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Who doesn't want to enjoy the good things in life longer? I'm talking of course about the battery life in your laptop. Intel released PowerTOP this week, a power monitoring tool for Linux. Read More

...finally. And no, I'm not talking about their dealings with Novell. Last month Microsoft finally figured out how to work with open standards: Microsoft enhances Interoperability with Ecma Office Open XML Formats (Oct 25, 2006) Microsoft is applying the Open Specification Promise (OSP) to Ecma Office Open XML to further enable the implementation of these document formats, by anyone, forever. Read More

Those of you who are tired of battling with binary graphic driver blobs will be pleased to learn about Keith Packard's announcement today. The Intel® 965 Express Chipset represents the first product family that implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture. Read More

Last month I complained about Apache refusing to support OpenDocument. It seems there is progress in this area now that Eben Moglen published a legal opinion on behalf of the Free Software Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation giving OpenDocument a clean bill of legal health. Read More

Ola! So my return from GUADEC got shorted when the Seniorita at the Delta-air check-in counter looked at my passport and wondered why the laminated picture-ID part wasn't attached to the rest of the thing. Read More

You look at the code of this new KDE application and you immediately notice several of the mistakes that you made in your first KDE application as well. Sounds familar? Read More

Just wanted to say hi from Atlanta airport, where I'm waiting on my connecting flight to Barcelona, on my way to this years GUADEC. Trying to get my outbound e-mail working but port 25 seems to be blocked (or my providers SMTP after POP3 is messed up). Read More

The Apache foundation steadfastly refuses to include support for the OpenDocument filetypes to its distribution despite the mimetypes being registered with IANA. Appearantly the ASF doesn't agree with the OASIS IPR policy seemingly unaware that the OASIS OpenDocument TC has switched to a most liberal IPR policy (Royalty Free with restrictions on possible licensing conditions) earlier this year. Read More

No, the Portland Print Dialog isn't about design by committee. It's about letting the platform provide the print dialog (as opposed to the toolkit). If you run a GNOME desktop that will probably mean a Gtk Print dialog. Read More

The Gnome Journal has an interview with me on the Portland project courtesy of Sri Ramakrishna.

What an exciting week! After many years I finally met Cristian in person at the OSDL Printing Summit that was held in Atlanta this week. The event was great fun and it was really nice to meet with Celeste, Ellen and Jan from OpenUsability. Read More

[image:1931 size=original] OSDL Printing summit group photo. Maybe I'll try to add names tomorrow.

Want to go to a woop-ass desktop developers conference and don't have the patience to wait till september? On July 17-18 the 2006 Desktop Developers Conference (DDC) will be held in Ottawa located in visa-friendly Canada. Read More

I'm deeply disappointed in the Superbowl ref's. I'm new to this football thing, us europeans play soccer instead, but after having taken my time to learn about all the weird rules, several of these calls didn't make sense at all. Read More

Congratulations to all the [http://www.digikam.org/Digikam-SPIP/|DigiKam] developers with winning the [http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000150|TUX 2005 Readers’ Choice Award]. Being able to provide users with great software is what makes working on open source software for me one of the most rewarding activities. Read More

Danese Cooper [http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2005/08/catchuposcon_li.html|asks] where all the women are in Open Source. I don't know about all of them, but several of them can currently be found in Malaga at the KDE conference. Read More

Maybe you still think of it as an Java IDE, but with this weeks release of [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/|Eclipse CDT 3.0], Eclipse has become a much more interesting C/C++ IDE as well. Eclipse has a powerful plugin architecture that allows all kinds of powerful tools, from content assistence, [http://subclipse. Read More

I just returned from a week of Canadian hospitality in Ottawa. First I attended the Desktop Developers Conference, later in the week followed by the Ottawa Linux Symposium. It was also a chance to meet for the first time with some of my colleagues at Intel. Read More

Thank you Google! It's quite exciting to see so many people with so many new ideas for making KDE better. Best of luck to all 24 winning contestants!

I like Aaron’s suggestion to label more clearly the adoption status of the various drafts at FreeDesktop.org I also believe that at some point we must be able to say “this is something that is widely adopted and deserves to be a standard

When thinking about a future configuration system it's nice to have an idea about current usage patterns. So I did some measurements to see how many different configuration keys KDE applications look up when starting up. Read More

The month of May has started with a big milestone: the approval of the OpenDocument 1.0 specification as an OASIS standard. Part of the credits for that go to our very own David Faure who has done a great amount of hard work in the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Commitee. Read More

In response to Aaron's blog about D-Conf I explained in my previous blog why I think a common configuration system is desirable. I didn't go into the issues that Aaron raised about FreeDesktop. Read More

Yesterday, Aaron made some interesting comments on the unified configuration system that has been discussed on the xdg-list over the last few weeks. I think some of his comments are spot on, unfortunately some others seem to be of the more paranoid hallucinogenic kind. Read More

In France you can get prosecuted for reporting security problems. I think this is a good approach to security. After all, recent studies funded by Microsoft have shown that Microsoft Windows is more secure than Linux because Linux had more security patches applied. Read More

I start with a little rant, because that's the category I have chosen for today's blog. You see, we have about 30 possible categories on this blog-site and yet I couldn't find one that is appropriate for the title. Read More

I think the new picture for the monitor used with the background preview doesn't entirely work as-is. This border looks weird. I tried to come up with a borderless version. This is a bit of a challenge because the code pretty much likes the actual preview to be square but the monitor really looks better with round edges. Read More

I'm a fairly happy puppy with little to rant about at the moment but as I explained earlier, I have a problem coming up with good titles, so I stick with this one. Read More

Boy ksim was in a mess, fixed the obvious issues with it over the weekend. I somewhat fail to see why ksim is implemented as a kicker extension, wouldn't it make more sense as a normal stand-alone application? Read More

Since I'm not so good in thinking of innovative titles I have decided to stick with the current one. In turn, that obliges me to rant a little. The subject of my rant today is kwallet. Read More

I said Rant because this thing is clearly marked as "personal blog" and yet it forces me to pick a KDE category, that's hardly personal now is it? A lot of people are curious about the New Project. Read More