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Fedora is being called a community effort by RedHat. Despite that and demand it doesn't create decent KDE packages. Their KDE still defaults to the ugly and buggy "BlueCurve" style of the past "BlueCurve" age which tried to give GNOME and KDE applications a similiar look. Nowaday's joke is that KDE's default style "Plastik" looks more similar to Fedora GNOME's "Clearlook" style than "BlueCurve". Read More

Wikipedia has just won the most important prices german journalism in two categories -- the Grimme Online Awards. I am proud that we have teamed up with such a cool project. I wish I could contribute more time to Wikipedia. Another price went to BILDblog, one of the most important watchblogs that I know. Congratulations to you all! Read More

As it turned out yesterday, even ferrets like KDE: But unfortunately they make KDE apps crash sometimes, so KDE can't be certified as ferret-proof yet. Which brings us to the fact, that the research field of animal-centric computing was neglected for too long. What tremendous opportunities we have here! Just compare the numbers: There live trillions of animals on planet earth, where the homo sapiens population is ridiculously small. You can't seriously talk about world domination if you don't take this into account. Read More

Isn't it nice? FreeNX hurries up! There are things for which I care more than for most, simply because I feel that they are bent to drive the world as we know it to become a much better place. One other such thing is FreeNX Read More

This is just a short note to congratulate physos and everyone involved for the great new look docs.kde.org now has. Even after all these years, KDE contributors continue to amaze me in terms of the quality of the material they produce. Read More

Hi, maybe you know it already, but I just learned it last week from Carsten at LinuxTag: if you have an email account at gmx, enter "webdav://mediacenter.gmx.net" in konqueror (or any other KDE application), and you get access to the mediacenter area of gmx. IOW one gigabyte storage available for free at your fingertips, thanks to the marvellous KDE ioslave architecture as comfortable to use as your local harddisk :-) In the authentication dialog just enter your complete gmx email address and password, and that's all. Wasn't that easy ? Read More

I guess the news about Sun cooling down Linux desktop plans means that I can eat the promised cookie now myself. And it seems GNOME realized that some of their deployment claims are short on details. Read More

About time I tell everyone interested about it: Friday, July 1st 2005 I will stop being Mister Kulow, the boy friend and become Mister Kulow, the husband of Mrs. Kulow :) Read More

Well, I decided to do something over weekend. But not usual thing. I thought, that maybe I should think about some hacks in real life. Flaws, etc. My mind is always like that. I always find bad things, not positive ones. Instead of joyfull life, I tend to feel nothing makes sense, or find problems. So... Here in North America, and in UK, as far as I know, most companies rent office space at some fancy location. For instance, nice little building downtown. In Vancouver that would be metro tower (I or II), Harbour Centre, etc. So, as employee you got this little card, that opens the door for you. But have you ever been at work very early ? Or tried to gain access to the office after 1900 ? Well, I never, but I decided to give it a shot. So, imagine I got your card. All it says on it, is name of company that rents offices, owner of building, whatever. Providing I have that info, I can find the place. Cool, but these cards are provided so that no one but you can get in. Right ? based on what ? I have that card, I know which building it might be. I go there 5:50 in the morning, door's closed. Damn. Hold on, here's card reader. I stick it in, got "green". Cool, open the door. Now lift (some call it in here elevator), you call it, got it, got inside, but, hmm, 26 floors, how the hell should I know which floor is it ? Again, there's little hole with little red led. Stick your card in it, 11th, cool. I love automation ;) Now, 3 offices on the floor. Same thing, stick it in, got green ? no, another one. Eventually you'll find it. Door is opened. You got in, grab some nice little Mac, and off home ;-) That was way too easy ?. Nah. Even more, you were guided. Nice feature ;) I wonder who was so smart and decided to add such feature to card system. I can understand the fact that doors close at night/weekends. But lift that knows where I want to go?, this is bit over my head. Bottom line: you don't want to be too friendly to your users.

Today I got a phone call from my university residence contact (a really nice and friendly person, btw). She told me that she was allocating the rooms everyone would get, but she had some problems... Read More