Linux: September 2009 Archives

O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2009

By liam noonan on September 17, 2009 11:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have just watched a history of failure which was presented at the O'Reilly Open source conference. It is a great history of software and hardware bugs with some valuable lessons.

The open source conference contains a variety of talks, which can be accessed below.

Open Source Conference Dublin Sept 19th 2009

By liam noonan on September 2, 2009 11:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The OSSBarcamp will take place in DIT kevin street on Saturday the 19th of September. The schedule looks impressive http://www.ossbarcamp.com/schedule/

Some of the talks

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

Notes:

Lightning Talk 3

Talk Title: InfoSlicer, a project for the Sugar desktop

Speaker: Laura Cowen

Notes:

Lightning Talk 4

Talk Title: Collective of independent Sysadmins

Speaker: Halo Labs

Notes:

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

Notes:

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

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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

Managing your Ipod using Ubuntu 9.04 and Amarok.

By liam noonan on September 2, 2009 11:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

With previous versions of Ubuntu I had no problem managing my Ipod using Amarok 1.4. Amarok is great for retrieving the cover art for your Ipod and transferring your mp3 to your Ipod.

When I upgraded to 9.04 I noticed that Amarok had moved up to 2.0.x, this unfortunately was a retrograde step in funcionality. After 2 days of trying to make Amarok 2.0 and 2.1 work I eventually went back to Amarok 1.4

The problem with 2.X is that you cannot intuitively manage your Ipod as device, download covers or transfer music.

Fortunately helpforlinux had an article showing how to backdate to Amarok 1.4 and I now have Amarok 1.4 back and working

Add the PPA to your sources by creating a new file for the Amarok PPA:
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