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Dave Moore, creator and manager of GeekTimeLinux died September 15 in his home after an extended illness. Online obituary can be found at Fitzgerald’s

During the early years of GeekTimeLinux, Dave had several friends who helped write for the web site. Doing that again would be the way to keep the site alive and fulfill its’ original mission, which was to promote Linux as an operating system and share information with new users to make it easier to use and promote. If you have ideas along that topic, post here as a comment and I will eventually work through them and contact you if it seems like a viable option.

I know Dave would like to have this site carry on and with help, we can get it back to being more of what he had in mind in the early days.

My music collection is composed of different formats .mp3, ogg, aac but i want to sync everyone of them as mp3 to my Nokia e71. This is where .is_audio_player comes in, nope its not an application, nope its not a codec, its not a library either. its just a file (yeah file) its a file you place in the root directory of the storage of your music device from where it does its magic.

Unlike other Linux-based operating systems, Fedora Linux isn’t quite ready to use out of the box.

Tech Source From Bohol: “Instead of bashing Microsoft for deliberately spreading several great lies about Linux, I’m going to write something useful that I hope will benefit those who are planning to buy a netbook.”

CWmike writes “Google is developing a product called Fast Flip that aims to make it simpler and faster to browse through news articles on the Web, a process the company says is cumbersome and discourages people from reading more online. Fast Flip, which lets readers glance at pages and browse through them quickly without having to wait for multiple page elements to load, was expected to go live late Monday at the Google Labs Web site. The idea is to try to replicate online the ease with which people flip through the pages of print magazines and newspapers in the offline world. This could motivate people to read more online, which Google argues will help publishers attract more readers and increase their revenue. However, when users click on a Fast Flip link, they will be taken to the corresponding publisher’s Web site, where the Google technology will not be on hand to display the page more quickly.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

T-Mobile plans to merge with Sprint Nextel to take on AT&T and Verizon Wireless in the U.S., according to Monday's The Daily Telegraph. The rumors come on the heels of a T-Mobile-Orange merger in the United Kingdom.

The Telegraph is reporting that T-Mobile’s parent, Deutsche Telekom AG, could submit a bid for Sprint within the next few weeks. Sprint’s current market value is $10.8 billion with debt of $21 billion. Sprint shares climbed 10 percent Monday in the wake of the reports.

Sprint is the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier behind Verizon with 80 million subscribers and AT&T with 78 million subscribers. T-Mobile is the fourth-largest. If Sprint and T-Mobile merged, they would battle with AT&T for second place.

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Such a merger would have economies of scale in terms of gross subscriber numbers, but not in terms of networking technology, according to Avi Greengart, an analyst at Current Analysis. That’s because the two companies promote multiple wireless standards.

Sprint’s Nextel brand phones run on the iDEN network while Sprint-branded phones run on CDMA. Meanwhile, Sprint is promoting Wi-MAX for its 4G agreement with Clearwire. T-Mobile uses GSM for 2G and GSM in the 1700 band, which is fairly unique globally, for 3G.

“If T-Mobile acquired Sprint, they’d have a tremendous amount of spectrum assets, but they’d have them all over the place being used with lots of different interface technologies,” Greengart said. “Figuring out strategically which ones to keep and which ones to ditch and how to get from point A to point B would be a mess.”

According to Zacks Investment Research, T-Mobile’s larger competitors deliver services more cost-effectively. The result is that T-Mobile is losing market share. T-Mobile had 15 percent market share in 2007. That declined to about 12 percent at the end of 2008.

Meanwhile, Sprint has struggles of its…

If you have not stopped by the #linuxjournal IRC channel yet, I would encourage you to do so. You never know who you will meet or what sort of new ideas will germinate. For example: the other day, while having !coffee and a danish, I was chatting with our fearless Editor-in-Geek, Carlie, and she was commenting that someone had left the radio on. No, not that radio, the Amateur radio. This got my attention as I was not aware Carlie had her ticket (she does not – I am working on her – browbeating is the term my XYL uses, but I digress). As many of you know, I too am an Amateur Radio operator – a ham. [I should note that personally, I don't like the term...it does not mean anything, but it is what most folks know us as so...]. And we started chatting.

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With Internet videos on TV heating up, Apple has decided to make its Apple TV more appealing. On Monday, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company announced a $100 price drop for its 160GB Apple TV, and it will no longer offer the 40GB model.

The 160GB is now priced at $229, which had been the price for the 40GB system.

The move comes only a few days after the event last week where Apple released new iPods and revised iTunes software. Some industry observers have speculated that Apple TV will soon evolve into a more varied product line, as iPods have done, and as competing products and services are emerging regularly.

Net-Based Movies on TV

Apple TV allows a user to rent or buy high-definition TV shows and movies for viewing on a TV set, as well as listen to iTunes music, watch podcasts, or see photos. Content can be obtained from Apple’s iTunes Store, YouTube, Flickr, MobileMe or any computer running Mac OS X or Windows.

While Apple’s next moves in this category are being monitored closely, the trend toward watching Net-based movies and TV shows on TV sets is growing rapidly. There are reports that Microsoft will soon allow streaming and instant-on high-definition movies on the Xbox 360.

A variety of TV manufacturers have also announced deals with online video services in recent months. Earlier this month, Mitsubishi said two of its new TVs, each with an Ethernet port for high-speed Internet access, will feature the VUDU service.

As Apple lowers and streamlines its add-on box lineup, VUDU is moving out of the separate-box category, concentrating on embedding its service into consumer devices. In the Mitsubishi sets, for instance, VUDU is part of the sets’ circuitry and software. VUDU offers more than 16,000 titles, including 2,200 HD movies, and the service also offers access to YouTube,…

Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu – aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format. This article show you how to install Game from playdeb.net on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope.