kconfigure is a KDE build tool for the autoconfig build environment. It allows you to perform build configurations, compile, and install capabilities from inside of a GUI. I have been working on it as a side project for the last 3 months or so and have finally completed work on Version 2.0 . If you get a chance, come and check it out. It’s my first “hard core” contribution to KDE; and it even got me a free iPod mini. Who says that Open Source doesn’t pay.
Month: October 2004
A Breif Review of a Book
A Short History of the Future is book designed to give form to the utopia ideal of every liberal college professor I have ever had. I bought the book on the dollar table at my college almost four years ago on a recommendation of one of my friends. You would think I would know better. Some of the more interesting (ok, maybe not) concepts covered in the book are “Democratic Communism” (yes, the author was attempting to be serious) and “Absolute Relativism.”
The book covers in earnest a 210 year period starting in 1990 or so. The version I read was actually the second edition. The first addition was written, went to press, and was so ridiculously wrong in its predictions that they had to come out with a new addition (who’d a guessed the USSR would loose the cold war.) Basic plot goes like this. Take Marxist revolutionary theory, give it a 200 year time line, remove everything professors always ignore about communism (darn it, why is it that censorship, oppression, and removal of individual liberties always gets in the way of a good communist government.) That’s is the entire book. It lacked originality, vision, and was overall just a bad book.
I am writing this review as nothing more than a warning. It is not the worst collegiate literature I have ever read, but it can definitely claim its place with some of them.