The Ubuntu command line tool to install software aptitude wants to install a bunch of additional packages that aren’t required according to apt-get.
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Category Archives: Open Source
Ubuntu Aptitude Giving Me Attitude
March 4, 2008 – 3:36 pm
Surfin’ WordPress 2.5 with Safari 3
February 29, 2008 – 3:52 pm
With the release of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), the simple, elegant, fast web browser Safari 3 is here.
Very soon we will release WordPress 2.5, and about the same time WordPress.com will be updated.
With Safari 3 and WordPress 2.5 you should finally have a great experience if Safari is your preferred browser.
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Matt Thomas Put Under the Press, WordPress 2.5 That Is
February 28, 2008 – 6:25 pm
Matt Thomas, our brilliant web designer on team Automattic, has been very busy working on WordPress 2.5 .
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Jacob Santos, “I’ll provide a patch after I graduate”
February 27, 2008 – 1:35 pm
“Sorry, I’ll provide a patch after I graduate. I don’t have the time at the moment.” writes Jacob Santos aka darkdragon, in WordPress bug ticket #5860 Activating plugin that uses upgrade functions (dbDelta) fails , and I think he was serious. Reading that put a big smile on my face!
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Zbigniew Braniecki joins Mozilla Corp!
February 21, 2008 – 9:47 am
My friend Zbigniew Braniecki, long time Mozilla participant, has left Flock and is now employed by Mozilla. I was waiting for him to publicly share this news and now he has with “Joining Mozilla!“.
My first project is to help Mozilla Central/Eastern European communities and raise the awareness of what’s going there in Mozilla project. [...]
WordPress and your Problems at MooseCamp!
February 20, 2008 – 1:06 pm
Bloggers and problems enter, only bloggers exit!
Friday, Feb 22, day 1 of the 4th annual Northern Voice including an “internet bootcamp” for people new to blogging, Facebook, podcasting, wikis, and more. It is an awesome logging conference being held again at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC! It’s Tim Bray’s “favorite little blogger conclave.” This [...]
WordPress Trunk, More Feed, Less Plugin
February 19, 2008 – 9:59 am
With changeset 6763 on WordPress trunk (soon to be WordPress 2.5), when I select Full text in Settings > Reading I now get… you got it, full text feed.
Ryan wrote in the issue ticket, “Looking back, this was a mistake. By popular demand, we’re returning to disregarding the [<!--more-->] tag when serving feeds.”
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Bill Gates Makes a Brilliant Argument for Open Source
February 14, 2008 – 1:47 pm
And why you don’t want to work at Microsoft.
I can’t think of a better use of the term “creative capitalism” than to apply it to open source businesses.
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Open Source Free Web Site Templates without the Open Source
February 8, 2008 – 6:12 pm
http://www.OSWD.org/ - “Open Source Web Design” led by Francis J. Skettino. Free web design templates.
Unfortunately, I like open source in my open source.
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