Category: tech

Late in 2004 I wrote a blog post (sorry, not public anymore) about my predictions for 2005. It was most focused on the WWW world, and the headline was that next two years, between Fx 1.0 and IE 7.0 will be boring. And it seems that I was right. Firefox 1.5 is nothing more than a polished version of 1.0, I really like it, beside of some memleaks I heard about (but didn’t see), Opera went free, which was so predictable that the only surprise for me was how much noise they made around (bravo!), other browser simply evolved, exciting only those freaks who find themselves thrilled because due to complicated process of CSS hacks some browser is able to display a yellow face. Boring, boring, boring.
In Poland we say “Excitement as on mushrooming“…

Apple is the brand of 2005 for sure.
I got an ipod black 4gb nano, my girlfriend got white one, and it seems to be quite ordinary situation, Mike has similar one and Technorati confirms the trend.

I’m wondering if there is any more popular gift for Christmas 2005.

Also, thanks to Robert, iPod will sync with my Thunderbird soon!

After not-so-short time of silence about KDE 4 development progress from KDE devs, I decided to write an email to Aaron Seigo and Torsten Rahn asking about the reasons of recent silence and current progress.

Aaron responded that after initial buzz they focused on porting libraries from KDE3 (QT3) to KDE4 (QT4[\.1]?) and until they’re done, there’s nothing to write about since not so many are interested in long stories about which libraries are already ported and which are not.

I also wrote that in my opinion, KDE has the ultimate chance to use the energy of many volunteers since it’s the first time ever when the new GUI is developed almost from the scratch basing on very modern library and with a strong group of users. It means that it’s easier than ever to influence it’s feature set and UI and to share your ideas.
He responded that they don’t feel to be ready to use non-development energy yet, but they want to prepare for this and spend a few months on community brainstorm once they have basic tools and resources to use for those volunteers who are interested in participating. I hope to be able to help there and first I want to select from the melted sea of ideas (a’ka Kollaboration forums) the pure genius ones and describe them well so KDE devs could easly read what’s on the deck and choose what they want.

So, if you have any, really, any idea about GUI, and you want to share this idea and throw it into brainstorm powerfield to shape it into something brillant, go on. Just post it on Kollaboration forum and I’ll try to make sure it won’t be forgotten 🙂

Oooh, Suprise!
I can see scratches on the solid Gnome wall that states that Gnome is cleaner, easier, better, lighter, faster, and the KDE is a piece of crap used by eye-candy gruppies.

And I’m happy not because I believe that Gnome is bad, but because reading techie blogs in Poland it looks like the KDE users are just using KDE, and Gnome users not only using Gnome but additionally often express their sarcastic hate for KDE in malicious jokes. So maybe we’re getting near to the day when those hardcore-gnome-hackers will start seeing KDE as a platform of choice for many people. And those users choose KDE because, in their opinion, it’s better. Can you believe that?

update: anyway, it’s very unfortunate that Linus wrote that on Gnome maillist. It really looks like a trolling. He should probably express his believes on neutral ground.

Mysql just joined the forces of the world that are pushing it to buy modern hardware…

The newest Mysql GUI tool requires X.org server with OpenGL and preferably accelerated video card.

Hoah!

Just installed WordPress 2.0 Beta1 locally. It’s great!
I’m wondering if I should upgrade diary to use it.

Oxygen site. Cute 🙂

I’m dancing around the Flock now.
It also pushed me to make the switch. I willhave two blogs. This one will stay a technical one, for all my Firefox, Mozilla, KDE etc. related stuff, and another will be my private place for everything including politic and private sounds.
I also created my del.icio.us, but I don’t like it’s design, and I’m not sure how to play with it for the moment. Overall, I’ll play with it more during the weekend, and drop one more note about the move once I’m ready.

Finally, the next step on the road to make all crictical user applications open. OpenOffice 2.0 final is ready!

We have Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Jabber, now we must give user a GUI that will be able to compete with Windows. I hope that we’ll get there at the end of the 2006. With XOrg 7.2, KDE 4.0, Kernel 2.16.x and next generation of SuSe or Ubuntu.

Find a second and watch this. A really great way to explain the difference between trust, and trusted computing.