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Inspired by World Backup Day, I decided to take a backup of my laptop. Thanks to using a free operating system I don't have to backup any of my software, just configuration and data files, which fit on a single DVD.

In order to avoid worrying too much about secure storage and disposal of these backups, I have decided to encrypt them using a standard encrypted loopback filesystem.

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Here are some notes on what I did to install Fallout 3 (Game of the year edition) on Ubuntu Lucid using Wine.

Prerequisites

• use the Lucid NVIDIA drivers, the ones in the X Updates PPA currently do not work

So we're doing it again!br /br /It's obviously getting a bit on the late side to announce this, but I only got the confirmation for our location this weekend -- after work or when I had a second, I wrote the a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quebec/2011-March/006501.html"Ubuntu-Quebec mailing list invitation/a, dented about the event, and created the a href="http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/842/detail/"LoCo directory entry for this event/a already.br /br /So once again, people wanting to help improve Natty Narwhal or who would like to know more about bugs, triaging, fixing bug

bspan style="font-size: large;"The Problem /span/bbr /br /In case you didn't already figure it out, the title refers to a quite popular a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27250/"idea on Ubuntu Brainstorm/a. It also refers to a bug report against NetworkManager in a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/386900"Launchpad: bug #386900/a.br /br /This is one issue I'd particularly like to solve soon.

La version finale de Firefox 4 est maintenant disponible depuis le 22 mars. Cependant, elle n’est pas dans les dépôts d’Ubuntu. Voici une méthode simple pour l’installer dans les versions 10.04 et 10.10 en langue française.

I run RAID1 on all of the machines I support. While such hard disk mirroring is not a replacement for having good working backups, it means that a single drive failure is not going to force me to have to spend lots of time rebuilding a machine.

We had a table at this weekend's GeekFest geek festival in Montreal. It was awesome! Tons of people, and even better, tons of interest about Ubuntu and our LoCo team.br /br /We gave out CDs, stickers, some extra FSF stickers I had in my backpack, and generally told people all they wanted to know about Ubuntu, gaming on Ubuntu (we had a demo of World of Goo running on one of the laptops for a good part of Sunday), and the Ubuntu Quebec LoCo team.

Le nom de code de la prochaine version d’Ubuntu à venir (pas la suivante mais l’autre d’après), tel qu’annoncé par Mark Shuttleworth sera: Oneiric Ocelot.

L'équipe d'Ubuntu Québec était présente au festival montréalais célébrant les divers aspects de la culture geek toute la fin de semaine du 5 et 6 mars. Nous avons été surpris par la très importante proportion des visiteurs qui utilisent déjà Ubuntu, ce qui nous a tout de même permis de faire connaître notre communauté Ubuntu locale. Surnommées les LoCo Teams (de l'anglais Local Cummunity) les groupes d'utilisateurs tels que le nôtre font partie d'un large réseau de soutien.