When Mark Shutt­le­worth announ­ced the rebran­ding of Ubuntu, it see­med nobody noti­ced that he men­tio­ned a new sys­tem font was being deve­lo­ped. Currently Bits­tream Vera Sans is the default (if I’m not mis­ta­ken), appea­ring on menu bars, title bars, but­tons - pretty much everywhere. I’ve always thought it has ser­ved its pur­pose well ( Read more... )

Adobe has announ­ced a poten­tial secu­rity risk in ver­sions of Flash ear­lier than 10.0.45.2. This inc­lu­des the ver­sions in Lucid’s default repositories.

If you’re fee­ling para­noid or would just like to try the latest Flash 10.1 release can­di­date, you can down­load it from Adobe, and follow the ins­tall ins­truc­tions from Web Upd8.

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Well put.

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One of the first things a care­ful obser­ver will likely notice about a fresh Ubuntu ins­tall is the dis­tinctly odd appea­rance of their favo­rite web­si­tes. The cause for this is that, although Ubuntu ships with a fair selec­tion of fonts, they aren’t pro­perly assig­ned as alia­ses to the pro­prie­tary fonts that most web­si­tes call for; Hel­ ( Read more... )

Accor­ding to this.

But what’s Ubuntu Aubergine?

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From Giz­modo:

The per­son who even­tually ended up with the lost iPhone was sit­ting next to Powell. He was drin­king with a friend too. He noti­ced Powell on the stool next to him but didn’t think twice about him at the time. Not until Powell had already left the bar, and a ran­dom really drunk guy-who’d been sit­ting on the other side of Powell- ( Read more... )

Is it my ima­gi­na­tion, or were seve­ral ins­tan­ces of the word “fuck” dub­bed with the word “shit” in The Ghost Wri­ter?

I think I even saw Pierce Brosnan’s adjec­ti­val “fuc­king” dub­bed over with “sodding.”

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The “good enough is good enough” cul­ture is bullshit.

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Ever since my impa­tient and juve­nile decons­truc­tion of the new “light” GTK the­mes for Ubuntu Lucid, there’s been a lot of talk elsewhere, as well as some more clues about the new interface.

First came Mark Shuttleworth’s announ­ce­ment on the rebran­ding. Something that seems to have been over­loo­ked, most likely because of its ambi­guous ( Read more... )