This morning, I had a problem with my sound not working on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine. Strange, as it usually works. Whenever I'd log out, I'd hear the familiar Ubuntu conga "dadadump", so sound was working, just not for my user account.

So, I rebooted my machine, and reminded …

I'll be presenting "A Brief History of UNIX" at MUG on December 13th (That's the second Tuesday of the month, for those of you wishing to make MUG meetings a regular part of their monthly diet). There's an awful lot of history surrounding the UNIX operating system, and my hope …

Wow, what an amazing time at Ohio Linuxfest 2011. Rick and I both staffed the Lococast.net / Ubuntu Michigan Loco table for most, if not all, of Saturday, and handed out over 300 business cards to all of the folks who passed by. Thank you to everyone who stopped to …

Neither rain, nor shine, nor start of school year, nor first University of Michigan football game could deter our intrepid band of Ubuntu Michigan Loco-folk from braving their way through the crowded streets of Ann Arbor on first-game-day. While Michigan Stadium swelled to contain the football faithful, we hunkered down …

We're less than two weeks away from the Michigan Loco Ubuntu Global Jam, happening on September 3rd in downtown Ann Arbor at the lovely, and graciously provided-to-us offices of SRT Solutions.

The Ubuntu Global Jam is a great way to spend an afternoon helping out the Ubuntu Community. The last …