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Another feedback re. my recent blog entry: there is now The First FreeNX Wallpaper available from KDE-Look. It is installable via the "Get Hot New Stuff". Looks pretty cool too (some non-Europeans say it is too Old-World-centric -- well, let them create stuff that suits their tastes better. The important point is that FreeNX can connect us all, no?)

It was only 10 minutes after my last blog entry appeared that one reader phoned me and objected: he thinks that the 280 msec latency he experiences from his currently Malaga/Spain-based notebook to his guest account on my NX server in Karlsruhe/Germany would be too much, and a data flow rate of 27 kBits/sec too sparse (he used a crappy and fairly saturated WLAN link to test this) to make users feel comfortable in using NX permanently, day-in and day-out over the network. He agreed NX was still performing very well, given the conditions he had to cope with, and that he could still be nearly as productive as he was used to from using his local machine. Read More

Some of you know already: since NoMachine released the 1.5.0 of their GPL'd Core NX Libraries, KDE applications run blazingly fast over remote internet links in "single window mode". Even modem connections work great. Previous versions hadn't yet built in X roundtrip suppression for single application windows, and you could enjoy the full speed of applications only when running them inside a complete KDE desktop environment. Read More

The nice things when meeting everyone at aKademy is that you can very easily talk face to face to people. I attended many BoFs including the working group meeting. I liked that everyone was sharing a common goal but it showed that if the group becomes too big making progress is not simple. Funny enough to me this BoF showed the need for structure within the KDE project very much and the intermediate result that a small subgroup shall draft a proposal is showing promise. Mirko did a great job in moderating the discussion. Read More

Roberto Cappuccio wrote: After lunch, Zack Rusin, another vegetarian of the KDE community, opened his Powerbook and performed, for our eyes only, the presentation of his improvements to KDE's graphical environment, which did not take place some days ago due to technical problems. It was simply stunning. KDE 4 will rock! However, it's more likely that KDE 4 will also wobble, and turn and shift, etc. :-) Read More

Lately I've been thinking about both my past and my future. What strikes me is how easy it is to predict the future (not necessarily the same as being personally able to make it happen). In the early 1970's Alan Kay at Xerox PARC used Moore's law to predict when it would be possible to create a flat screen display based portable machine, he called a 'dynabook'. You just take the graphs of expected progress in microelectronics, extrapolate, and see about what year the hardware would arrive. Read More

An interesting thing to have: James Anderson's G-SOC sponsored TSync. I didn't look at the code yet, but the principles are clear enough and are definitely attractive when related to synchronizing collections of (KDE) settings, a long time wish/request from our users. Read More

Danese Cooper [http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2005/08/catchuposcon_li.html|asks] where all the women are in Open Source. I don't know about all of them, but several of them can currently be found in Malaga at the KDE conference. Among them is Lauri who received one of the first ever KDE aKademy awards in recognition of all the hard work she has put in KDE. Congratulations Lauri, it's well deserved! Read More

well finally my wife's grandfather has passed away. we went out last week to visit him, so at least we got some closure there and a chance to say good bye. this is quite difficult as i am here and she is home alone. its also not like this is for the worst, his health has been worse every year, and he has been in constant pain for years. so hopefully he found peace, and so will the rest of the family. i guess i cannot think of anything more to talk about right now, i just wanted to let everyone know that its all worked it's self out now. Read More

Today I had my first work day - at Novell/SUSE, packaging KDE as successor of kAdrian Schröter (please note the part about "poor successor" on that page!) who became a lead for the openSUSE project. So call me biased what is "the world's most usable Linux distribution" from now on. :-) Read More