The chocolate factory
Monday, 19 September 2005
This weekend I've been finally able to rest for a while. On saturday morning I went to get my car to be repaired but the person that I needed doesn't work on saturdays. On the afternoon I planned to send the aKademy awards to the winners, but it seems the post offices are closed on saturday afternoons... great. I'll send them on Monday afternoon after getting out of work.
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What passes for grad work today... LOL
Monday, 19 September 2005
public int hashCode() { /* This is probably a fairly bad hash function */ return 0; }
"Don't install -- just klik'n'run!" -- a proposal for the benefit of KDE app snapshot testing
Friday, 16 September 2005
So my Dot article about klik is now online. It has had already 40 comments within 2 hours, mostly positive. It contains a concrete, workable proposal how to accelerate KDE development: accelerating it by bringing our non-technical/non-coding contributors more closely to the "bleeding edge" code. We can do this by handing out bleeding edge binaries of KDE application development snapshots to our non-techies...
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Abort/Retry/Fail
Friday, 16 September 2005
Last night I figured I would do something useful and go through the Suse 10.0 rc1 installation. It is a very pretty and straightforward installation process provided you have the CD media to install packages. One button label, which was EVERYWHERE, bothered me a bit:
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cold rain....
Friday, 16 September 2005
... where are last year's autumn skies?
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Linux.com: Kexi is lightning fast in comparison to OpenOffice.org Base
Friday, 16 September 2005
Read more in this article. It's a comparison with Kexi 0.9 from may 29, also read some my explanation.
The pinnacle of usability
Friday, 16 September 2005
Just saw a Yes/No dialog (in KDE, I specify, to avoid confusion) with tooltips installed on the Yes and No pushbuttons. The tooltips read "Yes" and "No" respectively. I'm flabbergasted!
Bug reports
Thursday, 15 September 2005
(Yes, blogs are slowly becoming what mailing lists always were anyways... It's my secret theory that blogs were invented by people a) discontent with their visibilities on dedicated mailing lists and b) not willing to mix their greatness with the commoners ;-)
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Hello, Fellow Planet SUSE Bloggers :)
Thursday, 15 September 2005
planetsuse.org is now syndicating my blog. Thanks James, for taking my feed to your part of our world. -- Hello, fellow planetSUSE bloggers :)
Maybe it was this rather interesting bug that helped proof that I have somehow some relationship with the Green Geeko Distro.
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KBiff 4ever
Thursday, 15 September 2005
This nifty mail notification utility has popped up at KDE-apps.org now! Kudos to Kurt Granroth for maintaining this cool piece of software!