Akademy 2008, public kisses and flowers

Submitted by nielsvm on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 15:32
So, it is done, fini and almost over. I'm sitting here in the cantine/aula of the Nayer institute where at max 20 people are drinking cola to get some last hacking work done before they are about to leave back home. While some of the spanish speaking hackers are playing 'ping pong' (not sure if it is called ping-pong) I can safely say that the amount of people dropped down from ~300 to max. 100 at the whole campus site.

French Fries, size comparison

Submitted by nielsvm on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 03:28
Today I've been eating cheap'n'good Chinese food at a restaurant near the central train station of this beautiful town of Mechelen, togheter with a nice bunch of German KDE people. A few hours later I had to go back to the Roosendael place but outside some kind of almost-but-not-yet-a-storm was raging and everything looked cold and rainy; so I decided to go order a 'small' French Fries at a frietkot near so I had something warm for during the biketrip.

Akademy network coverage

Submitted by nielsvm on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 12:50

Sitting in the room 1 at the Akademy St. De Nayer institute. Actually Torsten was supposed to have a talk about Marble, though unfortunately the beamer broke so his talk has been delayed till further notice.

To keep it short, the atmosphere, the people and of course the beer and early-morning coffee beverages are simply great.

I'm not having any numbers on the commits being made at the moment, though the network is actually quite active. This graph should resemble that at least!

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Submitted by nielsvm on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 23:56
Yesterday at 12AM I opened up Kmail and got quite surprised by this nice little announcement about a minor release of a certain nice little desktop environment. Since I've been making it myself a little too hard lately when it comes to finding a good balance between following KDE, social life ® and the always exciting workI did not notice that 4.1 was about to be released into the wild yesterday.

Plasmatastic!

Submitted by nielsvm on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 00:04
So a few hours ago I had some time left and updated my whole KDE build, including kdebase. After using an extremely unstable Plasma, from the port-it-to-woc-dept period, for weeks.. I now have a seriously stable desktop again, with loads of unnoticed improvements. For example, I connected my laptop to a screen (from widescreen to a squary screen), restarted X11 and started KDE again. After 5 minutes using it I realized that in 4.0 I would have ended up hacking numbers in the panel containment in plasmarc to get the panel correct again, it all just works now!

Re: History meme

Submitted by nielsvm on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 20:51
So, To keep up with the history meme hype that started last week on planet.gnome.org: :~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head -n 12 83 ls 73 cd 56 svn 35 sudo 19 screen 18 rm 18 cat 14 make 12 exit 9 kcmshell4 8 wget 8 dd I'm affraid i'm using subversion more for deleting/moving than rm and mv...

Thinkpad mania!

Submitted by nielsvm on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 16:23
So I've had it!, after three years of very good experiences with my Acer Aspire 3000 it started to make even more noise then it already did and it became slower and slower every day. At last FOSDEM I wanted to hook up my laptop to the wireless (which I never use anyway) connection at the event and I discovered that I'd forgot to get my BCM43xx driver working (installed Kubuntu Feisty on it, so no automatic firmware).

Re-entering the blogosphere

Submitted by nielsvm on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 20:40

Hello there blogosphere, It almost one year ago the last time I wrote a entry in this dusty blog. And since then, a lot of things changed in my life and on the web. And one of those is that I got a new, and my first serious job back in June last year. So, back in June '07 I started working at the funny called company Madcap (still in Dutch) which at that time consisted of 7 employee's and existed for only 1 years or so. My employee is using Drupal in it's projects and is preparing mayor contributions to the projects it uses.

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