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It has been a while since I blogged - a bit too much real-world work, plus a concerted effort on the Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) are to blame. Right now, I have QCA2 running, I have two plugin providers working - one based on OpenSSL, and the other based on GNU libgcrypt, and I have 595 passing unit tests. I'm particularly proud of the unit tests, because they give me a lot of confidence in the plugins. In terms of functionality, we have hashing (MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA0, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512 and RIPEMD160), keyed hashes (HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-RIPEMD160) and some ciphers (AES128, AES192 and AES256 in ECB, CBC and CFB modes). Supporting that we have a basic random number provider, a secure byte array, and some arbitrary precision integer classes. It isn't really ready for prime time, but its emerging nicely. Read More

Your email address is your user id on bugs.kde.org. You create an account by having you mailed a random password. You can of course change your password later. If your email address changes, please also change your bugs.kde.org id so that you will continue to receive comments and questions by developers and other users (if you have not changed the email settings). You have created more than one bugzilla account over the years? Then you can mail the sysadmins and ask to have your accounts manually merged. Read More

10 people have now joined last.fm's KDE station so we now have our own group music stream. Now playing is the very cheerful Slayer's God Hates Us All courtesy of chouimat. Read More

On one side: In October 1050 distinct people have filed bug or wish reports on bugs.kde.org. In the six months from May to October 2004 there were 4635 distinct reporters. During the last 180 days (from today) 8340 bug and 3202 wish reports were filed. On the other side: Read More

Let it die. Please. Every time you post another link to that on Planet KDE god kills a kitten.

last.fm offers personal streaming music stations based on your preferences and those of your neighbours. It doesn't cost anything to join, although they request a donation. You can add Friends etc making it similar to orkut, but good. I've set up a KDE group so join up and if we get 10 people we'll have our own KDE radio station.

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

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