If there ever had been such thing, of course. Guess one would first have to deal with Microsoft/Wintendo. Besides that, Linux Torvalds, (involuntary) messiah of the Linux-Community, got behind KDE and referred to Gnome developers as “Interface Nazis” yesterday. Although the facts are not necessarily disagreeable, the way Torvalds makes his points sometimes has a remarkable lack of, err, discretion. Well, but it’s Just For Fun anyway, isn’t it? In any case, this is probably the flame of the year. Funny how all those OSS-fellows just jump in. Well, I for my part will grab some beer, browse the vast expanse of the interwebs and laugh myself silly on all the discussion going on on that topic..

By the way, two weeks ago, Mitch Clem has put the word “Feminazi” in the mouth of some emo-kid.. strange wold.

There seems to be a bug in kdesu causing problems when using sudo instead of su.

Symptom: When trying to switch to admin mode in one of kcontrol’s (or systemsettings) modules, the process fails and presents you kcontrol’s main window (or the same grayed-out module in systemsettings).

To solve this more elegant than just calling kcontrol manually using kdesu (which actually works), you can do the following:

• set password for root (sudo passwd)
• add

  
  [super-user-command]
  super-user-command=su

  to either

  ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

  or

  /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdeglobals

I also posted this to the ubuntu-forums, maybe someone else finds this useful.

Just made a small change to the Disk & Filesystems module. This helpful little thing is part of the now-part-of-kubuntu, python-based kcontrol enhancement Guidance.

The module provides an easy and comfortable way to deal with your partitions, gives you about every option mount has to offer, writes the changes into /etc/fstab and even lets you mount and umount by simple clicking.

For HAL is currently broken in kubuntu, this comes very handy.
Unfortunately, HFS+ was missing, so I added two simple lines to mountconfig.py which did the trick. Works pretty well. And just for the fun of it, here’s a patch.

Before I forget it, have you ever noticed what a cool word guidance is? Wonder why no one has used it for a WM or DE or whatever before..

Seb Ruiz writes about porting amaroK to windows for it seems there has been some nagging on his topic. According to Seb, this is not going to happen anytime soon. Well, Mark answered and enlightened that the amaroK-devs are working to remove all unix-specifc code from amaroK for v2.0 to make it QT(4) dependent only. Which, of course, would enable relatively simple porting to all platforms on which QT is available.. great news for I’m still looking for a decent audio-player for OS X.

Like I’ve written here, Finder’s lack of FTP-uploading capability bothers me. KDE’s FTP-KIO-Slave enables me to do the following:

• Browse to the appropriate directory on my FTP-server using Konqueror.
• Open the desired file with Kate, KDE’s Advanced Text Editor.
• Edit the file and save it back to the FTP-server. Directly. No local copy and manual FTP-uploading required.

This is a very handy feature and I’m somewhat used to it. Is there any feasible way of doing so using OS X? Will Tiger’s Finder support such functionality or at least FTP-uploading? Guess I’ll have to wait and see. Anyhow, I’m open to suggestions and no, I don’t have SSH access to my FTP-site.