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klik User's FAQ continued. Today the "Usage" section: Usage Q: Where does klik store the newly installed applications? A: All applications are stored on your desktop. In the file system, this is the directory $HOME/Desktop. Read More

I've just spent my first week working at Foton Sistemas Inteligentes in Gran Canaria. I've been learning some Spanish, trying out Ruby on Rails and helping with translating a tourist information site to English. This weekend there is a WOMAD festival in Las Palmas, and I went there last night to see Kanda Bongo Man from the Congo. Wow! Soukous is about my favourite dance music, and being able to just hop on a bus and see that kind of gig for free was amazing. It feels like permanently being on holiday here; the sun shines, people are friendly and you have fun. Yet people work hard and still get lots of stuff done. Read More

No, I didn't drop off the Planet. I just haven't blogged since... hmm, since when? Well, since a while. There's been plenty of stuff deserving a blog, but due to several lousy and less-lousy reasons they never ended up here. Read More

Well.. I'm in the mood to write again in my blog, another one after many months of silence. What to say.. I've started working hard on my degree thesis, trying to figure out how to setup an embedded box equipped with an arm9 cirrus ep9315 processor, with maverick crunch floating point unit. The most interesting part is that I have to recompile all the system from scratch, since I can't simply mix libraries compiled with software floating point with those compiled with hardware fp. So, basically, what I'm going to do is to create a gentoo stage[1,2,3] myself. Many thanks to all the members of the #gentoo-embedded IRC channel and in particular to vapier who has just added glibc patches to support maverick fpu in the portage tree, and who has also applied the same patch to the uclibc cvs code. Read More

Last week I updated my notebook from Ubuntu Hoary to Breezy. I was very pleasantly suprised when I noticed that they decided to make the "Simple Browser" profile of konqueror the default profile. I added it one and a half year ago to konqueror in cvs and now finally it seems people start using it :-) Read More

Jeffrey Stedfast is strengthening FUD about KDE developers on some planets. Strange that in the first paragraph he only cites a point for proof, Novell dropping KDE on certain products, which actually was true last week. Read More

Learning applied to a finite set of knowledge (knowledge base or KB), such as the interaction and functionality of an interface, can be described in a sigmoid curve. It helps describe the learning process, as well as visualize "the learning curve" and "memory retention" humps in beginner and advanced users. Read More

so, KDE suffers from bloat, over-engineering and user confusion. apparently. personally, i never thought that to be the case until now, but, there are others who seem to hold these beliefs to be self-evident. i respect everyone's opinions and beliefs, even though they may be different than, or opposite to, my own. Read More

I let on somewhere that I'll like to see keyboard configuration in KDE be greatly improved, and since then a few people have been trying to catch me, hold me down and get me to elaborate. So I'm going to shotgun this one out into blogsphere(?) and see what happens. Read More

I've been quite taken aback by all the recent fuss about some default install option for KDE changing on a single distribution. I thought it might be a good time to post this quote about how Enterprise Software is boring. Read More