September 2, 2010
Recently, I had a reason to allow someone else to use a shell on a machine for which I'm the admin, but I wanted a way to track what they're doing. You might think the
historycommand is just fine for this, but it's possible to clear the history, and I wouldn't want that. Screen to the rescue!I ssh'd into the machine and created a new user for my visitor. Then I switched to that user. Once logged in, I ran
screen -L,...Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is.
Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team?
Jon: I’m part of the Registry team; we maintain the people, teams and projects bits and pieces used by all the other parts of Launchpad.
Right now I’m mostly helping pay down technical debt, but I’m also helping...
September 1, 2010
Well, for some of you readers, it’s already the 2nd of September, and the Beta release of 10.10 is out today. Originally, this was scheduled to be Alpha 4, but the Maverick Release schedule was slightly altered a few weeks ago to give a bit more time to “Release Quality” (read:bug hunting and rough edges).
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The Ubuntu kernel team has prepared a new proposed kernel for Lucid (2.6.32-25.43), containing a large number of fixes. This is a larger number of updates than we would usually push at one time, but processing of the upstream stable updates was delayed by a couple of security updates.
This kernel should fix a lot of issues, including...
Grab your portable gadgets, even your iPhone. Banshee 1.7.5 is here with new hardware support and we need YOU to break it (and file bugs if you succeed naturally).
With 1.7.5 you will not just get all new and improved hardware support but also 47 bug fixes. Most notable of these writing metadata to video...
- Elegant Gnome Pack 0.7.0 is released, the version comes with a lot of change and new features: a GUI utility to configure your desktop, Icon theme: based on AwOken icon theme v 1.1...
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