Monthly Archives: February 2008

Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.0.01 Alpha released

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Arun

Kubuntu team has released Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron alpha with KDE 4.0.1. Kubuntu now carries two different alpha versions for Hardy Heron. One is, commercially supported KDE 3.x version and the other one is community supported KDE 4.x version. KDE … Continue reading →

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New features coming up in Bloglines beta

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Arun

Bloglines team is in the process of adding the following features to their Bloglines beta product. 1. Bloglines beta to includes Ask.com’s related searches results on the right hand column of the search result page. The team is also planning … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 released

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Arun

Mozilla released an update (Thunderbird 2.0.0.12) to their Thunderbird email client. The update contains the following 5 security fixes: Heap buffer overflow in external MIME bodies Possible information disclosure in BMP decoder Directory traversal via chrome: URI Privilege escalation, XSS, … Continue reading →

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Howto: Setting up Acer 320U scanner in Ubuntu

Posted on February 26, 2008 by Arun

I bought Acer 320U scanner long time back. I didn’t use it for sometime. I thought I would start using it since my Dell All-in-one A962 printer/scanner didn’t work with Ubuntu. Ubuntu got XSane image scanner program installed by default … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 5 released

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Arun

Ubuntu has released the 5th alpha version of Ubuntu 8.04. I was going to upgrade to aplha 5 thinking they would have fixed the bugs that existed in alpha 4, but alpha 5 carries the same bugs plus a lot … Continue reading →

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Office closed

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Arun

Our office is closed due to ice storm warning. Hooray!!!

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Ubuntu 8.10 code named Intrepid Ibex

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Arun

Mark Shuttleworth announced in the Ubuntu mailing list today that the successor to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron will be code named Intrepid Ibex. He wrote that Ubuntu will be concentrating on user interaction model and pervasive internet access for Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Toshiba officially announces HD DVD is dead

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Arun

Toshiba today made an official announcement that it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. In other words, HD DVD is dead. I’m little sad because my brother gifted me a HD DVD player few … Continue reading →

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Vista Wonders!!!

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Arun

Watch this funny youtube clip about Microsoft’s Windows Vista. Source: Digg. Technorati Tags: Youtube, Windows Vista, Microsoft

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Mozilla Messaging – New home for Thunderbird email client

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Arun

You might have read the news few months back about Mozilla‘s plan to move Thunderbird to a separate organization settings. Mozilla has created a new subsidiary namely Mozilla Messaging which will take care of Thunderbird development starting with Thunderbird 3.0. … Continue reading →

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