So this blog title is "KMail and bikeways in Germany". You may wonder what they have in common. You may wonder whether there will be an eloquent Aaron-style nice little story behind that.

Ok, we all know, blogs are the new mailing lists, so here just some quick comments from my side on all the release-cycle stuff.

I don't know why, but often I have the impression that KDE fonts are quite big, and this can be changed by modifying the X11 dpi settings.

Let's head over to good old Slackware. How is it done here ?

Different groups of people use different ways to measure performance of computers. Kernel developers test their kernels by, well, compiling the kernel. KDE developers may measure the startup time of KDE.
So what does the buildsystem maintainer do ?

A few days ago I asked in the blog "where to buy a 14 inch non-glossy notebook with Linux in Germany".
I received quite a few responses and emails, thanks a lot for the support !
Now I (almost completely) succeeded and a notebook is ordered.
For those of you looking for something similar, here are the details.

Ok, so because the old notebook is starting to fall apart (it is probably around 5 years old or so) I need a new one.
So, I want to buy a new notebook, nothing too fancy: 14 inch, non-glossy, Intel Core Duo, Intel Graphics, Intel WLAN, 1GB RAM, price at most 800 Euro.
I guess it's obvious to everybody reading this that I'd like to have fully Intel chipset because of the free drivers. This will actually be my first non-AMD CPU I buy new since 1994 or so.

I just decided for myself I should try to use a text based presentation software, since GUI-based presentation apps require you to think about what goes on which page from the beginning, usually you see only the current page, you have to think about the layout (fontsize, decorations etc.), you have to use the mouse, etc.

SCNR.

Rejoice - it has been done - KDE 4.0.0 has been tagged !

Although I didn't touch any significant number of lines of C++ code of KDE for the 4.0.0 release, the last (almost exactly) 2 years since I brought CMake to KDE4 (together with the help of many other developers, especially Laurent Montel !) have been very busy, impressive, awesome, stressful, interesting, rewarding, exhausting, etc. for me.

Around 2000 (back in KDE2 times) I wrote the so called LAN information server lisa (http://lisa-home.sf.net), which can you show the neighbours in your network.

Two weeks ago I moved again and it took until yesterday that I got internet access again, now using cable. This actually rocks, it is really fast, 6 Mbit/s. I still can remember, I think it was in 2001 I still had an analog modem with 100something kbit/s. That's really an incredible increase in speed in just 6 years !