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Archive for February, 2005

Qt 4 optionally GPL’ed for Win32, too

(via) Today is a good day for cross platform development. Trolltech, the company behind Qt, has announced today that the next major version of its cross-platform api/lib, Qt 4, will be “dual-licensed” on Windows, too. This means that the developer chooses the licensing model of Qt by the way the software she develops is licensed. If she is going to publish it as GPL, the Qt development libs can be accessed for free - under the GPL license. Which is good. In the past it was only possible to do semi-cross-platform development on a GPL basis on Mac and Linux. With Qt 4 it will be possible to compile those on Windows “for free”, too.

Published on February 7th, 2005 at 15:34.
Filed under finding, english, geekery

Personal Pop Art

Today is the birthday of my father. Since my brother and I have moved out already (and my sister might do this soon, too), I have created a stencil-like piece with us on it. Yet to achieve good results I had to do some pre-processing on the computer. Putting it together in a Warholesqe way it looks like this:

 Files Ht Pop

More of this kind of stuff in the halftones section.

Published on February 4th, 2005 at 15:36.
Filed under update, english

Breaking with violence

While the exhibition on the RAF is now open for some days already, I have finished reading “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex” by Stefan Aust. As I knew only little about the militant left groups of the seventies, I found the book quite stirring. It is written like a good crime novel, yet it covers a relevant and real chapter of Germany’s recent history. The book seems to do a good job describing what it was like back then (only 30 years ago) as a political activist turning to terrorism by employing force and violence.

I share the general critique that was articulated by those groups - yet their methods have proven wrong. In my view they were actually proven wrong for three reasons. First, violent actions do always carry the risk of injuring or killing innocent people - this needs no further explaination. Second, the method by which goals are followed are probably defining how those goals are implemented. If I use military style commando during a transition, how am I gonna get rid of the military hierarchy? Third and last, the state is most of the time stronger in terms of violence and oppression. State apparati are doing a good job all over the world oppressing their people and others by violent means. No need to put oil into this fire. So why taking violent methods? Life is good. Mine and yours.

State and capital - in my eyes the prime reasons for injustice, oppression, exploitation, and war - have to be beaten on other grounds. There are dimensions they just won’t get. It is participation, solidarity, and love.

Published on February 3rd, 2005 at 15:39.
Filed under reading, english

Blog with blog features

The “simple php blog” is getting more mature. Now we can have permanent links for every entry and trackback, too - even though I am not sure, whether this works. Navigation got improved through a nifty calendar, and it is possible to categorize entries, which I will do in the future but also for old entries. Thanks to the developers.

Published on February 3rd, 2005 at 15:39.
Filed under update, english, geekery