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I've been looking at some of the bug reports lately and I noticed something weird. People are getting outright hostile when their wishlist items are closed as WONTFIX. I mean, that was always the case, but it's been happening a lot more frequently lately. It's really bothering me that people like Coolo, Aaron, Lubos and many others are getting a lot of heat for closing stupid reports. Maintaining applications like KWin, Kicker or KDesktop is really an ungreatful activity. So if you see a guy who wanted to have a girlfriend simulator in KDE, or something equally silly, insulting one of the developers (who are usually your very good friends) you just want to smack him (the bad kind of smacking - the kind that's not ended by "who's your daddy?" screams) Read More

On Tuesday of next week, I'm off for the Netherlands! I hope I'll get to see some snow there. Last friday, the tickets for the Sirenia (I mean, Tiamat) gig showed up. Furthermore, I found the web site for PAIN, which doesn't really help as the links to the samples are all broken. Today, Stefan and I had a vast discussion (argument) over the design of Noatun 3 (which is currently being developed in the make-it-snow branch of cvs). I want the playlist to be directly manipulated when you go to another song or whatnot, Stefan seemed to disagree. Turns out we agreed almost entirely and so then I just had a few minor suggestions to make to his refactorings. I haven't been developing much KDE stuff at all recently, so upon completion of my current uni course work, my plan will be: Read More

The one thing I love about any holidays is the spare time. As some of you may know last week I started the kde-graphics-devel list. It's a huge relief for me because I felt bad about not having enough time to answer all the emails I was getting about image effects, new widgets and just a lot of KDE graphics related coding. Read More

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

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