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Just For Learning: an online classroom from Ubuntu Nederland

12 January 2012, 10:51 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Since it is almost that time of the year again when the Ubuntu Developer Week will start, I would like to introduce you to nice tool developed by a team in the Dutch Ubuntu community: Just For Learning. Very much … Continue reading →

WordPress site design for amateurs: great results with child themes

12 December 2011, 17:27 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

A few months ago my site received a much needed overhaul. I updated the structure and looks and went crazy on Googly Web 2.0 mark-up stuff. Considering I am not a webdesigner, I am quite pleased with the result. There … Continue reading →

How to flash your Samsung Galaxy S II Android phone on Ubuntu

11 December 2011, 13:28 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Have you got one of those nifty Samsung Galaxy S II phones? Thanks to its Android operating system it works great together with Ubuntu out of the box. But what if you want to root it or use a custom … Continue reading →

A community needs something to do

6 October 2011, 13:27 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Reading Amber Graner’s post about Tuesday’s meeting of the Community Council, I recognised a feeling that I also had when I stopped being an active member of the community in January this year. At that time I felt depleted of … Continue reading →

Making reporting bugs harder: desirable?

3 August 2011, 18:19 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

When I started writing this post, the latest bug report on Launchpad was bug #820459. That’s right, since the start of the Ubuntu project there have been 820,459 bugs reported on Launchpad and its Ubuntu Bugzilla predecessor. Though it includes … Continue reading →

Ubuntu needs the GNOME 3 project, all of it

25 July 2011, 22:06 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Watching the news of Apple’s release of OS X Lion and the cheering reviews that followed, the huge quality of what we are up against becomes very clear once more. If you look at the operating system that Apple is … Continue reading →

Hooking your guitar on PulseAudio: out-of-the-box easy! (with PCM2904)

21 June 2011, 12:34 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Yesterday I bought myself a shiny new toy: a Midiplus Audiolink. With this USB-device you can connect your guitar to your computer. (According to lsusb the chip is a ‘Texas Instruments Japan PCM2904 Audio Codec’.) I may not have an … Continue reading →

GNOME 3: configuration wish granted

9 April 2011, 12:56 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Almost two and a half year ago GNOME 3 was in a very early state and most plans still had to be drawn up. At that time there was an interesting meme going on at Planet GNOME in which people … Continue reading →

The difference between local communities and local teams

5 April 2011, 19:35 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

The official directory of Ubuntu’s Locos goes under the name ‘Ubuntu Local Community Team Directory‘. This neatly covers both names that are frequently used to denote the different types of groups that are locally active for Ubuntu: local communities and … Continue reading →

Localisation for the USA, necessary too

3 April 2011, 14:21 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

By convention the default locale of all applications is US English. This is of course very imperialistic and evil and the Americans are indeed forcing their culture upon the rest of the world. But in the end we need to … Continue reading →

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