As if Febuary 13th wasn’t going to be bad enough seeing its Friday the 13th; UNIX time will reach “1234567890″ at 11:31:30pm UTC. To check (on a *nix box) when it will happen in local time for you run:  perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’ “Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on [...]

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Personal Video Recorders (PVR’s) are all the rage, but you don’t neccessarily have to fork out loads of cash to run one – and you may wind up with someone more customisable than you had anticipated. Home-brew PVR’s are popular these days, often running some form of Linux/BSD with a program like MythTV allowing you [...]

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Image from Wikipedia PolishLinux has an english screenshot review of KDE4 (currently still in beta) – “PolishLinux.org has an extensive screenshot review and commentary on the development version of the Free and Open Source KDE desktop. Highlights include the ability to run any desktop applet prepared for Mac OS X inside Plasma, on-the-fly annotation and [...]

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Source: FlickrVirgin America uses Linux to entertain its passengers whilst in-flight. Slashdot reports – “CrunchGear has an interesting interview of the Director of Inflight Entertainment for the airline Virgin America discusses their adoption of Linux for the passenger’s seat back computers. ‘The ability to compose a music-video playlist is pretty cool and on the horizon. [...]

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