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This last weekend I finally broke down and wrote my second most favorite game in the whole wide world "Daleks" ie "Robots" for those Americans who got the magazine "Creative Computing"... Read More

Just a quick note to say KDE won best linux desktop for KDE 3.2 last night!

We got on well with the GNOMEs at the Linux User Expo in London today. Except for when I filled in their missing poster space with a spare KDE logo, they didn't take that too well. Read More

The cvs-digest rewrite seems to have hit a wall, or I have. I suppose a couple of days away will help. It looks like I'll be hosting the thing on my machine for the time being, until someone with a repository offers a bit of space and bandwidth. I'm short on hd space, got another one coming tomorrow. 120GB seagate. Should do for a week or two. Then do a chroot jail for apache and php, and get the thing running. How come this project, which I started to learn the kde api, ends up teaching me web server admin, php, perl and a host of other interesting but unrelated stuff? The security stuff makes me nervous. If anyone is willing to help with a security audit of the php code, and some suggestions on securing the server, please let me know. Read More

...Hotel Wheeler style [image:435] Ok, so that's not a birthday candle and that's not a birthday cake, but jalepeño / onion pizza is much geekier anyway. So here's happy 32. :-) Read More

I love open source. Software development is my hobby and passion.... its my release and my work of art. Personally I take great pleasure when people out there say they run KWeather, or like some other feature in KDE that I have worked on.... Read More

The good news, Rich, is that the KDE stand at the UK Linux Expo is now ready, cos I just set it up :) Thanks to SuSE for supplying a machine. Various other SuSE bits were also supplied, does anyone have ideas for what to do with 4 copies of SuSE 8.2, a box full of SuSE Office-Pro CDs for SuSE 8.0 and 20 SuSE mouse mats? Hopefully I can get a SuSE 9.1 CD so I can install software as needed, like the required en-gb translations. Incidently the SuSE 9.1 widget theme is an interesting and quite pleasing mix between Plastik and Kermarik. Read More

After a period of obscurity, it seems the KDE kdebindings module's time has almost come. So I thought I'd start a series of Bafflin' Smoke Signal blogs about what's going on, and specifically I'd like to try to explain how Ashley Winter's SMOKE library works. In this first blog, I also include a rant about how dysfunctional HR departments in some large organisations just don't understand FOSS developers. Read More

As some of you might know, the amaroK project (an audio player for KDE) decided some time ago to implement an audio engine interface that makes it possible to use multiple media frameworks, which makes amaroK quite useful as a testing platform. Here I've tried to summarize my experiences with GStreamer so far (maybe mxcl can do the same for NMM sometime, since he's been hacking that engine): Read More

i forgot i had the presentations on my watch (it has 256MB of USB-accessible flash memory =) which, between devices:/ and fish:/, made it really easy to upload. i think they are both the versions i used on the laptops, though i think i may have done some cleanups/typo fixing on each after "backing them up" from the laptop to my watch ;-) anyways. here they are: Read More