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The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 7, code name “Moonshine”: “Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we’ve brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment.” The latest version of the popular distribution comes with a number of new features, including “spins”, or variations of Fedora built from a specific set of software packages, the latest GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6 desktops, fast user switching, improved internationalisation support, a new SELinux troubleshooting tool, significantly faster package management utilities, a new kernel-based virtual machine technology, and many other enhancements. Please read the release announcement and consult the release notes for detailed information. ...

Was just trying out AOL AVS, and noticed something.. The file gets downloaded from this directory: http://download.nullsoft.com/avs/ And surprise surprise! Its got a new file there http://download.nullsoft.com/avs/AVS_v25.exe upon installing which, it says v6.0.2.621 Ss listed on http://www.kaspersky.com/productupda…pter=186435857 It is the LATEST version of KAV 6! And its vista compatible too! 😀

YAY! This move is a lot better than giving us unlimited storage space! A boon for gmail drive and gmailFS users! Source.

You can easily get the vanilla Pidgin 2.0 .deb (installation file for Ubuntu Feisty). The only thing i was missing badly were the plugins! I was really used to the libnotify and autoreply plugins. Anyway, so i’ve compiled a .deb here for the Purple Plugin Pack. Plugins in the Plugin Pack Album Auto Accept Auto-rejoin Auto Reply awaynotify Bash.org Buddy Icon Tools Buddy List Options Buddy Note buddytime chronic convcolors Dice DiffTopic Magic 8 Ball Flip gRIM Group Message Hide Conversation IRC Helper Irssi Features Last Seen List Handler Marker Line My Status Box napster New Line Nick Said Offline Message Old Logger Plonkers Schedule Separate and Tab Show Offline Sim Fix Slash Exec SSL Info Stocker Switch Spell Talk Filters XMMS Remote XChat-Chats Edit: Thanks to Karthik, we have 64 bit debs for the plugin pack too! ...

After a LONG wait, finally the day is here! Pidgin 2.0.0 goes final! Pidgin (previously called Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. ...

Yesterday i got 999 invites on my Joost account! So im giving em away here! Anyone who wants them, please leave a comment here in the following format: First Name: Last Name: No need to publish your email as i can get that from the admin panel.

So, you are the producer/publisher of a content. You want to make money of it. As much money as possible. You are wondering if you must use DRM or not. First question It might be obvious but, at first, ask yourself : “Why do I want to use DRM on my content ?”. To fight piracy or illegal copies ? Bad answer ! Your goal is NOT to fight piracy ! Your goal is to earn money. Lot of money. If you could make more money with the help of piracy, would you still fight it ? Of course not. So keep in my mind that you want to use DRM to make more money of your content. Nothing else. ...

The HD-DVD encryption key was leaked over the internet yesterday. The source got dugg pretty hard! It was being dugg so hard that digg was seeing 40 digs per second on this story! Ultimately digg went down and was showing 404 errors on every story! It was really great to see how strongly people feel about DRM. This key actually enables people to decode legally bought HD-DVD movies on linux, though they are only supposed to be played on windows. ...

A group of researchers testing out the so called Internet2 network said it had broken speed records by first sending data at 7.67 gigabits per second, and breaking it the next day with a data transfer rate of 9.08Gbps. “These records are final for the 10Gbps network era because they represent more than 98% of the upper limit of network capacity,” University of Tokyo researcher Dr. Kei Hiraki said. “Through collaboration by a number of institutions, we have demonstrated the ability to overcome the distance and achieve this newest mark.” ...

Its finally here! And im running it 😀 Due to all the traffic rush, Ubuntu.com is down! On their homepage: Thank you to everyone who has helped make Ubuntu 7.04 a reality. Thousands of you have helped code, test, translate and promote Ubuntu and everyone can celebrate today’s release. If you are looking for general information about the Ubuntu project, the main site will be back shortly. For official mirrors to download, please see the Ubuntu homepage. ...