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Well, a few people have commented on Hula. I thought I might give it a try before commenting. So I downloaded it from the SVN repo. It uses autoconf and automake (yes there are some dependencies, but autoconf didn't complain so I didn't look that closely). Starts to build OK, but there are a few warnings about implicit declarations and using kernel headers. Eventually it gets to the linking part, and dies. Read More

I thought this was a brilliant blog by JWZ explaining how Netscape fell apart, and why writing 'corporate groupware' driven by specs from faceless managerial types is absolutely not the way to develop anything people would actually want. He was cautioning Nat Friedman about getting too excited about Novell's new Hula groupware. Read More

Last night I saw Nightwish and Tristania in Birmingham. Nightwish was absolutely spectacular and put on a great show! Tristania, the band I actually want to see was actually a disappointment. They seemed to forget how to play some of their older songs. They definitely are better mastered. Read More

Okay, so you are a happy customer with their shiny new Qt application. According to Trolltech now your application is portable. Then reality sets in and you find you are not much better off than before. Now most developers don't mind doing a win32 build and a OSX build, as well as a linux build. After all they are different operating systems... Read More

Finally. Now I can see Tristania. charles@pythagoras noatun $ cvs diff -N 2> /dev/null | wc -l 4763

I reposted this on my personal blog in 2014. Please add your comments there if you wish to comment. I was thinking about KDE development seriously in the last days, also because of many posts on many developers' blogs. For instance, when I was looking at Aaron post about new users and new developers I found myself thinking about the "KDE: We Have A Lot Of Stuff" slogan. It's true: KDE has a very lot of stuff, but some stuff it's only dupe of dupe. Read More

I think the new picture for the monitor used with the background preview doesn't entirely work as-is. This border looks weird. I tried to come up with a borderless version. This is a bit of a challenge because the code pretty much likes the actual preview to be square but the monitor really looks better with round edges. Read More

...is a media player for my TV :P Basicly I can't seem to find what I am looking for. All I want is a small set top box that I can plugin, or use wifi to play mp3/oggs via my entertainment system's stereo system, and a way to put my large collection of avi,mpegs, and vcds on my nice TV screen. Read More

Today I renewed with the room where you cook meal, the kitchen. I was kind of tired of only cooking the same stuff over and over again, so I decided to let my creativity free, there other place than in front of a keyboard a geek can have fun ... So I experimented something differents with eggs, the standard and boring chicken foetus, and some leftovers in the fridge. So I come with something quite tasty and good in about 10 minutes. Scrambled eggs with italian saussages, blue cheese, brussel sprouts, tomatoes and spinash pure ... yummmy and easy to do

I spent practically all of today working on Noatun make-it-snow. My fun was cut short when I (re)encountered a rather serious akode bug. It's some sort of race condition related to creating a playobject, and then, uhm, trying to get it to play. Read More