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Bonus not-FAQ: Q: What is the cool klik-ification of the week?? A: Without even the slightest doubt, this would be klik://amarok-svn-nightly. There are input ingredients to the recipe: Eean provides these, Debian Sarge packages. He builds them every night from current amarok SVN. The resulting .cmg contains an embedded Xine engine. Dependencies are drawn into the .cmg from ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/ pool, via the magic of probono's server-side apt. For me this snapshot of amarok-1.4-SVN worked great even over an NX session (250 km distance). The amarok-svn-nightly.cmg file is about 9.1 MByte in size. The amarok playing NX server ran on SUSE-9.3, the local speakers were attached to a SUSE-8.2 box. Yes, the .debs build on Sarge resulted in a single .cmg file, working well on an alien distro. klik magic! However, the embedded Xine engine was not auto-discovered. I had to go through the settings to make it work. More testers still welcome. (Remember, you have to type "ian@monroe.nu" to start the download.) Read More

Is it just me or do the blog categories on kdedevelopers.org never match what I want to say? Well, nevermind. The latest performance tip brought to you by SUSE KDE developers (don't ask, I very likely don't know anyway) is here: Read More

I'm working on getting the klik User's FAQ complete. The plan is to add at least one new section each day during the next two weeks. Today, I completed "Basics" and put it up together with probono's "Which are the supported operating systems?" -- So here is the local preview: Read More

Guess what I regard as the most important story around The Internet today? Right. It is the one that raises crucial questions about the future of the Linux desktop platform in general. A platform, which will be used as personal computing systems by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, within a few years. Read More

OK, I guess I should go back from my area where I've recently worked on data/project migration improvements (more about this at bottom of this page) and spend some more hours on scripting stuff. Read More

This week Kubuntu is in Montereal for the Ubuntu Below Zero summit. This is not a conference with lots of people giving talks, although we do have talks each morning and lightning talks in the evening, I took some notes in my usual style and there are videos on that page too. This conference is about specs. Lots of specs. We sit in small groups for an hour at a time and discuss the specification then go and write it up. This is not the usual way to do free software development and may seem somewhat harsh to outsiders but it works really well at defining what we are going to do for the next 6 months. My specs page has most of the Kubuntu ones. Read More

Recently I've been having some photographs that I make and want to share them online. Just one or two when in a IM/IRC conversation for example. So, what I do is take the pic and make it smaller for web publishing (no need to place 750Kb images just to get your point across) and then I upload to a personal webspace it and paste a ULR in the IM window. Read More

Two weeks ago, I met Lars Stetten from linaccess. Linaccess is a project supporting free software for disabled people. Lars is partially sighted computer science student from Giessen. Some of you may know him from aKademy 2004 (there is an interesting interview with him on the dot). Read More

November 3rd is World Usabiltiy Day, an event sponsored by the Usability Professionals Association and Human Factors International. The local D.C. Metro chapter of UPA is participating in World Usability Day by hosting a poster session during the larger event held at the American Institute of Architects. Even though the theme of the event is "e-Government", other projects, case studies, and test results were invited to participate. So, what would be a better time to promote KDE Usability than during World Usability Day? Read More

As I mentioned before, there is finally a world-wide attempt to promote awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design: Only three more days till World Usability Day! Around the world, there will be more than 70 events in 35 countries. WorldUsabilityDay is an initiative of the Usability Professionals' Organization. On the official website of WorldUsabilityDay, you can browse the events and will surely find one close to your location. Read More