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arkimedes:~# apt-get install dbus-qt-1-dev (stuff skipped) The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus-qt-1-dev dbus-qt-1c2 hicolor-icon-theme kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2 libarts1c2 libaspell15 libfam0 libjasper-1.701-1 libnetpbm10 libopenexr2c2 menu-xdg netpbm 0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Read More

Next week, on Wednesday the 18th of May, I will be overseeing a KDE Flamewar (and talking about how to tweak KDE) for the Nottingham Linux Users Group. Come one, come all! Read More

My flight back to California is on the second of June, from Heathrow. I leave San Francisco back to England on the 14th (arriving on the 15th) of September. That gives me three and a half months of attempting to avoid saying things like "That's five dollars and 50 pence. Read More

12°C today, and this marks the beginning of the long downward spiral into summer. English summers are awful, the raindrops form out of the air all around you. The drops hit you and you wake up hours later dazed and with concussion. Read More

Apparently, I am a DYO--Dark Dry Offbeat. This makes me a Neurotic. I believe it. The complete analysis was head-on, in my opinion, but that might just be the result of Confirmation bias (the tendency to see accuracy in astrology, for example). Read More

Lots of programs in and out of KDE suffer from a condition that I call software arrogance. Consistently, I find such applications completely unusable and thus refuse to use them. Software arrogance is when a program feels it is more important than its user's document. Read More

How was I living without snow all this time? This stuff is amazing! The essence of beauty. Truly the best things in life are all around us, why do so many dislike such a lovely gift from nature? Read More

By now there's quite the debate (aseigo, tsdgeos) regarding the implementation of DRM in KPDF. Rather then getting a Blogger account (ahem), I'll post here, where I already have an account. Read More

Filed against every single major web browser is the bug of "unicode blindness injection" security vulnerability. In short, Unicode letters can look the same as their ascii-equivalents, but lead to a different URL (thereby permitting man-in-the-middle attacks). Read More

Last night I saw Nightwish and Tristania in Birmingham. Nightwish was absolutely spectacular and put on a great show! Tristania, the band I actually want to see was actually a disappointment. Read More

Finally. Now I can see Tristania. charles@pythagoras noatun $ cvs diff -N 2> /dev/null | wc -l 4763

I spent practically all of today working on Noatun make-it-snow. My fun was cut short when I (re)encountered a rather serious akode bug. It's some sort of race condition related to creating a playobject, and then, uhm, trying to get it to play. Read More

Well, Konqueror (khtml) has been proven to have the fastest free HTML renderer available for Linux. So why is it that the people on slashdot refuse to not only mention it in the "article", but with the default settings and no user account, I can't even find a mention of it on the entire page (with the comments). Read More

My notebook was returned from the repair-shop on thursday. On Friday it locked up hard again. Exact same symptoms as before. I know I shouldn't let a mere computer get me down, but I depend on this thing for finishing university. Read More

I'm going to have this shot, and we will see how much sense I make at the end of this journal entry. Or for that matter, at the beginning. Mmmm... Anise. Read More

I returned from The Netherlands yesterday. Fun was had. First, I got myself an insane haircut. Then, I saw Sirenia (and also Tiamat, Pain, and Theatre of Tragedy). I sure do hope they come to England soon; it's difficult having to fly to the continent just to fulfill my obsession. Read More

I've packed for my flight leaving tomorrow. Noatun 3 ("make-it-snow") made serious progress today. Photobook got its final TODO completed (just in time for the freeze). I fixed my first khtml bug. Read More

On Tuesday of next week, I'm off for the Netherlands! I hope I'll get to see some snow there. Last friday, the tickets for the Sirenia (I mean, Tiamat) gig showed up. Read More

I just bought my tickets for Sirenia (they're the supporting band of Tiamat which I only like moderately). 50 € for two tickets. Thiefs! In case you haven't heard, Sirenia is my band. Read More

A few weeks ago, my computer locked up. I'm a linux user, so this is unusual. I wasn't even doing something very intensive. I should have taken it as a signal of impending doom. Read More

I just committed my "Photo Book" part to cvs, it will be in KDE 3.4 unless I'm flamed. It's neat I think, and it probably fulfills a lot of wishes too. Read More

This is my first online journal ever. Some of you call them "blogs", but I don't, because the word is too silly sounding. I actually did some coding today: Image Galleries for Konqueror! Read More