Posted by George Wright
Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:06:00 GMT
I arrived in Dublin last night, but because my flight was delayed by about 40 minutes (which is about the same as the duration of the flight…) I didn’t meet the KDE people at the airport I was supposed to meet. Thankfully, Chris Howells turned up about 20 minutes after I did, so we managed to get lost together.
The hostel is nowhere near as good as the accommodation we had last year, but it’s better than the hostel was in Ludwigsburg - so it’s not too bad.
So far there has been one talk - the keynote by Aaron Seigo. Charismatic as usual, he played really bad music whilst showing a slideshow of KDE developers’ photos. Luckily he only found one photo of me.
Trinity College Dublin seems to be a fairly nice place. There’s wireless access throughout the campus (it seems) and the we seem to be getting around 2Mbit/s of bandwidth. NX is rather speedy to my home ADSL line (which is on a 1Mbit upload). However, there is an issue with the network such that I keep getting my ssh connections reset randomly, which NX doesn’t like too much.
Lunch, however, was more of a disaster. I tried to hotswap the main battery in my ThinkPad (I have two batteries), and it managed to corrupt all the filesystems. After 4 hours of fighting I managed to get it back together though - without resorting to reinstalling Kubuntu.
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Posted by George Wright
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:44:00 GMT
This year LWCE is slightly later - it’s on October 25th and 26th in Olympia 2 (as usual). However, so far nobody has actually put themselves down as a firm exhibitor to help out at the KDE booth. Last year only Ivor Hewitt and I pitched up to help so ideally I’d like to be able to get more people this year.
For those who don’t know what it is, we basically sit in a (rather nice) booth all day on the 25th and 26th and show off how pretty and functional KDE is to various attendees and hopefully increase the awareness of KDE in the corporate market. Last year we gave away a couple of hundred flyers and many, many Kubuntu CDs.
This year I’ve managed to get in contact with Canonical (those lovely people who do Ubuntu) and they’ve kindly offered to lend us a display machine with an LCD monitor for demo purposes. We have to pick it up from their South Kensington office but that shouldn’t be a problem.
I’m also going to place an order with the MWG to try and get things to sell there - mainly Konqis and shirts of various types. Booth gear I will pick up from Jonathan at aKademy in Ireland.
There’s an organisation page at the KDE UK wiki and if people who are likely to come could please add their names to the wiki I’d be very, very grateful.
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Posted by George Wright
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:57:00 GMT
Today I put the finishing touches to QtNX. It now has a nice little logging window and different authentication public keys can be used now. The statusbar now gives meaningful information and a message box comes up if ssh is requesting permission to proceed (for connecting to previously-unconnected hosts).
The Key Dialogue
There are a few glitches though. It appears that it doesn’t like to connect to various versions of NX - 2.0.0 appears to be particularly troublesome at the moment. I intend to install NX 2.0.0 on a machine somewhere at some point, but if someone was willing to give me access to a machine running 2.0.0 or a Windows NX server I’d be very grateful.
The Log Window
There are various other bits and pieces that haven’t been implemented due to lack of knowledge about how it works. These are basically limited to printer support, Windows server support and VNC server support. Sound does work, which surprised me as I didn’t go out of my way to get it to work - it seems it’s forwarded automatically!
The Statusbar
The suspend/resume session support appears to be a little iffy at the moment, but I hope to stabilise that. It works quite well, but I’d like it to be a little more robust. Perhaps this is a problem with the NX server as well as I used to have trouble suspending and resuming sessions in the binary client supplied by NoMachine as well.
In any case, here’s a nice little screenshot of the whole of QtNX working as it should:
QtNX in all its glory
I also urge as many people as possible to test this and send me feedback to the usual email address. Ideally I’d like a log from ssh (what’s dumped to stdout, or the really nice and new log window) and any other information you deem relevant (like what doesn’t work). It can be obtained from the usual place. I’ll blog with some intructions on how to install it on Dapper soon (as I’ve just transitioned all my boxes from Gentoo to Dapper - a blog detailing my experiences will appear some day…).
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