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Wooo! Jet lag finally wore off, so I think it's about time to post some pictures from the great meeting I attended with the Japan KDE users group. After a treacherous journey riddled with re-routed flights and delays, I ended up going from a 15 hour landing-to-meeting buffer, down to 4. Luckily, I still made it in time to meet Daisuke and the others.
First we had a fun little history lesson, where the first president of the group re-told some adventures they had in the early days.
Followed by some nice presentations describing new stuff in KDE 4.x and even one on Qt 4.4 relating to KDE by yours truly. After it was all said and done, it was time to go out and have some fun.
We went to a traditional Japanese restaurant (name evades me), where we the interior/service matched the amazing cuisine. I love this place.
A curious topic during the dinner was about how long the group has been around. The JKUG has been around since at least 1999, making it almost a decade old - impressive! Are there any others out there that can claim the title of longest running active KUG, or do they have it?
Thanks JKUG guys! Hope to see you again some time!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot - I have to go to Belgium in August to repay eean for a lost bet we made in Austin.
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So, after spending a week in the US attending the Linux Collaboration Summit, I'm finally back, and slightly less jet lagged enough to write a small post about my journey. Although I haven't attended many conferences in my life, I have to say that this one was truly one of the best. The amount of talent mixed with collaboration was a spectacular sight. Indeed everyone was open to dialog, and wanting to to work together to bring Linux forward as a whole. Particularly interesting and inspiring to me was the talks by vendors and hardware people who are already now taking the first tangible steps to reaching the elusive year of the Linux desktop. The idea of creating a niche market for small or ultra inexpensive systems which basically work perfectly for anything but gaming is a really feasible and ideal market for a Linux based system to thrive and lead. The panel that presented that track proved that the industry has indeed noticed, and the manufacturers are pushing hard for the concept as well. Of course, I found it particularly exciting to hear the that Asus EeePc SDK will focus on Qt4, as you can see in the guide here. Enough chit chat, here's some eye candy:
Ever so famous Jon “Maddog” Hall. If you look closely in the background you can see Henrik presenting Qt 4.4 features as well ;)
I think this pic really expresses the mood on the mobile panel, where it felt like a free for all against Google (on the far right), and OpenMoko being the neutral party beside him. The most entertaining panel, but also the least productive in my opinion.
At the end of the first night we were taken to a really nice club/lounge place called Qua which has the worlds largest indoor aquarium in a club. Basically, the dance floor was literally a big shark tank. If this wasn't cool enough, J5 of fedora/gnome/d-bus fame managed to hook us up with a nice bar side alcho-pyrotechnic display:
We also got to visit Ranger, a really powerful supercomputer/grid which was recently built (running CentOS on Sun hardware). An ultra friendly diagram to show its power...
...of course, they needed to show their Texas pride as well! :)
After finishing up all the hard summit work, we had a little boat outing on lake Travis (we had 3 small fast boats and cruised around basically :))...
.ate some good tex-mex at a restaurant overlooking the lake...
...and finally ending the day screaming as you realize that you forgot to put some sun block on your legs!
A spectacular summit, and I really hope to go again next year!
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First off, a totally sweet new laptop :)
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As you can tell - the Macbook is indeed running KDE4 already :) Impressive speed too...Compiled Qt 4.4 (with webkit) in under 20minutes :) Note: I'm still going to be using the EeePC as my main travel machine - it's just so small and light, even compared to the Mac!
Even sweeter though:
That's right - this one awesome Indian buffe we've hit twice in a row has a mango lassi dispenser! Unlimited free refills makes a tubby Jespersaur though :/
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...you might be a criminal. A seemingly innocent Kleenex box:
Flip over, and laugh as you read the directions:
Can anyone tell me why?
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Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays before the new year passes as well :)
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After reading the post on planetkde about KDE4 running smoothly on an aged machine, I was tempted to try it myself. Although the EeePC is far from old, its CPU/memory and graphics card are relatively low end.
I simply downloaded the latest KDE4 RC kubuntu live CD, and followed the instructions from the EeeUser wiki on how to make a "live" usb stick. A slight adjustment to the bios/boot order, installing the libgl1-mesa-dri package, and a short while later I was pleasantly surprised by the following:
