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I don't know what to think about this but i find this trend disturbing. Why do we need to bridge the gap between Science and religions? Those are 2 completely differents worlds: one can be throw away when it's proved that the theory in question doesn't work and the other is accept that without proof and don't question anything because you might create a new religion (or heresy or whatever) but now that conservative people are in place of power we have to deal with this. So here my little contribution in this steril and pointless trend. So I ask who is the most powerfull, God (or whatever is name is in your current personal religion) or mankind? Some will say that God or Whaterverisnameis is the more powerfull, and some like me say it's mankind. And here why: with the ever growing number of God there is now in this world, I'm currently thinking that for a man from a primitive society (and I use us for reference because for a more advanced one we are primitive) without any scientific knowledge, what this man has to explain some phenomenon he experience but he can't explain? Bingo!! The manifestation of a God or a Goddess depending what are is personal preference ;) So depending where you're in the world you will create different Gods. The problem with that is the mechanism to disprove this theory is WAR. Some will say I'm exagerating but if you exterminate all the followers of a God, you, the winner will say it was a false God, so you had disproved it :) Read More

Michael Ellerman has made a recent blog post about a coverage tool for valgrind (http://michael.ellerman.id.au/index.cgi/2004/12/19#valgrind). I've been looking for that for a while, hope he gets it released, since that would help with tricky coverage issues like our shared library plugins, such as that used in the Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) that I've been working on, albeit a bit on-n-off recently. Hopefully I should be able to get a bit more done in the Christmas break. Read More

I just bought my tickets for Sirenia (they're the supporting band of Tiamat which I only like moderately). 50 € for two tickets. Thiefs! In case you haven't heard, Sirenia is my band. Other people are allowed to listen to them, but, they are mine. Read More

Linspire 5 will come with a new version of the Crystal icon set. So far nobody knows what this looks like but the icons are part of the Linspire 5 beta which is available to Linspire Insiders (CNR Warehouse subscribers). Naturally we'd like to see what it looks like so if you are a Linspire insider please take a screenshot (preferably of Konqueror pointing to /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/64x64/apps or similar), put the screenshot on a webserver and add the URL in a comment to this blog. Or you can send it to me http://jriddell.org/contact.html Read More

Today I've read a post on planetkde asking the question: "why is one of the jewels of the Free Software promoting non Free Software pdf viewers?" For those who didn't read the post, the author was referring to the NY Times Firefox ad PDF file not being viewable on any free pdf viewer. Read More

After 7 years of hard work I finally finished University. No more classes. I should now work hard to give my MSc. thesis a final polish so I can present it in the following months, and then I'll able to graduate both as a Civil Industrial Engineer in Computer Science and as a MSc. in Engineering at the same time. I am very happy with this. Read More

Today when I woke up I had discovered that my router (a wrt54g) stopped working. I was unable to ping it. so I decided to reset, reflash, even opening it (now my warranty is gone) to short-circuit 2 pins on the flash chip. nothing worked ... well the short-circuit kind of put it back in standby mode but I were unable to flash a new firware to it. so i got angry and I might broke something in it ... so now I got a very sexy 4-ports switch with 2 antennas ... so I managed to get my old home made firewall back online ... and if this one get rooted, it's my suspicions for the reason why my wrt54g stopped working I know how to fix it ... mkfs /dev/hdax :) It just bad I lost a full day trying to get it back online ... I must also say that this morning I was for the death penality for script kiddies ... and i still believe we might need to do 2 or 3 public executions to scare them out of our stuff, why they can do like all normal teenagers and watch porn and masturbating???? Read More

A few weeks ago, my computer locked up. I'm a linux user, so this is unusual. I wasn't even doing something very intensive. I should have taken it as a signal of impending doom. A foreshadowing of the nightmare to come. It began to rain -- at least clouds in my mind started to. On this island, actual tangible rain is to be expected, but brainrain is still quite unheard of. My hopes, that little bit of optimism in me, left to a mere memory. Read More

jaj, i managed to make a new design for my personal website: http://luci.bux.at. i really miss my headphones: the bright sound the clear bass etc. today my gf borrowed me her earphones it's really nice to have some music in the morning but they are not even a small substitute. btw: mine are in service for nearly 2 MONTHS now! stupid sony. i'm going to school for 13 years now. as most of you already finished it is it the 13th year or the last year which makes you think that you should quite school just before graduating. i'm really annoyed by the way all the sutff worked. and even more annoyed that i spent so much time there while not learning to much. Read More

Last week blogwar about porting kde to windows gave me some stuff to think about Which of the current linux distro can effectively replace windows. I don't want to start a flame war with this but is there someone who took the time and ask himself this question ... So i took some time this weekend to try to answer it and i found out that mepis might fill the requirement i have. 1) Test before you install 2) easy installation 3) keep the standard KDE experience ... do no try to reproduce windows. 4) let the users knowledge grow. 5) somewhat developer friendly. and yes the beta 2 of pro mepis got everything i wanted. and i know the person i have in mind when i this this test will be really pleased. Read More