Wheres my ARM netbook??

I was at the talk at the ubuntu developer summit and I went looking for any computers available with an ARM processor. I failed badly, there were a 4 netbooks at that plenary the sharp one (only available in japan) which looks awesome BTW and the 2 pegatron ones and the one that was just [...]

Random bug day

I just had an idea, how about everyone take a day (doesnt have to be any particular day) and check on the bugs you reported. I had a look today and found a load of bugs had been fixed but left open so I marked about 5-10 bugs as invalid. If we all checked id [...]

UDS lucid back home

Im back from the UDS, it was loads of fun. The music store and the google chrome OS collaboration with canonical were the main surprises. It was great to meet everyone put some faces to names and have some fun helping make our favourite OS even better for lucid. Im dreading the pictures from the [...]

UDS :D

Leaving for Dallas on Sunday. I cant wait. Canonical kindly sponsored me(Thanks Canonical). It should be fun im going to be at the desktop track mainly. Im particularly interested in my parental control blueprint which is a session and the Quickly sessions. I plan on doing a daily video blog on http://summit.shanefagan.com so keep an [...]

Parental Control

Ive done a good bit of work recently on parental control to get it ready for the UDS. It currently works but it takes a little bit of effort (you have to start the daemon in command line). Im going to be making it simpler to use next. Ive also made some more changes to [...]

Some help translating parental control

I have the first version of the GUI for my parental control program. I need 6 strings translated for the moment so 5 minutes should do it. https://translations.launchpad.net/parental-control
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps.

Parental control and quickly

I thought id add an update about the progress of the parental control system im designing. Thanks to Seif the backend is working (ish). I started making a blacklist editor so people can add rules to the system. I decided to use quickly (even though im still crap at pygtk).
Quickly is great though most of [...]

Dumb ideas for cutting the deficit in government

I was watching http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1059155 have a look at it first.
So my opinion is that we could
A. Cut jobs in the public sector
B. Cut wages
C. Do nothing
Cutting jobs is the bad solution, no one should lose their job. Cutting wages means that we can let people keep their jobs the only problem is the unions dont [...]