On my New Job
It’s been almost a month now since I started working for Canonical. I was hired as a “Sustaining Engineer (System)” in the Foundations team which, in turn, is part of the OEM Services team, whose...
View ArticleX-Bus – a daemon for input devices
What is X-Bus? It’s a personal project I’ve been working on (among other things) since I joined Canonical. It’s a daemon which handles input devices through the XInput protocol. In the future I hope to...
View ArticleHow to enable/disable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace in (K)Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
As you might have noticed already if you use Ubuntu Karmic, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (i.e. the shortcut which was used to restart the X server) has to be enabled in a different way with respect to previous...
View ArticleQuick updates on Lucid
This is just a brief announcement, I hope to have the time to say more when I’m back to Italy (currently I’m in the US). EnvyNG and Envy are no more. I had no time to maintain them and I really prefer...
View ArticleWarning for Nvidia users on Lucid
Quoting my email to different Ubuntu mailing lists: According to Nvidia, drivers 195.36.08 (i.e. the current driver in the archive) and 195.36.03 might be affected by the same GPU fan speed issues...
View ArticleHow to set up "Web CoopVoce" (3G) APN on Android
I’m a satisfied owner of a Nexus One (loving Android Froyo 2.2) and today I decided to try a (volume based) 3G plan by CoopVoce. There are 2 options available: either buy a 3G usb key or simply use 3G...
View ArticleOn fglrx support in Natty
As I’ve already written in the ubuntu-devel mailing list, a new fglrx driver (2:8.840-0ubuntu1) is now available in Natty and it finally works with the new xserver. There are still a few issues whose...
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Appindicator for Hamster
Premise I use Hamster for time tracking at work and the lack of an applet which works with Unity’s panel is my main obstacle to the adoption of Unity (which I love BTW). For this reason I hacked on the...
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Appindicator for Hamster part 2
This week I’m supposed to be on holiday but I decided to spend some time on my appindicator for Hamster. To be honest, though, a merge request on github from Izidor Matušov, together with our...
View ArticleUpdates on Nvidia (285.05.09) and Fglrx (11.11)
As you might already know, this release cycle we’re providing updated proprietary graphics drivers using the -updates flavours of our driver packages (e.g. nvidia-current-updates, fglrx-updates). These...
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