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Thursday, 13 March 2008

Experiments with Rpm payload

Coolo  | 
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
Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Harris *Vivian = new Harris();

Say hello to our new baby daughter, Vivian: She was born on Feb 25th. Her middle name is QiHui, which is Mandarin for "bright angel". Haiyin and I are very happy, and not a little tired! Read More
Monday, 10 March 2008

Fun with Microsoft OOXML

Dipesh  | 
It is one case to walk through 7000 pages of rather technical documentation and to try to extract something useful out of it for a concrete question. It is another thing to look at the actual XML produced by the Microsoft Office 2007 suite. Read More
Monday, 10 March 2008

Qtscript Binding Generator

Rich  | 
In 4.0 plasma had support for writing applets using Qt's built in javascript interpreter QtScript, but the facilities have been fairly limited. In KDE 3.x KJSEmbed gave us reasonably complete bindings to the Qt and KDE api's, allowing us to write applications such as a web browser in 10 lines of javascript. I'm glad to say that some plans that were discussed at the KDE conference in Glasgow are now a reality and Kent has released a qtscript binding generator based on the one used for QtJambi. The result is that we will very soon have good access to the Qt API from qtscript. Read More
Monday, 10 March 2008

Say hello to KJS/Frostbyte -40.9° and Icemaker

Sad Eagle  | 
If you've been scanning KDE commits lately, you may have wondered about heavy activity on an experimental KJS branch, KJS/Frostbyte. Well, while it's still not 100% done (there are a couple bugs, and not all goals have been met yet), it's complete enough that I am comfortable to blog about it. Read More
Sunday, 9 March 2008

CeBIT 2008 Impressions

Beineri  | 
Yesterday I made an excursion to CeBIT. Despite some major names missing and three halls staying closed it's the world's largest IT fair - and my legs remind me today of my marathon. Many halls were rather boring, the ones where the World Cyber Games took place were in opposite rather crowded. Dunno why watching others playing computer games is popular. Or the spectators were all their girl-friends who had free entrance on World Women Day. AMD wins the biggest bag contest. And many exhibitors seem to want to win in the 'Germany's Next Top-Hostess' contest. Read More
Saturday, 8 March 2008

Adobe Flash on Linux is crap, will it damage the brand?

I recently upgraded from Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy, and all went well apart from one thing. Konqueror began putting up a crash dialog everytime it accessed a site with Flash, making it pretty much unusable. In fact until I had this problem I didn't realise quite how many pages on the web use Flash. Read More
Thursday, 6 March 2008

Second

[image:3318] Ok, so SaroEngels was first... but who has the better view? Opposite of KDE CeBit booth...
Thursday, 6 March 2008

When the cat's away, the mice can play

Coolo  | 
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
Wednesday, 5 March 2008

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2008 Summary

Beineri  | 
The last week-end me and Martin manned the openSUSE booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage: [image:3315 size=original hspace=50] Executive summary: the organizers counted 2400 visitors, Martin gave an "openSUSE project" talk to 100-120 people, we distributed 400 Promo-DVDs, several openSUSE caps and some Novell pinguins. More photos from me and from others are available. Read More