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Looks like Microsoft has released the PST format specification. I don't normally like to link to MSDN, but I'll do it this once: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff385210.aspx As usual with these documents, I recommend reading the PDF version rather than the HTML. Also, Firefox seems to handle MSDN a bit better than my (KDE 4.3.5) Konqueror. Read More

I haven't blogged about my development activities for some time now... So here come some news. We released KDE SC 4.4. There were no really big new features in this release buildsystem-wise. Nevertheless it was enough work. PolicyKit support has been added, which was quite some work, and all the new Strigi/Soprano/Nepomuk/Raptor/... stuff, which is still quite confusing for me, and which broke our buildsystem during the 4.4 cycle for a few weeks. But we got that sorted out too :-) Read More

Last week I went to Washington DC where I was meant to be giving a talk at CALUG. However the whole city was buried in a metre of snow so it got cancelled. In fact the whole government shut down. Good thing the US wasn't doing anything important last week or people would have noticed they had no government and anarchy would have broken loose, it would be like Belgium. The snow was mostly ploughed out the way by the end of the week in time for the KDE 4.4 release party organised by Celeste. The release party started off in true US style in a fast food burger restaurant where I ate Ostrich. Later it moved to a bar with a fine selection of beers of many interesting flavours, gosh it was like Belgium! Read More

Remember the last call? After less than 5 months we can see apparent success, and a lot more than a proof of concept. Click to enjoy the show Apaprently, Qt Lighthouse was used for porting the QtGUI module. Read More

I have fixed Exmap, my still favourite tool to measure system memory usage, to compile with latest kernels, and also to work on x86_64 (the latter was a bit of guess-work, but I think I got it right). KSysGuard seems to be getting close, and with Exmap unmaintained by its author :( I don't feel like doing this forever, but for now, it's still possible to get exmap from my home:llunak:kernel repository. And as I don't feel like trying to do cross-distro kernel packages in the buildservice, those not using openSUSE are left with either trying to package it for their other distro, or pick out the patches from the .src.rpm . Read More

Tonight I could not attend band rehearsal so I used the time to play with the new QML language. There is a nice tutorial online and a good screencast. QML allows one to write flashy applications with little code. My first QML program is a metronome. The N900 has a metronome program but it is rather boring. It does not look and feel like a real metronome. So I set out to write one in QML and managed to do so in 56 lines of QML. The interaction is simple: tap it to toggle between on and off and slide up and down to move the cross-bar on the metronome which will adjust the tempo in the range 40 to 208 beats per minute. Read More

No, Locus OS concept design, has apparently no association with MS. The author claims: "This interface was designed before iPhone 3.0, Palm Pre, Android etc, making the ideas original at the time :)" Read More

"There's nothing easier" -- you say -- about packaging and deploying SQLite. "Just take the software with default settings and package as a shared lib plus SQLite shell". It's not that simple. Read More

As always, I took some pictures at FOSDEM 2010. Disappointingly I took less than last year: only 55 instead of 132 (and even that is cheating, because that includes a picture of me taken by xvello). Still, better than nothing, I guess... In any case, as always at FOSDEM, I had lots of fun, and that's what counts! :)

With 2010 we've started to employ identica (then connected to Twitter and Facebook) as an channel for our live changelog at the {power}user level. Here's the dump for the past ~30 days (oh I should have used an XSLT). Read More