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Gestern, am 23.09.2010, ist Professor Dr. Andreas Pfitzmann verstorben. Professor Pfitzmann war ein Datenschützer der ersten Stunde und einer der schärfsten Denker unserer Zeit. Im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Security-Professoren hat er in seinen Vorlesungen nicht einfach nur Kryptographie-Algorithmen und technische Sicherheitskonzepte gelehrt. Mindestens genauso wichtig war es ihm, dass seine Studenten grundlegende […] The release of the KDE SC version 4 series hasn’t been a success story in the first place. The first versions of KDE 4 are known to be buggy and slow. But the situation is constantly getting better. And since the release of KDE SC 4.3, it may be stated that the KDE software collection is quite useful in a productive environment. However, although the performance of KDE is constantly improving, it has never reached a state so far where it felt completely fast to me (such as GNOME, KDE 3, or lightweight desktop environments like XFCE, LXDE, or fluxbox do). A little bit of bubble gum always remained. Until I found the »raster engine« of Qt. […] |