Duncan Mac-Vicar P.

After lot of signed petitions. Trying lot of hacks which never worked. Even tried to implement my own imap server to gdata proxy (which was able to get the labels and mail headers), today, Google has made the dream of million of people true.

Since yesterday, GMail supports IMAP access. Yes, I tried it, and it works!.

Surprised to find out that Chris is writing Taskjuggler3 from scratch, and this time, in Ruby:

TaskJuggler 3.x is a from-scratch rewrite of TaskJuggler. It’s currently in its infancy and only supports a minimum feature set. It is not intended for users yet. Please join our developer forum if you are interested in contributing. In contrast to the 2.x version TaskJuggler 3.x is written in Ruby.

There is a git repository in

http://www.taskjuggler.org/git-repos/taskjuggler3.git

in case you want to give it a look.

Mientras que en Chile, 4 historiadores critican el sesgo de las modificaciones al curriculum de Ciencias Sociales que tienen que ver con la historia reciente, pasando propaganda de la Concertación por debajo, en España la discusión es en torno a la asignatura Educación para la Ciudadanía, sobre la cual la extrema derecha española ha publicado una serie extractos. Las críticas no tienen sentido en algunos casos, pero en otros, el texto no es para la risa, y muestra también sesgos políticos y propaganda.

Es una pena que los intentos de modernizar la educación, terminen en propaganda política de izquierda.

(día sin smog claro)

vista desde el cerro San Critóbal hacia el oriente.

providencia.

sur-oriente.

plaza italia, centro y parque forestal

santiago centro

vista desde el cerro hacia el norte de santiago

Fuente Fotografías: David Assael.

(Las imágenes se pueden descargar considerando la siguiente licencia de Creative Commons de atribución no comercial)

One:

I’m using it, and yes, its fixed. It’s cached, and at each package manager startup it checks the cache versus the online version, and even if it needs update the cache update is an order of magnitude faster than a normal startup of the package manager used to be.

It’s quite useable now; time from clicking “software manager” to a usable interface is similar to using SMART.

Speed s ems to be one of the primary focuses of this release; from the package manager to the boot sequence.

Two:

I’ve just installed a new OpenSUSE. All these little bugs from previous releases are gone. Yast software installer finally works with a good speed. Desktop responsiveness is amazing - KDE 3.7 works faster than GUI of Windows 2000. The default green artwork is very nice and gives a distinct feeling to this distro. Hardware detection is very good. My graphic card - nvidia 7600 and audio card - Creative Audigy 2 were working out of the box. Even installation of ADSL modem was a breeze - it is a cheap Sagem modem, used by the all telcos controlled by France Telecom, and most linux distros has problems with it.

What is especially important to people in countries with stupid law (read USA) - OpenSUSE gives you mp3 playback out of box, due to legal fluendo gstreamer plugins. In addition, there are provided Flash 9, newest Java runtimes, RealPlayer and seamless Wi-Fi support.

In the last year I’ve tried quite a few linux distros - Fedora, Ubuntu, Sabayon, Mint, Mandriva… nothing even come close to the OpenSUSE. Quality of Deutsch engineering.

Another:

I installed it last night……..it’s beautiful. Definitely worth checking out :).

More!:

YaST was borked for 10.1 and 10.2. It made sense to try and use an alternative package manager.

As 10.2 matured, YaST started to work properly, but was slow.

In 10.3, YaST is quite speedy, very capable, and runs very solidly. Plus, the one-click-install thing works really well.

YaST wants to know about its community and users. Help us answering this survey.

One Click Install

Help us to market one click install. Go to your software vendor and ask them to provide one-click-install links for their product, together with a install repository. They will, answer “we have no idea how to do that”, then you point them to this tutorial.

Qt

From Aaron’s blog:

Matthias Ettrich is up now doing the Qt platform directions talk, speaking about where Qt is goingin 4.4 and 4.5. He covered:

One of the topics was:

WebKit: merging web technologies and desktop applications. Things like accessing signals/slots from javascript or moving things around in the DOM from C++

Also:

There are apparently plans for at least a 4.7 and there are no current plans for Qt5. If a Qt5 were to happen, it wouldn’t be before 2011/2012 and it would not be a major API design break with Qt4 as Qt4 was to Qt3. However, they feel that Qt4 has what is needed for years of innovation to come and so there are no plans at all for a Qt5 right now.

openSUSE 10.3

From Martin Schlander’s blog:

After listening to those same complaints for a long period of time, it’s amazing that they are all obsoleted in one single release cycle.

• Cleaned up my bug list. Closed 10.2 bugs fixed in 10.3 that will not be released as online updates and other ones.

Package Kit

Richard Hughes calls for a Qt based package manager for PackageKit.

I would love to see a QT-based package manager and update icon using the PackageKit API. I’m quite prepared to make changes the the libpackagekit source if this is needed, I know I use a lot of gobject’isms. I can provide a private git server and add as much documentation as you guys need, I just need someone to take lead of such a project. Email the mailing list if you are interested. Thanks.

You can see documentation here and available backends here.

Kopete

Matt Rogers calls for more Kopete developers.

My build service packages

Upgraded and fixed builds in most packages from the security:privacy repository project in the openSUSE build service, including tor, torK, vidalia and truecrypt. torK still does not build on x86.