People of KDE: Neil Stevens

Did you ever, without any particular reason whatsoever, wonder "Who is Neil?"
Despair no longer, for in this week's installment of
The People Behind KDE, Tink came up with a whole new
set of questions to find out.
To learn what Neil wears inside
and outside his bed or what his plans are for Noatun, jump straight to the
interview.

Newsflash:
Starting this week, the series has a set of new questions, as well as some new features.
The
url page
is back, all the favorite urls of the People will be posted there so it's easy to access if you have a dull moment and want to surf all the favorite
urls.
Hope you enjoy the new questions and feel free to suggest new interview victims. ;-)

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Comments

by Navindra Umanee (not verified)

I really enjoyed this interview, and a lot of thanks goes to the nicely revamped question set by Tink. Great job!

As to Neil, I think you're crazy for using a Monitor resolution nobody else sane has ever heard of. That Noatun plugin in your screenshot sure looks intriguing. And why is there no mention of freekde in this Interview? You *again* lose a chance to market this site. :-P Be sure to drop us an email so that we can announce its return, btw.

Tink: Could you exert some of your widespread KDE influence and get Dre back on the list of interviewees?? I'd really like to know who this Dre guy is anyway.

Cheers,
-N.

by will (not verified)

I have found 1152x864 to be the best resolution for 17" monitors... try it out!

by KDE User (not verified)

I have to agree, that's what I use on my 17" as well (me too!)

by Bob Raymond (not verified)

Here I'm happier with 1600x1200 on my Dell D1025TM and 1280x1024 on my Sony Multiscan17sf II (lower on that one because it doesn't support 1600x1200) with a Radeon 8500. That's just me though. I suppose my eyes will be fried before I know it.

by mETz (not verified)

Same for me, I love to have 1152x864 on my Samsung 17"

1024x768 is too small and 1280x1024 makes everything tiny ;)

by reihal (not verified)

G400 with two 17" monitors doing 1152x864 here! Highly recommended.

by Neil Stevens (not verified)

If FreeKDE had been up at the time, I'd have found *some* way to market it. As it is, I got the domain mentioned at least twice - loooona, and my desktop screenshot. :-)

The one in the screenshot is Hayes, which has been enabled and now disabed again for shipping in KDE 3.0 itself. so, once things have absolutely frozen I'll go and make final tarballs of everything on my site, and that will include Hayes.

by fura (not verified)

AFAIK it's default resolution off lesser (17"?) SUN monitors.

by Timothy R. Butler (not verified)

"Tink: Could you exert some of your widespread KDE influence and get Dre back on the list of interviewees?? I'd really like to know who this Dre guy is anyway."

Yes I agree. We need a good interview of that Dre character. ;-)

-Tim

by Christian A Str... (not verified)

The new questions are great Tink! Good work! :)

by blashyrkh (not verified)

I really like the interviews,
it is interesting to know some more about the people behind the job.
(And it's a job well done, believe me)
Hehe, something good about belgium.
The beer! Luckily most people don't know
much more then the beer ;-)
Maybe we should donate belgian beer to
the KDE developers?

by Andy "Storm" Go... (not verified)

I can't get enough Belgian beer. Luckily I live in Belgium :-)

I want to see more Belgian developers... Michael Goffioul (KDE Printing) is doing a very good job!

by Scott Wheeler (not verified)

And don't forget the waffles! Beer and waffles, not a bad start, but certainly beer, waffles and a handful of KDE developers would be a better combination! :-)

Anyway, I guess I'm more of a fan of Mexican beer, so for me I'll stick to the waffles. :-)

-Scott

by Anonymous (not verified)

I hope it's just a bad coincidence that this guy get's honour and more attention nowadays.

We al get the attention we deserve, even you.

--
Tink

by Starved of atte... (not verified)

What about me?

here's some

by dingledongle (not verified)

The Neil Stevens controversy continues over at Slashdot and on the lists:

Neil's tirade against Dirk Mueller:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/09/224213&mode=nocomment
Dirk Mueller's response:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/10/149245
Waldo Bastian's take on it all
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29227&cid=3136608

Someone (not me) with a back & forth with Rob Kaper defending Neil:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29227&cid=3136623

by PrettyAccurate (not verified)

Bah! (Score:5, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09, @10:10PM (#3136623)
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This guy has been moaning about KDE since ages. He may contribute to KDE a bit, but by God he pisses off nearly every developer.

lists.kde.org and dot.kde.org are where he trolls most.

He has:

Criticized *many* KDE developers good work, even though they are working for free in their spare time.

Would rather see Microsoft go off scott free and end up killing KDE than have Microsoft be punished for being a monopoly.

Has sabotaged KDE CVS because people didn't agree with him.

He now wants to lead KDE.

The guy has an agenda to cripple KDE anyway he can, by sowing discord and criticizing everyone. He shows no respect for peoples work and never apologizes even when he is completely wrong. Its a miracle KDE has put up with him so far.

You mean like in that Asterix episode "La Zizanie" ?

Does it ever happen that his cigarette sets light to the ashtray?

:)

Don't smoke, never have, never will. :-)

by NAVEEN (not verified)

rich man needs......poor man her........if you eat........you will die

by angel (not verified)

The answer is NOTHING

The rich man needs NOTHING
The poor man has NOTHING and
if u eat NOTHING u will die

by fault (not verified)

nice interview with one of the more contraversial (re: slashdot) developers (not saying that's a bad thing--- it's really quite cool).

code on neil :)

by Rob Kaper (not verified)

Monopoly, Pepsi,pizza, dark, belgian beer, tabs.

I agree! ;-)

by Neil Stevens (not verified)

Well, considering I was referring to you when it comes to the beer, I hope you do.

I also hope you agree with Atlantik :-)

by Anonymous Troll (not verified)

I really enjoyed Necronomicon! Keep up the good work!

If at least one person chuckled, it was worth it. And that's including myself.

by ac (not verified)

That is funny.

by ac (not verified)

Has the KC KDE guy been interviewed yet?

by Loranga (not verified)

Really cool feature! But it is nowhere near complete at the moment, I guess...

by Neil Stevens (not verified)

Nifty little conincidence: Chris Howells has now started another push to flesh out the map:

http://worldwide.kde.org/map/

by Loranga (not verified)

Cool, just wonder which KDE developer who lives at 0' long, 0' lat... :) (Check out the large map with names (which currently doesn't show any names...))

by Vitamin C (not verified)

Maybe someone should show this guy XMMS and mplayer... both using gtk-frontends, and offer a far better multimedia experience than No-cantdo-tun.