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Hmm, I'm not sure how twisted this is, but I want to do something other than hack irc for a few days. At work everyone is on ICQ, so I run sim to talk to them. But I've never liked the way IM apps run, what was wrong with IRC?!? Read More

Ugh, another bugfix rejected. This one affects at least KAlarm, JuK, KGPG, KGet and Kopete. Bug was acknowledged; patch acknowledged; won't fix before 3.3 (probably more than a year and no help for KDE 3.2). Read More

Update on bugs.kde.org: The new script old-bugs-statistics is now up and running. It includes links to "bug lists" containing all the possibly outdated reports, making the former "Idle Reports Search" on the front page redundant. I consequently removed it and cleaned up the front page a little. I'm pretty sure that old-bugs-statistics combined with weekly-bug-summary and all their included links fulfil most (useful) statistic and bug hunting needs. If not let me know. Read More

Well, I still have no time to hack on KDE, (well, Kopete to be more specific) but that's ok since I just made a nice breakthrough with my algorithms project that's due on Monday night (6pm). I was having problems getting Kruskal's down from O(n2 log n) to O(n log n), but i figured it out so I'm happy now. Now if I could only find a graph generator. :) Read More

Why I accepted this contract!!!!!! spent 3 weeks debugging this crappy rs232 protocol ........ and my cat now know all the french canadian swear .... bah! It will end soon and I will be able to do some fun stuff ... well I hope. Read More

Finally! With a bit of hacking and borrowing from the new libxmpp code, the Kopete Jabber plugin is now able to properly encrypt messages and can thus talk with Psi and other Jabber clients in a secure way. Read More

What fun! What glory! I have a birthday today. So, work is interesting. I get to set up a PII 400 machine, for use as a server. FreeBSD 4.8 is the OS of choice (I just like FreeBSD on my servers, and I don't know why.) Read More

I'm giving a talk next week at the Linux 2003 conference in Edinburgh about UML Modelling with Umbrello. Since I'm not too sure what to say I'm writing notes here in the hope that I'll be struck by inspiration and maybe some useful comments. Read More

Tim Jansen has committed the new look for KOrganizer's agenda view (Screenshot). This is a big improvement. People were complaining from time to time about the "boring" look of KOrganizer. Now they don't have a reason for that anymore (Well, I'm sure somebody will come up with another reason to complain ;-). Now I just have to unbreak libkcal. Seems like my 200k patch from yesterday broke recurring events... Read More

Hi, here's Datschge. I guess I should introduce myself first, but there's really not much to say. I'm a big fan of Motoi Sakuraba and am crying me myself a river for not being able to visit his live concert last Saturday. -- I'm putting my oar in into KDE for about one year now. Being an ultimately useless non-programmer I've been digging for parts where I can easily teak ("improve") stuff while hoping to reach my goal, making it easier for "outsiders" to effectively contribute to KDE. I started being vocal during the discussions which led to the kde.org redesign, added noise to the usability list, then decided to pick bugs.kde.org, something noone else seems to like to tackle, tweaked stuff here and there, added an hopefully easy to grasp supporting KDE page which I hope will be translated and localizated into other languages/localizations soon. Right now I'm "working" on (I'd rather call it 'keeping myself distracting from') writing a decent help page for bugs.kde.org and putting together a pseudo "KDE HIG" informing people (myself!) about all the build in consistency features KDE offer for ages already. Right now I'm totally excited since I got a hack of weekly-bug-summary for showing the amount of old reports and the ratio of old and all reports per product to work in my local bugzilla installation. Thanks to Steve for the inspiration. ^^ Read More