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In the few weeks since I'm back from malaga, I got a new contract consisting of writing a control application on an emebedded device (a lpc2138 based one). And no I don't use Qt on this. The reason is I only have 32KB of ram and 512KB of flash on the board. so I must write all the graphic primitive, a nice change from those multigigabytes desktop systems ... This remind me of my old Color Computer 3 :'-( I miss this computer ... Read More

This weekend I've been finally able to rest for a while. On saturday morning I went to get my car to be repaired but the person that I needed doesn't work on saturdays. On the afternoon I planned to send the aKademy awards to the winners, but it seems the post offices are closed on saturday afternoons... great. I'll send them on Monday afternoon after getting out of work. Read More

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So my Dot article about klik is now online. It has had already 40 comments within 2 hours, mostly positive. It contains a concrete, workable proposal how to accelerate KDE development: accelerating it by bringing our non-technical/non-coding contributors more closely to the "bleeding edge" code. We can do this by handing out bleeding edge binaries of KDE application development snapshots to our non-techies... Read More

Last night I figured I would do something useful and go through the Suse 10.0 rc1 installation. It is a very pretty and straightforward installation process provided you have the CD media to install packages. One button label, which was EVERYWHERE, bothered me a bit: Read More

... where are last year's autumn skies? [image:1451 align=center width=300 class=showonplanet]

Read more in this article. It's a comparison with Kexi 0.9 from may 29, also read some my explanation.

Just saw a Yes/No dialog (in KDE, I specify, to avoid confusion) with tooltips installed on the Yes and No pushbuttons. The tooltips read "Yes" and "No" respectively. I'm flabbergasted!

(Yes, blogs are slowly becoming what mailing lists always were anyways... It's my secret theory that blogs were invented by people a) discontent with their visibilities on dedicated mailing lists and b) not willing to mix their greatness with the commoners ;-) Read More

planetsuse.org is now syndicating my blog. Thanks James, for taking my feed to your part of our world. -- Hello, fellow planetSUSE bloggers :) Maybe it was this rather interesting bug that helped proof that I have somehow some relationship with the Green Geeko Distro. Read More