Kasperian Moving Parts

kinda like Batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

Tuesday November 11, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
37 Comments

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

Wednesday October 22, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
14 Comments

Bringin’ Sexy (urxvt) Back

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
22 Comments

Replace Laptop Video Card? Replace Laptop? Give Up Hope?

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
8 Comments

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
12 Comments

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

Tuesday April 15, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
1 Comment

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