A Place For My Mind to Wander
I decided to give the Yahoo Publishers Network Beta a try, I never really make much money from ads, but it will be nice to have something to compare Adsense to.
So feel free to play around with the new ads, and my new analytics system (sorry if its slow!).
Its been an awesome week, its done justice to the last 6 months of blood tears and sweat that were poured into the great release that is Feisty Fawn.
A few things I wanted to mention, but first off, I should say Hi! My Ubuntu Membership was just approved, and I wanted to give a shout out and say hello to all those I haven’t met yet. Second, I wanted to do a little introduction, but given the general excitement, I figured I would link to my wiki and launchpad page, where most of you can get an idea of what I do, and where I can help. I’m always looking for new ways to get involved in the community, and if your working on something that you think I could help with, drop me an e-mail or find me on the IRC, and theres a good chance I’ll be all over it ;). That said I look forward to all the great releases down the road.
Just a few minutes ago I figured I would help the Ubuntu servers as best I could by seeding all the i386 iso’s, at the moment, there are close to 4000 seeds. I couldn’t ask the Ubuntu community for anything more, I downloaded the whole thing in close to 2 minutes, and am seeding now. Seeing as the bittorrent community needed no help, I decided that I would host the most popular iso on my site to help as best I can. (I thought about trying a full mirror, but this late, I figured it would do more harm then good, if I’m wrong, let me know!)
Here are the links, I know they aren’t for the main mirror site, but if you read my blog or one of the planet’s I’m on, and are thinking of grabbing the iso, consider using this link. If it doesn’t work, it means I could only be so generous, and I was going way over the 2TB limit this month, but I don’t think I’m that popular.
http://kubasik.net/files/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso
http://kubasik.net/files/ubuntu-7.04-server-i386.iso
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Ok, since my recent post on Dashboard there has been scattered interest in helping revive/work on Dashboard, so I wanted to post a list of things Dashboard needs before we can really look at making it usable at all.
Just a note, I posted this list on the Dashboard Wiki.
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As I find myself getting more involved with the Ubuntu community and specifically the packaging of Beagle, I decided that it might be about time to apply for official Ubuntu Membership. I always feel a little odd in these situations, much the same as when I applied for membership to the Gnome Foundation. It feels weird trying to itemize and quantify my contributions, and moreover, I’m not a very good bragger when it comes to computers.
While the application process isn’t my favorite, once I commit to it, I find that there are plenty of tools that simplify the process, my blog not being the least of these, as its a nice reminder of what I have worked on. The harder part is deciding when its appropriate to apply, most guidelines on such topics are pretty vague, and to compound things, the most visible members tend to be hacker rockstars that are so above and beyond the accepted norm for membership that intimidation is almost impossible to avoid. I don’t mean any of this as a critique or attack, just my personal feelings and observations as someone slowly getting more involved in the community.
But I digress, The purpose of this post was to ask for anyone who was willing to give a quick glance over my wiki page at Ubuntu (its more or less your resume near as I can tell) to do so, and if willing, share their feedback. The next Community Council meeting isn’t until April 17th, so theres plenty of time. I would appreciate any of the following:
So yeah, I appreciate any feedback I can get!
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Alright, before I get to the cool stuff, first things first, with current metadata system thriving, and at Beagle’s current speed, if someone really wants to start to stabilize up the Dashboard API a little more, and start to make this something less abstract, IM,Call, Mail (either one), or even just show up in Cleveland, and I’d be more than willing to help get Dashboard moving again.
Anyways, now that I’ve had another 2 minute excursion into the realm of getting Dashboard and its Banshee plugin building/working again, I have a quick 10 second screencast of dashboard being awesome.
http://qub333.googlepages.com/dashboard-banshee-plugin.ogg
The other cool technology that I really want to get integrated with Dashboard (or even Beagle) is the Open Natural Language Parser. In all honesty, there’s no way to describe how awesome it is until you see it in action.
http://qub333.googlepages.com/opennlp-sharp.ogg
Sorry I’m too lazy to convert and all that jazz, this is an impulse post that’s preventing work from getting done, so if someone wants to convert them, just let me know, I’ll host if you need.
So there’s been a lot of talk about a cool concept program coming out of the blur of Mugshot. While the exact goals of the project do seems a little more Web 2.0, the basic UI layout and goals seems to be remote services for something like Dashboard. Dashboard was the precursor to Beagle, (initially designed as an indexing and storage backed for Dashboard) and is basically a meta-clue processing center which brings up information relevant to whatever your are doing. The initial screenshots are extraordinarily old, but last summer during SoC, a complete redesign and recode took place, which is what can currently be found in the Google Code repo. While Dashboard is missing a lot of polish, I would recommend taking a look at its clue processing system, as its really quire ingenious, and the dream of every Beagle developer to eventually have to time to make it a real working solution again.
Anyways, I know its not the exact same, but its probably worth at lest a few minutes of playing time. 
Sorry for the downtime this afternoon, had some php problems, luckily, sorting them out seemed to fix some other underlying issue, and the site is far more responsive. I hope no planets or readers got spammed in my attempts to fix everything!
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