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exams exams exams

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Today passed ad exam, yeeeeeeeah!!
It was a quite long time since i passed last, and later I collected an impressive row of failures, it seems I’m quite bach on track 🙂
Not that the party will last long, because since i’ve promised myself to finish the university this year, the next year will be quite hectic between exams and thesis, so I won’t have time to do useless things like breathing or something like that, but yeah… I also fear I won’t be able to contribute to KDE so much 🙁 but we’ll see how i manage to wrap things up…

Freeeze!

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After two years of hectic work, of dreaming, of madness the KDE 4.0.0 release is tagged after nearly DDOSing the SVN server yesterday night :).
My best congratulations to all the amazing people that worked so hard 🙂

Soviet videogames

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Today I saw this, and it remembered me that little gem i had since centuries: it’s an Elektronika IM-50, an old (around 1992) russian clone of the Nintendo Game&watch or the Tiger (that was the most popular here in Italy when I was a kid).

It’s a Russian clone that I have absolutely no idea where it came from, but after all is very nice to play.

Elektronika IM-50

You have a starship, that is painted on the screen and little evil ufos come from four directions and you can neutralize them by placing a little parabolic antenna in one of 4 places of the ship (operated by these four round buttons), if you miss a flying saucer you lose a life, that’s it.

Polyester 2: the mighty future!

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I’ve started porting Polyester to qt4/kde4, it has been a nightmare even to get it compiled and it will be a very very big pain in the ass.
Curious to see a very very early screenshot? here it is 🙂

Polyester kde4as you can see at the moment the only things that looks decent are the buttons, the rest is a little bit… aehm 🙂

Merry Christmas to everybody :)

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Oh no! It’s Christmas again! that evil time is beginning to flow a little bit too fast, or maybe I’m getting old… naaah, impossible 🙂
So Merry Christmas to everybody!!

At this period of the year seems natural to do that futile and useless proposals and previsions for the next year thing, so I feel mandatory to do some updates to my projects…

First of all this year no childish Christmas chiptune, sorry, I absolutely had no time nor the inspiration or what is this. But I definitely plan st write some more music next year, if I will have time…

Some days ago I released Polyester 1.0, as I said I consider this release almost final for Qt3/Kde3. I plan to begin the Qt4 port, but I don’t think this could happen for the next couple of months…

I have neglected the poor ol’ Tasty Menu for too long, but I plan to do still some releases, especially to make it a little bit less buggy, most notably its uber-slowness when a search is performed, the most used/most recent list has the wrong order(!) and so on…

At the moment all my coding time goes to a project for an exam, it’s basically a discrete event simulator, it’s of course a toy that can’t simulate real stuffs, but it’s becoming an huge c++-and-stl-abuse monster, maybe when I will pass that exam I could feel like to release it, as all the didactic-therefore-broken apps, could save lifes if somebody has to study these things 🙂

Now it seems aeons ago, but once upon a time I drew a Kde icon theme, that recently I’ve added/modified some icons, I could refine it a little bit and even make a new release that probably this time would be truly the last…

That’is, merry Christmas or whatever else to everybody!

Little change

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Added a right sidebar with the usual blog-related junk, it still needs some refinements and more testing, at the moment it has been tested only with real browsers, I still haven’t tried it with a certain browser that uhm at the moment I can’t remember its name :P, so consider it a beta, because remember: float:left = troubles 🙂