"I spend a lot of time working in front of a screen (many hours in a dimly lit room) and eye fatigue is an issue. A consistent color scheme, especially one which is easy on the eyes, is important — and it also helps to have way of doing that where the directives are not all scattered all over my Emacs-lisp setup. Enter Emacs Color Themes, available as the Debian package emacs-goodies.
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KDE Project Ships First Beta of KDE 4.1
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The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 1 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to identify bugs and regressions, so that 4.1 can fully replace KDE 3 for end users. KDE 4.1 beta 1 is available as binary packages for a wide range of platforms, and as source packages. KDE 4.1 is due for final release in July 2008. Highlights: Plasma grows up, Kontact returns, applications grow, refinement throughout the frameworks.
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Using Who To Find What And When On Linux and Unix
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Today's post is yet another in a somewhat disjointed series of posts on "stuff you might not know and you might find interesting" regarding very common commands. And they don't get much more common than the "who" command.
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KDE Tip - Switch NumLock On at Startup
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I personally like the num lock key to be switched on by default once I’ve logged in to KDE. For me, it’s much more useful to have access to the numeric keypad as, just that, a numeric keypad, than it is to have a glorified arrow key navigation pad.
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Test Latest KDE 4.1 Builds With KDE4Daily 4.1
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With the release of KDE 4.1 on the horizon, and initiatives such as Krush days, recent call for help with documentation, and the perennial need for localisation it is very useful for end users to be able to easily get their hands on up-to-date builds. KDE4Daily VM, a self-contained Qemu image with a Kubuntu 8.04 base, aims to provide such a service.
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Integration of Marble virtual desktop globe into KOffice 2
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Simon Schmeisser has managed to integrate Marble (a geographical map widget) as a Flake Shape into KPresenter. As a flake shape you can change the map according to your liking even after it has been embedded into the KOffice application.
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State of the Zooming User Interface (ZUI) for KDE 4.1
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Chani Armitage has been hacking on ZUI for KDE 4.1. It ’s far from complete, but it’s at least becoming something you can actually use now. Keyboard shortcuts can be used to navigate it quickly and clicking an activity containment will make it the active one. She also added an option for removing activities.
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Plotting your Web site visitors on a map
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ApacheMap plots the location of each Web hit your site receives on a Google Map. The utility converts IP addresses from Apache logs into longitude and latitude information using hostip.info.
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No more desktop icons in KDE 4.1
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Yes, that's right no more desktop icons in KDE 4.1 well sort of. Read aseigo blog for details
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Mandriva 2008.1 KDE hits a sweet spot
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The well-known Bill Beebe gives his take on Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring - "It has truly come a long way and is worthy of first consideration as an alternative OS."
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Romantic Open Source Films, Anyone?
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Are you in the mood for love? If your answer is "sí señor", then perhaps you may like these two open source films that I'm going to share to you. And yes, I said open source.
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Quick Command Line Tip - Whois from the Command Line
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A very quick command line tip today, for users of pretty much any Unix-based operating system, including Linux distributions. When you're looking up information on a certain web site or domain name, you might be used to using whois functions on websites such as to see who owns a domain.
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Rawstudio turns 1.0
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The free software RAW photo converter Rawstudio released version 1.0 in April, marking the culmination of two years of work. This release carries on the Rawstudio tradition of providing a lightweight, dependable tool for photographers.
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winetricks 20080519 released
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winetricks 20080519 released, their has been a small update to winetricks. Look at the list below to see whats fixed and download the new version. Changes since last week's annoucement: * gnome users now see nice package descriptions in zenity * mfc42 is now listed as a synonym for vcrun6
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Marble in KDE 4.1 will support OpenStreetMap
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OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. Marble, a virtual desktop globe application and widget for KDE desktop, will support OpenStreetMap in KDE 4.1. Once you start Marble and select "OpenStreetMap" as a theme then Marble will directly start to download OpenStreetMap tiles from the OpenStreetMap server.
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