Category Archives: Ubuntu Planet

STOP USING UBUNTU FAVICON going to Lernid

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Hey all,

Just before one week I wrote about a mini-campaign i’m running that asks from projects to STOP USING UBUNTU FAVICON.
Few days ago I have translated Lernid into Hebrew, and to check the results I’ve installed it, the translation just sat great on the app, but one thing bothered me…

The icon of Lernid is a small Ubuntu symbol. it is very not aesthetic, since it has only one size, and when running Lernid using a dock (AWN for ex.) it shows a big yellow-orange pixeled icon.

So if dealing with the icon anyway, why not to completely change it? I guess Lernid should have it own symbol, my idea is a graduation cap or a notebook with ubuntu symbol in it (after all it’s about Ubuntu). therefore I’ve reported a bug about that issue.

Because I’m not a graphic artist, and my guess is that Jono (the founder) isn’t either, I ask from you the readers to try thinking (and making if possible) a new icon, of course to forget to suggest it in the bug report, or we won’t notice you made one 😛

Thanks,

Ddorda.

STOP USING UBUNTU FAVICON!

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Hello all,

Yesterday I noticed that i have 18 tabs opened in my browser, from it 4 of Ubuntu-IL on the Localhost, 2 of Ubuntu-IL on www, 2 of Ubuntu-IL forums, one of PlayDeb project and 2 of Ubuntu.com. because it was so many tabs, i saw only the favicons of the sites. when I tried to find a  a page related to Ubuntu, i just saw tones of Ubuntu icons, and started to browse between the tabs.

“God damn it! why can’t they just use their own symbols?!”

well, because I don’t like to keep the things just as they are, I jumped into the #GetDeb channel on irc.freenode.net (actually I tried #PlayDeb first, but when I saw it’s not in use I’ve registered it and redirected it to #GetDeb), and asked them to change the icon of PlayDeb to their own icon, they asked me to make an favicon of it, and so I did, and from now and on PlayDeb uses PlayDeb’s Icon as the Favicon – Congratz 😀

As it seems for now, I’m going to change Ubuntu-IL’s favicon too, I’ll change it to an image that combines Ubuntu symbol and the star of david, which is the symbol of the jews all over the world, and used on Israel flag (The image was made by Yaron Shahrbani).

And I use this stage, dear readers, if you have any influence in any project that related to Ubuntu and uses Ubuntu icon as a favicon, PLEASE make the project change the icon! I believe that there are many creative minds out their that can think of their own icon.

Thanks a lot!

Ddorda

Soon at Ubutnu-IL LoCo site

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Hello everybody,

For long time that I believe that the Israeli LoCo of Ubuntu is not just a community of Ubuntu users. we’re not just making events and giving support, we’re here to promote Ubuntu in any way that seem to be possible!

as for that reason, I’ve decided (with the help of Status0) to do a makeover to our LoCo site, to make it much more “seller”. we’ve decided to use the Ubuntu.com contents (mostly the front page), to make it attractive, full of images and explains.

because we’re using an RTL language, we can’t just do a copy/paste, but we must RTL all the content, including buttons and snapshots, and remake it all in Hebrew.

though we are rebuilding many pages anyway, why won’t we do more features, like making the site available for blind people? I’ve contact some girl from an organization that is just for that subject and she promised to help 🙂

well, so what for now?

Today on the www:

Existing Ubuntu-IL site (18/12/2009)
Existing Ubuntu-IL site (18/12/2009)

Today on the Localhost:

The changes that was built until now (18/12/2009)

The changes that was built until now (18/12/2009)

I know it’s not such a big change yet, but there’s a lot more to do. I promise to update you for any serious change.

Ddorda.

aMSN forums got hacked?

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Peace all of you,

yesterday (at 20:17) I found in my E-mail a scary letter from aMSN forums says “Hacked by LatinHackTeam“.
I changed my password quickly and back to work.

Four hours later I’ve got another E-mail from aMSN saying this:

Hi,

As you all know, the aMSN project forums got hacked today. You don’t have to worry about anything, it was just some script kiddies.. probably some young stupid adolescent who had absolutely nothing better to do of his free time and decided to hack our forums.

The only extent of their damage from what we can tell is that they got access to the admin page of the forums and mass emailed every user through the admin page (just like I’m doing right now) to say it got hacked and to promote their name.

You do not have to worry about your password! We believe that they have not been compromised, and anyways they are stored as an MD5 hash on the server, so they cannot retrieve your passwords!
But just to be on the safe side, we recommend to everyone to just login to the forums ( http://amsn-project.net/forums ) and change their passwords.
I repeat, we do not believe the passwords to be compromised and we do not believe this to be necessary, but it’s always better to be safe and sorry!

We are currently working on updating the forums. We may soon move to a newer version of phpBB so the forums will change a bit and hopefully it won’t be vulnerable again.

We appreciate your concern and patience, and we just want to tell everyone, again, to not worry about anything. It has been taken care of.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

The aMSN team.

well how did he break into the admin user? I hope aMSN does not forget to update the forums system…

Ddorda.