Archive for February, 2010
Yay Dell-with-Ubuntu down under
Dell has been offering Ubuntu on selected models for a while. I had however nearly given up hope on being able to buy one, because they hadn’t started doing that in Australia. I am very glad to see this has changed though – check out their notebook page. Not all models yet, but a reasonable […]
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Using UEC instead of EC2
So, we wanted to move a Hudson CI server at Canonical from using chroots to VM’s (for better isolation and security), and there is this great product Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC – basically Eucalyptus). To do this I needed to make some changes to the Hudson EC2 plugin – and thats where the fun starts. […]
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Tags: EC2, Eucalyptus, ubuntu, UEC
Is a code of silence evil?
Looking at using google apps for my home email, as I want to be able to have my home machines totally turned off from time to time. Found this interesting gem in the sign up agreement (which I have not yet agreed to ): 11. PR. Customer agrees not to issue any public announcement regarding […]
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Tags: google, legal, openness
Adding new languages to Ubuntu
Scott recently noted that we don’t have Klingon available in Ubuntu. Klingon is available in ISO 639, so adding it should be straight forward. Last time I blogged about this three packages needed changing, as well as Launchpad needing a translation team for the language. The situation is a little better now: only two packages […]
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Tags: gdm, i18n, langpack-locales, libx11, ubuntu
