Failing to find any free software task manager I could live with, I created my own over the December holidays. I called it “Tody”. It’s a simple GUI app, focused on quick searching, editing, and tagging for tasklists. The file format it uses is identical to the plain text format used by Gina Trapani’s Todo.txt [...]
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Free Software for Task Management
2011/12/12 – 2:40 pm
I am perpetually trying out online task management tools. My never-ending quest is to tame the massive sea of things I should be doing at any given moment, both making sure that important tasks don’t get lost in the mix, and to extract a reduction more closely approximating “the most important thing to accomplish right [...]
Appreciation for Kees Cook
2011/11/20 – 10:23 am
Today is Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day, a new tradition in the Ubuntu community started by Ahmed Shams El-Deen of the Ubuntu Egypt LoCo. I’d like to take this opportunity to show appreciation for Kees Cook, who many years ago took time out of a busy conference to teach me how to build my first .deb [...]
Mythbusters – UEFI and Linux (Part 2)
2011/11/16 – 10:54 pm
Following up on my earlier post on UEFI and Linux, I got access to an identical system to the one with the original problem (an HP S5-1110) this week to do some install testing with various scenarios: 1) When I run through the standard install process with the Kubuntu 11.10 amd64 CD, I get exactly [...]
Quixperiment: Ubuntu and iPod
2011/11/06 – 11:41 am
I have an old iPod that I occasionally use on car trips, but haven’t really modified in years (it mostly sits on a shelf). This morning I decided to play around a bit with hooking it up with my main Ubuntu desktop. I found a good list of options for managing an iPod in Linux [...]
Mythbusters – UEFI and Linux
2011/11/04 – 9:17 am
A recent blog post about a user who was having trouble installing Ubuntu on an HP machine, sparked off an urban legend that UEFI secure boot is blocking installs of Linux. To calm FUD with facts: the secure boot feature hasn’t been implemented and shipped yet on any hardware. It was introduced in the 2.3.1 [...]
UDS-P Architecture Preview
2011/10/31 – 7:23 am
Today we kick off the week-long Ubuntu Developer Summit, focused on the upcoming 12.04 release, “Precise Pangolin”, shaping the plans for the next 6 months, and breaking the goals into a manageable series of work items. With more than 20 rooms running simultaneous sessions, it’s a challenge to decide what to participate in, whether you’re [...]
Ubuntu Brainstorm – Contacts Lens
2011/09/27 – 3:14 am
It’s time for another round on the Ubuntu Technical Board’s review of the top ranked items on Ubuntu Brainstorm. This time I’m reviewing a brainstorm about a Unity Lens for contacts, together with Neil Patel from Canonical’s DX team. I volunteered to participate in this reply because I’d already been thinking about how to do [...]
Harmony 1.0 Reflections
2011/07/16 – 12:33 am
The month before the Harmony 1.0 release was quiet, and I was starting to wonder if anyone other than the drafting group was even paying attention any more. So, I was pleasantly surprised to see the posts start to appear last week after the Monday release. Some more positive, some more negative, but the most [...]
A Brief History of Harmony
2011/04/12 – 2:46 pm
[This post represents my own memories of my own experiences. All stories have multiple sides, multiple perspectives, multiple angles, so if you're interested in the story you should talk to other people involved in this first year of Harmony.] I first heard about Project Harmony around the end of May last year when Amanda Brock [...]
