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Sat 31.July 2010
Pardon me for the excessively cliche title, I was short on time :P Its been a week now since college began, and already I feel the extreme busy-ness that occurs trying to squeeze every activity into 24 hours. The vacations were comparatively totally empty. [...]
Over the last couple years, I have begun teaching. At first just a
reading group or seminar with a handful of attendees. Last term I helped
teach two large lecture classes.
I know that, compared to some of my colleagues, I spend an enormous
amount [...]
According to Murphy’s law, the fsck check that happens once every n boots always happens at the worst time. By default, using CTRL-C to abort it causes fsck to exit with an error, and the filesystem to be remounted read-only. It’s [...]
After I finished an re-read my epic post describing my first day and a half at Debconf10 I suddenly realised that if I continue to describe the rest of 13 days here in such style and verbosity this would become a [...]
Den 30 juli publicerade Svenska Dagbladet en artikel där journalisten Adam Svanell testar hur bra Wikipedias kvalitetshanteringssystem fungerar. Han upptäcker att han kan skriva i ganska mycket strunt om sig själv innan artikeln blir återställd och rensad på skräp.
Det här är långt ifrån första gången [...]
Don't get me wrong. We didn't freeze the development yet but we are freezing our developers! The air condition at the Columbia University in New York City is quite cold. Bring some warm clothes if you going to attend the DebConf that will [...]
Fast - tell me how do you implement a thumbnail loader - well the loading
and storing of the thumbnails that is?
Classically you would likely say something that included individual JPG
files for each thumbnails, and perhaps also something that included
multithreading.
Well that is at least how many [...]
The OpenChange team had a short online (IRC) meeting on Friday. The meeting record is at http://tracker.openchange.org/projects/openchange/wiki/Meeting_of_2010-07-30
We're considering holding an "open session" meeting (again on IRC), possibly in a couple of weeks. If you'd be interested in attending, please leave a comment on the best [...]
Jag har lärt mig OOo på egen hand. Jag har sökt och frågat på webbforum och bloggar. Jag har laddat hem engelska manualer härifrån. Jag tycker de innehåller den bästa översikten över OOo som finns. De är gratis att ladda hem, men [...]
The hacklab is so cold I'm going to lose some of my toes to frostbite.
Today I spent most of my time trying to track down the DHCP problem. Phil Kern suggested it might be due to the output of Columbias [...]
Oh my. Poor Dave Neary. He was just trying to offer some insight into how GNOME gets put together, and it ends up serving as an outlet valve for some pent-up frustration towards Canonical, in this case via a blog entry by Greg DeKoenigsberg. Perhaps [...]
Unfortunately I haven’t made any blog updates in awhile. I’ve been very busy between work and school (and I will likely spend this weekend working on a 20 page project that I’ve written 0 pages for ;). That doesn’t mean I have nothing to report [...]
Fri 30.July 2010
Looking for a good way to contribute and got some spare time this weekend?
KDE BugSquad is holding a Bug Day revival this Sunday 1st of August and still
looking for people who'd like to help out with getting Dolphin bugs under control.
We'll [...]
As many of you know, the KDE Project is transitioning to using Git with Gitolite and CGit. As such, I thought I’d update my aging Gitweb/posix-permissions installation of git to use CGit and Gitolite, and now my public git repository is kicking away. (If you’d [...]
There are many good reasons to promote a free software project, but perhaps
the biggest is to attract more users and contributors; it's difficult to
do anything with an
application that you don't know about. But many projects fail to
effectively [...]
The GNOME and KDE projects have announced that they will be holding a joint desktop summit in Berlin in August, 2011. "The 2011 Desktop Summit will build on the first Summit's success. More than 1,000 contributors from more [...]
It has been more than four years since LWN first reported on the AppArmor security
module and the opposition to its addition to the mainline. Over that
time, there has been much discussion of pathname-based
security, the value of having multiple [...]
See you all there next year [...]
nycsubway-heart, originally uploaded by the biella.
So an email went out to Debconf-announce with all this and MORE information but it is worth highlighting the talks/events as they are great. We look forward to having you in New York City!
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exciting schedule highlights
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Have a [...]
Debian has updated openldap (denial
of service).
Fedora has updated kvirc (F13, F12:
remote command execution) and F12: pidgin
(denial of service).
Red Hat has updated java (multiple
vulnerabilities) and freetype (RHEL
3, RHEL 4&5: multiple
vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated firefox, thunderbird,
seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities).
[...]
It's official the combined KDE Akademy and Gnome GAUDEC conferences will be held in Berlin in 2011, next year and this is great news! I played a small part in organising the joint conference in Gran Canaria in 2009, and really enjoyed working with the [...]
This is how we roll at DebConf 10.
That chair protects our router [...]
Since the C# bindings are apparently not really used/wanted by anyone (except for some Windows people – but that’s really not my main development platform) I thought that maybe some more people are interested in Java bindings.
There was a poll on kdedevelopers.org two years ago [...]
Dion just made new release counter for 4.5.Just add a HTML/JavaScript gadget to your blog:For the square banner:<a href="http://kde.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://e2-productions.com/countdown/counter45-square.php" alt="KDE SC 4.5 Release Counter" /></a>For the long banner:<a href="http://kde.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://e2-productions.com/countdown/counter45-long.php" alt="KDE SC 4.5 Release Counter" /></a> [...]
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