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For those few of you interested (is there anyone?): I've started a new blog. If this one is any measure, it will be a pretty dead one, but I think it's the thought that counts =)

If you like to laugh then the Apple presents the iRack clip may something for you - always again impressing how close political reality and good jokes can be :)

A few weeks ago, I decided to write a small utility to help me with my work and also to relearn Qt. This small utility enable me to control the boot process, update the firmware of various devices I have at home and at work. Read More

Just watched a very clever advert for the new iphone. It's a manual, it shows you how to download (and buy) new apps. It's very short, just one feature User ends up having fun - playing game, and then call from a guy Interupting you in the middle of the game is presented as a feature! Slogan about this changing everything (not sure how it's supposed to do so) The advert seems well put together, but I wonder if we couldn't create something similar regarding KDE features? Read More

Ever since Maksim Orlovich released benchmarks of its excellent FrostByte flavour of the KJS engine, I've been curious to perform a synthetic benchmark of KHTML/KJS, to see what our whole stack is up to. Read More

The first Maemo Summit was held in Berlin on the 19th and 20th of September. Nokia proposed to organise a "Desktop Search Hackfest" in collaboration with the GNOME foundation. This proposal was forwarded to all the participants in the discussions on a set of common standards for desktop search called Xesam. The list of attendees was very interesting and I had the impression that it would be hard to get the same group of people together soon. So I decided to skip a family day at my employer, PANalytical, and went to the hackfest. Read More

As I pointed out recently, I only develop KDE in a virtual machine. It does not only enable me to rollback changes that screwed up something, it also allows me to go back to a verbatim snapshot where I can e.g. be sure that there are no mysterious plugins installed to directories that I have not thought of. I also pointed out that compiling in a virtual machine is slower, because you cannot use more than 2 processor cores per virtual machine. No problem! Use coolo's icecream and build up a compile cluster as described on http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream. I have done it and at the moment my fans are roaring and compiling the KDE for my virtual machine.

The all new Planet KDE is going well. One hickup was that blog entries would duplicate themselves in RSS readers when anyone edited their post. I've fixed that now by changing to using the URL to the entry as the ID in the RSS feed (before it was using a hash). So you may well get duplicates of everything today with the change to the new scheme, but not after that. Read More

I originally planned to do that in time for the KDE PIM special feature which has been published as part of one of the recent commit digests, but I didn't find enough time to it then and almost forgot about it later. Read More

I just wiped a partition on my laptop that had Mac OS X Tiger on it - I haven't used Mac OS X for a while and the disk space was just being wasted. I've replaced it with KDE from the Kubuntu Hardy disk I got at Akademy, and upgraded it all to 4.1. It was great to just start from scratch and only put in the latest things that I was interested in. One of the shiny new toys was Mono 1.9.1, along with some of the associated sub-projects such as the Visual Basic compiler. Read More