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Interesting logic from Mr Rumsfeld: Several hours after his appearance, Mr Rumsfeld issued a statement saying his comments had been "regrettably misunderstood" and that he had acknowledged there were ties between Osama Bin Laden and Iraq based upon CIA intelligence. This included "solid evidence of the presence
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I didn't have a laptop at OOoCon 2004 and didn't manage to write anything in detail then, and have been busy since, so this is my executive summary... Was fantastic meeting loads of different people, lots of whom I've been in contact with before
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Found this really helpful article describing how to mix sounds automatically with ALSA (linked from a review of Fedora Core 2) and so now mpd can play in the background and other programs can still make sounds ... yay :-)
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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
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God answers prayer. Going to OOoCon 2004 despite it initially seeming unlikely. Brief summary of information I gathered in the process of booking lots of different flights over a few days: The German Embassy / Consulate in Cape Town has moved. Their new address details are as follows: 19th floor Safmarine
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Steve Ballmer explains: Microsoft's platforms offer better interoperability with the company's other technology, such as .NET, reducing the total cost of ownership of Windows compared with Linux Aha! It works better with their own stuff! That's what interoperability means, doesn't it?
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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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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 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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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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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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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...