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Ubuntu US District of Columbia
October 2010
Kevin Cole — 128604955202 Oct 2010
Dunno who else is heading that way, but I figured I'd toss out an FYI......
Phil Shapiro — 128636393706 Oct 2010*
This youngster in Dublin has created an amusing short video with the OpenShot video editor. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6jCG8_KvNo If you have...
Kevin Cole — 128648406707 Oct 2010
Pass this on to Debian lists and others.. Geeks Without Bounds (http://gwob.org/) is holding their "Hack-a-thon" 10.10.10 . According to the...
/msg nickserv ghost (1 Reply)
Kevin Cole — 128665339909 Oct 2010*
http://docs.dal.net/docs/nickserv.html#4.1...
() — 128666045809 Oct 2010
(doing penance for my last DCLUG post on FC14 install notes) Learning command line, it helps to look over someone else's shoulder, as that...
() — 128666045809 Oct 2010
http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=951121 Gearing Up for Open Developer Day November 4th, 2010 by Greg Elin - Chief Data Officer This coming Monday th...
() — 128666045809 Oct 2010
<br> <a href="http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=951121" title="http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=951121" target=...
Phil Shapiro — 128673391810 Oct 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stjOjarwcI8...
reducing canonical's distribution costs (3 Replies)
Phil Shapiro — 128673746010 Oct 2010*
hi ubuntistas, here's a simple idea for reducing canonical's distribution costs for ubuntu 10.10. download the iso using Transmission (or anot...
reducing canonical's distribution costs (1 Reply)
curtis.schell at gmail.com — 128676267711 Oct 2010*
Good idea. -Original Message- Date: Sunday, October 10, 2010 1:40:50 pm To: "Phil Shapiro" Cc: ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com From: curtis...
Kenneth Stailey — 128680810011 Oct 2010
I didn't actually upgrade it from Intrepid. I used rdiff-backup to do a quick D2D backup of the essentially user data and then installed from bare...
Phil Shapiro — 128681216211 Oct 2010
Stunningly beautiful Inkscape artwork in new YouTube video. http://tinyurl.com/298mgmq...
DELL Dimension 4500S revisited (10 Replies)
Kenneth Stailey — 128682706511 Oct 2010*
Turns out the DELL Dimension 4500S installs 10.10 provided that memory_corruption_check_size=128K is used in the boot options. I actually am using nop...
nopat (8 Replies)
Kenneth Stailey — 128683577711 Oct 2010*
I have one of these at work: $ echo `sudo dmidecode -s system-manufacturer ; sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name` HP ProLiant DL145 G2 $ lsb_release...
thoughs about a tool to verify certain PPAs (5 Replies)
Kenneth Stailey — 128693258213 Oct 2010*
Many PPAs are simply the upstream source plus the "debian" directory. It should not be so hard to write a tool that could download the upstr...
Staying with LTS (3 Replies)
Marti Martinson — 128705763014 Oct 2010*
I have checked the Settings in Update Manager, and it is set to: Show new distro releases: Long term support releases only. (As a test, I switched to ...
Kenneth Stailey — 128705768214 Oct 2010
vs. kstailey at hermes:~$ lsb_release -ds Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS...
Microsoft OpenOffice FUD YouTube video (16 Replies)
Phil Shapiro — 128731316817 Oct 2010*
You might have heard. An official Microsoft video posted to the MS Office channel of YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzdykNa2IBU Refuted in th...
Phil Shapiro — 128732994017 Oct 2010
hi ubuntistas, i've received some donated routers (24-port hub) that might come in handy for linux events/trainings in our area -- including insta...
Ubuntu & Blackberry (5 Replies)
Michael Haney — 128733734317 Oct 2010*
I've got a brand new Blackberry Curve 9330 I just got today for free from Radio Shack. It charges via USB, so I'm wondering if its possible to...
Phil Shapiro — 128744183918 Oct 2010*
neat comments about the touch interface built into Ubuntu. http://tinyurl.com/34lxgol http://blog.canonical.com/?p=446 phil...
Kenneth Stailey — 128748787419 Oct 2010
http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2010/10/13... Written by Ara Pulido October 13, 2010 at 11:42 am...
Phil Shapiro — 128760168520 Oct 2010
Donate your bandwidth to support Ubuntu 10.10 downloads. (PCWorld) http://tinyurl.com/2ww48bw...
Workshops and BSPs (1 Reply)
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki — 128767450021 Oct 2010*
I've been inspired by the debian-nyc group's series of workshops [0] and bug squashing parties [1] over the past year. The effort, largely led...
Kevin Cole — 128768438521 Oct 2010*
Hi, On the e-mail list, the idea of meeting at Pentagon City Borders was raised by Keith recently, and met with positive responses. This past Saturday...
Xian R. — 128777190222 Oct 2010
http://musicandsons.it/to.php...
WTF?! (WAS: Re: (no subject)) (2 Replies)
Nathan Bahn — 128784904323 Oct 2010*
The most charitable explanation is that SOMEONE'S computer got infected with a virus/worm. The UNcharitable explanation is that someone's spam...
Aaron M. Ucko — 128795750824 Oct 2010*
An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Aaron M. Ucko Subject: Debian Key Signing / Advocation / Sponsorship Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 09:58:05 -0400 Si...
Phil Shapiro — 128797147725 Oct 2010*
Simply stated and nicely done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMk841s9v3s phil...
Michael Haney — 128797215425 Oct 2010
Here's another great video about free software and open source. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxzK9xtSXM...
Sound debugging... (5 Replies)
Kevin Cole — 128798451325 Oct 2010*
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AudioTroubleshooti... http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-h... http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/multi......
Compiz and Xubuntu (3 Replies)
Michael Haney — 128798637125 Oct 2010*
Hi there! I've got a question. I'm visually impaired and rely on the desktop zoom and color inversion desktop effects you get from Compiz in U...
Kenneth Stailey — 128804080425 Oct 2010
Hi, I opened LP 666494 "Data Corruption bug in GlusterFS 3.0.2" today. If someone could help me with the debdiff I'd appreciate it. The ...
Drifting Away from Gnome (3 Replies)
Michael Haney — 128805699326 Oct 2010*
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/67... Not sure if this is a wise move or not but Canonical is apparently moving Ubuntu Desktop from Gnome t...
Kevin Cole — 128836686729 Oct 2010*
At least one person on the list, other than me, expressed interest. Shall I look for any of you?...