Last part was about installing, this part is all about command line options. First take a look at the output from regular cmake, building RSIBreak:

How active are you when you work a day?

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• Measured per second of activity
• Had a nice long lunch break of course
• Most of the work done by Bram
• svn version of RSIBreak
• No, not a lot of breaks.

Wow. Boudewijn was able to fix a bug in 4 minutes. Is that an all time record? The summary only goes back 7 days….

And now for something totally unrelated:

• rsibreak has a new site, just needs some color (and a manual)
• Forms on internet are getting useless without captchas or other anti-spam rules.
• Public email addresses are getting spammed more and more. Spam-filter is essential.
• My health insurance returns money because I did not use it, a reason not to go this year either.
• Although Balkende promised nobody would loose money, more than 50% of the people have less to spend because of new health insurence system.
• If you rule an electricity company you can earn 800.000 euro a year
• Some people think that is realistic
• The price of electricity has quadrupled the last years.
• I have to get a permit from the city I live in, to attach a clock to a building

Maybe I should move to Belgium…

After hard work from Bram Schoenmakers and me, I’ve prepared a release candidate for RSIBreak. The main changes are:

• Instead of a big break after x tiny breaks, the big break is now scheduled at x minutes.
• Improved idle detection, if you dont touch your mouse/keyboard for one second, the timer wil also hold for a second.
• dcop interface added for stopping/resuming RSIBreak
• improved multihead setup: grab mouse and keyboard when slideshow is active, so you can not continue on another screen.
• new tooltip code, which provides better and live information about the next big and tiny break

So, what is RSIBreak, you might want to know. Well it is a small utility which tries to prevent you from getting RSI. RSI stands for Repetitive Strain Injury and is a disease which is caused by repetitive movements of some muscles, for example working behind the computer. You can read a lot more at wikipedia

This utility tries to interrupt you in your work behind the computer, the trick is to get you away from the computer in a non-intrusive way, if it is an irritating utility people will be tempted to shut down the application.

You can try this release candidate by downloading the kubuntu dapper .deb or the source

Last blogs I mentioned I am now using voip. It works great. Sometimes there is some echo in conversations, but that I can live with.

What I dont like is that caller id does not work with my prepaid account and also budgetphones accounting is not acccessible for prepaid users. Maybe I will switch to a post paid account to have those features. Maybe not though.

To my surprise I noticed that there was a mythtv extension for sip. So this week I’ve set up an asterisk server on my mythtv box. The plugin of mythtv connects to it, and asterisk is connected to budgetphone. Et voila, when someone calls me, there is a popup on my television which shows who’s calling, hmmmm, at least that should happen when I have caller ID… The rest of the plugin I can not seem to understand, but this works.

Asterisk is really great. You can actually create a text file with information like a local extention and a number to dial and put that file in the spool folder of asterisk and it will dial the local extention, wait until it answers and call the number.

Yeah, I should spend my time on usefull stuff, I know. But I broke the digiKam tarball 0.8.1, which does not compile < KDE 3.4, I probably am to blame for breaking the search as well in that release, and I might be responsible for breaking the calendar kipi. So, I need to clean up some things in the near future. That will probably slow down developing rsibreak even further.

On other news, I'm starting to gather information about the people who want to attend to the multimedia meeting, so if I didn’t sent you a mail already, let me know.