Older blog entries for tronical (starting at number 6)

No entry the last two days. Was really busy with learning for the exam. Wrote it to today. It was though :-/

Jumped into relaxing KDE hacking after it ;-) Fixed some konq/e stuff (gui selection, compilation fixes) and integrated an experimental preferences dialog, which a nice person sent me. Thanks!

Won't have much time for hacking in the next time though. Decided to take a break for two days (or maybe it's going to be three ;-) and then have to start learning for the next exam. Ugh.

Had some nice refreshing conversations on irc. It's interesting to see how irc becomes more and more a partial replacement for email. Of course not everywhere, but on the other hand I quite often see myself waiting for someone on irc instead of writing him/her a mail, for a specific question/problem :-)

Talked with Werner on IRC about the good old times of DOS, Turbo Assembler and related hackings. Brought me to the point that I digged out my old 400mb ide hdd and plugged it in. Gosh, I was about to cry when I browsed through all my old stuff. All the good old Assembler, Pascal and C source I hacked before I got into unix. On the one hand it was a warm feeling to see it, on the other hand I feel worried that all of it (including the knowledge bound to it) is worth nothing today :-( . Oh well.

Still it was a lot of fun to talk with Werner about it, he also did quite some assembler back then and we exchanged code and talked a lot about it. Wish one day in the future we could hack a smallish intro on the ipaq or something ;-)

I also found a bunch of old scene MODs, S3Ms and XMs, I once collected. Listening to them right now. Wonderful stuff! (Lizardking, et al)

Got back into reality later with fixing some Konqueror bugs :-) (in particular autosaving of settings when toggling the menubar visibility and status text handling of actions)

Also fixed a little khtml bug to make store.apple.com work in Konqueror. Thanks wca on #kde for reporting the bug.

The morning started kind of unexpected but good ;-) Originally was planning to get up early and head to University, for learning. Instead found myself cleaning up last night's kpresenter patch and hacked konq/e to make javascript support optional (--disable-javascript, to get a smaller binary) and integrated last night's ipv6 changes from kdelibs. (thanks Thiago for your work on ipv6 in KDE!)

Scheme stuff in University was boring, as usual. But I kind of start to like the pseudo OO we have to do. Still a hack, but nifty in some way ;-)

Spend some time in the Caldera office afterwards, trying to fix two PRs.

Saw 'Das Experiment' in the cinema tonight. Pretty good movie. Probably one of the best german ones. Makes you think.

Closing the day with some relaxing smooth jazz.

Fixed some minor konq/e bugs. Now it works fine with the unique-application mechanism of QPE.

Get more and more email from people asking about konq/e . Cool :)

Hacked KPresenter. Rewrote the image handling to utilize the new KoImage and KoImageCollection classes. Was quite some work, but it was fun. Hope I didn't break anything ;-) , although I didn't experience any problems, yet.

Feels good to hack some koffice stuff again.

Did some scheme hacking for university. Read today what we will have a bit more time for the upcoming exam than expected. Wohoo!

Arghl, I shouldn't stay up so long and hack KDE stuff. Need to really get more sleep ;-)

Didn't have much time for hacking, but used what I had left for hunting down the bug which made popupmenus disappear when clicking and slightly moving the cursor (or stick on the ipaq) a few pixels and then releasing. Sounds weird, but was very annoying and made the startmenu in QPE and the two popup menus in Konq/e unusable sometimes. But maybe it was just me :) . Well, patch for QPE sent (hope they approve it) and fixed in konq/e directly. Or maybe the real fix belongs into Qt?

Switched from HEAD to KDE_2_1_1_RELEASE tag for libs and base at home, for testing. I have a good feeling.

Had nice discussions about unix desktop, windows, IDEs (in particular C++ editors ;-) and other stuff with mhk, Rasmus, Matthias (welcome back from Norway :) and Schimmi in the Irish Pub.

Oh I love jffs2 and the fact that it gives a rw / . Thanks to the guy(s) who implemented it. It's so nice to update stuff without having to flash over the serial line. Combined with the fact that qpe and konq/e work fine with suspend I really enjoy the box and start to see a real usage in the future :) . Still need a 32x32 icon for konq/e tho, the current scaled one looks horrible ;-)

Matthias told me about nethack being fun on the box. Really have to try it ASAP :)

It all started pretty boring, had a hard time to get up and learning in the university was no fun.

David made tarballs for the upcoming 2.1.1 release, wohoo!

Also flashed jffs2 images and a new experimental bootloader onto the ipaq: finally deep-sleep and resume work! The guys who implemented that rock!! Amazing stuff!

Will see about replacing the existing system with qpe and konq/e (I want to play qpe solitaire again! :-) But d'oh!! There's no more vi in familiar v0.03! How is one supposed to edit files?? ;-) And vim doesn't x-compile right away. grmbl.

Also cvs up'ed QPE and saw that some brilliant artist added wonderful large icons! Awesome work! (I guess they're shaping up for CeBit :-)

That's about it, I couldn't hack anything myself today :-( (just comitted the khtml patch from last night) . Simply was too tired after learning.

Kind of closed the day with a Black Velvet and a tasty Pizza Hawai in the nearby Irish Pub, with friends from Caldera. That's how I like closing a day, it's just the right thing.