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From an article on the Small Claims Court in the Southern Suburbs Tatler, our local freebie newspaper:
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...
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 / Northern Sotho aren't listed languages...
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...
An idea I've been thinking about for a while, so was nice to read
Metadata for the desktop by Edd Dumbill.
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...
First saw on
IOL that someone has managed to make a genetically modified blue rose
Discovered its possible to combine multiple languages in one OpenOffice.org installation
Met up with Mahle today who is interested in making a Xhosa Children's Bible or at least part of one.
nanoblogger 2.8 released - and saw it on freshmeat