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Wednesday, 26 July 2006

Slashing startup time, again

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
Wednesday, 26 July 2006

Sunset on the roof

El  | 
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
Tuesday, 25 July 2006

Billie Piper Endorses Kubuntu

Jriddell  | 
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
Tuesday, 25 July 2006

How to publish certain facts... and keep them out of public awareness at the same time

Pipitas  | 
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
Monday, 24 July 2006

(Internet) Radio shows: Linux, gaming and KDE

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
Monday, 24 July 2006

Is Google Trends a replacement for research?

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
Monday, 24 July 2006

Un-be-lie-va-ble. British transport of radioactive material destined for Iranian military confiscated in Bulgaria.

Pipitas  | 
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
Monday, 24 July 2006

Wondering about that unbelievable news story....

Pipitas  | 
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
Sunday, 23 July 2006

real threat to freedom??

Chouimat  | 
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
Saturday, 22 July 2006

APIDOX

Awinterz  | 
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