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I was wondering if i really would get faster framerates from vista to linux (kubuntu specifically). I am hoping World of warcraft will run faster. Is this true, and if so will it be significant? ...
My minimize, maximize and close buttons at the top of applications have suddenly dissapeared, andi am unable to type anything! I have checked the appearance settings (colors, fonts, etc.) and set everything to default but still no success. what should i do? ...
I transferred some music files from my home computer (runs windows vista) to my laptop (runs kubuntu 9.4). The mp3's do not play. What can I do to get the mp3's to play? ...
intel pentium 4 3ghz processor with 1 GB ram and NVidia Gforce 6200, double-mount XP and kubuntu on two hard drives. i've tried to play both Diablo 2 (from both EXT4 and FAT32) and FreedroidRPG and every time i start each of those games the screen goes into power save mode and gives a very short message that the frequency is "out of range". what's the problem and how can i fix it? ...
Counting The Days To Akademy 2009 <div class="taxonomy-images"><a href="/category/dot-catgories/community-and-events" class="taxonomy-image-links"><img ...
Release Candidate for KDE 4.3.0 Out <div class="taxonomy-images"><a href="/category/dot-catgories/kde-official-news" class="taxonomy-image-links"><img src="http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/category_pictures/kde.png" ...
New Look And Features For KDE Community Forums <div class="taxonomy-images"><a href="/taxonomy/term/12" class="taxonomy-image-links"><img src="http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/category_pictures/audio-headset.png" ...
KOffice 2 Receives its First Update <p>Today, exactly one month since the <a href="http://www.koffice.org/2009/05/koffice-200-released/">release of KOffice 2.0.0</a>, the KOffice team <a ...
Kubuntu Tutorials Day will Get You into KDE Programming <p>Time for another <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay">Kubuntu Tutorials Day</a>. Learn about KDE and Kubuntu development in a helpful atmosphere next Monday from 19:00UTC in the #kubuntu-devel IRC ...
Editor's Note: Freedom is Not Embarrassing We've all heard the scornful criticism against idealism, as though it were something to be ashamed of, and mocking of the fundamental ideals of Free Software. I'm not embarrassed to have ideals, I am proud.
Eschalon Review - Commercial Role-Playing Game for Linux <b>Tuxarena:</b> "Eschalon is a turn-based RPG (role-playing game), which tries to reproduce the feeling of classic RPG games. It's closed-source, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and it comes with a demo too. The full version ...
Will AES crypto go the way of MD5? <b>Netstat -vat:</b> "The AES (Advance Encryption Standard) (Define:AES) is a standard encryption mechanism in use by the US Government and many others - and it is now at risk from a very theoretical attack."
Mozilla's Crowdsourcing Mystique <b>Business Week:</b> "So Ken Saunders, a 41-year-old, legally blind volunteer for Mozilla, took it upon himself to create a tool that makes the player easier to use for people with vision problems."
VirtualBox 3.0: No More Booting Windows <b>Linux Magazine:</b> "VirtualBox 3.0, with its improved 3D support, can ensure that some users won't need to boot Windows even when gaming."
ASCAP Makes Outlandish Copyright Claims on Cell Phone Ringtones <b>Electronic Frontier Foundation:</b> " But as part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of the mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone ...
Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python <b>A Million Chimpanzees:</b> "Welcome to "Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python". Not a book about learning Python as such, but an introduction to the discipline of Computer Science with Python as your ...
PostgreSQL 8.4 Improves Database Management, Security <b>InternetNews:</b> "In total, PostgreSQL 8.4 includes 293 enhancements from the previous 8.3 release, an update that was primarily centered around performance."
Available Now: GNOME 2.26.3 <b>Softpedia:</b> "The GNOME developers, through Lucas Rocha, have announced early this morning in a press release that the last maintenance release of the popular GNOME 2.26 desktop environment is now available for download."
Slashdot BabyDuckHat writes "Cnet's Dennis O'Reilly caught "Windows Search Helper" trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn't the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user's preferences to benefit its ...
DOJ Confirms Google Antitrust Investigation An anonymous reader points to Digital Daily, writing "Looks like the fireworks have begun early in Mountain View. On Thursday afternoon, the Department of Justice officially notified Google that it is investigating its book deal for violations of the ...
Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed ericatcw writes "The inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month's Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. Like the Patriots, ...
First Fully Programmable Gesture-Recognition Glove, Cheap Al writes "The AcceleGlove from AnthroTronix, is the first fully programmable glove that records hand and finger movements. Other gloves — like 5DT's Data Glove, which is used primarily in virtual reality — normally cost $1,000 to $5,000, but ...
Judge Tentatively Dismisses Case Against Lori Drew An anonymous reader writes "According to Wired, 'A federal judge on Thursday overturned guilty verdicts against Lori Drew, and issued a directed acquittal on the three misdemeanor charges.'" A similar story in the L.A. Times notes that "The decision by ...
200-Year-Old Cipher Finally Cracked Attila Dimedici writes "A code expert just cracked a code used by a friend of Thomas Jefferson in a letter written to Jefferson some 200 years ago. This code is fairly easy to crack using a computer, but extremely difficult without one. I think it would ...
HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials An anonymous reader writes "An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Ontario has applied for Phase 1 human trials. Safety and immunogenicity studies of the vaccine, dubbed SAV001-H, have already been completed on animals. Phase 1 human trials will check the ...
Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs snydeq writes "Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, ...
The Essentials of RPG Design simoniker writes "As the latest in his Game Design Essentials series for Gamasutra, writer John Harris examines 10 games from the Western computer RPG (CRPG) tradition and 10 from the Japanese console RPG (JRPG) tradition, to figure out what exactly ...
Japanese Creating "Super Tuna" motherpusbucket writes "The Telegraph reports that Japanese scientists hope to be breeding a so-called 'Super Tuna' within the next decade or so. They have about 60% of the genome mapped and expect to finish it in the next couple months. The new breed ...
