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09:30 - ROOM 1 - INTRODUCTION
Speaker: Laura Czajkowski
Notes: A brief introduction to the event
09:30 - ROOM 1 - KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Talk Title: To be confirmed
Speaker: Jan Lehnardt
Notes:
10:45 - ROOM 1
Talk Title: Teach Your Boss How to FLOSS
Speaker: Patrick O'Connor & Paul O'Malley
Notes: This talk, in 2 parts will show how to demonstrate the value of contributing to and using FLOSS in your organisation and then how to successfully integrate FLOSS practices into your organisation's IT.
10:45 - LIGHTNING TALKS- ROOM 2
Lightning Talk 1
Title: Building an All-Island FOSS Community
Speaker: Brian Cleland
Notes:
Lightning Talk 2
Talk Title: Creating Handsome Documents with LaTeX
Speaker: Russell Davies
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Lightning Talk 3
Talk Title: InfoSlicer, a project for the Sugar desktop
Speaker: Laura Cowen
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Lightning Talk 4
Talk Title: Collective of independent Sysadmins
Speaker: Halo Labs
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Lightning Talk 5
Talk Title: to be confirmed
Speaker: Tim Bunce
Notes:
Lightning Talk 6
Talk Title: How to convert a CMS to run separate sites from the same installation
Speaker: Kae Verns
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Lightning Talk 7
Talk Title: Scaling LAMP technologies for large sites
Speaker: Mark Frawley
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Lightning Talk 8
Talk Title: TOG: A Dublin hackerspace
Speaker: People of TOG
Notes: www.tog.ie
10:45 ROOM 3
Talk Title: Easy Parallel Programming with iPython
Speaker: Vishal Vatsa
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11:45 ROOM 1
Talk Title: Gnome 3.0
Speaker: Jan Schmidt
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11:45 ROOM 3
Talk Title: Growing Ecualyptus with Ubuntu
Speaker: Dave Walker
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12:45 - LUNCH
13:30 - ROOM 1
Talk Title: Launchpad Features Tour
Speaker: Shane Fagan
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13:30 ROOM 2
Talk Title: Automated Documentation
Speaker: Ana Nelson
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13:30 ROOM 3
Talk Title: Topic to be confirmed
Speaker: Tim Bunce
Notes:
14:30 - ROOM 1
Talk Title: Machine Translation and Translation tools
Speaker: Jim Regan
Notes: http://www.apertium.org
14:30 ROOM 2
Talk Title: Drupal
Speaker: Stella Power
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14:30 ROOM 3
Talk Title: Topic to be confirmed
Speaker: Tim Foster
Notes:
15:30 - ROOM 1
Talk Title: Landscape Server, easy managementof lots of Ubuntu boxes
Speaker: Aidan Carty / HEAnet
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15:30 ROOM 2
Talk Title: Getting started with embedded ARM development on Ubuntu
Speaker: Frank Duignan
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15:30 ROOM 3
Talk Title: Using Free Software Culture in an Internet-Free World
Speaker: Rory McCann
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amarok.list
Then in that new file add the following two lines:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Add the key for the PPA:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
0x1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63
Now update your sources, remove Amarok2 and install Amarok1.4:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove amarok
sudo apt-get install amarok14
This effect is managed by Compiz. The problem with compiz is that there are several flavours and versions of it. The native versioron is kde orientated. To install compiz and use the gnome interface etc you should install the following.
$ sudo aptitude install simple-ccsm
The following will allow you to get around the problem
1 - use version 0 of PEAP
2- deactivate and reactivate the wireless subsystems/kernel modules as follows:
modprobe -r b43 ssb wl
modprobe b43
modprobe ssb
apt-get install alsa-oss
Fortunately I had a 6 month old copy of systemrescuecd in my laptop bag. This allowed me to boot up a miniature linux os from the cd and run fsck on the root file system. Eventhough the /etc/mtab was corrupt /etc/fstab was able to tell me the dev id for /.
It pays to keep one close by as you never know when you will need it....
Having solved the issue of mounting novell volumes using ncpmount, the next hurdle I face is the annoying bug that openoffice does not allow you to update word docs if you have file locking set to auto.
You can set file locking to no which means that other users can also open that same file on that share. This is not a desirable outcome. Openoffice are aware of this but do not seem to be addressing the issue.
Having built a new kernel from scratch I can confirm that it seems to be an application issue. With this in mind I have decided to remove my open office apps from my laptop and install staroffice. Hopefully this version will not have the same problem.
A colleague pointed out the following solution for ncpmount.
Instead of using feisty configure synapatic to use gutsy proposed (packages that haven’t found their way into the distribution i.e well tested beta, with a new april release they will appear in 8.04) and gutsy backport (latest versions that are not being proposed to appear in gutsy but will appear in 8.04)
Open Synaptics Package Manager
Click Settings – Repositories
Click the Updates Tab
Check/enable the pre-released (gutsy proposed)
Check/enable Unsupported-updates(gutsy-backports)
Even though this is beta s/w it is far more desirable solution than using the feisty fawn repositories as you are getting later versions rather than older versions which reduces your security risk/exposure.
A big thank you to Eugene for this tip.
