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Successfully on KDE 4.2 since last three days :o
Few quirks as usual but thats the fun part.
(The default oxygen style just does not work. it misses making updates to parts of application window every now and then making it quite ugly experience. However switching to plain old plastik makes it go away.)
Also just realized that this release is named "The Answer". Took me a while to hit the "42" conncetion.

I finally found a way to change the kde4 proxy automatically based on class of ip address i get on available network interface.
I already found a script from google to do that for gnome.
And now found a KDE3 script which had to be modified to do a KDE4 DBUS message to make applications reread the settings.
The info was especially hard to find on the net. Reproducing both scripts below.

Put below in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/02proxy

Make sure you make appropriate changes to USERNAME and YOURPROXY etc. (Click read more to find the scripts)

What can i say.... i am sick.

How many times have you been distracted by the cool funky logos google search page keeps throwing on special days?.... (today apparently was the Morse's brithday and had a nice google logo in morse code).

Damn you google, you made me waste almost an hour on a topic i had no prior knowledge of.

While using teamGit for developing (what else?) teamGit, i came across a white space cleanup patch.

 It was fairly large patch and teamGit took a noticable sub-second interval to render it in its diff window. That suddenly reminded me of KGit :D. How it use to take ages to load any patch larger than about 100 lines. Taking its time to render the output of git token by token, line by line. Doing a signal for every match found and every event in state machine. Ahh!!! having a big wide smile on my face feels real good.

This lead me to a new theory, having an opportunity to laugh at one self without any significant consequence is a real essential factor contributing to a happy life.

All the card games, sports and many forms of entertainment become a hit, if fundamentally they give this opportunity at a very low relative cost.

So i guess just learning to laugh at self is not enough. You need to start making enough silly mistakes as well and make sure they have zero impact on serious matters. Tough life !!! me feels blessed.

And now Fedora 11 beta review is out.... Sigh!

I am trying to resist it... but i just _know_ i am going to install it sooner or later to try out.

I (again) changed to jaunty as my default desktop. And after couple of days two realisations have hit me hard.

1. I have obsessive compulsive disorder about changing my desktop
2. Not being able to 'git checkout' exact kernel i am running on my prodution machine makes me nervous, uneasy and leaves a deep emotional void in my chest.

I NEED HELP !!!!

Foss.in just announced the dates and venue for next conference in 09.

And in even more shocking dvvelopment, they have also annonced a CFP.. well sort of. They have announced that the CFP will be announced in april itself :D. Well i guess they heard the noises last year.

But now this is a slight problem for me. As always i want to take a workout on teamgit. But there is hardly anything i can plan _right_ now for DECEMBER???? Heck its moving so fast ahead that i really have no idea what to propose.

Well lets see...... May be just a workout on git will do as well. Or may be i can brew up a totally new project. Gitfs storage cluster???? Donno weather this will be official workout, but hey its foss.in i can always try and hijack couple of tables. Especially since this year there are going to be lot of them in the hallways as i hear.

I came to know that SourceForge just launched git,bz and hg SCM management for projects hosted on it.

Should i switch.... ?

On one hand it gives me reliable tried and tested stuff.. plus a project management interface and a bug tracker as well, all in one place.

On the other hand i am doing just fine with github and gitorious.

So i guess i have to make a pros and cons list :) Damn i hate when i have to be analytical....

SIDENOTE: Dose this mean collabnet will launch DVCS services soon?

After a short break, i have restarted hacking on teamgit.

And result is here, i just announced teamgit v0.0.10.
A couple of features more and we should head towards v0.1.0