Last month Zap2It Labs announced that it would be discontinuing its free TV listings service through XML, which MythTV users inside of the United States depend upon for listing data. However, there is now hope that there will be a viable replacement by the time Zap2It eliminates their service in September of this year
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The Lesser Apps of KDE - Multimedia
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Everyone who's ever owned a computer has at one time or another found a need to play some kind of multimedia file, play a cd or dvd, or watch a video on their computer. KDE provides a list of built in applications that allow you to do that. While they won't cover all your needs, they do cover a lot. So let's look at each of these and what they offer you.
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Open Source Semantic Desktop Is Coming
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Thanks to the open source NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) effort, the Semantic Desktop isn't a dream; it's an emerging reality and will be here with the upcoming release of KDE 4 for the Linux desktop.
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[Joyent] Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free
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"Today Joyent is releasing the source code for our Connector and Slingshot products under the GPL v2"
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Released
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 was released on Thursday 14th June. This update to the Mozilla Corporation's mail client includes bug fixes but no new features. For the first time, this release of Thunderbird is available in Korean.
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Critical vulnerabilities announced for all Adobe Flash platforms, including Linux and Solaris
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No less than three critical vulnerabilities have been identified by Adobe affecting upon users of Flash Player 9.0.45.0 and earlier, 8.0.34.0 and earlier, and 7.0.69.0 and earlier.
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Linux Professional Institute to host events at LinuxWorld
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For the third consecutive year, the Linux Professional Institute will provide discounted certification testing during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Aug. 6 through 9, 2007, at the Moscone Center. Toronto-based LPI is the official certification sponsor of LWCE, offering a standardized, multi-national program to certify professional expertise in Linux.
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Mind-blasting Japanese language learning tools
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Knowledge of a secondary language has long been a coveted skill, whether it be for academics, business, or travel, but learning another language can be a challenging task. While many Western languages at least offer a level of familiarity by sharing the Roman alphabet, Japanese and other Eastern languages offer no such comfort.
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Slim Linux laptop has potential
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Palm's Linux-powered Foleo has potential, but only if Palm can stop denying that the device is actually laptop, reckons Sascha Segan of Gearlog. Palm has positioned the Foleo as a "mobile companion" for itinerant workers needing only email, document prep, and PowerPoint capabilities.
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Load Applications Quicker in UBUNTU Using Preload
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Preload is an adaptive read-ahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.
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OpenSuse Build Service: kblogger development packages for Fedora 7
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After playing around with the OpenSuse Build Service for some days now I decided to build development packages of kblogger as a first real life test.
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Gimp Tutorial: Creating Glassy Buttons
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Most Photoshop techniques make heavy use of "layer effects" when it comes to creating glassy buttons. I modified one of those techniques so that it could be applied to the Gimp environment that lacks this feature. The following tutorial shows you how to create a glassy button in 5 easy steps.
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Linux laptop search isn't that difficult
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The big news in the Linux realm for the past few months has been Dell's introduction of Ubuntu-preinstalled computers. Dell's not the only game in town, though -- there are also some Lenovo machines that are certified to work with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. You don't need assurances and certifications to get a good laptop system that will work with Linux, though.
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Apache Subversion and Microsoft Active Directory
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Everyone is facing the problem of integration of apache/Subversion with Active directory. I found the document with complete package and it takes only 5-10 mins to install. You can also use the same and if any problem, Logon to http://forum.opensourcedevelopment.net, It is really very good.
Path is:- http://opensourcedevelopment.net/text-tutorials/apache-subversion-active...
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Pardus 2007.2 - Unrivalled Wlan Support.
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Pardus Kurulan 2007.2 (intallation CD) was released recently and tested on a couple of notebooks...
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