14th Jun - 12th JulMonthly Top Blog Posts on Linux
12 Jul
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www.barisione.org27 commentsSocialRank
The Empathy team is proud to announce you that the next release of our fantastic instant messaging client will use tabs for both accounts and groups. This important change will bring Empathy closer to GNOME 3.0…
Gabriel Burt’s Blog: Tabtastic Banshee
gburt.blogspot.com22 commentsSocialRank
By outrageous amounts of popular demand (and feature pressure from Totem), we are pleased to announce tab support in Banshee! You can open your Music Library in one tab, your yummy Apple device in another, and be…
11 Jul
PE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> KDE and GNOME to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009
The KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation today announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, Akademy and GUADEC in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same…
uwstopia ★ Blog ★ Totem tab support
uwstopia.nl0 commentsSocialRank
Since tabs are just so nice as a UI metaphor, I also did some Guadec hacking. See the screenshot below for the awesome result of just a few hours of hacking: Most parts work fine already. It will be landing in…
Tim Penhey: Bazaar has the model right
how-bazaar.blogspot.com14 commentsSocialRank
Some people in the GNOME community have suggested that if Bazaar has nice usability, then GNOME can just use Git on the back-end, and Bazaar lovers can just use the Git back-end via Bazaar. It's true that Bazaar…
10 Jul
Jeffrey Stedfast: More PulseAudio Problems
jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com29 commentsSocialRank
I reinstalled PulseAudio to try and resolve the plethora of problems I’ve been having with it (that and openSUSE 11 doesn’t actually ship th esound daemon anymore, so if I want full audio support I have no choice but to…
03 Jul
Ingo Juergensmann: Xen and NFS performance
Today I discovered that one of my domUs at work is performing slow on its mounted NFS share. Bonnie++ and dd testsshowed a network throughput of just 300 kB/s whereas the throughput was up to 110 MB/s from dom0 to NFS…
02 Jul
Jan Wagner: Bayreuth Festival - Online streaming of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”
blog.waja.info6 commentsSocialRank
Actual I’m involved into a project which maybe of interest for you if you like opera particular when you are a Richard Wagner enthusiast.Since long time, the waiting period for obtaining tickets increases a lot. At…
01 Jul
Karl Lattimer: Censorship on planet GNOME?
www.qdh.org.uk8 commentsSocialRank
As many of you are aware Zeeshan made a post about something that happened a while ago. This was mentioned to him merely in passing and he wanted to blog about it. I thought it was fair comment however I was met with a…
30 Jun
Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables
HiroDeckard writes “Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users. This practice may be a thing of the past as it’s been…
29 Jun
Davyd Madeley: further adventures in the life of the home handypenguin
davyd.livejournal.com8 commentsSocialRank
Finished off the cupboards this morning. Need to go and get one more door. Having it missing is annoying the pants off me.Went to Bunnings (or as Dad calls it: Church) to pick up bits and pieces so that I could install…
John Goerzen: A response to "7 Ways Religion is Detrimental to Science"
I read 7 Ways Religion is Detrimental to Science, and thought it would be an interesting read. It was, but I don’t think it really made sense. Let’s look at the 7 ways they highlighted:1. Faith and the Scientific…
28 Jun
jbailey: A retrospective on 26 years of Microsoft in my life
It’s interesting to think about Bill Gates retiring. When I think back to how much Microsoft has brought us over the years, both happiness and grief, it’s a bit of a happy/sad end to an era for me.Microsoft is what…
27 Jun
Justin Dugger: The popular emergence of apt-git?
jldugger.livejournal.com10 commentsSocialRank
It’s no secret that Canonical is a large proponent of Bazaar (bzr) and would like to use Ubuntu as a guinea pig for large scale deployments. At UDS Prague, James Westby gave an interview about using “distributed version…
John Palmieri: Credit and where it is due
www.j5live.com16 commentsSocialRank
Reading the comments in Zeeshan Ali’s blog make me a bit sad that the issue of giving credit was somehow brushed aside instead of fomenting a good debate on the nature of credit within our communities. I would have…
Biella Coleman: Dear lazy lazy lazy web
I think it is time for me to upgrade my digital camera and while I would like a SLR, I think I am going to stick to a small non-SLR digital camera. I am looking for a high quality one, preferably with a wide-angle lens…
Miriam Ruiz: Glass Ceiling
www.miriamruiz.es12 commentsSocialRank
Katherine Lawrence and Marianne Schreiber, two women at Hewlett-Packard, used the term Glass Ceiling to to refer to invisible barriers that impede the career advancement of females. While on the surface there seems to…
26 Jun
Christian Hergert: Changing scm vs cooler software?
While I do love git, mercurial, bzr and all their hype, I can’t help but wonder if the time spent on deciding on a DVCS is keeping people from writing cool software. With the curiosity if GNOME is decadent, perhaps…
25 Jun
Mike Hommey: Pissing users off
It seems some people don’t like the new about:config warning in Firefox 3.0. The sad thing is this message was not intended to piss people off.The localization note intended for translaters reads:<!– LOCALIZATION…
24 Jun
Jorge Castro: On phones….
stompbox.typepad.com16 commentsSocialRank
It’s no secret that I hate phones. With a vengeance.I have a blackberry 8830. It’s supposed to be one of the world’s finest smartphones. I hate it. It’s slow, the apps suck, the UI sucks, and mostly everything about it…
question to Git (power)users
www.lucas-nussbaum.net23 commentsSocialRank
I’m slowly switching to Git for my personal projects, and I like it more and more. And it seems that I can only find nice things to read about it.So, I’m wondering: what are the things that you dislike with Git?…
Philip Van Hoof: Big day for Modest and Tinymail
pvanhoof.be11 commentsSocialRank
Quim Gil announces why.It’s a little bit frightening … I guess quite a lot of people will now start using our code.I’m also proud of having been involved with such a great team of software developers working on…
23 Jun
Steven Harms: OS X Zealots: Convince me?
www.sharms.org16 commentsSocialRank
So as a technology / operating system junkie, one OS I have never got to play with is Leopard. Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, Windows 95-XP — used them all. I actually have absolutely no urge to see…
22 Jun
Adam Rosi-Kessel: A Much Simpler Fix for the r8169 “Link-Down” Problem
adam.rosi-kessel.org10 commentsSocialRank
There is a widespread problem with the Linux driver for the Realtek 8168/8169 cards where the modules load properly and the card is visible but no link is detected. E.g.:Jun 21 18:28:41 localhost kernel: r8169: eth0:…
21 Jun
Robin Johnson: How deep can a bug go?
robbat2.livejournal.com4 commentsSocialRank
Ok, so it seems that I’m blogging again a bit, but only about software bugs and treachery. Today’s post is about how I’ve burnt about 6 hours of development time, working through what seemed to be a simple bug.Some…
Marc ‘Zugschlus’ Haber: kbd seems to be the way to go
blog.zugschlus.de29 commentsSocialRank
This is just a small reminder (for me and others) that Debian is currently migrating from console-tools to kbd (backagain, yes, those who have been around for a few years remember).This information is obviously a…
Zhang Shunchang: The GPG Key selection done!
zscssoc2008blog.blogspot.com6 commentsSocialRank
This week i have completed the GPG key selection in Evolution, using the Seahorse cryptui and its DBus APIs. And I have added a new GPG key frame to the Security tab in account editor. Of course, it is implemented…
20 Jun
pleia2’s blog Ubuntu Hardy on Computer Corner + podcast!
princessleia.com2 commentsSocialRank
On the 12th of this month Alex Launi and I were invited back to WCOJ 1420 AM’s Computer Corner to discuss the release of Ubuntu Hardy.As with last time, Alex and I met up with Gene and Joe shortly before 8AM for the…
19 Jun
Marc Christensen: Pidgin support for MSN sucks!
Wow, I have several friends that use MSN and I use Pidgin to communicate with them. They have told me time and time again that I always appear off line when I am not or have been on line all day.It really sucks because…
Martin Albisetti: MySQL migrates to Bazaar!
beuno.com.ar7 commentsSocialRank
This just in, MySQL has migrated from BitKeeper to Bazaar. They also seem to be using Launchpad quite extensively, and have already updated their installation from source instructions.Not only is it a big user base for…
18 Jun
Og Maciel: Brazil x Argentina online
www.ogmaciel.com5 commentsSocialRank
Unfortunately the match between Brazil and Argentina was not broadcasted here in the United States (well, at least not here where I live). Out of nowhere my dad calls me from NY to tell me he had just seen this guy plug…
Daniel Holbach’s blog Blog Archive How to run a Bug Jam?
daniel.holba.ch4 commentsSocialRank
Digg It!Global Bug Jam, full steam ahead! Some bug jams are scheduled already but there’s far more potential: what about YOU? Don’t you want to have the fun of your life at a Bug Jam nearby?I have good news for you.…
17 Jun
David Bolter: Do bug references taint code readability?
Sometimes we write code that looks slightly odd or unpleasant, but it works around (or fixes) a bug, a bug which otherwise is perhaps beyond our control (e.g. some interaction issue with a closed source tool). We write…
Hanno Böck: Linux on a Wii
www.hboeck.de8 commentsSocialRank
Today I played around a bit with the stuff done by the Wii homebrew/hacking community, which is far more advanced than I had expected.I had the game Twilight Princess borrowed by a friend. For those who don’t know,…
np237: No world record today
np237.livejournal.com8 commentsSocialRank
Instead of trying to set a world record in the “most stupid world record ever” category, finally bringing software development to the same level as sausages, you can do something useful for your computer: download…
YeahConsole: a dropdown Linux terminal that’s better than Tilda
I’ve been a big fan of Tilda, the dropdown terminal window for Linux, for a long while; pressing F2 to grab a terminal is hardwired into my fingers now, and I’m crippled without it. However, Tilda’s been getting…
Aaron Bockover: openSUSE 11.0 Launch Party, Boston/Cambridge
abock.org10 commentsSocialRank
On Thursday, June 19th at 6 PM, we’ll be holding an openSUSE 11.0 launch party at the Novell Cambridge office at 8 Cambridge Center (Kendall Square area). If you’re in the area, stop by with your appetite and a…
Christopher Blizzard: firefox 3 stories around the web
www.0xdeadbeef.com91 commentsSocialRank
Images shamelessly stolen from Gen and Tristan.Firefox 3, Most Emailed news at Yahoo!Firefox 3 on the home page of BBC!WebUser home page announcing tomorrow’s chat.Firefox 3 article on the BBCE
16 Jun
Nicolas Deschildre: Plushie brains, anyone?
www.ndeschildre.net3 commentsSocialRank
Hey, look what I got from Dell for having asked for Ubuntu PC worldwide on Dell Ideastorm (besides having the idea implemented, and the joy of not paying an OS I won’t use) : Nice pen! Thanks! That’s apparently a…
Christian Heim: Looong time
blog.barfoo.org8 commentsSocialRank
Well, it’s been a loong time since I first thought about retiring (yes, I know that #-dev’s topic states “developer blogs” ain’t for announcing important things, but my blog has to do for this; if not, I…
POHMELFS Performance
“I regularly run and post various benchmarks comparing POHMELFS, NFS, XFS and Ext4, [the] main goal of POHMELFS at this stage is to be essentially as fast as [the] underlying local filesystem. And it is.” explained E…
Rich Burridge: Moog Guitar
blogs.sun.com2 commentsSocialRank
(As reportedover on Geek.com).This looks fascinating. The company that gave you Moog synthesizers inthe ’70’s, have now created a Moog Guitar:It has five different sound modes, designed to give the player a wide range…
It hurts. It really hurts.
www.jonobacon.org14 commentsSocialRank
Pointed to me by Aq - what happens when the legendary Van Halen play the multi-million selling Jump live while the backing tape with the famous synth from the song is played back at slightly the wrong pitch? Well, you…
code_swarm: Animated Visualization of the Development of some High Profile Open Source Projects - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
code_swarm is an animated visualization of the development of software. Its site currently has animated visualizations for Apache httpd, Eclipse, PostgreSQL, and Python. code_swarm: An experiment in organic software…
Firefox extensions to bring back the dead
Don’t you find it irritating when a Web page you bookmarked or favorited returns a 404 error on a subsequent visit? Or when a Web site is temporarily down? Firefox extensions Resurrect Pages and 404: Page is Not Found?…
15 Jun
Randall Donald: preliminary 173.14.05
www.khensu.org4 commentsSocialRank
For those who care you can find NVIDIA 173.14.05 debs here I have a problem with X crashing at startup with a secondary non-nvidia card on my i386 box at work so I’m still trying to figure out that issue but for single…
EFiX Promises to Simplify OSX86 Installation
We all know about PsyStar, the company that sells an unofficial Macintosh clone running Mac OS X Leopard. While the device runs Leopard fine, it has its shortcomings in that operating system updates have to go through…
Zeeshan Ali: gupnp-media-server now written in Vala
zee-nix.blogspot.com6 commentsSocialRank
I finally managed to port all the existing C code to Vala. What did i achieve from this exercise? For one thing, the code got much simpler, with LOCs being reduced from 2101 to 1117 (46.8 %). Also this proves that (at…
Lucas Rocha: Notes on the Future of GNOME: Problems and Questions
blogs.gnome.org18 commentsSocialRank
Ok, now that I’ve already made my point about our great achievements, it’s time to talk about the big questions. I ended up writing too much, sorry 
I won’t discuss about solutions or practical actions in this…
Jackson Harper: TaintedStrings (sorta) with Monorail
Around 2AM this morning I caught a tired jackson doing something like this:public void MyAction (string str){ string clean_str = StringUtil.Clean (str); DoStuff (str); PropertyBag [”Str”] = clean_str;}Do…
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