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Digital media is broken

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-17

All the competing multimedia players, formats, and codecs have broken digital multimedia. Is it really necessary to have this many media players, add-ons, and codecs installed to be able to open videos and music? And what about my files in ten years?
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When I can tell my mother

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-13

The long anticipated year of the Linux desktop will come the day I can recommend it to my mother. The Linux desktop is not ready until I can look my own mother in the eye and tell her you can do it! As of today, I cannot. I know that if she installed Linux today; she would not understand too much of it, and I would be called in as her support advisor.

Linux needs to be more friendly to all the mothers around the world.
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Fixing XMPP in iChat

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-12

Apple's instant messenger application iChat–that comes with Mac OS–supports the XMPP protocol (Jabber).

However iChat does not support XMPP-IM URIs. URIs are how you trigger applications to do things on your computer like triggering a chat sessions by following web links. This is easy to fix.
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Fourteen months until KDE 4 comes to KUbuntu

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-07-09

Unfortunately the late October release of KDE 4 means it will not be ready for the next KUbuntu release, and the release after that is a long-term-support release. With KUbuntu's release cycle this means it will take another fourteen months.
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