Planet UbuntuPlanet Ubuntu - http://planet.ubuntu.com/Jeff Waugh: Drill Here, Drill Now- September 17, 2008 Putting cynical populism, ignorance of global security and environmental vandalism into perspective&8230; &8220;Drill Here, Drill Now&8221; is not even a short term solution, it&8217;s a long term road to nowhere (via garrett). In fact, that&8217;s precisely what returning a Republican to the White House will be after eight years of cronyism, incompetence and mismanagement: A Road to Nowhere. But hey &8212; at least they have a bridge to sell you!http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/09/18/drill-here-drill-now/ Craig A. Eddy: Its COMING!!!!- September 17, 2008 The Arizona Business and Liberty Experience (ABLEconf) will be held September 20, 2008. University of Advancing Technology(UAT) 2625 W Baseline Rd Tempe, AZ 85283 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Arizona time ADMISSION IS FREE This conference, scheduled on Software Freedom Day, focuses on demonstrating to businesses and individuals the freedom of using FreeLibre Open Source Software in daily life. The idea for the conference originally came from the Ubuntu-Arizona LoCo Team and the Phoenix Linux User&8217;s.http://tycheent.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/its-coming/ Dante Daz: Software Freedom Day 2008 - Lima- September 17, 2008 When: 09202008Where: Auditorio de la Escuela de gerencia de la Universidad Continental, Lima - PerRegistration hereVolunteers herehttp://20bits.blogspot.com/2008/09/software-freedom-day-2008.html Mark Van den Borre: Robin hood's evil brother- September 17, 2008 "We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and ... losses socialized," said Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.Let's try and translate this gobbledigook:"We steal from the poor and give it to the rich," said Robin Bad, AIG CEO, and evil brother of the famous Robin Hood."Having invested a lot of time and money in armed robberies, we must confess feeling a bit stupid seeing how easy it is to get 85.000.000.000 out of the Federal.http://blog.markvdb.be/2008/09/robin-hoods-evil-brother.html Jono Bacon: 29 Today- September 17, 2008 Today I turned 29 years old. Wow. Last night Horseman Holbach flew in from Berlin and we blew the foam off a few cold ones and eventually got submerged into a surprisingly fun bunch of people from The Courier Awards. No, not the font, the package delivery people. I know, I never imagined they had upmarket awards ceremonies in hotels either. Tonight it is out with folks from work for tapas and drinks. Also, thanks to those of you on Facebook who have already posted some messages. That was...http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1295 Risto H. Kurppa: A mailing list for the FLOSS-GPS community- September 17, 2008 As far as I know, there isn&8217;t any simple or single way to communicate with the people who use GPS devices with FreeLibreOpen Source Software (FLOSS) or the developers of these programs. Maybe now it&8217;s the time to start one when all kinds of positioning tools and services are becoming more and more popular. (C) Marble My experience is that the community is widely spread: some get their FLOSS-GPS updates from Openstreetmap lists, some from Openmoko mailing lists. Some communicate...http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/a-mailing-list-for-the-floss-gps-community/ Rubn Romero: Welcome!- September 17, 2008 Well, I&8217;m leaving blogspot (no special reason really) and I&8217;m too lazy to host my own blog, so WordPress is kind enough to do it for me As I&8217;m doing a lot of new, cool stuff in my life I thought a change of scene would be healthy, so here I am. My old blog is stil at BlogSpot, but I will not be using it anymore.http://huayra.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/welcome/ Nick Ali: Countdown to Atlanta Linux Fest 2008- September 17, 2008 This Saturday, from 11am to 6pm, the Ubuntu Georgia LoCo will be sponsoring the Atlanta Linux Fest (ALF). ALF will be a non-distro specific event, part install fest, part demos. Let me provide some background on how ALF came into being. Around six weeks ago, Joshua Chase, who runs the Georgia LoCo, Jim Popovich, and I were lounging around our favorite cigar store. We were trying to come up plans for a fun event. Now, the Georgia LoCo holds real life meetings every month or so. We&8217;ve held..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boredandblogging/planetubuntu/~3/394926987/ Raphael Pinson: Thou shalt not loop- September 17, 2008 I've been using incron extensively to write a CVS synchronizer for my company lately (the last post about Perl modules was part of that). This synchronizer uses incron to monitor all CVSROOThistory files. When history files are modified, the script is launched, analyzes the changed files and synchronizes them (using the tartar method described in my last post) to the fallback machine. This allows to have a pretty much synchrone fallback... but that's without counting on the developers using the.http://raphink.info/2008/09/thou-shalt-not-loop.html Clay Weber: Sometimes it's the little things that make me go "wow"- September 17, 2008 I love KDE4 and its look and feel, and am constantly amazed at how it works.But the one thing that made my jaw drop was a relatively simple feature I discovered while using Konqueror the other day.When using Firefox, you can highlight some text and do a search on it via the right-click menu. You can do this in Konqueror as well. But highlight an unlinked url text, and the right-click menu offers to open that url for you! This is so simple yet so amazing! I often find unlinked urls in forum...http://jakeandgus.blogspot.com/2008/09/sometimes-its-little-things-that-make.html |