Ubuntu open week - Ask Mark

IRC log files of the "Ask Mark Shuttleworth" chat session , that was held as part of Ubuntu Open Week

Buzzfeed

Bye bye Digg - hello Buzz Feed

Installing Ubuntu without a CD drive

Installing Ubuntu with no cdrom drive

Mod Rewrite - changing url variables

The following Mod rewrite rule redirects somewhere.com/test.php?val=1234&blah=widget
to somewhere.com/test.php?val=321&blah=widget

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /test/
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^val=1234&blah=widget$
RewriteRule .* test.php?val=321&blah=widget [R=301,L]

This is useful if , for example, people are finding you via "old" urls in Google (or if you've changed the url variables you are using). The [R=301,L] bit is important , as this redirects the users browser to the new version of your url (which they can then bookmark).

Linkdump

The Wow Signal
Never explained.
How to Label a Goat
New book on UK government regulation
100 Notable books of 2006
NY Times
Josef Koudelka photos
Prague spring, 1968

Suspect Nation

Channel 4 documentary regarding the issues of UK civil liberties, security and surveilance.

Create your own Ubuntu Live CD

The Ubuntu Customization Kit is a tool that helps you create your own Ubuntu based Live CDs.

Vince Clarke tells a joke

Erasure use Ableton?

click on the image for a closer view of what Andy Bell is looking at.
Hat tip:Gareth Jones blog

Very interesting blog btw , where Gareth writes about the day to day work that goes into producing the new Erasure album. Lots of tech details for the synth nerds like me out there, and a sprinkling of short YouTube videos of Andy and Vince to camera.

update: "anonymous" is the comments has said that its not Ableton that Andy is looking at. Anyone got an idea what it is so?

update 2: Anon is correct. It's not abelton, its Logic Audio.

A non-free Ubuntu?

Ubuntu developers are debating about the forthcoming Feisty Fawn release and whether it should include, by default, non-free drivers.

More here

Big Yahoo maps update

According to this blogpost theres' been a rather big Yahoo Maps update.

Monday Linkfest

Richard Dawkins video collection
What Vista should have been in 2003
NASA dawn of the Apollo program
How to compile a kernel the Ubuntu way
Irish road of doom
GoogleTorrents
Two students invent algae biofuel process
Powers of Ten
Man tries to jump mile wide river in rocket powered car
A redrawn Middle East

Aiglx + Beryl on Ubuntu

Hubble Top 100

Hubble space telescope top 100 gallery

Awesome.