Oxygen

Today I decided to give the new Oxygen icon theme (the default icon theme for KDE 4, as Troy Unrau explains effectively on dot.kde.org) a spin. Since it’s not (obviously) available for KDE 3.x, I had to do a checkout from SVN (from trunk/KDE/kdelibs/pics, since they were recently moved there). Then it was a matter of moving the oxygen folder to /usr/share/icons and selecting the theme in kcontrol.

March 9, 2007

Dancougar Nova 3

Last week (this should show how behind I am in writing things) I watched the third episode of Dancougar Nova. This new episode gives an insight about what the group (nicknamed Team D where D stands for Dangerous - I am getting a deja vu with regards to Tekkaman Blade’s D-Boy…) is supposed to do and more details about the Dancougar itself.

March 5, 2007

Fear of change

A recent article on dotKDE caused really a stir and a rather long (more than 430 comments!) debate. What is the reason? The decision to use the [Dolphin file manager](The Road to KDE 4: Dolphin and Konqueror) instead of Konqueror as default file manager. I found myself rather surprised at such a reaction. After all, Dolphin and Konqueror will share much of the code base (which means that they will improve both) and Konqueror won’t be removed and will be available as default file manager through configuration.

March 1, 2007

Deadlines and domains

I just learnt today that the paper I’m writing with my colleague has to be in an acceptable state (almost submission ready) by the 20th. Considering I’m still behind with the analysis, it will be certainly challenging to complete the task, considering I also have other duties to attend to. In primis I need to study more and more papers (I add more and more to my TODO list). Also, probably next week the new infrastructure for authentication (which includes a Primary Domain Controller for Windows clients) will be put in place and I’ll have to make sure that the data handling for our group will be without problems.

March 1, 2007

Thoughts

I’ve found always hard to express certain types of ideas on the Internet. I probably think that it’s due to the abuse of the anonimity that the net gives to most people (hint: think of the angsty teens on MySpace). The overall result is that some people feel put off in writing anything that is closely related to being emotional (either positive or negative), and on the other hand, other people may be annoyed after reading a lot of emotional things without real content.

February 25, 2007

A lot of work

Work is getting hectic as we’re finally gathering a lot of data for a new publication. This means reading a lot of literature, choosing the figures and planning results and discussion properly. On top of that, I’m starting to study pathway analysis for my thesis, and of course, seeing how I can use that to study our own data. I also have some other non research duties to attend to, such as being the person repsonsible for data handling of our group in relation to the [server that we bought recently]({{ site.

February 24, 2007

Dancougar Nova 2

I’ve watched the second episode of Dancougar Nova, titled Choju Gasshin! yesterday. The animation quality is on a good level (after Gravion I wasn’t so sure) throughout the episode, aside a couple of hiccups here and there.

February 17, 2007

Richard M. Stallman is disgusting

No, I’m not talking about his looks. I’m talking about him being morally disgusting. The reason? The fact that he went to Cuba and convinced them to switch to FOSS. You may want to know, why is that a bad thing? Easy answer: Cuba isn’t a democracy. Think what you want, blame the United States for the embargo how much you like, but you won’t be able to hide the fact that it is a totalitarian, oppressive regime.

February 16, 2007

Dancougar Nova

Since almost everyone’s attention is focused on Naruto Shippuden, not many noticed that on Feb 15th a new mecha show was aired. Titled Juso Kiko Dancougar Nova, this anime is a remake/sequel (I need to figure this out) of the 198X series _Choju Kishin Dancougar _(Super Machine Beast God Dancougar), and coincidentally animated by the same studio (Ashi Productions).

February 11, 2007

Two days in Firenze

I’ve just came back from a two days’ trip in Firenze. On the first day we had a long (4.30 hours) meeting on some interesting research topics, such as cellular aging and about oxidative damage in yeast. On the second day I attended part of a workshop on pathway analysis and related topics. Many speakers were from the NuGO project funded by the European Community, but the talks were still quite general.