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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.

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

..with its Spotlight®. See 'SQLite Support' and 'Core Data Framework' here: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=593. That's not entire KexiDB but always looks like interesting competition.

"Howdy" isn't a question. This point seems to have confused a number of my European friends. Sure, it sounds like -- and is probably derived from -- "How do you do?" but it's a simple greeting and is used like the variations on "good day" in various languages / dialects (g'day, bonjour, buenos dias, dobry den, moin, guten Tag, etc.) If you respond with "fine" this will cause nothing but confusion. Instead you can reply with the same or another greeting. Read More

My laptop was Ryanaired. A new screen would be 500 quid so result was a new laptop (same trusty IBM Thinkpad r40e). Lessons: always carry your laptop as hand luggage on an aeroplane and always check your luggage before you leave the airport. Read More

Burritos are not Mexican food. ( I was crushed on this revelation ) "Ian" (e-in) is an insult in Spanish. ( J-Pablo taught me everything I know about the language ) The only words J-Pablo knows in English are "you f*cking bastard". ( There was some other grunting and mumbling but I was told this is normal for him ) There are no women in Chile, only llamas. ( I will never go to a porn site in .cl again ) Mexicans do not actually practice canabalism. ( I had to sort this one out for all my inbread friends in Texas ) Crossing the streets in Mexico is their solution to population control. ( It's like lemmings with people and busses man ) Duncan and J-Pablo can not sing along to "Guns and Roses". (I was told this was a form of Latin American torture.) HP has superior technology. ( At least when it comes to picking out their booth babes. ) Mr. Potato is the most popular application in México. ( I have no clue how this happened ) Tequila is better than llama piss (pisco). ( I think there is a connection here between this one and #4, but I will leave that as an exercise for the reader ) J-Pablo need to get more issues of linux journal. ( Either that or we need to stop drinking Nescafe ) Never steal j-Pablo's tacos. ( I have never seen someone get so upset over missing tacos, then again I think he was still drunk at the time ) Basicly this week has been quite a bit of fun. Here at the XpoLinux I had a choice of staying in a hotel, or staying with a host. I wanted to meet new people in Open Source so Duncan and I chose to stay with a host. So they put us up at a Gnome developer's house. Needless to say, we drank way to much, and had a blast. J-Pablo is a great host even if he sings badly. It was nice to see the OSS community in .mx growing. I think it is horribly underestimated by .us and the rest of the world. While they are no silicon valley, they do have a growing tech center in Monterrey. I think we also scored a few more Mexican developers and someone who will do a Latin American localization of KDE (something sorely needed). KDevelop was a wild success, and it made quite a powerful impression for people who think GUI programming is difficult. I blame Microsoft and Sun for this, but that is another story. At any rate there is an opportunity here, and I think KDE is going to be there. For the record there where no Gnomes, Dragons, or Llamas killed in the process of my educational experiance.

...today was a bit saddening; failing all of the hooplah of the last election, which doesn't seem likely at this point, it seems that we're looking at 4 more years of Bush and likely 4 more years of apologizing for my country. Time to get an hour or so of rest and then drag myself into work. Read More

It's a strange day in a strange world. But it's nice to see that the Linux desktop seems to be able to adapt to this strangeness by some means or other.

KDE needs to find ways to expose the many different KIO Slaves and their usefulness to more users' eyes. How about this: separate the protocol part from the host/path in the various addressing fields/location bars. turn the protocol part into an (editable) drop down list of available items. If we want it more fancy, we could just make it a little drop-down to the left of the address/location bar, and depending on the selection, it auto-fills 'http://', 'ftp://' or whatever into the lineedit field. And vice-versa: whatever you type in the line-edit as the protocol-part gets selected in the drop-down. This way users will become quickly aware of many more kio_slave options and start to play with them and also use them... This could be used in Konqui's location bar as well as in File Open dialogs of various applications. Here's a quick'n'dirty mockup: Read More