http://www.mikesplanet.net Just a Big Ball of Gas Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:22:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/07/open-source-stats-programs/ 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 ... http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/06/using-dark-themes-in-ubuntu/ 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. http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/06/600000_users/ When I first went to college, I had dreams of getting into broadcasting. While I have a face for radio :), it was something that did not work out. This week the guys at the Fresh Ubuntu podcast (http://www.freshubuntu.com) had me on for an interview. We chatted about the forums, ... http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/06/revisiting-the-past/ 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. http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/05/forums-council-meeting-31-may-2008-1230-utc/ Last night at UDS we had dinner with the cavemen. I would suggest a visit to Restaurant Pravek if you ever visit Prague. http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/05/dinner-with-the-cavemen/ Due to happenings at UDS we are moving todays Community Council meeting back 1 hour to 12:00 UTC. http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/05/community-council-meeting-delayed/ 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! http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/05/uds-intrepid-quote-of-the-day/ 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. http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/05/intrepid-ibex-development-forum/ 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 ... http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/04/new-forum-record/