Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA Inbox X
Linux, Tech February 16th, 2011
This morning I received this email saying that Ubuntu Wiki content now is listed as copyright Canonical, to the CC-BY-SA license.
- Image: creativecommons
The CC-BY-SA means you are free to:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
To me, free culture license is totally a new term =^0^=
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Dear Contributor to the Ubuntu Wiki,
We are contacting you because you have contributed content to the Ubuntu wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu.com.
The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. Working with the Ubuntu Community Council, Canonical has decided to transition the content in the Ubuntu Wiki to the the CC-BY-SA license[1]. This license is a free culture license[2] and is the same license used both by the Ubuntu Documentation wiki [3] since 2007 [4] and by Wikipedia.
If you are happy with the idea of this transition for the content you have provided, you do not need to do anything. If you have problems or issues, please read the feedback section below and contact us.
The rest of this message provides a rationale, details, and information on providing feedback.
= Decision =
After discussion among the Ubuntu Community Council, it has been decided that the material on the Ubuntu wiki should be licensed under a free license, CC-by-SA[1]. The Ubuntu wiki will be changed to make this clear to those creating or editing pages, and of course external links from the Wiki to material under other licences will continue to be welcome.
This decision is not intended in any way to underestimate the value of contributions, but rather to ensure that the material on the wiki complies with the same standards of openness as the Ubuntu project as a whole.
= Rationale =
The Ubuntu wiki is a collaborative resource, and the product of the Ubuntu community as a whole. Its content, put together by many contributors with different knowledge and points of view, is immensely valuable to us all. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no clear definition of what rights contributors to the content retain over the material that they post, or the extent to which other persons are entitled to copy or modify the material. For example, it would be very useful to ensure that community contributed content may be shared by many teams without complex licensing issues, ensuring that those working on content can concentrate on producing the best information possible rather than legal negotiations.
Furthermore, consistent with Ubuntu’s philosophy, it is important that material created for use on the Ubuntu wiki be available for other communities outside ours to benefit from. Using an open license on the Ubuntu wiki allows other communities to re-use material which may be useful to them under terms which are widely recognised in the free software community.
= Feedback =
We would again like to make a good-faith attempt to ensure that contributors of existing material are happy with this change. We invite any contributors who have any questions or concerns about this plan to contact us at <community-council@lists.ubuntu.com>. Given that the re-licensing of http://help.ubuntu.com/community was fairly uncontroversial and since the aim to re-license the Ubuntu wiki at some point later has not brought up any objections, we hope that contributors will welcome it.
In the absence of a substantial number of objections, this change will be made to the Ubuntu wiki after approximately one month.
More details can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiLicensing
Many thanks for your contributions to the Ubuntu Wiki, and we hope that you will continue to help!
= Exceptions =
If you want to license a code snippet on the wiki under another open source license [5], please specify the relevant license in the snippet itself. In the event that no license is specified, the license applicable to the code snippet would be the same as that applicable to any other material on the wiki.
[1] See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
[2] http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
[3] http://help.ubuntu.com
[4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000275.html
[5] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
Solved – Import Address Book: Gmail Address Book field does not match Thunderbird’s fields
Linux, Tech September 13th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia
Firstly we need to export Gmail address book from Gmail (you can searcheasily how to do it or click HERE ). Ok. Run Thunderbird, go to Tool>Open Address Book (Ctrl+Shift+B), Tool>Import. Then check on Adress Books radio button, next. As you will see, the “Adress Book Fields” and the “Record data to import” are not match! At the first time, I did not pay attention to that so the Address Book of Thunderbird is not totally correct.
So one thing you should do is that we have to move up (//down) the Address Book Fields on the left to match with the “Record data to import”. There are two important fields we need to adjust correctly: Primary Email-Email Address; Second Email Address – Email 2 address (see the image)
Tags: address book, email, guide, thunderbird, ubuntu
Ubuntu How to add Thunderbird to the Indicator
Linux September 12th, 2010
Lucid Puppy 5.1 on USB Flash Drive weighing in at only 128MB.
Linux August 17th, 2010
About
Lucid Puppy 5.1 consists of the popular Puppy Linux architecture that Puppy founder Barry Kauler has been refining through 4 editions of Puppy Linux. But this time Puppy is built with binary packages from the latest Ubuntu release Lucid Lynx, hence Lucid Puppy 5.1. The Puppy architecture is well known to be lean and fast, and friendly and fun, and Lucid Puppy is no exception.
Lucid Puppy Live USB Flash Drive Creation tutorial
- Download the lupu-501.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.1/lupu-510.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.1/
- Download and launch our Universal USB Installer, select Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 and follow the onscreen instructions
- Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot
Further readings and adapted sources:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.1/release-Lucid-510.htm
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/put-lucid-puppy-on-usb-flash-drive-from-windows/
Tags: ubuntu
Foxit Reader for Ubuntu 64 bits
Tech July 30th, 2010
Foxit Reader 1.1 Build 20090810 for Desktop Linux |
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| Version: | 1.1 | Build#: | 20090810 |
| Language: | English | OS: | Linux |
| Description: | Foxit Reader 1.1 for Desktop Linux
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URL1:  .bz2 (Size:3.61 MB) |
MD5: | 585D2FD105A221C78E89607039F17126 | |
| SHA1: | 7DE9DE0886C9196D93E6C51EFE81681163D5038A | ||
| URL2: .deb (Size:3.61 MB) |
MD5: | 791F86E938A59C2B850CA0F36B8A7F3D | |
| SHA1: | DA18E1504E37A38D822132D127BD2922ED3C3AED | ||
| URL3: .rpm (Size:3.61 MB) |
MD5: | BC1857288C10CC7A2989B3E82119CAC1 | |
| SHA1: | 42EEC22EB845104687CEE15587A1108AF623DC10 | ||
| Date: 2009-08-13 | |||
For 32 bits users:
sudo dpkg -i –force architecture FoxitReader_1.1.0_i386.deb
Tags: 64bits, foxit reader, pdf, ubuntu
Ubuntu – show battery status for Openbox
Tech April 14th, 2010
There are several ways to show your battery status in Openbox.
Here I use conky, which has many useful function like weather cast, network status also… here I just want it to show my battery status, cpu, ram and dates on my desktop screen.
OpenBox Conky Battery show
Ok, first of all, install conky via Terminal emulator (select from the right click menu – root menu)
sudo apt-get install conky
Now you can run it by typing
conky
As you can see now, by default conky does not show your battery status. To let it do that, create a .conkyrc file in your home directory
gedit ~/.conkyrc
Paste the following code into .conkyrc file, save it and restart conky (ctrol+c, type conky again in the terminal):
Code ref: Various sources from the Internet and my own experience by studyihttp://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
# Use Xft?use_xft yesxftfont DejaVu Sans:size=8xftalpha 0.8text_buffer_size 2048# Update interval in secondsupdate_interval 4# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.# Set to zero to run forever.total_run_times 0# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)own_window yesown_window_transparent yesown_window_type normalown_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)double_buffer yes# Minimum size of text areaminimum_size 180 0#maximum_width 200# Draw shades?draw_shades no# Draw outlines?draw_outline no# Draw borders around textdraw_borders no# Stippled borders?stippled_borders 0# border marginsborder_margin 5# border widthborder_width 1# Default colors and also border colorsdefault_color grey#default_shade_color black#default_outline_color greyown_window_colour grey# Text alignment, other possible values are commented#alignment top_leftalignment top_right#alignment bottom_left#alignment bottom_right# Gap between borders of screen and text# same thing as passing -x at command linegap_x 25gap_y 25# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?no_buffers yes# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercaseuppercase no# number of cpu samples to average# set to 1 to disable averagingcpu_avg_samples 2# number of net samples to average# set to 1 to disable averagingnet_avg_samples 2# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFToverride_utf8_locale yes# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.use_spacer none#################################Dates################################TEXT${alignc 35}${font Arial Black:size=12}${time %A, %d-%m-%Y}${font}${alignc 35}${font Arial Black:size=12} ${time %H:%M:%S}${font}#################################System Default conky config################################${color grey}Acpi temp:$color $acpitemp C${color grey}RAM Usage:$color $mem/$memmax – $memperc% ${membar 10}${color grey}CPU Usage:$color $cpu% ${cpubar 6}${color grey}Processes:$color $processes ${color grey}Running:$color $running_processes$hr#################################${color grey}File systems:#/ $color${#fs_used /}/${fs_size /} ${fs_bar 6 /}################################${color grey}Name PID CPU% MEM%${color lightgrey} ${top name 1} ${top pid 1} ${top cpu 1} ${top mem 1}${color lightgrey} ${top name 2} ${top pid 2} ${top cpu 2} ${top mem 2}${color lightgrey} ${top name 3} ${top pid 3} ${top cpu 3} ${top mem 3}${color lightgrey} ${top name 4} ${top pid 4} ${top cpu 4} ${top mem 4}$hr${color grey}Networking:Up:$color ${upspeed eth0} ${color grey} – Down:$color ${downspeed eth0}#################################Battery################################$hr${color grey}Time left or until charged:$color ${color red} ${battery_time BAT0} $color${color grey}Battery:$color${battery_bar 6,150 BAT0}${color} ${battery BAT0}${color grey}Uptime:$color $uptime#################################Weather Can Tho VMXX0004################################
Tags: battery, conky, laptopbattery, ubuntu
OpenBox – how to add application shortcuts to the right click menu (root menu)
Tech April 14th, 2010
I have just installed Open Box for my Gnome running Ubuntu 10.04 beta2 Lucid. It is interesting. After logged in, I waited about 2 minutes with the black screen to expect something else happens lol. You know, I tried testing left and right click everywhere on the black screen to hope to get something. And it is Open Box: just the black screen and a right click menu (latter I know it is called the root menu).
In this post I will just show you the way I add more application shortcuts to the root menu.
Open Box with thunar Screenshot
Edit the right click menu (root menu)
(Sorry there is NO space in the command, there are some security issues with my WP, if I write the correct command (no space), the post will not be saved! so you may have to type it manually):cp / etc / xdg / openbox / menu.xml ~ / .config / openbox / menu.xml
Then just open ~ / .config / openbox / menu.xml and edit the .xml with you favorite editor. It is easy to understand the menu structure and add more shortcuts here.
In fact, you just need to copy add paste more <item></item> tag like other shortcuts there, then edit 2 places give it a name to the item label, for ex item label=”Thunar File Manager”, and execute, for ex <execute>thunar</execute>.
I like using thunar as my File Manager in Open Box, so I install thunar and make a shortcut for it to the root menu. (Install thunar: sudo apt-get install thunar)
After finished, save your .xml file, right click on the black screen, select Reconfigure to apply changes you have just made for OpenBox. Here is my Menu.xml file
PS: 1- You can also read this post on my Google docs (publicly viewable)
2- There is a great Open Box guide publicly viewable at WP or my G Docs
Tags: guide, Opeboxguide, Openbox, ubuntu
ubuntu – can not forward on Youtube – temp solution
Linux April 7th, 2010
I accidentally discovery this one, it works!
- Press the Space key (long one) to pause the watching Video.
- Then use, the left or right key to backward or forward the clip!
That’s it!
Updated April 12, 2010
Solved by installing a native 64 bit version of the flash player
How to install: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1081964
Enjoy
