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Wireless made easy?

Wednesday, 21 September 2005
Today I was asked on IRC (#kde-nl) if we have a decent wifi manager in KDE. KWifiManager does not work for him (hi rikva) as it has no support for WPA. To be honest I think we do not have a decent wifi manager in KDE currently. On KDE-apps.org you can find quite some tools. Some of them are really aging like KWirelessMonitor and KWlanInfo. When digging even further on KDE-apps.org you can find KiFi. Read More

fun with little things

Tuesday, 20 September 2005
In the few weeks since I'm back from malaga, I got a new contract consisting of writing a control application on an emebedded device (a lpc2138 based one). And no I don't use Qt on this. The reason is I only have 32KB of ram and 512KB of flash on the board. so I must write all the graphic primitive, a nice change from those multigigabytes desktop systems ... This remind me of my old Color Computer 3 :'-( I miss this computer ... Read More

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. Read More

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... Read More

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: Read More

cold rain....

Friday, 16 September 2005
... where are last year's autumn skies? [image:1451 align=center width=300 class=showonplanet]

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 ;-) Read More