People of KDE: Carsten Pfeiffer

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!

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by KDE User (not verified)

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

by Jason Katz-Brown (not verified)

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

Jason

by Otter (not verified)

Why "gis" ?

by anonymous (not verified)

Why "Otter" ? ;)

by KDE User (not verified)

Carsten == Global Information System

;-p

by gis (not verified)

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 :)

by Daniel Molkentin (not verified)

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

Cheers,

Daniel

by gis (not verified)

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

by Lukas Tinkl (not verified)

Hehe ;-)

Hi Carsten :)
--
Lukas

by gis (not verified)

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.

by molgan (not verified)

why not try:
hdparam -c1d1 /dev/
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 :)

by molgan (not verified)

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

by gis (not verified)

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

by Daniel (not verified)

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

by Henning (not verified)

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

by gis (not verified)

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

by Claus (not verified)

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

by gis (not verified)

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.

A fully working version should be available in 2-3 weeks.