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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

The Ubuntu developer summit got under way today in Montreal with a community love day. Talks covered the wonders of Breezy, Edubuntu, LTSP, advocacy and Launchpad. I took some rough notes. My own talk on Kubuntu went well (slides) and I was pleased to see a good number of Kubuntu users in the audience. Also really exciting is that South African distribution Impilinux will be the first Kubuntu derivative. Read More

I've finally been able to put some much needed time in displayconfig, the screen/monitor/X11 configuration part of Guidance. Other things like writing a paper about Python, Qt and KDE for this NLUUG conference next month kept me distracted. I've now got some eye candy that I can show-and-tell at the end of this post. Read More

Unless you have been living under a rock you have seen that Massachusetts chose for the OpenDocumentFormat in a very open and clear decision process leading to a lot of fuss and accusations, mostly coming from the closed source camp that obviously has a big problem if the number one reason for customers buying Word is eliminated, which is Lock In. OpenDocumentFormat (ODF) eliminates this nicely and has a very cool by-product that all of a sudden KOffice and OpenOffice can again compete on a level playing field with MSOffice. Read More

Kernel 2.6.14, released 2 days ago, has an few important new feature, that will is welcomed by all klik developers with big expectation: FUSE support (Filesystem in User SpacE) Currently, klik needs entries like these in /etc/fstab: Read More