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I started rather late in my life to work for a gain, at age 23. This was so given the political organization of the place I was then in and thanks to the invaluable care of my parents, who wanted us (me and my sister) to get solid education and be nondisturbed by external difficulties of any kind in the process. Read More

A short while ago, the Subversion commit 450000 happened in the KDE Subversion server. The honour goes to Rafał Rzepecki, while committing to his Google Summer of Code project. This happened not 20 days after the commit number 440000. Read More

Yesterday, my father and my stepmother came to see me for 2 days, and since I won't probably see them before xmas, I decided to take the days away from my computers, M.2 and the presentation, just to do something else that I usualy don't do, like going to visit museums ... Read More

Tomorrow evening me and my friends will take the airplane to Barcelona I've rented a small flat in Barceloneta, near the beach, for 10 days. I really really hope to enjoy myself and now I'm starting to feel quite excited about this. Read More

It appears that at least one person (Hi Peter!) seems to have misunderstood what I was saying at the end of my last post. I'm not saying that a new hierarchy should be thought up to supplement (read: in addition to) the current unix filesystem layout. I'm saying that a new hierarchy should completely replace the current unix filesystem layout. This is what GoboLinux and OS X have done. This is also not the same as what system: does. system: is another layer on top of the underlying filesystem layout, which leaves you with a system with a split personality. The GUI presents one version of what the system looks like, while everything below the GUI, such as console programs, uses something completely different. Read More

Hi, as I mentioned previously, I'm trying to build kdelibs (still 3.5, not 4.0 yet) using cmake. To make it short, yesterday it managed to get to build kwallet, where I discovered that I missed to insert a check for sys/types.h. So I inserted the check, and then could watch how the box started to recompile almost complete kdelibs (since config.h changed which is included in a lot of files). Read More

At 10pm yesterday my father in law phoned me to tell me that his father was in the hospital with pneumonia, and will most likely not be going home. He has been quite sick for some time, and over the past 3 years more and more complications from cancer, chemotherapy, surgeries etc have really tired him out. Still, its hard even when you can see it coming. This left me the painful task to breaking the news to jess... Read More

When I started to write yesterday's blog I planned to add all kind of information about KExtProcess. It turned out that my blog became pretty big when I was only about halfway the stuff I planned, so I changed plans and promised some extra updates this week. Read More

Congratulations to Stephan on his KDE-related job. My condolences to Jess and Ian. Take care!

After describing how I traveled to San Francisco and the first and second days at the LinuxWorldExpo, here comes a brief synopsis of the last day on the Linuxprinting.org and KDE booths. Before starting, I should mention a fact that amused and cheered many at the end of the day 2, about which I forgot to write yesterday. As I said, the second day seemed a bit slower than the first. Towards the end of the day, Nathan Krause had the idea of organizing a shout-out in which passers-by would express their attachement to KDE as loud as they could and in exchange they would receive from the KDE booth staffers a Xandros Linux CDs box. It all ended up with some startling shouting and and cheering, with loud "I love KDE"s resounding throughout the second floor. One of the SNORT guys, who had the booth just across from KDE's, proved to have one mightily handsome set of lungs and vocal cords and won indisputably. Read More