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Warning: Lazy copycat from openSUSE News ahead! :-) The KDE team today released KDE 4.1. The KDE developers, including the openSUSE KDE Team, have been working on it for the last six months. Lots of feedback from people trying out KDE 4.0 has gone into KDE 4.1, filling most of the gaps people experienced with the 4.0 releases. See the release announcement for more information and screenshots. Read More

After visiting a really nice collection of exhibit gardens, I decided to make an application to see how different plants are related by making a phylogentic tree generating webpage. For many groups of species, the familiar relationships have been examined very well, but for the combination of arbitrary species, you have to rely on taxonomic data for now. A convenient resource for getting at this data is NCBI taxonomy (ftp). This data unfortunately has no timeline distance between the branch points, but it's nice enough for starters. Read More

Its been a long time (again) between blog entries. The good news is that this time I have something interesting to show: Mailody using Akonadi and OpenChange to get mail from a Microsoft Exchange server, using native protocols. Read More

The new Strigi service a blogged about before is in svn trunk now. With it Strigi is now enabled by default. But that is no need to be alarmed. I think it behaves quite nicely. After 1 hour and 42 minutes of initial indexing (I did not feel any slowdown of the system in that time) I got this: Read More

Do you know about DBpedia? It's a project that lets you perform complex queries on the content of wikipedia. I've been playing with it a bit and want to share some examples. Try to come up with cool queries! Read More

Sebastian is apologizing to me for writing code. This is a bit strange and I need to reply to his post. The discussion below is really more suited for a mailing list, but since I did not start it I have no choice in the matter. Read More

Continuing my efforts to get a decent KDE based system on a maemo based device, this week I've worked on getting sound to work. As maemo uses gstreamer for its media, my first attempt was to use the phonon-gstreamer backend. To get the phonon kcm to build without having xine installed (as I couldn't find any xine packages for maemo) I had to hack around a bit in some cmake files (why are the only options "no multimedia at all" and "multimedia with xine", and is there no "multimedia, but with a different phonon backend" option?), but I got it to compile. However when I tried to play sound I didn't got any errors, but I didn't hear any sound either (when playing music with amarok tracks finished as soon as I started them). Read More

On Monday, I drove to Guelph to hang out with some friends and then take the VIA Train to Ottawa. We arrived around 5pm today. About the only thing done that was productive today was order a Pizza and sync rawhide and pray wireless will work tomorrow morning. Read More

It took me one and a half day and Jos will not be happy about it. That is because I have to start this blog entry with apologizing to him: Read More

I've never been able to successfully run SUSE or openSUSE, on any of my machines. I don't understand why; it just doesn't work. My latest attempt was to download and burn the openSUSE KDE Four Live CD, last night. Read More