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Jan
11
KDE 4.0 Released Today! Visual Guide Now Available.
Filed Under kde, kde4, quick links | 6 Comments
KDE 4.0 is out as of today. Click here for the official announcement. A separate announcement with info on packages for different distributions is here. OpenSUSE had the updated packages available when I checked at midnight last night–great job yet again by the packagers (or packager?).
A wll written and helpful Visual Guide to KDE 4.0 is available here. It has plenty of screenshots and information.
A post on Aaron Seigo’s blog is very interesting, and gives you more of an idea on why you should be excited about the KDE 4 series. Click here for that. If anything, it should give you an appreciation for what the devs are going through and the hard work they put in. All for something we get for free.
This is a big step forward, and the first of many big steps for KDE. Congratulations to all of the developers and to everyone involved!
Using KDE 4.0 yet? If so, leave a comment with your experience.
Update! The following link, and Emergency FAQ, has been posted and is helpful:
http://software-libre.rudd-o.com/KDE_4.0.0_emergency_FAQÂ
Mar
9
Firefox Tweaks:
Element14 has a collection of very useful Firefox tweaks here. I the site when searching for the solution to an annoying firefox bug, when I would try to drag something to my Bookmarks Toolbar Folder a tooltip would open and cover where I was trying to drop the link. The solution was as simple as going to about:config and toggling the value for toolbar_tips to “false”. I found a bunch of other things here that I was unaware of, such as increasing speed, killing RAM usage to 10mb when minimized, adjusting tab width (very helpful when you have tons of tabs open as I tend to do) and other things. It is worth checking out.
Disposable Email:
This has been around for a while, and there are quite a few providers out there. For those unaware of Disposable Email, they are sites that give you a temporary email address. You can then provide this email address to a site requiring registration, without filling your normal inbox with spam. Emails are held on the server anywhere from 15 minutes to 7 days, longer at some sites. Guerrilla Mail provides you with an email address that they pick. You have 15 minutes to use it. They have a timer that starts counting down and a button that will give you 15 more minutes. The site is clean, the interface is simple and intuitive. There are no ads on the page. Ipoo.org lets you pick your username, ending with @ipoo.org, @hatespam.org and a couple other ones. The mail stays on their server for 7 days. It is a nice looking and simple site. The only ad you see is on the mail page. Much better than ad cluttered sites like this one. One thing to remember is that this is insecure, both of these sites aren’t password protected. You shouldn’t be using them for anything sensitive anyway. I recommend each site, they do what they do very well.
Breaking Bad *nix Habits:
IBM provides this short tutorial; “UNIX tips: Learn 10 good Unix Usage Habits” . Some of these were bad habits I didn’t realize I had developed, like moving a .tar archive into the directory I am expanding it in, instead of just changing the path or piping grep to wc -1 instead of just giving it the -c option. Check it out, it is a helpful page. There is a lot of good stuff in their developerWorks section.
OpenOffice.org Training and Tips:
Aptly titled Openoffice.org Training, Tips and Ideas offers a wealth of information and links for Open Office. The information provided has plenty of screenshots to show you what to do. If you are like me and use OpenOffice but don’t dig down into it very often then this site may be a help.
Site News:
I plan to transition this site from Wordpress to Drupal in the next week, unless someone convinces me that it is a bad idea. I want this to be more of a community site. I will be tweaking the advertising in the near future. I want to bring you things relevant to you.
Nov
10
Quick Links: Novell-Microsoft Pact, What does it mean?
Filed Under Microsoft, Novell, Novell/Microsoft, Uncategorized, linux, quick links | 1 Comment
I have been banging my head against the wall writing an editorial about the Novell/Microsoft deal. Look for it Monday morning. In the meantime, while this has had no shortage of coverage, I have assembled what I believe to be the best commentary on it. I have read that some people believe the community is overreacting. It isn’t. Here is why:
Bruce Peren’s Take. Bruce does a nice job of boiling the subject down. He makes a lot of sense.
Groklaw’s coverage of Bradley Kuhn’s letter. Bradley Kuhn is the CTO of the Software Freedom Law Center. He clearly sees the covenant for what it is–a sham.
RedHat’s response. I think Redhat came out strongly and they make good points here. More here.
Vnunet’s article about the announcement is interesting in how many times patents are mentioned. Uh-huh.
The Register’s take. Makes sense to me, and is scary.
Novell’s answer to the community. Novell tries to save face and address concerns.
The view from the other side. Miguel de Icaza’a blog post. Miguel is a controversial figure, he is behind Mono and Ximian. He is viewed as a Microsoft fan.
Am I missing something? Email me and I will add it. This is a huge story with big repercussions.
I promise five solid articles in five days next week. More changes are coming to the site. I thank each and every one of you that visits.
Nov
7
Quick Links: Fedora Core 6 Helpful Sites
Filed Under Fedora, Uncategorized, free software, kde, linux, quick links, tips | 2 Comments
I am working on upcoming content, stay tuned…
I decided to give Fedora 6 a run. RedHat is seeming like the underdog lately, with Oracle undercutting them. The Novell and Microsoft unholy alliance looks to be a shot right at RedHat. I will review it after I have run it for a while. In the meantime, here are some helpful links if you are running Fedora 6 (Zod).
A personal Fedora 6 Install guide. Pay attention to the IPv6 section if your web browsing seems very slow. The directions fixed it for me.
KDE for Fedora. I see people complain constantly about the state of KDE on Fedora. UnleashKDE seems to be a response to those complaints.
Want Firefox 2.0? This solution worked for me, I keeps FF 1.5 and installs 2.0 so they co-exist.
Why can’t I play mp3’s out of the box?! Here is a thoughtful answer.
Rallying the troops. Warren Tagomi responds on his personal blog about recent events.
So far, 24 hours in, my experience with Fedora 6 is positive. I would rank it under Mandriva One and tied with Ubuntu 6.10. That is a far cry from how I have felt before.
How do you feel about Fedora, in light of recent events?