Launchpad PPAs now have a ‘delete package’ function!

I’m somewhat surprised that this hasn’t already hit Planet Ubuntu already, but Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives now have a delete function!  Hurrah!

For more info on PPA, see  http://news.launchpad.net/ppa/personal-package-archives-for-everyone

Hopefully this will make PPA a lot easier for people, and teams, to use more effectively.

Disclaimer:  I’m not employed by Canonical.

Some thoughts on free speech…

Disclaimer: I’m from Australia, and there’s not so much of an emphasis on rights to free speech as there is in say, the US…so it tends to not be talked about much here.

Never the less….(and some of this is hypothetical, some of this has already happened)

* If you have the right of free speech, does that mean that you don’t need to care about whether your statements are offending others? Or do you just say “This is my right to free speech, stuff you”

* At what point does your right of free speech impend on my right to feel safe? Should it?

* At what point do you stop blaming a language barrier for offensive posts, and conclude that the person is just trying to provocate you?

* If something is right in your country, does that make it right throughout the world, and does it mean that you can use it as a disclaimer for your behaviour?

Just some thoughts…

Australia is a long way away….

Well, I’m finally back.

It took approximately 36 hours, 4 and a bit plane flights, 3 trains, 1 taxi, and one car.

I think i hold third place in the Longest Travel Time awards.

To any of you who didn’t know where I’d gone - I went to the Ubuntu Developers Summit, in Sevilla, Spain.  Lots of fun, and very exhausting.  Lots of cool people.  And some Mao.  Yay!

[Insert greetings to everyone at the conference, and hopes that everyone either has gotten over the plague, or will soon do, here]

[Insert thankyou's to the people responsible for making this conference work well here]

And a sidenote:  Jetlag is evil!

The very “sexy lady” from Australia says…

In relation to this link…

Interesting post.

Guess it raises an interesting point about the way posts often come out differently to the way they sounded in someone’s head.

I’m not sure that the sexiness of the distro is dependant on the number of females, for a start. Surely it’s got better things to be based on. Besides, isnt what’s sexy to one person often not to another?

I have actually posted on planet once before, for the record. But i’m not much of a blogger, i prefer to talk in real time, than on forums, mailing lists, etc. IRC’s great for that. Hence not being terribly eloquent in my posts.

Now, I see Stephan’s point - it’s great to be having more females posting on planet, and getting involved. Most people will agree with that.

It seems that having pictures, having my real name online (instead of a genderless nickname), and various other things that display my gender, becomes a distraction to people, and they write posts like the one above. Perhaps the guys (and the girls), should instead look at what skills a person brings to the group, whether that be the workplace, Ubuntu, or whatever.

Now, i’m not annoyed at being called a sexy lady - if it’s sincere, then it’s a compliment, and I’ll accept it as such…

…But I really wouldn’t want that to be the only thing that people thought of when they looked at me, or what I do - surely I’m more than just my body? I have a brain too, you know…

Portable Apps - On a USB Stick

Sometimes we all have to use windows-based machines, which don’t have the programs we want installed on them.

Some windows-based machines we don’t have the permissions to install any software on.

But, there is a solution.

http://portableapps.com/

These apps commonly run off any USB drive that is greater than 256mb (for the lite suite), or 512mb (for the full suite, which contains openoffice, etc)

Very neat

Setup is simple - download installer, run off the root of the USB drive (or wherever you want it to install to)

Of course, I got a new shiny USB stick, which prompted the test of portable apps.  Pictures of it are at:  http://sandisk.com/Products/Item(1904)-SDCZ7-2048-Cruzer_Titanium_2GB.aspx - It hasnt scratched at all, either.  Yay!

On a sidenote - rsync is *way* faster than cp -a* for copying files - useful for when doing backups.

Ooh, shiny…

*waves to everyone on Planet Ubuntu, and anyone else who might read this*

I’ve ended up ditching blogger, and moving to wordpress.  Shinyness is cool :)  Guess it’s one of the reasons I like KDE/Kubuntu.

I’m also fiddling around with webpages a bit…very slowly…will post more information if anything comes of it.

Hey all! See, this blog does exist!

Hey all!

See, this blog does exist!