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Setting up Drupal
Have been setting up Drupal for this new site (frasergo.org) Works reasonably nicely, just such a shame it's written in PHP :-)
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Pootle and Translate Toolkit Development 2006-06-13
There's been lots of discussion recently about Pootle on the debian lists, the direction it should take, whether to use a database to store translations, etc... It may be a nice idea to add a database as one of the backend options but keeping with handling the complexity
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Stardust Nasty Macro Application for OpenOffice.org
Slashdot reported Kaspersky labs discovering the Stardust "nasty macro application" for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org This is not really a virus, it is a nasty macro application. If you are foolish enough to agree to run it without checking what it does, you will suffer the consequences... Not many
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Data Entry in OpenOffice.org Calc
Pierre-André Galmes has a great tip on typing data in OpenOffice.org calc. Basically select an area and use tab to switch between cells. The only problem - I can't see how to get it to work nicely with the AutoComplete that happens when you start typing the
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Forwarding a wireless network connection from Windows
Trying to proxy network traffic through my wireless network on my laptop which is unfortunately running Windows... (oh, the irony)... these are handy hinters: First, use ssh -D to create a SOCKS proxy. That's fairly easy. Use tsocks to make any application use the proxy. (Or, try and
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Partnership?
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Jingle a better VoIP standard than SIP
Gervase Markham has a nice rant on how complicated SIP is. Jingle on Jabber is a much nicer solution if you're not a telecommunications person yourself. It's an open standard that's much simpler than SIP which makes it easier to implement, and there are
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How to do Credit Card Fraud in South Africa
Just phoned Debonairs to order some Pizza. The conversation went something like this: Them: Hi Me: Hi, I'd like to order some pizza Them: Hold the line please... (a 30 second pause) Them: Sorry about that, what's your phone number? Me: 000 0000 (Gives phone number)
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Sourceforge CVS woes and Pootle templatisation
This latest Sourceforge CVS outage has been most unfortunate. We tried to do a bug day aroud the one the week before, which was also unfortunate... Now for almost a week we haven't had any CVS access, and we had planned a release in that time of Pootle
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OpenOffice.org Recovery Dialog in Firefox
Was amused when I tried to open a Word document from webmail. It started in a Firefox window with an embedded OpenOffice.org instance but obviously something went wrong as it showed up a recovery dialog. After a few tries it opened a normal OpenOffice.org window that worked fine.
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Zimbra Mail Discoveries
Zimbra is a fantastic open source mail server. It basically wraps Postfix, and has a beautiful webmail interface including a great calendar system. Yes, AJAX, buzzwords, all apply. I've been wanting to migrate my mail into an IMAP server with a nice webmail frontend for a while. The
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Translate Toolkit 0.8 is out
Something I have been promising for many months has finally happened... We've been going backwards and forwards with so-called "release candidates" for 0.8 that were really betas or new versions, I managed eight! The combined effect of this and doing the last release candidate when