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A few thoughts from the treasurer as Roktober draws to a close. I hope I haven’t posted this too late to have a positive impact on our overall fund drive. We are way off our goal for this year and I am not sure if that is the result of the uncertainty in the economy or people are just sick of us

We have seen a huge fall-off in donations from the US, and I wonder whether it is because we expressed the goal in Euros and somehow offended our friends outside of Europe. Last year, because of the strength of the Euro against the other world currencies, we made a decision to express our goal in Euros because many of our expenses are in Euros. This is not because we are a Euro centric project. In fact, we have just as many US based devs as Europe, and we also have people in Australia, China and South America. We need support from around the world, not just Europe, so if ...read more...

“A simple, yet complete and easy to use application for downloading Flash movies from YouTube and similar sites and for converting them to other, more usable formats. It uses ffmpeg to do the conversion.”

“Allows users to write AJAX-enabled web applications in C++. It features built-in HTTP server and the application code looks almost
like Qt app.”

Description : Jeremy Brown has discovered a weakness in KDE, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS .

Here is OSNews' review of Xandros Desktop Home Edition Premium version 4.0 . Xandros Systems was so kind as to provide OSNews with the top of the line version of their product, which includes, among other ...

Here's a quick round-the-web series of updates on happenings with SVG, Canvas, and open web graphics libraries.

• Улучшено управление DOS-дисками.
• Много улучшений в Richedit.
• Множество улучшений в инсталляторах, особенно для IE 7.
• Первые шаги в реализации Direct3D 10.
• Различные багфиксы.

• импорт WMA, M4A, AC3 и прочей проприетарщины, а также звука из видеофайлов при помощи FFmpeg (проект GSoC 2008);
• мгновенная загрузка несжатых файлов: сразу загружается начало, а остальное подгружается по мере необходимости (проект GSoC 2008);
• пометки перемещаются вместе с дорожками, к которым они привязаны (часть проекта GSoC 2008);
• иерархическое меню для встроенных расширений, а также LADSPA и LV2 (часть проекта GSoC 2008);
• запись с активацией по уровню громкости;
• сохранение сжатых проектных файлов для передачи по сети;
• очень базовое редактирование файлов MIDI (импорт, вырезание/вставка, экспорт);
• добавлено меню «Управление», там и сям улучшен интерфейс, исправлены ошибки.

As you may have noticed, KOffice is approching a 2.0 release. There is still some work to do and here’s where you come in.

It was already announced on the dot: Sunday (which is tomorrow) will be the first official KOffice Bug Day. Or Krush Mastery as Lemma called it. We’ll start at 7:00 UTC and gather on #kde-bugs to hunt down known bugs and and find some new in the latest release.

Let’s make KOffice 2 the best and coolest office suite out there in the world and help the developers by providing the best and most useful bugreports we can come up with and cheer them on!

If you can spare some time, don’t hesitate to join us. You don’t need any coding skills, a working install of KOffice 2.0 beta2 will do. But watch out, summertime ends tonight!

For more information please have a look at these articles on techbase:
KOffice Bug Day 1: ...read more...

I'm really looking forward to hanging out on #kde-bugs tomorrow. I'm not sure wether I'll skive off going to Church in the morning, but in the afternoon I'll be there for sure. The way the BugSquad prepares these things is nothing short of amazing in its thoroughness. Just look at the techbase pages that have been prepared:

• KOffice Bug Day1: Triage
• Koffice Bug Day1: Krush

For Krita, the goal will be on triaging bugs more than finding new bugs -- we've collected quite a few reports over the years, and frankly, I kind of lost my grip over the past year-and-a-half. And so much has changed in Krita, it's really important to go through all the bugs and check whether they'll still valid.

And, given that Krita is now cross-platform, everyone can join in:

So, join us in KOffice Bug Day and Krush!

A few months ago I switched website hosts from Netfirms to Site5, because Site5 had a good deal for a plan with unlimited bandwidth and disk space. The first thing I did was upload my entire music collection.

To access all of my music remotely via any internet-connected web browser, I wrote ZX2C4 Music, which is password protected to avoid the law, but if you’d like to view the interface just for curiosity, send me an e-mail, and I’ll send you a password. It uses PHP/MySQL for managing the music, hashing each file with an sha1, TagLib for reading tags, and JavaScript/HTML as an interface:

Search queries are done with AJAX, and playing is done with Flash, if available; otherwise it defaults to browser plug-ins. Soon I should add HTML5’s element support. Since Flash only supports MP3, the php backend optionally ...read more...

Первые шаги в данном направлении были сделаны Microsoft на конференции Samba eXPerience 2008. Где были представлены доклады: "Model-Based Quality Assurance of the SMB2 Protocol Document" и "SMB Version 2: Scaling From Kilobits to Gigabits".

That large mass has a tractor beam! That's not a planet... that's a deathsta--. Oh, that's planetKDE.

• My PyQt based wordpress desktop client, chotha found a new name and home. Released a new verion , need help on the UI. The current version supports someamount of Livejournal.
• Few weeks  back gave a talk on Python and PyQt to a local college.
• review-o-matic working somewhat, rakesh and rishi are going to handle the big task of spec file sanity checkings
• Got Jukebox-activity git aceess

The Wine development release 1.1.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Improved device management for DOS drives.
• Many Richedit fixes.
• Various installer fixes, particularly for IE 7.
• First steps of Direct3D 10 implementation.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

• KOffice Bug Day 1: Triage
• KOffice Bug Day 1: Krush (aka Krush Mastery)