Currently I love to get my hands on Asus EEE 901 laptops. I want one and two co-workers too. So I want three of them. Unfortunatly Asus only delivers the 900 versions or the 901 Windows version of them in The Netherlands. I’ve looked in Germany, but could not find them there either. I’ve seen some online shops in the UK that have them, thought the ones that have them in stock seem to increase there price tags.

So if anyone knows where to get them, without too much problems with power adapters, chinese signs on the keyboard or something like that, please let me know…

My company needs some small applications for our customers, so last weekend I started some Qt4-applications. We need them to run with Microsoft Windows, so I removed the dust from my Windows Vista and started installing things. I must say it takes a while to get the hang of Windows again. Annoying is that stuff is not in the path on the command line.

After installing a subversion client to check out the sources, after that installing Vim for Windows. And after that I needed Qt and a compiler and stuff. Fortunately, the Qt windows installer asks if you want to install the ‘compiler and stuff’ part. So it installs everything is needed. Trolltech did a good job there.

After that qmake and make works without problems. That is, there is no debug output printed to the console. You need a separate application ‘debugview’ which shows you all the output. Now I’m recompiling Qt with debug symbols, so that will take a bit. If you are using Vista, you need to add ‘SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\MinGW\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2′ to your qtvars.bat, else it will fail with can not find cc1 error.

I’m still fighting with QProcess, which seems to have his own ideas about quoting and escaping. Combined with an application which has his own ideas about detecting stdin, I’m having fun tackling this. It will take me a couple of days to get it right probably.

It’s great to be able to create open source applications on Windows.

I did implement a IPv6 network at home and since then I’ve been begging for some more Sixxs credits and received them. That way I could also hook in some servers at work for testing. To deploy it further I need another fight with ip6tables. Since the concept of NAT is gone in IPv6, I need to shield a segment of the network. Some forward rules should do the trick, just haven’t found the right set yet. After that I can do some checking if Mailody is IPv6 proof. I don’t expect any problems, but you never know.

I’ve also been busy at work converting our internal invoicing system to Latex. I never worked with it before so I need to learn a lot. Of course using Kile for that. We used to generate HTML and pressed on the print button of the browser, which worked quite well up to now. Only our current set of browsers can’t do the job anymore. Konqueror4 is the worst in that regard, it just places random bits everywhere, black squares in the middle, not honouring page ranges, and no way to select the paper tray. Does not matter much, will probably be sorted out in the future. Firefox3 is also not doing completely what I want, it puts some letters so close to each other that it turns out ugly, i remember that from kde3 printing days.

So I decided that the system needs a change, by using Latex, I can easily go to the printer, html-preview and to pdf, so I picked that one. But that means I’ve some reduced time for KDE currently and that’s fine. Stepping back a bit for some days isn’t bad. I spent to much time on KDE anyhow.