This is how to perform a Master or Hard reset on your Google G1, T-mobile G1, Tmobile Google G1, Google phone. whatever you call it!Here’s what to do:
These 3 codes work on 90% of Nokia phones:
| *#06# | n/a | Display the IMEI (Standard GSM command, works on all phones) |
| *#0000# | n/a | Display the firmware version and date |
| *#92702689# | *#war0anty# | Here you can view the S/N and the IMEI as well as the life timer (newer models). The date the phone left the factory and the date it was purchased. If your phone has been repaired the date of the repair is also visible. You will need to turn the phone off to exit this menu. Newer phones simply require you to press ok. |
| *4720# | (*hra0#) | Cctivates Half Rate, Half Rate is 5.6kbit/s and uses half the bandwidth at the cost of call quality. Network operators often activate half rate on overloaded towers during peak times to save costs. |
| #4720# | (#hra0#) | Deactivates Half Rate |
| *3370# | (*efr0#) | Activates Enhanced Full Rate, EFT attempts to match wire quality. The calls are 12.2kbit/s and are not supported by all operators. It is compatibale with the hightest AMR mode. |
| #3370# | (#efr0#) | Deactivates Enhanced Full Rate |
| *#746085685# | (*#sim0clock#) | Display the SIM clock status |
| *#7220# | (*#pca0#) | Activate the GPRS PCCCH support (Packet Common Control Channel) |
| *#7230# | (*#pcd0#) | Deactivate the GPRS PCCCH support |
| *#7760# | (*#ssn0#) | Display the manufacturing serial number |
| *#67705646# | (*#opr0logo#) | Clear the operator logo, the logo will be reset to the default network operator logo. |
| *#2820# | (*#bta0#) | Display the Bluetooth MAC address (Phone must have a built in bluetooth adapter) |
| *#7370925538# | (*#res0wallet#) | Reset the mobile wallet (Phone must have the mobile wallet feature) |
| *#7370# | (*#res0#) | Soft-format the memory (Symbian) |
| *#7780# | (*#rst0#) | Reset to factory defaults, confirmation required (also known has a Hard-format), all phone contents will be wiped clean including contacts and smses if they are stored on the phone |
Hard Format code :
Note : Disable startup pin code and secuirty code checks before hard formatting the phone.
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Google announced that on December 31st they will shut down Lively, which was their 3D chat world, and somewhat of a potential competitor to Second Life. Room widgets embedded in other sites are then supposed to show an image but no more interaction, which would add Lively to the list of Google’s canceled products. Google’s post on this decision does not really give a detailed reasoning for this shut-down of a product which was just released this year, except that they’re saying “we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business.” In particular, this leaves some questions unanswered as a company could theoretically embed ads in this 3D world app.Google said on its blog that after four and a half months on the Lively project, its resources would be better spent focusing on its core search, advertising and applications businesses.
"We've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off," the posting added. Google was not immediately available for comment. Google employees working on the project will move to other teams, according to the blog.
Many people believed that Lively could have been the first step in a plan by Google to get more into actual PC gaming but as Google's blog site states, "...we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off. " As it turned out not many folks showed up to participate in Lively which may mean that Google's low key approach didn't get the attention it first expected
Lively users have been asked by Google to capture their work by taking videos and screenshots of their rooms. Rooms and avatars on the site will not be available after Dec. 31.
With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They are the best desktop processors on the planet.¹
Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:Processor Name | Cores | Clock | Cache | QPI/FSB | TDP | 1Ku Price |
| Intel Core i7 Extreme 965 | 4 | 3.20GHz | 8MB | 3200MHz | 150W | $999 |
| Intel Core i7 940 | 4 | 2.93GHz | 8MB | 2400MHz | 130W | $562 |
| Intel Core i7 920 | 4 | 2.66GHz | 8MB | 2400MHz | 130W | $284 |
| Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 | 4 | 3.20GHz | 2 x 6MB | 1600MHz | 150W | $1,499 |
| Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 | 4 | 3.20GHz | 2 x 6MB | 1600MHz | 136W | $1,399 |
| Intel Core 2 Extreme Q9650 | 4 | 3.00GHz | 2 x 6MB | 1333MHz | 130W | $530 |
| Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 | 4 | 2.83GHz | 2 x 6MB | 1333MHz | 95W | $316 |
| Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 | 4 | 2.66GHz | 2 x 6MB | 1333MHz | 95W | $316 |
| Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 | 4 | 2.66GHz | 2 x 3MB | 1333MHz | 95W | $266 |
| Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 | 4 | 2.50GHz | 2 x 3MB | 1333MHz | 95W | $266 |
| Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 | 4 | 2.33GHz | 2 x 2MB | 1333MHz | 95W | $193 |
NetBeans™ IDE 6.5 offers simplified and rapid development of web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with PHP, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and Groovy.
sudo pppoeconf
Feed the root password and then keep the settings that you want and there !!! You are done...
Gmail also did a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.
1. PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)With an average annual salary of $101,695, the PMP certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) organization tops the list of highest paying certifications.
2. PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
Next highest on the list of highest paying certifications is PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM). The average annual salary for CAPM holders that were surveyed is $101,103.
3. ITIL v2 - Foundations
With an annual average salary of $95,415 the ITIL v2 Foundations certification came up third on the list of highest paying certifications. ITIL stands for the IT Infrastructure Library. The ITIL certification is designed to show expertise in ITIL service support and service delivery.
4. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Coming in at a close 4th on the list of highest paying certifications is the Certified Information Systems Security Professional or CISSP certification from (ISC). The average annual reported salary was $94,018.
This is the time to review the top trends in search in 2007. Major search engines like Yahoo, Google and Ask released list of top queries of the year 2007. You can get idea of what’s hot in search right now and major events that happened in year 2007. Top fastest growing queries in US on Google:
1. iphone
2. webkinz
3. tmz
4. transformers
5. youtube
6. club penguin
7. myspace
8. heroes
9. facebook
10. anna nicole smith
You can see country specific queries on Google webcast here.
Top searches on Ask.com for 2007:
1. MySpace
2. Dictionary
3. Google
4. Themes
5. Area Codes
6. Cars
7. Weather
8. Games
9. Song Lyrics
10. Movies
Yahoo released category wise top search terms list.
Yahoo’s top searches for 2007:
Category: News
Saddam Hussein
Iran
Iraq
President George W. Bush
Oil and Gas Prices
Barack Obama
Hillary Rodham Clinton
San Diego Fires
Afghanistan
Virginia Tech
Category: Celebrity
Britney Spears
Paris Hilton
Anna Nicole Smith
Vanessa Anne Hudgens
Nicole Richie
Amy Winehouse
Rosie O’Donnell
Tara Conner
Michael Vick
Owen Wilson
Category: Tech
YouTube
Wikipedia
Facebook
iTunes
iPod
iPhone
Nintendo Wii
XBox
Sony PlayStation 3
Guitar Hero
Category: Sports
NASCAR
Maria Sharapova
Boston Red Sox
David Beckham
Serena Williams
Chicago Bears
Christiano Ronaldo
Super Bowl
Ronaldinho
Ashley Force
And more category wise search term list on Yahoo buzz.
From these search terms its clear that this is the year of social networking.
1. Excessive Promises - Often made without developer input or consultation. Promises of insane levels of functionality will only seek to burden the project with unnecessary tasks. Example:
- Sales: You want a Titanium Rocket Car with your project???
- Customer: Errm...well no...erm...
- Sales: You can have it!!!
...later...
- Sales: We need a Titanium Rocket Car!!
- Programmer: WTF?!?!
2. Change - Or should I say: Refusing to accept that change is inevitable and having fixed requirements with no flexibility is unnatural.
3. Lack of Communication - Lack of client involvement and poor communication is working blind. Ever hear of Chinese whispers?
4. Inexperience - from the team leaders, programmers and management. In fact anywhere in the line can cause problems.
5. Lack of Planning - Often a curse of developers who just want to get on with the job. Planning is by far the most important aspect of a new project and also the most often neglected.
6. Lack of Priority - Concentrating too much on 'parts' and losing site of the bigger picture.
7. Relying on a Due-Date - See Parkinsons Law (work will expand to fill the time allowed).
8. Hardware and poor hardware management.
9. Ignorant Managerial Interference - I did have a great Dilbert comic for this but I lost it.
10. Insufficient Resources - Whether that be staff, time, facilities or raw materials.
Nice story to ponder upon.. pressure kills productivity.. and this concept can be applied to any field. You do what you want to do best when you are not pressurized / bound to do it for money (or marks!!) :)
This article is written by Nemanja Konem, a lead architect at a business firm.
"Sounds crazy right? Keep on reading, maybe it won't be by the end of the story…
For the last 8 years I was a hardcore Java developer. I worked on many different projects, various kinds and various positions - from junior to senior, team leader, project manager, lead developer and architect. But all in all, every working day of my life contained an average 80% of pure coding.
Then I decided that it's time for a career change. I quit my job, moved away from software development companies and became a solution architect in an insurance company.
Why? Mostly because anyone can be a Java developer these days. You don't need a Master degree to be a code monkey. Just read the JDK tutorial, keep up to date by following InfoQ/DZone posts and start producing. I figured out that I was missing real business know-how and that I am not a subject area expert in any business-related field.
Being an architect in a non-software company has benefits. You work for internal clients and don't bring money into the company. You just spend it.
Another benefit is that you don't code for a living anymore! It took me a while to realize why that is actually a benefit. Well, I am a developer by nature and I missed it naturally. When you are developing something all day at work, you don't have much nerves/energy/enthusiasm to do the same at home in the evening. No matter what software company you work for (Google, IBM, Oracle etc.) you will always do what your boss tells you to do and how your architect tells you to do it. It will never be exactly the way you want it.
When you are not programming during the day (and we all know that architects just throw documents over the wall for somebody else to develop it) then you have a high wish to program something at home. But this time it's different. There is no time pressure. No clients. You develop your way, what you want and how you want it. That exciting feeling I had a long time ago, came again. It didn't burn out, but was just pushed down under every-day-heavy-weight-high-
Suddenly I figured out that I did many things wrong just because of time pressure. I knew they were wrong, but had to take short cuts to meet tight deadlines. And that sucks! That is what is killing your will to continue coding and what makes you a terrible developer.
Some of you probably work on nice projects and completely disagree with my previous statements. Fair enough. I envy you guys. There are others that probably feel the same way I did before.
My advice to this latter group is: "find a job that brings you a financial stability but doesn't kill your desire to develop your stuff in your free time. That job can still be with some software company, but don't be afraid to let it go in case it's not. The world is a huge place with lots of opportunities. Go for it…"
Google is rolling out video and voice capabilities for the chat function that is embedded in the Gmail interface. It's a bare-bones voice and video-conferencing service, but it's simple to install and use and is a very good addition to Gmail. It's no Skype, though. Gmail Video and Voice, as it's called, can't connect to the plain phone network, as Skype's paid service can. And there are plenty of other optional features missing, like a voice call recorder.
Gmail Video and Voice will be made available to all Gmail users starting Tuesday at noon PST. Global rollout should be complete by the end of the day. To see if you have it, open a chat with someone (you don't actually have to message them). If your account is video-enabled, at the lower left of the chat window, there will be an interface element labeled "Video & more." When you click on that it will walk you through installing the plug-in. If you want to make a video call to someone who hasn't yet installed the plug-in, you'll be able to invite them to do so. (In my early test of the service, this feature wasn't yet enabled).
The new chat functionality will work on PCs with Windows XP or Vista, as well as on Macs with OS X 10.4 or later. The plugin will work with all the major browsers, including Google's own Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari.
From what we have seen so far, the videos integrate directly with the standard chat function in Google. To get started, you have to first enable this new functionality from the 'Options' menu at the bottom of a Gmail chat window. After that, all you have to do is select the contact you want to speak with and click on 'Video & more' in the lower-left part of the chat window. From there, you can then start a voice or video chat.
Once you install the plugin, to start a video chat, just click on the "Video & more" menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose "Start video chat." You'll have a few seconds to make sure you look presentable while it's ringing, and then you'll see and hear your friend live, right from within Gmail. You can click the "pop-out" icon
to make the video larger, or click the fullscreen icon
in the upper left-hand corner for a fully immersive experience. See this all in action in the video below:
The existing downloadable Google Talk application, which has supported voice chat for a while, only later may get the video capability. The Google people I spoke with were noncommittal.
Upshot: The addition of voice and video makes Gmail a more compelling product. It's very nice to have all the major communications channels (e-mail, chat, voice, video, and soon, SMS) in one place and under one log-on. Google could, though, layer in some more connectivity into its own apps (like YouTube, Google Docs presentations, and Android) to make it even richer. And the lack of an interface to the standard phone system is limiting.
But Google got the first release of its videophone pretty much right. It works, it's easy, and if you're a Gmail user, the service is right where you want it.
Here's a Google developer's pitch for the service:
Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease. In collaboration with experienced partners working in each of these fields, we will invest our resources and tap the strengths of Google’s employees and global operations to advance five major initiatives: Develop Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal (RE In 2004, when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote to prospective shareholders about their vision for the company, they outlined a commitment to contribute significant resources, including 1% of Google's equity and profits in some form, as well as employee time, to address some of the world's most urgent problems. That commitment became Google.org.
Google.org is a hybrid philanthropy that uses a range of approaches to help advance solutions within our five initiatives. We operate in a traditional manner by supporting our partners’ work with targeted grants. But we can also invest in for-profit endeavors, such as efforts by companies to develop breakthrough renewable energy technologies. Our structure also allows us to lobby for policies that support our philanthropic goals. Additionally, we can tap Google’s innovative technology and, most importantly, its inspired workforce. We’ve already begun to donate and invest Google.org’s funds, and we expect to continue to do so in the future.
Google also established the Google Foundation in 2005, which is a separate 501(c)(3) private foundation. The Google Foundation is managed by Google.org and supports our mission and core initiatives as one of our sources of funds for grant making. As of May 2008, Google.org has committed over $85 million in grants and investments to further our five initiatives.
While Wuala will happily sell you additional storage space (from $25 a year for 10GB to $1000 for 1TB), you can also trade your own local disk space for cloud storage space. If you share 5GB of space on your local drive, you will get an additional 5GB of online storage. Given how cheap hard disks have become, this seems like a fair trade-off. Users who share their local hard disk space can also turn off advertising on Wuala.
Wuala's client basically looks like a local folder and you can decide if you want to share any of your files stored on Wuala with either your friends or a group of users.
Even with the strong encryption Wuala uses, though, the fact that some information is going to be stored on machines outside of even Wuala's control is not going to sit well with a lot of people. While most private users can probably live with these risks (which are inherent in any cloud storage solution), businesses will probably stay very far away from Wuala.
There is also the question of how people will use Wuala - after all, the service provides almost unlimited and strongly encrypted storage. As Wuala has little control over what is shared on the network, Wuala might turn out to be a haven for rather unsavory activities. But then, the same can probably be said for most other cloud storage services as well.
The cloud storage market is highly competitive, but so far, no clear front-runner has emerged. Wuala's competitors include Box.net, Dropbox, Mozy, as well as Apple's Mobile Me and Microsoft's various online storage services, including SkyDrive and Mesh. There are also various software solutions to make backing up to Amazon's S3 more consumer friendly. All of these have different business models and feature sets, but Wuala's simplicity and P2P sharing approach will make it very competitive.
Website eXtractor saves you time and effort by downloading entire Internet sites (or the sections you stipulate) to your hard drive.
Whether you browse the web for research, work, or fun, there's nothing worse than having to wait for page after page to load in Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator (or in other popular browsers). The problem is they will only load one page at a time. So if you are viewing a large website with a thousand pages, you'd have to click the mouse a thousand times ... and ... choose a directory/folder a thousands times when you want to save each file. You end up spending a lot of time waiting around and not enough time reading or viewing pages on the Internet.
Note: Using a regular browser to surf large websites or photo galleries takes the fun out of web browsing and makes research a real chore.
But now, with WebSite eXtractor, you can download whole websites (or parts of them) in one go to your computer. You can then view the whole site offline at your leisure - and you can whiz through the saved pages at lightning speed.
WebSite eXtractor is a great tool for researchers, journalists, students, equity analysts, business and marketing executives - as well as for those who want to browse family websites containing digital photo albums.
Advantages :
University of Portsmouth researcher Paul Gnanayutham has developed a computer system capable of understanding thought. Gnanayutham's system uses patients' brain waves and eye and muscular movements, called bio-potentials, to move a cursor on a computer. The cursor can point to targets on the computer screen, including "yes," "no," "thank you," a switch to turn on electrical appliances such as a television, and a link to the patient's favorite Web site. The switches can be changed to anything a person prefers to say, watch, or control. Gnanayutham says the prototype device, which is designed for people who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, is ready for use on real people. "This technology has been around but very few people have used it for anything worthwhile," he says. The system is non-invasive and works by attaching probes on an alice band worn around the head. The band picks up brain waves and muscle and eye movement signals at the forehead. The signals are fed into an amplifier, which can cut out external noise and listen to only the bio-potentials of the person wearing the electrodes, and then are sent to the serial port, where the computer interprets the signals to control the cursor. As long as a person can move their eyes left and right, they can move the cursor left and right, and raising and lowering their eyebrows moves the cursor up and down. Over time, users can be taught to imagine their brainwaves being read by the computer, leading to them learning to navigate the cursor through the power of thought.
Mike Nash, vice president of Windows product management, has revealed the following details about the naming of the next Windows OS (Windows 7) to hit the market in order to pacify the raging debate over the counting methodology used by Microsoft to reach the number "7":
LOS ANGELES--Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft's own data centers.
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft® data centers.
To build these applications and services, developers can use their existing Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, and XML. Windows Azure is an open platform that will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments.
Being flexible and interoperable platform, developers can use this platform to build new applications to run from the cloud or enhance existing applications with cloud-based capabilities. Its open architecture gives developers the choice to build web applications, applications running on connected devices, PCs, servers, or hybrid solutions offering the best of online and on-premises.
We all know only too well the Windows logo, that ubiquitous four-color flapping flag, which conveniently marks the Start Menu. In case you have not seen the trees because of the forest so far, the colors in question are red, green, blue and yellow. Coincidently, the same colors have been planted in Google's logo - the search engine - as well. However, there would be nothing too strange about this, if the similarity were restricted to the chromatic aspect alone.
One of the great things about Debian and Ubuntu is that you have a ton of great open source software at your fingertips via the package repositories for those distros. However, if you want to run popular packages like VMware Server or Opera, it gets a little tricker.
This is only for folks who use Debian or Debian-based distros, especially Ubuntu and its derivatives. Also, you should already know how to use Advanced Package Tool (APT) and how to edit a sources.list file. Aren't sure? Brush up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The sources.list that comes with your distro is probably fine for most people, but if you're more adventurous, or if you want to make it easy to install and manage third-party software packages, you need to add other repositories to your sources.list. Let's take a look at some of the more interesting choices out there. However, all the usual caveats about conflicts apply here, so make sure you know what you're doing before you start adding repos willy-nilly.
Opera
Firefox is an awesome Web browser, but Opera is pretty amazing in its own right, even if it's not open source. If you'd like to check out the other cool non- Internet Explorer alternative, add one of the following to sources.list, depending upon your tolerance for beta software (the commented line is always helpful later, so it's a good idea to add it):
# Operadeb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ sid non-freedeb http://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/ sid non-free
Before you update your package cache, however, you need to run a few commands, which add the public key for the repo to your system's keychain. If you forget this step, APT will complain every single time you run it, which will quickly drive you nutso.
$ sudo gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 6A423791$ sudo gpg --fingerprint 6A423791$ sudo gpg --armor --export 6A423791| sudo apt-key add -
Run sudo apt-get update and you can now install Opera. Further instructions can be found onhttp://deb.opera.com.
Skype
Skype is an excellent, though non-open, VoIP client. In particular, the fact that it auto-encrypts your voice and IM traffic is a wonderful bonus. To make it easy to grab the latest version of Skype, update your sources.list with this line:
# Skypedeb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
Now this will work for you:
$ apt-get install skype
For more info, see http://www.skype.com/download/
WINE
WINE isn't an emulator, but it's incredibly useful when you want to run Windows- based software. In recent years this project has really accelerated, so you'd be silly not to add the following line to your sources.list:
# WINEdeb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt feisty main
To add the project's public key, run this:
$ wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.
To find out more, check out http://www.winehq.org/site/
It's nice that a company like Google doesn't forget that its very existence depends on Linux. It's even nicer that the company makes software for Linux as well as Windows and Mac OS X. To make it easy to work with that software, put this in your sources.list:
# Google software repositorydeb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
And don't forget to add those public keys!
$ wget -q -O- https://dl-ssl.google.com/
At this time, the only two packages available in the repository are Google Desktop and Picasa, which you can install as follows:
$ sudo apt-get install picasa google-desktop-linux
Google Earth will be added" soon," which will be nice. In the meantime, you can read Google instructions for APT (and other package systems) at http://www.google.com/
Canonical commercial
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has a special repository available that contains software that is free to acquire but not under an open license. Termed the" commercial" repo, it contains things like RealPlayer, Opera, SugarCRM, and VMWare Server. To grab this software, place these lines in sources.list:
# Canonical Commercial Repositorydeb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main
To install VMWare Server (which is awesome, by the way), just use APT:
$ sudo apt-get install vmware-server
To find out exactly what packages are available, head over to http://archive.canonical.com/
debian-multimedia
Unfortunately, the pernicious and corrupting influence of money in politics has led to stupid laws that make some software illegal- or at least legally sketchy- for Penguinistas to install and use. You can get around these ridiculous restrictions by adding this line to sources.list:
# Debian Multimediadeb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
Before you start installing software, take care of those keys:
$ sudo apt-get update&& sudo apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
Now you have a huge list of packages available to you, which you can view at http://www.debian-multimedia.acroread (Adobe's Acrobat Reader) and w32codecs (the codecs for Windows-based formats), and plenty more.
You'll find software for playing, ripping, and authoring DVDs, multimedia players and transcoders,MythTV, and plugins to extend Firefox. Visit http://www.debian-multimedia.
Ubuntu sources.list generator
Finally, if you're interested in one-stop shopping, head over to the Ubuntu source-o-matic, which asks a few questions and then generates a custom sources.list just for you. To begin, go tohttp://www.ubuntu-nl.org/
Answer a few basic questions about your location and your system. Then pick the repositories you want from a pretty extensive list.
Your choices include, besides the standard Ubuntu repos, the following software, along with my comments:
Seveas' Ubuntu Packages– a very nice 3rd party repository.
Ubuntu backports project– new releases of packages that are" backported" to the current and older Ubuntu releases.
Kubuntu.org bleeding edge KDE– this has the latest real release of KDE, not the latest beta.
Kubuntu.org bleeding edge KOffice– has KOffice, and is actually safe to use.
Kubuntu.org bleeding edge AmaroK– latest Amarok release, very safe to use.
Upstream WINE– WINE direct from the source.
Upstream Opera– the official Opera repository.
Upstream Beryl– lots of shiny whizzy Desktop goodness!
Medibuntu multimedia packages– multimedia software that isn't included in Ubuntu for legal reasons.
Canonical Commercial packages– non-free software that runs on Ubuntu.
If you do decide to get the bleeding edge KDE updates, make sure you run the following first:
$ wget http://people.ubuntu.com/~
If you're a KDE user, the Kubuntu repos are a great way to keep up to date with new releases of key KDE software.
Seveas' repository contains some interesting items, including FreeNX (which provides secure, remote X11 connections, and is covered in this month's" On The Desktop" column), w32codecs, ttf-fossfonts (108 GPL or Public Domain TTF fonts), and libdvdcss (needed to view" protected" DVDs). If Seveas' stuff looks good to run, run this before you use APT:
$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 1135D466$ gpg --export --armor 1135D466 | sudo apt-key add -
One cool thing about using source-o-matic is the commented help it prints at the top of the sources.list file it creates:
# If you get GPG errors with this sources.list,# locate the GPG key in this file# and run these commands (where KEY is replaced with that key)## gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys KEY# gpg --export --armor KEY | sudo apt-key add -
That's an excellent cheatsheet to have available to you.
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