The last couple of weeks I was not that productive for KDE. The week around the KDE Four Multimedia Meeting I barely touched my laptop, just had a little burn out. There was plenty of time left to enjoy some books in the meantime.
One of them is The Field, at the moment of writing I didn't finish reading yet. It's about a theory that every subatomic part in this universe, is connected with other subatomic parts. You should forget about the Newtonian world where every object has it's own time and space. Things are quite different, everything is related. If the theory holds, it would have a great impact on our vision of the world today.
If the theory holds, it would explain why human beings are able to cure each other remotely, to 'see' remote locations where we've never been, the essence of gravity, and the capabilities of our mind to influence machines. Sounds freaky, no?
You would think this is all made up by some new age hippie. But then, you're wrong. Everything in this book is based upon independent scientific researches. Many, many scientists have reported observations which don't fit in our current world model. And that makes the book a very interesting read.

Besides reading, I was occupied the last week with installing some Linux systems. Me and my dad got a bit tired of Kubuntu with its quirks, so I installed SuSE 10.1 for him. A reasonably good distribution (it has its quirks too, of course), but I didn't get serious complaints so far
Last week the Linux partition on our "family desktop" failed to load. Some kind of corrupt superblock on the Ext3 file system. I did a couple of attempts to replace the superblock but I failed. Luckily, I had an Ubuntu Live-CD (sloooww!) which enabled me to backup the data from the harddisk and transfer it to my notebook. Today I installed SuSE 10.1 as well on this machine.
And then I supported a co-student to install Gentoo on his desktop computer (he's really Windows minded, so it's brave to start experiencing Linux with Gentoo). The machine was some kind of 64 bit AMD with some relatively new hardware. The system was up and running quite fast, but it has some serious problems. Xorg seems to hang quite frequently (or maybe it's the kernel, couldn't find out yet), I think due to some broken nVidia drivers. It needs some more investigation, but I hope to fix it soon for him. His first impression of Linux could have been better.

Well... it's about 2:30 am now. I would like to write some more, but I'm getting sleepy.