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Yes, I could really make KDE start up in just 5 seconds on a 900MHz laptop ... 6 seconds during the presentation, the laptop apparently decided to spend the extra second somewhere. As it was measured using a wristwatch it doesn't matter much anyway. And you can download the video, see it for yourself and measure it yourself. Read More

The "Express" in this blog entry title both refers to me only being able to attend Akademy 5 days this year as also this being the only blog entry summarizing some thoughts and observations after the two initial ones which were supposed to start a daily series. Many general reports and description of the talks have been posted on Planet KDE and Dot already, I won't repeat those. Read More

Over on Planet Classpath the people blog about the ongoing efforts and success with their Qt based AWT peers. Nice to see that the high quality of Qt's code on all its platforms get more widespread acknowledgement outside the KDE area. Read More

Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein When doing my diploma in theoretical astrophysics in Tübingen I always tried to remember these words from maybe the most brilliant scientist of the last century. Staying to this principle really helped a lot when trying to understand many aspects of even the most complex and difficult. Read More

Since the move to SVN, I have a perception problem that was not present with CVS. I physically cringe when I realize I have to fix a commit that I somehow botched (e.g. with a typo). This is so, it seems (from what my brain tells me), because of the global revision number. When I do an error and I need to commit again (thing which would have been avoided with a bit more care in the first place), I increase the global release number by 2. I think the problem spawns from the fact that our SVN already has a huge release number and this accounts for the sheer giantness and complexity of it (the SVN). Maybe I secretely fear a possible failure caused by complexity. Read More

Day 4 in aKademy was the first day of the developers' conference. It started with the keynote speech by the Trolltech CEO, Eirik Chambe-Eng, entitled "Trolltech, KDE and the number 42", though somehow the number 42 went missing... Read More

Ok, so we just had a meeting where discussed the redesign of kdelibs and kdebase. Although we have great technology in there, with Qt4 we have a good opportunity and reason to clean up the foundation of our very own DE. Read More

[11:23] * George ponders what to do [11:24] <chouimat|ibook> George: www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk [11:25] An error occurred while loading http://www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk: [11:25] Unknown host www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk hmmmm I wonder why he actualy tried this website :)

Now that the whole usability crowd has arrived (Tina, Florian, Celeste, Thomas, Aaron, Jan and me) we proudly present the final schedule of our usability track :) Thursday, September 1st: Read More

Day 3 in Málaga (for me) was a bit routinely for me. I woke up rather late, considering the previous night's party and went to Dirk's talk on Firefox and KDE. I missed some interesting talks, like the KCall one, that intended on attending. I think I'll just have to watch the videos when they are made available. Read More