Category Archives: Advocacy

Ubuntu at Non-Technical Events

By popey | Published: July 19, 2010

We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG meetings, technical conferences and other self-organised events and telling everyone how great Ubuntu is. However…We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG meetings, technical conferences and other self-organised events and telling everyone how [...]

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Working Around blip.tv Video Conversion Failures

By popey | Published: September 7, 2009

One of the things that’s important to me for Ubuntu Screencasts is that they are accessible to people on non-Ubuntu platforms. That basically translates to Windows and OSX, but could…One of the things that’s important to me for Ubuntu Screencasts is that they are accessible to people on non-Ubuntu platforms. That basically translates to Windows [...]

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A Video Editor that Just Works

By popey | Published: September 2, 2009

After my troubles this morning and the subsequent helpful comments from readers, I’m pleased to say I’ve worked around the pausing issue with recordmydesktop. Here’s the command line I used…After my troubles this morning and the subsequent helpful comments from readers, I’m pleased to say I’ve worked around the pausing issue with recordmydesktop. Here’s the [...]

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Screencasting To A Script

By popey | Published: August 27, 2009

Following on from my previous blog post about Getting Back Into Screencasting I’ve put another one together. There’s been some really interesting discussion on Ian Ozsvalds Screencasting Handbook group about…Following on from my previous blog post about Getting Back Into Screencasting I’ve put another one together. There’s been some really interesting discussion on Ian Ozsvalds [...]

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Trust In Remote Support

By popey | Published: August 26, 2009

Recently in the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team IRC channel we had a new user arrive with a problem on their Ubuntu computer. Nothing new there, it happens every day, but the…Recently in the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team IRC channel we had a new user arrive with a problem on their Ubuntu computer. Nothing new there, it happens [...]

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