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
Thursday May 28, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
27 Comments
I believe I am one of the last few die-hard nutjobs on the face of this earth who still use (and “use” here is a highly subjective word meaning that I have a bunch of Palm devices lying around, am … Continue reading
Tuesday January 27, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Woohoo! KDE 4.2 is released!! I only wish the last few KPilot bug fixes would have made it into the 4.2.0 release, but we were too late. Still, if you think you knew what KDE4 was all about, think again. … Continue reading
Monday January 19, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I just sent this to the KDE PIM mailing lists, but I know not everyone who uses KPilot subscribes, so I’ll re-post it here… Howdy all, I just wanted to get a note out to as wide a distribution list … Continue reading
Monday January 19, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I spent a crapload of time this weekend, going through all the old and crufty KPilot bugs we’ve done a really horrible job of keeping up-to-date on, and triaged the bejeebers out of the list. I think we had ~ … Continue reading
Tuesday January 13, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I discovered a nasty little data corruption bug in KPilot last night and have put some fixes in for it just this morning. The good news is that we didn’t lose any data. We just gave you a lot more … Continue reading
Saturday January 10, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged (I blame Twitter), and I had an interesting week, this last, so I figured I’d blog about it. Probably should be a bunch of individual posts, but blef and here goes…. Yesterday was … Continue reading
Monday December 22, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Stark contrast to my last post, I know, but I felt it was only fair to blog about the wonders of OpenSUSE 11.1, even/especially with my little nVidia chip. First off, I still think there’s something wonky going on with … Continue reading
Monday December 22, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
23 Comments
So, first off, OpenSUSE 11.1 has to be the sweetest, best put together distro, like ever. Really amazing, quality stuff. The new installer has some excellent improvements, and package management has never felt zippier (zyppier??) However, there are a few … Continue reading