Kasperian Moving Parts

kinda like Batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

Saturday January 10, 2009
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Random Musings About a Good Week

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

Friday November 21, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Korganizer, Exchange, OWASync, Google Calendar, KPilot

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
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KDE 4.2 is flat out going to rock

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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KDE/Qt California People Sightings!!

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 8, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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nVidia 177.80 Released!

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
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KDE 4.2 (trunk) Now Rocking On My Thinkpad T61!!!

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

Multi-Monitor Setup On A Single Physical Head (Now Better!)

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

Tuesday April 15, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Getting Excited about KDE4 All Over Again

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