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Fedora Core 7 “Moonshine” released!

The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 7, code name “Moonshine”: “Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we’ve brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment.

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AOL Active Virus Shield new release (now Vista compatible)

Was just trying out AOL AVS, and noticed something.. The file gets downloaded from this directory: http://download.nullsoft.com/avs/

And surprise surprise! Its got a new file there http://download.nullsoft.com/avs/AVS_v25.exe upon installing which, it says v6.0.2.621

Ss listed on http://www.kaspersky.com/productupda…pter=186435857

It is the LATEST version of KAV 6! And its vista compatible too! :D

Gmail upgrades maximum attachment size to 20 MB!

YAY! This move is a lot better than giving us unlimited storage space! A boon for gmail drive and gmailFS users!

Source.

Install Pidgin 2.0.0 on Ubuntu Feisty (with all plugins)

You can easily get the vanilla Pidgin 2.0 .deb (installation file for Ubuntu Feisty).

The only thing i was missing badly were the plugins! I was really used to the libnotify and autoreply plugins. Anyway, so i’ve compiled a .deb here for the Purple Plugin Pack.

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Pidgin v2.0.0 released!

After a LONG wait, finally the day is here! Pidgin 2.0.0 goes final!

Pidgin (previously called Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

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Free Joost invites!

Yesterday i got 999 invites on my Joost account! So im giving em away here! Anyone who wants them, please leave a comment here in the following format:

First Name:
Last Name:

No need to publish your email as i can get that from the admin panel.

Is DRM worth it?

So, you are the producer/publisher of a content. You want to make money of it. As much money as possible. You are wondering if you must use DRM or not.

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HD-DVD encryption key out! Digg goes down

The HD-DVD encryption key was leaked over the internet yesterday. The source got dugg pretty hard! It was being dugg so hard that digg was seeing 40 digs per second on this story! Ultimately digg went down and was showing 404 errors on every story! It was really great to see how strongly people feel about DRM. This key actually enables people to decode legally bought HD-DVD movies on linux, though they are only supposed to be played on windows.

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Digg Link

Edit: Digg removed the story again, for the second time!Anyway, its still #4 top story on reddit.

Edit2: Digg founder Kevin gives up

New Internet Data Speeds Set

A group of researchers testing out the so called Internet2 network said it had broken speed records by first sending data at 7.67 gigabits per second, and breaking it the next day with a data transfer rate of 9.08Gbps.

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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Released

Its finally here! And im running it :D Due to all the traffic rush, Ubuntu.com is down! On their homepage:

Thank you to everyone who has helped make Ubuntu 7.04 a reality. Thousands of you have helped code, test, translate and promote Ubuntu and everyone can celebrate today’s release.

If you are looking for general information about the Ubuntu project, the main site will be back shortly.

For official mirrors to download, please see the Ubuntu homepage.