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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

Well, it happened that this year I went in Lisbon for my summer holidays (ah, btw, it was a great fun) and walking along one of the main streets, just near the well known Rossio (Dom Pedro IV) square, it also happened that I got into a currency exchange office where I found something like 4 or 6 computers (I don't remember precisely) that were used as an internet point for tourists. This is what I saw: [image:2303 align=center size=preview] Read More

It seems that some people didn't get point of my [:node/2299|last blog], it wasn't about the fact the project was half open half closed source, I understand that some really critical part of the hardware design were those who gave us our competitive edge in the highly specilised target market. I didn't work on that part and frankly I doubt that 99.9999% of the people will care if it closed source or not because a) they don't have any need for this device, b) they won't be able to afford it c) I don't care :D ... The point was about "Why the marketing drones ask the development team for the reasons behind their design choice if the classic answer are not good for them" ... Read More

This started as reply to Richard's post, but it got too big so I've supersized it. :-) You would think that Eric would know his computer industry history a little bit better. The transition from 32 bit to 64 bit won't resemble the past. Even Eric's account of the past doesn't resemble the past. Read More

Why is it that whenever a Dot story features one of our female contributors, people feel the need to embarass themselves (and the rest of us) with pathetic and demeaning comments? Greg Meyer called it, it's really creepy, anti-social behavior. Read More

Damn, it has been more than 2 years since I wrote an entry here. I simply have too little time to do anything code-wise for KDE. Last week I subscribed again to some lists to see what is happening in KDE land for 4.0 but I dont have the time to code. I've always had this idea to make a electronic schema/layout editor but if things keep going like they have been going then I'll never get around to it. Read More

Lately I was working on an embedded project (about half closed source and half open source) and at one point the "manager" of the project asked me why we choose the road we are on ... and all the answers I was able to gave him was a) because it make sense and b) because we can do it ... it seems those 2 answers are wrong ... so now I have to spend the next 2 weeks roting my brain to find some "intelligent answers" for this question ... The thing is, and I know it, nobody took this path before so my answer are good and fuck them if they don't like them ... they are not paying for the R&D they will only gave a share of the profits so ... if they don't like my answer why they agree on my solution? Read More

Well, i finally had enough time and ideas to add direct support for bluetooth in kmobiletools. It was more tricky than i though anyway.. First i had to update kdebluetooth to make it export some classes, and add a new one, RfcommSocketDevice, which is similar to the existant RfcommSocket, but more usabile on threading. Then.. well, i had only to learn their API, and to find a new good UI for my "New Mobile Phone Wizard". I simply added another page dedicated to bluetooth, which can scan over devices, find names, and services. Later i'll also add an automatic "good service discovery" which will find the best service for KMobileTools. New stuff then.. adding a mobile phone is even easier, since you don't need to run ANOTHER wizard for bluetooth binding, and the rfcommsocket seems a bit faster than the rfcomm binded serial device. Bad news: to use it you have to upgrade kdebluetooth to trunk, of course :P Good news: you don't have to recompile the WHOLE kdebluetooth.. just configure it, then enter in "libkbluetooth" and type "make install". That's all!