Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Its not that I'm a newbie, but sometimes I just feel that way. People start and talk in acronyms on IRC, and then it comes out that these acronyms stand for apparently famous people in the Free Software world I should know...
Lets start with an easy one: rms.
Yeah, that was ...
Posted in Coding, Free Software, Life | No Comments »
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
guitone 0.8 has been released today. Major improvements happened under the hood, the outstanding changes are:
guitone is now licensed under GNU GPL Version 3 or later. Please note that you're now only allowed to legally distribute binaries which you've built with Qt 4.3.4 or later, since earlier versions ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Via the NoOOXML mailing list:
When one thinks of international human rights, one thinks of The Hague
- home of the International Court of Justice and the International
Criminal Court, and the situs of an increasing number of Tribunals
chartered to redress the assaults on human dignity that inexcusably
continue to plague this planet. ...
Posted in OOXML, Standards | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Starting with Qt 4.4 which was released a few days ago Qt now honors the
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
setting in the Info.plist file of the application bundle. This is particularily useful to create bundled application which should not pop up in the global dock or menu, f.e. daemons which run in the background or ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
As promised a few days ago I'm writing a few words on the Monotone Summit which took place in Wuppertal from 28th of April to 4th of May 2008. I could only attend for five days because my train left already on early saturday morning, and I almost managed to ...
Posted in Life, guitone, monotone | 4 Comments »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
If you like to have a laugh today, read this. Found via Rob Weir's blog.
The Monotone Summit goes on and its quite fun to meet and work with all the people I just know from IRC or the mailing list. I mostly worked on automation stuff so far and improved ...
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