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Amarok 1.4 and Why You Should Care

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Amarok 1.4 has been released and all I can say is WWWWOOOOOOOWWWW.  This release is amazing, guys.  I've been waiting for it to show up in my kubuntu updates list and it hasn't, so tonight I hunted a bit and found this announcement showing how to get it for dapper.  As I type this, I'm transferring 1.4G to my iPod nano, and it looks like it's going to also transfer the album cover artwork along with it.  Kick butt!!!

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SuSE 10.1 Online Sources

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Just installed 10.1 on my work laptop yesterday.  I have an IBM ThinkPad T42, and it doesn't look like XGL is going to work for me on that.  Bummer.    That's some of the reason that I went through this upgrade.  =:/

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The Importance of Not Getting Bit While Digging Up Rocks

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So, as a prelude... you may think of it as something very important to learn in life... if ever you are planning on digging very, very, very large rocks out of your New England back yard, be sure to cover yourself head to boots in mosquito repellant. Otherwise, you will assuredly find yourself covered in more bug bites than you care to count. I mean, honestly, what kind of stupid mosquito bites you on the ears??? How much blood can possibly be up there anyway? Blah. Death to all mosquitos!!!

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LDAP, Microsoft Exchange, and KAddressBook or Thunderbird

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My current employer uses Exhange 2003 as its current groupware solution. I have on-and-off-again been beating my head against the proverbial concrete wall in trying to get it to work nicely with LDAP and addressbooks other than Evolution or Outlook, for obvious reasons. Today, my geeky noggin' has broken through the proverbial concrete wall and I now have both KDE's kaddressbook and Thunderbird's address book successfully using the Exchange server here at work.

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