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Posted: 07 Feb 2008 04:04 AM CST

KDE version 4.0.1 has been released and available for download. KDE 4.0.1 is a maintenance release for version 4.0, which provides corrections of problems reported by users. From the announcement page:

The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1, the first bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.1 ships with a basic desktop and many other packages like administration, network, education, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in almost 50 languages.

=> KDE 4.0.1 Release Announcement

PHP Programming Tutorial: Merge and Filter RSS / Atom Feed With XQuery

Posted: 07 Feb 2008 03:48 AM CST

I’ve already written about merging two feeds using MagpieRSS and FeedCreator php classes. However, I wasn’t aware of XQuery query language that is designed to query collections of XML data. It seems similar to SQL. You can use XQuery to speed your merging and filtering of RSS / atom information (feed) easily. In this tutorial:

You will learn the basics of XQuery processing of RSS and Atom feeds to turn a single feed into an HTML document. Then you produced a more complete solution for outputting the information in a format that suits your needs, including sorting, merging multiple feeds and even handling different feed and source information types. XQuery makes it much easier to merge and filter information from XML documents when you embed the filtering instructions right into the document that you use to generate the output format. You can use that functionality to aggregate information from RSS and Atom feeds into the format you need. In this article, look at the structure of the RSS and Atom formats and how XQuery can simplify the display of that information.

=> Aggregate RSS and Atom information using XQuery

FreeBSD Set Speed Duplex For My Network Card ( NIC )

Posted: 07 Feb 2008 11:55 AM CST

Q. How do I set / change the speed ( duplex settings ) on my FreeBSD network card? I’d like to change default 10Mbps to 100Mbps or vice versa. Linux user can use ethtool to set an Ethernet card speed and duplex, can I use the same command on FreeBSD?

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