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After the schedule some days ago now also the abstracts for this year's upcoming KDE Contributors Conference are online. Let me point to the talks of my SUSE colleagues about Network Status Support in KDE and How to Use It and our team project Kickoff - Start Menu Research on which we spend much time during this too hot summer. Latter will be also topic on Novell Open Audio soon. Read More

Do you remember my complaints about KDE or KDE apps mentioned nearly zero times in CHIP? Now looks like the magazine has been improved in the area. At least the current 08/2006 issue. There's even a "KDE or GNOME, what's better?" article. Read More

Thanks, Lennart! Very well written pleading. Avahi is not the only victim. Ubuntu's "no ports open!"-policy has (along with some other, similar decisions) also badly hurt CUPS, and considerably reduced out-of-the-box usability and comfort for users. CUPS servers use UDP broadcasts to announce available and shared printers to their potential CUPS clients on the same LAN. CUPS clients use a setting of "Browsing On" in their cupsd.conf to make them notice these broadcast UDP announcements. Note, that this setting on its own does *not* make a cupsd announce his own local printers (that would require to additionally specify "BrowseAddress"), and does *not* turn it into a CUPS server!. Read More

In a thread filled with complaints about problems with (sw)suspend in Linux I found a link to CryoPID - A Process Freezer for Linux. If you know this, forgive me. Let's look at slashing KDE apps startup time. Again. I am referring to topics covered in this thread. Read More

Tom Chance and his girlfriend Ali are in Berlin for a short holliday. Together with Scott and the relevantive crew we had a barbecue and enjoyed the sunset on the roof top. Hach, summer nights in Berlin are just great! Read More

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