I just upgraded our gallery software to Gallery 2, from the 1.5.1 version. This looks pretty cool. I really like the external modules that can be enabled/disabled individually.
It did a great job at importing the photos and albums from the previous version of gallery. One things that I found out is that you shouldn't cancell the import while it is in progress. When I did that, and tried to reimport the data, it failed. I had to drop all of the tables, and delete the data directory.
Google has released (I don't know how officially) their web based RSS/Atom reader. I tried it out, but I didn't have much luck. It didn't successfully import feeds from my OPML file. It only imported 47 of them.
It looks like this could be pretty cool once the bugs have been worked out.
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This post mentions the new Vienna RSS reader. It is a new RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X. It is pretty cool as this is a open source app, while the other full featured RSS readers are all shareware applications.
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I flagged this post when I saw it. When I ordered our new TV, I called DIRECTV to see if this deal was still good. The person that I talked to knew about the deal, and said that I qualified for it, as an existing customer. Also this price also includes the needed dish and standard installation.
Unfortunately, they will not install it until November, as this is the first available installation time.
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It appears that DIRECTV has a server of music where each of the tracks have been tagged with a bunch of categories. Then for each channel, the server randomly picks each track. With XM, the music programming is a lot better.
Unfortunately, it looks like U-POP is not being carried. I wonder if this is because U-POP is a WorldSpace Satellite channel. Also I wonder which 50 channels will be available for Total Choice subscribers. U-POP is is part of the Total Choice Plus and Total Choice Premier lineups.
[via Engadget]
I just looked in my logs and I noticed a series of http request that take the url, and append "/text/javascript". It appears that the Ocelli web crawler is attempting to download pages that are javascript pages. I don't know what type of web server would change the format of the resulting page just by appending a mime type to the url.
Required Public Statement for GPL/LGPL licensed Software Used in This Television
It looks like the TV is running linux, and used the MontaVista Linux Kernel. All of this software that they use is available on their linux web site.
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