Category Archives: Ubuntu
Ubuntu (Berlin) Global Jam at c-base and Daniel Holbach’s notebook
Members of “Ubuntu Berlin” met yesterday at c-base within the Ubuntu Global Jam. While it was nice seeing new and international faces showing up and introducing newcomers to advanced Launchpad usage, my main attraction of the day was Daniel Holbach’s … Continue reading
Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin
I am happy to announce that Berlin has been chosen as location for the Desktop Summit 2011. If you don’t know so far: Desktop Summit is a 1000+ developer conference co-hosting KDE’s “Akademy” and GNOME’s “GUADEC” at the same time: … Continue reading
Ubuntu Berlin @ LinuxTag 2010 – pickings
Saturday evening this years LinuxTag, Europes largest open source fair, closed its doors. As LinuxTag is presented at Berlin, the “Ubuntu Berlin” was happy to support it in different activities. Let me sum up some of them: 1) Ubuntu Community … Continue reading
Ubuntu Berlin LinuxTag BBQ today
For those of you currently staying in Berlin for the LinuxTag 2010: I know where you are going today evening after the fair closes. For the third time Ubuntu Berlin hosts a LinuxTag BBQ at c-base, the sunken starbase in … Continue reading
My Mom Runs Ubuntu – Update for Ada Lovelace Day
Just a couple of days ago I wrote update the upcoming “Ada Lovelace Day” – celebrating women in technology on the 24nd of March, which happens to be today. The day pledges for blog posts about this topic and here … Continue reading
Ada Lovelace Day on 24nd of March
On the 24nd of March – next Wednesday – the “Ada Lovelace Day” is taking place. If you don’t know Ada Lovelace so far – you should: She lived in the early 19th century, and is known today especially for … Continue reading
GNU Emacs workshop at c-base / Berlin
Emacs? Emacs! I proudly announce the first Emacs workshop held by the incredible Anselm Helbig (also known as “mnemonikk”), starting next Monday, the 22nd of March at c-base/Berlin/Germany. If you ever wanted to start using Emacs as an advanced editor … Continue reading
When backups fail: A mysql binlog race condition
Today I ran into my first MySQL binlog race condition: The initial problem was quite simple: A typical MySQL master->slave setup with heavy load on the master and nearly no load on the slave, which only serves as a hot … Continue reading
“human” Ubuntu Karmic Koala release notes – a reminder
Hi, Karmic is to be released any minute now, so just as a reminder: Over the last weeks I started writing “human” release notes that concentrate on the most important changes that impact the users work. They are available on … Continue reading
Ubuntu Karmic Koala and Ubuntu Berlin enter metro system again
Once again, “Berliner Fenster“, the company behind the Berlin inside metro tv advertising system was so kind to provide the Ubuntu Berlin Karmic Koala release party at c-base and the release of Ubuntu with it’s own spot. It will be … Continue reading