Category Archives: Ubuntu

Zeitgeist daemon extensions explained

Posted on November 27, 2010 by

While working on this Zeitgeist bug #612344 I recalled that Stuart Langridge had once quoted Zeitgeist has extensions. These aren’t brilliantly documented yet, but you can drop a Python file into .local/share/zeitgeist/extensions and if it’s got the right sort of class … Continue reading →

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Zeitgeist in my blood

Posted on November 21, 2010 by

For the last three months, I have been working with the Zeitgeist team for achieving the goal of a semantic Linux desktop. Right now I am not much involved in the daemon, but not for long. Basics Daemon is just one part … Continue reading →

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FUD and facts

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

Mono is a very controversial topic in Free software world. We have no shortage of proponents and opponents. There are people who want to clean the FOSS world by removing mono from the picture and there are developers claiming that … Continue reading →

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Release: Zeitgeist-sharp 0.1.0.1 “Stark”

Posted on November 1, 2010 by

How many of you love Tomboy? How many love Banshee? F-Spot? Some of you might not but some of you might swear by it. Yes, for people like you – how about if your favourite app is sweetened by the … Continue reading →

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Want Zeitgeist love for Banshee/Tomboy/F-Spot ? – Call for Testing

Posted on October 23, 2010 by

Introduction to Zeitgeist I hope many of you must have heard about Zeitgeist, an event logging framework which is becoming mature day by day. In the language of Zeitgeist developers, here is the definition Zeitgeist is a service which logs … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Hour Bangalore

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

I have noticed that Ubuntu community based activities in India are lot less than expected and Fedora leads the game here. To give a boost to Ubuntu, Nigel proposed to hold an Ubuntu Hour for Ubuntu users/power-users to meet. Apart … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Developer Week

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

After Ubuntu user days ended on July 11, Ubuntu Developer week started the next very day. I was more interested in following the latter since it was my wish to know the basics of Ubuntu Development esp Packaging You can … Continue reading →

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Maverick Development Updates #2

Posted on June 23, 2010 by

1. btrfs support With current daily builds of maverick, installation with btrfs filesystem is supported, though ext4 is the default filesystem. btrfs was pulled in mainline kernel on 9th January 2010. 2. Suspend/Resume bug Lee Jones working in the kernel … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Maverick development updates

Posted on June 8, 2010 by

For last 2 hours, I dug through all the mails from ubuntu mailing lists, esp the announcements related to development, recalled many changes which I heard in last week or two and penned them down. Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1 … Continue reading →

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Are you a pundit?

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

Before going ahead, read Jeff Atwood’s post on pundits Here is your checklist 1. are you expert in talking crap? (esp shitloads of them) 2. have an opinion on everything under the sun? 3. regularly use buzz-words like “ecosystem”, “model” … Continue reading →

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