Could FLEXlm be one of the world’s worst-designed programs? They’ve just rechristened it FLEXnet Publisher, and I can only think it’s to try to get away from existing FLEXlm stigmas. It’s so bad that according to a VMware engineer I spoke to on the phone a few months ago, in the next release of ESX [...]
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A long-requested feature has been a way to decouple Amarok’s collection scanning from its GUI. There are various use-cases for this. For one, it can actually help us with debugging, by allowing us to control the inputs into the scan parser. For another, many people have all of their music stored on a single machine, [...]
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After a month’s delay, they’re done. In the interim (after the delays mentioned in my last post on this topic), my poor, underpowered desktop machine has endured transcode after transcode (from the original source material) and my Internet connection upload after upload as I tried to figure out just why Blip.tv wouldn’t work with X [...]
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Just a note to make people aware that #kde-soc exists. There’s basically no activity in there right now, which is rather expected, but as SoC-related activities pick up steam so will the channel.
Continue Reading →Update: These packages are for testing only! Things that rely on the default native backend WILL break. If you want a build of Qt 4.5 RC1 for Intrepid without -graphicssystem raster, try pollycoke’s PPA. The title says it all. They’re available from my PPA. Enjoy!
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Hello there. I have good news and bad news regarding the Camp KDE videos. The Bad News I’ve run into a series of setbacks regarding getting them prepared for posting. The first was that the Monday I got back from Jamaica, I had the following schedule at work: 9:15 AM: Check email 9:16 AM: "My [...]
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I’m working on putting together the Camp KDE 2009 videos using the excellent Kdenlive, a non-linear video editor whose name is, well, an acronym for KDE Non LInear Video Editor. More on Kdenlive in a later blog post from me and/or Wade, but trust me — with the latest versions it’s much more stable, and [...]
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Poisonous people. They exist everywhere, sucking the light and good out of things and repurposing them for all sorts of nasty activities. Like the rest of KDE, and the rest of the software world (both free and non-free) in general, the Amarok team has taken its fair share of abuse over the years. Normally I [...]
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There has been a lot of chatter lately regarding Amarok’s switch to MySQL as its only SQL backend. A decent amount is FUD — either by people simply pushing back against change, or by people that simply don’t understand the decision. Some of it (particularly Adriaan’s blog post) has been insightful and interesting, but miss [...]
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I don’t blog often, but when I do it tends to be meaty. I won’t disappoint. I’ll be covering Amarok, Amarok history, and a possible future part of kdelibs. "We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Better than before. Better, stronger, faster." A little-known feature in Amarok 1, starting at about 1.4.3, was what [...]
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