Sunday, February 17. 2008SNAFU .*[k\w\W].*[24]-(~:$)-> wtf snafuTomorrow it's one week of KDE 4. Well, just yet another week, with no more than 5 hours sleep per day, heavy thinking and a couple of new stress balls. Probably none notice that I didn't blog about KDE 4, I can't even blame you, everyone else did, so I don't matter (even less then usual  ) But I have the best excuse ever: "It's all Kubuntu's fault!"After I installed the Kubuntu packages of KDE 4.0.0, I was considerable surprised, that the icons were totally screwed, new applications like dolphin and systemsettings didn't have one at all and some others (like) Konqueror, were using the old version. Everyone who knows me, pretty much gets were that led to -> me trying to fix it, but breaking even more instead. I dugg in and didn't precisely get out since Friday, icon fixes are still not finished, but instead I have introduced new build rules and backported fixes and styling improvements, created some concepts on how to improve the status of KDE 3 + KDE 4 coexisting ... May I say: I hate when this happens! :-@ Anyway, I think 4.0.1 is going to be one useable desktop (at least when you got a KDE3Pim  .The direction is right, KDE 4 just needs more love. As for Amarok: something really cool is coming up, although my new wrapper script for releases is br0ken
Sunday, February 17. 2008Amarok @ LinuxDay in Dornbirn Tomorrow I'll be at LinuxDay in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria. Beside having a joint "booth" with Kubuntu-de.org (saves me the time of traveling between the party locations I'm also giving a talk about Amarok, the Amarok project and Amarok2 (read TWO).So, if you are living in western Austria, eastern Switzerland or southern Germany and don't know what to do on Saturday, then come visit us at the Amarok/Kubuntu Party Booth. Oh, and someone should bring the beer . Sunday, February 17. 2008Power saving++
Intel launched lesswatts.org, a collection of tips and tools for extreme powersaving. And I, as someone who loves very long standby times, of course started right away enhancing my gomobile script (I run this script on demand, since it doesn't make much sense to activate all power saving settings just for going downstairs where AC plug is waiting anyway).
I have to admit that I was using powertop since I'm running Kubuntu Gutsy,  so I can't exactly recall my battery standby time with stock Kubuntu, but I think it was slightly more than 4 hours. With powertop I managed to increase it by 2 hours (i.e. slightly more than 6 hours), but what I achived with the tips on lesswatts is just _awesome -> 7 hours 44 minutes... with quite decent (meaning for me bearable) settings.Thats why I want to say "Thank you for the hardware, the drivers and the tuning tool/tips." to Intel. ...next to do: check out all the fine tools, yummy 
Sunday, February 17. 2008Froscon socialized
We are socialing
 yepeeeeee, Amarok's project founder Mark just started a discussion about permissions in ubuntu, where www-data seems to have access to a shell. Although he just noted that he wants to cuddle and be a lovely nice person, so letz drop this totally pointless note.Anyway, the thing is we are going to do a live stream on radio anorak today (2007-08-26 stream link). From about 8 o'clock UTC to about 12 o'clock UTC we are going to present you the finest electronica music the free music world has to offer. Also short notes about current on going discussion will be aired, so check it out if got a chance. It will be totally awesome Sunday, February 17. 2008VoIP - Screw it!
Now, the Amarok Wolf Brigade(tm) actually just wanted to do some VoIPing. It ended up in a big fucking mess, which lead to the awful cognition that Skype is the only usable VoIP software on Linux.
Skype on the other hand got conference call, good quality and a nice GUI. this is probably the reason for stories like this: [markey] this morning I woke up So let me tell you: VoIP on Linux sux, except for Skype, which is closed source though.... but hey, we just wanna talk, not save the world from evil Ebay :S [EDIT] We also tried twinkle, but unfortunately one does need a SIP account and we were quite disappointed, so we didn't got any further ..... though from screenshots we noticed -> the gui is shit ... and the FAQ is telling strange things about 3-call-conference with horrible how to do that. Sunday, February 17. 2008LinuxTag aggregation
Our very own Amarok father (hey markey!
told me to blog about photos (since everyone loves photos), therefore I'm introducing to you: LinuxTag content aggregation part unReport by Kubuntu-de.org crew (english version): http://www.kubuntu-de.org/english/reflections-linuxtag-2007 Photo collection by Kubuntu-de.org crew: http://www.kubuntu-de.org/bilder/events/linuxtag-2007 Photo collection by Sven from Amarok (including comments - you really should take a look at it ;-): http://amarok.kde.org/d/en/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=1122 Amarok introduction by Sven and /me (have to say sorry, I was quite tired): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3769412612065314512&hl=en Sven's interview with german radio Deutschlandfunk: http://developer.kde.org/~danimo/dlf-kde-lt2007.mp3 Slides: http://www.kde.org/kdeslides/index.php#linuxtag2007 Amarok related content is also listed here Still missing:
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