manchicken here…

Anyway, we’re talking about a lot of things. The neatest things that I’m seeing are the stuff going into Edubuntu. We’ve got a lot of folks here who are focused on international use of GNU/Linux in educational settings. There are two of those little tiny childrens’ laptops here, both the MIT OLPC [...]

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Well, it’s been a long time coming, and now Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is released. You can read the release notes and official announcement here. Kubuntu is an excellent project to work on, and JR runs it damned well.
On December 9th of 2006 I went into #kubuntu-devel on freenode and told them I [...]

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Howdy folks! So the Ubuntu-Chicago folks have been active for a while, and they’re a great team of folks. But what about the folks in central and southern Illinois? How sad.
So, it is my delight to call this first meeting of the Ubuntu Illinois LoCo team. On Saturday the 19th I [...]

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In this installment I will explain why Perl is the ideal language to automate your tests for any application at the unit level.
There’s been a lot of difference of opinion on what unit testing is supposed to be. I think this is a good discussion, but I don’t think it goes anywhere near addressing [...]

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Okay, so I know some jive-turkeys have been talking some serious smack about Perl, and you may even be one of them (if so, you’re a jive-turkey). Here I will attempt to show you how Perl could meet your needs in testing ANY application, in ANY language, in ANY environment, regardless whether or not [...]

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manchicken announces a Free software bounty!
Price: I can currently put up $20 for this. If anybody is interested in helping fund this bounty, please contact me at manchicken (at) members.fsf.org.
Synopsis: This is a bounty for a program that will convert videos from YouTube and other popular flash video sites to a non-encrypted video codec [...]

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For those of you who say there’s nothing but crap on YouTube, I have proof that you are 100% incorrect. Below is the link to the world’s coolest YouTube video. You should really see this. If you do not have a Flash plugin, check out the Windows 386 post for a link [...]

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Hello all you happy people. I’ve been noticing that people–myself included–are asking many questions without checking available resources first. This is my way of chastising myself and reminding others of this wonderful thing that Ubuntu did. It’s called a Wiki, and it is of near-infinite use. Almost anything that you want [...]

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So I’m having fun with this horrifying multimedia extravaganza. If any of you know who Richard Stallman is–who doesn’t?–you know that he will not be the next American Idol (and I don’t think it would particularly bother him).
Well, he has recorded a song about freedom in software and how it benefits hackers, and society [...]

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Okay, so the time has come to tell you about the Adept Manager. This is by far the most frequently used program on my computer, next to kontact, konq, and konsole. I love this program almost as much as I love my kitty-cat. Have you hugged your kitty-cat today?
So, let’s begin. [...]

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