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  • Following Firefox's New Development Channels with Ubuntu
    from 31 May 2011 - 2:29pm

10 months ago

  • Increase file descriptors for Transmission on Linux
    from 5 Apr 2011 - 5:31pm

1 year ago

  • High-resolution text console with uvesafb and Debian
    from 9 Nov 2010 - 5:08pm

3 years ago

  • Speeding up SpamAssassin rule processing on Debian and Ubuntu
    from 2 Oct 2008 - 1:01pm

4 years ago

  • Yes, GNOME is limiting!
    from 18 Feb 2007 - 6:28pm

5 years ago

  • Sprint's EVDO Mobile Broadband on Ubuntu GNU/Linux
    from 27 Jan 2007 - 11:36pm
  • High-speed cellular wireless modems (e.g. EVDO, HSPDA) in Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.10
    from 27 Jan 2007 - 10:57pm
  • American McGee switches to Ubuntu
    from 1 Aug 2006 - 10:17pm
  • A UI for setting a script on hotplugged keyboards/mice?
    from 5 Jun 2006 - 7:02am
  • Distributing sources with modern Linux distributions
    from 4 Jun 2006 - 4:27am
  • Notes on the CD images for the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS "Dapper Drake" release
    from 1 Jun 2006 - 11:37am
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  • Working on the @OpenPhoto Flickr exporter. Now a bit nicer to use, working on finding more data to backup… http://identi.ca/url/65993746
  • Yes… disk I/O on Amazon EC2 micro instances is even SLOWER than you imagine
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  • Good to know, thanks! Observation: it's a bit of a PITA to discover RSS and Atom feeds on Twitter…
  • Yes, I know. However the StatusNet Wiki's Twitter page mentions it has somehow worked for some people…
  • WotD: ablutions — The ritual act of washing one's self, for either hygiene or spirituality
  • Added a Twitter account via OStatus hasn't worked for me either… is there some trick?
  • As mentioned, browser is set in KDE. But, that page does mention "Setting the browser that opens in Thunderbird - Linux" cc @cyberkiller
  • That's set correctly. All my other KDE apps use it. Thunderbird does not
  • My "Content Type" list is empty, not sure how to add to it…
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