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KDE 4.0.74 Packages For Slackware

Robby updated his KDE 4 package for Slackware. New updated dep are included in the proper directory. You can find the package at the usual place located here. Here is the changelog
Updated Mon May 19 20:59:16 UTC 2008 –rworkman
These packages are for Slackware 12.1 - DO NOT bother trying them on
any earlier releases of [...]

Linux on Delta flights

I was wondering what was happening when the little screen went black on my flight from LAX to ATL. It seems they were rebooting the “media” system. To my amazement, I noticed the little penguin dude! It was linux. I took a snapshot with my iPhone. I couldn’t figure out which flavor of linux but, [...]

Alpine Messaging System, the alternative to Pine. Gmail Included.

I just tried Alpine the email program from Washington University. Alpine is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. All of the source needed to build Unix, Windows, and Web-based mail user agents is included. Alpine was developed by the department of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. It’s as if it was [...]

MX500 on Slackware Current

When I upgraded packages on my slackware box this morning to the latest xorg server, my mouse wouldn’t scroll so I googled for a fixed. I don’t when the change occurs but that’s not relevant. At first I just though that the xmodmap changed on me. Well that prove to be right I actually found [...]

Hobby and work, can they mix?

By trade I am a theatre designer who is currently teaching and my hobby is working on computer on various projects unofficially. I have been mixing those two for quite some time and I can actually see the two merging at some point in time. I am fond of lighting design and I think more [...]

Convert MP3 to M4A on Linux, Ring.. Ring?

Ok so here is what I have done to convert a mp3 to m4a to make it play on my iPhone through linux. For starter, we want to convert it to a wav file so that there is no loss in quality. I read that if you convert from mp3 to m4a directly you are [...]