Tuesday September 1, 2015
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I am a nerd and love video games. I looked into buying a gaming laptop, but after researching and talking to some friends who know more about this space than I do, I decided to go a different route. First, … Continue reading
Tuesday September 25, 2012
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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There are a bunch of partial solutions and comments and questions “out there” about how to change the background/wallpaper on OS X so that you have the same background image on all of your desktops/spaces and all of your monitors. … Continue reading
Sunday November 13, 2011
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I’ve been an Open Source developer and hacker for a loooooong, long time. It has become far more than a part of what I do. It has become part of who I am. At first, it was mostly about the … Continue reading
Saturday November 14, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I recently blogged about Desktop Linux possibly having some core/fundamental problems that might be keeping it from enjoying mainstream adoption and 3rd party developer attention as compared to, say, OS X. To my immediate defense, I’ll say that it was actually … Continue reading
Tuesday November 10, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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It’s a shame that my first blog post in months is something so antithetical to my normal posts as this, but 1) I haven’t blogged in forever (darned Twitter/Identi.ca/Facebook!!!) and 2) I just bought a MacBook Pro and am really happy … Continue reading
Tuesday November 11, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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That’s my prediction. Of course, the truth of the matter is that KDE 4.2 (trunk) flat out rocks today. Seriously. I have never been more excited about the Linux desktop than I am right now. And this, 2+ months out … Continue reading
Thursday October 30, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I’m out in California this week (belated warning) again, WOOT! I got to spend another awesome weekend at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. This year, Leo and I were the official KDE representatives, but Thiago, Simon, Ariya, and … Continue reading
Wednesday October 22, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Let me tell you a (short) tale, my children. In the dark but awesome olden days, before KDE and GNOME were but glimmers in the eyes of their current communities, there existed a bunch of scrappy hackers who would take … Continue reading
Sunday October 12, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I just read Alexander Dymo (adymo)’s blog post “KDE4 performance on NVidia 8600GT: problem solved by bying ATI” and am quite sad because I’m pretty sure that it’s impossible to rip out the nVidia Quadro NVS 140M that’s crammed into … Continue reading
Wednesday October 8, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Holy crap. KDE 4.2 frickin’ flies! And contrary to my previous post, now if I set IPP=2, everything’s blazing fast and I’m actually able to resize konsole again! WooooooT!!! YAY progress!!! [[ UPDATE ]] : Added link to my previous … Continue reading