Dwayne Bailey (Translate.org.za): Firefox: Venda, Herero and Ndonga comming soon
We're continuing to translate Firefox on Pootle. Just added are Venda, Ndonga (a dialect of Owambo) and Heroro. This takes us up to 17 African languages being localised on Pootle. The levels of...
View ArticleJose Mathew Manimala: @github SMS gateway
Hello all, I created a simple sms application that gets information from github and makes it available to you by text. So you can stay informed of the last commit using SMS in regions without GPRS or...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, morning
After landing in (not so sunny) A Coruña yesterday, we started bright and early today with the WebKitGTK+ hackfest agenda.We've got most of the topics pinned, as listed on the wiki. If you have more...
View ArticleDaniel Berrange: Watching the libvirt RPC protocol using SystemTAP
A couple of releases back I completely re-structured all the RPC handling code inside libvirt to make sure it could be properly shared between the client and server, as well as decoupling the RPC...
View ArticleZoltan Hoppar: Fedora Insight development site – Just launched
Greetings Fedora Users and Developers, We are working heavily to bring something awesome for us forward that what we call Fedora Insight[1]. Fedora Insight in long term is not just an RSS feed as it’s...
View ArticlePeter Borsa: Fedora Insight development site under asrob.net
Hey! So, we are working heavily to bring something awesome for us forward that what we call Fedora Insight[1]. Fedora Insight in long term is not just an RSS feed as it's right now, else we plan an...
View ArticleNathaniel McCallum: Dish Network Goes Back on their Word
Earlier this year I cancelled my Dish Network account. I found I really didn’t watch TV much anymore and had no interest in continuing my service. At first the cancellation process seemed to go...
View ArticleAdam Young: Checking My Work On Eight Tone Scales
My calculations on Eight Tone Scales was way too manually intensive for me to trust that I got it right. I should check my work. generate the set of all strings of intervals of length 8. Generate an...
View ArticleColin Walters: OS APIs: Windows 8/WinRT and GNOME/GTK+
If one is making an operating system, clearly the API that application authors use is extremely important. The whole point of an operating system is to run them. What I want to talk about is...
View ArticleMo Morsi: Aeolus Screencasts
For those who missed it, be sure to checkout the Aeolus Project youtube channel which contains several screencasts around current usage of Aeolus including topics such as: Building cross-cloud images...
View ArticleFabian Deutsch: Another approach to modfiy structured files (like config or...
Have you ever wondered if there is a more convenient way to modify xml documents, beside libxml2? Sure, there is the nice dom within Firefox, but outside of that?Well, there is augeas. AFAIK initially...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, Afternoon
After num-num tapas for lunch (and some chocolatey cake), we got back to the agenda, with Jon presenting the design for the Web application, successor (in spirit, and perhaps in code) to Epiphany.Andy...
View ArticleStephen Smoogen: Wednesday 2011-11-30
Started off the morning with page storm caused by a xen domU jumping ahead 30 minutes and then time stopping on it. This of course caused all kinds of problems with encryption and such. System could...
View ArticlePaul W. Frields: Enrichment day 4.
This week was the last enrichment class for my group of fifth graders. As I reported in the last installment, the syllabus ended up changing a bit to adapt for the unexpected difficulty of some of...
View ArticleJames Bowes: BTRFS and KVM
If you're like me, you've spend the last year wondering why your KVM based virtualization is horribly slow when doing IO. You've tried twiddling every available option in your BIOS, you've mucked...
View ArticleMel Chua: How my upcoming talk at Kenyon made me learn beamer and git
Matt Jadud and I are giving a talk this Friday at his undergraduate alma mater, Kenyon College. I haven’t seen Matt since POSSE this summer and am looking forward to long conversations with him on the...
View ArticleWarren Togami: Cartoon - The Starbucks Experience
Yesterday our MBA marketing team presented our Marketing Plan recommendations to a local business owner. Part of the presentation was to explain modern marketing concepts including the customer...
View ArticleLuya Tshimbalanga: Brief message - message bref
English It has been a while I wrote a blog. The reason is my intense work on a magazine project for my local area in Vancouver. I set my own challenge to only use Free and Open Source from Gimp to...
View ArticleAndreas Haerter: DokuWiki templates: new versions of monobook, vector,...
I just released updated versions of the following DokuWiki templates: vector – current MediaWiki/Wikipedia look and feel. monobook – traditional MediaWiki/Wikipedia look and feel. prsnl10 – minimalist...
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