Category Archives: Advocacy

Getting Back Into Screencasting

After a very log hiatus I’m getting back into doing screencasting. It’s been far too long, and the restart has been at least in part been prompted by a bug report and the encouragement of a couple of great women in the Ubuntu community.

The first one I’ve done is very simple and just covers …

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Come to OggCamp

What: OggCamp
When: Sunday 25th October 2009
Where: Wolverhampton, UK
Who: Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws
Why: Hangover cure for LUGRadio Live 2009

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Migrating From WUBI to Full Ubuntu Install

Note: This blog post could also be titled “Reinstalling Ubuntu and Keeping Your Applications and Data” or “Migrating Ubuntu Data and Applications from One Machine to Another”.

I went over to a my friend Nicks house last night for a watch TV / play PS3 / geek out type evening. He’s got an old IBM …

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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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Easy Script To Get And Install PPA GPG Keys

If you use Ubuntu then it’s possible you’ll enable a PPA or two, to install software not in the standard Ubuntu Repositories.

This is a fairly simple process, but there’s a little fiddly bit of work to install the GPG key that goes along with each PPA. If you’re the kind of person that plays …

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