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Here's a blast from the past - I just found this on an old backup disk. It's a prolog interpreter in Objective-C that I wrote in 1993. I was unemployed and bought a NeXSTation with the small amount of redundancy money I got after the company I worked went bust.. as they do ho, hum.. But I subsequently presented it to a company short of a NeXTSTEP programmer, and got a job. So it has great 'sentimental value' I suppose. Welcome to the world of proof trees, WAM interpreters, backtracking, and other strange long forgotten stuff! What about a google summer of coding idea for porting this engine to ruby with a Korundum front end? This code is available under a 'do what the hell you like with it' license :)

Over a week ago we had the pim meeting in Achtmaal, which was a big success. From my perspective it was mostly because of meeting all those new kdepim people in real life for the first time. Read More

Hi, This is my first blog, and this is my first blog entry, so this can be considered a test... or not. To add something interesting I'll say that in the following hours, we (we == the akademy team) will announce that the deadline for article submissions will be delayed a few days (just a few, so if you want to submit something, you better do it now). Read More

So a while ago, I stopped getting copies of my mails to kde-devel and kde-core-devel. Also I no longer get emails from bugs.kde.org when I edit a bug. I have the option check on both bugs and the ml to send copies of my mails. Read More

So finally I'll also try to start blogging since nowadays everybody seems to do so. So, most importantly, the sun is shining today here. Nice wheather make me feel good :-) On the more KDE related side of things, now I also tried the famous kUbuntu distro. Since 1997 I'm Slackware user. I tried Suse, it's nice, polished, but feels quite slow and hides too much from the user (for my taste). Some years ago I tried Debian and was lost in dselect. RedHat sucked in 1998, Mandrake didn't seem to be really stable in 2000. So, I always had Slackware running on all my boxes. With all the hype around kUbuntu, I decided to give it a try and install it on a notebook. Or more exactly, I asked my girlfriend (non-geek) whether she would like to try to install Linux. So she inserted the CD, selected "German", "Deutschland" and "Europe/Berlin", entered the network config I told her and selected the (pre-formatted) partitions for Linux. Then she pressed enter and some minutes later she had successfully completed her very first Linux installation, actually her first operating system installation at all. Even for her it was almost too boring :-) Nothing had to be adjusted manually:soundcard, video, network, touchpad, USB, everything just worked. Once there was the rumor that installing Linux would be hard... Synaptic/kynaptic/apt is a nice thing, makes installing software really easy. That's kind of an advantage compared to Slackware... On the negative side, booting takes with kUbuntu longer than with Slackware. It really does a lot of things when starting. I don't think all this is necessary (LVM, RAID and other things I don't have). Making this parallel could probably speed it up considerably. Read More

It's nice to hear that (big) companies actually check the number of Linux desktop deployments they are being told. Not good if then "200.000 desktops in Spain" are discovered as addition of some at a conference spread Live-CDs and some magazine accompanying CDs. Or some big proclaimed deployment in South America are actually Windows computers now setup to be able to dual-boot without anyone knowing on how many of them Linux is used after. Read More

I am 2 parts intrigued, 3 parts baffled, and 5 parts just plain gobsmacked by the breaking news that Apple will be switching to Intel processors. The times, they are a chang'in! Questions... Read More

For a long time, KStars had a non-functional "Add Catalog" button in its configuration window. Now, it finally works: You can specify what data fields are present in the catalog, and in what order. The pair of listboxes constitute the first use of drag-n-drop in KStars. :) Custom catalogs are easy to add to the program; hopefully we'll see some catalogs on GHNS and kde-files.org. Read More

As the title says, Acid2 is now passed. With the help of Hyatt's Safari patches, Ivor Hewitt(*) and I have finally made Konqueror pass Acid2 as only the second browser. Read More

So I arrived this morning in Porto Alegre for the FISL. Morning's been nice: we've met the Trolltech representative here and had some productive conversations. I am looking forward for some talks tonight, including one by Scott Collins. Read More