So yesterday the release version of KDE 4.1 came out and I’m up and running with it. Very nice!
It’s also fixed at least two of the problems I had with the release candidate, listed below, which is nice!
It is eminently possible that the second problem was just me dragging it to the wrong place though.. 🙂
Phoronix have the details on people getting ASUS’s “instant-on” SplashTop Linux (usually run from the motherboard or, in the ‘Lite’ version, from an NTFS (yuck) partition on the hard disk) going on other hardware, such as booting off a USB stick.
VPAC is looking for someone to join the systems team here to work on grid computing, including things like Shibboleth, SSL certificates, Globus and the like.
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David Thomas at La Trobe University here in Melbourne has been using Google Earth to do archaeological research in Afghanistan. An excellent idea given the inaccessibility at the moment, and something that could also be useful in other areas like Iraq.
OK, so it was a torpedo test on a decomissioned ship in an exercise near Hawaii, but it’s a great headline.. 🙂
Just had to figure out how to change the email address for a subscriber to a Mailman mailing list, and couldn’t find anything obvious saying it so having figured it out I thought I’d blog it for future reference.
It’s actually pretty easy, and fairly obvious once you know how:
clone_member -n -r user@old.address.com user@new.address.org
In other words, for all the mailman lists on this system go through and clone the old, non-working address user@old.address.com as user@new.address.org and then the -r option tells it to remove the old address.
The -n option is there to stop you shooting yourself in the foot and tells it to only tell you what it would do without actually doing it, so you’ll need to remove that to get it to actually take the action.
Caveat – as the manual page says:
Note that this operation is fairly trusting of the user who runs it — it does no verification to the new address, it does not send out a welcome message, etc.
Sunday night I decided I’d try and migrate myself fully to the new version of KDE, KDE 4 (currently at 4.1 RC1 in KUbuntu). There aren’t really any transition/migration tools to help at present, so hopefully these notes will help others trying to be daring.
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Dante DÃaz has a nice little recipe for getting OpenMOKO running in qemu. Works nicely for me on a 64-bit system but I’ve now got a new problem – I don’t know how to drive OpenMOKO and none of the buttons seem to do anything. 🙂
[Groklaw] received a request from Tom Longley, Project Manager for Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS), a Geneva-based nonprofit. They’re looking for someone to help them reengineer their database software, WinEvsys, to be released under a Free Software license. That page has tons of info, including a fact sheet and a demo and the software for download. This software is used internationally by a lot of human rights organizations to keep track of human rights abuses, of which there seems to be a never-ending supply.
There is more information on the HURIDOCS website.
Just spreading the word..