hpj: I am in favor of this idea. We could even use a few of the ~10k nuclear weapons!

This weekend I spent some more time making Tangerine work on Windows. I built Bonjour from scratch so I could distribute the binaries, and polished up the Tangerine installer as well. I gave it a good deal of testing, but there might be something I missed still. The Windows version includes a plugin for finding songs automatically through Google Desktop.

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Update: I just put up a new version which fixes a bunch of issues I found. It also adds the missing features to the config window and hopefully makes it look a little nicer. Updated screenshot above.

Update 2: Another updated version up with more bug fixes. I don’t have a bug tracker set up, but if you guys hit any problems just email me (snorp@snorp.net).

Anyone with a good suggestion for a _usable_ blogging tool that also allows adding pictures without clicking hundreds of buttons for each?

This and the fact that some features of the crappy web frontend of Blogger did not work at all were the reasons I did not post recently and why I will make all this here less frequent and shorter.

In the meantime I had a meeting with a black bear in the wilderness. It seems the bear was at least as surprised meeting me there as I was meeting him. Thus we both just looked at each other and after some time of mutual inspection we just continued our way.

Yesterday I was hiking this mountain.

All mail data got now recovered successfully. So I am completely back again.

Due to a system failure of a central mail processing machine I currently don't have regular access to all mails sent to me via mailing lists or that were sent to me at 2006-08-10 from about 00:00 GMT to 04:11 GMT. All mails sent to my mail address after 04:11 GMT were handled correctly by an automatic service recovery system. A data recovery process will try to recover the data at 2006-08-11 03:45 GMT. If this fails I will read your mail not before 2006-08-21.

Thus if you have sent me an important mail just within the critical four hours please send it again.

Months passed in silence and now you publish two news in a couple of minutes!? yep, tonight I just want to go over internet and write something here… Wink It’s time to talk about my second level thesis…

Kat

A couple of months passed since I started seeking something interesting to challenge with. I found kat, an open-source information retrieval program for KDE. If you don’t know what’s an information retrieval program you’ve just to think about a local google. It’s simply a program that let you search through your local files like google. Other information retrieval programs are beagle and google desktop. I started to study kat’s code and I also discovered that its mantainer is a nice italian guy. Unfortunately kat have some ugly problems and Roberto (the manteiner) can’t fix them because now he’s really busy. I was going to investigate over these problems for fixing them when I discovered a similar project: strigi.

Strigi

strigi is a really young project created by Jos van den Oever. It’s written in C++ using STL and other external libraries. It runs as a daemon listening over a socket. In this way you’ve just to write your custom gui using your favorite language, nice isn’t it? I’ve contacted Jos and I began to send patches and add new features to strigi, committing them straight into kde subversion repository (cool, I’m a bit excited about it :) ). Recently I added the support for the linux kernel inotify interface, an essential component for strigi.

I really prefer strigi over kat because:

• it works
• it can be run under different window manager
• in the near future it’ll run also under different OS (windows by now, maybe I’ll port it to macos)
• it’s highly under development
  

You can find more informations about strigi here.

A lot of time passed since my last post. As usually I’ve been too busy to keep the site updated, forgive me! Last time I let fall something about one of my university projects: qshapes. Now it’s time to tell you something more… QShapes is a process modeling tool, in short words a kind of 2D CAD.

I’m going to release it under GPL over berlios site. Actually I I’ve registered the project (see http://developer.berlios.de/projects/qshapes/ ), committed some code on the svn repository and uploaded some screenshot). The program is “quite” stable (there’re yet some crashes) and can run under linux, macos and windows. It’s written in C++ using Qt for the gui so it’s really portable. I think I’ll use this program as a starting point for one of my dreams: a multiplatform open-source diagram creation tool like dia, kivio or Microsoft visio®. I like dia and kivio but both lacks of some components / features. Since I don’t like too much “gnomish” software I’ll never improve dia. On the other hand kivio is quite pretty but poor than dia in some situations. Especially kivio isn’t multiplatform and this’s a great problem for a me.

But now I’m really busy so I’ll start working on this project after my second level thesis (I’ll tell you something about it really soon).