{"id":1207,"date":"2008-01-23T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/23\/technology-news-5\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T14:00:12","slug":"technology-news-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/technology-news-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing your Fotos; More on Y2K38; KDE 4<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/124567\">Unshaking and refocusing your photos<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether by wind, vibration, or shaky hand, we have all taken blurry photos. But in the digital era, there is no need to despair &#8212; you can remove shake and blur from your pictures after the fact. Several Linux-friendly utilities can help you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another piece on Y2K38 (<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/countdown_to_y2k38.php\">which I mentioned here<\/a>):  &#8220;<strong>Time to Panic About Y2K38?? <\/strong> In a nutshell, the year 2038 problem, as it is also known, is that most Unix-like operating systems represent time as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. On 32-bit systems, that second count is a signed 32-bit integer. What that, in turn, means &#8212; unfortunately for us all &#8212; is that the latest time that can be represented is 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, January 19, 2038.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxinsider.com\/story\/Time-to-Panic-About-Y2K38-61283.html\">[Here]<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/346312\/design-your-own-desktop-with-kde-4\">Design Your Own Desktop with KDE 4<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the best things about KDE 4, the newest release of the mainstream Linux desktop manager, is something it doesn&#8217;t do&#8211;force you to adapt to its way of running a computer desktop. Sure, the desktop environment boasts new 3-D effects, a polished theme, and improved functionality. But what KDE 4 does best is give users the ability to almost completely re-design their desktops, putting their programs, icons, and useful widgets wherever they see fit, on as many desktops as they want, to create their ideal workspace. I spent some time exploring the features of the less-than-week-old system, the results of which are after the jump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing your Fotos; More on Y2K38; KDE 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[164,67,130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-jt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}