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Last weekend I've met with some of our old timer KDEPIM developers and some of the newer ones who are interested in KDEPIM or related technologies in the KDAB offices in Berlin. Read More

This is the story of how bugfixes can happen. For each bug there is a bug reporter. It doesn't really matter if it is another developer or a non-developer user, as in the end it is just a user. Read More

I regularly see the same misconception and fear popping up on the mailing lists, bug reports and IRC: if the Akonadi database gets corrupted, I will lose my data. To make it clear from the beginning: the Akonadi database is NOT your MAIN data storage. Read More

KMail is one of the most important applications inside KDE, I think hardly can argue anybody about it. Everybody is using email, and even if some think that a webmail solution can be just as good, most of us still do what we did 10-15 years ago: download mail to our computer/phone/tablet and carry that around. Read More

The above combination was never a painless experience, still at some point in past it seemed to be better to have a NVidia card on Linux then anything else, so I continued to buy them whenever my system was upgraded. Read More

Recently, let's say in the past year, I saw a growing number of email messages on the KDE lists with the following content only: +1 This is getting annoying for me. Read More

More than a year ago I wrote a post about KDE 4.0, I was quite unsatisfied with how in was and that we are going to release a product that has defects and in the eyes of the users will be a step back. Read More

Maybe you already know, maybe you don't: Google created its own browser, called Chrome. The good is that it is based on WebKit, thus contains KDE technology. That's is another recognition for the work of KDE developers. Read More

Time is passing by. Sometimes I'm also amazed that it was more than 5 years ago when I wrote my first KDE application and soon after I joined the Quanta Plus project. Read More

I know it is not so nice to complain and bash a project when you don't contribute to it. And yes until now, I did not contributed to the KDE4 desktop as I wished. Read More

openSUSE 10.3. I couldn't follow its development as I did with previous releases and tested only after the final version appeared. First I upgraded my desktop from 10.2 and it wasn't a pleasure as it made the system unbootable and I had to fix using a rescue console. Read More

Even if Coolo says they have the cutest baby on earth, I have to disagree and post a proof of it. :) Our little daughter is with us since a year, we had her birthday yesterday. Read More

I was missing from development for about 2 weeks in August, because I had a vacation. With 3 friends of mine, we planned a hiking/climbing journey in the Alps for this summer. Read More

Today I discovered an application that is using Qt4. It was a complete surprize, as this is a software that you can download from a photo-shop's web page to create so called "photo-books". Read More

This year is almost over, and it was a very mixed one. It had good and bad sides as well. It started very well as after a few years of trying my wife finally got pregnant. Read More

I think this doesn't require too much words. ;-) PS: She is a girl. ;-) PS2: And the texts are in Hungarian...

I wanted to write down my experience with how good KDevelop 3 is for KDE4 development since a long time, but never had the time for it. I used it since I started to work on KDE4 porting, and I can say that it is usable with some shortcoming and rough edges. Read More

Following the call to ask for maintainers for those applications that do not have one, here is a post requesting maintainer for two applications from the KDEWebDev module. The first one is KImageMapEditor, the HTML image map editor application that can be embedded in Quanta Plus or used as a standalone application. Read More

This is fun. A real rock band won the Eurovision contest in 2006. Finland sent Lordi, a melodic metal band in horror/sci-fi masks to Athens and they won with a big margin. Read More

Some days ago I bought an ASUS jeans. We've been searching for a jean that is good for my size (not that easy), and found this one with reduced price (~$10 instead of $22). Read More

I find todays hardware less and less reliable. Lately I feel it on my own skin. The story started with some mess I made on my hard disk and an upgrade of SUSE to 10. Read More

So aKademy 2006 was announced. The date is interesting, as it starts on my birthday. ;-) I wanted to go there, but didn't start any preparation before the final announcement. Now I looked at what do I need to go there. Read More

Today I took some time to configure an nx server on a system for which I am the administrator. It is a server in a library behind a firewall server. Actually I have to access both a linux server behind that firewall and a windows server as the application they are using is windows based (and even if it runs just fine through wine, it is not enough in every case). Read More

I did some performace tuning today on my laptop, so i can make Kubuntu start up faster. It was mostly about disabling startup services I don't need and optimizing KDE startup performace according to the performace tips from wiki. Read More

I have to admit that I'm a big SuSE fun and used SuSE exclusively for the last 6 years or so. For me SuSE had and has several advantages over the other distributions and these are: Read More

I haven't blogged since quite some time and when I did it was because of a sad story. But now it is different. Christams is close and I already got some gifts from my friend from over the ocean and from myself. Read More

The sun eclipse was also visible from Romania, altough it was not that spectacular. In 1999 was a full eclipse that I was supposed to see from the mountains, but minutes before the eclipse started, the sky was filled by clouds and some minutes after it ended, it cleared up. Read More

I don't blog too often, but several things happened during the last month and they are partly related to KDE as well. And as there is a short dot story now available, I would like to share something about the background of the story. Read More

As a follow-up to my last blog, here comes some detail about how to use KNewStuffSecure in your application. Shortly again, the idea behind it is to provide a way to upload and download digitaly signed resources, thus making it possible for the user to check the real source as well as the integrity of the downloaded resources on one side, and on the other side it allows automatization for processing the uploaded resources on the server side. Read More

Some minutes ago a mail from Ian landed in my Inbox, where he asks if I would blog or write a "short one paragraph snippet" on how KNewStuff is used in Quanta. Read More

We've reached an important point: branching the CVS for 3.2. After complaining a little that things didn't went as smooth as they could I've started to work again. Now that HEAD is open and we have a 3. Read More