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Ce matin j’écoutais une entrevue à la radio, à l’émission “Isabelle le matin“. La première partie de l’entrevue est ici: “Analekta, l’histoire d’un succès… Francois-Mario Labbée, président-fondateur.” Dans la deuxième partie (que je n’ai pas trouvée) on apprends qu’Analekta offre depuis quelques mois le téléchargement de la musique classique qu’ils vendent en ligne en format [...]

Hello Folks! Canonical is looking to hire a web developer to enhance existing web­based tools and develop new tools in support of Canonical’s OEM Services team. If you have a strong, extensive background in Python, Django, Javascript and other open source web technologies then chances are you’d make a great addition to the team.

Canonical is a great place to work. In fact, I love my job. If you’re talented, smart, and enthusiastic then I think you’ll love this job too. Be sure to check out the job posting at http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/canonical_OEM-WD/ for more information. I look forward to interviewing some of you soon!

If you’re interested in knowing why you might want to work for Canonical or why I love my job so much, feel free to shoot me an e-mail and I’ll be happy to answer your questions. 

On Saturday, 28th August 2010 1:00pm - 9:00pm at the kwartzlab, The Kitchener/Waterloo Chapter of Ubuntu Canada will participate in the Global Jam. Everybody is invited. We will have lots of fun, socializing and will learn and teach how everybody can help and contribute to the Ubuntu project.

If you are in Quebec, please look at our friends event in that part of Canada!

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MagicFab shared 5 links. Code Crunching » Blog Archive » Decoding Apple’s Magic Trackpad Lifehacker Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps Ginn – Forcing non-multitouch-aware applications to support multitouch in Ubuntu | OMG! Ubuntu! YouTube – Multitouch Gesture injection in non-mt-aware apps : Inkscape YouTube – Multitouch Gesture injection in non-mt-aware [...]

Kwartzlab got a new type of event which has been beta tested early this month: The Ubuntu LAN Party! Eric organised this first event, which remained solely within the realms of kwatzlab and gave the kwartlab members the privilege to attend this premiere.

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MagicFab shared Bug #608382 in usb-creator (Ubuntu): “Maverick images build on lucid fail to boot – different syslinux version”. MagicFab shared 4 links. Code Crunching » Blog Archive » Decoding Apple’s Magic Trackpad Ginn – Forcing non-multitouch-aware applications to support multitouch in Ubuntu | OMG! Ubuntu! YouTube – Multitouch Gesture injection in non-mt-aware apps : [...]

MagicFab posted 3 items. rsandu: ♺ @WebUpd8: Urbi robotics software open sourced http://bit.ly/b2CPGO !gnu !linux !freesoftware andresmujica: Ahh focaccia focaccia grile … Yumi osamak: Listening to EbenMoglen’s talk at #debconf. Very interesting one. Made you change a practice? Tag with #EbenEffect ur1.ca/17a7v !gnu !fsf

MagicFab shared 2 links. Aaron Toponce : Identica’s Unwritten Rules facebook places add MagicFab posted rsandu: ♺ @WebUpd8: Urbi robotics software open sourced http://bit.ly/b2CPGO !gnu !linux !freesoftware.

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http://stackexchange.com, famous for http://stackoverflow.com, http://serverfault.com and http://superuser.com has recently decided to create community proposed and driven Q&A sites. Interestingly, this has lead to two proposals that have both gone into public beta now, http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com for Ubuntu questions, and http://unix.stackexchange.com for Unix/Linux questions.

The Ubuntu proposal went in almost record time through all the proposal stages, while the the Unix/Linux site did not. This caused quite a stir. Miguel de Icaza does not appreciate the efforts that Ubuntu performs in the Linux community. Miguel and people like him are exactly the reason why we need both sites.

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MagicFab posted 2 items. mcgrof: Wishing I could turn my Nexus One USB endpoint as a GPS device, to test #GeoClue #GPS stuff. Let see.. cassidyjames: @stav, @bugabundo, can we update the !Android group details? A better logo, link, and description would be pretty cool…

MagicFab posted 2 items. cyphermox: please help testing the #NetworkManager 0.8.1 stack in !ubuntu #maverick rowi: #K-9 3.0 adds Support for inline PGP digital signatures and encryption with APG. Great! !Android MagicFab posted x1101: finally got MPD setup and working with pmix on my !android phone. I love using it as a media remote .

MagicFab posted czajkowski: @michaeldexter You get used to the @ being in the wrong place .

MagicFab shared 4 links. Filipe Abrantes | Home Zimly Media Player – Android app on AppBrain Video Player – Android app on AppBrain Stream Media Player – Android app on AppBrain

MagicFab posted evgeni: Just installed my first own !Android application! And guess what? It works! Now I just have to fix the layout slightly.. MagicFab shared 3 links. Zimly Media Player – Android app on AppBrain Video Player – Android app on AppBrain Stream Media Player – Android app on AppBrain

We are living in a world where the average person is carrying at least three portable computing devices. Okay maybe not the average person but most days I have three portable computing devices with me; a laptop, cell phone, and tablet. Usually these devices have some sentience information; contacts, calendar, personal photos, documents, contracts, banking information, etc. During last nights GTALUG meeting we had a brief audience chat on dealing your portable device when it is outside the confront of your home. So i thought I would share my two cents.

Similar to sex absents is the safe way not to lose your computer and data (just ask an iPhone engineer). If you can't live without your computer then do some serious auditing of your data. Do you need to carry around your personal (and corporate) accounting ledger, business contacts, calendar, proprietary source code, SSH keys, contacts, and other sensitive information. Also what I find helps is giving everything a value of money. For example I might have some source code for a client project I have been working on for sixty billable hours and haven't got paid yet. That would have a high monitory value, unlike an open source project. Something I should start doing is physically locking my laptop with a security lock (they are reality cheap compared to my laptop and it's data).

Backup, Backup, Backup. I am not going to go to much into this but have some sort of offsite backup system installed and working. Mine is a combination of Git/Hg, Dropbox, and S3.

• If I am working on a proposal it is saved to my Dropbox.
• If I am working on code it is pushed to a remote computer.
• If I can't push to a remote computer (SSH is blocked) I push to an S3 bucket.
• etc.

Encrypt your laptops hard drive.

Most enterprisy companies have remote wipe on Blackberry's Enterprise Server, make sure you can have the same. The iPhone supports this though MobileMe and Android has WaveSecure if you data is worth more than $200 these services are very beneficial. Also never be afraid of doing a remote wipe, backup your phone at least once or twice a week and use services that have some type of push to "the cloud" feature (I use SimpleNote which sends my notes to a remote web service).

Don't be paranoid, the majority of the people in this world are honest and good. If you have something telling them how to contact you if you device get lost, they will contact you. Just make sure they can easily find your information.

Gah, almost two months since I last blogged.

Here, have a couple of pictures of shiny things to tide you over while I think of something to say…

MagicFab shared 2 links. www.Fotomobil.at » wordpress openstreetmap plugin Map Compare | Geofabrik Tools MagicFab posted ovidius: @ryo IMHO we should just never take someone’s personal opinion as speaking for the whole !ubuntu community. Not even Mark Shuttleworth’s..

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