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I’m currently working on the approval application for the NJ LoCo team, and part of it is giving actual evidence of what we discussed - this includes IRC logs. Unfortunately, I never set up a LoCo bot to log the meetings, so I’m currently going through my bip logs for relevant ( Read more... )

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(and Comcast Voice, Voicewing, Skype, and most other VOIP Companies you’ve probably heard of)

SIP. Asterisk. FreePBX. Open standards, Open Source. The back bone of VOIP. Yet  most VOIP users have never heard of them.

I have an asterisk server set up in my house, connected to a ( Read more... )

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On Tuesdays, I have a 3 hour night class, in which all the outlets don’t work, so I’m only running on battery. Two weeks ago, I hardly had enough battery for 3 hours on a full charge; today I came with 80% charge, which lasted the entire class, and still had some to spare. Looks ( Read more... )

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Last week I had set up ubuntu-us.org as a portal for US LoCo teams, since the page was previously a placeholder.

On Saturday the US Team Project met to talk about various things, including how to promote US teams. One of the things that came up was getting on the front page of ( Read more... )

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Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and we expect you to take those consequences into account when making decisions.

In response to this question. For those not familiar with the issue, here.

To be honest, the associated party’s vision of free speech is skewed ( Read more... )

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• I’m trying to organize an Ubucon. First step: figure out where the hell it can be hosted. I’m looking at Central Jersey at the end of July, so I’ll try calling TCNJ tomorrow or early next week. If you know a suitable place, let me know!
• I set up beryl on Christina’s laptop, and ( Read more... )

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I seem to have hit a sore spot with regards to my last entry; Dave wrote a fairly scathing entry about my remarks on running Windows in qemu, and running beryl, etc. Let me take a moment to set a few things straight:

As far as running Windows in qemu, what I’m showing is that it ( Read more... )

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Ubuntu gets a new color: Purple - in summary, that article is a tease. While I’m very happy that there’s more java support in Feisty Fawn, I’d have been happier if the title was literal: if the default background was purple instead of brown. One of the biggest complaints I hear ( Read more... )

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This should be my first post getting syndicated on Planet Ubuntu Users. Hi guys!

The CHLUG meeting on Friday had some great talks. Dave Harding gave a great talk on the history, mechanics, and uses of X-Window. His notes are here.

Ed Laly gave a presentation on Asterisk and ( Read more... )

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The South Jersey meeting went great! Here’s a link to pics.

The North/Central Jersey Meeting will be in New Brunswick, on March 31st, at 3pm.
West End Coffee Bar
152 Easton Ave, New Brunswick, NJ

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There was a lot of discussion about whether to have the meeting in New ( Read more... )