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LUGRadio live happened at the weekend and we had a good number of KDE and Kubuntu people there. Full report coming later but the highlight of the show was when Billy Piper from Dr Who stopped by the stand to say how much she liked her free Kubuntu CD. Read More

Actually, I've now saved (as a web archive file) that Daily Mail news story mentioned in my previos blog entries. Just in case it "disappears" again. Or gets modified. From the beginning, it was already so well hidden even on the publishing website, that I was unable to find it by following a link from Daily Mail's portal page. Unless you knew and followed a direct link you'll never be aware of its existence. The story clearly isn't pushed by anyone, but rather played down. But see, we have a democracy, and whoever doubts that can easily be pointed to the fact that the incident indeed has been published. It was just that the electorate was not interested in it, and therefore we had to put other material on the front page..... Read More

I'm a glutton when it comes to radio shows. I just can't get enough. And thankfully there is a lot of high quality and entertaining radio being produced out there in internetland. So in this post I want to talk about and give some links to some of my favourites and some of the more interesting episodes. Read More

Definitely not. I don't know whether Steven's article should be read as ironic, but it is filled with false or semi-true conclusions. Among them I found one especially funny: Russia, however, is the country that has the most interest in Linux. It's followed by India -- out-sourcing anyone? -- and the Czech Republic. [..] Read More

A British lorry transporting radioactive material has been confiscated in Bulgaria at the border to Rumania on Saturday. The radiating load contained lots of Caesium 137 and Americium-Beryllium which can be used to build a "dirty bomb". It arouse the suspicion of border guards only because its radiation level was 2000 times above the normal. The shipment was destined for and addressed to the Iranian Ministery of Defense (!). It seemed to have had an official export approval by British authorities ("Department of Trade and Industry"). Un-be-lie-va-ble. Read More

Following the news story about the unsuccessfull British shipment (stopped in Bulgaria) of radioactive material to the Iranian military (useful also to build a "dirty bomb"), of course a lot of questions come to mind, such as: Read More

after reading the thread on kde-core-devel mailing about a common coding style for kdelibs it seems we have to clan: the pro and the anti ... well like every flamewars :D Read More

I spent quite a bit of time the past couple of days attempting to beautify and fix some minor bugs in the APIDOX generating stuff for KDE trunk. Sure, I should have waited until [ade] returned from vacation. Read More

..than studying! At least, this is what i learned today.. the second exam finished, and i must admit, my way of studying really sucks. I'd really need a real job, something really hard to find here.. Anyway, while travelling from university to my city, i wrote a template for a new SerialDevice class, dcode will help me porting it to kde4. I'm also quite impressed by the increasing number of people interesting in KMobileTools. My last blog post brought some fresh new coders, one of them already fixed a bug for Siemens mobile phones. And i'm also really happy to be co-mentor with Stephan Kulow of one of the Season of KDE 2006 projects. There's still a huge amount of work to do, anyway, so if you feel you can help, even with only small contributions, please contact me. In the meantime, i'm still thinking about my serial class.. i'm still a bit undecided about how to do threading.. currently we're using ThreadWeaver, a good library, but maintained only for KDE4. There're a couple of other applications using theyr internal threadweaver modified version, but i'm wondering if it's better to not thread jobs, but only serial-port access. Which means, anyway, that other engines (like gammu) should develop theyr own threading model. Perhaps it's better to do some incremental changes.. first implementing a good and clear serialdevice class. Then i'll look around to see what's the best solution. Also now i've some new "heads" for asking ideas ;) Read More

After Laurent suggested it might be dead, I decided to try to resurrect the lost soul known as KDE Remote Desktop Connection (KRDC, a.k.a krdc for the command line junkies), which provides Remote Desktop Protocol and Virtual Network Computer (VNC) support for KDE. I use it a bit to administer a Windows application server we have in the office, and really didn't want to be without it for KDE4. Read More