Ubuntu 11.10 and the great leap forward!

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It’s about that time of year again when a new Ubuntu release hits the universe. But what does this mean for the great majority of the operating system’s users, not the developers and programmers, but the Ordinary Ubuntu Joe?

Firstly, and probably least importantly but most poetically, version 11.10 has a new name: Oneiric Ocelot. You’re probably wondering what it means. Well, and ocelot is a wild cat from Central and South America – they used to be very popular as pets and Salvador Dali the surrealist artist kept on. They are sometimes known as the dwarf leopard. Oneiric is an adjective meaning dreamlike or pertaining to dreams (from the Greek word for dream, of course). So, dream leopard.

Gone are the days when only IT professionals use a Unix-like operating system, now you’re likely to find them computers used for every day things like checking bills on O2 or watching videos on YouTube. This has influenced the direction which the new release has been taken as the most work seems to have been expended on the Unity Desktop. This is the new laptop friendly desktop system that was introduced in June last year. Functionality has been improved and a few bugs have been ironed out. The speed is much improved as well.

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buh.bz updated, using MongoDB now!

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342 days
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Great news for one of my projects, buh.bz, was fully rewritten by Disassembler and now using MongoDB. Well first of all, buh.bz, was using phurl code, which was OK, but not quite there, then Disassembler started to rewrite a lot of the code, which at the time still was using MySQL and then some time ago we decided to fully move away from SQL, in this case MySQL and start using MongoDB, something similar what Facebook is using for databases.

This ideas should make buh.bz like 10 or even more times faster then before. Also the code was clean-up, which again it should speed up the code creation and redirection.

Also on the design part, there some small nice things added, like hidden “Custom alias”, nice error reporting, small statistics and Top 5 of the most clicked short URLs.

Well that’s about it, the only thing I can add here is to thank Disassembler, for the great work until now, and hopefully in the future more and more improvements will be added to buh.bz

TweeU 1.1 is out and about!

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508 days
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Well, just released a new kernel version and at the same time I had to also update TweeU, the WordPress plugin. The changes in this release are only regarding the Twitter authentication, which has changed since 1st of August, as I remember.

Twitter doesn’t allow anymore the basic authentication so this had to be modified also in TweeU. So for all of you who use TweeU, I suggest to update the plugin or if you wanna start using it, you can find TweeU at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweeu/ or http://www.robertalks.com/tweeu/.

The installation or update is relatively simple and guided by WordPress, so there shouldn’t be any problems with it. One thing you may have problems with is when you allowed the plugin in Twitter and you are redirected to the WordPress plugin page it may give you an error as it failed to authenticate. At this point you will only need to refresh/reload the plugin page and everything will work fine. I’m still not sure why is this happening, but as soon as I find the issue/problem, I will fix it.

So, have fun with it, get on blogging and twitting :)

Kernel 2.6.35.4-bubbleboy released for Debian/Ubuntu (Bubbleboy)

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508 days
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It’s been a while since the release of kernel 2.6.35 and there are several version out. I haven’t build and release them, because all of them had several serious bugs and where fixed within days from their release. Version 2.6.35.4 seems more stable and more clean-up and I’ve decided it’s a good release to make it into a package. Also because some of you have mentioned the idea, I also will post the URLs to download the patches and kernel config used in this kernel build. This way, any of you can download the kernel tarball from kernel.org, get the patches and config and build your own kernel, regardless of the Linux distributions.

This new build brings a tone of fixes and new features and also some additional patches added by me. As all of you are familiar, you will find in the kernel build, squashfs4 with lzma support, aufs2 and now, for the first time, support for reiser4.

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Kernel 2.6.35-final already here! WoW :)

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535 days
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I don’t usually get very surprised when a new kernel is released, but this time… I’m. Kernel 2.6.34.1 was release just a couple of good weeks ago and then kernel 2.6.35. I don’t get the idea why did they just jumped directly to kernel 2.6.35, but I will consider that they know what they are doing and I will just go with the flow :) .

Besides the surprise that this kernel was release, I also have a surprise (more like a bad news) for those of you who are using the kernel builds done by me. Since this kernel release I have dropped support for Ubuntu 8.x, meaning that you need at least Ubuntu 9.10 or similar when it comes to Debian to be able to install it. You wont be able to use it on older versions due to libc incompatibility.

OK now, lets leave the big surprises of the day and just go on with what is included in this new kernel. Besides a ton of fixes, new modules and improvements done by the kernel development team, I have also added to this kernel, lzma support for squash4, ureadahead support, aufs2 support and custom kernel configuration. It means some stuff in the kernel build where changed to offer a better speed for deskptops/laptops/netbooks.

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