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Apr
26
The Hardy release blew away the old record of the most people online at one time on the Ubuntu Forums. 24,125 is 10,000 more people than we had last week, before the release of Ubuntu 8.04. My hat off to the Forums staff, Canonical server team, and Ubuntu-Geek with his great PHP/database-fu.
If you have any […]
Apr
21
The Ubuntu Forums has upgraded the forums software to vBB 3.7. This will add many new features, including tagging and social groups. Please check it out and let us know what you think.
Forums Upgrade FAQ:
Q. What happened to all the old posts?
A. We have put all the posts from the “Main support category” to an […]
Apr
10
Due to weird text refresh issues I have been seeing with Xchat, I have switched over to irssi as my main IRC client. One thing I have missed is GUI notify of people private messaging me. I have found an irssi script that adds this function.
1. Install libnotify-bin
sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin
2. Install notify.pl script from […]
Apr
9
Every once in awhile, a small tweak on how you do something gives you unexpected results. One of the April Fool’s joke we pulled on the Ubuntu Forums has caused some interesting things to happen. Matthew explains it better in this post.
From Matthew: FYI to all readers. This forum was originally called the Backyard, as […]
Apr
7
The Utah Open Source Foundation and Ubuntu Utah are having combined release party for Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9.
When: May 3, 2008, 6-8pm (or thereabouts)
Where: Code Greene, 44 Exchange Place Salt Lake City, UT 84111 (MAP)
Spread the word with this flyer, please join us for the festivities if are going to be the in […]
