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If there are any artists feeling they can make some icons, please please do! Application of interest is aKregator (kdenonbeta/akregator) I think one of the app icons may be a little green alligator =) But thats only a proposition, you may choose something entirely different. Read More

I'm proud to announce quick and miserable death of my Maxtor 120Gb HDD. "Physical destruction of HDD heads. Unrecoverable." Very well, now I can relax and have my dose of Windows XP (wheww) while the HDD travels to Moscow and back and guess what, nothing kde-related in the meantime. Bad one. Read More

Well, my home KDE went mad and started crashing and hanging everywhere, the last and the most disappointing was menu selection hanging the machine tightly. Rebuilt whole system from scratch with much-much lighter CFLAGS (i.e. used -mcpu=athlon-xp -O1 instead of -march=athlon-xp -O3 |:=)) Now it works like a charm and not a bit slower than before. While KDE was out of business my g\f found a home accounting program for win32 and guess what, this is the best home accounting software I've ever seen before. It includes a handy entry tool and useful graphs that display your income/expense as pie charts with separation into categories (screenshot pending). Seems like I have something to port to KDE. My regular job takes all of my time leaving no gaps to play KDE anymore. The rest of the time I spend with my 3-month-old daughter. So I don't expect too much work on KDE side, but seems like I gonna install internet connection in September so I could have some immediate access to docu and collective developers mind from home, this will help me with development alot |:=) On my regular job I'm playing with Ruby, and I love the language more and more every day. This is something I can call a language of my dream. Its elegant as Lua was elegant to me some time before, including easy bindings to C-like languages. Its handy as Perl is handy to script writers - actually, I transferred a bunch of ugly Perl scripts into a single Ruby script in one day and its much-much better and more flexible than it was before |:=). Unfortunately, I was unable to test qtRuby bindings, so mixing Ruby with KDE is left for some time later. Btw, found an awesome alternative library of Ruby software: http://freepan.org/ruby/by-cat/ (alternative wrt RAA) Oh yes, reading a book in Xtreme Programming now and I've got an idea for a decentralized helper tool. Tool that will track the development in a server-less manner within a group of developers. WASTE looks like a good pretendent for a communication framework, since it is group-oriented and supports encrypted communication. Anyone vote for a better toolkit? Read More

So okay, what do I want from a MUD client? a) Necessities a1) Complete scriptability (better in Ruby or Perl, then Python, custom languages won't do) a2) Bindable keys. Thats crucial since typing commands when you can bind it is a straight road to rip. a3) Triggers. While present in most clients they need be fast and easy to add. a4) Support for encodings other than Latin-1. a5) MCCP, Mud Client Compression Protocol, saves up to 95% of traffic. b) Fancies b1) Automapper c) My ideas c1) Battle screen. More on this later. Read More