KDE 3.4.2

After i finished my job at the seminar, i went to my campus to check whether there is an update for Slackware, and it did. One of the biggest packages were the KDE packages, which was 3.4.2. There are totally 207 MB for KDE packages only, not including the other packages. Now, my laptop and desktop has been using KDE 3.4.2 and being updated :)

FOSS Seminar

Yesterday i made the final preparation for today's seminar. The seminar will start at 7.30 AM, so please make sure that everyone involved with this seminar come befofe the event started. It is supported by STMIK AKAKOM, PCPlus, Jogja LUG, and Khansa Group.

PCMAG

I browse the Internet and found a new magazine that have a subscribtion services. I was suprised that it was so cheap. They offer $1 for each issue. I'm not quite sure whether it's really $1 for each issue. For more information, try to browse the PCMAG website. If you find more information about it, please let me know.

Another checkout

Soon after i found that my old CVS account didn't work anymore, i do another checkout to the Mandriva's translation project. This time, i only checkout the Indonesian PO files, not with the POT files. It takes some times, but it's still reasonable. I have to setup CVSROOT again, but luckily, i saved my old tutorials, so it's quite easy to do the same thing again once you experienced with it.

Installing Irda and Bluetooth

In the next few days, i will try to search for information about how to install and configure irda (infrared device) and bluetooth on laptops for Linux platform. I want to make sure every devices on my laptop is working well and enabled. Fow now, all devices is working well, except for infraread, bluetooth, and internal modem. My Wireless device has been working and it can be used instead of internal modem which is somehow will be confusing and hard to install.

I have download some packages for irda and bluetooth but i haven't tried it yet. Maybe when i have spare time, i will configure it, since i don't use that devices as much as the wireless devices, so it's not in my high priority list.

Looking For Books

Yesterday, me, my friend, and my lecturer went to Semarang to search for imported books. We went at 8 AM and got back at 7.30 PM. Unfortunately, the book store wasn't as complete as in the Surabaya, so we only got some books. I bought one book only. Perhaps we will travel to Surabaya, but not this week, because we still have lots of work to be done this week.

JavaScript and Remote Scripting

Since i met CSS and PHP, i start to dislike Javascript, since its implementation were different in many browsers, so developers and programmers had to create a lot of code to maintain the accesibility levels in order to be working over multi browser and multi platform. I started to learn CSS as a new way to design a web page and give it a new artistic layout, rather than using some Javascript tricks and PHP as the server-side scripting to create a dynamic web site.

Lately, the Javascript is back with another technology, Remote Scripting. It allows you to communicate with your server-side programming language even without refreshing the page. Some of great examples can be found in the Sajax's project or Sitepoint. The idea was cool, but it's quite confusing, especially when your page must work on every browser, since each browser has its own syntax.

Slackware 10.2

I can't wait for the next Slackware 10.2 release which i don't know for sure when it will be released, but i'm pretty sure that it will be released this year. Some news site has reported that Patrick will release it this year. I have asked him once, but he replies "It will be released when it is ready". For me, "Ready" means stable and yes, it is one of the most stable distro i have ever tried. One problem that exists until now is the udev packages. Packages 0.6x is having trouble with the ALSA issues, so it is downgraded to 0.58. If it isn't stable yet, Patrick will use 0.54 version for the next release of Slackware Linux. You can see it from the Changelog

Firefox 1.1 Delayed and Renamed 1.5

I was quite dissapointed when i read the news that the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.1 will be delayed, since i'm waiting for it because it will include one facility that i have been waiting for, the Software Update facility. It enables users to download patches only rather than the whole application of Firefox which is approximately 5 MB for Windows and 8 MB for Linux platform.

The good news is that new version of Firefox 1.5 will include more facility that it will offer from the previous plans, such as Improved Extension System and Scalable Vector Graphics. The next 1.5 version will be available around September and the beta release will be available around August. Check out their updated roadmap.

Meanwhile, the update for Mozilla is available. It skipped 1.7.9 version since it has the same problem with Firefox 1.0.5, so it is named 1.7.10 now.

Java Module

Next week, me and my friend are going to make an extra class for Java programming, with Swing and Applet as the materials. I haven't finished the modules, but let's hope by next week, it will be finished completely, and we can start the extra class smoothly. I used Core Java, written by Marthy Hall as my primary reference and with other reference book, including Indonesian book. It should be ready in the next two or three days. I have to check the exams first, since i have to submit the points tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

A Bug or What?

I just upgraded my Firefox to 1.0.6 and my OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta to 1.9.118, the latest version available until today and after i run updatedb and reboot, i couldn't even logged in into my KDE with a message similar with "Can't start KDE because don't have any write permission to $HOME". I was suprised and shocked, because i never changed any permission to my home directory, so i rebootted and login into text mode and see the permission for /home/willy and it was owned by root users. So i tried to changed the permission into 777 by giving chmod 777 /home/willy. It worked, but i guess it wasn't a good idea, so i tried to change the owner by using chown -R willy:users /home/willy and also giving read-write permission only for me with chmod 755 /home/willy and reboot again. It also works, so now everything is back to normal.

I don't know what is the main problem, but OOo 2.0 installer has a bug when it came in the third phase, which is personal data transfer. It opened a warning that it couldn't open 2 file in the home directory. I suggest for production use, don't upgrade to OOo 1.9.118 for now. It's better to wait for the next release while waiting for further investigation.

OpenOffice.org 1.9.118

Another updates comes from OpenOffice.org's development team, which has released OOo 2.0 beta build 1.9.118 which fixes a lot of bugs and also integrates many child workspaces. There are 680 issues found on the latest version of OOo 2.0 build 1.9.118. It's getting better for an OpenSource Office Suite with so many community supports. Had problems with previous version? Try this version and perhaps your problems has been fixed in this version.

MySQL 4.1.12 and PHP 4.4.0

I upgraded my MySQL into the latest version, MySQL 4.1.12 and it surely changed a lot, especialy in the password column and also the character set being used (now it supports for UTF-8). I have to recompile my PHP so that it will include mbstring extension, needed by the phpMyAdmin and also MySQL. At first, i was faced with so many errors, including a miss type parameter for including mbstring in the PHP's configure script. Luckily, the PHP Developer Team helped me by giving me the correct syntax. Finally, i made it and now it's working normally again just like when i use MySQL 4.0.24.

Harry Potter 6th Edition

In 16 of July, the whole world was waiting for the time when Harry Potter, Half Blood Prince was released simultaneously, but in Indonesia, people are waiting for the Indonesian edition, that should be released in about 6 month (probably more). I just came from book store and saw that there was still a lot of that novel in the rack, without being touched, since it was in English. I'd like to buy that, but since i have also followed the Indonesian version since the first edition, so i didn't buy it now and will wait for the Indonesian version.

Kernel 2.6.12.2 and IPW2200

After i downloaded the latest kernel version for Slackware, kernel 2.6.12.2 and some other packages, i installed it and somehow, the IPW2200 Centrino driver for my Centrino didn't work anymore. I have tried to reinstall it but still it didn't work. So i have to reboot and use the previous kernel version and found the answer that there are some problems when we use kernel 2.6.12. The solution was to upgrade the IPW2200 driver to the latest version, 1.0.6 which fix this bug and it did work.

Please take a note that to install IPW2200 1.0.5 and above, you must also install a new subsystem IEEE80211 before upgrading the IPW2200 driver. Also make sure that you have removed all the previous modules by using remove-old script included in both package. After that, have a nice day with Internet again. Now both my laptop and desktop are running with kernel 2.6.12.2 :)

So Many Updates

Today i got a lot of email messages and when i looked at Slackware's Changelog, it was filled with lots of updates :

Fri Jul 15 00:31:30 PDT 2005
testing/packages/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-3.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.4.4.
testing/packages/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-g++-3.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.4.4.
testing/packages/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-g77-3.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.4.4.
testing/packages/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-gnat-3.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.4.4.
testing/packages/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-java-3.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.4.4.
testing/packages/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-objc-3.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.4.4.
+--------------------------+
Thu Jul 14 16:02:40 PDT 2005
a/devs-2.3.1-noarch-22.tgz: Added /dev/ACM* devices.
(Thanks to Manolis Tzanidakis)
a/pkgtools-10.2.0-i486-2.tgz: Merged in Jim Hawkins' fixed speed
optimizations for pkgtool.
a/udev-062-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to udev-062.
This seems to be broken with regard to ALSA devices... I'd suggest
anyone using a 2.6 kernel "chmod 644 /etc/rc.d/rc.udev" unless you want
to help locate and report bugs. It's also possible that this has
something to do with the ever-changing syntax used in the udev.rules
config file. If you find any problems that can be attributed to that,
fixes would be appreciated. For now, rc.udev will be off by default.
ap/mysql-4.1.12-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mysql-4.1.12.
ap/texinfo-4.8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to texinfo-4.8.
d/perl-5.8.7-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7, DBD-mysql-3.0002,
and DBI-1.48.
kde/kdebindings-3.4.1-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against perl-5.8.7 and
j2sdk-1_5_0_03.
kde/koffice-1.4.0a-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against mysql-4.1.12.
kde/qt-3.3.4-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against mysql-4.1.12.
n/bitchx-1.1-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against mysql-4.1.12.
n/irssi-0.8.9-i486-7.tgz: Recompiled against perl-5.8.7.
n/php-4.4.0-i486-2.tgz: Recompiled against mysql-4.1.12.
n/popa3d-1.0-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to popa3d-1.0.
n/tcpdump-3.9.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libpcap-0.9.3 and tcpdump-3.9.3.
This fixes an issue where an invalid BGP packet can cause tcpdump to
go into an infinate loop, effectively disabling network monitoring.
(* Security fix *)
n/vsftpd-2.0.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to vsftpd-2.0.3.
x/x11-6.8.2-i486-2.tgz: Reverted to the 6.8.1 version of the ATI Rage128
DRI module, as there's an undefined symbol in the newer version that
prevents it from loading and breaks direct rendering for these cards.
This bug has been reported on the freedesktop,org site but appears to
have been closed without a fix...
To observe the problem, on a system with a Rage128 card and DRI
configured, use this command: LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
(Thanks to Andrey V. Panov for the bug report)
xap/gaim-1.4.0-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gaim-1.4.0.
xap/imagemagick-6.2.3_3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to ImageMagick-6.2.3-3.
xap/jre-symlink-1.0.5-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded for firefox-1.0.5.
xap/mozilla-firefox-1.0.5-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to mozilla-firefox-1.0.5.
This fixes several security issues. For more information, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Firefox
(* Security fix *)
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.5-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.0.5.
This fixes several security issues. For more information, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#thunderbird1.0.5
(* Security fix *)
xap/xscreensaver-4.22-i486-2.tgz: Fixed location of man pages.
(Thanks to Alak Trakru)
xap/xv-3.10a-i486-4.tgz: Upgraded to the latest XV jumbo patches,
xv-3.10a-jumbo-fix-patch-20050410 and xv-3.10a-jumbo-enh-patch-20050501.
These fix a number of format string and other possible security issues in
addition to providing many other bugfixes and enhancements.
(Thanks to Greg Roelofs)
(* Security fix *)
testing/packages/linux-2.6.12.2/alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.12.2-i486-1.tgz:
Recompiled for Linux 2.6.12.2.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.12.2/kernel-generic-2.6.12.2-i486-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.12.2 generic kernel (added loopback).
testing/packages/linux-2.6.12.2/kernel-headers-2.6.12.2-i386-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.12.2 kernel headers.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.12.2/kernel-modules-2.6.12.2-i486-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.12.2 kernel modules.
testing/packages/linux-2.6.12.2/kernel-source-2.6.12.2-noarch-1.tgz
Upgraded to Linux 2.6.12.2 kernel sources.
bootdisks/*: Regenerated bootdisks with "Slackware 10.2" label.
extra/bittorrent/bittorrent-4.1.3-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to bittorrent-4.1.3.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-1.4.1-noarch-5.tgz: Upgraded to
slackpkg-1.4.1-noarch-5. (Thanks to Piter Punk)
extra/slacktrack/slacktrack-1.25-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to slacktrack-1.25_1.
(Thanks to Stuart Winter)
+--------------------------+

Slow Connection

Last night, my Internet connection was very slow, so i had to change my ISP few times and i couldn't even fetch my email messages from my ISP. It was horrible :(

Firefox 1.0.5 Released

After running some build tests, Firefox 1.0.5 final is here with some bug fixes like :

* Code execution through shared function objects
* XHTML node spoofing
* Javascript prompt origin spoofing
* Standalone applications can run arbitrary code through the browser
* Same origin violation: frame calling top.focus()
* The return of frame-injection spoofing
* Possibly exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo()
* Script injection from Firefox sidebar panel using data:
* Same-origin violation with InstallTrigger callback
* Code execution via "Set as Wallpaper"
* XBL scripts ran even when Javascript disabled
* Content-generated event vulnerabilities

Go get them now from the FTP Site

PHP 4.4.0 Finally Released

After a long wait, finally PHP 4.4.0 is here with a bunch of changelogs:

* Added man pages for "phpize" and "php-config" scripts.
* Added support for .cc files in extensions.
* Added the sorting flag SORT_LOCALE_STRING to the sort() functions which makes them sort based on the current locale.
* Changed sha1_file() and md5_file() functions to use streams instead of low level IO.
* Fixed memory corruptions when using references in a wrong way.
* Fixed memory corruption in pg_copy_from() in case the as_null parameter was passed.
* Fixed memory corruption in stristr(). (Derick)
* Fixed bug #32685, Fixed bug #29423 (Segfault when using assignment by reference within function).
* Fixed bug #33242 (Mangled error message when stream fails).
* Fixed bug #33222 (segfault when CURL handle is closed in a callback).
* Fixed bug #33214 (odbc_next_result does not signal SQL errors with 2-statement SQL batches).
* Fixed bug #33210 (relax jpeg recursive loop protection).
* Fixed bug #33200 (preg_replace(): magic_quotes_sybase=On makes 'e' modifier misbehave).
* Fixed bug #33150 (shtool: insecure temporary file creation).
* Fixed bug #33072 (Add a safemode/open_basedir check for runtime save_path change).
* Fixed bug #33070 (Improved performance of bzdecompress() by several orders of magnitude).
* Fixed bug #33057 (Don't send extraneous entity-headers on a 304 as per RFC 2616 section 10.3.5).
* Fixed bug #33019 (socket errors cause memory leaks in php_strerror()).
* Fixed bug #33017 ("make distclean" gives an error with VPATH build).
* Fixed bug #33013 ("next month" was handled wrong while parsing dates).
* Fixed bug #32974 (pcntl calls malloc() from a signal handler).
* Fixed bug #32944 (Disabling session.use_cookies doesn't prevent reading session cookies).
* Fixed bug #32936 (http redirects URLs are not checked for control chars).
* Fixed bug #32932 (Oracle LDAP: ldap_get_entries invalid pointer).
* Fixed bug #32904 (pg_get_notify() ignores result_type parameter).
* Fixed bug #32813 (parse_url() does not handle scheme-only urls properly).
* Fixed bug #32810 (temporary files not using plain file wrapper).
* Fixed bug #32802 (General cookie overrides more specific cookie).
* Fixed bug #32800, Fixed bug #32830 (ext/odbc: Problems with 64bit systems).
* Fixed bug #32773 (GMP functions break when second parameter is 0).
* Fixed bug #32742 (segmentation fault when the stream with a wrapper is not closed).
* Fixed bug #32730 (ext/crack.c fails to compile with cracklib-2.8.3).
* Fixed bug #32670 (foreach() does not issue warning on unset array arg).
* Fixed bug #32699 (pg_affected_rows() was defined when it was not available).
* Fixed bug #32682 (ext/mssql: Error on module shutdown when called from activescript).
* Fixed bug #32647 (Using register_shutdown_function() with invalid callback can crash PHP).
* Fixed bug #32591 (ext/mysql: Unsatisfied symbol: ntohs with HP-UX).
* Fixed bug #32589 (Possible crash inside imap_mail_compose, with charsets).
* Fixed bug #32587 (Apache2: errors sent to error_log do not include timestamps).
* Fixed bug #32567 (ext/gmp fails to compile in threadsafe mode).
* Fixed bug #32538 (ext/swf/swf.c does not compile with gcc-3.4.x or newer).
* Fixed bug #32530 (chunk_split() does not append endstr if chunklen is longer then the original string).
* Fixed bug #32491 (File upload error - unable to create a temporary file).
* Fixed bug #32311 (mb_encode_mimeheader() does not properly escape characters).
* Fixed bug #32245 (xml_parser_free() in a function assigned to the xml parser gives a segfault).
* Fixed bug #32116 (mysql compressed connection doesn't work under windows).
* Fixed bug #31887 (ISAPI: Custom 5xx error does not return correct HTTP response message).
* Fixed bug #31583 (php_std_date() uses short day names in non-y2k_compliance mode).
* Fixed bug #31213 (Sideeffects caused by fix of bug Fixed bug #29493).
* Fixed bug #30052 (Crash on shutdown after odbc_pconnect()).
* Fixed bug #29975 (memory leaks when set_error_handler() is used inside error handler).
* Fixed bug #29944 (Function defined in switch, crashes).
* Fixed bug #29338 (unencoded spaces get ignored after certain tags).
* Fixed bug #28605 (Need to use -[m]ieee option for Alpha CPUs).
* Fixed bug #28377 (debug_backtrace is intermittently passing args).

Go get them now from PHP's Official Site

New Updates For Slackware

Slackware has released another updates for their packages, which can be seen on their Changelog :

Sun Jul 10 22:33:04 PDT 2005
a/pkgtools-10.2.0-i486-1.tgz: In xorgsetup, don't load the freetype module
twice in the outputted xorg.conf file. Also, fix the formatting of the
xorg.conf file. Thanks to Jonathan Woithe for the fixes!
d/gcc-3.3.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.3.6.
d/gcc-g++-3.3.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.3.6.
d/gcc-g77-3.3.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.3.6.
d/gcc-gnat-3.3.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.3.6.
d/gcc-java-3.3.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.3.6.
d/gcc-objc-3.3.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gcc-3.3.6.
kde/kdeartwork-3.4.1-i486-2.tgz: Patched to fix using screensavers from
xscreensaver >= 4.21. Thanks to Chris Linnet for the fix!
l/libtiff-3.7.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libtiff-3.7.3.
n/iptables-1.3.2-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to iptables-1.3.2.
n/rsync-2.6.5-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to rsync-2.6.5.
tcl/hfsutils-3.2.6-i486-3.tgz: Patched to include <errno.h>, and recompiled
to fix problems on systems using NPTL. Thanks to Dominik L. Borkowski for
pointing out the issue.
xap/gkrellm-2.2.7-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gkrellm-2.2.7.
xap/xscreensaver-4.22-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to xscreensaver-4.22.

Totally ill

I'm totally ill, no more posting for today :(

Update:
After resting for a day, i'm now better then before, but still i need more sleep and rest again. Let's hope tomorrow i can fully recovered from this illness :)

Another Updates For Slackware

I looked at Slackware Changelog and found that there are updates for Slackware, including security fix for zlib library. There was also updates for gnet and libexif library and also the latest version of GIMP, 2.2.8. I have download them all and installed it at my laptop and desktop. Meanwhile, GAIM had released another updates, GAIM 1.4.0 and i hope in the next few days, the Slackware packages will be released also since it was a security release.

Reinstall Again

I accidentally delete some of my / directory (including /bin) by typing rm -rf / as root, so i reinstalled my Slackware again. What a sloppy, but now it's back to normal again. I have updated the KDE (3.4.1), packages, and the kernel to the latest version of Slackware packages (2.4.31 and 2.6.11.11). Luckily i made my /home partition as a separate partition so some configuration can be obtained automatically after installing the system. I got into trouble by configuring the X Server, but now it's solved. After trying for several options, finally i got the best option for the display. Welcome back my Slackware :)

Software Patent Rejected

Finally the software patent has been rejected by the European Parliament. This is a great victory for those who have campaigned to ensure that European innovation and competitiveness is protected from the threat of software and business process patents. Many Open Source sites tries to vote for this answer for a long time and right now, their wishes has been fulfilled. Long live Open Source + Innovation and say no to Software Patents. Read the full press release

New IE Flaw

It's very unusuall that Microsoft is delivering a patch out of their monthly schedule, but i think this is a good practice, especially if it rated critical. The latest patch comes for Internet Explorer ,"A COM Object (javaprxy.dll) Could Cause Internet Explorer to Unexpectedly Exit". If you need a patch for it, download them from Microsoft Web Site. You can download the patch (494 KB), disable them manually via registry (which is not recommended if you don't know what you're doing), or unregister them. Please visit the link above for more information about this flaw.

OOo 2.0 beta on Slackware

I have download the latest version of OOo 2.0 beta, 1.9.113 and as usuall, there is only RPM version and not in binary packages, so i use rpm2tgz utility to convert it to tgz package and install it using installpkg command. It worked and everything is installed just as i use RPM. OOo 2.0 beta can work perfectly on Slackware, but the only problem is the icon. Some icons were available, but not all of it (OOo Impress, OOo Base and OOo Math's icons are not available by default). I used Gartoon Blue as my default icons, but i have tried Plastic SVG (KDE Default), and also Nuvola, but i still can't get the icons, so i used the old icons of OOo 1.1.4. Well, the icons are not perfect, but the applications are, so i don't regret it :)

Internet Cafe Issue

Internet Cafe is now given two months to complete their administration for the original software before the police will do a sweeping. It's a complicated problems. In one side, Internet Cafe can give a change for students to access Internet to search for information with a cheap cost, but in the other side, it's also base for pirated software, mostly from Microsoft.

Jogja Linux User Group is planning to hold a seminar about solution for the Internet Cafe owners. We will try to offer GNU/Linux as the solution for those who didn't want to buy Microsoft's license because they can't afford it (as it counts for each PC). The event will be held on 23 of July 2005 if no other obstacles. Right now, we are making the proposal and preparing the draft. Stay update with information about this event from our website or join our mailing list for more information.

Mouse Is Working

After i reconfigure my Xorg.conf file (a configuration files for the Xorg Server and also some of the input and output devices), i was able to make my scroll mouse working again. Before i modify the files (using Slackware default), the wheel is not working at all. Now i can browse the web or navigate through long pages with mouse :)

here is my Input Section :

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Star Wars Episode 2

I missed the Star Wars Episode 2, but i managed to borrow my friend's CD. I got home at 9.30 PM, and the movie has started since 7.30 PM, so it's better for me to see the movie via VCD. It also great change to try MPlayer and Xine in Slackware packages to play video files. Yesterday i tried to play wmv file and both player worked perfectly. Let's try for Star Wars :)

DNS Problem

I'm trying to download R-Project, but if i browse the website from my campuss, it won't find it, but if i use my dial up connection, the URL was found and browseable. I think that the ISP DNS was incorrectly configured. It was fast, but some site couldn't be opened. Weird :(

NVU 1.0 Released

Nvu 1.0 is now available for download!!. Nvu is the new Web editing environment based on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout engine. Primarily made for Linspire and other Linux flavors, its cross-platform architecture makes it available on a wide variety of other platforms. In this version, many bug has been fixed (see it on the Download page). Many people have give their comments and it was proven that it is a great application that can be used as an alternative to Microsoft Frontpage or Macromedia DreamWeaver in Linux platform (btw, it can also be installed on another platform, such as Microsoft Windows and MacOS).