Friday November 21, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
24 Comments
I use KOrganizer to view and manage my personal calendar. My employer uses Microsoft Exchange *spit* for its calendaring solution, so I also have a calendar on the Exchange server that holds all of my work meetings and reminders. I … Continue reading
Tuesday November 11, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
37 Comments
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
Friday October 3, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
12 Comments
My work laptop and main computing device is a Thinkpad T61 with an nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1) card. It’s been a frustrating last year in trying to run a KDE4 desktop as my main work and development … Continue reading
Friday October 3, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
17 Comments
That’s a big title, eh? I blogged previously about setting up a multi-head X environment for development and testing, even though I’m working on a laptop with only one card. My previous attempt used Xdmx and multiple Xephyr displays, and … Continue reading
Friday August 15, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
3 Comments
So I spent a couple of hours tonight hacking on KPilot instead of going to bed like a smart little boy (sorry, honey!!! =:( ), and I fixed a couple of nagging problems that’ve been bugging me for months that … Continue reading
Tuesday April 15, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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It started to hit me yesterday as I spent 3.5 hours in this year’s KDE Google Summer of Code mentor’s meeting (thanks again sebr!!). KDE4 just plain rocks, and it feels good to start getting excited about it again. And … Continue reading