Home Alone

KDE Events Homepage - KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005 "aKademy"

Everyone is moving to Málaga and I stay at home, as well as at irc. So do I have to give support for everything to everyone? And what should I do if two burglars want to steal some code? And how shell I produce the spam for the lists?

A little boy like me (with a todo longer than his keyboard's kable) can only do one thing while nobody's here ..... taking over the project, start a war with FENSTERS (german for windows) and GNOMEs, force IBM to start the BLUE LINUX development and then disappear before the others are back.

Actually you can't stop me now, as you're all in Málaga, Spain and I'm in Wels, Austria :P

Hm, I also could start learning coding O.o .. no, a too long todo waits.

So when you're back there are hopefully super smart articles about konvi, kopete, ktorrent, kde4 and arts in the english wiki, a german up-to-date translation of the amaroK wiki, completely re-done screenshots in konvi's and amaroK's doc and a complete german translation of kopete and konvi.

Last but not least: bon voyage and have fun :)

amaroK 1.3

amaroK 1.3 (Airborne) has been released and because I love amaroK very much, I made the screenshot package at about 0:20 am ;)

amaroK 1.3 screenshots

It was a little problem to get the mail to osdir, as my mailserver is probably blocked :/ ... but GMAIL solved the poblem as you can see :D

Later that day (2am or so) I also published the statistics about the translations:
http://dev.bit-freaks.net/apachelogger/amaroK-1.3-i18n-stat.html
well, they aren't bad, but 20% complete translations is also not good :(

So there is a lot of work to do untill 1.3.1.
>=40% complete translations would make me very very very happy. BTW, wtf is language code 'xx'? Pr0nland? Probably not, that'd be 'xxx' :/

So, thanks a lot to
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
Rinse de Vries, Sander Koning, Tom Albers, Bram Schoenmakers (nl)
Matthieu Robin, Yannick Torres, Yann Verley (fr)
Thomas Reitelbach (de)
Carlo Maria Laorenza, Vincenzo Reale (it)
Cezary Morga, Michal Rudolf, Krzysztof Lichota, Łukasz Derkacz (pl)
Chusslove Illich, Slobodan Simic (sr)
Arnar Leosson (is)
Chusslove Illich, Slobodan Simic (sr@Latn)
for doing complete translations. You're true-blue HEROS! :)

From Viruses, Linux-Users and FENSTERSCHÄDEN

Coz it was a bit boring at work today, I visited kaspersky and asked how many known linux-viruses (including trojan horses and worms) there are...

753

yup, that's not much in comparision with the 11819 for windows .. but if we think about the ads "Linux - THE SECURE SITE", then it's A LOT

so I took a deeper look: the 753 viruses are not all depending on kernel bugs, a very big amount (I havn't counted them yet) uses security holes in software which is running on linux eg. apache, mysql, php (then aka known as LAMP)

and as always when I'm doing things which I shouldn't do at work, I asked google for some more information ("some more" is apachelogger for "about 3000 websites") and I got "some more" and also some usefull ;) --> http://www.coverity.com/news/nf_news_08_03_05_story_11.html

the kernel has currently less security problems than in december, damn nice thing, isn't it? well, they also found 23 unfixed bugs more but most are not influencing the security

so, are we secure? O.o

well, I think NO, one will never be secure .. so configure your iptable and install clamav + klamav and look for an adware search'n'destroy tool (as I don't know one .. suggestions are always welcome) and don't forget to buy a router with firewall (from cisco).
you also should use software which has very few security problems, such as KDE, and of course TRUST NOBODY

also a bad sign is that MS has opened a virues development center (aka research lab), so watch the number of viruses .. it will rise very fast ... again: TURST NOBODY

a 2nd thing about MS: opengl support in vista will have 50 % lower performance, due to the new 3d api. one can get full opengl but then aeroglass won't work (and as vista has a very short featurelist, the reasons to buy it are becoming less)

so change to linux! now! you get opengl and the possability to infect you with 735 viruses! and well, we (linux-users) are probably funnier then others .. and if you read this blog very carefully you'll maybe know more about the beeing of linux-users