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It is quite some time already since I think about getting myself some powerful PDA or a very light laptop. My boss at work wants a lightweight laptop for our research group too. The 4.7kg Dell Inspiron that we bought 4 years ago starts to show its age. Read More

I have blogged about QDS, my Qt desktop integration library, almost exactly a year ago. Unfortunately I didn't have much time back then due to serving at the Red Cross (instead of serving in the military; Zivildienst for the German speakers). Read More

We use all sorts of signs and symbols to communicate. And quite often, communicate we don't. I was brushing quickly through a few useless magazines I inadvertently collected while at LWE-SF last week. One of these was Novell's. Which is actually interesting as it wasn't all Novell publicity but also quite nice Linux publicity. Yet, what caught my eye most thoroughly was a section cover for the part extolling their certification program. It was the photo of the chest of a work-blue-shirt-clad guy who had the word "Trainee" embroidered above his breast pocket. Read More

I was born, long ago.... as the song says. 0x1C, still teenager in Hex :P So we are planing to drink a lot of .... alcohol tonight. Good, I can still do that :p Read More

I was writing about my extra copies of the KDE 2.0 Development book. Three people asked for them. I shipped them today to Jure Repnic, Reuben Sutton and Lex Hider.

I started rather late in my life to work for a gain, at age 23. This was so given the political organization of the place I was then in and thanks to the invaluable care of my parents, who wanted us (me and my sister) to get solid education and be nondisturbed by external difficulties of any kind in the process. Read More

A short while ago, the Subversion commit 450000 happened in the KDE Subversion server. The honour goes to Rafał Rzepecki, while committing to his Google Summer of Code project. This happened not 20 days after the commit number 440000. Read More

Yesterday, my father and my stepmother came to see me for 2 days, and since I won't probably see them before xmas, I decided to take the days away from my computers, M.2 and the presentation, just to do something else that I usualy don't do, like going to visit museums ... Read More

Tomorrow evening me and my friends will take the airplane to Barcelona I've rented a small flat in Barceloneta, near the beach, for 10 days. I really really hope to enjoy myself and now I'm starting to feel quite excited about this. Read More

It appears that at least one person (Hi Peter!) seems to have misunderstood what I was saying at the end of my last post. I'm not saying that a new hierarchy should be thought up to supplement (read: in addition to) the current unix filesystem layout. I'm saying that a new hierarchy should completely replace the current unix filesystem layout. This is what GoboLinux and OS X have done. This is also not the same as what system: does. system: is another layer on top of the underlying filesystem layout, which leaves you with a system with a split personality. The GUI presents one version of what the system looks like, while everything below the GUI, such as console programs, uses something completely different. Read More