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testing screenshots plugin for nanoblogger
We've moved our translate.org.za site to run on nanoblogger which is a great improvement. So now I'm writing a plugin to handle screenshots. It's working pretty well now...
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Lack of logic may shape psychologist's thinking about language
slashdot mentioned an article entitled Language may shape human thought in which a psychologist argues for a variant of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on the basis of a study of the Pirahã tribe. On closer examination his logic is fairly interesting ... extracts from the article illustrate this: * "There are not
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finally finished openoffice multilang builds
Finally finished the OpenOffice.org multilanguage builds, as in we have a master CD ready. This involved doing stuff to make it add menu items to KDE and Gnome, and handling recurring bugs with wx and python expat versions clashing... also found some things like templates were missing and got
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OOo multilingual test release for Linux
There is a new multilingual build of OOo 1.1.3 available on sourceforgeAt the moment, it is only available on Linux, Windows builds will be done on the weekend. This build contains Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, Tswana and Zulu. All the languages will be installed. The translations are almost all
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Language inequality still a reality in South Africa
From an article on the Small Claims Court in the Southern Suburbs Tatler, our local freebie newspaper: The third case that afternoon involved a Xhosa-speaking man who, apparently, did some building work for a Xhosa-speaking homeowner and did not get paid for it. The two parties could not converse in
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Progress on multilingual builds
I have now fixed most of the issues with multilingual install sets for OpenOffice.org (menu items stuck in a language, needing to edit the config files after the install) so we should be able to do a test release soon...
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Ups and downs of multilingual openoffice setup
Finally worked out today how to get the OpenOffice.org setup program to display in the right language - was fairly simple, just set the Locale in Linux via LANG or in Windows via the control panel. In Windows, we need to manually edit the registry as Zulu and Sipedi
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Wireless Hotspots on Lamp Posts
An idea I mentioned to Dwayne a while ago - why not use lamp posts to hold WiFi HotSpots - and start a mesh that edges from highways into suburbs...
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Metadata for the desktop
An idea I've been thinking about for a while, so was nice to read Metadata for the desktop by Edd Dumbill. I've really been enjoying using KImDaBa to manage my photos. But it doesn't make it easy to share the photos in a categorized
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Merging OpenOffice.org setups to create multilingual installs...
Over the last few days, got a Python script going that merges the setup scripts for OpenOffice.org setups so we can create a multilingual installation with all the Southern African languages so far... Still needs a bit of tweaking but most of it is working. For some reason the
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Once in a Blue Rose
First saw on IOL that someone has managed to make a genetically modified blue rose. In the hunt for pictures, went off to Google News but alas a search for "blue rose" only turned up one other article. Both attribute the discovery to Suntory which doesn't
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Multi-language OpenOffice.org
Discovered its possible to combine multiple languages in one OpenOffice.org installation. Just no user interface at the moment to select the language. But managed to manually produce a English/Zulu version with only a few glitches. We should produce a South African version with all the languages so far