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Further to last week?s blog post that mentioned this Saturday?s (11 Feb) London Stop ACTA march, there?s a map of anti-ACTA marches on Google?s website (thanks to Martin Houston for the link).There?s also been a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agre...

qemu package is uninstallable in sid, and I think ipxe wants to replace it, not break it. Hmm.. I don't understand.

We’re happy to announce a KDE 4.8 Release Party in Prague,CZ!The party will take place on Friday, 24th of February, 17:00, at the SUSE Linux building (Map, KDE Community Wiki). There will be KDE and openSUSE swag available, KDE SC 4.8 live CDs,...

I’ve been running Kubuntu ever since I decided to switch to Linux on my computers. Kubuntu is what got me hooked on KDE’s software. I was on it’s council for 2 years. It has a special place in my Free Software world.At FOSDEM I had ...

From my kubuntu-devel posting. See also Jason's posting.Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors suc...

As per the schedule we were at IIT, Chennai to attend talk of Richard Stallman, founder Free Software Foundation and man behind the Gnu project. The title of the presentation was “Free Software, Freedom and Education” The event...

Do you remember Konqueror kicking ass again? Well, toda^Wyester^Wlast wee^W^Wnearly two weeks ago I got a mail by Julian Reschke, the guy behind all this HTTP conformance checks. He mailed me a link to one of his post at Google+. This time we are roc...

I've just ? finally ? finished reading Simon Reynold's dense "Rip it Up andStart Again": a history of post-punk music from 1978-1984.I often think of music journalism in the terms that Zappa famously phrased as(roughly) "pe...

As you may already seen, I moved my blog from dkukawka.blogspot.com to a new address. You reach the blog now on blog.bisect.de . The old address should still work but you may want to adopt your bookmarks or RSS/Atom feeds. I also merged my blog ...

After fetching all the details about TV Shows from thetvdb.com I went back to my favorite way of browsing things: KIO slaves. So without further ado let me introduce the tvshow:/ KIO slave:So the root folder lists all TV Series. As you can see the pr...

What with two kids, a new house, and LiberWriter getting some good traction, I've been looking around for things to give to a good home so as to have less stuff to deal with. So, on the auction block goes BikeChatter.com : https://flippa.com/2...

FOSDEM is over. Was fun. Nobody booed too much during mykeynote. I am not puttingup my slides, since they're useless without the actual talk. However,I've put up the text I prepared for the talk, which is approximatelywhat I actually talk...

ZDNet has an insightful article by Robin Harris predicting the demise of RAID-6 due to the probability of read errors . Basically as drives get larger the probability of hitting a read error during reconstruction increases and therefore you need t...

dpkg was uploaded to experimental a few times lately, let?s sum itup quickly:It started with myNMUon 2012-01-31, since I hadn?t received any reasons not to upload(except ?NACK?, which doesn?t count as such in my book).It gotreverteda few minutes af...

I Shall Wear Midnight is the 38th Discworld novel and the fourth followingthe story of Tiffany Aching, young witch of the Chalk.Reading modern Pratchett, I'm sadly, acutely (and morbidly) aware that, as hesuccumbs to Alzheimer's disease, ...

A very useful little book from various developers and others: things they wish they'd known before starting out. A very sensible contribution from Debian's own Evan Prodromou amongst other names I knew and recognised and some interesting fo...

One of the things I would like to have working well in Plasma NM is DSL support. Unfortunatelly, I do not have easy access to any DSL provider so I cannot test the current support for DSL in Plasma NM. I do not even know if the support really works. ...

For the past few years the anti-spam system I run has been based on a simplified version of something I previously ran commercially.Although the code is similar in intent there were both explicit feature removals, and simplifications made.Last mo...

Since the Lenny version ofDebian Edu / Skolelinux, afeature to save power have been included. It is as simple as it ispractical: Shut down unused clients at night, and turn them on againin the morning. This is done using theshutdown-at-night Debi...

RainFriday was something of a rare day for February in Kansas. Starting at about 2AM, the wind picked up, blowing so hard that our windows rattled. That part isn?t so rare. Then the cold rain started, dropping almost 2.5? throughout the day.As I...

I received an email from a service I signed up for a long time ago (but don'tuse anymore). Seemingly it was a newsletter, but this was the main part ofthe text:Quite recently it makes it hard to do our job, when we sufferfrom massive aircraft...

Hello everybody!Dark picture with Ângela, me, Mara and Francisco We realized the RP of KDE 4.8 on January 27 in Teresina/Brazil! It was a night of pizza, beer and KDE. And look what we did:...

Hello all KDE and Words fans Sorry for being out of touch in recent times….i know i was not able to blog much…but the waits finally over!!I have modified the Statistics Docker in Calligra Words so that the UI is now more user-customizabl...

Some days ago I decided to send an updated and reworked version of my kernel patch for the smsc95xx kernel module - to get a persistent MAC address via the kernel cmdline from u-boot - to the linux kernel mailing list. I should have known better and ...

In playing with some tools I?ve run into at $work, I?ve tried loading in some Ubuntu datasets in some fun and interesting ways.Today, I?ve chosen to map all Ubuntu Members with a public lat/lon, sized by Karma.The sizes relate to if the Karma is ...

Fresh from the oven, monthly report of what I've been workingon as DPL during January 2012.Dear Developers,here is another monthly report of what happened in DPL-land, thistime for January 2012. There's quite a bit to report about ---includ...

I have been passionate about Free Software for a long time now. My contributions have always revolved around helping people make amazing things happen and realize what they are really capable of. I’ve shown many people that small niche that jus...

I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up andpublish the third beta version ofDebian Edu / Skolelinux basedon Squeeze. If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server without of the box PXE configuration for running diskles...

Quick howto for everyone having Asus UX31e aka Zenbook and wants the most stable vanilla kernel with long-time battery life and working touchpad made by Sentelic.This should work for every Debian based distro, but has been tested only on the late...

After LCA there was a discussion about possible locations for future conferences, most of the messages in the discussion were jokes or suggestions that don?t seriously apply to LCA. So I?ll add my suggestion for conferences other than LCA.I?ve pr...

Kannada compeltes level 1 for the first timeAsturian, Bosnian complete level 1Indonesian completes level 2Progress for Dzongkha in level 2Progress for Indonesian and Turkish in level 1Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):32 languages 100%: ar ...

(This is part 2 of the PyQt+WebKit experiments series)In Part 1 I described how to embed WebKit in a PyQt application and how to expose PyQt objects in WebKit and manipulate them with JavaScript.Even if you are a great JavaScript master, you can̵...

I ordered a new keyboard thin week, and today it finally arrived. But even though I’m a firm believer it free software, I bought the Natural Ergonomic 4000, made by Microsoft. It is about half the price of any comparable Logitech product availa...

Every once in a while I add another piece of query optimization code to the Nepomuk Query API. This time it was a direct result of my earlier TV Show handling. I simply thought that a query like “downton season=2 episode=2” takes too long...

It happened in São Carlos, on January 27th, the KDE 4.8 Release Party – the second time in this city.It was time to meet friends, drink some beers, talk about KDE, the life, the universe and everything, and of course, drink more beer. This...

The alpha release for our development version, codenamed Precise, is available for download. Early testers can try it to provide feedback and bug reports. This is the first alpha for Kubuntu in the Precise series but the second from the Ubuntu fami...

So I see there is yet one more person babbling on about how Google is killing free software. This is tiresome.I fully support vigilance in our FOSS efforts. However, it strikes me as odd that so many take such a narrow view. FOSS is suppo...

I'm going to attempt to answer as many questions about the Spark tablet as possible here. The questions I'll be answering are ones found in comments in my blog, on discussion sites around the Internet and that came in by email or irc. Let the fun beg...

Thanks to Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun (of column text selection GSoC fame) we can now search for words that have hyphens to split them between lines.This is a new feature so it'll be only available with KDE 4.9.0

This article is contributed by Kamila Sou?kovaIntroductionAs the btrfs wiki says: ?Btrfs is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.? Although ...

Apache News Online IS Now Available On Google+ As Verified AccountHello, the readers of the Apache News Online.I am an editor of the Apache News Online (http://www.apachenews.org/) , Tetsuya Kitahata -- Apache News Online IS Now Available At Google+ ...

Thursday 2012-02-02 we will update the SSL certificates for all openSUSE hosts located Nuremberg (see detailed list below). The fingerprint of the new certificate is:Signed with security@suse.de key:pub 2048R/3D25D3D9 1999-03-06uid ...

As Benjaman Brunner announced yesterday, openSUSE 11.3 has reached end of life. As a quick refresher, openSUSE releases new versions every 8 months, and each version has a life cycle of 18 months. As 11.3 was released in July of 2010, the tim...

End of January the US Congress will vote to pass two laws, the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA) and the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). If these laws pass they would enable copyright holders to get court orders against websites accuse...

The SAN array of the backend server server lost 3 hard disks over the weekend.That means the array with the built RPMs was broken. We checked and replaced a lot of files from backups – but since not all binary parts of the projects are in backu...

We all hope you had a good start in the new year. I’d say People of openSUSE had. Today we have the chance to interview SUSE’s Freederic Crozat, who’s responsible for systemd in openSUSE.So, enjoy! ;-)Nickname:fcrozatHomepage: http:...

After the openSUSE 2011 Conference, we run a survey to gather feedback so that we can improve for the next conference. The overall feedback was very positive. Thanks a lot to the 134 people that participated in the survey!Here’s a summary of th...

We wish all developers, maintainers, users and friends a Happy New Year. Let us make 2012 even better…

Announcement by Jigish GohilopenSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes loaded with everything that students, parents, teachers and system admins of edu...