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Lions Gate bridge from Ambleside, West Vancouver, BC - July 8th, 2010

MagicFab posted emmajanedotnet: Someone at the cafe just recognized the status.net sticker on my laptop. In Owen Sound! #rock.

This is an invitation to anyone interested in joining a multi-lingual, freely-licensed Ubuntu Q&A site to check http://ubuntu.shapado.com. As a disclaimer I should mention that I work at Canonical as a senior support analyst for Ubuntu support (both desktop and server) and I also train other people to provide Ubuntu support. I am also the [...]

An early and hot evening at the dog beach in Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC - July 8th, 2010

I am not sure how Dell’s posts make it to Planet Ubuntu without being posted by an actual Ubuntu Member, or why they now seem to be completely off-topic, but I’d appreciate if anyone in the know would remove their current RSS feed and invite the concerned parties to “do it right”. Posting to Planet [...]

Canada Place at night, Vancouver, BC - July 7th 2010

Coal harbour at night, Vancouver, BC - July 7th, 2010

MagicFab posted shapado: Everyone please support Shapado instead of StackExchange for Q&A forum! http://ur1.ca/0ouwq !faif !a !s !gnu !ubuntu !linux.

Currently a lot of fantastic people from the Ubuntu Community are working to get an Ubuntu Q&A website a la stackoverflow created on stack exchange. We have already breezed through the definition phase and now need people who are committing to ask questions or answer them in the beta phase (in particular during the private beta phase that will last 7 days.

Therefore please, if you can, commit here that we can go into the next phase.

Thanks a lot!

MagicFab posted walrus: @magicfab free wifi inboard provided by Transdev.

I am going to be talking about HTML5 at the next GTALUG meeting.

HTML5 with Myles Braithwaite

After four years since HTML4 was published (Dec. 1997) it looked like the W3C was going to drop the HTML standard (based on SGML) in favour of the more popular XHTML 1.1 (based on XML). A group of browser developers, from Mozilla, Opera, and Apple, decided to form a new working group (June 2004) called WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) to create a new standard called HTML5 that incorporated many features that would require an extra plugin to be installed.

Location

Room GB248, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto
35 St George St
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8
University of Toronto

http://osm.org/go/ZX6ByChVi- or http://goo.gl/maps/S1sL

Schedule

• 6:00 pm - There is a get together of GTALUGers at Pho 88 http://pho88.ca/ restaurant 270 Spadina Ave (South of Dundas) for food and socializing.
• 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation.
• 9:00 pm - After each meeting (at 9:00 pm) a group of GTALUGers move to the GSU Pub for beer and more socializing.

Retrieved from http://gtalug.org/wiki/Meetings:2010-07

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MagicFab posted 3 items. toros: #WedUpd8: PPASearch: Search For !Ubuntu !PPA Repositories Via Command Line http://goo.gl/tCLH scharlatan: cool: free osm based turn by turn navigation für #android with #skobbler. also nice osm tool: OsmAnd !android safaci2000: @dahil !hootsuite is the only multi protocol app I know of on !android.

MagicFab posted kocio: !Wikimania: !OpenStreetMap in !Wikipedia – http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Geodatas_in_Wikimedia_projects.

MagicFab posted 2 items. robbychen: Get Faster Download Speeds for !Ubuntu Packages with Synaptic http://bit.ly/ajxHLa bligneri: Official grant from the National Research Council of Canada approved and signed : Vive la Revolution

MagicFab liked Google should add license information to its Market. MagicFab shared Debian User Forums • View topic – Ways of finding out processor is 64 bits. Also: lshw -C processor | grep width

MagicFab shared 4 links. [Ubuntu-QC] Article sur Ubuntu dans Protégez-Vous d’octobre iPhone 4 Steve Jobs Apple Reception Sympathy Ecard | someecards.com Smart Mobile World: The spirit of hacking BeMeBlackBox | SlideME

MagicFab shared [Ubuntu-QC] Article sur Ubuntu dans Protégez-Vous d’octobre.

MagicFab posted 3 items. bkuhn: Thanks for the new version of @mustard for !android, @macno (et al)! I just donated €5 to show my gratitude. I hope others will do the same. tamasrepus: Making your OLED !Android phone monochromatic to get better battery life. Can theoretically double lifetime http://ur1.ca/0j0bw xopher: Oooh yeah baby, Froyo is [...]

MagicFab posted 3 items. stephenjudge: Unable to shutdown or reboot #Ubuntu? It’s due to the #OOo quickstarter. Vote for this bug http://ur1.ca/0hw5t !ubuntu !kubuntu !xubuntu openinformation: will be presenting my linguistic survey on the !ubuntu community tomorrow. Now squeezing in a slide on free software #excited #sympol2010 stephenwoods69: Hackers target Windows XP microsoft says no [...]

MagicFab posted qva5: Enough is enough. It’s time to root my #htc #hero and install a custom !android mod. Which should I choose?. MagicFab shared 2 links. Bug #408417 in gdm: “No option to log in remotely via XDMCP” Canada – 1er juillet: Pourquoi la fête est-elle si triste ? | Le blogue de Jean-François [...]