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libxml2 is compiled without thread support in Ubuntu 9.10 due to an oversight from upstream. This causes issues with Strigi which recently added a check for it. You can get packages from my PPA with thread support. It should go into -proposed and -updates soon too. Read More

So let's talk about what's going on in the Ark land. Some time ago, Lydia blogged about raising the number of bug reports marked as junior jobs on Bugzilla. I've done my part, and currently there are 12 Ark bug reports listed as junior jobs. Read More

It seems a long time ago, but in early 2000 I had just submitted my first patches to the KDevelop project and KDE. I had wanted to port the version of Squeak Smalltalk that ran under Apple's 'Rhapsody OS' to GNUStep, and I needed some sort of development environment to do that. Read More

Some of Akonadi's resource agents (usually just called resources) work on local files, some on files containing more than one data object, some on directories containing one data object per file. Read More

For mirroring my backup drive, central data store for devices, music playing and a webserver for experiments, I'd like to run a small server at home. I want this server to be energy efficient, easy to modify, robust, silent and run customizable free software. It should have at least 500 GB of storage, but 1 or 1.5 TB is better. You can buy very low-energy computers such as the Fit-PC 2 (6 watt) or the Linutop 2 (8 watt). Energy costs for machines that run constantly can be roughly estimated by doubling the power draw in watt, so running a device that uses 8 watt constantly costs about 16 euro a year. Read More

In my ongoing distraction from working on the Akonadi Exchange resource, we released OpenChange 0.9 today. Release notes: Improved portability, including a focus on supporting FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and other systems that do not use GNU libraries / shells; and portability fixes for use of the Intel C Compiler and Sun Studio compiler. 64 bit architectures should be better supported in this release. Read More

Well.. Come on guys! You can do better than this! You say why? Simply because, apart from a very serious bug related to the download of files .torrent, .meta4 and .metalink (that we have been lucky enough to find out) and a Nepomuk crash (already fixed in trunk), we don't have any report right now reporting any crash or uncorrect behaviour of kget.. You sure about this? So, please, Test it a little bit more, so that the next release will be perfect for you! Ehy! I'm talking also to all people that tried kget some time ago but dropped it saying: "aaaaaaah.. still unstable..". Could you give our baby another chance? ;) Read More

At work, I stumbled across a problem that I want to declare as universal. I got a mail with a title like christmas party invitation I deleted this mail without reading because I knew I would not go there. Fine so far. But later I found out this mail contained one sentence that actually was of interest to me: Read More

I've been working on the next OpenChange release (0.9), and it is getting quite close. So where are we up to: Merge of Ryan Lepinski's Summer of Code project (on converting Exchange calendars to the ICal format) is done. Did some more testing with Exchange 2010. Julien Kerihuel added support for encrypted connections, which are required in a default install of Exchange 2010. The server provisioning works again. (Note: Server is pre-alpha. This is a developer preview only, not intended for any kind of other use.) More documentation tweaks. I'm pretty happy with where we're going on this release. It has been a bit slower than we'd expected, but there are also some useful fixes that are about to go in, especially one related to how recipients are handled, which is a nasty problem for many users. Read More

I have self-backed policy of not mentioning competition if not really necessary, let it be G or M. So as a minimal effort I just quote these carefully selected bits (bias included!) instead of commenting the recent story: Read More