Today I’ve used Kubuntu 8.04 installation CD with KDE4 to rescue my girlfriend’s thesis on her broken Windoze PC!
In a couple of minutes I mounted an External HDD and her primary ( C: ) NTFS partition and I copied all her desktop files (yeah she has got all her files on the desktop ).
Thank you linux!
PS: KDE4 looks great on her big 16:9 screen!

Today i’ve installed the last KUbuntu 8.04 KDE4 remixed version.
I’m really happy to have a entire KDE4 desktop.
Install the last KUbuntu give me always the same annoying troubles.. I’ve a too old Video Card (NVIDIA Geforce 420go) and my wireless usb adapter (Linksys WUSB54G v. 4.0) doesn’t have a stable driver!
However in a couple of hours i’ve installed kubuntu and now i’ve a working system.

• My Linksys Wireless adapter in hardy uses the last rt2500usb module, It works but it’s too slow and it not usable! So i’ve removed network-manager (apt-get remove network-manager), and i’ve downloaded the legacy rt2570-CVS, i’ve compiled it and i’ve added rt2500usb and rt2×00usb to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, so my kubuntu will use rausb0 instead wlan0 interface by default.
• I’m able to run any OpenGL application with the Proprietary Nvidia driver. In Gutsy i was able to compile the driver version 9631. Now in hardy we have a new kernel and this installer (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631-pkg1.run) doesn’t work. Fortunatelly in K/Ubuntu 8.04 the nvidia-glx-legacy driver works fine with my Nvidia GeForce 420Go.

So that’s all… Kde4 is a great… but it’s not for a production machine yet!

Today i’ve found 2 interesting docs to understand better what’s the different beetween a static (.a) and a shared (.so) library.

• Executable and Linking Format (ELF) Specification (v 1.2)
• Program Library Howto

There are also an interesting application that create from dynamically linked executables and all it’s libraries one file. Its name is statifier.

Connecting to WPA/WPA2 TKIP network is too easy.

If you are using rt2570 module, you can use this script.

SSID="NETWORK_ESSID"

WPAPSK="MY_PASSWORD"

ifconfig rausb0 up

iwconfig rausb0 mode managed

iwlist scan

iwpriv rausb0 auth 3

iwpriv rausb0 enc 3

iwconfig rausb0 essid $SSID

iwpriv rausb0 wpapsk $WPAPSK

wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -irausb0

dhclient rausb0

The curse of monkey insland is a great game. Fortunately it runs fine on my Kubuntu box.

Chi usa linux deve spesso fare i conti con l’acquisto di nuove periferiche. E’ sempre buona norma controllare la compatibilità dell hw scelto prima del suo acquisto. hardware4linux ci aiuta proprio in questo..

Ovviamente il progetto hardware4linux funziona se e solo c’e di continuo gente che uploada i suoi commenti sul suo hardware..

Ci vuole poco per dare tanto!

Matt Rogers (Lead developer), ha deciso di portare Kopete in KDE 4.0.

Suona il corno ed è chiamata alle armi per gli sviluppatori nuovi e vecchi!

Se sei uno sviluppatore e vuoi entrare a far parte del Team, basta mandare una mail a mattr@kde.org o kopete-devel@kde.org.

Nota personale: Proprio in questi giorni mi facevo domande sul destino di kopete.. destino incerto fin ad ora..

Kopete è davvero un progetto importante e fatto bene…. ed io già penso… a come posso contribuire… forse potrei integrare il mio nuovo editor!

Link originale del post: matt rogers blog

The Release Team, hereby announce that we are extending the

KDE 4.0.0 schedule [1] 2 months by inserting an extra 2 Betas, as follows:

September 24: Beta3

October 22: Beta4

November 19: Total Release Freeze

November 21: RC1

December 5: RC2

December 20: 4.0.0 tagged

for more informations:

http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Schedule

http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Roadmap