* Posts by popey

6 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2009

Computers4Christians miraculously appears on Ubuntu wiki

popey

It was a simple mistake

The wiki home page is the target when you login, so often people think they're on their own page, and go to edit it, not realising they're editing the main landing page on the wiki.

We frequently have to revert edits on the home page, to undo these little beginner mistakes.

Would have been more fun if Ubuntu Satanic Edition made the mistake.

(not an invitation).

Dell ARMs up for hyperscale servers

popey
WTF?

Re: Ubuntu but not Debian

Ubuntu LTS is based on Debian Testing, not Unstable (Sid) - FFS. Non-LTS releases are often based off Unstable though.

Nerd alert: First Lucid Lynx Ubuntu beta fun

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3 download limit

I've been beta testing the Ubuntu One Music Store for a while now and the 3 download limit is really not an issue. As soon as you buy a track (or indeed a full album) the MP3 files get transferred to your cloud storage in the background, directly from 7digital servers. Once there any computers that are connected to your Ubuntu One account will automagically get the music. It works really nicely. I have four machines connected to my U1 account and the music just 'appears' on all of them.

I have no need to go and manually download the files - thus consuming more of my limit of 3 - because they're downloadable from http://one.ubuntu.com/ storage and they're already on all my machines. I'd have to be some kind of idiot to lose every single copy (and all backups) of media before I went and had to download again.

I'm sure someone will though. :)

Canonical betas Ubuntu music store

popey
Linux

Pricing

I'm the beta tester linked in the article.

The store is provided by 7digital, so you can check them out for their music selection and pricing. Unfortunately the file format is out of the control of Canonical/Ubuntu for now. The format is determined by the record companies and the partner.

We (Ubuntu UK Podcast) also interviewed the developer of the store in our latest episode, which answers more questions..

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/03/s03e02-their-purple-moment/

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Not just UK/US

There's "UK", "Germany", "US", "Rest of Europe" (i.e. not UK and not Germany) and "Rest of World" (i.e. everything not already listed). This is the way the record companies have carved the world up and is largely beyond the control of Canonical/Ubuntu.

Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

popey
Linux

Misleading

" Ubuntu 9.10 is installing the old Linux kernel - 2.6.28 - not the new, 2.6.31 kernel released in September, with Ubuntu 9.10 also failing to see hard drives on certain machines."

Not strictly true. If someone was running 9.04 (which shipped with a 2.6.28 kernel) and upgraded, they would get the 2.6.31 kernel installed but for some reason the default was still the old kernel. The net result may look the same, but the situation is easily resolved with one command.

Whilst I appreciate there have been many who have had issues with 9.10, this is balanced by huge numbers of people who upgrade with little or no issue, and who don't report this fact because it's non-newsworthy.