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Current predictions for new U.S. Senate and Congress after tomorrow's (Tuesday) elections, based on some polls: Only 33 out of 100 Senate seats are up for election, but all 435 Congress ("House") seats are. (Click graphic for more details.) Read More

The Ubuntu Summit at Google in the US is now underway. The Googleplex is huge and we are only in one of the smaller buildings on the campus. Of course this is America and everything is huge, we shared a salad between three people yesterday and still didn't finish it. Read More

Based on past experience we can project the KDE 3.5.6 tagging about 1 month from now. So, today I put a freeze on any new features in the KDE PIM Features Branch -- the stuff I have been babbling about non-stop of late. We can still test bug fixes in this branch. But we need to put our efforts into finishing off and polishing the existing new goodies (KMail templates, custom tagging, TOFU, HTML signatures, ...). And negotiate with the developers over which of the goodies we will move into the 3.5 branch for the 3.5.6 release. And hope that the translators don't mind the new strings. Read More

In a small poll (or sorta), Albert asks what kind of values are better in the zoom combobox for oKular. IMO, zoom is best represented by either: a slider with major ticks in almost logarithmic scale, going from 10% to (wishful thinking) 10000%, with a spinbox or constrained textedit next to it to show the slider value and allow manual editing a zoom out button and a zoom in button (with the classical icons and obeying bidirectional gui guidelines) with a constrained textedit inbetween. Once again, zoom buttons should increase/decrease zoom value almost logarithmically (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000% etc.) IN order for these widgets to take lesser space on toolbars, they can be actually hidden and popped up from an unique zoom button ("lens" icon). AmiPro was doing this stuff perfectly 15 years ago. Read More

Thanks to Christian we have a bunch of clean-ups in the way KMail's addressee and recipient editors work. This new code will probably be fast-tracked[1] into the 3.5 branch, but for now we have it only in the features branch for testing. So, please do test. Read More

Let me introduce: I reviewed the wishlists of kpat after fixing all bugs reported to bugs.kde.org. Now 112032 - showing if a solution is possible found my interest. Not exactly for freecell (which I master quite well after all these years kpat QA), but it's surely interesting for games less likely to win. When I was at my sister's home she played (middle) Spider@XP in the evening and it stroke me why a game should be so popular where the chances to win was so low (we mastered to win 15% - neither paying it much attention nor having a lot of experience). So my idea when seeing the bug was to write a solver that can solve not just freecell but also spider. Read More

There's been quite a flurry in the blogosphere in the last couple of days over this and it's clear that a lot of people aren't really looking at this from the right angle. Read More

The recent Novell/Microsoft agreement purports to give what they call 'Non-Compensated Individual Hobbyist Developers' the rights to use unspecified Microsoft patents. The terms are given in this Community Commitments - Microsoft & Novell Interoperability Collaboration. They define a 'hobbyist' as this: Read More

Feel like upping your l33t Perl skills? PerlNomic is a very funny game that is a community effort in making a world where all laws are laid down in Perl code. The fuzzyness of natural languages is replaced by the illegibility of Perl code. Lawyers cannot help you here. You get points by having patches to the book of laws accepted by your fellow citizens. Everybody is in it for the points but without getting supporters for your patches you will get nowhere. Read More

Reading this funny transcript of bloggers philosophy (aaron, ade, telex). It reminded me of a blog that looks at the same problem from a different perspective, and only published days before this thread started. Read More