Tag Archives: KDE

My shiny new KDE SVN account

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

I also made my first commit with it today.

That makes me cool now, right?

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Glovebox Widgets

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Glovebox is still rolling around on my laptop. I managed to sit down today after a few weeks of on-and-off thinking of how to best solve my current problem: how to do widgets.

One idea was to hack the KDE …

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Happy Birthday, Fedora!

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Today marks the fedora project’s 5th year of existence! Hooray!

I myself started using Fedora back when it was “Fedora Core”, just after FC3 came out. I had converted my windows 98 “server” machine (back then called Earth) to the …

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The State of Glovebox

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

First, I’ll show off the logo for Glovebox:

Second, Glovebox development has stalled a little bit over the last few weeks due to college starting up again for me. So, I’ll just give a quick overview over whats changed since …

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KDE4 is A-OK

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Critics everywhere are saying it, KDE4.1 rocks.

However, some aren’t. Some, like Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, are

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KDE4 > Gnome

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

Out of sheer whimsy, I booted up my Ubuntu laptop. Just to toy around with it. I was immediately disappointed with my Gnome desktop. It looked so…old. I appreciate all the work that the Ubuntu team put into making …

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Syncing your Palm Pilot over Bluetooth

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Torrie Fischer

I’ve been toying around with my Thinkpad X61′s bluetooth, and finally managed to get HotSync to work over bluetooth thanks to the helpful instructions at pilot-link.org. In KPilot, just set the device to net:any. The UI might complain about …

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Updated KDEBuild script

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Torrie Fischer

A good while ago I updated my kdebuild script to support the initial build setup of a new SVN repository copy. Now you can use the –init flag to run the first cmake && make from the source directories. …

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My Experience with Ubuntu

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Torrie Fischer

I’ve been pretty much a die-hard Fedora user since back when Fedora was Fedora Core and the latest version was FC3. A while ago (Septemberish) I acquired a brand new Dell Vostro 1000 at no cost, which came with …

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AmaKode 1.2

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Torrie Fischer

For a long time, I used transKode as my Amarok transcoding script. I’m not sure why but as of last week that script broke and transcoded all my oggs to silent MP3s. They still had the proper length and …

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