of complete conferences was added as a new feature. Recorded sessions can be downloaded in FLV or AVI format. The built in recording player also shows some metadata about the attendees of the meeting and when they are speaking. The SOAP & Integration API also permits you to load recordings directly, similar to the direct access to conference rooms. A new screen sharing module was added, which runs on the same port and protocol like the usual audio/video transmission.

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Release Tags: Major

Tags: Conferencing, Collaboration, Video, e-learning

Licenses: LGPL



94 - Google News: Wissen/Technik: Street-View-Debatte BrĂĽllen gegen Google - Spiegel Online 15:32

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95 - entwickler.de: Workshops mit Scott Davis und Ted Neward 15:30
Wer sich intensiv mit dem Thema Grails 1.2 auseinandersetzen will, dem sei der Workshop "Mastering Grails 1.2" mit Scott …
96 - Heise Newsticker: Kabel Deutschland baut Zugänge auf 100 MBit/s aus 15:17

97 - Heise Newsticker: Deutschland fĂĽhrend bei OpenOffice-Einsatz 15:17

98 - Heise Newsticker: SAP-Chef Apotheker scheitert an Mitarbeitern und Kunden 15:17

99 - Security Advisories der Linux-Community: [Fedora] Mehrere Schwachstellen in chrony - FEDORA-2010-1539 15:01
[Fedora] Mehrere Schwachstellen in chrony - FEDORA-2010-1539
100 - Security Advisories der Linux-Community: [SuSE] Mehrere Schwachstellen im Linux Kernel fuer SUSE Linux Enterprise - SUSE-SA:2010:009 15:00
[SuSE] Mehrere Schwachstellen im Linux Kernel fuer SUSE Linux Enterprise - SUSE-SA:2010:009

35 Food Gardening Update


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37 Planet Ubuntu
1 - Guy Van Sanden: I'm giving a workshop on Zarafa 00:11

On 25 february, I'm giving a workshop on Zarafa, the open source alternative to MS Exchange.

If anyone is interested in signing up (for free), they can still do so at http://www.open-future.be/zarafa-workshop


2 - Guy Van Sanden: deja-dup desktop backup 00:11

I've been messing with finding a decent desktop backup application this weekend to run on all the family laptops. I thought backintime would do the trick, but it turned out not to work over sshfs (due to the lack of hardlink support) and doing backups to the same disk that holds the data seems like a bad idea to me.

So, today I found an article on deja-dup in my RSS feed, installed it and it's wonderful. It has a built in scheduler and supports all filesystems that gvfs does, but adds nice things like encryption for your backups and it integrates very well with Nautilus.

I can just select a file or folder and revert it to the state of any of the listed backups, which is exactly the functionality I've been looking for.

Just a shame that I didn't find it in the first hours of looking... but I am happy now :-)


3 - Joe Barker: iDroid 22:04

Before I start – no, this isn’t a Star Wars post :) Sorry!

I currently have an iPhone, and no, I’m not ashamed to admit it, though it is a little awkward that I can’t sync it with my desktop. I’m also not ashamed to admit that I love it, I really do. But as with a lot of things, I find the Apple design of the phone a little restrictive. Sure it’s polished, and it looks sleek and sexy (to some at least), but I just can’t help feeling that I’d prefer an Android phone.

I’ve been looking, albeit briefly, at what Android phones are available on the UK market. Out of the choices, I think I’d prefer a Nexus One, though as far as I’ve seen – they’re Vodafone exclusive, and I’m on an O2 contract, so it’s a no-go. I’d love to hear from some of you guys that have Android phones, and what phones they are, because I’m definitely in the market!


4 - Chris Johnston: Send email from your @ubuntu.com email address on your iPhone using Gmail 21:54

As you may or may not know, Ubuntu has a “membership” available to anyone who has shown significant contributions to Ubuntu. This can be in many ways, not just developing. Being an Ubuntu Member has a few perks that come with it. One of these is that you get an @ubuntu.com email address. This address forwards to your email address which you define on in your Launchpad account. I recently received the honor of being accepted as an Ubuntu Member, and as such, now have an @ubuntu.com email address. (chrisjohnston AT ubuntu dot com)

The thing about my new email address is that I can only receive mail using it. Ubuntu doesn’t have a way for me to send mail using it. Luckily Google’s Gmail has a way for me to set up my account to where I can send mail from either my regular email address or from my @ubuntu.com email address. This is great, except.. I have an iPhone, and I quite frequently will check my email on my iPhone, which creates an issue when I want to reply to something from my @ubuntu.com email address, because the iPhone doesn’t know that Gmail is setup to allow me to send email from both my regular email address and my @ubuntu.com email address, so I either can’t respond until I get to a computer, or I have to respond using my personal email address.

Joeb454 from the Ubuntu Beginners Team and myself were discussing using our @ubuntu.com email address on mailing lists and the lack of being able to respond the the mailing list with our @ubuntu.com addresses from our iPhones. After a little bit of searching on the internet, I was able to come up with a working solution on how to send email from an @ubuntu.com email address. To do this, you are going to create a dummy POP account on your iPhone with your @ubuntu.com email address, which will login and send the email through your personal gmail account.

Here are the instructions:

Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account

Click Other

Add Mail Account

Fill out the appropriate information and click save. (Note: Put your @ubuntu.com email address in the Address field)

Select POP for the type of server.

Incoming Mail Server:
Host Name: pop.gmail.com
User Name: your @ubuntu.com email
Password: doesn’t matter.. Make something up

Outgoing Mail Server:
Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
User Name: your Gmail address (NOT your @ubuntu.com email address)
Password: Your Gmail password

Click Save

It will display an error saying POP account verification failed.

Click OK

Click Save again

Now it says This account may not be able to send or receive emails. Are you sure you want to save?

Click Save

That’s it as far as setup. Now when you open the Mail App, you will see your personal email address and your @ubuntu.com email address. The @ubuntu.com is a dummy address, and opening it will do nothing for you. Plus you will get an error.

To send mail from your @ubuntu.com email address, start a new email.

Click on your email address in the “Cc/Bcc, From:” line to expand the different fields.

Now click on your email address in the “From:” line.

Select your @ubuntu.com email address

Now fill out the rest of the email like normal and hit send. You can see that your @ubuntu.com email address is in the From line.

I hope this works well for you. Any comments or questions please feel free to post on my blog!


5 - Kenneth Wimer: Dressing for the Occasion 21:16
Watching a new Nena video today on VIVA, I realized that a) she's hot for her age but makes crap music and b) I really need an evil-bunny-man costume.


Naturally, that made me think of Jono's wonderful costume (not to mention the effects it had on the ladies and other random people on the street).


We should make a rule that in order to get Ubuntu membership you need to have a pic of yourself as your alter-ego.
6 - Matthew Helmke: Censorship 19:06

I didn’t come up with this idea, but the manner in which it is being expressed is mine. The idea itself is a very old one and has been expressed many times and ways across many ages.

Censorship steals from people the opportunity to exchange error for truth, whether it is one who is being censored at the hands of the masses or the masses being censored at the hands of one. Silencing the expression of ideas necessarily prohibits any exchange of ideas in either direction. Regardless of which side may be embracing truth, censorship forbids the other from receiving it by breaking down communication. It also prohibits both sides, when wrong, from having their ideas adjusted through discourse.

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7 - Laura Czajkowski: My weekend at FOSDEM 17:46

FOSDEM 2010

FOSDEM 2010

Another year over and FOSDEM has come and gone.  It was an amazing weekend, full of interesting talks and meeting people.  With so many attendees on this subject, there are so many opinions on subjects, technology, languages and operating systems flying about it can get heated. It’s also rather entertaining!

Friday night I met up with the Freenode Staffers for dinner, I’ve only been involved in Freenode since last summer, and work on community areas, so nice to meet the folks who do a lot more work than I do.   Followed by the Friday beer event, leaves you set up for the weekend ahead of you!

Saturday morning consisted of me in the lightning talks room, nice way to ease myself into the day after the night before! I popped down to the Ubuntu booth, passing all the others and listening to what was being said, great chatterings.  I brought along some extra Karmic, Kubuntu , Server CDs and stickers as we’d some left over to give out to folks.  Nice to put the faces to the names and chat to people. Always great, even though I am woeful with names!

Popping in and out of talks, and finding people I chat to on IRC to wave hi, and grab a bite to eat with others was great.  I got to bounce ideas off others and get some feedback, which was handy. Saturday night was the Ubuntu Dinner, if there were folks going we asked them to sign up, most did.  Thanks to JanC who organised it, as to seat a large number of people is rather difficult. 18 of us went for dinner, nice to chat to people sitting down,Muharem Hrnjadovic from the Launchpad team joined us, nice for community and non community to meet up a these events. Went to the GNOME drinks meet up as it was close by, but I really needed an early night so homewards I went.

Sunday was the day I’d been looking forward to, more lightning talks, followed by Make your users happy, “cloudify” your app with desktopcouch which was interesting. Afterwards I ran to the Ubuntu Debian talk, but this was wedged packed, I got to hear the first 2 minutes before I had to leave due to the heat and over crowding.

Lucas is both a Debian and an Ubuntu developer and stated that at the beginning of the talk, followed by he had friends on both teams and the talk was being recorded, trying to lighten the humour I suspect as the room was very packed and a show of hands for Debian was rather over whelming where as when it was show of hands for Ubuntu maintaining, it was one other person.

It’s a developer conference so I must admit I found that rather saddening to be honest.  There was a distinct lack of Ubuntu developers there for what ever reason, it’s the largest OSS developer conference that I’m aware of, I could be wrong. You could see the sea of Red Fedoras and Debian kilts, BSD, Gnome, KDE and many more around the conference.  So it would seem Ubuntu should have a larger presence at it.

Afterwards I went to the short presentation from the Mozilla team on WoMoz -  Woman and Mozilla and  then chatted to some of the women involved and exchanged contact details once I explained my role in what I do.  I pointed out their ideas sounded great, and that other groups had done similar, we should pool our resources together. I was even shortly interviewed for the Mozilla team on women in open source, for those who don’t know me, I hate speaking in public on my own, in discussion groups I’m fine.  On my own, I tend to get rather embarrassed and speak even faster than normal, plus I also hate cameras and usually want to punch the person with the camera pointing it at me. :)

The afternoon was filled with more lightning talks, this time they were from the  Mozilla room, then finally the end talk for me was the Inside StatusNet: How Identi.ca Works.

It was a very enjoyable weekend, I’m glad I went, following the tweets/dents for #fosdem did help to highlight some of the other talks I didn’t get to, which was rather handy.  Lots of the talks were recorded for later viewing.  One tweet that caught my eye was – Debian’s conclusion about Ubuntu at FOSDEM, add that to google and you get the interesting views of the talk which features photos of slides of the presentation, and also a thread

Key Signing at FOSDEM

Key Signing at FOSDEM

Patrick and Declan from Ubuntu-ie at Fosdem 2010

Patrick and Declan from Ubuntu-ie at Fosdem 2010

JanC talking to Alan from ubuntu-ie

JanC talking to Alan from ubuntu-ie

I want the talking penguin

I want the talking penguin

Met some folks and got some hugs

Met some folks and got some hugs

Art of Community on sale at Fosdem

Art of Community on sale at Fosdem

Having a sense of humour at FOSDEM

Having a sense of humour at FOSDEM

Tux the friendly face of linux

Tux the friendly face of linux


8 - Kenneth Wimer: New Toy 13:57
Picked up a N900 the other day. It's really quite amazing. Best of all it's linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn't as nice as the iphone though.
9 - Shane Fagan: Open sourcing proprietary software projects 13:30

In Ireland we have a special relationship with software we see the goodness but politicians dont have a clue how to make sure they get delivery on the sanctioned software systems. There have been a few systems an e-voting system and PPARS(its a payroll system for the medical service) both cost a half a billion to develop and neither are being used.
This is where proprietary software failed badly so why not open source the software (for PPARS not the e-voting) and let the community fix the problem? No matter how complex the system needs to be I cant see how any company can get away with nearly €200 million and not deliver on a product.
Why not open source all failed software projects that wont see the light of day? How many games a year get cut half way through development and never get played? The answer is lots and lots of them. How about really old games (around 15-20+ years old) and open sourcing them? No one makes money on them so who is it harming? In fact we can give a new lease on life for lots of projects and I think its sad that we the community arent being considered at all. A game I would love to have a crack at porting to linux is the original Fallout game.


10 - The Fridge: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week: Call For Participation! 12:39

In the continued interests of helping to make Ubuntu rock as a platform for scratching itches and making awesome apps, I am putting together a new online learning event: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week, happening online between 1st – 6th March 2010.

The week will be just like our previous online learning events such as Ubuntu Developer Week and Ubuntu Open Week, but instead providing a week jam packed with awesome sessions about writing applications that scratch your itch, and predominantly focusing on Python tools and frameworks, Bazaar, Launchpad and infrastructure. The goal for the week is give attendees a head start on a given technology useful for applications.

So, I am looking for volunteers. If you feel you could give a tutorial about a given Python module or associated technology (e.g. Glade, Launchpad, Bazaar etc), please drop me an email at jono AT ubuntu DOT com and I will liaise with you to get it scheduled. I am also look for some showcase sessions: stories about how you put together an application, how it scratched your itch and what tools you used. Thanks to everyone who contributes to leading a session!

The week has already been added as a Lernid event and I am going to encourage session leaders to create slides for their sessions. As each session is confirmed it will appear in Lernid and on the wiki page. Rocking!

[Discuss Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week on the Forum]

Originally posted by Jono Bacon here on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 6:53 am


11 - Stephan Hermann: Playing with KVM Part 2 11:33

Let’s think about this creating command:

vmbuilder kvm -c karmic.cfg \
--domain ubuntu-server.eu \
--dest /vmachines/kvm/ \
--bridge br0 \
--hostname testvm02 \
--user shermann \
--pass foobar \
--mem=256 \
--ip=<whatevr ip> \
--mask=255.255.255.0 \
--dns=<your dns server >\
--gw=<your default gw> \
--libvirt qemu:///system \
--tmpfs=-

The correspondent karmic.cfg looks like this:

[DEFAULT]
arch = i386
part = ubuntu-karmic.part
user = shermann
[ubuntu]
mirror = <your package mirror>
suite = karmic
flavour = server
addpkg = openssh-server, vim-nox
[kvm]
libvirt = qemu:///system

and the partition file looks like this:

root 5000
/boot 100
swap 1000
---
/var/log 2000
/home 1900
Now, when creating the VM everything works fine. But after creation and starting of the VM via virsh, the machine doesn’t boot up.
Could be that this is all my fault ;) Or I’m too ESX…or I’m hitting a bug…

12 - Martin Pitt: ubuntu-bug audio 10:58

Thanks to the work of David Henningsson, we now have a proper Apport symptom for audio bugs. It just got updated again to set default bug titles, which include the card/codec name and the problem, so that Launchpad’s suggested duplicates should work much more reliably.

So from now on you are strongly encouraged to report sound problems with

$ ubuntu-bug audio

instead of trying to guess the package right.


13 - Amber Graner: Home, Events, and Ubuntu :-) 10:10

A bit of the summary of things since my last Blog Post - :-/


Home

To say I have been busy the last few weeks is an understatement at best. However, I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing, unless I don't stop to smell the roses in my life - my family, and they are awesome! My husband has traveled continuously for the last 5 weeks, stopping at home long enough to repack a bag, have meal with us and back out - we've missed him. My kids, they are awesome. There have been a few days I had appointments for various things and gotten home after they did, (They are teenagers so old enough to home for a few hours alone) and on those occasions, I have returned home to find they worked together to straighten up whatever it was I had missed doing that day. Gotta luv it when teenagers clean without being told - that is so awesome.

I've been spending more time with the kids after they get home from school, and after the homework has been completed to laugh, watch a movie, talk about the day, play a game . I am not sure why but the kids were even more humors that usual. I love laughing with them. Of Course they still throw in the occasional joke about "Ubuntu stole my Mom" or teasing me about "fine then I am installing " depending on the point they trying to convey it can range from other Linux distros to windows. That should be in the book of how kids of geeky Linux parents rebel. :-/

So I've been stepping away from my computer for a few hours, especially when they are home from school in the evenings and trying really hard not be on at night while they are still awake. This past weekend I took the kids out to eat, then to the mall, and to the movies. I was doing more than just smelling the roses I was attending to my garden. The fragrance is so much sweeter, when care is taken in the nurturing of them and yes they are in those teenage years so we still have some thorns that snag us everyone once in a while. We laughed, and talked about all the things that are on the calendar and they even added a few more things. In short we had fun!

We are still remodeling the house and due to the weather conditions our Kitchen installation had to be postponed a couple of weeks until the ground could dry out enough for the delivery trucks to make it up to the house without tearing up the driveway. Painting the living room, Kitchen, and dining room will get completed this week.


Events

SCaLE 8x
I have been working with the SCaLE 8x coordinators, and the CA Loco Team for the Ubucon event at SCaLE. I am giving a talk at the WIOS event at SCaLE - A Year NTEU the Ubuntu Community and the FLOSS World. I will also be giving one at the Ubucon at SCaLE - Every NTEU is someone's Guru - How to encourage the NTEU in your organization. I'm also trying to see how many ubuntu community folks will be there and see if we can't grab a picture while there. I am looking forward to seeing the CA LoCo team members, Akkana Peck, Emma Jane Hogbin, and many many more folks in about 10 days or so.

Southeast Linux Fest
I have also been working helping with the Southeast Linux Fest, as there will be an Ubucon there this year as well. The Call for Papers is still open so I don't know if I have been selected for the main event at SELF yet, but regardless it will be a great event and the Ubucon should rock. There will be an Ubuntu Booth at this event as well, any Ubuntu LoCo team who are planning on attending please feel free to volunteer your time to help staff the booth or help with the Ubucon. Please feel free to email suggestions for topics or submit a session for the Ubucon. Please include SELF Ubucon in the the subject line.

Atlanta Linux Fest
I have also been busy with Atlanta Linux Fest planning. There should be an announcement shortly as to the date and location of this event. The numbers from last year have pushed ALF beyond the capacity of all donated space we had. Good problem to have right. :-)

FOSSevents
I have also joined in on FOSScon, and FOSSevents discussions and planning. Though I can't claim to contribute much to these, but I am enjoying participating where I can. More on this in a separate post.

Did I mention I love event planning! :-)


Blogging

Not nearly enough. Though several posts are in some form progression I really need to polish them and get them added to both this blog , which is my personal one, and my You-in-Ubuntu blog, as there are several interviews in need of posting for my - People, Personalities, and Planners: Who's behind your FOSS events? series, Not to mention sending out questions for ongoing events. So you have events related to ubuntu, things that are happening in the community that Ubuntu Users can get involved in and contribute too - let me know let's get the word out. :-)

I enjoy blogging to, I really had know idea all the cool stuff you can find to talk about. Don't you just hate it when life interferes with all the fun stuff you like to do. (just kidding - well maybe)



Ubuntu Projects
Ubuntu Women Project
The Ubuntu Women Project is moving forward. As the team has defined that the "official " team member list will come from Launchpad. Subscribers to the mailing list and forums as well as those who are in the IRC channel are encouraged to join the LP team in order to participate in any voting issues. Also members on the Team on LP who are subscribed to the mailing list are encouraged to do so as well, this is another step ensuring communications of all current activities are disseminated to team members. Once the team defined who would vote, a condorcet vote was sent to the LP team members and a decision on the IRC channels was made. Almost all blueprint goals for the Lucid cycle have been meet and soon it will be time to look toward UDS-M.

The International Women's Day Competition will end in just a few weeks. February 22, 2010. If you are a women or know a who uses Ubuntu encourage them participate in this Competition. There's a great prize pack, sponsored by Canonical, Linux Pro Magazine and Ubuntu User Magazine also included in Jono Bacon's newest book, The Art of Community.

If you a woman in the Ubuntu Community and not a member of the Ubuntu Women Project please consider joining. There are women who's skills range from the highly technical to the just installed ubuntu and everything in between. So whether it's spring boarding into community contribution, developing a talk for an event, planning events, advice on dealing with sexism, or how to encourage women to get involved in Ubuntu and Open Source and more - the Project aims to provide an opportunity for women who want to be involved in the Ubuntu community thereby increasing the diversity in Ubuntu-Linux. Go here to learn more.




LoCo Leadership Series

At UDS-L, the idea for a LoCo Leadership Series was rolled out. It was The goal is to have Chapters 1-3 completed by UDS-M. Chapter 2 has been written now Chapters 1 and 3 need to completed. If you want to help with that email me.

USTeams
Ubuntu USTeams - New interview series targeting approved LoCo teams. These interviews will be posted on the USTeams Website, and the goal is to have the 1st one completed and ready fr March 1st. Looking for a place to help out and like to getting to know people in the community interviewing them is a great way and I already have some questions to start with if you are worried about how to start.

NC LoCo Team
Luv it - Ubuntu on a local level. The team is really working hard on becoming an approved LoCo team. There are now Ubuntu Hours in Winston Salem and a regular basis, and the folks in the Asheville area are looking at setting up regular Ubuntu Hours. Members of the LoCo team are working on building up the wnclug group as well. Right now it has an IRC channel on freenode (wnclug) and a mailing list. If you are in NC and you are interested in all things ubuntu please considering joining the team.

Ubuntu Weekly News
This is my Saturday/Sunday activity. It's fun seeing all the stories folks find to add to the newsletter and helping summarize them. The news team rocks! If you have links to articles or blog posts you would like to see included please send email to: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team

Oh I am sure there is something else I've been working on but it escapes me at the moment :-) Here's to another awesome week!




14 - Julian Andres Klode: N900 standby time 09:05

It seems that the N900 is able to run for > 3 days in standby, I unplugged it Friday on 7:00, and it lasted until Sunday 23:50. I used it for browsing the web a bit and to listen to music via FM transmitter.

Filed under: General
15 - Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week: Call For Participation! 05:53

In the continued interests of helping to make Ubuntu rock as a platform for scratching itches and making awesome apps, I am putting together a new online learning event: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week, happening online between 1st – 6th March 2010.

The week will be just like our previous online learning events such as Ubuntu Developer Week and Ubuntu Open Week, but instead providing a week jam packed with awesome sessions about writing applications that scratch your itch, and predominantly focusing on Python tools and frameworks, Bazaar, Launchpad and infrastructure. The goal for the week is give attendees a head start on a given technology useful for applications.

So, I am looking for volunteers. If you feel you could give a tutorial about a given Python module or associated technology (e.g. Glade, Launchpad, Bazaar etc), please drop me an email at jono AT ubuntu DOT com and I will liaise with you to get it scheduled. I am also look for some showcase sessions: stories about how you put together an application, how it scratched your itch and what tools you used. Thanks to everyone who contributes to leading a session!

The week has already been added as a Lernid event and I am going to encourage session leaders to create slides for their sessions. As each session is confirmed it will appear in Lernid and on the wiki page. Rocking!


16 - Martin Owens: Ubuntu Marketing Focus 05:36

There is a discussion going on in the Ubuntu Marketing team’s mailing list about creating Ubuntu videos in order to advertise Ubuntu to normal users. We got onto talking about existing adverts from Microsoft and Apple and I thought I’d share with the wider community my thoughts.

Interestingly when you look at the adverts for both companies you find an interesting pattern.

Often a leading brand / product doesn’t need to reference it’s competition, it just goes along with “We’re awesome, and everyone knows it”, The second fiddle is often comparing it’s self to the market leader.

What we have is Apple constantly comparing themselves to PC (even though an Apple is a PC and what they really mean is windows). Then Apple’s adverts were so successful that they put Microsoft on the defensive and they produced a bunch of laptop hunter adverts that mention Apple’s expensive laptops, unusual strategy for a market leader. But then the dynamic is kinda odd since Microsoft is a software company and Apple is a hardware company. so it’s not like they’re competing… not really.

But you’ll notice that every advert reinforces a set of ideas:

1) That there is such a thing as a Mac and it’s not a PC.
2) That a PC is Windows and nothing else.
3) That there are only two choices.
4) That you have to pay one way or another.
5) No one need worry about control when they get fancy features.

It’s interesting that we don’t play on our strengths of pointing this out, getting people to go “Oh hey there is something else, oh it can be installed on any PC, even Apple PCs, oh it’s free and I get to OWN it, control it, give it to my friends and even get involved with real people who make it, not just marketing departments.

There is a whole bunch of stuff we could focus on in very clever ways. But what I see a lot of here is tail chasing… lets copy them because they’ve spent money on those adverts. Perhaps people really have bought into the ideas in those adverts and that just sounds like the adverts were successful in telling their story and we want our story to be Microsoft’s or Apple’s because we were taken in.

But why do we want to tell the same story when we’ve a completely different narrative that’s run our communities for years.

Your thoughts?


17 - Jono Bacon: Master Of The Situation 04:42

I had a crack at creating some electronic music. I know, not metal. I figured I would share this, and I have never done this before, so be gentle. :-)

Check out Master Of The Situation in MP3 and Ogg format.

Created in Cubase with Halion One, a KeyRig and Drumkit From Hell.


18 - Chuck Frain: Correction- Feb 10 CALug with Riddell and Kirby 03:19

It was pointed out to me that my last post contained an error in the date. The next CALug meeting is Wednesday February 10th. NOT the 11th as was in the previous post. The corrected post follows:

Hi Everyone!

This coming Wednesday, February 10th is the next Columbia Area Linux Users Group meeting in Columbia, MD at the offices of Tenable Network Security.

Jonathan Riddell will be opening with his talk entitled “Kubuntu Community and Technology”. He will talk about the Linux distribution Kubuntu who makes it and the tools used.

Jonathan works for Canonical and started Kubuntu five years ago.

As long as Jonathan keeps to his contract and doesn’t do his Leno impression he’ll turn over speaker responsibilities to Justin Kirby*.

Justin will be presenting his talk “Making the leap from KDE user to contributor”. Justin will discuss simple ways for KDE users to become contributors, even without knowing a thing about developing code. His talk will provide specific details about various teams that exist within KDE, what you can do to help them out, and who to talk to if you have questions.

Justin Kirby is an active contributor to the KDE Promo team. He has been a user of KDE for about 3 years but more recently got actively involved in giving back to the community in July of 2009. You can learn more about the KDE Promo team on their wiki.

So join us at the Tenable offices at 6:30pm for pizza, wings and soda supplied by Praxis Engineering followed by the talks starting at 7pm.

* After minutes of negotiation with Justin’s agent I was able to secure a return appearance at a later date should Jonathan decide the evening belongs to him alone.


19 - RubĂ©n Romero: Peaceproof through Discourse Ethical analysis? – Weapon of mass construction: The Internet 00:21

Make me believe!

Background

The Internet has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Conclusion

Given that the Internet has allowed a powerful global conversation to start and thus implies non-violence as well as being a platform for global voluntary cooperation, it should be given the Nobel Peace Prize. Although the prize itself is meaningless, it does have an undeniable symbolic value.

Now the analysis.

The Nobel Prize to Barack and “Scandinavian” as adjective:

One of the main reasons for Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize was his stand and preliminary work against the dispersion of nuclear weapons. Well let’s not forget that we, the world, are still facing many dangers that are not being fought against by any politician. Instead politicians ally themselves with them to set the discourse of the day, and this is true for most societies worldwide. So it’s fair to call these dangers for what they are: Press, Radio and Television = Weapons of mass destruction!

Well, as much as I was disappointed with the stupidity of the Nobel committee here in Oslo last year, I don’t blame them. I guess Thorbjørn Jagland, chair of the committee, wanted to shake hands with Barack and play the cool kid in front of the world. To me that is not surprising coming from him. In my eyes he is a poster child of the manic Scandinavian obsession with and speciality for organizing peace and freedom. He also represents the historical, and current, Scandinavian pushing for the creation (notice where the first 2 UN Secretary General are from) of a One World government. And as any politician or person of power, he likes to show off. Period.

In second though, the peace organizing behavior might actually be driven by guilt or might just be categorized as schizophrenic as the track record of Scandinavian countries (read Norway and Sweden specifically) is not as peaceful or uneventful as you might think. But please, don’t get me wrong. I love Norway and the other Scandinavian countries and their people, I just want us to acknowledge collectively that we are acting sanctimoniously. If we are to change things we have to recognize mere facts first!

The point:

So before you get me going with my rant and I bore you to death: The Internet has allowed individuals from al parts of the globe to communicate  and in the process it has changed the way we think of ourselves,  people around us, country borders and the world itself. I guess we can link this to the idea of the Internet being a global conversation driven by argumentation, and this does not only apply to markets, but also has political and social implications. Thus, Discourse ethics can seem to be a valid tool to search for interpersonal relations and moral implications in this global polilogue of ours.

Not surprisingy, as I have taken my stand, I will take a libertarian approach and analize if this global conversation actually has brought us some amount of peace or, at least, less violence. Anyway far less damage than Nobel’s invention.

From Wikipedia’s article about Discourse Ethics:

Drawing on the work of Habermas and Apel, Hoppe, a former student of Habermas’s, asserts that argumentation, or discourse, is by its nature a conflict-free way of interacting and requires individual control of resources; thus, he argues, certain norms are presupposed as true by anyone engaging in genuine discourse. These norms include the libertarian principle of non-aggression, which itself implies libertarian rights. Therefore, no one can argumentatively deny libertarian rights without self-contradiction.

Now let’s see Gary B. Madison’s analysis on the subject:

the various values defended by liberalism are not arbitrary, a matter of mere personal preference, nor do they derive from some natural law. . . . Rather, they are nothing less and nothing more than what could be called the operative presuppositions or intrinsic features and demands of communicative rationality itself. In other words, they are values that are implicitly recognized and affirmed by everyone by the very fact of their engaging in communicative reason. This amounts to saying that no one can rationally deny them without at the same time denying reason, without self-contradiction, without in fact abandoning all attempts to persuade the other and to reach agreement.”

These implicitly recognized values include a renunciation of the legitimacy of violence. Thus,

it is absolutely impossible for anyone who claims to be rational, which is to say human, outrightly to defend violence …. [As Paul Ricoeur writes:]‘. . . violence is the opposite of discourse. . . . Violence is always the interruption of discourse: discourse is always the interruption of violence.’ That violence is the opposite of discourse means that it can never justify itself—and is therefore not justifiable—for only through discourse can anything be justified. As the theory of rational argumentation and discussion, liberalism amounts, therefore, to a rejection of power politics.”

Thus, Madison, like Hoppe, argues that the fact-value gap can be bridged by an appeal to the nature of discourse.

While Hoppe attempts to show that the non-aggression principle (i.e., self-ownership plus the right to homestead) itself is directly implied by any discourse or argumentation, Madison’s arguments are a bit different. For instance, he argues that, because discourse has priority over violence, this validates the Kantian claim that people ought to be treated as ends rather than means, which is the principle of human dignity. The principle of freedom from coercion then follows from the principle of human dignity.

Out of this we can derive, among others, that the internet is just the platform for this global argumentation, and it’s infrastructure hosts the reflection of this argumentation as text. But the conversation itself is driven by its users. All of them.

So, give the Nobel Peace Prize to all of us, to humanity that always finds ways to do what we have evolved ourselves to be best at: cooperate!

Go back to the top for the conclusion.

I know this whole analysis is quite naive, but I had to get it out of the system.

Thanks for reading!


20 - Dave Morley: Wow: Guys you rock PPA'S to try 00:04
So today I've been playing with some new new software via PPA's, for all the guys doing this many thanks.
Open up Software Sources. Click on add source. Type in ppa:name of ppa. Click on add.

Gnome-shell: 2.29.1~ Looks better, feels faster and more responsive much nicer than earlier attempts. ppa:vperetokin/unofficial-gnome-shell

Epiphany: 2.29.6 Wow is all I can say. As fast as Chrome/Chromium, open source, plugs into seahorse/gnome keyring for password storage, smaller font makes it much better for netbooks. ppa:webkit-team and ppa:webkit-team/epiphany

New Gwibber: Guys this is the release we want, this is awesome, everything is displayed sensibly, everything about it is pretty, great work. ppa:gwibber-daily

To all those involved in the creation of these apps and there improvements, many, many thanks. The work you do is really appriciated and I don't think thank you is said enough. Keep up the good work...

21 - Paul Tagliamonte: LGBT 22:24

Hey All.

So, some of you might be curious as to where I have been for the last week or so. I’ve been unusually absent from the usual day-to-day on Ubuntu work, so I figure that I’d put a post up to explain this a bit.

I am, as most of you know, a student at a Jesuit university in Ohio, John Carroll ( JCU ). There is currently a bit of noise about the LGBTQ ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Questioning ) community, and their rights.

The long and short of it is that the Administration of John Carroll decided on creating an “agreement” to dictate conduct, rather then a legally binding statement to protect the LGBTQ community. I have been involved with this a good deal, and it would mean a lot if you were to post your opinions here, or send an email to my University in support of creating a legally binding clause protecting LGBTQ members of the University. Any opinions you would like to share can be directed to the President of JCU, Father Niehoff, S.J.. Father Niehoff is supportive of this change, so if you are to send an email, please be respectful.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please consider helping us bring equity to Ohio, and John Carroll University.

*Edit*

Rbt Y-Lee was nice enough to share this link here. I figured someone else might find this as interesting as I did. Thanks Rbt!!


22 - Julian Andres Klode: Just uninstalled hal 22:15

I have just uninstalled hal from my laptop running unstable, and everything still seems to work, including suspend & resume.

Filed under: Debian
23 - John Crawford: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #179 20:09

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The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #179 for the week of January 31st – February 6th, 2010 is now available here.

In this Issue:

* Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as COO
* Lucid Translations now open
* Ubuntu Developer Week Re-Cap
* Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Maintenance release
* Lucid Ubuntu Global Jam Announced
* Project Awesome Opportunity
* New Ubuntu Review Team: Reviewing bug with patches
* Jane Silber Interview
* Dustin Kirkland Interview: Encryption in Ubuntu
* Ubuntu Stats
* Nicaraguan LoCo Team’s Third Anniversary
* Report on Launchpad down-time of 4th Feb 2010
* The Planet
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* January Team Meeting Reports
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

* And much, much more!

This issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Liraz Siri
* Amber Graner
* J. Scott Gwin
* Nathan Handler
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License.


24 - Daniel T Chen: Pre-Year of the Tiger 18:28
Firstly, lots happening on the Ubuntu 10.04 audio front:
* daily builds of stable alsa-driver snapshots (thanks, Brad!);
* massive alsa-lib and alsa-plugins debugging (thanks, David!);
* continued alsa-driver/linux quirking;
* uploads of latest stable alsa*, libsdl1.2 (including direct seeding of the pulse backend in the Ubuntu desktop seed), openal-soft, and pulseaudio source packages;
* re-addition of HDA power down for Sigmatel/IDT in pm-utils-powersave-policy 0.3.


Some very positive Canonical goings-on have occurred, too, but that's the purvey of others. Also importantly, fellow community members are stepping forward to help triage Ubuntu audio bugs. You gals/guys are too numerous to list individually, but rest assured that your efforts (even if you're new to bug triaging!) are much appreciated. Thanks for helping make Lucid rock!

Secondly, John Poelstra recently wrote a fantastic piece on chairing effective meetings. The points are so entirely lucid (bad pun I know) that I can't believe that I hadn't used them!

In fact, the revitalized DistrictOfColumbia LoCo team meetings have begun using them. Brian has been doing a bang-up job posting summaries in lieu of a configured mootbot to keep us accountable. Members of the LoCo team are working on a screencast/video to demonstrate archive-uploadable activities at jams using Bug Hugger, Lernid, and Ground Control. I'll be doing a portion on fixing alsa-driver/linux bugs.
25 - Michael Rooney: wxBanker 0.7: simple personal finance 18:15
Your favorite personal finance application, wxBanker, has turned 0.7!



This release comes about 2 months after the previous release, and focuses on usability and user experience issues that I obtained from watching people use wxBanker as well as from Launchpad bugs (thanks Arty!). Let's take a look at some of the changes, starting with the account control:



On the right we have the new account chooser in 0.7. The main change is using radio buttons for the accounts instead of links. This is a much better, already understood method for choosing accounts, and will also fit in with themes better. The last item is now "All accounts" and is selectable, making it easy to get a view of all your transactions and search in them.

The "Hide zero-balance accounts" option has moved to the View menu, and now has a keyboard shortcut. I've also removed the total number of accounts from the header, as well as the colons after the account names, to reduce clutter. Finally, everything has been given a bit more padding and the buttons have been slightly rearranged.

Additionally, the previous graphing library has been replaced by cairoplot (thanks Karel!), which looks much more attractive. Let's check it out:



The Summary view allows you to see a graph of your balance over time, and you can view a graph of a specific account or all accounts by using the account chooser on the left (previously the graph had its own account chooser, that was silly!).

And in case you missed the 0.6 announcement, that version brought recurring transactions, XDG directory support, and more intuitive behavior regarding deleting/editing transfer transactions.

For downloads and the full list of features and bug-fixes, check out the release page. You can also add the PPA for easy installation and upgrades.

If you'd like to stay in the loop join the wxBanker Users team (and announcement mailing list) on Launchpad, follow wxBanker on Twitter, or hang out in #wxbanker on irc.freenode.net.
26 - Charles Profitt: classroomtoolkit.net – The Case against Open Source 17:49

I recently read an article that made me shake my head. It was full of misinformation, uninformed conclusions, over generalizations, and red herrings. It was about how the argument for Open Source software is being detrimental to our schools. I am going to link to the original and comment on the article here, but I really would like to hear what your thoughts are.

The article starts off with a very insulting over-the-top paragraph:

“The Case against Open Source is really a case against the “Free and Cheap” mantra that some Open Source Advocates chant when they solicit action (and wrong-headed decisions) from school district leaders. This is a case against folks (who know little about instruction and even less about the needs of teachers); who, despite their lack of knowledge, pitch this “save-money fantasy (delusional) strategy” to school district executives (who should know better than to listen, but don’t).”

It becomes obvious from the opening salvo that the author either did not talk to an actual Open Source advocate or did not properly process the message. Open Source advocates are not about Free and Cheap (as in beer); they are about Free as in Liberty. It makes me think that the author is either more interested in a flame war than real discussion or they are of limited intelligence; neither is particularly good.

“These folks could even be school district employees, Techies, who have used Windows™ Open Source software (the most prevalent kind); but, most of these folks are “outsiders” that…”

I love the derisive “Techies” moniker that the author uses here. This term is usually used by the technically inept as a way of devaluing the skills of a technology professional. I recognize that I have no experience in a classroom and value the professional experience of teachers. Regardless of software and hardware choices there must be a synergy between professional IT and professional teaching staff for technology integration to work in schools.

This is followed by a quick sidebar which has several bullet points; I would like to address a few.

“Don’t understand what teacher want or need”

I agree I do not know what a teacher wants or needs. As a technician I view my roll as helping the teacher know what is available and to ‘cut through’ the sales pitch that companies often deliver. I can not tell you the number of times vendors represent their product as web based when it is, in fact, not web based.

“Don’t comprehend the compatibility issues that are associated with running software within a school district ‘technology ecosystem’”

For my part I do have an idea. I know that software and hardware compatibility happen regardless of platform. Even in a closed Apple ecosystem there are compatibility issues that plague school districts.

“Don’t realize that Technology Integration is a failed concept…unless an entire program is funded to an adequate level, with additional funding contingency funding”

I guess the author misses that Free and Open Source (FOSS) software can lower the cost of software which in turn makes it easier for available funding to be adequate. Certainly there still has to be funding for hardware and training.

“Don’t have a clue about how software costs add a minor (almost trivial) expense in the overall success of a technology program”

I think the author truly does not understand how much software costs. I would like to give an example of a typical windows based computer.

  • Computer:  ~$500
  • Windows Active Directory CAL: $8
  • Windows License (Enterprise or Professional): $54
  • Microsoft Office: $54
  • Photoshop Elements: $54
  • Antivirus License: $8
  • Altiris Management License: $8
  • A package of three ‘educational’ titles: $54

The balance is ~$500 for the hardware and ~$240 for the software for the ‘typical’ windows based instructional computer. There are other solutions that would raise the price for specific departments. This does not include the labor to install and support the systems, but I believe those costs would exist regardless of platform choice and are, thus, a red herring. With the numbers above the software cost 32% of the cost of the computing environment. Perhaps the author considers this amount trivial; I do not.

“Fail to recognize that Apple™ computers provide better solutions to their arguments for “Free and Cheap Open Source” than Open Source software does”

I am not even sure how to respond to this. Apple computers are nothing more than a hardware platform. They are PCs running OS X. The initial purchase of an Apple does come with some software included, but the higher cost of the computer pays for that software. Much of the software must be paid for if you upgrade it in the future.

“A second cost center, training and professional development, should be at least 30% of project cost.”

I would hope that reducing the cost of software would assist in making funding available for training.

“For example: If a project costs $30 million USD, then training and professional development costs should run about $10 million USD. But, school districts seldom allocate more than single-digit percentages to training and professional development…funds for stipends, trainers, follow-up support, release time, software and equipment for teachers to use at home, etc. School districts skimp and under fund in this area, and the results (as observed nation wide) is technology that is un used, under used and under utilized.”

“For example: For the $30 million project, $10 million for hardware, software and infrastructure, $10 million for training and professional development and $10 million for Back-End programming, interoperability, automation, development and support.”

In the scenario the author describes there would be 10 million spent on hardware and software. Given the numbers I gave this would result in a 3.2 million dollar savings. 3.2 million to put towards more training, more hardware or just reduce the total cost of the project.

Computer: $400
Installation: $60
Three Year Warranty: $125
Network Drop (to connect the computer to a Switch): $130
Cost of Port on the Network Switch: $125

Using the authors numbers, which may or may not be valid, the total cost of a computer with proprietary software would be $1080 and a completely open source computer would cost $840. While this reduces the cost of software to 22% of the computing environment; that cost is still far from trivial to me. The author makes no attempt to normalize these costs either. A network drop and switch will have a significantly longer life span than the computer or the software. Those two items might last as long as two or three computers depending on the replacement cycle set for computers. The author proposed a three year replacement cycle which would result in three computers and three software upgrades in the lifespan of the switch and drop. That alters the cost of software to 27% of the cost of the computing environment.

The author also specifically cited the issue of “software and equipment for teachers to use at home” while apparently not grasping that teachers must pay full retail cost for many of the titles schools pay very little for.

  • Office $149 w/o a database program or $419 w/ a database program
  • Antivirus $39
  • Photoshop $129

With open source adoption the teachers cost of applications to replace the core three listed above would be zero.

“Move to full SIF Compliance”

Having worked with several proprietary vendors in regards to SIF compliance I am shocked to see this brought up. Under SIF I have seen product A support a sub-set of data and product B support a different sub-set of data rendering the two products incapable of integration via SIF. Proprietary products and vendors tend to tie your data down in their format.

The article also ignores the fact that the world is moving more and more towards using open source. I agree that one can not just rip and replace all Windows or Apple computers, but it is foolish to not pick and choose quality open source applications for use in the educational arena. It is foolish to ignore the cost of ‘home use’ for both teachers and students if one wants to close the digital divide.

While I agree with the parts of the article that talk about ignored costs of technology integration such as infrastructure and training I can not understand how the author missed the fact that reducing software costs should increase available funding for those two areas. The other wrong-headed idea the author pushed was that the adoption of FOSS is an all or nothing game. It is not.

Link to original article


27 - Stephan Hermann: Playing around with KVM on Root Servers 17:47

Right now I’m preparing some tests regarding virtualization without VMWare.

Yesterday I tested LXC (aka Linux Containers) on my local desktop, because this machine is too old to have some AMD/Intel virtualization extensions. Anyways, that worked somehow, but using KVM was the goal.

So, looking at my root server (hosted by Hetzner), checking if this machine is able to carry some KVM machines on it.

It does, so I started to grab some documentations from the Ubuntu Documentation about KVM.

Most of the things are straight forward, but what is not as simple as it should, is to bring up the network to play nicely with the Hetzner system.

When you booked a server in 2008 or before that, you got one static IP address from Hetzner. Regarding the contract, you are able to get more then one IP for your root server, you get a 8IP subnet, where 6 IPs can be used.

So, what I can’t use is a bridged interface directly connected with the main ethernet device (eth0).

Therefore I need a virtual tunnel device (tap device from UML).

So what to do:

  1. Get your additional ip subnetwork (for this to work, check your Hetzner Robot Login for this)
  2. sudo apt-get install bridge-utils uml-utilities
  3. add a tap device to your /etc/network/interface
  4. add a bridge device to your /etc/network/interface

So point 1. and 2. are straight forward. Adding a tap device to your /etc/network/interface is mostly simple:

/etc/network/interfaces:

auto tap0
iface tap0 inet manual
   up ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 up
   down ifconfig $IFACE down
   tunctl_user <your user who runs the virtual machines>

Adding the bridge interface is also not complicated:

/etc/network/interfaces:

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
   address <one address out of the additional ip network, I use the last usable address>
   netmask <netmask of the additional ip network>
   bridge_ports tap0

Now, the address is one of your additional ip addresses you got from Hetzner. I used my last usable address. This IP Address on this bridge interface will be your default gateway inside your KVM machines.

The “bridge_ports tap0″ is important, because if you enter here e.g. your main ethernet device (e.g. eth0) it will give you a non accesible system anymore (you need to rescue it, via Hetzner Robot system -> Rescue system and Reboot System).

What does it do: the tap0 device is a tunnel to your eth0 device. And br0 will bridge all IP traffic from your KVM machines to via this bridge to tap0. The tap0 device then uses your default interface to leave your host and vice versa. (to make this understandable for the non technical audience, the reality what is happening under the hood is more complicated)

After that you can use vmbuilder to create your KVM image, according to the Howto on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM. Just give the KVM machine an IP address from the additional IP subnet (not the one you used for the Host Bridge (br0)) and set the default gateway (–gw) to the IP address of your host bridge (br0).


28 - Ante Karamatić: Pacemaker/Corosync/OpenAIS/OCFS2 for Ubuntu 10.04 16:44

Couple of days/weeks ago I’ve issued call for testing of new cluster stack for Ubuntu 10.04. At that time, most of the stack was finished, but we lacked proper support for clustered file system. Now, I’ve modified ocfs2-tools package so that it compiles with support for libdlm (provided by redhat-cluster) and pacemaker. I’ve also modified redhat-cluster package so that it builds with support for pacemaker.

As a result, there is now a new test case which needs testing - cluster with drbd for underlying device and ocfs2 as a filesystem. So, please visit - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClusterStack/LucidTesting#Pacemaker, drbd8 and OCFS2 and give it a go.

After completing this milestone, only thing left for proper cluster stack in Ubuntu 10.04 is submitting MIRs (Main Inclusion Requests) for packages that are still in universe and demoting cman (and others) to universe.

For those that would like to test their own setups and are familiar with corosync/pacemaker/drbd8/ocfs2, ubuntu-ha’s PPA is located here: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha/+archive/lucid-cluster/.


29 - Brandon Perry: CD image fixed on server 15:09
For most of this week it appears that the OpenDiagnostics image was broken on the server. It isn't anymore, but the update script broke it, so I am figuring that one out. Original image is up (here).
30 - Martin Owens: Ground Control 1.3 – Added Bug Fixing 04:59

Yes, we got a great set of features in this release of ground control, as well as the regular set of fixes for problems that seemed to crop in last time. Thanks to everyone who reported to bugs and kept me on my toes fixing them.

You can download the version 1.3 at my PPA or keep up with the daily builds of the ground control trunk (which may not always work)

So waht do we have? well as you can see from the screenshot we have a new feature where you can search for bugs in launchpad and attach them to commits, much like you would use –fixes= on the command line. The difference is that the search feature makes it easy to pinpoint the exact bug you need.

Not only that, but we now have the Jono Baon inspired bug fix work-flow, there is a new button on the projects and project view which allows someone to search for a bug and then let the code do all the hard work of downloading the right branch of code and giving it an appropriate work-name. Then when your finished fixing the code, there is just a simple one button which commits, pushes and merges into launchpad including attaching the bug you originally specified.

If the bug you selected has a project assigned which doesn’t have a default development focus, then it’ll bring up a branch selection so you can choose which branch you should fix the bug in.

So we need testing of both of these new features, as well as testing of existing features which have been there for a few releases. Obviously we’re trying to make sure everything is stable for the 18th Feb (only 11 days away) so we need your immediate assistance in picking out problems with the release.

And I have to say that I’ve been loving the encouragement from you guys, I’m glad yu like this work and can see value it in being done.


31 - André Gondim: The Indicator and menu, Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 01:28

I really like this below:

And these options:

Hugs and Good Luck! ;)
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32 - Tristan Rhodes: Linux NIC teaming recommendations 00:27
Introduction

In my job as a network engineer, I am constantly looking for ways to increase the availability of the network. This is especially true in the data center, where services are expected to always be available. One of the ways to increase the network availability of a server is by using multiple network interfaces. This technique has many different names, but I am just going to call it NIC teaming.

Purpose of NIC Teaming

NIC teaming increases network availability by removing single-points-of-failure (SPOF). These SPOFs are components that will cause a service outage if they become unavailable. If we consider a single network connection from your server to your switch, we can identify quite a few SPOFs:
  1. Server NIC failure
  2. Network cable failure (such as being cut or unplugged)
  3. Network switch failure (such as a planned firmware upgrade or unplanned outage)
Methods of NIC Teaming

The reason I am writing this blog is to help people understand the different options for NIC teaming. If you search the Internet (like I did), you will be hard pressed to find a standard NIC teaming setup that works across all operating systems. You may not be able to find a listing of pros/cons and requirements of each NIC teaming strategy.

In order to fully understand the NIC teaming options available in Linux, please read the official Linux Bonding How To. I am only going to cover two of these options, which are the two that I am going to recommend.

Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)

The first recommended NIC teaming strategy is called "Adaptive Load Balancing" (ALB). This is specified in Linux by using bonding mode = 6.
"Adaptive load balancing: includes balance-tlb plus receive load balancing (rlb) for IPV4 traffic, and does not require any special switch support. The receive load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation."
When you use ALB, you should plug each NIC into a different switch. This removes all three SPOF mentioned above. Additionally, it provides a basic level of load-balancing. I highly recommend using ALB for NIC teaming, because it offers the most advantages without requiring special configuration on the network switch.

IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation" (LACP)

The second recommended NIC teaming strategy is called "IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation" (LACP). This is specified in Linux by using bonding mode = 4.

When you use LACP, you are required to plug all NICs into the same switch. You should only use LACP if you have an internally redundant switch, usually in the form of modular cards or a proprietary stack of switches. Additionally, you are also required to configure the switchports to use LACP. Once you have met all the requirements, you will have a great network connection. LACP can have the same fault-tolerence as ALB, and it has a better load-balancing than ALB.

Summary

Most people should use ALB (mode=6) for NIC teaming their Linux server because it is the simplest method to achieve fault-tolerance and load balancing. If you require higher bandwidth, and you have an internally redundant switch, and you can configure your switchports to use LACP, then you should use LACP (mode=4) for NIC teaming.

Here are a few links on how to configure NIC teaming in Ubuntu Linux:

HowTo do Ethernet Bonding on Ubuntu – Properly

UbuntuLTSP Trunking

Caveat: I am a network engineer, and not a server engineer. It is my goal for everyone to increase their server's network availability with this knowledge. If you have an opinion on this topic, please share it in the comments. Thanks!
33 - Brian Curtis: Ubuntu District of Columbia LoCo Meeting Minutes 02-06-10 23:55
Weekly Ubuntu District of Columbia Meeting Minutes

In attendance:
crimsun
kjcole
Magilum
bcurtiswx

[START] crimsun opens meeting at 18:00 sharp
[DONE] kjcole finished redirect of DCTeam to DistrictOfColumbiaTeam wiki page
[DONE] crimsun posted last week's bugjam/LoCo team photos to http://www.flickr.com/photos/crimsun/sets/72157623317037372/
[ACTION] crimsun to follow up with fridge admins regarding LoCo activities on Ubuntu fridge Google calendar]
[ACTION] crimsun to investigate merging Lucid source packages using Ground Control
[ACTION] bcurtiswx to follow up about using GC to fix bugs
[ACTION] bcurtiswx to chair next meeting
[ACTION] Magilum to nominate packages for loco adoption
[END] crimsun closes meeting at 18:48

Thanks to all who attended
34 - Jono Bacon: I Support Same Sex Marriage 20:17

I love being married, it has opened up an incredible sense of commitment and security in my life and my wife’s life. Love is love, and I would never want to prevent anyone from enjoying what I am afforded the privilage of enjoying. This includes gay people. As such, I have joined this Facebook group to get 1,000,000 who support same sex marriage. I usually hate these kinds of groups, but I think it could be interesting to visualize the support behind this issue. Worthy, methinks. :-)


35 - Jorge Castro: Social By Default…. 19:28

Shane blogged about the me menu, I want to show you the full blown experience. Thanks to the intense amount of hard work by Ryan Paul and Ken Vandine, we now have this:

They’ve fixed major parts. Moving to desktopcouch has made the application more stable, use less memory, and syncable with your computers. This is the version of Gwibber we’ve all been waiting for. Unfortunately Ken just got on a plane so for Lucid you’ll have to wait until Monday. They should be in the latest PPA though ….


36 - Stephan Hermann: At Last … Dojo Toolkit in Debian and Ubuntu 19:19

It took a long time for Dojo Toolkit to reach Debian and therefore Ubuntus package archives.

Well, but now it’s in and it’s time to give Zend Framework what it needs to be mature ;)

With the next upload of zend-framework we’ll suggest to install the dojo packages as well.

Why suggests? Because ZF doesn’t need Dojo for functionality. Neither it’s a recommt, because you as a developer could use another JS library like JQuery.


37 - Jorge Castro: Application Indicator Update 19:08

People ask “what’s the big deal about application indicators, they’re just little icons!” As it turns out, when you drain a swamp you can make cool things. KDE applications support StatusNotifier already so AurĂ©lien Gâteau has started landing fixes that will make things like this possible:
Check out the video here.
(Sorry, I failed at video tag and I’m at the airport so I went with the easy fix)

What you see here in the middle is Rhythmbox, ported by Cody Russell (upstreamed patch), then Kopete, and Kmix. You’ll notice that since we’re running GNOME the KDE apps look LIKE THEY SHOULD. If you run KDE and run rhythmbox it will look like IT SHOULD. Nice and “nativey”.

  • More accessability, and note how he’s scrubbing through the menus with his keyboard.
  • For third party applications of the world this means they can support one “linux” thing.
  • Everything behaves the same in both desktops and everything is consistent.
  • My tray doesn’t feel like a back alley.

We have work to do, the stuff in the old notification tray (on the left in my video) need to be ported. We have committed to fixing the things in main for this cycle. Here you will find a list of bugs of apps we’ve listed to so far. I’ve filed corresponding wishlist bugs in upstream GNOME Bugzilla. If you want to help with this, it’s not considered done until it’s submitted upstream – we also offer a fallback method so that application maintainers can support both with minimal effort.

Find more about our rationale, guidelines, and porting guide here.

PLEASE FEEL FREE to check into application indicator support for your favorite apps in Universe, we need help to figure out which apps people love and want support for. We’ll handle the things on the CD, but we need help to catch all the little fish too. Even filing wishlist bugs and tagging them would be a help.

If you have an upstream with questions, send them to me or #ayatana and we’ll be there to support their efforts, we want people to use this. If you want to go ahead and just port an application then this is an excellent way to get something slick into user’s hands.


38 - Shane Fagan: Indicator and me menu, lucid looking awesome 17:44

Ive been testing out lucid since a little before alpha 1 and all is well from what I can see. What landed recently was the me menu and I have say that its cool.

I love the idea of posting to twitter on the fly from the desktop rather than waiting for Gwibber to load up(which takes a good 20 secs ish on my machine). Oh and the new version of Gwibber from the daily ppa looks awesome.
Some extra things to look forward to is the new indicators, an improved software center, Pitivi and the music store. I cant wait to try out the music store which should land alpha 3(ish) but what songs should I buy…? And will Severed Fifth’s album be available? (kidding its free go get it if you want) :)


39 - Jussi Schultink: More release Parties! 15:21

Well as many of you know, there are a load of KDE SC 4.4 release parties going on around the world. I just wanted to write a short post mentioning the second Canadian one and to again point out the release party page!

There are a lot of parties going on, and YOU should get yourself to one.
Check the page: http://community.kde.org/Promo/ReleaseParties/4.4 to see if there is one in your area, and if not, there is still time to create your own!

If you need more info, you can come join #kde-promo on freenode and ask for nightrose or jussi01. alternatively you can email me at jussi01 at ubuntu dot com

Cheers and have a rockin party!


40 - Mackenzie Morgan: The "dist-upgrade" misnomer & confusion 15:02
Yesterday in #ubuntu, someone asked, "I am still confused about this. Everything claims that dist-upgrade actually *upgrades* distributions...can someone please clear this up for me"

So I told them:

<maco> apt-get dist-upgrade differs from apt-get upgrade in that it will remove obsolete packages and add new dependencies, while apt-get upgrade will not. this is necessary when upgrading from one distro release to another, but it is not the *only* time it is necessary. thus, in aptitude, dist-upgrade has been renamed to full-upgrade
<maco> apt-get dist-upgrade will only change you from one release to another if you've modified /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a newer release, but this method of upgrading is not recommended

They also asked "and if i do want to upgrade the distribution (not that i do), how do i go about that?" to which I responded:

<maco> the recommended way to change distro releases is sudo do-release-upgrade

They said it was the best explanation in the shortest amount of text, so I'm posting it here, hoping it'll make it easier for people to find. By the way, man apt-get does explain all this…just in slightly more technical terms.



38 Federico Mena-Quintero - Activity Log
1 - Mon 2010/Feb/08 11:52
  • Luciana was munching on sausage slices. She grabbed the curved end of one sausage, looked carefully at it, and exclaimed, "look, a little vault!".

    I guess that's what she learns in this house.


2 - Thu 2010/Jan/21 10:24
  • So you live in an apartment? Permaculture for renters seems like a good resource. Grow fish and strawberries and a worm bin out of table scraps, in under 2m?.


3 - Wed 2010/Jan/20 15:14
  • "A Pattern Language", by Christopher Alexander et al, is the book that I have been preaching around with patterns for architecture and urbanism. See the full online version.

    (That online version is a bit weird; you have to click on the leftmost vertical frame to access the page for each pattern. Other than that, it seems to work mostly fine.)

  • If you are into that sort of thing, the Emergent Urbanism blog is excellent. It takes Alexander's ideas and tries to mathematize them, while exposing a plethora of examples and insightful results.

    You may want to read an introduction to that blog in its introductory essay.

  • And by the way, a lesson on usability based on these principles.

  • The New York City Department of Transportation has a very enlightened administration these days. See their new Street Design Manual for some great information about how to improve streets with gradual changes: geometry, materials, safety, bicycles, trees, pedestrians, etc.


4 - Mon 2009/Dec/21 12:22
  • A note about hackfests

    If you are a proprietary software company and you don't employ all the world's experts in a certain domain, well, you are essentially screwed.

    But if you are a free software project, you can gather most of the domain experts at a hackfest, and be totally awesome.


5 - Fri 2009/Dec/18 12:54
  • Dear lazyweb,

    I just started using Emacs 23 in openSUSE 11.2. Running this:

    emacs -fn "Inconsolata Bold 12"

    actually gives me Inconsolata, but definitely not Bold. Why? How do I make it Bold?

    (Inconsolata is a truly beautiful font for programmers, by our GNOME Emeritus Hacker Raph Levien.)


6 - Thu 2009/Dec/17 15:15
  • This dialog greeted me when I updated my GNOME version:

    Volume FAIL

    "You won't have it. You won't have it. You won't have it. Just kidding, here you go."


7 - Tue 2009/Dec/08 14:11


39 Gnome-list Mailing List Threads
1 - Evolution fails to retain passwords at logon 10:12
On my partner's Debian Lenny computer, running Evolution 2.22.3.1 on KDE (but all Gnome libraries are installed and up-to-date), Evolution is not remembering passwords. Each time she logs in and goes to use Evolution, it requests her email (pop and smtp) passwords, even though the "remember passwords" box is ticked both on the request dialog box as well as under the options. For whatever reason the passwords just aren't being stored. ...
2 - Seems like the CADT model is really big with gnome. why is that? 12:08
He there, I read this article some weeks ago: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html Major point in there: gnome developpers (and others in open software) simply dont care about fixing bugs. But I thought ... it cant be that bad. Now I started using gnome for a few days; and almost immediately I run into a problem that exists since 2003. ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126990 ) ...
3 - Enforcing compiz 'RingSwitcher' 13:57
Hello there, I got some advice that enabling the "Ring switcher" with the Compiz config manager gives me what I am looking for: the ability to select next/prev from ALL workspaces. (actually: i was looking for some not that fancy, like what the static switcher is doing ... just for all workspace instaed of just the current ... I really dont need my windows to "vibrate" after I selected one and its brought to the front) ...
4 - gvfs/next gen. 21:07
After a bit of web diving I was able to turn off automount for a f12 box I use to mass produce pre-programmed sd cards with, but thats a bit cumbersome, I'd prefer a shell tool that I can call to unmount everything on a device that gvfs and its soon the fuse replacment, automount on their own, to simply unmount it. From a normal shell p-code would be mount > file, read file, if device in line, unmount device, continue, that works ...
5 - Gthread creation problem 09:42
I'm using the gtk-win32 library with VC++2005. Until now, my GTK apps have worked successfully although any thread creation has so far been done using libpthread-win32. Now I'm building an app (quite a large one) that uses g_thread_create() and that doesn't seem to be working so well. 'g_thread_create()' seems to return without any errors - but the created threads immediately exit with "code 9". Later in the week I'll see if I can make a ...
6 - Remote login 16:44
Hi, I'm trying login to a Debian Lenny box from a Window XP box. I've got dumb terminal acess working properly, but I'd like to be able to access my desktop as well. I've installed vnc4server on the Debian, and tightvncviewer on the Windows box. If I run vnc4server -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 24 on the Debian, login in via tightvncviewer and type gnome-session, it works after a fashion. The Desktop comes up, and I can access ...
7 - Window managment 07:26
Question: is there a built in tile/cascade functionality that is user accessible, I know the api's have functionality but it would greatly increase usability if it was exposed at the user level in a manor similar to other desktops. If not in 2.28, is there a plan on the roadmap? Personally I detest importing and hacking in a third party x-app to do this basic function. _______________________________________________ ...
8 - Display korean character 07:19
Hi, Currently I'm trying to find a way to display korean character in gnome application such as gedit and others. So far I have done this steps : install fonts-korean, install korean language support. I have tried login with korean language and the fonts came out but whole menu is also in korean language. This is not what I want. I want to login in english but also able to display korean character. I have seen that there's no ...
9 - panel shutdown dialog 11:25
Hello, I am looking for some shutdown dialog just like the one from gnome-panel: does not appear in "Alt+Tab list" neither get minimized and its always shown on the screen, even out of focus. I have already look for it in gnome-panel-2.28.0 sources, but I cant find it. Do I have to use directly X functions to make a dialog like that? Thanks for your attention, Eduardo Fiss Beloni ...
10 - displaying gif or png images containing transparencies 03:14
I would like to display partly transparent images directly on the gnome background, much like the way icons are displayed on the Desktop, but I want the images to be much bigger than icons are allowed to be and I want to be able to drag them around and resize them with the mouse. I can make gif or png files containing transparencies, but I don't know of a utility that will display such files without its own (non-transparent) background being in ...
11 - Fullscreen window without Gnome Panel 01:51
I want to create a fullscreen window only using X11 functions. Everything works ok, but I get gnome panel appearing on top of my window, even if the window captures all of the user input. How can I programmatically hide the gnome panel, while still using only X11 functiions? Maybe there is some kind of hint for a window manager that can be passed from X11 to the window manager. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list ...
12 - How to add an application to the specific group in Gnome Panel,e.g. Programming 13:17
Hello. I want to add my application to Gnome Panel group, e.g. Applications -> Programming, programmatically, i.e. via $ make install. How can I do that? Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list ...
13 - How to register a application being in Nautilus a 'plain text editor'or 'XML editor'? 11:18
Hello. I'm new to Linux so to Gnome too.. I want to make my application being a suggested editor for a number of file types in context menu of Nautlius? How can I do that? Or read more about it? Thanks in advance, Alex _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list ...
14 - Using a screen keyboard with gnome-screensaver 14:43
Hi, I'm using gnome as a part of the Ubuntu 9.1 netbook distribution. I would like to have a screen keyboard - any screen keyboard - pop up at the gnome screensaver password prompt. I've tried the recommendation from the FAQ here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions which says: ------------ Can I embed an on-screen keyboard for use with mobile devices? Yes. A software keyboard ...
15 - [Q] Wishlist? 21:25
Hi there, where can I find a wishlist for Gnome? I would like to see a new feature added to the screen saver: hot edges. Does mean: If you position the mouse at the ‛hot edge‛ of the screen, the screen saver starts imediately. Gr[ ]ins [ ]unz [X]??ezzzi [X]egor -- Picard: "'Q' will mir einen Gefallen machen." -- Riker: "Ich alarmiere die Mannschaft." [Kapit?¤n Picard und sein ...
16 - Nautilus keeps showing me a LAN Network I don't have ?!? 00:26
Hi; A long dead (WindowsXP + Linux) network keeps showing up. The ']$ nautilus --no-desktop network:' command produces a nautilus window titled 'Network' showing an icon for 'Windows Network' When clicked on, 'Windows Network' warns "Unable to mount location Failed to retrieve share list from server". Which isn't surprising since WindowsXp hasn't been on another machine in my LAN for a year. I do have WindowsXP as ...
17 - gnome-appearance-properties, themes,and colour of text labels in notebook tabs 03:47
Greetings. Firstly, if my question belongs somewhere else ... apologies. Let me know and I'll take it elsewhere. I like dark themes. But there is an omission that makes it difficult to use them with notebooks. There is no way to set the colour of the text of labels in unselected notebook pages. See: http://entropy.homelinux.org/dark_theme_bug.jpg The label of the text in the ...
18 - feature suggestion: confirmation for editable menu shortcuts 12:35
First of all, happy new year to all! I'm one of those users who like efficient interfaces, use the keyboard very heavily, touch the mouse only when necessary, but still love GUIs and menus that ideally present you the options you have in a nicely organized way ;-). So it looks like Gnome's editable menu shortcuts have been developed just for people like me, and indeed, it's a great thing to have. Unfortunately, it turns out that there are some problems for ...
19 - Re: gnome-list Digest, Vol 69, Issue 3 Item 1 10:29
> 1. Ubuntu Desktop (Bob Bond) > > > > I wonder if anyone can help me? I am new to Ubuntu/Gnome and I'm > struggling to do something that I suspect is very simple. > > My standard distribution of Ubuntu has Gnome included and the desktop > appears as attached. > > However, I would prefer a much cleaner desktop, more akin to Mac OS X. I > have seen desktops that look like the ...
20 - Positioning of new windows 10:15
How does one set it up so that new windows open on, say, the bottom right hand corner of the screen rather than the (default?) current top left? Using Debian Squeeze. Thanks. AG _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list ...

40 Xfree86 Mailing List Threads
1 - cross compile xfree86-4.8.0 05:56
I am trying to cross compile xfree86-4.8.0 for arm. I am using code sourcery compilers (2007q3-51). I ran the following command make World CROSSCOMPILEDIR=/opt/toolchain/gcc-2007q3-51/bin and got the following error almost immediately: ...... if [ -n "/opt/toolchain/gcc-2007q3-51/bin" ] ; then \ /opt/toolchain/gcc-2007q3-51/bin/cc -E `./ccimake` \ -DCROSSCOMPILE_CPP imakemdep.h > imakemdep_cpp.h; \ else touch ...
2 - Invitation to connect on LinkedIn 13:46
LinkedIn ------------ I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - dibyajyoti Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/700453209/-41qhtn6/ ------ (c) 2009, LinkedIn Corporation ...
3 - ID948 UK Pfizer! 10:25
2.8.2009 USA Doctor Art Best Price On Net 75% 0FF! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/junizanuzafok82/message/1 ...
4 - build failure 10:20
Hello, The build failure is not with xfree86 as a separate entity; but, a failure porting using MacPorts. The error is as follows: Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_x11_xte rm/work/xterm-238" && make all " returned error 2 Command output: /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -I. -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/opt/ ...
5 - X server connection problem? 19:15
Hello, When trying: /usr/local/libexec/openvrml-xembed I get the following error: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host !?? XIO: fatal IO error 22 (Unknown error: 0) on X server ":0.0" after 89 requests (88 known processed) with 16 events remaining. Would t his be an XFree problem and if so, what would be the ...
6 - ANNOUNCE: XFree86 4.8.0 is now available 23:01
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7 - x not listing the pci Bus 1 I/O range: 15:35
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8 - Debug statements inside xfree video driver ?? 15:25
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9 - command for recompilation of xfree (compiling only the changed file) ?? 15:35
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10 - problem with Xnest 14:00
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11 - Xnest Font Server setting 04:40
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12 - xdirectfb path 16:00
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13 - Termcap Library 08:10
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14 - Prepress Forum Workflow, Want to use XFree86? 23:55
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15 - termcap Library Error 12:20
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16 - build xfree86 4.7.0 failed 04:55
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17 - XFree86 server crash 13:05
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18 - Building XFree86 4.7 on FreeBSD 7.0 failed 01:45
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19 - new installation: KDE no longer starts 06:35
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20 - HELP!! 13:30
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