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Update from my last post: After failing to install the "easy" distros (Suse 10.0 and Kubuntu), I decided to install Gentoo again. Went flawlessly, and I'm loving emerge. Now, why did I ever want to try another distro? Can't remember :) Read More

Stephan Hermann asks why Mark likes dragons so much yet doesn't use KDE. Seems Stephan wasn't on the IRC channel to spot this [Sabdfl] Riddell: so, I'm thinking of converting my desktop to kubuntu for dapper Read More

I been reading Howard Stearns blog on wetmachine about Croquet and the Brie widget framework he is writing for it. They're all worth reading, but I especially liked this one. He writes 'What Is It About Immersive 3D' Read More

I've looked at an issue of CHIP magazine (yes, it helps me to be up-to-date with average user's PoV). CHIP is currently not the only magazine offering "Open Source" section. Among other stuff there are contests for selecting a group of best general-purpose FOSS apps. Read More

Since some months the accessibility feature of khtml is a lot more aggressive; in 3.4 only sites that specify shortcuts hijack the control key, so you probably never saw the feature this blog is about. In 3.5 pressing ctrl, and releasing it again will show a lot of little windows all over your page on the spots a href is located. The little window has the same yellow background color as a tooltip and shows 1 character. Pressing that character will activate the link. Sounds great for people that don't want (or can't) to use the mouse, and as a workaround for the entirely unintuitive ordering of using tab to access the links. Read More

I've got myself a new toy: a Soekris net4801 Here is a nice gallery of images for it. In the more distant future it is supposed to take over the position of the firewall on my home network, but right now it is fair game for doing geek stuff ;) Read More

Hmm ... I should wish things more often. I complained about the lack of any usable memory reporting tool on Linux, and only a couple of days later I discovered exmap. Unlike e.g. top with its number of useless memory usage values, exmap has only three of them. Read More

I started working on some C# bindings a couple of years ago called Kimono, and got it to the 'proof of concept' stage. It uses Transparent Proxies to funnel every call to the Qt api to a single SmokeInvocation.Invoke() method. Inside Invoke() it looks up the method in the Smoke library's runtime, marshalls the arguments and calls it. I've just adapted the code generation to work with the Qt4 classes, and checked the code into trunk/playground/bindings/kimono. Read More

Last Friday I had my first free day. And what did I do? Likely not what normal people would do. I participated on Friday and Saturday the Berlinux 2005 event. Berlinux took place the second time under that name and location and has only regional impact - but it's growing. I took some pictures with still the same old shitty camera. The KDE booth was (wo)manned by me, Ellen and Ossi. As usual for these events, I didn't find time to attend the talks - except my own about KDE 3.5 (no slides available as I used none). Spent most time at the booth answering questions or talking to other exhibitors. But I didn't fail to attend the social event with tasty buffet and the GPG key signing. And just before departing I paid a ransom to free a Geeko from BSD slavery (task: spot Geeko on the pic). Read More

One other improvement was introduced by probono yesterday: the beginning of a recipe maintainer interface on the klik web server. klik started out to provide a means to install additional software packages into Linux system running from a Live CD (Knoppix, Kanotix). It is now extending its reach, to make its compelling ideas available to more users, on more distros, and also to developers. Read More