Monthly Archives: December 2009

Lowering the programming barrier

I love quickly and quidgets just for the simple reason they lower the barrier for potential programmers to join in and start easily. But it makes me think that gtk is getting old and its showing its oldness by not … Continue reading

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Packaging and ppa firsts (for me at least)

Today I spent the day messing about with local packaging and manually uploading to my ppa. I had already done some ppa and packaging using quickly but its a lot easier than I thought to do it manually. So what … Continue reading

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Suggested programs

Hey all, Id like to ask for you all to comment on the programs you all want to be suggested in the software center. I need about 50 and im open to suggestions but ill be trying out the programs … Continue reading

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Conflict

In a large community there is always conflict, dealing with it is the one thing that has to be done correctly. We have the code of conduct in ubuntu to give a set of guidelines to follow but I for … Continue reading

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Ubuntu backup awesomeness

(Ubuntu poetry corner Read it aloud its good I think) Twas a night before Christmas it was the 12th to be exact at 3 am beside my computer I did sat. My ubuntu did stall, I had pondered and pondered … Continue reading

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Google chrome hidden but awesome feature

Ok at the moment chrome does most of what firefox does at the moment but not much difference. I found a button in chrome that does something awesome. What that says is “Create application shotcuts”. No its not a funny … Continue reading

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Oh OGG when will it be your time….?

I’m an optimist, specifically for ubuntu and the open source/free software world. One thing that puzzles me is OGG Theora and Vorbis. We see Wikimedia (Wikipedia, wikidictonary…etc) using OGG technologies as well as mozilla, google and opera embracing it. It … Continue reading

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Google Chrome

I downloaded chrome from the dev preview thingy and I have to say im very happy. The level of detail is bloody awesome, like they added a repo for updates and they have an option to respect the gtk theme … Continue reading

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Kernel Bug Day Tues 08 Dec, 2009

(passing on a message from Leann on the kernel team) Hi Everyone, This is a friendly reminder that we’re starting up Kernel Bug Day’s again for the Lucid cycle. Don’t know what a Kernel Bug Day is? look here This … Continue reading

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More gnome-shell messing from me

I was playing about with docky (its based from gnome do but its for window management) so I put it in gnome-shell for the window management. Have a look I also have the ubuntu netbook launcher too.

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