Planet KDEPlanet KDE - http://planetKDE.org/Danny Kukawka: Fixing UMTSmon Sierra Wireless port detection- July 19, 2008 Yesterday I tried the first time to run UMTSmon on a HP Compaq 2710p TabletPC with a HP HS2300 HSDPA Broadband Wireless module (which is a Sierra Wireless). Unfortunately I couldn't unlock the SIM card with the correct PIN, while it worked under Windows and on a HP Compaq 2510p which has the same UMTS card.With some hintshelp from Seife I found out that the ttyUSB ports for PPP and AT are twisted (compared to the 2510p). Since the cards in both machines have the same USB vendor and product.http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/2008/07/fixing-umtsmon-sierra-wireless-port.html Jason Kasper (vanRijn): iPhone; KPilot Summer of Code; Five Fingers- July 18, 2008 Warning. Random brain dump coming&8230; Food for thought that I spotted on my lifehacker feed today&8230; Why You&8217;re Better Off Avoiding the iPhone &8230; this is a hypocrite&8217;s confession. I purchased and use an iPhone, but I hate being locked into Apple&8217;s proprietary system. Original impetus was 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G Free Software Foundation. Hm. I&8217;m still locked into my Sprint account until October, so I&8217;m on a forced wait regardless of whether I wanted to run.http://movingparts.net/2008/07/18/iphone-kpilot-summer-of-code-five-fingers/ Cyrille Berger: Howto: fun blog entry while stabilizing software- July 18, 2008 Boudewijn just mentioned that KOffice was entering soft-freeze and that it would mean more boring blog entries while we work on stabilizing KOffice. Well I must disagree with that, I usually find the most annoying bugs while preparing blog entry, and when working on stabilizing Krita, it usually wake up my creativity part (mostly because it's not sucked by my coder side while designing new features), which can be turn in fun entries.I just bought the new Super Smash Brawl for WII (yeah not the..http://cyrilleberger.blogspot.com/2008/07/howto-fun-blog-entry-while-stabilizing.html Boudewijn Rempt (boud): OpenSUSE 11- July 18, 2008 I had to upgrade -- since moving to KDE4, I cannot get KDevelop 3 working again, and OpenSUSE's 10.3 XEmacs crashes when editing C++ files if the all-important kde-emacs extensions are active. And I cannot get used to developing with Kate -- even though the katepart in KDevelop works just fine for me. No editor, no code! A quick test with the OpenSUSE 11 live-cd showed that the XEmacs bug is fixed -- so, I had to upgrade. Generally speaking, I'm impressed. The installation artwork is very...http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2008/06/16#opensuse11 Boudewijn Rempt (boud): Comfy...- July 18, 2008 Yesterday I suddenly realized that KDE4 is getting really comfortable to work in, even on my low-resolution (1024x768) laptop. Sure, I have to tweak a bit: all fonts are too big, the Oxygen colours are a bit too colourful, notify sounds need to be disabled, wallpaper changed. But that's simply the desktop equivalent of moving into a new house. I think I've got KDE4 configured just right now. There are things that make me so totally go wow: the cover flow window switcher, the breath-taking..http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2008/06/11#comfy Boudewijn Rempt (boud): Just a few days- July 18, 2008 And then I'll be able go into a restaurant again and enjoy my meal. Or go to the pub for a beer, without first flying out to hospitable Montreal, where I for the first time discovered how much fun a smoke-free pub could be. Dutch restaurants and cafes will be smoke-free from July 1st. Of course, restaurant and cafe owners are complaining that they "used to be hospitable, but now they have to tell guests they cannot do something". I've never found them hospitable. Every time I had to eat out...http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2008/06/28#smoke Boudewijn Rempt (boud): Freeze!- July 18, 2008 Well, only a soft freeze, not hard yet. But that means that we won't add new features to KOffice anymore that haven't yet been announced in our feature plan. And those features, even though in the plan, that haven't been at least a little credibly implemented by September 16th won't make the cut for 2.0. What does that mean Well, our blogs will become a lot more boring. We'll be doing more and more stabilisation work. And more and more bug fixing. And more and more smoothing out of wrinkles....http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2008/07/18#2_0apha9 Boudewijn Rempt (boud): Yet another laptop...- July 18, 2008 I remember that just before Naomi was born, Irina and I said to each other "we'd better buy that hardware now, after the kid is born we won't be able to afford new computers anymore", so we bought a Psion series 3 for her and a Compaq Aero notebook for me. Little did we know.... So, when Irina's Toshiba laptop broke down a couple of weeks ago, she could make do with C20 vintage Gateway Solo laptop that used to be my work computer, until that one broke too. Enter a spanking new Lenovo Thinkpad..http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2008/06/26#r61e Boudewijn Rempt (boud): And now Boon follows suit- July 18, 2008 About four years ago we discovered that Lindemans puts artificial sweetener in their Gueuze beer. Which means it tastes awful. Today Irina came home with Boon Gueuze and Faro. The Gueuze is still kosher, but Boon puts artificial sweetener in their Faro. Faro should be sweet of course, but it should be sweetened with sugar, not filthy, nasty tasting artificial sweeteners. And yes, we both can taste all existing artificial sweeteners -- there's not one that doesn't leave a foul film of ickiness...http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2008/05/31#badboon Boudewijn Rempt (boud): Comparing Krita and Photoshop- July 18, 2008 One of the things people immediately notice when they see Krita for the first time is that we've got the same basic layout as Photoshop: toolbox on the left, palettes on the right and a single toolbar under the menubar. The second thing everyone notices is that Photoshop has nice, small widgets in their palettes, and we use ordinary Qt widgets. Qt doesn't provide any way to scale down widgets to, say, 80% (although we might use a QGraphicsView in the dockers with Widgets-on-Canvas...). KDE4.1...http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2008/06/13#krita_photoshop |