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Chicago Style Jaunty Release Party

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 19, 2009 at 11:49 am

The Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team is currently in the process of sorting out the details for an Ubuntu Jaunty Release Party. Right now we are fairly certain the date will be April 25th, 2009 and that the location will be somewhere in the city limits of Chicago. We haven’t worked out the venue nor the exact times just yet, but we are working on that. Right now, some of the options for a venue that have been brought up are:

  • Illinois Institute of Design (Our favorites at this time pending our buddy Kevin’s approval).
  • Risqué Café (One of our favorite hang out spots near Wrigley Field)
  • Portillos (The best Chicago style hot dogs - though we don’t know how well it would be for a venue)
  • Goose Island (Chicago’s finest brewery and restaurant - great for all ages as they have amazing Root Beer as well - WiFi was an issue last year)
  • ….have a place you would like to offer and think would be a great spot?

If you in fact have an idea of another place to hold such a venue, please either stop by our IRC channel on Freenode in the channel #ubuntu-chicago, or you can Join our mailing list and then us an email to ubuntu-us-chicago AT ubuntu DOT com.

If anything changes, please keep an eye on this blog or Jim Campbell’s blog.

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VirtualBox 2.1.4 with Jaunty and Guest Addons

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 18, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Seems that there is an issue with VirtualBox Guest Addons and Jaunty. The VirtualBox video driver will not install with the latest release of X. So what I did was extract the .run file:

# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-*.run --target foo

This will extract the binary file into the directory foo. Once that is done I go into the foo directory and edit the install.sh file.

# cd foo/
# vi install.sh

Instead of using vi use your preferred text editor. Next thing you want to do is search for the number 1.6. In vi, that would be /1\.6. Once you have found that, you will see something like 1.5.99.* | 1.6 ). Change the 1.6 to 1.6.0, save the changes, exit out of your text editor and then run the install.sh file:

# sudo ./install.sh

This should now go through and install the guest addons so you can have good video graphics instead of the 800×600 vesa garbage. Hope this helps people. Thanks to those on IRC who helped figure this one out.

Edit: Someone just pointed out THIS LINK to the VirtualBox forums that states the same exact thing.

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What my 12.5 year old daughter loves

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 18, 2009 at 12:04 am

Adding my 2 cents into the ongoing what my daughter loves meme.

  • Family (BIG TIME)
  • Her PINK cell phone
  • Her PINK netbook
  • Her little PINK game thing (I forget which one it is)
  • Her Wii
  • Her PINK iPoop :(
  • Her cats (who unfortunately are not PINK)
  • and boys :( :( :( :(

Hey, you other old farts out there with soon-to-be teenage daughters or teenage dauthers, please give me some advice :)

Edit: I am not implying that Liz is my 12.5 year old daughter with all of the PINK links above, they just have all of the same toys in all of the same colors. :)

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