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 We have been working hard since the release of Amarok 2.0, building on the foundation we laid with 2.0. Now it is time to release the first beta version of Amarok 2.1. Please read the release notes and help us find and fix remaining bugs for 2.1.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2009/04/10/nuliajuk/ | 7569 |
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Disclaimer I should have put in the previous post: Some might argue why I’m not using Mono. I want to have an overview of the C#/.NET framework at its best, and from what I’ve seen Mono and respective tools (especially) are not even quite as good as Microsoft’s ones. But I will test the final result on Mono for sure. I recognize I’m blogging quite often, and after all the good feedback I had on my previous post, I decided to give a real overview of what I’m doing, and the flaws I encounter on each side during my adventure. Today, I’ll blog about Threading. In my opinion, the correct use of threads is one of the factors that sets the bar between the average and the good programmer. Using threads correctly isn’t easy, and some might argue it’s almost an art. So I started researching and finding out how C# handles threading. After the usual ~30 minutes, I found out that C# handles threads in an unusual manner. Basically, we have a Thread object that works quite ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/adventures-in-c-and-windowsland-part-2-threadingevent-loops/ | 7567 |
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16 | System & Utilities | http://kushaldas.in/2009/04/10/%e0%a6%86%e0%a6%b2%e0%a7%8b-%e0%a6%86%e0%a6%81%e0%a6%a7%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%b0/ | 7565 |
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| Get your last minute conference submissions in for the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit July 3-11 2009. We are looking for 30 minute KDE and Cross-Desktop talks, Lightning talks, and Technical papers. Abstracts are sent to akademy-talks at kde dot org. See the Call for Participation for more details. Remember, authors of accepted technical papers get a free Coke or beer. Hurry, because the CfP ends Friday (April 10 2009)! Btw, have I mentioned:
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16 | System & Utilities | http://weblog.obso1337.org/2009/last-minute-akademy-submissions-due-april-10-2009/ | 7563 |
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 In the '05-'06 Stanley Cup run, I grew a pretty substantial playoff beard, just for the heck of it. (see fig. 1, pictured right) This time, the Hurricanes are doing a great charity event for the Kids 'N Community Foundation: the Beard-A-Thon! When the regular season games are over, I'm going to shave, and then grow a playoff beard as hard as I can. Now, as I mentioned, it's a charity event, and I need you folks to help me out, by pledging at the Beard-A-Thon page. Don't forget to enter "Benjamin Reed" where it says, " There's a specific beard grower I'd like to support."  Comments
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.raccoonfink.com/2009/04/its-playoff-beard-time.html?utm_source=rss | 7560 |
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Well, the documentation went quite well ( except for the part where we started discussing about if jesus died on a cors or a stake. ) the result: 7 pages of translated pages. for a first day it was ok, I wanted it to be more. Welcome to KDE User Base Getting Help Introduction to KDE UserBase Live CD Applications Some pages are really big. some arent. anyways. it was a good day, and writting docs is userful.       |
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16 | System & Utilities | http://plagioastral.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/live-blue-sprint-documentation/ | 7559 |
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For those of you who haven't yet been aware of it: Christian made new 4.2.2 packages. I added packages for digikam (0.10.0 release), kipi-plugins (0.2.0 release), konversation4 (yet unreleased snapshot) and thanks to Ralf's porting also k3b (another yet unreleased snapshot). Please do not file bugs against k3b and konversation4 yet, we want to fix the obvious errors first.
Those packages are all built against Qt 4.4.3, meaning that you can't build current amarok and the koffice release candidate against it. I am planning to make some trunk packages(against Qt 4.5) though to fix this problem.
In marble I just recently could merge my geodata-nt branch which took a great burden off of me. Now all GeoDataObjects can be copied around, some of them are implicitly shared even. As this comes together with changing the (not-yet stable) API from Pointers to references, some work is still needed (it currently is far to slow to be released...). "please do not hit me for marble being a bit slower now!" ;-)
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16 | System & Utilities | http://saroengels.blogspot.com/2009/04/422.html | 7555 |
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| The open source KOffice project has announced the availability of the first release candidate of the next generation, version 2.0, which may be the last release before the final 2.0. According to its developers, the goal of the RC1 release is to determine whether the code 'measures up' to the standards for a 2.0 release, but also say the final 2.0 ...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2009/04/koffice-preps-version-2-0-with-first-release-candidate?fromrss=1 | 7551 |
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| Only the KDE Summer of Code admins still have a huge task before them -- making the final selection for KDE of the summer of code projects.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2009/04/looking-back-at-four-sweltering-summers-of-code?fromrss=1 | 7549 |
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| On April 1st and 2nd a delegation from Amarok visited OpenExpo in Berne , together with our FOSS homies from KDE and Kubuntu.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2009/04/a-team-at-openexpo-2009-berne?fromrss=1 | 7543 |
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My mother is an artist(A painter, see website). Since me and my brother have to administrate her computer, and she’s using Windows XP, we always have to deal with all kinds of problematic implications that come from this. Linux is a lot better suitable for remote administration
, and since she’s already using Thunderbird and Firefox, one should think that this isn’t such a hard switch. So we tried it, and we nearly got her go crazy. Because she was using Windows Explorer before to manage her pictures, she has accumulated a really strange structure for them: Hundrets of folders, each with between 5 and 50 pictures, and all in a flat tree, and all badly named. There is only one way of keeping at least a minimum level of overview in this mess: By recognizing the content of the folders using folder previews. Although this isn’t such a complicated thing, there seems to be no linux file manager that has this feature, until now. I’ve implemented this feature within the KDE preview ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/kde-for-painters/ | 7527 |
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| Software returning to the market with a new version, backed by an Indian firm. In addition, the source article claimed GoBE Software was closing a deal on buying the BeOS operating system from what can only be Access.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2009/04/re-kde-mac?fromrss=1 | 7525 |
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| You know it’s spring when travels to Berne, Switzerland, hit you again. Regardless of the weather of course. Although this time, it did feel like spring over there and on the day I left for Oslo again, it was really warm, too warm actually for my thick woolen jacket. On the other hand, the jacket was more than needed on my walk from the bus stop to my apartment in Oslo. Ah well, back to the subject… After my disastrous train trip South, in Bern itself all went rather smoothly. The hotel was easy to find and I fell into the bed right away. On Wednesday morning, we quickly set up our booth at the OpenExpo and started the day with strong coffee and Gipfeli (a.k.a. Croissants in the rest of the world). There was some confusion with the original hall layout but after some reshuffling, everybody was happy. ![]( "Alexandra Leisse (troubalex): OpenExpo revisited") ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UntangledBlog/~3/WDGMSLsSdOQ/ | 7524 |
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| This Sunday I went to OLPC Pune meet to give a talk on activity development. The students seem be very enthusiastic. The talk lasted for around 2 hours. Photos can be found here. On the other side, I was looking for a photo catalogue software which can catalogue my photos on DVD or any other removable media, it should also allow me to search them based on EXIF data and tags and should show thumbnail(s) in the result.
I generally use digikam and gthumb too manage and view the photos. In digikam I never being properly able to catalogue photos on DVD (never tried on the last few updates) and gthumb is too slow in showing the thumbnail or full screen views for the large size photos I take. I prefer gthumb over over digikam to view the photos due to the simpler UI. Finally decided to write my own app for this, which will *not* have any editing features, Gimp ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://kushaldas.in/2009/04/06/olpc-pune-meet-and-photo-management/ | 7521 |
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| There are still five days left to submit a proposal for a presentation at Akademy 2009. The deadline is on Friday, April 10th. Akademy happens as part of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit this year. See more details about what we are looking for in the call for presentations. Akademy is the prime occasion for meeting the community, and present and discuss your ideas. Lots of great initiatives were kick-started at Akademy. Don't miss out on this opportunity and submit your proposal now! Personally I'm particularly interested three kinds of presentations: - First I would like to see presentations about the beauty of KDE. KDE 4 shines, and I would love to meet the people who make it shine at Akademy, and hear how they did it, and what we can expect in the future. That's not only limited to beautiful graphics. Elegant code, organic user interfaces, beautiful APIs, engines which enable a beautiful desktop, fluffy-bunny themed Chuck Norris, all this falls under this category.
- Second I would like to hear ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3929 | 7518 |
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At last year's Akademy, we did some work on a layout for a Plasma interface for netbooks on the whiteboard and started putting together some code for it. It then went quiet and pretty much died: we focused 4.2 development on the idea of "traditional desktop usage parity", there were no SoC projects around the concept to help push it forward and nobody else in KDE really seemed to care enough about the concept of "things that aren't large screened, mouse driven devices" to give the effort any support.
A few weeks back we ended up talking about the state of this interface and I note that, with all honesty, I really don't have the resources to push it forward while keeping libplasma, plasma-desktop, the Plasma plugins, my other responsibilities in the KDE codebase and KDE e.V. all moving as well. Bille suggested I appoint a lieutenant or two to take it on and be the obsessive-compulsive maintainers of it. Knowing a great idea when I hear one, Artur and Marco were quickly deputized.
The topic came up ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/04/plasma-on-netbooks.html | 7517 |
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I’m the type of guy who goes distro-shopping every now and then, but usually ends up with the distro I came from. I’ve been using kubuntu since hoary (5.04) and have been quite pleased. However, last year with KDE 4, I’ve grown a bit frustrated with kubuntu. Packaging has certainly been improved over the course of last year, but still there are quite some little problems I encounter now and then and somehow it’s starting to feel more and more draining on my systems resources. Plus I’m starting to dislike the 6 month release cycle, and rather always stay up to date.
I’ve tried a number of different distros but I’ve never really encountered my ‘dream distro’. There were always some things I didn’t like: slow package manager, hard to use package manager, capable of breaking my system package manager, bloat, wrong choice of packages, broken multimedia stack, too different from debian without good documentation so I couldn’t get used to it… you get the idea…
And then, two days ago I suddenly came across ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://pindablog.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/chakra-my-new-distro-of-choice/ | 7516 |
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Well, Monday, actually. But today we happen to be off on #kde-bugs and having fun triaging. Our stats from Saturday:
We've gone through 150 bugs or so
lyteyn is one of our brand new people, and several other newbies have poked in and helped or asked for help (they should all come back today ;)
We have 8 people who have signed in.
So happy birthday us! We're still going on for Sunday, so drop by.And have some virtual cake.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://blauzahl.livejournal.com/15890.html | 7514 |
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2009/04/re-2-you-know-what-sucks?fromrss=1 | 7512 |
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Wow, three blogs in a row about that weather wallpaper. I suppose that this is better than me going for a few months without blogging at all, though. :P
So, what's new on the weather wallpaper front? I ported the wallpaper over to KDE 4.3 so that I could take advantage of several improvements that Aaron made to the Plasma::Wallpaper API. The benefits are mainly less code duplication. (Read more here)
I also implemented a fade transition for when the weather/wallpaper gets updated. It looks pretty nice. :-) (Yes, the code was shamelessly stolen from the default wallpaper. :P)
I've also released this wallpaper on KDE-look and have made K/Ubuntu packages for all of you running KDE 4.2 here.
You'll need kdebase-workspace-wallpapers and kdewallpapers installed for full effect. I know that KPackageKit and GDebi-KDE should resolve the dependencies when installing a debian package not downloaded via apt, but I know dpkg won't resolve the dependencies automagically.
The only issues left are the "second location configuration" bug and the ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://jtechinda.blogspot.com/2009/04/yet-another-wallpaper-post.html | 7511 |
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| This weekend has brought me to the wonderful city of Berlin (wonderful in terms of having the baroque alternative charm that makes Kreuzberg so special). I'm here for the Akonadi meeting, which is all about personal information store for the Free Desktop. Together with about 15 other people, the time from Friday until Sunday we're trying to advance Akonadi to the next level. I'm mainly here because I was brave (stupid!?) enough to start writing an email plasmoid after being infected by Till (who also turns older today) with the Akonadi virus. During development of Lion Mail, I've gotten a pretty good idea of what Akonadi does really well (make it easy to use PIM data in your application), and what's lacking at this point (searching and sorting being my main wishes). Yesterday, I presented Lion Mail to the PIM crowd, showed some new concepts I'm trying to implement using it, and also showing some of the Social Desktop Plasma stuff I've been working on in the last weeks. Immediately after my demo, the discussion ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://vizZzion.org/?blogentry=910 | 7509 |
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16 | System & Utilities | http://adjamblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/easter-holidays-thailand/ | 7507 |
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On my running system, from a fresh log in, KDE reveals 1268876 K memory usage in GNOME vs. 1279348 K memory usage in KDE 4. That is a change of 10472 K. Granted, this is not a huge difference.
This was taken from an article which I won't bother linking to. It doesn't need anymore traffic. I just thought I point something out as it's Saturday, I'm bored and I had a long day in the lab yesterday and need to vent and for some reason the previous quote from an article which shall remain nameless just annoyed me.
Perhaps I woke up cranky. *ahem* You see boys and girls, whenever we make comparisons it is important to take into consideration, or provide for your audience so they they may take into consideration, extra information which may be pertinent. For argument's sake, let us call this extra information context.
For example, when making comparison between the size of an Amarok installer, and an iTunes installer on the OS X operating system one might mention the size of both ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://illogic-al.org/blog/context | 7505 |
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| Any discussion about GNOME vs. KDE is sure to end in tears. It's basically impossible to discuss which of these two Free desktop environments is better than the other, mostly because they cater to different types of people, with different needs and expectatotions.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2009/04/re-requests-from-a-user?fromrss=1 | 7503 |
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| I've just committed all of KDE 4.2.2 to Fink Unstable. There's still a lot of rough edges, but it's definitely at least beta quality, and a lot of apps work great. It includes a number of fixes, including updated scripts to register all of the desktop files properly with ksycocoa on post-install, case-sensitive filesystem fixes, and a number of other packaging fixes. I've also finished packaging all of the "core" KDE distribution. I've got Amarok working in my experimental tree, I just need to do a little more testing before I can release it (It's based on a snapshot of what will become Amarok 2.1.0, since 2.0.x has some build issues on Mac OS X that are difficult to resolve). Also, the KOffice folks just put out a release candidate that I'm working on finishing up packaging on. Hopefully I will have that out soon. As always, please let me know if you run into issues. I've test-built on 10.5/i386 and ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.raccoonfink.com/2009/04/kde-422-in-fink-unstable.html?utm_source=rss | 7502 |
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Continuing with the spamming of nearly all communication channel that are available to me (no I am not going out in the street to shoot that information). With the soon to come release of KOffice 2.0, we have the need to start organizing the user community. We have started to fill some content to userbase, including experimenting with editing the handbooks on a wiki, starting with kword's manual (we need help for this, so if you are bored, and want to contribute something, well come and help with that effort). And today, the admin have open a KOffice sub-forum on KDE's forum !
So if you have a question about KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, Kexi, Kivio, Krita, Karbon, KChart and KFormula go ask to KOffice forum.
So if you know the answer to a question about KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, Kexi, Kivio, Krita, Karbon, KChart and KFormula go follow KOffice forum and hope someone will ask a question you can ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://cyrilleberger.blogspot.com/2009/04/koffice-forum.html | 7498 |
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| Are you a student at University? Have you used KDE, GNOME, or some open source desktop technology in a student or research project? Are you interested in sharing your work with the open source community? Consider turning that term paper into a technical paper and submit it to the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit! So much open source work done by University students never reaches the open source projects they focus on. The GCDS is a great opportunity for students to publish their work to the open source community and also meet all of the super star developers responsible for those great desktop technologies. The Call for Presentations ends April 10th so get your submissions in to akademy-talks at kde dot org soon! You simply need to provide an abstract and an intent to submit a technical paper by this date. Full-text of accepted papers are due June 8.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://weblog.obso1337.org/2009/students-get-involed-in-the-gcds-through-technical-papers/ | 7496 |
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| This week, at work, we released the 1.0 stable version of the Hyves Desktop, with source available (for almost everything but the photo uploader and editor plugin, more's the pity), and also the iPhone app, a java phone app and a firefox toolbar. It's nice to work for a company that actually ships! KOffice 2.0 RC1 got tagged. There's a nasty file handling bug in Krita that we haven't been able to pin down, so we might need another RC, though. Or it might be an lcms issue. But getting here has been an enormous relief. KOffice 2.0 won't replace KOffice 1.6 or OpenOffice as a stable workhorse, but it is a release that really allows us to build on. Update: : yes, it is an lcms issue -- 1.17 got a security patch last week which broke Krita. 1.18 is fine. And then there's KDE 4.2.2 -- I'm using it with Qt 4.5, and it's pretty stable, except for some KRunner quirkiness, where urls get autocompleted but ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2009/04/03#releases_april_2009 | 7493 |
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| We're really in a KDE/GNOME mood today, it would seem. The KDE team has released the second maintenance release for the KDE 4.2 series, KDE 4.2.2 . The three biggest improvements in this release are stability fixes in KRunner, performance enhancements in KMail, and bugfixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2009/04/kde-4-2-2-released?fromrss=1 | 7491 |
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We have a number of new Plasma components lining up to make it into 4.3. Not least among them is a geolocation DataEngine, making it absolutely trivial for anything Plasma to get at the information either via a GPS device or by looking up the location of your network address if you are online. Along with a handful of new widgets, some I've already written about recently, we also have no less than six new wallpaper plugins that may make it into 4.3!
They range from the trivial-but-was-in-KDE3 pattern based wallpaper plugin to Jonathan's weather wallpaper which automatically changes the wallpaper to reflect the weather. It of course uses the weather DataEngine, allowing Jonathan to concentrate on the business of making a neat wallpaper concept come to life.
To support his efforts, I added DataEngine support to the Wallpaper class so that using DataEngines is as easy from a Wallpaper as it is from a Plasmoid. Feeling I was on a Wallpaper role, I made a few other additions to the Wallpaper support:
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16 | System & Utilities | http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/04/wallpapers-and-other-bobbles-for-43.html | 7488 |
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