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<p>Packages for the release of the <a href="http://dot.kde.org/2010/08/31/kde-releases-451">KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1</a> are available.</p> <p>Bugs in packaging should be reported to <a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa">k… Full story >>>

<p>The beta of 10.10 is available now for download and upgrade by testers.</p> <p>Kubuntu will release version 10.10, the Maverick Meerkat, in October 2010. With this Beta pre-release, we are introducing some new and interesting things in preparation for the next official version o… Full story >>>

<p>Both Kubuntu and Kubuntu Netbook Remix are now updated to 10.04.1. These new ISO images are updated to include all the post-release fixes delivered since Kubuntu and Kubuntu Netbook Remix were released. This release includes updated desktop installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architec… Full story >>>

<p>Top music player Amarok has a <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.3.2/beta/1">new beta release</a> out for testing. </p> <p>This is beta software so expect bugs. Bugs in packaging should be reported to <a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad… Full story >>>

<p><a href="http://kde.org/announcements/4.5/"><img src="http://kde.org/announcements/4.5/images/kde45-small.png" /></a></p> <p>Packages for the release of the <a href="http://kde.org/announcements/4.5/">KDE Software Compilation… Full story >>>

<p>The <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/MaverickMeerkat/Alpha3/Kubuntu">third alpha of Maverick Meerkat</a> has been released. This contains a release candidate version of KDE Platform and Plasma 4.5.</p> <p>Other highlights of Alpha 3 include:</p> <… Full story >>>

<p><a href="http://www.koffice.org/news/koffice-2-2-1-released/">KOffice 2.2.1</a> is out. Users of Kubuntu 10.04 can install it from lucid-backport, just enable "Unsupported Updates" in your <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubun… Full story >>>

<p>For those wanting the latest crack-of-the-week, packages for the release of the <a href="http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-rc2.php">KDE Software Compilation 4.5 RC 2</a> are available.</p> <p>This is release candidate software so expect bugs. Bugs … Full story >>>

<p><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/MaverickMeerkat/Alpha2/Kubuntu">Maverick Alpha 2</a> is now available for testing. This is an early release of our next version of Kubuntu.</p> <p>This release comes on one CD/USB image for both Desktop and Netbook, loading… Full story >>>

<p>For those wanting the latest crack-of-the-week, packages for the release of the <a href="http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-rc1.php">KDE Software Compilation 4.5 RC 1</a> are available.</p> <p>This is release candidate software so expect bugs. Bugs … Full story >>>

<h4>Monday unveiling</h4> <p>At next week's <a href="http://www.intel.com/idf/" target="_blank">Intel Developer Forum</a>, Chipzilla will unveil its long-awaited Sandy Bridge microarchitecture — and the more we learn about it, the more it appears to share with AMD's o… Full story >>>

<h4>Wielding the executioner's axe for Ellison</h4> <p><strong>Comment</strong> It's going to be a long time before Oracle can take on the likes of HP and IBM for the IT-market crown. But before he retires, you can bet Larry Ellison's last billion bucks that he most sur… Full story >>>

<h4>Drops 60s psychedelia API</h4> <p>Mozilla has released a fifth Firefox 4 beta, offering graphics hardware acceleration on Windows and a new API that lets site developers code pages that visually display audio data inside the browser.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>When infringement is big business</h4> <p>A copyright enforcement service has filed a lawsuit seeking $150,000 from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle for posting two newspaper articles without authorization.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>BP spilled $3.6m in Gulf spin campaign</h4> <p>Following its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP went from spending about $57,000 a month on Google search ads to an enormous $3.6 million outlay for the month of June alone, according to a report citing internal Google documents.… Full story >>>

<h4>HP 'idiots' threaten Oracle relationship, says Larry</h4> <p><strong>Updated</strong> Hewlett-Packard has sued disgraced former chief executive Mark Hurd in an effort to stop him from joining Oracle.…</p><p><strong><small><a href="http:/… Full story >>>

<h4>6,671 travelers searched (so far)</h4> <p>Privacy advocates have sued the Obama administration over its practice of seizing laptops, cell phones, and other devices at US borders and copying their contents even when the owner isn't suspected of wrongdoing.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Foundem claims 'diversionary straw man tactics'</h4> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.foundem.co.uk/">Foundem</a> — the UK-based vertical search outfit involved in antitrust investigations of Google in both <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03… Full story >>>

<h4>Kindle online game player?</h4> <p>Amazon has poached one of the brains behind Microsoft's fabulously successful Xbox and Xbox Live, hinting at a rival cloud-based gaming strategy.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>One-click vuln 'ridiculously easy to attack'</h4> <p>Twitter has been bitten by a hard-to-kill web-application bug that's being actively exploited to steal users' authentication credentials, a security expert said Tuesday.…</p> Full story >>>

I've just spent a couple of hours adding some basic microformat support to this site. You might have seen the Find Articles on New Internationalist -type Operator Userscript I made the other day. I thought I should make one for here too! So this is one that adds a "Find articles from Charlie" to you… Full story >>>

This is a little Operator Userscript that adds a "Find articles on New Internationalist" to your tagspaces options. BTW New Internationalist's soon-to-be-launched new site will have lots of microformat goodness rolled in. Exciting. Full story >>>

This turned out to be a three pipe problem; all I wanted to do was not to run OpenBSD's send mail daemon, yet still be able to send mail from that box. It turns out that there's a simple answer in the post Improving Sendmail Security by Turning it Off, by Hal Pomeranz. From the post: Note tha… Full story >>>

A little perl script to send you a daily agenda email from your chandler hub account. Discussed in depth on the page Getting Chandler Hub to send a daily agenda by email. Full story >>>

This is the code for my Daily Mail Story Generator, which I have just added a page for. This code generates the story, which I then parse into html to fit into my site hierarchy. It is a fairly trivial bit of code, but then so are the journalists who it mocks. *hehe* Full story >>>

ALF is a little project on which I'm working. Its a SQL based Apache Log Filter for web admins who need a little more flexibility, but are using text logging. This is an ogg theora preview of the alpha. The finished program will be a lot easier to use and friendlier, but, you know I'm easily excited… Full story >>>