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CMake tutorial from "Mastering CMake" now online

Hi,

Bill from Kitware just announced that the CMake tutorial from the "Mastering CMake" book is now also available online.
If you're interested, have a look.

(Btw. their new blog also contains other interesting reads, e.g. about open science etc.)

Alex

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SUSE 11.2: Very nice, but networkmanager still doesn't like me

Now finally yesterday I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 on my notebook (this one).

Installation went very smooth, and it seems all the hardware components were recognized automatically, 3D graphics, even WLAN.

Only issue, it still seems modern networking (aka networkmanager) doesn't like me. Or I am too stupid.

So once again I tried to use networkmanager, from a KDE4 workspace (correct term ? I didn't look up...)

So, what happened.

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Good news ! :-)

Indeed, I've got good, no, very good news from Real Life ! Smiling

About one month ago me and Antje married, so she is now Mrs. Neundorf Smiling

Here's a photo of us two:


(made by our photographer from Fresh Fotostudio, which we can only recommend)

As you can see, we were quite happy (and still are).

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Need a nice file- and printer server for your home network ?

Ok, this blog is not really KDE related (well, it makes the network installation of a KDE developer more convenient, so...), but anyway here we go.
Main purpose is to get the compatibility information out there, so others can find it.

So, I recently purchased a QNAP TS 109 Pro.

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Why we should not rely on pkg-config...

I'm just trying to compile Battle of Wesnoth (yes, for me gaming means compiling games... Eye-wink ).
I just built it with CMake, which first complained that it didn't find Lua 5.1. I checked, it really wasn't there. So I downloaded the sources for lua, make, make install, and now lua is in /usr/local/.
Then I run cmake again on Wesnoth and it happily finds Lua, so CMake now succeeds and I can build Wesnoth.

To have more fun, I'm trying right now the autotools build for Wesnoth:

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On DVCSs...

I thought I share a few interesting links:
Gnome switches to git: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-March/msg00086.html

But not everybody does so, e.g. Python is switching right now to Mercurial: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087931.html

Eric Sinc has an interesting blog about DVCSs: http://www.ericsink.com/

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(k)Ubuntu GNU awk messed up ? and KDE on yet another OS :-)

Hi,

today at work I noticed something strange. My box there has kUbuntu 7.10 (yes, I know, quite old, but does what it is supposed to do).
I have an awk script which I want to use to process a text file consisting of 4.2 million lines, something like 600 MB.

Now, 7 years ago, computer were smaller and slower, and I can remember that I was using awk back then for some heavy text processing. Now, the same should be possible today, just faster. Or so I thought.

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How to debug udev/HAL/dbus/solid problems ?

Hi,

in the good old times(TM) using Linux was simple.

If you wanted to access some drive, e.g. CD-ROM, floppy disk (you know these 3.5" square plastic things which could hold a whopping 1.44 MB of data, if you formatted them with special tools you could push even a bit more on it), you just had to know the device file and the file system and if you knew that, it just worked (TM):

$ mount -tiso 9660 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom

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What's up in Gnome land ?

Hi,

just out of interest, where is Gnome heading these days ?
I'm a bit confused.

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KDE 4.2 release party in Frankfurt

Hi,

great events are coming closer: the release of KDE 4.2 is due in two weeks Smiling

To celebrate this, Claudia is organizing a (small) release party Friday, January 30th in Frankfurt/Main, details here:

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE%204.2%20Release%20Party#_Germany_Frankfurt

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