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KDE Developer Sirtaj Singh Kang Interviewed
highwaytohell writes "Sirtaj Singh Kang is a KDE developer and an official spokesman for KDE in Australia. In this interview conducted by the Sydney Morning Herald he talks about how the KDE project manages to maintain its hierarchy, where he sees KDE in the future, Linux portability issues and the relationship between Trolltech and KDE developers. The article gives a good insight into how maintainers and developers work to maintain one of the more popular window managers for Linux. Certainly worth a read."
Suck it beyotches!!
Once upon a time
I installed the KDE
No more blue screens now
There was another interview at www.lemonparty.org... they've got tons of others as well.
MR MICHEAL OKAFOR
DIRECTOR PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION,
FEDERAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF NIGERIA (FAAN)
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
ATTN: PRESIDENT/C.E.O
I AM A DIRECTOR IN THE FEDERAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF NIGERIA.I HAVE BEEN DELEGATED BY MY COLLEAGUES TO SEEK THE ASSISTANCE OF A RELIABLE FOREIGN COMPANY OR INDIVIDUAL INTO WHOSE BANK ACCOUNT WE CAN TRANSFER THE SUM OF US $11.5M (ELEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS).
THE SUM AROSE FROM THE DELIBERATE OVER INVOICING OF CONTRACTS BILLS OF SOME CONTRACTS AWARDED TO FOREIGN CONTRACTORS BY THE FEDERAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF NIGERIA DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FORMER MILITARY LEADER, GEN. SANI ABACHA WHO DIED ON 8TH JUNE, 1998 AND SINCE THEN IT HAS BEEN LYING IN A SUSPENSE CURRENT ACCOUNT OF THE FEDERAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY WITH THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. HOWEVER, THE CURRENT FAVORABLE POLITICAL/ECONOMIC CLIMATE IN THE COUNTRY PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS MONEY TO BE TRANSFERRED OUT OF THE COUNTRY WITHOUT HITCH.
REACHING YOU IS CONTESY OF MY FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY, WHICH VIVIDLY TELLS YOUR POSITION AND CAPABILITY TO EXECUTE THIS BUSINESS PRESENTLY WITH ME IN MY OFFICE AND I BELIEVE IT WOULD BE OF MUTUAL BENEFIT TO BOTH OF US. WE HAVE PUT IN MOTION THE MACHINERY FOR THE TAKE OFF OF THIS TRANSACTION AND FURTHER ACTION WILL COMMENCE IMMEDIATELY WE HEAR FROM YOU. WE HAVE AGREED THAT AFTER THE TRANSFER OF THE MONEY INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, YOU SHALL BE ENTITLED TO 20% OF THE TOTAL SUM, MY COLLEAGUES AND I SHALL TAKE 75% WHILE 5% HAS BEEN MAPPED OUT TO REIMBURSE ALL LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPENSES THAT MAY BE INCURRED IN THE COURSE OF THE TRANSACTION.
THE NATURE OF YOUR WORK/BUSINESS IS NOT PARTICULARLY RELEVANT FOR THE SUCCESS OF THIS TRANSACTION, ALL WE REQUIRED IS YOUR WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE AND ASSURANCE THAT OUR OWN SHARE WILL BE GIVEN TO US WHEN THIS MONEY HITS YOURS ACCOUNT. ALL NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO ENSURE A NO RISK SITUATION ON THE SIDES OF BOTH PARTIES AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT THIS TRANSACTION WILL TAKE 10 WORKING DAYS TO FINALIZE.
PLEASE IF THIS PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU, INDICATE BY RETURN MAIL. SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION, FEEL FREE TO ASK. INCLUDE YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS WHILE REPLYING.
I EXPECT YOUR RESPONSE.
BEST REGARDS
MR MICHEAL OKAFOR.
"X is actually faster than the GDI for most things. "
Bullshit. Both of them result in a call to graphic driver which , generally, is better optimized on Windows.
"The main problem is that the toolkits (ahem, Qt) don't really use X all that well."
They use it the way it was intended.
Every fucking Qt call of say QPainter maps almost directly to Xlib function.
What else would you have them to do ?
Looking for a forum you can piss off the people there? No moderation, you can even embed images!!! Yes, goatse can be done! Guess who these people are who deserve some trolling? A group of losers who ride around on MOPEDS!
The forum is at http://www.mopedarmy.com. Some great trolling awaits!
> ...and it does not look like gcc will support the
>C++ 'export' functionality for a long long time,
>unfortunately. It would require a complete redesign
>of the link system to make it smarter.
Maybe then the KDE team have to write their own compiler. Like they do with everything and call it, mmmmm lets see.....
kcc
Now serious, has nobody noticed how alien KDE is to *nix philosofy? It is more a windows concept bolted on unix! Everythng that is a offspring from KDE is unusable for others not wanting the complete KDE package and philosofy. Very unlike gnome who is delivers lots and lots of things used by others without needing Gnome, they design it that way!
gstreamer
pango
atk
xft2, xftconfig (discussable)
mono
Now in KDE they would be kango, Kono, ktk and so one and only usable in KDE.
People are saying that the lots and lots of dependencies of Gnome are rediculous and praise KDE's (win32 like) approach, I say this KDE approach is alien and a thread for the *nix philosofy, which makes *nix so flexible.
Go kill some more innocent people in Gujrat.
Please discuss.
g i
http://www.askheartbeat.com/cgibin/ultimatebb.c