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Some of you may now have guessed the project that I hinted at in my last entry. Well, I am not going to talk about that this time (I will in my next entry, I promise!), other than to say that it is running fine after switching servers - sorry for using so much of your traffic allocation, cmk! :) Read More

I spent all my time since friday working on m2,and it was very relaxing after the heat of my previous blogs. I'm still trying to find a new name and so far I come with those 3 choices: 1) Bakkus 2) Rembrant 3) Kobold (not Battlestar Galactica related). After toying a lot with a remote management ioslave, which will probably be more usefull to control appliance than actual computers, but we will see ... I decided to work on the "deployment" part of the system, it was an interesting experience reading all the notes available on all the available opensource and distro implementation, some are so simple that I wonder how it can get the job done, others are so complicated that I wonders why the agent (part that run on the workstation) and the server are not commiting suicide ... anyway I still have a lot of job to do before akademy. So I better get back to M2. Speaking of this I think I should finish to get the web site up and running ... and post the specs :) Read More

I've been trying out a few distros to see what they offer. MEPIS is in some ways like Kubuntu, a single CD debian derivative that uses KDE. It's not too clear from their website what their policy is with free or payed for downloads nor what the difference between SimplyMEPIS, ProMEPIS and other MEPISs is, but I tried the one with the newest timestamp. Graphics at boot is nice, although it's just text on top of a background image. Hopefully Kubuntu will have pretty boot splash breezy. Install is from a live CD environment, and works well although it doesn't ask for keyboard, language or timezone. Neither sound nor networking work as default. It was released in February but still uses XFree 4.3 and there's no HAL. The KDE desktop is cluttered by default and even runs KWeather by default. It uses Nuvola icons which are pretty but unlikely to be favoured in a business setting. Lots of applications are installed by default. MEPIS OS Centre has various configuration tools. Nice but the design is too much like KControl (hard to navigate tree structure) and integration with kcontrol would have been nice. There's a bunch of strange files in home directory by default. It uses Synaptic for the package manager which is understandable. For music playing there's no Juk or Amarok only XMMS. Finally they don't seem to care for legalities, it comes with java, mplayer, flash and a bunch of video codec .dll files in /usr/lib/win32/*. There's no sources available that I could find for their MEPIS OS Centre. Read More

So, I decided to join in the fun today, after much of the hard work has already been done. In a few minutes I ported KSig over to KDE 4. It's not a real port in the sense of it was just screwing around enough with it to make it compile -- Qt 3-isms still abound, but I thought I'd play with a nice-small-toy-ish app to start off before jumping in full swing. I'll probably continue and clean out all of the Qt 3-ness there for practice. Read More

NoMachine NX 1.5.0 is finally out! Including sources of the GPL'ed NX Core libraries. It also sports a new NX Server Manager interface (still Beta). Ever wanted to have a usable remote desktop access to your KDE workstation even when thrown back to a modem dialup link? -- You should have used NX-1.3 or NX-1.4 or FreeNX already in the last 2 years! Ever wanted to be able to detach from your remote X session, and re-attach to it later? Or just recover a session lost by a network cut-off? Or move a remote X session to a different local workstation? -- You should be using NoMachine NX 1.4.0 or FreeNX already! Ever wanted to have sound come with your remote X session? -- NX-1.4 and FreeNX were here for you already since quite some time. Want to work on your home KDE Linux workstation from the office while sitting in front of your Windows notebook? -- You must have missed it: this works wonderfully already since a long time. Ever wanted to resize your remote NX session window by just dragging the window border with the mouse? -- Or toggle to fullscreen mode and back with a keyboard shortcut? NX-1.5.0 now brings this feature to your fingertips. Need to access from Linux remote Windows Terminal Sessions, but don't like the poor 8-bit color depth of the session? -- Go for NX-1.5 (or FreeNX-0.4.2 with the NX Core libs 1.5.0). Don't like the primitive, proof-of-concept type kNX NX client application that is in kdenonbeta? -- Go hack on it and make it better. Or wait and see if Chris Cook's effort in his Google SoC project bears some new fruits in the next few weeks... The FreeNX Team is also currently busy with a whole list of things: write a release announcement for the 0.4.2 bugfix release, fight the SVN troubles plaguing our Berlios repository getting ready for release the 0.5.0 version which will sport seamless printing powers and a nifty new nxfish utility (derived from KDE's fish:// thingie). Read More

I know that not everyone is subscribed to and reading the kde-commits mailing list (hint: if you work on or are interested only in a specific area of KDE visit the CommitFilter site). All the more important is having an archive of kde-commits. With a search in the bodies you can quickly track down possible regression introducing commits, see who is working on something, when last, what branches exist for it, on what someone is working and so on. Read More

In the last week i blogged my opinions about certain things that made some people overreacted and some of them reach a new high (or should I said a new low? ) in their comments. Ok I made some comments publicly and I accept the fact some people out there doesn't share my opinions, but do we really need to use free personal attack or life threathening emails?? If we need to use this to win an argument or defend our "faith" I think some persons are greatly misunderstanding the right of free speech and honestly need to grow up and get a life. Read More

After finishing (well.. kind of) university exams, i'm again working at kmobiletools. What i'm trying to do is to exit the alpha stage by reprojecting everything, and to provide a complete mobile phone suite, wich can use kaddressbook && kitchensync for addressbook syncing. Read More

This an attempt for a cynism free blog ... This morning I woke up. got some coffee and get back working on M2 and the latex-beamer theme Wow that wasn't hard :) Read More

Lately I publicly stated my opinions about what I believe is the "ideal opensource DE and world", but some people who doesn't share the same faith or the same political agenda kind of make me rethink about my conception of the world, and I don't talk about the trolls who commented on this website but those who sent me life threathening letter on my email accounts. Those who did this I must thank you because you might me realise that life is more precious thant the things you belive in ... and now OSS is going the way of religious fanatics and political activist, if you think about it's the same thing. Read More