On May 11, 2009 I joined Canonical as a project manager on the Ubuntu One team. I went from working in the world of Department of Defense contracting to the world of free software. I now have a better appreciation for E.T.’s plight. OK, maybe not. E.T. was trying to get back home. I feel …
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Setting up Ubuntu One on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
I help out with the support requests that come into Ubuntu One. It doesn’t take too long helping out there before you realize our process for setting up your computer with Ubuntu One on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS can be problematic for some people. We’re making the setup process better in the next release (Maverick, Ubuntu …
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Cloning VirtualBox images (or how I save hours a day when testing software)
First things first. If you’re testing software and you’re not using some sort of virtualization solution, stop reading this and go install one. My product of choice is VirtualBox. It’s free (as in no cost and most of it is open source), user friendly, runs on an Ubuntu host computer and I’m familiar with it. …
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