Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Whoever digged a little deeper into Qt's item views and models in the past knows that they're quite tricky beasts sometimes. Two problems where driving me nuts recently:
How can I auto-expand the root node of a QTreeView whenever the view is resetted?
How can I restore the expansion / root state ...
Posted in Coding, Qt | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
I was pointed yesterday to a page from the Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe short) which describes the changes between the original and current draft for the "European Interoperatibility Framework" EIF - to quote the conclusion:
[...] we can only conclude that the European Commission is giving strong preference to the ...
Posted in Free Software, Standards | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Seriously, fuck it. Not only for it long-standing inconsistencies in the "user API", no, I've rarely seen a piece of source code crap with such a low comment / code ratio.
What I'm trying to do? Debugging SoapClient from ext/soap and figure out why it ignores my typemap. Yes, there is ...
Posted in Coding, Rants | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Auf Spiegel online ist heute ein sehr lesenswerter Artikel über die Hintergründe des Rückzugs von Peter Sawicki - einem international renommierten Mediziner - als Leiter des Instituts für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG) erschienen.
Dieses Institut wurde mit seinen mittlerweile über 100 Mitarbeitern erst 2004 von der rot-grünen Bundesregierung mit ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
The monotone team is proud to announce the release 0.47 of our beloved version control system! This release features many bugfixes, a new translation (Portuguese) and major performance improvements for projects with larger trees. A complete list of changes can be found in NEWS.
You can grab it at the usual ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Just in case you wonder why a simple sudo zypper install sometimes loads dozens or more unneeded, but possibly related packages, its not a bug, its a feature!
While Debian by default only hints you to these additional packages during the install phase, openSUSE installs them all by default. Try it ...
Posted in Free Software, openSUSE, Rants | 2 Comments »
