While digging through my ~, I stumbled over a little python script I wrote some time ago. Nothing fancy, it just lets you display the song currently played by amarok in your active xchat-channel. Download and more info.

“So you want to be a Hero, err, Leader?”. That is, of course, for the Debian community only. /. mentions a ZDNet article covering the candidate’s comments, proposals and promises. Debian’s (in)famous release cycle seems to be one of the favoured topics. Faster definitely _is_ something you want to have – or better: have to have in your showroom. Well, welcome to the wonderful world of politics.

I have a proposal myself, of course not thought through well, short sighted and maybe simply stupid but simple nonetheless (which is perfectly ok, for I’m not running for any leaderships ):
Let there be a security repository for testing (IIRC that has been announced already) and promote it as the desktop-branch with ‘stable’ beeing the choice for production environments and ‘unstable’ for the rest. But of course, it can’t be that simple. Anyway, I’ve been running SID on my desktop for some years now and found it to be equally or even more stable and consistent than any other major desktop distribution. Maybe the real problem is labeling? If you don’t know what you’re dealing with, you probably don’t want to run something called ‘testing’ or even ‘unstable’.

And btw, the good thing about /. is not the news but the discussion, isn’t it?

According to heise.de (german) the Acrobat Reader 7.0 for Linux that already made it to each and every news-site around the web isn’t the final version. It appears to be a pre-release uploaded for one of Adobe’s customers. Meanwhile Adobe made this version available as pre-release on their Acrobat Reader download page. The final version is expected for summer ’05.

..but not announced, yet. Check the KDE 3.4 Info Page for more information.

update:
The official announcement.

/. points to a comparison published by Flexbeta between the state-of-the-art linux cd/dvd-writing application K3B and the long announced, fresh released and commercial NeroLinux. Either Flexbeta has slow servers in general or it’s about to be /.ed, in any case, a thoughtful Anonymous Coward posted the whole thing on /., which is far more readable anyway.

Seems like there’s no reason to to go after NeroLinux, if not out of curiosity. That is, of course, if you own a license for your windows-copy of Nero..