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Changes since 2.23.6 -------------------- - PulseAudio check to not ouput "no" twice (Jens Granseuer) - Add status icon when a11y hotkeys are enabled, and display Universal Access preferences when it is clicked (William Jon McCann) (#526070) - Simplify libnotify check, fix fontconfig result output (Jens Granseuer) - Put the Glade file where all the others are (jens Granseuer) - Remove some unnecessary boilerplate (Jens Granseuer) - Use g_file_monitor instead of g_file_monitor_file/_directory (Jens Granseuer) (#546372) - Remove warning that isn't (Jens Granseuer) - Fixed crash in randr startup (Jens Granseuer) - Fail xrandr initialization if we couldn't start xrandr (Matthias Clasen) (#546446) - Try harder to clean up xrandr in _stop so we can enable/disable the plugin on the fly (Jens Granseuer) - For LIBSOUNDS, check for libgnomeui, not just libgnome (Federico Mena Quintero) - Add [censored]y labels when setting up dual monitors (Federico Mena Quintero) - Add a separator to the menu before "Configure display settings" (Federico Mena Quintero) - Use GDK to get DPI (William Jon McCann) - Updated translations: - ar (Djihed Afifi) - es (Jorge Gonzalez) - et (Priit Laes) - fi (Ilkka Tuohela) - gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - ja (Takeshi AIHANA) - he (Yair Hershkovitz) - ml (Praveen Arimbrathodiyil) - nb (Kjartan Maraas) - pt (Duarte Loreto) - pt_BR (Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle) - th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan) Availability ------------ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/2.23/ Contact ------- * Bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org

Changes since 2.23.6 -------------------- Appearance: - Use default icon for unknown themes (Jens Granseuer) - Remove help button (Jens Granseuer) Common: - Make sure we have a notification theme before trying to save it (Jens Granseuer) (#547448) - Keep track of hidden themes (Jens Granseuer) (#547301) - Require gnome-desktop 2.23.90 Display: - Draw rotated outputs rotated (Soren Sandmann) - Don't leak the application or the GladeXML (Jens Granseuer) - Replace all uses of g_print with g_debug (Jens Granseuer) - Fail gracefully if we cannot get a screen (Jens Granseuer) - Add [censored]y labels to identify monitors (Federico Mena Quintero) Shell: - Remove eel dependency from libslab (Federico Mena Quintero) (#524778) Sound: - Fix warning due to left-over developer code (Jens Granseuer) (#546583) - HIG fixes and improved wording (Bastien Nocera) (#545219) - Make the event sound preview button listen to "activate" signal so it becomes accessible via keyboard (Matthias Clasen) (#547808) Translations: - ar (Khaled Hosny) - be ( -at -) latin (Ihar Hrachyshka) - es (Jorge Gonzalez) - et (Ivar Smolin) - fi (Ilkka Tuohela) - ga (Sean de Burca) - gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - ja (Takeshi AIHANA) - he (Yair Hershkovitz) - nb (Kjartan Maraas) - pt (Duarte Loreto) - pt_BR (Djavan Fagundes) - th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan) - zh_HK (Chao-Hsiung Liao) - zh_TW (Chao-Hsiung Liao) Availability ------------ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-control-center/2.23/ Contact ------- * Bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org

Digit-Life Review: ATI RADEON HD 4870 X2 2x1024 MB Excerpt: "First of all, it was planned to oppose GeForce GTX 280 with CrossFire configurations based on two separate HD 4850 or HD 4870 cards. Then the company presented a dual-GPU solution on a single PCB, the RADEON HD 4870 X2. We've already published its preview with several tests. Now it's time for a sterling article with theoretical data, synthetic tests, and an expanded set of games." Article: http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/rv770-3-part1-p1.html A post on your website would be appreciated! To exchange news & reviews with Digit-Life, to change subscription address, or to unsubscribe write to cormac ( -at -) ixbt.com. If you post notes about Digit-Life reviews, but don't see me doing the same, please email me as well. Best regards, Artem Pavlenko, www.Digit-Life.com / iXBT.com

Introducing the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase by TOM BIHN - Published on 08/18/08 TOM BIHN, a designer, manufacturer, and retailer of laptop bags, backpacks, messenger bags, and briefcases, has introduced the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase, a new "checkpoint friendly" briefcase-style laptop bag with a highly protective compartment for a laptop computer. The Checkpoint Flyer provides the TSA with a clear, unobstructed x-ray view of the laptop in the bag without sacrificing organizational pockets and clean design. Seattle, WA - TOM BIHN, a designer, manufacturer, and retailer of laptop bags, backpacks, messenger bags, and briefcases, has introduced the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase, a new "checkpoint friendly" briefcase-style laptop bag with a highly protective compartment for a laptop computer. The Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase Bihn's answer to an intensive, five-month design challenge issued by the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) to design a laptop bag that meets its newly implemented "checkpoint friendly" program guidelines. The Checkpoint Flyer provides the TSA with a clear, unobstructed x-ray view of the laptop in the bag without sacrificing organizational pockets and clean design. Unique features of the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase include: * Handsome and tough U.S. made 1050 denier ballistic nylon, splash-proof YKK Uretek zippers, Duraflex Stealth buckles, and Poron foam-padded handles. * Made in USA in Tom Bihn's own Seattle factory. * Over 11 organizational pockets. * Back pocket zips open to accommodate the handle of a roll-aboard. * Quick-access boarding pass/map pocket. * Molded foam laptop compartment that completely encases the laptop in 8mm-thick closed cell foam, available in three sizes designed specifically to fit the 13" MacBook and MacBook Air, 15.4" MacBook Pro, and 17" MacBook Pro. Also fits many PC laptops. * Requires less than 3 seconds to be prepared in order to send the briefcase through the x-ray machine. * Not designed simply for the security checkpoint process, the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase works well as an everyday laptop bag. The Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase is available for pre-order through the TOM BIHN Web site and ships by late September. $220 USD. Available in three colors. TOM BIHN Web site: http://www.tombihn.com Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase Product Page: http://www.tombihn.com/page/001/PROD/TBP/TB1701 High-resolution image of the Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Briefcase: http://www.tombihn.com/Merchant2/images/checkpointhighres/bihncheckpoint300dpi.tif TOM BIHN has been designing and creating bags for over 30 years. The TOM BIHN Inc. headquarters and factory are located in Seattle, Washington, where the company is dedicated to creating quality products and quality jobs. The public is welcome to visit the TOM BIHN Seattle Factory Showroom and Retail Store and see where the bags are made. TOM BIHN products are available for order and worldwide shipping at the company's website. ### Darcy Hudgens VP of Marketing 206-652-4123 darcy ( -at -) tombihn.com *******

Hi, gnome-build 2.23.90 has been released for the upcoming GNOME 2.23.90 Release. Several bugfixes and localization updates are included in this release. Thanks to: Debarshi Ray Johannes Schmid Micheal Terry Vincent Untz and translators: Ivar Smolin Djihed Afifi Jorge Gonzalez Francesc Vilches Daniel Nylander Jonh Wendell Alexander Shopov Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Ignacio Casal Quinteiro Chao-Hsiung Liao Laurent Dhima Yair Hershkovitz Kjartan Maraas Duarte Loreto Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio Ilkka Tuohela Sandeep Shedmake What is it? =========== GNOME Build Framework. A library to manage different project build systems such as automake projects, makefile based projects etc. What's new? =========== * Bumped version to be consistent with gnome releases. * Fixed bug #517047 - Port to GOption * Replace deprecated INCLUDES with AM_CPPFLAGS * Add a new chooser to select pkg-config modules in the target configuration (related to bug #393679) * Fixed bug #463561 and bug #538952 - Removed deprecated and unused build code thus removing the regex depency * Fixed bug #522715 - Typo & missing libglade-2.0 entry in configure.in * Fixed bug #475244 - Do not add AC_SUBST() after PKG_CHECK_MODULE * Translation updates: et, ar, es, ca, sv, pt_BR, mr, fi, eu, pt, nb, he, sq, zh_HK, zh_TW, gl, th, oc, bg Screenshots? ============ http://anjuta.org/screen-shots Where to get? ============= http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-build/2.23/ Enjoy! Regards, -Naba _______________________________________________

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This release comes with new twitter and identi.ca micro blogging modules. Developers can make use of the new deskbar.core.Web module which provides an easy way to store account credentials in gnome keyring, a dialog for managing an account, an asynchronous url opener that hooks into the account framework mentioned above to ask for credentials. Last but not least, items from history can now be deleted one by one when pressing the delete key. However, this doesn't work in tray mode, yet. Download ======== http://download.gnome.org/sources/deskbar-applet/2.23/ Changes since 2.23.6 ==================== - Add method load_base64_icon to deskbar.core.Utils. Handy for inlining icons inside modules for easier distribution - Introduced a new utility package deskbar.core.Web with tools for dealing with online services. - Introduced a Twitter and identi.ca micro blogging module - Set entry width to 10 when the value is smaller than 10 in CuemuiacAlignedView - Fixed bug #538558: Check for directories in $PATH if they are actual directories and if they exist, are readable and executable. Contributors to this release: Sebastian Pölsterl, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen Translations: - Updated ar: Youssef Chahibi - Updated be ( -at -) latin: Ihar Hrachyshka - Updated bn_IN: Runa Bhattacharjee - Updated es: Jorge González - Updated et: Ivar Smolin - Updated eu: Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio - Updated fi: Ilkka Tuohela - Updated he: Yair Hershkovitz, Mark Krapivner - Updated kn: Shankar Prasad - Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas - Updated th: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Help Manual Translations: - Updated ca: Joan Duran - Updated zh_CN: Gil Forcada - -- Greetings, Sebastian Pölsterl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIqaoX1ygZeJ3lLIcRAmsRAJ9qSVoHWoYXZGawsnHr73ioft5g+gCdFAAv oBeK70D3Em+cB90GBXVXuLU= =8cXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________

-------- THERMAL PASTE ROUNDUP AUGUST 2008 ( -at -) APH NETWORKS -------------------- Dear Media friends, APH Networks has published a new review that your readers might enjoy. A post in your site's news section would be greatly appreciated! * Title: Thermal Paste Roundup August 2008 ( -at -) APH Networks * Description: It has been over a year since we've reviewed thermal paste. With the previous presented to us being Arctic Cooling's excellent MX-2 thermal compound in July 2007 and reviewed August 2007 -- it was, no doubt, excellent thermal paste; and were able to achieve a score of 8.1/10 on our Number Ratings. Thermal paste may seem so insignificant -- it can be easily overlooked to an extent that many people simply buy what they've heard of the most, and not necessarily what is the best. Thermal paste may 'seem' to be all the same with each other; but each is actually quite unique with different companies making different formulas for synthetic compounds or metal compounds. But all serves the same purpose to allowing better transfer between the cooled device and the cooler; filling microscopic valleys in surfaces that has microscopic imperfections to maximize heat transfer efficiency at its source. Today, we will be looking into several different brands of claimed 'high performance' thermal paste and see which one performs the best. Our four-way competition today includes the 'classic' Arctic Silver 5, our previous winner Arctic Cooling MX-2, the price competitive Tuniq TX-2, and the NT-H1 paste from silent PC enthusiasts' favorite company Noctua. * Link: http://aphnetworks.com/reports/thermal_paste_roundup_august_2008 [1] * Image: http://aphnetworks.com/report/thermal_paste_roundup_august_2008/005.JPG [2] Thanks for your support. Don't forget to send your site news to

Hi, gdl 2.23.90 has been released. This release contains bug fixes and localization updates. It is meant for upcoming GNOME 2.23.90 Release. Thanks for the release go to: Christian Persch Jan Arne Petersen Johannes Schmid Yuriy Penkin Translators: Kenneth Nielsen Giannis Katsampiris Gennaro Bellizio Chao-Hsiung Liao Yuriy Penkin Djihed Afifi Clytie Siddall Alexander Shopov Zabeeh Khan Laurent Dhima Fabrício Godoy Sandeep Shedmake What is gdl? ============ GNOME Development Library. A library to contain source code development widgets and tools. Currently it has complex-docking widgets, data view widgets, theme based mime icons widget and some other titbits. What is new in this release? ============================ * Version increased to match gnome releases. * Use smaller buttons to waste less space * Port to the GtkTooltip API (fixes #457562) * Fixed bug #529457 - Superfluous condition * Fixed bug #539288 - Use gtype macros instead of the deprecated gtk ones. * Translation updates: da, tr, el, it, zh_TW, zh_HK, ru, ar, vi, bg, th, ps, sq, pt_BR, mr Where to get it? ================ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdl/2.23/ Screenshots? ============ http://anjuta.org/screen-shots Enjoy! Regards, -Naba _______________________________________________

Hey Everyone, This email is to announce Tomboy 0.11.2, the third development release in the 0.11.x series. Tomboy is a simple personal note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note-links similar to a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run either as a GNOME panel applet or a notification tray icon. Tomboy's Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy Tomboy's Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy * Road Map: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap * Brainstorming: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas Tomboy is available at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.11/tomboy-0.11.2.tar.gz md5sum: 6a52532218ff11e3ea587b9276c6000f size: 4.3M http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.11/tomboy-0.11.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: dbf72e8a929f8f0a776475f54d173759 size: 3.5M This release includes the following: Version 0.11.2 * Fix to build with gtk-sharp 2.10 (#547900). * Partial fix for spell-checking/fixed-width issues (#530856, Stefan Schweizer). * Fixes to HTML Export add-in linking (#546623, Stefan Schweizer). * Fix makefiles to support parallel building (#547506). * Various crasher fixes. * Translation updates: ar, et, fi, gu, nb, pt, pt_BR, sv, th Special thanks to everyone entering bugs, submitting patches, keeping translations up to date, and helping to make Tomboy better! Sandy _______________________________________________

An Event Apart Brings Baker's Dozen to Chicago - Published on 08/18/08 An Event Apart, the conference for "people who make websites," brings thirteen leaders in web design and development to Chicago, October 12-13 at the Sheraton Chicago. In addition to Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer, the two internationally recognized web authorities and creators of An Event Apart, this two-day event offers a content-rich line-up of presenters, topics, and information for web designers and developers. Chicago, IL - An Event Apart, the conference for "people who make websites," brings thirteen leaders in web design and development to Chicago, October 12–13 at the Sheraton Chicago. In addition to Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer, the two internationally recognized web authorities and creators of An Event Apart, this two-day event offers a content-rich line-up of presenters, topics, and information for web designers and developers. An Event Apart Chicago offers "people who make websites" a world of emerging best practices and inspiring new ideas. Conference programmers Meyer, who has taught hundreds of thousands of web designers how to use HTML and CSS, and Zeldman, co-founder of the web standards movement which changed the way websites are designed and built, insist that each speaker must have made a unique contribution to the industry, must be a star, and must be a stand-out with topic expertise and industry stature. An Event Apart Chicago packs two content-filled days with speakers who push the boundaries and set standards for the industry. "Our goal is to fill the heads of people who make websites with more ideas, best practices, and contact with our industry's leaders," said Jeffrey Zeldman, principal, A List Apart and An Event Apart. Additional speakers for An Event Apart Chicago include: Andy Clarke, Author, Transcending CSS; Curt Cloninger, Author, Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process; Jason Fried, Founder, 37signals; Robert Hoekman, Jr., Author, Author, Designing the Obvious; Cameron Moll, Author, Mobile Web Design; Sarah Nelson, Design Strategist, Adaptive Path; Bronwyn Jones, Senior Writer, Apple.com; Jeff Veen, Author, Art & Science of Web Design; Robert Weychert, Co-author, Web Standards Creativity; and Jason Santa Maria, Creative Director, Happy Cog. Additional information about the speakers and the Chicago schedule can be found online. Early registration for An Event Apart Chicago ends on September 15, 2008. Register now online. An Event Apart: http://www.aneventapart.com Chicago Event: https://store.aneventapart.com/#chicago-2008 An Event Apart is for people who make websites. Join Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman and special guests to gain a deeper understanding of web standards and emerging best practices. Be inspired by fresh ideas and new directions. Gain access to the greatest minds and hottest talents in web design today. An Event Apart Sponsors An Event Apart receives support from Adobe, GoodBarry, and (mt) MediaTemple. For additional sponsorship information, contact An Event Apart. ### Laura Des Enfants PR/An Event Apart 917-991-1807 laura ( -at -) desenfantsaldrich.com Sponsorship Information marci ( -at -) aneventapart.com ******* ******* *******

TechwareLabs has published a review of the LukWerks WiLife Security System. Here's a clip from the review: Quote: Interested in getting a fully featured security system but don't want to pay over $300 for it? If so, then WiLife's Digital Video Security System might be worth a look. One of the featured items at CES earlier this year, was the WiLife Security System. WiLife, a sub company of Logitech, now offers wireless security for your entire home. Featuring three different types of cameras each for different instances, these include your standard indoor camera, weather-proof outdoor camera, and even a spy camera found in an alarm clock. Now I'm sure most of you guys just got some wild ideas of what to do with that spy camera, I know I thought of a few. Read on to see how the WiLife truly performs. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/security/wilife/ Title: LukWerks WiLife Security System ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/security/wilife/images/wilife_02tn.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Hi all, We have just published a ***. If you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link: http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2008/08/18/the-economy-of-happiness/1* *Picture: http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/the-economy-of-happiness/article_img.jpg* *Quote: *Both the recent arguments about the right price for /Braid/ <http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/08/12/braid/1>, and my own recent dialogue with games pirates <http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/08/14/positech-games-reveals-results-of-piracy-survey/1> (where cost has been cited as a major cause of piracy) has got me to realize something very important about the price of games. /Nobody/ agrees what any game is worth. * *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

2.25.0 ====== Thanks to Patrick Niklaus, Ted Percival, Eric Piel, Akira TAGOH, and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version. - Fix memory allocation problem in struts (Eric) (probably #468075) - Ensure windows which start maximised know where to jump back to, so they don't warp to other screens (Ted) (#504692) - Added header comments to some files (Thomas) - Icons for windows which are uncooperative enough not to provide an icon are taken from the theme, not built in (Patrick) (#524343) - Added manual page for metacity-message (Akira, from Debian downstream) Translations Khaled Hosny (ar), Petr Kovar (cs), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Duarte Loreto (pt), Djavan Fagundes (pt_BR) Apologies for breakage of the usually reliable release script which caused the NEWS file in this release to claim that it is 2.25.1. We may skip 2.25.1 because of this. -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman You can't get inside the machine. _______________________________________________

Hi all, We have just published a review of Samsung SyncMaster XL30 LED Backlit LCD. If you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/08/18/samsung-syncmaster-xl30/1* *Picture: http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/samsung-syncmaster-xl30/7-4.jpg* *Quote: *Ultimately, however, it's those professionals -- graphic artists, publishers and the like -- that stand to get most out of this wonderfully colour-accurate monitor. If sufficient budget is available, we doubt the XL30 will disappoint for those users. For everyone else, we recommend you plump for a more conventional and affordable 30-incher and if you want to spend a little bit more, it's still well-worth considering the NEC LCD3090WQXi * *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

Hi all, We have just published a feature about Zen and the HFX Mini HTPC case. If you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/08/16/hfx-mini-htpc-case/1* *Picture: http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/08/hfx-mini-htpc-case/fp_img.jpg* *Quote: *If you compare it to other passively cooled HTPCs on the market, like the Hush PC UK-E1200 or the Hoojum Cubit PCs then it is undoubtedly cheaper -- if only by a few hundred pounds. Moreover by shopping around on eBay for the internal components you can knock off considerably more of that price. What you get in overall quality is not that much different from the competitors' machines. The case is well-built, all sorts of necessary bits and bobs are included, and some aspects of it are very cleverly and well designed indeed. On the other hand, I get the feeling that mCubed is not entirely honest with its customers. It is definitely not trying to rip people off, the price of most of its components being commensurate with their high quality. But the riser cards seem rather extravagantly priced, you need to buy a lot of "optional" extras to make for a complete kit which tots up the price, and while being squarely pitched at the consumer whose only previous experience has been to put together a generic PC, it becomes quite obvious that at least a medium level of modding skill is required to make a decent system. * *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

gtkaml is an XML parser that extends the Vala.Parser and transforms all your tags into a valid Gtk+ UI class described in the Vala language. Features * compact XML syntax for describing Gtk widgets * code 'islands' (written in Vala) for signal handling and other methods/signals/properties/ in your widget class (so you don't modify the generated code ever) * doesn't depend on an external library at run-time (other than Gtk+) * much more readable than the usual UI boilerplate (e.g. you don't need to worry about temporary variable names, or ever write hundreds of lines of code/markup) gtkaml 0.2.2.0 requires glib-2.0, vala-1.0 >= 0.3.5, libxml-2.0, and gtk+-2.0 Changes: * upgraded to valacompiler 0.3.5 * fixed an issue that lead gtkaml considering a misspelled tag with no content/subtags to be an attached attribute and then ignore it Full release notes: http://code.google.com/p/gtkaml/wiki/ReleaseNotes Downloads: http://code.google.com/p/gtkaml/downloads/list Example: http://code.google.com/p/gtkaml/wiki/Example Future Goals: http://code.google.com/p/gtkaml/wiki/DesignGoals#Future_Goals Regards, Vlad Grecescu _______________________________________________

Hello, The update of mousetweaks to version 2.23.90 has been released and can be downloaded from: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mousetweaks/2.23/ bad3340e7d8b7cd34b599ee41a74e6c0 mousetweaks-2.23.90.tar.bz2 0460ffc2c31c83cd3f896df41ac32cd6 mousetweaks-2.23.90.tar.gz ======================= What is mousetweaks ? ======================= The mousetweaks package provides the functions offered by the Accessibility tab of the Mouse control panel. It also contains two panel applets related to the mouse accessibility. More particularly: 1. It offers a way to perform the various clicks without using any hardware button. In this context, the Dwell Click panel applet can be used to choose what click type to perform. 2. It allows users to perform a secondary click by doing a click&hold of the primary mouse button. 3. It provides the Pointer Capture panel applet. This applet creates an area on the panel into which the pointer can be captured until the user releases it with a predefined button and modifier combination. ============= What is new ? ============= New and updated translations: - [ar] Djihed Afifi - [cs] Adrian Guniš - [es] Jorge González - [fi] Ilkka Tuohela - [pt] Duarte Loreto Best regards, Francesco Fumanti _______________________________________________

TechwareLabs has published a review of the Aerocool Modern V Display. Here's a clip from the review: Quote: Looking to add an attention grabber to the front of your case? Jack checks out the Aerocool Modern V which promises flash and functionality at the same time. Does it come through on each of these fronts? Read his evalutaion before purchasing. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/peripherals/aerocool-modern-v/ Title: Aerocool Modern V Display ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/peripherals/aerocool-modern-v/images/after1.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone, Flip Video Mino " Since ASE Labs is getting more and more into producing videos, it is time to start reviewing digital video cameras. The first such device is absolutely perfect for the Youtube crowd and has been making the rounds on the internet. The Flip Video Mino from Pure Digital promises web videos made with ease and they aren't kidding. " Link: http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=273 Thumb: http://www.aselabs.com/members/attachments/upload/2008/08/08/2750t.jpg

Corsair 2GB DOMINATOR DDR3 2133MHz Memory Kit Last month on July 1st, Corsair Memory announced the immediate availability of a new DOMINATOR DDR3 memory kit running at 2133MHz. The launch of this memory kit made it the world’s fastest DDR3 memory solution in production volume, a title that it still holds over a month later. Read on to see how this kit does on an EVGA nForce 790i SLI Ultra motherboard at 2135MHz. Quote: "The Corsair TW3X2G2133C9DF memory kit is a very impressive memory kit that was found to be 100% stable at these insane clock frequencies. Running at 2133MHz is no joke and it's still beyond what most platforms today are capable of running. To be honest the nForce 790i SLI is pushed nearly to its limits running memory this fast!" Article Title: Corsair 2GB DOMINATOR DDR3 2133MHz Memory Kit ( -at -) Legit Reviews Article URL: http://legitreviews.com/article/770/1/ 550px Image: http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/770/corsair_dominator_kit.jpg --

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your site's news section would be greatly appreciated. Title: Gigabyte EP45-DS3L & EP45T-DS3R ( -at -) Phoronix Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12757 Summary: "Intel's P45 Chipset was released this summer along with the P43, G43, and G45 Chipsets as the mainstream Eaglelake alternative to Intel's current flagship X48 Chipset. Though over the older X48 motherboards, the P45 has the advantages of using Intel's newer ICH10 / ICH10R Southbridge and support for up to 16GB of DDR2/DDR3 memory, which is double that of what's supported by the X48. Today we are looking at two Intel P45 motherboards compliments of Gigabyte with their EP45-DS3L and EP45T-DS3R. The EP45-DS3L and EP45T-DS3R are just two of Gigabyte's motherboards bearing the P45 Chipset but in total they have eight different motherboards using this version of the Eaglelake Chipset." Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may

2.23.144 ======== Thanks to Ted Percival and Eric Piel for improvements in this version. - Fix memory allocation problem in struts (Eric) (probably #468075) - Ensure windows which start maximised know where to jump back to, so they don't warp to other screens (Ted) (#504692) Translations Khaled Hosny (ar), Petr Kovar (cs), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Duarte Loreto (pt), Djavan Fagundes (pt_BR) -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman At Window on Pit _______________________________________________

Dear Webmasters and Newsposters, BurnOutPC.com has just posted their review on the Tuniq 3 Case. Quote "Sunbeamtech has left a clear presence in the hardware industry by developing a huge line of products and since a year or so they created a whole new premium series to offer cases and coolers. What we are looking at today is their Tuniq 3 casing which offers their patented 3D Core-Fan Bracket, tool free drive installation and two cold cathodes underneath the bottom to finish it off." Direct Link - http://www.burnoutpc.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=300 Image Link - http://www.burnoutpc.com/images/reviews/Tuniq3/PICT7762.JPG I would highly appreciate it if you could mention this review in your upcoming news post. Thanks a lot, Marien Klootwijk BurnOutPC.com -----------------------------

* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Board IRC Public Meeting + 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day: Encrypted Installs & Plymouth + 1.1.3 ACL Changes and New Package Group Policy + 1.1.4 Important Infrastructure Announcement o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 Tech Tidbits + 1.2.2 Artwork + 1.2.3 Features o 1.3 Developments + 1.3.1 FlashPlayer 10 Symlink Provokes Proprietary Support Argument + 1.3.2 Parallel Install of syslog-ng, rsyslog and sysklogd + 1.3.3 General Outage of Fedora Infrastructure + 1.3.4 Koji from Behind a Firewall + 1.3.5 Small Machine SIG o 1.4 Artwork + 1.4.1 Fedora 10 Themes: development and deadlines o 1.5 Security Advisories + 1.5.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories + 1.5.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories = Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 139 for the week ending August 17, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue139 Fedora Weekly News keeps you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the Fedora community. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community's most important sources of news. Ideas for new beats are always welcome -- let us know how you'd like to contribute. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join = Announcements = In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack == Board IRC Public Meeting == Paul Frields reminded us[1] that the Fedora Board's monthly IRC meeting was scheduled for August 12. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00006.html == Fedora Test Day: Encrypted Installs & Plymouth James Laska informed us[1] that the Fedora QA team is organizing a test day specifically for working on encrypted installs and plymouth (the replacement for rhgb). "There will be a cast of testers and developers on hand between 8am - 5pm EDT (12:00 - 21:00 UTC) to help guide testing, answer questions, triage and troubleshoot issues." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-August/msg00005.html == ACL Changes and New Package Group Policy Casey Dahlin wrote[1] about the new Fedora Account System group policy, implemented "to encourage greater openness in the community while containing newer members until they have earned the trust of the community". The full text includes a discussion of the changes that have been made. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00007.html == Important Infrastructure Announcement == Paul Frields announced[1]: "The Fedora Infrastructure team is currently investigating an issue in the infrastructure systems. That process may result in service outages, for which we apologize in advance. We're still assessing the end-user impact of the situation, but as a precaution, we recommend you not download or update any additional packages on your Fedora systems." [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00008.html = Planet Fedora = In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Max Spevack == Tech Tidbits Kushal Das announced[1] a new version of the liveusb-creator GUI application. Separate from the livecd-tools and livecd-iso-to-disk application, liveusb-creator is packaged in its own RPM. Kushal writes, "liveusb-creator version 2.7 for Linux is released... Now feel free to create liveusb images for your friends and for the special one." Nigel Jones discussed[2] a variety of wiki improvements that have been deployed. This is a three-round improvement process. Nigel said of the first two rounds "At the request of the documentation team we enabled searching by default on various namespaces, of course, you most likely won't notice it at all. Round 2 of wiki improvements start tomorrow, this is the exciting one. We are trashing the current authentication method IN THE BIN! No more htaccess prompts... What's going in its place? The standard Mediawiki login prompt, it'll still be connected to FAS, it'll just look different." [1] http://kushaldas.in/?p=284 [2] http://nigelj.livejournal.com/8525.html == Artwork == Mairin Duffy gave us a look[1] at some of the proposed Fedora 10 artwork in the "gears" theme, which is a collaboration between her and Nicu Buculei. [1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/60026.html == Features == Two interesting posts about the Fedora feature process this week. First, John Poelstra discussed the Fedora 10 feature status[1], saying: "Feature freeze for Fedora 10 is this coming Tuesday, August 19, 2008. The current list for Fedora 10 is growing with more waiting to go through the acceptance process here. At feature freeze all features must be significantly completed and testable or they will have to wait for Fedora 11. During this release cycle I collaborated with Paul Frields who greatly improved the documentation explaining the process. We also got help from the Fedora art folks to make the process diagram better. We also changed the categories used to classify feature pages in an attempt to bring greater clarity there." In a separate post[2], Paul Frields mused on the benefits of changing the way new Fedora spins are handled from a feature point of view. [1] http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/fedora-10-feature-process-and-beyond/ [2] http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1129 = Developments = In this section the people, personalities and debates on the

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