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Akademy night

I just wanted to say hi to everyone going to Akademy. I once again cannot go this year but I figured to compensate I’d regale you with a story from my Officer Candidate School days.

Perl fun

So in the course of developing the next code feature I plan to add to kdesvn-build (nothing major, just adding a persistent data store) I came across what I consider an oddity:

Styes suck

So for the past couple of days I’ve noticed a swelling in my right eyelid. I figured it was merely a pimple but I woke up this morning and it had grown quite a bit.

Go me

So I just returned from a trip to Washington, D.C.

kdesvn-build 1.6.1 had some issues in the sample configuration regarding the build order of phonon and kdesupport so I’ve taken that fix and a few others and have released kdesvn-build 1.6.2. It’s also the first kdesvn-build that I’ve digitally signed. I’ve had a GPG key for awhile now but I’ve not put the effort into signing the code because it didn’t seem necessary. Someday I’ll actually get to go to Akademy and thereby get my key signed but until then at least there’s a bit more trust you can associate with the code.

Gamers today

I was reading news on some video gaming sites today, and these sites typically have places for their readers to leave comments.

kdesvn-build 1.6.1

kdesvn-build 1.6.1 has been released. It’s basically a compilation of bugfixes but it also makes it easier to build Phonon 4.2 instead of Qt’s or kdesupport’s Phonon as well.

It’s the end of the world as we know it?

On Slashdot (don’t run!), there is an article about whether or not a particle accelerator being built called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could actually generate particles that “might destroy the world”.

Improved crossfadiness

So I’ve made a few more changes to the crossfading code in JuK. This should hopefully fix crossfading issues completely for people. However, life is weird sometimes. phonon-gst went from being completely unusable (it would crash with JuK) to being the best option right now (perfect crossfading, at least here). phonon-xine, due to the way crossfading is now implemented sounds slightly crackly sometimes while playing music back. Even with the new crossfading routine, incoming music starts out at a high volume before fading in, although it does sound smoother.

Hey, check it out

Apparently someone has decided that the best use of their advertising money would be to purchase ads on the term “KDE”. Ads that have nothing to do with KDE, but everything to do with programming with Gtk/WebKit…