About facebook and KDE…
Dear friends and family, I’ve had it with FB. Every single time I read something about facebook, it is something to be annoyed, angry, or concerned about. their permanent policy of introducing new...
View ArticleKDE 4.7 – all your emails are belong to us
ok, so KDE 4.7 is out. Ye-haw. After updating to 4.7, kmail complains on startup (which takes ages, btw) that “the server does not support TLS”. It sure would help to know which server. It also would...
View ArticleKDE 4.7 – You didn’t think you would get off that easily, would you?
OK, so now I did a clean install on some old work laptop. openSUSE 11.4, fresh off the DVD, on an empty harddisk. KDE 4.6 or whichever version comes on the DVD worked fine, using the GSM/UMTS/EDGE card...
View ArticleA tale of two internets
Lately I’ve come to think that there are two separate Internets out there, existing side by side and with little interaction between them. One of them is the internet that we all know, populated by...
View ArticleDebian 5, or the joy of working with prehistoric software
For various reasons I had to setup a Debian box. Debian 5. For building software that would be distributed in binary form and should run on any linux. The original software that mine derives from is...
View ArticleSingle sign-on on openSUSE / KDE4, or the three faces of the community
It seems that “the community” consists of three separate groups of people: the people who loudly demand features the developers who loudly debate the ethic, moral, technical religious impacts if the...
View ArticleWelcome to the new world, Neo… but you’re not going to like it
I just read a newsflash about an automated system shutting down a video stream because the video stream contained copyright protected material. Sounds OK to you too? To me it does, until you dig into...
View Article“Update”…. grrr
I hate it when a mandatory update takes away functionality. In this case: twitter tools for WordPress. The latest update now uses the “Social” plugin which integrates your blog with not only Twitter...
View ArticleThe joys of software
I have several wordpress blogs installed. All on the same webserver in different vhosts, same wordpress version, same plugins. On two of them the plugin that does the...
View ArticleKDE 4.10.0, a very first quick glance
KDE 4.10 has been released, and I have upgraded my old desktop computer that sits on a shelf in our home server room and runs a NoMachine server to have KDE 4.10.0 on it. First attempt: migrate my...
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