I've submitted a kernel qconf patch to kbuild-devel@sf but the list seems to be quite silent since a couple of weeks. I'll resubmit to the kbuild mantainer if I don't have feedback in a day or two. I've tested XGL and beryl recently. You can see some screenshots on the right. Yes, it's running inside an X window and yes, I have tried it as a fullscreen server :P It basically works like a charm. The widow movements are very cool and the 3d cube really adds a new dimension to the desktop. I've found only some really minor bugs like the tooltip trick that you can see in the third photo (but this might be tweakable via options). The fact is that with the ati proprietary drivers the internal part of the windows seems to slow down a lot. Most browser pages flicker and jump a bit when scrolling. With the open source radeon drivers things should be better but at the moment the RV580 chip is not supported (X1950 Pro) because ATI is not releasing specs. Will have to wait a bit more for this to become really usable. Gabriele is using beryl with the nvidia native support and he didn't notice any slowdown. Ethy is preparing the graphic layout for the new KVirc web site. It's very nice! You can take a look here. Next song is "Word Up", as performed by Korn. Yo, pretty ladies around the world Gotta a weird thing to show you So tell all the boys and girls Tell your brother, your sister and your momma too Were about to go down And you know just what to do Wave your hands in the air like you don't care Glide by the people as they start to look and stare Do your dance, Do your dance Do your dance quick, mom C'mon baby tell me what's the word ... Very cool because it's powerful and makes you wanna dance :) I'm prolly going to start a collaboration with truelite. EBS offices definitively moved. Frantz is a bit upset for this reason. Nearly completed the fourth eTraveler milestone. Maybe I've found the root cause of a very annoying disease that follows me since months or maybe even years. Don't worry: nothing deadly, just extremely disturbing. This would be really cool since this time I would kill the beast forever instead of constantly fighting the symptoms. It looks that eutelia is going to bring wireless connectivity to my home town. I've been waiting for this since years now...

Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader:
	Where is Padmé ? Is she safe ? Is she all right ?
Lord Darth Sidious:
	It seems.. in your anger... you killed her

I got cold ://// Damn rhinovirus. Well..it's the most common illness in the world and I haven't got it for a year now so nothing special: I'll be outta home in a couple of days. I'll take it constructively and try to study & work anyway.

I've just discovered that I've been using the terms influenza and cold interchangeably. In fact these are two distinct ilnesses with common symptoms, both caused by viral infection. Influenza is caused by the very specific family of Orthomyxoviridae RNA viruses while the common cold is caused by several families of other viruses affecting the respiratory system (mainly rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, and also certain echoviruses, paramyxoviruses, and coxsackieviruses).

In humans, influenza's effects are much more severe than those of the common cold, and last longer. Common cold is deadly in one case over 50.000 while influenza has been a pandemic killer in the past and can be still deadly for the weak, old or chronically ill. Mine is almost surely common cold because I have no fever.

I had to void the appointment at Sistemi ITC. Shifted to friday. Romina obviously thought that the illness was an excuse :D It couldn't be: I wouldn't miss a meeting with such a nice girl unless there was a real reason :P ... especially in such a sunny day.

Back to work (sugar reef).

There are ongoing massive changes in the continuum :)

TVS service is moving offices from the peaceful EBS establishment to the primary Bassilichi dept. People aren't happy about it. Well, the bright side is that innovation might bring positive results. We'll see.

Upgraded gentoo on etherea. It took me several days and caused some headcaches. I had to fight with random segfaults caused by a faulty DRAM bank and completly messed dependancies. At a certain point something something got totally b0rken and I've ended up with a system unable to compile and run 32 bit apps. Bleah :D Well... I've fixed it and I'll be probably switching to gcc 4.1.1 too, in the next days.

Almost finished porting kvirc to Qt 4: only few modules are missing now. Got it to a point where others can take care of separate modules: Noldor is taking care of the objects.

Bought a new shiny Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro. Too bad it doesn't boot with my Abit MoBo :( In fact it gets through BIOS, it does POST but it locks up nearly in the end, probably when attempting real boot by invoking INT 19h. It *might* be a problem related to the power supply not being able to source enough current. Tomorrow I'll buy a 500W or greater unit and will try. If it doesn't work then I'll try to upgrade the BIOS.

Studied a massive number of metal songs recently. It's very fun to play them. The most recent entries are "Tornado Of Souls" by Megadeth and "Antisocial" by Anthrax. Actually I'm taking on "Anna Molly" by Incubus and "Can I Play With Madness" by Iron Maiden.

Spam is reaching absurd levels. Spamassassin behaves quite well but since once in a while it blows out a false positive I'm substantially forced to dig in the trashcan looking for reasonable subjects or known senders. Hate it. This blog gets spammed too: it looks like I can't filter them out all. I need to add some anti-spam measure like the "type the digits you see" image...

Released GEOS 2.0.0. It works like a charm :)

Started the fourth eTraveler milestone: will mainly take care of path updates and implement a new XML data format. Will also try to doom some of the remaining TomTom Navigator problems...

Eva is moving to London... or somewhere nearby. She will be working for RedHat: a great chance! Good Luck Eve!!! :*

There are rumours about CNR.

This 3d surface is supposed to be a Valentines heart.

In fact it's a 30400 polygon phong shaded RGB=255,0,0 numeric approximation of

illuminated by a spot light placed at (-1.0,-1.0,0.8).

I had a couple of hard hours while trying to plot (and later render) the implicit equation with matlab but in the end it looks rather nice, eh ?

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