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Month: November 2010

KDE Memory game and MeeGo conference

Hi!
As some of you know already, last week I was in Dublin trying to understand what MeeGo means (I got some conclusions, maybe some day I’ll share them). More importantly though, I also met a bunch of KDE hackers and we decided to start to work on some project together. I wanted to work on a KDE Memory game for a while and there I found some time to work on it, here there’s a demonstration about what we can do.

video source: http://proli.net/meu/los_otros/kmemory-presentation.ogv

If you’re interested on it and want to help get it in shape for the next KDE (now 4.7) release, here’s a list of what you can do:
– Think of a good name (yes, kmemory sounds fishy)
– Create a theme
– Create an icon
– Give ideas on how can we improve the theme specification (see kde.theme example in the git repository)
– Give ideas on what UI do we want (not how can it be improved, but what we want, it’s a little different).
– Just try it and enjoy yourself 😀 (no, that doesn’t mean an X theme ¬¬)

You can find the project here: http://gitweb.kde.org/scratch/apol/kmemory.git

Cheers!

Hidden WiFI switches

So yesterday I got a Lenovo IdeaPad S10, it was really nice, the only bad thing was that it didn’t have WiFI.

I (and Albert, thank you 🙂 tried everything I found. echo’ing > /sys files, rfkill tool, looking for hidden buttons, nothing seemed to fix it. -.-

Just in case anybody comes across this one again, just install Windows, install Lenovo Power Management drivers, press Fn+F5 and press On on the WiFI and Bluetooth, then you can come back to the freedom :P.

It’s too bad that this stuff keeps happening…

Twitter is scary

Since we wanted to add support to some Twitter satellite services in Kamoso I decided I would sign up in this popular service (never been in Twitter until today).

I got surprised when I found out that both my @kde.org and @gmail.com accounts were already taken. I told the service that I forgot my password and they let me reset it on both. That helped me see that I was subscribed to an African religious healing half-god on both accounts.

It’s scary to see how a security bug in such a huge web service stole my identity on such a little part of the world. I wonder what could have happened if the hijacker wanted to do something actually serious…

-1 for Twitter.

Kamoso in git.kde.org

Hi,
Today (yesterday already) has been an intense day for Kamoso, I met with Alex and we rearranged our ideas regarding the project, more information will come.

Another big step on the project and the reason for this post is that we’re moving away from gitorious in favor of git.kde.org.
From now on, if you want to give it a try, just run:
git clone git@git.kde.org:kamoso as described in here.

Thanks to the KDE Sysadmin team and long life to Kamoso! 🙂

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