A news article released on July the 1st carries an interesting title: Intuition can be explained.

It was an interesting read to me especially because of the people I work with.  Time and again I see people’s intuition about things (potential problems, potential solutions, etc) come to pass.  So much so that I have developed a good sense of faith in my colleague’s intuition and when expressed, consider it intensly during decision making.

Nice to see Bob Sutor has made the complete switch to Linux for laptop use at work. I remember the day I wiped out my Windows partition on my laptop - it was memorable. I then went an entire year booting Windows in VMWare only about 3-5 times.

It’s great to see the transition starting to happen everywhere. Even if some of the transitions are to Mac, it’s greater choice.

This was another interesting podcast. I’m obviously a fan of Mr. Vance (has anyone ever called him “Mr.”?) - maybe I’m the first. I also need to meet Matt Asay at some point… have much to discuss.

Cool tool alert: My friends are up to something fun, so I thought I’d share it with you.

Ubuntu has officially released its MID Edition. There is a KVM image you can download to try it out. I haven’t seen any news on what devices or vendors will be bundling MID, but I’m sure Mark has some ideas for that.

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4429818312.html

Lead the Revolution! Francis and I are looking for someone to do interface design and development focusing on usability and accessibility. Read more about this position in the job post.

After some tries get it successfully in following most simplest way.

get by torrent linked there:

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/index.php5?title=Get_Ubuntu_Eee

Tweaked by Ricey tweak

wget http://eee.ricey.co.uk/files/eee/RiceeeyTweak.sh
chmod +x RiceeeyTweak.sh
./RiceeeyTweak.sh

It is working fine after reboot.

After update of kernel to 2.6.22-15 on Asus eeePC in eedXubuntu 7.10 wifi stopped working.
downloaded sources from sourceforge,

tar -xf madw*
cd mad*
sudo make all
sudo make install

hsven't got result; modprobe and other hints also are not working.
tried scripts from there -
http://code.google.com/p/eee-osd/downloads/list?can=1&q=&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount
they are also not working.
now Just using previous version of the kernel to work with wifi.

Going to reinstall from scratch ubuntu 8.04

To browse on ftp in mc :
F9->Left->ftp link

If you insert ip address with 'ftp://' prefix,
ftp can fail with error of bad access for anonymous.

Just insert ip without any prefixes and postfixes, and then browse.

My newest Ubuntu sticker it replaces the Vista one :)... thanks datalizing

The old one, thanks Canonical

I use ssh key authentication to rsync data from my weather station to it’s website.  Mysteriously it started failing a few days ago.  After a bit of hair pulling and unhelpful ssh -vvv output, I found the cause.  The permissions of the authorized_keys file on the server were incorrect.

-rw-rw-r–   1 stan4dnet pg478973  391 2008-05-07 12:14 authorized_keys

This file is readable by more than just you. Newer versions of ssh see this, recongize it as a security hole, and prevent you from doing something stupid.  Lesson Learned: Make sure that the files in .ssh are writable only by you, on both machines, and non-executable by anyone.

My Ubuntu Live presentation with the amazing Kikomonster has been moved to OSCON.  Make sure you drop by to see our presentation and say hello.

Sometimes it’s good to give your friends some time to work on their ideas. mc44 totally appreciates wobblywu’s hard work. This is how communities work at best.

Ever get confused as to the differences between Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu? In need of some humour?  If so, check out this video by Shawn Powers.  Don’t miss the bloopers at the end!

<loco team hat>

Noticeably missing from our LoCo Team list is Bhutan. Bhutan currently runs Debian translated into Dzongkha.  I hope that with Ubuntu’s increased ease of use, principles, unique community, and that it’s a Debian-based distribution, Ubuntu would find an equally favourable position at the DIT.  Apparently it has with some of their users as we have a few forums users from Bhutan that run Ubuntu. If you’re a Dzongkha Ubuntu user, make yourself known!