Author Archives: Tsukasa

About Tsukasa

The fool's herald.

Building Qyoto from SVN

Lately Qyoto won’t build because of a rather minor issue in the code. Basically it references itself in kdebindings/csharp/qyoto/src/SmokeInvocation.cs on line 20, so be sure to comment this line if you want the build to succeed.

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A bunch of cool things

So far, this weekend has been a great one. Met a bunch of old pals again, fixed some long-due problems and even got something productive out of it! The first cool thing is that Plasma does work correctly now. Yes, … Continue reading

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Using twhirl on Linux – the nice way

Without any doubt twhirl is the greatest twitter client available. It’s an Air-based application – meaning you can even use it on Linux. Now, as you may know KDE 4.1 comes with a handy little twitter client plasmoid itself but … Continue reading

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Boring

Lupin thinks this blog needs more posts. Unfortunately there’s so much interesting stuff going on that the little time I have doesn’t suffice to satisfy err… bla. Part of the reason I don’t post much is that …this WordPress installation … Continue reading

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Favourite not-so-obvious features

They are near. Features that you wish you had. Often a function is implemented in a not so obvious way or you just don’t know about it. I dare to call them the “not-so-obvious features”: KWin (KDE’s great window manager) … Continue reading

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Wuala invites

For a while now I’m using Wuala, a distributed redundant file system / P2P mashup application, one of these hard to classify programs that bear great features and sometimes pesky bugs. Theres less of the latter and more of the … Continue reading

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Talking about KDE 4.1 again

Last time I didn’t find too many positive words for KDE. Therefore I’m happy to announce that the points noted in the last article are not entirely fixed, the DE is very useable though. Yes, what I’m trying to press … Continue reading

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Windows Genuine Advantage Validation tool fails to install?

Well, well, well — Windows is full of shit sometimes. So there’s this dreadful Windows Genuine Validation crap thing Microsoft pushes down your throat. Now, that’s fine as long as the crap works but sometimes it fails to install via … Continue reading

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Spam

By now I’m used to my daily dose of comment spam. Now I’m also getting spam on my domain e-mail account. Thank god the recipient mail address is just a non-existing bouncer anyway; disabling catch-all solved the problem quite nicely. … Continue reading

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OpenSolaris 2008.05

I’m a big fan of Solaris. But maybe my expectations for OpenSolaris’ Project Indiana are too high… My idea of Project Indiana was that the final product would be something like a Debian for Solaris. I mean… they’ve got Ian … Continue reading

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Das Paradoxon

Heise hat manchmal einen ungewollt zynischen Humor. Oder ist das eher das Talent unserer Regierung? Auf der einen Seite schlotterts in der Hose, da man ja jetzt abgehört werden könnte, andererseits beschließt man nun die BKA Gesetzesnovelle, die genau diese … Continue reading

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HDParm Service: Automatically disable spindown on Vista

Update 08-28-2008: This post has moved to it’s own subpage. There you’ll find an updated version that should fix the wake issue.

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Katamari… no, wait.

This is absolutely epic, I love the idea. Seems to be viral marketing, though (and at least it seems to work on me). Reminds me, I still want to watch the new Indy flick, even though people say it’s crap… … Continue reading

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Copying User profiles while in use

I know it’s not a feasable way to do it but sometimes you can’t get around to copy a user profile while it’s still locked (think: Windows locks it even after the user logs out). To copy such a pesky … Continue reading

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We’ll do it live!

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