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ok, stuff went a bit wrong... i should have inserted some no-break break-lines ;) and the image should have gone to my personal gallery else ahh... it was kinda refreshing Read More

SynthRise (Hot Chocolate): The image quite represents my current style of living... orange... chaotic and with a cup of hot chocolate by my side. actually i have a new routine: i sit down on my sofa every night play some nice music with preferably a lot of synths in it and drink... can you guess... right a cup of hot chocolate. in these sessions (i use to call them SynthRise because a) they reasamble a sunrise and b) i use to hear ambient music with nice synts) i have quite the same thoughts/visions in my brain at that time actually always: Read More

"My precious...." It seems George Staikos' recent article for O'Reilly featuring KDE's KIO-Slaves stroke the right chord with many people. It has prompted some additional activities. First, it triggered me to blog/write down an old idea about how to increase the visibility of these powerfull tools to more users. (KIO-Slaves are are quite "old" to KDE. They are built into KDE already since a long time, but many regular KDE users are not aware of them, or their usefulness, or how to use them properly.) Next there came a thread on kfm-devel which discussed several ideas. Last, Dik Takken came up with a wonderful proposal. I think Dik's suggestion is much better than mine (which I do withdraw now). Hopefully it will be implemented in KDE 3.4 already, not only 4.0 ! Dik's suggestion is to create a folder like shown below, and make it the default Konqueror location. He liked to call it "Virtual Filesystem". I prefer (at least for now, while we discuss KIO Slaves) to call it a "Meta KIO Slave". Both do the same: they give users easy "clickable" access to a whole bunch of real KIO Slaves, without needing to know what the exact syntax is for typing the correct URL into the Konqueror (or FileOpen, SaveAs,... ) location bar line edit widgets. Here is one of Dik's illustrations of the idea: Dik's suggestion currently only is a mockup. There is no code yet. And there is no-one writing it either, yet. But the base idea is excellent. It can be expanded to a full-blown feature set that makes that dialog a "portal" site to all the powers of KDE KIO. Read on for more thoughts about this... The concept of "locations:/" is very clean. To make it fullfill its intended purpose, namely, Read More

I got one of the Linksys WRT54G Routers from aKademy, and I must say it really rocks. It can be whatever you want: Easy to use or a real geek toy. Why? Well, it runs linux :) Read on if you are looking for a new router, somthing that runs Linux or just some cool piece of hardware. Read More

I did this test http://bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php and here the result: "You are Slackware Linux. You are the brightest among your peers, but are often mistaken as insane. Your elegant solutions to problems often take a little longer, but require much less effort to complete." Read More

i made a nice little floating head and i just wanted the world to know about it. I know used my cat because I'm really ugly and I should not be allowed to go outside without a browm paper bag on my head :) Read More

So, with some of the new stuff for displaying cover art, I was inspired to hack out a "now playing" bar. I suppose a picture is worth a thousand words, so here goes: Read More

So one of the reasons I went to Mexico last week was to get more Latin American developers involved in KDE. So it looks like I got one and thats cool. We need more developers on this side of the world. We already have some cool guys, but we could get more. Maybe November should be "Hook a friend" month. I wonder what would happen if each of the *American devs got one new developer involved with KDE? Would we get cool new features? Would we get new top bug fixers? Might be fun. Read More

A while ago, it was questioned on kde-devel why was KFileReplace in the KDE WebDev package. The reasoning is that no one looking for that application specifically would think it was inside a web development package. The same holds true for Kommander. It is not really a web development tool, so it is kind of weird to have it in WebDev. Kommander has great potential. It is easy to use, and is getting even more powerful. Read More

You got one of those nice HP nx5000 with SUSE 9.1 preinstalled at aKademy? You were annoyed because the stupid intel chipsets could not handle mixing and the sound device was permanently busy? No more! Read More