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If you build it, they will come...

21 already!

To one and all,

Let it be known that I have waved my great flaming sword of organization across the LaptopTestingTeam page on our much maligned wiki. Let it known henceforth that all members of said team are to create subpages with the following character:
Make + Model + Model # for their laptops, which organizes itself as so - LaptopTestingTeam/ToshibaTecraA5, as the great benefactors from that cloudy isle have seen fit to bequeath upon me.

Those of you who created pages before this edict shall find their sins relieved by means of redirect and renaming. Those who wish to beg at the great alter of all that is worth a shuttle should now seek this page.

Further, I offer salutations to those on the cloudy isle for finding this servant worthy of such gifts. I hope you will find it well placed.

Signed,

Corey Burger
His Lordly Self-appointed Wiki Janitor Poobah

Michael Lynn's Presentation

As \sh already blogged about, here is the presentation.

As part of MCSE training, we also did some Cisco IOS stuff. I must say that IOS is not a bad shell and their stuff is good. Somebody probably freaked in marketing (all evil things come from the marketing department) and thus we have me blogging about a security exploit that is already fixed and that I don't have the technical known-how what to do with anyways.

25 Jul 2005 (updated 25 Jul 2005 at 06:35 UTC) »

Welcome to China^WTelus Internet Service

The major local Telco, Telus, which also provides internet service, is engaged in a contract dispute with the Telecommunications Workers Union, which recently got nasty, including an imposed contract and now a strike. Some of the members of the TWU have set up an unofficial website, Voices for Change. Yesterday, Telus decided to block access to this website for all of their internet subscribers. The official line from Telus is that "advocating jamming lines hurt the company, and access to the pictures [of non-union employees crossing the picket lines] threatened the privacy and safety of employees."

I am glad that I currently pay them no money, but you cannot get local phone service in British Columbia and Alberta except through them. Also, the internet currently has no oversight in Canada, which sounds fine, until companies pull this sort of stunt. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, basically our FCC, has been pushing for years to get the oversight position and has failed. Maybe this might change a few minds in Ottawa. To make this happen, I have emailled all my local Members of Parliment and asked them to do just that.

It makes me sick...

Edit:

Ironically, the website used to be hosted on Telus and can still be viewed here

Further Edit:

My union activist brother has informed me that this is fact a lockout, not a strike

J5, I am glad that Gnome gets it. This is exactly the reason why it is my only desktop and will remain that way for a long time.

I am one of the designer/usablity people he talks about, if only just dabbling my feet right now. As per his comments about us not being code crunchers, it is true. This bug threatens to destroy my perfect zero of direct code changes in Gnome. Unfortunately, I have already ruined my perfect zero in terms of upload status into Ubuntu.

As a side note, I need something to parse my xchat logs better. Grep doesn't really cut it for vague searching. Remeber, as the terminal is a bug, this better be graphical. An Xchat beagle backend would be nice...

22 Jul 2005 (updated 22 Jul 2005 at 05:26 UTC) »

The Ubuntu Wiki Team

Our wiki team is really rocking. In the past week or so, we have attracted a fair number of new people and convinced some of the old people to get more involved (like me).

So thanks to: Matthew Parslow (major work on FileCompression, other work), Matthew Paul Thomas (copy edits and reminding us to use simple language), John Lambrects (amazing work on MultimediaApplications), Daniel Robitaille (general work on old wikipages), Ralph Wabel (many game docs and general organization), Matthew East (UserDocumentation work, general cleanup) and others.

If you want to help us out, come to #ubuntu-doc on Freenode.

Other Documentation team news

We have begun the process of respecing the FAQ Guide (and if I get my way, the Quick Guide as well). We invite all comments on the proposed new Table of Contents, which can be seen here

Random thoughts


  • Change the volume with the scroll wheel is major cool
  • Drivel is nice, very nice

As heard on #wikipedia

Q: How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 4, one to change the bulb, a second to write a lengthy article about the historical ramifications of changing light bulbs, and a third to start an edit war with the second. Oh, and the person that invariably lists it on VfD.
This light-bulb has blown. You can help Wikipedia by changing it.

(Note: VfD is Votes for Deletion, for all you non-wikipedians here)

In Ubuntu news, I have been cleaning up the wiki and working on getting applications into main for Edubuntu. In this task I have already made Martin Pitt cry with gcompris.

If I ever have to touch the console, it is a bug that should be fixed.

Thank you and good day

As heard on #ubuntu

[name withheld to protect the innocent] Hey guys I got a real problem I just install ubuntu on my computer and well Now I can't find my windows media player and I can't find my Internet explorer eaither! And I think i really messed up as in I think I mistakenly hacked into some guys computer. I keep seeing his name "Gnome" everywhere

12 Jul 2005 (updated 12 Jul 2005 at 01:11 UTC) »

As heard on #ubuntu-devel

[wasabi] Wouldn't a LTSP port to Ubuntu be NEAT?
[Kamion] that would be what mdz's currently doing
[wasabi] Oh. Really?
* Kamion steals and waves mdz's retroactive feature request satisfaction wand
....
[daniels] Kamion: shit man, can I borrow that wand?
[lamont] daniels: you're not getting out of xorg work that easily
[daniels] damnit!

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