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Joining the announcements about presences at LinuxTag 2006 in Wiesbaden next week, let me spread that Novell will be back this year with a booth (hall 9, number 918). The openSUSE project will be presented, SUSE Linux 10.1 and the SUSE enterprise product line. Additionally thursday is the openSUSE day with 9 talks about the openSUSE project and SUSE Linux - to be found in the free conference program. If you're interested in working, doing an intership or writing your diploma thesis at SUSE research and development department visit the Novell booth on Thursday or Friday when the human resource department is available for questions. Read More

Since a week I've delved into a library the KOffice devs are creating; its called libFlake. The goal of the library is to have the best of both worlds from KWords frames and KPresenter shapes down to Karbons vector graphics. To do this we provide a low level object called a Shape and provide hooks for the high level stuff so they can be build on top. This way we can move shape-manipulation and shape-painting (including painting to PDF) for all KOffice applications into one library with the obvious advantage that any cool component build in a specific application will be really easy to reuse in other KOffice apps. Read More

This week I got a nice new toy to play with and hack... it's a Linksys WRTSL54G, and yes it run linux and it has an USB port so it can be used for storage like my Linksys NSLU2 ... the first thing I did was to build my own firmware (based on OpenWRT) ... it's not in service on my network yet because last time I had a WRT54G someone killed it so this time I will to a lot of testing ... Read More

Spring suddenly arrived also here in Poland. Not bad pretext to finally replace rather nice CRT with relatively awesome LCD. Too bad that win2k has no subpixel hinting. In software department, this week I got a message from Ralf Habacker who's persistently polishing kdelibs4/win32: Read More

Today I got an email from a friend asking me if I knew about Sun open sourcing Java. Naturally I wanted to reply that thats been a long teaser from Sun where they will never do it, but they let on enough people to hope it might happen one day. Pleases all parties, I guess. Read More

Currently I have 21458 photos according to digikam's database (which are using 13 Gb according to du ). When someone asks me to put some album in my web server I hate to lose my time exporting to html, generating thumbnails and resized 1024x768 versions of my pictures which occupy space in my HD that I'm usually hesitant to remove. Read More

So I fiddled around with hardware last week, accepted that my board really doesn't like DDR400 RAM and got my first SATA disk working, main problem were BIOS issues. Well, finally I have enough disk space for the complete KDE/trunk/ again :-) Read More

It's important to have information organized, and everyone who tried know it's difficult to organize things efficiently. Lately most applications are trying to help the user to do exactly that, and in my opinion that will be the factor users will use to choose one application over another: how the application allows them to organize the information they work with. Read More

after reading aseigo last blog http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/04/things-i-have-learned-about-brazil.html Point 4 in the list (walk signals on streets don't mean much of anything. watch out for cars going through the red light even if it says "walk".) remind me of a sound piece of advice my parents told me went I was a kid : "When you want to cross a street, a road, etc look to see if there is a car coming in both direction, even on a one-way street. There something called REVERSE on a car" Read More

Insomnia has to be one of the worst things in the universe. It seems that I've been due for my annual fit of such. Life has been rather stressful lately and while I usually deal well with stress, my body seems to rebel after a certain threshold. I've slept about 3 hours total in the last two nights. Read More