KDE 3.4 Release Candidate screenshots
KDE 3.4 Release Candidate Screenshots by OSDir.com
Though I cannot imagine moving away from my fabulous Fluxbox configuration, I thought some others may be interested in what the new KDE is shaping up to look like.
It’s All About the Debians
Contributed by Jason PerlowOver the last few months, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to community Linux distributions. In particular, I’ve shown you what you can do with Fedora, the open source software project managed by Red Hat that’s both a showcase for leading-edge open source technology and a foundry for Red Hat’s commercial product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux( RHEL).
But Fedora isn’t the only community supported Linux distribution that’s worth looking at as a Linux desktop. Debian, the distribution with the largest base of available software packages and the largest development community, has now come of age.
What’s that you say? Debian is too hard to install? Debian’s driver support isn’t up to par or as polished as the commercial distros or Fedora? Au contraire, my young padawan: Debian isn’t just one distribution, but a family of related Linux distros and each variant has its unique advantages. Chances are that at least one Debian fits your desktop requirements.
Lets start with the mother distribution, Debian itself.
The article goes on to talk about Debian itself, Debian derivative distros such as Ubuntu and Linspire, and Live CDs based on Debian like Knoppix, Kanotix, Mepis, etc.
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Americas Amber Alert Center – Virus Alert: Symbian Worm Escapes To The Wild Wild Web Phone Users
Virus Alert: Symbian Worm Escapes To The Wild Wild Web Phone Users
SAN FRANCISCO — Advanced Cell Phone users targeted now for new virus home. Proof of concept Skulls virus ( aimed at advanced mobile phones was sent to security firms in November 2004 as so called %u201Cproof of concept” this virus was and has escaped from captivity). The world’s first mobile phone virus “in the wild” has spread to the United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months ago, a security research firm said on Friday.
The virus, called Cabir, has spread slowly into 12 countries and marks the beginning of the mobile phone virus era, which could one day disrupt the lives of many of the world’s 1.5 billion mobile phone users.
The biggest impact of the relatively innocuous virus, found in about 15 variations so far, is draining mobile phone batteries, said Mikko Hypponen, director of Finnish anti-virus research company F-Secure (FSC1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) .
If you own a tech smart phone consider what you download. Virus protection is slowly coming online. This new worm is not yet an Amber Alert for users. It is believed this will spread fast. Contact you phone center for how to protect your phone. Prevention is the cheapest solution.
Symbia worm are near you cloning as we speak. Get informed.
The birth place of this new worm was in the Phillipines. Known as Cabir Virus, it is now traced to be in 14 countries. This is a new era of virus wares aimed at inteligent communication devices. As cell phones are embedded with general purpose OS from any number of vendors virus designers are targeting them with great success.
Nokia is not the only manufacturer with a problem. Even the new MSN phones will be vunerable to such attacks. User will need to understand that IM and other messaging bridges can bring more than friendly conversation or text. Now worms are the next wave of security threats to privacy.
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Spoofee Discussion Forums – Birthday – Free Deals
Many restaurants will give you free food or service on your birthday. Most of these will probably come with a song from the employees to embarrass the special person. This is a list of places that will give you free goods/service.
The deals on this list are subject to change, it may be best to call ahead to verify.
ALFY’S PIZZA – free mini pizza
ALL-AMERICAN CAFE – free dessert
APPLEBEES – free dessert
AUSTIN GRILL – Register First – free meal
AUTO ZONE – Free Oil Change
BAKERS SQUARE – free pie
BANDIDO’S – free entry
BANJARA INDIAN CUISINE – free meal
BASKIN ROBBINS – free ice cream treat
BEACHES RESTAURANT – free meal
BENIHANA’S JAPANESE RESTAURANT – free dinner WITH 3 other paying guests
BENNIGANS – free dessert song
BERN’S – free meal
BILL KNAPP’S – gives adults a % discount equal to age; plus a free bday cake (w/purchase of a meal) during the week of your B-day
BLACK BRISKEE – free meal
BOB’S BIG BOY – free hot fudge ice cream
BUFFALO WILD WINGS (BW3) – free dozen hot wings
BURGER KING – free kids meal to all kids club members
CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN – Register First – free kids meal during the month of their birthday
CAPTAIN DIZZY’S CAR WASH – free car wash
CARROWS – free cake
CATTLEMEN’S – free dessert and cowboy hat
CHARLIE BROWNS RESTAURANTS – free meal for “Handshake Club” members
CHARLIE’S SEAFOOD – free meal
CHEVY’S – free dessert and sombrero
CHILI’S – free song
CHIPS N GIGGLES – free meal
CLAIM JUMPER – Free Dessert
CRAZY BUFFET – free meal
DAVE AND BUSTERS – $5 game card credit
DENNY’S – free meal (said to be only kids under 10 now)
DESPARADOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT – free meal
DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT – free meal
DUKE’S CHOWDER HOUSE – b1g1 coupons (register first)
EINSTEIN’S – free meal
EL CHICOS – free dessert
ERNIE’S STEAKHOUSE – free meal
FAMOUS DAVE’S BARBEQUE – free meal (w/advance signup)
FUDDRUCKERS – free burger
FUNNY BONE COMEDY CLUB – free cake (party of 5 min.; 2 drink min.)
GOLDEN CORRAL – free meal to birthday Club members (not just kids!) during month of birthday
GRILLFISH – free meal
HANA JAPAN – free meal
HARD ROCK CAFE – free dessert
HOMETOWN BUFFET – free birthday cake
HOULIHAN’S RESTAURANT – free entree
HOLLYWOOD VIDEO – one free video rental
HOOTERS – free song tshirt
HOSS’S STEAK HOUSE AND RESTAURANT – free cake song
IHOP- free meal
JOE’S CRAB SHACK – free cake
JT WHEATFIELDS – free coupon in phone book
KING BUFFET – free meal
LADONNA – free meal
LOMBARDI’S IN BALLARD – Register First – free meal w/another during month of birthday
LOTUS – free meal
LUTHERS BBQ – free stuff (varies) for “Great Rewards” members
MACARONI GRILL – free dessert OPERA-style “Happy birthday” song
MAGGIANOS – $10 Off purchase of $20 (sign up in advance)
MARIE CALENDERS – free dessert
MAX AND ERMA – free $5 dessert
MEXICAN VILLAGE – free meal
MOONIES DINER – free meal
MUCKLESHOOT CASINO – free sushi dinner player’s club points
NEWICK’S SEAFOOD RESTAURANTS – free entry
NITTY GRITTY – free drink souvenir glass
OKAYAMA RESTAURANT – free meal
OLD SPAGHETTI WAREHOUSE – free meal
OLIVE GARDEN – cake (some say free, most say $$)
ONAMI – free dinner WITH 3 other people paying
OUTBACK – free dessert song
PANCAKE HOUSE – free entry
PAPPA’S RESTAURANTS – free dessert
PARADISO’S – free meal
PERKIN’S – free stack of pancakes
PF CHANGS – free cake or cheesecake
PIZZA EXPRESS – free meal
PONCHO’S – free meal, dessert & picture
PROVINO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT – free $10.99 meal and ice cream dessert
Radisson – free entree in their 12th floor restaurant
REAL SEAFOOD COMPANY – free meal and dessert
RED LOBSTER – free slice of cake song
RED ROBINS – Register First – free burger coupon / discount coupon
RICE & COMPANY – free meal for Robinson Rewards Club members
ROCK BOTTOM – free appetizer for Mug Club members
ROUND TABLE – free personal pizza
SCALINI’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT – up to 10.95 off pasta specialties
SHEPARD’S BUFFET – free dinner buffet w/3 other paid customers
STEAK AND ALE – free mini choco cake
STEAK-N-SHAKE – free dinner for “birthday club” kids
TACO BELL – free combo meal of your choice
TGI FRIDAYS – Free birthday Dessert
THE 99 – free meal
THE BARNSIDER’S/DEPOT RESTAURANTS – 1/2 off meal cake & song
THE LOFT – free meal
THE PALM – 3lb lobster (must be a member/register first)
THE PARADISO – free entry sombrero & song
THE VINE TAVERN – free meal
TODAI SEAFOOD BUFFET – Free Meal or voucher for Meal Next Visit
TONY ROMA’S – free dessert
UP THE CREEK – free meal and dessert
VACCARO’S ITALIAN PASTRY SHOP – free dessert and drink
WENDY’S – free kids meal to all kids club members
Z’ TEJAS – Register First – $15 coupon for the month of your birthday
ZIO’S – free dessert
Slashdot: LokiTorrent Shut Down
wan-fu writes “LokiTorrent, a popular torrent site, has officially been shut down. After asking for donations from users for the past couple of months to fight the MPAA’s lawsuit. LokiTorrent succumbed today and the MPAA took over the website with a stern warning, stating, “You can click, but you can’t hide.” A variety of outlets are carrying the story.”
Another bit torrent site bites the dust. I never thought LokiTorrent would shut down because of their stress on donations and general desire to “fight” the MPAA with all the money they earned, but it appears I was wrong. I wonder now what they will do with all those thousands of dollars that users donated…
Afterdawn.com has the complete run-down of what happened and how the MPAA has now branded the site.
Each show is about an hour long and you can catch it every wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time by pointing your favorite streaming media listening program such as Realplayer or Xmms to: http://thelinuxlink.net:8000
If you miss a show, you can still use the above link to catch it as we will loop and replay the current week’s show on and off with some other audio until the time of the next live show. You can also download any of the shows from our archives and listen to them at your leisure.
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I hope to tune in tonight to hear what it’s like- they also allow you to interact with the show by hopping on IRC and joining the server “thelinuxlink.net” and channel #techshow.
Amazon.com: Motorola V551 Phone (Cingular)
Drew and I decided that we would get new cell phones! We don’t have them yet, the shipping tracker says they should arrive by Wednesday.
Needless to say, we are both very excited, especially because of the deal we found on Amazon- we get a $150 rebate on each phone- so rather than paying for the phone, we will be receiving $25.01 back for each one.
Of course, to get the deal, one has to purchase a new service plan and this one happens to be with Cingular. At the moment, Drew and I both have Sprint cell service- his contract has been up for a long while now, so he could have switched at any point; my contract ends on the 26th of this month, so there will be some slight billage overlapping. I haven’t decided yet whether I will have my number ported over or just take a new Houston one since my Sprint one is a College Station number. Conundrum!
Anyway, the link up there has pics of the phone, you can see more info by clicking the links of the left. Our friend Todd has this phone and has raved to Drew about it, so we hope it lives up to the hype. Once we get our rebates we plan to get a “Family Plan” so we can get more minutes/features and share them- that requires a 2 year contract, so I’m considering this transaction to be reassurance that he and I will still be together then :-P The big 3 year anniversary is coming up next month, don’t you just love love?!
Well, if you’re in the market for a new cell phone + new service, definitely check out Amazon, they always have some sort of rebate thing going on cell phones- I saw one where after getting your rebate you actually get like $110 back.
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