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	<title>Alien Pastures</title>
	<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog</link>
	<description>My thoughts on Slackware, life and everything</description>
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		<title>KDE maintenance: 4.4.1 is out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about it &#8211; deeply nested inside the comments section of a previous post &#8211; but it needs its own place in a separate post:
 KDE SC 4.4.1 (first maintenance release for the 4.4 series ) has been made available and the Slackware packages can be found at http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/4.4.1/
Again, I have made 32-bit as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-maintenance-4-4-1-is-out/</link>
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		<title>Some goodies to play with</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am I hearing sighs of relief yet?
 Today, Pat Volkerding pushed out the work that has been accumulating for slackware-current behind the scenes during the past four weeks (make take a little while to reach the mirrors).
This triggered some updates to the multilib and KDE 4.4 packages which I maintain, so if you run Slackware64-multilib [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/some-goodies-to-play-with/</link>
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		<title>Securing remote root access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever ran a SSH server on the Internet, you will probably have noticed the massive amount of ssh break-in attempts.
There are a few easy ways to get rid of the attacks and at the same time prevent your root account from being compromised.

move the SSH listen port from TCP port 22 to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/securing-remote-root-access/</link>
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		<title>Musings on Software Development With Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back Laurent Parenteau asked me to contribute a post to his series &#8220;Meet the Linux family&#8221; on the blog &#8220;Software Development with Linux&#8220;. Well here it is: http://laurentparenteau.com/blog/2010/02/meet-the-linux-family-eric-hameleers/ . Nothing spectacular, but just enough controversy (I hope&#8230; I wrote &#8220;Steve Balmer&#8221; and &#8220;Eric Raymond&#8221; on the same page) to make it interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/musings-on-software-development-with-linux/</link>
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		<title>Using git for version control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I have always really hated the Git Version Control System (or VCS).
I am pretty comfortable working with other products like RCS, CVS and Subversion (SVN). I am not a developer, so my main use for a VCS is a to allow me to keep track of the changes in my SlackBuild scripts or my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/using-git-for-version-control/</link>
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		<title>Slackware ChangeLog stalling&#8230; or not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that almost four weeks have passed since the last update of Slackware&#8217;s &#8220;-current ChangeLog&#8221; I am seeing posts from people who (1) start getting worried and (2) are speculating that a new stable release is imminent.
Let me re-assure you: there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work going on. Some of the updates require the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-changelog-stalling-or-not/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been released: KDE SC 4.4.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The KDE community has announced the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 (&#8220;KDE SC&#8221; is the new name of what used to be called just &#8220;KDE&#8220;). In preparation for this event, the kde.org website was re-vamped yesterday to reflect their &#8220;shift in marketing and promotion vocabulary&#8221;. Looks shiny and new! Also, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/its-been-released-kde-sc-4-4-0/</link>
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		<title>Compiling a new kernel module for VirtualBox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I had installed VirtualBox a while ago on my laptop running my Slackware64 test environment, so I could experiment with the program a bit. Then I forgot all about it.
Today, I upgraded to the latest set of slackware64-current packages, including the new 2.6.32.7 kernel and when I rebooted to that new kernel, I saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/compiling-a-new-kernel-module-for-virtualbox/</link>
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		<title>VLMC, and translating a Qt application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VLMC
 In the past week, I have been messing a bit with the VideoLAN Movie Creator (VLMC). This is a new project &#8211; not yet released in a stable version &#8211; from the VideoLAN developer community. It is meant to become &#8220;a free video editing software, offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/vlmc-and-translating-a-qt-application/</link>
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		<title>KDE3, KDE4 and Slackware 13.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of history&#8230; I realized that just a year ago, KDE 4.2.rc1 got added to Slackware&#8217;s &#8220;/testing&#8221; area.
With all the recent posts on this blog about KDE4 and me telling people how nice I think this version of KDE is, I realize that &#8220;liking&#8221; is a very personal expression of feelings. A feeling shared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde3-kde4-and-slackware-13-0/</link>
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