physos.org

So the move is finally going on apparently. I was told my commit was the last in CVS. After 8 years KDE is moving to a new Revision Control System. A lot happened in this time. One thing stayed the same though. The Maintainer. As far as I know, Stephan Kulow is the KDE CVS maintainer from the very beginning. ( for some history ) Stephan, Ossi and some others did a huge amount of boring, repetitive work of trial and error over the last weeks to prepare the 8 years of KDE history for coming with us to the new home. I think I speak for all former, current and future KDE RCS system users when I say:

THANK YOU

So what was the very last commit to KDE CVS you ask? The best I can think of. An update to the worldwide.kde.org KDE Contributor Map. The marking of a milestone in KDE history is the symbol of the community KDE represents.

EOD (End of Drama)

physos.org reflects the nice weather outside today.

Springtime Gallery

Since my progress on the Feature Guide is not as fast as wanted, I decided to force me to update.

I will publish one part a day over the next week. Announced here in my blog when it is up. (thanks tackat for assuring this is not a stupid idea ;)

My current problems are IE compliance (IE can not download embedded FTP links) and lots of missing screenshots and videos. I need text for some parts, too. I already had much help with the Feature Guide and it is for the people helping with it, I want to finish this ASAP.

Since ktown will have a scheduled downtime on Monday, I will host the first parts on my server and move everything to ktown once it is up again.

Update : What happens 5 minutes after posting about good weather.

I had a quick look at the numbers in my local and server spam folders.

• 1502 spam mails in my local spam folder in one month
• 2193 spam mails in my server spam folder in one month

This means:

• 3695 spam mails to one person in 30 days.
• 123 spam mails a day to one single person.
• 5 spam mails an hour.

Seems I have to copy my bayesian database to the server and start bayesian scanning there. 1502 messages @ 10kb each means 15MB of senseless download per month. I can remember when this was 3/4 of my computers entire harddrive.

I am sure there are many people receiving more spam, but this is dumb on so many levels. :(

Oh, 122 viruses found BTW.

worldwide.kde.org shows now over the 300 contributors. grin

It really makes me feel warm inside to see all those KDE contributors, whose names I read over the years, to show up on this map.

I got many hints and links to zoomable solutions and I am looking into them. Stay tuned for a “flashy” contributor map.

So many things to write about and so little time to actually write things down.

During my cleaning crusade I found many things I wanted to do for a long time. And some urgent things which needed my attention today. Work and private.

I found the little receipt I needed to complain about my Jack Wolfskin shoes. Approximately a year old (ok, 10 days short of a year) they are opening on all kind of places. Not exactly what I expected from a Wolfskin. Ok, I wear them almost daily, but nevertheless those were most likely my last Wolfskin. Well, 2 weeks and I know if they feel responsible and reimburse me. Never had that with Nothern Face and Salomon.

I bought UNIX in a Nutshell (SystemV Edition) to fresh up my UNIX knowledge for a course. Seems I did not forget all the differences to Linux.

Some days ago I got an account on the KDE Doc Team Kolab server. It was a painless process to get connected using the groupwarewizard and works nicely. Nice work Kolab Team. Thanks to Matt and Lauri for running this.

There are more things happening I really like, which I have to write about later. To be honest I am exited I am able to make things happen again. I am not up to the speed I had many years ago, but one step after the other.

I started using Markdown. Like it so far.