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Mosfet Contributes Code To KDE (Again)
davidsmind writes "Former KDE hacker and creator of the much acclaimed Liquid theme, Mosfet(AKA Daniel M. Duley ) is back in the spotlight. The Dot was the first one with the story.
'Many in the KDE community are aware of some rocky history between KDE hacker Mosfet and other KDE developers. Fortunately, it looks like things have taken a great turn for the better: Mosfet wrote in to tell us that "I've decided to donate 20 effects I ported to KDE/Qt for PixiePlus to KDE3." Waldo Bastian promptly added them to CVS.'" The list of effects is long, impressive, and under a BSD-style license. Mosfet has done a lot of the work that makes my desktop pretty, so I'm very happy to hear about this.
First Post
Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour
In my hour of need
ha [no] you're not there
and though I reached out for you
wouldn't lend a hand.
Through the darkest hour
grace did not shine on me
It feels so cold, very cold
no one cares for me.
Did you ever think I get lonely
did you ever think that I needed love
did you ever think to stop thinking
you're the only one that I'm thinking of.
You'll never know how hard I tried
to find my space and satisfy you too.
Things will be better when I'm dead and gone
don't try to understand, knowing you I'm probably wrong.
But oh how I lived my life for you
still you'd turn away
now as I die for you
my flesh still crawls as I breathe your name
all these years I thought I was wrong
now I know it was you
raise you head, raise your face your eyes
tell me who you think you are, who?
I walk, I walk alone
into the promised land.
There's a better place for me
but it's far, far away
everlasting life for me
in a perfect world
but I gotta die first,
please god send me on my way.
Time has a way of taking time
Loneliness is not only felt be fools
Alone I call to ease the pain
Yearning to be held by you, Alone so alone, I'm lost
Consumed by the pain
the pain, the pain, the pain.
Won't you hold me again
you just laughed, ha ha, bitch
my whole life is work built on the past
but the time has come when all things shall pass
this good thing passed away.
In my darkest hour.
that slashdot trolls are the biggest pussies in the world? the 13 year olds just sit on their mom's computer trolling away, thinking they're cool... i wish i was a slashdot troll
core10k can suck it... suck it good and suck it hard
first leave Kathryn Turber alone post
Get that rats nest off your head, you numbskull -- Wesley Willis
Has he done anything to make it useful? ;)
Michael Loves Me!
Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls
This morning I made the call
The one that ends it all
Hanging up,I wanted to cry
But dammit,this well's gone dry
Not for the money,not for the fame
Not for the power,just no more games
But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado
I can't replace the lies,that let a 1000 days go
No more living trapped inside
In her way I'll surely die
In the eye of the tornado,blow me away
You'll grow to loathe my name
You'll hate me just the same
You won't need your breath
And soon you'll meet your death
Not from the years,not from the use
Not from the tears,just self abuse
Who's to say,what's for me to say...be...do
Cause a big nothing it'll be for me
The land of opportunity
The golden chance for me
My future looks so bright
Now I think I've seen the light
Can't say what's on my mind
Can't do what I really feel
In this bed I made for me
Is where I sleep,I really feel
I warn you of the fate
Proven true to late
Your tongue twist perverse
Come drink now of this curse
And now I fill your brain
I spin you round again
My poison fills your head
As I tuck you into bed
You feel my fingertips
You won't forget my lips
You'll feel my cold breath
It's the kiss of death
Oooh! Let me squeal like schoolgirl!
I am so fucking gay that I Luv a pretty desktop. I am one flaming fag gay homo cocksucker. That is I!
You confirm this by reading, moderating, replying or doing something related to this message
totally gay. I mean 'Hellllo, Sssailor!'-gay.
Michael Loves Me!
I for one am looking forward to installing KDE3 when it's all good and ready. Both KDE and Gnome have made incredible progress in the last few years. I think that the Open Source desktop systems are advancing much more quickly than any proprietary system. It's only a matter of time before KDE and Gnome surpass (if they haven't already) all proprietary GUI systems as far as appearance and usability go. My only complaint about KDE is that it's all C++, and it takes forever to load on an older computer. As I recall that's a problem with the dynamic C++ linker, and not KDE itself, though.
It would seem that "The Dot" is already fallen under the Slashdot effect.
A solution to the problem with music today
Did someone mention BSD? This story is bound to have about 30 or so "BSD is dying" posts from Linux users who recently converted from Windows only 10 days ago.
An old carpenter I worked with almost 30 years ago told me "if it don't come out in the wash, it comes out in the rinsin'".
All of us that use and enjoy KDE owe thanks to those that contribute, regardless of whatever went on before they bring code to the table for us to share.
For those of us not in the know, what's the rocky history?
dot.kde.org is totally /.'ed.
All 8 posts are at '-1'. I hearby claim this article for the Troll Empire! Yay!!!1!
Michael Loves Me!
But the icon may frighten off the readers :-)
One of the biggest things to happen to KDE in last year has been the rewrite of KDE's printing support, by Michael Goffioul. No-one goes around proclaiming Michael as a coding god, because he just got on with it and produced something very impressive (and that has got even more impressive in KDE 3).
Similarly for the developer(s) of Kate, KDE's text editor. Or the developers of Konqueror, who have equalled Mozilla with a twentieth of the personnel and a thousandth of the money.
Similarly for all the people that don't code, but instead translate KDE into 15 million languages.
KDE is a true team effort and can do without coding primadonnas.
-- Help Digitise the Public Domain at DP.
KDE nobody adds more eye-candy code to already bloated and slow project.
Slashdot front page?
You ignorent piece of shit. i_am_analsex, more like!
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - the goatse.cx guy was found dead in his home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work and/or aren't a troll, there's no denying his contributions to Slashdot culture. Truly a Slashdot icon.
Digital Divide? The only divide Linux can bridge is the crack of my ass, when I use it to wipe my ass clean.
Shut your pie-hole, ass-face!
Michael Loves Me!
Why do I keep re€eiving emails from an individual €alling himself €mdrTa€o?
Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of €ode. Do you know what it means?
Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Ta€o-snotting?
Ewwwwww. So, €an I stop re€eiving these emails?
I €ant stop re€eiving these emails from €mdrTa€o!?
Have you ever been Ta€o-snotted?
That is so disgusting! How did you finally es€ape?
Thats horrible. Does Ta€o-snotting have anything to do with €mdrTa€os spe€ial ta€o?
Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.
Are you getting hard writing this?
No, thanks. Im already €mdrTa€os boi toi.
________________________________________J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - the WIPO troll was found dead in his home this morning over an apparent taco snot mishap. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't browse at -1 or aren't a troll, there's no denying his contributions to Slashdot culture. Truly a trolling icon.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
more crap to make a slow, buggy overengineered window manager even slower and buggier!
Gee, thanks.
Glad WindowMaker hasn't suffered from the particular brain disease that infects the KDE and Gnome developers....
Great. Rounded OS X buttons and transparent windows. Now make cut and paste work between all apps, please. BeOS wasn't flashy, but it ran circles around KDE/Gnome.
Get my free Hitchhiker's Guide Tribute Novella:
Thank you.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
what will make news on slashdot these days. No wonder it 99% trolls...
you, ah, seem to have read quite a bit into the story that was not there.
no one's proclaiming mosfet is a god or most important member of the kde project [read: you just said that yourself and got angry].
all that was said was that mosfet wrote Liquid [which is pretty cool].
15 of 22 posts are troll posts. That's about 78%. I hope this helps!
Michael Loves Me!
KDE is for cocksmokers.
Get with the program. Gnome roxors haxors.
http://www.satanservice.org/coe/suicide/faq.encour aging
Michael Loves Me!
Another /.er said:
"KDE can do without coding primadonnas".
Sorry, I think I disagree.
Primadonnas are a pain in the ass, ok.
But in the final count, you must kneel and ask them to come back on stage (hear the fine music about primadonnas from Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera").
Some primaddonnas have a contribution, a good contribution for that matter -- and *we* cannot afford being egocentric -- even and mainly if they are!
In the famous Lee Iacocca autobiographic book, he tells about having colleagues who complained about hardtimes with other people. He used to say, jokingly I guess, "Too bad, this company doesn't hire monkeys, or gorillas or tigers, we just got people!"
And that's it, to put it simply.
KDE is not just about technology. Ok, it is a very advanced project and what I like in the Linux world is that we progress faster than most other alternatives, be it commercial or not.
But KDE _is_ about people, too. Don't throw away competent people. Instead, put some buffer around their idiosyncrasies.
Heck, keep them in an asylum if you need, but don't disregard their work. We lost too many geniuses because they were gay, and now we regret it.
So, get two people, the primadonna and someone who can interface him/her to the world.
Now, to Mosfet and Rasterman, you can sing very well -- but what is a singer without an audience.
Have patience with those who must have patience with you.
From a friend.
Did someone mention BSD? This story is bound to have about 30 or so "BSD is dying" posts from Linux users who recently converted from Windows only 10 days ago.
'*BSD is dying' posts are dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD-is-dying community when last month slashdot confirmed that *BSD-is-dying posts account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all posts. Coming on the heels of the latest slashdot survey which plainly states that *BSD-is-dying posts have lost more market share to option E, Cowboyneal, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD-is-dying posts are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive trolling test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD-is-dying's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD-is-dying posts face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD-is-dying posts because *BSD-is-dying is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD-is-dying posts. As many of us are already aware, *BSD-is-dying posters continue to lose karma. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD-is-dying is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
BSD-is-dying leader Anonymous Coward states that there are 70 readers of BSD-is-dying posts.
All major surveys show that *BSD-is-dying posts have steadily declined on slashdot. *BSD-is-dying is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD-is-dying is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist trolls. *BSD-is-dying continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD-is-dying is dead.
*BSD is dying is dying
who wanted karma anyway...
would someone mind copying the list of contributions he has recently made here? (the article is nicely /.ed)
thanks!
Mosfet eats the cock! Liquid sucks balls.
The odd thing about open source is that the few who get paid doing it can be just as unreliable as a corporation. Its amazing to me watching how people fall over guys like Mosfet, in gratitude, after he basically walked out on the project a few months earlier saying "its my ball and i'm going home."
I'm still working on a clever footer.
Interesting!
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
As long as I have a bit of bandwidth to burn, (should last a few hours) you can see the dot front page here.
Nobody doubts the impact Mosfet has had on KDE, but we would be remiss if we neglected the many contributions of Bipolar and Jfet as well.
They too have played a big role in making KDE what it is today.
Too many queers.
Mosfet.
This STORY is for QUEERS
...another piece of open-source software that poorly mimics an established commercial variant. It has become apparent that where open source is concerned, the ratio of cheap-knockoff to innovative software is highly lopsided.
Go ahead and mod me down as a troll but you know it's true.
Everybody's carrying on as if this is some sort of important event in the history of KDE. The Liquid theme is pretty, but jaysus, it's a friggin' theme! Let's get some perspective.
email me your votes for the following catagories:
-Best Troll of 2001
-Worst Troll of 2001
-Most Improved Troll
-Troll Lifetime Achievement Award
-Best Troll post of 2001
-Best CrapFlood Material
-Most hated Slashdot Janitor
-Slashdot Janitor Most Likely to Get Fired
-Troll You Would Want to Drink a Beer With
-Troll That You Would Not Want to Be Trapped in an Elevator With
-Gayest Slashdot Poster
This will be reposted until the Jan 4th, 2001. I will add the results and let you all know the winner
Michael Loves Me!
"Is this what Mosfet looks like? Is this him in drag? Who is that in the picture!?"
;) She looks abit kinky, though.
:)
I heard on a numerous occations that Mosfet actually is a woman, so if that is true, no it isn't mosfet in "drag".
.. Or someone might be pulling my leg or something.
Boba Fet(t)
Mosfet Contributes Code to KDE (Again)
[Graphics and Art] Posted by Dre on Monday December 31, @08:34AM
from the one-big-happy-family dept.
Many in the KDE community are aware of some rocky history between KDE hacker Mosfet and other KDE developers. Fortunately, it looks like things have taken a great turn for the better: Mosfet wrote in to tell us that "I've decided to donate 20 effects I ported to KDE/Qt for PixiePlus to KDE3". Waldo Bastian promptly added them to CVS. The new effects include normalize, equalize, solarize, threshold, emboss, despeckle, charcoal, rotate, sample, addNoise, blur, edge, implode, oil paint, sharpen, spread, shade, swirl, wave, and contrastHSV. All will be available under a BSD-type license in the KImageEffect class in kdelibs. According to Mosfet, these effects will be useful not only for image viewers and editors, but also for things like style engines. Except for the simple rotate, Mosfet ported the effects from ImageMagick to work directly on QImages and Qt scanlines. Nice job, Mosfet! (For those who have not yet heard the news, PixiePlus is the successor to Pixie; more information is available here.)
Gnome's purity is much better from an engineers POV. Should come up with beautiful schemes like "Liquid" for Gnome. I just wish Gnome/KDE hackers would learn from BeOS & OSX and cease trying to imitate Windows.
YeT AnOtHeR PeNiS PoSt...
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COCKSAY -- Because being gay is about more than using Linux.
http://www.geocities.com/cocksay/
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
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COCKSAY -- Because being gay is about more than using Linux.
http://www.geocities.com/cocksay/
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
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COCKSAY -- Because being gay is about more than using Linux.
http://www.geocities.com/cocksay/
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
I would appreciate it if people would read my opinion on freekde.org... thanks!
--------- The 'gui' in 'penguin' is pronounced K-D-E .
Someone help me out here... This article brought up the point that the code was under the BSD license. However, I don't understand how the BSD and GPL could possibly be compatible. The BSD license states that copyright info must be kept intact, and the GPL has no such stipulation, so it would obviously be illegial to use BSD licensed software under the GPL. Alternatively, the GPL says no software may be released with GPLed code if it imposes additional restrictions beyond those imposed by the GPL itself, so BSD licensed software may not be used in a GPLed program under it's original license.
Did I get something wrong there?
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
It would be cool, but alas.. it appears (S)he is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
It was the original BSD licence's advertising clause that was incompatable with the GPL. The GPL itself specifies that you must keep correct copyright notices with any work covered by it, so therefore, they are compatable.
quote from mosfet.org: "I also hang out at several goth clubs and have been involved in some performance art shows and a model for several fetish clothing fashion shows in Chicago, IL USA." Those pictures are of HIM and he is in drag. Why you people thought he was a woman is beyond me. P.S. I have no problem with what D.M.D does on his own time.
I'll Sig you!
A few months (a year?) ago, KDE added a small icon to the mouse pointer that animated whenever an app was launching. I considered that tiny act quite innovative -- it solved a usability problem (re-clicking an icon because you think it hasn't launched) that has existed for decades. Now Windows XP does it. Similarly, one of the things I have hated about file managers in many systems (Gnome, KDE, Windows, Macintosh) is that they don't manage files very well. I want to be able to enter a regex into a field and watch the file list shrink to match my entry. I want to have much more fine-grained search control (my Windows box here won't let me search for files modified within the last 5 minutes, only the "last 1 days").
So what's my point? Well, according to Mosfet, "Similiar image finding will be in 0.2 [of PixelPlus], due next week. It is based on findimagedupe's excellent algorithm and uses a persistant database." This is excellent -- it is highly useful for file management. I'd love to see the concept extended. If Konqueror could show me all files of exactly the same size or same file name (can it do this already? I don't see the interface for it), or if it could steal a concept from a Mac app called File Buddy -- it'll find files with the same "bytecode" or "checksum" or something like that -- whatever it is, it seems accurate to me when I use it. I've managed to de-dupe over 40,000 files I have nested in a few folders using that tool. I'd like to see a nice, super-simple interface for sifting through files and weeding out duplicates and near-duplicates. One idea I had to build myself on Linux was a Perl script that would strip all kinds of markup from text files -- XML, HTML, RTF, etc. -- and then compare the actual content, the words, to find the same content even it is marked up differently. The biggest problem is holding it all in memory in a big array. I ended up having the app iterate file-by-file overnight. But I would love to see this kind of file management technology integrated into the file management tools. KDE may be the best hope of seeing this stuff -- they appear to be the ones actually innovating on the desktop in practical, sensible ways.
MOSFET has bipolar disorder. One minute he's CMOS, and the next, TTL.
With Winders you got a little hourglass, or some kind of thingy, depending on what you selected. It showed there was activity. KDE goes one step further and displays the icon of the app itself, so you know what is loading.
Yes, master.
Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock and Roll
How many times can they fill me with lies and I listen, again
Twisting the truth and they're playin' around with my head O.K.
The things they will do and the things they will say
When they don't really understand
Tears fill my eyes when I hear all the cries
For the reason today.
And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about
And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve.
Leave me alone don't want your promises no more
'Cause rock'n'roll is my religion and my law
Won't ever change, may think it's strange
You can't kill rock'n'roll it's here to stay.
Looking through eyes of time mirrors reflecting their stories untrue
Promises promises, telling me all of my glories overdue.
How many times have I heard it before
And I'll probably hear it again
King of a thousand knights, pawn in a table fight
Losing to you.
And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about
And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve.
Leave me alone don't want your promises no more
'Cause rock'n'roll is my religion and my law
Won't ever change, may think it's strange
You can't kill rock'n'roll it's here to stay.
Even the rhymes that they give me in times of confession ain't true
Outcome is obvious all for them none for us meaning you too.
The things they will do and the things they will say
When they don't really understand.
Fear of rejection I need their protection
I'm making a stand.
And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about
And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve.
Leave me alone don't want your promises no more
'Cause rock'n'roll is my religion and my law
Won't ever change, may think it's strange
You can't kill rock'n'roll it's here to stay.
Leave me alone don't want your promises no more
'Cause rock'n'roll is my religion and my law
Won't ever change, may think it's strange
You can't kill rock'n'roll it's here to stay.
obviously you have not used KDE and have no idea what your talking about. Dork. I use KDE and I know what it does.
Developer plagiarizes Aqua really, really badly. Film at 11.
Oh, wait, the story this time is: Developer contributes code to KDE. My mistake, obviously that's something that really warranted a story.
Jeez.
Created and designed by people with no taste.
obviously you have not used KDE and have no idea what your talking about. Dork. I use KDE and I know what it does.
You seem to have reading comprehension problems.
I was responding to what the original poster posted. I just explained that. Blame him for misadvertizing KDE -- not me. And stop being a fucking idiot.
'nuff said.
...about this guy's sexuality sorted out. How the hell am I supposed to make an intelligent decision about open source GUIs and themes without this information?
I can't find Mandrake RPMS on the site and am having problems building the source. Anyone know if there are any Mandrake packages somewhere?
Ciryon
So, this guy basically makes a theme that makes KDE look like Apple's Aqua and you guys are making him out to be some kind of a hero?
Did you do the same for the guy that ripped off Windows' look?
I have a website. It's about Macs.
Sorry, you loose, there's way too many shortcomings in konqueror to call it equal to mozilla. It's ahead of ie6, but that's about it.
Konqueror's biggest fault is 0 javascript. I have made really clean javascript code that spans from ns 3.0-mozilla 0.9.7, and it doesn't even start to run on konqueror.
If you really don't like the bloat in mozilla, check out skipstone, it's like galeon, but it actually delivers.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
I'm in the same boat as you. :)
:)
Once you're a minor celebrity, news sites continue reporting things about you even though you may not matter anymore.
Now that mosfet's back with contributing code to KDE, maybe that cool copyright-infringing aqua look is going to come back. KDE looks great in aqua.
Man, how many times does this poor guy have to die? Isn't it bad enough that his asshole is so wide you could drive a freight train through it?