The People Behind KDE: Harri Porten

Tuesday, 27 February 2001  |  Numanee

Harri Porten has been very busy during the last few months with JavaScript in KDE. Despite all the hard work to get things ready for KDE 2.1 he found some time to do this interview with Tink on The People Behind KDE. [As previously featured on the mother site during our unscheduled network downtime.]

Comments:

When will KDE 2.1 be out? - horst - 2001-02-26

When is it comming? I can't wait!!! EAK! Horst

Re: When will KDE 2.1 be out? - Navindra Umanee - 2001-02-26

I believe everything's set but seems there was a delay with propagating stuff to our mirrors. I'm guessing the announce will be tomorrow morning. ;) -N.

Re: When will KDE 2.1 be out? - gunnar - 2001-02-26

its out! ftp.kde.org (is full - no chance) fast server in germany ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/ or look at www.kde.org/mirrors.html -gunnar ...and it rocks again!!!!

Re: When will KDE 2.1 be out? - reihal - 2001-02-26

Got it! Thanks!

[OFF TOPIC] Outage - kdeFan - 2001-02-26

Care to comment on the recent outage? Just curious... I didn't realize how often I check this site until it went down. ;) You do a great job here!

Yes, please... - Jérôme Loisel - 2001-02-26

<P>Seeing as I also use Zope for websites, I would also like to know what the story was on the downtime. If it's not too sensitive, would you mind sharing it with us?</P> <P>Thanks again for the site! The demand for something like this was really big; I'm glad it came along.</P>

Re: Yes, please... - Navindra Umanee - 2001-02-26

It's nothing to do with Zope and it's almost entirely not our fault. Basically, our upstream network service provider (ISP) let us down (and most if not all of their other clients) for reasons that are not entirely clear. Since our backup line went down a couple of weeks ago, we were left stranded without network access. Cheers, Navin.

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Outage - not me - 2001-02-26

Yeah, I noticed the outage too. In 2.1 beta2 there's a little news ticker applet for Kicker (very cool) that can automatically check for new news once every half hour here at dot.kde.org. When the site is down and it tries to check for news, it pops up a little error dialog. I usually leave my computer on all night, so when I check it the next day sometime, I have like 20 error dialogs to click through! I'm glad it's back up now. (I know I could just make it stop checking while the site's down, but I'm too lazy :)

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Outage - Frerich Raabe - 2001-02-26

That annoying behaviour with those lots of error message boxes has been fixed for the version which is going to be released with KDE 2.1.

I liked all his books. - Jim - 2001-02-28

Especially the first one with the Sorcerer's Stone.