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Monthly Archives: October 2009
10 minutes experience with Kubuntu 9.10
I wanted to give Kubuntu a try in my laptop after I gave it a try and was dissatisfied and removed it when Kubuntu 9.04 was released. There were lots of bugs and for a laptop, using the widget for … Continue reading
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Tagged Arora, Firefox, KDE, Konqueror, Kubuntu 9.10, Plasma, Ubuntu 9.10
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French tax authorities moving 130000 PCs to Thunderbird
According to OSOR.EU, All 130,000 desktop PCs at the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGPF) in Paris are to be switched to using the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, its Lightning calendar and the open source groupware application OBM. … Continue reading
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released
Ubuntu team has released their next iteration of Ubuntu OS, Ubuntu 9.10, code named Karmic Koala. I have already covered extensively the new features in Ubuntu 9.10 during the alpha, beta and RC cycles. Here is a short list of … Continue reading
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Tagged AppArmor, Empathy, Ext4, GRUB 2, Karmic Koala, KDE4.3, KPackageKit, Kubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu One
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Google Music
Google has rolled out a new music service for U.S. residents. Google discover music lets you search by artists or albums or artists and a song. Searching for music will let you preview the music and purchase the song. Google … Continue reading
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Tagged EMI, Google, Google Music, imeem, lala, Myspace, Pandora, Rhapsody, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Bros
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Read the following stories on 2009-10-28
Asteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia – http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news165.html # LA approves $7.2 million Google Apps deal – http://bit.ly/1MT7Ue # Gizmodo duped by virus ad, apologizes – http://bit.ly/3owgTl # Android finally comes to Verizon – http://phones.verizonwireless.com/motorola/droid/ #
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Read the following stories on 2009-10-27
Google Voice Liberates Voicemail – http://bit.ly/2zimOF #
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Windows 7 Launch Parties Fizzle
PC World reports The Windows 7 launch party concept was a complete and utter failure. The YouTube video Microsoft created to market the launch party concept certainly got attention, but for all the wrong reasons. It was almost universally mocked … Continue reading
Didn’t know this before about Ubuntu
I didn’t know the bullet points before, until I stumbled upon this BBC article. The French national police force runs its operations on Ubuntu Computer systems supporting Spanish schools run on Ubuntu Wikipedia runs hundreds of its servers on Ubuntu … Continue reading
Read the following stories on 2009-10-26
Guardian Jobs Site Falls Victim to 'sophisticated' Hack – http://tinyurl.com/guardianattack # Debunking Some Linux Myths – http://bit.ly/2MWmF # Canonical limits free Ubuntu CDs – http://bit.ly/yj39i # Head tracking for virtual reality using Wii Remote – http://bit.ly/YLirC #
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Whitehouse website made open source
Obama administration has made public the code behind Whitehouse.gov website. Having the public look at the code and modify it will make the code more secure, according to the government. Because programmers collaborate to find errors or opportunities to exploit … Continue reading