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Comment on KDE 4.4.0 by datdude

datdude — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:12:12 +0000

So hows KDE working for you?

Comment on Amarok 2 Media Transcoder : Got to think Low Level by Jessie Morris

Jessie Morris — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:15:14 +0000

Hello, I know quite a bit of C++ and I wanted to help Amarok 2 development a bit. I really want this transcoder present so I can use my iPod all the way.

Shoot me an email, please which includes the subject “Amarok” (spam filter’s will get it otherwise).

Thanks kindly,

Jessie Morris

Comment on Favorite Fanfiction by people OTHER THEN Me by ct

ct — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:41:51 +0000

I’ve read a lot of Random1377 as well, he’s kinda what got me started in the Eva field. Though after that I took more of a turn toward generally darker stories.

Been enjoying the new crowd of writers (as infrequent as they are) including Adam Kadmon, Midnight Cereal, The mustachioed Cat, and sedamichrA.

Though admittedly I haven’t read enough to compare them to the “classics”.

Comment on iRex Iliad vs Sony Reader by Dhampir Dreams » Blog Archive » Sony Reader Distribution, The Amazon Kindle, and the rebirth of Digital Publishing

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:15:10 +0000

[...] tweaking around some of the old links and found a fellow I linked to a while back in a post about the Sony Reader and iRex Iliad. Seems he’s started a few new blogs and posted recently [...]

Comment on QTScript – Javascript for KDE and Amarok 2 by LD

LD — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:46:35 +0000

Went over what you linked too. From what I can tell it (and posted my understanding in a later post) it SHOULD be relatively simple if one knows what to pull in. It should also be helpful if it goes well that many of the needed calls are part of the script API as it relaes to tagging in file meta data.

Correct me if I’m wrong at all in my understanding.

Comment on Favorite Fanfiction by people OTHER THEN Me by Ryan Slicer

Ryan Slicer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:15:48 +0000

Seems like we enjoy the same few stories, I think it was Axel’s “Child of Love” and Fiss’ “Shinji the Casanova” that actually started me into Anime. Read a lot of Random1377′s stories as well.

I’ll have to check out the other stories and suggestions.

Comment on QTScript – Javascript for KDE and Amarok 2 by Mark Kretschmann

Mark Kretschmann — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:54:47 +0000

Hi LD,

thanks for considering to create a script for Amarok 2. We are very excited so see what script authors will be able to do with our new powerful scripting system.

As for help with QtScript (JavaScript), here is a useful link to get you started:

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/Scripting_HowTo_2.0

On this page you will also find further links to JavaScript introductions. It’s not very hard to program it after all, you’ll see

I also recommend to take a look at our existing example scripts that come bundled with Amarok 2. For instance this one:

http://kollide.net:8060/browse/~raw,r=19019/Amarok/src/scripts/lyrics_lyricwiki/main.js

–
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
http://www.kde.org – amarok.kde.org

Comment on Theo De Raadt Threatens the SFLC by Danny

Danny — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:10:58 +0000

Let me try to clear this up for you. (Oh, and the kerneltrap link isn’t to a Theo De Raadt post).

Since you don’t code, lets say you wrote a book, and released it under a BSD-like license. Some people (Microsoft?) printed it without saying where they found it but since it’s printed, it’s not something people can easily edit. Some other people (Apple?) gave it a fancy book cover, printed it, and hosted the book a site where you can get your own copy to edit. Then another group came in and put a little note at the top of your book saying if you add anything to the book you agree to give your copyright to someone named Linus, and you can’t use anything copyright Linus in any thing but other books copyright by Linus.

The MS and Apple approach don’t necessarily make it easy to change your book, but if someone else finds your book due to the fact they used it, and fixes or improves something, you are allowed to use that in your book. However, in the last example in the paragraph above, if someone finds your work due to Linus and fixes or improves something, you can’t incorporate the improvements into your original work. Anything added with Linus’ copyright can’t be added back to your original book. If Linus is a popular guy and has a popular website, your book is now basically under the control of Linus.

The issue here is that someone has basically taken something under one license (the OpenBSD Atheros driver code), and released it under another license with extremely minor changes. The license are compatible, so you can _use_ BSD code with GPL’ed code, but the question here is can you legally (or morally?) _change_ the copyright license on something you don’t own the copyright of? The legality of this is questionable and it’s not surprising a court might have to decide this. As far as the morality of it goes, it just seems wrong. Doesn’t it?

Comment on The Korean War is over by eh

eh — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:39:50 +0000

They didn’t sign an actual treaty. For that to happen, the US and China have to participate in the signing, and Bush said that it won’t happen until the DPRK fully disarms its nuke program. It even says all this in the article, if you had bothered to read it. The war isn’t officially over. Don’t throw a party quite yet.

Comment on Vista is Here… and Here’s why I say no. by Joshua Stovall

Joshua Stovall — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:41:02 +0000

I agree with your opinon as well LD. For the fact that I bought a Vista laptop (Acer Aspire 5100) from Best Buy.
Here are the problems I had with Vista:
1) My computer is pretty decent; but, Vista made it run like a Pentium I running 177 MHz with 5MB of Ram. (I have the 512 MB ram with the 2.0 GHz AMD Semprion+)
2) It took forever to load.
3) I put all my music on it and I couldn’t listen to a single song because it kept chopping it up. I ripped a CD to my HD after I tried to listen to my music and it played fine.
4) Vista fried the HD after a month. I had to wait 3 weeks for Acer to send me a new HD, when they told me that Vista had a critical error that wiped out the Master Boot Record and cause major surface damage to the drive. Then they still tried to get me to buy a recovery DVD that contained the VILE Vista program.
5) VISTA is a ball licker!

I want to switch to linux (I had to install XP Home to keep from voiding my warranty) but I can’t seem to find the right version for me. I’m just an everyday computer user, I write my fanfics on here watch my DVD’s burn DVDs with my dual layer burner. But I can’t find linux drivers for my hardware and I’m not a programmer. If anyone has some suggestions please let me know!

Comment on Vista is Here… and Here’s why I say no. by LastHope

LastHope — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:08:15 +0000

I believe it’s correct to point to a blogger any possible error (conceptual or spelling)…but hey, did you add anything new/interesting in this discussion with your critcs for bad spelling?
I believe the correct answer is “NO, DAMN!”
So please, just don’t try to minimize the opinion of a fellow memeber of the Web only for his spelling…we aren’t all natural-born English (I am not)

Comment on Vista is Here… and Here’s why I say no. by Zeke

Zeke — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:45:06 +0000

I absolutely agree with your opinion. People depend on information technologies more and more. Someone who will be in control of information technologies will be in control of society. If you don\’t have source code there is no way to find out what happens in your system. I have nothing against commercial software in general. But if you sell your programs please sell source code, not the binaries. Personally, I use only open source software in my system and recommend to do the same.

Comment on Vista is Here… and Here’s why I say no. by VibroKatana

VibroKatana — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:11:27 +0000

STFU microsoft whore

Comment on Vista is Here… and Here’s why I say no. by Tim

Tim — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:34:56 +0000

I concur. You really need to proof read. There are spelling mistakes, weird sentece phrasing and some senteces make no sense at all. Some times you capitalize Vista, Aero and Linux, other times you don’t. Blu-Ray should be capitalized. This sentence;

“To start, if you are concidering Vista and haven’t read this article by Peter Guttman on the DRM built into Vista.”

Should be something like;

“To start, if you are considering Vista you should read this article by Peter Guttman on the DRM built into Vista.”

And the link needs to be fixed caused it’s 404.

Comment on Vista is Here… and Here’s why I say no. by LD

LD — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:45:32 +0000

…

And you had something to add yes?

Comment on Vista is Here… and Here’s why I say no. by Bill

Bill — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:20:02 +0000

Maybe you should learn how to use spell check for a start. What a joke. You can\’t even write coherently, do you really expect anyone to take you seriously? Just another MS basher that isn\’t qualified to even speak on the subject.

Comment on KDE Test Part 2 by LD

LD — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:58:17 +0000

Because the stylistic look between GTK and QT apps can have a bit of an impact. QT programs are going to look more at home in KDE because they use the QT toolkit. Same goes for GTK and Gnome. Of course in gentoo if you emerge gtk-engines-qt and apply that to your gtk+ apps using gtk-chtheme then you don’t notice a real difference visually. Of course you can’t control those apps the same way you can KDE native apps, say if you have the screen setup in a mac style.

Personally I always say use what gets the job done.

Comment on KDE Test Part 2 by David Grant

David Grant — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:56:27 +0000

I’m still confused as to why people like to associate the KDE desktop with KDE apps. People seem to get hung up about using all KDE apps if they are using KDE and all Gnome apps if they are using Gnome.

Comment on iRex Iliad vs Sony Reader by Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:15:18 +0000

Thanks for the link.

Comment on Tech Support Translation Dictionary by Codey

Codey — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:49:16 +0000

Take it easy ld, you only have to represent the company not take anything personaly.
Think of it as a chalange of self control. Just clear your mind of the anger and frustration at the end of the day…

bad thoughts go away…

slow deep breaths…

mind light as a feather…