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<p>The release candidate is out from KDE for the upcoming 4.3.</p> <p>Users of the Karmic development release can upgrade to the latest packages.</p> <p>Users of our stable 9.04 release can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA.</p> <p><em>deb h… Full story >>>

<p>KOffice 2 has received its first update in <a href="http://www.koffice.org/2009/06/koffice-2-0-1-released/">KOffice 2.0.1</a>. Packages are available for our development Karmic version by installing <em>koffice-kde4</em>. Users of the stable 9.04 can inst… Full story >>>

<p>The <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-June/000578.html">second alpha of our development version</a> has been released for testing.</p> Full story >>>

<p>A second beta is out from KDE for the upcoming 4.3.</p> <p>Users of the Karmic development release can upgrade to the latest packages.</p> <p> Users of our stable 9.04 release can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA.</p> <p><em>deb http://p… Full story >>>

<img src="http://people.ubuntu.com/~jriddell/amarok-2.1.jpg" width="400" height="300" align="left" /> <p>Music playing application <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.1">Amarok has rocked the world with their 2.1 release&l… Full story >>>

<p>A new <a href="http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2.4.php">bugfix KDE release</a> is available to update Kubuntu 9.04.</p> <p>Add this repository and do a full upgrade:</p> <p><em>deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu … Full story >>>

<p>KOffice 2 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu.</p> <p>Users of our development release, Karmic, can install <em>koffice-kde4</em>.</p> <p>If you are using the current 9.04 release add the backports <em>Unsupported updates</… Full story >>>

<p>KDE 4.3 Beta 1 is now available in the Kubuntu Karmic repositories.</p> <!-- <p>Packages for Jaunty are available in the Kubuntu Experimental repository. To install these, add this line to your software sources.</p> <p><em>deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubu… Full story >>>

The first alpha CD for our next release is now available. This is at a very early stage of development so is advised for brave testers only. See the <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/karmic/alpha1">overview from Ubuntu</a>, <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archi… Full story >>>

<p>KDE 4.2.3 has been released and packages are available for Kubuntu 9.04.</p> <p>To install it add this line to your software sources.</p> <p><em>deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main</em></p> <p>It is strongly reco… Full story >>>

<h4>When AV attacks</h4> <p>IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan were brought down when the anti-virus program attack their core system files. In some cases, this caused the machines to display the dreaded blue… Full story >>>

<h4>Fur enough</h4> <p><strong>Strategy Boutique</strong> You might notice that there's something subtly different about the new look of Firefox - the popular virtual memory stress test tool that's cunningly disguised as a web browser. With an icy blast from the Arctic,… Full story >>>

<h4>Dodge the shareware sledgehammer</h4> <p><strong>Mac Secrets</strong> QTMovie, the principal class inside the QTKit framework, isn't just for playing movies.…</p><p><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/814/oracle-814.pdf?td=rss"&… Full story >>>

<h4>Blue grass county hit by Trojan-fueled cybercrime</h4> <p>A gang of cybercrooks has made off with $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky following the conclusion of an elaborate phishing scam, <em>The Washington Post</em> reports.…</p><p>… Full story >>>

<h4>Yes, Utah</h4> <p>The ultra-secretive National Security Agency plans to build a 1-million-square-foot data center in Utah as it seeks to decentralize its computing resources and tap regions with ample supplies of lower-cost electricity.…</p><p><a href="http://w… Full story >>>

<h4>Doing what Java never did</h4> <p>"Can you integrate this with my e-mail?" It's one of the more dreaded questions in software development. For any programmer who has been around the block a few times, it evokes a long repressed fear of Sendmail m4 macros or Outlook COM objects.… Full story >>>

<h4>Putting the Swiss army knife in</h4> <p>A Swiss federal court has handed Microsoft a temporary reprieve that allows the firm to sell its products and services to public sector customers, even though it could face an annulment in the final judgment.…</p><p><a hr… Full story >>>

<h4>Forget the customers, grab the spectrum and run</h4> <p>T-Mobile UK will be sold in the next few months, and the markets are salivating at the synergies possible - but it could easily be T-Mobile's network that remains in place when the dust settles.…</p><p><a … Full story >>>

<h4>They come over here, creating their social media...</h4> <p>A group of wealthy Californian bloggers are taking a holiday in the UK this month - and the taxpayer will help foot the bill.…</p><p><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/814/oracle-… Full story >>>

<h4>Wheelie-bin warriors mobilised in support of Pentagon hacker</h4> <p>The <em>Daily Mail</em> has launched a high-profile campaign supporting Gary McKinnon's fight against extradition to the USA.…</p><p><a href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/p… 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 >>>