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If more stuff like this emerges on the surface of news stories over the next few months, I'll be one of the next convert candidates to subscribe to some of the more "sensible" conspiration theories out there. One of them being, that the three (!) World Trade Center skyscrapers (WTC1 - 110 storeys, WTC2 - 110 storeys, WTC7 - 47 storeys) which came down in practically free-fall speed 5 years ago on 9/11, having turned 99% of their builtin concrete into very fine dust powder even long before hitting the ground... can't have been killed by a Kerosin fire alone (unless Allah changed some fundamental laws of Physics for that day),   but   rather   by   some   other,   frequently   operated   third   party   technology   ... as hinted to by some Ground Zero cleanup pictures as well. Read More

Sometimes you have to let the end-users themselves do the talking on why what we are creating is important for them. And member dylunio did exactly that on libervis.com Since academics don't have time to fight against the norm, which in their institutions are proprietary file formats, the only way I see to fix this problem is to change the norm. If the norm were to use free and open file formats such as the Open Document Format they would not be tied into an operating system. www.libervis.com/proprietary_file_format_lock_in Read More

Ok, here's a little tip -- turn off your RSS feed before upgrading your blog software. Really. Please. For the sake of all things good and holy. It just happens to be Anders' feed today, but it seems like about every 2-3 days somebody decideds to upgrade their blog software, thus flooding the planet with everything that they've ever written. Read More

Recently it seem a lot of projects are switching to CMake. Just today I read the news about Debian forking cdrecord and almost missed the little note near the end of the article: "For our fork we used the last GPL-licensed version of the program code and killed the incompatibly licensed build system. It is now replaced by a cmake system," Read More

As part of the definition-use chain work that I have been doing for KDevelop, yesterday I wrote a browser for each document's chain. There was just one catch... none of the chain is protected for multithreaded access at the moment. Read More

Breaking my long time without blogging and doing talks, i couldn't forget to say that we have soon the new Linuxchix event, and now with a new important target added on the roll, the teacher's side. Basically one part of event will be dedicated to give headings for school and university teachers to how to teach and bring new students to the open source world. Quoting the official press release: "LinuxChix Brazil Meeting - Webcast, teachers and sponsors Next September 8th and 9th, the 4th Linuxchix Brazil National Meeting will take place in Florianópolis, Brazil. The Meeting will be held in the Barddal Foundation. There is no need to pre-register, and registration will be on site. The talks will be presented in Portuguese. The subjects this year cover OpenLDAP, Linux in 64 bits processors, Python, Academic Management Systems, Modern Graphics Interfaces, Gentoo, High Availability, FreeBSD, Asterisk, Udev, Kernel for beginners... it will be 22 talks, 4 mini courses and a Teacher's Afternoon." Read entire press release here: [http://www.linuxchix.org.br/?q=node/72|LinuxChix Brazil 2006] Read More

Firstly, thanks to clee for adding me to the Planet. When I left Trysil I planned to blog more often, and now you too can read about it :) So, for the last 2 weeks I've been on annual leave, and have had the fortune to be "on a roll" with my coding. I'm currently concentrating on KDevelop 4. We're privileged to have a new parser framework by Roberto Raggi and Jakob Petsovits. I've been working on extending this good work with a new type system and definition-use chain. Read More

After three years at relevantive, I decided to work as a freelancer again - and moved in to a shared office in Berlin Kreuzberg. While the relevantive office was beautiful, this is sure a small upgrade: Read More

A celebration of life and its byproduct. I am speechless. And I bet, so are you. :-P

I usually find what Eric Raymond has to say interesting and entertaining, and I enjoyed 'The Cathedral and he Bazaar'. But in this recent interview, he talks about the importance of the transition from 32 to 64 bit OSs and how it creates a 'window of opportunity' to make the Linux desktop popular, that will only last until 2008. Read More