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Lately I've been thinking about both my past and my future. What strikes me is how easy it is to predict the future (not necessarily the same as being personally able to make it happen). In the early 1970's Alan Kay at Xerox PARC used Moore's law to predict when it would be possible to create a flat screen display based portable machine, he called a 'dynabook'. You just take the graphs of expected progress in microelectronics, extrapolate, and see about what year the hardware would arrive. Read More

An interesting thing to have: James Anderson's G-SOC sponsored TSync. I didn't look at the code yet, but the principles are clear enough and are definitely attractive when related to synchronizing collections of (KDE) settings, a long time wish/request from our users. Read More

Danese Cooper [http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2005/08/catchuposcon_li.html|asks] where all the women are in Open Source. I don't know about all of them, but several of them can currently be found in Malaga at the KDE conference. Among them is Lauri who received one of the first ever KDE aKademy awards in recognition of all the hard work she has put in KDE. Congratulations Lauri, it's well deserved! Read More

well finally my wife's grandfather has passed away. we went out last week to visit him, so at least we got some closure there and a chance to say good bye. this is quite difficult as i am here and she is home alone. its also not like this is for the worst, his health has been worse every year, and he has been in constant pain for years. so hopefully he found peace, and so will the rest of the family. i guess i cannot think of anything more to talk about right now, i just wanted to let everyone know that its all worked it's self out now.

Today I had my first work day - at Novell/SUSE, packaging KDE as successor of kAdrian Schröter (please note the part about "poor successor" on that page!) who became a lead for the openSUSE project. So call me biased what is "the world's most usable Linux distribution" from now on. :-) Read More

Yes, I could really make KDE start up in just 5 seconds on a 900MHz laptop ... 6 seconds during the presentation, the laptop apparently decided to spend the extra second somewhere. As it was measured using a wristwatch it doesn't matter much anyway. And you can download the video, see it for yourself and measure it yourself. Read More

The "Express" in this blog entry title both refers to me only being able to attend Akademy 5 days this year as also this being the only blog entry summarizing some thoughts and observations after the two initial ones which were supposed to start a daily series. Many general reports and description of the talks have been posted on Planet KDE and Dot already, I won't repeat those. Read More

Over on Planet Classpath the people blog about the ongoing efforts and success with their Qt based AWT peers. Nice to see that the high quality of Qt's code on all its platforms get more widespread acknowledgement outside the KDE area. Read More

Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein When doing my diploma in theoretical astrophysics in Tübingen I always tried to remember these words from maybe the most brilliant scientist of the last century. Staying to this principle really helped a lot when trying to understand many aspects of even the most complex and difficult. Read More

Since the move to SVN, I have a perception problem that was not present with CVS. I physically cringe when I realize I have to fix a commit that I somehow botched (e.g. with a typo). This is so, it seems (from what my brain tells me), because of the global revision number. When I do an error and I need to commit again (thing which would have been avoided with a bit more care in the first place), I increase the global release number by 2. I think the problem spawns from the fact that our SVN already has a huge release number and this accounts for the sheer giantness and complexity of it (the SVN). Maybe I secretely fear a possible failure caused by complexity. Read More