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Today I watched a rerun of the Daily show on the comedy channel (Canada) .. and they were talking about the FCC hearings about the cables channels and the profanity they were airing on the "family hours " .... And I was think what is closer to the real christian values than a guy who is fucking a woman or a guy who is killing another one??? I will let you think about this in the holidays time ... merry xmas and happy new year to all Read More

Being in the N770 developments program and their great SDK/emulator, I really couldn't resist to try some programming for myself. Obvious choice is of course a port of kmplayer. The SDK is great and has both an i386 and arm target. The arm target uses qemu and is not capable of running GUI clients, but does run the console stuff, like configure scripts!!, this way. Having a 220MHz arm + 220MHz dsp dual core CPU and 64Mb of memory makes this device something that was standard about 8 years ago. The dsp chip adds additional video/audio decoding. Nokia added herefor a few closed source gstreamer modules. I haven't been able to pipeline those properly so that they would play video. But I guess that should be possible, also because I've managed to get mp3 playing with it. Given a pda with wifi/bluetooth 800x480 px sreen and 64Mb RAM/128Mb flash plus rs-mmc extention slot, I makes sense to go for a full blown x-server. They've chosen for gnome, though stripped down versions. Actually I don't know what's gnome about this because it mainly gtk/d-bus/gstreamer/gnome-vfs/.. stuff plus a so called hildon application framework (but what do I know on this subject). I don't think there is an alternative given this hardware other then using framebuffer instead of X. Read More

Today I reworked the QDS architecture so it doesn't require the application developer to delegate QApplication creation to QDS. The main reason for this requirement has been the desire to use a KDE service implementation, which needs a KApplication instance. Read More

Having released a few too many Kubuntu flight CDs without testing the powerpc builds I bought a minimac. I did intially think I would keep MacOS X on it since it's always useful and interesting to be able to play with another operating system. But by the time the Kubuntu powerpc CD had downloaded I'd had enough of it and wiped the whole hard disk. The graphics in macOS X are of course lovely, and the search engine spotlight is just right, but this is also an operating system that is unable to minimise or maximise windows properly and that doesn't even have an applications menu so you can find what programs are installed. Further problems: Read More

Marcel Gagne published a very nice, and well written article about klik. This piles onto the stack of recent klik publicity (canllaith has an extended piece in the current TUX magazine, which even made it into the major headline on the frontpage). I found only very few things I could nitpick about. Go read it, if you are not yet familiar with klik. Read More

With SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 4 being announced let me list some KDE-related interesting news of it: it includes KDE 3.5 with several packages updated to last weekend's KDE 3.5 branch. The Qt 4 package's version is 4.1 release candidate 1. Digikam 0.8 and Taskjuggler 2.2 releases are of course not missing. 10.1 Alpha 4 includes a recent snapshot of KOffice trunk if you want to test eg Krita. And a work-in-progress version of a KDE frontend for NetworkManager is newly included. Expect some more good stuff in Beta 1. :-)

I haven't blogged since quite some time and when I did it was because of a sad story. But now it is different. Christams is close and I already got some gifts from my friend from over the ocean and from myself. ;-) Read the rest only if you have enough free time to spend on blog-reading. After almost 4 years of usage I partially retired my old desktop computer, which served me so well. During this time I did spent some on improving it, but those were mostly because of hardware failures. Let's see a history of my recent computers: Read More

Just reached a releaseable state in my efforts to backport the Qt4 D-DBUS bindings to Qt3. Basic usage works as expected, but I don't know yet if the marshalling code is sufficient for real world use as Qt4's QVariant is a lot better than one from Qt3, e.g. allowing user defined types. Read More

Congratulations to Ryan Hinton for getting a Windows port of the Smoke library and Qt4 QtRuby working. We just need to do a bit more to sync his version with the kde svn, and get it packaged. Then we're ready to do a first release that will run on Linux, BSD*, Mac OS X and Windows. Here's a couple of examples of how the ruby api improves on the original C++ one. Read More

After spending some time on implementing a DBUS proxy object, i.e the service object's peer on the client side, I finally found the 100% CPU usage problem I mentioned in my last blog Read More