Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope is Out in the Wild
- Posted by JC John Sese Cuneta on 04.24.2009
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Version 9.04 of Ubuntu Linux named “Jaunty Jackalope” is officially out for both the Desktop users and for Servers. Additionally, a new edition is available, geared towards the Netbook users called the “Ubuntu Netbook Remix” or “UNR".
You can read the Press Releases for each edition below:
- Desktop Edition (32-bit / 64-bit)
- Server Edition (32-bit / 64-bit)
- Netbook Remix
I upgraded to Jaunty a few weeks after the Beta was released, and for the first time, I did a complete (re)-install instead of the usual “upgrade". It is beneficial in that I saw the pristine, “out-of-the-box” state of Jaunty and at the same time my harddrive is once again clean. Secondly, I can really say that Jaunty is the best release so-far (since jumping to Ubuntu).
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What Your Operating System Is Missing
- Posted by JC John Sese Cuneta on 06.26.2009
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What can we expect with the release of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” later this year? Here are three (very) short YouTube videos showing these new features that we may see on October 29 right in our own desktops.
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(UPDATE) The LANG Attribute / tag
- Posted by JC John Sese Cuneta on 06.21.2009
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In my previous post I talked about “Baybayin - the Forgotten Pre-Hispanic Writing of the Filipino“. It was added in version 5.0 of the Unicode Standard together with Buhid, Hanunoo, and Tagbanwa as under the “Philippine Scripts” group.
But how should we properly write/mark our content written in another language and/or script?
For this post, I will talk about how to correctly declare the language of your content, this way you are being friendly with translation software and helper applications, and other technologies that rely on this often taken-for-granted HTML attribute (for example, I think it helps search engines to index your site and deliver it to the appropriate audience).
As you can see on the image, everyone can see the writing script used, but in the digital world there are people who do not have the fonts you are using. And there are people who do not use the same browser as you and me use (it could be a text browser, a speech browser, or as was mentioned a braille browser).
Update (2009-07-20): Corrected the “phi” examples; Added information regarding the difference between the “extended_language” and “variant” subtag positions - section: ISO-639-3 Languages.
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Search Creative Commons Photos and Videos in Picasa Web
- Posted by JC John Sese Cuneta on 06.13.2009
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Back in September 3, 2008, I wrote about The New Picasa Web Albums and Picasa 3.0 Beta, and I mentioned how I can not find a way to search photos in Picasa Web based on its “license".
Guess what? Now we can.
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