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Last year Matt Mossholder held a very successful MythTV seminar using Mythbuntu for the Ubuntu Pennsylvania team. Due to the great interest in the community and much remorse from folks who missed the first session, we hosted a second session on June 21st.

The session went very well, with approx a dozen people in attendance, several with their machines ready to either install or solve problems with their existing installs (I brought along my roommate’s box, which had a remote issue that I haven’t had a chance, or inclination, to look at). The session began with a presentation and then moved into discussion and building and fix-ups. I went home with a fixed remote and a very happy roommate!

Details from the session: MythTV Seminar and Installations by Matt Mossholder

The two presentation documents from the seminar can be found on Matt’s site:

• http://www.mossholder.com/MythTV_101.odp
• http://www.mossholder.com/MythTV_Build_Seminar.odp

Our host, The ATS Group once again provided a fantastic location with a conference room, plenty of power and internet access, and this time around sprung for pizza and other refreshments!

And finally, WRT the radio program Alex and I appeared on a few weeks ago the company I work for has done a very flattering press release promoting it: LinuxForce Systems Administrator Elizabeth Bevilacqua Interviewed. *grin, blush*

DeveloperWorks: "Detect intrusions, and prevent attacks from ruining your Web designs and application programming using Snort, a free and open source Network Intrusion Prevention System (NIPS) and Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) tool. In the first article in this series, you installed Snort and made sure it could detect packets, log traffic, and be prepared to detect intrusions. In this article, learn what the data inside those packets means, and how you can use that data to infer whether attacks are occurring and alert system administrators to those attacks."

Eddie Murphy,47, is to stop making movies!!!

Hurrah!

He has revealed to TV Extra that his upcoming flick “Meet Dave” will probably be his last, he says,”"I have close to fifty movies and it’s like, why am I in the movies?….I’ve done that part now. I’ll go back to the stage and do standup.”

He hasn’t made anything worthwhile in years, so it is about time he stop making movies.

“Meet Dave” will be released July 11.

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We now have the new version of MDC up and ready for experimenting with.

A few things to note before I provide the URL:

• Changes made on the test server will not be ported back to the real database.
• The database installed on the test server is several weeks old.
• The help and certain other content, particularly in the MDC: hierarchy, has not been updated yet to reflect the switch from MediaWiki to MindTouch Deki.
• Changes made on the test server will not be ported back to the real database.
• We don’t yet have the localized skins in place, so if your language isn’t English, you’ll see little bits of English here and there.
• Changes made on the test server will not be ported back to the real database.
• This is not installed on the final hardware, which will be somewhat higher capacity.

I’d appreciate it if folks would thump on it for a while. Try doing some edits, browse around, search, and so forth.

I’ll be on vacation for the next week but will be peeking at my email to see if there are any crises, and will provide assistance where I can if people get confused by the new system. I’ll be updating the help and so forth soon. Might touch it a bit while I’m on vacation, but I hope I can make myself wait until I get home.

The URL is: http://devmo.dekiwiki.mozilla.org/.

Back home in Boston. Will write more later, possibly tomorrow.

Launchpad’s new code review system gives you a public place to discuss and vote on proposed code mergers. What’s more, you can easily access the discussion directly from both branches involved.

This month, we’ve added an email interface to make it easier to fit Launchpad-based code review into your workflow.

Aaron Bentley, who’s been working on the feature, explains:

Code review by email makes each merge proposal into a mini-mailing list. People can participate fully in code review whether they prefer to do it using web or email.

Taking part in a code review by email is very much like using the Launchpad bug tracker’s email interface.

Reply to an email from the code review and your comment is added to the discussion in Launchpad. If you want to vote by email, leave a space at the start of the line and then one of the following commands:

• vote approve
• vote disapprove
• vote abstain

So, now code review in Launchpad is as easy as any code review by email but with the added benefit of a public record of the code review in Launchpad.

Here is a step-by-step guide that should save you a few hours.

• Some recognition for the bugsquad: in the last month, there have been 140 more bugs closed than bugs opened, and I would guess that at least a little bit of that is due to the work that they’ve been doing on triaging Konqueror bugs.
• Also, thanks to Andreas Pakulat, for going through the KDevelop wishlist bugs and knocking the number of open wishlists down by nearly 150. That’s awesome work!
• The bugsquad will be hosting two! bug triage days for Kopete in the month of July. I’m looking forward to working with the rest of the community those days to get the Kopete bugs triaged a bit more, helping the few developers Kopete has to prioritize their work
• Speaking of Kopete, as with any open source project, it could use some more contributors. Please email kopete-devel@kde.org if you’re interested in helping. Artists, coders, people interested in helping with the web site, bug triagers, all are welcome. Update:For those interested in coding, there is a Junior Jobs page at http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Kopete/JuniorJobs
• Bugzilla 3 update: I’m working on some data conversions and have the simple-dup-finder.cgi left to port before I think we’re ready to convert. No timeline yet on when that’s going to be done due to my limited time

2muchcoffeeman writes "Former Linspire president and CEO Kevin Carmony — whose relationship with his former employer has turned acrimonious, to say the least — reported on his blog that Xandros and Linspire signed an agreement in principle to buy Linspire June 19. Carmody includes a scan of the memo to Linspire shareholders announcing the deal, which requires the former Linspire company to change its name. According to the memo, the stockholders voted to change the company's name to Digital Cornerstone, Inc. Despite the wording of the Linspire memo to stockholders, this deal apparently came as a surprise to Carmony and other stockholders. Some here may remember that both Xandros and Linspire signed patent protection deals with Microsoft in 2007, and that eWeek named Carmony one of the 100 most influential people in IT in 2006."

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