b-initials

Well, I had decided to give Thunderbird a go after I installed gutsy. I had never tried it actually, only to get my univ mails on a Windows box at work. This entry is to document an error I had, with the fix.
To create and manage gpg keys, please check here. So I’ll assume you […]

Version 0.4.6.1-1ubuntu1 from the gutsy repositories (aptitude 0.4.6.1) has shown some changes. One of them is the replacement of upgrade with safe-upgrade and dist-upgrade with full-upgrade. From man aptitude:
safe-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most recent version. Installed
[…]

Feeling nostalgic? Want to keep your unsupported version of Ubuntu? No way for you to upgrade for some reason? The packages for obsolete Ubuntu releases have been removed from the mirrors. But you can still get them from old-releases.ubuntu.com ;-)

Reference
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3026621&postcount=13

Sorry Az for stealing your thread title :)
Rescubuntu is a Ubuntu-based live CD with forensic tools for data recovery.
Nice, downloading as I write.
References
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3148793
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

So there was quite some emotion when I was on vacations. Matthew Garrett has published a detailed review of the Automatix tool issues on behalf of the Technical Board. I’m not going to comment all the issues with Automatix, how Feisty has made easy for the beginner to install codecs and other packages not directly […]

Thanks ubuntu-geek for this very neat new feature!
When starting a thread, there is now this new dialog:

Clicking in the text box to write the message will have the system look for similar threads and link them on screen:

Cool! This will help users find answers before posting and hopefully reduce duplicate threads.

If so, the gnome-power-manager programming team and jasonspiro need your feedback:
Do you ever carry your laptop around with the lid open?:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=488027
A “don’t suspend laptop for. X min on close” option. Good idea? Bad?:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=488028
I think it is an extremely interesting and unusual request from a dev, please contribute. The very large ubuntuforums community should consider this […]

Following up on a previous article.
On certain keyboards, there is no right Windows key to set up a “compose” key.
In /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst, you can find the default keys that can be defined as “compose”:
Compose key Compose key position
compose:ralt […]

This is very impressive:
http://ubuntustats.com/.
You can follow in real time a representative chunk of the Ubuntu community activity, all in one web page. You can personalize the way data is shown.
Congratulations to Martin Albisetti and Felipe Lerena :)

Links
http://beuno.com.ar/archives/28
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2972211

I’m used to aptitude. On a daily basis.
I use it to udate/upgrade my system, and to look for infos on packages, mainly to help out people on ubuntuforums.
Searching the web for something else, I’ve found apt-cache madison. Woaw! One more tool I’m going to be using a lot…
From man apt-cache:

madison /[ pkg(s) ]
apt-cache’s madison command […]

A new mailing list has been set up for the “Ubuntu For All” project:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-for-all
The project currently aggregates: Ubuntu Accessibility, Ubuntu LGBT, Ubuntu Youth and Ubuntu Women.

We have a new sub-forum on UF: the Dev Link Forum within the current Development (Gutsy Gibbon) forum.
The rationale is to allow developers to request feedback from the forum userbase without all the noise (Thanks Pricey, just pasted your announcement ;)).
Developers can start threads, and regular members are welcome to comment and give feed-back.
Please see […]

… to a new site, http://www.medibuntu.org.
Please check the instructions on their howto page or on the wiki page.
The previous address (http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com) is still working, for now ;)
Update your sources.list!
Reference
http://mrpouit.tuxfamily.org/index.php/post/2007/06/11/Medibuntuorg-tout-de-meme (in French).
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2825286

Dans un article précédent, Je soulevais quelques problèmes avec une page Dell sur ubuntu.com. Je n’ai pas été la seule. Vorian et ubuntu-demon ont ausi bloggué à ce sujet, et ils sont syndiqués sur le PUC.
Grand merci à la personne qui a changé le lien sur cette page pour ubuntuforums. Yeah \o/

In a previous post, I raised some concerns regarding a Dell page on ubuntu.com. I was not the only one to raise the issue. Vorian and ubuntu-demon blogged about it, and they have exposure on PUC.
Many thanks to whoever changed the link to ubuntuforums on that page. Yeah \o/