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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.

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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Hey all!
See, this blog does exist!

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