During the recent releases of KDE Plasma workspaces a new concept of Activities has been introduced and refined. This article does a great job of explaining what Activities are and how you can use them.
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The Provenance of Florian Müller
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Florian Müller (the English spelling of Müller is Mueller) has a problem. He has no provenance. To quote Wikipedia:
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Pro gravegaj sekurkorektoj eldonitas Bugzilla 4.0rc2, 3.6.4, 3.4.10 kaj 3.2.10
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En la 25-a de januaro Mozilo eldonis novajn versiojn de «Bugzilla», por korekti kelkajn gravegajn malsekurojn, unu el kiuj jam en la versio 2.14 ebligis ekdisponon de fremda konto.
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python xmlrpc : a simple client server connection mechanism without headache
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A byte of theory . . .
XML-RPC is a Remote Procedure Call method that uses XML passed via HTTP as a transport. With it, a client can call methods with parameters on a remote server (the server is named by a URI) and get back structured data. This module supports writing XML-RPC client code; it handles all the details of translating between conformable Python objects and XML on the wire.
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CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 10 for Linux and Mac aka the Impersonator
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. (January 27, 2011) It’s Mac in the back; Windows in the front. Gadfly software company, CodeWeavers, Inc., today releases CrossOver Impersonator Edition. This latest edition greatly increases the ease of running Windows software on Macs and Linux PCs without the need for a Windows operating system license.
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Setting Up An Android App Build Environment With Eclipse, Android SDK, PhoneGap (Ubuntu 10.10)
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This tutorial describes how you can set up a development environment for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device.
Read more »OpenOffice.org 3.3 is out
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OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. It is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software and is written using its own GUI toolkit.
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python urllib library : the basics
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urllib and urllib2 are Python modules for fetching URLs. It offers a very simple interface, in the form of the urlopen function which is capable of fetching URLs. It also offers a slightly more complex interface for handling features like basic authentication, cookies, proxies and soon.
Read more »Estas elŝutebla Fajrovulpo v.4.0b10
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Mozilo eldonis la 10-an beta-version de Fajrovulpo 4. Tio povas esti ties antaŭlasta beta-eldono. Kelkaj ŝanĝoj koncernas fermadon, seancokonservadon kaj uzon de GLX.
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Technological power should be held by all users of a technology
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As computers play an increasingly important role in the way we communicate, the people who control the software that runs on computers play an increasingly important role in determining what we can say, how we can say it, who we can say it to, and when we can say it. Control over technology is power. Free software is an attempt to say that this power should be wielded democratically.
Read more »Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL On Ubuntu 10.10
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This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
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Speed up your ASP.NET websites with new Site Performance Secrets book
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ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets a new book that helps to speed up an ASP.NET website by identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks thereby loading web pages faster than before. Packed with tips and tricks for writing code quickly, this book helps configure and improve compression, which is the single most important way to improve a website's performance.
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Wine 1.3.12 Released
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The Wine development release 1.3.12 is now available.
Whats new in this release:
* Support for multiple icon sizes in winemenubuilder.
* Improvements to the help browser.
* Initial stab at DOSBox integration.
* Various MSI fixes.
* Some fixes to the Wine debugger.
* Various bug fixes.
Wineskin 2.0 RC1 has been released and Engine updates
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Wineskin 2.0 RC1 is here! (made in Wineskin Winery)
The Website FAQ and Manual are also updated!
WS5 engine bases are here. It will take awhile to build a lot more official engines... custom engines can still be built with the WS5EngineBase.
I’ll get more engines up, and manual install files up as I can.
Please report any bugs ASAP! No new features, only bug fixes from here on out
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winetricks 20110123 and 20110123 alpha has been released
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new winetricks 20110123: work around bug in wine-1.3.12. new winetricks-alpha 20110123: ditto, plus new verbs cnc3_demo, guildwars, hphbp_demo, nfsshift_demo, sims3, spotify, vc2005trial.
Another week, another winetricks.
winetricks-alpha version 20110123 adds the following new verbs:
* cnc3_demo: Command and Conquer 3 demo
* guildwars: Guild Wars
