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People of KDE: Carsten Pfeiffer

Tuesday, 20 February 2001  |  Inorog

If you're using klipper, the enhanced KDE clipboard manager, or if you have noticed Konqueror's excellent history support, then you already know a bit of who Carsten Pfeiffer is and what he does for KDE. He answers the questions this week in Tink's popular interviews series with the People of KDE. Enjoy!

Comments:

Re: People of KDE: Carsten Pfeiffer - KDE User - 2001-02-20

Klipper is one of the best and most useful KDE utils ever. It simply rules!

HAHAH - Jason Katz-Brown - 2001-02-20

Coolo's quote at the end Kracks me up! hee hee. Jason

The most important question! - Otter - 2001-02-20

Why "gis" ?

Re: The most important question! - anonymous - 2001-02-20

Why "Otter" ? ;)

Re: The most important question! - KDE User - 2001-02-20

Carsten == Global Information System ;-p

Re: The most important question! - gis - 2001-02-20

gis is just short for gismoe, a nickname I've had for a long time (remember the movie Gremlins?). No, I don't behave weird when eating something after midnight :)

Re: The most important question! - Daniel Molkentin - 2001-02-20

Heh, we all know that "gis" short for "Gisela". Is it it that what happens to you after midnight? >;) Cheers, Daniel

Re: The most important question! - gis - 2001-02-20

<i>Heh, we all know that "gis" short for "Gisela". Is it it that what happens to you after midnight? >;) Cheers, Daniel</i><br><br> No, but actually I do behave a bit weird around midnight, because that's when that !#*&% SuSE cronjob starts to scan my entire harddisk, basically killing anything else you're currently doing ;)

Re: The most important question! - Lukas Tinkl - 2001-02-21

Hehe ;-)<br> <br> Hi Carsten :)<br> --<br> Lukas

Re: The most important question! - gis - 2001-02-21

Hi Lukas, yes, I did notice your new @suse.cz address :) Congrats! BTW, the midnight-cronjob seems to be fixed in SuSE 7.1, at least it seems to be not that annoying anymore.

Re: The most important question! - molgan - 2001-02-21

why not try: hdparam -c1d1 /dev/<hardrive> might at least make the suffering shorter :) It makes a huge diffrense on my box. Don't work with scsi but i don't think you have it :)

Re: The most important question! - molgan - 2001-02-21

should be /dev/"harddrive"<br> it seems to be an error in the tag validation code,<br> the last post broke something :)

Re: The most important question! - gis - 2001-02-21

Yes, I have those settings already... They had quite a positive effect, but the cronjob still sucked.

Re: The most important question! - Daniel - 2001-02-21

Well, that's SuSE geek protection. Take it serious and go to bed ;)

.emacs - Henning - 2001-02-20

Hi Carsten, please share your .emacs with us ;-))

Re: .emacs - gis - 2001-02-20

It's now at <a href="http://master.kde.org/~pfeiffer/emacs-stuff.tgz">http://master.kde.org/~pfeiffer/emacs-stuff.tgz</a> (containing a dir with .emacs and .xemacs-options for those interested).

Kuickshow - Claus - 2001-02-20

Kuickshow is the only KDE 1 program I still use. I am eagerly awaiting the new release...

Re: Kuickshow - gis - 2001-02-21

If you want to test-drive the KDE2 version, check http://master.kde.org/~pfeiffer/, there's a preliminary version that does sort of work. Some parts are non-functional tho, e.g. the config-dialog. <br><br> A fully working version should be available in 2-3 weeks.