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Not a lawyer any more

bizkut — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:30:07 +0000

So according to Naked Law, the technology blog for the law firm I used to work for, Centrica contracted Accenture to write some software, and that software turned out not to work like they wanted....

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Unwrapping The Community Manager at OSBC in San Francisco

bizkut — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:30:07 +0000

I just wanted to let you good people of the Internet know that I will be delivering a brand new talk entitled Unwrapping The Community Manager at OSBC in San Francisco at 11.40am on Thu 18th March...

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Ubiquity Slideshow Get New Design

bizkut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:12:00 +0000

The folks at Canonical's design team have been working on a new design for Ubuntu's installer slideshow that matches with the new branding. This means that the design I created for Ubuntu 9.10...

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Why (I think) Ubuntu is Better Than Windows

bizkut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:09 +0000

When comparing operating systems people tend to roll out the same old reasons every time. I think those of us who use Ubuntu are already aware that we have less viruses than Windows, less malware,...

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Akkana Peck: Grub2 Tutorial, Part 3

bizkut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:56:00 +0000

Part 3 and final of my series on configuring Ubuntu's new grub2 boot menu. I translate a couple of commonly-seen error messages, but most of the article is devoted to multi-boot machines. If you...

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David Baucum: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha in VirtualBox with Guest Additions

bizkut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:12 +0000

Today I installed the latest alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha inside of VirtualBox. After getting all of the updates I installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions. Upon boot my screen...

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Melissa Draper: Random winner!

bizkut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:29:11 +0000

Monday saw the announcement of the International Women’s Day competition winners. Well, most of them. Jono had unfortunately misunderstood what we had asked of him and hence promoted, and not...

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Tether Nokia 5800 as a 3G Modem on Ubuntu

bizkut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:30:18 +0000

I recently updated my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to firmware v40.0.005 and my netbook to Lucid Alpha 3 which reminded me I hadn’t tried using my Nokia with Ubuntu. A friend of mine has a HTC Tattoo...

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Hah

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:30:21 +0000

Dear all... Kindly disregard my last post. It shouldn't have appeared in the feeds. Besides, < 1000ms is not exactly bad for a webapp on a small-assed virtual server. It's the static files (CSS...

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Gabe Wollenburg: A Dancing Bear guide to setting up Xampp to start with system login in Ubuntu 9.10

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:11 +0000

I use Ubuntu like dancing bear; The magic in that is this: its not that the bear dances so beautifully, but that the bear dances at all. So here's my Dancing Bear recipe for configuring Xampp to...

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Zippity zippity

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:30:15 +0000

One of the perennial problems I've had with using Django as the basis of my site is speed. At first, I used Apache and mod_python to serve the Django views, but once I realised how slow that was I...

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Amber Graner: Hug Day/ Bug Day - Targeting Ubiquity

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:06:13 +0000

This week's Hug Day will focus on Ubiquity! and YOU'RE INVITED! WHERE: Ubuntu IRC Channel - #ubuntu-bugs on freenode [DOT] net DATE: Thursday, March 11, 2010 TIME: All Day PURPOSE: Squashing...

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Arizona: Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #120

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:40:37 +0000

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #120 for the week March 1, march 7, 2010. * Arizona Loco Newsletter * One Hundred Twentieth Edition * Powered by Ubuntu *...

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Antonino Arcudi: How to make Radiance a compact theme

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:24:36 +0000

What about new themes, Ambience and Radiance, included in Lucid Lynx? I like it but i suffer for the space wasted in the gnome and application menu! I’ve an eeepc and, once opened, the menu...

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Saving Money with Ubuntu

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:04:39 +0000

Note to readers from the Ubuntu Planet - this is written for people whom don't have a clue what Ubuntu is. Hence why I describe it. With the global economy in a depression, most people cannot...

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1st Annual Ubuntu Women Project "How I discovered Ubuntu." International Women's Day Competition Winners announced

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:28:17 +0000

March 8, 2010 - 1st Annual Ubuntu Women Project "How I discovered Ubuntu." International Women’s Day Competition The Competition which was announced back in January, asked women and...

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System 76 Lemur Review

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:30:12 +0000

This blog entry represents the views of me, myself and I, and does not represent the views of my employer (Canonical) or System 76. While I have decided to write a review of this specific machine,...

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Akkana Peck: Making those Fn- laptop keys do something useful

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:15:00 +0000

A friend was trying to get some of her laptop's function keys working under Ubuntu, and that reminded me that I'd been meaning to do the same on my Vaio TX 650P. My brightness keys worked...

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Zainul Franciscus: zainul franciscus

bizkut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:13:42 +0000

The news is that Ubuntu Lucid Lynx incorporates social media into its desktop application. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx integrates Gwibber, an open source microblogging, into its desktop. Gwibber promises...

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I Never Realized…

bizkut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:30:10 +0000

…that this part of my desktop could feel so sleek: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, we are ready for you.

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ThunderBird 2.0 Add-ons

bizkut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:34:00 +0000

Thunderbird 2.0 reached EOL Aug 2009 but Thunderbird 3.0 still does not have all the stuff and attractions for an upgrade, so here I am still using Thunderbird 2.0. What is Thunderbird? Its an Email...

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Melissa Draper: And the winners are…

bizkut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:11:49 +0000

Whilst I was quite happily sleeping yesterday morning, the International Women’s Day competition winners were announced. The popular vote prize went to Elvira Martinez “tatica1″....

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Video of the Week: Lava lamp, and Nexus one, on Jupiter?

bizkut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:30:18 +0000

Nothing really can be said… [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

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Vid Ayer: gesellschaft

bizkut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:10:00 +0000

At the recently concluded pycon2010 at Atlanta, there were some discussions about diversity, women etc... I suppose, much of my energy would have been saved if I had published this mail earlier or...

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Ara Pulido: regression-potential

bizkut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:19:43 +0000

For those unfamiliar with the title of this blog post, let me introduce you to one of the most important tags in Launchpad: regression-potential. What bugs tagged as regression-potential mean?...

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Roasted Laptop

bizkut — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:30:11 +0000

Some time ago I bought a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop. At...

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Interview with Emma Jane Hogbin

bizkut — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:20:55 +0000

Amber Graner: Today we talk to Emma Jane Hogbin, Technical Author, HiCKTech creator, Drupal Guru, Ubuntu Member and the list goes on. Before I want to say thank you for taking the time to tell us...

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Hacker Medley Podcast

bizkut — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:31 +0000

I asked last week if anyone knew of any cool podcasts I should subscribe to. I had a few suggested, one of which I’m now hooked on. Hacker Medley is a fairly new podcast started by Alex...

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International Women’s Day

bizkut — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:31 +0000

Today is International Women’s Day, and it provides an opportunity for the world to focus on women’s rights, and society’s attitudes towards women. International Women’s Day...

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Peng Hardin: Now that I tweet, do I have the best client?

bizkut — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:28:22 +0000

Late last week I finally set up an account on Twitter so I can post share-worthy items I find without waiting to write a links post. Sharing things via Twitter has it’s pros and cons, including...

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Drupal 7 on iPhone [Digg]

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:53:50 PST

I managed to get Drupal 7 ran on my iPhone. Powered by Lighttpd and native Sqlite supports by Drupal 7.Here is how I get it done: