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 If there was a blogger award for "Most likely to make timely posts", then in no possible world would I even be considered for the award.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2008/09/gsoc-wrap-up?fromrss=1 | 5410 |
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 You can read on fellow Catalan KDE translator blog that his son got an English learning CD that states to be compatible with two of the spanish regional goverment distributions, interesting to see that on an "Oxford University Press" material.
It does not state "GNU/Linux" compatibility, but it seems a sign that we are getting there.
Photo of the CD
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16 | System & Utilities | http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2008/09/pc-mac-guadalinex-and-linex-compatible.html | 5409 |
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 The openSUSE KDE team is holding a Bug Squashing event to work through the KDE bug reports in bugzilla.novell.com this weekend. Among the goals are reporting non-openSUSE specific bugs to bugs.kde.org and closing duplicates to reports within bugs.kde.org or bugzilla.novell.com - hope to see you! 
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3684 | 5407 |
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I've seen at SUSE Labs Conference and now at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), that people have trouble to disable Screensaver and Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) on KDE while a presentation/talk. Here now the "KPowersave Tip of the Day" for Linus Torvalds (which had some problems to find out how to disable the screensaver at the LPC) and all the other KDE users out there: KPowersave has a 'Presentation' scheme which do everything for you (disable: screensaver, DPMS, autosuspend, autodimm). Simply activate it before starting your presentation:
- right click at the KPowersave icon
- select 'Set Active Scheme'
- select the 'Presentation' scheme
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16 | System & Utilities | http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/2008/09/kpowersave-tip-of-day.html | 5405 |
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| Yes, KDE-4.2 will be 32 times faster deleting a large number of files compared to KDE-4.1! I was looking at the highest-voted bugs last Monday , and bug 43356 was about konqueror taking too much time deleting a ...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2008/09/32-times-faster-deleting-your-home-directory?fromrss=1 | 5403 |
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| Rahul Sundaram, long time contributor to Fedora talks about how he started working on Fedora.
Watch it on Youtube or download the ogg.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://kushaldas.in/2008/09/18/meet-the-contributor-rahul-sundaram-aka-mether/ | 5402 |
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| Yes, KDE-4.2 will be 32 times faster deleting a large number of files compared to KDE-4.1! I was looking at the highest-voted bugs last Monday (yes, voting _is_ useful in bugzilla, some people weren't sure about that), and bug 43356 (260 votes) was about konqueror taking too much time deleting a large number of files (in kde-3.0, but still true in 4.1). I first made the KIO job itself 25 times faster for local files, but then it turned out that the KIO job was anyway "only" taking 35 seconds, out of the 8 minutes that konqueror-4.1 took for deleting 5000 times. The other 7 minutes and a half were spent updating the itemview, removing rows one row at a time. Ooops. After making KDirLister emit a new itemsDeleted() signal with all items, and KDirModel processing this in a more clever way, the view is now told about the 5000 removed rows in one call, and deleting 5000 files with konqueror-trunk (or dolphin, same code) now takes only 15 seconds. That's 32 times faster. Conclusions: Bugzilla rocks (and users report ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3683 | 5401 |
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| The KDE team has released KDE 3.5.8 , a maintenance release. New stuff: "Improvements in Konqueror and its web browsing component KHTML.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2008/09/re-6-smooth-transitions?fromrss=1 | 5399 |
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PleaseDon’tBeTrue.PleaseDon’tBeTrue.PleaseDon’tBeTrue. I write about MS, their marketing strategy and product suites because I’m in the illuminati-like MWG and I feel compelled to point out missteps and how they continue to show that MS’ predicable roller coaster ride of success keeps inching towards the peak. And if they don’t realistically come to grips with the competitive landscape, they will find themselves on the wrong side of their climb up to 95% market share, quickly falling back to earth or worse. 
Take Mark Shields’ BTTF DeLorean to the early 1980’s and ask the American Automotive Big Three if they were afraid of imports eating into their combined armbar on U.S. sales. Now look at the sad state of those companies. A lack of continued innovation, drive and passion will not immediately hurt a market leader due to inertia and momentum (customer loyalty).[1] But once it does, that same inertia will ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://wadejolson.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/ms-ad-campaign-change-already-cant-be-true/ | 5396 |
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16 | System & Utilities | http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/sfd-2008-special-free-software-philosophy-publication-in-tamil/ | 5395 |
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Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.9.1.tar.gz
WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.10 Beta 2 release, it should work like any release from the 0.8 branch, but do not blame us if it makes your chair break.
Differences with 0.9.0:
Core:
* Fix crash on some AESv2 encrypted files (bugs #13972, #16092, #17523)
* Improve parsing of broken files (bug #17568)
glib frontend:
* Minor improvements to the demo application
utils:
* pdftohtml: Generate the outline file in the same place of the other generated files (bug #17504)
Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2008/09/poppler-091-010-beta-2-released.html | 5394 |
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| Once upon a time we had the whole of KDE included in Coverity 's code quality checker, which they kindly offer for free to FOSS projects.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2008/09/whatever-happened-to-coverity?fromrss=1 | 5390 |
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Once upon a time we had the whole of KDE included in Coverity's code quality checker, which they kindly offer (offered?) for free to FOSS projects. Coverity's analysis is tremendously helpful in finding really twisted bugs, and has in the past helped to fix countless complicated issues in KDE code.
All was fine until 2008-Apr-24, when the scan apparently stopped for technical reasons. The last I heard of the problem was that Dirk is still waiting for a reply from them.
We Amarok guys are really keen on getting our code checked again. Not wanting to sit idly and wait, I have in the meantime also contacted Coverity, asking them to check Amarok 2. Sadly, I have not received any reply so far.
Does anyone know what's going on here, and what we could do to accelerate things?
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16 | System & Utilities | http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/797-Whatever-happened-to-Coverity.html | 5389 |
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In and Out in 10 minutes As you may know, for the first time I decided to buy a computer via the internet. That is hard for me since I’m more of a walk into a store and get it right now type of person. But I do try to change my behavior once in a while and I decided to buy a DELL XPS laptop computer with GNU/Linux pre-installed, my fears of buying something expensive like a laptop via the internet or phone have always been “processing” delays and having to return the product if it is faulty. And wouldn’t you know it, It took 30 days to ship!!! and when I got my laptop it came with a busted backlight YAY DELL!!! Cry not, do or do not. There is no Cry Of course I’m an adult :-P so I see no point in crying over spilled milk. It seemed like a great opportunity to try out their “Customer Support” to get some “real experts” to help me $-P. After 30 minutes in ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/2008/09/16/no-need-for-hell-dell/ | 5387 |
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| So, I’m trying to think positively about the 3-hour battle I just had with X. I learned 2 new things today, which I didn’t really want to learn but yay nonetheless. First, Xinerama. I’m going to be doing multiple monitor stuff for work, which should be really interesting if I can keep my self-imposed stress level down. I have never had more than a single monitor to use on any given desktop or laptop until I started working at VMware, and as such I am currently less than clueful with how all of this stuff works in X. (As an aside, if anyone can refer me to some really good documentation or multi-head/multi-screen/multi-monitor/multi-display Linux/X resources, I’d greatly appreciate it!) So today I was looking into a bug report that had to do with a Twinview side-by-side display configuration, and I discovered that “xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA” will tell you what the screen topology looks like currently. For example, my normal Twinview cloned 1680×1050 setup looks like this: XINERAMA version 1.1 opcode: 158
head #0: 1680×1050 @ 0,0
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16 | System & Utilities | http://movingparts.net/2008/09/16/modeline-generation-and-xinerama-info/ | 5384 |
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| … your technology-agnostic girlfriend asks you to install GNU/Linux Linux on her laptop. Only Linux ? Yes, ONLY Linux. *Phew* 
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.ereslibre.es/?p=155 | 5382 |
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| As there seem to be people who continue, despite being told about dependency errors and packages that cannot be upgraded, to install newer KDE packages (and then wonder about a broken desktop) I want to point out this important service information for users of the KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop repository in the openSUSE Build Service.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3680 | 5377 |
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| By Bruce Byfield on September 11, 2008 Share Comments The splash screen for Writer's World Maker announces that the program is designed to "help you to summon your imaginary worlds to the printed page." And, ...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2008/09/writers-world-maker-aims-at-wannabe-writers?fromrss=1 | 5374 |
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16 | System & Utilities | http://wadejolson.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/vlc-092-released/ | 5369 |
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Friday we traveled back from Liberec (Czech Republic) to Nuremberg after an interesting week at the SUSE Labs Conference. Right now I arrived at Portland International Airport (OR/USA) for the Linux Plumbers Conference 2008 this week (17th-19th. September 2008). I will stay also for the BlueZ Developer Meeting next week (22th - 24th September 2008). This means nearly two interesting and fascinating weeks in Portland full with conferences and the chance to meet some interesting people and listen to also interesting talks. |
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16 | System & Utilities | http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/2008/09/back-from-suse-labs-arrived-at-portland.html | 5367 |
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 Andreas Pakulat recently blogged about performance issues with KDE 4.1 on his new desktop system. While I agree with some of the comments on that blog entry that his blog would've been better off on the kde-devel or even the kde-core-devel mailing list, since he's uncorked the genie I figured I may as well offer some commentary on the matter for the blogosphere. It's probably useful since it's an issue a lot of people are running into, and it's not fun when you do.
A Line in the Sand
First, I'd like to discuss what constitutes an acceptable experience with KDE 4. There will always be some things, like desktop effects used in KWin, Plasma and KRunner, that simply require a decent video card. However, all of these programs should be runnable without those effects and retain an acceptable user experience even on older (within reason; e.g. not 15 years old ;) hardware. Good news is that they do, given decently supported hardware.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/09/on-kde4-performance.html | 5364 |
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 Looking for the best distro... I got bored with my Ubuntu Hardy install last week and decided to have a look at what some of the other guys are up to these days. Mind you, there wasn’t anything horribly wrong with my Ubuntu host. I still
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16 | System & Utilities | http://movingparts.net/2008/09/15/opensuse-103-kubuntu-hardy-fedora-9-mandriva-20081-opensuse-11/ | 5361 |
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Warning, the following text might be exagarated and over-simplifying matters, some might call it a rant. Used the new desktop now for a few days for my FOSS work and I still have that feeling around. KDE4 simply feels slow, I can’t really pin-point it to something specific - if I could I’d write bugreports. I just have the gut-feeling that with a fresh new, state-of-the-art laptop my desktop should be a lot quicker. Konqueror is worst of all apps I’ve used thus far, scrolling with cursor keys I can actually see the repainting happen - while opening a new tab seems to be a lot faster than in kde 3.5. Rendering in general also feel slow. Kate is another example of an application, that seems to be doing something extra which it shouldn’t. When typing quickly the response on screen often is a few msecs late and as a human you quickly notice such things. I really expect a new machine, with state-of-the-art, but not super-fast intel integrated graphics, a SATA disk and a dual core 2.2GHz ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://apaku.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/kde4-desktop-performance/ | 5357 |
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So, I’m back blogging, mainly thanks to the fact that my previous post has received an impressive feedback (which I didn’t expect, thanks!). So, first of all I wanted to say I’ve already implemented in PowerDevil some of your suggestions (first of all, the possibility of running a script upon profile loading), though I have some more news for you. I have radically changed the polling system. It is now modular and selectable by the user. This because fredrich pointed me to a nice XSync feature that allowed real idle counter support without polling and/or hacks, and I really wanted to implement it. By now, you can choose in the configuration dialog to use this new XSync based method (that still needs serious testing), or the old, solid, widget grabber method. This is not the only important news: PowerDevil has just been moved in kdebase/workspace. You probably wonder “oh no, what can I do now for using it on my 4.1 installation?”. But you just don’t have to worry, because I’ve created a tag (thanks toma) for PowerDevil, ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/ | 5355 |
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| Well, that's the best pun I could come up with but EasyGUI looks like the missing link that makes Python my first choice where I tended to use Bash.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://www.topix.com/tech/kde/2008/09/the-original-magazine-of-the-linux-community?fromrss=1 | 5353 |
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 Working with as many systems as I do, I have to keep track of a pretty huge number of user accounts and passwords across many diverse environments. For a long time I used a GPG encrypted text file to store this information, but recently I went looking for a more structured solution. I found KeePassX, and promptly fell in love. KeePassX is a password management application for Linux and OSX. It supports the same database format as KeePass Password Safe for Windows, providing a cross-platform solution for managing passwords securely. It’s database is protected using either AES or Twofish encryption with a 256 bit key, which provides adequate encryption for the majority of users. The interface is extremely simple. Select ‘File -> New Database’, and then enter a password or passphrase. KeePassX has the option to also use a key file for authentication - allowing you to place a key on a USB stick to add a physical authentication token to ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://canllaith.org/2008/09/14/password-management-with-keepassx/ | 5352 |
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 Good News: All 25 HIG bugs have been updated! More Good News: 15 of the bugs were closed! Bad News: I’ve now got 6 really big guidelines to research and write.
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16 | System & Utilities | http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/kbo-hig-triage/ | 5351 |
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| so, today’s blog entry is presented in fuzzy vision, for solidarity to drunk people. Yesterday I was feeling pretty pissed off by how things were going. But fortunately, the KDE community demostrated once more how great and friendly it is. =) I received a lot of virtual hugs and good words on IRC, on private mail and in comments. And I’m really thankful to everyone of you for the kind words, they really helped me. =)
Sebastian turns out to be our most favourite teddy bear ever, and today, despite he woke up at 5 AM and was just back from a long journey, popped up on IRC and pinged me, we explained ourselves, and in a few minutes the atmosphere and everything was back to the usual KDE hugs and kisses. Misunderstandings are pretty bad, but fortunately now all seems good. Or, as sebas writes… I love teddy bears! =) So, today I finished my mockup for the battery, and sent it to the Plasma devel mailing list. I’ll show it also here, so ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ruphy/~3/391795725/38 | 5349 |
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whee! :) I got home friday afternoon and my laptop was here waiting for me. it’s a dell xps m1330, and so far I’m fairly happy with it. I installed arch on it last night, and now I begin the long process of installing software and tweaking settings and so on… :) the hardware is almost all intel. the screen brightness fn-keys work even from a terminal, and the bios lets me choose default levels for AC and battery. there are two audio-out jacks as well as mic in at the front; I assume one of the two is better quality, but they sound the same to me. there are only two usb ports, but they’re on either side of the laptop so at least I can still choose what side to put things on. there’s a capslock led. there’s a slot-load dvd drive (why don’t all laptops have that?) and a fingerprint reader (maybe I’ll try to get that working sometime) and a webcam and it’s shiny. :) the keyboard is standard size, unfortunately, which means it’s ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://chani.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/new-laptop/ | 5348 |
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| Well, we are going to reach the final step in the evolution of Lancelot for KDE 4.1 very soon. Will it be called 1.1 or something else, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the fact that Lancelot is more stable than ever, and even has a new feature. Changelog since 1.0 - Feature update: “Reset the [application] browser to show Favourites on menu open” option, which is the default behaviour from now on.
- Installation fixed. Thanks to the bug or whatever in the new cmake 2.6, there were problems installing Lancelot - no binaries were installed in most cases. It even got a /quick fix/ in the FAQ section of the L’s website. Now, that is a thing of the past thanks to the Than Ngo who sent me a patch that mysteriously and miraculously fixes this problem.
- Crashes… no more. The 1.0 was stable enough in my opinion, so most of you haven’t had any problems with it. But then, there are those of you who were less fortunate. And those of you who had the 1.0.1 installed ...read more...
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16 | System & Utilities | http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2008/09/13/lancelot-103-and-medi/ | 5346 |
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