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A few weeks ago, we did a session on [w:paper prototyping|paper prototyping]* at the Berlin Open Software Usability meeting. Sven was currently implementing a new PDF import dialog for the GIMP, so we chose it for our exercise. In his blog, he describes the procedure and confronts the results of our prototyping with the current dialog. Antenna was our testperson and took some nice pics. Read More

And still a lot of shitty things to do before :( Like finally setup the webserver and the email server that will host the M.2 pages and mailing list :) but that can wait when I'm back in September :D Read More

I recently moved into my new house, which also means that I have to pay for electricity directly. Wanting to do know how much power things are really using in the computer room, I went out and bought a wattmeter. It measure power use at the wall. I thought that other people might be interested in seeing some "real world" measured values. Read More

I installed OpenSUSE this weekend and - I guess you've heard it before - it boots in about 10 seconds!! It's amazing when this happens to your own computer :-)

Tink sent me some divine mayonnaise from France.

..especially online tools: try to enter KDE here :) Too bad that entering "GNOME" there is boring task: it's just correct.

Here goes a summarised report of the talk I presented. The presentation (in Portuguese) is at http://developer.kde.org/~thiago/presentations/IDG-17-08-2005.pdf (source and beamer theme: trunk/promo/presentations/2005_08_SaoPaulo_IDG_Developers_World_pt-BR) The conference was IDG Developer's World, held here in São Paulo on Aug 17th. The target audience was mostly corporate people. Helio asked me whether they were IT managers or higher up: I can't tell. I know I saw a lot of badges with company names, including consulting companies, but I don't know what positions these people hold. Read More

Since a few days, I feel the lack of a summary mode in KMail. I have many tens of folders and subfolders, on three accounts (local, work, uni) and I have KMail filters putting things al overy this stuffy arborescence. Read More

<a href"http://www.kde.nl/future/">Een blik in de toekomst is a corner on our Dutch KDE website were we offer Dutch translations of the series 'This Month in SVN ...' done by our lovely Jess . Currently the August edition of This Month in SVN now also has a Dutch translation thanks to Bram and Jos*. Read More

Don't you love it when all your hardware goes on strike almost at the same time? On Wednesday, my workstations secondary harddisk went on strike, eating (among other things that I had mostly backed up) a report I was working on for quite some days. All lost, sucks. I suspect bad sectors might be the cause. I will get a new harddisk after aKademy, for now I am living with only one. Read More