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Long time ago that I have blogged! A lot happened in my life. In short: I am pretty happy these days. Perhaps more about that some other day Now something even more important . Read More

Day 2 of the Dutch Meeting OpenSync started today. You will find some pictures as links in the text. These hackers seem to have plenty of energy. Also on pictures it seems that eating is the main theme at this meeting. As long as we don't have something like 'Action Coding' you will have to do with these kind of pictures. Read More

Some weeks ago I blogged how I managed to compile kpager using cmake. In the meantime the am2cmake script was a bit fine tuned and now even more works. The script and the KDE 3 support files for cmake have finally entered KDE svn, so you can get it from here: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/cmake/ So here we go: Read More

You scored as Engineering. You should be an Engineering major! Mathematics 100% Engineering 100% Philosophy 100% English 75% Sociology 75% Chemistry 67% Journalism 67% Theater 58% Biology 58% Psychology 58% Anthropology 50% Art 50% Linguistics 50% Dance 42% Read More

I've just read a couple of Steve Yegge's blogs about why he thinks certain languages have succeeded while other technically superior languages have failed. He has spent most of his time in the last year or two programming python, but recently has got into ruby. He writes really well about how the 'culture' around a language can affect its success or failure, and how the ruby culture is more open and friendly than python's. Read More

I did some performace tuning today on my laptop, so i can make Kubuntu start up faster. It was mostly about disabling startup services I don't need and optimizing KDE startup performace according to the performace tips from wiki.kde.org. I did not tried to use the patched fontconfig or do something like that. I just have the standard kubuntu debs installed. The system was prelinked, but it was before I even started to optimize it, so it is not really relevant. I will not go into the details, but here are some figures. The laptop is a PIII-500Mhz (actually this is written on the box, but every application, including the POST screen says it's a 550Mhz one), 192MB SDRAM 100Mhz (261MB/s), 6GB disk, Trident video adapter, 15" monitor, working in 16bit colors. hdparm -t /dev/hda shows 13.22 MB/s. Not too much... Read More

Coming soon to a Kubuntu near you, zeroconf support! Thanks to Jakub for making KDE zeroconf support, now with all Free Avahi. For those who left comments on my last blog asking for Kubuntu CDs, I can't do much without a postal address (and remember you need a good excuse like doing a talk or a KDE stand at an exhibition, this isn't shipit). Read More

Lets talk SWF. A lot of people seem to be mentioning Gnash today. Some seem to think it's a giant step for FSF. I think it's really funny. It's really funny (or sad - it depends how you look at it) how a giant win for FSF is taking a wonderful Public Domain project and basically just releasing it under GNU GPL. Read More

My, what a lot of Kubuntu CDs. Let me know if you're doing a KDE talk at a LUG, having an install day, running a KDE stall at an expo or otherwise have a good excuse and I'll send you a box. Read More

Last day of the Osnabrück meeting. Some people already have left and I'm also about to catch my train back to home. The meeting once again was great, fun and productive. We came up with an architecture for Akonadi, the PIM Storage Service for KDE 4 and also discussed a lot of API issues today. We all have the feeling that we really made the step which makes it possible for us to create a backend for the PIM apps which allows us to solve many of the problems we couldn't solve with the old one and to implement some new cool features. Without this meeting I'm not sure we would have achieved that. It's amazing how satisfying and successful teamwork can be. I love this community.