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Finally, I've chosen the subject to research for my DEA (the investigation that precedes the thesis of a PhD). The title is "Computational analysis of the propagation of compactons in non-lineal transmission lines". I don't know much about compactons yet, but I'm looking forward to start working on that. Read More

[image:1534 align=center width=300 class=showonplanet] Our site for the Berlin event in the scope of the World Usability Day on November 3rd is up: www.usabilitytag.de Layout and Design by tina and holehan. Read More

This nice machine got dropped off yesterday for some AMD64 goodness and uberfast compiles. But if that wasn't fast enough, turn down the ambient light and it sports triple shades of go faster LEDs through its groovy transparent box. Read More

arkimedes:~# apt-get install dbus-qt-1-dev (stuff skipped) The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus-qt-1-dev dbus-qt-1c2 hicolor-icon-theme kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2 libarts1c2 libaspell15 libfam0 libjasper-1.701-1 libnetpbm10 libopenexr2c2 menu-xdg netpbm 0 upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 19.9MB/21.0MB of archives. After unpacking 69.5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Ok, I have to investigate. Why does DBUS's Qt bindings want to link to all of Qt? Read More

SUSE Linux 10.0 is available for purchase and download in different flavors and some people are still spreading wrong information (initially started by some journalists). To make it short: "openSUSE" is only the name for the development project. "SUSE Linux" is the name of the distribution, also for the Open Source Software edition. Everything other is wrong, independent from if you read it on IRC, a supposed creditable news site - or even in the openSUSE Wiki. As the nature of a Wiki is that everyone can change it, a user could wrongly rename all references to "SUSE Linux OSS" to "openSUSE". But once discovered the correct information was restored. Read More

This friday I went to the meeting of SUSE beta testers to the SUSE headquarters in Nuremberg. The travel went pretty smooth and so I soon checked in and arrived in a meeting room with all the other testers. We got a nice introduction to the openSUSE project, covering the past, the status quo as well as future plans. Greg from Novell as well as Adrian, Sonja and Andreas from SUSE gave me a good feeling about the project's future. Read More

I've recently been making some rubbish attempts at fixing a bug in the QtJava bindings. The problem is here in bug #112409, it meant that an event handler method in QtJava could only be a direct subclass of a QtJava widget, like QWidget or whatever and not a sub class of a sub class of QWidget and so on. To fix it involved using java reflection to look for any overriden event methods in the java superclasses by writing a loop to go up the class heirarchy. Please laugh at my comments as I continually screw up on the commit :). Read More

Ok, finally back at home. Pheeew. Over the last days I played with the Nullsoft scriptable installer system (NSIS) which allows for creating comfortable installation routines based on a description file. It's pretty scriptable and gives nice results. Together with Ralf Habakers recent efforts to port KDE to Win32 with MinGW, the GCC for Windows port, it looks like installing KDE 4 applications with Scons/bksys could be both pretty flexible for us and simple for the user (unlike developing on windows for developers without MSVC, but I will comment on that in a later article). Read More

At aKademy, Frank performed a live usability test with Thomas Nagy's kdissert, a powerful mindmapping tool for building texts. I extended the usability test a bit and used kdissert myself to summarise the results. This is an extract of the mindmap: Read More

The Kubuntu Release Candidate won't be available tonight (unless you know the right IP address) due to problems with syncing with the mirrors. Well done to ArkLinux for getting theirs out though. Mañana as we say in Malaga.