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November, 2008

Madports

Submitted by illogic-al on Fri, 11/28/2008 - 17:20

Since Wednesday, we've had KDE 4.1.3 in the macports ports system. This means that if you do something like port install amarok or port install ktorrent (yes those two are actually available) they will automagically be installed for you, with all the dependencies taken care of.

Taming the Leopard

Submitted by illogic-al on Fri, 11/28/2008 - 11:41

Being only one post away from breaking my "most posts in a month record" and somewhat making up for the dearth is posting last month, I present to you "Taming the Tiger!". Er, Leopard that is.

Camping Out

Submitted by illogic-al on Fri, 11/28/2008 - 07:51

This January, God willing and KDE E.V. paying, I'll be in Jamaica for the 1st (hopefully) annual Camp KDE conference. Camp KDE spun out of the KDE 4.0 release event which took place in Mountain View, Cali at Google's place. Legend has it the organizers of the event realized that there were a lot of people who weren't going to the akademies in Europe because they a) couldn't afford it b) had other engangements at that time. I can relate to both points as I was always either in school whenever they had akademy (scheduled too close to end of semester/exam season) or couldn't afford to go.

And now, for something completely different

Submitted by illogic-al on Sun, 11/23/2008 - 16:47

Nepomuk actually does work on os x, it just doesn't start automatically. I better file a bug to get this started automatically. Had to run /Applications/KDE4/nepomukservicestub.app/Contents/MacOS/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage myself. It was also nice enough to segfault after I launched dolphin so I could get my pics. I'd post them but I'm lazy.

The internet is cool. Thanks Daniel.

I'm a bundling fool too

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 05:31

To bundle or not to bundle. My everlovin' question.
Amarok 2 RC1 will be released soon and we here on the mac team have been working at near break neck speed to bring our users the best possible all around experience. This starts from the moment the installer is downloaded, to the second the play button is press, to the instant the menus are navigated. We tried to get a lot of things right. We've largely failed, but as I've said before that's KDE's fault :-) There's a lot to be said that this works at all however, so kudos to all involved.

Did you know?

Submitted by illogic-al on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 14:33

For your clicking pleasure: Amarok 2 Beta

To Do (Help Welcomes)

Submitted by illogic-al on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:07

* Compile a universal mysql package with the embedded library included. This fails in the examples directory on OS X.
* Generate separate ppc and intel packages for mysql and Amarok 2 if since the above doesn't work out. This way we get a working collection for the A2 binary release. [check!]

* Add the KDE4 portfiles to the macports repo, along with portfiles for those dependencies available on OS X. [check!]

* Finish the horrible excuse for a packaging tutorial currently on techbase.

Hi qual tube vids

Submitted by illogic-al on Sun, 11/16/2008 - 20:35

From kottke: http://www.kottke.org/08/11/high-quality-youtube-video-hack
Add &fmt=18 to the end of the url.

For Kieran: The Home Made Pan Cakes recipe :-)

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 11/15/2008 - 12:13

Are you locked out of your home waiting for help to arrive?
Are you drunk and need that little pick-me-up to keep you going lucidly through the night?
Have you guessed the answer to a question involving UTC time?
Well have we got something for you!

Ingredients
Organic WHOLE Milk (Premium Selection)
3 eggs (Cage free fowl only folks)
I can't believe it's not butter spray (original)
Flavoring of choice (i prefer Coconut but Orange/Lime is good too)

Introducing...

Submitted by illogic-al on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 21:22

The shitbox: http://www.thebrowncorporation.com/ . Those crazy brits. They've done it again.