http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ en Planet Debian Derivatives - http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk/taxonomy/term/4/189 at http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk/content/respect-bi-directional-proposition <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Jono has written a very good <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/20/respect-in-community-discussion-and-debate/">post on his blog</a> about respect in the community. I agree with the importance of respect in a community. It was also important to clarify that having different opinions or perspectives are not a sign of disrespect and are very important in a community even if consent cannot always be found. That is life, but not issuing different perspectives will disadvantage a community.</p> <p>However, respect is a two-directional proposition. It is difficult to maintain respect, if every time there is a disagreement and passion creates tension, it is the fault of the community. In particular the vast differences in power create different points of breaking points and hence it sometimes may be far too easy to make comparisons on an equal level, or use objective tests to try to rationalise or use relativism. Pontifications of cult leaders rarely lead to respect, more often it is rather dissension or fear that are the result. This post is not supposed to in any way contradict the points Jono made in his blog post, but rather add another perspective to it.</p> </div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span class="st_twitter_hcount"></span> <span class="st_identi_hcount"></span> <span class="st_facebook_hcount"></span> <span class="st_googleplus_hcount"></span> <span class="st_reddit_hcount"></span> <span class="st_linkedin_hcount"></span> <span class="st_digg_hcount"></span> <span class="st_friendfeed_hcount"></span> <span class="st_buffer_hcount"></span> <span class="st_tumblr_hcount"></span> <span class="st_sharethis_hcount"></span> <span class="st_plusone_hcount"></span> <span class="st_fblike_hcount"></span> </div></div> Mon, 20 May 2013 04:51:37 +0000 http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/147 at http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/147 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>This week's episode is brief and is the first after the close of the production suspension. A rough transcript is presented below for the avoidance of doubt.</p> <p>Download <a href="http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/sites/default/files/BC-113.mp3">here (MP3)</a> <a href="http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/sites/default/files/BC-113.ogg">(ogg)</a> <a href="https://archive.org/download/BC113/BC-113.flac">(FLAC)</a>, or <a href="http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/burningcircle/feed">subscribe to the podcast (MP3)</a> to have episodes delivered to your media player. We suggest subscribing by way of a service like <a href="http://gpodder.net/subscribe?url=http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/burningcircle/feed">gpodder.net</a>.</p> <p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/</a>.</p> <hr /> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em>And we're back...</em></p> <p><em>Welcome to the Burning Circle. The production suspension has now concluded. For release on Monday, May 20th, this is episode 113.</em></p> <p><em>I have sent to the e-mail list and posted elsewhere a notes update to bring everybody up to speed as to what is going on. I will not reiterate it here. If you need a link to it you will be able to find such in Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter 317. You are <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news">subscribed to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter</a>, aren't you?</em></p> <p><em>We've had three folks attempt to join our community. I have disapproved two already and one remains in the pool. As a rule of thumb, I do ask that if I e-mail you that you please respond to me within a week. Within that amount of time, even a postcard can reach me via the United States Postal Service. Two people seeking to join did not contact me within a week's time and after multiple e-mails greeting them. One person remains in the queue with four day left to say something even if it is to tell me to go away. As a local community we have to be about more than just collecting a stylized Ohio flag logo on your Launchpad page. My biggest fear is that that has been the case a couple hundred times already.</em></p> <p><em>We're heading into the Saucy Salamander cycle. We're way, way too quiet across the state. We have a mailing list. We have an IRC channel. We have a voicemail drop box to contact the leader. We need to speak up more as a community.</em></p> <p><em>From the south shores of Lake Erie in the border port community of Ashtabula Township, this program has been brought to you over the facilities of the Internet Archive and Ubuntu Ohio by Erie Looking Productions. Our producer, Gloria "The Half Million Dollar Woman" Kellat, remains on medical leave. Our owner and engineer is Mike Kellat. I am the head writer, Stephen Michael Kellat. This program is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 United States license.</em></p> <p><em>Thank you for joining us.</em></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> Mon, 20 May 2013 03:35:36 +0000 http://www.j-baer.com/?p=2758 http://www.j-baer.com/ubuntu-google-music-all-access <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p><img src="http://www.j-baer.com/wp-content/uploads/2758-000.png" alt="2758-000" height="391" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2769" width="800" /></p> <p>There may not be a native solution, but <a href="http://play.google.com/about/music/?utm_source=EX_Desktop_&amp;utm_medium=SEM&amp;utm_campaign=All%20Access&amp;pcampaignid=MKTAD0515MU1BG" title="Google Music All Access">Google Music All Access</a> is available in Ubuntu 13.04 today as a web app.</p> <h3>Turn On Notifications</h3> <p>To fully enjoy the Google music experience, notifications should be present. I am only going to turn on notifications within Chrome but you may explore a more intimate integration at this <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/configurable-notifyosd-updated-for.html" title="Ubuntu Notifications">webupd8</a> blog post.</p> <p><img src="http://www.j-baer.com/wp-content/uploads/2758-010.png" alt="2758-010" height="396" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2779" width="427" /></p> <p>The first step is to load Google Music using the Chrome browser. I am using the beta version 27.0.1453.81. Press the setting button located in the upper right quadrant of the browser window and select Music Labs. </p> <p>Find <em>Desktop Notifications</em> from the list and click enable.</p> <p><img src="http://www.j-baer.com/wp-content/uploads/2758-015.png" alt="2758-015" height="107" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2782" width="800" /></p> <h3>Add Google Music as a Web App</h3> <p>Although you may run this directly from the Chrome browser, the secret to an enhanced user experience is adding Google Music as a Ubuntu web app. For the details on how to accomplish this see; <a href="http://www.j-baer.com/ubuntu-a-replace-for-chromeos" title="j-baer.com">Ubuntu – A Replacement for Chrome OS</a>.</p> <h3>Enroll In Google Music All Access</h3> <p><a href="http://play.google.com/about/music/?utm_source=EX_Desktop_&amp;utm_medium=SEM&amp;utm_campaign=All%20Access&amp;pcampaignid=MKTAD0515MU1BG" title="Google Music All Access"><img src="http://www.j-baer.com/wp-content/uploads/2758-020.png" alt="2758-020" height="348" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2792" width="800" /></a></p> <p>You can stream music in your library to any device or computer via a browser on which you’re signed in. You can also download music in your library to any authorized device or computer. You can authorize up to a total of ten (10) devices or computers at any one time. At this time, only two Google accounts per computer can be used to add music with the Google Play Music Manager.</p> <p>Click the Try It Free for 30 Days button to begin your registration. For your awareness a list of Authorized devices will be displayed for your consideration and you will be prompted to enter credit card payment info.</p> <h3>Start Playing Music</h3> <p><img src="http://www.j-baer.com/wp-content/uploads/2758-025.png" alt="2758-025" height="516" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2796" width="800" /></p> <h3>Ubuntu Integration</h3> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/j_baer/8755790372/in/photostream/lightbox/"><img src="http://www.j-baer.com/wp-content/uploads/2758-030.png" alt="2758-030" height="500" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2803" width="800" /></a></p> <p>Enjoy : )</p> <p>The post <a href="http://www.j-baer.com/ubuntu-google-music-all-access">Ubuntu 13.04 – Enable Google Music All Access</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.j-baer.com">j-Baer</a>.</p> Mon, 20 May 2013 01:42:49 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=5415 http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/20/respect-in-community-discussion-and-debate/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Recently there was <em>yet another</em> storm in a teacup that distracted us from creating and sharing Ubuntu and our flavors with others. I am not going to dive into the details of this particular incident…it has been exhaustively documented elsewhere…but at the heart of this case was a concern around the conduct in which some folks engaged around something they disagreed with. This is not the first time we have seen disappointing conduct in a debate, and I wanted to share some thoughts on this too.</p> <p>In every community I have worked in I have tried to build an environment in which <em>all</em> view points that challenge decisions or decision makers are welcome with the requirement that they are built on a platform of <em>respectful discourse</em>; this is the essence of our <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct">Code Of Conduct</a>. Within the context of an Open Source community we also encourage this engagement around differences to be expressed as <em>solutions</em> with a focus on <em>solving problems</em>; this helps us to be productive and move the project forward. This is why we have such a strong emphasis on blueprints, specs, bugs, and other ways of expressing issues and exploring solutions.</p> <p>Within the context of this most recent issue I saw three problems (problems I have seen present in other similar arguments too):</p> <ol> <li>Irrespective of the voracity or content of an opinion we must <em>never forget</em> to be respectful and polite in the way we express and engage with others, irrespective of whether you are a volunteer, Canonical employee, or otherwise. Respect must <em>always</em> be present in our discourse, irrespective of the content of our opinions; without it we become a barbaric people and lose the magic that brought this wonderful set of minds together in the first place. There is simply no excuse for rudeness, and inflammatory FUD that has no evidence to back it up other than presumed ill-intent serves nothing but to demotive folks and ratchet up the flames, as opposed to resolve the issue and make things better.</li> <li>Trust needs to be earned, but trust should always be built within the wider context of a set of contributions and conduct. Unfortunately some folks consider decisions they disagree with to be a basis for (a) entering into a paranoid debate about the “<em>real reason</em>” the individual or company made that decision (and typically not believing the rationale provided by said decision-maker) and (b) seemingly forgetting about all the other positive contributions that the person or company has contributed. I can assure you there is no nefarious scheme at place at Canonical; our goals are well known in the community. If I felt Canonical was fundamentally trying to demote and shut the community out, I wouldn’t work here; I have no interest in working for a company that doesn’t understand the value of community, and I am not worried about finding suitable employment elsewhere. I work at Canonical because I believe our goals with Ubuntu are just and the company’s commitment to our community is sincere.</li> <li>Ubuntu is <em>not</em> a consensus-based community. Consensus communities rarely work, and I am not aware of any Open Source project that bases their work on wider consensus in the community. It would be impossible and impractical to notify our community of every decision we make, let alone try to base a decision on a majority view, but we do try to ensure that major changes are communicated to our leaders first (this is something we have been driving improvements in recently). We always need to find the right balance between transparency and JFDI, and sometimes the balance isnt’t quite there, but that does not mean there is some kind of illuminati-ish scheme going on behind the scenes.</li> </ol> <p>Ubuntu is a community filled with passionate people, and I love that we have folks who are critical of our direction and decisions. If everyone agreed with what we are doing, we would not always make the right decisions, and our diversity is what makes Ubuntu and our flavors such a great place to participate.</p> <p>As I said at the beginning of this post, it is important that all viewpoints are welcome, but we have to get the tone and conduct of some of these debates under control. The sheer level of sensationalist and confrontational language that is often in place in these disagreements doesn’t serve anyone but hungry journalists looking for page hits.</p> <p>Now, I am not suggesting here that anyone should change any of their viewpoints. If you vehemently disagree with an aspect of what we are doing in Ubuntu or at Canonical, that is fine and of course, welcome. What I am appealing to everyone though is to <em>treat others like you wish to be treated</em>, with respect and dignity, and lets keep the sensationalism out of our community and focus on what we do best…building a world-class Free Software platform and its rich ecosystem of flavors.</p> Sun, 19 May 2013 23:30:19 +0000 http://www.die-welt.net/?p=1141 http://www.die-welt.net/2013/05/powerdyn-a-dynamic-dns-service-for-powerdns-users/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Grml" width="100" height="47" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>You may not know this, but I am a <em>huge</em> PowerDNS fan. This may be because it is so simple to use, supports different databases as backends or maybe just because I do not like BIND, pick one.</p> <p>I also happen to live in Germany where ISPs usually do not give static IP-addresses to private customers. Unless you pay extra or limit yourself to a bunch of providers that do good service but rely on old (DSL) technology, limiting you to some 16MBit/s down and 1MBit/s up. Luckily my ISP does not force the IP-address change, but it does happen from time to time (once in a couple of month usually). To access the machine(s) at home while on a non-IPv6-capable connection, I have been using my old (old, old, old) DynDNS.com account and pointing a CNAME from under die-welt.net to it.</p> <p>Some time ago, DynDNS.com started supporting AAAA records in their zones and I was happy: no need to type hostname.ipv6.kerker.die-welt.net to connect via v6 — just let the application decide. Well, yes, almost. It’s just DynDNS.com resets the AAAA record when you update the A record with ddclient and there is currently no IPv6 support in any of the DynDNS.com clients for Linux. So I end up with no AAAA record and am not as happy as I should be.</p> <p>Last Friday I got a mail from DynDNS:</p> <blockquote><p>Starting now, if you would like to maintain your free Dyn account, you must now log into your account once a month. Failure to do so will result in expiration and loss of your hostname. Note that using an update client will no longer suffice for this monthly login. You will still continue to get email alerts every 30 days if your email address is current.<br /> Yes, thank you very much…</p></blockquote> <p>Given that I have enough nameservers under my control and love hacking, I started writing an own dynamic DNS service. Actually you cannot call it a service. Or dynamic. But it’s my own, and it does DNS: <a href="https://github.com/evgeni/powerdyn">powerdyn</a>. It is actually just a script, that can update DNS records in SQL (from which PowerDNS serves the zones).</p> <p>When you design such a “service”, you first think about user authentication and proper information transport. The machine that runs my PowerDNS database is reachable via SSH, so let’s use SSH for that. You do not only get user authentication, server authentication and properly crypted data transport, you also do not have to try hard to find out the IP-address you want to update the hostname to, just use <code>$SSH_CLIENT</code> from your environment.</p> <p>If you expected further explanation what has to be done next: sorry, we’re done. We have the user (or hostname) by looking at the SSH credentials, and we have the IP-address to update it to if the data in the database is outdated. The only thing missing is some execution daemon or … <code>cron(8)</code>. :)</p> <p>The machine at home has the following cron entry now:</p> <pre><code>*/5 * * * * ssh -4 -T -i /home/evgeni/.ssh/powerdyn_rsa powerdyn@ssh.die-welt.net </code></pre> <p>This connects to the machine with the database via v4 (my IPv6 address does not change) and that’s all.</p> <p>The machine with the database has the following <code>authorized_keys</code> entry for the <code>powerdyn</code> user:</p> <pre><code>command="/home/powerdyn/powerdyn/powerdyn dorei.kerker.die-welt.net" ssh-rsa AAAA... evgeni@dorei </code></pre> <p>By forcing the <code>command</code>, the user has no way to get the database-credentials the script uses to write to the database and neither cannot update a different host. That seems secure enough for me. It won’t scale for a setup as DynDNS.com and the user-management sucks (you even have to create the entries in the database first, the script can only update them), but it works fine for me and I bet it would for others too :)</p> <p class="sexy-rss-footer"><a href="http://www.die-welt.net/2013/05/powerdyn-a-dynamic-dns-service-for-powerdns-users/#comments">1 comment(s)</a> | this blog is <a href="https://flattr.com/thing/309455/die-welt-net-a-broken-world-by-Evgeni-Golov">flattr</a> enabled</p> Sun, 19 May 2013 21:45:55 +0000 http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/?p=2360 http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-cost-of-inaccessibility-at-the-margins-of-relevance <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>I use RSS feeds to keep up with academic journals. Because of <a href="https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/do_unread_items_sunset_after_14_days" class="reference external">an undocumented and unexpected feature</a> (bug?) in my (otherwise wonderful) free software newsreader <a href="http://newsblur.com" class="reference external">NewBlur</a>, many articles published over the last year were marked as having been read before I saw them.</p> <p>Over the last week, I caught up. I spent hours going through abstracts and downloading papers that looked interesting or relevant to <a href="http://mako.cc/academic/" class="reference external">my research</a>. Because I did this for hundreds of articles, it gave me an unusual opportunity to reflect on my journal reading practices in a systematic way.</p> <p>On a number of occasions, there were potentially interesting articles in non-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access" class="reference external">open access</a> journals that neither MIT nor Harvard subscribes to and that were otherwise not accessible to me. In several cases where the research was obviously important to my work, I made an interlibrary request, emailed the papers’ authors for copies, or tracked down a colleague at an institution with access.</p> <p>Of course, articles that look <em>potentially interesting</em> from the title and abstract often end up being less relevant or well executed on closer inspection. I tend to cast a wide net, skim many articles, and put them aside when it’s clear that the study is not for me. This week, I downloaded many of these possibly relevant papers to, at least, give a skim. <em>But only if I could download them easily</em>. On three or four occasions, I found inaccessible articles at this margin of relevance. In these cases, I did not bother trying to track down the articles.</p> <p>Of course, what appear to be marginally relevant articles sometimes end up being a great match for my research and I will end up citing and building on the work. I found several suprisingly interesting papers last week. The articles that were locked up have no chance at this.</p> <p>When people suggest that open access hinders the spread of scholarship, a common retort is that the people who need the work have or can finagle access. For the papers <em>we know we need</em>, this might be true. As someone with access to two of the most well endowed libraries in academia who routinely requests otherwise inaccessible articles through several channels, I would have told you, a week ago, that locked-down journals were unlikely to keep <em>me</em> from citing anybody.</p> <p>So it was interesting watching myself do a personal cost calculation in a way that sidelined published scholarship — <em>and that open access publishing would have prevented</em>. At the margin of relevance to ones research, open access may make a big difference.</p> Sun, 19 May 2013 16:00:05 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3064211089164695382.post-4885345043834315569 http://ngoprek.fajran.web.id/2013/05/improvisasi.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Salah satu fitur yang ada di OS X adalah penyuaraan tulisan alias "Text to Speech". OS X menyediakan sebuah aplikasi command line yang memungkinkan kita untuk meyuarakan tulisan apa saja yang kita masukkan</p> <pre><code>$ say "How are you?"</code></pre> <p>Dari sekian penyuara yang tersedia, salah satunya adalah <code>Damayanti</code> yang bisa menyuarakan Bahasa Indonesia</p> <pre><code>$ say -v Damayanti "Apa kabar?"</code></pre> <p>Ternyata si Damayanti ini bisa berimprovisasi menambahkan kata yang tidak kita tuliskan di sana. Coba saja jalankan perintah berikut.</p> <pre><code>$ say -v Damayanti "Sudah 5 hari aku berdiri selama 5 menit dan 5 detik setiap 5 jam"</code></pre> Sun, 19 May 2013 08:15:20 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Fajran Iman Rusadi) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-7149281927492745843 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/05/daftar-isi-artikel-inkscape.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Karena tulisan blog saya sudah lumyan banyak dan bercampur aduk antara artikel satu dan lainnya, maka untuk memudahkan pencarian artikel tertentu maka saya membuat daftar isi secara sederhana. Halaman ini hanya berisi daftar isi tautan dari beberapa artikel yang berkaitan langsung dengan desain grafis terutama Inkscape, untuk menuju artikel sesungguhnya, klik pada salah satu judul artikel Sun, 19 May 2013 04:25:34 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-71216153930777587 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/05/daftar-isi-artikel-libre-office.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Halaman ini hanya berisi daftar isi tautan dari beberapa artikel yang berkaitan langsung dengan Libreoffice, untuk menuju artikel sesungguhnya, klik pada salah satu judul artikel atau klik kanan judul artikel kemudian  pilih "Open Link in New Tab" untuk membuka pada tab baru. Fungsi tombol Papan Tik pada LibreOffice Writer Mengenal Ikon pada LibreOffice Writer Membuat Surat Sun, 19 May 2013 04:20:12 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-5228663496744193952 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/05/backup-aplikasi-yang-sudah-terpasang-di.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Kemarin di Group Facebook BlankOn ada salah satu anggota group yang tanya begini "mas , cara backup aplikasi di blankon bagaimana?" Kemudain dijawab oleh beberapa anggota lainnya seperti yang tampak pada gambar diatas Jawaban diatas memang benar bisa dilakukan dengan syarat User belum melakukan perintah "apt-get-clean" dan sejenisnya, jika sudah melakuan perintah tersebut tentu saja pada Sun, 19 May 2013 03:19:07 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) http://fitoschido.wordpress.com/?p=177 http://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/interesting-reads-today/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <ul> <li><a href="http://sushee.no-ip.org/opensourceisnotawarzone.txt">“Open source is not a warzone. Not every man is a dick.”</a> A lovely essay from Perl girls, I truly enjoyed reading it.</li> <li><a href="http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-water-we-swim-in.html">“The water we swim in.”</a> Valorie has nailed it with this: “<i>most of the people discussing the issue seem to be talking past the folks they are hoping to connect with.</i>” FWIW, I just think this whole shitstorm over the Community link is too overblown, too melodramatic, a whole tornado was created inside a small glass of water. <a href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/ubuntus-community-link-problems.html">The Hitler comparisons</a> were ridiculous, unnecessary and embarrasing for the rest of us.</li> </ul> <br /> Sun, 19 May 2013 02:40:07 +0000 http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/247-guid.html http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/247-pybit-1.0.0-distributed,-scalable-builds-direct-from-VCS-or-archives.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Emdebian" width="100" height="19" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> PyBit is a distributed build system able to build packages in response to VCS commits or other triggers, across multiple architectures, multiple clients and multiple build environments with automated uploads to a nominated repository.<br /> <br /> Support is included in 1.0.0 for building Debian packages using sbuild in response to subversion commits or changes in debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org (by using apt as a version control handler) for any architecture and build environment which sbuild can support. There is also an example git commit template. Pybit has been designed to be fully extensible, so support for RPM or other package formats can be added as well as other version control handlers, other build environments and other architectures. Pybit is also scalable, when one type of client is struggling with the workload, another machine of the same architecture can be added to the pool to share the load. Pybit can also build a package for any number of architectures and build environments at the same time. The Pybit web interface provides an at-a-glance summary of all current builds as well as options to blacklist certain combinations, cancel and retry specific jobs and add monitor each pybit client. Current use cases include:<br /> <ul><li><b>Rapidly changing VCS</b> - one or more subversion repositories with lots of Debian packages, built automatically for any number of build environments and architectures every time the debian/changelog is modified. Clean chroot builds provide continuous integration testing of the every package.</li><br /> <li><b>Rebuilding the archive with different compilers or flags</b> - a dedicated email account subscribed to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org feeding messages through procmail to the changes-debian hook, passing build requests to the apt handler to rebuild each package in your own sbuild chroots, using whatever environments, suites and build options can be configured within those chroots.</li><br /> <li>something else we haven't thought of yet ... there is scope for a lot more hooks, package formats, chroot tools and handler plugins.</li><br /> <ul><br /> <br /> Pybit 1.0.0 has <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pybit/news/20130518T233403Z.html">arrived in Debian unstable</a> as a direct result of the efforts put in by the pybit team during a sprint on 18th May 2013. Thanks to everyone involved in Pybit.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://freecode.com/projects/pybit">https://freecode.com/projects/pybit</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://nicholasdavidson.github.io/pybit/">http://nicholasdavidson.github.io/pybit/</a><br /> <br /> <a href="https://github.com/nicholasdavidson/pybit">https://github.com/nicholasdavidson/pybit</a><br /></ul></ul> Sun, 19 May 2013 00:02:28 +0000 nospam@example.com (Neil Williams) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432566687488141671.post-8411287833574609849 http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-water-we-swim-in.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Healthy relationships. I've been thinking about them not in my personal life, but in terms of teams in free software. When I first began contributing, it was within a team creating an application (<a href="http://amarok.kde.org/" target="_blank">Amarok</a>), so rather small. Then I became active in <a href="http://ubuntu-women.org/" target="_blank">Ubuntu-Women</a>, which is larger, but still not huge. Then <a href="http://kubuntu.org/" target="_blank">Kubuntu</a>, then the larger <a href="http://ubuntu.com/community/" target="_blank">Ubuntu community</a>, and now <a href="http://kde.org/" target="_blank">KDE</a>, which is truly enormous.<br /><br />In all of these projects, communication and trust are paramount. Dialog which fosters creativity and progress is only possible when people enlarge their trust in one another. Along the way to the highest trust levels, many barriers will come down, as people allow them. Sometimes these barriers are invisible, until someone points them out.<br /><br />I thought I'd seen a cartoon illustrating this story, but a web search tells me it's <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/david_foster_wallaces_2005_commencement_speech_this_is_water_visualized_in_new_short_film.html" target="_blank">a story by David Foster Wallace</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Two young fish meet an older fish, who asks them “How’s the water?” The younger fish look at each other and say, “What the hell is water?”</blockquote>I was reminded of this story recently while observing the various reactions to the removal of the Community link on Ubuntu.com, the portal to the Ubuntu project. The link is coming back, so I'm not complaining. However, what I've noticed is that <i>most of the people discussing the issue seem to be talking past the folks they are hoping to connect with</i>. The emotions expressed range from puzzlement, to shock and outrage, with little understanding on the other "side" on the perceptions causing these reactions.<br /><br /><b>So how is the water?</b> To me, the drama played out completely predictably, because any time you have one company selling a product, and volunteers working in that same project, you will have class issues, and class is like the water fish swim in. People are often not aware of it, and thus have difficulty dealing with their emotions around it, because they have been taught to ignore it, or even that it doesn't exist. So when the designers removed the link, it was felt as a slap to the face of community members, while the designers see it as just a step to a clean, functional design. The conversation about this change at the recent vUDS clearly betrays this lack of understanding of the other on all sides. <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21740/community-1305-ubuntu-website-planning/">http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21740/community-1305-ubuntu-website-planning/</a><br /><br />There is no such thing as a culture without class. There are always power imbalances, and privileges. However, that doesn't mean that class is the death of the Ubuntu project, or that volunteers and companies can't happily co-exist. They can, but the fact of class must be acknowledged, and those with privilege and power must realize what they have, and use them on behalf of the project.<br /><br />A healthy culture has hierarchy, but not one based on domination. In fact, in FOSS that is part of what we are attempting to dislodge, right? We want our hierarchies to be constructed for function, not to rule over us. For instance, those who demonstrate their skill in packaging or coding are given the right to upload to the repositories. And those who grant them that right are those who already have built their reputations by using their skill and trustworthiness in that domain.<br /><br />Recently there has been a breakdown -- or an apparent breakdown -- in that hierarchy of function in Ubuntu. And I think that both those inside Canonical and those outside, perceive that the other is the one causing that break. So, some repair is needed.<br /><br />All of our differences can be overcome as we build (or re-build) trust. However, all sides of the issue will need to think about, process emotion about, and finally discuss openly what has gone on. The replacement of the Community link alone will not mend this breach, nor will brief virtual UDS sessions. In fact, I think the lack of in-person face-to-face interaction is allowing this divide to grow.<br /><br />Folks, we don't want resentment and suspicion to grow, so we are all going to need to work on this if the Ubuntu project is going to continue to thrive as a free software enterprise. In my opinion, thinking about and discussing class issues are fundamental to that effort.<br /><br />This blog appears on the <a href="http://linuxchix.org/" target="_blank">Linuxchix</a>, KDE and Ubuntu planets, and these issues of class appear in all teams. Health and progress are the goal, and honest dialog is the means. I propose we look one another in the eye and start a conversation. These are difficult dialogs, but our health is at stake. Sat, 18 May 2013 23:03:30 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Valorie Zimmerman) http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8086 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8086 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>For each Ubuntu release I spend a little time finding a toy or other representation of the codename animal to use at booths, Ubuntu Hours and other events. I wrote about <a href="http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6293">Quetzals and Pangolins here</a> and you may have seen Raring <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/8514032846/">here</a>.</p> <p>When the salamander came up I was confident that a toy would be easy to find, and indeed they were! Even better, I found that the World Wildlife Fund offers a <a href="http://gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/gifts/Species-Adoptions/Hellbender-Salamander.aspx">$50 Hellbender Salamander Adoption Kit</a> that ships with 2 plush salamanders! Mine arrived yesterday, I’ll be keeping one to use at our events and will find a way to give away the other (perhaps as part of the Ubuntu Women contest we’re planning? Or at some LoCo event?).</p> <div align="center"><a href="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/052013/wwf_salamander.jpg"><img src="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/052013/wwf_salamander_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> <p>Event decoration + helping to save the actual animal, hooray!</p> <p>Oh, and it is a release late, but while I was in Mérida, Mexico we stopped in to <a href="http://www.frommers.com/destinations/meridamexico/S29023.html">Miniaturas</a> where I picked up some adorable quetzal earrings:</p> <div align="center"><a href="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/052013/quetzal_earrings.jpg"><img src="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/052013/quetzal_earrings_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> <p>I think I’ll wear them to our <a href="http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2421-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco/">San Francisco Ubuntu Hour on June 12th</a>, and bring along the salamander!</p> Sat, 18 May 2013 21:47:19 +0000 http://seilo.geekyogre.com/?p=3313 http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2013/05/3313/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p><strong>Globaleaks 0.2 Alpha is out.</strong></p> <p><strong></strong><a href="https://globaleaks.org/">Globaleaks</a> is an open source project aimed at creating a worldwide, anonymous, censorship-resistant, distributed whistle-blowing platform. It enables organizations interested in running whistle-blowing initiatives to setup their own safe zone, where whistle-blowers and recipients can exchange data.</p> <p>2 Years ago I helped out with the development of Globaleaks 0.1. And although I am not active anymore, I really support the initiative behind it. Now with the <a href="http://logioshermes.org">HERMES Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights</a> backing it up, it has grown a lot and shaped up to be a very organized and thought through project.</p> <p><strong>TL;DR</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Full rewrite</li> <li><span style="line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;">More flexible and extensible</span></li> <li>Linux ready-made system and network hardened installation</li> <li> <div id="magicdomid17"><span style="line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;">Written in python using twisted</span></div> </li> <li>New Frontend</li> </ul> <p><strong>Try it out:</strong></p> <p>Try out the <a href="http://demo.globaleaks.org/">demo</a>. It is pretty straight forward.</p> <p><strong style="line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;">Help out:</strong></p> <p>As young project, Globaleaks can use some help fixing <a href="https://globaleaks.org/bughunting/">bugs</a>. Just head to the <a href="https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/wiki">wiki</a> and read through it. It is pretty straight forward, and explains the modules, security concepts and set up instructions.</p> <p>Globaleaks already has Debian and Ubuntu ready packages. An easy way to help out is to set up a  PPA for us on Launchpad. <img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <p><strong>Get in touch:</strong></p> <p><strong></strong>You can contact the Globaleaks team at info () globaleaks org or on IRC on #globaleaks at irc.oftc.net</p> <p>Here are some screenshots of the new frontend <img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <div style="width: 310px;" id="attachment_3324" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-1.04.53-PM1.png"><img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-1.04.53-PM1-300x227.png" alt="Congratulation you are using Tor" height="227" class="size-medium wp-image-3324" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Congratulations you are using Tor</p></div> <div style="width: 310px;" id="attachment_3325" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-1.07.57-PM1.png"><img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-1.07.57-PM1-300x261.png" alt="Receiver selection page" height="261" class="size-medium wp-image-3325" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Receiver selection page</p></div> <div style="width: 310px;" id="attachment_3327" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-1.09.10-PM1.png"><img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-1.09.10-PM1-300x261.png" alt="The submission receipt" height="261" class="size-medium wp-image-3327" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The submission receipt</p></div> <div style="width: 310px;" id="attachment_3329" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-11.07.47-PM.png"><img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-11.07.47-PM-300x261.png" alt="Configuring a receiver" height="261" class="size-medium wp-image-3329" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Configuring a receiver</p></div> <div style="width: 310px;" id="attachment_3330" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-11.08.08-PM.png"><img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-18-at-11.08.08-PM-300x261.png" alt="Configuring a context" height="261" class="size-medium wp-image-3330" width="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Configuring a context</p></div> <p><a href="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/?flattrss_redirect&amp;id=3313&amp;md5=efd82cce67b144a2437de26f5be0f3d5" target="_blank" title="Flattr"><img src="http://seilo.geekyogre.com/wp-content/plugins/flattrss/img/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="flattr this!" /></a></p> Sat, 18 May 2013 21:25:46 +0000 http://budiwijaya.net/?p=165 http://budiwijaya.net/book-review-mastering-nginx.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p><a href="http://amzn.to/14C1od2"><img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8323/masteringnginx.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p> <p><strong><a href="http://amzn.to/19LVtTW">Mastering Nginx</a></strong><br /> by <strong>Dimitri Aivaliotis</strong></p> <p><strong>Chapter 1 – Installing Nginx and Third party modules</strong></p> <p>This is a first step you need to do before doing any nginx things.<br /> It’s includes the most easiest way to install nginx a.k.a installing from package manager for major distro.<br /> <span id="more-165"></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;">apt-get for debian</span></li> <li><span style="line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;">yum for redhat</span></li> <li><span style="line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;">pkg_install for freebsd</span></li> </ul> <p>And also step by step to make a custom install of nginx a.k.a compiling from source.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 2 – A configuration guide</strong></p> <p>Here’s the most important parts of nginx. The configurations.<br /> The author writes in an easy to follow, where this is the most complicated part for beginner.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 3 – Using the mail module</strong></p> <p>Proxying mail service with nginx is one of nginx features. Eventhough I never use nginx with mail proxying, the author write clearly and easy to understand so I can imagine how it works.</p> <p>In the end of chapter, there’s a sample of authentication program to use with mail proxy using ruby programming language.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 4 – NGINX as a Reverse Proxy</strong></p> <p>Reverse proxy is also a killer feature of nginx. Here’s alot example with various backends such as apache and memcache.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 5 – Reverse Proxy Advanced Topics</strong></p> <p>Here, an advanced use of nginx as reverse proxy is discussed.<br /> Nginx as ssl-accelerator, security based on ip address, fine tuning reverse proxy and caching.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 6 – The NGINX HTTP Server</strong></p> <p>HTTP Server is the core of nginx function. A detailed discussion about nginx as http server.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 7 – NGINX for the Developer</strong></p> <p>Eventough the title says “for the Developer”, its helped me alot as a sysadmin to configure the behaviour of nginx. For example, the caching is discussed more detail in this chapter, how caching helps legacy applications.</p> <p>Some important discussion are caching on memcache, caching on static files, changing content on-the-fly, SSI and generating secure links.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 8 – Troubleshooting techniques</strong></p> <p>This is what I love about this book. Here discussed how to troubleshoot most common error and common mistakes on configuring nginx.</p> <p>The most simple troubleshoot is look at the log files, here explained inside-out about an error on log-files. Also there’s an advanced logging to make our lives as sysadmin easier. And some tips and trick about operating systems specific limits.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Conclusion</strong></span></p> <p>For me, this book is helped me alot how to configure and troubleshoot an nginx configuration. This book is suitable for newbie and advanced nginx users. What I loved most of this book is  <em><strong>Appendix A: Directive Reference</strong></em> and <em><strong>Appendix B: Rewrite Rule Guide</strong></em>, it helps me alot on explanation of a directives and what is the default entry of that directive.</p> <p>Overall, this book is a great books. The author is well written this book. You should <a href="http://amzn.to/19LVtTW">buy this book</a> if you serious onto nginx configuration.</p> <p></p> Sat, 18 May 2013 19:26:48 +0000 http://skitterman.wordpress.com/?p=261 http://skitterman.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/polls-closing-soon-kubuntu-council-elections-2013/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>As I’ve mentioned <a href="http://skitterman.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/kubuntu-council-elections-2013-nomination-period-has-ended/" target="_blank">before</a>, the 2013 Kubuntu Council elections are underway.  You’ve got just over two days left to vote, so if you’ve been procrastinating, mission accomplished, now go vote.</p> <br /> Sat, 18 May 2013 19:20:08 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-1056020341686421329 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/05/menambahkan-menu-satuan-pada.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Tadi siang karena sedang tidak ada kerjaan saya bongkar-bongkar kardus dan mengumpulkan barang-barang bekas yang sudah tidak terpakai untuk dijual ke tukang rongsok secara kiloan, seperti biasa saya berusaha membuat pembukuan apa yang dijual hari ini, karena dalam pembukuan tersebut harus membuat data dengan satuan kilogram (kg) sedangkan di LibreOffice Calc tidak tersedia menu satuan tersebut, Sat, 18 May 2013 16:19:56 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) http://blogs.fsfe.org/rcarreras/?p=148 http://blogs.fsfe.org/rcarreras/?p=148 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Last Saturday, the <a href="http://ubuntu.cat">Catalan LoCo Team</a> did its <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Activitats/RaringRingtail">Ubuntu Raring Ringtail Party at the Escola del Clot of Barcelona</a> with some 80 people present in the different speeches and installs.</p> <p><a href="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/P1020255.jpg"><img src="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/P1020255-300x225.jpg" alt="P1020255" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-910" width="300" /></a></p> <p>The day started with a little presentation about Ubuntu and Catalan LoCo Team. After that, there were two lectures from Sergi Grau: HTML5 and Android 4.2.</p> <p><a href="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/dunetna.jpeg"><img src="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/dunetna-300x179.jpeg" alt="dunetna" height="179" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-908" width="300" /></a></p> <p>Simultaneously, on other room, it was the speech about the <a href="http://dunetna.probeta.net/lib/exe/fetch.php/talks:xerrada-outreach-program-for-women.pdf"><em>Free &amp; Open Source Software Outreach for Women </em>Program</a> <span class="https">with Mònica Ramírez, Debian Developer.</span><em><a href="https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen" class="https"><br /> </a></em></p> <p class="line891"><a href="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/Oriol.jpeg"><img src="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/Oriol-300x225.jpeg" alt="Oriol" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-909" width="300" /></a></p> <p class="line891">After that, there were the talks about <a href="http://binefa.cat/danicollados/" class="http">Metadistributions based on Ubuntu</a> using <a href="http://www.remastersys.com/" class="http">Remastersys</a><span class="http"> with Jordi Binefa and </span><span class="http"><a href="http://chameleon.enging.com">ChameleonPI</a> (a Raspbian versions with games emulators for the Raspberry Pi) with its author Carles Oriol.</span><a href="http://chameleon.enging.com" class="http"><br /> </a></p> <p class="line891"><a href="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/Binefa.jpeg"><img src="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/Binefa-300x179.jpeg" alt="Binefa" height="179" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-906" width="300" /></a></p> <p class="line891">Joan de Gràcia presented the <a href="http://linkat.xtec.cat/" class="http">Linkat Edu</a> 12.04, the official Catalan public school GNU/Linux distro, for the first time based on Ubuntu, and Jordi Binefa showed <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Activitats/RaringRingtail?action=AttachFile&amp;do=view&amp;target=20121108MaqLliurePractic03.pdf" class="attachment" title="Maquinari lliure amb Ubuntu">Free hardware with Ubuntu</a>.</p> <p class="line891"><a href="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/P1020250.jpg"><img src="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/P1020250-300x225.jpg" alt="P1020250" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-912" width="300" /></a></p> <p class="line891">Meanwhile, on the install room, people worked on installations and clarification of doubts and we sold some LoCo Team T-shirts and gave away some Ubuntu installation and using guides.</p> <p class="line891">As always, we ended the party with a draw of some T-shirts and an Ubuntu Handbook.</p> <p class="line891"><a href="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/P1020268.jpg"><img src="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/files/2013/05/P1020268-300x225.jpg" alt="P1020268" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-911" width="300" /></a></p> <p class="line891">As you can see, after the party was completed, some of us went to lunch.</p> Sat, 18 May 2013 10:04:52 +0000 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.18/index.en.html https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.18/index.en.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Tails" width="96" height="96" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.18, is out.</p> <p>All users must upgrade as soon as possible.</p> <h1>Changes</h1> <p>Notable user-visible changes include:</p> <ul> <li><p>New features</p> <ul> <li>Support obfs3 bridges.</li> <li>Automatically <a href="https://tails.boum.org/news/../doc/first_steps/persistence/configure/index.en.html#additional_packages">install a custom list of additional packages</a> chosen by the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them once a network connection is established (technology preview).</li> </ul> </li> <li><p>Iceweasel</p> <ul> <li>Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.</li> <li>Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).</li> <li>Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage.</li> <li>HTTPS Everywhere 3.2</li> <li>NoScript 2.6.6.1-1</li> <li>Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage.</li> <li>Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.</li> <li>Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest Torbrowser patches.</li> <li>Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's, and generally clean them up.</li> </ul> </li> <li><p>Bugfixes</p> <ul> <li>Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.</li> <li>All Iceweasel prefs we set are now applied.</li> <li>Bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.</li> </ul> </li> <li><p>Minor improvements</p> <ul> <li>Set <code>kernel.dmesg_restrict=1</code>, and make <code>/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/</code> invisible and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.</li> <li>Install gnome-screenshot.</li> <li>Add a <em>About Tails</em> launcher in the <em>System</em> menu.</li> <li>Install GNOME accessibility themes.</li> <li>Use <em>Getting started...</em> as the homepage for the Tails documentation button.</li> <li>Disable audio preview in Nautilus.</li> </ul> </li> <li><p>Localization: many translation updates all over the place.</p></li> </ul> <p>See the <a href="http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/changelog;hb=refs/tags/0.18">online Changelog</a> for technical details.</p> <h1>Known issue</h1> <p>The web browser default search engine is Google, instead of the intended localized Startpage. You may select <em>Startpage HTTPS</em> in the search engine menu next to the Google icon.</p> <h1>I want to try it / to upgrade!</h1> <p>See the <a href="https://tails.boum.org/news/../getting_started/index.en.html">Getting started</a> page.</p> <p>As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of <a href="https://tails.boum.org/news/../support/known_issues/index.en.html">problems that affects the last release of Tails</a>.</p> <h1>What's coming up?</h1> <p>The next Tails release is scheduled for June 27.</p> <p>Have a look to our <a href="https://tails.boum.org/contribute/roadmap/">roadmap</a> to see where we are heading to.</p> <p>Would you want to help? As explained in our <a href="https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/index.en.html">"how to contribute" documentation</a>, there are many ways <strong>you</strong> can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!</p> Sat, 18 May 2013 09:23:45 +0000 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8037 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8037 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Since I left for my <a href="http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=7982">wedding</a> and <a href="http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8014">honey</a><a href="http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8035">moon</a> a bunch of things happened! <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2013-April/000171.html">Ubuntu 13.04 was released</a>, <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1252">13.10 was given the code name “Saucy Salamander”</a> and <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504">Debian 7.0 Wheezy came out</a>. Plus lots of exciting OpenStack development discussion that came out following the Summit (I left right after it). When I got back into the country on the 12th I had a lot to catch up on! I did my best to cram before sessions and certainly had to limit involvement to a handful of sessions that I was particularly keen on attending and so could get up to speed with quickly.</p> <p>This was the first virtual UDS I was able to participate in, so it was all new to me. Essentially the the “fish bowl” (as seen <a href="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/102012/uds-r_app_review_process_session.jpg">here</a>, I took this photo from my spot in the wider attendee seating) is replaced by a Google Hangout and the “wider attendee seating” is an IRC channel. For the 4 sessions I participated in this worked very well, session leads were pro-active about asking who wished to participate in the Hangout so everyone who wanted to was able to. A great deal of attention in all these sessions was given to the IRC channel, which is a contrast with in person UDS where the channel can sometimes get a bit left behind (even though it’s being projected, it was easy to forget once you get talking). I didn’t use the summit.ubuntu.com page for anything aside reference, preferring to pop out the etherpad and use my standard IRC client, but I appreciated it all being there as a resource (and I’m sure it was super helpful for newcomers to follow along!).</p> <div align="center"><img src="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/052013/cheri_uds_screenshot.png" alt="" border="0" /><br /> <small>Cheri Francis and others in the Ubuntu Women session</small></div> <p>I found the sessions I participated in to be productive and focused and when applicable resulted in a solid list of action items. I hope that the event also lessened the experience gap that was always present for in person vs. remote participants, we all got the same experience. Now I have to admit to not being a fan of using Google Hangouts for this (I like Google, but it is still a proprietary, closed-source tool that we have no control over), but I understand that the ease of use and immediate availability of videos on YouTube makes a compelling case. Perhaps my only other complaint is lack of cohesiveness that comes from an online event, I didn’t watch the introduction or the wrap up. I also didn’t participate in the “beer hangout” – I didn’t even know it was happening, and sitting in front of my computer with a beer in the middle of the day wasn’t particularly interesting to me. I only attended a few specific sessions and there was no “wandering into something that looks interesting” (instead I just went back to work) or the regular social down time we get to relax or sit down to hack on things. I do hope we can find some kind of replacement for the in-person events, it would be great to see something on the LoCo team level at conferences where we seek to have an expanded Ubuntu presence focused on contributors (perhaps an Ubucon with a participant track?).</p> <p>And the venue… it was at home! In order to participate in the hangout I did feel the need to leverage my multiple monitors.</p> <div align="center"><a href="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/052013/uds-1305-venue.jpg"><img src="http://princessleia.com/images/journalpics/052013/uds-1305-venue_sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /> <small>My desk is a bit chaotic</small></div> <p>Now the sessions themselves…</p> <p><strong><em> – Planning for Ubuntu Community presence on the Ubuntu Website – </em></strong></p> <p>This was not a particularly productive session as far as action items were concerned, but it turns out that while I was gone the removal of the “Community” link from ubuntu.com took on a life of its own (and boy was I surprised to see my name end up in a recent <a href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/ubuntu-and-the-missing-community-link.html">Datamation article about it</a>). Personally I was satisfied with <a href="http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/04/community-on-ubuntu-dot-com/">Daniel Holbach’s blog post on the subject</a> a day after the change was made, but it was nice to speak with with some folks from the Design team and allow everyone to confirm that no ill will was intended and that plans for a new and improved community site were moving forward. The session was kept short given the more structured session about the community site specifically planned for the following day.</p> <p>YouTube video of the session <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZcyGVPPHWQ">here</a></p> <p><strong><em> – Ubuntu Women UDS-1305 Goals – </em></strong></p> <p>Huge thanks to Silvia Bindelli and Cheri Francis for doing all of the leg work for this session while I was gone, I felt very comfortable reviewing their pre-session notes and found a really great, collaborative environment upon joining in. The discussion began talking about an information scavenger-hung competition that the team will be doing in the coming months, seeking volunteers to assist. It then moved into a topic that I was really happy to see on the agenda – a user poll to see how the team could be most effective in serving our audience of women interested in Ubuntu. I find that the project needs a bit of an adjustment every couple of years to refocus on our current targets as Ubuntu and the open source ecosystem evolves, so I’m excited that we’re doing this. Finally, much of the session was spent discussing our intention to further collaborate with other groups seeking to encourage women in open source (and in technology in general).</p> <p>YouTube video of the session <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uw9ipsmXkM">here</a> and I uploaded session notes <a href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~lyz/uds-1305/community-1305-ubuntu-women.txt">here</a></p> <p><strong><em> – Revamping ubuntu.com/community – </em></strong></p> <p>Picking up from where discussion left off the previous day, this session was a focused on on concrete things that need to be done to get the proposed community website that was under development reviewed and published. I admit that job change + wedding planning had my attention diverted this past cycle so I wasn’t able to contribute to this project, but I made sure to spend time the night before to do a review of the content so I’d be prepared. I was able to go through some of my suggestions during the meeting and took a few action items to continue with a more thorough review and to collect some quotes and photos from the community to make the site more personal and approachable.</p> <p>YouTube video of the session <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po0D6BB43Us">here</a> and I uploaded session notes <a href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~lyz/uds-1305/community-1305-community-website-revamp.txt">here</a></p> <p><strong><em> – Shaping a plan for the future of Ubuntu Documentation Team – </em></strong></p> <p>I can’t begin to say how pleased I was to see this session land on the agenda. The Ubuntu Doc team has been a very small team for a long time, and new contributors have struggled to participate as the docs for writing the docs got stale to a point where they were not useful. We’re at a very exciting time now where we have limited support from a couple of the (very busy!) former drivers of this team and at least two strong contributors who have committed to moving the project forward. The first thing on the agenda was addressing the updating of docs so that more contributors can get on-boarded. I was able to pitch in with a couple action items to nudge things along a bit, but I’m hopeful that this is the beginning of an exciting new phase for the team.</p> <p>YouTube video of the session <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkiDyZY28Y">here</a> and I uploaded session notes <a href="http://people.ubuntu.com/~lyz/uds-1305/community-1305-doc-planning.txt">here</a></p> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davemedia/6229988285/" title="Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) by DaveHuth, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6231/6229988285_b642542763_n.jpg" alt="Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus)" height="239" width="320" /></a><br /> <small>A Slimy Salamander (wait, you said <em>Saucy</em>?)</small></div> <p><strong><em> – Xubuntu – </em></strong></p> <p>Since the event was online, the Xubuntu team took advantage of the flexibility and ended up pulling their sessions from UDS proper and scheduling our sessions for the hour <em>after</em> UDS each day to tackle a <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+spec/client-xubuntu-1305-dev">series</a> <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+spec/client-xubuntu-1305-aob">of</a> <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+spec/client-xubuntu-1305-software">blueprints</a> designed for the coming months. I was able to use my YouTube account + Hangouts to replicate that portion of what main UDS was doing.</p> <p>Discussion of most interest to me centered around our testing+release plans (should we do alphas? betas? which ones?) and documentation, but discussion of our limited developer force (want to grow it!), a proposal for a shortcut overlay and default applications also were discussed. A much better summary was posted on the Xubuntu website yesterday: <a href="http://xubuntu.org/news/looking-towards-xubuntu-13-10/">Looking towards Xubuntu 13.10</a>. Pasi Lallinaho also wrote bullet-point style summaries of <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2013-May/008904.html">Night 1</a> and <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2013-May/008906.html">Night 2</a> which include links to their respective YouTube videos.</p> <p>In all, a productive UDS for me, I have a lot of work to do… :)</p> Sat, 18 May 2013 03:42:03 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-6121644413800782655 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/03/mencetak-1-tulisan-panjang-ke-beberapa.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Pernah membuat tulisan besar-besar dan ingin di cetak secara bersambung dalam beberapa kertas, misal ingin membuat tulisan pengumuman dengan ukuran 100 x 50cm namun printer hanya mendukung untuk kertas dengan lebar maksimal 21,5 cm dan kertas yang tersedia hanya ukuran  A4 (21,00 x 29,70 cm) Tidak tahu caranya?, tidak usah galau, baca tulisan ini sampai selesai dan ikuti caranya Buka Sat, 18 May 2013 03:05:06 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-8243258238404211556 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/05/benarkah-menggunakan-linux-itu-sulit.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Dari beberapa obrolan dengan teman-teman baik obrolan secara nyata maupun lewat jejaring sosial banyak bilang jika memakai Linux itu Sulit, biasanya akan saya jawab “memang Linux itu sulit, saya aja gak bisa memakainya”, biasanya mereka akan tanya lagi “lha katanya gak pakai Windows, tapi gak pakai Linux juga”  kalau mau tahu jawabannya, baca tulisan ini sampai selsesai :D Open Source Sat, 18 May 2013 02:52:06 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) http://sourceforge.netd7c0499dd606ee6c8f46f00a146347279f4a5c10 http://sourceforge.net/p/whonix/featureblog/2013/05/looking-for-someone-to-create-a-graphic-to-explain-whonixs-stream-isolation-feature/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Whonix" width="100" height="97" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <div class="markdown_content"><p>The details behind that feature will be explained and you will be hand over a draft.</p> <p>Please contact me by mail:<br /> adrelanos at riseup dot net</p></div> Sat, 18 May 2013 02:48:39 +0000 http://blog.pault.ag/post/50695219168 http://blog.pault.ag/post/50695219168 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/8a9d714312ae334e1920a88beaf79ce9/tumblr_inline_mmz1avgwoJ1qz4rgp.png" /></p> <p></p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://doctormo.org/" target="_blank">DoctorMo</a> for the hilarious photo. It’s just so good.</p> <p>We’ve got Classes working, the usual fixes from the ‘crew, and native macros. Huzzah! </p> <p>I’ve had to take the site down for now (well, stop updating it) because of a vulnerability I introduced (macros allow arbitrary code to run), which means, if anyone’s keen, they should add the sandboxing code to the <a href="https://github.com/hylang/shyte" target="_blank">Hy Site</a> as well!</p> <p>More coming soon!</p> Sat, 18 May 2013 01:58:04 +0000 http://erielookingproductions.info/ubuntu/2013/05/35-an-update-in-notes/ http://erielookingproductions.info/ubuntu/2013/05/35-an-update-in-notes/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <h1>Ubuntu Ohio Leader Notes for 2013-05-17</h1> <h2>Continuing Attacks on freenode</h2> <p>Prior to the start of the recently concluded Ubuntu Developer Summit many saw freenode become subject to Denial of Service attacks. I first noticed such on May 11th. There recently has been a <a href="http://blog.freenode.net/2013/05/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/">blog post made</a> explaining the situation on freenode's administrative side. </p> <p>As a bit of a contingency I am encouraging members of Ubuntu Ohio to update their Launchpad profiles by editing their listed Jabber (otherwise known as XMPP) IDs so that we have a bit of a roster there. We may end up considering a fall-back XMPP Conference Room if freenode hits heavier pockets of turbulence. For now the implementation of that conundrum is left as something for us as an interesting hypothetical to consider for the moment. Anybody who has ideas about how to implement such an XMPP Conference Room is encouraged to edit <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam/XMPP">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam/XMPP</a> on the Ubuntu Wiki Infrastructure to further collaboration. </p> <h2>Podcast Resumption</h2> <p>The two week suspension of <em>Burning Circle</em> should be wrapping up this week and a new episode is expected to be released on Monday, May 20th. </p> <h2>Ubuntu Developer Summit May 2013</h2> <p>The proceedings of Ubuntu Developer Summit May 2013 have concluded and I urge you to view the resulting YouTube videos created from the various Google Hangouts. One thing that was noted was that having this happen at the same time as Google I/O was a bad thing. The Xubuntu folks held some parallel sessions and <a href="http://xubuntu.org/news/looking-towards-xubuntu-13-10/">published a blog post with summaries and an outline of their work plan for the Saucy Salamander cycle</a>. </p> <p>If this scheduling pattern continues the next summit should be held in August 2013. That will place it one month before Ohio Linux Fest 2013. </p> <h2>Ohio Linux Fest 2013</h2> <p>I have received a communication from Robert Ball concerning getting a table at Ohio Linux Fest 2013. I would like to deputize someone in our community located outside Ashtabula County to sign the contract for such and to handle that matter. Please contact me directly at skellat@ubuntu.com and we can discuss the matter. </p> <p>An offer was received from Jorge Castro <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=cNiDCNirzvs">during a UDS session</a> to bring in some people to assist with presenting an UbuCon. I still encourage members of our community to think of what they would like to present as we will get close to my issuing a call for topics. I do <strong>not</strong> currently have confirmation that space is available yet for us to do this but will be following up with Ohio Linux Fest organizers. </p> <h2>Ubuntu Ohio Projects For The Saucy Salamander Cycle</h2> <p>As a community we have three or four projects to consider during the Saucy Salamander cycle. </p> <ol> <li>Consider the creation of a fall-back XMPP Conference Room</li> <li>Prepare for Ohio Linux Fest 2013</li> <li>The Ubuntu Advocacy Kit</li> <li>Mentoring &amp; Shepherding Community Members To Become Ubuntu Members</li> </ol> <p>The first two items have been dealt with above. Jono Bacon and I engaged in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=PkAiP2-BfUQ">colloquy during an Ubuntu Developer Summit session</a> about our community perhaps assisting in the development of the Ubuntu Advocacy Kit. Jono discussed further <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/16/getting-the-ubuntu-advocacy-kit-to-1-0/">on his blog</a> about the need for help with bringing the kit to version 1.0 and provides some basic instructions on how to get started. If there are community members who are interested in participating please follow the directions and dig in. If we need to spend time going over the mechanics of contributing using Bazaar, please let me know so that I can schedule an educational session. </p> <p>The last project matter is one that I am taking on which is to help mentor and shepherd members of our community through the process of attaining <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership">Ubuntu Membership</a>. Across the planet there are only 784 Ubuntu Members <a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntumembers">in the relevant Launchpad group</a> at the time this is written. I want to help people grow in the community and become increasingly responsible for its growth and maintenance. This is an important step. </p> <h2>AND FINALLY...</h2> <p>NewsChannel 5 WEWS in Cleveland <a href="http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/state/ohio-unemployment-rate-drops-slightly">reports that the State of Ohio's average unemployment rate dropped by one-tenth of one percentage point to seven percent</a>. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has a press release <a href="http://jfs.ohio.gov/RELEASES/unemp/201305/index.stm">posted</a> which provides a break-down of where employment shifted between March 2013 and April 2013. A table showing the changes by industrial group <a href="http://jfs.ohio.gov/RELEASES/unemp/201305/NonagEmpTable.stm">is also posted</a>.</p> Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=5408 http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/17/dogfooding-the-ubuntu-phone-my-early-experience/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>As many of you will know, our goal is to <a href="http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/05/woof-woof.html">get the Ubuntu phone in a state where it can be used on a daily basis for testing</a>, and importantly, finding bugs, UI issues, and other details that help us to refine the overall Ubuntu Touch experience. Progress is <a href="http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/05/at-end-of-april-we-set-goal-to-have.html">on-track for the end of May</a>.</p> <p>I decided to start dogfooding a little early (please remember, we are shooting for the beginning of July to be broadly in shape for dogfooding, so if you try, don’t expect things to be ready right now), so today I put my SIM card in my Galaxy Nexus with Ubuntu Touch and things are working pretty well so far. It seems that my data is no longer getting wiped on image updates, which helps testing significantly, so I am <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install">regularly upgrading with the daily images</a>.</p> <p><em>As ever, if you decide to test, you are doing so at your own risk…don’t be surprised to see bugs, crashes, and potential data loss (although I have not seen any data loss so far)</em>.</p> <p>Some notes about my experience dogfooding:</p> <ul> <li>Making and recieving phone calls works well. I am using T-Mobile as my network.</li> <li>Sending and recieving texts works well too. Messages appear chronologically.</li> <li>Contact syncing is not in place but Sergio <a href="http://sergiusens.github.io/posts/google-contacts-on-ubuntu-touch.html">blogged about how to sync your contacts from Google</a>. This has made my phone infinitely more useful and rather nicely, it pulls in the avatars too so I can see who is calling me. <img src="http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </li> <li>Browsing and connecting to wireless networks works well.</li> <li>The browser works well overall, although currently requires wifi (3G browsing coming soon).</li> <li>Camera works well (for still photos, video not implemented yet) and I can browse my pictures in the gallery.</li> <li>Many of the community-written <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps">core apps</a> are present and working. Calendar lets me save and browse calendar events (although syncing with a calendar service is not there yet). Weather shows me the weather for my area right now and a week long forcast. Calculator is working and largely feature-complete. Other core apps are on their way to the daily image soon.</li> <li>Overall the core Unity UI is working well. I can search for apps, load them, quit them, multi-tasting works well, and the indicators work (for adjusting volume etc).</li> </ul> <p>The primary blockers in my way right now for normal use out and about are:</p> <ul> <li>The screen does not auto shut-off. This means if the screen gets turned on in my pocket it never turns off and the battery dies.</li> <li>Speakerphone not wired into the UI yet.</li> <li>Can’t set the time on the phone yet. Also, the alarm feature in the clock doesn’t work; I need this to get me up in the morning. <img src="http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </li> <li>Not so much a blocker, but the phone is still filled with example material and contacts. They need to be removed.</li> </ul> <p>All of these are on the TODO list for completion by the end of the month.</p> <p>I have been filing bugs for a bunch of the issues I am seeing on a day to day basis and the team are working hard to hit the end of May goal. Overall progress is looking good.</p> <p>Although I have been using the daily images for quite some time on a phone without a SIM card, using as an actual phone is even more motivating than before. I can feel the phone coming together and when we get many of these issues fixed, it is going to deliver a far superior experience than the Android phone I was using before.</p> Fri, 17 May 2013 22:38:11 +0000 http://lihuen.linti.unlp.edu.ar/index.php?title=Noticias#.C2.A1Lihuen_5_beta_1_publicada.21 http://lihuen.linti.unlp.edu.ar/index.php?title=Noticias#.C2.A1Lihuen_5_beta_1_publicada.21 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Lihuen" width="100" height="100" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <div class="date"><b>18:08 17 may 2013 (ART)~</b></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div style="width: 302px;" class="thumbinner"><a href="http://lihuen.linti.unlp.edu.ar/index.php?title=Archivo:Lihuen_5_-_Cinnamon.png" class="image"><img src="http://lihuen.linti.unlp.edu.ar/images/thumb/7/79/Lihuen_5_-_Cinnamon.png/300px-Lihuen_5_-_Cinnamon.png" alt="" height="169" class="thumbimage" width="300" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="http://lihuen.linti.unlp.edu.ar/index.php?title=Archivo:Lihuen_5_-_Cinnamon.png" class="internal" title="Aumentar"><img src="http://lihuen.linti.unlp.edu.ar/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" height="11" width="15" /></a></div>Escritorio Cinnamon con el tema Bluebird</div></div></div> <p>Ya está disponible en el área de descargas la primer versión beta de Lihuen 5 (basada en Debian Wheezy). </p><p>Al igual que la versión anterior hay ediciones para 32 y 64bits y múltiples variantes. En esta versión estrenamos el escritorio Cinnamon (originalmente de Linux Mint) como reemplazo para Gnome 2 y como siempre seguimos teniendo LXDE para equipos no tan potentes o para usuarios que quieren un entorno de escritorio rápido y sencillo. <br style="clear: both;" /></p> Fri, 17 May 2013 21:19:45 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349425905862300662.post-7708889036559897608 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifdefLinux/~3/GO_0VHS26VE/a-simple-two-player-qml-game-for-ubuntu.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Inspired by <a href="http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/">Rick</a>'s recent blog posts, and keen to write a blog post with a ridiculously long title, I've been reading up on QML recently. Still bearing the scars from the XML horrors of working with J2EE in the early days, that 3-byte acronym ending in "ML" initially subconsciously somewhat filled me with trepidation. However, as soon as I actually <i>saw</i> some QML, I could see these fears were unfounded (! :-)  And in fact I now <i>love</i> QML. It's clean, elegant, powerful, declarative and (OMG YAY!) you can even "%-bounce" on the braces in vim! :-) That said, the qtcreator IDE is extremely good, managing to provide just enough of what you want without requiring endless additional configuration.<br /> <br /> But it doesn't stop there. The <a href="http://design.ubuntu.com/">Design Team</a> have done some <i>incredible</i> work in creating the <a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/overview-ubuntu-sdk.html">Ubuntu SDK</a> components: not only do they look fantastic (if you have the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ubuntu-ui-toolkit-examples</span> package installed, try running <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">/usr/lib/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/demos/launch_componentshowcase</span>), they are also extremely flexible and powerful.<br /> <br /> As Rick has mentioned, it does take a while to grok the "QML-ish" way of doing things. And if like me you spend most of your time writing in imperative languages, initially you just think "a<i>ll this QML is wonderful, but where do I actually put the code?</i>". But then you have the epiphany moment when you realise you're <i>already</i> writing "the code" - in many cases, you don't need anything beyond the declarative QML itself.<br /> <br /> <h2> I Need an Itch to Scratch</h2> <br /> The only real way to learn a new language is to use it. But what to do? I wanted to code something simple and fun, like a game. There are already few games on the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Collection">Collections page</a> so I needed to think of a <i>really</i> simple one that is also fun to play. How about a game that even children can appreciate? Of course - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe">Noughts and Crosses</a> (aka <i>tic-tac-toe</i>)!<br /> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/jamesodhunt/qml-noughts-and-crosses">https://github.com/jamesodhunt/qml-noughts-and-crosses</a> (GPLv3)</li> </ul> Note that the code is pretty rudimentary right now, but it's just about usable ;-)<br /> <br /> <h2> Design</h2> This is a simple game so we only need a few objects: <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cell</span>, <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span> and <a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/qml-ubuntu-components0-mainview.html">MainView</a>.<br /> <br /> The <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">MainView</span> is the container for the application and includes a <a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/qml-ubuntu-components0-page.html">Page</a> and the actual <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span> object. The only property we specify for the game is the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">boardSize</span> of <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3</span> giving us a 3x3 board. Technically, we don't actually even need to specify this since -- as we're about to see -- 3x3 is the default board size anyway. So, the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span> object could be specified minimally as "<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game {}</span>". However, I've left it specified as a reminder to myself that ultimately I'd like to pass a variable to allow the board size to be specified at game creation time.<br /> <br /> Here is a slightly simplified version of the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">MainView</span> (<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">noughts-and-crosses.qml</span>): <br /> <br /> <pre class="brush: javascript">import QtQuick 2.0 import Ubuntu.Components 0.1 MainView { Page { title: "Noughts and Crosses" id: page Game { // change this to whatever value you want for an NxN-sized board boardSize: 3 } } } </pre> <br /> <br /> The <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span> object is a <a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-column.html">Column</a> and comprises a <a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/qml-ubuntu-components0-label.html">Label</a>, to show some text relating to the game, and a <a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-grid.html">Grid</a> to actually represent the game. There is some magic going on in the grid as it uses the very cool <a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-repeater.html">Repeater</a> object to make laying out the grid easy: for a 3x3 board it creates 9 <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cell</span> objects and packs them into the grid. Here's a cut-down version of the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span> object:<br /> <br /> <pre class="brush: javascript">Column { property alias boardSize: gameGrid.boardSize Label { id: text text: "Noughts goes first" } Grid { id: gameGrid // Default to a 3x3 board (we only support square boards). property real boardSize: 3 // toggled between "O" and "X". The value specified below denotes // which side goes first. property string player: "O" columns: boardSize rows: boardSize // layout the appropriate number of cells for the board size Repeater { id: gridRepeater model: boardSize * boardSize Cell { width: 100 height: width } } } } </pre> <br /> Note the property alias for boardSize in the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Column</span> object - it exposes a <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">boardSize</span> variable which is just a way to access the real variable of the same name within the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Grid</span> object. Note too that we tell the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Grid</span> object its dimensions by setting its <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">columns</span> and <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">rows</span> properties.<br /> <br /> The <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span> object also contains a chunk of Javascript in the form of the <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">checkForWin()</span> function to determine whether a move resulted in the game being won.<br /> <br /> The <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cell</span> object is the most interesting object. A <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cell</span> represents an individual location on the board. It is constructed from a <a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-rectangle.html">Rectangle</a> and comprises a <a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-text.html">Text</a> value. The text value is either a middle-dot (to denote the cell has not yet been selected), a "<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">O</span>" or a "<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">X</span>". It also includes a <a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-mousearea.html">MouseArea</a> that specifies the new cell state to apply when the cell is clicked. Initially, the state is middle-dot but when the cell is clicked, the state is changed to the value of the parent (<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span>) objects <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">player</span> property. The <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cell</span> object specifies 3 <a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qml-qtquick2-state.html">states</a> to represent every possible value a <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cell</span> can display. What's neat here is that changing the cells state also toggles the parent (<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Game</span>) objects <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">player</span> property which allows the game to proceed with each player taking a turn. Clicking a cell also calls the <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">checkForWin()</span>function to determine if a particular turn results in the game being won. Here's the complete <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cell</span> object:<br /> <br /> <pre class="brush: javascript">Rectangle { id: cell state: gameGrid.defaultText property alias textColor: cellText.color Text { id: cellText text: parent.state color: "silver" anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter anchors.verticalCenter: parent.verticalCenter font.pointSize: 48 } states: [ State { name: cell.parent.defaultText PropertyChanges { target: gameGrid; player: "" } }, State { name: "O" PropertyChanges { target: gameGrid; player: cell.state } }, State { name: "X" PropertyChanges { target: gameGrid; player: cell.state } } ] // when clicked, MouseArea { anchors.fill: parent onClicked: { cell.state = (gameGrid.player == "O" ? "X" : "O"); gameGrid.numberTurns += 1 gameGrid.checkForWin(); } } } </pre> <br /> <h2> Winning Algorithm</h2> The approach I've taken is very simplistic: just scan each row, column and diagonal looking for a winning run. This <i>isn't</i> particularly efficient (we're scanning the board multiple times) but that's not a problem for small board sizes. However, it has two fairly compelling attributes:<br /> <br /> <br /> <ul> <li>It's simple to understand</li> <li>It works for arbitrary-sized boards.</li> </ul> <br /> My favourite alternative algorithm is to make use of the properties of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square">Magic Squares</a>. Using these, you can scan the board a single time to determine if a player has one. This is achieved by determining if a cell has been selected by a player and if so incrementing their counter based on the magic square value for that index. For a 3x3 board, if a players total equals 15, they win!<br /> <br /> <h2> Screenshots</h2> <div> So, what does it look like at this early beta stage...?<br /> <br /> Start of a new game:</div> <div> <br /></div> <div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"> <a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rlPYWTJf7bU/UZYh2oMinnI/AAAAAAAAAYk/l_-z7PveGzw/s1600/noughts-and-crosses-new-board.png"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rlPYWTJf7bU/UZYh2oMinnI/AAAAAAAAAYk/l_-z7PveGzw/s320/noughts-and-crosses-new-board.png" height="320" border="0" width="258" /></a></div> <br /> We have a winner!<br /> <br /> <div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"> <a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xhvlpn3Gseo/UZYh_OasCCI/AAAAAAAAAYs/JMys2ZUsgeA/s1600/noughts-and-crosses-win.png"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xhvlpn3Gseo/UZYh_OasCCI/AAAAAAAAAYs/JMys2ZUsgeA/s320/noughts-and-crosses-win.png" height="320" border="0" width="258" /></a></div> <br /> Another winner on a 7x7 board (the person playing crosses needs more practice me thinks :-):<br /> <br /> <div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"> <a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e7My0PUMUOI/UZZRuvzcvpI/AAAAAAAAAY8/WkxrGC_Cwac/s1600/noughts-and-crosses-7x7-win.png"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e7My0PUMUOI/UZZRuvzcvpI/AAAAAAAAAY8/WkxrGC_Cwac/s320/noughts-and-crosses-7x7-win.png" height="320" border="0" width="278" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <h2> What's Next</h2> <div> <ul> <li>The javascript code is currently horrid and needs to be refactored with dynamite.</li> <li>Add ability to play "the computer".</li> <li>Config option to allow variable-sided playing grids.</li> <li>Once the game is stopped, we need to disallow further board clicks.</li> <li>Leverage more QML facilities to simplify the code further.</li> <li>Visual improvements (animation for a winning run maybe?)</li> <li>Ability to change player that starts.</li> <li>Score-keeping and "best of '<i>n</i>' games " support (particularly useful when the kids beat you repeatedly ;-)</li> <li>Menu to start new game.</li> </ul> </div> <div> The code is on github, so get forking!<br /> <br /> <h2> In Conclusion</h2> My "clean-room" implementation is far from perfect at the moment, but it's been a fantastic learning exercise so far and a <i>lot</i> of fun!<br /> <br /> There are of course other QML noughts-and-crosses games out there. They come with varying licenses, some use C++ for the game logic, and most -- if not all -- are hard-coded to produce a 3x3 board only. Additionally, they generally use graphical representations for the noughts and crosses whereas here, I'm just using styled text. If you're interested, compare my github code with, for example, the Qt version to see the different approaches taken:<br /> <ul> <li><a href="http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/declarative-toys-tic-tac-toe.html">http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/declarative-toys-tic-tac-toe.html</a></li> </ul> </div> <h2> See Also</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Collection">Ubuntu Touch Collections pag</a>e</li> <li><a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/overview-ubuntu-sdk.html">Ubuntu SDK documentation</a></li> <li><a href="https://qt-project.org/doc/">https://qt-project.org/doc/</a></li> </ul> <br /> <br /> Fri, 17 May 2013 18:37:15 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (James Hunt) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497847932106835950.post-2496319537667779235 http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/05/at-end-of-april-we-set-goal-to-have.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKfAh1ICEAAV7T-.jpg:large"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKfAh1ICEAAV7T-.jpg:large" height="320" border="0" width="240" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of April, we set the goal to have Ubuntu Touch be <a href="http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/05/woof-woof.html">dogfoodable</a> on the Nexus and Nexus 4 phones. By that we mean, the goal is to make it so that we can use our phones exclusively as our phones. Today I chatted with some of the engineering managers involved to see how much progress we have made towards that. I am happy to say that it looks like we are still on track for this goal. However, there do appear to be some risky parts, so I am keeping my fingers crossed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can make and receive phone calls: Done!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can make and receive sms messages: Done!</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can browse the web on 3g data: Tony had been blocked on some technical issues, but thinks he's through them, so is in the debugging phase. He expects to have this done by end of May as per the dogfooding goal. For me, personally, this is the only missing part for me to be able to use the phone as my main phone around town. So, if Tony cracks this nut, then I will put away my old phone and start using my Ubuntu Phone exclusively.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can browse the web on wifi: Done! This has actually been done for quite a while.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can switch between wifi and 3g data: There are 2 parts to this work. There is low level networking code to get done, and then there is UI to enable it. That means that the Phone Foundations team and the Desktop team both have work to do. Both teams expect to get it done for May, but the work is not started yet.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The proximity sensore dims the screen when you lift the phone to talk on it: There are two parts to this also. Gather the sensor data and then making the phone app use the sensor data. Work has not started for this part either.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can import contacts from somewhere, and you can add and edit contacts: There is some work done on this that imports from a *.csv file. I expect there will be some crude support for this in time for the May goal. It might be fun for someone to try out a more elegant implementation. Ubuntu Phone is using Evolution Data Server for the contacts store, so there may be folks out there who already have the experience to do this easily.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you update your phone your user data is retained, even if updating with phablet-flash: Done! This part being done makes the contacts import less important to me because as I add contacts they won't get blown away. On the other hand, it means it is worth it to import contacts, since you won't have to re-important as you update your phone each day (while it is in development).</span></li></ul><br /><div><br /></div> Fri, 17 May 2013 18:07:44 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Rick Spencer) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016709139053396535.post-3764834563817270491 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ASmackerelOfOpinion/~3/HT_k-JOZIjo/kernel-tracing-using-lttng.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> LTTng (<span id="slogan">Linux Trace Toolkit - next generation) is a highly efficient system tracer that allows tracing of the kernel and userspace. It also provides tools to view and analyse the gathered trace data.  So let's see how to install and use LTTng kernel tracing in Ubuntu. First, one has to install the LTTng userspace tools: </span><br /> <pre><span id="slogan"><span id="slogan"><code style="color: black;"> sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lttng-tools </code></span></span></pre> <span id="slogan"> <span id="slogan"> LTTng was already <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-saucy.git;a=commit;h=ec6810d99bd324b542c616d5cd667cfc1ae79f38">recently added</a> into the Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy kernel, however, with earlier releases one needs to install the LTTng kernel driver using lttng-modules-dkms as follows:<br /> </span></span><br /> <pre><span id="slogan"><span id="slogan"><code style="color: black;"> sudo apt-get install lttng-modules-dkms </code></span></span></pre> <span id="slogan"><span id="slogan"> It is a good idea to sanity check to see if the tools and driver are installed correctly, so first check to see the available kernel events on your machine:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> sudo lttng list -k </code></pre> And you should get a list similar to the following:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> Kernel events: ------------- mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint) mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint) mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint) mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint) mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint) .. </code></pre> Next, we need to create a tracing session:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> sudo lttng create examplesession </code></pre> ..and enable events to be traced using:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> sudo lttng enable-event sched_process_exec -k </code></pre> One can also specify multiple events as a comma separated list. Next, start the tracing using:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> sudo lttng start </code></pre> and to stop and complete the tracing use:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> sudo lttng stop sudo lttng destroy </code></pre> and the trace data will be saved in the directory ~/lttng-traces/examplesession-[date]-[time]/.  One can examine the trace data using the babeltrace tool, for example:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> sudo babeltrace ~/lttng-traces/examplesession-20130517-125533 </code></pre> And you should get a list similar to the following:<br /> <pre><code style="color: black;"> [12:56:04.490960303] (+?.?????????) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 2 }, { filename = "/usr/bin/firefox", tid = 4892, old_tid = 4892 } [12:56:04.493116594] (+0.002156291) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 0 }, { filename = "/usr/bin/which", tid = 4895, old_tid = 4895 } [12:56:04.496291224] (+0.003174630) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 2 }, { filename = "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox", tid = 4892, old_tid = 4892 } [12:56:05.472770438] (+0.976479214) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 2 }, { filename = "/usr/lib/libunity-webapps/unity-webapps-service", tid = 4910, old_tid = 4910 } [12:56:05.478117340] (+0.005346902) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 2 }, { filename = "/usr/bin/ubuntu-webapps-update-index", tid = 4912, old_tid = 4912 } [12:56:10.834043409] (+5.355926069) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 3 }, { filename = "/usr/bin/top", tid = 4937, old_tid = 4937 } [12:56:13.668306764] (+2.834263355) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 3 }, { filename = "/bin/ps", tid = 4938, old_tid = 4938 } [12:56:16.047191671] (+2.378884907) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 3 }, { filename = "/usr/bin/sudo", tid = 4939, old_tid = 4939 } [12:56:16.059363974] (+0.012172303) x220i sched_process_exec: { cpu_id = 3 }, { filename = "/usr/bin/lttng", tid = 4940, old_tid = 4940 } </code></pre> The LTTng <a href="http://lttng.org/">wiki</a> contains many useful <a href="https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng-tools/wiki">worked examples </a>and is well worth exploring.<br /> <br /> As it stands, LTTng is relatively light weight.   <a href="http://mdh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:325301/FULLTEXT01">Research by Romik Guha Anjoy and Soumya Kanti Chakraborty</a> shows that LTTng describes how the CPU overhead is ~1.6% on a Intel® CoreTM 2 Quad with four 64 bit Q9550 cores.  With measurements I've made with oprofile on a Nexus 4 with 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor shows a CPU overhead of &lt; 1% for kernel tracing.  In flight recorder mode, one can generate a lot of trace data. For example, with all tracing enabled running multiple stress tests I was able to generate ~850K second of trace data, so this will obviously impact disk I/O.</span></span><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:4cEx4HpKnUU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?i=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:4cEx4HpKnUU" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?i=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?i=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?i=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?a=HT_k-JOZIjo:8_gbsOgR1KY:TzevzKxY174"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ASmackerelOfOpinion?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0" /></a> </div> Fri, 17 May 2013 14:47:03 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Colin Ian King) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-5593474597150234337 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/03/menyisipkan-obyek-pada-presentasi.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Tulisan ini merupakan lanjutan dari tulisan saya sebelumnya berjudul "Mengenal Perangkat Lunak Untuk Presentasi", pada tulisan tersebut kita sudah mengenal aplikasi untuk presentasi dan sedikit cara menggunakannya. Menyisipkan Obyek  Buat presentasi seperti yang saya tulis pada artikel sebelumnya, kemudian sisipkan salindia baru dengan cara melakukan klik "Sisip -&gt;&gt; Salindia Tulis Judul Fri, 17 May 2013 14:07:00 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-2473626262576799300 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/04/menulis-karakter-khusus-di-inkscape.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Untuk Anda pemakai aplikasi Open Source dan yang hoby menggambar tentunya tidak asing lagi dengan yang namanya Inkscape, ya Inkscape memang salah satu aplikasi untuk menggambar Vektor dari yang sederhana sampai yang rumit, selain untuk menggambar kita juga dapat membuat tulisan dengan apliaksi ini dengan menggunakan menu Text Tool yang berada pada menu Tool Box, selain untuk membuat tulisan Fri, 17 May 2013 12:56:26 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096047966811532865.post-5424989034342128261 http://imgos-belajarlinux.blogspot.com/2013/04/mengenal-antarmuka-inkscape_18.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Antarmuka Inkscape Antarmuka Inkscape terdiri dari, nama aplikasi, menu dan command bar, control bar, kanvas, toolbox, pallete, status bar, dan lain-lain. Sebelum menggunakan program pengolah gambar Inkscape sebaiknya kita mengenal dulu beberapa menu penting yang ada pada Inkscape, karena dengan mengenal menu-menu penting tersebut akan mempermudah dalam penggunaan program ini: Fri, 17 May 2013 12:55:56 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Istana Media) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432566687488141671.post-6086640457801542115 http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2013/05/tea-and-cookies-for-your-new-team.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> What does every development team want? New contributors!<br /><br />I'd like to suggest a simple process that can turn visitors to your website, list or IRC channel into a successful part of the development team. When people actually contribute, they quickly feel like a valuable part of the group. New people bring fresh energy, and new ideas.<br /><br />At your next sprint or meeting, start dreaming. Is your user documentation well-written and up-to-date? Do you need promotion, or video guides? How about art or diagrams for your website? Speaking of your website, when was the last time all the links were tested, and it was checked for spelling and grammar? Create a nice, friendly list of tasks for your newcomers.<br /><br />Could your codebase use some grooming, for common misspellings, for instance? (EBN is a great source for these). When you run across a bit of code which needs pruning or refactoring, or normalizing signal-slot stuff, the easy thing is to fix it while it's in front of your eyes. Instead, consider which of these small tasks can be filed as a "Junior Job", created for the purpose of getting those knowledgeable people to move from faithful user, to part of the team.<br /><br />The Bugsquad and Quality Control teams can likely suggest more ideas, too.<br /><br />KDE Junior Jobs can be easily found: <a href="http://kde.org/jj">http://kde.org/jj</a>. Teams can create their own shortcut links too, such as Amarok has done, listed in the #amarok IRC channel topic: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/amarokjjs">http://tinyurl.com/amarokjjs</a>. Other tasks can be blogged about, posted on a trello, on the Community wiki; whatever your team likes to use. For more ideas, see <a href="http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved">http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved</a>.<br /><br />The Kubuntu team has a list of tasks in Trello, which works well.<br /><br />So, when you feel like not fixing a little issue, don't feel lazy. Feel responsible! File a bug, make it a JJ, and call attention to those issues when new folks show up and ask, <i>how can I help?</i><br /><br /><br />PS: Thanks to the #kde-www team for suggesting this blog. Einar77, neverdingo, mamarok; you are wonderful.<br /><br />PPS: How LibreOffice does it: <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks</a><br /> Fri, 17 May 2013 09:42:35 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Valorie Zimmerman) http://xubuntu.org/?p=1723 http://xubuntu.org/news/looking-towards-xubuntu-13-10/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>After three Nights of Xubuntu, the Xubuntu team is able to present you a quick overview of some of the planned features and improvements for Xubuntu 13.10. Enjoy!</p> <h2>Software and development</h2> <p>On the software side, <a href="http://apt-offline.alioth.debian.org/">apt-offline</a> will be included in our default installation after a few cycles of preparing and writing documentation for it. This will help our users who have impaired-bandwidth situations and usage documentation is already present in the 13.04 offline documentation. The team is also considering the possibility to add a <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/KeyboardShortcutsOverlay">keyboard shortcuts overlay</a> to help new (and why not old) users with their shortcuts-fu. Finally, the team is looking to improve the Pavucontrol user interface to make it more intuitive.</p> <p>The team also discussed if a heads-up display (HUD) would fit to the Xubuntu paradigm and if it would be viable to implement. The team decided that including or working with one should be postponed until after the long-term support (LTS) release since there isn’t a proof of concept of a HUD suitable for Xubuntu ready and developing one would take a lot of developer time. Further inquiry can take place, though.</p> <p>Besides the additions and improvements to software, the team roughly discussed including a Xubuntu core meta package which would include only a basic system without various applications seen in the current default installation. Some team members are working on drafts for the contents for the package as you read this article. The meta package would be installable instead of the Xubuntu desktop package during installation.</p> <h2>Documentation</h2> <p>The team is keeping the pressure up on the documentation improvements. The team is looking to extend the re-written Xubuntu documentation from a few releases ago even further as well as to get the infrastructure rights to enable translations for the documentation.</p> <p>In addition, another goal is to get started with the 12.04 documentation review to supply a more up-to-date version via a stable release update for the LTS users as well.</p> <h2>Community</h2> <p>As with the previous cycles, we will keep on focusing on community. One of our targets this cycle is to get several people new upload rights to the Xubuntu package set. We also hope the prospective developers can help create processes with the <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2013-May/008881.html">newly appointed QA team lead</a> to help reinforce the QA team as well as help with their testing duties.</p> <h2>Milestone participation</h2> <p>As usually, Xubuntu is following the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseSchedule" title="Ubuntu release schedule for Saucy Salamander">Ubuntu release schedule</a>. While the release schedule is far from final, the Xubuntu team is planning to release one alpha and both betas. At the moment the alpha participation looks pretty certain but the details depend on the Xfce 4.12 release. We will keep sending updates as soon as we have any news.</p> <h2>Summary</h2> <p>In the end, this is a final tune-up before we head into developing the LTS release that is expected to be unleashed in April 2014.  Xubuntu presents a conservative desktop choice among the Ubuntu flavours.  As we head into the Saucy Salamander development cycle, we will be striving for excellence once more.</p> <p>To read the full notes from the three meetings, refer to the following URLs: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2013-May/008904.html">night 1</a>, <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2013-May/008906.html">night 2</a>, <a href="http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2013/xubuntu-devel.2013-05-16-20.04.html">night 3</a>. If you are interested in the original agenda for the nights, refer to the following URLs: <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+spec/client-xubuntu-1305-dev">development and milestone participation</a>, <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+spec/client-xubuntu-1305-aob">forward-looking issues</a>, <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+spec/client-xubuntu-1305-software">software</a>.</p> Thu, 16 May 2013 23:45:42 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497847932106835950.post-26348678585694867 http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/05/feel-like-friday-post-vuds.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It feels like Friday! Why? I think it's because I am tired. I am tired because Virtual UDS turns out to be surprisingly intense.</span><br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k0cqJi5YZKk/UZVKO_7b3JI/AAAAAAAAAq8/fWzDcDFNat0/s1600/fist.png"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k0cqJi5YZKk/UZVKO_7b3JI/AAAAAAAAAq8/fWzDcDFNat0/s1600/fist.png" border="0" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><h2><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Power to People</span></h2><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, that is to say, the second Virtual UDS is over. After experience my second vUDS, I think vUDS is really a boost for the transparency of the Ubuntu Project for a few reasons.</span><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Frequency</b>. We can do it every 3 months instead of every 6 months. As I mentioned in the opening plenary, this is important because we don't actually plan only every 6 months anymore. Like any modern software project, we are continuously planning. The 3 month cadence for vUDS means that there will be less time between detecting a need to change plans and discussion about how to make those necessary changes. I pushed very hard to have the first vUDS quickly, because there was a lot of planning for Ubuntu Touch that was backed up and needed proper discussion. If we waited until now, a lot of the work would have started without a good opportunity for discussion.</span></li><li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Folks don't have to travel to wherever UDS is. People with specific interests can rock those interests with a laser focus, without having to dedicate a whole week away from home. Let's face it, traveling for 2 weeks a year to participate in UDS is something that only a few privileged people can swing. Many many more people can join a hangout.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Persistence</b>. The sessions are streamed live, but then instantly available for reviewing, along with the white board, links to blueprints, etc... Try it. Go to <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/">Summit</a> for the UDS that just ended. Find a session. Click on the session. It's like you are there live. Discussions that used to exist only in the memories of a select few with some written traces are now persisted and available.</span></li></ul><h2><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Personal Faves</span></h2><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't go into a run down of the results, because <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21823/closing-plenary/">that job is taken</a>. However, here are some of my personal favorite discussions at this vUDS. These are my favorites based only on personal interests of mine. These are by no means the most important decisions or discussions. Just things that interest me a lot personally.</span><br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AcI_7qIKx4o/S3v1UEIB_TI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/6FtZLwu2Gfk/s400/Wheeling+salamander.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AcI_7qIKx4o/S3v1UEIB_TI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/6FtZLwu2Gfk/s320/Wheeling+salamander.jpg" height="320" border="0" width="249" /></a></div><h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rolling Release</span></h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the unfortunate kerfufle last cycle when I pushed hard to move Ubuntu to a model of LTSs with rolling releases in between, it was niceto close in on one nice outcome. Namely, Colin has a technical solution that will allow users to subscribe to essentially the tip of development. Instead of using "raring" or "saucy" in your sources lists, you'll subscribe to a new name which is symlinked to whatever is the current development release. In this way, each day you will be on the latest. Even the day after a development release becomes a stable release, because the symlink will just point to the next development release.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ended up with a couple of <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-1305-development-release-planning">action items from this session</a>. Mostly, to come up with a name and bring it to the next Tech Board meeting for approval. I'm very much leaning to "rolling", but I am open to discussion ;) This would mean you could say "I am on Raring", or "I am on Precise", or "I am on Rolling". "I am on Rolling" means that you are on the tip of development. Fun!</span><br /><h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Touch Image Testing</span></h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been very keen to get Ubuntu Touch out of "preview" mode and into our standard development processes so that they inherit all of the daily quality tools that we have in place. This means moving all the code of out PPAs and into the real archives, so that we get the benefits of all the efforts we have put into place around -proposed and archive maintenance. It also means getting smoke testing and regression testing automated on the Touch images. I loved hearing from the Phone Foundations team and the QA team about their vision for "not accepting regressions". We should have dog-foodable touch images as early as the end of this month. Then if we can keep the images fully usable with minimal regressions each day, we will go very fast towards completion.</span><br /><h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ubuntu Status Stracker</span></h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am partial to this topic because the status tracker started out as a labor of love for me. The first real <a href="http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~rick-rickspencer3/+junk/py-burndown-chart/view/head:/burndown.py">bit of code</a> that I wrote after joining canonical was to render my version of burndown charts. If I am not mistaken this code is still in use. In any case, <a href="http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-s/">status.ubuntu.com</a> is critical to maintaining our planning, and ensuring that the status of the project is visible to all.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unity 8 in 13.10</span></h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While 13.10 is very very focused on Ubunty Touch for phones, we all know that the real prize is the fully converged client OS. With that in mind, I think it's important to get the code up on as many device types as possible as soon as possible. There was a rich discussion about the steps to offer Unity 8 on top of Mir as an option in 13.10. Now, keep in mind that the result will only be the Phone UI on the desktop, and the default will be the Unity that we know and love today (with Smart Scopes and other enhancements of course!). Still in all, I am betting that basing Unity 8 on QML means that it will be surprisingly functional on a desktop even though it won't have any real desktop support in terms of things like workspace switching, etc..</span><br /> Thu, 16 May 2013 21:21:17 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Rick Spencer) http://skitterman.wordpress.com/?p=241 http://skitterman.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/new-ipaddress-module-in-python3-3/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Back in 2010 I packaged Google’s ipaddr module because I needed a light weight IP address manipulation library that supported both IPv4 and IPv6 and (at the time) python-subnettree was IPv4 only.  Well, ipaddr is all grown up now and included in python3.3 as the ipaddress manipulation module in the standard library.  You can find details, as well as some description of the differences, in <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3144/" target="_blank">PEP 3144</a>.</p> <p>I just converted one <a href="https://launchpad.net/pypolicyd-spf/" target="_blank">package</a> that I’m upstream for to use either ipaddr (for python2.6/2.7/3.2) or ipaddress instead of some custom code.  It turned out to be pretty easy to make it work with either.  Other than the name, the only difference I ran into was the removal of the common, generic IPAddress and IPNetwork functions that are replaced by ip_address and ip_network.</p> <p>…<br /> -import ipaddr<br /> +try:<br /> +    import ipaddress<br /> +except ImportError:<br /> +    import ipaddr as ipaddress<br /> …<br /> -    address = ipaddr.IPAddress(ip)<br /> -    if isinstance(address, ipaddr.IPv4Address):<br /> +    try:<br /> +        address = ipaddress.ip_address(ip)<br /> +    except AttributeError:<br /> +        address = ipaddress.IPAddress(ip)<br /> +    if isinstance(address, ipaddress.IPv4Address):<br /> …</p> <p>Currently, python3-ipaddr has no reverse-dependencies in the archive (python-ipaddr does).  Once python3.2 is dropped from Jessie, I think I’ll drop the python3-ipaddr binary on the assumption people newly coding for python3.3 should use ipaddress.  The python-ipaddr module will stick around for use with python2.7.</p> <br /> Thu, 16 May 2013 20:43:14 +0000 http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=1325 http://www.lczajkowski.com/2013/05/16/june-hackntalk-event-london/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Following on from the first event in March of this year where we had a great day of talks covering varying topic I am very happy to announce the next <a href="http://hackntalkjune.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">HacknTalk will take place on the 29th June</a> at the Google Campus again in London.</p> <p>For those who missed it we had a great turn out and had talk on “<em><a href="http://londonjavacommunity.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/four-things-you-can-do-to-maximise-your-meet-a-project-event-from-marc-barto/" target="_blank">Documenting tools for Tech Events</a></em>“, “<em>How to get kids more involved in open source in Education</em>“,” <em>Exceptional Money</em>“, “<em>Using MVC in Game Desig</em>n” and we learned about<em> <a href="http://www.lczajkowski.com/2013/05/16/june-hackntalk-event-london/www.stemnet.org.uk/content/ambassadors" target="_blank">STEMNE</a>T</em>.  There were other talks, lots of demonstrations and hands on help from members of the community helping one another with their questions.</p> <p>We hope to reproduce the fun and informative day again in June.  Learn about more great projects that are happening in the varying open source communities and meet new people. Since HacknTalk is an unconference, the speaking/demo schedule will be set on the day and everyone is free to propose a talk themselves. You are of course free to come along, sit back and listen to other people’s talks but we’d like to encourage everyone to take part and talk on something they are passionate about in technology.  There is lots of space, wifi, and power sockets to go around. Break out areas to work on your hacking or demoing and hanging out with people.</p> <p>If you want to come along please do remember places are limited so you need to <a href="http://hackntalkjune.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">sign up</a>. If you can’t make the event, let other people in your community know about it and remember there will be another event in 3-4 months again. You can follow <a href="https://twitter.com/hackntalk" target="_blank">@hackntalk</a> for more updates.</p> Thu, 16 May 2013 20:03:44 +0000 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/?p=3725 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/05/16/s06e12-django-ubuntu/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>We’re back with the twelfth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! <a href="http://popey.com">Alan Pope</a>, <a href="http://barrenfrozenwasteland.com/">Mark Johnson</a>, <a href="http://tonywhitmore.co.uk">Tony Whitmore</a>, <a href="http://lauracowen.co.uk">Laura Cowen</a> and The Podcats are all set in Studio A with cake and an interview.</p> <div class="podPress_content"><table class="download_buttons"> <tbody><tr> <td class="podPress_downloadlinks">  <a href="http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s06e12.ogg" target="new" class="orange button">Download OGG</a></td> <td 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So once again, we need a centralized system settings interface.</p> <h2>What other phone <abbr>OS</abbr>es do</h2> <p>The first step in designing this was a <a href="http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2011/07/19/flip-those-pancakes/">competitor evaluation</a> of how other phone systems present system settings.</p> <div id="ios"> <div style="width: 160px;" id="attachment_36004" class="wp-caption alignright"><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/ios-settings.png" alt="The main Settings screen of" height="813" class="size-full wp-image-36004" width="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">iOS 6.1.4.</p></div><p></p> <p>iOS is highly consistent in using a hierarchy of list items for Settings. But their design is rather awkward in three ways. First, the top-level Settings screen is very long, usually containing 30 or more top-level categories. Second, Apple originally tried to include <a href="http://bjango.com/articles/settingsapp/">application-specific settings inside the system-wide Settings</a>, which made them hard to find while using the app. Some apps (including nearly all the default ones) still do that, but nowadays most put settings in their own UI. And third, the top-level “General” settings category is a bit of a <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/01/31/520061.aspx">junk drawer</a> — containing subcategories for everything from auto-lock to accessibility, software updates to Siri. </p></div> <div style="clear: both;" id="android"><div style="width: 250px;" id="attachment_36008" class="wp-caption alignright"><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/android-settings2.png" alt="In the “Data usage” screen of" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-36008" width="240" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Android 4.2: Tapping “Set mobile data limit” checks the checkbox. Tapping “Mobile data” flashes the switch label, but does nothing else. Tapping “⋮” opens a menu of more settings.</p></div><p></p> <p>Android’s Settings similarly uses a hierarchy of lists, though some sections use dialogs instead. It has other consistency problems, too. Sometimes checkboxes are on the left, sometimes on the right. Tapping a checkbox label toggles the checkbox, but tapping a switch label doesn’t toggle the switch — sometimes it navigates to a different screen, other times it does nothing at all. Sometimes a screen’s heading contains a Back button, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it contains a “⋮” dropdown menu of more settings, and sometimes it doesn’t. All this shows the importance of system settings having, if not a single designer, at least strong design guidelines.</p> <p>An impressive aspect of Android’s Settings is that they can display in either portrait or landscape mode. </p></div> <div style="clear: both;" id="wp"><div style="width: 250px;" id="attachment_36010" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/wp8-camera.png" alt="The “phone+camera” screen of" height="584" class="size-full wp-image-36010" width="240" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Windows Phone 8.</p></div><p></p> <p>The Windows Phone design emphasizes <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/02/16/from-transportation-to-pixels.aspx">typography and visual simplicity</a>. It’s a bit rough around the edges: for example, the “photos+camera” settings screen uses ten font variations, and the main heading doesn’t fit on the screen. Windows Phone also groups “system” and “applications” settings on separate screens, but the separation needs work: for example, the voicemail sound effect is set in one of the “system” screens, while the voicemail <em>number</em> is set in one of the “applications” screens.</p> <p>A nice detail in Windows Phone’s Settings is the use of summary values. The row you would tap, to navigate to a settings screen, often contains a line of small text summarizing the current settings values. This can save you from having to visit the other screen at all. </p></div> <h2 style="clear: both;">Learning from others</h2> <p>This competitor evaluation revealed three main issues. First, the difficulty of organizing <strong>system</strong> settings versus <strong>application</strong> settings. Apple tried to group them all together in iOS, but that lacks in-app discoverability. Microsoft used “system” and “applications” categories in Windows Phone, but suffers from poor sorting. It seems more likely that we can solve the sorting problem than the discoverability problem. So, as with Ubuntu for PC, Ubuntu Phone will have “<em>System</em> Settings”, not just “Settings”. Applications will be responsible for presenting their own settings.</p> <p>Second, there is a tension between <strong>categorizing</strong> settings, and <strong>promoting</strong> frequent or urgently used settings. Categorizing by itself is tricky enough: different people might look for the same setting in different places. (For example, iOS sometimes mirrors subcategories of settings inside multiple categories.) A search function may help, but is not a complete answer, because people still need to know what settings are available in the first place. Categorization becomes even trickier when trying to provide quick access to settings like flight mode or orientation lock. Indicators at the top of the screen may help with this, by providing quick access to frequently used functions, like <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#rationale">they do on Ubuntu for PC</a>.</p> <p>Third, it can be useful to <strong>reveal current state</strong> of settings as part of the navigation to those settings. This is usually done in text, with summary values, but an icon could work too. For example, a Bluetooth settings icon might be dull when Bluetooth is off, bright when it is on, and have an emblem when it is paired to any device.</p> <h2>User journeys</h2> <p>Two user journeys influenced the design of the System Settings interface.</p> <p>The primary journey is someone wanting to solve a problem. Maybe their Internet connection is not working. Maybe they’re wondering if they can save battery. Maybe a cabin attendant has asked them to put the phone into flight mode. Maybe a friend has been messing around with their phone and they want to stop it from happening again. This person usually will be in a hurry, and sometimes irritated. They’ll want to get in and out as quickly as possible.</p> <p>The secondary journey is an adventurous new owner, starting out with their phone, wanting to explore what it is capable of. They have more time to read explanations, and to explore cross-references between categories.</p> <h2>Designing the overview</h2> <p>Next, I sketched out nine possible layouts for the overview screen — the first thing people would see when they entered System Settings.</p> <p><a href="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/p3.small_1.png" rel="attachment wp-att-36020"><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/p3.small_1-298x300.png" title="" height="300" width="298" alt="There was a square grid of icons with headings, like on Ubuntu for PC. A variation where the headings doubled as controls. A triangular grid of the same icons, just for fun. Text lists of subcategories, interspersed with occasional controls as list items. And an amalgam of the grid and list models." class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36020" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/p4.small_1.png" rel="attachment wp-att-36021"><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/p4.small_1-244x300.png" alt="Another text-based list, this time using two lines of text for each subcategory. An arrangement of tiles of different sizes for varying prominence of categories. And finally a list using both icons and text." height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36021" width="244" /></a></p> <p>Selecting the most promising elements from each of the nine layouts, I passed them on to one of our visual designers, <a href="http://design.canonical.com/author/x-zhu0301/">Rosie Zhu</a>. She produced mockups of three possibilities, and with help from <a href="http://design.canonical.com/author/marcus-haslam/">Marcus Haslam</a> we decided on one final layout.</p> <p><a href="http://design.canonical.com/2013/05/phone-settings/phone-overview-wireframe-small/" rel="attachment wp-att-36023"><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/phone-overview-wireframe.small_.png" alt="" height="715" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-36023" width="240" /></a> <a href="http://design.canonical.com/2013/05/phone-settings/phone-overview-visual-small/" rel="attachment wp-att-36024"><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/phone-overview-visual.small_.png" alt="" height="853" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-36024" width="240" /></a></p> <p>The design promotes frequently- and urgently-needed settings at the top, categorizes other settings compactly, and places bureaucratic stuff (“About This Phone” and “Reset Phone”) right at the bottom.</p> <p>This is far from a final mockup. We need to finalize the icon style, and fine-tune control sizes, use of color, use of lines, and so on. But the basic layout is in place for engineers to start work. (Contact <a href="https://launchpad.net/~seb128">Sebastien Bacher</a> if you’d like to help out with the code.)</p> <h2>Designing individual screens</h2> <p>Meanwhile, I have been busy designing individual settings screens. This has helped reveal missing controls in the UI toolkit, so they can be implemented for app developers to use them too.</p> <p><img src="http://design.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads/phone-battery-settings.small_.png" alt="" height="574" class="size-full wp-image-36033" width="240" /></p> <p>Links to designs for the individual screens, as well as the design for the overview screen, are on <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemSettings">the System Settings wiki page</a>. Your feedback on any of the designs is welcome, either here, or on <a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone">the ubuntu-phone@ mailing list</a>.</p> Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk/taxonomy/term/4/187 at http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk/content/why-there-never-ending-discussion-what-ubuntu-team <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>For several years, Randall Ross has been now on the war path about the structure of Ubuntu LoCo teams.</p> <p>However, everything that is raised in <a href="http://randall.executiv.es/stateless">his post</a> seems nothing more than a storm in the teapot.</p></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span class="st_twitter_hcount"></span> <span class="st_identi_hcount"></span> <span class="st_facebook_hcount"></span> <span class="st_googleplus_hcount"></span> <span class="st_reddit_hcount"></span> <span class="st_linkedin_hcount"></span> <span class="st_digg_hcount"></span> <span class="st_friendfeed_hcount"></span> <span class="st_buffer_hcount"></span> <span class="st_tumblr_hcount"></span> <span class="st_sharethis_hcount"></span> <span class="st_plusone_hcount"></span> <span class="st_fblike_hcount"></span> </div></div> Thu, 16 May 2013 13:58:06 +0000 http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk/taxonomy/term/4/186 at http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk http://drupal7.txwikinger.me.uk/content/update-about-brainstorm <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>As can be read from <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/16/on-brainstorm/">Jono's blog</a>, Brainstorm has basically effectively been discontinued. It strikes odd, that this decision was made seemingly so rapidly, and it seems without a lot of community input, despite it was a community tool.</p> <p>Of particular interest seems to be the reasons given for retiring this tool.</p></div></div></div><div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span class="st_twitter_hcount"></span> <span class="st_identi_hcount"></span> <span class="st_facebook_hcount"></span> <span class="st_googleplus_hcount"></span> <span class="st_reddit_hcount"></span> <span class="st_linkedin_hcount"></span> <span class="st_digg_hcount"></span> <span class="st_friendfeed_hcount"></span> <span class="st_buffer_hcount"></span> <span class="st_tumblr_hcount"></span> <span class="st_sharethis_hcount"></span> <span class="st_plusone_hcount"></span> <span class="st_fblike_hcount"></span> </div></div> Thu, 16 May 2013 13:26:26 +0000 http://developer.ubuntu.com/?p=4214 http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/05/app-development-sessions-at-uds-final-day/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Time does fly, and we’re alread on the last day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Lots of content covered and still lots of interesting discussions to be had. We’re thrilled to bring you the summary on what’s on today on the App Development track.</p> <p><img src="http://developer.ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/App-dev-tablet-Home.png" title="App Dev Tablet" height="269" width="465" alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4215" /></p> <p>Here’s the <strong>list of app development sessions for today at UDS</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>At 14:00 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21822/app-developer-roundtable/">App Development Roundtable</a></li> <li>At 14:00 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21769/appdev-1305-ui-toolkit-responsive-layouting/">SDK UI Toolkit Responsive Layouting</a></li> <li>At 15:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21817/appdev-s-coreapps-plans/">Core Apps plans for 13.10</a></li> <li>At 15:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21787/appdev-1305-contact-service/">Contact Service for Ubuntu Touch</a></li> <li>At 16:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21708/appdev-1305-loco-code/">LoCo Team Coding Challenge</a></li> <li>At 16:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21712/appdev-1305-developer-site-gomobile/">Refocus the Ubuntu App Developer site to go mobile</a></li> <li>At 18:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21826/appdev-1305-tutorials/">Building a set tutorials for App Developers</a></li> <li>At 19:00 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21823/closing-plenary/">Closing Plenary and Track Summaries</a></li> </ul> <p>Hope to see you there!</p> Thu, 16 May 2013 13:18:14 +0000 http://smartboyhw.tk/wordpress_smartboyhw/?p=60 http://smartboyhw.tk/wordpress_smartboyhw/?p=60 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>If you did keep an eye on Planet Ubuntu, you would absolutely notice the series of “People behind Ubuntu Quality” series, where QA community members like me, Sergio, Jackson, Javier and Carla were interviewed by Nicholas Skaggs. If you never read it before, you will find it in <a href="http://www.theorangenotebook.com">Nicholas’ Orange Notebook</a>.</p> <p>Anyways, I myself started another series of interviews. I will be interviewing Canonical QA people from all over the world, who spends everyday making sure Ubuntu is of high quality. These interviews are to pay tribute to them, and thank them for making Ubuntu a nice product. As to echo Nicholas’ series, I shall conspciously name it “People behind Canonical Quality”. <img src="http://smartboyhw.tk/wordpress_smartboyhw/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <p>Expect to see the first interview coming up by tomorrow or Saturday!</p> Thu, 16 May 2013 11:32:47 +0000 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2361 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2361 <div> <div> <div> <p>The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” RC.</p> <p></p><center><small><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/olivia/cinnamon.png"><img src="http://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/olivia/thumb_cinnamon.png" alt="" /></a></small></center><p></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Linux Mint 15 Olivia</em></strong></p> <p>Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project. MATE 1.6 is greatly improved and Cinnamon 1.8 offers a ton of new features, including a screensaver and a unified control center. The login screen can now be themed in HTML5 and two new tools, “Software Sources” and “Driver Manager”, make their first appearance in Linux Mint.</p> <p><strong>New features at a glance:</strong></p> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#mdm">MDM</a><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_nadia_whatsnew.php#mate"><br /> </a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#mintsources">Software Sources</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#mintdrivers">Driver Manager</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#cinnamon">Cinnamon 1.8</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#mate">MATE 1.6</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#mintinstall">Software Manager</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#system">System Improvements</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#artwork">Artwork Improvements</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php#upstream">Upstream Components</a></li> </ul> <p>For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “<a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia_whatsnew.php">What’s new in Linux Mint 15</a>“.</p> <p><strong>Important info:</strong></p> <ul> <li>MDM issues</li> <li>PAE required for 32-bit ISOs</li> <li>Mint4win</li> <li>GnomePPP and local repository</li> </ul> </div> <p>Make sure to read the “<a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia.php">Release Notes</a>” to be aware of important info or known issues related to this release.</p> <p><strong>System requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>x86 processor (Linux Mint 64-bit requires a 64-bit processor. Linux Mint 32-bit works on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors).</li> <li>512 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).</li> <li>5 GB of disk space</li> <li>Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution</li> <li>CD/DVD drive or USB port</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bug reports:</strong></p> <p>Please report any bug you may find by leaving a comment on this blog.</p> <p><strong>Download</strong>:</p> <p>Md5 sum:</p> <ul> <li>Cinnamon 32-bit: 2a7c37ca1dd3d2b26924402d7018b5c1</li> <li>Cinnamon 64-bit: 48ecdc03eaa6c497fa8bab3f937c4364</li> <li>MATE 32-bit: 793d1a3e6e82938ff56fdc9fad225916</li> <li>MATE 64-bit: 634f6476a6a62bdbc2d997bb196ea78a</li> </ul> <p>Torrents:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso.torrent">Cinnamon 32-bit</a></li> <li><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso.torrent">Cinnamon 64-bit</a></li> <li><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso.torrent">MATE 32-bit</a></li> <li><a href="http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-64bit-rc.iso.torrent">MATE 64-bit</a></li> </ul> <p>HTTP Mirrors for the Cinnamon 32-bit DVD ISO:</p> <ul> <li>Argentina <a href="http://mirrors.coopvgg.com.ar/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Cooperativa Telefonica de Villa Gobernador Galvez Ltda.</a></li> <li>Argentina <a href="http://mint.xfree.com.ar/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Xfree</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">AARNet</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Internode</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.waia.asn.au/pub/linux/linuxmint/linuxmint-isos/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Western Australian Internet Association</a></li> <li>Austria <a href="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linux/mint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Goodie Domain Service</a></li> <li>Bangladesh <a href="http://mirrors.ispros.com.bd/linuxmint.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">IS Pros Limited</a></li> <li>Belarus <a href="http://ftp.mgts.by/pub/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">ByFly</a></li> <li>Brazil <a href="http://mint.c3sl.ufpr.br/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Universidade Federal do Parana</a></li> <li>Bulgaria <a href="http://mirror.telepoint.bg/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Telepoint</a></li> <li>Canada <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Waterloo Computer Science Club</a></li> <li>Czech Republic <a href="http://ucho.ignum.cz/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Ignum, s.r.o.</a></li> <li>Czech Republic <a href="http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Silicon Hill</a></li> <li>Denmark <a href="http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">klid.dk</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirror.gopotato.co.uk/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">GoPotato</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mint-mirror.gwendallebihan.net/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Gwendal Le Bihan</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">IRCAM</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://linuxmint.nouknouk.eu/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Nouknouk</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirrors.ordimatic.net/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Ordimatic</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">RTS Informatique</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://artfiles.org/linuxmint.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Artfiles</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://linuxmint.copahost.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Copahost</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://mirror.bauhuette.fh-aachen.de/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">FH Aachen</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">GWDG</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://mirror.netcologne.de/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NetCologne GmbH</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.otenet.gr/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Hellenic Telecommunications Organization</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">National Technical University of Athens</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Crete</a></li> <li>Greenland <a href="http://mirror.greennet.gl/linuxmint/iso/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Tele Greenland</a></li> <li>Iceland <a href="http://speglar.simnet.is/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Siminn hf</a></li> <li>India <a href="http://iso-linuxmint.hnsdc.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Honesty Net Solutions</a></li> <li>Indonesia <a href="http://kambing.ui.ac.id/iso/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">KAMBING.ui.ac.id</a></li> <li>Ireland <a href="http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">HEAnet</a></li> <li>Israel <a href="http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Israel Internet Association</a></li> <li>Italy <a href="http://linuxmint.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">GARR</a></li> <li>Kazakhstan <a href="http://mirror.neolabs.kz/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Neolabs</a></li> <li>Lithuania <a href="http://ftp.akl.lt/Linux/Mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Atviras kodas Lietuvai</a></li> <li>Luxembourg <a href="http://mint.mirror.root.lu/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">root S.A.</a></li> <li>Malaysia <a href="http://ossm.utm.my/linuxmint/iso/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Open Source Mirror</a></li> <li>Netherlands <a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NLUUG</a></li> <li>Netherlands <a href="http://mintlinux.mirror.triple-it.nl/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Triple IT</a></li> <li>New Zealand <a href="http://mirror.xnet.co.nz/pub/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Xnet</a></li> <li>Norway <a href="http://mirror.komsys.org/pub/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Communica</a></li> <li>Poland <a href="http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">ICM – University of Warsaw</a></li> <li>Portugal <a href="http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">CeSIUM – Universidade do Minho</a></li> <li>Portugal <a href="http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Universidade do Porto</a></li> <li>Romania <a href="http://mirrors.serverhost.ro/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">ServerHost</a></li> <li>Russia <a href="http://mirror.yandex.ru/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Yandex Team</a></li> <li>Serbia <a href="http://mirror.pmf.kg.ac.rs/mint/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Kragujevac</a></li> <li>Singapore <a href="http://mirror.0x.sg/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">0x.sg</a></li> <li>Singapore <a href="http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/LinuxMint-ISO/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NUS – School of Computing – SigLabs</a></li> <li>South Africa <a href="http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Free State</a></li> <li>South Korea <a href="http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">KAIST</a></li> <li>South Korea <a href="http://ftp.neowiz.com/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NeowizGames corp</a></li> <li>Sri Lanka <a href="http://mirror.learn.ac.lk/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Lanka Education and Research Network</a></li> <li>Sweden <a href="http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">DF – Computer Society at Lund University</a></li> <li>Sweden <a href="http://ftp.portlane.com/pub/os/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Portlane</a></li> <li>Switzerland <a href="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">SWITCH</a></li> <li>Taiwan <a href="http://free.nchc.org.tw/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NCHC</a></li> <li>Taiwan <a href="http://ftp.stust.edu.tw/pub/Linux/LinuxMint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology</a></li> <li>Taiwan <a href="http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/Linux/LinuxMint/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">TamKang University</a></li> <li>Ukraine <a href="http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/Mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">OSDN.Org.UA</a></li> <li>United Kingdom <a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Bytemark Hosting</a></li> <li>United Kingdom <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.linuxmint.com/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Kent UK Mirror Service</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/images/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">James Madison University</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://linuxfreedom.com/linuxmint/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Linux Freedom</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">MetroCast Cablevision</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://linuxmint.mirrorcatalogs.com/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">mirrorcatalogs.com</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.nexcess.net/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Nexcess</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://psg.mtu.edu/pub/linuxmint/images/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">PSGNet</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirrors.secution.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Secution, LLC.</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.umd.edu/linuxmint/images/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Maryland, College Park</a></li> <li>Vietnam <a href="http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">FPT Telecom</a></li> </ul> <p>HTTP Mirrors for the Cinnamon 64-bit DVD ISO:</p> <ul> <li>Argentina <a href="http://mirrors.coopvgg.com.ar/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Cooperativa Telefonica de Villa Gobernador Galvez Ltda.</a></li> <li>Argentina <a href="http://mint.xfree.com.ar/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Xfree</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">AARNet</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Internode</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.waia.asn.au/pub/linux/linuxmint/linuxmint-isos/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Western Australian Internet Association</a></li> <li>Austria <a href="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linux/mint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Goodie Domain Service</a></li> <li>Bangladesh <a href="http://mirrors.ispros.com.bd/linuxmint.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">IS Pros Limited</a></li> <li>Belarus <a href="http://ftp.mgts.by/pub/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">ByFly</a></li> <li>Brazil <a href="http://mint.c3sl.ufpr.br/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Universidade Federal do Parana</a></li> <li>Bulgaria <a href="http://mirror.telepoint.bg/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Telepoint</a></li> <li>Canada <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">University of Waterloo Computer Science Club</a></li> <li>Czech Republic <a href="http://ucho.ignum.cz/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Ignum, s.r.o.</a></li> <li>Czech Republic <a href="http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Silicon Hill</a></li> <li>Denmark <a href="http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">klid.dk</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirror.gopotato.co.uk/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">GoPotato</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mint-mirror.gwendallebihan.net/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Gwendal Le Bihan</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">IRCAM</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://linuxmint.nouknouk.eu/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Nouknouk</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirrors.ordimatic.net/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Ordimatic</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">RTS Informatique</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://artfiles.org/linuxmint.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Artfiles</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://linuxmint.copahost.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Copahost</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://mirror.bauhuette.fh-aachen.de/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">FH Aachen</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">GWDG</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://mirror.netcologne.de/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">NetCologne GmbH</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.otenet.gr/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Hellenic Telecommunications Organization</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">National Technical University of Athens</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">University of Crete</a></li> <li>Greenland <a href="http://mirror.greennet.gl/linuxmint/iso/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Tele Greenland</a></li> <li>Iceland <a href="http://speglar.simnet.is/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Siminn hf</a></li> <li>India <a href="http://iso-linuxmint.hnsdc.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Honesty Net Solutions</a></li> <li>Indonesia <a href="http://kambing.ui.ac.id/iso/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">KAMBING.ui.ac.id</a></li> <li>Ireland <a href="http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">HEAnet</a></li> <li>Israel <a href="http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Israel Internet Association</a></li> <li>Italy <a href="http://linuxmint.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">GARR</a></li> <li>Kazakhstan <a href="http://mirror.neolabs.kz/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Neolabs</a></li> <li>Lithuania <a href="http://ftp.akl.lt/Linux/Mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Atviras kodas Lietuvai</a></li> <li>Luxembourg <a href="http://mint.mirror.root.lu/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">root S.A.</a></li> <li>Malaysia <a href="http://ossm.utm.my/linuxmint/iso/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Open Source Mirror</a></li> <li>Netherlands <a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">NLUUG</a></li> <li>Netherlands <a href="http://mintlinux.mirror.triple-it.nl/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Triple IT</a></li> <li>New Zealand <a href="http://mirror.xnet.co.nz/pub/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Xnet</a></li> <li>Norway <a href="http://mirror.komsys.org/pub/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Communica</a></li> <li>Poland <a href="http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">ICM – University of Warsaw</a></li> <li>Portugal <a href="http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">CeSIUM – Universidade do Minho</a></li> <li>Portugal <a href="http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Universidade do Porto</a></li> <li>Romania <a href="http://mirrors.serverhost.ro/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">ServerHost</a></li> <li>Russia <a href="http://mirror.yandex.ru/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Yandex Team</a></li> <li>Serbia <a href="http://mirror.pmf.kg.ac.rs/mint/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">University of Kragujevac</a></li> <li>Singapore <a href="http://mirror.0x.sg/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">0x.sg</a></li> <li>Singapore <a href="http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/LinuxMint-ISO/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">NUS – School of Computing – SigLabs</a></li> <li>South Africa <a href="http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">University of Free State</a></li> <li>South Korea <a href="http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">KAIST</a></li> <li>South Korea <a href="http://ftp.neowiz.com/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">NeowizGames corp</a></li> <li>Sri Lanka <a href="http://mirror.learn.ac.lk/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Lanka Education and Research Network</a></li> <li>Sweden <a href="http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">DF – Computer Society at Lund University</a></li> <li>Sweden <a href="http://ftp.portlane.com/pub/os/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Portlane</a></li> <li>Switzerland <a href="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">SWITCH</a></li> <li>Taiwan <a href="http://free.nchc.org.tw/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">NCHC</a></li> <li>Taiwan <a href="http://ftp.stust.edu.tw/pub/Linux/LinuxMint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology</a></li> <li>Taiwan <a href="http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/Linux/LinuxMint/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">TamKang University</a></li> <li>Ukraine <a href="http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/Mint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">OSDN.Org.UA</a></li> <li>United Kingdom <a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Bytemark Hosting</a></li> <li>United Kingdom <a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.linuxmint.com/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">University of Kent UK Mirror Service</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/images/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">James Madison University</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://linuxfreedom.com/linuxmint/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Linux Freedom</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">MetroCast Cablevision</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://linuxmint.mirrorcatalogs.com/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">mirrorcatalogs.com</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.nexcess.net/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Nexcess</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://psg.mtu.edu/pub/linuxmint/images/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">PSGNet</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirrors.secution.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">Secution, LLC.</a></li> <li>USA <a href="http://mirror.umd.edu/linuxmint/images/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">University of Maryland, College Park</a></li> <li>Vietnam <a href="http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso">FPT Telecom</a></li> </ul> <p>HTTP Mirrors for the MATE 32-bit DVD ISO:</p> <ul> <li>Argentina <a href="http://mirrors.coopvgg.com.ar/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Cooperativa Telefonica de Villa Gobernador Galvez Ltda.</a></li> <li>Argentina <a href="http://mint.xfree.com.ar/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Xfree</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">AARNet</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Internode</a></li> <li>Australia <a href="http://mirror.waia.asn.au/pub/linux/linuxmint/linuxmint-isos/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Western Australian Internet Association</a></li> <li>Austria <a href="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linux/mint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Goodie Domain Service</a></li> <li>Bangladesh <a href="http://mirrors.ispros.com.bd/linuxmint.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">IS Pros Limited</a></li> <li>Belarus <a href="http://ftp.mgts.by/pub/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">ByFly</a></li> <li>Brazil <a href="http://mint.c3sl.ufpr.br/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Universidade Federal do Parana</a></li> <li>Bulgaria <a href="http://mirror.telepoint.bg/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Telepoint</a></li> <li>Canada <a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Waterloo Computer Science Club</a></li> <li>Czech Republic <a href="http://ucho.ignum.cz/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Ignum, s.r.o.</a></li> <li>Czech Republic <a href="http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Silicon Hill</a></li> <li>Denmark <a href="http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">klid.dk</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirror.gopotato.co.uk/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">GoPotato</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mint-mirror.gwendallebihan.net/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Gwendal Le Bihan</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">IRCAM</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://linuxmint.nouknouk.eu/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Nouknouk</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirrors.ordimatic.net/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Ordimatic</a></li> <li>France <a href="http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">RTS Informatique</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://artfiles.org/linuxmint.com/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Artfiles</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://linuxmint.copahost.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Copahost</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://mirror.bauhuette.fh-aachen.de/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">FH Aachen</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">GWDG</a></li> <li>Germany <a href="http://mirror.netcologne.de/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NetCologne GmbH</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.otenet.gr/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Hellenic Telecommunications Organization</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">National Technical University of Athens</a></li> <li>Greece <a href="http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Crete</a></li> <li>Greenland <a href="http://mirror.greennet.gl/linuxmint/iso/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Tele Greenland</a></li> <li>Iceland <a href="http://speglar.simnet.is/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Siminn hf</a></li> <li>India <a href="http://iso-linuxmint.hnsdc.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Honesty Net Solutions</a></li> <li>Indonesia <a href="http://kambing.ui.ac.id/iso/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">KAMBING.ui.ac.id</a></li> <li>Ireland <a href="http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">HEAnet</a></li> <li>Israel <a href="http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/mint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Israel Internet Association</a></li> <li>Italy <a href="http://linuxmint.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">GARR</a></li> <li>Kazakhstan <a href="http://mirror.neolabs.kz/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Neolabs</a></li> <li>Lithuania <a href="http://ftp.akl.lt/Linux/Mint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Atviras kodas Lietuvai</a></li> <li>Luxembourg <a href="http://mint.mirror.root.lu/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">root S.A.</a></li> <li>Malaysia <a href="http://ossm.utm.my/linuxmint/iso/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Open Source Mirror</a></li> <li>Netherlands <a href="http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NLUUG</a></li> <li>Netherlands <a href="http://mintlinux.mirror.triple-it.nl/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Triple IT</a></li> <li>New Zealand <a href="http://mirror.xnet.co.nz/pub/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Xnet</a></li> <li>Norway <a href="http://mirror.komsys.org/pub/linuxmint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Communica</a></li> <li>Poland <a href="http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/linuxmint/isos/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">ICM – University of Warsaw</a></li> <li>Portugal <a href="http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">CeSIUM – Universidade do Minho</a></li> <li>Portugal <a href="http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Universidade do Porto</a></li> <li>Romania <a href="http://mirrors.serverhost.ro/mint/iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">ServerHost</a></li> <li>Russia <a href="http://mirror.yandex.ru/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">Yandex Team</a></li> <li>Serbia <a href="http://mirror.pmf.kg.ac.rs/mint/linuxmint.com/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Kragujevac</a></li> <li>Singapore <a href="http://mirror.0x.sg/linuxmint-cd/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">0x.sg</a></li> <li>Singapore <a href="http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/LinuxMint-ISO/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NUS – School of Computing – SigLabs</a></li> <li>South Africa <a href="http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/linuxmint/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">University of Free State</a></li> <li>South Korea <a href="http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">KAIST</a></li> <li>South Korea <a href="http://ftp.neowiz.com/linuxmint-iso/testing/linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso">NeowizGames corp</a></li> <li>Sri Lanka <a 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Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun testing the release candidate!</p> </div> </div> </div> Thu, 16 May 2013 11:04:20 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e2be081129f4eebe0811e2afa82fbce151beedbeed http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2013/05/behind-scenes-headset-camera-app-for-n9.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Maemo" width="100" height="12" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> The logical step after the "<a href="http://thp.io/2012/camerra/">Volume+ as Camera Button</a>" app (<a href="http://store.ovi.com/content/252565">Nokia Store link</a>) for the N9 is another app that allows you to take photos while not touching your N9 at all. While time-triggered photos are fun, remote-triggered photos are.. erm.. "funner"? So what kind of remote "buttons" can we easily get on the N9? The remote control button on the headset is both "remote" and a "button". Also, as seen in <a href="http://wiki.gpodder.org/wiki/Panucci">Panucci</a> and <a href="http://gpodder.org/">gPodder</a> versions since the N900, Bluetooth headset buttons can also be queried by applications. So what do we get by combining remote control and photo taking? The <a href="https://thp.io/2013/headsetcamera/">Headset Camera</a> app (<a href="http://store.ovi.com/content/355515">Nokia Store link</a>) for the N9! Or - for the visual reader - this:<br /><br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="https://thp.io/2013/headsetcamera/screenshot1.jpg"><img src="https://thp.io/2013/headsetcamera/screenshot1.jpg" height="179" border="0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />If you want to integrate such features into your own app, the code for querying the headset buttons is readily available in the gPodder source tree (<a href="https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/blob/master/src/gpodder/qmlui/helper.py">src/gpodder/qmlui/helper.py</a>):<br /><pre>import dbus<br /><br />class MediaButtonsHandler(QtCore.QObject):<br /> def __init__(self):<br /> QtCore.QObject.__init__(self)<br /> headset_path = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_logicaldev_input_0'<br /> headset_path2 = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_logicaldev_input'<br /><br /> system_bus = dbus.SystemBus()<br /> system_bus.add_signal_receiver(self.handle_button, 'Condition',<br /> 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device', None, headset_path)<br /> system_bus.add_signal_receiver(self.handle_button, 'Condition',<br /> 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device', None, headset_path2)<br /> <br /> def handle_button(self, signal, button):<br /> if signal == 'ButtonPressed':<br /> if button in ('play-cd', 'phone'):<br /> self.playPressed.emit()<br /> elif button == 'pause-cd':<br /> self.pausePressed.emit()<br /> elif button == 'previous-song':<br /> self.previousPressed.emit()<br /> elif button == 'next-song':<br /> self.nextPressed.emit()<br /><br /> playPressed = QtCore.Signal()<br /> pausePressed = QtCore.Signal()<br /> previousPressed = QtCore.Signal()<br /> nextPressed = QtCore.Signal()<br /></pre><span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;,Courier,monospace;">MediaButtonsHandler</span> is already a QObject subclass, so you can easily expose an instance of this class to your QDeclarativeView <span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;,Courier,monospace;">rootContext()</span> and connect to the signals in QML (such a "headset button handler" might actually be a good candidate for inclusion into <a href="https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugins">nemo-qml-plugins</a> in Sailfish OS and Nemo Mobile?). As it's really just using the Python D-Bus bindings to get property changes from Hal devices, the code above should be easy (read: trivial) to port from Python to Qt/C++. Be aware that you need to connect to both <span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;,Courier,monospace;">.../computer_logicaldev_input_0</span> and <span style="font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;,Courier,monospace;">.../computer_logicaldev_input</span>, which can both exist if you have a cable headset and a Bluetooth headset connected at the same time.<br /><br />You can <a href="http://store.ovi.com/content/355515">get the Headset Camera App</a> for the N9 in Nokia Store now, there is also <a href="http://youtu.be/nboCvWMoKyk">a video on YouTube showing the app</a>. Or start integrating headset button features into your own app or scripts by adapting the code above. One use case that comes to mind is using the previous/next buttons on a Bluetooth headset to control a photo slideshow on the N9 connected to TV-Out. Enjoy :)<span class="net_nemein_favourites">0 <a href="http://maemo.org/news/?net_nemein_favourites_execute=fav&amp;net_nemein_favourites_execute_for=1e2be081129f4eebe0811e2afa82fbce151beedbeed&amp;net_nemein_favourites_url=https://maemo.org/news/favorites//json/fav/midgard_article/1e2be081129f4eebe0811e2afa82fbce151beedbeed/" class="net_nemein_favourites_create"><img src="http://static.maemo.org:81/net.nemein.favourites/not-favorite.png" alt="Add to favourites" style="border: none;" title="Add to favourites" /></a>0 <a href="http://maemo.org/news/?net_nemein_favourites_execute=bury&amp;net_nemein_favourites_execute_for=1e2be081129f4eebe0811e2afa82fbce151beedbeed&amp;net_nemein_favourites_url=https://maemo.org/news/favorites//json/bury/midgard_article/1e2be081129f4eebe0811e2afa82fbce151beedbeed/" class="net_nemein_favourites_create"><img src="http://static.maemo.org:81/net.nemein.favourites/not-buried.png" alt="Bury" style="border: none;" title="Bury" /></a></span> Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 m@thp.io (Thomas Perl) http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=5403 http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/16/getting-the-ubuntu-advocacy-kit-to-1-0/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>A while back I started a project called the <a href="https://www.launchpad.net/uak/">Ubuntu Advocacy Kit</a>. The goal is simple: create a single downloadable kit that provides all the information and materials you need to go out and help advocate Ubuntu and our flavors to others. The project lives <a href="https://www.launchpad.net/uak/">here on Launchpad</a> and is available in <a href="https://launchpad.net/~uak-admins/+archive/uak">this daily PPA</a>. If you want to see the kit in action just run:</p> <pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:uak-admins/uak sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install uak-en </code></pre> <p>Now open the dash and search for “advocacy”. Click the icon to see the kit load in your browser.</p> <p>We discussed the UAK this week at UDS and I want to get the kit to 1.0 level of completeness. This doesn’t require a huge amount of work, just getting a core set of content written up in a concise, simple, but detailed fashion. I want to complete this work and then get the kit up on <a href="http://loco.ubuntu.com">loco.ubuntu.com</a> as something people can download to get started advocating Ubuntu and our flavors.</p> <p>I have <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-s-uak-first-release">created a blueprint to track this work</a> and I am stubbing out a bunch of pages in the kit for pages that I think we will need as part of a 1.0 release.</p> <h2>And why are you telling me this?</h2> <p>Well, I am looking for help. <img src="http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <p>If you enjoy writing and have a knowledge of good quality advocacy, I would like to invite you to write some content. If you can just reply to this post in the comments (or anywhere else I tend to look, such as email or IRC), we coordinate who works on what and I will update the blueprint where appropriate.</p> <p>Thanks for reading!</p> Thu, 16 May 2013 05:11:38 +0000 http://syaimif.wordpress.com/?p=146 http://syaimif.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/google-earth-di-blankon-linux/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> Salam kode terbuka, Bagi pengguna OS Windows yang ingin pindah ke Distro Linux pengen install Google Earth mungkin beranggapan bahwa aplikasi tersebut tidak bisa dipasang di Linux,hehehe. Eits…. jangan salah dulu dong kita coba dulu aja. cekidot. 1. Download paket aplikasinya di http://w.blankon.in/VX kemudian klik Download Google Earth 2. Pilih paket apikasi. lalu klik Agree and Download. Tunggu […] Thu, 16 May 2013 04:47:29 +0000 http://fridge.ubuntu.com/?p=5980 http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/05/16/gandi-now-offers-discounts-for-ubuntu-members/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gandi-now-offers-discounts-for-ubuntu-members <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>The Ubuntu Community Council is happy to announce the availability of discounts from <a href="https://www.gandi.net/">Gandi</a> to Ubuntu Members! Members will be granted <a href="https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/info?grid=E">E rates for domains</a> and partner rates for cloud hosting (-50% from public price).</p> <p>To redeem this benefit, members should send an email to non-profit@gandi.net from their @ubuntu.com email address that includes:</p> <ul> <li>A Gandi handle (<a href="https://www.gandi.net/contact/create">see here</a> to create a new one if requred)</li> <li>The currency they use (Euro, USD or GBP are available)</li> </ul> <p>Huge thanks to the kind folks at Gandi for offering this benefit to our members, and also thanks to community member Benjamin Kerensa for reaching out to them to request it.</p> <p><cite>Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph, on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council</cite></p> Thu, 16 May 2013 03:42:36 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=5401 http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/05/16/on-brainstorm/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Recently the Technical Board <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/13/May">made a decision to sunset Brainstorm</a>, the site we have been using for some time to capture a list of what folks would like to see fixed and improved in Ubuntu. Although the site has been in operation for quite some time, it had fallen into something of a state of disrepair. Not only was it looking rather decrepit and old, but the ideas highlighted there were not curated and rendered into the Ubuntu development process. Some time ago the Technical Board took a work item to try to solve this problem by regularly curating the most popular items in brainstorm with a commentary around technical feasibility, but the members of the TB unfortunately didn’t have time to fulfill this. As such, brainstorm turned into a big list of random ideas, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, and largely ignored by the Ubuntu development process.</p> <p>Now, some folks have mused on the decision to sunset brainstorm and wondered if this is somehow a reflection on our community and our openness to ideas. I don’t think this is the case. While it is always important to build an environment where ideas are openly discussed and debated, ideas are free and relatively simply to come by, and the real challenge is converting that awesome vision in your head into something we can see and touch and deliver to others; this is not quite so free and simple. While Brainstorm provided a great place to capture the ideas, and we had no shortage of them, the challenge was connecting brainstorm to the people who were happy and willing to perform the work, and it didn’t really serve this purpose very well.</p> <p>There were two problems with this. Firstly, picking up other people’s popular ideas is not how Open Source traditionally works. Open Source is built on a philosophy of <em>scratching your own itch</em>, traditionally fueled by programmers fixing their annoyances and building features and applications they want. Now, this is not to say a non-programmer can’t rally the community around their idea and build momentum around an implementation, but doing this requires significantly more effort than a fire and forget submission into brainstorm. In other words, just because an idea is popular doesn’t necessarily mean it is interesting enough for a developer to want to implement it. Secondly, brainstorm started to garner an unrealistic social expectation that popular ideas would be automatically added to the TODO list of prominent Ubuntu developers, which was never the case.</p> <p>Today at UDS we had a discussion about these deficiencies in brainstorm in traversing the chasm between idea and implementation and Randall Ross had an interesting idea. With brainstorm retired we should re-focus the brainstorm URL and provide some guidance for tips and tricks for how to take an idea and rally support around it to develop an implementation. As an example, over the years I have discovered that taking an idea and building a well formed spec with detailed UI mock-ups and architectural diagrams, a detailed blueprint, regular meetings, and burndown charts, all significantly help to taking ideas from fiction to fandom. Equipping our community with the skills and tools to bring these ideas to fruition is a better use of our time.</p> <p>So, the TL;DR of all of this is…brainstorm was a great idea at the time, but it didn’t effectively drive the most popular ideas in our community to fruition and delivery in Ubuntu. We want to help provide guidance and best practice to help our community be more successful in converting their ideas into development plans and getting people interested in participating.</p> Wed, 15 May 2013 23:35:11 +0000 http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/05/15/brainstorm-does-not-make-sense-in-the-age-of-virtual-uds http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/05/15/brainstorm-does-not-make-sense-in-the-age-of-virtual-uds/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Earlier this week the techboard asked what we should do with <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com">Brainstorm</a>. Having been involved with Brainstorm since almost the beginning, I felt it appropriate to handle how we would deal with it since no one wants to be unpopular, except for me of course. The TLDR is that Dell launched <a href="http://www.ideastorm.com/idea2ExploreMore?v=1368628305598">IdeaStorm</a> and of course people thought this would be a great idea for OSS.</p> <p>The very first thing I noticed when the idea of shutting it down was a fundamental misunderstanding of what Brainstorm is and is not. So let me be clear here:</p> <blockquote><p>Brainstorm was never about user-driven voting for what goes into Ubuntu.</p></blockquote> <p>Brainstorm was about communicating ideas that the user base were interested to Ubuntu, and at THAT it did a pretty decent job. Every cycle the tech board was taking in the top ideas and responding to them. Most of these ideas were pretty obvious. Ubuntu developers don’t need anyone to remind me that Ubuntu needs to do a better job at hardware support. We know and deal with these issues every day.</p> <p>Brainstorm was about engaging developers with users, and here’s why that doesn’t work anymore:</p> <ul> <li>Just go to UDS. It’s virtual, anyone can join without caring about travel expenses, just talk to developers directly.</li> <li>Be involved in projects you care about; there’s mailing lists and tons of feedback options for developers.</li> <li>It takes a reasonably intelligent person about 10 seconds to come up with 10,000 years of development work that will never be accomplished with the resources we have.</li> <li>Go do stuff, the more you do, the more you get a say.</li> <li>At the end of the day I’m swimming in great ideas. I don’t need great ideas, I need people willing to make great ideas a reality.</li> </ul> <p>It seems that a great number of people think that Brainstorm is all about “wish-driven development” - the idea that you will come up with an awesome idea and then a team of developers will go do that for you and deliver what you want. Unfortunately that is not how it works. The only way you will ever get things done is if you do the work alongside other people. The currency of Open Source is the amount of work you’re willing to put into it. And while some people are saying that they’ll move to other distros or give up on Ubuntu because “no one listens to me” are in for a rude awakening when they realize that no open source project is driven by webpoll results.</p> <p>Some people have equated the “age of Unity” as the reason as to why Brainstorm is failing, but I don’t think so, the site was flailing long before then. I might be seemingly overly negative, and that’s not my intent. In fact the barrier to get involved with Ubuntu is lower than ever.</p> <p>The ironic bit so far is that the amount of complaints about Brainstorm shutting down <em>far</em> outnumber the amount of volunteers who have laid aside a ton of their own personal time to do the work to make the site succeed. That tells me a few things. First of all, the amount of people who will complain that things don’t work like they want them to is high. The amount of people willing to work on Ubuntu to fix these problems is relatively low.</p> <p>So is Brainstorm a failure? Probably. I think we learned a bunch of things. No other OS has tried this before. Sure, they say <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5477384/windows-7-was-my-idea-but-to-be-fair-i-dont-know-what-im-talking-about">Windows 7 was my idea</a>, but you know that’s made up. I like that we tried, shrug.</p> <p>I like that we now do design and user-feedback based improvements into Unity. Some people don’t like that. Some people don’t like that we do test driven development either. To each their own. Anyway Brainstorm was never my idea, it was a community idea that seemed to make sense at the time and whose course has run. Let’s torpedo the unrealistic idea that webpolls run an operating system and just people wired into making an operating system. Want to make a difference? Here’s the schedule for the <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/2013-05-16/">last day of UDS</a> if you want to get involved.</p> Wed, 15 May 2013 21:59:00 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703060415027607989.post-4811195572407931854 http://cheesehead-techblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/brainstorm-big-5-may-2013.html <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> These are a few of the more interesting current ideas on Brainstorm. When you prepare for UDS, also do a quick Brainstorm search. It's a good way to see what users have thought about the topic in the past.<br /><br />If you want to leave Developer Feedback on a Brainstorm Idea, but lack permissions, then please contact me. I can assign you permission, or simply add your response for you.  (ian dash weisser at ubuntu dot com)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>The all-time top four: </b><br /><br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;" class="separator"><a style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XCLMckb1B4s/TsgvgyYlrRI/AAAAAAAAAZg/k4XUzALFFHM/s1600/Lightbulb_thought_bubble.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XCLMckb1B4s/TsgvgyYlrRI/AAAAAAAAAZg/k4XUzALFFHM/s1600/Lightbulb_thought_bubble.jpg" border="0" /></a></div>The current top four all-time Brainstorm Ideas. They change from time to time as new ideas overtake old ideas, or as ideas get merged or implemented or closed.<br /><br />You may see a common theme among them:<br /><br />1) <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1242/" target="_blank">Restoring the bootloader by Ubuntu Live media</a><br />2) <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/141/" target="_blank">Graphical frontend to edit GRUB menu </a><br />3) <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8008/" target="_blank">Provide a simple interface for labeling partitions and external drives</a><br />4) <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4848/" target="_blank">Better Hardware Profile Manager</a><br /><br />Here is what I see: None of these seem like features requested by unskilled users.<br /><br />Instead, these seem more likely to be used by migrating power-users who have imprinted upon previous systems...and then discovered their first hurdle on the learning curve.<br /><br />Now, I'm <b>not</b> proposing that we should implement any of these ideas. Instead, consider it a data point - here is one measure of how Ubuntu is perceived by rather skilled new users. Not what they actually need to be productive, but what they spend their time looking for fruitlessly. <br /><br />And when they don't find it, some of them rant about Ubuntu. Goodness, just look at some of those comments.<br /><ul><li>Do we want these issues to be the first hurdles for this type of user? </li><li>Is there an easy alternative we can draw them into?</li><li>Is there a better message that Ubuntu, Launchpad, the forums, the Teams, etc. should be communicating to them?</li><li>Are these opportunities to begin their learning curve in a kinder, gentler way?</li><li>I wonder why those users, after overcoming the hurdle, did not implement a solution to help those who came after them?</li></ul><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Monetization by committee</b><br /><br />To round out the Big 5 this month, <br /><br /><a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/30426/" target="_blank">Alternative Sources of Income</a><br /><br />The top Idea of the past six months, this is a crazy-quilt of monetization ideas.  I've been -among other things- a banker and a real-business-with-employees owner and a QA inspector, so I completely understand how unrealistic some of the money-handling-and-administration Solutions really are. But like the all-time top-four (above), the real message is the intent and the context.<br /><ol><li>People are still really frustrated by [what they think are] bugs.<br />Frustrated enough that some are willing to pay [small amounts] for bug bounties.<br />Yet apparently not frustrated enough to actually get involved.</li><br /><li>There is also a lot of FUD still floating around about unity-lens-shopping, and some new users are still getting attracted to the tinfoil-hat crowd's message.</li></ol><ul><li>Is this an opportunity to recruit for the Bug Squad? LoCos? Teams? Upstreams?</li><li>How can we make our commitment to personal data privacy clearer?</li><li>How can we improve the message that Ubuntu users are participants, not customers?</li></ul><br />Feel free to discuss in the appropriate Brainstorm Idea page, or in the comments section of this blog, or by e-mail...or anywhere else you like. Like at UDS.<br />Yeah, at UDS.<br />See you on IRC at UDS! Wed, 15 May 2013 16:27:40 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Ian) http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/?p=2357 http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/sounds-like-a-map <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p><a href="http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/croppedspectro.png"><img src="http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/croppedspectro.png" alt="Colored visualization of the puzzle." height="129" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2358" width="568" /></a></p> <p>I love maps — something that became clear to me when I was looking at the tag cloud of <a href="http://links.mako.cc/bookmarks/mako" class="reference external">my bookmarks</a> a few years back. One of my favorite blogs (now <a href="http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/596-sound-like-a-map-to-you" class="reference external">a book</a>) is Frank Jabobs’ <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142005255,00.html" class="reference external">Strange Maps</a>.</p> <p>So it’s no coincidence that a number of my favorite <a href="http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/mit-mystery-hunt-2013" class="reference external">MIT Mystery Hunt</a> puzzles are <a href="https://devjoe.appspot.com/huntindex/keyword/maps" class="reference external">map based</a>. Trying to connect the two worlds, I sent Jacobs a write-up of <a href="http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/" class="reference external">the hunt</a> and of a particularly strange sound-based map puzzle called <a href="http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/06/puzzles/paris/white_noise/" class="reference external">White Noise</a> that I worked with <a href="http://donarmstrong.com/" class="reference external">Don Armstrong</a> to solve in the 2006 hunt. While I wasn’t paying attention, Jacobs did <a href="http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/596-sound-like-a-map-to-you" class="reference external">a very nice writeup of my writeup of the puzzle</a> for Strange Maps!</p> Wed, 15 May 2013 15:15:48 +0000 http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/?p=1549 http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/ubuntu-website-and-the-community-link/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>There has been much teeth gnashing about the removal of the ‘Community’ link from the top of the ubuntu.com site. As a member of the Ubuntu Community Council I have tried to gather my thoughts before blogging about this. Recently, I <a href="http://www.datamation.com/open-source/ubuntu-and-the-missing-community-link.html" target="_blank">read an article</a> that got me rather upset.</p> <p><strong>The Community Link:</strong><br /> First I want to layout my thoughts on the primary issue of the ‘Community’ link being moved to the footer. It is my opinion that the importance of the change is elevated by the recent mis-communications between Canonical and the community. Some have pointed out that promises have been made, but not kept. I can categorically state that I, as a member of the Community Council, have seen an improved effort from Canonical to inform the Community Council. As an example we were informed prior to the public discussion of the suggestion ‘click packages’. From my perspective ‘click packages’ are much more likely to have an impact on Ubuntu than the placement of the ‘Community’ link.</p> <p>There is a UDS session scheduled to discuss this and if you are interested I would suggest you attend. In that blueprint I made a suggestion that some data on page views should be looked at. Peter has posted the following:</p> <blockquote><p>AFTER Apr 15, 2013-May 9, 2013 compare to BEFORE Mar 21, 2013-Apr 14, 2013</p> <p>Pageviews<br /> -32.69%<br /> 90,700 vs 134,740</p> <p>Unique Pageviews<br /> -31.54%<br /> 76,853 vs 112,261</p> <p>Avg. Time on Page<br /> 33.75%<br /> 00:01:24 vs 00:01:03</p> <p>Entrances<br /> 2.68%<br /> 52,548 vs 51,174</p> <p>Bounce Rate %<br /> -1.04%<br /> 60.54% vs 61.17%</p> <p>it appears to be a 1/3 drop-off in page views, with a 1/3 equal increase in time on page.</p></blockquote> <p>With this data it would appear that there is a drop off and the traffic to the page has decreased. There is a <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21706/community-1305-community-website-revamp/" target="_blank">session at UDS</a> to discuss this and if it is important to you I would attend the session and <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-1305-ubuntu-website-planning" target="_blank">subscribe to the blueprint</a>.</p> <p><strong>The Community Response:</strong><br /> I want to clearly indicate that this IS NOT aimed at the broad community, but those that historically over-react in a dramatic negative fashion. There have been multiple instances of community members invoking the Hitler meme in regards to Mark Shuttleworth and the Nazi party in regards to Canonical. I can not fathom any rational person invoking this imagery in regards to Mark or Canonical. In all my dealings with Mark he has been respectful, thoughtful and compassionate. When I analyze what Mark values it is the success of Ubuntu. He understands that difficult decisions will need to be made for that to happen. When the Code of Conduct was revised it was to help ensure that the pitfalls other open source projects have been derailed by can be avoided by the Ubuntu project. I will echo that I have yet to work with a Canonical employee who has not been willing to listen to feedback or been disrespectful.</p> <p>As a community member I find such attacks a violation of the Code of Conduct and as a person I find the comparison to be completely unacceptable. It is one thing to disagree respectfully, but making comparison’s to Hitler or the Nazi party is not acceptable.</p> <br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/1549/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/1549/" alt="" border="0" /></a> Wed, 15 May 2013 14:17:57 +0000 http://bewatermyfriend.org/p/2013/008/ http://bewatermyfriend.org/p/2013/008/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Grml" width="100" height="47" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Der Spiegel (jedenfalls der Online Arm) jammert ja seit ein paar Tagen rum, man solle mal seinen Adblocker ausschalten. Wegen der Kinder, oder so. Das unerwartete Ergebnis: Es gab offenbar noch jede Menge Nutzer unter den SPON Lesern die noch garnicht wußten, was ein Adblocker ist... Dementsprechend positiv war der Effekt bei den Leuten von adblockplus.org:</p> <p><img src="http://bewatermyfriend.org/media/spiegel-adblock.png" alt="AdblockPlus Twitter Dings" /></p> <p>Von daher hat SPON da doch ganz gute Aufklärungsarbeit geleistet... ;)</p> <p>Die Titanic hat natürlich ihre eigene amüsante Sicht auf die Dinge:</p> <p><img src="http://bewatermyfriend.org/media/titanic-spiegel.png" alt="Titanic: SPON Zeug" /></p> <p>Dpa-Flatrate, <em>*schenkelklopf*</em>. Dem habe ich nichts hinzuzufügen. :-)</p> <p>(Jaja, die Onlineangebote von anderen Zeitungsverlagen jammern gerade ebenfalls rum. Nicht nur der Spiegel. Aber irgendwie klingt die Meldung die der Spiegel einblendet am drastischsten - und soweit ich weiß waren sie auch die ersten die damit angefangen haben.)</p> Wed, 15 May 2013 13:42:59 +0000 http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/?p=1545 http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/ubuntu-teams-approval-and-boundaries-discussion/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Yesterday in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=cNiDCNirzvs" target="_blank">Ubuntu Community Roundtable session</a> and idea was put forth by Jono Bacon to remove the term ‘approved’ from the loco team lexicon. It was further suggested to remove the boundary restrictions currently in place. These ideas have been floating around in the community since, my first UDS, UDS-N in Orlando Florida.</p> <span style="text-align: center; display: block;" class="embed-youtube"></span> <p>For me one of the first things that I notice is that there are already exceptions to the ‘rules’. For example, there are city teams (Chicago and Dallas), but new city based teams are not allowed. I am in New York State so I might be a bit biased, but I would personally think having an Ubuntu New York City team would be good thing. New York City is the 8th largest city (population) in the world. It is also 342 mile from where I live so there is little chance that people from my area would travel there or vice-versa. In my city we actually have two Linux user groups; one at a prestigious technical university and one for the general community. The technical university focuses more on development, and the general community group on specific implementations of applications and general use. Two different groups with two different needs. Both groups exist and thrive separately as well as cooperate when interests overlap.</p> <p>I want to be clear; I do not think this should be forced, nor do I think it should be something that requires approval.</p> <p>It is my personal opinion that the challenges that face teams are each unique; they will vary based on culture, language, geographic distance, population density and other variables. Ubuntu users should be able to choose how to organize themselves without artificial organizational boundaries placed on them.</p> <p>From my understanding the original structure was put in place to control the flow of resources like CDs, conference packs, etc. There will still be a need for some control in regards to resources, and this is an issue that must be discussed and worked out. I feel strongly that this need should not inhibit the freedom of Ubuntu users to organize and grow in a way that best suits the needs of their area or group.</p> <p>If you are interested in having input on this discussion please attend the <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21835/community-1305-enabling-local-subteams/" target="_blank">UDS session</a> this Thursday and subscribe to the <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-1305-enabling-local-subteams" target="_blank">blueprint</a>.</p> <br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/1545/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/1545/" alt="" border="0" /></a> Wed, 15 May 2013 13:32:08 +0000 http://agateau.com/2013/05/15/colibri-0.3.0 http://agateau.com/2013/05/15/colibri-0.3.0 <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>In case you haven't heard about it, <a href="http://agateau.com/projects/colibri">Colibri</a> is an alternative to KDE Plasma notifications.</p> <p>Colibri notifications are completely passive: when you move the mouse over them, they fade out and let you click the content behind them. They also have the handy ability to concatenate multiple notifications if they come from the same application (think about your friend who likes to press Enter every five words on IM...)</p> <p>It has been a long time (2 years!) since I last touched Colibri code: mainly because it was working for me, so I spent my time on other projects. With the release of KDE SC 4.10, I noticed a problem though: there was no shadow behind the notification bubbles anymore.</p> <p>This is fixed in 0.3.0. The nice thing about this fix is I was able to drop code I duplicated from Plasma internals by refactoring Colibri to use Plasma::Dialog. Less duplicated code should result in a more robust implementation, hopefully Colibri should be usable without patching for 2 more years :)</p> <p><img src="http://agateau.com/2013/05/15/colibri-0.3.0/screenshot.png" alt="Colibri says hello" /></p> <p>Another change I made was moving the project from Gitorious to <a href="https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/colibri">git.kde.org</a>, this brings you more translations.</p> <p>You can get the source code from <a href="http://download.kde.org/stable/colibri/colibri-0.3.0.tar.bz2.mirrorlist">download.kde.org</a>. Kubuntu 13.04 users can also get it from the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~agateau/+archive/colibri/">Colibri PPA</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/1347834/Colibri-0-3-0" target="_blank"><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr this" border="0" title="Flattr this" /></a></p> Wed, 15 May 2013 13:05:44 +0000 http://developer.ubuntu.com/?p=4201 http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/05/app-development-sessions-at-uds-day-2/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/Ubuntu" width="100" height="22" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>After a very productive kick off, we’re back with the second day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit on the App Development track and the summary of sessions for today. Thank you everyone who participated in the sessions yesterday, either in hangouts or in IRC.</p> <p><img src="http://developer.ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/App-dev-tablet-GoMobile.png" title="App-dev-tablet-GoMobile" height="269" width="431" alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4202" /></p> <p>Here’s the <strong>list of app development sessions for today</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>At 14:00 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21821/app-developer-roundtable/">App Development Roundtable</a></li> <li>At 15:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21768/appdev-1305-sdk-tools/">SDK Tools and Qt Creator</a></li> <li>At 16:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21710/appdev-1305-app-showdown/">The Next Ubuntu App Showdown</a></li> <li>At 18:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21824/appdev-1305-api-website/">New API Documentation Website</a></li> <li>At 18:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21782/appdev-1305-friends-api/">QML Friends API and UI Components</a></li> <li>At 19:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21709/appdev-1305-touch-image-coreapps/">Core Apps in Ubuntu Touch Preview Images</a></li> <li>At 19:05 UTC: <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21778/appdev-1305-calendaring/">Calendar Application and Backend for Ubuntu Touch</a></li> </ul> <p>See you there!</p> Wed, 15 May 2013 11:22:54 +0000 http://blogs.itb.ac.id/zakiakhmad/?p=303 http://blogs.itb.ac.id/zakiakhmad/2013/05/15/git-branch-completion/ <img src="http://planet.debian.org/heads/deriv/BlankOn" width="100" height="17" alt="" align="right" style="float: right;"> <p>Dengan bekal <a href="http://blogs.itb.ac.id/zakiakhmad/2013/05/10/kesulitan-melihat-branch-pada-git/">petunjuk</a> dari <a href="http://fajran.web.id/">Iang</a> dan Donny Kurnia, akhirnya hari ini saya bisa menset bash shell saya dengan dukungan git branch completion. </p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zakiakhmad/8741064316/" title="git-branch-completion by zakiakhmad, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7293/8741064316_46c9b13afe.jpg" alt="git-branch-completion" height="116" width="430" /></a></p> <p>Nanti akan saya tuliskan langkah-langkahnya di kesempatan lain. Untuk sekarang, selamat tinggal $ git branch! </p> Wed, 15 May 2013 09:25:38 +0000