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Do you want to help improve KStars, but don't want to do programming or debugging? Do you like pretty pictures? Over at the KStars Community Forums, I have announced the KStars Image Challenge. We need more pictures of celestial objects for our Details window. Right now we have most of the Messier objects and about 40 NGC objects; you can see the current images here: http://www.30doradus.org/kstars/detail_thumbs/ Read More

linux.conf.au early-bird registrations close soon. Now would be an excellent time to register if you want to come along. I'm booked in... There are a lot of cool looking talks - I'm personally planning to heckle at this talk :-) Read More

I was just completely amazed to read that British MPs think that the Galileo project is unimportant. To me the combination of accurate and cheap global positioning systems, combined with the infrastructure to determine the relative position between one thing and another, and a semantic web that allows that GPS meta data to be annotated ubiquitously to all information on the web, is so important that every 21st economy will depend on it. Read More

Lazy Web warning: I looked and looked.. I even tried to figure out qdoc3. No joy. Anyone know how to generate the man pages for Qt4? Or where I can get a tarball with the man pages? Read More

Tomorrow morning, I will start my new job at axentra. I must admit I'm a little nervous but also excited by this new job. After 3 years of being self-employed, and with all the shit I had last year and until this May , it's a definitly a welcomed change in my professional life. Sure I will miss the fact that I was able to wake up late in the morning, not having to dress to go to work and also the 30 seconds commute times, but for a more steady income it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Ah, New England in the Autumn. Lets of reds and yellows and greens. It's a desktop art theme waiting to happen. Went canoeing on the river and enjoyed it much. No photos of that but here's some exciting other ones. Read More

Today the final version of the openSUSE Guiding Principles has been announced. The Guiding Principles describe what drives the openSUSE project, our identity, our goals and our values. It has been a long process to create this document. It was discussed broadly in the community as well as internally at SUSE and Novell. But I'm pretty confident that we have reached a version now which has a very broad acceptance. If you look at the initial announcement you will notice that it's signed by community members from inside and outside of Novell including Novell top management. The open openSUSE user directory holds an extended and constantly growing list of additional supporters. You can go there, express your support for openSUSE and its Guiding Principles. Don't hesitate, become part of this great community. Read More

As of today the openSUSE project has the Guiding Principles finally taking effect. Everyone can express support for them on the new openSUSE User Directory site. Also the first openSUSE board has been appointed by Novell. Congratulations to all members, especially the ones from the community. :-) Not so exciting, I have uploaded a new KDE Four Live CD containing 3.95.2 snapshot packages. Read More

UDS happened with much planning for the next six months in Ubuntu land, resulting in our second LTS release, Hardy. The two explicitly Kubuntu specs are catchup where we look at what's missing in Kubuntu and KDE 4 plan with our packaging expectations. Exciting parts include better printer setup, kaffeine codec installation, decent compiz and bullet proof X. Read More

Yesterday I wandered around in my library a little and stumbled upon a book about XSLT. I never intended to get into that stuff because I hate doing html and this looked far too similiar to that. But I picked up the book, read some of it yesterday for half an hour and today I took two hours to see, if our kvtml format was usable with it, since it's just xml. I also picked up a book about css which I never looked at before. Read More