July, 2008

kde 4.1 release candidate 1 testing.

i had a bunch of other things to do today, but instead i sat around and decided to play with kde 4. the guys over at kdemod have made this pretty easy for arch linux users; after adding their custom repositories you can download and install the latest and greatest kde 4 via one command. they've actually been up to this for a while, but the last time i checked they didn't have up-to-date x86_64 packages, and, well, now they do.

this is what i'm talking about. review is to follow.

moving things around a bit.

doing a bit of shuffling around here on the site. new theme, new layout, and definitely some freshening up going on with blocks and menus, so bear with us while we move through the changes.

sync your life: putting funambol to work.

update: cleaned up formatting and updated push sync information.

i recently acquired an htc touch through bell mobility. see, it's not enough for me to have a phone... i need to have all of my latest email (across three imap servers), appointments (sync'd with google calendar of course), contacts (also sync'd with google) and tasks accessible in my back pocket. with bell mobility's unlimited data plan, the potential was there, but as a linux user i am (as with the rest of us) left out in the cold when it comes to sync support.

so, i did things my way.

congrats firefox

Congrats to the open-source world and mozilla devs. 8 million downloads in 23 hours. GG to crappy servers going down for the first hour. To date there has nearly been 30mil ff3 downloads.

60 came from Somalia. I figure it went something like this: "Hold on man, don't pick up the phone yet! I'm 97% done getting ff3." "Dood we are in the &#$3ing desert, what good is a browser?."