Coolo 

It's been a while since I had baby photos to show, Felix grew just too quickly. But we two have a lot in common, and the latest addition to the list is the love to his sister: Read More

Tomorrow is the last power-of-two day in the year and this happens to be Felix's birthday (if you remember 2^4*2^3=2^007 - a year has passed). I just finished burning a DVD with the movies we recorded and a slideshow of the best pictures and it's a strange feeling seeing him grow up in 5 1/2 minutes. Read More

After a very relaxing night, we can finally plan the dressing code for sunday.

Ever called a perl script and got this? Can't locate Regexp/Common.pm in @INC (@INC contains: SCRIPT /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at SCRIPT line 18. Well, use zypper: Read More

We implemented some very interesting features for openSUSE 11.0 to make the installation easier and faster: giving it a green face making the configuration automatic switching from bzip to lzma for rpm payload put images of default patterns on the DVDs move online update to the desktop applets improved package management speed Yesterday I installed 11.0 Alpha3+ (which is a snapshot of Factory burned on DVD) and it definitely felt fast and easy. So today I decided to give 10.3 another try to measure where exactly we improved or if it's just placebo. Read More

At times when we have only 512MB Compact flash, we always had to download the pictures off the camera, but with these affordable 4GB cards, it can take a while before we see the need to download. So here is my favorite. Read More

I appologize to everyone thinking WTF? at the following, but I have to blog about it, otherwise I'll explode :) This is the reference for our current payload: -rw-r--r-- 1 coolo suse 36966400 13. Mär 09:42 coreutils-6.10.tar 8.61user 0.05system 0:08.66elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+11936outputs (0major+2007minor)pagefaults 0swaps -rw-r--r-- 1 coolo suse 6110179 13. Mär 09:45 coreutils-6.10.tar.bz2.9 Read More

It may work earlier for other couples, but it didn't work out earlier for us. So yesterday was officially the first evening mom was out alone - that is without being called home at 7pm because coolo ran out of ideas how to calm the baby. Read More

After almost one month, we're finally back in Bavaria. First I picked up my wife in Berlin, where she had a week of vacation. Then visited Rostock for almost 2 weeks and then drove back to Berlin on 26th where my mother married. Then we celebrated new year in the lovely St. Joseph's hospital because Felix got really, really sick and we had to wait over an hour for the blood values and it happened to be the midnight. Read More

One picture is worth more than 10 words, but that's the limit for a blog entry :)

Due to our little hackweek project winning in two categories, I have the rest of the year so called "Innovative time off". In the beginning 10 days ITO sounded like nothing, but now I'm kind of forced go give up on real work and do fancy experiments :) Read More

This is my first evening I have on my own, so I thought I let the world know: On the 16th of August 2007 our son Felix made world++. It was a busy day - after I complained on the 15th about deadlines it came a bit out of the sudden. Just as we agreed with the midwife that the 17th would be the better date anyway, he protested so heavily that he made it at 16 minutes to midnight (I don't want to bore you with medical details). Meanwhile I figured the 2^4th of the 2^3th month of 2..7 has its charm too - but only to boring people :) Read More

Just three words: I hate it. The deadline was 9th of august, just one feature to finish and what happened? It's late. No feature, no release. That's why I hate feature driven development. I want bloody deadlines! Read More

There is just so much I wanted to tell during the offline weeks :) Didn't miss akademy, had bad weather myself Our future is still "in utero" My faster booting project is finished - I blame you can't boot faster into a konsole window without optimizing for a specific setup Won "Best Overall Project" in the hack week event together with Dr. Richi Dirk is the admin hero of the week, the month and the year

After a week of about no sleep due to aweful heat, it was really rainy around here. So what are you doing with a rainy weekend? Right, improve openSUSE boot time :) Read More

Just to keep you informed: the KDE sysadmin team is working on migrating our svn server to subversion 1.4. If you look for an howto on this you will find "dump and load" - aka svnadmin dump old | svnadmin load new. Nothing fancy. So I started this on my workstation (having had it pimped in april I thought it's good enough) and waited... 13 days. Now I need another day to load the revisions of that 13 days into the repository. Read More

Bild-Leser-Reporter Stephan K. found that while trying to grab some icecream for his pregnant wife:

Last year I turned 30 and I know people still wonder when I end up being as old as I look. But on the way to this I pass today the next prime number - and I must say it feels much better than last year. The main reason is that I have a new job. This may suprise one or two, but it shouldn't. Read More

I wanted to use the title "merged kconfiggroup_port branch", but I think I should learn from Aaron, so there we go :) It all started by a bug David fixed in kmail: KConfig *config = giveMeRandomKConfigObject(); config->setGroup("Hallo"); config->readEntry... Read More

... my nephew Lino Vincent was born on November 13th and I met him first over christmas. This is my current wallpaper (and people knowing my screens will notice a massive change :): Read More

On December 25th the icecream scheduler died (as we found out today). This is the last log message: 19:43:07: put 281278480 in joblist of tangelo So the scheduler worked fine for over 281 Million compile jobs (roughly 5400 KDE compilations from scratch) and then died - without any hint on what he died on. I guess Dirk is right, the winter in germany is just too hot for icecream. Read More

Let me introduce: I reviewed the wishlists of kpat after fixing all bugs reported to bugs.kde.org. Now 112032 - showing if a solution is possible found my interest. Not exactly for freecell (which I master quite well after all these years kpat QA), but it's surely interesting for games less likely to win. When I was at my sister's home she played (middle) Spider@XP in the evening and it stroke me why a game should be so popular where the chances to win was so low (we mastered to win 15% - neither paying it much attention nor having a lot of experience). So my idea when seeing the bug was to write a solver that can solve not just freecell but also spider. Read More

The kdegames survey has shown it: People love kpat. It's the only game that reached an overall score of 4 (with 46% saying it's game play is very good relative to the rest of kdegames)! Read More

I've seen it before, but yesterday the thought stroke me: What use does the condom box outside of the laundromat next to the Hauptmarkt have? I have my theory (and the single student in the laundromat in my neighbourhood that looked as if she was bored and open for a chat kind of proved it), but I ask myself: is it really justifying such an open box? After all you might appear pretty needy if you go outside and buy a couple :) Read More

I like how the dot article stresses Kubuntu as the perfect platform for KDE4 development. While I can't say much about it (only knowing that David spreads his "install that list of packages to make kubuntu useful" txt file to everyone complaining about broken compilations while SUSE had a "KDE Development" selection since about forever) I'm relieved that the dot article did not touch openSUSE's position as the perfect platform to use KDE. Read More

Top sign you worked too much on kdm I was in the talk of keithp and he referenced had on his slides "X -- ossified" and I was just thinking "no! you don't want that". After that I figured he didn't mean Oswald but open source. Read More

Why is it so complicated to walk on stopped escalators? Is it because it feels like walking back in time? Or are the riffle telling the feed not to move? Or is just because you're loosing your rythm? I don't know - fact is: most people I watch avoid stopped escalators if there is a normal staircase next to it. Read More

From time to time I do a fresh trunk compile to entertain myself on the logs (as I have no time to do real development at the moment). So this is the top list of warnings about deprecated functions: Read More

That's all I wanted to say! The details are on coverity.com - many thanks to those helped.

The Formula One is more exciting than any since Hill retired. But to top this, RTL decided to field test new commercials during the "break" 10 gaps to go. In case you missed it, you should look at this - especially if you're male :) Read More

I get so seldom to blog about such an important topic as Accessibility, but I think this is worth noting: Gunnar's IRC client is reading incoming messages alound using kttsd and it's puzzling the first time you hear it, but after some time you notice how much fun is related to it. Just see here (slightly edited) Read More

What's up with all these teams being unable to score and then claiming the referee was unfair? To remind everyone: this game is not about standing still and wait for the referee to signal penalty shoot out. Having said that: the russian referee for Nuremberg wasn't really up to the unfairness of the match and it's sad that the rules do not allow the referee to watch on slow motions on TV - I'm sure we would have seen a red card in 8. minute and the match would have been another. Beside that: I'm really looking forward for the match on friday, this city is not the same if good teams play - and Germany is one of them this time. You can feel the proud and see it in all faces and on everyone's shirt. Read More

Seems I scared some people with my 15 fonts story. So no more worrying, a SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3 (pretty standard system) can be pretty quick: That is with 280 fonts - and as you can see my bash is up after 4 seconds. Of course this works only if your kdm will preload your data in the background, which it already does in 10.0 though. Read More

It's great to see the progress fontconfig does performancewise after such a long time without much progress. And it's great that Dirk and me are referred to as "perf guys" in the fontconfig changelog now :) Read More

I don't know about other cities, but for Nuernberg/Fuerth the definite sign for being home is entering the metro and the driver saying "Pleahz schteb bek" (trying to mimik franconian accent in English isn't really easy :) as the train leaves the stations. I know several people (including my mother) that insist on taking the metro if they are around just for that to happen. And just today I was in a train where the driver tried to speak plain german, but then again in the tone of a city guide. Very nice touch for those getting up early actually :) Read More

Whatever you guys took out of the Malaga conference - for me it's this: I love my wife (knew that part before, but I better list it to avoid misunderstandings), my bed, my couch, the silence in my bedroom and speaking german (having meals without having to guess what it is pretty cool :). Read More

OK, this is my first and only blog entry during the Malaga conference. And so I have to report about what really bothers me about this city. Yesterday we decided to take a random trip through the city and then we found this nice little place with a huge obelisk on it. There was a cocktail bar on it and many many young people. So we ordered some drinks (and I saw for the very first time in my life a cocktail presented in a coconut - for just 6 Euro the guy opened a coconut, put lots of alcohol in it and put cream on top of it, amazing. I admit though that it didn't taste just as well, but I'm not that much of a cocos fan, but then again it wasn't my drink) and just sat there. And now the trouble starts: Read More

As I said before, I'm ringed now. Our families and friends joined us celebrating our love. Two days later we made a trip to Rome and everyone claiming it is cool, was damn right. It wasn't even too hot as many claimed, at least I consider it more awful back in Nuremberg where it's the same temperature, but doesn't cool down towards the evening. Anyway, we visited all the places one has to visit and had a lot of fun making pictures, so we have plenty of material to bore grandchildren later. Read More

About time I tell everyone interested about it: Friday, July 1st 2005 I will stop being Mister Kulow, the boy friend and become Mister Kulow, the husband of Mrs. Kulow :) Read More

... if freecell runs the rest is just fun. So our first mile stone in Qt4 porting was getting freecell up and running. From now on the rest are peanuts: Read More

I know you all heared rumours about different numbers, but it prooved yesterday: 128 is the real magic number. OK, the story is much longer, but here is the summary: I just love cycling and trying to watch heros in action I browsed through the channels my DVB-S receiver gives me. Read More

Do you know the feeling when your job just isn't fun because you have to come to work every day and hack at features you don't like or don't need or both? I DON'T! Read More

I watch since weeks output like this: Starting Subversion commit 371950 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371951 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371952 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371953 / 409201 Starting Subversion commit 371954 / 409201 Read More

I'm not one of those guys that promises their girl friends to not touch the computer when on vacation, but sure I promised to do only fun things :) I had two projects I took with my laptop (that I take with me for photographic reasons - in case you wonder): clucene to write kugle and unsermake. As writing kugle without internet and chat is boring, I decided I go for unsermake. Read More

Time passes by too quickly for me to remember what I fixed the last week within icecream. But for the RPM changelog I need to know, so I looked for some tool to create Changelog files from cvs history and found the perfect one: cvs2cl.pl Read More

I promised I would improve my blog rate, so here I start. The day started interesting: Got a mail from Martin Pool asking why we forked icecream and it took me a while to give a good enough answer. In short: We didn't fork, but wrote something similiar from scratch using distcc code. Will still be interesting how this story continues though. Still the thing that turns around in my head the most right now is this: I leave for two weeks greece next week and got already in this dangerous "doesn't really matter if I start with it now" mood. I still would like to make the icecream scheduler use even less blocking file operations and have the client send local jobs notifications async, so updating monitors doesn't block Simon's configure runs. The notification of monitors is right now blocking too (one thing that made the aKademy cluster behave so much different than the one at SUSE: the number of monitors), but Michael is not yet sure if he wants non-blocking TCP or UDP (I guess, if we go UDP, we need some way to reset the state of monitors). For those interested in KDE 3.3 release schedule: I return at 27th to full work, so I target that week for tagging/packaging and ~5.10. for KDE 3.3.1 (I now that's roughly 7 weeks since KDE 3.3.0, but I hope you agree that I deserved some kind of vacation) Read More

Now that the first dust about the first beta is settled, my thinking of how to continue gets more and more in foreground. Bug fixing continues at a nice rate, but there are still some show stopper bugs that were fine for beta1, but are not for whatever comes after: flash content missing (bug:65868 ) quite some khtml regressions, that show up on quite some pages (e.g. bug:66490, there are others) kwin hides cookie windows (and korganizer even windows) because of focus stealing prevention These bugs _have_ to be fixed, there is no way around it. But in general there are of course the two golden rules of releases: you'll never get it right whatever you fix, it might break other things (it might be they have downsides originally - I forgot then :) Anyway, I think if just the right ten bugs are fixed, we could release tomorrow. If - in reality we might end up with another beta before christmas and the final somewhere in june ;(