http://www.nielsvm.org I don't like blog descriptions... Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:53:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/08/15/akademy-2008-public-kisses-and-flowers/ 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 ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/08/13/french-fries-size-comparison/ 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 ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/08/10/akademy-network-coverage/ 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, ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/07/31/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/ *sigh*, now I'm really getting either way too drunk or terribly exhausted of this Redmond company. Ars Technica writes on a new patent Microsoft got after two years of waiting on it. The patent describes as: "...A system, method, and computer readable medium for the proactive detection ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/05/24/new-microsoft-virus-patent/ 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 ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/05/23/plasmatastic/ 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 ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/04/11/re-history-meme/ update: Added a form online and changed the last chapter A few weeks ago I was in a what-to-code-right-now-mood and inspired by The Gold Bug I decided to write a little easy cypher in PHP (could have been any languageTM of course) without any secret key. You know, just for fun. So ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/03/04/little-contest-crack-my-rot13-on-steroids-cypher/ 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 ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/03/02/thinkpad-mania/ Hello there blogosphere, It has been 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 ... http://www.nielsvm.org/2008/03/01/re-entering-the-blogosphere/