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<p>KOffice 2 Beta 3 has been released. Packages are available for Kubuntu Intrepid in the intrepid-backports archive.</p> <p><a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/koffice-2-beta-3">read more</a></p> Full story >>>

<p>The latest KDE 4 update <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1.3.php">4.1.3</a> has moved to the backports section of Kubuntu 8.10.</p> <p>To install it <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu">enable … Full story >>>

<p><a href="http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/559">Amarok 2 beta 3</a> has been released</a> and packages are available for Kubuntu 8.10, the Intrepid Ibex. These packages replace existing Amarok 1.4.10 installs.</p><p><a href="http://www.kubuntu.org… Full story >>>

<div style="float: right;"><img src="/system/files/kubuntu-810-ibex-oxygen.png" width="300" height="500" /></div> <p>Today sees the release of Kubuntu 8.10 featuring the KDE 4 desktop. The Kubuntu developers have been hard at work, br… Full story >>>

<img src="http://people.ubuntu.com/~jriddell/IMG_3689.JPG" align="right" width="200" height="133" /> <p>The release candidate for Kubuntu 8.10 is now available for one last round of testing before the final release next week.</p> <ul>… Full story >>>

<p>The latest KDE 3 bug-fix release <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.10.php">3.5.10</a> has moved to the updates section of Kubuntu 8.04.</p> <p>To install it <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Kubuntu"&… Full story >>>

<p>KOffice 2 Beta 2 has been released. Packages are available for Kubuntu Intrepid in our kubuntu-members-kde4 personal package archive.</p> <p><a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/news/koffice-2-beta-2">read more</a></p> Full story >>>

<p><a href="http://amarok.kde.org/en/node/554">Amarok 2 beta 2</a> has been released</a> and packages are available for Kubuntu 8.04, the Hardy Heron. These packages install to <em>/usr/lib/kde4</em> and can be installed along side your existing Amarok 1… Full story >>>

<p><a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1.2.php">KDE 4.1.2</a> has been released</a> and packages are available for Kubuntu 8.04, the Hardy Heron. These packages install to <em>/usr/lib/kde4</em> and can be installed along side your exist… Full story >>>

<img src="http://www.kubuntu.org/~jriddell/8.10-upgrade/upgrade3-wee.png" align="left" style="margin: 1ex;" width="400" height="300" /> <p>Kubuntu 8.10 Beta has been released. This is a major upgrade for your desktop featuring the beauti… Full story >>>

<h4>All's fair in love and court</h4> <p>Online dating service eHarmony.com has agreed to create a new website for matching same-sex couples, as part of discrimination settlement with New Jersey's Civil Rights Division.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>This is not <em>The Matrix</em>. But it is</h4> <p><strong>QCon 2009</strong> Agile development practices may be growing in popularity among developers, but agilistas aren't getting much love from software architects.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Storage doesn't have to spin</h4> <p><strong>Comment</strong> When you are recovering from a long period of hard times and light appears at the end of the tunnel and gets closer and closer until you emerge into glorious daylight, you get a spring in your step and st… Full story >>>

<h4>Pricing power goes virtual</h4> <p><strong>Antitrust 2.0</strong> Why did Google leave outgoing Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang heartbroken at the search engine altar? If you believe the words chief ad broker and CEO Eric Schmidt <a href="http://www.nytimes.com… Full story >>>

<h4>To Itanium or not to Itanium</h4> <p><strong>SC08</strong> Architectures can change quickly in the supercomputing space, and slow-moving vendors can get left behind or at least find themselves out of step with the next big wave of sales in the HPC area. This has hap… Full story >>>

<h4>Subscription service customers only</h4> <p><strong>In brief</strong> Sun Microsystems has added a query analysis tool to MySQL, but for paying customers only.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>RRoD, frozen consoles and missing avatars mentioned</h4> <p>The New Xbox Experience (NXE) has barely been out for 24 hours, but gamers have already claimed that it’s messing with their consoles. Some have even said the update’s caused the dreaded Red Ring of Death (RRoD) to… Full story >>>

<h4>Freebie teraflops for ISVs</h4> <p><strong>SC08</strong> When it comes to parallel supercomputing, and indeed any kind of parallel processing, the hardware is the easy part. The systems software, including a tuned software stack and middleware for managing data, vis… Full story >>>

<h4>While ISS crew hunt missing spider</h4> <p>Endeavour mission specialists Shane Kimbrough and Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper are getting ready for the second mission STS-126 spacewalk outside the International Space Station this afternoon, scheduled to get under way at 18:45 GMT.…<… Full story >>>

<h4>MSPs say nae, but move means naething</h4> <p>The Scottish Parliament has voted against the government's proposed ID cards, in a gesture of Phythonian futility.…</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=12345678922?" target="_bla… 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 >>>

A brief but rather snazzy perl poem celebrating the joys of spring, written on a particularly glorious March day. First published on perlmonks. Full story >>>

I made this as a bit of a tongue in cheek dig at Vista, with a bit of help from the Real Ultimate Generator. It will make more sense if you look at realultimatepower.net first. Full story >>>

This is my friend Rob 'Bobban' Jones in ASCII art format. I used jave to convert a jpeg photo. Best viewed by printing it out and standing a couple of yards away... Full story >>>

smbopengtk.pl is a little utility written in perl/gtk that allows you to open windows or unix style filepaths and switch between the two. It'll be a bit of a lifesaver at work, where I've just started using a Debian GNU/Linux box in a primarily windows environment. First posted on Perl Monks. I've… Full story >>>