July 2007 – Kasperian Moving Parts

What Microsoft Meant Was…

Wednesday July 25, 2007

In an effort to catch up reading through the last 2 months of eWeek magazines that I have stacked on my dresser yet never find time to pick up, I read through the May 28 issue this morning and found this very insightful statement by Jason Brooks. The article is called “Free software shines on” and can also be found here… When Microsoft representatives state that everyone must play by the same rules, as they often have during recent months, what the company means is that the business and technological realities under which they’ve built their empire shouldn’t be allowed to change (emphasis mine). Very true. Very insightful. Nice job as usual, Jason. Of course, I (and all Open Source Read more…

Linux

Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas

Tuesday July 24, 2007

Really, really good article and interview with an awesome and amazingly bright guy. Con, I had no idea that you were such a complex guy. I wish you the best of the future, seriously.

KDE, KPilot

KPilot KDE3, meet KPilot KDE4

KPilot KDE3, meet KPilot KDE4 Originally uploaded by vanRijn Finally got some time to work on KPilot in trunk late last night. I guess the key thing is… when not sure what to do, just do something. I’ve been feeling very overwhelmed as of late with all that is broken and not working and different and changed, etc., with KPilot in trunk, and have been a bit paralyzed by it all. Of course, having to wait a full 8-hours (I kid you not) for qt-copy, kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase, and then kdepim to compile and install on my blazing-fast T42 Thinkpad is beyond frustrating too. But anyway, I have started looking at the UI for the time being. I’ll work Read more…

Life in General

And Now, Introducing… Linda Kasper!

Monday July 23, 2007

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you, my darling bride. People, this is my bride, Linda. Linda, this is the world. =:) Unfortunately for Lynn, she married a real geek (that’s me). Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s good sides and bad sides to that. Good sides being that I’m devilishly handsome, quick-witted, smarter than a box of hammers, and vastly rich. *snicker* Bad sides being that I’m occasionally less than clueful about putting my darling bride at the top of my list where she belongs. We’ve had several… um… discussions about said problem, and she’s right… I have rarely mentioned her in my blog. In the past, I’ve tried to keep my blog Read more…

Life in General

I’s Feelin’ Mighty Low

Friday July 20, 2007

I don’t think I’ve felt this low in a long, long time. In a lot of ways. I know that this is not helped in the slightest by the fact that my darling bride has given me some kind of flu thing and that I’ve spent the last 24 hours in aching pain, horking up my lungs. Speaking of which, words cannot possibly express the horror that is vomiting. Like Jerry, I had one heck of a no-vomit streak going. It must have been at least 20 years. Seriously. But between the be-gifted flu (which has now spread to my poor, wonderful daughters and I fully expect to spread to my son in the next day), and the astoundingly horribly Read more…

Life in General

Okay, This Is How I Feel

Thursday July 19, 2007

Okay, This Is How I Feel Originally uploaded by vanRijn Repeat after me: I will never, ever, ever, ever, never, never, ever eat at Burger King again.

Linux

The Only X (xorg.conf) For My T42

Saturday July 7, 2007

I do NOT understand why this is a true thing, but I do know that it is a true thing. Namely, unless I use this xorg.conf, I get weird hangs during suspend/resume, and my docking station/external monitor thingey doesn’t work right. At some point, when I have all the time in the world, I shall sit down and figure out why this works and why whichever way I configure X through YaST does not. But for now, I post this for posterity and in the odd case that this might help someone else who is stuck using a company-provided Thinkpad T42.