QML
A create your own adventure XML tool, for making multi-choice driven online adventure games.

whine, whine, whine, moan, moan, moan

419 scam 'bank' bites the dust
Offshoring backlash spreads

Dommain Directory checker
Also does a search engine optimization check on your site.

Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism
"Looks like there was an online free-for-all on Microsoft's chat servers yesterday with Internet Explorer engineers" according to Slashdot.

UK gov blamed for web diallers
E-commerce legislation brought in by the (UK) government in 2002 has been blamed for the dramatic rise in premium rate fraud hitting dial-up Web users.
Security flaw found in Windows version of Moz/Firefox/Thunderbird
Fix available here

Microsoft in a mid-life crisis

Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Success
Interesting article on Businessweek on Steve Balmer's attempts to "rally the troops" in Microsoft. They aren't as "nimble" as they used to be , is the core message.

LinkDump
Building a Better Mozilla With Plugins
Beginning C
Linux helps make weather forecasts more accurate
Fedora Core 2: Making it work
The Weblog Effect

Greg Martin wallpapers

You can find some superb wallpapers for your desktop at Greg Martin's site. Thanks to MandrakeMag.

Handy KDialog script

This script is quite useful for relatives/friends of yours who are brand new to KDE or even Linux in general.
The plethora of options in the K Menu can be intimidating for new end-users - so this script is a useful acclimatisation tool. Anytime they log into their KDE desktop, a pop up menu selector will appear on which there are a selection of easy questions which then launch their relative programs (e.g. "Browse Web" opens up Konqueror).

Place the script in .kde/Autostart (that's DOT kde) in your home directory
e.g /home/harry/.kde/Autostart and call it kchoices.sh

chmod it to make it executable by typing:
chmod u+x kchoices.sh

Make sure you have ownership - so if your username is harry type:
chown harry kchoices.sh

Log into KDE using the "harry" account and you'll see the pop up selector menu once KDE loads.


#
# Script using kdialog to prompt program selection choices
#

select_prog=`kdialog --menu "What would you like to do today?" a
"Play Solitaire" b "Listen to Music" c "Chat" d "Browse the Web
" e "Check E-Mail" f "Use Office Software" g "Organise Your Finances"`

if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then
exit 1
fi

case $select_prog in
"a") kpat;;
"b") xmms;;
"c") gaim;;
"d") konqueror http://www.google.com;;
"e") kmail;;
"f") oocalc;;
"g") gnucash;;
esac

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In the chair: VMware
Dell denounces desktop Linux dealer
The CD roars back from the dead
Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles
HP Markets Cheap 4-User PCs To African Schools
CLI for noobies: Midnight Commander
MEPIS 2004.b05
The State of KOffice 1.3
Mandrake 10.0
Investigating Firebird with Helen Borrie
Clarifying Yahoo

Waffle, waffle, waffle, Whine, whine, whine

What DMOZ is to websites , Rss Feeds.com hopes to be to RSS

Dell clarifies reports of Linux PCs in Europe
A PC dealer in Europe has begun selling Dell desktops equipped with Linux, but Dell emphasized that the systems were customized by
the dealer.

Dell Launches Desktop Linux Line in Europe

Slashdot are talking about it here

gmail phishing

If you have gmail, you might get an email from services@gmail.com asking you to change your password. DONT.

When you press submit on the form, you end up at this non-google site:
http://www.topdez.com/sg/index.php

Obviously a gmail phishing scam.

Wow!!

Greece win Euro 2004

Greece have created one of the biggest shocks in football history by winning Euro 2004

Cassini reveals the surface of Titan

NASA have released a set of images of the surface of Titan taken by Cassini, using infrared filters to pierce through the smog of the athmosphere.

Remember folks , this is just the start of a 4 year long mission.

Spacecraft Sends Back Images of Saturn (AP)

Getting your Gmail with Python
Handy python hack for grabbing those gmail conversations.

Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using
Quote:
Yes, I know all of the tired, old arguments about how if open-source programs were as popular as Microsoft's products; they'd be just as
vulnerable. You know what? I don't have time today to deal with the fundamentally inane idea that security by obscurity is somehow the best
way to secure software. The bottom line is that for all practical purposes for today, open-source browsers are inherently more secure than
Internet Explorer, and I still have half a dozen more workstations to switch over to Firefox. Go ahead, stick with Internet Explorer for
everyday use. It's your funeral.

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Cassini Achieves Historic Orbit Around Saturn (Reuters)
Spacecraft Cassini Enters Saturn
Heads roll but Blueprint stays - Sun
Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last?