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The Etherpad Foundation is Hiring

I got this mail today and as requested am passing it on far and wide. Please don’t contact me directly about the role, I have nothing to do with it, I’m just a keen user of Etherpad.

For those that don’t know, Etherpad is an open source web-based collaborative text editor.

The Etherpad Foundation is looking …

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Ubuntu Software Center on Cranky Geeks

As many of you know I enjoy listening to podcasts during my commute to and from work. One that I regularly listen to is Cranky Geeks featuring John C. Dvorak and guests. It’s also no secret that I’m a massive fan of Ubuntu. So today was a double-whammy when Ubuntu got a mention on …

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UDS Karmic Videos and HTML5 Goodness

I noticed that the videos from the most recent Ubuntu Developer Summit are now online, and thought I’d have a play with the new embedded HTML5 video stuff in Firefox 3.5.

Rather than view all the videos by downloading them individually I thought I’d make a page where I can view them all sequentially.

Here …

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Things Not To Say

.. in the #ubuntu-release-party irc channel on freenode.

“Are we there yet?”
“When is <insert_release_code_name> out?”
“How many hours until it’s out?”
“What’s the _exact_ time of the release?”
“Has anything changed between the RC and release?”
“Where is the best place to find out exactly when it’s released!?”
“Give me the link!”
“Canonical is in the Isle of Man, what timezone …

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Joined up Dell support

(not)

I previously blogged about the problem with the video card on my Dell laptop.

On the Friday I called Dell up having had no response from their website. They talked me through some tests which included reinstalling the device driver in Windows and reinstalling Windows itself. Neither of these I could do as I …

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