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Ok, so finally I'm back online. When I came back from LinuxTag last sunday, my development box didn't boot anymore :-/ It took until today to get it working correctly again (RAM, mainboard, power supply were suspect). Finally the RAM was broken, now it's replaced by nice 1 GB RAM. Read More

OfB: Scott, perhaps summarizing what you've said before, can you give us a roadmap for KDE multimedia? Where is KDE Multimedia heading? Where is the place of KDE Multimedia in the future of KDE? Scott: Well, I suppose roadmap is probably a pretty good analogy -- since there are a lot of ways to get there. Right now those of us in that are more active in KDE multimedia have tried to lay out a set of requirements for multimedia frameworks; they need to support audio and video decoding, routing that to the appropriate places (sound card, sound server, etc.) and probably some basic recording features. Then we've tried to evaluate what's available to us and how we can make use of the things that are available to best support KDE as a desktop. We learned a lot from aRts, so we're trying to make sure that the options that we're considering will be viable long term; but also we don't want to be explicitly tied to a single framework -- at least not yet. So what some of us started on at aKademy was a framework for abstracting away the basic features -- playing stuff, mostly -- of the media frameworks and making that pluggable. We're pretty sure that we'll have a few implementations around and we'll be able to make a decision on what should be the default at a later time. Read More

What could DHL be doing delivering me a parcel I wondered early this morning. Well it seems my Google Summer of Code 205 t-shirt turned up, just in time for me to start looking through the 200 KDE applications and just as many Ubuntu applications for Summer of Code 2006. Read More

My main system is an HP Pavilion laptop. I bought it refurbished a couple years ago, direct from HP. And, since it as a refurb, I figured it would be wise to also get the extended warranty. Read More

Some would even say "only the apps and data matter". Why? The next iteration of the desktop itself may be pretty, but it is just...desktop (yeah, more feature-rich than competition). Read More

I live in Tucson, Arizona, in the heart of the Sonoran desert, among the Saguaro and Javelina. I love it here; the desert has a unique kind of beauty: vast, sparse, ancient, and enduring. I love the spectacular sunsets, and the spicy smell after a long-needed rain. I love the tough resilience of desert life, which still somehow manages to reveal a fragile beauty now and then. Read More

With less than 2 hours to go to submit applications, students must be busy smoothing the final edges of their texts before submitting to Google. And as it turns out, we're getting some very interesting ideas for Summer of Code this year. I hope the quality of the proposals is indicative of the quality of the code we'll see in the next three months. Read More

Last week I was at LinuxTag in Germany which always is a lot of fun! Not only in seeing new people, but just as much in making contacts with the various other vendors / projects there. The event has the subtitle "Where .com meets .org" for a reason ;) Read More

Its a week ago that this happened, but I have not seen any kde-news or blogs about it. So here goes; KOffice native fileformat, Open Document Format is now ISO/IEC 26300 with just some bureaucratic things left, but no real way to stop this from going through. More on Andy Updegroves blog.

After seeing Seele's list of books I decided that I liked the idea. There's something in my personality that likes collecting physical media -- books, CDs, records. It's obvious when I move and I have a tiny amount of furniture, a box of clothes, a few things from the kitchen and then like 10 boxes of books and a pile of pro-audio gear. Read More