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so Kubuntu crashed for the first time today, and upon restarting, it launched everything in my home directory. I rebooted again, and the same thing happened.
Hello I've been following the instructions found in an ubuntu forum for setting up multimedia apps and mplayer plugin. I received the following errors when executing the final step to write to mplayerplug-in.conf
dan@dan:~$ sudo kwrite $HOME/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf [sudo] password for dan: Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-dan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. Error: "/tmp/kde-dan" is owned by uid 1000 ...
I'm wondering if this might be a bug, or maybe I'm not aware of something I should be doing. Anyway, when I try to repeat the playing of a file in kaffeine, I select Playlist > Repeat. Kaffeine then jumps through a few frames in a few seconds and keeps repeating those little frame jumps over and over, but it doesn't actually repeat the file. It will play it once correctly, but the repeating doesn't really work. You have to click "play" manually each time to get i ...
KDE-Bindings / Kross Meeting Last weekend we hosted the <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages">KDE-Bindings</a> and <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Kross">Kross</a> meeting here at the <a ...
Alitheia Online Demo Available The <a href="http://www.sqo-oss.org">SQO-OSS</a> project aims at developing a software quality assessment platform to Free Software developers. SQO-OSS is a project funded through the European Commission's Framework Programme 6 and ...
KOffice Releases Ninth Alpha of KOffice 2.0 The KOffice team <a
href="http://koffice.org/announcements/announce-2.0alpha9.php">announces
the availability of the ninth alpha release of KOffice 2.0</a>. With
KDE4 becoming more stable by the week, KOffice development
is picking ...
4.1 Release Candidate Out For Testing Today, <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1-rc1.php">we are passing the last milestone</a> on the way to KDE 4.1, a release that will be suitable for a larger audience than 4.0 has been. While it is not yet up to ...
In Memory of Uwe Thiem <img src="http://www.kde.org/contact/img/uwe.jpg" style="float:right"/>
I'm very sorry to let everyone know that <a href="http://www.uwix.iway.na/uwe.html">Uwe Thiem</a>, a long term contributor to KDE, ...
KDE Commit-Digest for 8th June 2008 In <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2008-06-08/">this week's KDE Commit-Digest</a>: Global keyboard shortcuts for applets, and an <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/">Amarok</a> and "python ...
11 Myths about KDE As a response to recent negativity on the Internet, we've been working with Groklaw to get <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080710131440951">a story running detailing facts</a> about questions such as ...
KDE and GNOME to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009 The KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation today announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, Akademy and GUADEC in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the <a ...
First Alpha Release of Amarok 2.0, Codenamed "Malina" The Amarok team have released the very first alpha version of Amarok 2, their upcoming series based on KDE 4. It features a completely redesigned interface, the PopUp Dropper, and the revolutionary "Biased" playlists. The <a ...
KOffice 2 Alpha 8 Reviewed KOffice, like most KDE applications, has the unique selling point that the same codebase can be compiled and run on various platforms. The latest KOffice alpha release has attracted extra attention since it ships Windows and Macintosh binaries. This ...
OSCON: Canonical's Shuttleworth Calls On Linux to Overtake Apple <b>The VAR Guy:</b> "Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, delivered the keynote address at OSCON this evening. Here’s a recap of his presentation, which explored how free software can drive innovation — and how ...
Lazy Linux: 10 Essential Tricks for Admins <b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "Trick 4: Getting back the root password
You forgot your root password. Nice work. Now you'll just have to reinstall the entire machine. Sadly enough, I've seen more than a few people do this. But it's ...
Vista Adoption going no-where, IT considering Linux and Mac instead <b>Practical Technology:</b> "KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced that their recent survey of IT administrators showed that 60 percent of them have no plans to deploy Vista. That’s almost 10% more turning their ...
The Current Development Kernel is...Linux-next? <b>LWN:</B> "But the value of the mainline repository for development would appear to be less than it once was. The mainline is no longer where the action is."
Fedora Launches OLPC Group <b>Tectonic:</b> "“Their time is stretched perilously thin … we in the Fedora community can therefore have a huge, direct, and immediate impact on the success of the OLPC project.”"
Guide to Faster Ubuntu <b>Ubuntu Snippets</b> "Optimize ubuntu boot sequence by profiling it...This one time special boot may take more time than ordinary boot. But during this boot ubuntu monitors file usage and preloads those files during subsequent boots."
Video and Audio Broadcasts From OSCON <b>O'Reilly News:</b> "At OSCON: Pia Waugh, President of Software Freedom International; Jim Zemlin: The Mysterious Work of the Linux Foundation; Larry Wall: Open Source as a Parenting Experience"
Dictators in Free and Open Source Software <b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "Some people seem to challenge the idea that most (if not all) free software projects need a benevolent dictator—that is, somebody who has the last say on every decision. They are quick to point out ...
OSCON, Pt. 2.1: A Few Words With Mark Shuttleworth <b>InformationWeek:</b> "What do you think about this whole popular perception that Ubuntu is Linux?<p>
"Mark Shuttleworth: It's actually an offensive idea to me. We take the view that distributions should be humble in what they ...
SELinux and Fedora <b>LWN:</b> "Red Hat has undoubtedly done more to make SELinux usable than any other organization, but has it actually reached the point where it can be enabled by default for all desktops? The Fedora project clearly thinks so. Not only ...
Slashdot eldavojohn writes "After seeing some applications from Google and participating in the Google Codejam (which seems to be built using the GWT), I kind of expected to see websites spring up left and right based off the GWT. Well, it's been a year and a ...
Nintendo Loses Controller Patent Lawsuit kryogen1x alerts us to coverage at 1up indicating that Nintendo controller may soon become scarce — Nintendo lost in court to Anascape over analog sticks in their Wii and GameCube controllers.This isn't the first time the big manufacturers have ...
New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed Ponca City, We love you writes "A gun that fires variable-speed bullets that can be set to kill, wound, or just inflict a bruise is being built by a Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio that makes toy rockets powered by burning hydrogen ...
UOF Vies to Be a Third Contender in ODF–OOXML Battle Andy Updegrove writes "Long-time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of history. That contender is called UOF, for Uniform Office Format, and ...
Buy From Amazon With Your TiVo PunkOfLinux writes "From The NYTimes comes news that TiVo and Amazon have reached an agreement to allow consumers to purchase products from Amazon through their television sets using their TiVo remote control. TiVo will launch the new service to ...
COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat A US federal appeals court today struck down COPA, the Child Online Protection Act, a Clinton-era censorship law that the Justice Department has been struggling to get implemented for a decade. (The ACLU filed suit as soon as COPA was signed in 1998 and ...
The First Paper-Based Transistors Roland Piquepaille found news of research out of Portugal that has resulted in the first paper-based transistors (the original article is less informative than Roland's blog). More precisely, they've made the first field effect transistors (FET) with a ...
Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Florida patent troll called Channel Intelligence is suing everyone from Lemonade to Remember the Milk for infringing on patent 6,917,941, which covers storing a wishlist in a database. Amazon and eBay are ...
GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids chareverie writes "General Motors is forming a team with utility companies nationwide to create a charging infrastructure for electric cars. Their goal is to improve the design of charging stations — making them weatherproof and child-proof, for ...
$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer An anonymous reader sends word of the CherryPal, a tiny desktop computer that its maker says will consume just 2 watts. It uses a Freescale processor that runs Linux and has no moving parts. The CherryPal has integrated software and an embedded Linux ...
