Category Archives: Ubuntu
Global Jam Participation – Ubuntu Berlin is prepared – are you?
(Wow, I needed to type “Global Jam” more than once as I’s used to write “Global Bug Jam”.) I am happy looking forward to the third “Ubuntu Global Jam” taking place from 2nd to 4th of October 2009. “We”, meaning … Continue reading
usability as blocker? of course. – UbuntuOne and the bandwith limit
Recently I ran into a missing feature of the UbuntuOne client. If you don’t know yet: UbuntuOne is the Canonical driven online space for storing and saving data. It’s a commercial service with a free entry level like similar offers … Continue reading
sync ruby gems between different installed ruby versions
If you are in the Ruby business (which probably means “in the Ruby on Rails business” nowadays) sooner or later you’ll have to play around with different Ruby versions on the same machine as you might run into crashing ruby … Continue reading
Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope on Berlin metro system
Again I am happy to announce, that Berliner Fenster, the company behind the Berlin metro tv advertisement system, viewed by approx. 1.5 million people a day, was so kind of providing Ubuntu and Ubuntu Berlin with a spot for the … Continue reading
What do director Tom Tykwer and Ubuntu have in common?
What do director Tom Tykwer (“The International“) and Ubuntu have in common? Well, they seem to share the same passion for commitment in developing countries by focusing on media. This similarity came up when I read the schedule for the … Continue reading
possibly scrambled qt4 apps in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope while using VRGB and LCD
In less than 48 hours Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope will be released officially! While using Jaunty for more than a month I am pleased to see this great new release getting it’s way to a huge usership. While preparing my small … Continue reading
A quick note on MySQL troubleshooting and MySQL replication
PLEASE NOTE: I am currently reviewing and extending this document. While caring for a remarkable amount of MySQL server instances, troubleshooting becomes a common task. It might of interest for you which Recovering a crashed MySQL server After a server … Continue reading
And your favorite new feature in Jaunty Jackalope is … ?
Again I’ll present a short new features from the next Ubuntu release (this time “Jaunty Jackalope”) to an audience of about 150 to 200 visitors at the upcoming traditional “Ubuntu release party” at c-base organized by “Ubuntu Berlin”. While it’s … Continue reading
Ubuntu developers visiting Ubuntu Berlin and c-base – plus interview with Mark Shuttleworth
A couple of months ago I started annoying people by telling them, I’d like to show the Ubuntu Berlin community and c-base to Mark Shuttleworth as he is interested in community personally on one side and Ubuntu Berlin is a … Continue reading
From workshops over Jour Fix to free network games – one week in Berlin
This week seems to be a new hilight in the “Ubuntu Berlin” history. I already mentioned that we are really busy with event organisation, but we continue to outperform ourself: In the last weeks we noticed that we reached a … Continue reading