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The Ubuntu Membership Asia and Oceania approval board is going to have a meeting on 10 June 2008 11:00 UTC time at #ubuntu-meeting (irc.freenode.net) server.

The main purpose of the meeting is to grant Ubuntu Community membership to new applicants from Asia and Oceania region. The benefits of being an Ubuntu commnity member are :

• You will be allocated @ubuntu.com emails
• Able to use ubuntu/member/your_nick cloak on Freenode IRC network
• The right to print business card with Ubuntu logo
• Syndication of your Ubuntu blog on Planet Ubuntu

There are still time to apply to be accepted as Ubuntu Community member! Please read the Asia and Oceania Membership Approval Board wiki page for more information.

p/s : My best wish to nbliang, I hope he will be accepted as Ubuntu Community Member on this round.

I’m just informing you, my readers, that I’ve been busted back to application development work from a relatively administrative one. Rest assured, this is entirely my decision as I’m not currently under employment of any entity beside myself.

Now where’s my cup of coffee?

Supported chipset for b43 Broadcom Linux drivers are :

• bcm4303 (802.11b-only chips)
• bcm4306
• bcm4311 rev 2 / bcm4312 (needs patches for 2.6.24)
• bcm4309 (only the 2.4GHz part)
• bcm4318

and unsupported are:

• BCM 4309 and BCM 4312 is not supported.
• BCM 4328/4329

Please refer to this post, Ubuntu Hardy Heron : Wifi Broadcom Support with b43 driver for a guide to activate B43 Linux driver in order to use wifi function in your laptop.

Source : Ubuntu: Enabling Broadcom BCM43xx Based Wireless

Hey there, I’d like to share my dirt-easy script for creating thumbnail in blog post. The script will scale any image to the width of 456pixels which I find acceptable by most blog theme (actually the limit is around 460-465 pixel, but better be safe).

Why I wrote yet another script for scaling images? because I find blogger.com and Wordpress system of uploading images and photo annoys me, and I rather upload my pictures/photos on my own private server and create thumbnails on my own.

I licensed the download under WTFPL , don’t worry its a free software license.

Download : thumbnailer.sh

Nothing related to the Ubuntu Fridge, but its a funny new term for a less than desirable sequel in a film franchise.