Life in General – Page 12 – Kasperian Moving Parts

Apples, Google, KDE, Life in General, Linux, Movies, Music, Video Games

Warning: a brain dump followeth: Blockbuster has sweetened their deal by allowing in-store trade-ins of online-rented movies. This, to me, blows NetFlix out of the water, since NetFlix does not yet have a brick-and-mortar presence anywhere (?). And, because we signed up with Blockbuster a while ago, we still get to keep our 2 free movie-or-game rental coupons per month too. Pretty cool! As a result, we’ve been watching tons of movies as of late, including the Indiana Jones trilogy (forgot how good they were!!). I’ve been a busy little beaver over the last few weeks, OSS-code-wise, anyway. Adriaan and I have whipped kpilot into shape proper-like, it seems. I’ve spent a decent chunk of time twice now and merged Read more…

Life in General, Open Source

Hello, I am an Open Source Developer

Wednesday November 1, 2006

Zack Rusin‘s blog post from a week ago really resonated deep within me on a couple of points. His post, titled “Disappointing”, was written in response to some negative feedback he got from some mis-guided souls who were commenting on one of his earlier posts about some very impressive Qt graphics results he’d shown. While blog-commenters behaving badly is not something new, certainly, nor is one (very) talented Open Source developer having to set said folks straight, that’s not what caught my eye. I was truly impressed with the benchmarking results that Zack reported with Qt, compared to some of the other toolkits, but that’s not what caught my eye either. What jumped out at me most was his definition Read more…

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Blogging From My Treo

Tuesday October 31, 2006

This would be a test, then, of wordpress, plogit, and manual dexterity of man hands and really tiny keyboard buttons!!

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Fix for Linux PPC, IBM JDK, and Moneydance Bug

Saturday September 30, 2006

Wow. You know… I’ve worked around this annoyance for FAR too long… I’d blogged previously (5 months + ago???) about a bug that affects Moneydance with IBM’s JRE/JDK (you know… the ONLY one that you can find for Linux PowerPC!!) with online transaction downloading. So I decided to poke at it a bit again today and what do you know? I found a solution! As it turns out, to solve the moneydance problem with SSLContext and IBM’s JRE, change $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security like this: # diff -pruN java.security.original java.security — java.security.original 2006-09-30 16:09:38.000000000 -0400 +++ java.security 2006-09-30 16:11:48.000000000 -0400 @@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ # # List of providers and their preference orders (see above): # -security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2 -security.provider.2=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE -security.provider.3=com.ibm.security.jgss.IBMJGSSProvider -security.provider.4=com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPath -security.provider.5=com.ibm.security.sasl.IBMSASL +#security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2 +security.provider.1=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE Read more…

KDE, Life in General, Open Source

That Which Takes My Time

Sunday September 24, 2006

It’s a frustrating thing to not have enough time to do that which you want. Or rather, there are so many things that I do want to do and so many things that I do need to do that there are choices that must be made to be a responsible, loving husband, Daddy, employee, hacker, game-player, and Christian. My greatest passion as a by-nature-geek is Open Source software. Specifically, the Open Source desktop. Professionally, Open Source has SO much value to companies that I am constantly finding ways of showing those at work of how the various solutions Open Source provides are the best-fitting tool for the needs we have. Personally (or “speaking from a not-getting-paid-for-stuff perspective”), I have been Read more…

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The Timeless Power of a Sunset

Sunday September 17, 2006

That, my friend, is pure joy. I enjoyed exactly that sort of pleasure just yesterday. We went down to Newport, the Kasper family, we did. Walked quite a distance around Fort Adams, which was really, really fun. We shall definitely have to go back at some point and take the tours. Drove then down to our favorite spot in Newport–Brenton Point State Park–and explored all around the tidepools, shoreline, rocks, and such. The water was pretty cold already, but it felt invigorating on one’s legs and feet. Made you feel good to just be alive and to be a part of the vastly larger-than-you ocean! My darling bride and I found a cozy little rock to sit on and hold Read more…

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Fenway Park, Here I Come

Thursday September 7, 2006

Fenway Park, Here I Come, originally uploaded by vanRijn. I know you’re jealous! =;)

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KDE-PIM Social Network

Wednesday September 6, 2006

It’s nice to see your name up in lights… =;)

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Things I Should Have Done 6 Months Ago

Sunday August 13, 2006

I need to start keeping track of these things more. Or rather, I need to just do them when I should instead of waiting for 6 months to realize the improvement. Top on my list today was finally drilling a hole through the pressure-reducing valve in the stupid, way-overpriced burst-proof washing machine hoses that I bought from Lowes 6 months ago, on the advice of our home inspector. Let me just put it this way… it was taking more than a half-hour to fill up the washing machine tub with water when we washed our clothes. For SIX months we lived like this. So, today, with the encouragement of a fellow house-hacker, I finally drilled through this more-intelligent-than-me contraption, hooked Read more…

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No time for anything

Tuesday August 8, 2006

I suck. I have 569 unread e-mails from the KDE mailing lists. I’ve actually found a new buglet today with kpilot’s copyPCtoHH functionality and I probably won’t even have time to look into it for who knows how long. I rented Splinter Cell Essentials for the PSP and I’ve had enough time to play it once, for about 10 minutes in the last 5 days. Blargh! =:(