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I think it is time to reveal a nifty little tool that I like to simulate a slow network connection, even without a network. It is called "tc" (think "traffic control") and is present on every modern Linux system. It is part of the "iproute" or "iproute2" package. Read More

I really should blog more often. My last blog has been over four months ago. And it's not like nothing happened since then. KDE promotion and marketing hasn't been so alive in years. After aKdemy Sebastian, Wade and me started the first Marketing Working Group and together with the help of several other people (notably, Tom, who has done a tremendous amount of work there) we launched SpreadKDE back last November. Read More

The Canberra LUG and the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University (in particular, Bob and Steve) have done some very nice work with a couple of Power5 boxes that IBM has loaned out. Read More

Well, it's been ages since I've blogged - generally I feel that code speaks louder than blogs :) However, I think it's time to do some catching up. Currently the rest-of-kde porting is proceeding after the massive KAction changes I recently committed to kdelibs. Now that the snapshot carries the changes too, it's starting to get heaps of testing, which is so far standing up pretty well (only a few bugs reported to date, the significant bug already fixed). Read More

Finally it seems that i've some time to spend even blogging.. it's a great progress from the previous months :) First of all.. yes, i left my job finally. Basically because i'm still a student.. it's quite impossible to finish university having a full time job.. and since it also wasn't exactly a nice job, i must admit, now i feel really better :) I started hacking again on kmobiletools. I had enough money to buy a new phone, a Samsung SGH Z140V. The really cool part is that a lot of features are currently unsupported, which makes a lot more interesting coding. It's a PDU able phone, so i was finally able to code a decent implementation of pdu encoding. Also, having 2 mobile phones (yes, i'm still feeling too attached to my old Moto C350, which has made kmobiletools born :P) gave me a nice idea: since i had both ttyACM0 and ttyACM1 busy, i had to find a way to avoid having them exchanged.. So now kmobiletools before loading a device checks for each possible target, looks for the mobile IMEI (if any), and then says "Here it is! Let's connect!". With this system i could also code a nice wizard, that seems very useful also for unexperienced users. Now i should start working on real life.. i'm still too late with studies.. and above all, i'm still single :\

Overview As we know it's been some time since we released a stable version of kbfx. Lot of work has been going on behind the stage..I think users who came to kbfx.org know a lot about the upcoming kbfx version and it's state. but there are lot more who has no idea about kbfx 0.4.9 which we will release in 10 to 15 days from now. Read More

I want to have an iterator with an encapsulated "next" function. These iterators will be returned from a class that knows how to advance over the data structure, but that should be completely hidden from the users of the iterator. Read More

A common solution I hear in OSS projects to learn about relevant features is to track the users' interactions with the software: The menu items they click, the settings they check, the applications they use. Implementing a tool that is able to track such data seems to be a widespread idea among Open Source developers. The rationale is usually to provide usability experts (like me) with data that describes the actions and behaviours of users. Read More

For those running Gentoo, I've created an ebuild for the cmake required to compile KDE4. Although, the current kdelibs4_snapshot doesn't seem to compile with cmake. :-( http://kurt.hindenburg.name/ http://kurt.hindenburg.name/downloads/cmake-2.3.4-20060317.tar.gz

The vector graphics package Xara Xtreme so far was only available for Windows. Back in October, the Xara company announced the porting of its flagship product to Linux and Mac OS X. Not only that -- the complete source code should become available, and subject to the GPL license. But at the time they consoled hopes for an immediate release to a later date. Read More