Posted in English, Open Source, tagged beta1, KDE, KDE4 on Wednesday 28 May 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve just got my hands dirty with KDE 4.1 beta 1 and all I can say is WOW! I have a kde4daily image running inside a virtualbox on Windows XP and an openSuSE 11 installation on a seperate partition with KDE 4.1 Beta 1 installed. The openSuSE installation had working composite so all the extra [...]
Posted in English, Science Fiction, tagged Science Fiction, Blake's 7 on Friday 23 May 2008 | No Comments »
Looks like Sky One has ordered scripts for 2 60 minutes pilot episode’s for a remake of Blake’s 7. Now, that was a great TV Serie! I really hope it will be in the same league as BSG!
Posted in English, Open Source, tagged Gnome, GTK+, KDE, PyGTK, pyqt, qt on Wednesday 14 May 2008 | 4 Comments »
Although I am convinced Qt is a far better GUI toolkit then GTK+, I must admit that Gnome (based on GTK+) is (at the moment) in far better shape than current KDE (based on Qt). I’ve read a lot of so-called “vs” articles and posts (Qt vs GTK+, KDE vs Gnome, LGPL vs GPL, etc). [...]
Posted in English, Open Source, Programming, Uncategorized, tagged KDE, pykde, pyqt, python, qt, trolltech on Friday 9 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
I like Python. It’s a great programming language. Although technically it’s a scripting language and thus interpreted, you can create full blown apps with it. You can use it on almost all OSes in existence. It’s Open Source of course!
After becoming a Linux fan I too had to make the choice: Gnome or KDE. After [...]
Posted in Algemeen, English, tagged quote, roosevelt on Friday 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
When filing a bug in openSUSE bugzilla I came across the best quote I’ve ever read:
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
This will be my motto!
Posted in English, Internet, tagged blogger, wordpress on Friday 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
To create a blog is easy. To select the right blogging software isn’t. My shortlist went to wordpress and blogger. Blogger (blogspot) is owned by Google. WordPress comes as both a service at www.wordpress.com and as a open source blog software kit on www.wordpress.org. After fiddling with both I choose wordpress.com because:
WordPress supports “pages” wich [...]
