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First saw on IOL that someone has managed to make a genetically modified blue rose. In the hunt for pictures, went off to Google News but alas a search for "blue rose" only turned up one other article. Both attribute the discovery to Suntory which doesn't
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Discovered its possible to combine multiple languages in one OpenOffice.org installation. Just no user interface at the moment to select the language. But managed to manually produce a English/Zulu version with only a few glitches. We should produce a South African version with all the languages so far
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Met up with Mahle today who is interested in making a Xhosa Children's Bible or at least part of one. Great idea.
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nanoblogger 2.8 released - and saw it on freshmeat. Note that if you upgrade you need to carefully compare the changes made to the config files - doesn't seem documented anywhere... and made all my entries on the home page disappear :-)
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What advice would you offer to someone who is contemplating starting a GPL-based business? François Bancilhon: Where do I start? (laughs) First, clearly define a solid type of business model for the type of product or service you want to provide. Secondly, one pitfall people make is that they can
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OK, I am working my way through window managers, desktops etc ... currently xfce is the winner... I could personally use some of the blackbox or fvwm-style options but I think many newbie users would get confused. rox is interesting but wierd ... At least xfce gives me a basic usable panel,
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Telkom can't explain its tarrifs. Well that's not surprising - a legislated, state-owned monopoly has been privatised and their prices are higher than prices in countries with competition. Why would they be otherwise. But at least the government seems to think its a problem. What smells
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Seems like I am not alone in feeling frustrated with current Linux desktop bloat when running on older machines. An article from Bob Marr that was featured on slashdot says basically the same thing. Anyway the point of this is there are a number of suggestions from the Slashdot story
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Set up a Linux lab (5 machines) at Jubilee with Dwayne on Thursday and Friday. Fedora Core 2 has no boot floppy support. It's slow to boot up and OpenOffice.org and Mozilla are relatively bloated for low end machines. It still amazes me that minimo is planned
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OK managed to get through most of Javier and Dwayne's reported bugs ... with the exception of how to handle jar file names and locale directories in xpi files transparently, so released translate 0.8b2 :-) :-) :-)
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Rearranged the code that serves as backends to the conversion and filter commands so it shares a common class, translate.misc.optrecurse - in preparation for updates to the filter code, so now you can specify preconditions in the code e.g. don't check for whitespace if untranslated.
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Take look at the list of casualties by country in World War Two. Changed my perception of the war - far more losses in Russia and China than I would have expected...