Mythbuntu 8.04 now available!

After long hours and endless work the Mythbuntu team is excited about the release of Mythbuntu 8.04. This release is built on the LTS base of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. We would like to thank everyone that contributed in getting to this second release.

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Asciio lets you create ASCII charts graphically

Nadim has released Asciio, a Perl/GTK application that lets you draw ASCII charts using a GUI. Objects on the screen are sizable and have all the properties you'd expect in a drawing tool (titles for the boxes, bullets, etc), but the end result is plain text that's embeddable in your code.

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Firebird and Flamerobin are included in Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 is released with firebird2.0 and flamerobin included in their repositoryHere is an easy guide for installing firebird2.0 and then follow the flamerobin 0.8.6 guide (with screen shots)

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Eclipse subversion Problem: Javahl interface is not available. Check your environment.


so you need to install libsvn-dev and libsvn-java if you have problems in subclipse Window->Preferences->Team-> SVN and choose JavaHL(JNI)

$sudo apt-get install libsvn-dev
$sudo apt-get install libsvn-java




also an good ideea is to tweak the vmargs to include /usr/lib/jni

/opt/eclipse/eclipse -vmargs -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni

or put in in eclipse.ini

here is another article with the same solution

I think drupal should learn some database normalization rules
Here is the diagram for it , is an pretty complex cms system and that is an bad thing from the kiss philosophy perspective .
I wonder if it can be used for firebirdsql[.ro .org] with an firebird backend now that pdo is used in drupal

http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/drupal7-database-update
http://drupal.org/node/225450

first they try to kill odf with that ?open?xml
now in the second part of the plan , microsoft kills one laptop for child

"OLPC to scrap Linux for Windows"
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/23/olpc-scrap-linux-windows

This is the part with the fight from the war plan

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."

Nokia Internet Tablets get Ubuntu and Qt

Nokia has announced plans to bring support for the Qt toolkit to the Maemo operating system used on Nokia Internet Tablet devices. Nokia is also sponsoring an Ubuntu ARM port.

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Linux-based diskless notebook costs under $300

A British Columbia-based startup called InkMedia announced an under-$300 notebook that runs embedded Linux. Based on a Via chip, the Ink Mobile Computer (Ink MC) depends on flash-based storage and offers an 8.6-inch SVGA display, four USB slots, Ethernet, and WiFi.

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Linux still top embedded OS

Linux was used by 18 percent of embedded engineers responding to a survey, making it tops overall among both free and commercial OSes.

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What Sun was trying to do with Open Solaris

Ted Tso deconstructs Sun's goals for open sourcing Solaris.

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Firebird 2.1 for Gentoo released

Here is the changelog and can be installed from portage

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people don't read their dmesg

yet another quote of the day from kerneltrap.org

"One thing I've learned with the kerneloops.org work is that people don't read
their dmesg..... "

4096 CPUs support. (Yes, such big boxes exist, and they run Linux.)

That is quote of the day with the new in x86.git for v2.6.26

http://lwn.net/Articles/278220/

Hardy Heron final release dead ahead !!!

I started testing the RC last night and it worked ok with the installer , only an small crash for the windows installer but all went ok finally

absurdly limits for youtube
for me 10 minutes is too small , what if you have an 3 hours movie ?

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92613&topic=12366

South Africa adopts ODF as a national standard

Where open standards meets the future of computing. They've got something there.I wonder when we Romanians will do the same

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sudo espeak "Goodbye world . Fsck Off. And Thank You For All The Spam"

Looking for a way to perk up your Monday morning? Tombuntu has a good introduction to using eSpeak on Ubuntu

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2349

pytube an useful application for converting all of thouse flashes in ogg or mpeg4 format (or mp3 if you want to )

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/introducing-pytube-youtube-leecher.html

Cube-Addon Cylinder Deformation in compiz-fusion 0.7.4

it seems that everyone has been raving about it, but I thought I would be best to jump on the bandwagon for this one too :). So yeah, here it is, the absolutely amazing cube cylinder deformation plugin by onestone.

Linux kernel 2.6.25 is out

Important features: Memory Resource Controller, Real Time Group scheduling, RCU Preemption support, FIFO ticket spinlocks in x86, Better process memory usage measurement, SMACK, Simplified Mandatory Access Control, EXT4 update, MN10300/AM33 architecture support ...

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