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I have finally gotten round to fixing up the Translate Toolkit so that moz2po / po2moz can be properly used with language pack xpis from the Firefox 1.5 series. moz2po -i en-US.xpi -o firefox-pot/ -P # convert to .po files, edit / merge with other .po files po2moz -t en-US.xpi
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Wanting to run virtual machines on my Linux machine, I decided to hunt for a QEMU rpm. I found this nice page that explains how to build QEMU rpms for Fedora Core. However he uses the kqemu accelerator which is not open source and I would rather use qvm86 which
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So, OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been released. If you've tried the 1.x series, this is much, much better. There's a very interesting interview with Louis Suarez-Potts available. ith unusually good timing I've managed to get South African builds of all our latest
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After being busy with lots of behind the scenes things and other work, I feel like I'm finally making progress on the following: Building OpenOffice.org on Windows - I've been working with Michael Meeks to get ooo-build working nicely on Windows with the 2.0
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A friend gave Danielle the Complete Flumps DVD for her birthday, and we've been watching them together as a family. This is giving us lots of fun and me some inspiration for Pootle quotes :-)
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It's Danielle's birthday today, and she's 30! What a privilege to have such an amazing wife! Last night she fell well trying to stop James falling off some stairs, and twisted her ankle really badly, looks like the ligaments are torn. So its a
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Long time no blog ... We're releasing a South African version of OpenOffice.org in all 11 languages. Some are still in Beta... This is based on milestone 128, and we actually did our own Windows build (no minor task!!!) We'd like to get testing done on
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A few language related news items from South Africa over the last few months: Firstly, the Pan South African Language Board decries the loss of human languages but only has International Mother Tongue Day and such like as solutions. Surely this is a feather-weight solution to a hippo-sized problem? For
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Several months after I posted Once in a Blue Rose, an article appears with a photo: Roses are Blue (also on Slashdot: True Blue) The question is, Is the photo real? The one here is apparently not... (see the slashdot comments which reference a preexisting version)
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At last got some nice progress done on Pootle this week, although it isn't visible on http://pootle.wordforge.org yet... * uploading PO files / archives * merging files together (from uploads) and putting unresolvable differences as suggestions * creating / updating files from templates I also put the latest source archives
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We had James's first birthday party today - he turns one next Saturday! Was great fun making a Carrot Cake in the shape of Prince Eddie, his favourite toy. What a blessing and privilege for Danielle and I to be his parents.
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I had a great holiday last week, a much-needed break. I had fun rearranging my office (the same space, but more space...), by making a piece of wood that my computers can rest on underneath my desk. Decided Desktop boxes should ideally be sideways since all the important stuff can