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Some interesting articles to read when I came back from holiday. It seems Swahili free software stuff is moving forward in lots of fronts. Tomorrow I'm going up to Pretoria to train some of the KiLinux team on using ooo-build for building localized OpenOffice.org. Kamusi Project Internet
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Well I clearly didn't manage to release 0.8, there has been a fair bit of patching and adding tests (particularly ensuring round-trip maintenance of source files in Mozilla, David Farning has been filing many bugs). And quite a few bugs in our bugzilla have been fixed. I&
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I got one of our OpenOffice.org 1.9.128 CDs, and I must say they look very nice. Very South African. The thing about this OpenOffice.org is, it comes in all 11 South African languages. Would you like Mrs Balls Chutney with that, sir?
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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)