The following articles below were published during the month of July 2012 (times are based on UTC):
Yes, you read right. The title is not a mistake. Shutter finally has its own, built-in, Application Indicator. This application indicator support comes on the heels of support for writing appindicators in Perl, which is the language that Shutter is written in. Please note that Shutter 0.89 is a pre-release version and may include bugs (for example, the indicator disappears temporarily when you take a screenshot). To add it: Via Software Centre: Add this PPA: ppa:shutter-testing-team/ppa Update your sources, and upgrade shutter Via Commandline: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:shutter-testing-team/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install shutter
In the "Ubuntu+1" category, early this morning Unity 6.0 landed in Quantal, the development release of Ubuntu. The changelog is as follows: unity (6.0.0-0ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low * Add a dconf migration script from /desktop/unity to /com/canonical/unity + debian/unity.migrations, debian/control, debian/rules: - build-dep on dh-migrations - include the upstream migration script (cherry-picked) As with all things related to the development release of Ubuntu, this is subject to change, and as such by the time I write this, it might be out of date, or just completely wrong.
Good news coming out of the Gnome camp this morning! The "soft" goal popularized by Jason DeRose of Novacut fame has become official. Now, if you haven't been following this on Google+ (poor you), you're probably wondering what all the fanfare is about, so I'll try to fill you in (a little). Gstreamer 1.0 is set to be a major release for this popular framework, but many applications in Gnome are still relying on older versions. While these applications will still work (for a while) after this release goes gold, they will be holding onto bits and pieces of old technology. Clearly, this is no good. This is why Jason's efforts with Novacut (which have included posting tutorials for other ...
Our own Roland Taylor will be hosting hangouts on Google+ (hangouts on air by the way) in the coming weeks/months (schedule pending) where he will demonstrate both Blender basics, and some more advanced topics. We will keep you posted with the details (and schedule) as things come together. Oh and remember, attending is free, the training is free, and you are free to do what you want with it :)! You'll have the chance to learn how he turns a cube into things like these: Eventually, he may also create a repository of models, materials, and textures, in the Ubuntu Software Center.
After reports of users being confused about the session menu and the user menu, they have been merged into one. Like all things related to 12.10, it is entirely possible and likely that by the time it is released, the feature spoken of here will be removed, or completely flipped upside down on its head. Also, upgrading to 12.10 is not recommended for most users. Please, be cautious.
Nothing too exciting (yet) - but KDE 4.9 RC 2 is out. Testers can go test - but for those awaiting the official release, wait until August 1st. Then, the real excitement can begin ;). This release brings some relatively minor improvements, including Qt Quick for Plasma, search improvements in Dolphin, and improvements to Activity management. Along with this obviously there will be the usual bug fixes, speedups, etc, but nothing ground breaking (the ground breaking happens in KDE 5.0, which will be based on Qt 5.0). [notice]If you would like to test: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/beta sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade[/notice]
For those of you who are budding sysadmins out there, I highly recommend that you take a look at the Ask Ubuntu question and answer below on how to set up and install Nagios, the industry standard in monitoring.
The version of Apache I am using is2.2.22 and it was installed as a part oflamp-server using the commandsudo apt-get install tasksel && sudo tasksel install lamp-server . So what I'll be talking about here, is how to get symbolic links working on a default installation of the Apache server using the above command. Okay, so here we go, fire-up a text editor and edit the file at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-defaultand addFollowSymLinks to the Optionsunder the configuration settings for the /var/www/ directory.So you'd have something like this in your file <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> Then make a soft link to the directory you want to in/var/www/ .So if you want to create ...
Daniel Holbach from the Canonical recently sent out an email with a request for help with the approval process for the Ubuntu App Showdown. So, here it is, go lend a hand with the app review board! Hello everybody, I hope you all have seen the news about the recent Ubuntu App Developer Showdown [1]. It has been a fantastic success! More than 140 apps have found their way into the review queue. It is just great to see the crazy amount of creativity and how many small niches have just been filled. A lot of these apps will find their way into the hands of users and thus continue to thrive and become bigger software projects. Under the current ...
Cross-posted at The Void Ghost One of the reasons to stay on Facebook is coz of its service as a birthday reminder. You can export a webcal link and import friend's birthdays and all upcoming events into Google Calendar, iCal and whatever other similar product you use. Being a Google fan, I use Google Calendar and so will the screenshots in the post :P So here we go! First login and get to your Facebook stream. There click on Events . 2. Next, click on the Birthdays option from the button next to the Create Event button. Next, click the same button again and click on the Export Birthdays option. This will give a pop-up modal box with a webcal ...