Open Source Stats Programs?

By Mike

My wife is looking for an Open Source Statistics program for Linux that does multinomial logistic regression and can import from spss, stata, or other popular statistic programs. Please e-mail me (mike.basinger(at)gmail.com) if you know of any programs that could work.

Using Dark Themes in Ubuntu (Gnome 2.2x)

By Mike

Using dark themes in Gnome has always has some issues. Due to issues in Gnome and GTK apps, some application have problems like dark fonts on dark background, text areas grayed out, and multiple issues with OpenOffice. Here is a quick guide to solve many of the problems I encountered using dark themes in Gnome.

1. […]

600,000 Register Users

By Mike

The Ubuntu Forums has passed another milestone, 600,000 register users. Thanks to the Ubuntu forums staff and the rest of the Ubuntu community for making the forums kick ass.

Forums Council Meeting: 31 May 2008 @ 12:30 UTC

By Mike

The Ubuntu Forums Council will meeting on 31 May 2008 @ 12:30 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on Freenode. We have a fairly large agenda this month, including a discussion of social group functions in the forums. Please stop by the meeting and join in the discussion.

UDS-Intrepid: Quote of the day

By Mike

Jono had a slide during his presentation during the Ubuntu Developer Summit this morning which I want on a T-Shirt.
Make
(*)(Ku)(U)(Xu)(Go)(Myth)buntu(Studio)
Happen
or the proper regexp way (thanks Jeff:))
Make
([XK]u|U|Go|Myth)buntu( Studio|)
Happen!

Intrepid Ibex Development Forum

By Mike

The Intrepid Ibex Development forum has been open on the Ubuntu Forums for discussion of the development of Ubuntu 8.10. Enjoy and let me know if you have any suggestions for thr forums.

New Forum Record

By Mike

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 […]

Ubuntu Forums upgraded

By Mike

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 […]

gui notifies with irssi

By Mike

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 […]

OMG pInK pOnIes here to stay

By Mike

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 […]