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The release candidate for Kubuntu 6.06 LTS, also known as Dapper, is out now for your downloading pleasure (please use bittorrent). The LTS stands for Long Term Support which means the Ubuntu team and Canonical will support it for 3 years on the desktop and 5 on the server. The focus for the release has been fixing all the bugs, and while we havn't got all of them it is feeling really polished. Read More

Bad News: As mentioned in a previous blog my notebook's harddrive did pass silently yesterday afternoon. This was my main KDE development system. Good News: I decided to use this opportunity to purchase a new HP Pavilion desktop system. Yes, the new system will have lots more processing power and RAM, but I'm really excited about the 19" flat screen. I'll eventually put a new harddrive in the notebook for other purposes. But for now, the tired old-soldier is patiently awaiting further instructions. Bottom Line: No KDE development for a least a week.

Bad News: As mentioned in a previous blog my notebook's harddrive did pass silently yesterday afternoon. This was my main KDE development system. Good News: I decided to use this opportunity to purchase a new HP Pavilion desktop system. Yes, the new system will have lots more processing power and RAM, but I'm really excited about the 19" flat screen. I'll eventually put a new harddrive in the notebook for other purposes. But for now, the tired old-soldier is patiently awaiting further instructions. Bottom Line: No KDE development for a least a week.

KOffice 1.5.1 has been released and as usual there are rpms for SUSE Linux available: either as directly built against the distros' packages for SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 (these packages were btw built within the progressing openSUSE Build Service) or as part of the KDE supplementary repository for SUSE Linux 9.2 to 10.1. Read More

Aaron tries to wake back up the old (and perpetual) discussion about freedom in software. I can't agree more with his perspective. It will make well over 8 years now that I continuously preach, to anybody patient to listen, the social importance of the essential notions of collaboration ingrained in free software. Read More

I've been playing with irb today to work out how to add an interactive Korundum or QtRuby command line. I've come up with this script that allows you to type 'start_kde' in irb, and it displays a KDE::MainWindow. If you right click and select 'Interrupt' from the context menu, it puts you in an irb session context based on a widget within the KDE::MainWindow. Read More

If you don't care about Logitech MX610 mouse support, you can safely stop reading now... I released an update to the mx610hack code about two months ago, but forgot to blog about it. I did announce it on the lomoco-dev mailing list, but there doesn't appear to be an archive. So you get it again. Read More

This is fun. A real rock band won the Eurovision contest in 2006. Finland sent Lordi, a melodic metal band in horror/sci-fi masks to Athens and they won with a big margin. I heard the first Lordi songs about 2 days ago when I listed to some music I got from a friend and I listen to them only once, but it was OK. Of course I couldn't remember anything from the songs, but the intro and the style (and the voice of Udo from Accept), but it wasn't bad. And I read in an older magazine that they participated in the Finnish Eurovision and it seems that they won there (today I read that some people protested against it even at the president of Finland). Finland is a nice place and they have some very good rock bands there, the best known might be Nightwish, HIM and maybe Stratovarius (but there are much-much more good bands from such a small country). But Eurovision is not known for its rock-friendliness, rather for trendy and light music. But I looked at it today, maybe just to see what are the current trends and to have some fun. Sincerely there were only a few that I could say they were OK, even if the music was not of my style (Germany, Lithuania for example). They were mostly rated down. ;-) Lithuania was the best, we laughed a lot on them with my wife. If you have a chance to see their performance from this shown, do it! Lordi was nothing really special with this song, it was an OK song, but not a big hit IMHO. Today I listened again to their album (its a newer one) and the new album seems better than the winner song. But for whatever reason the countries constantly voted on them and they won with about 50 points and getting a record number of points. This story is bigger than the bird flu in Romania which is now about 20 km from my place. Read More

Over the last few days I've started working a rewrite of Kasbar for Qt 4. This is a rewrite rather than a straight port because lots of the code in kasbar was there to work around limitations in X11 that will not apply once we have a composition manager. In addition, the old code was massively over complex because the features got added over time until the original design was swamped. I am however able to make use of some of the old code as basis for the new version, and many of the ideas will remain the same. Read More

So after a few weekends of work (and some not working), some friends and I have finally finished porting kdelibs from DCOP to D-BUS. It compiles, links and installs. I've just made the final commit on Subversion (I had forgotten to remove a few files from installation). Read More