Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Bugzilla to Malone Migration

16 January, 2006 – 5:01 am

The Bugzilla migration on Friday went quite well, so we’ve now got all the old Ubuntu bug reports in Launchpad. Before the migration, we were up to bug #6760. Now that the migration is complete, there are more than 28000 bugs in the system. Here are some quick points to help with the transition: All [...]

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Ubuntu Bugzilla Migration

11 January, 2006 – 7:01 am

The migration is finally going to happen, after much testing of migration code and improvements to Malone. If all goes well, Ubuntu will be using a single bug tracker again on Friday (as opposed to the current system where bugs in main go in Bugzilla and bugs in universe go in Malone).

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Switch users from XScreenSaver

5 December, 2005 – 2:49 am

Joao: you can configure XScreenSaver to show a “Switch User” button in it’s password dialog (which calls gdmflexiserver when run). This lets you start a new X session after the screen has locked. This feature is turned on in Ubuntu if you want to try it out. Of course, this is not a full solution, [...]

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Moving from Bugzilla to Launchpad

8 November, 2005 – 11:46 pm

One of the things that was discussed at UBZ was moving Ubuntu’s bug tracking over to Launchpad. The current situation sees bugs in main being filed in bugzilla while bugs in universe go in Launchpad. Putting all the bugs in Launchpad is an improvement, since users only need to go to one system to file [...]

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Avahi on Breezy followup

2 November, 2005 – 5:23 pm

So after I posted some instructions for setting up Avahi on Breezy, a fair number of people at UBZ did so. For most people this worked fine, but it seems that a few people’s systems started spewing a lot of network traffic. It turns out that the problem was actually caused by the zeroconf package [...]

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Avahi on Breezy

1 November, 2005 – 9:38 am

During conferences, it is often useful to be able to connect to connect to other people’s machines (e.g. for collaborative editing sessions with Gobby). This is a place where mDNS hostname resolution can come in handy, so you don’t need to remember IP addresses. This is quite easy to set up on Breezy: Install the [...]

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Ubuntu Below Zero

30 October, 2005 – 5:58 pm

I’ve been in Montreal since Wednesday for Ubuntu Below Zero. As well as being my first time in Canada, it was my first time in transit through the USA. Unlike in most countries, I needed to pass through customs and get a visa waiver even though I was in transit. The visa waiver form had [...]

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DSB-R100 USB Radio Tuner

18 October, 2005 – 1:26 am

Picked up a DSB-R100 USB Radio tuner off EBay recently. I did this partly because I have better speakers on my computer than on the radio in that room, and partly because I wanted to play around with timed recordings. Setting it up was trivial — the dsbr100 driver got loaded automatically, and a program [...]

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