Category Archives: Ubuntu

So Make It has a new location

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Anton Piatek

(originally posted at http://blog.somakeit.org.uk/2014/01/20/a-place-of-our-own/) It’s our very sincere pleasure to announce that we will be holding the Grand Opening of our first dedicated space: On 1st February 2014 at 2pm (please arrive from 1pm) At Southampton Makerspace, Unit K6, Liners’ Industrial … Continue reading →

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Crowdfunding the Southampton makerspace

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Anton Piatek

So Make It, the Southampton Makerspace, is a volunteer-run non-profit community space for people of all walks of life who like to make things, be they physical, digital or otherwise. Having only existed since March 2013, the Makerspace already has … Continue reading →

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Message Broker v8 with MySQL

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Anton Piatek

Now that you know that you can use Message Broker v8 on Ubuntu for development, you may be wondering if you can use some of the databases that are more common on Linux, such as MySQL. You can! IBM WebSphere … Continue reading →

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WebSphere Message Broker on Ubuntu

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Anton Piatek

WebSphere Message Broker v8 now supports Ubuntu for development systems (i.e. not production use) – http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27023600#Ubuntu I have been running MQ and Message Broker on Ubuntu and Debian since shortly after I joined IBM in 2005, and it seems there are … Continue reading →

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Guest presenting on the Ubuntu UK PodCast

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Anton Piatek

I was a guest presenter on this weeks Ubuntu UK PodCast. I talked about Southackton, and IBM’s use of Ubuntu on the desktop. Listen to the podcast at http://t.co/vVL5M3YJ

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Fix your Arduino Uno for Linux

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Anton Piatek

Are you using an Arduino Uno on Linux? If so, you may have noticed that writing to the serial port in a loop can cause the Arduino Editor/Programmer software to appear to lock up, or even Linux having trouble using … Continue reading →

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