Category Archives: Ubuntu

Migrating to a New Desktop PC

A little while ago I bought a Zoostorm PC from Ebuyer. It’s a farily basic (but powerful) i7 based system with 8GB RAM and a 1TB hard disk. This is to replace my older (but still fully working) Mesh PC. The newer one is more power efficient, quieter, a lot faster, and all Intel …

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Python 2d Physics Libraries

I’ve been playing with the python-elements but it seems like the project is dead.

The upstream website has gone and the packages has had no updates for some time. I’d like to create a simple demo/game along the lines of some of the mini games you find in WarioWare on the Nintendo Wii. The …

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Happy Hour Comes to Farnborough

Tonight I’ll be in the Prince of Wales Pub in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK from about 8pm to celebrate Ubuntu Happy Hour with friends. Everyone is welcome, and you don’t need to bring a computer.

It’s super easy to find, and is very near Farnborough North Railway Station and not too far to walk from Farnborough …

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Voting in a new Ubuntu Community Council Begins

The Ubuntu Community Council (CC) comprises a group of individuals from Canonical and the wider Ubuntu community. It’s the primary non-technical governance body for the Ubuntu project. I was fortunate enough to be nominated along with others and elected to the CC for a two year term. That two year term is now up …

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Full Moon OggCamp

“It is the duty, and ought to be the pleasure, of age and experience
to warn and instruct youth and to come to the aid of inexperience.”
— William Cobbett, ~1829

This weekend (13th / 14th August) we (Linux Outlaws and Ubuntu UK Podcast) are holding Oggcamp 11 at Farnham Maltings in Surrey, UK.

OggCamp …

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