MagicFab posted 2 items. evan: StatusNet Cloud is now live for public signup. Three plans: 1-user, private, community. Try it! http://status.net/signup bigbrovar: New !ubuntu design created on apple mac http://is.gd/a4P7Y — !Fedora has one of the best artwork on Linux all produced using foss tools MagicFab [...]

MagicFab posted 2 items. tatica: I won the Ubuntu International Women’s day contest on the community votes. Thank you all http://ur1.ca/osxk sflrrq: D-0 H-0.3 — Many media announcing our motion this morning. And it is a beautiful day in Quebec City. I am on the ferry right now. [...]

MagicFab posted gotunandan: @teddks there’s always Jamendo and Magnatune for CC licensed music. Of course you can buy an audio CD & rip to FLAC / OGG Vorbis too .

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The survival into the modern era of random bits of the colonial/imperial era has always interested me.

Bagpipes are also kind of cool. When outdoors.

Thus, The Bagpipes of Palestine from the BBC. Amazing what survives against long odds, isn’t it?

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MagicFab posted maco: Wow, new !Ubuntu wallpaper is hideous. Glad !Kubuntu sticks to upstream wallpapers!.

"The flying saucer originally started as a proposal for a raiseable platform."

Ladies, gentlemen, and the rest of you: The British Rail Flying Saucer (via Wikipedia).

Yes, really.

(hat tip to Corey for the URL).

Jono Bacon asked me to hold a session on GStreamer and a session on Cairo for the Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week.

My GStreamer session went well. The IRC log is available online. I went through my slides which explained how to do a few simple things in Python. I used playbin2 to implement audio/video playback with pausing, seeking and position queries to update the slider. I was impressed how simple the code is; only 120 lines of Python.

I was less impressed with my Cairo session. Unlike with GStreamer, I couldn’t think up a clear use case that I could explain the solution to in under one hour. Instead I went through the very simple cairo API and showed how to use it with GTK or with PDF, PNG and SVG file formats. The IRC log and the code as online for this session as well. I did not make any slides.

Jokosher

This week Michael and I also released a new version of Jokosher. It is available on the download page on Launchpad even though the Jokosher website has not been updated yet.

Little has changed in this release so when we get around to changing the website there won’t be an announcement or anything. The reason for making this release was to get a bug fix out for a blocker which prevented Jokosher from running at all with newer versions of GTK. We wanted to get this done soon so it could be in the Ubuntu Lucid release, and the packaged version wouldn’t be broken. We also threw in a few other bug fixes while we were at it.

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exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Especially useful when you make a small scripting mistake, and your email queue suddenly has over 3500 emails waiting to be delivered to an external email address… (source: NixCraft)

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On this February 14th 2010, we took a ride on the Aquabus. The Aquabus is one of the various mode of transportation for Vancouver. They run over through False Creek.

For the Olympics and the increased traffic, they apparently brought out the old boat back to the scheduled service. The "Rainbow Hunter", as seen here at the Yaletown marina dock is usually only out in the summer for the mini-cruise for tourists:

This is not the first time I take the Aquabus, but this is the first time I'm on one of the open platforms (Cyquabus, those used to transport bikes) on this route, with a beautiful spring weather. Further down in the trip, approaching Granville Island, with the Burrard bridge ahead:

It also should be not that the Aquabus is pet friendly, unlike buses and the SkyTrain.

Better late than never, here are some of my photos from day 105 of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. On day 105, the torch passed through Deer Lake Park on its way to Vancouver. waiting… The next torch runner waits for the flame to arrive Here comes the flame. The torch “kiss” The opportunity to see the torch along [...]

The Kubuntu website has undergone a minor face lift this morning, we’ve moved the news off of the front page, added easy to follow action items in our masthead and tried to make the content a bit more captivating to our target users.

Have a look at http://www.kubuntu.org/ and see for yourself