Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Formation sur les wikis chez Koumbit
Anne Goldemberg donne sa formation sur les wikis à la Fourmilière de Koumbit… visiblement on a sous-estimé le nombre de participants! C’est un bon problème à gérer, bravo à Koumbit pour l’organisation de ces formations.
J’y suis avec un client dans le domaine de la production vidéo (mon frère!) pour un petit projet d’implantation wiki. Drôle [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Affaires, Français, Freelancing, Koumbit, Pratique, Training by magicfab
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Dear Lazy web: anyone with a Dell XPS M1330 + Ubuntu out there ?
So tonight I was asked what I thought of the Dell XPS 1330 with Ubuntu pre-installed… not having seen one I took a few minutes to search on the vast cyberspace only to come back empty-handed.
So… can anyone of those lucky enough to have ordered one report their experience somewhere public ? Or just point [...]
20 Comments » - Posted in Advocacy, Dell, English, Libre, Linux, Tech, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet by magicfab
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Fingerprint authentication in Ubuntu
It seems more and more laptops come equipped with fingerprint readers lately. If you want to see support for such readers officially rolled into Ubuntu 8.10 by all means click on that mean Brainstorm logo! Update: it seems the Brainstorm voting has closed, however the discussion that entry has about security is worth checking.
I recently [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Advocacy, Affaires, Development, English, Libre, Linux, Security, Tech, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet by magicfab
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Gnu/Linux integrator complains to supreme court about Quebec government illegaly upgrading to Vista without proper RFPs
Digg this story
This usually happens in other places, not in quiet, boring-without-any-tech-news Quebec province.
Apparently Montreal-based Savoir-faire Linux has had it, and have sent the Quebec Supreme Court a Motion for Declaratory Judgement. The Régie des Rentes du Québec wants to upgrade its desktops to Windows Vista from Windows 2000 without going through any RFPs, because, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Advocacy, Affaires, English, Government, Libre, Linux, Politique, Quebec, Save The Planet, Society, Tech, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet, Windows by magicfab
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Noma RX4: la faillite pour tous les fabricants d’adaptateurs et chargeurs
Combien seriez-vous prêt à payer pour un bidule qui:
Permet de charger 4 piles AA (donc, chargeur)
Inclût ces 4 piles AA
Permet de brancher un fil usb normal, fournissant 5 V à 8 types de connecteurs pour étirer la charge d’un appareil “mort” (donc permet aussi d’y brancher tout autre bidule se chargeant sur [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Affaires, Français, Free Stuff, Freelancing, Pratique by magicfab
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
New extensions for Ogg Vorbis audio (.oga) and Ogg Theora video (.ogv) files
Apparently Corey was right all along.
I found about this via Ogg’s entry in Wikipedia. So I did the sensible thing.
Ahhh… that felt good.
Now, can someone with proper access in Launchpad make that “Confirmed, Critical, Hardy Milestone”… or whatever you deem more appropriate
3 Comments » - Posted in Advocacy, Audio, Development, English, Launchpad, Libre, Linux, Save The Planet, Tech, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet, Video by magicfab
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Ubuntu Hardy gets Brother printers drivers
Well, it seems Brother printer drivers will make it into Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04, coming up next month), under GPL and Brother Software Open License Agreement - all driven by the community and with some help from Canonical.
Although I’d rather have 100% free Brother printer drivers, it’s still nice Brother has made their license clear about [...]
