Viewing posts for the category tech
Beware! I apt-get dist-upgraded my system to the latest fedora development rpms, and part of that upgraded dev to udev. All very nice. Except I couldn't open a terminal. So I rebooted. And then it wouldn't even boot up properly because it couldn't allocate a console. So I had to use a rescue CD to create the /dev/console node, then it was fine.
God answers prayer. Going to
OOoCon 2004 despite it initially seeming unlikely.
Steve Ballmer explains:
We've moved our
translate.org.za site to run on
nanoblogger which is a great improvement
Finally finished the OpenOffice.org multilanguage builds, as in we have a master CD ready.
There is a new
multilingual build of OOo 1.1.3 available on sourceforge
At the moment, it is only available on Linux, Windows builds will be done on the weekend.
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.