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Tuesday, June 13. 2006

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Saturday, February 18. 2006

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Friday, May 13. 2005

Kudos to the Fink Project!



I installed most of KDE and a fresh svn-version of amaroK on my iBook today. Worked pretty much without a problem. I just needed taglib and the gstreamer packages from fink's experimental repository (thanks RangerRick) and a small patch for amaroK.

Hooray!
...muesli

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Wednesday, May 11. 2005

Konqui sweetness!

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Sunday, February 27. 2005

I got myself a new mouse today. I always kinda bought the cheapest ones, but today I had enough of those cheap crappy devices and bought the Logitech MX1000. It's a nice - even though really pricy - package, containing the mouse itself (surprise here), a charging-station and a PS/2 adapter.

The mouse is wireless! Finally! If I remember correctly I never really owned a wireless mouse, and now I experience what it feels like for the first time and wonder how I could have worked with a wired model. The one thing that always kept me from buying a wireless one were the batteries. I knew that I wouldn't have replacement batteries, once the first set emptied out. And working on a PC without a mouse? No-ho. Now, there is this charging station and this problem pretty mouch disappeared. Now the only thing left to do: configure all these extra buttons (12 mouse buttons is insane, right?) with cool KDE functions and shortcuts.

Happy hacking,
muesli

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Thursday, February 10. 2005

For your mobile music: iPod's 4th generation boots up with Linux, now!
Pure Eyecandy: amaroK with projectM
On your desktop: KDE 3,4 beta2
Even on Windows: QT4 for Windows dual-licensed!



...muesli

Posted by muesli in KDE
Thursday, February 3. 2005

Just stumbled over the amaroK Desktop Script on kde-apps.org. Nicely done, cool script

If you're curious: since I didn't have the pyqt/pykde stuff installed on my Debian desktop yet, I had to run "su -c apt-get install pyqt-tools python-kde3 python2.3-kde3" to get this stuff installed. Easy job.

So, now there's always a cool blended coverart of the currently playing album on my desktop. Sweet

...muesli

Posted by muesli in KDE
Friday, December 31. 2004

Recently I installed new CVS checkouts of kdelibs and -base on my system and played with the "new" Kicker. Kudos to Aaron for all the changes, fixes and new features.

Now, I just added the Storage Media Applet to my Kicker and noticed a few things:

1. It rocks I got used to mount / unmount / eject my CDs, iPod and Cam with it. Two clicks instead of a few keystrokes in Konsole. And it even shows the current mount-status, hooray!

2. Ejecting audio discs doesn't seem to work. It tells you, that the current disc couldn't be mounted - which is correct, but shouldn't matter at all

3. After I mounted a disc I clicked "Open in New Window", which opens a Konqui-window pointed to "media:/hdc". That's fine so far. I got into trouble once I tried opening a big mpeg-movie with xine: KIO started copying the file to my kdecache prior opening it, which took ages. It would be better if KIO detects, that the disc already is mounted and opens xine with the real url (the mounted location) of the file.

Nuf' ranting. CVS head feels stable and great atm

Now start drinking your favourite kind of alcohol, the new year's coming
...muesli

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Wednesday, December 29. 2004

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Sunday, September 5. 2004

Hey, good news!

I'm currently at Andz' place and we've created a compiler-cluster, using the fabulous icecream (kdenonbeta/icecream). Currently we're using 2 notebooks and 2 desktop PCs (with approx. 8 GHz), which really helps compiling KDE's HEAD CVS.

This means: New Debian KDE packages, soon!

Happy hacking,
muesli

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Tuesday, March 16. 2004

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Monday, January 19. 2004

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Sunday, January 18. 2004

Sonntag means sunday in German. And here we are again

It's already early in the morning and I'm still compiling KDE CVS Head packages for Debian. I'm going to do this at regular intervals (probably nightly snapshots), soon. I still have to set up some automation for this time-expensive process.

The packages will then be uploaded to http://rs.fuzz.nl/muesli/, some server-space Rob Lensen donated to this project. Thanks Rob!

I will notify you here, as soon as this project officially starts. Of course, you're invited to have a peek at this URL, whenever you want

Anything else happening? Yes, I'm awaiting an Athlon 64 3.2! I will set up my new desktop on this machine, and it sounds really promissing:

- Athlon 64 3.2
- MSI KT800 Neo
- 1GB DDR400 CL2.0
- Raid-0 SATA 2 x 80GB

If the GCC port for the x86-64 infrastructure isn't too b*tchy, I'll hopefully be able to provide KDE CVS packages for AMD64 systems, too. That would be neat

Good night, err morning.
muesli

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Tuesday, November 4. 2003

Movie Players and Linux. This is a looong story First, I used xine, which was (and still is) a quite nice player. It's slim, works out of the box and did everything I begged for.

My interest turned to MPlayer, since I heard it's even less resource-hungry and I wanted to setup a low-Mhz PC for DivX playback. Wow, I was amazed. It offered plenty of configuration options, supported zillions of file formats and ran really speedy.

So I switched to MPlayer on my desktop, too. But hell, there must be a GUI, right? I didn't like Gmplayer so much, since it was space-hungry and the interface just wasn't intuitive (imho). KMPlayer wasn't exactly what I was looking for either, but it was slick at least, so I switched again.

Today I found my program: KPlayer. It's just the right compromise of a slim design and all the important functions at your fingertips.

KDE3? MPlayer? Get it!

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Tuesday, October 28. 2003

Red Dot by Uga is really cute A bit more futuristic than my old one, although I need some time to get used to it. Good news for KDE users: 3.2 will offer an integrated mouse theme manager. It's really easy to change the themes in KControl, just paste the url of a valid theme archive and it'll do the rest like uncompressing and installing for you. Works great ...muesli