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GNOME 2.29.91 Beta Available

Wed, Feb 24 2010 1 Comment

From the GNOME Developers Mailing List comes the immediate release of GNOME 2.29.91, which includes the latest GNOME Shell release:

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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 112 is out!

Sat, Feb 27 2010 No Comments

Issue #112 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out!

Honoring openSUSE Wiki Reviewing Contributions
Michal Hrusecky: Public openSUSE 11.3 virtual machine
Jared Ottley: Alfresco PDF Toolkit
How to make Monitor refresh 120htz
Guillaume DE BURE (gdebure): A call for testers KMyMoney

For a list of available translations see this page:
http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/112/Translations.

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Installing Sun Java on Fedora 12 RedHat RHEL CentOS

Fri, Feb 5 2010 No Comments

If you’re new to Fedora you’ll notice there are a few special cases with Fedora. #1, they do not ship any packages that are not within compliance with GPL and that means Sun Java.
In this tutorial I’ll show how you can install Sun Java (which can replace an openjdk installation).
Q: Why Would You Want Sun Java?
A: Well in my case there are some [ continue reading... ]

Virtualization »

[Security-announce] VMSA-2010-0002 VMware vCenter update release addresses multiple security issues in Java JR

Sat, Jan 30 2010 No Comments

VMware recently sent out the following vCenter security announcement:
1. Summary
Updated Java JRE packages address several security issues.
2. Relevant releases
Virtual Center 2.5 before Update 6
3. Problem Description
a. Java JRE Security Update
JRE update to version 1.5.0_22, which addresses multiple security
issues that existed in earlier releases of JRE.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) [ continue reading... ]

Off Topic »

The iPad Photoshop Collection

Wed, Jan 27 2010 1 Comment

With an awesome name like iPad pitting it against very popular woman sanitary products many people couldn’t contain themselves to open their GIMP or Photoshop, and let loose.
Here’s a collection of some of the best so far:

From: http://failblog.org/2010/01/27/name-fail-photoshop-win/

From: imagebin.org

From: imageshack.us

From: cylblog.com Shrunk to fit on page better.

From: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=ipad_lyttjf4khcjjn27j8a6w.jpg by Danny Ross

From: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=ipad_spwop2fcdz9zdvynzvkr.jpg
Note: first image was from: www.urlesque.com
If you have more please use the contact [ continue reading... ]

Techie »

Sony Playstation Network – Update – Slim PS3 Ok

Sun, Feb 28 2010 No Comments

An update to the previous post:
http://www.freetechie.com/blog/major-ps3-outage-sony-playstation-3-psn-network-down/
Slim PS3’s are not affected by this outage thus making me believe it’s a local bug on PS3’s that are associated with Feb 28th 2010 (a Y2K like bug).
There is no update or ETA yet on the fix.
Again, confirmation that Slim and some old style PS3’s are not affected (the later bundled ones with different hardware would be [ continue reading... ]