Antonio Larrosa 

The GCDS, and particularly the Akademy ended. Mostly everyone is still already back home, so all I can say is: Thanks to Agustín, Rodrigo, Miki and the rest of the local organization team for the great conference. Everyone I've talked with agreed that they were having a very good time, and I can only reassure that. The only "problem" I can find is (and I thought I would never say this) there were too many parties :) . So, congratulations for a very successful event! Read More

Yesterday I learnt about two new options for my xorg.conf : Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" I must thank the X Strike Force guys from Debian for that knowledge :). Yesterday I tried the latest Xorg packages (7.4) that are available for sid, and my keyboard and mouse stopped working. It seems that Xorg now relies more on what HAL tells it about the available input devices than on its own configuration (as explained here, thanks Ana for the link), and those two options together force X to continue using the input devices configuration from xorg.conf instead of using HAL. Read More

It's been a long time since my last entry here, so I think I'll start by giving an update of my life lately. I've been a bit away from KDE development for too long (but not from the KDE community fortunately). Some of you probably know what it's like: long work weeks that makes the recent EU proposal of a 65 hours work week look as a game (my personal record is around 96 work hours in a week and never below 50 hours), deadlines, more deadlines ... you know how it goes. Read More

Finally I arrived to my home. I've been for the last three days having a wonderful time at the Canary Islands with many great people (both, the organizators and the other speakers) at the 1st Free Software event of the University of La Laguna. The problems started when the plane from Tenerife to Madrid was delayed, so I arrived too late to Madrid and I couldn't get on the plane to Málaga. After being put in another plane (that also was delayed), I've arrived to my home something like half an hour ago, and I have to be at the airport again in less than 2 hours and a half to get a plane back to Madrid, and then another one from there to Dublin. This will be a loong night... Read More

I arrived yesterday from a 10 days holidays around Spain. There are some things that I'd like to share with everyone, so I'll try to tell a brief report about it. Read More

Wow, it's been a long time since my last blog entry, exactly 10 weeks and 4 days... A brief summary of the last weeks would be: a great time at a couple of talks (at the 802.party in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz and at the Technological Park of Málaga), some great time working on the digikam-web interface and related things, and boring time being until late at work (my advice: don't have anything to do with gsoap). Fortunately, today I've started my holidays :) and although usually I would use that time to develop something, this year I'm going to travel with some friends around Spain, so I guess I'll have little internet access from next Saturday on. Read More

During last weekend I managed to find some time to continue developing the web interface for digikam that I mentioned in a previous blog entry, so I added some new features: Read More

Currently I have 21458 photos according to digikam's database (which are using 13 Gb according to du ). When someone asks me to put some album in my web server I hate to lose my time exporting to html, generating thumbnails and resized 1024x768 versions of my pictures which occupy space in my HD that I'm usually hesitant to remove. Read More

It's important to have information organized, and everyone who tried know it's difficult to organize things efficiently. Lately most applications are trying to help the user to do exactly that, and in my opinion that will be the factor users will use to choose one application over another: how the application allows them to organize the information they work with. Read More

"I was told by Perez, who was in Mallorca, and there the hapiness never ends during night and day", that's what an old spanish song says :) , and I had the opportunity to confirm it during last weekend (7th, 8th and 9th) when I went to Mallorca invited to give a talk at Bulma's 3rd free software conference. Bulma is one of the most important LUGs in Spain (if not the most) Read More

This is a photo of a safety guide I found in my plane from Madrid to Málaga last Sunday: [image:1940 size=preview] I don't know how others read that, but what I read is that Iberia recommends "for your safety" not to use Windows ;-). Read More

The short version: My computer was broken and I haven't had mail since the 19th of March until today, sorry if you were waiting for me to answer some mail, I'll try to do so as soon as possible. Read More

I was going to post something here when I noticed Martijn's post titled I should blog more often, and like him, I think I should do the same. My last post was in January, and there have been a lot of things happening in the meantime that even I'm surprised to find I didn't post about them. I'll talk in this post briefly about past issues, and I'll talk in the next one about the unfortunate events of last week. Read More

Some days ago I was talking with a friend and he told me I should read a book that talked about the subject we were talking about. I had to answer I have too many books in my queue waiting at home for me to find some time to read them. Maybe if I put them together in a list I'll realize that the list is growing too long and I start finding (or making) time to read them... Read More

It's been a long time since I blogged for the last time, so to compensate I'll post a few blog entries today :) First, it seems this year I'll be giving some more KDE talks than last year. For a start, there's the OSWC (Open Source World Conference), from the 15th to the 17th of February. I'll be meeting Till Adams, Alexander Dymo, Andras Mantia and Josef Spillner there from the KDE team, all signs are saying that the OSWC will be a good meeting point for long time not seen friends from other projects too, so it seems we'll have a good time there. Read More

The 3 wise men (thanks Seele for the translation :) ) were wise and kind enough this year as to bring me a new camera that will replace my old (and broken since a friend of mine sliped it to the floor) Canon Powershot A70 that so many good moments has shared with me. After looking at many other cameras, I found that there were not many that matched the features I wanted and still were in the price range I could afford, and finally I chosed the Canon A620. Read More

Wow, I'm happy today. The story starts some years ago (around 2001, if I'm not wrong), when I bought a trackball (a Trackman Marble FX from Logitech). This model has 4 buttons, the three usual ones on all mice, and a 4th button that (in Windows) was used to emulate a wheel (pressing that button and moving the ball, allows to have a mouse wheel that can pan freely, horizontally and vertically on documents, which, btw, is really cool when working with images). After some time, I grew tired of having that useless button there and added support for it in XFree86 and Qt. I sent patches everywhere, but the XFree86 patch was sent when they were in a freeze and somehow they lost the patch. Anyway it was working for me so I didn't care much and just waited until I found that they added a patch to support wheel emulation done by another person that I never heard of (credits go to Henry T. So.) His patch was definitely his work since it was different from mine, not worse, not better, but different so I didn't have any problem with that (except for thinking about how many other patches were probably lost like mine). The only problem is that that patch didn't work, so I submitted a small fix and finally linux had working support for wheel emulation. Read More

Sometimes I doubt if I have a blog or not since I write seldomly here, anyway, I wouldn't like to let the opportunity to pass to be able to say I hope all of you KDE developers, users, artists, and contributors in general have a successful year and can find lots of reasons to smile (yes, I say that 4 days later than most people, but hey, better that than nothing, isn't it? ) Read More

The other day I spent quite a lot of time at work working with timezones and daylight savings in an application. This application interacts with an airport system to get the times at which the planes arrive and so, it has to do some calculations for timezones and DST. Read More

It's been a long time since the last time I blogged around here, so this will be a bit long, but anyway, I'll try to be brief to not use too much time writing. I've been wanting to write for many days, but always had many other things to do with more priority. Today I've thought "now or never", so let's try to explain everything that happened in the last weeks. Read More

Finally, I've chosen the subject to research for my DEA (the investigation that precedes the thesis of a PhD). The title is "Computational analysis of the propagation of compactons in non-lineal transmission lines". I don't know much about compactons yet, but I'm looking forward to start working on that. Read More

I finally got to Castelló after a 1 hour and 30 minutes delay waiting to get in to the plane at the airport. Tomorrow (Saturday) I'll give a KDE user talk at the iParty, at 16:00 . I initially plan to show some apps in depth (as well as some "tricks" or "hidden features" on some of them). I'll show konqueror, kontact (+kolab), kopete, amarok, digikam, kimdaba, klick, kstars (to show how to see the sun eclipse that will be seen in Spain next monday) ... is there any other application or some idea of what you think that should be shown? Read More

This weekend I've been finally able to rest for a while. On saturday morning I went to get my car to be repaired but the person that I needed doesn't work on saturdays. On the afternoon I planned to send the aKademy awards to the winners, but it seems the post offices are closed on saturday afternoons... great. I'll send them on Monday afternoon after getting out of work. Read More

This week has been quite tiring. First, my boss didn't allow me to take Monday as a personal free day in order to clear up the things we left from the akademy at the university. The Monday started with a couple of "pressure" meetings with by boss (just him and me) explaining me why I should work harder than ever and blah blah. So I've only been able to clear up things from the akademy after work, on afternoon/evenings. Read More

It's said that everything good gets to an end, and that's what happened to the akademy: Finally, it's over. Celeste asked me during the party at the beach if I was glad the akademy was over, after thinking about it for a day, I should say I'm not. I'm glad the work is over, but I'd have liked it to continue for at least some couple of weeks with all of you here :). Read More

Well, I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to tell much of what I'm doing. I've given 5 KDE talks in 2 weeks (3 one week, 2 at the next weekend). One in Tenerife at the Summer Courses of the "Universidad de Verano de Adeje", two at the Campus Party (in Valencia) and another 2 at Mollina, Málaga, into the second technological days of Free Software in Andalucia. I've met many people (some old good friends, some new friends), and everyone was great. Read More

Today I got a phone call from my university residence contact (a really nice and friendly person, btw). She told me that she was allocating the rooms everyone would get, but she had some problems... Read More

Hi, This is my first blog, and this is my first blog entry, so this can be considered a test... or not. To add something interesting I'll say that in the following hours, we (we == the akademy team) will announce that the deadline for article submissions will be delayed a few days (just a few, so if you want to submit something, you better do it now). Read More