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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Linux: Hibernation With Kexec
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Offering a potential alternative to the existing suspend and restore implementations in the Linux Kernel, Ying Huang posted a patch utilizing kexec, "kexec based hibernation has some potential advantages over uswsusp and suspend2. "
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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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PHP 4 End of Life Announcement
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Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
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People Behind KDE: Matthias Kretz
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After a short break, we return to the next interview in the People Behind KDE series, travelling back to Germany to talk to a developer who wants to make things as simple as possible - for both users and developers. The recent winner of an aKademy Award for Best Non-Application for his work on Phonon - tonight's star of People Behind KDE is Matthias Kretz.
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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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Want Linux pre-installed? Don't hold your breath in NZ
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"So, where do I get my pre-installed Linux machine? Well, in New Zealand and Australia the answer seems to be NOWHERE."
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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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Some VistA Myths and Facts
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There is always myths that surround the Veterans Affairs (VA) VistA Electronic Health Record. I have not found a compendium of these myths and the facts so I wrote this list. As well I was partially inspired by Fred Trotter's recent 'Antiquated or Proven?' response to a detractor of VistA. Please feel free to add to this list by replying below.
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US court ruling threatens return to dark ages of radio
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What many may describe as a ludicrous decision by a US federal court of appeal has threatened the immediate future of Internet radio, with many smaller net broadcasters saying they will not be able to afford new fees imposed by the US Government's Copyright Royalty Board.
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I'm in your leenucks box changing your password
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Okay, so it's linux related in passing, but it's really pretty funny... :-)
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Intel joins One Laptop Per Child initiative
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The OLPC got a major boost today with the announcement that Intel has joined the organization and will serve on its board of directors. No doubt, Intel wouldn't mind seeing the OLPC's low-cost Linux laptop's AMD Geode processor replaced by one of its own chips.
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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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