Tag Archives: KDE

Preparing for another conference: OpenExpo in Winterthur next week!

It’s this time of the year again where I prepare for attending OpenExpo in Winterthur. This important Free Software even is held on September 23 & 24 in Winterthur, Switzerland.
This year I helped organizing more than one booth: Amarok, …

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How to install 2.2-git in your home (an update)

Since Amarok switched to Gitorious, those of you running a local SVN build with markey’s instructions will have to do some changes to stay up-to-date::
First, you need to install git, which is in the package repositories of your …

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Free alternatives to proprietary PDF readers now easy to find

I suppose we all have come across that “red button” on websites asking you to download Acrobat Reader to read a PDF document. Even free for download, it still is a proprietary solution and in no way a Free …

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Mom-compatible KDE 4

Since Mark of Amarok fame is living here, people in the house are in awe about the man sitting in front of his desk all day long, “programming computers”. Of course, we have been asked a few times to …

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It has been a while..

since my last blog here. But sometimes life just prevents you from doing quite a few things.

Anyway,update:

The last year I was busy at work, health was almost good (besides a minor accident in December and a heavy cough that …

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Sometimes Im really fed up with..

..those “Neinsagers” who permanently complain about KDE4. That’s what I wrote today on the Kubuntu mailing list, after a recurrent complaint about KDE4:

Don’t compare apples with pears, please!
KDE4 is still in heavy development, and it never has been …

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Paris – night 1

Sorry for the delay in blogging about UDS, but a week of "doing nothing" was wellcome and necessary :-) Unfortunately real life also came back far too early and an unusual work load in pharmacy prevented my blogging so …

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