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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

I'm sure I'm not the only one typing incorrect urls in the location bar sometimes. Typing a .com where it needed a .net or similar. You only find out you mistyped it when you go to the page. So you go back and fix the line. Read More

The weather is changing, but we still have plenty of sun. In other words; great outdoor-photography time! The pictures were taken near Schoorl, which is walking distance from the sea. We did not actually walk to the sea as I had a birthday party that evening and we did not make everything too hush hush. 2 hours walking did do great things for our appetite. Read More

Update from my last post: After failing to install the "easy" distros (Suse 10.0 and Kubuntu), I decided to install Gentoo again. Went flawlessly, and I'm loving emerge. Now, why did I ever want to try another distro? Can't remember :) Read More

Stephan Hermann asks why Mark likes dragons so much yet doesn't use KDE. Seems Stephan wasn't on the IRC channel to spot this [Sabdfl] Riddell: so, I'm thinking of converting my desktop to kubuntu for dapper Read More

I been reading Howard Stearns blog on wetmachine about Croquet and the Brie widget framework he is writing for it. They're all worth reading, but I especially liked this one. He writes 'What Is It About Immersive 3D' Read More

I've looked at an issue of CHIP magazine (yes, it helps me to be up-to-date with average user's PoV). CHIP is currently not the only magazine offering "Open Source" section. Among other stuff there are contests for selecting a group of best general-purpose FOSS apps. Read More

Since some months the accessibility feature of khtml is a lot more aggressive; in 3.4 only sites that specify shortcuts hijack the control key, so you probably never saw the feature this blog is about. In 3.5 pressing ctrl, and releasing it again will show a lot of little windows all over your page on the spots a href is located. The little window has the same yellow background color as a tooltip and shows 1 character. Pressing that character will activate the link. Sounds great for people that don't want (or can't) to use the mouse, and as a workaround for the entirely unintuitive ordering of using tab to access the links. Read More

I've got myself a new toy: a Soekris net4801 Here is a nice gallery of images for it. In the more distant future it is supposed to take over the position of the firewall on my home network, but right now it is fair game for doing geek stuff ;) Read More