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2.1
Although I missed the birth of my son, I managed to be here for the birth of my daughter.
some things
Well I went and ported kfile_torrent to be a Strigi analyzer so that the .torrent info metadata is available in KDE 4 now. Unfortunately although KFileMetaInfo has apparently been ported to use Strigi no metadata shows up for me in Dolphin. Maybe it will when I enable Nepomuk perhaps, kind of unfortunate that a feature more or less from KDE 2 is still unavailable though :-/
Documentation KIOSlaves
KDE has long had a nice collection of useful kioslaves for viewing installed documentation, including viewers for manpages and info pages (used by GNU software).
CMake prefix path
I remembered reading the discussion on kde-buildsystem about CMake 2.6’s CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable. I just forgot to add it to kdesvn-build.
Yay, it’s been so long since an uninformed C++ rant.
You may start by reading The Tailor, off of Planet GNOME.
More programming tips
In the spirit of my series of programming tips articles I thought I would go ahead and throw out some more:
kdesvn-build 1.8
.desktop file security
As most of you may have seen by now, foobar had made a post 10 days ago called “How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps.” That blog post was later covered on Slashdot and LWN, and describes the lack of security around .desktop launcher files. These .desktop files do lots of things, but one of their most prominent uses is in program launching.
Nuclear subs collide
I guess Slashdot has finally picked up on the collision between a British and French SSBN. Since submarining is my Real Job ™ I figured I’d try to disspell some of the inaccuracies I saw among the Slashdot comments.