KDE 3.5.7 has been released. There are many fixes and features, but this is the feature that caught my eye: A new and interesting usability feature in KHTML makes the mouse pointer indicate if a link wants to open a new browser window or not. Official announcement
The world is open source.
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Dell to Serve Ubuntu to the Masses
Yes, that is a Dell computer, and no I did not doctor this image. You can find it on the Dell website. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Dell has officially announced that they intend to start selling computers with Ubuntu Linux installed. Meanwhile, I’m starting my next book entitled The Decline and […]
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Resurrecting MedIslam
I’m currently redesigning Medislam.org. It’s still in the early stages, but I thought it would be good to tell everyone so that I could get some feedback. So, please look at it and leave your comments. For those who don’t know, Medislam.org was a medical information site for Muslims. Several Muslim doctors answered hundreds of […]
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HTPCs and Black Votes
I have a new post at LinuxLibrarian about my experience building my first HTPC and a post at Third Resurrection about the all important “black vote” juxtaposed with the Islamic concept of Justice. I’m trying to post regularly at both of those blogs. Please read them.
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KDE4 Update
As I mentioned, a lot of my free software related posts will now be at LinuxLibrarian.org. Here is my latest update on KDE4: A lot of talk has been circulating recently about KDE4, as developers inch closer to settling on a release date. Here are some of the particularly cool features that I’ve encountered thus […]
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It’s Official
You can now go to Bittorrent.com, purchase, and download movies or TV shows…but only if you have Microsoft Windows XP, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and you live in the United States. Now, help me understand the point of this. The motion picture industry supposedly wants to make legal downloads attractive to current illegal torrent […]
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StepMania
StepMania has infected our house. We all have the bug, even 3-year-old Zahra. We ordered two dance pads, which took forever to get here (that’s another story), and we got them yesterday. For those of you who don’t know…by the way, if you think dancing and music are haram, please don’t bother commenting on my […]
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10 Reasons the Nokia N800 is better than the iPhone
With all of the hype about the new Apple iPhone, Starry Hope offers 10 reasons to get a Nokia N800 instead. My favorite reason, of course, is that it runs a variant of Debian GNU/Linux.
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Netflix: Slaves of the Industry
I’ve recently received word that Netflix will start offering a “watch it now” feature, which will stream movies to subscribers’ computers. You can watch a demonstration of it at Hacking Netflix. Being a 4-DVD Netflix subscriber myself, I decided to investigate. In their FAQ, they already list the system requirements as “Windows XP or later” […]