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What a super ashole: First that guy risks the future of his companies and more importantly his employes by massive gambling, and then that asshole commits suicide instead of helping to properly se...

I have the honor to announce the first release of the new gnome-format. gnome-format is a tool to format devices such as sd-cards, usb-sticks and so on. I know, we already have such a tool: gparte...

A while back I asked you to all re-connect with the Ubuntu ethos. I asked for your stories of how you define your Ubuntu ethos, and there were some wonderful responses. Thank you everyone.
Ethos i...

Clearly, any specific assistance [to ailing financial institutions] will have to include penalties for those managers who have left their institutions overexposed. Central bank credibility in enfo...

If your Firefox, like mine, insists on doing huge amounts of I/O when closing, as well as acts slow when using the awesomebar, try the following (close down Firefox completely first):
for f in ~/....

Christian Lassmann from Weltenbauer Software
Entwicklung GmbH, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the
Unite Conference in Denmark in October, just wrote to tell me
that "My Animal
Center", a...

Koushik Dutta
got
Mono running
on the Android-based G1 phone.
He posted
a video
of the phone compiling "Hello World" (he points out that it is
slower due to Mono running from the SD card):
...

Brad Taylor has announced
the first
release of the Mono Accessibility stack:
UI Automation provides programmatic access to most user
interface (UI) elements on the desktop, enabling assistiv...

A few minutes ago I filed bug 566666 (Dutch l10n issue). That means we have 100.000 bugs to go before Gnome will officially turn evil, just like Ubuntu 6.66.
Speaking of magic numbers, don’t forg...

What baffles me the most about the DVCS flamewar currently going on (remember, we were already there at GUADEC 2008, anyone want to bet if we'll manage to keep this going until GUADEC 2009?), is t...